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I Q MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Or. A Sunday, March 20, lt6B pLrvodl t V s ' - err - I v 2 jf v C ' ::'::::::':'; I IWmIII Ill I 1 I 1 II I I II rfff I II MM EXHIBITS PRODUCTS Mrs. Jean Emm rich, a Sawyer's Inc. employee, exhibits just a few of the many products made at and aold from the company's plant near Port TOUCHES UP Joe Liptack, a Sawyer's photographed with three-dimensional cam artist, touches up a small Santa Claus on eras and turned into scenic reels or slides a miniature "set'' which is being prepared for use in Viewmaster cameras, for photographing. Sets such as this are SCHOOL MEWS Medford1 High School By Jim Frako j When Medford high stu dents return to school Mon day, after a week of spring vacation, they will find them selves involved in one of the most anticipated events dur ing the school year-the Asso ciated Student Body elections and campaigns. $goo $2500 "20 $800 LIMITED TIME OFFER Now your entire family can belong for $40.00 for one full year. Prepare for a FULL LIFE-A REAL SUMMER. PREPARE TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF TOMORROW JOIN THE Y. ENROLL NOW BEFORE CLASSES START Y.M.C.A. 522 V 6th Street land. The enterprise, which started as a small Portland photo-finishing firm in 1914, has three overseas plants. Although the nominess for the 1960-61 officers were an nounced last Friday, promo tion for the candidates will begin Monday. Student council nominees for the ASB elections are: Jim Frake, Mike Phillips, and Jim Stever, president; Bob Quin ney, Fred Lorish, and Jerry Winetrout, . vice president; Nancy Hinman, De Anne Tay- AS LOW AS 77c Per Week SP 2-6295 lor, Carolyn Finch, and Linda Hess, secretary; John Pierce, Marida Winchell, and Karen Simcox, treasurer; Mary Frohnmayer, Stanley Dowson, Kenny Peek, and Jim Barry, business manager; Pam Gil kinson, Mary Kay Harris, Cas sie Thompson, and Roberta Willett, yell queen; Jim Ran dies, Bill Rupp, Pat Dunlevy, and John McKinley, yell king. Other qualified students may petition to run for office ; if they obtain the signatures of 50 student body members pledging support and approv al. All such petitions must be turned in to DeVere Taylor's office, Room 217, by 4 p.m. Monday. Elections will dominate the Medford High school activity scene for the next two weeks i with the primary elections I March 24 and the final voting I to be done March 31. Polls -vill be open from 11:30 a.m. Keirh's-Cusrom Made ORNAMENTAL IRON is fill yij 1 jllSiiSs Let us show you how to beautify your home with ornamental iron. Railings columns lamp posts! Call Keith Childreth. SP 3-3588 for FREE Estimate Without Obligation 2231 Orchard Home Drive Library Here Buys View-Masters, 600 State-Made Slides Br GREG NOKES Mail Tribune Staff Writer It came as a surprise to some persons locally that nine View - Masters and approxi mately 600 slides, recently purchased by the Public Ia- brary of Medford and Jack son county for use of patrons in both the main and branch libraries, are the products of an Oregon-based industry. Sawyer's Inc., which manu factures and sells the View- Master and slides in addition to a number of other related products, has grown from a small Portland photo-finishing firm in 1914 to its present position as a world - known manufacturer. Operating from its head quarters and main manufac turing plant near Portland - with additional offices in Chi cago and three manufacturing plants abroad Sawyer's Inc., produces and distributes to day's leading lines of stereo viewers and is becoming a prominent competitor in the slide viewer and projector fields. ' 20 Million Sold According to a recent tabu lation, more than 20 million of Sawyer's stereo viewers have been sold and the com pany has marketed more than one billion color photo trans parencies since entering these phases of business. ' The Sawyer's story goes back to 1914, when Carleton Sawyer and two associates started a firm in Portland which handled photo finishing for a chain of drug stores. In 1919, the business changed hands and the new owners ex panded the photo finishing service to more than 350 drug stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Sawyer's entered the tourist novelty field in 1927 and the company soon became the na tion's largest producer of scenic photo post cards and packet sets. Significant Step One of the most significant steps in their growth took place in 1938, when W. B. Gruber, who had applied for patents on the Stereoscope, associated with the company and they started manufactur ing the now-famous Sawyer's View-Master viewer. The View -Master quickly caught the fancy of the buying public and necessitated an ex pansion of the company into new plant facilities in 1941. By 1947, the firm had expand ed into two additional build ings and the payroll ..had grown to 150 employees. Demand for the company's products continued to grow, and in 1949 the firm opened sales offices in Chicago and purchased its present main plant site at Progress, Ore., some nine miles southwest of downtown Portland. 