The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994, March 18, 1961, Page 9, Image 9

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By Leroy Inman
Sat., Mor. 18, 1961 Th Ntwt-Revitw, Roteburg, 0r. 9
Iverson's Feed Store Is Sold
To L Donahue Of Portland
Business
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GET ACQUAINTED FESTIVAL is being featured today and for the next few weeks at
the recently opened new Shell Oil Co. service station pictured above, at the entrance
to Drive 'n' Save market at Garden Valley Blvd. -Station operator is Alvin G. Clark,
Special gifts will be presented today, March 25, April 1, 8 and 15. (Chris' Studio)
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SAFETY AWARD WINNERS of Pierce Freight Lines, Inc., were honored at a banquet
; of Company employes and officials. Manager , C. (Tolly) Tollifson, second from left,
congratulates Ed Berry, one of the safety winners. Pictured are, left to right, Bill Carn
ley, Tollifson, Berry, Bill Wilson and Corl Collier.
Pierce Truckers Awarded
Citations For Safe Driving
Sale of the lverson Feed Store, i
about a mile south of Roseburg on
old Highway 99. to Levelle t Don ) i
Donahue of Portland was annotinc-l
ed this week. Name of the busi-!
ncss has been changed to Western i
Farmers Association. i
Donahue stated that he has
leased the building and purchased
the business and inventory from i
Severt lverson. He will he the!
Roseburg distributor for Western,
Farmers Association, which has I
distribution outlets in Washington I
and Oregon. :
Whereas the store has previous-1
lv limited its business to feed and
Lumber Price
Index Shows
Sharp Increase
Crow's Lumber price index reg
istered a sharp increase of $1 84
per thousand hoard feet for the
two week period ending March 17,
with all segments of the index
sharing in the improvement.
The green fir segment of the In
dex rose S3. 60, following a rise of
S." or more on utility grade and a
lesser amount on Std k Btr and
economy grades. Heavier buying
has been noted in both rail and
cargo markets, with demand from
California particularly strong in
the past two weeks.
Dry dimension is at least S2 per
thousand stronger in Std&Btr and
up several dollars in utility. Prices
are unchanged in upper grades,
however. Pine boards have shown
moderate price improvement in
both No. 3 and No. i common, and
other items have come under heav
ier demand.
Douglas fir plywood sheathing
continued to improve this week.
Crow's noted, with "s inrh now
hard to buy at the $85 iigure. Sand
ed stock is being universally quot
ed at $64 on a price-at-time-of-shipmenl
basis.
seed, Donahue staled he will be
greatly increasing his inventory
and will add several new lines.
He will handle all kinds of feed,
under the Western Fanners brand;
some appliances, including deep
freezes and hot water tanks; tires,
batteries, full line of petroleum
products, fertilizers, insecticides
and other items to provide a com
plete farm store. He will also have
limited services such as tire chang
ing. He will also have bulk deliv
ery feed service from Junction
City.
Donahue was sales manager for
Centennial for 15 years, at first
in Seattle, then being transferred
to Portland six years ago. He join
ed Western Farmers as promotion
al sales manager for Washington
and Oregon a year and a half ago.
Western Farmers, branching into
Oregon rapidly, now has outlets in
Medford, Junction City, Salem,
Hillshoro and Portland, in addition
lo Roseburg, he said. It is now
second largest distributor in the
Pacific Northwest, he said.
Donahue said he and his wife,
Jean, who will help him in the busi
ness, have purchased a home at
3945 NW Kent Ave., and will
move in April 1. They have a son,
Kenneth, 15.
lverson erected the building and
started the feed store business six
years ago. He plans to return lo
logging.
Eight Roseburg drivers for
Pierce Freight Lines have been
honored for their share in wrack
ing up" 1,162 years of accident-free
driving for the company.
The eight received their awards
from the American Trucking As
sociation at a special company
sponsored dinner in Rosebnrg.
The 1,162 figure represents the
total-number of years of driving
without accident that have been
Only Seven Miles Still Remains
To Be Contracted On No. Umpqua
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sary county road improvements.
Efforts Bring Success
These efforts have paid off in
the long struggle to make the
North Umpqua regions readily ac
cessible to the general public. Co
operation of the Bureau of Public
Roads has been obtained. Forest
products industries brought pres
sure to open virgin timber lands.
California Oregon Power Co., in
its 50 million dollar power develop
ment program, also was instru
mental in pointing up the need for
access, and did much to hasten
the program. Logging companies
working in from the Diamond Lake
side also contributed to the de
velopment. -
The highway passes through
Isopie of the ruggedest, but most
! picturesque, areas of the state. The
I route follows the main river, well
above high water, most of the way..
I A great amount of rock blasting
: and removal has been necessary.
