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ANSWER IN INVENTION
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By Charles V. Stanton , .
Necessity, it is said, is the mother of invention. 'In.
vcntion, we believe, can save the plywood industry from
its current necessity. Not that we expect the present slump
to be perfnanent, but new markets must be created if
production capacity is to be fully utilized. New markets
1 are possible through invention. '.
i : .The plywood industry now is engaged in a nationwide
promotional campaign designed to influence amateurs
to use plywood in a wide variety of projects. This cam.
paign, in time, will doubtless reduce existing surpluses.
But there is a limit, though it is far in the future, to the
volume of plywood to be sold hobbyists.
On the other hand, there is almost no limit to the pos
sibilities for use of plywood in manufactured articles. It
is entirely possible,, wa believe, for the industry to organ
ize manufacturing uses to supplement other markets. The
industry, through invention, should be able to channel
surpluses into manufactured products largely disposable
in local communities. .
Garden gadgets, outdoor furniture, boats, cabinets, toys
and numerous other articles already are being produced
in' large quantity from plywood. Research and invention
doubtless could expand these outlets.
Cottage Crove Firm Has Idea
An example of inventiveness in creating plywood uses
is to be found in experiments now being conducted by the
Cottage Grove Plywood Corporation.
The Cottage Grove company has much the same prob.
. Iem faced by Douglas County concerns. It receives many
punky and partially rotted logs.
With assistance from the U. S. Forest Service Lab
oratory at Madison, Wis., and the forest research Iabor-
atory at Oregon State College, it is at work on a new idea.
Veneer from punky logs is covered with kraft paper. The
paper covered veneer then is used in boxes and crates.
Tests, which included shipping 100 pounds of railroad
spikes over thousands of miles by way of rail and truck,
show the crate to have many desirable qualities. It is ex
pected to develop into a commercial product with a 'large
market.. If the experiment works out as now, anticipated,
the company will have established a market for material
previously burned,- and an outlet for a larger volume of its
product. ,
More Research Indicated
The extreme versatility of plywood makes it particul
arly adaptable for research and invention.
Congressman Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg, in several
of his talks over the district and, more particularly, at
the recent meeting sponsored by the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce in San Francisco, has emphasized the timber indus
try's failure to match rival industries in expenditures for
research. The metals industry, for instance, is spending
many millions in finding uses for metal, most of them in
competition with lumber.
We believe there are many possibilities for neW mar
kets for lumber and plywood. There also is opportunity for
us to join locally in the rapidly expanding wood pulp and
fiber industry.
It seems almost criminal' that Douglas County, the
Timber Capital of the World, hasn't a single pulp mill ; that
every day we are burning enough waste to supply at least
three such mills.
We now are feeling the economic effects of a drop in
lumber and plywood prices. While we expect the slump to
be only temporary, it would be possible to avert many of
these traditional peaks and valleys if we had wider diver
sity of production. A surplus in any one field of produc
tion could then be relieved by channeling materials into
some other use in which no surplus existed.
Necessity for diversification is present if the indus
try is to be stabilized economically. As said in the begin
ning, necessity is the mother of invention.
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Bonneville Power
Contracts With
Companies OK'd
WASHINGTON vn Secretary
of the Interior McKay Tuesday an
nounced approval of 20-year con
tracts for sale of power by the
Bonneville Power Administration to
four Pacific Northwest power com
panies. The contracts are the first cov
ering longer than a five-year pe
riod that Bonneville has entered
into with private utility companies
in the area. The five-year contracts
carried renewal provisions.
The 20-year contracts were ne
gotiated with the Pacific Power
and Light Co., Portland, Ore.;
Washington Water Power Co., Spo
kane; Mountain States Power Co.,
Albany; Ore.; and the Portland
General Electric Co., Portland, by
Paul J. Raver, Bonneville admin
istrator. Raver emphasized to the power
companies, in letters informing
them of the secretary's approval,
that the new contracts and all other
Bonneville contracts for sale of
power are subject to the defense
production act.
"Whenever required for the na
tional defense," the identical let
ters said, "power may be diverted
from all Bonneville power admin
istration contracts in accordance
with the terms of this act to na
tional defense purposes."
The Reynolds Metal Co., which
has a large aluminum plant in the
Bonneville area, had protested that
the new contracts might affect its
power supply.
