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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1954)
y KLAMATH COUNTY LIBRARY "l.Lr inaugurates "day . , i , 'We,f of lumbering In the M. ' ,.- . I " 1S.N-0thasedri1stln! "J . : ,' I N merely cutting down . , ',. f 1 I ty. revolutionary develop- JJ , , t' ,,.. . . JfflV ' JTt and move on. Its '-nW 1-7 .. JLi x A i . -fi j Uterial supply will become j - V-"W; -J iSt tree cut on our sua- h--- . , s ikfll ' SwZT fl'L.u umber latls win pro- r j-, , r IfSSr AM I'OURS OF I I I I Is hardboard? f j tt'h It made? f. ,T J . . . . . . . . . ,. ; : : : ; ; , I v. 1 i -II.. : E'i h ! jj kes, Some raoiaior coyo, , i 4r-jfi kiWi - lauds. - - J-ftft" Tf.S .s, ift f itt , f , i ' " r ' - f " " " i Mprrurv ha c v 1 .iifjfifff"f"""fL' ' '' I ' tfMi want JCIIZI Oyer Montana ' i i L- - - HELENA, Mont. Wl Subzero mi"11 , J "ffftte" j---f-: - temperatures numbed 'Montana gt :4 lv ': early today as a fast-moving cold . -- - ' Jf'&sTf- T wave tanned somnwara over at ma .Vite' , i least six other, states. f r-'?;'Wk ''j -fi The frigid cold mass from Can- 1-n i "'V . i m aaa- which already has gripped Ervi. ,r v-CSZLf i ' JCi.Hff:"Ssr -J! Montana for a week,, spread over ' ,'fStJIW.T. -..--fi " f f . .nswer to those questions S. This new plant Tiust going into produc- Wily ta3 s lr.ee.aJ. Uuces it to u iirnaw w- libers, ineso 1 . . .. j .ed into boaros, oi "-Sr-.h of anv desired length k '"".'lf ,itt.e ffora muo.uj , tbe vast possibilities Uiat tvolved. "Material" is a oei- ord. By me ff""" ... orfimives. this material L tailored to a WIDE range k. m,i with knife edges, I w polished by buffing. It u mm ana yiuiwcu, v ... konf tn nermanent con- It can oe suwcu, I Tf run tje oafiticu. i. .'h.vprin enamel finish. ... h mnulded under heat pressure to a wioe variety m te heard, ol course, of plas- vmi'ri! aware, prooaoiy, oi xtent to which they are re mising industry in America, ui s new niBwiwi i neoi PLASTIC, which can Led in thousands of ways to old and new proaucts. it is rfustln made from a raw hai that grows as a on our timber lanas. it c harvested year auer year. can be no EAHAuaiiun ui upply. expenaaDie, dbubusc wc producing It indefinitely.. uses are practically limit- Here are a few of them: erislon cabinets, auto parts, Maying for floors, mirror furniture paueia, uiawci , sliding cabinet doors, racks, core materials for and metals . and other dleut boards, template mine, mlllwork items, novelties, containers, window Ices, Some raoiaior covoi-n, seats, card tame tops, beadboards. iiyaac"ba3kets, panels. I on. The list or prooucts aa be fabricated from this m is limited only by the tj the imagination. It Kgests another vision. versatile material is avau- RIGHT HERE. If we have enoueh and energy ta and determination enough, :an interest people wlin iW-HOW in establishing here lor manufacturing the wide of consumer goods that can tide from this new material, at Is no new and radical idea. strictly In the pattern of in- :a development that has been 'ti out In the industrial areas ie East and the Midwest. -for example. Steel is a itlle material. Around the mills of the East cluster ds upon hundreds of small- kbricatlng plants that convert ieel Into consumer goods. can do the same with this fonder material IP WE P THE IMAGINATION, THE HOY AND THE DETERMI- (ON TO GO ABOUT IT EP flVELY. ft Is what this new era of PROCESSING is diatln- H from merely cutting down sawing them up into lumoer can mean to us. - Almond To m Office r" W Hai-vev H. DeAr. Wednesday announced Widacy for the Rpmihlit-nn lotion for state representative I wcswiuie.i nonnfw hnnond, long active in Ore- activities, became the lirst district attorney in the same tim nan. A1,, r Fn and B. A. stover, both "Publican, announced they 1 aot spplr ruluiu. i U - MbbMUU, viuuu presented the 'Deschutes district in ih i..t baa. - renresempH ini. uountv district. vas abolished nnrioi, thA If "apportionment nro Deschutp nnn i. ion. u ui nave e House member and Lake ; muwi.. " Wlm Haraey and rtM Trial In 'wraer trial nf n o ".2"' entere" ttird Chartrori ..uu . . r?ofms,,.";'."e,s.n?wun 4. V0 of their home last ttornev v. 4 . rwuna n,ental CTndiUon at FUve ft1! l . -V v . Vat -1 .tv WOOD CHIPS from which 'hardboard is made are. stored in these three big silos, a part of the new hardboard installation, at Weyerhaeuser.. These storage bins are 70 feet high and 35 feet in diameter. The center' picture' shows the huge press in the new plant. This rig weighs a total, of 661,925 pounds and presented a major- problem when it came to installation. Shown here looking over the plans are Hugh Campbell, George Britt, Dale Alter and John Robinson. Plenty of building space is necessary for the new plant. Here John Robinson, hardboard plant superintendent,, and Hugh Campbell, Weyerhaeu ser manager,' look. over