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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1960)
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON SUNDAY, JANUARY 24. 10 . PACE FOUR All Boats. Regardless Of Construction Material Need Some Upkeep Thinking of spending part of the savings account for a family boat this year? If yoirare. better plan on spending some of your time tak ing care of your new investment. You'll probably run across some well-meaning land lubbers who'll tell you that maintenance is a thing of the past with certain boat materials. Beware skipper, these guys are off course. And if they tell you that owning a wood boat is all work and no play, they are really lost in a sea of misconceptions. Any experienced sea dog will tell you that all boats plastic, metal or wood need a certain amount of attention. Plastics may require a little less work than wood, and aluminum less than ei ther. But all boats need some, and how much and how often de pends more on the care they are given than on the materials they are made with. There are a lot of other popular misconceptions floating around that ought to be sunk. Let's tor pedo these mistaken ideas first, then explore what must be done to keep your new boat ship-shape. Fire one! Some people, by im plication or actual statement, want you to believe that wood boats need annual caulking. Poppycock! Most wood boats, especially those under 20 feet, are built with either molded or sheet plywood with glued joints and will never need caulking. Larger boats with con ventional planking might need caulking once or twice in a life lime. There are plenty of wood boats afloat that haven't b e en caulked for 30 years and they're still sound and tight. Fire two! Another popular bit of baloney is that wood topsides and decks need repainting every season. Give that nonsense the heave-ho! Experienced boatsmcn will tell you that wood boat can go as long as five seasons with out repainting if they have had Ford Trucks Last Longer en rh FARM Sc your Farm Truck Headquarters BALSIGER MOTOR CO. Main .1 !. Ph. TU 4-1131 overeating! DISEASE with rt(ft'rtV& LAMB VAX Type D BACTERIN (Cloilridium Ptifrmgni) One rsy-tonir mifciiuit th rcht niaking immunity 1 . usually I T' fUlhfthe I lT) in 10 (). : L II fMH,,md A Hi I rly nwrlifl , SB I without nk do job your tlf and I PACIFIC SUPPLY J COOPERATIVE 11537 So. 4 TU 2-44541 , nnin.n inn, r proper care. Fire three! There are those that would leave you to believe that rcfinishing your boat is a mon strous, distasteful job. While it is always a heck of a lot more fun to be out on the water rather than working on your boat at dockside, most serious boat owners consider it no ugly assignment to keep their boats in top shape. On the other hand, they take a great deal of pride in the appearance of their boats and the time and ef fort they put into maintenance re flects their sincere love of boat ing. So, if we've managed to hit the tacget and explode these myths, let's look at what must be done. To get the best out of your boat, keep up with it. Make repairs when they first appear. Don't let it go. Give your boat a fresh wa ter rinse after exposure to salt water. Keep it dry when not in use. Plastic boats should have wax ing twice a year. Some, discoloring can be corrected by using auto type cleaners. Despite the poular misconception that fiber glass sur faces do not need painting, it is advisable to paint for several very good reasons: For fouling protection . . . bar nacle, grass and other fouling or ganisms will attack and grow on unpainted surfaces. To improve color . . . polyester resins are used to prepare the fiber glass laminate. Even when color pigments are added, the fin ish is streaked, translucent and not uniformly attractive. Calls For Teachers OREGON STATE COLLEGE Biggest call for teacher gradu ates in history was received last year by the Oregon Slate College school of education with the de mand exceeding the supply in al most all fields. A report prepared by Mrs. Kathryn Smith, director of the teacher placement office, shows 283 June graduates were placed in their first teaching positions and 230 graduates of past years were placed in new and better teaching jobs, some in adminis trative posts. Beginning salaries averaged be tween $4100 and $4600. with $3772 as the top starting figure. Nearly 200 school administra tors from Oregon, California. Washington. Alaska, and Hawaii came to the campus for inter views with teacher candidates Mrs. Smith reported. All told, more than 7,000 teacher vaean cies were listed during the year with the teacher placement