well known re sid en t of Jacksonville, j
but now of F o rre st Grove, Oregon.
The program also included other a t
The C alifornia O regon P ow er com-
The m em bership drove of M edford tractions. This Com m unity Club j
publication, "T h e . p ost No. 15 o f the A m erican Legion H ouse will fill a long-felt w ant in
pany's m onthly pi
M edford and vicinity and will be an j
VOLT,” fo r A pril, fe a tu re s tim b er w ent “ over the to p -----
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conversation as its su b je c t fo r this witii 117 m em bers added to the rolls added im provem ent to the city.
Last T h u rsd ay evening about 40 j
issue, and points o u t the w ork of as a resu lt o f the recent campaign.
S outhern O regon’s saw m ills in red u c Two weeks ago when the reg u lar peace o ffic e rs o f K lam ath, Josephine j
ing w aste resu ltin g from lum ber Legion m eeting took place, the ro ster and Jackson co u n ties m et in M edford 1
m anufactu re. Many in te re stin g pro showed 236 mem bers. On Monday and form ed an organization, electing j
cesses have been developed along night, the grand to tal reached 353. the follow ing officer«- D istrict At
these lioei, which ten d to get more The li>26 goal is set fo r 400 and to rn ey W. J. M iller of G rants Pass, j
footage from the log, and rig h t in with 47 more m em bers th e full m ark p resid en t: S h e riff Ralph Jen n in g s of
our m idst local p lan ts have made re will be reached. The Legion m em -j Jacksonville, v ice-president; D istrict:
m arkable accom plishm ents in this hership trophy, a b eautiful silver cup A tto rn ey N ew ton C. C haney of Med- j
direction. W ith m ore products ob donated by Legionaires Pollock, j ford, se c re ta ry and tre a s u re r; C ourt j
tained from each log, few er trees Kresse, Conroy, I^g eso n and E lliot, , R ep o rter G ra n t A. Raymond, assist-
have to be cut down to supply exist was won by the team led by D. G. Ty- [a n t; and S ta te T affic O fficer C. P.
ing dem ands, which is a type of tru e ree of the Copco organization and A. T alen t of M edford. S h eriff ^ B urt
tim ber conservation in accord with J. Crose and Jam es Collins a fte r the J H aw kins o f K lam ath Falls, S h eriff (
¿’residen t Coolidge’s re c e n t d ecla r reorganized team s last we*-’ com- W illiam H aynes of G ran ts Pass, ex
ation th a t “ A tre e saved is a tre e bined to bring the m em bership up to ecutive com m ittee with C. P. T alent j
the highest possible score. E lm er chairm an.
grow n’’.
S a rg e a n t J. J. McMahon, of the '
T hin n er saws, "knot-hole plugs", W ilson and his team s finished a close
and sim ilar developm ents a re fe a t second w ith 33 m em bers to th e ir c re S ta te tra ffic d ep artm en t, has again j
ured in an e n te rta in in g m an n er in dit and C aptain Holmes and C. G. resum ed his duties a fte r enjoying a
this issue of "T h e V olt” , and the Thomson crowded th e leaders a t all much needed vacation.
The H otel A shland has been sold
picture layout shows the plants of stages o f the m em bership drive.
the concerns m entioned above. The
A big public initiatio n is being a r to L. H. H ansen of P o rtland. Mr. j
“ Volt” story briefly covers the con ranged fo r the n ex t Legion m eeting H ansen is an experienced hotel man ]
servation activities of these lum ber Monday, April 26th, a t which a large and th e hotel will be u n d er his p er
com panies as follow s:
group o f th e new m em bers will be sonal supervision. He was in charge I
of th e hotel d ep a rtm e n t o f the P o rt
The F ru it G row ers Supply Com initiated.
pany, o f H ilt, C alifornia, which sup
This in itiatio n will be held in the land Y. M. C. A. fo r eight and a half
plies boxes to the C alifo rn ia F ru it large arm ory auditorium to accom years. He is also a m em ber of the |
G row ers Kxehange, (being a subsid m odate th e crow d. A p atrio tic a d G reeters and chairm an of th eir edu
iary com pany o f the la tte r concc m dress by P ro fesso r Irving Vining o f cation com m ittee.
The building on n orth F ir stre e t
which is a co-operative corporation Ashland on the su b ject of “ A m eri
composed o f about seventy-five per canism ” will be a fe a tu re and Vicc- form erly occupied by “ C hic” Silli-
cent of the citru s fr u it grow ers o f com m ander R obert N orris will have m an ’s co n fectio n ery sto re and Til- I
C aliforn ia) has developed to a point charge o f th e program . The public ley ’s Shoe R epair Shop has been
of practicability a process o f elim in is invited to a tte n d this cerem ony. razed and a new m odern re-inforced
ation o f w aste which they call the
A t Monday p ig h t's m eeting many co n crete building is being co n stru ct
“ gluend process. This “g lu en d ” p ro in terestin g item s were b rought up, ed in its place. Mr. Tilley is now
cess originated with the Susanville, including the visit of N ational Com located w ith the M edford Storage
on south
C alifornia, p lan t o f t^ e F ru it G row m ander Jo h n R. McQuigg. who and T ra n sfe r com pany
ers .Supply com pany— th e H ilt plant passed through M edford on Sunday, F ro n t stre e t.
