Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, October 20, 1949, Image 18

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Newspaper Page TextPACE EICHTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON THURSDAY, OCT. 20, I? Hazelton: A City That Wouldn't Give Up Dying Coal Town Makes Comeback By Itself Without Handout HAZLETOrf, Pa. NEA This U bout a city that wouldn't live up. HasletoD, high up In the Allegheny snounlaln but low on the Industrul Udder, Is battling lor 1U life. IU 40.000 population, IU Ubor unions. IU newspapers, lu businessmen hire joined force to try to bring new strength to the city. They sr doing It on their own without asx Inc anybody for a handout. The problem iu that Haselton found Itself loidnc population and losing employment. IU major tn d uk try waa coal mines shaft coal mine in time when the trend was toward cheaper strip mum. The city had tried to attract a war Industry, but failed. Since IMS, It had tried to attract other plant, but failed. And. therefore, when returning war veterans came home and loosed for jobs, they failed, too. People brgan to move away. In 1938, Hazelton s schools had 7100 students. In 1M. only 6300. In 1013. Hazel ion's mines had pay rolls of about 14,000. In 149. less than 7000. Familiar That trend and these sutistics war familiar to the Board of Di rectors of Haseltona chamber of commerce, which met In IMS know ing that their city had to do some thing or face a bleak future. The obvious solution waa to entice some Urge company to build a big plant In the city. . . A list of companies planning to build new branch plants was ob tained. Those of national scope which would hire large numbers of male employes m ere studied. Out of the list, the Electric Auto Uta company of Toledo, O, makers of automotive electrical equipment, waa contacted. It wasnt particular ly Impressed with the Idea at first. Haselton although it had the avail able labor and was an overnight freight haul to a market of 30,000. 000, bad some drawbacks It isn't on a main highway or main railroad line or airline. Persistent But the Haselton delegation was persistent. They brought Auto-Lite official to their city, showed them fin location for the plant. Im pressed them with the labor pool available, argued, talked, and finally won. They signed a contract, but It meant their work was just begin ning. The company would locate rta branch in Hadeton, If and It was a big if Haselton could raise $500,000. Rasleton, in addition to the half million, was to take out bank loans, in the name of the Hazleton In dustrial Development Corp, for another $700,000, which were to be applied to the cost of the plant. The company, at $90,000 a year for 10 years, would pay $900,000 to pur chase the plant. It would also in Test more than $2,000,000 In fittings and equipment. Everybody Victor Dlehm, a Pennsylvania Dutchman and president of the chamber of commerce, bad led the search for an Industry. Now he took var the drive and told the town: This 1 not a project of the cham ber of commerce. It la a project for the entire city. We are all In this ona and if we don't succeed well, thousands of us might just as well pull up stakes." That was Hasleton's challenge a raise that money. Actually, they raised more than enough. Inside of four weeks, $660,000 in cash was pot up, and the deal made. Publicity The dally newspaper ran as many as 16 stories a day on the campaign. Th radio nation put on spot an svnmcemenU every 15 minutes. Mo tion picture theatres voiced remind er after each show. Badges were given to contributor. Store win dow featured Auto-Lite product. Booklet were dropped from air plane. A huge thermometer on the main street showed the progress, day by day. Leading store in th city were SflllfeL i mm 1 Y ai awa n mm CELEBRATION: Down Hazelton' main street comes the parade that marked ground-breaking for the new industry two yeors ogo. This year the industry starts operation and a $3,500,000 povroll. FT A:-ik0m- Mr! CAMPAIGN: A Hazelton policeman serves a mock subpoena on a salesgirl to kick in for the city future. VICTOR DIEHM: "Succeed or pull up stokes." told their contributions should total 1 4 per cent of their 194$ gross sales. Doctors and lawyers were "expect ed" to give at least $1000 each. The town's wealthy citizens were con tacted and told what was expected of them. The town's poorer classes were canvassed by 500 door-to-door volunteers. Unions Aid Unions Invited chamber of com morce speakers. One union gave $1900 and promised individual con tributions. Mine - operators gave generously. A plan was arranged whereby persons, whose money was tied up In investments, could bor row from banks to make their do nations in cash. - According to chamber of com merce records, the Rasleton drive marked the first time that an American ctty had lured a new Industry solely through a cash drive. The $640,000 raised aver aged out to about $11 per citizen. There were no bonds, no stocks, no promises to repay. Every dol lar was an outright gilt. Hazleton achieved IU aim. The Electric-Lite company's new wire and cable plant will be opened Oc tober 18 at a dedication led by the governor oi Pennsylvania. For a town that was on the way oown. nazieton wiu have a new in d us try guaranteeing a $3300.000 an nual payroll. And there will be no Imported labor; the whole pay- rou stays in nazieton. For a few pennies per word you can advertise to thousands through a warn Aa I pnone B11L PUMICE TILE Lafcaratary ttti r.T. rank Fracu ara atcrl.r B ftrcnil aa rastalaaft la aiautara. Tlmm Aluminum Windows Gold Seal Waterproofing Gold Seal Plaster Bond New Sis Pumice Block g"r"xl6" Klamath Pumice Tile Co. 