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DOUCLAS COUNTY FAIR patrons this year will pass
through these new gates on entry to the Fairgrounds, They
are located immediatel south of the Community Bldg, and
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NEW HORSE BARNS Modern new horse barns have been I ties have been greatly improved as well as providing in
built at the Fairgrounds replacing the old ones. The facili- ' creased accommodations for horses.
Large Mew Building Will House
Exhibits For Expanded Events
By LEROY INMAN
News-Review Staff Writer
The Douglas County Fair Board
Is spending $125,000 to make the
annual County Fair one o the top
notch events of its kind in the
state of Oregon.
Year after year, in limited but
ever-growing facilities, the fair has
received top ratings for exceiiencc.
Under the direction of Dick Turley,
this event has containued to draw
exhibitors, both commercial and
otherwise from wide areas, and the
fair manager has experienced
some difficulty finding a place for
everyone who wanted to exhibit.
This year the story will be dif
ferent. The community building
has been enlarged. New horse
barns have been constructd, along
with entirely new 4-H Club dormi
tories. The old commercial exhibit
budding is being transformed into
an animal display center, and a
huge new exhibit building is now
being built.
Figures Tell Story
To show the extent of the new
construction, a breakdown of fig
ures shows the new exhibit build
ing costing around $93,000. The
new barns were erected at a cost
of $16,000 and a stage, with addi
tional facilities, has been added to
the community building at a cost
of $15,000. These are round figures,
bringing the total to the $125,000
figure.
In addition, new Fairground
gates have been built. There will
be a new square dancing platform,
and a swimming pool will be put
in for use during the fair. This
doesn't count the normal work that
goes on each year to improve fa
cilities, to repair or rebuild the
old and generally better the Fair
grounds accommodations.
Flowers and small trees, being
grown by Turley and now group
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THIS CARAVAN of Roseburg Reoltors is mode up of mem
bers of the Roseburg Multiple Listing Bureou. Th bureou
was formed last week by six competing firms who ore
pooling their real estate listings. Approximately 30 brokers
ond real estate salesmen will have access to the listings.
Buyers will not need to contact os mony real estate agents,
ond sellers will have their property handled by for more
ed In a mammoth potted plant gar
den, will be placed about the
grounds. The flowers will add an
element of beauty, and the trees
provide some form of shade around
the benches and at other places
not otherwise sheltered.
Robins Conducts Tour
Robert (Bob) Robins, Roseburg
High School vocal music instruc
tor who is filling in again this
summer as publicity director for
the Douglas County Fair, took this
reporter and photographer Andy
Fautheree on the $64 tour of the
grounds recently. He explained the
plans, as they are so far drafted,
for the fair, which is scheduled
Aug. 25 through 28. The entire
week, by the way, has been desig
nated as Douglas County Fair
Week and will be so observed by
Roseburg merchants.
Greeting the fair visitor will be
i new gates, creeled between the
Community uunnmg ami uie rai
nier grange exhibit buildings. The
old gates at the grandstand will no
longer be used by fair patrons.
Thev will, however, continue to be
used for events at the rodeo
grounds and activities at the
Community Building when the
nrnunds are used for parking.
The new gates will be adjacent to
to the main parking area across
the road.
The carnival this year will oc
ennv the area in front of the south
portion of the rodeo grandstands
where the square dancing plat
form was formerly located.
Large New Stage
One of the major improvements
is the huge stage erected at the
front of the Community Building.
The main stace is 35 feet wide by
70 feet long, occupying part of a
106-foot long by 35-foot wide addi
tion. On cither end o the stage
will be 18-foot long sections to be
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across from the main parking area. The new-style gates will
provide better processing of patrons and improve the general
Fairgrounds entry appearance, (News-Review staff pictures)
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used on the east side as a ticket
booth plus entry way, and on the
west side for dressing rooms.
The stage will be used for com
mercial exhibit purposes this year
but it will provide future stage use
for major community entertain
ment such as the annual "Mes
siah," said Robins. It wilt find
many other uses. The community
building will house commercial ex
hibits this year, all except those
which have to be placed outside.
The huge new Fairgrounds addi
tion wilt be the exhibit building,
to be used for all except commer
cial displays. There will be no re
strictions on the types of exhibits
this year, and many more are
expected.
