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Favorable Economy Noted Locally During Year '63 The calendar year 1963 prov-.lnitial claims stood at 1096, corn ed quite favorable compared to I Pared with 752 and 1095, and previous years for the central1"16 averaSe number who claim Douglas County economy ed a week of joblessness was reports F. C. Riley, manager ofilisted at "3- 751 and 906 Ies' we KoseDurg office of the Ore-r gon State Employment Service. lhe Rosebul'8 a'a insured .spute in the wood!erage covered employment for industry beginning; , e,0(, ,,' fn, , Business Scene By Leroy B. Inman Sot., Jon. 18, 1964 The New-Review, Poqe 5 products June 4, had its effect on the area but not to the extent felt in some other areas. Construction continued very active through out the year. Total building per mits issued for Roseburg for 1963 amounted to $4,008,886. Re ports from retail and wholesale merchants also indicate a suc cessful year. New job applications for De cember numbered 337, compar ed with 391 in November and week ending Dec. 26, compar ed with 11.1 for Grants Pass, 6.7 for North Bend, 4.2 for Eugene and 4.7 for the state total. Four weeks ago Roseburg had a fig ure of 5.9, a year ago 7.3, two years ago 11.7 and three years ago 23.9. Job opportunities for th e next 30 to 60 days will be quite limited due to the seasonal na ture of local industries. Employ ers ana private home owners John Fleck Is Appointed Mortgage Representative 215 m December 1962. Jobare reminded that now is the placements, non - agricultural.jtime to have those odd jobs ac numbered 85, compared with 16lcomplished while workers are ana 8b lor the previous periods.! available, said Riley. SRA Rating Award Given To Richard W.Wilson 1? RICHARD WILSON . accorded SRA award The Society of Real Eslatel Appraisers' board of governors has awarded the senior resid ential appraiser designation to Richard W. Wilson of 3137 NE Hughes, St., Roseburg, staff ap praiser, Oregon State Highway Department. Wilson is a member of the society's Southern Oregon chap ter, and has had eight years of experience in appraising resi dential, commercial, industrial, farm and special purpose prop erties. He has a background of real estate sales experience, and has completed appraisal cours es given by the society and the American Institute of Real Es latel Appraisers. Attainment of the SRA mem bership designation requires ex tensive practical appraisal ex perience, ability, knowledge of the current real estate market and adherence to the Society's code of ethics, Only, 3400 appraisers of the Society's membership of over 14,500 throughout the U n i te d States, Canada and Puerto Rico have qualified for this desig nation which carries the pro fessional endorsement of the Society. A' former assessor of Gar field County, Colo., Wilson moved to Oregon jn , 1954,, . He joined the Oregon Highway De partment in 1961 as a right of way agent, later transferring to the appraisal section. He is vice president of the Southern Oregon Chapter of the Society of Real Estate Appraisers, and was secretary during 1963 Wilson is the second Douglas County appraiser to receive this honor. John Fleck of All Points Realty received the award in 1960. Wilson, his wife, Dorothy a teacher at Riverside School and daughter, Marge, student at Roseburg High, reside at 3137 The Society of Real Estate Oil Meet M Seattle Appraisers is an international professional organization of spe cialists in residential valuation. Organized in 1935, its aim is ton promote higher standards oft evaluation. Through its month ly publication, research bulle- tins and activities of society i John M. Fleck, Roseburg, has been named an official agent to represent the M. S. Chris tianson Mortgage & Invest' ment Co. of Eugene in the i. '4- JOHN FLECK . . . appointed agent Roseburg-Douglas County area hi a recent move by Christian son to further expand its mort gage loan service throughout Oregon. Fleck also has been desig nated as assistant vice presi dent of the company and Rob ert L. Gordon as assistant sec retary, stater the announcement Karl's Shoe Store Opens Karl's Shoe Store is now open for business in its former loca-! tion at 556 SE Jackson St., fol lowing completion of remodel ing, announces Loyd Hastings, manager. .The store has been operating