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HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.P. American 03/02/1950 (2)a • • Central Point city limit; coti•~~r practically a mile square. There are. Soma eight streets rtlnnint; eac•:~ way across the to~ti•n. Which means about l$ miles of streets-tnati-i,-• 2Q. All of these street> must bc• graded so as to properly drain to get all ,Luster away from tl~e raad- ~vay-then covered with frurn six to ten inches af~CRUSHED granite. And all this on tap of the cost of actually laying the pavement. Su «•e get an overall Bost of lrrolial~ly $2©00 a mile, or $32,OQ0 for the whole joh. And still we have rio curbs or gutters-just road ditches_ as now. those of thr~ Central Church of Med ford on Tug°scla~• iVlrrrch ith. at 2 p.m. at the parsonage, 5311 Oak 5'.• ~ Speci<,1 f;uests frn- this affair tt'ill be Airs. Earl Chandler. 11~1issionar~~ tc~ 1{etchikan, Alaska an;! wikh her a converted t~.laskian Fnctian lady. Mrs. Robbie Pruitt, wife r,f ih~ pastor of Cascade Gorge church, will also be a guest and a pink and blue shot~~er in the form of a silver offering will be tendered her. Ail Ladies are invited and urged to at- tend. Air. $rorvnie Ross, of 'P'rineville, Oregon, brother of Jim Ross ^t this city, drgpped in to visit Grandma + Ross for atee;- pays. 5a tha question naturally arises- just wehre is the money coming Ct7Ni4AD REINKING~-- from? Can a little, warkingrnan's Services fc~r Conrad Reinking, 87, afford such an to~`n such as this of this r=ity wl--u died at a Medford , outlay? More than 95°'t of our hospital yesterd.3y morning, will be , residents are either plain working held Friday afternoon at •~ o'clock ~ people or small businessmen why at the Perl Funeral home_ A corr~- , happen to own their vti~'n small plete obituary i~•ill be _ published ~•, Mmes in the city. Can these people later. afford to dig up that kind of move}• -~'--- ----"`v~"-"~ ; just to make speedways out of our _ adding street • pa~•ing casts to Ochs'. .t streets? The American does not we have. ~ ] think sa--especially 5t this time. • , i • : " Don't forget to eome out to the F -{3f Bourse certain streets leading gym next Monday evening to vote t to the new high school i~SUST b? ~ on the question of school consols- ~ r paved-either Second or Th:rcl ~ dation_ Lei's make sure .this tirne ! r streets. ~ $ut so far as ire .vl~a':r i i-~,: ALL the legal regrairemeni3 r 1 city is corxrerned, we beLev~ we ''ad ase complied ~~ith- so vs-e can get ~ r better go slow and -get ~lon~ 1~-~t?- ~ bar nr. the n~.~- sc;.crl in tim? ?o ~ r xhat we have. This #oti•n is t:°3t-t-' 1 n+~xi tall_ cat it read" for' scran 1? g-'CAtgb 19: ~~ n~°. -~nt}±cr1t _ L~'t 2-~±~e*,~.`'X3'l?P~ _ x ~ C. P. American 1950 Musings® Hp Tho Editor C. P. American 1950 ~44/ ~-®~ -Well - we 'certainly ~ hope Ihot March aces .not "go out like a lion", as Lhe old saying has it`` Hui it eettalnly did "come In Illce a lamb". No one could gossibly ask Yor tlner days tLen we have had r¢cent{y. Even the edlfor got the fever end got out his spade and planteda hit of Garden sass, i Some complaints are befog heard because ifie ally street rtian'welJ the scarifier os the big greddf'arid~ tore up 4he Ifght dusboll eu~r{(ace.~ some. of our streets and khets Ce; . graded thorn. This writer p~7n eight years sludylnq how: 4o'h ltd pod repair roads in this count and It Is our experleme that. Ftdsthe ONLY remedy worth ~',h?th0ilna i with to cure badly brotie'li~dp tlg(t~ :.. oSled surfaced roads or `alree t. P . the fiat place, It must 6¢ r~ttjepr bored that the type of surtac9:_ph( I en the Central Point streets naval' I was PAVEMENT=11 was just a ~ very light oil as a dust pallaliva I artd was never expected (o last more 1 Ihsn two years a{ moll. Patching this halt-inch thick sh¢I' ~ where it Lae become potted up with I hundreds of small holes will do no I good end is a pure waste of time and t money. New holes will break out ~ almost as fast as the old ones arc t patched. At least that has been the earyerlenee o4 the county road de- partmenb=astd they've been expert- menlinE with the stub (or years Anyway, one can hardly expect tc bet REAL ASPIfALT pavemenf for 5 cents a [arming foot-sixteen feel wide. There has been •e lot of talk about paving the Central Poim t etraets with what is called road-rots t pavemenf. That 3s made Ny.firsl 1 trovering•the street with five or sir t Inches of crushed granite (fh¢ t street,.,,,jeftlST,.,lirst be• gra~od tc E pmper>,y drain so no water will soak ~ under the pavemenU: Then hot f -asphalt oil Is spread on the Granite 1 anrL by-using several graders so ar b to qet the oil and granite properly b mixed before it has tune to cool ot(. A (earh tfay particle of grante must x be covered with a coaling at the b oil,) after which the whole thing is T spread gut ya[y Sarefully and even- o ]y with the graders and allowed lc x set for a fete hours, after which the Irat4ic is turned loose W pound a h down. a . . . d This is one of the best and must n long-lasting of the various t}•pes of P pavement used in Jackson county h -but at the same time one n[ the u leiekiest to get pec{ect. Sf all the b conditions are right-proper drain age of the roadway, sharp, dean granite, hot weather to xarm the t material so Ihe~oil will properly miz, no dry spots in the mixture. me--th Ls povement beats Lhem all. But it rnsls from SI000 to SI500 ~a C mile to lay. 1. Central Point city' IimiG cover h practically a mile square. There I p are same eight streets running eats may across the town. Nhich means I b about 16 miles of streets--~mavoe it "p. ALL at these streets muu be a