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Eteaity Heard Sets Active Year MODERN FARROWING BUILDING is being built on the i .i r r i I i.- xt perty several mites sourn or Koseourg, me locarion or ine iverson reea orore. iver son is here shown pointing out the pre-formed overhead beams, designed to give him full access to the structure with o feed truck. Sows ore to be brought to this struc ture for farrowing from a pasture near Myrtle Point. Iverson Erecting Modern arrowing Esarn An estimated 1,800 new-born pigs a year from his 60 sows is the re turn Severt Melvin Iverson expects to enjoy with the help of his new modern farrowing building. Ike and Doug James, Roseburg builders, are constructing the build ing on property adjacent to the Iverson Feed Store, south of Rose burg. It is expected to cost about $6,000. usiness By Leroy Inman Sat., Jon. 7, 1961 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 Krueger Lists Several Recent Property Sales Several recent real estate trans actions just completed and report ed bv Paul H. Krueger, realtor, through his business, Town St Coun try Insurance & Realty, indicated k people still have faith in the cily of Roseburg, he staled. Transactions include: Karl A. Dement to Walter H. Brydgcs, home on NE Malheur; Harry L. Bade..to Darrell L. Gourley, prop erty east of Sutherlin; James Sny der to Ralph L. Lane, property in Roberts Creek area. John Quibell to Victor L. Monger, home at W. Bradford Dr.; Myron O. Lehne to Larry C. Bush, prop erty east of Sutherlin; Stanley J. Bonkowski. to Leo Sensabaugh, Laurelwood property; Emery E. Parker to J. R. Pierce, home on W. Langenburg; Mrs. Nell Largey to Nelson & Pyle Wood Worker Co., property on SE Parrot; Mar tha A. Young to Wayne D. Gonioll, property on NW Cecil St. John Quibell to Arnold E. Lake, property in Quintus Park sub-division; Mrs. Anna 1. Laird to Ber nard G. Fenwick, home on NE Winchester; Ira V. Young to Har lev N. Widener, Kelly's Korner area property; Paul H. Krueger to Clifford D. Lovell, home on Keas ey Rd.; Sam C. Moon to Bernard L. Shaw, property in Green Dis trict. Local residents needing larger houses or wishing newer homes keep property moving, Krueger commented. A larger number of new people are choosing Roseburg as their choice to live and work, because of its abundance of natur al beauty in forests and streams, he added. Mrs. Johnson Assumes Managership Of Bowl Beginning the first of the year Mrs. Harold Johnson of Drain, took over the managership of the North Douglas Bowl. Joe Cole, former manager, and his family will make their new home in Beaverton. Mr. Cole will he working for an investment com i panv in Beaverton. reports Mrs. William Guthrie, Drain correspon dent. Vic Lewis Named Winner In Contest Of Company Vic I.ewir. Roseburg represent ative of the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. and a member of the Rodaors H. Cook Agency, is a national winner in a one-month sales contest recently conducted by the company, announces Henry W. Persons, vice president and direc tor of agencies. In recognition of this honor, which was won by producing a specified large amount of business during the contest, Lewis will re ceive priic. -5-, v -Vi When any of his sows are ready to have their litter, Iverson will bring (hem in from pasture and allow them to farrow and ween at the new building. The building will have concrete floors for easy cleaning. The pre molded overhead construction is designed so that Iverson will be able to drive a truck through the building. In this manner, feeding cene ROBERT SARGENT . . . assistant vice president Sargent Selected As Vice President Of Equitable Co. Robert Sargent, manager of the Equitable Savings and Loan office in Roseburg, has been elected as sistant vice president by the board of directors. According to Ralph H. Cake, president of the associa tion, the appointment became ef fective Dec. 21. Sargent has been with Equitable since 1958. He started as a loan interviewer in the Equitable Salem office and in February of 1960 was transferred to Roseburg as branch manager. He will continue to head the Roseburg branch for Equitable Saving and Loan. Equitable, which has purchased the former U. S. National Bank's building here, plans to start re modeling the quarters soon for its use. Plans, still tentative, call for rental space on the main floor. Liquor Commission Acts On Local Applications The Oregon Liquor Control Com- : mission announces the following : actions on applications before it as ot Dec. it: Grant on application for lesser privilege, Camas Valley Store. Inc., Box 8, east side of Highway 42 at Camas Valley, package beer til with restrictions. Effie M. Gibson and Jettie M. i Stanley. Swede's Tavern at 9:17 SE Stephens St., Roseburg, grant on application for dropping partner. Refusal on application for drop ping a partner. Alia .Mae Griesel, B t M Tavern, SU9 SE Cass St., ' Roseburg. I Grant on application for recon-j sidoration of refusal to renew for! Herbert A. Lindner, Lindy's. j 'Route I. Box 1320. east side of' il. S. 93BR, 2 5 miles south of i Roseburg. I r - Severt Melvin Iverson pro- I. r