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o Roseburg Building Permits Pass $2 Million In July Koseburg city building permits , numbered 40 fur a tutal dollar vol- utne o( $230,739 during July, ac cording to the monthly report of Oliver Egyleston, city inspector, j This brings the total for the year; past the two million mark to $2,-j 089,083. - i Principal among the permits was one for SI 17,000 for the new Em erald Development Co.'s 16-unit apartment house, being built by contractor Niel Flannagan. This was the only new commercial per mit for the month. Commercial building remodel ing and enlargement permits in cluded one for $8,000 tpken out by Oscar Tufts for construction of a show room addition to bis building at 1735 SE Diamond Lake Blvd. James 4t Slritzke are doing the work. The building has been leas ed by Tufts to Umpqua Motor and Implement Co. to be occupied later this fall. Tufts will erect a new building further east to house his Douglas Machine and Welding busi ness. The Roseburg Medical Dental Clinic took out a permit for $4, 000 for remodeling and alterations to the building at 880 SE Jackson. Chuck Collins was the contractor. The Medical Dental Clinic build ing work included remodeling of part of the ground level area to provide an office suite for Dr. Bryce J. Young, ophthamologist. A previously unused portion of the Business Scene By Leroy B. Inman 4 Th Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Sot., Aug. 3, 1963 Frank Yoakum Transferred From F. W. Woolworrh Store Frank Yoakum, manager of the F. W. Woolworth Co. store in Rose burg, is being transferred to a new position and advancement with Woolco division of the company, and will be located at Tempe, Ariz. A new manager at Roseburg lias not yet been assigned. Yoakum said he will leave here next week in time to be in New York City Aug. 12 to attend a training session for division man agers of Woolco, which has just been established and soon will be operating four stores in the na tion. Woolco, he said, will operate complete department stores, enlirc- Auio Ins;iranc3 Coats 3 CI UiT.C 3UU DOWN? Save money with Farmers... the best auto insurance buy in America today! As you save, yon get mod ern, broad form coverage, fast, fair, friendly service 1 FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP For information roll Dick Warren Rm. Ph. 4S9-3S70 Art Subert Ri. Ph. 673-8372 Glon Wright R.i. Ph. 673-5610 C.V. DeCamp Dist, Mgr. 1602 S. E. Stephen. Ph. 672-2618 ly separate from the variety di vision of the company, and mer chandising will be of a different nature. Yoakum said the Tenipe store is one of two being opened in the Phoenix, Ariz., area. He will ue a division manager at Tempe and his schedule calls for him to be in that city by Aug. 28 in order to assist with the layout of the departments for opening early in September. A native of Medford, Yoakum obtained Ins (raining with Wool- FRANK YOAKUM . , . manager transferred worth in Los Angeles, and came to Koseburg two years ago from the Lloyd Center store in Portland. He will leave next week with his wife, Jane, and their baby daugh ter for Los Angeles, where Mrs. Yoakum will stay until he has es tablished residence in Tempe. clinic building, which opens off from the parking area, was alter-: ed to provide a total of eight 1 rooms, including receptionists of fice, refraction rooms, surgery and other facilities. Permit for $1,995 was issued to B. A. Young for improvements to the building formerly housing the Fresh Made Donuts at 731 SE , Stephens St. Another permit for a ' commercial building repair was is sued for the Kohlhugen Duilding, at 632 SE Jackson St. for $1,4-11. j Four new dwellings account for $73,908 of the total. These permits were issued to K. Bias lor a home at 1895 NW Calkins, $14,434; Leo Kowalewski, 215 W. Center St. $16,548; Leonard Johnson, 405 W. Agee (Jim Richey contractor), $24,000, and Earl Cisco, 1227 W. Brown, $18,988. Miscellaneous dwelling additions and repairs amounted to $5,090; garages and carports, $1,996, and miscellaneous other permits, in cluding foundations, roof jobs, new signs and others amounted to 8, 016. Plumbing permits totalled $3, 790, and electrical work came to $4,655. Bankers Of County Put On Committees Of Oregon Group Several Douglas County bankers have been named to standing com mittees of the Oregon Bankers As sociation by slate president S. E. Gjcrde, senior vice president of the Oregon Bank, Portland. Harold E. Schmccr, manager of the Roseburg branch of the United States National Bank, was named chairman of the important forest