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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SATURDAY, JANUARY lfl. 10.r.2
Expansion of Timber Refinement Industry Raises Many Problems
By HALE 8CARBROUGII
' Further refinement of timber
products undoubtedly Is one way in
which the lumber Industry can ex
crl an Incroimlnif Influence upon the
' economy of Klnmnlli Falls and this
area, but mora Is needed than a
'aupply of lumber and fabricating
.'machinery.
, To ko Into rcmanufncturbiR (or
any other business) and stay there,
a mill must be able to turn out
products competitively with mills
In other localities making the same
iiroducts, and It must have a mar
ket. In both respects. Klamath Falls
r.s a remanulacturinK center may
be at a disadvantage.
For one tiling, wage scales are
higher here than in certain other
parts of the country where wood
lubrication is done, and for anoth
er thing, the bulk of the market for
products of wood Is not here on
the Pacific Coast. It is in the East
and South. Shipping charges have,
to be considered.
Plants here engaged In a certain
amount of remsnufacturing are ac
tively and continually having to
compete with mills in the Mississ
ippi river valley, and those mills,
operating on cheaper labor and
closer to the markets, set the prices.
Plants here have to meet the prices
to stay In competition, and have to
cut corners, strive for greater ef
ficiency and volume to stay in bus
iness. There's almost nothing made of
wood that couldn't be made here,
If everything was right lor it. But
doing the work on a competitive ba
sis and making enough profit to
justify the work is another thing.
IX) get oaCK to wic orviuuiiiK,
In 1942 sawmills here in Klamath
County cut 874.000,000 board feet of
lumber, a terrlllc amount, and em
ployed 5.500 men. Since that time
production has gone down to where
lumbermen figure a 330.000.000
bnnrci foot annual cut will be about
var. and the employment is 3.600
men.
For some time past there has
been a clamor to get "more man
hours per log" do more refine
ment of lumber here and hence
try to get back those Jobs which
disappear as one mill after another
went out of business. In other
words, iore remanufacturlng.
A certain amount of ramanufac
turing has long been dvne here:
box making, moulding and the
like. But to go still farther into
that type endeavor only compounds
the problems and hazards.
According to Western Pine As
sociation, in 1950 (Uie Inst year
for which such figures are avail
able) 4.58 man hours in the woods
were needed to produce 1.000 board
feet, on a lumber tally basis, and
processing that same 1.000 board
feel in the plant, including plan
ing, takes 7.5 man hours. These
are average figures for Klamath
County.
So the total man-hour effort to
get 1.000 board feet of surfaced
lumber is 12.08 man hours. Trans
lated Into dollars und cents that
cornea to about $35 per thousand
In labor costs. Tho Industry's min
imum waga in this area is about
1.70 an hour, with various skills
getting more.
A plant owner here In town whose
shop doesn't go very far Into tic
lulled refinement work (makes
windows, doors, mouldings, etc.)
figures lie doubles Unit labor cost
and still the bulk of his product
is shipped somewhere else for fin
ishing, fie figures his niillwork
at'ils $50 to the labor cost of a
thousand board feet of lumber, so
that when a particular thousand
feet leaves his plant In the form
of window frunies It represents
$75 In accumulated labor costs
alone from the time the original
Itree was cut In the woods. Ma
chinery costs, materials, deprecia
i lion, taxes, profits are all on top
I of that.
' If even a small amount of re-
manufacturing adds that much In
payroll value. It would serin that
even moro intensive remanufiietur
lug ia Just what Klamath Falls
needs.
However, tho more Intensive the
remanufacturlng Is the higher tho
costs mid nearer the mnuuluctiirer
comes to the point where he has
to go Into another phase of the
business selling.
The bulk of the product of the
small mill mentioned above goes
east to a large plant which does
the finishing (painting, Installing
glass, etc.) and then puis the pro
duct on the market. That plant
buys a large amount of the output
of u number of smaller plants at
one end, and on the other has a
tremendous advertising and sales
organization to dispose of the pro
duct. That Is the sort of thing a plant
here, going Into the large-scale
niiinufacujre of finished products,
would have to buck.
