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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1963)
r fas . Bingham of Pacoima, Calif., have outh Sixth Street (or an undisclosed NEW OWNERS Mr. and Mrs. Charles D chased the Mountain Vu Trailer Park on Si pur. lil Business Review By Floyd L Wynne HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, August 4, 1963 PAGE J Per Cent Increase COST OF LIVING MARCH, 1.953-1963 MEDICAL CARE PERSONAL CARE READING RECREATION TRANSPOR TATION HOUSING FOOD APPAREL ALL ITEMS 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 rznr 4 4 ,1.1 DECADE'S LIVING COST RECORD Though costs inch along, they sum up surprisingly over a decade. Data for Newschart, above, from consumer prices as reflected in U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, Profile of Family Income, 1962 0 32.000 By Reaion ' $4,000 $6,000 58,000 $10,000 iWeit Northeast North Central South '. U. S. Average $7,054 By Age of Hood of Household 25 to 34 years 14 to 24 years 35 to 44 years 45 to 54 yean 55 to 64 years 65 years & oyer By Number of Earners 1 Earner 2 Earners 3 Earners or more .By Major Occupation Group Professional Monogcrt Clerical Workers Opera 1 1 Yin Service Worker Farmers & Form Managers . farm Laborers By Major Industry Group Finance, Inmronce & Real Estate Prorcnicnol Services Manufacturing Public Administration Transportation, Commun. & other Pub. Util. Wholesols Trade 6 uiincss & Repair Services Kctoil Trade Personal Services Agriculture, Forestry AFisheries PERSPECTIVE OX FAMILY INCOME U.S. average family income, as shown in white square, lop right, Newschart above, refers to the median (midpoint) income in survey of families whose head of household was a year-round, full time worker. Family income as shown by major occupation and by major industry is based on a different sampling, whose average income was $7,076. Data: Census Bureau, as compiled by National Industrial Conference Board, Inc. Jones Lists New Branch Edgar J. Blodgctt who will op erate from his home, Rle. 1. Box 920, Del Fatti Lane, will sell in surance and is studying (or his real estate license. Norman Miles, with desk space in the Southern Oregon In surance Aeency office, is agent fur New York Life, and repre- will specialize in sents also Salcco General corn in the Chiloauin-1 panics, Phoenix of Hartford and Bob Jones of the Southern Oregon Insurance Agency, Inc., 119 South Sixth Street, Klamath Falls, has announced additional branch outlets for the agency. John Kalita, is in charge of a branch oflice at Second and Chocktoot streets. Chiloquin. which handles both real estate and in surance. He real estate Sprague River areas. Ilhe General Accident Group. IP Reports Sales Drop NEW YORK (UPI) -International Paper Company said today the firm's total sales for the first six months of 1963 amounted to about $560 million compared to $584.4 million in the same period of 1962. Earnings amounted lo $32.4 mil lion in the first half of 1963 and $31.7 million in the first half of 1962. The firm reported the new pulp and paper mill at Gardiner, Ore was making rapid progress and that it was expected to start on schedule during the first quarter of 1964. The board of directors declared quarterly dividends of $1 p c r share on the common stock, pay able Sept. 16 to holders of record Aug. 23. Natural Gas Rates Sliced SALEM (UPI) A 20 per cent rate cut for natural gas customers in Roseburg, Grants Pass, Med ford, Ashland and other towns in the California-Pacific Utility Com pany s Southern Oregon division as announced Monday. Public Utility commissioner Jonel C. Hill said the rate cut, totaling $238,814, will go into effect when Cal-Pac's existing customers are switched from manufactured to natural gas this fall. Hill said the firm tentatively tans on having natural gas avail able in Roseburg about Sept. 16, provided that construction of the El Paso Natural Gas Co. line om Eugene is not delayed. Natural gas should be available Grants Pass, Medford and Ash land sometime during the first half of October, he said. Hill pointed out that the new- tariffs filed by Cal-Pae are identi cal to those in etfect in Klamath alls. Lloyd E. Cooper, vice president and chief engineer of Cal-Pac said his firm proposes to apply the lower rates to the first meter reading date after natural gas has been introduced in each town. California Couple Buys Trailer Park The sale of the Mountain Vu Trailer Park at 6660 South Sixth Street near tlie Lakeview-.Merrill Highway Junction, has been an- nounced by Mrs. Connie Whitte- more and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Briggs, co-owners fur several years. The park has 34 stations, small grocery and gasoline pumps. New owners are Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Bingham, Pacoima. Calif. They have a daughter, Ro chelle, 10. a son. Kenneth. 