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8 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 20, 1960 Tonpoyeirs Saved Moimey Coyimty Shops Most Repair Work On Vehicles Done At Barnett Site A crew of 21 men at the .Tarksnn county roads depart ment shop on Barnett rd. has an in ventory of $637,000 worth of equipment to keep county vehicles in running order. This ycar-around job saves the county taxpayers at least 50 per cent in outside repair charges, County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen said. Mass buying of equipment and accessories provide fur ther savings. For instance, a broken shaft is brought in from a piece of road equipment. A ma chinist turns out a new shaft and this is stored away for future need. A big shaft costs $500 and a smaller one from $10 to $20. War Surplus Equipmtnt Some of the lathes are war surplus equipment, Carsten sen pointed out. No new equip ment has been purchased for the machine shop for two years, he pointed out. This machine shop equipment to tals $26,256. Stock room parts and supplies total $127,281. Like any efficient opera tion using mobile equipment, maintenance starts with the operator or driver. One man is kept continu ously on one piece of equip ment, Carstensen explained. It is his responsibility to see that It is kept in good work ing order. As soon as trouble is spotted it is either repaired on the job or taken immedi ately into the shop to cut down on lost time repairs. Radio Equipped ! The mobile two-way radio operated from the shop office receives news of breakdown and routes and reroutes re pair crews to the scene. One of the county court cars also has two .'way radio which makes it rjossible for the county court secretary to tele phone the roaas snop wun any urgent message. The dispatcher in turn con tacts the county court while members are out inspecting rnnds. For miscellaneous ' county work, 71 miscellaneous trucks and 42 pickups are kept in vreadiness. Six station wagons, buses, cars and miscellaneous other rolling stock are usee to transport county officials or workers. Other Equipment Other equipment Includes tractors, power shovels, air compressors, concrete mixers, graders and scrapers, rock crushing equipment, portable power plants, pumps, a pile driver, road oil equipment, trailers, rollers and loaders. When maintaining county roads the motto is, "Hope for the best, but expect the worst." To this end, the coun ty road fund budget always Includes some money for snow removal. This year it Is $2,306. The county miscellaneous equipment inventory includes four snow plows valued at S250 each. Much of the mis cellaneous equipment Includes power chain saws, tanks, and engines and pumps. Deorecialion Noted The county engineer fig ures every year the county roads department must depre- ciate out $700,000 worth of equipment. Replacement rale is 10 nor cent. On an average $96,000 worth of new equip ment is purchased each year This year It was $53,067.38 "We figure we must got at least 10 years out of each niece of equipment," Carsten sen explained. "Some stuff won't last that long and other i ?-" PARTS DEPARTMENT-Checking out parts in the county machine shop for repair of equipment are "Slim" Cooper, equipment superintendent, left, and Henry Kantor, ma chinist, right. Jay Etherton, parts man, cen ter, checks the order. Stock room parts and supplies total $127,281.67, according to a report made by County Engineer Robert J. Carstensen for the fiscal year ending June 30. nr fw m-m'i'mi'mum wa-f - 11 . . ' I One-Car Accident Reported to Police A one-car accident occurred Friday afternoon at the inter section of Vilas rd. and tha Crater Lake highway, stata police said Saturday. No injuries were reported, although considerable damage occurred to the car. The driver, Jerry William Worthington, 22, of 362 North Third st., Central Point, said he was driving north on the highway when a car pulled out in front of his at the Four Corners. He swerved to miss it, and landed in the ditch. REPLACE CLUTCH Dale Baker looks on as Ed Pierce, shop foreman, puts in a new clutch in a transfer case from a grader. The shop is completely equipped for making brass bushings, reboring motors, turning brake drums and doing similar jobs. Machine shop equipment has a total value of $26,256, according to a recent county engineer's report. The shops do some equipment repainting, but are careful to specify in bids that equipment have particularly durable paint jobs to make repainting unnecessary. Area Residents Warned Of 'Referral Selling' DISPATCHER Harold Tolle, bookkeeper at the county shops, contacts a county road crew by two-way radio. This radio network makes it possible for the county shops to keep in touch with road crews. Repair crews may be routed to a work location when equipment lasts longer. We have run some trucks for 20 years." The repair shop makes its own brass bushings, does its own motor reboring, turns brake drums, and does similar jobs. However, crews won't repair any automauc-irans-missions in county cars, nor do they grind out their own bearings. These jobs are let to outside shops. The parts shop, adjacent to the machine shop Is complete ly stocked. All parts are care fully labelled and numnereo and shop men needing parts must make out orders ana have them signed the same as they would in a local auto mobile repair shop. In front of the shops are a set of gas pumps from which county equipment is refueled The county docs its own scrv ice station work. IU total in ventory of tires and tubes amounts to $34,083. Anything a service station and garage carries, the county shops car ry. Behind the machine shop is the blacksmith shop where V ; tVv ) 1 Evangelistic Services 7:30 Nightiy (Except Sat.) Nov. 20rh through 27th See and Hear Rev. Walter Markham Evangelist, of Porterville, California KIT. PITT CHURCH OF THE IIAZAREIIE Mt. Pitt & Chestnut Public Invited county equipment breaks down tnus saving many hours. The county shops office can also contact the county court by radio when receiving an urgent message from the court house. One car operated by the county court has a two-way radio in it. Local residents have been warned by Don McNeil, Med- ford Chamber of Commerce manager, against the many something - for - nothing" ap peals especially used near Christmas. One such scheme now in use is tne