IfOKT MEDFORB (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
- Sunday, Jun 18, 1950
Manufacturing
Payrolls (or
Oregon Decline
Salem, Ore., June 17 (U.R)
Oregon s manulacturing ana con
itruction pay rolls declined $36
million in 1949 from 1948's rec
ord, but wages paid to workers
In trade, finance, utilities ana
other service groups increased
$6,500,000 over 1948, the state
unemployment c o m p e nsation
commission reported toaay.
Last vear's Dav rolls by cov
ered employers showed a 3 per
cent decline over the i4 rec
ord, to $943,753,414 from $973,-102.450.
The entire drop in wage pay
ments was reflected in the log
ging and lumber industry, with
a fall of $29,703,582 to $243,
253,480 or 25.8 per cent of all
pay rolls subject to tne unem
ployment law.
The 1949 average monthly
mployment in the woods prod
ucts group also dropped irom
the 1948 high, to 70,138 from
82,369.
The commission reported that
overall covered employment av
eraged 17,069 a month less than
the 1B4H peace-time nign oi aiv,
492. The peak war year employ
ment hit 323,969.
Only fields showing employ
ment gains last year were fi
nance, insurance and realty.
However, the commission said
1949 average employment in
wholesale trade, food processing
and utilities was nearly the same
as the 1948 totals.
By quarters, 1949 fell short
of the previous year's record ex
cept in the April-June period.
Only in the third quarter did
1949 pay rolls reach the billion
dollar pace, with $252,607,997.
North Bend Passes
Coos Bay in Population
Coos Bay, June 17 (U.R)
North Bend passed Coos Bay by
four on the basis of census fig
ures received by city officials
today, the report showing North
Bend with a population of 5.960
to 5,956 for Coos Bay. Coos Bay
had a population of 5,259 in
1940 as against 4,262 for North
Bend. The North Bend growth
rate was 39.6 as against 13 per
cent for Coos Bay. The two cities
axe separated by a strip of land
bout the width of a city block.
Lawrenceburg, Tenn., June 17
(U.R) Funeral services were
here Friday for Mrs. Emma
Hershberger Gingerlch, 39, who
died during the birth of her
19th child.
Sewage Disposal
Line Completion
Awaiting Meters
Central Point, June 17 Cen
tral Point's new sewage disposal
(acuities are complete except
for the Installation of meters,
City Recorder Arden Pinkham j
said yesterday.
The meters are en route and
should arrive shortly, he said.
New facilities consist of a sew
age pumping station and line I
connecting to the Medford-Camp I
White trunk. The pump and line
will give Central Point Joint use
with Medford of the Camp White
treatment plant.
Joins Medford Lin
The pumping station is near
Bear creek, adjacent to the John
Ellestad property, and the line
joins the Medford trunk where
it crosses the Central Point
Crater Lake road just 'east of the
Table Rock road four Cornell.
An $85,000 bond issue was re
quired for the project. Of this
about $72,000 was for actual
construction. The remainder
was for various fees such as at
torney's and engineers' charges
and for payment on plans made
for a previously contemplated I
disposal unit at central f olnt.
County's Bond Quota
34 Per Cent Complete
Jackson countv has achieved I
34 per cent of its assigned quota i I
of $150,000 in the current Inde- I
pendence savings bond drive,
County Chairman Morris B. '
Leonard Sr., reported yesterday. '
He stated tnat sales last week
were $6.8(i6 bringing the total
sales since Mar 15 to $52,211.
The county is now in 13th place
in uregon on sale percentage
basis.
The state total last week $868.
267 or 38 per cent of its assign
ee! quota.
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