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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
KKIIMY, MAY 21, 1054
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ILL GOLDEN
Establishment Of State
Architect's Office Urged
Army
Yet Now
GOC Member
Bill Oolden was born March 31,
'19 3 4, at Concrete, Washington.
When he was five years of age,
his lamlly took him to Port Ar
thur, Texas, where they remained
until 1936. That year they came
to Klamath Falls ana toot rest
- dence on the Lakevlew Highway.
Bill finished high school at Henley,
and the same year enlisted in the
United States Army, where he
served with the 70th and later,
with the Third Infantry Divisions
as a radio operator and forward
scout in the Intelligence and re
connaissance platoon. His platoon
landed In France ana immeaiateiy
went into action in the Battle of
the Bulge. Said Billy, "our outfit
was the first to spear-head to the
8aar River basin In Germany."
He also saw action is the battle
for the Rhine.
When the war ended, the fol
lowing Christmas saw young Bill
Oolden with a ninety day furlough
to spend just as he wanted to! For
many months he hadn't been able
to do that. There was just one
thine he wanted to do most
go hornet and home he went
by plane. The battle of the bulge
and the battle for the Rhine, and
a few other "little ruckuses'
weren't enough for this soldier, so
when his furlough was up, be re
enlisted for another IS months and
was tent to Fort Monmouth, New
Jersey to attend radio school. He
graduated, and was sent to Camp
Hood, Texas where- be served as
radio Instructor and was later put
In complete charge of communi
cations. In the summer of 1947 he
waa discharged from military ser
vice, and returned to bis home in
Klamath Falls.
Ever in search for knowledge tn
the radio field, this seasoned vet
i erao enrolled at OTT to further
his study in that line. He also
attended Klamath Business Col
lege. When asked what were some
of the highlights of his past life, he
named three: first "While I was
at Camp Hood, Texas, I was rec
ommended to West Point by my
Division Commander. But the best
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM un Now that Oregon
has spent almost 30 million dollars
for new buildings at state mstriu
lions since the end of World War
II, the people can be proud of the
way in which they are taking care
of state wards.
But the hodge-podge of archi
tecture at the institutions is caus
ing an Increasing demand that the
state have an architect.
Supporters of the state architect
idea also point out it would go a
long way toward preventing dis.
putcs between the State Emergen
cy Board ana tne state Board ot
Control. These arguments relate to
cost estimates, which would be
prepared by the state architect.
The new buildings at the Institu
tions are beautiful, but since they
are mull bv different architects.
they look different. There isn't any
master plan.
The Legislature appropriates the
money for them, and tells the
Board of Control to build the new
structures. The board" chooses an
architect and calls for bids. In
these days, these bids often are
bigger than the amount of money
available, so the Board of Control
has to ask the Emergency Board
for more money. The Emergency
Board gets sore about it, and
blames the Board of Control.
Members of the Emergency
Board, the Board of Control and
many architects think that a state
employed, architect would avoid all
this trouble.
I asked William A. Williams and
John G. Groom, Salem architects
who have done lots of work for
the state and who know the insti
tutions inside and out, to give their
ideas. These ideas are strikingly
similar to those of the state off!-
highlight of my life was when I
married Helen Kennega September
6. 19521 Highlight number three,
was when I became a member of
The Ground Observers Corps a
little over a year ago. Now my wife
and mother are Ground Observers
too!
. Bill continues to serve his
country every Monday night in the
observation tower at the air port,
teaming up with Gilbert Morey be
tween the hours of 10 to 13. Bill's
clay time Job is parts man and
oooueeper lor J. W. Kerns Co.
on South Sixth Street. His radio
and communications experience
serves him well when he "com
municates" with the filter center
at Portland, in calling to report
various types of Diane, vnnnr
trails to the sky, or any other
object that appears to be a little
out-of-the-ordlnary.
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clals responsible for the buildings.
"Tho primary duties of a state
architect," Williams and Oroom
said, "would be the preparation
and maintenance of a master plan
for each institution, development
ot a program for each new uult as
Uie need arose, and to establish an
accurate cost estimate to present
to the Legislature along with a
firm program.
"He would suggest to Ihe project
architect the manner by which any
new unit could conform to existing
and projected overall design
schemes.
"While builders have to keep
abreast of building progress, it
still would be possible to have
continuity of design and use of
harmonizing materials through a
master plan."
Williams and Oroom say that
the state architect should not en
gage in his own practice, and that
he shouldn't draw any plans. He
would be appointed by the Board
of Control from a list provided by
Hie American institute of Archi
tects. "The state architect." Williams
and Groom continued, "would
work with each Institution admin
istrator to establish the needs of
the institution. He would prepare
estimated costs, giving the Legis
lature a complete study of the pro
posed new building and its place
in the master program."
