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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1963)
I 1 in j Review imi? inis By Floyd L. Wynne .4 PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Sunday, July 31, 1963 " ftJk I Investment PRESENT CHECKS Donald Ostensoe, xecut!ve director, right, of the Oregon Beef Council, presents check for $8,000 to James Nance, chairman of the National Live stock and Meat Board, at the association's annual meeting in Memphis last week. Lookinq on approvingly is Mrs. Tom MeElroy of Vale, a member of the Meat Board s Beef Committee. Oregon Beef Council approved funds for use of the beef committee in its natio .al promotion and research activities of beef. Ail TED JAMES Ted James At Reeder's Ted James Yakima is a new employe at Dick Reeder's Storel for Men. Prior to coming to Klamath1 Falls he was manager of Miller's v Department Store there for sev ' cn .years. Ho was accompanied to Klam--alh. Falls by his wife. Both. A daughter, Jill, graduate of Ore- Ron State University In June, will teach in the McMinnville city schools during the coming year. The family home here is at 230, Newcastle. Bank Promotes Mel Campbell The promotion of Mel W. Camp bell to manager of U.S. National Bank's Oregon Campus branch was announced this week by E. J, Kolar, bank president. The new Oregon Campus branch is sched uled to open this fall near the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. Campbell started with U.S. Na tional in 1951 and was one of the first to participate in the bank's work-college program for which highly qualified high school sen iors are selected to allcrnalely work a year and attend college with a bank scholarship a year until they complete the program, After graduating from the Uni versity of Oregon in 11159, Camp bell was assigned to the Town & Country branch of U.S. National in Klamath Falls as a loan count er assistant. He was promoted to assistant manager of that branch in 19B0. Two years later he was transferred to the Metropolitan branch in Portland. Campbell was promoted to as sistant cashier in the business de velopment department in March, 10B3, and was assigned to the Eugene area. CHEATED PROGRAM MUSIC Hector Berlioz laid the foun dation of modern orchestration. He also is known as a creator of music based on a specific story, or program music. mm 1 T " ' liiiiihi A S i While in Klamath Falls, Camp bell was a director, first vice president, president and state di rector of the Klamath Falls Jay cees: a member of Klamath Coun ty Chamber of Commerce, and on the board of directors of Klamath Falls NOMA. He also held the offices of charter treas urer, second vice president and first vice president in the Unk- vllle Kiwanis Club. He was elect ed Klamath Falls Jaycee of the Year in IDfil, Dodge Dealer Sales High DETROIT Dodge dealers con tinued to sell cars at a record setting pace last month, Dodge General Manager Byron J. Nich ols has staled. Dealers sold 30,548 Dodge cars in June to raise their model year total to 276,689. That's the highest for any Oel.l-through-June 30 pe riod in Dodge's 411-year history, Nichols said. Klamath Falls Dodge dealer is Thomas Dodge. June sales were 65 per cent ; higher than in the same month last year, when 18,557 cars were sold. For the model year through . June 30, sales were also 65 per cent ahead of Hie same period last year, when 167,15s cars were sold. "The demand lor Dodge cars conluiues to be very strong," Nichols said. "Our sales so far in this model year huve already exceeded sales for the entire 19(3 model year by nearly 40 per cent. sales ol all makes ol cars during the current model year are about 14 per cent over the same period a year ago. Ours are 65 er cent higher. And Dodge con tinues to show the highest percen tage sales increase of any make ol car in the industry. Nichols reported tlie following sales increases by each of the Dodge car lines during the model . year through June 30: Dart 111,159 versus 46,393 for the Dodge compact last year- an increase of 140 per cent. Dodge !43.3fil versus 110.967 (or the slandard-sizc Dodge car last year an increase ol 29 per cent. Dodge 88038,898 versus 15,344 for the medium-price models last year an increase of 153 per cent. Tlw Dodge general manager also reported that dealers sold 6,210 Dodge trucks last month. .That is: 11) the highest for any June since 1956; and I2 59 per . cent higlier than sales in the same month a year ago, when 3,899 trucks wera sold. Since introduction of the 1963 models, Nichols said, Dodge deal ers have sold 53,898 trucks high est for the nine-month period since 1953 and 44 per cent more than in the same period last year, when 37,359 trucks were delivered. MEL CAMPBELL West Coast Sets Record West Coast Airlines sales de partment reports record montli for June in both passengers car ried and total revenue. Aggres sive sales policy has resulted in substantial increases in all mar kets. Total passengers carried in the month of June were 36,976, the largest June total ever carried on West Coast Airlines. This verses a down trend experienced since March, 1961. Total revenues! are up 10 per cent over 1962 Enthusiastic response by the public to West Coast Airlines total travel plan using Westcar fly-drive low cost car rental rates and thei Seattle Portland Spokane commut er service have contributed to the above mentioned spectacular in creases. Recently inaugurated 50 per cent stand-by fares for clergy and uniformed military personnel have mot with enthusiastic reception and programmed reduced youth fares to be inaugurated in Sep tember are expected to