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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, January 1, 1960 PAGE 6 B F&P MWS f 1959 W PiamiAL REWM. IV wtrr .... THE BRIDGE TRESTLE across Lake Ewauna of the Great Northern Railway burst into black smoke and was partially destroyed by flames on Thursday, July 16. The fire may A SPECTACULAR CRASH of an Air Force helicopter oc cured on Thursdayi July 9, a few hundred yards from Peli can Bay on Upper Klamath Lake. Five men crawled, un a criDEtT PIPE blackened more Hn 650 acrei of second qrowth Dougla. fir timber in miles louth of Yreka. t broke (iECOND WINTER OLYMPICS The 190 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley. Calif., is only the second to be held In the United States. Lake Placid. N.Y.. played host to thi games in 1932. ' -' 1" ? ' v.r mountainoui area about 10 out June 30 and wai finally OIL KUO.M THE WATERS Approximately I0'j per cent of (lie free world's total oil produc tion hi 1957 came from beneath the wali'is of Lake Mnracaibo, Venezuela. f I i f tit y have started in a wooden shed beneath the drawbridge. Loss was estimated between $75,000 and $100,000. injured, from the wreckage. Williams, Kingsley Field base t , s V 1 - A . " i tit 1 controlled three days later. brook area on July 27 end MARATHON WINNER Only American ever' to Min the Olympic marathon race was John ny Hayes, who covered the dis tance in two hours, 55 minutes and 15.4 seconds In W03. Among them was Col. Jack commander. f V 'I Another fire struck the Horn- consumed S.iW acres. , U.S. INDIAN TREATIES ' The United States government. from the date of its formation until March 3. 1871, entered into 371 treaties wilh American Indian tribes. Canco Plans Astoria Plant ASTORIA. Ore. (AP) - The Arrcrican Can Co. said Wednes day it will build a manufacturing plant at Astoria that will have a peak capacity of 100 million cans a year. William Hatfield. Oregon sales representative, said the plant, wher, at full production, will em ploy 50 persons and have a pay roll of $300,000 a year. Earlier this year American Can said it would close its Portland can manufacturing plant, which at times of peak employment had 375 workers. The Portland operations are scheduled to be finished by the nnddle of February. ' HUfield said construction will begin soon on a 1'4-acre tract on the Astoria waterfront. The plant will produce containers for tuna, salmon, crab, shrimp and other fish processed by Astoria area packers. No estimate of the plant's cost was released. It is expected to be ir. production in time for the ma jor seafood packs of 1960. The firm now operates a plant in ialem, and also nas announced plans for another in Eugene. Death Mileage Rate Declines CHICAGO (UPD-About 38,000 Americans died in traffic acci dents in l'JSS. But the year was the safest in the history of the na tion's highways. These contradictory figures were released today by the Na tional Safety Council, which esti mated the 1959 traffic death toll at between 37,500 and 38,000 al most 1,000 more than last year. But the year's mileage death rate was 5.4 for every 100 mil lion miles traveled the lowest on record.' There is good reason to hope that the upward surge of the traf- (ic toll in the early months of this year has been definitely stopped and that the nation s streets and highways will become safer and safer," a council spokesman said. Probably the most tragic figure was the 1,400.000 persons disabled by auto smashups. This was an increase over the 1958 total of 1,350,000 disabling injuries. Safety Council officials first feared a 'record-smashing total of 40,000 or more traffic deaths dur ing 1959. From January to Au gust, American motorists killed themselves off at a record pace 1 to 8 per cent more than dur ing corresponding months of 1958. But safety took over during the last five months. Roadblocks Set By State Police SALEH (AP) All available state police officers were used iast night to set up roadblocks at unannounced destinations to catch drunken drivers, State Po lice Supt. H. G. Maison reports.. Similar roadblocks were es tablished by county and city of ficers. Gov. Mark Hatfield ordered the roadblocks for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. Maison said there were no drunken drivers caught Christ mas Eve, but nine persons were arrested for failure to have drivers' licenses. FORGERY FOR SURE SUNNYSIDE, Wash. (AP)-A bad check turned over to the po nce department by a Sunnyside bank was referred to Police Chief O. E. Hill. It was a forgery, all right, said Hill. The name on the check:. O, E. Hill. . Rings around the planet Saturn are composed of tiny, highly rcflec tivo solid particles called "moon- lets." 'JANUARY STOREWIDE mmmm NOW IN Ml SUITS COATS DRESSES Lumber Industry Recovers From Late 1956 Collapse By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th ii,mh inrincfrv in i 'ill hnri The lumber industry in 193J had its best year since collapse of prices and orders in late 1956 Recovery from the slow times was complete. Prices were good, production was up and orders were brisk. There was labor peace. Mills in th? Western pine re ason set an all-time high in ship ments, going over 9 billion board feet for the first time, The usual midwinter storms in the East and Middle West slowed activity at the close of the year but industry spokesmen said 1960 looked good. Tight money with its check on home financing continued as an annual obstacle to complete op- Coal Tar Ban Is Delayed WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration has delayed until Jan. 25 the start of its ban on 17 coal tar colors in lipstick. Commissioner George P. Lar- rick expects to decide by then whether to hold public hearings asked by lipstick makers. The manufacturers have protested that the ban would affect about every lipstick on the market and could ruin their business. FDA officials had said the dyes nnncnH ttlnncc nnrt Hpath when in. eluded extensively in the' diet of laboratory rats. The makers said there was no substantial proof that humans could be harmed by the dyes. 8 Withdraw From Show NEW YORK (AP) Eight movie personalities have withdrawn from "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" TV show, but they have been replaced by other film notables, says the National Broadcasting Co. NBC said Wednesday