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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1959)
HERALD AND NEWS. Kbmath Falls. Ore. Frirlav. Nov. fi. 1)."3 f AGB 7 A Life Of Oregon Pioneer Told By Portland Writer By CORDON G. MACXAB Associated Press Staff Writer Ben Holladay made as deep a mark in the history of Oregon and the West as any man of his time. ' But such memory of him as lurvived the years was unpleas ant. If he had friends they died quickly or were silent. His enemies and detractors lived on. Now, 72 years after his death, his story is told in "The Saga of Ben Holladay," by Portland writer Ellis Lucia, published to day. 'Hastings House, 374 pages, $6.50.) This is the story of the man who built a great fortune and dominated a vast part of the West through freighting, slagecoaching, ftp.imboating and railroading. The Overland Stage line was bis and he sold it to Wells Fargo, shrewdly, at a time that the transcontinental rail line was on the way and dooming the Over land stage. He ran steamships up and down the coast and to Ha waii. He gave Portland its first ttreetcars. And he licked those who would build a railroad on the west side of Oregon's Willamette Valley, winning instead the way or his route on the east side of the river. . He bought the votes of Oregon's legislators and others in t h e process. All this has been told before, mostly in sketchy, partial stories. But now Lucia has given in semi- fictionalized form, the detailed story of the way in which Holla day grew and built his life and helped to shape the West. . New in this story is acceptance ef Holladay as relatively honest. .who was mean and harsh to no greater degree than his contem poraries, and who had at least occasional concern for his fellows. and affection for his family. One familiar with the accepted view of Holladay as a man who would have his way whatever the cost, lacking in morals and brutal in conduct, finds this strange in deed. But Lucia has had on his side a new thing: Many private papers of Ben Holladay including 2,000 of his letters. And so those who have always known that his son, Joe, was a drunken wastrel, learn that Hol laday, uneasy about him, tried to ktep friends at his side, wrote him to "be patient, manly and of good heart," and asked his own brother to "treat him kindly." When his son, Ben Jr., was ill in New York, he wired from the West Coast asking how he was doing and pleading of an aide: "answer quick and often." To .what extent this softer side of Ben Holladay warrants a belief that history has dealt with him too harshly is a matter of indi vidual opinion. At any rate, Lucia who alone has had access to 'all the papers excuses many of his faults and puts a new interpre tation on others. The interesting thing is that thio is the first telling of a story based through some of the years most important to Oregon on pa pers which soon are to be avail able to everyone interested, at the Oregon Historical Society. Ben Holladay's son, Ben Camp bell Holladay of Santa Monica, Calif., now nearly ftl years old. was persuaded by Lucia to open up these long-kept private papers of the great stagecoach king. The son stipulated that Lucia was to turn them over to the historical society. This alone makes publication of Lucias "The Saga of Ben Holla day" a worthwhile event.. 'Our new Medford store is not as large as the one in Klamath Falls, but it is the very latest word in its line and compares favorably with the best San Fran cisco and Los Angeles shops." stat ed Mrs. Martin Frani in describ ing the new LaPointe's store in the multi-million dollar shopping center. This is LaPointe's first branch store. The Klamath Falls ' La- I'omte s nas Been at the same Main Street location since 1921. It has been under its present owner ship since 1937. Owners are Mr. and Mrs. Curl Lion and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Franz. Having two retail ladies' special ty stores will permit a greater vol ume of buying and will benefit Klamath Falls shoppers by offering a greater selection of fine mer chandise, Mrs. Franz said. The new building for the Med ford store has 7,300 square feet of space devoted to actual selling and display. In addition, there is a mezzanine for offices and receiv ing. The building was designed for LaPointe's by Curt Helmsteader of John Bolles, Inc., San Francisco firm of industrial architects and designers. Manager of the Medford store is Parts Makers' Efforts May Keep Prices Down By ELMER C. WALZER LPI Financial Editor NEW YORK (UPD-Auto parts fnakers have automated their plants to such degree that their efforts may help keep prices from rising on automobiles. . Harry D. Hirsch, President of C. M. Hall Lamp Co. of Detroit, indicated that situation in noting that the auto makers have about decided to abandon their urge to run the whole automobile business by themselves. The near four billion dollar jutb parts industry has had a tough time for many years with Automobile companies turning more and more to production of parts. ' The parts makers had to diver sify. They became so flexible, says Hirsch, that the auto men liter ally could not get along without them. Now as the auto industry enters the period of the "Golden Six ties," Hirsch believes it will be so busy turning out new cars for the heavy increase in family formations that it will be glad to have the parts makers on hand to provide items that would sap their strength and raise their costs. "Most auto parts makers are extremely optimistic of the future," Hirsch says. "The 400 major companies making 85 per cent of the auto parts and em ploying more than a quarter mil lion workers feel that they have seen the worst of Detroit compan