THUlhUAV, NOVEMBER 28. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON ;
i&qnv hotels Moil Down Furniture To - Outwit Thieves
By SUSAN K. POLLOCK
United Press International
' CHICAGO (UPI) - Plenty of
motels nail down their furniture,
but they still can't stop thefts
ranging from ash trays to whole
rooms full of furnishings.
The thieving guest is a long
time pest to the hotel industry
and he's growing more common
with the mushrooming of motels
along the nation's highways.
Motel operators are used to
missing ash trays, soap and
towels. They even expect it.
They're also not surprised when
a chair, a television set or even
a mattress leaves with the de
parting guest.
The Holiday Inn chain reports
they ve had a complete room
stolen.
"It was a day by day job
when we were furnishing one of
our Houston motels. By the end
of 10 days every item that com'
prises a room was missing
coordinated perfectly color-
wise," Clyde Dixon, president
of the Inn Keeper s supply Co.,
a Holiday Inn subsidiary, said.
Steal Everything ,.
D. G. Pavis, general manager
of O'Hare Inn just outside Chi
cago, said he once checked a
room which was minus the door
hinges, water faucets, towel
bars, door stop, curtain rods,
curtains and the toilet seat.
"He must have spent hours
at it so I guess he earned what
he took," Pavis said.
Motel managers are quick to
make a distinction between the
"professional" thief such as
Pavis' room-stripper and the
"impulse" thief.
Dixon said the "professional"
checks in at a motel with the
sole purpose of stocking up.
Desk clerks are usually alerted
to keep an eye on travelers who
insist upon a room in the back.
"Certain items are in the
rooms for guests to take," Dixon
said. "When they disappear, we
consider it a combination theft
public relations job."
Items that Holiday Inn sets
out as thief-bait souvenirs in
clude fly swatters, water glass
es, shoe shine cloths and plastic
bags. All these bear the name or
crest of the chain.
Dixon said his outfit expects
at least one ash tray to dis
appear from each room every
day although the firm doesn't
consider ash trays a small cost
item. .. ..
Location Counts
Marcel Lutwak, executive di
rector of the Aristocrat Inns of
America, said the type of item
taken and the frequency with
which things disappear depends
chiefly upon the location of the
motel.
More thefts occur in motels lo
cated on a highway, where trav
elers stop for a night on a cross
country trip, than in those lo
cated In the heart of town, Lut
wak said. i
Theft is a problem that has
been stumping the motel indus
try for years but no one
seems to have found a foolproof
system of catching or punishing
the culprit.
Many motels Install furniture
that is too bulky to place in the
trunk of a car and some nail
portable objects like television
sets or lamps to heavier furni-1
ture.
All motels carry theft insur
ance and most have some type
of inter-plant checking system.
Lutwak discovered one way
of making a hotel thief pay:
Once a maid reported that
someone was helping nimseit
to towels and other such items.
We simply placed a new cate
gory on his bill and called it
souvenirs.' The man was too
embarrassed to question it."
ENGINEER DEFIES THIEF Hostelers in
Chicago expect guests to take missing ash
trays, soap, or towels, but they're also not
surprised when a TV set or a mattress de
parts with the guest. In this photo John
Dudic, Lake Tower Motel engineer, uses
screwdriver to fasten radio to prevent theft.
Les Brown, assistant to the president of the
motel, watches. (UPI)
Life Cycle of Fir Beetle Under Study
CORVALL1S Basic research
into the life cycle of the timber-
damaging Douglas fir beetle is
now under way at Oregon State
University w i t h a three-year
$35,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation.
Two forest entomologists, Dr.
William P. Nagel and Dr. Julius
A. Rudinsky, are developing a
method of sampling the popula
tion of the Douglas fir beetle and
its natural enemies.
Nagel and Rudinsky plan to
record the life and death of suc
cessive generations of beetles
and to learn the efficiency of
the beetle's enemies as a factor
in their life cycle. ,
The Douglas fir beetle usually
breeds only in natural wind
thrown timber in the coastal
zone, Nagel said. In the interior
regions, the beetle attacks both
downed timber and standing
trees. Sampling work by the
OSU scientists will be done in
timber on the Mary's Peak wa
tershed, 12 miles west of Cor
vallis. When forest scientists learn
what happens to complete gen-
FLYING ALASKANS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI)
Twenty per cent of the world's
registered private float planes
are based here, according to the
Federal Aviation Agency.
erations of beetles and under
stand the many factors which
influence their life cycle, it may
be possible to successfully pre
dict the beetle density from year
to year. This would allow better
control of the Douglas fir beetle
and could reduce the damage to
timber by these insects, Nagel
said.
Medford Firm Gets
Winema Road Job
KLAMATH FALLS-Award of
a contract for construction of the
Meadow Creek road was an
nounced recently by Winema
National Forest officials.
. Cal-Ore Construction Com
pany of Medford was the suc
cessful bidder at $33,595. Bids
ranged in price from the" low
submitted by Cal-Ore Construc
tion Company to a high of $99,
742. Fifteen bids were received.
Award of the contract was
made on Nov. 19. Men and
equipment were moved onto the
project immediately and con
struction work is under way. -
The Meadow Creek road is a
project on the Winema Forest
being financed by Accelerated
Public Works funds. The road is
an extension of the improved
timber access route in the- Skel
lock Draw area, and will pro
vide needed transportation route
in to a block of virgin timber on
the Chiloquin Ranger District.
The Accelerated Public Works
funds which finance the project
are made available through a
cooperative program with the
Area Redevelopment Adminis
tration of the Department of
Commerce.
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