Strike Threat Cost Estimated
At $4 Million By SP Railroad
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WIN FIRST PLACE AWARD The Klamath Falls Distributing Company walked off
with a first place sales award in their particular barrelage category at Rainier Brew
ery's annual Oregon Distributor meeting held at the Multnomah Hotel recently. The
award was accepted by Bill Hagerman, owner of the local firm, shown, second from
left. Shown here, left to right, Jim Parker, driver-salesman; Hagerman, Burke William
son, Oregon sales manager, and Alan Ferguson, executive vice president of Sicks'
Rainier Brewing Company. Hagerman repeated as an award winner, having taken the
trophy many times in previous years.
General Contractors Offer
Road Data To AH Counties
The Associated General Con
tractors today announced devel
opmcnt of a program offering
research, consultation and techni
cal assistance intended to aid Ore
gon counties in determining the
most economical and feasible
method of county road construc
tion. In describing the project, Leon
aid Hunkle. president of the
Portland Chapter, AGC, said the
new service would be available
to officials of Multnomah County
and the slate's 35 other counties
so that the county and the taxpay
ers may obtain the best possible
road construction for the least
Amount of dollars.
; "The many years of experience
which AGC members have in the
instruction of roads, the results
of their research and the bene
fits of their technical knowledge
are being offered without obliga
tion In officials of any county
with the hope that this assis
tance may bring about coopera
tive teamwork that could benetit
both the industry and the pub
lic." Runkle added.
A special committee consisting
of representatives of the Associ
ated GcneVal Contractors, Asso
ciation of Oregon Counties and
Association of Oregon County En
gineers and Surveyors already
has been working (or more than
two years in preparing the
groundwork for the joint coop
erative effort.
Primary emphasis in the pro
gram is being placed upon en
couraging counties to adopt an
, A "heliambulance"
copter ambulance.
is p
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TRUCK
SERVICE
AND REPAIRS
We're Specialist! on
4 - wheel drive Willys
'Jeep' vehicles, but we
are equipped to serv
ice all makes.
JOE FISHER
Lincoln, Mercury, Comet
Willys 'Jeep' vehicles
677 So. 7th PS. 4-8104
Emtrgencr Phone:
Chorl.i Ramp, 2-4958
PUBLIC AUCTION
VOLUNTARY SALE BY ORDSR Of
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ROBERT DOLLAR
LUMBER CO.
23 Mttt North 8 Omnti Ptl
off Highway 99
GLENDALE, ORE.
COMPLETE. MODERN PLANING MILL
and CUT UP PLANT & SAWMILL
NOT NEEDED IN FUTURE OPERATIONS
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MILTON J.WERSHOW CO Auctioned
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economically valid cost account-1
ing system which will give a real-lent
Merrill Woman Honored
For 25 Years Service
MKKHILI- Mrs. M. A. "Eva"
Bowman, Merrill insurance repre
tentative for many years, received
un honor for a quarter of a cen
tury of affiliation with lite Queen
Insurance Company of America.
one of several companies which
he represents in the Klamath Ba
sin.
The presentation of a handsome
plaque was made this week by
James K. Foley, Portland, state
ayent, here on business. The cer
tificate of appreciation was signed
hy J. C. Qualmann, vice presi
dent of the company. i
Mis. Bowman, a longtime resi
dent of Merrill, leads a busy life
with church, club and civic duties
in addition to her business schedule.
RECOGNITION Mn. M. A. "Eva" Bowman of Merrill,
local representative of the Queen Insurance Company
of America for 25 years, was presented with en engraved
plaque this week by James E. Foley, Portland, state
Agent for the company, in recognition of her quarter of
a cenutry of competent service. Queen Insurance Com
pany is within the Royal-Globe Insurance Group, the
largest company in the world with headquarters in Lon-don.
TUESDAY
MAY 28
10 A. M.
CUT 11 PLANT
SAWS: Slltinn Rl H. 8. Trim
Irvmren Swing Cut -Oft;
Band sa.
ARMSTRONO UMNO ROOM" C".
( I Sa A Band Saw Sha'ptna't;
St'tttntf Roti. B a ttc : (SO)
P'nfr, Vattf HrarJi. irtfj 10
pn.if S'aaf Siwi. etc.
CUT UP RLANT SAW ( rvif
irin Trp i3 Trim St. J500
rprn. rnf ; C'anton Bow Maeh.
ALSO: G'a-l.-f CCi.n, ConvtyOf.
