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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, I960
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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
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' 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.