14-Acre Plant Sawyer's occupied the new 14-acre plant in 1951 and, in the same year, purchased the Tru-Vue company and moved that firm's personnel and operations from Illinois to Portland. The Progress plant manu factures the products for dis- to 1 p.m. and from S to 4:30 p.m. All voting is to be done in the auditorium under the supervision of the social studies department. Students will give cam paign speeches before special election assemblies to be held March 23 and 30. Candidates or petitioners who have further questions or problems should check the special student council bulle tin regarding the elections, or see President Bob Hamilton. 8 ,. "into -"-twwt... , " -' SJS Ate,iMaJii - mi VIEWMASTER PLANT Pictured is the slides are made. Sawyer's is an Oregon-born sprawling 14-acre Sawyer's Inc. plant at concern and maintains its headquarters in Progress, Ore., near Portland, where the Portland, world-famous Viewmaster cameras and tribution in the U.S., ,Canada and South America. Sales and distribution of the products in the eastern U.S. are adminis tered from their Chicago of fices. ' Sawyer's now operates manufacturing plants in Brus sels, Belgium, Sydney, Aus tralia, and is opening a third plant, this year in Bombay, India. Together with these plants, the company operates overseas distribution facili ties which market their pro ducts abroad. Maintains Large Staff The company maintains a large staff of photographers who travel throughout the free world to supply them with pictures for their wide range of scenic reels and pic ture cards. The well-known fairy tale and cartoon stereo picture stories, produced by Sawyer's, come complete in a seven scene reel or card, and include nearly all of the famous fairy tales as well as leading Walt Disney and other popular cartoon characters. The local library purchased large numbers of both the fairy tale-cartoon and real life scenic reels. These can be found in the children's sec tions of the county libraries. For the cartoon stories, the individual characters are sculptured by Sawyer's ar tists and are included in scenes (tiny sets) which -are then photographed by three- dimensional cameras and mass produced in story form. Slid Viewers Another in the line of Saw yer's products are the Pana Vue slide viewers which ac commodate standard 35mm slides as well as special slides photographed and produced by the company. They have recently started manufacturing their own slide projectors and put one line on the market in 1958. They hope to come out with four addi tional lines this year. The Portland headquarters and plant now employs over 285 persons and has an annual payroll of $1,800,000. An ad ditional 35 persons are em ployed in their Chicago of fices and two overseas plants. Film Processing Besides the manufacturing operations themselves, the Portland plant houses Saw yer's large film processing operations and extensive re search and engineering facili ties for the development of new manufacturing equip ment and new product lines. The company's current president Robert V. Brost, pointed out, that the View Master and True-Vue viewers and their colored packets of scenic pictures unknown not too many years ago - are familiar items in department stores, camera shops, toy stores and other retail outlets not only in the U.S. but in most other areas of the free world. Brost is confident that con tinued research and' improve ments will make this Oregon born company and their pro ducts even more, famous in the years to come. Conservation Group To Meet Monday .William Jess, chairman of the Rogue River Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association, will report on the progress of the Rogue basin program at the annual meet ing of the Sams Valley-Beagle Soil Conservation district at 8 pjn. Monday in the Eagle Point Grange. Richard Courtright, " Med ford lawyer, will explain the legal steps which must be taken before the water from the project can be used. Victor Hulsey, Eagle Point Future Farmers of America chapter member, will talk on