T'i- U"ta, I'Mi'i, E tcincal.
lOUiaMINT
LW: won
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OAKIANO. CALtr.
ll PORTLAND. OREGON
istic comparison between differ
methods of construction.
She has served as clerk of the
Merrill School Board, city record
er, is a past president of the La
dies Aid of the Merrill Presbyteri
an Church where she has been
Youlli Fellowship adviser for five
years, has served as president of
the Merrill Library Club, past ma
tron of Prosperity Chapter. OES.
a past noble yrand of the Merrill
Rebekah Lodne. and is a charter
member of the Merrill Thela Rho
Girls Club of the 100F Lodge.
She has been active and an offi
cer in the Iost River Garden Club
and at present is a Nationally Ac
credited Floucr Show Judpe.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have two
sons. Vernon, a teacher in Port
land, and Donald, education advis
er at Kinpsley Field.
Bids Asked
At Kingsley
& " ft
Bjrijt are tn he opened on June. our industry's products. Today.
10 and II for two projects at 'that figure is (loser to 2700 sq. ft,
Kinelev Field.
The Base Procurement Office!
announced tins ueek that
bids will br opened at 2.30 pm I
Mond.iv, June 10. for con-
tractural services to construct
medical equipment and supply
Flora ce building at the field.
Bids will bo opened at 2
p m. on Tuesday. June 11. for
services necessary to remove and
dispose of Rarbace and refuse at
both Kinyslev Field and Falcon
Plans, specifications and hid!
fnrms are available at the Base'
Procurement Office. Building 11R.I
Kin!ey Field, telephone TV.
2-4411, extension 119. f
KA!et (!rom plant on earth
i thr Giant kr!
Business Space
FOR RENT
Corner 4th & Klomoth
Phone TU 4-9254
Six weeks of continuing strike
threats by the Brotherhood ofi
Railway Clerks cost Southern Pa-
cific over $4 million in lost traf
fic revenues during the first quar
ter, the railroad's stockholders
were told today.
"Although the dispute was set
tled by negotiation and arbitra
tion without a strike, many ship
pers took the precaution of put
ting their business on other car
riers because of the uncertainty
created by the prolonged ami
Seven Boys
Registered
For Seminar
Several local area boys are reg
istered among the high school stu
dents who will participate in an
Engineering Career Seminar be
ing sponsored June 12 in Portland
by Pacific Power and Light Com
pany. The seminar provides an opiwr-
lunity for the boys, who will be
attending the Junior Engineers
and Scientists Summer Institute
at Oregon Slate University June 9
to 22, to observe PP&L engineers
at work and to discuss engineer
ing career prospects w ith men ac
tually engaged in various fields of
the profession.
PP&L President D. R. McClung
and E. R. de Liiccia, PP&L vice
president and chief engineer, and
other officials of the electric util
ity company arc to speak on the
need for more young men with
science and mathematics apti
tudes to pursue full courses of
study leading to useful careers in
industry.
Already registered for the JESSI
session at OSU and for the semi
nar in Portland from the loca
area are Gerald S. Argetsinger
James E. Recne, Jeffrey A. P.ing-
ham, Larry Robertson and Mi
chael Veatch of Klamath Kails:
Kim Hale, Chiloquin. and Roger
Nicholson of Fort Klamath..
Softwood
Plywood
Facts Told
TACOMA Softwood plywood
production for 1962 exceeded even
year-end estimates and national
consumption made its hipgest
leap since 1955. according to au
dited figures released by the
Douglas Kir Plywood Association.
The association also noted that
current production levels arc
averaging about 1)5 per cent of
rated capacity, compared with 85
per cent for the same period last
year.
Total production reached a rec
ord 9 5 billion square feet
iH-inch thick basis I in 12. up
109 per cent from 1961's 8.57 bil
lion sq. ft. This was an increase
of 9:15 million s. ft., biggest
since the all-time record of
billion sq. ft., set in 1955.
Dr PA estimates at the end
of the 12 put total production
for the year at a level of about
9 2 billion sq. ft. hut high levels
of production in the final weeks
of the year, plus corrections in
figures submitted hy some of the
156 mills in the industry, pro
duced the record total.
Production in 1W2 was more
than triple the figure for 1952.
when 86 plants turned out 3 049
billion sq. ft.
James R. Tumhull, executive
vice president of DPPA. said he
was not surprised at the record
production level, even though I9S2
was a year in which home build-:
ing. the industry's biggest mar-
ket. remained relatively stable.'
