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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1963)
i i itrnf iril I i KLAMATH FALLS WOMAN WINS Mrs. William A. I Mildred I Glodowski, wife of the co-owner of Amidon't Business Machines, 4S35 South Sixth, was named Miss WOMDA (Western Office Machine Dealers Associa tion! during the 12th annual convention, Oct. 10-13, held at Harvey's Wagon Wheel, South Shore, Lake Tahoe. She was presented with a jeweled crown, a huge bouquet of red roses and 50 silver dollars. She was crowned by Mrs. Gordon Foote, Miss WOMDA of 1962. Six hundred eighteen members and guests were present. Mrs. Glodowski is an employe of Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company in Klamath Falls. On-The-Job Show 1963 Oregon workers had 31,191 on-the-job injuries during the first six months of t913. which is a decrease of 3.76 per tent be low the same period in 1962, the State Industiral Accident Com mission reports. A total of 43,304.366 man-days worked or a 1.03 per cent in crease, was recorded by those industries covered under t h e Workmen's Compensation Act. The accident frequency rate which rose only slightly from 35.35 to 35.39 in the six-month period since January, 1963, proved fairly stable and is based on time loss accidents and fatalities. A comparative study of the half year of claims filed, by industry and by type of claim January through June, 1963, follows: Total claims for all in d u s t r y for the first half of 1962 were 32.410 as against the 1963 figure of 31.191. Fatalities dropped from 52 to 51: time loss claims from 12,071 rose to 12,208: no time-loss claims were down from 19,840 to 18, 449. while occupational disease claims were up from 447 to 483. Man-days of employment in 19B2 were 42.861,01)0 and in creased to 43,304.000 for all in dustry in 1963. Percentage - wise, western Oregon sawmills reported 1.36 per cent of the total man days worked, 6.06 per cent of the claims and 3.92 per cenl of the fatalities. Sawmills in eastern Oregon had .29 per cent man days worked, 1.29 per cent of the claims, and 1.96 per cent of the fatals. Logging and log hauling in western Oregon re ported 1.94 per cent of the to tal man-days worked, 7.19 per cent of the total claims and 21.57 per cent of the fatalities. Logging and . log hauling in eastern Oregon had .29 per cent of man-days, .90 per cent of the accident claims and 1.96 per cent of the fatalities. Building construction had 3.05 per cent of the total Oregon man-days, 5 24 per cent of the accident claims, and 5.88 per cent of the fatalities, while con tract construction in man-days had 5.14 per cent, in claims 9.42 per cent and fatalities 11.77 per cent. Plywood and veneer indus tries totalled 2.66 per cent of the man-days, 6.36 per cent of the accident claims and no fa talities, while all other wood working employed 3.06 per cent man-work days, 3.76 per cent of the accident claims and 1.96 per cent of the fatalities. Paper and allied products man-hours employment were 1 05 per cent, clams were 1.4 Ideal Location DOWNTOWN Buiinen er Office Inquire GUN STORE CRATER FUEL CO. New Location Office & Yard now or 2936 HILYARD on Hilvard between Altamont t Waihburn Way Quality STOVE & DIESEL OIL CHECK I FILL SERVICE ir Wood of all kinds ir Presro-Lgp Coll TU 4-9757 for Service! Injuries Decrease per cent and there were no fa talities. The remainder of not other w i s e classified industries made up the balance with 81.16 per cent of the man-days, 58.32 per cent of the claims and 50.98 per cent of the fatalities. The occupations with the largest number of accidents percentage-wise were chauffeur with 6.9 of all accidents; me chanic with 6.4, carpenter with 3.6, foreman 3.5, lumber hand ler 3.4, labor not classified 3.2, millwright 2.4, salesclcrk 2.1, machine operator 2.0, welder 1.9. machinist 1.8. logging rigger 1.7, construction labor er 1.6, farmer 1.4, fuller 1.3, and bucker 1.1. Oil Firm Gives Yuletide Book Joy to the World, Deck the Halls and Silent Night are three of 11 yuletide traditionals of fered in a Christmas carol book now being distributed free by Richfield service stations, ac cording to Tom O'Harra, Rich field's agent. The Richfield carol book con tains words and music to the yule classics, but are cn!y in a limited supply, O'Harra said. An additional feature is an illustrat ed article on the history of Christinas observances in Alaska. ..- x . we .-ev: v - u i vi . LUMBER OFFICIALS MEET Officials of the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference met recently in Sacramento to discuss plans for their 15th annual convention to be held there Feb. 13-15. Shown here, left io right, are Ray Crane, Crane Mills, Corn ing, Calif., program chairman; Robert Jensen, Fred E. Barnett Co., Sacramento, equipment chairman; Lowell Jones, standing, Klamath Falls logging contractor, a con ference director; Vince Bousquet, woods manager, Weyerhaeuser, Klamath Falls, con ference president, and L. D. Wambold, Redding, secretary-treasurer. Over 1,500 log gers, lumbermen and associates are expected for the February sessions. G. Kovich Concludes Program George Kovich of 1540 Pacific Terrace. Klamath Falls graduated from the 44;h Ses sion of the Advanced Manage ment Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration in Bos ton. This session lasted from Sept. 9, to Dec. 6, 19t3. He is the Products Manager for Wey erhaeuser Company in Klamath Falls. Tile Advanced Management Program, one of the oldest sen ior management development courses conducted by a univer sity, has been in continuous op eration since its beginning in 1943. There are no specific edu cational prerequisites for admis son. All participants are nomin ated and sponsored by their companies and have been select ed by the Admissions Board of the AIJP on the basis of demon strated ability, leadership quali ties, and adaptability in their careers. The 13-week course is partic ularly designed for men between 36 and 50 years w ho are now in top-management posts or who are likely to be there in the near