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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1963)
i Business Review By Floyd L Wynne HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, April 21, 1963 PAGE 3 GRAND OPENING Weisfield's held a grand opening sa Is at its new location, corner Seventh and Main, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The new quarters have been re modeled inside and out and offer customers a much larger selection of jewelry and re lated items. This view shows early customers on the -first day of th grand opening. Keep Oregon Green Head Gets Award Albert Wiescndanger, Salem, executive secretary of the Keep Oregon Green Association, has been awarded a plaque in recogni tion of his long career and valu able contributions in the field of fire prevention and protection. He is the brother of Walter Wiesen- , danger of Klamath Falls. The presentation was made by Russell E. Getty, state director of the Bureau of Land Management. '. In making the presentation at the KOG meeting, Getty said of wiescndanger, "As a devoted tig- lire in conservation and protec tion, you are one of the most wide ly known and highly respectedi individuals in the protection field Your career has been marked by1 distinguished ability and an abid ing thoroughness and attention to idetail in the performance of fire protection. He said that if the question of who is Mr. Fire Prevention in Oregon were put to the 125.000 for mer Green Guards, the state and federal fire protection agencies the protection association and ev eryone else interested in fire pro tection and prevention, there could be but one answer Albert K. Wiesendanger. M-W Report Shows Big Sales Spurt .- Montgomery Ward and Com- iiany has issued its report J962 operations showing substan tial gains in all departments, with -t rod it sales and catalogue sales both showing sizable increases, .' Ten new retail stores and 21 .catalogue stores were opened dur ing 1952. .. The illustrated report discuss es significant changes which have occurred and which are emerging in the retail industry, and re .views the merchandising, catalog 'and retail programs which arc Ibeing developed to capitalize upon the company's historic strengths, t Included in the report are the following pertinent financial and statistical data: t Credit sales were 42 per cent of total sales, compared with 40 jier cent last year. Catalog sales of $-148 million in 1962 were the highest in the history of Montgomery Ward. ' 21 new catalog stoics were es- -tablished in 1982 increasing the to la! to 691. ' 10 new retail stores were es tablished during the year; the liscal-year-end total of retail stores in operation was 512. 28 retail stores were scheduled ior opening in 196320 as reloca tions, 7 as additions in metropoli tan markets, one in the new mar ket near Cape Canaveral. 100 old stores will be relocated to new, larger buildings during the next five years. ' 300 old stores will be modern jicxt few years a firm schedule Jias not yet been announced. New Montgomery Ward stores established since 1958 accounted for 38 per cent, of Ward's retail sales in 1962. Merger Noted ; PORTLAND ITI - A plan to merge Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Co. into Georgia - Pacific Corp. was announced by officials of both firms Saturday. The plan will be submitted to stockholders of the companies. Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Co., which had earnings of $4,827. 632 last year, manufactures sul phite pulp and chemicals at Bcl lingham. Wash., and printing pa per at several Eastern plants. Georgia Pacific Corp. had net earnings of $19,157,000 last year. 1 '' I-in.n-.n.nin.i.iritKrniX.. , Wr,'Lm-m,wmutm Ji WINNERS Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Van Pelt, owners of the Sewing Machine Center, 1414 East Main, have returned from an expense-paid trip to the Viking Sewing Machine factory at Husqvarna, Sweden. The air trip was made with other Americans who won the 17-day tour on sales quotas over a one-year period. The travelers spent five days in Sweden, then visited Denmark, France, and Eng land. It was the first trip abroad for Mr. and Mrs. Van Pelt. They found warm welcomes for Americans every where, particularly in stores, markets and hotels. New Phone Rates Listed Telephone callers in the state of Oregon received an unexpected bonus this week when it was learned that new reduced "After 9" rates on long distance calls had been extended to intrastate as well as interstate calls. West Coast Telephone District Manager Lyle Cross said the new rates on calls within the state went into effect April 1. while those on out-of-state calls become