McKay held a number of confer
ences with Director Arthur S.
Fleming of the Office of Defense
Moblization and Edmund F. Man
sure, General Services Adminis
trator, before approving the contracts.
WASHINGTON (NBA) Of
the 87 areas in the United States
which are considered likely tar
gets for a Russian bombing at
tack, 41 have been surveyed as
to what must be done to reduce
the concentration of target areas.
Surveys for six more have been
submitted to Washington for
checking.
Of the major cities, Chicago,
Cincinnati and San Francisco have
completed surveys. Pittsburgh
and Cleveland studies are under
review in Washington. Detroit and
Baltimore have completed studies,
but have not sent them in.
New York, because of its size
and tie-ins with New Jersey and
Connecticut industry nearby, has
been delayed in determining how
Its expanding production will have
to be dispersed. Philadelphia has
also been delayed. Boston got a
late start.
Providence, R. I., found that it
was just inside the classification
as a target area. This city has
been making an appeal to a few
of its industries td move out a little
farther so that it wquld no longer
be a good target.
Pittsburgh industry has been ex
panding tremendously in the last
few years, but most of this develop
ment has been in deep valleys
which give good natural dispersion.
Phoenix, Oakland and San Fran
cisco have published booklets on
their dispersion policies. The New
York State Department of Con
servation and Development has
advertised that it has 1500 loca
tions which require no further
dispersal. North Carolina, Okla
homa and Rhode Island have like
wise made state studies on their
safety. .
Some 30 industries are now
working on this dispersal prob
lem. The steel industry was one
of the first to take it up. Con-
NEW YORK VP All women have a way with words
but Teg Lynch has a way of making them pay.
One of the brightest girls in the big town, she has turned
out so much prose her output makes the biggest dictionary
look like a pocket magazine.
"Some day I'e like to write a
book," she said, and if she really
put her mind to it, well it prob
ably wouldn't lake her more than
a week.
We sat down and figured out how
many words she had authored in
her career as a radio and televi
sion were. The total was roughly
11,600.000 the equivalent of 116
books of 100,000 words each.
"But I still want to write a real
book, or a good Broadway play,"
she said wistfully. "If I ever can
find the time."
Time is what Peg has the least
of. she both writes and plays the
leading role on ' Ethel and Al
bert," a radio and TV marital com
edy she has kept going for nine
years. .
She spends Sunday and Monday
writing it, and the rest of the week
endlessly rehearsing and polishing
it. Her average day begins at S
a.m., and may go until nearly mid
night. She never has a full day
off.
"I have to wash my own hair be.
cause I don't have the time to go
to a beauty parlor," she said. "1
even have to have someone else
buy my clothes for me and no
woman likes that because I can't
take the lime off to go shopping.''
Peg is a slender, friendly bru
nette who looks just like the kind
of a wife the. average guy would
like to conic home to, which ex
plains her charm as an actress.
She also likes to write about typ
ical married life situations she re
calls from her Midwest days.
She and the late Thomas A. Edi
son have one thing in common.
Edison is supposed to have said
that "genius is two per cent in
spiration and 98 per cent perspira
tion." Peg's success formula boils
down to a simple four-letter word
odious to most of us daydreamers.
Any way you spell it it comes
out-"W-0-R-K."
Peg was born in Lincoln, Neb.
Her dad died when she was an
infant. She was raised in Minne
sota, went to the state university,
wrote and acted in school plays.
After working for the Mayo Clinic,
she landed a job with a small Min
nesota radio station.
"I wrote 250 spot commercial j
announcements a week,'' she re-1
called. "And I also turned out a j
daily half-hour woman's show, a i
weekly little theater show, a 15
minute farm news program, three
10-minute plays and two 5-minute
sketches a week."
The pay was $70 a month and
tho problem was trying to find
time to sleep, She still has the
same problem, but the pay is
better.
"I wouldn't trade that experience
for one million dollars," she said.
"Anyone who wants to do some
thing in radio or TV can't beat
the training you get in a small
town, where you have to learn to
do everything."
Peg has no feeling the cards
are stacked against a woman in
the television world.
"Except on the business aide,"
she added, smiling. "I've never
managed to learn to add or sub
tract well."
It rather dismays her that most
people think of writing as easy,
and acting as difficult.
