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"1 '.-'.'(' t r t'VV t i-.--V-.-V -.-..--. Trees May Be Tags Showing Comeback Of Business Area By JESSE BOGIJE UPI Financial Editor NEW YORK (UPI) -Trees along the sidewalk in a shopping area once were almost a trade mark of a semi-rural or quiet small business area. Now, they may be the tags indicating a comeback or at least of an area taking steps toward progress and heightened activity. . Tney are among the features of many of the shopping malls which have sprung up over the last several years in various city areas around the nation. Malls often represent a com munity effort to revive or re juvenate a slipping central bus Unusual Animal Tracks Are Hoax MONTEVALLO, Ala. (UPI) Robert Bearden was squirrel hunting the other day when he came across some unusual ani' mal tracks in the woods. They were huge prints with long claws. Bearden fled to the nearest farmhouse and brought back Coy Holsombeck, armed with a rifle, to take a look. Word that a gorilla was loose in the woods spread throughout this small farming community and hundreds of rifle totin' res idents turned . out to take a look. A professor from Ala bama College arrived to make plaster casts of the tracks and said they were unlike any made by animals of the region. Thursday, the hoax ended.' Pete Pickett, 27, of Bessemer, confessed that he fashioned de vices for making the tracks, tied them to his shoes and tramped around the area in hopes of keeping persons out of his favorite turkey hunting grounds. Three I Gel Top Priority SALEM (UPI) - The State Board of Higher Education has advised the legislature that its top priority building projects are at Portland, Klamath Falls and Monmouth. The board approved a resolu tion reaffirming priorities for a science building at Portland Stale College, furnishings and .roads for the new Oregon Tech nical Institute campus at Kla math Falls, and replacement of Campbell Hall at Oregon Col lege of Education at Monmouth. mess section, or to attract and hold the restless traff: wh1'1! omerwise would bypass the area, according to a survey re- wnuy iiiaue nere. Trees Help Business Pomona, Calif., in building a nine -block mall on Second Street, created what has been des- -ibed s virtually a botanic al garden by bringing in a variety of trees: Brazilian pep- fci, rea gum, Lmnese elm, ja caranda, Japanese black pine, olive and carib trees. . Miami Beach, in creatine an eight - block mall on Lincoln Road, imported shrubbery from i-eyion, Polynesia. Malava. Mex. ico and Abyssinia. Other more northerly cities have less free dom from the rigors of climate out nave planted trees adjusted to the more marked seasonal variations that exist there. The mall survev was done hv the research department of Den- son-rrey and affiliates of New York City, in an attempt to determine whether the mall sys tem was helpful in reviving a city's rundown commercial area. The firm reported it found that the nine-block mall in Po mona has increases sales for the mall and surrounding area by 20 per cent compared to a 10 per cent increase in a recent period for the surrounding county. . Other Successes The survey reported a three- block mall on Burdick Street. Kalamazoo, Mich., had uoocd sales in the area by 15 per cent and increased pedestrian traffic thus, potential shoppers by 30 per cent ana attracted a 12 per cent increase in out of town customers. Malls in Knoxville. Tenn.. and Miami Beach reported similar patterns, the creators of the survey said. Among the conclusions of the survey: Conversion of a sliDDine commercial street to a pedes trian mall is beneficial to busi ness both along the mall and in surrounding areas. creation of a mall increases the value of real estate: the improvement may extend to rentals. New industry or business has been attracted to mall areas. Merchants have found that. when accompanied by construc tion of additional parking areas, the creation of a mall has turned the through traffic into stop-to-shop traffic. Appearance of city areas is improved, and civic pride heightened by the creation of a mall. Kill : MJ FIRST SEAL Lt. David LaValle, Navy scuba diver, cuddles Mac at Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station" in New York. Mac is one of three earless Weddell seals brought to New York, first of their species ever to get to the United States alive. (UPI) SECTION B ( . ' . PAGES 1 to 10 MedfordjTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1963 Court Authorizes Building Payment The Jackson Countv Court Fri day afternoon authorized partial payment of J19.339.05 to Mur phy. Construction Company Roseburg, for construction work on the Jackson County Health Center building at the fair grounds. Remaining balance due is $77.- 198.50, County Judee Earl M. Miller said. County Commissioners Edwin Taylor and Don E. Faber had friendly argument over re quested removal of concrete planters near the health center installed for dividine traffic and parking. Commissioner Taylor felt they were a hazard to motorists and agreed with the Jackson county public health officer's request that they be removed. Commis sioner Faber said they should be left alone since they were ex pensive to install and served a needed purpose. The County Court agreed ten tatively to remove the planter to trie south. The Family Council Ldltor's no'e: The Family Council consists or a Judee. pnyuMatrist, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Earn article Is a summary of a family disagreement presented to the Council. T'Ai Council deals with problems, niainr anil minnr. encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by ftirs. anna uenny. tuopyrcni oy ventral feature? orp.) boy going to understand the im portance of a family get - to gether over his own selfish de sires unless his father explains it? Bert and Jimmy belong. at this party. (Family Council stdg head).. BEKT L. We're leaving tne decision up to Jimmy. MKS. F. C. It s disgusting the way they dance around that child. ' BERT L. My aunt wants a quick answer as to whether we 11 go to her home on thanks giving. It's my mother's birth day and Aunt Flo wants the family for a surprise party as well as a turkey dinner. But Jimmy is 9 and he wants to see football game. So far he hasn't changed his mind. MKS. F. C. Did you ever see such a jellyfish of a parent.' When a child is 9 you don't ask him, you tell him! That's what parents are for. How's a little 193 vOLftSWAQCK