took up th e ir idea and made im prove April 4 and was taken to A shland by
Mrs. R. H. H alley has purchased I
m ents. I n m a n u fa c tu rin g boxes, m em bers of th e local post.
th e F oster-K leiser building on the I
boards go through a cu ttin g -u p pro
L egionnaires Ivanhoe and D eJar- c o rn er of South C en tral and Eighth
cess and are tu rn ed into sm aller n e tt were appoited as a com m ittee tt> stre e ts from '* rs. M aude P arson, the
pieces. W aste o f pieces u n suitable m eet with the G. A. R. and arra n g e consideration being $12,000. This
fo r use it the n a tu ra l consequence a suitable program fo r the o bser m akes Mrs. H alley th e sole ow ner
of this cuttin g -u p process. A large vance of M em orial Day. A. J. A n o f all the buildings on the w est side
shrinkage exists betw een the am ount derson was appointed official P ost o f South C en tral A venue from the
of tum b er put through the m an u fac pho to g rap h er a t M onday
n ig h t’s J . N. C afe to Eighth stre e t. In the
tu rin g planers, c u t-o ff saws, and re m eeting.
n e a r fu tu re she will raze th e new
saws, and the am ount actu ally load
The recognition o f two local men purchase and e re c t in its place a
ed on the cars as finished box p a rts by the N ational G uard was m en new m odern tw o-story building with
under the nam e o f “ box shook.” tioned, C antain Ralph Cowgill having fo u r sto re room s on the ground
This waste varies, d epending upon been recen tly prom oted to M ajor of floor. H. C. Bevan closed the deal.
the sto rk used, b u t is alw ays a fac the G eneral S ta ff and Carl Tengw ald
to r to be considered. Upon th e re has been selected to take Cowgill’s
STATE MARKET NEWS
duction of this w aste real co nserva place as cap tain of th e local N ational
tion hinges. To sta te the m a tte r in G uard unit.
M ore I n t e r e s t e d in Italy
an o th er way, a load o f lum ber con
T h ere a re ab o u t fifty bills in tro
The evening ad jo u rn ed w ith a
tain in g exactly one thousand feet,
duced in congress, ostensibly to help
board m easure, comes in from the short movie o f “ Copco C u rre n t Ev th e fa rm e r o u t of his predicam ent,
lum beryard to be re m a n u fa c tu re d in e n ts” fe a tu rin g the recen t visit of b u t so fa r n o t much a tte n tio n has
to box shook. It goes thro u g h the N ational C om m ander McQuigg to been given to them . C harles L. Sten-
various m achines, and d efective piec M edford and th e arriv al of the first gle, fo rm e r m em ber of congress, now
es are tossed into th e scrap-heap or a ir mail survey plane a t th e local av a new spaper correspondent, w riting
wood-pile,— and when this thousand iation field.
of th e Ita lia n debt settlem en t, says I
fe e t g ets on to th e c a r it has
of congress displayed h alf the in te r
MEDFORD NEWS
dw indled to less thun nine hundred
e st in a g ric u ltu re th a t is does in Mus
feet. The re je c te d pieces may have
solini’s w elfare, the farm ers would
had a knot on one edge which would
Bliss H eine
have th e ir tro u b les lessened and the |
make nailing up im possible, o r thev
The local De Molay p atro l jo u r law m akers would be m ore rep resen
may have been too sm all fo r speci neyed to K lam ath Falls last Friday ta tiv e o f an A m erican state.
fied use,— o r some o th e r d efin ite w here th ey in itiated a large class
Bulk W h e a t is C om ing
reason has made it necessary to into th e ir o rd e r follow ed by a dance.
throw them aside.
The “ g lu en d ”
F arm ers o f eastern O regon are I
Miss Carol Robinson, distin g u ish
process consists o f assem bling these ed young A m erican pianist, gave a alive to th e advantages of bulk w heat I
rejects, gluing them to g e th e r into a splendid re cital in the G eorge A n handling, says S ta te M arket A gent I
piece o f p ro p er size, gluing a cleat drew s co n serv ato ry last T uesday eve Spence, and he th in k s it is but a m at
across th e ends o f th e assem bled ning. The excellent program includ te r of sh o rt time when all of the !
pieces, placing the resu ltin g piece in ed com positions o f both th e old m as w heat into P ortland will be handled
a steel d a m p until the glue has be te rs and m odern com posers which are th is way. N inety-six p e r cent of the |
come thoroughly dry, and th e n re rendered in a m asterly way.
