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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1943)
HERALD AND NEWS, KL'AMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVElt UK. PEDIGQHD Big Inch, 0 ! At ft Message to the Employees HOSPITAL STAFF .Tnniinry 27, UMS TO HEAD NEWELL NEWELL Dr. A. B. Canon, chief madlcul officer of the Tula Luko bnno hospital, left Monday for San Friinclnco, whoro ha will await hl uppolntment a med ical officer In the navy. Latnly arrived li Dr. Hcoce M. Policord, physician and surgeon, formerly of Wheeling, W. Vu who will head the hos pital stuff. Dr. Pcdlcord Is a veteran of the first World war and a vetoron public hoalth worker. His two sons are in the army, one In tho air corps nncl the other In tho signal corps. Dr, Padicord said that he was surprised and plcused at the ef ficiency of the project hoapltnl, considering the lack of equip ment. Because of a lack of tho usual and normal activities to be found In a city the site of Nowoll, the colonists mo driven to muklng their own amusements. Sports, dances and now a little theatre movomont have sprung up, much to the Interest of colonists. Tho little thoutra players have Just produced thoir second bill of one act plays and are packing 'cm In niuhtly with "Grandma Pulls the Strings," the "Boor," and "Beauty und tho Jacobin.." Evacuees will join In the March of Dimes to it id those suf fering from infantile parulysls, Dunces will bo held on Suturday In two moss hulls. As on the outside, all proceeds will be turned over to the Infantile pa ralysis fund. Kd Yoshlkawa was officially Instulled as the first president of the Trl-Stato high school studont body at a ceremony last Thurs day. Newell's schools are now as largo as any in California and are comparable to any in scho lastic standard and organization, it is reported. The week of February 8-12 has been set anlde as National .Scout week and Tulcan scouts will celebrate with the nation Uio 33rd anniversary of the found' lng of the youth movement. On the project, the Boy Scouts are carrying on their program from whore they left off before coming hero. Mils Nlxhio, scout commissioner, and Masao Jin- gujl, scout leader, are planning to Increqso tho scout organlza tlon on tho project, At present, there are 10 scout troops, threo cub packs, and an air scout or ganlzutlon with a total member ship of 328. Plans are being made to orgonizo three more troops and cub packs, each to bring the total up to 20 units. Edward M. Joyce, evacuee property supervisor, and Earl De Smidt, assistant supervisor from the Seattle district office, arrived on the project to assist colonists who hove farm pro perty problems. The Seattle of' flee handles such problems In Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Mills Answer Aircraft Lumber Demands in NW PORTLAND, Ore., Jan 27 VP) Pacific northwest mills an swered military demands for atr croft lumber by turning out nearly five times as much in the lost quarter of 1042 as was cut In the second quarter. So reported Fred Brundage, wostern log and lumber admin istrator, who sold spruce cutting increased 130 per cent In that period, noble fir Increased sim ilarly and hemlock cutting was Is times that of noble fir. Buy it througn the want-ads. km 'i Li" W 4 ' t'Jl -1 Over hill and dale through wooded Pennsylvania winds a section of the pipeline that will be carrying Tcpus petroleum to the oil-short cast by June. The Texas-Illinois, part of this world's largest pipeline nick named "Big Inch"-4j oo - near completion.. E The Oregon State Board of Health has been faced with a great shortage of public health nurses. They are meeting this problom by appealing to former public health nurses to resume their duties. New units are be ing formed In counties not for merly organized, where canton ments and war industries have within recent months been es tablished. This requires an ad ditional numbor of personnel In cluding public health nurses, and as a result a redistribution of active, public health nurses is underway. Adding to the shortago is the fact that many nurses have gone Into the armed forces. Recently the nurse In Lake vlow was transferred to Benton county where a new unit has been established, and as a result has left a vacancy in Lake coun ty. The division of nursing Is meeting the shortage in various counties by asking full-time heulth units In adjacent coun ties to assist In nursing service. The Klamath county health unit has been requested to supply a nurse on a part-time basis to Lake county, and has also re quested that this resulting va cancy in our unit be filled by asking former public health nurses to return to work dur ing the emergency. Mrs. Naomi Miller has con sented to meet this emergency by taking over a district during the absence of Miss Stout, who has been appointed to Lake coun ty on a part-time basis. Mrs. Miller is a former public health nurse of Klamath county and worked for a period of five years with the Klamath Falls city scnoots. She assumed her new duties January 27, and will cover the Kono and Weyer haeuser districts. , Now it's Cough Drops That Are Missing Here Last week It was oysters that were missing, this week It's coughdrops. City police were advised late Wednesday by John Klsslln. 818 Mt Whitney street, that prowl ers broke into his truck and made off with cough drops. He didn't say how many. STRICTLY BUSINESS By McFeatters J MACHINE TOOL J ' 5 "You'll have to start In as a vlca president and work your way up to shop Jobl" '" of ESTEEM LUIKK MPtlflIM ON January 25th we announced that on Feb ruary 15th we would start our 1943 lumber production program. This is a WAR PRODUC TION PROGRAM. 1 Our job in the war effort is to produce lumber essential to supply food and munitions to the men in our armed forces. When we say "our," we mean each and everyone of us, from the man on the pond who starts the logs to the sqws to the men who close the doors on the rail way cars when the lumber and shook has been loaded for shipment; from the men and women in our executive and clerical forces to the man in the executive office upon whose shoulders rests the managing responsibility. Each indi vidual is essential, and our collective effort should be to achieve the maximum over-all year ly production during the coming 1943 season. We are proud of the war production record made at our plant for 1942. We take this opportunity to compliment the employees who made this record possible. Despite the most ad verse logging conditions in years, due to heavy weather, and the shortage of manpower, we pro duced in 1942 sufficient lumber to exceed by ten per cent the annual rated capacity of our plant. 1AE are starting the 1943 operating season under the handicap of a serious log short age and in the face of continued bad weather coupled with impossible ground conditions. Heretofore we have gone into the year's produc tion with a reserve of from fifteen to eighteen million feet of logs. This'year we are from sev en to ten million feet short of our usual supply. As a result, the opening date has been delayed fifteen days later than usual, in order to avoid later wasteful interruption. Because of these handicaps we were unable, prior to January 18th, to make an announce? ment that would promise either steady employ ment for you during the spring season, or insure maximum lumber production for 1943. IN this WAR PRODUCTION program it is of utmost importance to you, and to us, that all personal ambitions and desires, any of us may have, be laid aside in favor of honest endeavor, in order to obtain the maximum over-all produc tion of critical materials, to the end that not one of our boys in the armed forces shall suffer for lack of production on our part. To produce such volume in 1943 will require intelligent and loyal cooperation between employees and manage ment. All efforts should be coordinated, that maximum efficiency may be attained. Let us be SINGLE-MINDED, UNDIVIDED and CONSE CRATED to this PURPOSE. AS a result of the recently held National Labor Relations Board election, Local Union No. 6-12 International Woodworkers of America, C.I.O. was certified as the collective bargaining agency for all our production and maintenance employees. W believe in the principle of collective bar gaining, and recognize that a well-organized Union under fair and intelligent leadership, interested in the success of the industrial en terprise in which its members are employed, can render a most worthy service toward all-out war production in these critical times. We believe that collective bargaining in good faith, with honest purpose on both sides, is a primary requi site to secure lasting benefits between labor and management. As this requisite is fundamental for both labor and management, then, in order to coordi nate our efforts toward maximum production, it is important that both sides choose able repre sentativesmen of unquestioned integrity, men whose purposes are of good intent, who have proven their judgment to be sound, and who are capable of dealing satisfactorily in conference with problems confronting operations. The man agement is mindful of its responsibilty to war production, and to the problems of labor. We are confident that a very great majority of our employees are equally mindful of their responsi bilities. AT the same time there has been a very small minority, a very few of our employees, who have continuously criticized management's pur poses and efforts, and who recently have at tempted to throw the Company in a bad light with government agencies and others. In ordi nary times we would not offer this criticism, be cause we realize from experience that there are always a few individuals, usually uninformed, who are ever criticizing, but since, AT THIS TIME, THIS OPERATION IS AN IMPORTANT COG in the war effort of this Nation, we must not fail to call to your attention that such individuals, whether malicious or innocent, can create ill feeling, and spread unfounded rumors which can only result in harm to our collective war produc tion effort, and, in effect, give direct aid to the enemies of this Nation and threaten the safety ' of us all. We see no good purpose in such acts which attempt to influence opinion away from har monious relations, causing loss of faith' and good will and destroying productive effort. To take our place alongside of other American in dustries on the production front of 1943, it is necessary that Men and Management embrace a single motive FAIR DEALING and we must oppose anyone whose influence will deter or in terfere with any plan of Men and Management working together in this war production program. WORKING TOGETHER, we have the initiative, resourcefulness, and organizing ability to pro duce the lumber that is necessary to help win the war.. In order to centralize this strength, we trust the employees will place in Union Office, and on the Committee with whom management will deal, men who are qualified to meet the chal : lenge of the War Demands leaders whose char acter and patriotism is unquestioned and who will strive to work harmoniously with manage ment for the duration. W1 rE realize full well that those few who have been criticizing may seize upon this sug gestion as a new target, inferring that manage ment is seeking to dictate the control of the Union. We shall be fearless of such criticism. The emergency of war alone challenges every organization, whether employees or employer, to provide strong, capable leadership. The great majority of the employees in our operation rec ognize such quality of leadership is necessary to assist management in building a working , or ganization capable of meeting any war-time emergency, as well as gaining strength for their own Union. We should like to join, Employees and Employer, in this pledge: "We, as Americans, shall work together, tolerating neither obstacles nor indi viduals who would sabotage or deter our produc tive efforts, until final Victory is won, and the safety of our Nation and its people is again se cured.", KESTERSON LUMBER CORPORATION (Signed) Irving E. Kesrerson, Vice President.