make 1963 a record year. West Coast Airlines is co operating with tile U.S. State De partment in inaugurating a fly USA program effective Sept. 1 which will receive world-wide pub licity to encourage foreign travel on the local service airlines. Company Organized Articles of incorporation have been filed and approved for a new company in Southern Ore gon to be known as the Southern Oregon Investment Company. The group has organized with goal to better promote new services and products in me Klamath Basin. At the first board of directors' meeting Ron E. Phair was elect ed president; H. M. Amsbcrry, vice president and Jay S. Hum phries, secretary-treasurer. The first venture of the new company was to acquire proper ty at the corner of Seventh and Pine streets, former location oil a Piggly Wiggly Store, where of ficials of the new company will establish the City Center Car Wash and Parking facilities for the public. The ultra-modern automatic la cilities and complete automotive! beauty department will be con tained In the present building which is being extensively re modeled for the new operation The entire property is to be black- topped to provide the center of town with a 100-car off-street parking center. The company plans to offer special rates to those whose businesses are lo cated nearby and will use the fa cilities on a monthly basis. Negotiations are under way with a major oil company to also provide a complete line of gaso line and oil. The management of the entire operation will be under Jay Hum phries, who has been in business in Klamath Falls lor the past 181 years. He has been in me wnoie sale grocery business and the baking industry, and at one time was with the Richfield Oil Distributors. In making the announcement Humphries and Phair said they were proud to bring to Klamath County the new service and feel that it will serve a definite need in downtown Klamath Falls. President Ron Phair said "Iti will be our goal to promote this area and we have great faith in the future of Southern Oregon. We want to be in a position to grow with this wonderful area. All of us at SOIC are local businessmen and we pledge our support to the community in all endeavors that are good for the entire area.' 7. "t REPLACED Crews are at work remodeling the old Piggly Wiggly building at the corner of Seventh and Pine streets to provide for a new car-wash operation, the City Center Car Wash to be built and managed by local residents. Articles of incorporation have been filed and approved for the new company, Southern Oregon In vestment Company. First National Bank Has Record In Deposits, Loans Winners Named In Contest A number of Klamath winners in the recent Dodge '5 or 50 Sweepstakes" on the 1963 Dodge Warranty conducted by Thomas Dodge have just been announced. Fourth prize winners of GE transistor radios are Harold Dan iels, Douglas Fenninca, Mrs. Gene Mitchell and John Schenk. Winners of fifth prize Kodak flash gun camera kits are Mrs. E. Drew, Betty Herrera, L. Hop pe, Elzie Keck, Wilhclm Riech, Mrs. George Shelton and Mrs. Ed win Snider. Sixth place winners of S e t h Thomas travel clocks are F. Bcchtel. Mabel Cano, Bill Jamie son, John Olson and S. Walters. SOLD LAND CLAIMS Texas, under the Compromise of 1850, sold its claims to lands that now make up one-half oi New Mexico and parts of Colo ratio, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wy omnia, at a price ot siu minion. The First National Bank of Ore gon registered record high de posits and loans at mid-year. President Ralph J. Voss an nounced. Deposits of $962,633,678 were reported June 29, as compared with $921,320,103 m June oi last year. The new figure represents an increase ot $87,638,683 over June, 1961, deposits. Loans outstanding among the banking system's 92 offices to taled $388,144,242 for a gain of $57,866,229 over the June, 1962 figure. Resources continued to top the $1 billion mark. Figures were announced in re sponse to the quarterly call for statements of condition by the Comptroller of the Currency The four Klamath and Lake County branches of First Na tional reported mid-year deposit: of $32,014,833 and loans outstand; uig of $28,137,748, Voss said. Comparable totals for the branches a year ago were $32, 762,817 in deposits and $26,459,484 in loans. During the first half of 1963 the First National Bank added the university branch in Eugene, the North Oregon City branch and the Madras branch to the state wide system, Voss said. In addi tion, the Fifth and College Street office in Portland was opened to replace the Sixth and Lincoln branch, which lies in the path of a Ireeway, Six new banking offices cur rently are under construction, with opening dalos set (or this year. The new Standard Plaza branch in Portland will open late this month, and offices in Port land's Burlingame area, Spring field. The Dalles and Central Point are scheduled to open dur ing the last quarter of the year Also under construction is a per nvinent structure lor the North Oregon City branch, which pics ently operates from a trailer. The Klamath Falls and South Sixth Street branches of First National Bank of Oregon report ed combined mid-year deposits of $20,241,816 and loans totaling $18, 026,603, according to R. H. Tis dale, vice president and manager of Klamath Falls branch and M. E. Shannon, manager of the South Sixth Street banking office. At the same time they released comparable combined totals for June 30, 1962. At that time depos its were $20,966,048 and loans were $16,965,223. Figures released by Merr Branch Manager Donald L. Pyle show that at mid-year deposits at that