"Writing is work to me the act
ing is fun," she said. "People look
on writing as something they could
do as well as you or better, ,f
they just wercn t so busy. Every.
40 Billion Needed
To Meet Nation's
Highway Demands
WASHINGTON U! Sen. Martin
(R-Pa), chairman of the Senate
Public Works Committee, esti
mates it would cost 40 billion dol
lars to bring the nation's highways
up to a standard that can cope
with today's traffic problems.
Martin, whose committee han
dles fedcral-aid-to-highways legis
lation, says that a fcderal-state lo
cal expenditures of four billion a
year for the next 10 years would
do the trick.
lie thinks the program should
be on a pay-as-you-go basis Lwne
by "the traveling public."
Forty billion dollars is a lot of
money, even in these mulli-billion-dollar
days, and Martin feels that
some pay-as-you-go system must
oe lounu for financing the con.
struction of the nation's hifhways,
roads, streets, bridges and tunnels.
"There is no reason why the
traveling public should not pay
for the roads. As a matter of fact,
motor vehicles are already taxed
more than twice enough to do the
Job so badly needed today."
He estimates that the federal,
state and local governments col
lect annually about billion dol
lars in automobile and truck reg
istration fees and in taxes from
the manufacture and sale of motor
vehicles, tires, gasoline and oil.
Therefore, about half of this money
could bring the nation's highways
and roads up to present require
menls in 10 years.
trary to general belief, it is not
too concentrated. The Cleveland,
Gary and Pittsburgh areas are
considered good target areas. Ex
pansion of the industry during and
since World War II have helped
dispersal, "
Any one aluminum plant makes
a good bombing target by it
self, but the U, S. aluminum iit
dustry is now widely dispersed.
Photo film, rubber, chemical, air
craft, petroleum and automobile
industries have all considered the
dispersal problem.
The Manufacturing Chemists'
Assn. has included a big item in
its hudeet this vear to handle di
persal of plants. With the object
lesson of the General Motors' La-
vonia, Mich., plant fire before it,
the auto industry is working whole
heartedly on dispersal.
The criteria for every industry
are: What can you do to minimize
destruction? Then, what can you
do to get back in producUon as
fast as possible? Have you a dup
licate set of blueprints and pro
cess papers safely hidden away?
Have vou alternate olant sites
picked out, with alternate sources
of supply for materials? Have you
a few duplicates of basic machine
tools at alternate locations?
Calamity howlers have been
making much noise recently about
America's total unpreparedness
against H-bomb attack. But for
the past two years, farsighted peo
ple have been quietly working at
it, very hard.
Co-Operatives
Are Charged With
Fraud In Sales
PORTLAND tfl-The trial of
eight individuals and three Salem
area plywood co-operatives alt ac
cused of violtions of anti-fraud
provisions of the Secunlics Act
opened in Federal Court Monday.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission filed the charges, con
tending mat tne defendants mis
represented the firms' financial
condition when they sold more than
$100,000 worth of memberships in
tne co-ops Beaver Plywood, Na
tional Plywood and General Tim
ber Corporations. The SEC also
contended that the three firms
were connected financially.
Attorneys for the SEC said they
would attempt to prove that those
selling memberships falsely re
ported that the co-ops owned a pa
tent for a process to Increase the
value of low grade plywood by
using a photo-graining process;
that they could finance construc
tion of a plant with a loan from a
Spokane bank for co-operatives
and that they had options on bil
lions of board feet of peeler logs
in the Northwest.
The eight individual defendants
are; Edgar Robert Errion and
Dwight Holdorf. of Portland and
Independence: Glenn R. Munkcrs,
Charles W. Williamson, Archie L.
Bones and Harold A. Shoeberg,
Salem: James B. Carr, Milwaukie.
and Thomas A. O'Connell, Boise.
(Continued from Page One)
body feels he could have been a
writer if life hadn't sidetracked
him into doing something more im
portant." She glanced down at the paper
with figures totaling her output at
11.800.000 words.
"It's appalling," she said, grin
ning ruefully. "Plain appalling.
Television is a monster. It's in
satiable. It just eats your mind
alive."
i But It shows no signs of wear
ing down Peg Lynch.
Oregon Man Is Killed
In Washington Accident
YAKIMA I Injuries received
in a two.car crash near here Mon
day morning were fatal to Oscar
Olson, 77, of Milton. Ore.