This building consists of seven
beamed sections, each 28 feet wide,
and a central arch 56 feet Wide,
by M4 feet in depth. The beams
are in place and the roof sections,
each prefabricated, are being set
in place.
The roof wilt be unusual in that
it will be covered with a varicolor
ed, blown-on fiberglass material,
which will make it stand out. The
floor will be of concrete.
Original plans called for still an
other 28 x 144-foot section, but this
was abandoned for economy pur
poses. It can be added later if
the need and finances make it fea
sible. At the west end of this building
will be located one of the show
features of the fair, the "Dancing
Waters" review, announced earlier
in the News-Review.
Along the south side will be the
swimming pool, to be put in by
Del's Building Supply. It will be a
temporary structure with bleach
ers on two sides. A bathing beau
ty contest and queen selection will
be a big event, and there will be
an aquatic show. Beauty contest
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salesmen. Thursday
town ond surrounding oreo,
listings, moking opproisals ond gathering data. The firms
represented ore: Roseburg Realty, Bevons Real Estate,
Douglas County Realty, McAneney Real Estate, Ted Smaile
Reol Estate, ond Winter Real Estate. (Staff Photo.)
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ants will all wear Jantzen swim
suits and will be given the suit for
participating. The winner will get
additional prizes.
The Rickett's Talent Show will
again be staged outside in the gar
den area.
Ail in all, according to Robins,
it wilt just be a bigger and better
fair this year. Some of the details
are still not worked out but they
will be before fair tune.
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JOHN DAVIS has taken over
the lease-operator manage
ment of the Mobilgas Ser
vice Station, formerly Miller's
Mobilgas Service Station at
1112 W. Harvard Ave. The
station wos reopened this
week ofter a fwo-month
closure. (Chris' Studio)
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the realtors represented toured the
checking over their real estate
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NEW CONSTRUCTION is the new exhibit building, a 252
by !44-foot building, in which all exhibits other than com
mercial of the Douglas County Fair will ba placed. The en
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NEW 4-H DORMITORIES-Four-H Club and Future Farm
er members who bring in their prize calf, sheep, pig or any
other fair exhibit that they will have to stay with during the
four-day Douglas County Fair will have new modern dor
mitories for their use this year. Previously they were housed
Consolidated
Effective July J8, the lumber re
manufacturing plant of Consoli
dated Milling Corp., located one
mile south of Roseburg on High
way 89 Business Route, has been
leased to the Umpqua Afamtfactur
ing Co.
The new corporation will resume
Lumber Price
Shows Steady
Decline Rate
Crow's Lumber Price Index con
tinued to show a steady rate of de
cline tn the two-wek period end
ing July 21, with the 75 key items
in the index dropping an average
of $ft.8T per thousand beard feet
during that period.
Utility grado green fir dimen
sion and dry pine boards and shop
grades led the downward trend,
with kiln-rfried fir items showing
only a slight monetary loss. In the
green fir markel, the Crow's sur
vey shows that several low firade
transit ears are being sacrificed at
prices several dollars under ori
ginal costs, ine Oregon ana wasn
inglon mills are holding fairly
steady on standard and better
grades and have given very little
ground on specified lengths. Ac
cording to Crow's report plank and
timber demand remains steady
and heavy volume of export orders
have been recently booked by tide
water mills.
Pine and associated species No.
i common boards lost consider
able ground and combined with
downward trend of the shop grades,
the loss was equivalent to $1 per
thousand board feet of the 25 list
ed items.
Douglas fir plywood did not show
much life, with the '" AD, the
index item for sanded stork con
tinuing to hold at $ft2 and $M lists.
Sheathing is tagged at tffi for
S-inch stock, a decline of $2 per
thousand square feet in the same
period.
New A&W Root Beer
Stand Set For Suiherlin
Construction of a A & W Root
Beer drive-in was begnrs this week
in Siitherlin, reports Barbara Ue
singcr, News Review correspond
ent. The business will be located on
Westwood Avenue, next to the fly
ing A Service Station.
Contractor K. Durflinger e f
Sprwgtseld is building the struc
ture for Douglas Parazoo and Vem
Liesinger, owners.
The drive in, scheduled for com
pletion within 60 days, will be on-
eratcd by Ernest Ricnhardf, bold
lr of the A & W Root Beer fran
chise for Suthcrlin.
