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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. .