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RECORDS OF EVERY LOG cut and hauled to Douglas County sawmills ond Plywood
plants ore punched on cards by the above pictured tabulators at the Southern Oregon
Log Sealing & Grading Bureou, 948 SE Mill St. The staff of office workers is almost
doubled during busy summer months. (News-Review Staff photo). '
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FRANK WOODWORTH, office manager for the Southern Oregon Log Scaling & Grad
ing Bureau, checks IBM tabulations printed in their final form from cards punched by
tabulators. At rear, left. Bob Stringhom operates a machine sorter of punched cords ready
to go to ttie IBM. Gil Gillette, rear right, operating another machine sorter.
Log Scale Bureau Moves
To Building At 948 Mill
One of Roseburg's lesser
known but vital establishments is
the Southern Oregon Log Scaling
& Grading Bureau, which bas a
new home. It is now located at 948
SE Mill St., in the former West
Coast Building Supply Co. building.
Started in 1950 and occupying of
fices in the Pacific Building, the
bureau has been located in later
years. at 641 SE Floed Ave, the
forme Eagles Building.
The new building has adequate
office space 3,000 square feet
compared to the former 1.400 for
efficient operation and future ex
pansion, according to General Man
ager Ken Craig.
This building, owned -.by L. W.
Metzger, has been redecorated in
side, partitioned and air condition
ed. Outside parking is provided.
Operation Not Small
While not too well known, except
to those industries making exten
sive use of its wide services, the
operation is by no means small.
According to Craig, the bureau's
annual payroll is around $330,000.
It employs 30 log scalers year
around, increased to 36 during
summer months. The five-girl of
fice staff, Increased to 10 in sum
mer, and two IBM operators are
under the supervision of Office
Manager Frank Woodworth.
The bureau is a non profit organ
ization made up of lumber and log
ging industry members, headed by
a hoard of directors.
Clifford Bryden, Roseburg Lum-
lvr Co.. is oresident for the cur
rent year; Al Keatley of Stomar
Lumber Co. is vice president, and
Tom Clark of National Plywood,
Inc.. is secretary. Directors are
Fred Sohn, Sun Studs, Inc.; L. L.
Burr, L. L. Burr Logging Co.;
Jim Fourtner, U.S. Plywood Corp.;
R. C. Grant. Martin Bros. Contain
er & Timber Products Co.; Tom
Lindbloom, Conifer Logging lo.,
and Jack Hogan, U.S. Forest Serv
irp
What is the purpose of the bu
reau?
Provides Uniform Scalt
According to Craig, it was set
cm to nrovide uniform log scaling
for the industry. Most logging op
erations in Douglas County, two
at Brookings and three at Grants
Pass use the service. The bureau
makes for more efficient operation
thin if each company handled its
nwn scahne. It also ptucs uk;
formity and impartiality not other
wise achieved.
The bureau scales from 750 to
850 million board feet of logs an
nually. The year ending April SO,
1961, showed 1.960.872 logs, rang
ine down to six inches in diameter.
scaled in the field and recorded f
at the office. I his amounted 10
748,884 000 board feet, down from
the all-time record year ending
April 30, 1960, of 818,792.000.
Scaling takes place on the trucks
it the mills or at designated plat
forms for Forest Service timber
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Plans to modernize the Rose Ho
tel in Roseburg were announced
this week by Frank B. Salisbury,
president of Reliance National In
vestors Corp., of Salt Lake City,
which has acquired all the out
standing stock of Senior Citizens'
Land and Development Co.
This wholly owned subsidiary
will use the name of National Foun
dation for Senior Citizens. Stock in
the local company was exchanged
for stock in the new company.
The acquisition includes both the
Rose and the Grand Hotel. The
latter is to be operated as a senior
citizens' home.
Salisbury said the modernization
program for the Rose will include
general improvements to better tne
accommodations. The work is con
templated in the very near future.
T:.e hotel underwent considerable
renovation and improvement a
year ago when acquired by the
Senior Citizens' Land and Devel
opment Co.
Omar Associates
Associated with Salisbury in the
enterprise will be H. R. Raddon,
head of Pacific Sew Co. in Port
land, who accompanied him to
Roseburg this week to look over
the properties.