I Determining a route through the
I great gorge in the Copco power de
I velopment vicinity posed a major
I engineering problem. But once ihe
road was located, tne work nas pro
gressed at much less cost than an
ticipated. It was decided to follow
up the gorge past Toketee Falls,
rather than go around through Big
Camas, which was the route of
the old North Umpqua Road. The
highway comes out of the canyon
beyond Toketee. The grade is grad
ual most of the way.
Charcoal Logs
Are Uncovered
On North Umpqua
Evidence of a mighty forest that
once existed is being uncovered in
some of the excavation work con
nection with Norlli Umpqua high
way construction.
Charcoal logs, as much as 50
feet underground, are revealed in
several places, where the pumice
and lava ash formations ire scrap
ed away to form a road bed.
The theory advanced on char
coal logs is that the forest was
burned then covered by erupting
volcanic ash. or lliat the terrific
heat from the volcanic residue
caused the trees and foliage to
burn, but remain encased in the
ash as charcoal as the lack of air
provenlcd complete combustion.
Lava ash and pumice cover a
great amount of the high moun
tains, resulting from volcanic ac
tion, the most famous of which
was the eruption of Ml. Manama,
which formed Crater Lake.
Beneath the ash is mostly heavy
basaltic rock. Often small caves
are found where water hus seep
ed down through the pumice then
made its way along the basaltic
base, pushing out the soft ash
with it.
Resident Engineer
Encounters Many
Problems On Job
L. A. Copenhavcr, resident en
gineer for the Bureau of Public
Roads on the current North Ump
qua construction projects, has
been in and out of that area since
about 1953.
It is his job to supervise engi
neering of the new highway proj
ects, but his work doesn't stop
with selection and survey of the
route.
There are many other problems,
and oine of them are touth. He
must advise and inspect construc
tion work to make sure it is up
to standard. He must negotiate
with contractors on necessary
changes not forseen in the initial
plans and specilication.
He must also make sure that
drainage is adequate. Erosion and
slides in some areas can present a
terrific problem.
When millions of dollars of pub
lic money is spent on a project,
it is the resident engineer's job
to see that the money is not
wasted but spent as economically
as possihle.
Copenhavcr and assistants work
out of an office on Steamboat.
accumulated by all drivers in the
Pierce operation. Olher such din
ners were held elsewhere in Ore
gon and Northern California lo hon
or all Pierce safe drivers.
Fourth Award Won
W. P. Wilson, leading Pierce
driver from Roseburg, was award
ed his fourth ATA gold pin. He has
completed 13 years without so
much as a cracked mirror or
scratched fender. Robert Alspaugh,
with 12 years of wheeling without
mishap, has compiled the next best
record.
ATA gold pins went to drivers
with 10 or more years of accident
free trucking. Silver pins were pre
sented to those with less than a
decade of perfect driving. Ed
Smith, Pierce general manager.
I made Ihe presentations.
Those from Roseburg beside Als
Ipaugh and Wilson claiming the
! awards were Carl Collier and Rob
ert Wright, five years; Edward
Berry, B. W. Carnley and Byrl
Fanning, six years; W, W. Lucas,
nine years.
Castner Reports
John C'astner. former Roseburg
driver and national truck road e-o
champion and now Pierce safety
director, said the Pierce drivers
had reduced the line haul accident
rate to .276 accidents per 100,000
miles of travel in I960. At Ihe
same time, he said. Pierce truck
ers drove 4.49.1,650 miles, the most
in the carrier's 30-year history.
C. (Tolly) Tollefson is manager
of the Roseburg terminal.
Pacific Plywood Names
Sales Representatives
William F. Forrest, president of
Pacific Plywood Co., Dillard, has
announced the appointment of
three new sales representatives in
various parts of the country for
Par-TILIS Division, nywood serv
ices, Inc., for wood block flooring.
R. R. Warren, 4.121 East Lewis.
Phoenix, Ariz., has been appointed
West Coast factory sales repre
sentative for Arizona, El Paso.
Texas, and the southern half of
New Mexico.
Thomas A. Grant, Mountain
States Sales Co.. 2262 South Broad
way, Denver, Colo., has been ap
pointed western factory sales rep
resentative for Colorado. Idaho,
Montana, Utah. Wyoming and
northern New Mexico.
John R. Sibley. 2343 Saybrook,
Los Angeles, Calif., has been ap
pointed West Coast factory sales
representative for the Los Angeles
area.
Authority On Frogs
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (API-After
35 years as a waiter. Jack Spaan
is an authority on frogs.
Frogs are theap tippers, ex
plains the man who b.'gan han
dling food on .Mississippi steam
boats in 1926.
Spaan rates his customers by
occupations:
Big executive are good tippers,
lawyers are poor ones, politicians
are verv tight "and doctors are
awful, the world's worst."
Robertson's Kennels
To Board Dogs, Cats
Robertson's Boarding Kennels
has been opened for business on
Rifle Range Road, one half mile
north of Diamond Lake Blvd.
