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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-
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.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
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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
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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
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'wraer trial nf n o
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Chartrori ..uu . .
r?ofms,,.";'."e,s.n?wun
4. V0 of their home last
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rwuna n,ental CTndiUon at
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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
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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. " '
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