in the former Ocrding building following a fire which damaged much of their store. The Singer Sewing Machine Center is next door. A grand opening for both Karl's and for the Singer busi ness is scheduled for next week. The store has been complete ly remodeled, and includes all new merchandise, said Hast ings. The opening will be treat ed the same as that for a new store. Davis Attends Shell Mobile City Business Open Uncle Don's Mobile City, to- cated at the corner of Garden Valley Road and NW Dogwood Drive, is now open for busi ness, announces Jim Godfrey, nanager. The business, which consists of sales and servicing of mo bile homes, is owned by Don ald Houslcy, formerly of Rose burg and now of Portland, who1 recently sold the Town & (Joud.- try Mobile Park here. Godfrey said the business is located on a 150-by-350 foot area, which has been ' leveled and part of it blacktopped. An 800 foot square foot store and of fice building was erected at the site by James & Stritzke Phillip Bush will be the serv ice manager, and service will he offered for all-type trailers, a first in this area for all makes of trailers, said Godfrey. Most of the trailer agencies service only their own makes. ' A franchise has been obtain ed for the New Moon and Van Dyke trailers, along with the large Aladdin Travel Trailers. from Grace A.' ChrisUanson,! company secretary. Gordon is an associate broker with Fleck at All Points Realty. That of fice at 428 SE Main St. will be headquarters for the new Roseburg service. In addition to the Eugene or- five, serving the Eugene-Spring field area, the company has branch offices serving the Cor vallis Albany and Medford Grants Pass areas. ChrisUanson, president of the firm, noted that "The Roseburg area has been under company consideration lor quite some time. We have observed Rose' burg's . steady growth and the gradual stabilizing economy and we are confident of its contin ued growth and prosperous fu ture. We feel there is sufficient demand for sound mortgage loans to justify an additional service." Christianson pointed out the Roseburg operation differs slightly from other branch of fices in that it will be operated by Fleck as an independent agent. The other branch offices are company owned and oper ated. "We are somewhat pio neering a new trend in the in dustry which may set the pat tern for our future expension as well as others in the indus try," he said. Fleck has been actively en gaged in the real estate and appraisal field in Douglas Coun ty for 12 years and is recog nized for his work in state and national real estate and apprais al fields. Gordon, a licensed broker, has been in the real estate business in Douglas County for six years. He join ed the All Points staff when the office was opened at the Main Street location. U g 11 .rH-lfP 111 :,U lU-JLJLlLi D ran i ibaMM r jnd iec . FULLERTON REXALL DRUG STORE now occupies the above pictured building, which was recently completed at the Garden Valley Shopping Center. It faces the parking area near the Drive 'n' Save Market. The drug store was moved from a down- R. C. Davis, Shell Oil Co. re- resentative in the Roseburg area i attended the 1964 annual sales! conference for the Northwest; marketing area held in the Sci ence Theater of the Pacific Sci ' ence Center on the former Se- chapters in 152 cities in the U.S. j a tile World's Fair site Tuesday and Canada members study and Wednesday this week, techniques and problems of ap- The two-day meeting outlined praising residential property, the company's "Promotion 1964" exchange appraisal informationicovering the major phases of! and cooperate generally to raise marketing planning for the year, the standards of appraising, itj according to J. E. Pendcrgast, is reported. division manager. HOT RADIATOR? !vans Products Will Pay Stock Dividends PORTLAND (UPI) Evans Products Co. Wednesday an nounced its first dividend pay ments since June, 1960. The hoard of directors of the big buildings materials firm de clared dividends of 10 cents per share and 4 per cent in stock, payable Feb. 28 to stockholders of record Feb. 17. The firm earlier revealed earnings of $2.55 a share in 1963, compared to 19 cents a share a year earlier. ' ! Named to the board of direc tors were James J. Conway, i Plymouth, Mich., vice president and head of Evans