Giles H. rlorence, Denver, one
of the founders of Senior Citizens,
will continue as a stockholder in
Sat., April
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Eose Inlote! Modernization Planned
the new firm and will be in charge 'Lake, vice president and director riod
oi arranging tor me leases at the, of Reliance; Doyle D. Gill, direct-
Grand and at other hotels which
Reliance Investors plans to ac
quire. Ron Landess, who managed the
Miles Hotel in Sal' Lake City, ac
quired recently, has been moved
to Roseburg to manage the Rose
Hotel. Nettie Hallcraft is the as
sistant manager.
Harry Bryant, former manager,
bas been named public rela
tions director with Reliance Na
tional Life Insurance Co., the
parent company headed by Salis
bury. Others associated with Salisbury
are his son, Richard F., of Salt
or of agencies, and James L. Bark
er Jr., legal counsel and director.
Retain Stock Interest
Dr. Harvey Kring, who headed
Senior Citizen.,, contractor Jack
Mathis and other investors in the
local firm retain stock in the new
company.
Salisbury said he was very well
pleased with progress on the Grand,
which will be renamed the Grand
Manor. It is scheduled for com
pletion in time for occupancy by
mid-August. Facilities then will be
leased, with the total lease cost to
be pro-rated over a ten-year pe-
.ne blast damaged five-story
building is one of the few remain
ing to be rehabilitated. The dam
age from the Aug. 7, :959, explo
sion was so devastating that the
interior of the hotel is having to
be almost completely rebuilt. Par
titions moved by the force had to
he torn out and replaced. Codes
required that old-style plumbing
and electrical wiring all had to be
replaced with modern equipment.
Fire escapes had to- be arranged
for. An added safety factor is the
installation of a complete sprin
kling system to flood the building
in case of fire. Other safety pre
cautions to conform with the fire
c i have been complied with.
Up until now the principal work
on the building has been the tear
ing out of the damaged portions
and replacing them with new struc
tures, including installing of plumb
ing and wiring. Now finishing of
the rooms is started as sheet rock
is being installed, and bathrooms
tiled.
Salisbury in his report to the
board of directors of Reliance said:
"It is indeed gratifying to be able
to report to you that these nego
tiations have been completed and
that we will be entering a field of
endeavor which is so rewarding
from a public service standpoint."
Salisbury's Rise In Business From Slow Start Phenominal
Assumed Names
Are Filed With
County Clerk
Assumed business names have
been filed with the Douglas Coun
ty Clerk for the following businesses.
Barney Oldfield Construction Co-
contract building and repair by
Earl Bryan Oldfield. 1800 NW Mul-
holland.
Reedsport Bakery, bakery and
snack bar, by Melvin E. and Wil
fred E. Moen, Reedsport
Pfeiffers Boat Rentals, by
Mary Ellen Pfeiffer, Gardiner.
Luard Kennels, dog kennels by
Howard Austin, 891 NW Black.
Wayne E. Hobblar, doing busi
ness as Petherick Insurance Agen
cy general insurance, Box 617
Sutherlin.
Sullivan Wholesale, Inc., wood
products sales, by R. L. Sullivan,
96 Winchester and Ted E. Shultz,
44 Winchester. Shultz has also
filed a retirement for Utility Finance.
Green Acres Ranch, by Bertha
D. Stockfisch and G. H. Harrell,
Rt. 2, Roseburg, and Richard H.
Harrell, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Mel Products Co., selling and
manufacturing of miscellaneous
products, Cecil and Goldie E.
Maney, 652 SE Parrott St., and
David E. and Helen E. Lindbiade,
3410 Hooker Rd.
A & W Restaurant, restaurant at
Reedsport, by Charles H. and Ruth
M. Moss, Florence. . Retirement
filed for the business by Theodore
B. Hansen.
Frank B. Salisbury, who heads
the company which took over the
Rose and Grand hotels in Rose
burg, is an Oregon native who has
worked his way up from a humble
beginning to the presidency of a
$40 niUion insurance firm. He also
heads an investment firm.
