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MLUK'WtU MAIL IH1BLNE, MhDrOKU, OKEOON
Historians May
See 1960s as
Gas ticiiht Erar
iPifiSlY WiGGLY
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PIGGLY WIGGLY
NEW YORK (UPI) - Not
only are homeowners cooking
with gas these days, they're
heating with it, cooling with it
disposing of their garbage by
means of it and, just for good
measure, they're lighting with
it again.
Indeed, historians of the fu
ture may well refer to the 1900s
as the 2()th century gas light era
m America.
More than 35 million custo
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mers now use gas for fuel and
it provides 29 per cent of the
nation s energy requirements,
according to industry sources.
Gas for cooking long has been
the accepted thing in many
homes. Gas for heating has en
joyed steadily increasing popu
laritv and now gas air condi
tioning is growing by leaps
and bounds. Many modern fam
ilies dispose of their trash and
garbage in odorless, smoKeiess.
gas-fired incinerators.
And, strange as it may seem,
the past five years has seen
really tremendous growth in
gas lighting.
No, Americans haven't gone
back to reading by gas light
but they are using gas lamps
for illumination and for decora
tive purposes around patios
swimming pools and other roc
reational areas. Hestaura n t s
and other public places have
turned to gas light for an added
touch of cheerfulness and the
U. S. Coast Guard has even ap
proved gas lights for naviga
tional aides on a causeway near
Sandusky, Ohio.
Frederick H. Robinson, sen
ior vice president of Panhandle
Eastern Pipe line, a pioneer in
long - distance transmission of
natural gas from (he field to
Uie consumer, estimates there
are 750,000 to 1 million outdoor
gas lights in use today more
than in the pre - incandescent
peak year of 1914 when about
300,000 gas lamps lighted city
streets across the nation.
So popular have these lights
become in the past five years
that about 20 manufacturers
are working to meet the de
mand. Robinson said. These
lamns. he said, still use virtual
ly the same mantle they have
used for 80 years since its in
vention by Dr. Carl Auer Von
Welsbach. Only the wire lorm
crly used in the burner tip has
been replaced by a ceramic ma
terial.
But while many of the lights
of the 18110s were fed by so-call
ed "burning springs" where
natural gas had seeped to the
surface, the lights in use lotlay
are fueled by natural gas thai
often travels thousands of miles
before being burned.
Today, although few of these
springs still exist, HoDin son
said, one is to be found near
Decatur, 111., just north of the
natural gas transmission lines
of Panhandle Eastern. The
spring, now confined in a small
concrete water pit, bubbles up
every 45 to GO seconds.
Morse Criticizes
Portland NAACP
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Wednes
day criticized the Portland.
Ore., chapter of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People for
threatening to picket President
Kennedy at Portland.
"It just isn't good manners
to invite a guest to your home
and then insult and embarrass
him," Morse declared.
He told the Senate that "I can
not think of anything that would
be more im)v lile" than to have
the President picketed after he
had been invited to the city.
Morse said the Oregon mem
bers ot Congress requested Ken
nedy pass up the dedication of
a Portland housing project to
avoid possible embarrassment.
The Portland Negro group con
tended that Negroes were being i
discriminated against by the
housing authority which operat
ed the prcject.
The President did not slop al
Portland on his recent western
trip.
Birth Control
Clinic Opens Doors
PORTLAND (CPU-Oregon's
first birth control clinic 0cned
here Wednesday under the spon
sorship of the Planned Parent
hood Association of Oregon, Inc.
The clinic has a staff of 22
physicians on a part-lime basis
and 20 nurses. It offers services
on an ability-to-pay basis.
The clinic is operating with
private funds, but will be open
to state welfare patients who
request help.
Mrs. Charles fosterling, Port
land, association president, said
the clinic is set up to aid mar
ried couples or couples planning
to get married. "We want to
promote wanted children," she
said.
HKCOCM.K NATIONALIST
WASHINGTON (I'PrJ;; The
Stale Department has Informed
Russia, that the United States
. aftUl considersNationalist China
, as the "legitimate government'!
in China."
Support Medford
High School's
ORDER OF M!
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GREEN
STAMPS
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Medford Senior Kigt
letferman's Club
(Order of M)
WILL BE IN OUR STORE
ALL DAY SATURDAY
Demonstrating Various Products
All monies the boys earn for their demonstration
work plus all money derived from the sale of
hot dogs will be put in the club's treasury
to aid them in club projects.
COME IN AND MEET THESE
FINE ATHLETESI
HOT DOGS
Each
Saturday, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. all proceeds go
to the order of M.
GRANDMA'S
COOKIES
All 39c Varieties
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Free Samples Saturday 10 A.M. lo 5 P.M.
COCA-COLA
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