SOUÌHEKN OREGON NEWS Kl VIEW. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 194*
Raising Of Radio Toiver
Takes 9 Hours, 50Minutes
Bug-ology
th i ' a r m y “ m t
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D,. h . c. Do-.«!«»
e bos S t s ltriams ,
i Chamber of Commerce Work
Handled Through Committees
A sh lan d ’s new ly revived C ham S. Engle, W ilbur Bushnell and
ber of C om m erce is handling it's Dr. Blanche Rice.
business and various activities | Legislative, Earl T. New bry,
through w h at is know n as the chairm an, F rank Van Dyke, and
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com m ittee system according to C larence W illiam s; tran sp o rta-
I T !S ~ IS T /R L A T ÍO THAT
Dr. W. W. W eller, p resident of [ tion, roads and highw ays, How-
rta total w u g h t o r arts r ú e n o s
' ard Oden, chairm an, R alph Koo-
the C ham ber of Com m erce
THAT O f A l l O T H I R A R IM A L I T f t
O R T R I L A R O A R I A i O f TH f I ARTH f
According to officials of the 1 zer and O. E. Sabin; finance,
C ham ber this system will m ean ■ G erald W enner, C. Som m ers,
th at various com m ittees will F ran k C ulp and Ben Lom bard;
m eet w eekly w ith W illiam Healy, I ag ricu ltu re, H enry Enders, c h a ir
secretary , and plan the particu lar m an, T. E. Fow ler, P. R. W illiam
activities w hich are th a t com m it son and R alph Koozer.
B uilding and C onstruction com
tee’s responsibility. This m ethod
will not m ake it essential th at m ittee has been appointed w ith
the en tire m em bership m eet but W. D. Jackson, chairm an, Jak e
it will p erm it w ider invididual W eitzel, H. R. M orris, J. Q.
p articip atio n
in C ham ber of Adam s, and C larence Homes.
C om m erce affairs.
M em bers of the R etail Trade
com m ittee include: E. J. LaM arre
A few jugs Vermont Maple
ch airm an, Dom Provost, C arryl Syrup left. Get yours now. La-
W ines, H arry Travis, I. F. A n Marres Drug Store.
dres, J. A. L an try , H. R. M cKeev
er, G eorge Reed, and Jam es
M ackie; The A viation com m ittee
includes K enton Robbins, ch a ir
A R I H O T YO L U H TA R /LY SATCR
man, Lloyd Selby, Jack Enders,
B Y A R T S . TS S TS A T
Jack Francis, and Doyle Seely.
R t T l RTA A R L A B O R A T O R IÍ S
P ublicity: W endell Law rence and
F A R M tR A R T S ,
S H O W THAT IR S fC T T C IO IS
Doyle Seely. M em bership, Bill
WHO R A H I P l A R T
I R P O W O IR f O H M D IS T R O T
Snider, ch airm an, C lyde Caton,
L i e i ARO PR O TIC T
A R T S P R IM A R IL Y B Y
Eldon S crip ter, Toy L. Tram m el,
T R IM FROM W fA TH fR
STICK TRO TO T H f/R BOOHS.
H erb Huston, and W alter McCoy;
STANDARD COMPANIES
ARO I M H H S ,
industrial, Lloyd Selby, chairm an
ACTUALLY M IL K THC
Don O’Blenness, Herb Fischborn
U C l fO R T H U R H O R IY O f W "
Srr
and Roger R ath; real estate, Hen
ry Galey, ch airm an, W. D. Jack-
son, George Reed and C. A. P itts;
S outhern O regon College, Dr. A.
Mr. P ow ley’s reports follows:
38 East Main — Ph. 7866
tion, crow ned by a o n e -th o u sa n d -1 "D irecting o ur efforts as we S. Taylor, ch airm an, Earl New-
w att beacon, pow er w ires d an g l have to ren d er service as ra p id b ry , and Dr. R. E. Poston; recep
ing, rose slowly into the air. A t ly as possible to all who w ant it tion, Paul F innell, chairm an, F.