Another tiling Is that each suc
cessive step In tho work costs
moro itumoy. As equipment gets
moro detailed, Its ptico goes up.
To make pconnnilcal usii ol high
priced equipment, n huge volume
of work through that imichliio is
necessary and that brings up n
third problem felt by ruuiuniiluc
turors locally.
Even right here where there Is
a tremendous limber cut still,
there Is not enough lumber of the
type used in plants of the sort
under discussion hero to wurrunl
great expansion.
Factory grades of lumber are
used 111 remunulaeliirlng hero (be
cause, other grades go Into con
struction, finishing, paneling und
the like) and the perciMituKO ol
that type of lumber In the output
of a sawmill Is not great, it's
about 85 per cent of tho lug.
The small remunuluctiiiing
plums hero nre on n sort of quota
basis from suppliers und actually
a surprisingly largo amount of
lumber is brought In from outside
(Umiding, Meillord, etc.) tor work
ing. A 'local moulding plant, In )ts
fourth yenr of operation, la Just
now beginning to get lumber on
quoin from local sawmills, and It
still Imports about 40 per cent of
the million feet u your It uses,
In oilier words, the cut of local
mills la prelly well spoken lor, by
oilier nustoniers or by allied firms
so that a new concern has a hard
tlma edging III on the supply.
Other economic luctora also hold
down roimiuulucluiiug here.
Windows, for Instance, take glass
which Is manufactured in tho Kust,
and It Is not u sound practice to
pay I rem lit on gluss sent out here,
Install It In window frames and
then ship the product buck to
where the market is. It Is sounder
Just to ship the frunies buck to
where the glass Is In tire , llrst
place.
The cost of labor hero, while
certainly a prime factor In wood
working, might bo exaggerated In
coniptiiison Willi labor coals in
other parts of Hie country. It In
generally considered that lalior
hero Is more productive, than labor
III other sections where u lower
wage scale prevails. More produc
tivity helps balance oil II to higher
cost,
However, all theso (actors
labor costs, lumber supply, IrelHht
cosls, equipment cosls, markets
have to be taken Into considera
tion In a discussion of Wn wood
working potential of (ho Kluiuulli
Falls urea.
The fuels boll down to this:
There Ik almost nothing mude of
wood that cannot bo made hern.
Uut what can be produced in com
petition Willi other sections of tho
country and sold at ii prolit is
something for the Individual plant
operator to decide lor himself.
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THIS CHARMING snow scene was snapped on the Oregon
Tech campus here. The charmer is Dotta Mcintosh, OTI
switchboard operator. We don't know just what Dotta is
attempting to do with the rope. As a matter of fact, we
don't care. The important thing is that Dotta is there, rope
or no rope.
Meat Clamp
To Continue
WASHINGTON W) Congress
has every intention of keeping a
full staff of federal meat inspec
.' tors on hand despite recent lay
' off notices, Rep. Whitten (D-Miss)
, said Saturday.
As chairman of the House ap
propriations subcommittee on agri
culture, he is In a position to press
for swift action to keep the in
spectors on the Job. And he said
he would.
The Agriculture Department re
ported, Friday that 280 inspec
tors at various packing centers
over the country were given for
mal layoff notices, most of them
effective around Feb. 17. The de
partment said the notices were
&ent out because of a lack of
funds.
By coincidence, the layoffnotices
were reported as the department
stepped up its vigilance against the
possibility of enemy sabotage of
the nation's meat supply.
When informed of the layoffs,
Whitten said they probably result
ed from the general 10 per cent
pay raise voted last fall for most
federal employes.
EXPLOSION
TOKYO Wl More than 120
Japanese were injured early
Saturday when three drums of gas
oline exploded in a warehouse at
Chichibu, 25 miles north of Tokyo.
