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20 YEARS AS THE OLDSMOBILE DEALER in Klamath Falls was observed recently by Dick B.
Miller Sr., left, when he signed his annual contract with C. W. Schulti, Oldsmobile zone man
ager for the Portland zone. Miller has also passed his 20th year as the Cadillac dealer for
. this area. The new Cadillacs are now on display in his showroom at Seventh and Klamath and
the 1956 Oldsmobile will be on display November 3. Miller's sons Dick Jr. and Melvin are
associated with him in the dealerships.
Cascade OES Presents Skit IFCA Lists
Mortgages
At a staled meeting of Cascade
Crest Chapter No. 15B OES. Chllo-
auln. October 19. Etnci Maims
worthy matron and Layton Ho-
back, wormy pairon presided. ts
' corted to the east and Introduced
were Lelha Murphy, member of
the Jurisprudence committee of the
Grand Chapter; Rena Oldham,
grand representative of New York
in Oregon.
A group of 1055 worthy matrons
and patrons were also escorted and
introduced: Jack Rhodes, worthy
patron of Aloha Chapter. Thelma
Fink, worthy matron of Manianita
Chapter and Mr. and Mrs. Mer
vyn Wilde, worthy matron and pa
tron of Prosperity Chupter, Ma
iln. Sadye Page reported that a
Thanksgiving card parly will be
held In the Masonic Hall, Novem
ber 12, 1055. Pinochle, bridge and
canasta will be played. Commit
tees will be appointed at the next
meeting.
Worthy patron, Layton Hoback
called upon Guss Fane, worshipful
. master of Chiloquln Lodge No. 101
AFiiAM. and several first-time vis
itors of tile chapter including Mrs.
Catherine Brown of Cherokee Chap
ter, Camqn, Georgia, visiting her
daughter, Hazel Dclienbacher.
Martha Powell, associate mntron
of Alcha Chapter, Klamath Falls
presented the chapter with a gift
from the Aloha Social Club which
was a man's tuxedo from a rum
mage salo to be used for special
programs.
Alter the meeting a largo group
enjoyed an evening of friendship
and entertainment in the gully dec
orated hall. Program chairmen.
Donas Rldcnour and Rosalie Ho
back Introduced Margaret Sheridan
and Norma Uerlings of Aloha
Chapter who did a novelty
act accompanied by Alma Color.
Ruphane Mnnnering led the group
singing of "Smiles ' and " The Yel
low Rose of Texas" also doing two
solo numbers, "Autumn, Leaves"
and "Always."
Dwlght Klrcher, Glen Kircher,
Layton Hoback and Guss Page
presented a skit titled "If Men
Played Cards Like Women."
A musical round "Three Blind
Mice" was acted out by each wor
thy matron and friend...
Refreshment committee mem
bers were Virginia Zumbrun. Sa
dye Page, Georgia Page, Hazel
Stalger, Ethel Zimmerman assist
ed by Donas Rldcnour, Doris
Klrcher.
Damages Awarded
PORTLAND Mrs. Thular
B. Hamir.ons of Grants Pass Fri
day was awarded $12,870 damages
In her suit against Multnomah
County Sheriff Terry D. Srhrunk
nnd Fidelity ti Deposit Co. ot
Maryland.
She accused Schrunk of failure
to serve a summons within the
prescribed 60 days which resulted
in the dismissal of her personal
injury suit against Paul T. Bugg
of Portland.
Her suit against Bugg, filed In
January, 1954, afler a traffic acci
dent at Grants Pass, was dis
missed by the Josephine County
circuit court on ine ground It was
outlawed by the statute of limlta-
ions lor such cases.
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KARMEX-W-CLEANS
UP DITCHES
Spray Now! for weed
Free Ditches next Summer.
Note!
The Freedom
From Weeds
p.
The Acute
Quack Grass
i Problem When
1 Not Sprayed
mi
Karmex Sprayed Dec. 1953
Picture Taken Auq. 19S4
One pound of Karmex controls such bad
grasses as Quack Grass on an area 1000
sq. ft.
Cleans Quack Gross Out
. . . the only soil stcrilant that maintains iter-
I ty below the water line in irrigation ditches
otter water hat been turnod in.
