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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1963)
What Ol RHUS Hhan TOW The Klamath County Chamber of Commerce represents the combined efforts of business, professional and other leaders who recognize that organized effort is always more effective than individual effort. The only aim of these community lead ers is to DEVELOP A GREATER AND BETTER KLAMATH COUNTY. COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ; O1-1 : 1 f THE ACTIVITr of the Chombtsr on the problem of hospital needs for the area n an ex ample of action to develop o flreater ond belter Klomath County. Bock in 1958 the Chamber recognued this need for the community and formed o committee to explore the need and then to bring to the point of oction. A step In this course was to employ Stanford Research to provide on outhoritolive report that would be recognized by medical oulhorit.es The need was established and means were narrowed down to two possibilities: a public bonding district or a private non-profit enterprise. This development work by the Chamber stimulated the in terest of the Presbyterian group, which has resulted in the present Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Inc. (Pictured: Max Saunders ond Don Whitworth presenting $500 check from OTI Chapter OSIA to Jim Slilwell, hospital fund general choirmon and Chamber vice president I ROADS AND HIGHWAYS W 7 til 0ROSEBURS i T7X ROSEBUDS S I I X. n.iauC ti l I) r " ' C f L ' ' ! N E v ' YUI C KS fCAitOTMiui WINMEMUCCA THE ROADS AND HIGHWAYS Committee works with the city and county ond state highway deportment to establish priorities for a program of work on most urgent needs for Klamath County. Many of the projects in priorities established in I960 hove come into being or ore in construc tion or planning stages now. Among them ore Wcstside Bypass north interchange and Link River unit; Alameda Street from Shasta Way to South Sixth; Washburn Way overcrossing Great Northern; North Washburn Woy bridge; Diamond Lake Highway improvement; Dead Indion Road paving; Winnemucca-To-The-Sca opening; extension of 4-lane on South Sixth; Rocky Point-Fort Klomath improvements. Major needs yet to be resolved ore for east-west travel be tween Lake County and Klamath Falls ond then east throuqh Orindole Draw to the new alignment cf the Loke of the Woods Road near Geary Bros, seed mill. TOURIST AND CONVENTION KLAMATH COUNTU 7 H ENCOURAGEMENT of the non-expendable industry . . . VISITORS ... is an important function of the Chamber. More than 50,000 pieces of Klamath County literature were passed out at the Chamber booth ot the Los Angeles Sport ond Vocation show lost March; other thousands went out at seven other major travel shows through Pacific Northwest Travel Association affiliation; still more thousands at the World's Fair ot the Oregon booth and at the Washington booth in conjunction with the Okanogan-Caribou Trail Association. The Cham ber office is kept open Saturdays during the summer to serve visitors with information that tends to make their stays longer in Klamath County. The Chamber maintains a lighted bill board just south of Weed directing traffic to the "scenic lake route" of Highway 97. (Pic tured; The Chcmber booth at the L.A. show). LEGISLATION CITIZENSHIP t , ...... : u. I iimIi wiiniii linn i ii ii i' ni 1 1 iii iaii ( lMiTwr-imniiiTiium imnirJr--Tii 5rl LEGISLATIVE ACTION is on octivity that is fundamental and which entails cndlJw hours nl study and research though dramatic activity may not he apporcnt. During sessions of the Orcqon Legislature ond the Congress committees study legislative proposals in detail and report the possibilities of such proposals to the Chamber hoard and the public The moral and financial support given the legislative apportionment measure was an example of more direct action. You can't win 'em all-. Citizenship education is an effort to build civic mindcdne-is m the community. In this field were the recent Economic Discussion Groups. Actirn Course m Practical Polities, ond Freedom vs. Commt'nism Workshop, tets of which were provided the schools. (Pictured: Legislative study committee in a lighter moment L R Lawrence Slater, Sec. Betly Trumpower, L. Orth Sisemore, Truman Runvan and Wayne Bloir). MOSQUITO CONTROL AGAIN THE CHAMBER recognired o public problcrn htch required more than swalting onrl cuwing When rhu motler lust come up (or consideration the Chomber promised that it o studv showed that mosquito control weie feasible it would see to it that the question of torming a Vector Control District was placed before the people for a vote. Lost July formation ot such a district was approved in o special election As weother turns warm in coming months there still will be reoson lor swotting and cussing the pesky