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PAGE FOUR HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, I960 v' ' COPCO LAKE CAN BEST BE SEEN BY BOAT as at present the road does not follow the shoreline closely enough to afford the viewer a true picture. Here Mrs. Lathrop takes on the chores of official guide for the reporter on a tour of the Siskiyou County lake by motor cruise. British Town Is Home Of Sports Car ABINGDON, England (UPI) To many of the world's sports car lovers, all roads lead from Abing don. This is where the British Motor Corporation builds (sports car ad dicts prefer "create") some of the best-soiling sports cars on earth 75 million dollars worth from North America alone Jn 1958. In fact, the company is hope lessly behind in its orders, most of them from the United States, for its M.G.A.'s, Sprites and Aus- Formers! Ranchers! Stockmen! SEE JUCK for Your Truck! JUCKELAND MOTORS, Inc. Ynr lntmationl DaUr It Ik A Klomath Ph. 2-2581 tin Healeys. And it's no won der. Mass production is just a pair of dirty words to workmen at the Abingdon plant. They have an as sembly line all right; but it doesn't have a conveyor built, and all cars must be shoved along the line by hand. Yet, the 1,000 employes "cre ate" more than a sports car a man each week. Eight out of ten of them go to the U.S. Just outside the door at the end of the assembly line is a pas ture where cows graze. Their moo ing is louder than any noise from the factory. On the other side of the plant is a cemetery. Plant officials said they woudn't dream of expand ing the building; a cemetery is a cemetery after all and it de serves respect. The neat and tidy plant lacks the huge rumbling machinery fa miliar to Britain s other auto plants and to those in Detroit The most modern machine at the Abingdon works is a soft drink dispenser. . . Read the article on page 50 of the January 1960 Farm Journal. PURINA RANGE CHECKERS will do the same job for the brood cow that PURINA STEER FATENA is doing for the feed-lot cattlemen. REDUCE YOUR FEEDING COSTS! Just 2 lbs. of PURINA RANGE CHECKERS will replace 10 lbs. of hay. If your hoy costs more than $17.50 a ton, see . . . Dixon Seed & Feed Henley Phone TU 4-8906 But it's rarely used. The work men sip tea while wielding their wicked spanners (monkey wrench es). They smile, often wear sports jackets to work and sometimes forget all about the new-fangled time clock they're supposed to punch. John Thornley, who still wears his old school tie, runs the place. Nobody calls him boss. He's just plain John. John loves sports cars and has written a book called "Preserving The Breed." He and his designers are wor ried that Detroit or some other heathen spot may dilute the pure sports car, which he insists is more than a "fun car." Thornley often hops over to the United States to see how the "breed" is doing. "They have the most fantastic selling methods over there," he said after a recent trip. "They have this man in Fort Worth who makes humorous com mercials about sports ears. Fan tastic!" Thornley doesn't let these val uable bits of Americana go to waste. He keeps notes and brings them back to England, where he lectures on the odd way those Yankees behave. But Thornley loves the way those Americans buy his cars. His aides said they feel at home in San Francisco, Boston, Dallas and Los Angeles. None of .these U.S. cities re semble Abingdon, an ancient cob blestoned town near the River Thames. But "we like those American cities because they have so many of our cars," explained one as sistant "preserver of the breed." Swine Testing Unit Opens Twelve Oregon swine breeders have placed a total of 64 purebred pigs on test at the new Oregon swine testing station near Hermis ton. Testing for feed efficiency, growth rate and mealiness of car cass will be finished about April 1, reports Dr. David England, Oregon State College animal husbandman, who is in charge of the industry- Wedding Age Gets Younger "They're neither too young nor too old" rings true for Oregon bvides who are marrying all the way from 15 to 76 years of age, sfiys an Oregon State College fam ily life specialist. Recent figures show that out of 9961 marriages in the state, one bride was under 15 and three brides married for the first time were 75 years of age or older. On previous marriages, 15 couples were 75 or older. Oregon marriages have become fewer in the last couple of years, but young people are marrying ear lier m life, reports Mrs. Roberta Frasier, OSC extension specialist. Both parties in the marriage un ion are getting younger, she con tinued. In the last few years, about 56 per cent of the Oregon brides and 18 per cent of the bridegrooms were 19 years of age or younger. More daughters are married off in Oregon at 19 or younger than in many other states which have similar marriage requirements, as far as legal age and specified wait ing period are concerned, she says. Today's brides average about three years younger than in grandmother's day. In 1890, the typ ical bride was 22 years old, and the groom was usually 26. sponsored station. Breeders who have pigs on test, and the breeds, include: Kenneth J. Smouse and Kenneth L. Smouse, lone, Yorkshire and Falouse; Wil liam E. Crawford, Glide,. Hamp shire; John Barrett, Amity; Berk shire; Walter Schaad, Newberg, Chester White; Orval Crimmins, McMinnville, Poland China; Ver non Heckman, Carlton, Chester White; Gordon Dromgoole, Yam hill, Tamworth; Earl Simantel, Cor nelius, Poland China and York shire; Philip Gentcmann, Estacada, Palouse; Oscar McCarty, Echo, Landrace; and OSC, Corvallis, Berkshire. Whether a public sale will be held at the end of the test period will be decided January 8 at a meeting of swine producers "and other interested persons. Those at tending the meeting at OSC also will set dates for spring and fall est periods, and review regulations governing entry of pigs and oper ational procedure, according to Dear, Firschknecht, OSC extension animal husbandry specialist. England reports considerable In terest already in the spring test ing period. The date when applica tions from spring testing can be submitted will be set at the Jan uary 8 meeting. The station has a capacity of 30 pens of four pigs each. Each entry must consist of at least two boars and one market hog. The producer must pay an entry fee of $10 per pig, which is applied to the cost of feed and labor for testing. Swine testing facilities were pro vided by the Oregon Wheat Com mission. Tom Davidson, superin tendent of the Umatilla branch ex peiiment station is local supervis or, and the OSC extension service and department of dairy and ani mal husbandry are responsible for testing procedures, analysis and use of data. STICK-TO-1T LAKELAND, Fla. (UPI) Mrs Helen K. Apfelbeck of Lakeland Florida, is a shining example of how perseverance pays off. The 53-year-old mother of three and grandmother of four, who started college in Nebraska 31 years ago, was recently graduated from Flor ida Southern College here. MISSING PERSONS SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. (UPD At least one telephone number was accidentally left out of the new Rockland County directory that of the Spring Valley police depart ment, i Lt f it ' 4 ',. Ci ' THE HOLE STORY One-man dttchdigger operated with tractor chews away in Coventry, England, fitted to the rear of the tractor, the digger can scoop 12 feet deep and has an operating arc of 185 degrees. It can be removed quickly and replaced with normal tractor equipment.