7. Change of ownership was effec tive Aug. 1. The family brought a large mo bile home from California where Bingham was a cabinet maker. He is the brother uf Howard Bingham, former Klamath Coun ty secondary school supervisor. Tile former owners have not announced future plans. No con sideration on the sale was made public. Tiie transaction was han died by Vernon Durant, local realtor. Consumer Gets Credit For Rising Economy NEW YORK iL'PIi-For many in 1961 and nearly ten times the months of steady or improving number in 1950. business conditions, economists j "This surt of revolutionary have given tlie American con- change in income structure of ouri sumer credit for much of the, families could provide the ex-l healthy appearance of business : panded markets needed to add statistics. .20 million more non-aericultural Although it has had its tips and downs, his spending has re mained at a high level. Total personal income was at a season ally adjusted annual rate of $462 jous provided lamilies moving up in income and production are stimulated lo want and to work toward the same or equivalent! standards of living and personal I -si RUSSELL WEARNER Pilot Joins Aircraft Co. Kusseil wearner is the new chief pilot and instructor with Klamath Aircraft, Inc. at the Klamath Falls Airport. His affil iation with tlie company, distri outor ot Piper Aircralt, was an nounced by Tony Steinbock Wearner, a former resident of Springfield where he was asso ciated with the McKenzie Flying Service has been lying for 15' years. He holds credentials as a commercial pilot, airplane single1 and multi engine (land); airplane single engine (seal, and instru ment. He is a certified flight instruc tor and has handled many types of aircraft. Klamath Aircraft in addition to the agency for Pipers conducts charter and ambulance and other services. Wearner w ill conduct a ground school for pilots at Klamath Air craft on Thursday evenings start ing at 7:30. He is married and has four children. The family will eomei to Klamath Falls as soon as livingl arrangements can be made billion in June: during the 'consumption of goods and serv- months ended May 31. instalment ices now foud in families with debt outstanding ros-; $5 billion. IU-UUU " 15.000 (as shown by and retail sales in the first half me recent Bureau o Labor Sta of tlie vear were five rjer rent "sties studies). ahead of the corresponding pe riod ot 1962. Sales Gains Cited The First National City Bank of New York in its August business review notes that appliance and furniture stores have lecn report- ing better than average sales! gains, leading to increased fat- lory sales; and that there were signs that there would be high homebuilding activity at least through the rest of the summer All this is fine for (he past and present, but in some quarters there is a natural feeling that conditions generally would worsen should the pace of con sumer purchasing slacken: or that the pace should be main tained at least and preferably im proved if the business outlook is to brighten. Arno H. Johnson, vice presi dent and senior economist for the Walter Thompson agency, ex plored the importance of the con sumer dollar in a booklet recent ly distributed. He called the con sumer the real key to continued economic growth. Johnson went on the thesis that the growing productivity of the people of the United States can not be utilized without upgrading the standard of living and ex panding the sales of goods and services to match production and thus provide employment and in come commensurate with produc tive ability." Johnson wrote that there was1 need to increase the total annual sales of goods and services to1 consumers by about $200 Billion in the next 10 years to keep pace with increasing productive ability and with the need to create jobs for an expanding population. Confidence Needed Johnson said that the immcdi ate problem is not lack of pur chasing power, but is lack of con fidence and lack of insistent de mand. The number of families with a real purchasing power of over $7,000 has more than dou bled in the last 10 years, with corresponding growth of discre tionary spending power, he noted "By 1973, the average personal income per household, if we util ize our productive ability." he wrote, "should exceed $10,300 and the number of lamilies of two or more persons with real purchasing power of over $10,000 could grow to 22 million, or to; about three times (lie 7.4 million! Fort Klamath Pair Honored Bert and Dorothy Stanley, rep resentatives at Fort Klamath for United Farm Agency, one of tlie nation's largest brokers of real estate, were given special recognition by their company re cently for outstanding salesman ship. They received Star Sales man's honors in sales competition with over 3j0 local United repre sentatives