Salisbury is president, general
manager and holds controling in
terest in Reliance National Life In
surance Co. and its subsidiary Re-
Lance National Investors Corp.,
both of Salt Lake City, Utah. He
also is president of National Foun
dation for Senior Citizens, a wholly-owned
subsidiary, which will op
erate the Rose as a hotel and the
Grand as a senior citizens resi
dence. To Buy Other Hotels -
The latter company recently pur
chased the Miles Hotel in Salt Lake
City and the Hoover Hotel at Whit
tier. Salisbury announced that plans
usiness
KEN CRAIG, general manager of the Southern Oregon
Log Scaling & Grading Bureau, supervises the scaling and
grading of close to 2,000,000 logs representing just short
of a billion board feet cut onnuolly by Douglas County,
Grants Pass and Brookings area mills. It is a membership,
non-profit operation of the logging industry.
ice accepts the bureau's scale in i the service the bureau offered
when established 12 years ago. To
begin with all tabulation was done
by hand, using only conventional
machine aids. From 13 to 14 girls
filled the cramped Pacific Build
ing quarters and the bureau was
always behind a week or more in
its tabulation reports.
Then IBM machines were in
stalled. They had to be put through
upstairs windows by cranes. While
these cut down on the help need
ed, the important factor was the
speed up of the reports to 48-hour
service. The bureau's work has al
most doubled in volume.
It also offers another service.
Permanent records are kept and
these are provided the member
companies on request at any time
as to the log scale for any given
period, according to Craig.
While the bureau is busiest from
April to November, the trend to
lieu for stumpage payments, as
its timber is sold on an actual
scale basis.
Determino Detects
Sralers must determine defects
and allow for deductions and de
termine the grade of each log for
lumber or plywood recovery. Scal
ers record each log by brand, load
and grade and compute footage.
From tickets turned in by the
scalers to the bureau, the records
are processed. It is here that ma
chines . take over. The machines
have to be told what to do by
means of cards punched by opera
tors, but the intricate tabulation
job i ud to the machines.
As explained by Craig and Of
fice Manager Woodworth, the tick
ets for each day's log scale are
turned into the office, hand sorted
then go to the girls who punch
the cards for tabulation. After a
card is punched it guvs to a vcri
Local Group Forms
Corporation For
Machine Research
A group of California and Ore.
eon businessmen nave organized
an Oregon corporation known as
A. V. Grimaldi Research Laos,
Inc., for developing, manufactur
ing and operating certain electron
ic machinery lor various industri
al purposes.
The group is headed by George
N. Kuhn, owner of Winston Model
Market. Clyde E. Hash ot fcl so-
brante, Calif., and A. V. Grimaldi
of Gold Beach. Headquarters have
been established in Gold Beach.
One of the first projects upon
which the company is working is
an electronic rare earth and min
eral operator, the principal pur
pose of which is to replace flota
tion cells and other separation
processes.
The nilot model of the first pro
ect is built and operating and the
next step is the construction of a
large commercial sized machine.
The company feels the machine
can be of tremendous benefit to
areas where there are large
amounts of low grade ores, of
many minerals and considerable
diffused rare earth.
Scene
By Leroy B. Inman
call for the purchase of other ho
tels throughout the nation to be
converted to senior citizens homes
with exchange privileges for the
tenants.
Salisbury was born in La Grande,
Oregon, a descendent of early Mor
mon pioneers, raised on a home
stead and worked his way through
school. When he was 10 years old,
his father became blind and Frank
was only able to attend school part
time to assist in making a living
for the large family of which he
was the eldest child.
He has done many jobs, work
ing as a farmer, painter, fruit
warehouse foreman, auto median
ic running tractors and locomo
tives on highways and railroads
laboring on railroad section gangs
in logging camps, fighting fires
and other jobs.
Worked Way Up
In his early twenties he became
a manager for Standard Oil Co.,
later moving to the Hoover Vacuum
Cleaner Co. as sales and service
manager and then to the Eureka
Vacuum Cleaner Co. as sales man
ager. .
He entered the insurance busi
ness then, advancing to North
west regional sales manager for
Reserve Life Insurance Co. He was
then appointed director of agencies
for the Professional & Business
Men's Life Insurance Co.
In 19S4 Salisbury founded the Re
liance National Life Insurance Co.
The jrowth of Reliance has been
almost phenominal. As of Jan. 1,
1962 It lists assets of $3,267,748, li
abilities of $2,419,304 and capital
of $3,207,748. Life insurance in force
for the company is listed at $40,
277,348. The company operates in
13 states.
Reliance National Investors Corp.
was established two years ago.
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MclAL KUUriNd was being put on the above pictured
garage building, which Bernard A. Young is erecting
on NE Diamond Lake Blvd. on Deer Creek jiist west of the
Jackson sr. triangle. The block constructed building is
being put up by contractor James & Stritzke. Early com
pletion of the building is announced. (Chris' Studio).