Police said they suspected arson.
SAIGON, Indochina Ml Ten
children were killed and 10 seri
ously injured Friday when a school
bus blew up on a road mine at
Bentre, 60 miles southwest of Saigon.
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Office Filing
Date Arrives
Candidates for public office may
file their declarations any time
now, according to County Clerk
Charlie DeLap.
The nominating primary election
is scheduled for May 16.
The following county offices will
be open this year: County Clerk,
Sheriff, Commissioner (one). Coun
ty Assessor, plus the district or
state positions of District Court
Judge, Circuit Judge, District At
torney, Representatives (two) and
St"" S"ator.
The filing deadline is March 7.
Canuidmes for county offices may
get their names on the ballot by
payment of a $20 fee, or by peti
tion bearing the names of regis
tered voters equal to 2 per cent of
the party vote for Representative
ir. Congress at the last election.
Petitions must be circulated In at
lecst I) per ceit of the county's 77
voting- precincts.
Registration deadline is April 15,
8 p.m.
The clerk's office will start re
ceiving applications for absentee
ballots Mar. 17. and will mail them
out as late as May 5. All absentee
ballots must be returned by May
10.
DeLap said several precincts will
need election judges and clerks this
year. The pay is 75 cents an hour,
plus meals. Last election the pay
was 50 cents an hour.
Marines Rely
On Draft
WASHINGTON l.Ti The Ma
rine Corps, long proud of its rep-
utatlon as a volunteer force of
fighting men, is turning more and
more to the draft. But the Navy
still is able to fill its ranks with
out selective service aid.
This was revealed Friday hi tes
timony before the House Armed
Services Committee which is con
sidering universal military train
ing. The Marine commandant, Lt.
Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., said
the corps has increased its draft
request for the first six months
of this year to 36.7oO. This com
pares with 31.248 Marines drafted
during the last six months of 1951
Vice Admiral Laurance T. Du
bose, deputy chief of naval opera
tions, said the Navy's present
strength of 750.000 was reached en
tirely through volunteers.
Radio Takes College Study
Info West Virginia Homes
By HERB LITTLE
AP Xrwsfeattires
CHARLESTON. W. Va.
at home in your eosy chair, switch
ion the radio, and go to college.
n.n I ,1 ,
ne, "J "inn actually Is Involved. Yet it
Honesty Now
Has Pale Look
MIAMI BEACH. Fla. I.n Lin-
stick and other cosmetics are syni-;ment.
bols of feminine deceit and des
pair, says pretty, modish Mrs.
Andre St. Phalle of New York,
wife of the chairman ef the board
of California Eastern Airlines.
Is basically the wav moro than 100
southern West Virginia people arc
earning college credits.
They are students in the "Radio
Classroom," a going educational
concern established bv Morris Har
vey College and Radio Stutlon
WCHS.
The project was started the sec
ond semester in 1950 with a single
course Comparative Govcrn-
Radlo Classroom students regis
ter at the college Just as they
would for an on-cumpus course.
They received a course outline.
reading assignments, and a sched-
Fridav she made her first adult I ule or rcnorts due.
puuuc appearance wnn ner own
face and is going to continue it
she said.
She told about it at the session
of the Assembly of the Americas
for Moral Re-Armament.
I have abandoned cosmetics be-
said. "I examined myself under
the spotlight of MRA standards of
absolute honesty and saw cos
metics as a sha. a falsehood and
a sign of deceit and despair.
i like uetng honest with my
self. I like my new appearance.
My husband didn't know I was
going to abandon makeup until I
dil it. This morning he told me
I look better than ever. I would
like to see more women be honest
with themselves and with the
world."
Rogue River
Cut Reported
Harvest of 87.761.000 board feel
of timber from the Rogue River
National Forest In calendar year
1951 with total recelnu of sl.257..
549.00. was reported today by
Supervisor J. H. Wood.