We Sell Karmex W
We Apply Karmex W
or We Teach You How.
Solci end Help from the Friendly
House of Chemical Service
The Spray Center
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Telephone Tultlak 7-2391
last-West Rood and Main Tulelokt, Calif.
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Af .lr.ll.rti
Farm owners were obtaining
farm mortgages averaging SI, 100
larger in the first six months of
1055 compared with the first half
of 1954, according to estimates on
tarm mortgage recordings com
piled by the Farm Credit Admin
istration.
Tile average size morfgage re
corded this year by all lenders
was 57,050 compared with $5,990
lasi year, T. A. Maxwell, deputy
governor and director of Land
Bank Service, Farm Credit admin
istration, announced.
Along with the increased size of
loan, farm owners obtained the
largest number of farm mortgage
loans since lltol and the largest
amount of loans since these esti
mates were started in 1934. The
amount, $1.3 billion, compared with
si billion in the iirsl half of 1954.
Commercial banks accounted for
the largest proportion of the $1.3
nillion of any lender 24 per cent.
Individuals provided 23 per cent;
insurance companies, 22 per cent;
the 12 federal land banks. 20
per cent: and miscellaneous lend
ers 11 per cent.
Among the lenders, the land
banks had the. largest increase in
the amount of their loans which
were up 00 per cent Irom the
first half of 1954. Recordings of
Insurance companies increased 34
per cent; commercial banks 22
per cent; Individuals 18 per cent;
and miscellaneous lenders, 17 per
cent.
The average size of loans re
corded varied by lenders from
S6.000 to $14,550. Loans of insur
ance companies averaged largest
$14,550. Loans made by the
land banks averaged $7,850; indi
vidual, $0,620; miscellaneous len
ders, $6,020; and commercial
banks $5,020.
U. S. Industry Jubilantly
Records Ne w Record Highs
By WALTER HREEDE Jr.
NEW YORK ifi The big guns
of U.S. Industry toted up their
third quarter profits this week
ana toe scire was never oeuer.
Old records were swept aside
like dead leaves In autumn. Net
income of big General Motors was
the highest for any third quarter
in the countrv's history; profits
for the first nine months nudged
the billion-dollar mark after pro
vision of well over one billion for
Income taxes.
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). biggest
of the world's petroleum giants,
reported nine months' net of 532
millions, up nearly 20 per cent
from a year ago. The nation's No.
1 and No. 2 steelmakers, United
States, Slcel Corp. and Bethlehem
Steel, Jubilantly announced new
Merger Battle
Rocks Cities
NORTH BEND, Ore. Ifl A
bitter campaign is under way here
and hi the neighboring town ot
Coos Bay over a proposal for
merger of the two communities.
Spokesmen for both sides of the
Issue have asked Atly. Gen. Robert
Y. Thornton to make an investi
gation of tho municipal aflalis of
North Bend.
Sheldon Sackrtt. editor of the
Coos Bay Times and an advocate
of the merger, has asked volunteer
"hound dogs'' to sinlf out anv
wrong-doing and report it to Ins
newspaper.
North Bend Mayor I. N. Hartley
countered with a request to the
attorney generals ollicc for an
Investigation as a mean', ot quiet
ing these "malicious attacks."
Sai-krtl ul.so has asked for a
probe by Thornton.
Some of Suckitt's opponents here
have hung a banner, on North
Bend's mum street, appealing for
"old socks (or Sackctt." Barrels
have been placed on street corners
asking residents to provide duty
socks lor "Suckelt's hound dogs."
The State Forest ty Department
recently appealed to hunters to
mail in their old socks so dogs
could tiacc Ihe hunters m case
they became lost in ihe wxids.
Stevenson,
Knowland
Square Off
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Democrat Adlai Stevenson and
Republican Sen. Knowland of Cal
iiornia divided squarely Satur
day on the sharpest Issue yet of
the 1956 presidential campaign
farm price supports.
Knowlaqd, the Senate Republican
leader, said at Washington: "I do
not believe that at the. present time
the country supports going back to
the old fixed parity program."
Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic
presidential nominee, said in a
.ipeech at Duluth, Minn.: "We
must return to the 90 per cent sup
ports which the Republicans
thought so well of In 1952, until
they decided it was time for a
change after the election."