This information would be a boon
to the Legislature, which now has
to make its appropriations for
buildings with very few facts.
The state architect also could
advise on construction of state
office buildings. Here, however,
need isn't so great, because the
Capitol Planning Commission
makes sure that a uniform plan
is followed.
The State Emergency Board, at
a meeting a few months ago. de
cided to confer with architects on
the desirability of having a state
architect, but this wasn't followed
up.
While most architects seem to
favor the idea, many of them ap
pear to have a fear that the state
architect would take over Dart of
their work by drawing plans. The
state officials promise that would
not happen.
Groom says that California
adopted the state architect nlan.
and that it grew into a big bureau
with more than 100 architects who
drew all the plans. That cut a lot
of private architects out of their
bread and butter.
While 30 millions -of dollars have
k a
S SGT. GENE V. CHRISTENSEN
Merrill Airman
Reenlists In AF
S-Sgt. Gene V. Christensen. who
reenllsted in the USAF for anoth
er six yeors after completing four
vears' service at Randolph Field,
will report this month to Parks
Air Base for overseas duty in the
Far East. He has been visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emll Chris
tensen, Merrill. He entered t h e
service immediately after h I s
graduation from Merrill High
School in '40: ; and plans to make
the Air Force his career. He was
married Easter Sunday to Nancy
Woodall daughter of Major and
Mrs. Randall W. Woodall. Major
Woodall is a base adjutant with
the USAF in Korea.
Financial Troubles Of TV
Industry' Object Of Study
been spenon new buildings at the
state hospitals, tuberculosis hos
pitals, boys and girls training
schools, the schools for the blind
and deaf, Fairvtew home for feeble
minded- persons, and the peniten
tiary, a lot more will be spent In
the next few years. The job is an
endless one.
For Instance, the state hospital,
suffering from the worst over
crowding In its history, is getting
a new 670-bed building. When it's
finished in two years, the over
crowding will be as bad as ever.
So. when the next 30 million is
spent, maybe a state architect will
supervise it.
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By BAM, DAWSON
8YRACUSK Wl Television's
troubles are being tackled today
on three fronts.
In Washington some senators
are looking into the sad pllubt of
certain TV stations who aay
they're losing money because they
can't get the good network ahows,
and of about 70 would-be TV sta
tions who say they dropped their
grants because of programing till
IiculUes. In Chicago several groups of set
manufacturers, parts and equip
ment makers, and distributors are
meeting Jointly today to diagnose
the Ills of an Industry beset Just
now by price cutting and periodi
cally by sprees of overproduction.
On the producing level as here
In Syracuse, where a lot of TV
sets are made they're talking
confidently ot progress in color but
concentrating more Just now on a
new idea or two in black and white
to stimulate sales next fall, when
they expect business to pick up.
Dr. Walter R. O. Baker. Gen
eral Electric- vice president and
general manager of Its electronics
division, says the Industry's main
problem Just now Is price Insta
bility rather than any trouble
with coy customers walling tor
color sets. He expects a good-as-usual
pickup this foil in production
and sales of black and whites
but with tne big question: Who's
going to make the sales. Competi
tion was never Keener.
Color TV sets will be too ex
pensive for most folks porkethooks
and too small for most folks tastes
for some time yet. he says.
One new black-and-white Idea
you may see In your TV store this
fall will be a set "with the picture
on the floor" a slanted screen
that rests on the floor instead of
a table. You view the program
with your head at the same angle
as when you read your newspaper.
TV engineers already have put
screens on the ceiling for hospital
patients, and think some chair
borne customers are going to be
Intrigued by the down-look Idea.
The Radlo-Electronlcs-Televlslon
Manufacturers Assn. reports that.
oven at Uie atari of Uio slack TV
season, sets are being turned out
ut a rate ot better Uiiiu 100,000 u
week, and home and ear radius nt
better than 167,000 a week.
Tills asswlation, along Willi tho
National Electronic Distributors
Assn. and the Association of Klec.
Iiicliii eri), la meeting this week In I of tills triiilltloniilly Uoom-or-biul
Chicago to discuss tho problems luidusliy. "
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Clarence Ward
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The electric utility industry is in two parts. One consists of companies
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taxes, and little, if any, state and local taxes.
In common with all privately owned electric utilities this company pays
a multitude of taxes each year to help support the cost of government t
federal, state, county and local
Last year $3,287,000 or 22.9 of 1953 operating revenues went to the
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Taxes continue to be COPCO 's largest item of expense. In 1953 they
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