I r I . . for Pigs chores will be greatly alleviated, he said. Iverson plans to put each sow on a special diet several weeks before farrowing. By having all pregnant sows in one location, his work will again be eased. The sows and boar are on clover, supplemented with grain, on his Myrtle Point ranch. After having a litter, the sows are to be kept at the farrowing building for the six-week ween j ing period, and then returned to pasture. Iverson expects each sow to have three litters in any given year. A litter averages out to near ly 10 pigs. Pal Motors Discontinues Jeep Agency LeRoy Ladd of Pal Motors an nounced that he is discontinuing his Volvo Jeep agency at 854 SE Stephens, and has vacated the gar age building at this location. He stated, however, that he is continuing his Pal Motors used car dealership on the car lot next door. He said he will also continue his body repair shop at 2165 NE Steph ens. A new agency for the Volvo is expected to be announced very soon. Ladd stated that in the mean tme he would cooperate with Jeep owners, assisting in their needs until the agency is established. Ladd was a partner with Roy Smith in the Oldsmobile agency in Roseburg starting in 1949 and con tinuing until 1954. At that time, Ladd and Cliff Aten and Grant Phillips established Pal Motors. He later took over the business on his own and added the. Jeep agency in 1957. Pal Motors building at the former location on SE Stephens between SE Oak and Washington avenues was destroyed by the explosion of Aug. 7, 1959. The business was moved to 854 SE Stephens after the blast. He recently discontinued the Oldsmobile agency. Ladd recently announced plans to erect a motel on the property of the former Pal Motors building. He stated that he would like to express his appreciation to the res idents of Roseburg for their patron age and wants to let them know he is continuing the used car lot and body shop. Dock Commission Opportunities For Trade Listed Opportunities for forcgin export trade that should be of special in terest to producers in the Port land trade area were announced recently by the Portland Dock j Commission. Paper products, door panels frozen chickens, sports-1 wear were included in the list of commodities desired by foreign I firms. Cellular framework door panels, covered with plywood made of pop lar or a similar wood, are de sired by a firm in Pordcnone (Udinel, Italy. The firm intends to purchase several thousand an nually. Various kinds of paper are de sired by an agency in The Hague, Netherlands. The firm wants an exclusive distributorship for mar keting the paper and would like to negotiate with a Northwest firm for supplying il. A restaurant in Aleppo, Syria, desires to purchase approximately a ton of froen broiler chickens each month, and a sales agent in London desires large quantities of ladies hi-arhwear. swim suits, and underwear, and men's ties, in un usual or novelty fabrics. Details of these opportunities, plus many others, can be obtain ed from the Dock Commission, in cluding information on entering foreign trade. Credit information, marketing data, and other import ant detailed reports can easily be obtained for a prospective exporter. Harry Winter, President, Lists lO-Point Plan An active year for the Douglas County Realty Board is assured during 1961 by President Harry Winter, who announced a 10-point program he hopes to put into ef fect for the benefit of the board and community as a whole. Winter was installed as presi dent, Dick Stevenson as vice-president and Alice Smalle secretary treasurer, Wednesday noon. The 10 points outlined include; 1. Increased membership to up wards of 100 members both active and associate. 2. Attendance at meetings averaging at least 85 per cent of membership. 3. A sound financial program. 4. A member ship well informed on brokerage needs and other phases of real estate. 5. Comprehensive program on community activities. 6. Inter esting and diversified programs at meetings. 7. Effective public relations programs. 8. ,A board more valuable to the members, to give them more for the money they pay as dues. 9. Increased fellowship through social functions of the membership. 10. A Doug las County Realtor's rate book. Winter also spoke of emphasis on better ethics of relators, better laison with attorneys, bolter co oneralion with contractors, and better community cooperation and participation. He named the following as di rectors, L. P. McAneney and Craig Short. Committee assignments include: Program standards, Earl Wiley and Joe Dent; education commit tee, John Fleck and Dick Steven son; membership, Jim Bevans, active members, and Roland Springer and Joyce Dole, associ ate members; public relations and special events, Lee Jones; Real tors' ladies committee, Helen Glenn. Motion was made to give advice and extend any cooperation pos sible to the Green Sanitary Dis trict in solving its problem. An invitation will be extended to res idents of the district to appear and discuss the problem with the board at a future meeting. The board gave its concurrence in backing proposed trust deeds legislation. Planning and annexa tion