effective at one minute past mid night tonight. Both rates establish a maxi mum charge for the first three minutes of any long distance sta- v t 7 flj ' , V'' l' IV ''-'--itfYti JO ftO . H!8; - r f? re - : . : t,kmMMAm-HihKAia-mOniin n ilifil MrMtlliiii n nn inim,iJ BICYCLE WINNERS New Higgins bicycles were won' recently by a girl from Tulelake and a boy from Klamath Falls in a special contest sponsored by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. At left, Marie Roium is shown being presented her bike by Kurt Fiedler of the company. At right, Bobby Sigmund, 310 Iowa, receives his bike Tennant Group 1 Plans Dinner TENNANT A free dinner is to be served Sunday by the Tennant Agency, Inc., new owners of the former Shaw Lumber Company logging town of Tennant. The agency will open to lease several small homes used during the lime of the logging company in preparation to restoration of other buildings to be used for visitors. The old hotel is to be restored in fashion of the early 1900s lor tourist accommodations and ycar-around recreation facilities are planned. Those planning to attend can travel U.S. Highway 97 and turn to the left at a sign marking the turnoff. tion-to-station call placed between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. Cross said. The interstate maxi mum (Alaska and Hawaii exclud ed) is $1, the intrastate maxi mum 75 cents. All charges are subject to tax. To illustrate the effect of the new rate on interstate calling, Cross cited the example of a call to New York City which, from most Oregon locations, previously called for an initial-three-minute charge of $1.75 plus tax. That charge is now reduced to $1 plus tax if the call is placed between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. GUARANTEED TRUCK SERVICE AND REPAIRS We're Specialists on 4 - wheel drive Willys 'Jeep' vehicle!, but we ore equipped to serv ice all makes. JOE FISHER Lincoln, Mercury, Comet Willys 'Jeep' vehicles 677 Sa. 7th Ph. 4-8104 Emtraency Phont: Chotlit Romp, 2-4958 Auto Firm Salesmen Get Awards Seven salesmen from Balsiger Motor Company were honored at a banquet in San Francisco for outstanding retail sales perform ance held at the Fairmont Hotel Saturday, April 6. The seven are Jack Miller and R. A. Vandendoel, sales award; Louis M. Carr, 10-year medal lion; Roland E. West, Richard L. Dick, L. Chidester, and Porter Clemens, 300-500 award. Among the award winners will be 22 salesmen who will receive Ford Motor Company's Top Hat ter Award, which is presented an nually to the less than two per cent of the nation's Ford deal- fof the top sales honor. Purpose of the Top Hatter Award is to focus attention on the outstanding salesmen and on car and truck selling as a profession that per forms a valuable service to the national economy and 'the local community. In addition to the Top Halter awards, special recognition was given at the banquet to 62 sales men who won sales awards for achievements almost at the Top Hatter level, and to 36 salesmen who qualified for Medallion awards symbolic of 300-500 Club membership for at least 10 years, Tidewater Contest Announced Beginning this week, Tidewater Oil Company's Flying A service station dealers are asking all mo torists in this area to enter the company's "Free Trip to Paris" Sweepstakes. Prizes in the contest, to be awarded to one Flying A custom or each week, consist of a or week, expense-paid vacation ii Paris for two, accommodations at a leading Paris hotel, all meals and an afternoon of sight-seeing sponsored by the French govern ment. Entry blanks arc available at every Hying A station. Aitnougn any adult may enter the contest pnly one prize may be awarded per family. Winners will be select ed each week m drawings conduct ed by the D. L. Blair Corporation, an independent New York judg ing organization. Tidewater will notily weewy winners ny man from Everett Ball, company manager. Winners had to complete a set of crowns depicting historical points of interest in the United States. The winning displays are also shown in each picture. Other individuals completing these sets will receive a six bottle carton of King Size Coca-Cola. SAWMILL and PLANING MILL NO LIMIT NO RESERVE AUCTION SAWMILL 20" ( Si. SKRAG6 Mill o.t'l it .2) 1!0 hp. moloil. .13 Jtfl'tf tnd ito., 2 chi.n loi lu'iill ti'- U,i mtoi. til Cll.tutr. utill ind JJ It I Ctin LIVE LOG DICK. 64" 100 1RIM SAW. 50 ft p melt!. II11R t SIOWEU I I 72" EOGER tnd. MIRICAN l" Stn.lH tint RIP SAW. CONVEYORS. TRANSFER UNITS, tic. MISC. EQUIPMENT C 0 SO ft p. Compimtr; Ctl 0-1400 Oittll Eltc. GlM'ltti; Enintl. Shop LQUiP.. MOIOM. rumpt. tlKUHtl Ut pint t Gill. 141 Bldfi 'to bt mtitdi. MILTON J. WERSHOW CO., Auctioneer oNt or amiaica'I rouxosr AUCTIONIl 7211 MELROSE WE. J-4IM1 LOS ANQcLLS, CALtr. 