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6 A SUNDAY. MARCH 3 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Edrest i j A V .. ; frfr Z -,"4 in iiw jii nuil Jn ii iiriii-nr-infrLnriii niujimmiiirm iniin mi" ' 1 iff III' STEAM GENERATOR - To the left of the burner Is the steam generating plant. Waste materials are used to gen erate steam for the adjoining plywood plant at Timber Products. Waste materials which can't be used in the steam t: ' : ' ' -: . - ,., .: . t , v.-.. .... .. , . : - - ) : . . . , I r w r '"TO ' " f i ssj V V4- iS '?2 ,--;'v , K Lw'' z , L ' A .Tt' - V'V " 't, I w "V n ' 5s U . Ti. -v.(. , '- , THROUGH SPRAY - A log moves through a series of sprays and along a moving belt into the Timber Products plant. The spray knocks off all mud and rocks which may ltii niiiiir I t T-"!!!-miiirt" I II '''""'l w . - SEE AND HEAR FRANK STITT Noted Popular Organist KBES-TV 7:15 P.M. March 7th lusk Music Co. All Day March 8th Special Concert, Hedrick Jr. High, 8 p.m., March 8th Hear Frank on the Baldwin Organ. For More Information Call LUSK MUSIC CO. 333 S. Riverside Ave. SP 2-8635 Resources-.ytilized by plant, or as any of the company's by-products are burned in the burner. One burner has been shut down. Burning is alternated between this waste burner by the plywood plant and apothcr one. These are used as little as possible. cling to the loss. This reduces blades and the saws. 0 ill 'SW-f .Vj ,?!r (, 4v lic LATHE OPERATOR - John Chast.iin oper ates (lie lathe in the plywood plant at Tim ber Products here. The veneer comes off the peeler core In iheet and ft pressed together wear on the debarking 0 s muter steam pressure to form high quality thrrp-cighti Inch plywood. Only the highest grade limber la used In tills process. . Control Center Is Heart of 140-Acre Plant's Operation By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribune Staff Writer The Timber Products com pany, Medford division, is a working example of how the lumber industry in the Rogue valley is striving toward more complete utilization of forest reserves; The Medford plant, located on McAi'.diews rd., covers 140 acres. The log control center lg located on 40 acres of this area. It has facilities for stor ing a log inventory of 34 mil lion board feet. This is about 35 per cent of the company's total annual consumption of 85 to 90 million board feet. The log control center is the plant's heart. Here, under the close scrutiny of Wylie Mac pherson and his crew, the logs are sent to the storage pond, debarked, graded, cut for length and routed to the ply wood plant, sawmill and gang- mill. This phase of the com pany operation allows maxi mum dollar recovery from each log. Mechanical Barker Barking is done by a me- fhanical ring-type barker with five rotating scraper blades that scrape the bark off the logs. About 350,000 board feet of logs are barked daily yielding approximately 260 tons of bark. This is run through a hammermill and screened. The result is a mulch product trade-named Forest Loam. Bark particles too large for Forest Loam are consumed in the recently completed cen tral steam generating facili ties. These have all the latest devices for cinder and smoke elimination. Plywood Plant The plywood plant, super vised by C. F, Underwood and Lyle Collins, daily produces 200,000 square feet of three eighths inch thick finished plywood. This requires approximate ly 100,000 board feet in block or log form. Generally, only the highest quality Douglas fir logs are used for plywood. Numerous improve m e n t s were made the last few years to make the plant more effi. cicnt, enabling the company to produce a higher quality of plywood. Peak capacity re. quires 200 trained employees, Through the combined ef forts of Glen Nelson, Buz Bruning and a crew of '31 men, the gang mill produces an average of 134,000 board feet of lumber per 16-hour day. A gang-sawing operation is a high volume, low cost con version process aimed at con verting small common grade Ions to common grade lumber. Efficient Band Mill The sawmill is a hishly ef ficient band type mill. Pri mary function of this opera tion is conversion of fir logs of Intermediate quality and pine logs of highest quality to lumber that will yield the maximum dollars. The individual skills Of 28 men and their foremen, John Keaveny and Loren Scheel, are required to maintain an average production figure of 170,000 board feet of lumber each 16-hour work day. Dry kilns, an automatic slacker and an automatic un stacker complete the sawmill facilities. The planing mill, super vised by Floyd Wisely, puis the finishing touches on an av- it I "-JVC i CHIPPER - Plywood waste material is shown travelling through the chipper. The machine chops the pieces of veneer into chips which can be shipped to pulp and pa i ; Ivar'.'p" v; i't - " I " 1! j STACKING VENEER - One man is shown lilfing a sheet of veneer over onto a stack in preparation for gluing. Tons of steam pressure press the plywood sheets together erage of 320,000 board feel of lumber every 16 hours. Two planers maintain this rate of production. Disposal of Waste Disposal of waste materials is a major problem in the lu v ber industry, Timber Products company has installed three chippers to fully utilize waste materials. All waste suitable for pulp chips is passed through the chippers