Also contributing to the question
of what to do about farm prices
was a visit by Secretary of Agricul
ture Benson to President Eisenhow
er in Denver.
Benson has repeatedly slated
that the Republicans Inherited Ihe
farm problem from the Democrats,
problem of falling prices and
growing surpluses.
On that point, Stevenson said:
"Let's Just say to our Republican
friends that whatever they inherit
ed from us, we're ready to take
back next year."
Earlier in the day, Stevenson
talked with former President Tru
man who was In Chicago on a visit.
Truman told reporters he had
"advised" Stevenson to announce
his candidacy and that if the na
tional convention names him, "1
would support him."
However, Truman said "I never
told anybody that I would support
anybody" for the nomination. Re.
mlndedlthat he had pointed to Gov,
Averell Harriman of New York as
a good candidate, Truman said "I
would have pointed to him (Stcv-
enson) as- well as I did to Harri
man."
Truman also said that "If It
hadn't been for me," Stevenson
would not have gotten the 1952
nomination.
Another possible Democratic can
didate, Sen. Kefauver (D-Tennl,
spoke at Muskegon, Mich.
Kefauver said a "segment of
right - wing" Republicans was
"scheming to get President Eisen
hower out ot office before his term
expires."
Specifically, he accused column
ist David Lawrence of putting out
a feeler "aadlstic," Kefauver
called it carrying the suggestion
that Eisenhower resign next Jan
uary Instead of serving out the
term due to end. a year later.
In Washington, Lawrence re
plied that he had merely referred
to the possibility of a resignation.
He said he had told Kefauver, but
that the senator Ignored this In his
speech, that he does not expect
Eisenhower to resign, but rather to
run again and be reelected.
DEATH
OXHKY. England (PI Sir Ar
ihur Du Cros, 84, founder of the
Dunlop Rubber Co., died Saturday.
Sir Arthur, with his father, was
a pioneer of the pneumatic tire
industry. He used them on his bi-
cycle tlrst in a radc at Queen's
College, Belfast, 66. years ago.
nine-month highs In profits, sales
and production.
Behind many of the fat profits
reported by Industry this week lay
the U.S. public's Insatiable de
mand for faster,' shinier and more
powerful autos. Besides lifting
GM's profits to unprecedented
heights, booming production of
cars uas a major factor in the
record-smashing performance of
the steel industry. Record num.'
ber of cars on the road contri
buted materially to the earnings
of the oil companies. Wages paid
the million; employed by the auto
industry and its many' suppliers
this year have given a substantial
boost to retail trade.
This week, as all of the big auto-1 , miioa passenger cars, or
atrorm nliincrpri full tilt Intn nrn.1 '. ..
makers plunged full tilt Into pro
duction of 1956 models, Detroit's
major role as a mainstay of pros
perity became increasingly clear
Steelmakers pressed to the
limit to supply their biggest cus
tomer, the auto industry once
again schedulcd their operations
at more than 98 per cent of ca
pacity. Steel output the week be
fore, with the mills straining at
98.9 per cent of capacity, had been
forced to a never-belore-attained
totul of 2,386,000 tons. Industry
leaders professed to see no hint
of a letdown. Declared Bethlehem
chairman Eugene Grace: "We're
definitely oversold through the
first 1956 quarter now .... I
leei we re assured 01 lull opera
tions through the first six months
Oregon Milk
Costs Stable
Efficient management and high
producing cows are keeping Ore
gon Grade A milk production costs
about the same per hundredweight
as for factory milk costs on farms
surveyed by Oregon State College.
reea costs were not inciuaea in
the study designed to focus on
such items as building and equip
ment investments, labor require
ments, and other production
costs normally presumed to vary
widely between Grade A and fac
tory milk farms.
D. Curtis Mumford, OSC agri
cultural economist, studied 23
Grade A farms in the Willamette
Valley and Tillamook County and
31 factory milk farms in Tilla
mook County. Findings are re
ported in an OSC experiment sta
tion bulletin, "Quality Milk Does
It Cost More To Produce?" Cop
ies . can he obtained from local
county extension offices or the
OSC bulletin clerk.