soil conservation. Robert Lonzway, Medford, SCS work unit conservation ist, will speak on district ac complishments during the past year. j e st e r Davenport, Grants Pass, SCS area con servationist, will explain the Small Water Sheds act. Advisory Court to Letters are going out this week to 25 citizens of Jack son county asking them to be come members of a reorganiz ed county advisory council to the juvenile court, Mrs. Kay Crowell, director of the Jack son county juvenile depart ment, has announced. The 25 citizens will be ask ed to expand the active coun cil membership, Mrs. Crowell explained. The active group of the committee now consists al most entirely of the executive committee which has contin ued to work closely with-the juvenile court and county juvenile department, she said. Members of the over-all committee feel they have ac complished their objectives and have generally dropped out of active participation. These objectives have been to obtain a more adequate juve nile department staff, a rea sonably fair pay schedule and a modern detention home. New Juvenile Code The new Oregon juvenile code passed by the last state legislature requires an active Fruit Growers Discuss Heaters Directors of the Jack son County Fruit Growers League Friday discussed enforcing the current agreement to convert old-style orchard heaters in the Rogue valley, and took no definite action, it was report ed. Orchardists have agreed to convert, have converted or are already converting 88 per cent of the old-style smoke producing heaters in the val ley, it was reported. The remaining 12 per cent consists mostly of small peach tracts, a spokesman said. The directors emphasized that the pear growers have no control over the peach growers. A number of committee re ports of a general nature were given. Following the d i r e c tors' meeting, an organizat i o n a 1 meeting of the Medford Farm Bureau center was held. For rest Van Vleck was elected president, Bob Minear, vice president, and Shelby Tuttle, secretary. At the annual Fruit Grow ers League meeting earlier this year, the membership agreed to form a Farm Bureau center consisting of fruit growers. London Coffee was once regarded as an intoxicating beverage by the early Mos lems and was prohibited by the Koran. The MOST ADVANCED behind-the-ear hearing aid available today BY TONEMASTER Clear Powerful hearing 4 attractive colors . . . . . Powerful transistor circuit Weighs less than Vl OI. Economical to operate George E. White HEARING AIDS 38 So. Central Medford Phone SP 2-2208 Council to Juvenile Become More Active juvenile advisory council con sisting of seven directors and "such other members as may be appointed." The juvenile court judge or judges of each county having a population of over 10,000 shall, and the ju venile court judge of any oth er county may, appoint a juve nile advisory council, accord ing to the new code. The council is required to study and make recommenda tions concerning operation of the juvenile court, including counselors and other person nel, detention facilities, shel ter care, foster homes and oth er facilities functioning or needed in connection with it. The executive committee chairmanned by Shelby Tut tle, 232 Valley View dr., is doing that, she said. However, the council must also study and make recom mendations in connection with community programs and services designed" to prevent or correct juvenile delinquen cy and other children's prob lems of the type coming be fore the juvenile court, ac cording to the new code. It must also take appropriate ac tion to stimulate community interest in the problems of children and carry out the recommendations of the coun cil. An annual report on its activities is also required, Mrs. Crowell said. Expend County Funds The new law provides that the county court in each coun ty in which there is a juvenile advisory council may expend county funds for council ac tivities. "Essentially the expanded council will work this way: on it will be representatives of all county areas," Mrs. Crowell explained. "Council members will concentrate on general county problems, but if a community should have difficulties it may appoint a group in that community to work with the council to cor rect the problem or prob lems." . Reviewing the back history of the juvenile council, the ju venile department director noted that Jackson county was the first county in the state to have an advisory council. Such an organization was im plied in the old state juvenile law but not required. Former Circuit Judge Her bert K. Hanna set up