the changes for the Jan. 10 show merely represented "final cast ing" and had nothing to do with CBS - TV " star Ed Sullivan's charges that Miss Hopper paid off in newspaper column mentions in stead of money. Sullivan's charge that she was underpaying her stars brought a countercharge from Miss Hopper that "he's a liar." Sullivan, also a newspaper col umnist, took his complaint to two unions the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild. The Guild said the matter was not in its jurisdiction. AFTRA is investi gating. Withdrawing from the show, NBC said, were Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooncy, - Bette Davis, Steve McQueen, Gary Merrill. Robert Horton, Joan Crawford, and Tuesday Weld. The replacements, the network said, will be Bob Hope, Robert C'ummings, Don Murray, Hope Langc, Janet Gaynor, Harold Lloyd, John Cassavetes, and Ve nitia Stevenson. Pipeline Firm Amends Plan WASHINGTON (AP)-An amended application filed Wed nesday by the Pacific-Northwest Pipeline Corp. of Salt Lake City asked the Federal Power Com mission for permission to extend a pipeline across Oregon. The application seeks permis sion to connect with an existing line near Vancouver, Wash., and extend it to a terminal at Eugene. Ore., via Salem. The project would cost an estimated $10,495, 000. Light colored eyes are more sen sitive to glare than dark eyes, says the Better Vision Institute. S25 Main PROGRESS SHOES CHILDREN'S LINGERIE Itimisim. The possibility of a rail Ui r ikn in the sonos was a much greater hazard. But despite this, H. V. Simp son, executive vice president for West Coast Lumbermen's Assn said these things assured a great demand for lumber: increasing population with its calls for more homes, schools and churches; stepped up industrial plant ex pansion; commercial area growth and farm building construction Recovery had been a long time coming. The lumber industry enjoyed a boom after World War II that continued with only slight inter ruption until late 1956. Then the cut-back was severe. The next year new housing starts dropped to a nine-year low, prices con tinued to fall and the number of idle workers mounted. . It was mid-1958 before recovery began. By the end of that year, business began to look good again and all through 1959 mills were busy. Plywood kept on with its great growth and by the end of 1953 there were 145 Douglas fir ply wood plants. They turned out an estimated 7,700,000,000 square feet on a -inch basis, a new rec ord for the 15th straight year. A few sciltered small mills were taken over by larger ones but the two major changes of 1959 came in Georgia Pacific Corp.'s 93 million dollar purchase of Booth-Kelly fir properties near Eugene, and the Boise Cascade- Templeton Lumber Co. merger of pine and fir interests. Douglas fir production estimate for 1959 was 8,400,000,000 board feet, up 5 per cent. Orders and shipments were close to the same figures. Western pine's production was estimated at 9,200,000.000 feet and shipments at 9,280,000.000 both up 13 per cent. .It was the first time shipments had ever gone over 9 billion feet in a year and the sec ond time production had done it. And when lumber headed out from the mills at the close of the year, it carried a price tag 7 to 8 per cent higher than it did at the start. Better Job For Aide Set SALEM (AP)-Albert E. John son, assistant division engineer for the Highway Commission in Port land, will be promoted to division engineer Jan. 1, state Highway Engineer W. C. Williams announc ed Wednesday. Johnson, 49, replaces A. G. Skel toii, who is retiring after working tor the department for 40 years. The division includes Multno mah, Clackamas and Washington counties, and parts of Yamhill. Cciumbia, Hood River and Wasco counties. Johnson, a graduate of Oregon State College, joined the depart ment in 1933. He became assist ant division engineer in Portland in 1955. POPULAR PAMPHLET ' WASHINGTON (UPI) The U.S. Information Agency says "atomic power for peace" is its most popular overseas pamphlet. The agency, reviewing its pam phlet activity in 80 countries dur ing 1959, said Wednesday that next on the popularity list is "facts about the U.S." Rubber Footwear While Stocks Last REDUCED VanOrman's Klamath' Oldest HOME OWNED Family Shoe Store Repeal Move To Commence PORTLAND (AP)-A move to repeal the city's urban renewal ordinance will be pushed despite a legal opinion that it will have no effect on a project already under way. A backer of the repeal move. Frank J. Ierulli, said Wednesday he does not believe the city is ob ligated to complete the project, south of the downtown area, re gardless of tha outcome of the initiative. "Every property owner in South Portland is supporting the ini tiative, and we're getting calls from all over the. city, offering help." Ierulli said. ' Attorney Alton John Basset of the Urban Renewal Recall com mittee said: "Any contract can be broken. The question is: What is the penalty?" A recent legal opinion said the contract with the federal govern ment for the project could not be broken, and therefore the initiative would not stop the South Port land project. Health Chief Given Honor PORTLAND (AP)-Dr. Harold M. Erickson, who is resigning Jan. 13 as Oregon health officer, was honored at a testimonial din ner here Wednesday night. Speakers included Gov. Mark Hatfield, who praised Erickson's work. Other speakers were Dr. Carl Holm, president of the state Board of Health, and Tom Law- son McCall, Portland television commentator, who was master of ceremonies. When Dr. Erickson announced his resignation last month, he said that one of the reasons was Oregon's declining health pro gram. He said inadequate state and county support was respon sible. Sewage Project Given Approval Ey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore) said Wednesday the federal gov ernment has approved a grant for a sewage project at Vernonia, Ore. The Department of Health, Wel fare and Education approved a .119,152 grant for a stabilization fpond, pump station, force main and outfall sewer, Norblad said in a release from his Washington, D. C, office. CHILDREN'S STORY HOUR Saturday 8:30 A.M. KFLW Sponsored by -Ar Spencer's and Fleet's Bicycles & Sporting Goodi Entire stock . . . Men's, boy's, women's, - children's. "oyer the shoe" stormy weather , footwear! . . 111 13