the new area. . : ' v ; ''..' Idaho Spuds Alongside Slots DETROIT W Detroit police are wrestling with a weighty problem. A thousand pounds of choice Idaho potatoes tumbled off tne rear of a truck. A motorist was unable to catch "the fast-moving truck driver, so he called police. Now the spuds are neatly stacked . in the property room, alohgslde illegal firearms, slot ma chines, and crap tables. ... Lt. Marvin French says they'll be kept only 24 hours. The prob lem then: throw a departmental potato fry or ship 'em. to. acme charitable institution? KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS 60 cars Sam Bar ' Lait ttar "'ToUl Far Iainn 5845 can 550 can 34 can ; Ttr TOO SOON icOPAN,'. Okla. . '- W Last week this northeastern Oklahoma village tore down its Jail for lack of cus tomers. Yesterday burglar; broke into a hardware store and stole $1,000 worth of merchandise, Sheriff-W. D Bpears said. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Clear and continued cold through Wednesday; Increasing cloudiness Thursday.- High Thurs day 25: tow Wedneaday night 5. High yeaterday Lows last night Precip last 24 honri - K since Oct. l Same period last year , Normal for period ......... DESERTION TOKYO Wl Pyongyang Tadlo said a South Korean air force of ficer Wednesday flew a fighter plane to North Korea. The Red radio identified him as Second Lt. Choi Man Chong.- The - broadcast gave no details, . . ,. HELENA, Mont. !) Subzero temperatures numbed ' Montana early today as a fast-moving cold wave fanned southward over at least six other, states. ' ' The frigid cold mass from Can ada, which already has gripped Montana for a week,, spread over North and South Dakota, Wyom ing, northeastern Colorado, West ern Nebraska and western Kansas. As the mercury dived; snow was falling west of the Continental Divide in Wyoming and, at some points in the other states. Early morning temperatures ranged down to 37 below zero at Cut Bank, Mont., and under zero at all 18 Montana stations making weather reports. V MANAGER PORTLAND IA1 Cecil C. Curl Tuesday was .named manager of Secretary, of State Earl T. New- bry's campaign for Republican nomination for governor. ' Curl, a Umatilla County rancher. has served for many years as chairman of Umatilla County Re publicans. . - Price Five Cent 18 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20. ISM Telephone Sill No. 274 Weyerhaeuser s Hardboard Plant Big Step Ahead Weyerhaeuser's new multi-mil- lion-dollar hardboard plant, which has been under construction at the site of the company's operations on the Klamath river for the past two years, goes into commercial operation today although, John O. Robinson, superintendent of the new hardboard unit explains, it will he undergoing "shakedown" operations for at least the balance of this month. It will create about 125 new jobs at the Weyerhaeuser Klamath Falls branch, Robinson says. This figure, he adds, Includes new Jobs created in the woods through ttie Harvesting 01 white lir timb. " . which 'Is the principal source o' raw material for the hardboard plant. It inaugurates in the Klamath country the new era in lumbering forecast by Hillman Lueddemann, of Portland, a few years ago when ne toitt a gathering of lumbermen In San Francisco that in a far shorter period than anyone realizes there will no longer be any saws in sawmills. It Is the biggest industrial de velopment In the Klamath country since the original Weyerhaeuser plant, which was started in 192H and went Into production with its first unit in 1930. The sawmill and planing mill constituted the first unit, which was followed about year later by the box factory. A plant for the making of presto-logs was added in' the late 30's. When in full production, the olant will produce about 90,000,000 square leet oi nardboard annually, and will utilize about 21,000,000 board feet. of white fir a year, Robinson says.. To obtain this, footatre of white fir, the company will step up its relogging operations. wnite tir will soon account for more than one-sixth of the com pany's annual tree harvest on the Klamath tree farm. Before con- struction of the hardboard plant, wnne iir accounted for only one fifteenth of. the annual cut on the tree farm. SHAKEDOWN . : ' This month., Robinson exnlninert the hardboard plant is undergoing "shakedown' !" operations rmritw this early operational period, Jim nouens, manager oi the company's development center at Longvlew, rvusii,, win supervise production, Working with Roberts are the fol lowing development center person nel: Jack Sheridan, chief of pro cess engineering; Norman Briggs and George Matter, process engi neers; 1 and Glen Naslund, chief of evaluation and testing group. Naslund is assisting in setting up laboratory and testing equip ment in tne new plant. The development center person nel now assisting in