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Milling Plan!
operations about Attg. 1, perform
ing the same services as were
previously given. The mill will
have been closed for about two
weeks tor Use instaliatton ef new
machinery and equipment.
Consolidated Milling has oper
ated the past &Vi years doing cus-
Wegner Sells Best Cafo
To Sa!em Msn And Wife
Cyrus Wegner, who has owned
and operated the Best Cafe in
Oakland for several years, has sold
the eafe and lounge and the build
ing to Mr. and Mrs, Ed Cm-ran
from Salem.
The Currans took possession Sun
day. Wegner will remain in the Oak-
iand-Sutherlin area and plans some
remodeling on the tormer Under
wood building next door to t h c
cafe, according la Edith Dunn,
Oakland correspondent for the
fvews-Rcview.
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WINNERS ALL Roy Torgeson, (for left) Rasettrg Distfi&utmg Co,, Roseburg and hi
teammates display prizes they won for placing fifth in the Carling Brewing Co.' treasure
hunt, held recently in Tacoma. Pictured with Torgeson are (left to right) Torgsson; Earl
Chondisr, HiSI&boro, Ore.,' Horold Peterson, Renton, Wash; Morgan Rice, Vancouver,
Wash, ond George Ansel, Cheftaits.
Ray Torgeson At Day-Long Meeting
Ray Torgeson, Roseburg Dis
tribution Co., Roneburg, was
among the top distributors' drivers
salesmen, honored recently by the
Carling Brewing Co., Tacoma, In
a day-long round of activities In
that city.
Accompanied by their wives, the
-W salesmen attending the affair,
were those who had done the best
Job in increasing the volume of
Sat, July 23, 1960 Th Nwi-Revlew, Roseburg, Ore. 1
trance faces south. Rest rooms
been provided. Tne roof win
fiberglass. Many new displays
in a portion of the former commercial exhibit building.
There will be accommodations for 50 to 60 boys in one end
and a like number for girls in the other end. A main
tenance shop has also been constructed as a wing out from
the center of the building.
Leased By New Corporation
torn milling for sawmills in the
area as well as handling lumber
produced by lis two principal own
ers, Holm Bros, Lumber Co, of
Glide and Cleveland Lumber Co.
of Olalla. Both of theso mills have
curtainled operations for the pres
ent. Principals is the new Umpqtia
Manufacturing Co. are Gerald S.
McCarthy, who will ho general
manager; George 11, Itlggs, office
and sales manager, and Geraid
ttoefge, snperintenrfent. McCarthy
and Itiggs both were previously
with Umpqua Plywood Co. prior
to its sale to National l'lywmwt.
Itadge has been superintendent of
Consolidated.
Articles of incorporation were
filed in Salem for live Umpciua
Manufacturing Co., ftnsebnr, with
assets of $23.UtX. InconxuMors
wero listed as Donald A. Dole and
George W. Ncuner, attorneys, and
E, A. Seaiaeffer,
Robert I). Wilson, offiee and
sales manager for Consolidated
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Black Label beer in their respec
tive areas in the slates of Wash
ington, fsregon ami Idaho,
Festivities for the flay included
a banquet for husbands and wives,
a tour of I'uget Sound for the
women and a treasure hunt for
the men.
Highlight of the day was the
treasure hunt. In which partici
pants, divided Into ten flvt-msn
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and other conveniences have)
be ot a varicolored biown-ort
are planned this year.
since its start, has announced
plans to take a new position out
of the Roseburg area. He will re
main here smtii mid-August ts
clear outstanding affairs of Can
sotidated's operations. .
Sulfieriin Shoe Repair
Shop In New Building
Opening this weekend; is a sew
ly enmpleterf bartdiag in Sistherfis
is Montgomery's Shoe Repair Shop,
located at first and State streets.
The new block building, replac
ing tlie old: structure which, tossed
the repair shop for many years,
was built for Irvin Montgomery,
owner and operator of the shop, by
Pattf Hunter, s Ssstheriirs contrac
tor. In addition to the shoe repair
shop the building also has a sec
ond rental space, reports Barter
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teams, were given a succeeding
number of clues which scattered
them oa trips ttstttiifthaal tea eit?.
Special prize were awarded! is
each member of the five winning
teams, tho first of which was in
all expense passf vaestisss for tw
to the World Series.
For placing fifth in the event,
Torgeson and his teammates each
won. a eloctris thaverk
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