reierrai semng approach. The prospect is told that he can get some article free, if he is willing to coop erate in a word-of-mouth ad vertising program. If he "qual ifies" he will become a "buyer representative" or "word-of-mouth agent." According to the National Better Business bureau, the salesman proceeds to give a long and convincing story about the advertising costs in volved in the usual method of selling. He explains that if such costs can be eliminated by having one friend or neigh bor recommend another, a substantial sum can be paid to Individuals who will adver tise their product. Specific Ariiclo For every friend or neigh bor who "qualifies," the par ticipant will receive $5 to $25, the BBB notes. Before the salesman explains what "qual ifies" means, the prospect may have his eyes set on the spe cific article involved. The inexitable explanation that some papers must be sign ed and a deposit made is ac companied by high-pressure selline that persuades the resi dent that a plan that has put the product in homes nation wide can't miss working for him, too. The analytical thinker can see that those papers "spell out" an obligation to pay. He can sense that any commission Dlan which involves geometri cal progression runs out of such things as points for a steam shovel are forged and beaten into sharp working points. - Repair work is just part of the county shops functions, however. Those finger-board signs which point out roads and the metal warning, cau tion and stop signs are made and repaired and repainted at the county shops. The coun ty shops get the wood and metal blanks and do their own painting. A large stockpile of such wood materials as bridge tim bers is kept. Timbers are used and reused whenever possible. Behind the machine shed there arc concrete sections for a bridge laid out in wood en forms. When ready the concrete sections will be trans ported to the site and quickly installed. This means a wood en bridge can be replaced in a day or two instead of weeks. Of course, the shops on Barnett rd. do not represent the complete county repair plant. Garages are also locat ed at Eagle Point, Jackson ville and Gold Hill, chiefly for housing equipment in those areas. The county shop is probab ly one of the few departments in county government dedl cnled to saving the taxpayer's dollar. . I lit &msk teM prospects awfully fast, accord ing to the BBB. Experience Demonstrates The BBB points out that "experience has clearly dem onstrated that in the vast ma jority of cases, participants are seldom, if ever, successful in getting enough 'referral' payments to meet . . . their obligation. 'The trouble with endless chain merchandising schemes is that they are not endless Finally, it should dawn on the prospect that he is going 1 to have to meet the obligation : himself, out of his own funds the BBB said. CHILD BRIDES Washington - Girls of 12 may be legally married in six states of the United States. Give Your Watch the Care It Deserves Depend upon our experts for Watch Repairs 231 East Main JAILER JAILED Cotabato City, Philippines (UPD - Thieves here looted city hall, the city jail and the po lice chief's office, released all the prisoners and jailed the jailer. For the Finest in Food... Try Town House Chuck Wagon Delicious Fried Chicken and a Variety of Salads and Meat Dishes Dinner $150 Served from 5:30 p.m. ts 7:30 p.m. Lunch 5loo Served from 11:15 to 1:30 p.m. Across from Hotel Jackson Closed Sunadys TURNS CRANK SHAFT Derrald Sykes, new mechanic in the county shops, turns the crank shaft in a large engine so he can check the timing. Behind Sykes is a com plete array of hand tools and small parU used in his work. Neatness and orderliness is emphasized In the shops for both safety and efficiency purposes. Equipment is care fully lined up outside the shops in the park ing area when it is returned. Much of this winter's work is on routine overhauls to prepare it for intensive work next spring and summer. California Growers Facing Pear Blight Davis, Calif. - tUPD - Cali fornia pear growers, who were forced to replmit thousands of acres because . of a disease called pear decline, face another possible blight to the pear crop. Young trees on old home varieties rootstock, which is resistant to pear decline, may carry another disease - pear measles, according to the Inter-Agency California Pear Decline committee. Measles produced no visible symptom for several years af ter planting but cuts pear production in mature trees from one-third to one-half. Be cause of its nature, growers may plant Infected trees un knowingly. Members of the committee said there was "at least a 50 per cent chance" that any young tree on old home roots or with old home as interstock carries measles. To combat this, scientists are propagating, on a small scale, cuttings from apparent ly measles -free Old Home Stock. They are also develop ing Bartlett pear trees on Old Home Stock near Medford, Ore., which may serve as a source of measles - free Old Home Stock. But these two plans will not help growers who must plant this winter. The committee I said these growers should plant young trees on Domestic French rootstock, which is ap parently free of decline and measles. RIVERVIEW CAFE at Rogue River Bridge Highway No. 62 Shady Cove Open daily, except Mondays 7:30 a.m. Is 1:00 p.m. Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner NOVEMBER 24, 1960 Five Course Dinner Served from 1:00 o'clock Choice of Entree Dessert Our homemade Pies.. ..$2. SO Special Child's Plate $1.00 Lucille Brumfield, Owner-Manager Phone TRinity 8-2681 Shady Cove Julie Tummers Announces The . . . of Newly Remodeled & Redecorated MtfDM MESIffiE DINING INN East of Central Point DAY-THURSDAY, November 24 Dinner Served from 3 to 9 p.m. on This Day A DOUBLE TREAT is In store for you and all the family when you come to Mon Desir this Thanksgiving Day for dinner. You'll see the results of our extensive remodeling prog ram (we know you'll be de lighted with it) and you will also enjoy a truly delectable Holiday Din ner, personally prepar ed by Julie for your dining pleasure. You'll like the way it is served, too, in Mon Desir's traditional fes tive manner, and espe cially will you be pleased with the friend ly atmosphere and warm hospitality of this picturesque dining inn! Phone for Reservations Please Phone NOrmandy 4-2513