the first oper ational stages oi tne Kiamatn plant worked on tne experimental pro cessing of the new hardboard in the pilot plant. at Longview. More than 25.0OT loads of hardboard were put through the press in this pilot plant. Most of this board was sold by the company's market-exploration men and special products department over a period of two or three years, such sales of hard- board were made to prove the us ability and adaptability of the new product. When the company as assured inai tne naraooara wouia una market, decision was made to construct the plant at Klamath Falls. A Klamath Falls resident Dale Alter was in charge of the con struction work on the new hard- board nlant. SUPERVISOR Alter, mechanical superintendent of the company's Klamath Falls branch and a Weyerhaeuser 20-year employe, supervised construction details from the time ground was first broken for the plant. He worked from plans prepared by the company's home office. The plant was engineered and designed by Weyerhaeuser's engineering de partment at Tacoma, with specifi cations furnished by the company's development center at Longview, Wash. Building the 460-foot-long plant was a job of major proportions, according to Alter. 'When we started construction on the plant, almost two years ago," he says, "its site was land that had once been a farm area. Silt soil, covered with dr edgings from our log pond, had to be re moved and refilled to a depth of three or four feet. It was quite a job. We hauled in tons of earth that would compact, then covered It with about 2,500 tons of rock and gravel. Later a six-inch slab con crete floor was poured for the plant, which has a total floor area of more than 66,000 square feet." Further indication of the size of the construction job is given by Frank C. Tarr, purchasing agent for Weyerhaeuser's Klamath Falls branch. More than 6,700 cubic yards of rock, 1,700 cubic yards of sand and 23,800 sacks of cement were used in building the plant, Tarr says. HEAVY RIGS The heaviest piece of equipment installed in the plant is the hard- board press, which weighs 661,925 pounds. Transporting and lifting tne press, Tarr points out. present ed a problem. Seven railway cars were required to haul it. A search had to be made along the entire Pacific Coast for a pair of 20-ton chain blocks that would handle the weight of press parts during installation. To install the press, a sc-ecial railway track reaching from rail road spur to plant floor was built. This special track, 1,000 feet long, used three rails laid on ties with out ballasting. . The track was named after another of the plant's uuimera, ueorge Brut, head mill wright. Most of the 75 men on the construction job called the track "Britt's Shortline and Southern," after its inventor. . "The hardboard press was. so heavy," Britt says, "that we had to lift Us pieces off the regular- size railroad cars on which they arrived in three-wheel' dry -kiln trucks to transfer them through a noie in tne plant wall to their posi tion. The heaviest piece oi the press weighed 37 tons."- Shopping Center On ; Sixth Slated A South Sixth Street development program that involves one ol the most advantageous locations In that area, was announced Monday by Harry R, Waggoner, owner of the Suburban Drug and the Thrifty Variety, located at 3950 So. th. HARRY WAGGONER India Turns POWsOvei- ToUNToday By FORREST EDWARDS PANMUNJOM m -India com- plet:d early Thursday the historic turnover of 21.809 anti-Red priso ners to the . U.N. command as North Korean broadcasts declared the action . "destroys" the armi stice." . The last prisoner, , a Chinese, was turned , over at 12:55 a.m., (7:65 a.m. Wednesday PST) at the end of a surprisingly smooth operation during which the North Korean and Chinese captives often sang and cheered in the rain and mud. The Indian command announced that 14,227 Chinese and 7.5B2 North Koreans were turned out of the compounds at Panmunjom, end ing more than three years of cap tivity for many of them. The Indians said 72 Chinese and 32 North Koreans asked to go home or to a neutral country dur ing the operation, which began Thursday morning. The Communists, who had pro tested the turnover plans bitterly, made no threatening gestures as the prisoners streamed, southward. The U.N. command has prom ised all of the prisoners their free dom at midnight Friday. Red China s Felplng radio Wednesday night repeated it's warning that "any unilateral ac tion with regard to the prisoners of war Is absolutely impermis sible." But the warning was mild ly worded and officials said the Reds apparently had accepted the Indian command's decision to re turn unrepritrlated prisoners as an .accomplished fact. Both businesses have been operat ing lor only a snort time. . Waggoner, with an option on the Altamont Auto Court and Trailer Camp, plans the building of an extensive shopping center, pat terned, after several others, adja cent to large cities on the West -coast. The property, 7.7 acres has been owned for many years by the late Steven Sabo and Mrs. Coral Sabo. r- The assumed name. Town- and County Shopping Center, has been . filed in the Klamath County clerk's office. The overall plan includes the es tablishment of one business of a kind' in the center, operated Inde pendently in a huge paved part ing area that ' will service ; ; ap proximately 1000 cars. ' S Construction is to be brick ana concrete. ..Actual clearing . of.