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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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to form the three-oighlhs inch plywood. The
company turns out 200,000 square feet a
day.
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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
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