i Business Review
By Floyd L Wynne
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, April 21, 1963
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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.
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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-
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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.
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AND REPAIRS
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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.
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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
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On the Pranmft
Mountain Home, Idaho
(Appro. 43 Mllo S C. of Boi)
Fri., MAY 3 10 a.m.
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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.
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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
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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. Chase, president
and chairman of the board for
the 40-year-old firm, this new
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Presidents
30s when again it was disbanded.
The current group was reorgan
ized following World War II. Chil
cote has served as president in
each of the three groups. . ,
Vern Durant has served as pres
ident of the realtors on two oc
casions, and Bob Chilcote has
served one and one-half terms.
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
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