-' the :grrounds, includiris Temoval of trees -and buildings, will get under way in early spring. The camp has hot . operated for, the past year.'. With the new addition to his al ready established . business con cerns, Waggoner will have a 1700 foot frontage on South 6th, also designated as Oregon state High way 66. Frontage of the Altamont nronertv la 526 feet. The land ex tends back to the OCE Railroad and will be adjacent to the proposed new state traffic freeway. Highway is the main traffic artery to Lakevlew from Klamath Palls and . Joins Highway 30 at the Merrill- Lakevlew Junction. No. 39 leads ts the blc agricultural area to the south, to peno and inland Cali fornia CllifJS. Waggoner. In a statement ' an nouncing his plans said: "I feel that the support I have already had from ' the residents of the South Suburban area indicates the need for such a shopping area. Service And lower prices are our alms and the. center will be de veloped to Insure maximum suc cess." - The land Is part of the old Altamont Ranch and "was . pur chased by the Sabo's from the late D. B. Campbell. . . . j TO US SOUTHAMPTON, England Iffl Turkish President Celal Bayar left Wednesday aboard the Mauretanla for a month's visit to the United States at the invitation of Presi dent Eisenhower. Top Sportsman , Land Owner Named Xonnie Lewis, Route Three, and Dean Callas,7 Tulelake, have been named the; "outstanding . sports man" and "outstanding land own er" of the year in the Klamath Sportsmen-sponsored contest. 1 Both men will receive awards presented by the sportsmen's club and by the Herald and News at the February meeting of the group. Lewis won the nomination for the most . sportsman-like ' act of the year . following a letter from hi3 wife to tne committee, she said, In part: "On December 11 Lewis saw a deer out in the flooded area at Algoma. This area had a crust of Ice and apparently the deer had been fighting lt for some time. Re turning home, Lewis loaded a small duck boat into bis pickup, enlisted the aid of a state police man, and went out in the area, where they herded the deer back to safety. When it reached shore it collapsed. With the aid of sever al local men the deer wa loaded in the pickup and taken to Moore Park, where it was cared, for by the park superintendent." The letter which won Callas the award and netted him the $25 Her ald . and News- award for the out standing land owner of the year. carne from a trio of California goose hunters. This' letter said: "On our way north from Los An geles It dawned on us that we had forgotten our tent pole, so we de cided to stop at a farm and pur chase a few two by fours to serve We stopped at the Callas place and asked if we could buy a piece of board. He said he could sell us a piece but wouldn't we rather use his tent pole. Then he told us to go over In the . corner of his field and set up our tent. This was on Sun day. Monday broke forth with a snow storm. Needless to say we were In sorry shape, but nin Dean came to our rescue. He in vited us to stay in his large work shop, and on our luSYiog in lit the oil stove and told us to keep it on full time. He also furnished drinking water. On top of all this he took ' us onto another part of his property and showed us some wonderful goose shooting. On our leaving he refused to let us clean up the place, saying he could do it later." Honorable mention was also awarded to 'diet Langslctt as the sportsman and to the Henzels, Ben and Dick, and Doug Whltellne, as land owners. At the last meeting of the as. sociatlon John Hobson was re. elected president, Fred Lawrence named vice president, W. S. "Doc1 Kessler named to his 21st year as treasurer and Dorothy Brauner elected secretary, Directors for tne coming year will be Virgil Davis, Helen Davis and Al Cummlngs. Plans for the proposed club house to be erected at the recently acquired site above Fret's store were discussed. . VISIT POOR IDEA MADRID. Spain Wl A foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday the planned visit May 10 of Brit ain's Queen Elizabeth to Olbraltec is "imprudent" and will arouse. national protest in spam.. Mil I llffflfl I UN A CAMERAMAN was the subject of this morning's ' nine o'clock special. He's Bill Griffith, from Leo'i Camera Shop. " ' r
