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
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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.
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Meeting on Monday
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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. Two holes have been drill-
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