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. 1 Business Scene V) By Leroy B. Inman- 1963 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore, V I ? ( iv : ' '4 1 i ATV iff'' WALLS SET IN PLACE Another big step in construction of the new Safeway Store, a part of the Roseburg Plaza development, was taken this week when heavy crane equip ment came into town and hoisted into place the concrete walls. The cement wall sections are imbedded with decorative stone. Teeples & Thatcher, Portland, are general contrac tors for the Plaza development, which includes also the new Pay Less Drug Store on ad joining properly. The cement walls are now being poured for "tilting-up" for the latter building. (News-Review photo) LAMBS TO MARKET It's lamb shipment time in Doug las County, which is the largest sheep producing county in Oregon. Tom Findlay and his dog Spot, are shown above loading lambs at the Douglas Livestock Market, operated by Jim Lewis, at Wilbur. Total of 488 lambs were loaded out in this shipment. They averoged about 100 pounds each. They were headed easb to Swift & Co. ot Ogden, Utah. An estimated 85,000 lambs will go to market from Douglas County ranches this season, it is reported. Ship ments are just starting. The one above was the third this week. They will be going out almost every day beginning next week. local Mews Mr. and Mri. Jack Williams and sons, Roger, of Holla, Mo. have left for their home, following a week here visiting Mrs. Williams' mother, Sirs. Flossio Van Blari com. Vine Wroble, representing Dr. Frank Merker, manager of the Roseburg VA Hospital, present ed certificates of recognition at the World War I Veterans and Auxil iary state convention in Grants Pass Thursday. mm. Complete Coverage SINKING jS-fi XyI 'l'S VANDALISM THEFT i FIRE sZ'. COLLISION MOTOR LOSS Sf HAULISG DAMAGE Fast claims service and lair set tlements. Protects you on all U.S. and Canadian waterways. Covers nearly every risk at low cost. FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP Dick Warren Art Subert Rti. Pti. OR 3-8572 Glen Wright R.vPn. OR 3 5610 C. V. De Camp Dist. Mgr. 1602 $. E. Sfeoheni OR 2-2611 Mrs. Duaiw Brady will spend the coming week here with her par-, ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Ellison, while her husband enrolls at Uni versity of Oregon summer school sessions and makes .arrangements for moving to Eugene for the sum mer. Mr. and Mrs. George Sham brook and daughter, Barbara, of Tucson, Ariz, and the former's mother, Mrs. J. L. Shambrook, of Canyonville, spent Thursday here visiting Mrs. T. B. Virden on SE Kane St. Shambrook is a cousin of Mrs. Virden. Mrs. William D. Domenighini, the former Carol Aiken, and two children of Hayward, Calif., are spending two weeks in Roseburg visiting the former's mother, Mrs. James Aiken Sr. Mrs. Aiken and son, Jerry, went as far south as Redding, Calif., to meet Mrs. Do menighini and children and brought them to Roseburg. County Judge V. T. Jackson, com missioners Elmer Mctzger and Ray Ooerner attended dedication of the W. M. Tugman state park at Eel Lake Thursday afternoon. Others attending from Roseburg included State Game Commissioner John P. and Mrs. Amacher; Charles S. Col lins, executive vice president of the Cal Orc Recreational Develop ment Dislrirt. and son. Charles C, Wilbur Wieprecht, executive secre tary of the Douglas County Park Department, and Charles V. Stan ton, editor of The News-Review. Mr. Amacher was one of the three principal speakers, representing the Oregon Game Commission of which he is a member and is for mer chairman. - California People Buy Large Ranch At Myrtle Creek Sale of what is known as the Joe Pruitt Ranch at Myrtle Crek to a California family was report ed this week. Mr. and, Mrs. D. Bradley Ratt ncr of Culver, City, Calif., are pur chasers of the 908-acre ranch properly, which lies immediately to the east of the city of Myrtle Creek. The property was purchased from Lewis Papousck. The new owners took possession June 1 Rattner is a Los Angeles business man. He and his wife have three daughters of grade school age The property is mostly ranch land with only a small amount in cultivation. Rattner, commented, however, that he is primarily in terested in having a "big back yard." The transaction was handled by Morris Cherrick, agent branch manager for Strout Realty, , BOXCARS ORDERED Plans for acquisition of 2100 new freight cars were announced to day by Union Pacific Railroad. the cars are part of an $80,- 000.000 capital expenditure to be made by the railroad in 1963. They are scheduled for delivery during the remainder of this year and I of- the first part of 1964. Station For Liquid Oxygen Operation Now Being Built The first liquid oxygen filling station ever installed west of the Mississippi River, by Air Reduc tion Pacific Co. (Airco) will be put into operation in Roseburg in early August. 1 lie new plant, to be operated under an Airco franchise uy the Oregon Welding Supply Co.. will employ about 18 persons, an in crease of six men above its present staff. The plant will be located in headquarters being constructed by J. A. Joelson & Sons for lease to Oregon Welding Supply Co. on oration and Gene Keitzman as vice president. The welding supply division of the firm was stalled on Jan. 1, 1959, when Swinford obtained the Airco franchise. The Medford of fice was opened at the same time, and in January, ItHiO. the firm took over the Airco distributership in Coos Bay. The company now op erates a fleet of 18 trucks out of its three offices, as well as pro viding all of (he tanks required for the business. Chief users of the service arc lumber and plywood mills and oth- , F 1 site adjacent to the east side oficr industrial lirms. logging opera- Roseburg Bowl on NE Diamond tions, aulo wrecking yarns, ami Lake Boulevard. hospitals. The firm also handles Construction of the building, with several other types of gas cylin- Jagk Matins Construction Co. as prune cuniiaciur, is unuer wny and scheduled for completion with in 60 days The 120-fcy-lO-foot build ing will be of Pasco steel con struction, with the office space to be in a 40-by-40 sales room in the front of (lie Dunning lacing Dia mond Lake Boulevard. The liquid oxygen storage tank will be in stalled adjacent to the rear ol me building. - Bill Swinford, president of the Oregon Welding Supply Co., said installation of this new plant will provide; increased service facilities for the firm's clients throughout southwestern Oregon by elimina ting the long-distance hauling pres ently required to bring the oxygen from Portland to Roseburg. Liquid oxygen will be shipped into Roseburg from an Airco plant in Richmond, Calif. It will arrive here and be maintained at a tem perature of 300 degrees below zero, then put throqgh the heat ex changer and vaporizer In the new plant and turned into gas, which is fed into the tanks distributed by the firm. In addition to the Roseburg of fice, the plant will service Oregon Welding Supply Co.'s offices in Medford and Coos Bay, as well as filling tanks for a Eugene firm. Swinford said the firm anticipates handling about a million cubic feet of oxygen pen month. One of the greatest advantages of the liquid oxygen process being inct.illeri here, he Doints out. is the space required. Each cubic foot of liquid oxygen provides 12 cubic feet of gas, thereby taking up only one-twelfth of the space required for gas storage. The plant being installed here will include I 550,000 cubic foot tank.' Swinford. who came to Rose burg from Portland in 1953, open ed Ins own ousincss, aouuiern uri? eon Batterv Co.. in August. 1955. Oregon Welding Co. is a division the Dattorv company, wiin ders. Swinford said the plant is being constructed in Roseburg because of its central location in the south western Oregon service area, and becausfc of its steady growth pat- fern from the past and potential for the future. "Were a locally owned and operated company," he said, "Which has a lot of faith in Roseburg and is proud to be part of this city." Subdivision Set For Garden Valley Garden Valley is to have its first sub-division. The property, most fumiliarly known by old-timers as the Love apple orchard is now owned by George West of Rose burg. The Roseburg Realty who is handling the division plans to have 12 tracts for sale on the 20 acres. Some of them will front along the North Umpqua. A roadway is now being built by Art Andrus of Glide. The drive will be in a circle down by the river and the center is to be land scaped plantings. A drainage sys tem is to be constructed bordering the Bashford property, reports Ad die Schneider, Garden Valley cor respondent. The first home Is being con structed by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. "Bud" Good. Good manages the Roseburg Skyway. He expects to commute In his helicopter. Swinford as president of the corp DID INSPRCTOR INSPECT? LEE, Mass, (UPt) Clarence D xon was fined S100 In districi court recently on charges of driving wjiile under the influence of alcohol and drunkenness. Dixon, who pleaded innocent and appealed the convictions, is an inspector for the state Alco holic Beverages Control Commission. aKjHW I '""inm a ' iliMJ mm i r ,iaMaVi i; ALLEN'S WESTERN GOODS hos moved from Winston to Roseburg ond is located in the former Munnell & Sherrill Inc. building across Highway 99 from the Soufhgate Shopping Center. The building offers Willis Allen and his wife, Fronces, much larger space for display of their western supplies, and also provides space as a workshop on leather goods and items for the horse. - ..... . . . . "I .k ' -I ' rtf- 7 "-i J .t.u,-jr. I BUSINESS AND PLEASURE are the dual reasons the three Suiter -brothers who are' active in the management of Suiter's Building Supply in Roseburg have become licensed pilots Shown at the wingtip of their Cessna aircra ft , are, left to right, Louie, Joe and Sam Suiter, all of whom have become licensed pilots within the last two year's through Rose burg Skyways. They claim they are able to handle business transactions which require them to travel to cities on the coast, in eastern . Oregon and Idaho with greater speed and business efficiency by flying than they were able to develop in the past. "By flying, we're able to keep up with market outlets throughout the area without having to spend too much time away from our business," Joe Suiter pointed out. (News-Review photo) City Building During May Total $166,437 Roseburg City building permits for the month of May totalled 55 for a value of $1116,437. School Building At Glide Ups Permits In May Permit to construct a new ele mentary school at Glide in the sum of S-54.532 swelled Douclas Count v building permits to a total of S:ii6,282 for May, a report of county I'lanning coordinator James Mattery reveals. Only one new commercial per mit was issued, that was for a nur sery at the Feed St Seed Store in Canyonville of Horace Thompson and JiMi Burwell. The permit was for $6,000. O. P. Van Horn of 4503 NE Stephens St. took Out a .permit for $1,000 for remodeling of his Derrick No. 1 Service Station at that locution. Van Horn has just completed a remodeling project on his Derrick No. 2 station in Hose- burg on SE Washington Ave. Four dwelling permits were is sued for $19,000. They were Is sued to Hob Colley, of 1015 NE Cedar for a new home in 'Charter Oaks; Donald A. Hovcc, of 610 W. Kenwood, home on llarland SI.; Sidney L. Hall. Winston, home on Lot 11, Plat F. Orchard Tracks neni Thompson ltd. Permits for three carports and garages was issued total ling $1,-000. New construction permits were down over previous months ot this year, but wcro considerable ahead of May of last year when 69 per mits totalled $109,462. April per mits numbered 27 for $201,714. Four dwelling permits and one new commercial building were in cluded. The commercial structure is a new ice cream drive-in, being built by the Artie Circle Inc., at 354 W. Harvard Ave., a western chain of, similar businesses. The permit was for $15,800. One dwelling permit for $40,000, issued to It. G. Hansen at 414 W. Elizabeth St., brought the total for the month up substantially. John Sanders took out a permit for a dwelling at- 154 W. Berdine, $16,144; W. llallcraft, 1698 W. Lyn wood, $13,178, and Leo Kowlewskl, 235 W. Center, $16,570. Other permits for miscellane ous work numbered 50, for a total value of $64,747. Of this amount $41,429 was for plumbing. The Artie Circle building was coining along fsst this week as block walls were nearing completion. Liquor Commission's Actions Are Reported The Oregon Liquor Control Com mission reports the following ac tions: . Refusals on application for new outlets: Audra and Carol Heal, Ixiukingglass Store, Knscburg, Route 4, Box 616, Package Store Class A. Grant on application for greater privilege: Roseburg Country Club, Route 2, Box 727, Roseburg, Class B dispenser. Commission action nn violation hearings: Harris Whituker, The Friendlyi Elbow Room, 1253 SE Stephens, Roseburg, 20 days sus pension as of June 11. Vernon and Maxine Woodruff, telle Hour Tavern, 216 SE Jack son St., Roseburg, 10 days sus pension as of June 11. Ralph Cake Will Become Chairman Of Equitable Board Ralph H. Cake, president of Equilablc Savings & Loan Associ ation, has announced that ho is In become chairman of the board and chief executivo officer and that Harold 11. Cake, is to become pres ident effective July' 1. Growth of the association, which operates a branch in Roseburg, has made necessary a division of responsibility President Cake re ports. The contemplated change will permit him, he states, to spend more timo in planning broader aspects of the operation and relieve him of some of the administrative duties. Ralph Cake has served on the board of directors since 1922, was made executivo vice president in 1933 and president in 1938. Har old Cake was appointed to the board of directors in 19-16, became a vico president in 1953 and two years later was made executive vico president. i s Sill '. ft: WjQt,Jwiftt,- v RALPH L. RUSSELL Special Agent Home-Owners Pro tective Plon Mortgage Cancellation Insurance Disability and Lite Dial OR 3-4193 Roseburg, Oregon Ted Hornschuch Joins Strout Realty Company Ted Ilornsrluick of Roseburg, well known in Roseburg for sales work and formerly Standard Oil Co. representative here, is now associated as a salesman with the Roseburg office of Strout Realty. DANCES FRIDAY JUNE 14th 3 BIG RODEO DANCES TEEN DANCE ... t:30 P.M. ot Elk Ballroom. Dick Booth Spinning Tha Plottire. SQUARE DANCING . . , P.M. ot Fairground). RonnU Telford of Alturoi, Calif. Colling. 4r MODERN DANCE . . . , P.M. Community Build ing ot Fairground. Bill Borchtr Muiie. Your Booster Burton It Your Admiition For Any or All Dancet, I judges of value like the vslu of our cor insurance! ContKt mt today! KZl ELMER 21 - Schweitzer Umpqua Tractor Name Changed, Fisk Reports Ollie Fisk, owner of Umpqua Tractor Co. at 2936 NE Diamond Lake rUd.. announces that the name :f the business has been changed to Umpqua Motor & Im plement Co. Fisk said (he name change was made to better describe the na ture of the business, which has added to its line of equipment during the past several months. Fisk took over the business about three years ago. It previously was operated as t branch of the local Ford agency. OS 9-5058 Wimton, Oregon 10I4 sure mm KWM 0ioi IwaoflM, IIIMK SALES and1 SERVICE CUMMINS FUEL SYSTEMS JACOBS ENGINE BRAKI DIESEL INJECTION SERVICE 1750 Nt STEPHENS OR 1-6156 FOR ALL YOUR IRRIGATION NEEDS CALL DICK BfcOWN AT VALLEY PUMP and IRRIGATION SERVICE AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR WADE RAIN SPRINKLER IRRIGATION OR 3-4923 'RT. 2 Box 61 S ROSEBURG Ortgon Gouldl Irrigation Pump. JACUZZI PUMPS . . . 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