w heat exported from th e country is
saw ing th e piece into two “ g lu en d ”
The new T erm inal Hotel is p ro in sacks. The unloading of sacked
box ends, stro n g e r th an sim ilar sized gressing rapidly, cem ent now being w heat from cars involves twelve
box ends m ade from one solid piece poured in the second flo o r fillings. tim es the labor and th re e tim es the
o f lum ber, and w ith the additio n al
On T uesday a fte rn o o n
of this cost o f unloading bulk w heat.
v irtu e th a t they will not w arp and week the C ostum e C ulture Club gave
Receives Less, P a y s More
cause d ifficu lty in hox-nailing m ach an e n te rta in m e n t in the C ra te ria n
H enry F ord says the farm er pays
ines in packing plants. The saving T h e a te r to raise a donation fo r the
in w aste by this process Is ap p ro x im b e n e fit o f th e C om m unity Club th e highest and receives the lowest
ately one-half, and th e tho u san d fe e t House to be erected by th e G re a te r in every tran sactio n he engages in.
o f lum ber n ets in finished shook on M edford Club in th e n e a r fu tu re . “ H elp fo r all o th er kinds is political,”
the car nearly nine hundred and f if The G eorge H unt com pany g e n er he says. “ Who used ra te-fix in g to
ty feet instead o f the fo rm e r nearly ously don ated the C ra te ria n T h e a te r help th e railroads? The governm ent.
nine hundred. This niakes th e log go fo r this occasion with N orm a siie a re r Wrho fixes ta riffs fo r the steel and
fa rth e r. The o p eratio n is som ewhat in the “ D evil's C ircu s” being shown su g a r m en? The governm ent. B ut
expensive, hut resu lts in th e fu llest while the C ostum e C u ltu re Club se th e fa rm e r is forced to live am ong a
conservation of tim b e r resources, and cured the added a ttra c tio n , “ O regon lot of businesses which a re raised
to an a rtific ia l level by governm ent
earn s a sm all p ro fit.
S cen ery ,” especially selected fo r the
tectio n or profit-fix in g . And the
A t W eed, C alifo rn ia, th e W’eed poem, “ My O regon. My H om e," w rit pro
L um ber Com pany uses n som ew hat ten by Mrs. Agnes E. Hines, fo rm er fa rm e r w ants to know why his level
can n o t be a rtific ia lly raised, to o .”
sim ilar process in building up from
various sizes o f w aste pieces, re
claim ed from c u ttin g o perations,
suitable fillers fo r v en eer panels in
th e m an u fa c tu re o f doors.
Doors
m ade up in this way, su b jected to th e
mose severe tests, have proved su p e r
io r to those m ade up w ith fillers of
solid pieces o f lu m b er betw een th e
veneer, as they a re stro n g e r and do
not w arp, the varying directio n of
the “ run o f g ra in ” equ alizin g stre s
ses and in creasing stren g th .
The Kwauna Box C om pany, of
K lam ath Falls, O regon, developed
d u ring 11*24 the use o f th in n e r saws,
which resu lts in m ore boards p er log,
as less w aste resu lts in th e n a tu re of
saw dust. E x p erim en ts which a re
still being conducted by th is concern
along this line a re g eing w atched
w ith g re a t in te re st by o th e r lu m b er
m en. The Kuwana Box Com pany is
now exp erim en tin g with a new d e
velopm ent— a th read ed “ knot-hole
plug ' which prom ises an appreciable
saving in w aste when p erfected . By
this process, a sm all piece o f w aste
At no iM ilio n d tti*. get extra a d va n ta ge s w h e n
lum ber is quickly th re a d e d by a
yon travel.
m achine, like th*1 th re a d s on a piece
Piolit
h» stopovet privileges on 15-dar r o u r d t n p
o f pipe, and the knot in a law g rade
tickets ber» ren mans Oregon points. Visit at sesecal
piece of lum ber is also th read ed out
paints instead of only one
to the p ro p e r d iam eter. T hen the
Weekend roundtcip tickers to a n d from P o r t la n d —
plug is autom i ti. ally screw ed into
w i t h o u t stopovet — are gre a tlv reduced in cost B ut
them toe over S u n d a y t o p s. R e t u r n lim it is f o ll o w in g
th e revam ped knot hole, th is m aking
T nesdav.
a solid an d si b sta n tia l piece o f lum
T ell o ur o p rn t y o u r tra v e l plans.
Tie’ll
ber from th e fo rm er low g rad e piece,
gladlv advise you r-g p r.lin y a m ost ad v a n ta g
im provinn the g rad e and gen eral use
eous itin e ra ry and a rra n g e *or all reserv atio n s
fu ln ess o ' the lu m b er su b jected to
including steam ship accom odations if nec
this operatio n .
The B * Imkes C om pany, also a t
K lam ath Falls, has been cond u ctin g
C. A B O L E S . A g e n t
ex p erim en ts sim ilar to thos previous
ly described in connection w ith the
p lan t in o p eratio n a t H ilt.
TIM B ER C O N V E R SA T IO N
FEATURE
THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1926
CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN
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