'Permanent as the Pyramids 164 Owens Phne 48U WmiAlCD driving, ZaoTlL u ZZ iaroftlo Hcrcfs Where the Best Bcyins! Most people look no further after they've had a good look at a 1949 Pootiae they know that the hat begins here! Here u the test in besuty with a "Silver Stress" personality all its own. Here is the heat in performance thanks to Pontiac's great engine, straight eight or sis. 11 ere is the eat in comfort, lumrious detail and appointments. And here is the best in real economy sensible price to begin with and the famous Pontiao record of rolling out miles and mile and miles with only routine servicing. Tbe bat begins right in our showroom come in end t THI f ! tm aWa flisW In Ua Laa at l-.t ,t i bM J. rrdJi--oorm, the tinsn are wii for MUiaoS ad 9M1V fcterr mOm H moo and tomiWuliU. ROSE MOTOR CO. NTIACI Ik 4th and Klamath Klamath Falls, Ore. Tobacco Worms Lay On Eggplants BERKELEY. Calif. uP) Tomato and tobacco hom worms ratine far ther than the two plant for which they are named, reports Dr. Harold T. Reynolds of the 1'nlversity of California. His studies show that these creatures use the Jtmson weed which nobody cares about as a base of operations from which to attack potatoes, peppers and egg plant. $30,000 Found In Old House WELLINGTON. O.. Oct. M What would you do If you found mora than $30,000 In cash In your ba.iementf Well, that Is exactly wnat 60-yrar-old Richard A. Cordray says he will do keep It, If possible. Cordray said he found the money September 39 when he knocked out a partition to make way tor a gas furnace. The bS-year-old, l-ronm mansion was built by O. II. Palmer. Cor dray, Wellington's sanitary enflneer since 1937. bought th home IS years ago from Charles Rims. Both Palmer and Ross are dead. All Cordray s tour children sr grown, and he lives alone with his wite. "I bought the house and I expect to keep what Is In It." he said. Ross was described by the towns people of the time as an "eccen tric plunger." Renters occupied th house for a number of years be fore Cordray bought It. Restaurant Men Teach Courtesy WASHINGTON. ;Pv-Courtri.y is trump card In the restaurant bus iness, says a spokesman of the Washington Restaurant association. Courtesy and sound flnsnrlal training will be stressed In an edu cational program which the asso ciation is launching to Improve the standards of the business. Su pervisors, waitresses and everyone in the business will be admitted to the classes. Statistics show." said the spokes- Tomato and tobacco hornworms I n-sn. "that fto tier rent of lh. nmnl are closely related by Dr. Reynolds I ho enter the restaurant business says an entomologist can easily tell drop out after the first year. By them apart. Both have been chew- the second year, the figure is $0 tng up American punt since coio- ' per cent. nisi days and" they ve recently got to be quite a pest in California. kp re S. yv r 7;N) lid if l ii r j,...tg If - y IOWA GROWS BEANS, TOO George Rink, of Muscatine, la., stands with some of his beans, the longest five feet, grown from on Italian seed planted around the base of o tree. f&20 (EDGED WJiSll COlUMtIA HWItllS, INC. C TACOMA, WASNINOTON i. MARVIN HILTON DISTRIBUTING CO. Student Aid Plan Perpetuated LOH ANtlKl.KH, MV When Fran clam lliavn waa a young medlral atuileiil, lie wmkrd nlghls at a gaa station and could study only In lh Intervals between cars. He wonder rd then If there wasn't some way III could be mails easier for am. bilious Mexican-Americana of lltn Ited menus. Now, as Dr. PranrlarO lliavn, he has found th answer, lit- hrlis them hlmaelf. Last yenr he gave $10,000 af Hi earnings nf his llravu rllnln to fi lls lire a ai luilsrahlp at the Htanfnrd iinlveraltv arlionl nf niedlclii for KihIoIIo Ponce, of Rivera, Calif. R rently he gave William Dial, of KiveralnV. Calif . $'.HK)0 to cover a fnur-year cnurMi at the school of pharmacy of the University of Southern California. Dr. Ilravo attaches on string to thrw awards. The young men he befriends nnit promlM to aid other Mealren-Amerlrena who deal re pro. fesslonal rateera. 3 No Matter Where You Live . . . You Con Enjoy Tank Got Service Propane Tanks for Rent NO NEED TO BUY UTILITY SERVICE California Pacific , Utilities Company mm i 1011 C Main Phone 741S 3 It Pays to Use the Want-Ads. mmimmmmmmmrmmmimm mil ipa.iii mi) I n II li mi m ami in" m i ia" "''" ni 1 iT I 1 1 laiaiatiaaaeaBaasswaaawaaaaaawawawawaavaw i ' :, . --::'pmrr ; DOWN ' ' - v-r':;:,..-:; --r " 1 EASY ,1 v n..:ly)l:i!te weekly ' j ":y;:::t:: J j payments j iv, fTttZmmmm FT., i ...I.. ...31 . 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