insects, but the pro qrom has been voted in ond i under wnv to provide the most effective known control to moke life more pleasant for us in the summer ond for improving our position as a recreation center Pictured the Vtlloin1. OTI AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS rt'.f cn; w sum n- MANY YEARS OF HARD WORK in the interests of Oregon Technical Institute were cul minated last year with ground breaking for start of building a new campus. The Chamber hat been active ond effective year by year in holpinq solve problems involved in making Oregon Tech the truly outstanding technical school that it is in providing training for young people in specialized fields. The Chomber also instigated study and has offered full support to public school boards in the planning to alleviate overcrowding the Klomath elementory and high school facilities. Maintenance of high teaching standards and modem phvsical plants for the public schools; development of the new campus and full scholastic potential of Oregon Tech will contmueo be objectives of the Chamber (Pictured: Ground breokmg for new OTI ccmous. L-R: Scnofor Horry Boivin, Archirct David Puqh, campus Mtp fund raising chairmon Vera Owens, Mike Bilsiger, Vern Moore and Dr. Winston Purvine, OTI president). CHAMBER INTEREST IS BROAD This presentation Is nr on all-inclusive re port but rather a suggestion of some of the things that the Chomber means lo you. Other activities thot mu-t he mentioned Iho.qh include those of the Aviation Committee Going bock, the Chamber was essentially instru mental in bringing the Air f-orce here. It con t.nues to he active in the interest of commercial online iervice end of private flying Private atr crolt operation ot Kingsley Field f a bright soot in the West. Adminisi ration of our forest wealth o'v-osv his been of prime concern at the Chomler Ii members were active m the extendfd and orduous negotiations that resulted tn the creation ot the Wnema National Forest with headquarters m Klomath falls. This committee is continuing its wnrk in the interest of our for fit product in. dustnes. Rntorua the New Zealand sister dty rf Klomath f alls. The chamber has token i pa-t in the echonge of information on economies, cu' tU'f ond all interests between th sister cidev The Chamber studv of deer management prob lems has brought hearings from oil interested parties and is a continuing stufv for the bene Id of the people of Klamath generally. A committee has hern in contact with t Department of Health, Education and Welfare ond has been assured that the problem of ahoe in Klomath Lake will be one of the matters tor study when the new Water Pollution Laboratory is established in Corvallts. Work in industrial development, pnmorily of wood products 0"d food processing of Our agricul tural bounlv. iv o Img ronae process and 0 con. tmuma Ovtisttv "honccment of evstmg indus tries for the benefit ot th.i-ve engaged in their iperatir-ns is of first concern It is hned that this suggestion of the seep of Chamber of Commerce activities will tJemonstrotp k w tie Chamber ton be of greater service to sou ood how you may t-e oHe to wck with olf m tkf Chamber to och.ee desirable end Your ug jestic-ni ond comments Qrf mrt wflcivwe 1962-63 OFFICERS JAMES MONTEITH President JAMES STILWELL 1st Vice President RALPH HUNTER 2nd Vice President MYRON SHANNON Treasurer FRED EHLERS EX-Officio GEORGE T. CALLISON Monagcr BOARD OF DIRECTORS JAMES BOCCHI C A. BAILEY NOEL FLYNN BROOKS DICKERMAN JOHN MOEHL DR. E. E. HOWARD JAMES STILWELL LYLE KELLSTROM ADOLPH ZAMSKY Jr. MYRON SHANNON KEITH COBO JULIAN ECCLES ED HICKMAN GEORGE PROCTOR FLOvD WYNNE A FEW WAYS IN WHICH CHAMBER MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS YOU! IT MAKES MONEY FOR YOU ... as the only fu'l-time organisation devoted solely to main taining o propecus ond dynamic economy from wh.ch YOU profit. IT REPRESENTS YOU . . . os a department cf your bus'ness in such fields os Snduitnal de velopment, cvic a 'airs taxation end lrg'loMvf Of'Oirs IT ANSWERS YOUR MAIL . . . reptv.ng to mere than 3,000 inquiries a pout the Klamath Country last eor , . , creof'n'3 fax crct 'e imp'c '" 0"d budi'3 rut'c elf cm tr OUR cm mun.tv. YOUR tusirf and OU IT PROFITS AND INCREASES YOUR IN VESTMENTS ... by focusing (he talents of near ly 500 community leaders on todoy's most urgent needs lor oction. You couldn t buy Hie to'snll lhat thes- men and women voluntarily lend la the community good IT GIVC5 YOU A CHANCt TO SHARE . . . i" YOUO community re',rs,bi!,ty Me makmj Momoth County the L.J r CJmn,un,ty YOU Cnl it to V JOIN US . . . Will vou !, wh u, in ,1-, interest, o' thfj. th,,,,, m,, 0,,ra (H1, Q, TU i j!9j n, ri,-r ,., r, ,, Cl'omher nll.ee at 3:3 Van Si-eer icii You :i be xeicomed. KLAMATH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMI