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U.S. PLYWOOD SIGN The above pictured sign re
cently was erected at Diamond Lake Blvd. and Rifle Range
Rd. intersection directing the way to the plant about four
blocks north on Rifle Range Rd. (Chris' Studio).
Richie's Drive In Sold To Eugene People
fier, a repunching process to catch ! keep logging operations going in
inaccuracies. From here the cards i winter months when possible.
go to automatic sorting machines; spreads the work more evenly
and then to the complicated IBM
machine for final tabulation and
recording for report.
Service Stepped Up
The bureau provides 48 hour
old to operator!. The Forest Serv- service, which is a far cry from
throughout the year. Logging is
done when weather permits at low.
er altitudes in winter, and high
altitudes in summer. This elimin
ates costly colddecking at the
mills.
Osepian Building
Station And Cafe
In Azalea Area
Sam Osepian, proprietor of the
Azalea General Store, has torn
down most of an old garage build
ing adjacent to the main highway
and an access road to the old
Highway 99 at Azalea. He has
started erecting a new cafe and
Chevron gas service station there.
A part of the old building is be
ing left temporarily for a tool
shed. An old barn on the property
is also being tom down to make
the new business more visible
from the main highway, reports
Mrs. Gerald B. Fox, Glendale cor
respondent.
The cafe buiMinf will be 30 by 30
feet, with an overhang on the north
end to give an arbor effect. Tables
will be set underneath for outside
dining. The frame, modern-style
building will make extensive use
of large windows. A small section
Don Hurley and Ed Nelson this
week announced the sale of their
business, Richie's Drive In to Mr.
and Mrs. George Powers of Eu
gene. The Powers and their three chil
dren have moved to Roseburg and
plan to purchase a home here,
they said. Powers formerly oper
ated a restaurant in Eugene but
recently has been in the building
contracting business.
Hurley and Nelson built the
Drive-In, located at 2011 NE
Stephens St., 12 years ago. Except
for about two years of that time
they have operated Um business
themselves. Powers plans to op
erate the business on a similar
schedule and basis to that in the
past.
The former owners said they
have no immediate plans but hope
to continue living In Roseburg.
WCA Announces
Flight Changes
West Coast Airlines has an
nounced the following schedules
will go into effect April 29 for the
Roseburg area, according to Le
roy E, Scott, resident manager.
Flight 700 (F-27) from San Fran
cisco and intermediate cities will
depart Roseburg at 10 a.m. with
stops at North Bend, Eugene, Cor
vallis Portland, Olympia, Seattle
and Port Angeles.
Flight 315 (DC-3) from Seattle
and intermediate cities will ter
minate in Roseburg at 1:03 p.m.
Flight 322 (DC-3) will originate
in Roseburg at 2:15 p.m. with
stops at North Bend, Corvallis,
Salem, Portland, Astoria, Hoqul-I
am and Seattle.
Flight 727 (F-27) from Port An
geles and Intermediate cities will
depart Roseburg at 7:45 p.m. with
stops at Mcdford, Klamath Falls,
Sacramento and San Francisco.
Further information or reserva
tions may be made by calling
West Coast or Lewis Travel Serv-
lice, said Scott.
Johnson Will Conduct
Class In Real Estate
Ragnor O. Johnson, former real
estate commissioner, will conduct
the lecture for the certificate class
for real estate brokers and sales
men from Douglas County at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, in the Trade and
Industry section, Roseburg High
School.
His topic will be "Mortgage
Guaranty Financing." The lectures,
sponsored by the Oregon real Es
tate Department, led to an award
of a certificate in real estate and
an invitation to membership in Rho
Epsllon Kappa, a professional hon
orary society.
CHRIS'
STUDIO
427 S. E. Main
Ph. OR 2-3212
ROSEBURG'S
COMMERCIAL
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I Riddle Manufacturing
Sawmill Opens Monday
The Riddle Manufacturing Co. is
resuming operations next week
when the Keystone sawmill starts
of the building will be used as anIMar.jsy, April 23. on a two-shift
office for the gas station. A can
opy will extend over the pumps.
The building is set about 60 feet
back from the right of way to the
basis. The sawmill has been down
since the middle of last November.
The planing mill in Riddle will
begin cperating next Wednesday,
main highway for ample pairing I with a single shift. This plant has
and maneuvering of vehicles on! been closed since Feb. 15 reports
and off the highway. lErma Best, Riddle correspondent
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