from coast to coast. Tlie Stanleys played a vital part in a record sales drive which resulted in the largest July sales month the company has ex perienced in its 39-year history. Chrysler Corporation Previews 1964 Models PARKING SPACE New Convenient Paved Parking Space Available 5th & Klamath Ave. See City Treasurer at City Hall or Phone TU 4-3161 OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)-Chrys- ler Corp. Wednesday previewed the 55 model cars that will make up the 1964 Chrysler Plymouth line. Basically the Plymouth line is unchanged from tlie 1963 models, but Chrysler modified its cars more in an attempt to take a greater share of the market. The luxury imperial, designed by Elwood P. Engcl who also styled Ford's successful Continen tal, represented the greatest change in the line. It looks star llingly like the Continental with a rear tire unit built into tlie lid of the trunk, similar to the old Lin coln Mark II. Chrysler opened its preview Tuesday by showing newsmen the Dodge car-truck line. The com- pi pact Valient will be longer this year and some models will oiler luxury options. A two-door hard tup w ill be offered in the economy imc with an option calling for a vinyl roof. Plymouth Hole a page from Ford Motor Co s success story For Excellent Service Call BEST Telephone Answering Service TU 2-4651 Rita Lowranca Florttte Rioch and included in the 1964 line a hardtop with a roofline similar to a convertible. Ford brought out its fastback iiardtops in the middle of the 1963 model year and it proved an im mediate success on tlie .-ales floor. Chrysler, which grabbed a 12.5 per cent share of the auto mar ket during the first 10 months of the current year, was the sur- West Coast Shifts Noted A scries of promotions to fill new.y created positions in the sales department of West Coast Airlines has been executed this month. Dennis Kelley. 40. Seattle, has been named assistant vice presi dent of sales under Harold E, Wallis. He will be in charge of sales and station personnel num bering 260 at tlie 44 West Coast terminals in six Western states and Canada. Kelley, a native of Litchfield, N.D., was a district sales man ager for Northwest Airlines 14 years before joining West Coast in 1959 His most recent assign- mens with West Coast have been gene.al traffic manager and di rector of customer sales and services. Jack Braucht, Salem, has been appointed manager of cargo sales. He formerly was agent at the Silem and Klamath Falls sta tions. His duties also will include food service aboard the airlines' 22-plane fleet. Paul Shoaff, former manager of the Port Angeles and Walla Walla stations, will fill the new position of regional customer service manager for the system's northern division, which includes stations from Portland and Boise north. Shoaff also has been an agent in Oregon at Burns and North Bend. Two other promotions have been made as a result of in creased traffic in the Seatle-Port-land areas. William Gcrrard of Idaho Falls and Ronald Gilmore, Spokane sta tion agent, will serve as sales representatives at the Se attle and Portland stations, re spectively. '-I ' 1 - - - Wai v X V , MliK-W.-f....- ' ' -o.t' 1 V in ffw iiti ANSWERING SERVICE Florette Riach, left, and Mrs. Rita E. Lawrence ara new owners of Lorand Telephone Answering Service and are shown at a new location, 83 Pine Street. Both are long-time phone operators, Florette working with the phone company here for IS years and Mrs. Lawrence 25 years with the New York Telephone Company. They plan 24-hour service on a seven-days-a-week basis. Phone number of firm remains same at TU 2-4651. New Products NEW YORK (UPI) - Safety; first is the watchword in newj products this week. As delightful as a backyard pool may be for the swimmers, it is no fun at all for the person who has to worry about accidents. A new safety alarm system intro duced by U.S. Sonics Corp., Cam bridge, Mass., can do much to eliminate the chance of accident, emitting a loud, distinct signal whenever child, pet or unauthor-j ized person enters the pool. The portable unit uses long-life bat teries, eliminating the hazard of! shock attached lo electrical sys tems. Another summer hazard, the ro tary lawn mower, can be out. fitted now with a new safety blade said to prevent accidental lacerations and injuries from thrown rocks, glass, etc. Product of Wellington Corp., Wellington Ohio, the blade has four swivelcd! cutters that are held straight out by centrifugal force, but swing back harmlessly upon striking hard objects. To keep medicines, insecticides, liquor, guns and valuables safe from children or meddlers. Sim plex Lock Corp., New York, makes! a Push Button Lock wilh a choice of 1,080 lock combinations, changeable in seconds. The lock, easily installed on a wooden cab inet, requires only a touch of the finger on nny or all