the pres ent advisory council consist ing of a group of interested persons from whom was se lected the executive commit f ee to work more closely with the courts and juvenile de partment. When the new juvenile code was framed, Jackson county officials were consulted, Mrs. Crowell explained. So tiny end light you on't kn.w' yo-'hove it . . on. No electrical receiver bott0n". Jost a tiny tube carries sound to the ear. See and try it yourself. In Grants Pass: - GRANTS PASS HEARING AID CENTER 233 N.W. E Street Phone GR 6-5629 One Killed, Four Injured in Crash Cascade Locks '(DPD - A woman was killed and four persons were injured, one critically, in a two-car colli sion on Highway 30 near here early Saturday. The dead woman was tenta tively identified by the Mult nomah county coroner's office as Mrs. Jean Thornton, 27, Boring. CONVICT RECAPTURED The Dalles - (LTD - Hereth R. Raymond, 27, who escaped from a work detail at the state prison last Sunday, was apprehended by a state patrol man two miles east of here on Highway 30 Friday. Even before this, however, many of the larger counties consulted with Mrs. Crowell to learn how a juvenile coun cil could be adapted to their areas. Now most counties, of any size either have or are forming a juvenile council. In quiries continue to come in every week to the local juve nile department, Mrs. Crowell said. To save considerable let ter writing, the department mimeographed information on the organization and functions of the local council and is mailing it out upon request. Members of the local execu tive committee of the juve nile council are, besides Tut tle, Mrs. Laurence Buonocore, vice chairman, third year; James V. McGoodwin, 110 East Sixth st., Medford, third year; Dr. Bruce Turner, 317 East Pine st., Central Point, second year; Miss Josephine Kirtley, 519 Dakota ave., sec ond year; Phil Stansbury, 123 Black Oak dr., Medford, first year; Howard Gang, 409 Oak St., second year of uncomplet ed term of predecessor; Mrs. David Lowry, C o 1 v e r rd., Phoenix, first year; Mrs. Ben Day, route 2, Gold Hill, first year. Consultants include Wayne Welty, 237 Girard dr., Fred erick Trost, 245 Walker ave., Ashland; William Abbott, route 1, box 307 C, and Robert Lawrence, 300 Ardmore St., Medford. L 2100 tu u ec H UJ Z K Columbarium Cemetery o. V Dignified Sympathetic Funeral Service with a personal understanding of your requests. "A NAME YOU CAN TRUST" SISKIYOU FUNERAL SERVICE Investigate and Save PHONE n SP 2-5488 O 5 Co Siskiyou Memorial Park ONLY MEMBER OREGON INTERMENT ASSOCIATION IN MEDFORD 605 HIGHLAND Tree Orders Required Salem - (DPD - Chief Farm Forester Charles H. Ladd said Saturday that farm woodland owners and forest land man agers who plan reforestation projects this spring must have their tree orders in the office of the state forester here not later than April 1. FFA Boys Elected For State Degrees. Four members of Jackson county Future Farmers of America chapters were elect ed to the State Farm degree at the state FFA convention in Pendleton May 16 to 19, according to Paul Seaquist, state FFA reporter. Those who qualified were William Rasmussen and Leon Small, both of the Phoenix FFA chapter, and David Foote and Jim Frink, of the Crater FFA chapter. To qualify for the degree a boy must have held the de gree of chapter farmer pre viously, have satisfactorily completed two years of in struction in vocational agri culture in high school, have an outstanding program of supervised farming. A degree candidate must also demonstrate proficiency in parliamentary procedure and public speaking. He must have earned at least $500 from his farming program through his own efforts and have invested it productively. The candidate must show out standing abilities in the FFA and have participated in many of its activities. This year there are 76 states farmers from a total state as sociation member ship of 3,795. How to Get All You Want From Life . . . through the power of your ewi subconscious mind nd the modem science of sleep learning. Nocturnal learning con help yo bene ondesirabl habits, develop ewgneric personality for greater luccett, gaie more vitality ond well-being, plvt 160 other personal benefits. Also helps yow leorn foreign languages m just frac tion of the normal time ... e 2-year music course in only 4 month ... aad benefits your children, tea. Come to the SPORTSFAIR To see for yourself bow easy it is te apply this new science to your ewe needs, within the privacy el year ewa O me. Phone for more information. 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