12:01 the last bolt was shoved and to m ake our service even
home. Forem an S u th e rlan d lean b e tte r th an it has been before, and
the co ntinued
m aterials
ed against the w inch and lit a the 2,886,000 telephones in s e r snortages an d d istu rb ed condi
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cigarette.
vice as of May 31 ,1946, include tions ini ougnout the country at-
"S he’s a tow er.” He glanced at an increase of 254,000 since V -J lectin g m a n u ta c tu re rs’ p ro d u ct Symptoms of Distress Arising from
his watch. “J u s t nine hours and Day, of which 183,000 w ere a d d ion, z29,ouu applicants are still STO M A C H ULCERS
th irty m inutes w orking tim e. Not ed in the first five m onths of w aiting to r service.
w e are d iligently co n cen trat due to EXCESS A C ID
this y ea r—an u n equaled increase
bad at all.”
Of course there was still the in any sim ilar tim e period in the ing, n o tw ith stan d in g the difficul- FreeBookTells of HomeTreatment that
I ties in oDtaining ad eq u ate appar Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing
m atter of the gin-pole hanging h istory of our com pany.
"The telephone increase since a t u s and m aterials, on providing Over tw o million bottle« o f th e W ILL A KD
as it w ere 'tw ix t H eaven and
Hades, bu t this he discounted V -J Day exceeds by 67,000, or ¡service to w aiting applicants as T R E A T M E N T have been «old for relief of
m p to ms o f dist ress ari'si n g f rom S to m a e h
w ith a wave of his hand. J u s t a 36 per cent, the 187,000 increase la st as it is h um anly possible to ay
and D u o d e n a l U lc e r * due to Excess * .1 0 —
do
so.
L
ikew
ise
every
effort
is
in
the
year
1943—th
e
largest
few m ore hours of routin e w ork
P o o r D ig e s tio n , S o u r or U p s e t S t r a o c h ,
he stated, would clear up the y early telephone increase ever re being m ade to im prove th e q u al C a s t i n e » , H e a r t b u r n . S le eplessness, e t c -
to Excess A c id . Sold on 15 day*' tr ia l!
whole thing. Drop the gin-pole, corded by o ur com pany. The tele ity and efficiency of o ur service. due
s k for “ W illa r d 's M e ss a g e ” which fully
"C onstruction of add itio n al toil A explains
knock the form s from th e con phone increase for th e first five
thia treatm ent— fr e e — a t
crete cen ter pier, pick up the m onths of 1946 exceeds by 69,000 an d long distance circuits has
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or
60
percent,
th
e
114,000
in
gone
fo
rw
ard
w
ith
rap
id
ity
and
loose tools, and aw ay to the n e x t
continued im p ro v em en t is being
job.
A nd tru e enough, w hen crease for the en tire year 1945.
"New applications for service— m ade in the service even though
dusk cam e .there she stood, clean
and proud, her beacon blinging totaling 340,000 for the first five th e volum e continues a t record
like the tick of a clock. And a 'm o n th s of this y ear—increased high levels—the calls being 20
flirtatio u s star over Mt. G rizzly j 107 p er cent over th e correspond p er cent g re ater th an in th e cor
ing period of a y ear ago. Of the responding five m onth period of
w inked back.
286,000 prospective subscribers a y ear ago.
"O ur com pany has recently
at the first of the years whose
applications had been necessarily m ade su b stan tial fu rth e r postw ar
deferred due to shortage of facili increased w age ad ju stm en ts, ag
ties, we are glad to rep o rt th at gregating . .6,000,000 on an annu
183,000, or 64 p er cent, have been al basis, as a re su lt of collective
cared for. Due, how ever ,to th e bargaining negotiations w ith the
, tim e necessarily involved in the unions. These added wage in
The Pacific T elephone a n d , in stallatio n of com plicated sw it creases are over an d above th e
T elegraph C om pany, serving O re chboards— in
m any
instanc e s postw ar ad ju stm en t w age in crea
gon, W ashington. C alifornia, Nev new buildings are req q u ired to ses m ade D ecem ber of last year
"ON THE PLAZA”
ada and p a rt of Idaho, has in stal house them —to g eth er w ith the w hich aggregated m ore th an
led m ore new telephones since large nu m b er of new applications $18,000,000 on an an n u al basis.