or MIC. INC- What if you only need part of a Volkswagen? You're in luck. Paris ot Volkswagens are easier lo gel than whole ones. Any port, for any year. Thai's the nice thing about making the same car yeor-in and year-out. You can spend your lime fiddling wilh the Insides instead ot the outside. Volkswagen's made some 3,000 improve ments in their little car and hundreds of them fit their oldest models, loo. (Did you know you can get parts for a 15-year-old VW foster man (of some of the new jobs around?) Volkswagen parts ore also eosy lo install. For instance, the fenders are bolted on. 110 bolls do it. So you don'l have lo replace half the car.) And the whole engine can be replaced in ' an hour and a half. Of course, as you think aboul this, you moy prefer to get all the new parts at once We have such o package. MORSE MOTORS lUUI 6th Cr Ivy Phone 772-7155 THE COUNCIL: When is parent not a parent? When he's a sheep instead of a shepherd. We agree with Mrs. C. It's all right for Bert and his wife to leave decisisions up to Jimmy when it's an even-Steven choice, such as which flavor ice cream or what color sneakers. But now is their chance and their spe cial duty to impart values, to help Jimmy distinguish be tween the lasting and the pass ing pleasures of life. Their gauge should be: Which of these alternatives will mean more to Jimmy in retrospect? Which is easier to catch up with later? And which do we ourselves prefer? ... If Bert's tally adds up to Grandma's Party, that's it. Aunt Flo puts her finger on one of the disturbing phenomena of our times: child worship. In new book, "The Child wor shipers," Martha - Weinm a n Lear reminds parents that kids crave guidance, direction, firm ness so long as it springs from love . . . Jimmy may actually enjoy the gathering of the clan. And aren't football games being played until the snow (lies thick? Plans Under Way For SOC Skiesta Plans are being made now for the able and gifted study program jointly sponsored by Southern Oregon college and the Jackson County Intermediate Education District, according to reports at the recent meeting of the able and gifted study committee. Meanwhile, various school districts are already conducting enrichment study programs. Lists of classes available this year for the Saturday classes at Southern Oregon College have been sent to the high schools in the county, according to Rob ert work, able and guted committee. Dale for opening the classes will be set at the next commit tee meeting and after the initial screening of qualifying students is completed, the committee decided. The Rogue River school district will provide transports tion to the classes. The committee discussed sending invitations to school board members to attend the classes held each Saturday. Klamath Falls sent representa tives to visit the classes last year. Assistant County School Supt. Dca Cox noted that the classes have gained national recognition. Enrichment classes now be ing held include one in vocal music in Ashland and literature in Shady Cove. OPINION GIVEN SALEM (UPI) - A law that prohibits taking salmon and trout in the Umpqua River sys tem during season closures pre vails over another law permit- ing the incidental harvest of such fish, Ally. Gen. Robert Y. Washintgon County Parks Director Is Visitor in Area Andrew M. Klien. chairman of the Washington County Parks and Recreation Commission, visited the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Commis sion office last week to learn about the Howard Prairie recre ation area operation. County Parks and Recreation Director Neil J. Ledward gave him all the information - avail able and discussed "do's" and "don'ts" with him. Washington county is about to undertake a project ..similar to ouwoiu name, me reaervwr will be built by the Bureau of Reclamation which will spend close to $300,000 on recreational facilities at the site. Approve Contract Meanwhile, the Bureau of Reclamation and N a t i o n al Parks Service have approved the five-year contract with the Clyde Wilhelms on operation of the Lily Glen riding stables at Howard Prairie. The well has been ordered and drilling was to start last week. The County Court has advised the National Parks Service, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management that the gate to the Howard Prairie recreation area will be closed for the winter except for ice skating. Only the BLM objeeted. The other two agencies agreed. The BLM said the area should be kept open all winter with a man on duty. This will be discussed later with the local BLM office, Ledward said. The gate has been closed so work can be done in the area without endangering the public. 3 Grand 01 e Opry Stars Hurt in Wreck DURHAM, N. a, (UPI) A troupe of Grand Ole Opry stars, haunted by tragedy that has killed five of their company this year, was involved Saturday in a bus-car collision. The driver of the car that plowed into the troupe's bus was killed. Three of the coun try and western stars in Singer Ernest Tubb's group were in jured. ' The Howard Prairie docks have weathered several severe wind storms in Hoxie Creek without damage, contrary to last year's experience. Rest Rooms Installed Eighteen rest rooms have been placed from Lily Glen around the west side to the dam. Six more are planned for instal lation by next season. About ISO campsites should be prepared for next season, weather permit ting, Ledward said. The main high voltage line will be extended to the middle of the Willow Lake park site, according to a recent agree ment with a Pacific Power and Light Company representative. This will reach the pump house and future trailer sites. The county's cost will be $50, price of a lead off pole and hook up of the pump house. Garbage pickup has been started at the Elk Creek recre ation area on the Rogue River. This winter, the county plans to install two rest rooms on the site and place a few picnic ta bles. An official name is needed for the area. Traditional for 128 Holiday Seasons OLD ! Give and serve versatile, delicious Old Crow THE OLD CROW 01STIUEIV CO.. FSAKKFOtT. KY.KtNTUCCT STl(iH1 SOUISO WrllSCTa KOO A . ' "Nk 1 v w 1 . 'Ik. :rt Check-mates! This couple has made an important discovery: a checking account is more convenient than cash. It is safer and saves time. Check stubs tell you where your money goes and how much you have left. Cancelled checks are automatic receipts. 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