MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1M3
GAS REFRIGERATOR The generous
freezer compartment in this no-frost Norge
: gas refrigerator holds up to 93 pounds of
food and has new thermoelectric control
that keeps the unit operating in case of
power failure, thus prevents all possibility
of costly food spoilage.
First Use of Gas
Was for Lighting
facture gas, lay pipes in the
streets, and contract with the
city for street lighting. This
gas company
The first practical use of eas
In modern times was for street
lighting.
When William Murdock, a
British engineer and inventor,
lighted his cottage with manu
factured gas in 1792, he literally
opened up a whole new indus
try and changed the living hab
its of the civilized world.
By 1798, Murdock had devel
oped his invention to a point
' where he was using manufac
tured gas to light an entire fac
tory. And in 1804, he built a
f as works to light a large cotton-mill
in Manchester, Eng
lmd, with 900 burners.
lilie first public street light
; In? with gas took place in Pall
Mall in London on Jan. 28, 1807.
In 1812, Parliament granted a
charter to "The London Jt
Westminster Gas Light & Coke
Co.," and the first gas com
pany in the world came into
being. A few years later, on
Dec. 31, 1813, the Westminster
Bridge was lighted by gas.
Lighting Spreads
Following this success, gas
lighting spread quickly to other
countries. In the United States,
Baltimore in 1816 was the first
city to light its streets with gas.
In 1820, Paris adopted gas street
lighting.
The first introduction of gas
lights in Rembrandt Peale's
museum in Baltimore in 1816
proved to be such a sensation
and success that Peale quickly
organized a gas company to
light the city. The city council
passed an ordinance in June,
1816, permitting Peale to manu-
was the first
founded in the United States.
Use of natural gas in America
came into being in Fredonia,
N.Y., in 1820, when the first
gas well was drilled to a depth
of 27 feet. Industrious citizens
hustled the gas into town via
lead pipelines.
Host to Nobleman
Shortly after the excitement
of its discovery, Fredonia play
ed host to an industrious French
nobleman, the Marquis de La
Fayette, Revolutionary War
hero and personal friend of
George Washington. La Fayette
marveled that all the streets of
the town were completely light
ed by gas. He was even more
amazed to sit down to a gas
cooked dinner served in his
honor.
In 1858, Fredonia went on to
establish the first recorded cor
poration to serve natural gas
to business and residential cus
tomers. During the decade from 1865
to 1875, the use of gas for light
ing as well as for cooking made
significant progress. Soon much
of America, as well as other
countries, was lighted by gas.
The lamplighter became a fa
miliar figure, and streets at
night took on a warm, friendly
glow.
Gas companies are bringing
back picturesque, practical gas
lights, offering decorative out
door lighting with natural gas.
Gas House Heating
Reaches All Time
High in Country
Wheat Storage Suits
Dismissed by Judge
PORTLAND (UPI) -Federal
Judge John F. Kilkenny Monday
signed an order dismissing civil
suits which grew out of wheat
storage manipulations in the
early 1950s.
Earl C. Corey, former Port
land director of the Department
of Agriculture's Commodity Sta
blization Service, and two asso
ciates in the Three States Ware
house Co. agreed to pay the fed
eral government $57,367.
The judgments were $38,544 by
Corey, $2,874 by Laurence M.
Smith of Waterville and $15,949
by Willard A. Richards of Port
land. . ;. .
" Corey and Smith were con
victed in 1960 of charges in con
nection with the manipulations.
They each have served two-year
prison sentences.
Corey was found guilty of con
spiracy and conflict of interest
in a transaction for warehousing
of government -owned wheat.
Smith was convicted of submit
ting false statements to the
Commodity Credit Corp. in or
der to obtain contracts.
Richards, then general man
ager of the North Pacific Grain
Growers, was not a defendant.
EASY PICKINGS
LOS ANGELES (UPI)-The
judges', chambers at county
courthouse are getting to be a
popular place for thieves.
Municipal Court Judge Allan
G. Campbell reported the theft
Monday of a transistor radio
worth $40 from his desk. There
was another $40 loss three
weeks ago when a wallet was
stolen from the desk of Superior
Court Judge Lloyd S. Nix.
Gas house heating customers
have reached an all time high
of nearly 25 million to make
gas the nation's number one
house heating fuel. The indus
try added more than 1,150,000
new heating customers last
year, bringing the total to 24,
740,000. .
Two-thirds of the new instal
lations are in newly-built homes,
with the remaining one-third
representing conversions from
other, fuels, the American Gas
Association estimates. Blue Star
Homes include gas furnaces as
standard equipment.
Advocates of gas for house
heating cite five major reasons
for the increasing preference for
gas heat: convenience, comfort,
cleanliness, economy and safety.
Monthly Meter Readings
They point out that gas doesn't
have to be stored, thereby elim
inating the installation and
maintenance of a fuel tank; or
coal bin. Because of this, a gas
user pays for his fuel after he
has used it, according to month
ly meter readings.
Natural gas is the ideal house
heating fuel because it is effi
cient. All combustible materials,
solid and liquid alike, must be
turned into gas before they will
burn. Natural gas needs no such
conversion or pre-hcating, thus
provides instant heat. And gas
is the cleanest fuel because all
impurities have been removed.