21JO 3 W. h AVE. CA 2 Turtle Club Initiates Weyerhaeuser Employe A club that thrives on misfor tune added a new member Mon day. April 15, when Charles E. Melton, Weyerhaeuser Company millwright, was inducted into the select Turtle Club. This unique and exclusive club consists only of members who. but for the protection of a hard hat, would have been scriouslv injured. Melton was working in the fac tory on Jan. 9, 1963, where a fel low employe was working on a scaffold, countersinking some holes. His drill broke and knocked him off the scaffold, at the same time knocking a ladder down on Melton's head, 10 feet below. The hard hat protected h i ml PPL Reports Industrial Upturn In Area Served PORTLAND Substantial ex - pansions now under way by in dustries in areas served by Paci fic Power & Light Company will push ahead the growth of the western communities, the compa ny reported at its annual meeting of stockholders Tuesday. The principal plant additions are for manufacturing of pulp and paper and plywood and other prod ucts of the Northwest's primary industry, according to Veryl N. Hoover, PP&L vice president for sales and industrial development The PP&L official said the new production capacity will continue the trend toward greater diver sity of products and the inte gration of operations Uiat has contributed to the stability of the forest industries. Processing of agricultural prod ucts for growing national markets also will show gains in the year Hoover predicted. The PP&L stockholders were told that use of electricity in creased among all groups of cus tomers during 1962, and that the new industries now being served by the system had contributed substantially to the boost in busi ness. Among major new industries were the U.S. Steel Corporation's, huge iron ore mining and milling development near Lander, Wyo., and St. Regis Paper Company s big plywood mill at Libby, Mont. Other large operations to be added this year include a plywood mill BV ORDER OF OWNI RS FLEISCHMAN LUMBER CO. On the Pranmft Mountain Home, Idaho (Appro. 43 Mllo S C. of Boi) Fri., MAY 3 10 a.m. PLANING MILL YAtfS AMERICAN A ?0, I Knift i20" PLAMR. MM mtlor. AMERICAN 7A Mailt HAHIH, , Clt f trimmer "0Ll '' .. ROLLING STOCK (2) Hrtltl MS0 IS.OOOt tORRUFIS. Ootniif LUMBER CARRIER Ctl 0 I w,n ,, Kll ,d 0(,N H 4.T (litcft. iiimrfr LUimotn 20.000 Mtt. STUDS. 2 I 4 I I N. Stnd for Complimtntpiy Circular 1237 3iJ ST. TE. 4-724Z OAKLAND. CALIF. 01S1 PORTLAND, OREGON rom serious injury. While members do not join the dub voluntarily, they agree that the existence of the club places special emphasis on the necessity to wear the hard hats when on duty. The ceremony of Melton s in duction was witnessed by fore man Ed Sample and International Association of Machinists repre sentative Joe Lowther. Company branch manager J. B. Bishop presented Melton with a wallet card, membership cerlificate and lapel pin. Ho received a new hard hat complete with a Turtle Club dc- cal from the club as his official badge of membership. by Weyerhaeuser Timber Com- pany at North Bend, Ore., and a second papermaking machine at Western Kraft Company in Alba ny, Ore. , Reports on progress of the com pany's business were made by President D. R. McClung and olh cr ofliccrs. Paul B. McKcc, chairman of the board, reported 93 per cent of the company's outstanding shares of stock were represented in person or by proxy at the meeting and was almost a record percentage of participation. The shares were voted unanimously for the election of 23 directors, most of whom arc business lead ers in western cities served by the company. The company's slocks are owned by 67,000 shareholders, most of whom reside in the six western states in which PP&L has serv ice areas. Elected to the board were: Paul B. uMcKee, Don R. Mc Clung, Paul F. Murphy, Arthur L. Fields. George T. Gragg, Al lan A. Smith, A. W. .Trimble, all of Portland; Glenn L. Jack son, A. S. Cummins, John C. Boyle, Alfred S. V. Carpenter Henry H. Pringlo, George M Roberts, Eugene Thorndike, all of Medford; H. R. Baxter and David S. Soliday, Philadelphia. Pa.; Henry G. Lambert. New York, N.Y.; W. M. Marshall, Spokane, Wash.; Lyman J. Bunting, Yaki ma, Wash.; Donald Sherwood; Walla Walla, Wash.; Gregory A. iiiison, San Francisco; Harry If. Campbell, Kahspell, Mont J. H. Irvine, Lebanon, Ore. Dealers Hosted Klamath Falls area Flying A dealers and their employes at tended their annual Tidewater Oil Company dealer meeting April 17 at the Winema Hotel. Ray W. Bigger Jr., Tidewater field sales manager, hosted the 25 dealers. Following