were discussed, and Mayor Pete Serafin, a member of the board, urged each individual to encourage progress along these lines. Bill Stock Motors Closed, Business Being Liquidated W. R. (Bill) Stock announced that he has closed the garage and repair shop at 1771 NE Stephens St. and is now in the process of li quidating the new and used cars of Bill Stock Motors, Inc.i at the used car lot at 1358 SE Stephens. He stated that he will continue operations of the lot until he has completed his liquidation. After that, Donald F. Johnson of 168 SE Houck St. and Perry Thiele, 357 S. Laurelwood CI., Roseburg will take over the operation. They have already filed the assumed name of Johnson and Thiele. Stock has been a resident of Roseburg for many years. He was with Si Dillard for 16 years, then was with Corkrum Motors, Ply mouth agency. He took over the Plymouth agency and established Bill Stock .Motors in January of 1954. He operated at his location on SE Oak St. at SE ,Seridan until the explosion and fire of Aug. 7, 1959, destroyed the leased building and the entire stock of cars, parts and repair equipment. After the explosion he establish ed the agency for Plymouth, Val iant and DcSoto cars and GMC trucks at NW Dogwood and Garden Valley Blvd. He later moved to NE Stephens. He closed the busi ness there as of Jan. 1. Stock stated Uiat he has no im mediate plans after liquidation of tile business. Assumed Business Names, Retirements Filed With Clerk The following assumed business names and retirements from busi ness have been filed with the Doug las County clerk: Leo W. Sanders and C. D. Ken nedy, retiring partnership for K & S Cut Slock Co., Dillard. Leo W. Sanders, assumed name for Deedy Lumber Co., Wilbur, for manufacturing and re-manufacturing lumber. Kenneth Bars, retirement of Kenn's 76 Service. Roseburg. James M. Bartley, retirement of Bartley's Garage, Roseburg. Edgar C. and Alice S. xive, re tirement of Love TV II Radio re tail supplies store. Howard L. Jones, Box 5.r4, Rose burg, assumed business name for Commercial Janitorial Service, contract janitorial service. Norman F. Graham, Box 82, Canyonville. assumed business name for. Freeway Shell Service, gasoline. Edward Scholes, retirement Freeway Shell Service. Wilhard V. Wanconer. Box 1086, Roseburg. assumed name for Mid Oregon Stationery Co. U. S. Bank Ded ESTABLISHED in 1883, the Douglas National Bank in Roseburg was the county's first banking establishment. Roseburg pioneer, J. H. Booth, purchased the bank in 1901 and for more than 40 yeors helped to-direct and develop the growth of the Umpqua Valley. Early photograph shows bank before its merger in 1943 with U. S. National. Early History of National During the early part of the 1900's, when a number of banks throughout the country were falter ing under the ebb and flow of pros perity, world war and depression, the Douglas National Bank in Rose burg maintained a steady growth under the guiding genius of J. H. Booth, a long-time Roseburg pi oneer. The history of Booth's bank, which later merged with the Rose burg branch of U. S. National Bank, stems back to 1883. At that lime, a law student from the office of Binger Herman established the first bank in Douglas County the Telephone Co. Plans To Build New Warehouse Pacific Telephone-Northwest has announced the purchase ot prop erty on NE Airport Rd. for con struction of a plant garage and service center, according to Cliff Thomas, Roseburg manager. The land was purchased from Ada Buck. It is part of an original five-acre tract, a third of which was sold a year ago to Williams Bakery of Eugene. The bakery is now completing construction of a warehouse for its KoseDurg outiei. Thomas stated that the new cen ter will replace the one on SE Flint St., which is to be sold. He said the Portland office has informed him the architect is now working on plans for the building, with the hopes construction can be started in the first half of 1961. Bids will be called for on a build - lease basis, according to tentative plans, said Thomas. This is a part of the company's announced plans for a program med $23.9 million outlay to ex pand and improve telephone serv ice in Oregon during 1961. Keith's Flying A Station Is Being Entirely Rebuilt Keith's Flying A Service Station, 1050 W Harvard Ave., at Anderson Place Market, is being mostly torn down and will be rebuilt, according to Keith Christophcrson, lease-operator. The business was closed Tuesday and scheduled to reopen cither today or the first of the week on a make shift basis while construc tion is under way. The work will take about two month's to com plete. Christophcrson said he will keep open the best he can during that time. The station is owned by Bill Anderson, who owns the other Anderson Place buildings. He is having the work done by contrac tors Edwards and Coxey. The old structure, built in 1946 and consisting of wood covered with stucco, hart deteriorated, lhc new station will be of concrete block, with more window space and better lighting, It will be eight feet deeper and slightly longer, with a triangle-shapeod canopy and a shed type roof. It will have a larger