Grade A dairymen generally had
higher investments in cows, equip
ment, buildings and labor than did
factory dairymen. Grade A build
ing values were double those of
buildings owned by factory milk
producers.
Even though costs per cow on
Grade A farms were greater. Mum
lord says higher producing cows
and better' "dairying" kept produc
tion costs per hundredweight of
milk close to those of factory
farms.
Although high quality milk was
generally related to high quality
buildings, the study showed excep
tions. Dairymen on some factory
milk farms were selling milk that
was actually of Grade A quality
on the basis of bacteria oount.
The bulletin gives detailed re
ports of production costs, descrip
tion of farms studied, seasonal
milk flow and a section on how
the research was conducted.
next year."
In Detroit Itself, a year-end auto
production race of fantastic pro
portions was in progress. Ford
aimed for a new weekly record
of 39,000 cars; Chevrolet and
Buick came back faster after a
hurried changeover to 1956 mod
els; Plymouth hoped to turn out
more ' than 30,000 cars to break
the record of 19,897 it, set last
spring.
Total production for the week
was estimated by Ward's Automo
tive Reports (WAR) at 156.05?
cars up 14 per cent from the
previous week and 128 per cent
from the -like week last year. The
1955 production score so far: near-
almost as many as the industry
built in all of 1950, the previous
record year. With forced-draft op
erations scheduled right through
to New Year's Eve. the ' Industry
should wind up 1955 with a pro
duction total of around 8 million.
For business generally, the out
look this week was for a record
fourth quarter which would top
any of the three previous quarter
ly periods of booming '55.
Retail sales continued strong,
with department store volume rutH
ago levels. Loans- to business by
leading New York banks were on
the upbeat again; freight carload
.'ngs were 12 per cent higher than
in the corresponding week of last
year. . '
Looking farther ahead, econo
mists predicted continued good
business for the first six months
of 1956, with a possible slowdown
around midyear.
Two major props of Ihe 'economy
still lagged. Farm income was
weakened by falling livestock
prices
continued to recede from its pre
vious peaks. Building permits Is
sued in September declined in dol
lar volume from the levels of a
year ago for the -first time in 14
months.
Hopes for good business were
bolstered hy new plans for expan
sion. United Air Lines placed a
175-million-dollar order with Doug
las Aircraft Corp. for 30 huge 550-mlle-an-hour
Jet airliners. Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp. announced a
115-million-dollar expansion pro--gram;
Wheeling Steel Corp. added
65 millions to Its budget for new
plant and equipment: Bethlehem
Steel indicated a multi-million-dollar
expansion was in the works.
But there was a king-sized beef
from Charles Hildreth. president
of the National Wholesale Hard
ware Assn. Manufacturers' profits
may be booming, he declared, but
the wholesaler today can't make
a dime. Said he: "Let's have the
guts to say 'no' to this rat race
lor volume without profit for the
glory of the manufacturers."
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TWO OF THE KEY MEN in Company C, 31 Ith Military Pollet
Battalion, Klamath Falls rmy Reserve Unit now engaged in ,
recruiting campaignare Lt. John Turner (left) and Sfc. Glea
G. LaMeres. Turner, a sporting goods salesman at Montgomery
Ward, is supply and training officer for the company. Un
married, he served in Korea during the recent war. LeMeres,
a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, holds
down the crucial first sergeant's post in the reserve company .
He is an appliance serviceman for Merits Appliance Stets
on South Sixth Street.
RED MAGAZINE
MOSCOW M Soviet Press.
new Soviet magazine devoted to j
news of publishing houses, news-1
the construction Industry j papers xnd magazines, distributed
its first issue Saturday.
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Car Shortage
Faces Plants
LA GRANDE l.fl Lumber mill
operations in this area are being
curtailed and some plants may be
forced to close next week as the
result of a tightening boxcar short
age. Union Pacific said Saturday that
La Grande area shippers are get-
cent of their car orders" and can't j
nope lor uie situation to improve
for two weeks or a month.
La Grande's Mt. Emily Lumber
Co. mill, largest in Wallowa Coun
ty, has cut its shipments "terrific
ally" and plant manager M. Gale
Beals said another Mt. Emily op
eration in Elgin was sending crews
home early.
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