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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1956)
II lOai Bircliday Finds f Jorris-lVcIIicr J,Ianr8 Namf(I 'Legislative For Willamette I D Point Company on Evo or Expansion Varsity Varieties Record Seen ""V . . ", , j r."--' "'. . : ) j , , " , V 1.11 1 l( Ted Primrose of Oregon City, and Penny Lilies of Beaverlon will be Varsity Varieties managers t next year at Willamette I'niversity. ! The yearly student variety show; is presented each fall in coniunc-' lion with Parents Weekend. Miss; Lilies was assistant manager last j year, and Primrose worked on; choreography for the production. They were elected this week by the Student Council. Masons to Get 50-Year Pins Fifty-year Masonic pins will be swaraea lonieni to :tamue Aoolph. Corydon L. Blodgett, and Edward Rostein at the monthly business meeting or Pacific Lodge No. S AT. It A.M. to be held at the Masonic Hall starting at 7:30 p.m. The pins will be presented by Oreron Grand Master FrnMi RnL tiger of Portland who will be pay ing bit official visit Sam Haley, legislative counsel, predicted Thursday that more bills would be ready for introduc tion at the opening of the 1957 legislature than ever before. He said requests for drafting bills now total 56 as compared with 21 on April 30, 1954. Virtually all bills sought by legislators are drafted by the legislative counsel. Haley attributed the increase in rcquerts , for bills for the 1957 legislative session to the progress of current interim committees' work. Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri.. April 20, '56 (Sec. I)-9 OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY 111S to 9 P.M.-OTHE DAYS 9:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. t j Pair Fined on Conduct Count Two Salem men were fined $25 each on charge of disorderly conduct in Municipal Court Thurs day. They were Neil .Tame Tuck, 51 S. 12th St., and Michael Harrirae Johnston. 1880 Fairmount Ave. The men were arrested approxi mately 1:55 a m. Thursday in the 100 block of N. High Street, police said; ... tobert W. Norris Jr., presldeat at Norrts-Walker Pal at Maaaractnrlng Ca., which It bienriag Us lttk aa Ivertary, ttaads la frost tl the firm's plaat aid flare k-lldiaf North Front Street. Narria looks over leatatlve plaae far the firm's praposed aew, larger plaat to b built later this rear la Sawtk Salem. (Stateimaa pbttt) Increased Uses of Paint Help Salem Firm to Grow Br CONRAD FRANCE Staff Writer, The Staletmaa The paint manufacturing busi ness, like a lot of other things these days, is spreading itself mighty thin trying to keep up with the Jet age. ' The field is expanding so last, lays Robert W. Norris Jr., presi-i dent of Salem's Norris Walker1 Paint Manufacturing Co.. "that new horizons open constantly." Paint, which used to be thought , of mostly as something people! spread on their houses, barns and kitchen chairs, has drifted into many by-paths and uses, Norris explained. Blister proof paint, color-your-cwn paint, metal coating varnish, lacquer which gives metals a ham- mired effect, auto Daint of plastic. varnish for making "glass" boats are only a small part of the new trends in paints and other surface coverings. With his partner D. G. Walker, Norris and the firm on North Front Street has supplied ahout 90 per' cent (about 550.000 gallons) of all traffic paint used on Oregon state highways since m8. It also has sold traffic paints to cities and states of Idaho Wan, Nevada and California. ratt-Grawlag j The firm, the only one of Its kind in the Northwest, Is observing Its 10th anniversary next month.! It is one of Salem's fastest growing industries. Qnly a part of the firm's annual tOO.OOO-gallon output is for home use. "About SO per cent ts used in homes," Norris says. "Another 40 per cent goes for street and traf fic sign painting. Twenty per cent is used industrially." One of the firm's largest orders, Which it is working on now. con sists in supplying 60.000 gallons of white traffic paint for the city of Los Angeles, Calif. Possible Callforla Plant If the company lands a con templated 45,000-gallon bid for the Los Angeles County it will prob ably establish a permanent branch paint factory in the Los Angeles area. Norris safit. Although the company expanded into a new, modern plant in Salem only five years ago, it is now ready to jump into still larger quarters. It has purchased a 27-acre tract in south Salem, and it is planned to start construction soon. From a small one-mixer oper ation itije plant has ballooned into a nioSern, new plant housing some $70,000. worth of equipment. It has established an employe profit sharing plan, has developed quite a retail store trade. It's 20 to 30 employes (depending on the sea son) earned a payroll of $150,523 last year. The proposed new plant in Salem and the contemplated branch in Los Angeles have caused the heretofore-closed corporation to come out with a new issue of stock to be sold to the public. When R. W. Norris Jr. and D: C. Walker started the firm they were both graduate engineers who had come to Salem as employes of the old alumina plant on Cherry Ave nue. Later S. P. Rosenbaum joined the firm. . Man's Descendants IVumber Near 18,000 MONTREAL W-Jean Trudel arrived here from France in 1645 and now has about 18,000 Canadian descendants. A second Trudel from France, 18-year-old Michel Trudel from Mortagneorne, arrived this week , to live with an uncle and was wel comed by many kinspeople. The company now has four grad uate paint chemists and chemical engineers who carry on research "to better present products and to develop new ones," Norris said. "The future of anyone engaged in this business depends on research development of new and improved paints and other items," said Norris., He is especially proud of the recent addition of a new type syn thetic resin varnish ' processing unit. The varnish kettle is the only one of its kind in the Northwest and, says Norris, "gives us an opportunity to enter into even more fields of paint chemical de velopments." Les Aageles Order The kettle turns out the varnish for the 60.000 gallon traffic paint order Norris-Walker is now filling for th? city of Los Angeles. The varnish is being shipped to California and the finished product is being made by company per' sonnel in a leased paint factory in Los Angeles. This "will save the company about $10,000 in shipping costs. If present financing plans bear fruit the firm will probably start construction this fall on a new plant on part of a 27-acre site just south of Vista Avenue and at the south end of South 22nd and 25th streets near the Salem air port, i At present the firm,, is asking the city to reopen the extension of South 25th Street, which was closed when the federal government took over McNary Field during World War II. Prospects that this will be accomplished "are good," Norris said. " i HOUSE ...TT COFFEE . . . CAKE ICE CREAM . . COOKIES ALL FREE 6 'til f And- l'VV J A Spring-Time Showing of All of America' Fine New Cars ... in Gorgeous Colors ...Visit Oni... 'tin All! SALEM'S NEW CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION ... . . FREE STORE-SIDE PARKING FOR OVER 1,000 CARS : GIGANTIC SALE! SAVE 25 f 40 .PLATE GLASS ENJOY LIFE Eat what you want, when you want H. SCIIAEFER'S Antacid Tablets For Prompt Relief -60c SCHAEFER'S DRUG STORE Open Dailv, 7:30 A. M. to I p. m. 8-ndari, 1 1. m to S p. m. 135 N. 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