and loaded into gon dola freight ears for shipment to pulp mills. Each day this operation shWs an average of eight carloads of chips. Material too large for the chippers is routed to the fuel yard where seven trucks oo crate constantly to supply cu turners with fuel. Sawdust from the gang nvll and sawmill and shavings from the planing mill are stored in huge vault type structures. Bulk of this waste material is used ast fuel in generating steam for use in veneer dryers, dry kilns and the sawmill. Balance of this material is sold through the fuel yard. Burner Eliminated Tile nearly complete utili zation of waste materials has caused one burner to be elimi nated thus reducing air pollu tion considerably. The entire Timber Products operation requires the various skills of nearly 500 persons and pours a total annual pay roll of $4 million into the Rogue valley. Backing this operation are 70.000 acres of company- owned timberlnnd harvested on a sustained yield basis by W. 11. Aftring and his fores ters. Timber Products company Is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cyprus Mines corporation with headquarters in Los An geles, Calif. Deals in Natural Resource! Cyprus Mines corporation deals only in natural resourc es, with holdings in nearly every corner of the world. The various holdings include cop per mines in Peru, Arizona, and on the island of Cyprus: from mines in Peru, oil lands in Louisiana, a cement plant In Hawaii, a plant for sul phuric acid in Holland, pulp wood holdings in Alabama, extensive timber holdings in northern California and tin recently completed Kicking ' Timber mi.,' 'l!iPi jt-," . -.v Vff ""t -2: - 4 WW Horse Forest Products plant in the Big Bend area in Brit ish Columbia. A brief glimpse of the di versified activities of Cyprus Mines corporation makes the Timber Products company, Medford division, a substan tial part of Medford and the Rogue valley industry. Motorcyclist Hurt In Medford Mishap Arron August Walruff, 61, of 130 Kenwood avc., was taken to ltoguc Valley hospi tal Thursday afternoon with multiple injuries after a mo torcycle he was operating col lided with a car on Summit St., near McAndrews rd. Police said Walruff was ap parently suffering from a broken shoulder bone, an in jured right knee and possible rib injuries. The driver of the car, Rob ert Arlon Skinner, 70, of 2112 Hillside dr., lold police he was heading across McAndrews rd., and failed to see the mo torcycle which was proceed ing west on McAndrews. Po lice cited Skinner for failure to yield the right of way. The accident occurred about 5 p.m. Dr. Browning To Speak at Course Dr. Clyde E. Browning, head of the real estate de partment, University of Ore- I gun, will be the lecturer for the third class of the certifi cate education course for Jackson county real estate brokers and salesmen March 14. All classes in the non-fee certificate course are conduct ed at Hedrick Junior High school beginning at 7:30 p.m. Subject for discussion at the third class will be "Real E.-tate Markets." Dr. Brown ,ig is co-director of the certificate program sponsored by the Oregon real estate department and the University of Oreson. As the 16 lectures in the course are continuous, attendance at any class will establish registration. per mills. Eight gondola cars a day leave Timber Products for pulp outlets at the northern part of the stale. MBaJkiai&jtwwiiwii&.jrrmVn- mS to form the three-oighlhs inch plywood. The company turns out 200,000 square feet a day. Investigate and SAVE gj" Regardless Service Your Family Re quests You Are Assured of the Best at Siskiyou Me morial Pa.k. c 0) a SISKIYOU O GO 3 O - 11 o o 2-5488 ONE LOCATION 605 c Firm Recession Said To Be Worsening J. Portland -tUPII- Sen. Wayne ; Morse (D-Ore.) said Thursday , night that more than six mil,' lion Americans are unem. ' ployed and the recession is . getting worse. The Oregon Democrat said, ' however, that major pieces of .' legislation proposed by t' a Kennedy administration offer a solution to the problem. Morse praised the depressed ' areas bill along with a bill o -raise the minimum wage .3. $1.25. He termed the mil i-. mum wage bill "an econonrc safety valve," and said it is 'a '. protector of the economic sys- lem and will keep the casli registers ringing in times of ' recession." Morse, who made his re--marks before about 200 per sons at the East Multnonv i County Democratic forum, made it clear he would sei.e re-election to his fourth Sen ate term in 1962. IN EXERCISE Two Grants Pass Army men recently participated in Exercise Winter Shield II at t h e Grafenwohr - HohenfeU training area in Germany. They are Army Sgt. Elmer J. Darneille, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion L. Darneille, 3487 Leonard rd., Gran s Pass, and Army Pfc. James A. Pravatt, so'i of Mrs. Bertha M. Prevail, 177 McLearn rri., Grants Pass, and Clude D. Prevatt, Kerby. "We see things not as they but as we are." DON'T MISS IT! March 8, 9,10,11 Four BIG DAYS of Fun and Laughter. Medford Senior High School. Proceeds to Dental Clinic. Join the FUN! Tickets avail able from any Kiwanian with the SCHMOO in his pocket. Joe Hosick Funeral Director of H13 type of Crematory Columbarium Inquirici Invited Highland Dr. I MitiH WMlHilll Hi I Ml """-itti'AMi-i t ' n IMrfliiittit' aWHHtt ON.E CALL Mor,uary Cemetery Mausoleum