"Our past growth lias been
achieved hv expanding the use
of plywood in every one of our
markets." Turnbull said. "While
we look for new markets, ue
don't ignore our present capo
niers. In Ht.'iO, the average new'
home used about 500 ftq. ft. of
and we have broadened our sales
base to markets that didn't exist
for us in 19V)"
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28-HOUR
TIRE SALE
See
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widely . publicized threat," South
ern Pacific President D. J. Rus
sell reported at the company s
annual meeting in Wilmington.
Del.
"It was unfortunate," he com
mented, "that this threat should
he caused our customers cost
ly inconvenience and diverted
thousands of carloads of traffic
from our rails."
Except for this diversion, traf
fic volume held up in the first
quarter, Russell said, and South
ern Pacific rail revenues totalled
S189.2K.1.3U, which was $1,099,354
less than in the first quarter of
19K2.
Net income of SP and subsidi
aries for the three-month period
increased to r21.356.348, or $15.
0H8.H31 when adjusted for tax re
ductions. Per share earnings were
7(1 cents, or 56 cents with the
adjustments, compared to 77 cents!
restated on the current basis, or
47 cents with adjustments, for
the same period a year ago.
MRS. DOROTHY WARD
Store Conducts
Courtesy Event
A Miss Courtesy and Service
Contest was recently conducted
by the F. . Wnolworth Company
store in Klamath rails from May
to May 7.
This was a customer participa
tion contest, also. Mrs. Dorothy
Ward, IfW'i Manzanita, was se
lected as the winning employe
and receives a transistor radio as
her prize. A $15 merchandise
prize was awarded to Mrs. Beth
Roberts, declared the winning
customer, according to John Mat-
tice, manager.
The promotion was designed to
analyze the type of service offered
at the individual Woolworth
stores, and also kicked off the
special annual May sales event
which lasts for the entire month
at the local store, Bll Main
Street.
Sears Establish
Quarter Record
CHICA(;0-Sears, Hnrbuck and
Company's ales oslablishrd new
records for' April And the first
quarter. Austin T. Cushman,
chairman of the board, and Crnu-
dus Baker, president, announced.
dross sales in April increased
12 4 prr cent over the previous
rcenrd sol last year, they said.
and volume for the three months
ended April 30 was 11.6 per cent
hichcr than last year's record.
April sales totaled $428,188,561,
an increase of $47. 274. 945 or 12 4
per cent i over sales of $.180,913,-
618 in April. 1M2.
Sales in the first three months
of Sears fiscal year 'February
through April) totaled $1,116,232,
fto I. a gain of $115,919,902 'or
11.6 per cent' over sales of $1,000.-
.112.949 in the same period of
Ust year.
,
S6W DlTGCtOr
nnbert B Wilson of Portland
was elected to a three-year term
on (ireat Northern Railway's
Board of Directors at the annual
meetinR of shareholders in St.
Paul, Minn.
Wilson, president of the Warm
Springs Lumber Company of Mad
ras, is prominent in business, fi
nancial and civic affairs in Port
land. 'rW
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Page
The favorable results, despite1
traffic loss from the strike threat
stemmed largely from the rail
road's continuing modernization
and research programs, Russell
explained.
Southern Pacific will invest
about $100 million in capital im
provements this year." he said
"bringing its expenditures f o r
modern equipment and facilities
to over a billion dollars in the
decade beginning with 19G4.
DFPA Veep
Selected
For Jaunt
James li. Turnbull. executive
vice president of the DouRlas Fir
Plywood Association, has been
selected as one of six members
of a U.S. Department of Com
merce trade mission tn Denmark
and Norway.
Turnbull, chief executive of the
Tacoma-bascd trade association
was informed of his selection in
late April. He will leave May 18
and will represent a number of
industrial product categories, in
cluding lumber, plywood and
woodworking machinery in meet
ings with potential customers in
the two countries to be visited.
The mission will be overseas
about six weeks.
The plywood association cur
rently is financing a study of
overseas markets (or this West
Coast industry in the nations of
Lurope s two major trading com
munities and the United King
dom. Turnbull expects to make a
personal spot-check of potential in
areas of Germany. Bclcium.
France and England, in addition
lo Norway and Denmark. II i s
impressions, plus results of the
comprehensive study, will be pre
sented to DFPA's meiuber com
panies at the association's annu
al meeting at Gearhart, Ore., in
June. Turnbull will return to the
U.S. for that meeting and then
fly back immediately to Denmark
to rejoin the mission.