V-J day than in any o th er sim i
Thus .this re cen t w age increase,
la r period in history, declared N.
em bodied in a con tract to ru n
R. Pow ley, president, in his q u a r
u n til M arch 1, 1947, brings the
terly report to sharehold ers ju st
— F IL M S —
postw ar ad ju stm en t w age in crea
received by R. B Hammond,,
DEVELOPED & PRINTED
ses, arising out of colleective
m anager here.
__
bargaining, to m ore th a n $24,-
6 or 8 ex. 15c per roll
000,000 a n n u a lly —th e increase in
Double size 25c
o ur p o stw ar wage rates being 19
5c
extra
of Panchromatic. A If
p er cent. T he re cen t collective
fine grain developed. Reprints
bargaining negotiations betw een
2c each. Double size
each.
o ur m an ag em en t and the unions
Deckle or plain edge. Guaran-
ex ten d ed o v er a period from
A pril 24 to May 18, 1946, and at
teed work. Enlarging, coloring,'
no tim e th ro u g h o u t the negotia
copying. Low prices. Send to- -
tions did the unions or th e com
ECONOMY
pany fail to realize th a t th e p u b
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lic in tere st cam e first. N et in
Box 1576, Station D
come has been adversely affected
by increased costs of operation,
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p artic u la rly
th e large
added
wage ex p en d itu res.”
B u il d ir g l iv ir g B R i O G IS T H A T
By W. V. Athanax
A th ree -m an crew of the TO W
ER SALES AND ERECTING CO
of P o rtland, s ta rte d erection Sun-
uay. May 3th of the 200 loot tow
er for A shlund’s new radio uta-
tion, the first construction of this
type in the city. The first three
20 foot sections w ere assem bled
horizontally on the ground, and
sw ung up onto a previously pre
pured base by 9:30 A. M.
By 10:50 th e sixty foot assem b
ly was guyed and plum b, and
visitors w ere treated to the sight
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i>i a thirty-six foot tim b ert d u b
bed "gin-pole” by the erection
crew ) being hoisted to the top oi
the assem bly as casually as the
averuge citizen sets ou t a bean
pole. By m eans ol block unu j
luckle on this gin-pole, the lout in |
section wus sw ung to the lop
and bolted in place by li:o a .
th e gin-pole was again ruined,
and by 11:40 the tow er stood
trim and plum b, one hundred
five feet in the blue.
A lter lunch the six th section
wus tied in, and again Forem an
tja rl b u th eria n d , w ith tow erm en
Lowell Bible and Gil Nielsen,
w restled three heavy guy lines
ou t und pulled them up taut.
W ith this in terru p tio n , the 7th
section, which brought the tow er
to 145 feet, was not bolted in till
3:45 PM. A fter rigging tem p o r
ary lights to w arn aw ay foolish
airc ralt, they decided to call it
a day. Suid one gaping visitor;
"If anyone had told m e th at three
m en could raise and guy a h u n
dred and forty feet of tow er in
less thun 7 hours, I'd have called
him a lia r!”
Mr. S u th e rlan d sm iled kindly.
" Ju s t a m a tte r of know ing how.
O utside of two years in the Sea-
bees and the Navy, I’ve been at
this th irteen years ,and these two
m en here a re n ’t exactly g re en
horns. We'll pu t the rest of tier
up tom orrow m orning ,and have
the light blinking on h er over
tw o hundred feet in the air b e
fore you know it.”
Work was resum ed a t 8:30
M onday m orning, und by 9:06
the 8th section was in place. At
9:50 the 9th settled sm oothly into
place. T hree m ore guy lines were
! strung, pulled taut, and checked.
S u th erlan d checked the tow ers
plum b w ith a surveyors transit,
said; "L et's see if we can get the
lid on h er by noon."
At 11:55 the 10th, and top sec-
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