of fice. The majority were for ele mentary teaching positions. The number of requests for college teacners was up over previous years. Most calls at OSC from hich schools were for teachers of home economics, girls physical educa tion, mathematics, science, indus trial arts and business subjects a great many calls were re ceived also, Mrs. Smith noted, for graduates prepared to do special type teaching, such as speech cor rection work, remedial reading or working with retarded chil dren. Foreign language teachers also are in short supply. Elemen tary schools are seeking move young men teachers. About three-fourths of the OSC graduates are staying in Oregon to teach but opportunities in other states attracted a big group of '.dehors again this year. The OSC placement office also helped graduates get teaching jobs in Alaska, France, Guam, Hawaii Canada and England. To subdue texture . . . unpainted fiber glass laminates show t h e characteristic texture of the fiber glass weave. This is objectionable where a smooth, high-quality fin ish is desired. To retard bleaching . . . fiber glass pigments are subject to bleaching when exposed to ultra violet rays. Painting retards this action. Varnished wood surfaces, or "bright work" will need light sanding and a fresh coat about once a year. This is important. It is a relatively easy iod it you don't let it go too long. The old adage "a stitch in time saves nine" never had a truer applica tion than in boat maintenance. The time eventually comes, how ever, when it is necessary to do a complete rcfinishing job. This means getting down to the wood. It used to be a tough job, but now with modern high powered paint and varnish removers and the availability of rentable power equipment, the chore is a relative ly easy one. If you keep your boat in salt water you need anti-fouling paint on the bottom regardless of the material used to build the hull. These are copper based paints available through many boat sup ply outlets. Three coals are gen erally recommended. Anything worth while requires care and a boat is no exception. But there is a certain satisfaction you gain that makes the time spent on keeping your boat in top condition that's worth every mo ment of it. X s.D. V Waterloo;! s yi:-. : goodTand. r-rvqfeJ5- sborfon&1Hzi& KAN5.- --y ' ' -V BELLEVILLE, ILC...( . ICENTRAL STATIONI '-"Cjf. !' ". -?.'.C....TliL " ';'" 1 KANSAS CITY. MO.I .ty CAMP CHAFFEE, V 2femSL 3 tinker afb,- R- J STORM STALKERS Scientists have come up with another weapon in their growing attack on the secrets of weather. Severe storms and squalls anywhere in the U.S. can be detected and tracked by moans of a system that tunes into radio signals generated by lightning strokes called "sferics" (from "atmospherics"). Map above shows where a Sferios Locating System, sponsored by the Air Force, has gone into operation. Signals from an outlying point are relayed to a central station where an electronic plotter pinpoints the storm. One possi bility is the early detection and identifying of tornadoes. ) MINN. WIS. jffCI S. DAK S 339.570,000 'VTlfWV JCVl? ' R'.t,.s Bushels V Sg8BS&VOM-'VVS 86,730,000 Bushe,s S viiJvW'vVy Bushels r' HEb 826.812,000 ) "J n 347.800.000 IND. ,22JoOO : 696,456,000 1 Bushels I f 244,915,000 . CORN OF PLENTY This year's corn crop, the first to be harvested since all acreage con trols were eliminated, continues to shape up as a record-breaking one. Newsmap above shows the figures for the nine loading corn producing states, as estimated by the U.S. Agriculture Department. Total crop, based on conditions at the beginning of November, will be around 4.4 billion bushels. Although this is a drop of some 26 million bushels from the October estimate, the harvest will still be 600 million bushels above the previous record set in 1958. Corn yield in 1959 is put at 52.2 bushels an acre, compared with 51.7 in 1958 and a 1948-1957 average of 40.6 bushels. j,,., . j. y 7-4 -1 v5lft,'A pri vjv1 ; it 9 fair ubtttM AN OLD "PRO" STILL SERVES If scientists' predictions come true, in a few years 100 per com accurate wcainer forecasting will oe possiuie. unc of the pioneers uvine-iasK of making this a reality is the Boeing 707 prototype, the original of the Jetliners now in pas senger service. Its usefulness far liom over, it has been turned into a jet-propelled weather station by Boeing and Benilix Aviation. The airplane's clean linos are studded with all kinds of sensing devices. Carrying radar, cameras and its own electronic computer, the craft is busy snilling, probing and measuring atmospheric data as a forerunner of future flying laboratories. .