There are no waste products of
combustion such as smoke and
soot.
The reliability of gas lies In
its independence of outside
forces. Piped into the house,
gas is not susceptible to delays
in rail or truck deliveries.
Equipment Is Durable
The durability of gas heating
equipment is superior. Most gas
furnaces last the life of the
house. This is because gas equip
ment has few or no moving
parts that can wear out or break
down, thus requires a minimum
of servicing. And when it comes
to safety, the American Gas
Association points out that up-to-date
gas systems have a
number of automatic devices to
prevent mishaps. Most of them
are designed to shut off the gas
supply if the pilot light goes out
or the water supply in the boiler
becomes too low.
Even furnaces with electric
controls can be operated man
ually for a limited period of
time in case of emergency. And
gas has an enviable safety rec
ord, as shown by national sta
tistics on fire causes,
i The Blue Star Seal of Approv
al on a gas heating unit indi
cates that the equipment has
passed rigid standards for safe
ty, durability and perform
ance. v
These are some of the many
reasons cited by satisfied cus
tomers for their preference for
gas heat. Other reasons include
the convenience offered by auto
matic gas systems, and the su
perior comfort features of gas
heat. Rooms are never too cold
or too hot, too humid nor too
dry, drafty, stagnant, dusty or
odorous.
SERVICE FOREMAN Mur
ray L. Ncal, above, joined the
California - Pacific Utilities
Company in 1947 as an instal
lation man in the tank gas de
partment. Later he worked as
a tank - truck driver and a serv
iceman. He was made foreman
of the Medford service depart
ment in 1956, and during the
past three years most of this
time has been spent on the con
version work in preparation for
natural gas in the five South
ern Oregon districts. During the
past few months he has worked
on the inspection of the Grants
Pass-Ashland transmission line.
Automatic Gas Refrigerators Offer Features
More than 3 million American
homes are now equipped with
gas refrigerators, the American
Gas Association reports.
As these families can attest,
gas refrigerators are the most
dependable, economical and
service-free units on the market.
This is why manufacturers can
now offer a 10-year warranty
on the gas units.
Modern, fully automatic gas
refrigerators also offer a host
of desirable features to provide
maximum convenience and the
safe storage and preservation of
every type of food.
Choice of Sizes
These include glide out
shelves, twin vegetable crispers,
large meat keepers, door
shelves, easy to open doors, full
width interior lighting, butter
keepers, portable egg trays and
color-keyed interiors that are
easy to keep clean. Beautiful
color finishes and a wide choice
of sizes are added reasons for
the popularity of gas refrigera
tors. .
According to the American
Gas Association, the automatic
ice-maker is one of the most
appreciated features ever of
fered on a refrigerator. Fam
ilies report that it is the ulti
mate in convenience.
As if by magic, the gas ice
maker manufactures an unlimit
ed supply of ice cubes without
the labor of filling trays, spill
ing water, and freezing your
hands. As one cube is removed
from the handy storage bin,
another takes its place.
Ice Taken Directly
And the cubes won't stick to
gether while they're waiting to
be used. Instead of the ordinary
chunks of ice, gas produces at
tractive crescent-shaped disks
which are "dried" before they
are dropped into the storage
bin to prevent their sticking.
The ice, taken directly from
the freezer compartment, is
zero-degree cold. Yet the Inter
ior of the gas freezer compart
ment in the newest models is
completely free of frost. This
means that while food packages
stored in the generous freezer
compartment are completely
frozen, they are not covered
with ice. In fact, even the walls
inside the freezer area never
have ice deposits at any time.
This feature is important be
cause it completely eliminates
the need for defrosting the re
frigerator or freezer. Marvel
lous new automatic gas controls
make defrosting bid-fashioned.
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National Grange
Votes on Tax Cut
PORTLAND (UPI) -The Na
tional Grange took up resolu
tions on the final day of its 97th
annual convention here Tuesday.
The major issue scheduled to
be voted on by the organiza
tion's delegates at the end of
the nine-day meeting was Presi
dent Kennedy's proposed federal
tax cut.
The Grange's taxation com
mittee Monday took a stand
against the cut "unless accom
panied by an equal amount of
reduction in federal spending."
The committee criticized "big
government." It said "govern
ment services should be fin
anced and administered as far
as possible at local and state
levels."
The committee also proposed
that the f e d e r a 1 government
withdraw from operations of
businesses that can feasibly be
operated by private enterprise.
Grange Master Herschel Ncw
som of Columbia, Ind., was
elected to his seventh straight
two-year term.
Also re-elected were overseer
A. Lars Nelson of Seattle, who
is master of the Washington
State grange, and lecturer Wil
liam Brake of Lansing, Mich.
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Our sincere congratulations to California - Pacific Company on the
dedication of natural gas to the Rogue River Valley. We are delight
ed to b4 able to play a part in this vital and growing industry as it
makes available to the residents of Southern Oregon a new source
of energy. Because of the vision of theCal-Pac Utilities men and the
new, powerful equipment available, the clean - burning flame of
natural gas will perform efficiently in furnaces, hot water heaters,
clothes dryers and kitchen ranges in this area. And so, we are proud
to join in offering our congratulations to California-Pacific Utilities '.
Company and our thanks for letting us play a part in this develop
ment. -.-. : . . v. - U,'
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