Owners of the business are Mr.
and Mrs. R E. Robertson. They
; have completed one building, about
160 feet in length, and will add to
their facilities as demand arises.
The place will be limited to
hoarding of cats and rings. They
.can care for about 30 dogs and
Subcontractors Listed
For Equitable Building
The following list of subcontract
ors has been announced by Jack
Matins, general contractor, for re-
j modeling of Equitable Savings &
I Loan Association:
I Mechanical, Hansen Dumbing
i Co., Winston; .lack Preston, Rose
burg: brick work, Howard Stacy.
I Roseburg: concrete. Ideal Cement
i Co.. Roseburg; electrical work.
Madson ii Stokes, Roseburg: plas
jtering. Twin City Lath St Plaster
I Co., Eugene.
Wire and iron. Valley Welding,
Roseburg; - re inforcing steel. Mer
cer Steel, Portland; structural
steel. Valley Welding Co.; mill
work, Nelson & Pyle, , Roseburg;
and flooring Bob Allen, Roseburg.
several cats in their present facil
ities. I hey oiler pick up and deliv
ery service.
I According to Mrs. Robertson. Ihe
i runways for dogs are all covered,
t so that they will be entirely out of
tne weather.
Local Shell Oil Man
Celebrates Tenth Year
C. F. Frew, 102.1 NE Baragar
Ave., Roseburg, was honored re
cently by the Shell Oil Co. on the
completion of ten years of serv
ice. A truck driver in the com
pany's Roseburg plant, he was pre
sented with a special jeweled Shell
Service Emblem.
Born in Douglas County, Frew
attended Roseburg High School
and joined (lie company in 1951 as
a truck driver.
He is married lo the former Col
leen Ireland of Coquille. They
have Iwo daughters, Sahra Anne,
six, and Sharon Lee, five.
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USE OF WOOD for schools and other construction was emphasized by to panel of speak
ers from the National Lumber Manufacturers Association Wednesdiy night in the
Umpqua Hotel. The meeting was conducted by Paul R. Beottie, pictured above ot
the head table. Below, a group of dinner guests look on. as Robert D. McPherson, Seattle,
member of the NLMA team, points to a model school building built of wood. The mony
uses of wood were discussed by the speaker and pointed out in color film, "Blueprint
for Better Schools." (Chris' Studio),
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Herbert J. Wieden
Buys Winchester
Motel, Trailer Ct.
The Winchester Motel and Trail
er Court has been sold by John
Amachcr to Herbert J. Wieden
formerly of La Grande, it was an
nounccd this week.
Ihe transaction actually was
completed the first of the year
but Wieden did not take over the
active management until March 1,
he stated.
The business properly includes
the apartment-type motel of 10
units, the 35-unit capacity trailer
court and a store, situated on ap
proximately 3U acres of land
along the North Umpqua River at
Winchester on old Highway 99.
Amacher, who has operated the
business for about 21 years, will
continue with his trailer sales busi
ness on nearby properly. He and
his wife will continue lo make their
home at Winchester.
Wieden operated a ranch near
LaGrande for the past five years!
He sold Ihe ranch, but still has
some business property in that
city and in California. He moved
to LaGrande from Pasadena. Calif.
Wieden and his wife have two
daughters, the oldest a junior at
the University of Oregon and the
younger girl, 16, a sophomore at
Roseburg High School.
Oregon Liquor Control
Board Actions Listed
The Oregon Liquor Control Com
mission announces the following
actions taken on applications as of
March 8 in the Douglas County
area:
Gladys Sanders, Sandv's Tavern
ML W. Sanders) 244 SE Jackson
St., Roseburg, grant on applica
tion for change in ownership.
Letter of warning on violation
hearings has been sent to Edward
Smith, Jug's Club, 103 Central Ave.
Route 1, Box 214, Sutherlin.
Leroy Lyle Buell, Lyle's Tavern,
Sutherlin, has been given seven
days suspension as of March 27.
Aclion taken on employes include
litters of warning to each of the
following for alleged violations:
j La Vena M. Bailey, Sutherlin, em
ployed by Jug's Club, and also by
'Lyle's Tavern, both of Sutherlin;
:to Dwain Bert Graves, 3344 W.
Harvard, employed at Lyle's Tav-
i ern.
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Patronize News Review Advertisers
Roicburg, Wed., March 22
WESTERM
FARM
Association
(Formerly Iverson's Feed Store)
Distributor for Complete Line
Western farmers
farm supplies
FEED- TIRES BATTERIES
3 Ml. SOUTH of ROSEBURG on OLD HWY 99
OPEN TUES.-SAT., 8 - 5:30. CLOSED MONDAY
LEVELLE '(Don) DONAHUE, Mgr.
FOR DREAMERS' COINS!
' j if Idle Dreamers drop coins in w
II J ; a well . . . hoping to make . 1L
' their wishes come true. mii
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Douglas County Slate BANK
Roseburg Oakland Sutherlin