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Salem Industry Increases Statesman, Salem, Of Friday. April 30. 1954 (Sc 2) 3 '. T . J" - . . - .. - - i . jet if V flip A Salem industry which hat doubled grons sales each year since 1M8 is the Morrow Radio Manufac turing Co.. 2794 Market St. a jtood example of the city's growing industrial potential. Shown above at one of the plant's assembly lines currently turning out amateur short wave band converters for automobile radios are from left to right Mrs. James Stettler. Salem Route No. 2, Box 444; Miss Faith LueL 215 Kenwood Ave.; Mrs. Orval Prunk, 4350 Monroe Ave, and Mrs. Dale Marr, 2455 Trade St (Statesman photo.) Radio Manufacturer Doubles .Output Again By VAN EISENHLT Stafr Writer. The Statesman An example of Salem's growing industry is the Morrow Ralio Manufacturing Co.. 274 Market S. one of the few companies in the United States devoted exclu siely to the manufacture of am plitude modulation equipment. The organization haj doubled gross sales each year since 148. according to owner Hay Morrow. Sale during 1953 totaled $170,000. he added, and the present buu ne; level indicates the otal this yea' should exceed $350,000. Specializing in portable and fixed-portable two-way radio equipment, the company has as a prime project the manufacture at transmitter and receiver units for utate and federal forestry depart ments. A second major sales source is the amateur rado fan, Morrow explained Forestry units ran2e from a qudrter-uatt power et about the ue of a tuo-pound epeese carton to 2-jO-watt se's designed primari 1 for district ranker stations. The Salem manufactured units are sold all over the United States but the Largest outlet is in the east coj-1 area. Morrow revealed. -embly line production is a fr..:urr of the 7.V0OO square foot p'.'-.t which employes from 25 to Talk to Outline Civil Disaster Medical Aid The role of medical assistants in the civil defense disaster ac tion plans will be outlined at the" meeting of members of the Medical Assistants Section of Marion County Civil Defense at 8 p m. Wednesday in the Bush School Auditorium, according to Mrs. Bernice Yeary, chief of the section. Mrs Frances C N'abbe. chief nursing consultant of the Fed eral Civil Defense Administra tion, from Washington, D. C, will be the principal speaker. Others on the program will be Col Arthur M. Sheets, director of the Oregon State Civil De fense Agency, and Dr. Ralph E. Purvine. acting medical director of OSCDA. The meeting will be the first of a series of group and spe cialized unit sessions constitut ing a refresher course in their particular line of activity, and also to show how the group as a whole is integrated into the senrral civil defense program of Marion Pnuntv Mrs Yparv sain I The medical assistants section includes graduate nurses, public health nurses, practical nurses, nurses' aides. X-ray technicians, dental assistants, laboratory tech nicians, anesthetists and dietici ans, who will support and assist the physicians and surgeons in the medical section in disaster relief work. Marion County Civil Defense, Marion County Chapter of ' the Red Cross, the polio association and the public health nurses Croup is completing a survey of county residents who are qual ified for the various types of work included in the responsi bilities of the Medical Assistants section. The survey covers those now actively engaged in practice and those who have been inactive but who are interested in taking the refresher courses offered. All are invited to attend e Wednesday meeting, Mrs. Y said. 30 persons. Much of the more in tricate assembly work is done by women. "They're a lot neater and faster than men." the plant owner maintained, "and there's no back talk." Almost all component parts are manufactured by the company and sub-assembly cuts production time by at least a third, he added. The plant includes a &heet metal shop, machine shop and paint room. One of the fastest growing mar- i kets for the Salem company is in the amateur radio field. Presently in production is a converter which changes a car radio into a short wave receiver. Morrow explained he devised the converter after buying a commercial unit and finding it unsatisfactory. A .one-station radio receiver, constructed in the shape of a table microphone, is one of the com pany's novelty productions. Com mercial broadcasting companies all over the country have ordered them as promotional items to in stall in business firms which ad vertize with them. Morrow said. Morrow, who has lived in Salem for 34 years, operated a retail or wholesale radio business here for 10 years before switching to man ufacturing in 1948. Although he has no formal education in radio. Morrow designs and perfects all equipment produced bv the plant. "I grew up with radio and have been working with it since I was 12," he said. The company also has graduate engineers on the re search staff. "This particular radio field has almost unlimited possibilities," Morrow declared. "It's only a matter of designing and producing new and better equipment." He figures the plant will outgrow its present leased lo cation in about three years. "After that we plan to expand either by erecting our own build ing or leasing additional space." Equalization Board School Meets Here Approximately 65 members of county equalization boards, in cluding Multnomah County, met in Salem Thursday for the first equalization board school SDon- sored by the State Tax Commis sion. Samuel Stewart, iir" charge of the assessment and taxation divi sion of the State Tax C mmission, presided. Stewart explained it was essen tial for the equalization boards to actually perform their statutory duties. These duties, he said, in cluded consideration of taxpay ers' complaints involving over taxation, inequalities and illegal assessments. Procedure, involving organiza tion of the boards and the meth od of giving relief, also was em phasized. A manual prepared by the State Tax Commission for guidance of the equalization boards was dis tributed among those in attendance. Librarians . Open Conference Today CORVALLIS UP More than 175 Oregon librarians are expected here for a two-day conference starting Friday. Speakers will include State Sen. Robert Holmes. Gearhart: Stewart Holbrook, Portland author, and Samuel B. Stewart, state tax commissioner. Keizer, Bush School Pupils Postpone Trip A trip scheduled in May by two Salem area students and their teachers to Valley Forge for the Freedn Foundation Pilgrimage has been postponed until Septem ber, according to Walter Beck, principal at Bush SchooL Reason for the postponement, he explained, is the number of conventions slated in the Phil adelphia area during May which would make housing unavailable for Freedom Foundation guests. Slated to make the trip are Keizer School seventh grader Eu gene Gilbertson and principal, Mrs. Carmalita I. Weddle, and Bush School fifth grader Clara Sloan and her teacher, Mrs. Alice Robinson. Eugene is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Gilbertson, 4720 Clark St.. and Clara is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sloan, 395 S 16th St. The trips were won in the an nual Freedo. 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