transporta tion division, and Lawrence M Flahive, head of its Plywall di vision at Corona, Calif. Flahive also, was elected a vice presl dent. New Market Slated For Opening In Riddle Ernest Kinder and his part ner, Marvin Baker, who recent ly purchased the Superette mar ket in Canyonville, are prepar ing to open a second market in Riddle, reports Erma Best Riddle correspondent. They have purchased the for mcr Lilly's Market building, fixtures, and stock. Kinder is now remodeling the interior changing fixtures, and adding refrigeration units. The exterior, is to be painted and the small frame house on the store prop erty is being torn down to pro vide a parking lot. Baker is operating the Can- yonvillc Superette while Kinder will operate the local store to be known as the Riddle Super ette. Kinder comes from San Diego County, Calif. He plans to live in Riddle and has set early February as a tentative opening date for the new store. Kinder is unmarnca. town location where it has been located for more than 60 years. Housed in the building also are Faye Endicott's Beauty Salon, Francis (Frenchy) Herbert's barber shoD and Benny's Shoe Repair business. (News-Review photo) SP To Convert 2,500 Cars To Wide Door Northwest plywood and other forest products industries got good news for 1964 from the Southern Pacific today. A. W. Kilborn, SP superin tendent, Portland, announced to the Pacific Northwest Advisory Thursday that Southern Pacific plans to convert an additional 2,500 standard box cars to wide door design, which together with the purchase of 960 new cars, will add 3,460 units to SP's wide door fleet during 1964. Shipper demand for wide door cars is heavy because they can be used more readily for me chanical loading and unloading. Southern Pacific, in the first big scale effort by any rcilroad to widen the doors of conven tional box cars, last year con verted 1,250 older single door cars to wide door design, espe cially for plywood and forest products shippers in the Northwest. "Our plans to double this pro gram this year," Kilborn said "are based on the enthusiastic approval given this equipment by Northwest industries." The new equipment, he added, will increase SP s fleet to wide door cars to more than 23,000 cars. "By the end of 1964," Kil born said, "just about every oth- i .., ... .:n u nr VI UUA KUl C UW1I Will Ui; ",I)T1tf nj.nlnl.lnl.nj 1 wide door design, compared to - . 27 per cent in 1959." . w m m i- . ii b t . .. ... n y 1 I rin; INTERIOR VIEW is shown of the new Fullerton Rexall Drug Store, located at the Garden Valley Shopping Center. Owner Gordon H. Smith purchased the busi ness from Mrs. E. R. Buckingham about two year's ago, after the death of Buckingham. The building is about twice the size as the downtown location and. has added several lines of merchandise and now offers complete veterinary med ical service. Chris Beck Is Elected To Head Lincoln PUD Chris Beck of Mapleton was elected president of the board of directors of the Central Lin coln Public Utility District, which serves western Douglas County, at the first meeting of the new year last t riday. Beck, a long time Mapleton area resident ana associated for many years in real estate, has served the PUD board 17 years. Vice president is Frank Lundy, Waldport lumberman and Millard Martin, a dairy rancher, is secretary. He has been a board member 16 years General manager of the district is Lawrence J. Bauer. BLPA Asks Bids For Contract To Fell Snags The Portland office of the Bu-.wlU be solicited for these jobslly supported by appropriations reau of Land has issued bid and any cuntracls awarded irom Acccicraiea runuc worns ii.vitations for contract fallinglmay be partially or complete-pre gram funds. of more than 6,000 snags in two Commission Lists Recent Actions The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has issued a li cense grant of ownership change to Sarah Buuc for the Silver Moon, Rcedsport; to Wcnce & Ethel Dibala, Echo Resort, Wghway 38, 7V4 miles east of j Reedsnort: Emar Corporation for The Superette Canyonville, at 402 SW Main, Canyonville; George and Rosemary lluttcr fo.