branch were $2,683,536 and loans were $2,323,109. I tats COMPANY TRANSFERS Richard Ackerman, district manager of the Oregon-Washington Telephone Company, was recently transferred to the Morrill area following a sevon-year assignment in Medford. He succeeds Dick Hood, who was transferred to Hood River. Ackerman and his wife, Trudy, have one son, Andrew, who will enter th fifth grade at Merrill this fall. LAGER BEER ; Key Ui the expression "lager -beer" is that the German word - "lager" means "storehouse" and the beer was so-named be cause barrels of lager beer wera placed in a storehouse to age., Are You Planning a New Office? Is Your Reception Room Inviting? Let Our Office Planning Experts Design Your Requirements No Obligation , Investigate Our Leasing Plan, or Terms if you desire! vn&A 'Office Supply 629 Main Ph. TU 2-4408 ... Pi TO SATISFY YOU Coniolidated FrcigMwayt oHcrs ipeedy, trficienr tervict ond economical rati. Overnight delivery from Portland ond many orhar poind in th Wtit benefit, both shipper ond receiver. So, If you're expecting a shipment soon, you'll be wise to re que it it be handled by Consolidated Freightways. For service or information phone TU 4-4151 Mm PRINTING From lovely invitations to handbills; from business cards to. posters ... we can handle any. printing job and beautifully! NURSING HOME RISING FAST The new 93-bed Ponderosa Nursing Home at the end of Main Street across from the Ponderosa Elementary School is being raised rapidly to meet the estimated late fall completion date. The $300,000 building will be shaped like an "H" and have all the latest nursing home innovations, according to owners, Richard Dilling and Virgil Combo of Wenatchee, Wash. The building will have both privato rooms and wards. Architect is Bob Ford, Klamath Falls. First Federal Announces Dividend Paid Dividends at an annual rate of more than one million dollars were paid to First Federal Sav- Modoc Lumber High Bidder Modoc Lumber Company, Klam ath Falls, was high bidder on purchase of Winema National For est timber at a sale held June 4. The Badlands Sale, located on the Chiloquin District, was purchased for a total price of $88,925. Ap praised advertised price was $85,- 730. A total of t3,900,00O board feet of National Forest timber was involved in the sale. The high bid submitted by Modoc Lumber Com pany was $13.75 for pine species, $5.45 for Douglas Fir, and $4.45 tor white fir and other. Other bidders at the sale in cluded Loveness Co., Klamath Lumber and Box Company and Thomas Lumber Co. ings and Loan savings account holders on June 30. The semi - annual dividend reached a new high of $506,546 and was paid on the basis of 4'4 per cent per annum, up from the four per cent dividend paid in 19U2. Total savings increased $880,121 over December, 1962 to- Export Totals Reach Record Walerborne exports from Ore gon Customs District in April to t a 1 e d $44,013,454, the highest monthly -total on record, accord ing to the Portland Field Office, U.S. Department of Commerce. The 10 countries receiving the largest share of Oregon exports were: Japan $9,652,166. India $8,615,643, Pakistan $4,638,927, Ko rea $4,217,097, Taiwan $3,347, 869, United Kingdom $1,851,403, Italy $1,834,993, Philippines $1,613,283, Australia $1,538,229, West Ger many $961,237. Lai and also reached a new high of $25,499,717, a 3',4 per cent gain for the six months. Total assets showed an increase of 3.2 per cent and now stand at $28,434,970. Ample funds for financing resi dential real estate in the Klamath Falls area are available for pur chase, construction, home mod ernization or refinancing accord ing to Van S. Mollison, First Federal Savings and Loan, execu tive secretary. PRIZE FOR A "HOLE" William Gallagher, in 1953, was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his "hole-in-the-shoe" photographs of Adlai E. Stevenson, taken when Stevenson was campaigning for ithe presidency of the United 'states in 1952. Associated MOUNT SHASTA-Dr. John P. Guyman of Santa Rosa, Calif., recently joined the medical prac tice of Dr. D. D. Todorovic in Mount Shasta. Their offices are located in the Shasta Arcade building. GUARANTEED TRUCK SERVICE AND REPAIRS We're Specialists 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 Ph. 4-8104 Emergency Phone: Charlie Ramp, 2-4958 THIS IS WOODBURN SENIOR ESTATES the retirement community where the are being lived NOW! -v. 1 Jc Li.immmuui' r' "siiLj Just a few miles south of Portland in Oregon's beautiful Willamette Valley is this proven, successful retirement community of new individually owned homes. Nearly four hundred homes are completed and occupied by the happiest, most active retired or semi-retired people you'd ever want to know! Here they are enjoying the privacy of their own new homes, a small yard that's never too much care and many friends their own age to share interests and activ ities. Woodburn Senior Estates is the Northwest's largest, most successful retirement community because the home owners here live aft active retirement . . . play golf on their own course ... join in activities such as lodges, bridge and study clubs, craft groups, fish, hunt and take part in many outdoor activities so popular in this beautiful part of the Northwest. Best of all, owning your own retirement home in Woodburn Senior Estates helps your retirement dollars go farther . . . you can live the active, happy life you've always wanted on a modest retirement income! of Suide Printing, Inc. 12th & Klamath TU 4-5373 r PISHING AND HUNTING traamt and caaital walari bckn th outrfoarmon. 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