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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Sunday, July 31, 1963
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.,
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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.
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