National Forest income in the
Pacific Northwest region of the
U. S. Forest Service has Increased
steadily in the past decade. Re
ceipts for Fiscal Year 1951 were
S26.272.927.00. comDared to S2.116.-
893.00 in 1941, according to Re
gional Forester J. Herbert Stone.
Receipts for Fiscal Year 1951 on
the Rogue River Forest totaled
S952.O94.00.
"Even more important then in
creased returns to Federal and
County treasuries, is the indication
that these public forests are rapid
ly approaching their rightful place
in contributing (o the timber econ
omy of the Northwest." said Stone.
"We are bringing previously inac
cessible timber areas into produc
tion, and are making real progress
toward our goal of full sustained
yield." The Rogue River Forest
sustained yield program provides
for an annual harvest of 103 mil
lion board feet.
Minincr rlnimc continue in htnnlr
timber removal on nortions of the : authorized to expend an additional
Union Creek area, according toi'en per cent on National Forest
forest personnel. The cut was de- loads and trails within those coun
creased there in 1951 and a further "es-
decrease is predicted for 1952. 1
Claims are prevalent in the ac
cessible locations. These are the
areas normally dedicated to win
ter logging operations.
Jwenty-five ner cent of all Na
tional Forest receipts are returned
to the counties in which the for
ests are located, for roads and
schools. The Forest Service is
PANEL DISCISSION
Then each Friday night at 10
o'clock Uie students turned their
radios to WCHS.
Morris Harvey faculty panel,
usually of four members, discuss
cause I do not need them," she ! ?L 3" "l""'" ,ihe ,op,c. llst lor
Wholesale Price
Level Down
WASHINGTON Ml Declines in
farm products and foods shoved
wholesale prices down slightly dur
ing the week ended Jan. 15.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics.
reporting a 0.4 per cent dron. listed
smaller decreases in textiles and
chemicals. Biggest increases were
for calves, hogs, potatoes at Chi
cago and some inedible fats and
oils.
The index. 176.4 per cent of the
1926 average, was 12.4 per cent
above the pre-Korean average but
i.v oeiow tnat ol one year ago.
the week m the course outline
Chairman of the lively give-and-take
sessions was Harrv W. Bruvv
ley. He is WCHS director of public
affairs and a part-time associate
professor of economics and politi
cal science at Morris Harvey.
The Comparative Government
course covered 18 tape-recorded
Friday night broadcasts.
After each broadcast, students
had textbook and outside reading
to do and sometimes reports to
write. Radio Classroom also re
quired them to attend three on
cumpus mcctliiKs at Morris Harvey
during the scnu'stcr.
Set up to give further Instruc
tion and examinations, the on-cuin-pus
meetings ulso developed into
brisk question und answer periods.
Forty-nine persons completed the
first course satisfactorily and re
ceived three house of resilience
credit at Morris Harvey.
Radio Classroom has expanded
this scnlestcr to two courses
Modern Problems ol Government
und Christianity and American De
mon ucy.
The government course has 39
persons enrolled for lis broadcasts
at 10 o'clock each Friday night.
The reltgion course, which has t4
students. Is broadcast at 1:30 Sun
day afternoons.
Ben Morrison, Mqr.
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, Whru federal courts were con
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district court was a guest, A local
minister olten loins the panel fur
broadcasts of llie Christianity and
American Democracy course.
Radio Classroom doe not try to
enmprw with on-campus study at
Morris Harvey. As Ihe president of
the college, nr. Leonard Higgle
man explained:
"We olfrr the courses as a pub
lie service to Uie people ill this
uroa who might olherwlko find It
Inconvenient or Impossible to at
tend classes."
'ItATIIKK KTIKP
Dr. Klggleinaii conceded that tho
rudlo courses purposely have been
uiailn "rather still."
"We urn afraid thut otherwise
the program might deiti'iieruiii Into
something that wan essentially on
tertulmnent." Teachers renewing certlllcules or
working toward higher degrees
muda up the biggest group among
those taking tho first com no lor
credit.
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