I'is wife was in the hospital with
rritical head and chest injuries.
Mrs. Darlene Stahlecker. 26. of
Yakima, who was in the other car,
was reported In serious condition.
Both cars were demolished as the
Olson car was struck broadside
Olson, who had been picking ap
ples here for two weeks, suffered
head injuries, fractures of both
shoulder sockets and nearly all
the ribs on his left side. His sur
vivors include a brother and sis
ter Elmer and Hilda Olson, both
of Sdverton, Ore.
spirited. We wouldn't have it oth
erwise. We certainly wouldn't want
them to be docile and humble obe
dient on all occasions. If that were
the case, America wouldn't be
America.
You can't have your cake and
eat it too. I
Human beings (especially in
America) are a curious lot. As I
look back over the vista of the
years, it seems to me that most
of the hellions I went to school
with have turned out pretty well
and have done all right for them
selves, for their families, for their
communities and for their coun
try. Another word about Iowa.
It was one of the 13 states and
parts of states included in the
Louisiana Purchase. For this area,
we paid 15 million dollars. Presi
dent Eisenhower, in New Orleans
the other day, pointed out that
the statq of Iowa alone turns in
annually a crop worth, in excess
of 300 million dollars.
That's only the CROP (Iowa is
a great manufacturing, as well as
a great agricultural, area) from
ONE Of the 13 states and parts of
states we bought from France
(who TOOK it from Spain) back
in 1803.
We're getting pretty good inter
est on our 15 million dollars, aren't
we?
The Louisiana Purchase was one
of the world's great bargains. For
our 15 million dollars, we got 875,
000 SQUARE MILES of rich ter
ritory. Prices went up rapidly after
that. In 1848, 45 years afterward,
we paid Mexico ten million dol
lars for the 45.535 square miles
included in the Gadsden Purchase
in southern Arizona and New Mex
ico. But we have to remember that
quite a lot of the Gadsden pur
chase money went to soothe Mex
ico's feelings, which had been con
siderably ruffled by what we took
away from her in the Mexican
war.
We got a better bargain in 1S67,
when we bought Alaska from Rus
sia. We paid 57.200,000 for 590.000
square miles of what our cynics
described as "half a million square
miles of icebergs and polar bears."
In the period since then, Alaska's
salmon, furs and gold have repaid
the purchase price more than 250
times.
All in all. our Uncle Samuel has
been a pretty shrewd land buyer.
Mexico hasn't done so well in
her dealings with us. She lost
Texas by revolution (headed by
Sam Houston.) The Texans form
ed the I,one Star Republic. We an
nexed it. Mexico lost California
by revolution the comparative
ly bloodless Bear Flag Revolution.
We annexed California also.
All in all, the people of the ter
ritory in continental America
which we have taken over, bv
purchase or otherwise, are vastiv
better off than thev would have
been if we hadn't taken them over
The same, I'm sure, is true of
Hawaii.
One can't say as much for the
Philippines. I wouldn't know wheth
er they're better off or not from
their sojourn with us. I doubt it.
We've done better In our ad
ventures close at home than in
those half around the world.
Coryallis Studies
Liquor By Drink;
Move Protested
CORVALLIS ) The City
uuuui'11 ol me uregon biate col
lege town of Corvallis is consider
ing whether it should approve fiv
applications for liquor-by-the-drink
The council decision to study it,
announced after a noisy meeting
fltfiinHarl Kt, DnnMvimnl.lu nft
sons Monday night, is reversal of
an diner sLauu.
T.aQf an.il tha nn...it 1 .k-
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Benton County Court agreed they
nuuiu nut nvMiuve war licenses ana
asKeu me oiaie Liquor commission
not to l?rant nnv in Ihn
On the motion of Councilman
Ray Smith, Monday, members
voted 6-2 to refer the five bar
license applications to a council
committee. This committee will
recommend whether the city
should change its policy on liquur-by-the-drink.
The council also notified the
County Court it had taken the ap
plications under consideration.
Most of the persons attending
the meeting opposed approval of
the licenses. Eight spoke against
the plan and only one for it.
Earlier in the meeting the coun
cil voted 5-3 against a proposal to
put the matter to the voters in an
advisory election.
Mayor Dean Dorsev said the
turnout was the largest he had
seen in his 10 years on the council.