- The Seacliff, 1525 Highway, Reedsport; Stephen and Doris Schwontkowskl, for The N u 1 1 Shell, 135 S. Main St., Myrtle Creek. Grant on application for great er privilege has been made to Paul and Mary Hergcrt for the Pastime Tavern, 515 SE Main St., Canyonville, retail malt beverage class A and B and to Charles and Helen Martin for Martin's Grocery, 1224 SE Booth St., Roseburg for package beer Class A. Grant on application for drop ping a partner, (jolda ratcneu for Pat's Tavern, 721 SE Jack son St.. Roseburg. Grant on application lor change of partners, Alta Gricscl and Betty Jones, Teepee Tav ern, 1830 NE Stephens St., Rose burg. A letter of warning has been issued to Charles and Helen Martin of Martin's Grocery, 1224 SE Booth St., Roseburg. southern Doublas County The first calls for felling about! 4,000 snugs near Bland Moun I tain in the Days rcek area, !The rest will be felled on a tract in the Cnnyonvillc-Riddlc area. The snags arc to be top , pled to avert fire and other i e ict.es in Lumuer increased In '63 Bidders will be asked to fur- jnish all necessary labor, equip- , Iment, supplies, transportation , .'and "supervision for completing Uho work. Sawmills of the Douglas fir region wound up 19KI on a e'lirhfl.r lt.,in,. m.ln 1 1. ., 1 1ll!" hazards. A total of about 280 7,V mV. ..... . .... V". u," .' Coast Lumbermen s Association acres are involved. Bids will be opened nt 1 p.m. Jan. 24 in the Bureau's field ad ministrative office in Portland, 'oom 720, 1002 NE llolladay St., (PO Box 38111), Portland' Purchase Made Of Trailer Park indicates. December lumber output was nearly six per cent higher than a year earlier though it re mained nine per cent below the amau nusiness concerns oniy fivc . vclll. uvonlf!c ful. t n ,, t 'month. Yule holidays trimmed output from November's by 7.(1 per cent, but orders surprisingly I held so firm they stayed ahead of production by 4.2 per cent. At year-end, unfilled orders at 535,138,000 hoard feet were a shade fatter and mill inven tories at 002.574,000 feet a bit Jim Collins and family have arrived in Roseburg and Col lins has taken over the opera tion of the- Town & Country Mobile Park on NW Mulliolland Drive, near the Airport. Collins purchased the park from Donald Houslcy, formerly of Roseburg and now of Port land. Houslcy established the park in 1960 and constructed sites for 58 trailers, along with a swim pool and other facilities. Jim Godfrey was the manager, Collins comes here from Port Orford, where he owned a trail er park. He and his wife have two children. They are resid ing in West Roseburg. For all your &9Ki&- insurance Jz aTi t.at. "SSBBiST l 1 leaner than the year before. WCLA figured 1903 produc tion at 8.143,188,000 board feet, a few million below preliminary estimates. This was nearly one per cent more than in 1B02, despite last summer s labor (lis pute. Orders at 8,206,000,000 feet topped output, but were off a shade fron a year earlier. Construction was up national ly, but West Coast mills lost another 5.4 per cent to the Can adians on cargo orders to the East Coast. They so!'1 19 per cent more cargo lumber to Cali fornia, while seeing local sales sag nearly nine per cent. Discover the advantages of having all your insurance wiih l-nrmcrs. One company givci planned, nn-ovcrlap coverage; one agent gives fast, fair, friendly service; together, they save you money! Call Farmers for auto, life, fire, truck, commercial, boat insurance-whatever you need. Farmers is the best one-company insurance buy in America today! C. V. DeCAMP District Manager 1602 S.E. Stephens Ph 672-2618 If your car overhears or your radiator leaks, it's time to have your radiator checked. Bring your car to us today for complete, expert radiator service! Lockvood Motors 580 S. E. Oak Ph. 673-4485 Ask About Our INSURANCE Management Plan It Provides: SURVEY 0 ANALYSIS 0 PROGRAM REVISION 0 SAVINGS SETTLEMENT SERVICE - For All Your Insurance Needs - OUR 47th Year Serving This Great Area Tern Porgettr UMPQUA INSURANCE AGENCY Rote t Lant Sts. SECURITY IUILDING Ph. 672-3348 Announcement M. S. Christianson Mortgage and Investment Co. Eugene, Oregon is proud to announce the appointment of John M. Fleck at MORTGAGE LOAN REPRESENTATIVE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY BUILDERS, REAL ESTATE BROKERS, BUYERS AND SELLERS are invited to contact the ALL POINTS REALTY OFFICE 428 S. E. MAIN ST. for further information on this new, up to date loan icrvice. Phone 672-1608 ask for MR. FLECK or MR. GORDON