five buttons, ndividually or in sequence. A new dusk-to-dawn lightine kit introduced by Wcstmgliouse Elec trie, Bloomficld. N.J., offers au tomatic discouragement to prowl- ers and burglars, increases safety around tne Home. Tile Farm andi Home Lighting Kit contains an electric eye switching - control adapter unit and a Weather Duty iiooungiu duio. The light turns on automatically at dusk, off at dawn. Screws into standard out door socket. HONOR ROLL UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (UPI) Three Penn State football play ersend Dick Anderson, fullback Gene Rinkus and halfback Steve Popp were on tlie scholastic honor roll for tlie past fall, winter and spring terms at the University. SP Reports J Changes Of f ; Personnel J. J. Willis, assistant superin tendent of the Shasta Division at Dunsmuir, was advanced to super intendent of transportation at San Francisco, Southern Pacific has announced. Willis succeeds John P. Griffin, w ho moves up to general - su perintendent of transportation on the retiremenet of John Hatch er Aug. 31 after a 46-year rail roading career. H. J. Kerins, Coast Division trainmaster at Watsonville Junc tion, takes Willis' place as assist ant superintendent here. In their new posts, Griffin and Willis will be responsible for train movements and the complex prob lems of freight car and passenger-car supply lines. Willis began his railroading ca reer as an agent-telegrapher on the San Joaquin Division in 1940 and rose through various positions to become station supervisor by 1947 and assistant trainmaster by -1951. In 1953, he transferred to the Western Division as train master, and in 1959, became as sistant superintendent on the San Joaquin Division, holding that po sition until he took over the same post here. Griffin joined SP as a teleg rapher on the Shasta Division in 1940 and three years later was named train dispatcher. In 1947, he was appointed assistant trainmaster-division examiner on t h e Shasta Division. He transferred to San Francisco in 1951 as assis tant system examiner and was promoted to system examiner in 1954. In December, 1958, he was appointed superintendent of transportation. PINCH-HITTERS CLOCK PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Four Philadelphia Athletics pinch-hitters hit safely in the ninth inning of a game against the Detroit Tigers in September, 1940. With the school football season just around (he corner, a new low cost mouth protector introduced by Dcnta Gard Co., Balavia, III., is timely. The stock unit, made of a uliile rubber compound, is Madigan Electronic Corn.. Carle Place, N.Y.. has introduced safety belt that generates rather than reflects light. Known as the Bando-O-Lite, tlie Sam Browne style belt includes 25 flashing! electroluminescent lamijs Dower cd by a self-contained recharce able battery. The unit weighs less tnan two pounds. GUARANTEED TRUCK SERVICE AND REPAIRS We're Specialists on 4 - wheel drive Willyi 'Jeep' vehicles, but we are equipped to serv ice all makes. UNBROKKN RECORD HOANOKE, Tex. (UPI) Byron Nelson won 11 consecutive PGA said to provide as much protcc- tournaments in 1945 for a record tion as custom fitted types. It is which still (stands. kept in place by a spring action JOE FISHER Lincoln, Mercury, Comet Willys 'Jeep' vehicle 677 So. 7th Ph. 4-8104 Emergency Phone: Charlie Ramp, 2-49SS which allows normal speech and breathing. W W&LlJ 111 h 3 7v ' $1,000 REWARD FOR INFORMATION leading to the arrest and conviction of per sons shooting into my cattle, which took place on Gov't access road 8 mi. west of Kono, July 15-18. Please Report to L. V. Howard Keno, Ore. All Reports Confidential NO AMATEUR CHAMP DUNEDIN, Fla. (UPI I - No amateur has won an official PGA tournament since 1956 when Doug prise of the industry during the Sanders finished first in the Ca 1963 model year. Inadian Open championship. SNEAK PREVIEW Local youngsters at Oakland, Calif., get a sneak preview of the new 1964 Chrysler. The full line of Chrysler Corporation's 1964 models was viewed by newsmen this week. The cars now go back under wraps until the latter part of Septem ber when they will be available at dealers throughout the U.S. UPI Telephoto If ' MEN - WOMEN COMMERCIAL mmwi Sptcialiiing in head, checks, all yp of printed Mdn, itotemtntt, mop-out forms. circulars, tttttr ploiric binding!. Guide Printing Inc. 12th & Klamath TU 4-S373 Preport now for U.S. Civil Sorvico job opening in this arta during th ntxr 12 months. Government petitions poy as high as $446.00 a month to start. They provide much greater security than private employment and excellent opportunity for advancement. Many positions require little or no specialized education or experienca. Lincoln Service helps thous ands prepare for these tests every year. 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