ies' urge to run the auto business all by themselves. The car makers have seen how we auto parts people produce items and give service at com peting if not lower costs than they would have to pay for these same items if they made them them selves." The parts makers have auto mated their production lines streamlined their engineering and productivity and have pitched in lo give the auto makers exactly what they want when they want it. Now the automobile makers. says Hirsch. can step out of siz able investment commitments in plants and equipment and concen trate on new cars and car selling tecnniques. Hirsch s own company has known days of adversity. When it took control of it in 1954 it was ailing and sales had fallen to a mere $3 million annually. Hirsch streamlined the plant to be of better service to the auto makers. His success is demon strated by the fact that today he can claim that at least one of his products is on each of the new 19H0 auto models. In the process of restoring his business, he liquidated one plant and concentrated all production in Detroit. All the equipment in the plant has been modernized and automated and he has brought in new engineering and styling per sonnel in his fight to retain a big place in the parts business. He pioneered in production of the dual headlamp and since he owned just the right equipment at the right moment, the auto makers gave him a big piece of this business. you-pewoiuG death 0VHOTEPlAeJZA MUCH- rrePMuosHi.o. rut CAM &FfCr YOCK PRlMG. Courtesy MIDLAND EMPIRE Insurance Agency KF Women's Apparel Shop Opens Branch In Medford Harold Hutchison, long associated with retail merchandising in Klam ath Falls. Six buyers, residents of Southern Oregon, will travel to both east and ,west markets to buy for the two stores. LaPointe's offers a complete line of fashions for women. Plans call for the addition of a shoe de partment at the Medford store in the near future. J,'JWsWSSSll(.. " ' t. SHIRS' .1 i i y-' l ..',. 1. " H-jta -Y toirv -i Hr wash 5Se,,Vtit lot 10' LaPOINTE'S first branch has been opened in the new Medford Shopping Center, ac cording to the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Curt Lion and Mr. end Mrs. Martin Franz. It is Southern Oregon's newest and most modern ladies' specialty store and will be managed by Harold Hutchison, formerly of Klamath Falls. Television Memory Expert Received No Advance Info WASHINGTON (LTD- Televi sion producer Mert Koplin says memory expert Teddy Nadler was one TV quiz contestant who re ceived no questions or answers m advance. Nadler, a one-time $70-a-week postal clerk at the Army's quar termaster depot in St. Louis, be came the biggest quiz winner of them all when he won $25-l,0OO on "The M4.000 Question" and "S64.0O0 Challenge." Koplin, who helped produce the shows, told House investigators Tuesday that Nadler had "encyc lopedic" knowledge in certain areas and "you merely have to push the right button and you get a complete flood of information." The only problem with Nadler, Koplin said, was to frame ques tions in the fields with which he was familiar. The producer said this was done by means of the "playback," an interview testing method. Koplin said the playback meth od also was used with two young sters, not identified, who competed in a spelling match. He said he Tiade certain they were not given words they did not know how to spell and the match ended in a tie. In the case of Leonard Ross, a child whose category was the stock market, Koplin said it was "just a matter of listening to him." Koplin described Dr. Joyce Brothers, a $134,000 winner on boxing, as a "synthetic expert." No Slide Rule Required; Rabbits Good Multipliers WASHINGTON (AP)-The fed eral government has been drawn into the problem of rabbit multi plication tables. It sent an expert to San Juan Island in Washington state's Pu- get Sound an 18-mile long island where rabbits apparently have found their Shangri-la. "That island is a habitat the rabbits think is just fine," said Noble E. Buell, chief of the Pre dator and Rodent Control Branch of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv ice. Nobody has counted the rabbits, but Buell said you could say "thousands and thousands." People live on the island, too. Friday Harbor, the ferry terminal, had a population of 783 in the 1950 census. The federal government came in when a group of land owners and farmers formed a pest con trol district and asked for help with their rabbit problem. The problem began years and years ago when somebody liber ated some domestic rabbits on the island. Multiplication began. There were black rabbits, cream rabbits, gray rabbits. "They did awfully well there," Buell said For a while people hunted the rabbits and sold them for their skin and meal, and there was a processing plant on the island. But that went out of business. Sports men began going to the island to hunt, but still the rabbits multi plied. The farmers wrote Sen. War ren G. Magnuson (D-Wash), who contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service. There are some on the island however, who like the business the rabbit hunting brings. "People's feelings are mixed," Buell said. "There are a lot of problems." For instance, some rabbits bur row, some don t; the island is in a rainy section that would affect poisoned bait; there are about 5, 000 sheep on the island that might eat such bait; even in the farming areas there are timbered hills and hedgerows between fields where rabbits could live. And there are the hunters who like their sport. "We're hoping to find a method of control so everybody will be happy," Buell concluded. 126 So, 8th i. 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