office. Ceramic tile will be used in the rest rooms. The station will have additional tools, a lube and wash room and frame contact hoist, said Chris tophcrson. Christophcrson, who took over the operation a year ago, said he will continue to handle Tidewater products, keep the same help and maintain similar hours as in the past. Oakland Theater Will House New Businesses Jesse Lee is having the old Oak land theater building remodeled, and it will be occupied by Air. and Mrs. Norris Williams. Williams will move his barber shop from the Adams building. Mrs. Williams will also have a beauty shop in the building. She is now located in the Trusty Shop, reports Krtith Dunn, Oakland correspondent. flSi eH.W mis??? Bank Is first bank between Yreka, Calif, and Albany, Ore. Off To Slow Start Banking habits were apparently off to a slow start in the relative wilderness of Douglas County, and the ownership of the bank passed through seven partnership set-ups before it finally began to progress under the strong leadership of Booth, who bought the bank for $500,000 ill 1901. His brother, H. A. Booth, was in partnership with him at that lime. Born in 1809, Booth's life spanned most of the change that has come about in the valley of the Umpqua rivers. As a banker, his interest reached into the lives and welfare of those people who made up the human element in the sheltered land known as the Umpqua Valley. , Automatic Sprinklers Water Grounds Of Bank An automatic sprinkling sys tem will provide water for the shrubs and lawn in the land area in front of the new U.S. National Bank's Roseburg branch building. The sprinklers are such that they turn on automatically when the ground reaches a certain de gree of dryness, and turn off when the saturation point is at tained. Bank's Drive-Up Window Designed To Serve All Cars Although a comparatively new innovation, many of the original drive-up bank facilities have been swept and left dry by the changing tide of American tastes namely sfnnllcr and smaller cars. It's a long reach for owners of little foreign ears, or even owners of the new compacts, from Hie driver's seat to the teller window. U. S. National Bank has taken into consideration this new trend in automobile . styling and has con structed a drive-up window at Roseburg's new branch building at a comfortable height for all kinds of cars, whether they be a midget type, a new compact or a king size car. The facility that is particularly appreciated during the winter months, the bank from-your-car tel ler window has been described as a "real convenience for people on the run, people who may have physical limitations and others who prefer lo take care of their banking business from their cars." Full security will be provided to the teller inside, who will be just about as immune to outside inter ference as sleel, reinforced con crete and special glass can make her. Despite these security measures, the drive-up teller window still re tains the personal contact that the bank values in its dealings with customers, stresses Bank Manager Harold Schmeer, as the teller is amply visible through the lacil ily's glass and communication is provided by a clear intercom sys tem without necessity of raising voices. 1 ; - ROBERT BOOK Transmission Specialist' Aik for Bob When You Are In ication Under Way Douglas Recalled He had loaned them money with which to plant crops, stock mer chandise, feed livestock and pay doctor bills. Fully acquainted with the pos sibilities of the valley, Booth could foresee an impelling need for great financial assistance to the budding lumber industry. Acquaintances feel that he believed his greatest service lo Roseburg could be ac complished by joining his independ ent bank with the Roseburg branch of U. S. National, thereby backing the young lumber industry with the help of a strong statewide bank. Strong Competition However, Booth's institution was not the only bank in Roseburg which was expanding and growing during the early part of the cen tury. Organized in 1907 with capi tal slock of $50,000, the Roseburg National Bank offered Booth strong competition, lis ouiiding, construct ed the same year of Us organiza tion, is used today as quarters for the Roseburg branch of U. S. Na tional. Shortly alter Roseburg Na tion's merger with U. S. National in 9db, the structure was throughly ly remodeled nt a cost lo S50.000. Seven years later Booth joined with U. S. National. Soon afterwards, Boolh became manager of the Roseburg branch, later moving to Portland as vice president of the bank. Few men had been so intimately a part of their community as Booth, who died in October, 1947, following a short illness. But Roseburg hasn t slopped growing and neither has the bank. Present Branch Manager Harold Schmeer calls Saturday's move to new quarters "another milestone in the growth of one of Oregon s most progressive towns." Roseburg Chamber Launches Program To Promote County The Roseburg Chamber of Com merce is starting early with its promotion program in other parts of the nation to attract visitors and retirement couples to Douglas County, announces Secretary-Manager Harold Reaume. As