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-MjiMi"TrtP if rnmmnnHar ("hnrlfls Brendler. Con
ductor of the U. S. Navy Band, will lead his musicians
in a presentation of the concert scheduled for Oct. .23
in the Junior High School auditorium. The band is mak
ing a return engagement to Roseburg, having appeared
here two years ago in a sellout performance.
Violence Revealed At Oil Operation
BEIRUT, Lebanon Wl A travel
er from Dhahran, Saudi Arabian
oil port on the Persian Gulf, said
Tuesday that striking Arabian and
Palestinian workers at the big
Arabian American Oil Co. install
ation there killed at least one per
son and injured many others in
Pops Wants To Outlaw
Use Of Atomic Bombs
VATICAN CITY Wl Pope Pius
XII has urged that nations con
sider outlawing "ABC war" war
of atomic bombs, biology and
chemistry.
Thj Pope put his plea in the
form of a question to some 400
delegates from more than a score
of nations to an international con
gress of army medicine. He re
ceived them in audience Monday,
His speech was released Tuesday
by the Vatican press office.
a new outbreak of violence Mon
day. ...
Earlier reports said the strikers
had stoned trucks and a bus from
the big U.S. Air Force Base near
Dhahran Saturday and also bad
smashed private American auto
mobiles. . '
The reports from Arabia' said
the trouble had started Saturday
when thousands of non-American
oil workers had struck in support
of demands for pay and other priv
ileges equal to those of the approx
imately 4.000 American workers
at the oil plant. These first ac
counts did not report any casual-tics.
Chafed Skin
Smarting mistry. amazingly relieved
when medicated Reiinol rick in
lanolin is applied to chafed ikin
Lubricates, medicates, helps to heal.
Bathe tender ilcin with mild Rinol Soap.
ESINOLSo.
Russians Afraid
Of Time-Saving
Gadgets In Homes
NEW YORK Mi - Technological
progress has made life in the Unit
ed States much easier, but the
average Russian is still afraid of
new time-saving gadgets.
, This comparison was presented
indirectly Monday in seven sep
arate speeches at the 22nd annual
forum of the New York Herald
Tribune.
Six experts on living conditions
in this country agreed that Ameri
can designers, architects, artists
and industrialists have made great
progress in giving Americans clean
homes, healthful working condi
tions, innumerable timesaving de
vices and gadgets.
The seventh speaker, Associat
ed Press Correspondent Eddy Gil
more, who had been .chief of the
AP Moscow bureau for 12 years,
described life in Russia.
Gilmore said the Soviets blat
antly copy American innif.rial de
signs but do not fare too well. He
said the Russians do not like mod
ern gadgets and are mystified by
them. Gadgets "seem to be too
much trouble." Gilmores said.
While his Russian refrigerator
was "fairly economical," Gilmore
said, "It just wouldn't make ice
in the summertime." He also re
called that servants refused to use
his steam iron, his electric wash
ing machine and his vacuum clean-er.
CANDIES
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Vital Statistics
Divorce Suits Filed j
Kn,I.OS Ethyl Rosary vs. !
Frank Lawrence Knllos. Desertion !
charged. Married July 4, 1940, at ;
Salmon Creek, Wash. j
MIU.F.R Lloyd E. vs. Dollv :
Roe Miller. Desertion charged. '
Married Aug. 23, 1942, in Reno. -Nev.
KOOGLER Lazetta Kalherine ;
vs. Kenneth Warren Koogler. Cruel
and inhuman treatment' chanted. I
Married April 17, 1953 in Reeds- j
port.
Lumber Firm Ordered
To Bargain With Men
SAN FRANCISCO i A Na
tional Labor Relations Board trial
examiner recommended Tuesday
that Spalding and Sons, Inc., bo
required to bargain at its Grants
Pass planer mill ith the AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union.
The report by Howard Myers
said the union represented the
workers when Portola Lumber
Company was the employer. A
change of employers, which took
place last spring, could not change
the requirement to bargain, he
said.
The examiner, in recommending
that the NLRB issue an order re
quiring bargaining, quoted an ear
lier case in which the Seventh Cir
cuit Court of Appeals said, "There
is no reason to believe that the
employees will change their atti
tude (on union representation)
merely because the identity of the
employer has changed."
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