SHOW YOUR COLORS A special flag program kit,
identified as "Show Your Colors," is being offered by
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company to the public
through July 4. The kit, costing $2.57, consists of a new
50-star ready-to-fly flaq ensemble shown here being
hoisted into place. The kit was devised by the company
after survey revealed that foreign nationals own and
display their respective flags proportionately more than
U.S. citizens fly the Stars and Stripes
SPECIALISTS IN
BUTLER METAL BUILDINGS
and building systems
Mofrn opprootfi to centfruition
utiliiitg prteition mail pfoduetd
compontnli. fomoui Bultr ngt
from tyifrfn tuppoftt oil loooYCItm
ipoM up fo I ?0 ((. Cis'foitt wall m
arch i ttc f vol elvt, boutM mtl
fovtr pQftfU Of ticM'vt MoAApnftf
fotfory.iniulotirj wflNlj comb'Atrf
vrfi any rrodi'ienof mri'tnnHi $19'
rtpon b'ltty. 'ott csV-trr-iK'-on, h-gS
quoliiy, ollroctivt prut left o'l lor
tfort, ff(t, bowling lonti, foe
'orii, wortbijt, ffweb trmtnl.
505 Bryonf
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EXAMINE PACE CAR The Chrysler "300" which will be The pace car for the In
dianapolis 500-mile Memorial Day race is examined here by Walt- Anderson, left,
from the Coos Bay Chrysler dealership, and Bill James, right, manager of Jim Olson
Motors here. The cars in the rear are part of the display of 44 exact duplicates shown
at the Sheraton Hotel recently in Portland, Forty-tour dealers from the Northwest
and Alaska each took delivery of one of the 300's and drove it back home. The pace
car duplicate is now on display at Jim Olson Motors, 522 South Sixth Street.
lalBns
HERALD AND NEWS, KlamaUl
Hotel Chief Satisfies IRS
By Business Breakfast Plan
CHICAGO Everybody has beenlciiunt conscious businessman toi
talking about the Internal Reve
nue Service's str icter approach to
exjiense account business lunches
hut nobody has liecn able to do
much about it. Nobody, that is
except the manager of one of
Chicago's biggest hotels.
Robert P. Lerny, general mana
ger of the Pick-Congress Hotel lo
cated on Chicago's scenic lake
front, has tried a different ap
proach to attract the expense-ac-
BENNINGTON
STEEL BUILDING CO.
TU 4 3334
s is jr. i
mess
By Floyd
Falls, Ore.
his hotel
Since the first of the year. Lc
roy has opened his Itoyal Scots
Grill dining room for the break
fast hour and began promoting a
new kind of "business break
fast" in it for executives as a
place tn eat and discuss busi
ness. The room previously had
been closed mornings.
The planned breakfast meeting
no stranger to businessmen
This type of meeting, at which a
fairly large group of people arc'
served the same pie - arranged
breakfast and then conduct a busi
ness meeting In the same private
room, has been around for a long
time.
The new type of "business
breakfast" served at tile Pick
Congress, the biggest hotel in the
:t2-property Pick chain, serves the
samp purpose as the business
lunch except it costs 40 per
cent less.
The average business lunch
PPL Employes
Share Honors
Local crews of Pacific Power
k Light Company shared hon
ors tliis week with I'PAL employ
es who have liecn cited by the
Edison Electric Institute for
achieving an outstanding safety-
.it work record throughout the
utility's system during (he past
year.
The national electric utility in
dustry association's award is made
to utilities wliose employes have
reduced tlie frequency of injuries
by 25 per cent or more below
their average injury - frequency
rates of the preceding three years,
according to I'I'&l.'s district
manager, S. I. Itllchey.
Through the end of last month
the local crews of the company
had maintained a safety record
that has been free of lime loss
injuries since February of If2.
tolal of 2.10, 280 man - hours
nf safe wmk.
. YOU
YOUR
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lowest possibla cost.
Stop in to sea your Ssftco
a-int toon. Or call him now.
He's Juit a phont't Unfth
way, 24 hours day!
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Iho customary two drinks," Leroy
said. "A businessman sometimes
has trouble justifying an expense
account for four or five persons
when one or two drink more than
tile average."
But breakfasts don't Include li
quor or higher priced foods like
beef and our average breakfast
bills are $2.25 to $2.30 per person,"
he said. "And that sits easier with
the accounting departments."
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