dinner, Tidewater showed Hie dealers a program outlining better ways to serve their customers. On the agenda were talks on station operations by three successful Flying A serv ice station dealers, followed by a slide presentation on Tidewater's quality products, given by the company's field sales manager. HERE'S PROOF YOU'LL LIKE OUR PRINTING: Quality Job No Job Too Large or Small Deadlines Met on Time Satisfaction Guaranteed and, our customers back! Printing, Inc. 12th & Klamath TU 4-5373 .... t .jjV I I JOINS TURTLE CLUB Charles E. Melton, third from left, became a member of the select Turtle Club on Monday, April 15. Melton, a millwright at 'Weyerhaeuser Com pany, was wearing a hard hat which protected him from a ladder which fell from 10 feet above him. The hard hat may well have saved him from doath or serious injury. Foreman Ed Sample, left, watches the ceremony as Jack Bishop, company branch man ager, presents Melton with a wallet card, membership certificate and lapel pin. Far right is Joe Lowther, International Association of Machinists representative. Realtors Honor Past Siecia recognition was paid Monday noon to surviving past presidents of the Klamath Falls Board of Realtors at their noon luncheon at the Winema. Past president pins were pre sented to nine past presidents w ho were present, and to three others who were not able to attend. Those receiving the pin award Included Ed Chilcote, Comer Jones, Burton Gray, Jim Stil well, Bob Chilcote. Willard Cedar leaf, Andy Silani. Vern Durant and Deane Sacher. Not present were Al Schmcck, Bruce Owens and Jesse Smith. PAST 'PRESIDENTS HONORED The regular meeting of Ihe Klamath Falls Board ef Realtors this past week brought special honor to past presidents of the group. Those present for the occasion include, seated, left to right, Ed Chilcote, three times a president, and only active member of the first realty board established in 1912; Go- ; mer Jones and Burton Gray. Standing, same order, Jim Stilwell, Bob Chilcote, Willard ; Cedarleaf, Andy Silani, Vern Durant and Deane Sacher. Not present were past presi dents Al Schmeck, Bruce Owens and Jesse Smith. Current president is Cal Peyton. Allstate Awards Confidence Seal Arthur E. Grigg and Fred C. Lawrence, Klamath Falls, have1 licon awarded Seal of Confidence certifications by Allstate Insur ance Companies, Charles E. Col bert, regional manager, has an nounced. The certification goes only to company agents who have dem onstrated oulstanding ability and exceptional judgment in dealing with the public over a long period of time, Colbert said. Awarded on an annual basis, it connotes outstanding service to policyholders and devotion to the principles of good business prac tice. a Wards Special Service fop . . . BUSINESS FIRMS INSTITUTIONS GOV'T AGENCIES WARDS OFFERS EVERYTHING IT SELLS AT FULL COMMERCIAL DISCOUNTS Words giant purchoslng power means lower prices of com mercial discounts for oil quali fied purchasers. Choose from thouionds of quality items . . . backed by nation-wide delivery and service. Coll Words first! ohono today TU 4-3188 CONTRACT AND COMMERCIAL SALES DEPT. Ed Chilcote has been president of the realtors group three times, the first time in 1917. Chilcote recalled that the real tors have actually started an or ganization three different times. The first group was organized in 1912, he recalled, and the only two surviving members of that group are himself and Bert Hall, who is no longer in the realty busi ness. The. group has 12 members at first, and was active until the beginning of World War I when it disbanded. Organized again in I the 1920s it served until the late Glass Given Kimball Glass Company, 521 Walnut, is now offering a new warranty on laminated 1 safety glass windshields made by Shat terproof Glass Corporation of De troit. The warranty is a fully writ ten warranty on quality. Accord ing to W. B. 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During past sessions, the outgo ing president was not presented a past president pin, and the Mon day ceremony instituted this pro cedure and caught up on the backlog of presentations. Cal Peyton is the current presi dent of the realty group. , . , . Warranty step is "one of the most revolution ary innovations in the industry since the advent of curved wind shields.' i The warranty covers such things as let-goes of plastic and glass in the center of the wind shield, edge separations, diseolora tions which impair safe driving vision and strain cracks which start and stop in the body of the windshield. -Si Higher-quality, factory-applied Butler-Tones color finishes Better detailing More technical services BENNINGTON CO. TU 4-3334 Bryant mm