products committee. Also named to this committee were W. E. Gar rison, president of the Douglas County State Bank, Roseburg, and Louis Lorenz, Winston office man ager of the First National Bank of Roseburg. Named to the legislative com mittee were George Gratke, exec utive vice president of the First National Bank of Roseburg, and Warren D. Kimber, cashier of Pa cific Security Bank of Reedsport. On the lending procedure com mittee is John C. Kennedy, assist ant cashier at First National; per sonnel and operations, S. V. Mc Laughlin, cashier at First Nation al; tourist and recreation commit tee, Oscar Hoverson, executive vice president of the South Umpqua Na tional Bank at Canyonville, and uniform code committee, Willis M. Ekblad, executive vice president of the Umpqua National Bank at Reedsport. Banks Major Lenders To Farmers Of Oregon Oregon banks remain a major source of credit and other financial services to agriculture, according to Georgo Gratke, executive vice president of First National Bank of Roseburg, who represents the Ore gon Bankers Association as Doug las County Key Banker. Based on the 22nd annual farm lending summary of the Agricultur al Committee of the American Bankers Association, Gratke re ported that at the beginning of the year, Oregon banks were helping farmers with $D4 million hi loans, 17 per cent more than a year pre vious. This total included $72 mil lion in production loans and $22 million in farm mortgages. At the same time, $58 million in farm loan? was held by life insur ance companies; $50 million by the Federal Land Hanks; $38 million by Production Credit Associations and $8 million in nonrcal estate loans plus $14 million in real es tste loans by the Farmers Home Administration. About 02 per cent of the production credit extended by lending institutions to Oregon farmers came from banks. Bank Debits Increased In West Central Oregon Bank debits for west central Oregon including Coos, Douglas and Lunc counties increased in June, compared to June, 1982, the University of Oregon Bureau of Business Research has reported. Debits for June totaled $240,402, 508. For May, 1963, the total was $257,809,167, and for June, 1962, the total was $233,192,656. Oregon, with 258 banks report ing had a decrease in bank debits in June of minus 7.4 per cent as compared with May, 1963 and an increase of plus 4.7 per cent as compared with June, 1962. Total debits for Oregon in June, 11163, came to $2,228,461,460 and for May, 1963, the total was $2,406, 414,541. For June, 1902, the total was $2,128,519,770. M. L. MeKINNEY, owner of the orrow shafts industry which bears his name, is shown inspecting precision cut arrow shafts prior to stiffness testing and packaging at his plant in Oakland. McKinney's business which has a poyroll of eight, is being saluted as the "payroll builder" of the month by the Roseburg (area) Chamber of Commerce. Archery Industry Saluted During Month Of August Archery, one of the oldest sports. tracing back to prc-historic times when the bow and arrow was the prime weapon, continues popular today, and much of this popularity has been made possible through Mary Black Named Chief Operator At Telephone Office Mary J. Black has been named Roseburg chief operator lor Pa cific Northwest Hell in the Rose- Beverly Hayden Attends PP&L 3-Day Seminar Pacific Power A- Light Co.'s staff of Polly Pacific homo economists i have completed a three-day semi-: nar at Portland, reviewing the' company's home service advis ory activities and hearing details of the company's new "T o t a 1 F.lectric" promotional program. Attending from the local area was Mrs. Beverly (Lyons) 1 lav den, who has the Polly Pacific as signment in the Hnscburg area. Conducting the sessions were Frank Reis. PP&L's general sales manager, and J. W. Mowrcy, resi dential sales manager. The Portland seminar emphasiz ed the company's new program for Medallion Home, indoor and out door lighting, the increased terms of the wiring finance plan and the company's greater emphasis for electric space heating promotions. MARY BLACK . . . chief operator burg area, succeeding Luanna llolbrook who moves to Salem as chief operator there. Mrs. Black comes to Douglas County from Portland where she has been a group chief operator. She started her telephone career there in the traffic department in 1954. She was a supervising opera tor for several years until her pro motion to group chief in 1961. A native of Laurence, Neb., Mrs. Black has lived in Oregon for 10 years. Her five-year-old laughter, Donna, will join her here as soon as housing arrangements can be made. the modest plant of an Oakland family which makes arrow shafts. The firm of M. L. McKinney at 1 Oakland is one of only six arrow shaft manufacturers in the United States. They are all on or near i the Oregon coast, except one in Arkansas. It is the business of McKinney I and his family that is being salut ed during the month of August by the Roseburg (area) Chamber of Commerce as the "payroll build ;cr" of the moi.th. j Nine Basic Sizes i McKinney's business is operated under his name as a sole owner-' ship. His principal products are arrow shafts, which are a high; precision wood dowel. There are ! more than 50 combinations but ! nine basic sizes for the arrows. ! The four basic types of shafts are parallel, tapjred, barreled and' sticker. McKinney's annual sales for the past three years have averaged $7,5,000. but has run as high as $120,000 when he was operating ex tra shifts. His average number of employes during the year is eight, with an annual payroll of approx imately $50,000. He also has a woods operation under the name of Western Cedar, Inc. It employs four people with an annual payroll of $15,000. This crew now is work-; ing at Fluris Creek in Curry Coun ty, i Manufacture of arrow shafts was ; started at Oakland by McKinney : in 1937. Prior to that he had a i small business between Florence and Waldport on the Oregon coast. ! His shop burned and in 1937 he moved to Oakland, where he bought one half of a block, complele with house for $100. Started On Back Porch He started a small arrow-shaft ; business which he and his wife op - erated on the. back porch of their jhome. He was the first to put on i the market a product which was i ! specifically manufactured for an arrow shaft. Prior to that time ar-: rows were made from doweling! which had lo be sanded and finish-j ' ed by the purchasers. . He developed a market for his shafts hy advertising in national archery magazines. His market I area today is the entire United KrJ rr-' MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT for arrow shaft manu facture have been designed by M. L. McKinney for his plant at Oakland. Following first cut to produce straight grain, the bolt of cedar is sawed into slats with the above pictured multiple blade circular saw. Stales and eight foreign countries, including Canada, Australia, Aus tria, South Africa, France, Bel gium and the Philippines. McKinney manufactures both high quality and cheaper arrow stocks with the good quality shafts selling for $60 per thousand and a tapered shaft of good quality sell ing for S67 per thousand. In 1950 he converted a barn on his prop erty into his main plant and for a time was operating on a three shift basis. ' Popularity Increased As archery increased in popular ity, other manufacturers entered the market and McKinney's drop ped off to some extent. But there still are only six plants today. McKinney's stock presently comes from Curry County and it is hauled approximately 135 miles. He reports he has been unable to deal satisfactorily with the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management for purchase of cedar because of complications I with higher authorities. Local man- i agement personnel of these agen- j cies have been cooperative but un- j able to satisfactorily resolve the I issue. McKinney has not purchas-1 ed any government cedar for six years. The firm has an order j from one company for, 55,000 i shafts per week and has a capac ity of 30.000 shafts per eight-hour shift. He now is working on a one shift basis. He stated that the Jap anese are now buying some dead cedar which may have an effect on the price he has been paying for his product. Fashions Own Machinery Statisticswise. one cord of cedar made into finished arrows would Wm?m '44- i.f s.J POPULARITY OF ARCHERY as a family sport has been enhanced by the development of indoor ranges, being . .rAJ nr- AnnrctmtnA Y i k- i c rratti "KAtliA KAnr'inn " btJ name, Becky Ruatsi, a Pacific Power & Light Co. employe in Portland. require 180 to 200-man days of la- tem of equipment' for efficient op bor by former methods. The ma- eration. jority of his product is shipped McKinney's son-in-law. James via auto freight. Wollord, is the shop foreman. He Remarkable in McKinney's prog- stated he plans to ease his work ress is the fact he has fashioned load by relinquishing some of the most of the machinery he uses management responsibilities to himself. He has worked out a sys- i Wollord. KEPT "TIGHT" COUNT DETROIT (UPI) Recorder's Court Judge Frank G. 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