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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 13 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON New Rogue Valley Branch of Oregon Bank Opens Monday Everything is ready for open-; ing of the new Rogue Valley; Branch of The Oregon Bank at 1025 Court Street Monday morn ing, Barney Baxter, bank man ager, has announced. Open house will be held throughout the day, and refresh- j mcnts will be served. i Movement of cash, safe de posit boxes and crates of rec-j oros was completed over ine week end. I The new building with 7,000 j square feet of office space will i provide customers with greater! banking comfort and conven ience and will enable the firm to keep pace with the bank's growth, Baxter said. He pointed I out that deposits have increased by 20 per cent in the last year. The bank location was chosen at the junction of Court Street and Central Avenue to fit in with the small park which is adja cent. Architect Robert Keeney designed the bank building of low silhouette to blend with the setting, Baxter noted. Chester Corry, landscape architect, made extensive use of the ex isting trees and employed South ern Oregon Landscape Co. to plant more than 2,500 ivy and small plants together with more than 400 shrubs to complete the scene. There is ample parking space provided in the paved parking area and a drive-in banking I j window for persons who prefer i ; to remain in their cars for bank ! ing transactions. Adjacent to the i drive-in window is a night de- pository to accommodate both merchants with coin sacks and I the individual depositor with an Especially During Our -Pf. ST0REWIDE SALE fK ijijjiilv Furniture from . . . ftjibj HOME FURNISHINGS Cascade Shopping Canter White City 826-4351 OPEN SUN. Combustible Gas Presents Hazard To Portland Area PORTLAND (UPI) The Norlhwest Natural Gas Co. has told the City Council that com bustible gas presents a "poten tially serious hazard" over a large area of Portland's near east side. The utility said the gas may be from decay of underground wood waste. The report said the gas is not from natural gas distributed by Northwest, but is a composition commonly called "marsh gas." It is from decomposition of materials underground. A company spokesman said the gas has gathered in an area roughtly 10 blocks square and an old pile of sawdust was sus pected as the cause. Few property owners are in volved, the company said, and all have been notified. The gas Is most dangerous when it be comes trapped in an enclosed space, such as under a bunding. (Pik 5th pgh: Marsh gas) Marsh gas is not toxic, but will ignite when mixed with air in the proper proportion, the re port said. It is Hchtir than air and will rise through openings in the ground. ' The gas company stated the marsh gas was found during routine investigations and was in places well below normal pipeline installations. The high est concentration of gas was at locations some . distance from gas company facilities. Similar marsh gas concentra tions at various times have ne cessitated a subsurface collec tion and exhaust system under the Boeing Co. plant at Rcnton, Wash. : started underground fires in a sanitary fill on Uni versity of Washington property and caused abandonment of a proposed housing development in Philadelphia, the firm said DKFEAT BOND ISSUE TROUTDALE (UPI) - Voters in the Troutdale school district defeated an $840,000 bond issue Thursday by a vote of 677 to 581. envelope containing his deposit. This facility will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The interior of the bank Is decorated in soft yellow to com pliment the panels of walnut and the teakwood fixtures. A conference room off the of ficers' space has been provided for private discussions. Doors throughout the bank are eight feet high to match the tall floor-to-ceiling windows. The front door opens into a large lobby beyond which are the eight tellers' cages. The em ployes lounce looks out over a small landscaped garden. forced air heating and air conditioning assure temperature comfort throughout the year. Mechanical Engineers Mechanical engineers for the building are Cornell, Hollander, Hayes and Merryfield, who su pervised the work for Stuart Mechanical Company. William Werner and Son were the ma sonry contractors. Other contractors and suppli ers on the construction were Selby Glass, glass and alumi num; Ekerson's, roofing; Steek Electric, electrical; Barnard's Floor Covering, acoustical; Spe cialty Contractors, vinyl floor covering; Lippert's, carpeting; j Midcoast Painters, painting, and McGuire's Home Furnishers, drapes. Jcffery Shute was the associate architect for the project. Clarence Young, vice presi dent of the bank, will maintain his offices in the new quarters from which he will direct work on the bank's third Medford branch which will soon be under construction at West Main and Grape Streets, Baxter said. Jackson, Josephin Cnunfrv Grnunc PL k i a k A m Meeting on Monday J uvnjuu vuuiui u uu iuiu bui ne an The Jackson County Parks and Recreation Commission will meet at 8 p. m. Monday, Dec. 9, in Grants Pass with the Jose phine County Parks and Recre ation Commission. The two groups will discuss policy for their parks' operations and a youth work program. County Parks Director Neil Ledward has suggested t h e Jackson County Parks and Rec reation Commission study a pa per prepared by Charles Col lins, executive vice president of California Oregon Rccre a t i o n Develop m e n t Association, on fees and charges for recreation areas. The local commission will be asked to consider special use of public lands and waters by pri vate parties, clubs and organiza tions and other public agencies. This would cover private boat docks, boat docks and boat houses by clubs or organizations, cabin sites, house trailer sites for over 14 days, organizational camping or picnicking, group picnic areas, sponsored events and shows, and possible prefer ential treatment for non-profit organizations or groups. Assistance t o municipalities and communities should also be discussed, Ledward suggested. This would include school dis tricts, park districts and irriga tion districts. Such assistance could include the promotional, technical and financial. Financial aid might include acquisition of sites, con struction and maintenance. His torical monuments are included in the various areas to be con sidered. Ledward reported the field crew has been working almost entirely at Howard Prairie re cently. The road department has hauled some gravel into new campsites, and a crew cleared a large part of the area toward the north campground of the old logging debris for a trailer park. 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