a member of die Pacific Northwest Travel Assn., the Cham ber is taking advantage of its membership to distribute litera ture to at least six trnde fairs over the nation in the early part of 1961. The association is made up of the official state tourist promotion divisions of the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Chambers of commerce also may join the agen cy on a voluntary basis. The stale agencies supply help to staff and set up booths at trade fairs. First of these will be the Inter nationa) Travel and Vacation Shows, Navy Pier, Chicago, Jan. 14-22. Roseburg will have 5,000 Douglas County brochures avail able at the booth. Other places include: Kansas City Sports and Travel Show, Jan. j 27 Feb, 5, the chamber to send 15,000 brochures; 3,000 will go to the Omaha Boat, Sports and Trav el Show, Feb. 21-26; 3,000 lo Min- LOCKWOOD MOTORS 745 S. E. ROSE PHONE OR 3-4487 1951 FORD 1961 AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION JANUARY SPECIAL Drain Trantmi'ition Drain Converter Clean Oil Pan and Screen Adjust Bandt and Unkaga Torque Converter Bolrt Fill With Genuine Ford Fluid Road Tett Car $ Move Of Bank Required Seven Years Planning How long does it lake to move a hank? Harold Schmeer, manager of the Roseburg branch of U. S. National Bank, will say seven years. And he can prove it. In Schmeer's desk is a letter dated 1954 which con cerns the first inquiry into possible sites for a new Roseburg branch building. When eight years of anticipation are considered, Saturday's move to new quarters becomes a mo mentous one both for Schmeer and for his staff. For the past several months, a good part of Schmeer's bank chores have been involved with the branch opening in the iiirm pi pnone-cailing, letter-writ, ing. conferences and eeneral coor dination. Schmeer, 57, has been manager of the Roseburg branch since 1948. A native of Portland, he started with U. S. National's head office as messenger boy in 1921. He work ed his way through the interior, Bookkeeping, trust ami investment departments until 1935, when he left the bank to enter the invest ment business. Various Short Tours Schmeer served in World War II, returning in 1945 to re-join the bank. After serving various short tours of duty at branch banks, he moved to Burns for five months as acting manager, and spent 14 months in Redmond as manager. Looking forward to (he move with equal anticipation was Kenneth Kirk, assistant manager. Kirk started his banking career in 1932 in the Mid-West, and it wasn't until 1949 that he moved to Oregon and joined U. S. National. Kirk moved to Roseburg in 1953 as assistant manager, after work ing at the Portland head office in the credit and branch loan depart ments. He was transferred to Brookings as manager from 1956 to 1957, but returned here in No vember, 1957. Commenting on the branch open ing, Schmeer stated: "After our long wait of seven years, we have finally reached the day we have been anticipating the day when we will open the doors to more adequate and even more complete banking facilities for our customers in Roseburg." Housewives Said Spending More In Supermarkets Within the near future $2 of ev ery $10 Mrs. Housewife Rnpnrlc in her supermarket will be non-food items. This was the observation nf Zane Kemler. McDonald Cnnrlv Co., in Eugene, as he prepared to piirticpate Jan. 8 - 14, in the sixth national convention of Service Mer chandisers of America, an interna tional association, of specialists in the retailing of housewares, soft goods, stationery and school sup plies and related items in food stores. McDonald has a Roseburg outlet. ' The convention will at(rac( near ly 400 representatives of service distributor ' wholesale firms and manufacturers of items specifical ly designed and packaged for food store distribution. "Surveys lend credence to the prediction of expert observers that if present trends continue, the food store and its one stop shop in g convenience will make the food store more and more the source for a rapidly increasing number of kitchen, household, clothing and other needs once considered alien to the food market, Kemler said. He pointed out that surveys by nationally recognized agencies and detailed reports by food store op erators show that as much as 8 to 14 per cent of food store sales are accounted for by non-food items, which include health and beauty aids, magazines, records and oth er items as well as housewares and related products. Only a cou ple of years ago, these same sur veys disclosed, non-food accounted for less than five per cent of food sloro sales. Tremendous expansion of shop ping centers the influence of the automobile and the food store's convenient parking have been im portant factors. "However, manufacturer atten tion to the development of pack aging especially for food store merchandising plus the develop ment of specialists in rack mer chandising have played major roles," Kemler added. neapolls show March 31 April 9; 3,000 to Dallas show April 8-16; 5,000 to Los Angeles April 6-16, and 5,000 to Oakland, Calif., April 21-30. 9.95 REG. $13.65 CARS PICKUPS Includat Fluid, Goikott and Lobar