future. Tiie program of fers a concentrated course of study in six major areas of prime interest to today's top management, and u-ies the case method of instruction. fir ' : f-.'i r i urn LOY BARKER Loy Barker Leeds Field Loy Barker, Northern Life In surance Company salesman, led all representatives of the com pany in the nation in life vol ume sales and was in third place in the United States in premiums for tlie year. The Klamath Falls agency was eighth among 65 company districts during November. Barker's record had previous ly qualified for an expense paid trip for himself and Mrs. Bar ker to the national convention at Coronado Beach near San Diego in January. He lias been affiliated with Northern Life since 1C46. A wild prairie (lower belong ing to the pea family, the blue bonnet is the slate flower of Texas. SALESMAN WANTED trmlnetM Steel Udes. Ce. It epenilrr.o. In enucleation Butler's new Aari-Builder ereeram we need iiinmin whe has proven himself In the lelei tlelo A fcnowledee of building, conilructien. tr lirin vttomt, wnile hrlpt'jl. Il net necessary at wa and our primary supplier win train vnu thoroughly. Salary and commission bam will provide obove average income for producer. Salttlaclory arrangement! (or transportation and apentoa. Replies containing toll background of your telling, aiperlence will be held in ttrict confidence. Advite 01 where v-Mi ten be celled tor per sjayrs itiiervjew. WUTfc TO; J. H. BENNINuTON, WMtton Steel Bldgi. C. 5059 Bryant KlbitrtoJl Bblri, HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Hit Business Review reyTj By Floyd L Wynne Klamath Falls, Bly Scheduled To Get Number Phones In 1964 A "new look" in telephone numbers for Klamath Falls and Bly w ill appear in 1964, accord ing to an announcement Nov. 25 by A. B. Dickcrman, Pacific Northwest Bell manager here. The "new look" will be in the way phone numbers are writ ten and spoken, nut in pulls on the dial wheel, Dickcrman said. Tlie simple substitution of nu merals for the two letters now used will cause a typical Klam ath Falls number to change in "name only" from TU 4-3299 to 884-3299. In Bly El 3 switches to 353. ' The new system will be in augurated with delivery of tlie 1964 phone book next June. Known as ANC tall number calling), the system has become a necessity in the nation (or Phone System Shift To Meet Population Editor's Note: Klamath Falls and Bly phone numbers will switch from lettered to numbered prefixes in June of next year. Pacific Northwest Bell and phone companies around the nation say the change is necessary to handle population growth. This article explains how and why.) There's a large clock-like dial on the wall outside the Bureau of Census office in Washington, DC, that now registers in the neighborhood of 190 million, symbolizing the country's popu lation. Every few seconds, day and night, the number increases by one. And each year, the increas es come at a little faster rate. By the year 20O0, an estimat ed 340 million Americans will be living in this country. Fore casts indicate they will be talk ing with each other over some 600 million telephones. Faced with the responsibility for providing communications service for these future multi tudes, the phone companies in this country recognized that the present phone niunhering sys tem could not handle this in exorable growth. A change of some kind must be made, one w hich would provide room for growth, yet minimize real change in t h e present system. Several plans were considered for increasing numbers while re taining letters on phone dials. Results showed each would have made real number changes necessary . for almost all telephones in the country, all on the same day. A virtual impossibility. n Falls, Oregon Sunday, December 8, 1963 several reasons, Dickerman said. Tlie major one is growth. Tel ephones are being installed al the rate of 15,000 a day in tlie United States and Canada. And each new customer needs a phone number. There are nearly 90 million phones in the two countries to day. There will be about 160 I million by 1975. Phone companies realized some change must be made in the phone numbering system to meet this surge. They found ANC the best solution because it offers Hie greatest growth ac commodation with the fewest real changes from the present system. By adopting ANC, usable com binations on a dial can be in These same studies indicated ANC (all number calling) of fered the most advantages with the last change in current dial ing habits. And it could be adopted without the massive up heaval that alternate systems would have required. Tlie sim ple substitution of numerals for the letters in prefixes could pro vide growth room into the next century. With the ANC system, usable combinations on a dial can be increased by about 50 per cent. NEW CHANvfca bUMINC? ance for the future, coupled with minimum change from today's dialing system, is afforded telephone users by the letterless dial on the right. Local dials will eventually be changed to this style but only after letters are no longer used anywhere in the country. Usable letter - numeral prefixes such at TU 2 total some 540. All-numeral prefixes allow some 800 combinations. Why is this true when there arc only three pulls in either a letter-numeral or an all-numeral prefix? It boils down to the fact that each pull on a phone dial sends a certain command to the equip ment in the telephone office. The equipment will react in any one of 10 ways, depending on which of the 10 holes on the dial was used for that pull. Tlie symbol on each hole ft meaningful to tlie person using the dial but the equipment can t tell whether that symbol is a letter, a number, a color, or even a picture of a peach, plum or pear. The problem then was to: Use the present symbols on a dial in tlie most convenient and widely understood method avail able. And at the same time make tlie equipment respond as close to its buill-in capacity as possible. What is that capacity: For the prclix portion 'first three pulls such as TU 2i of a phone number, the theoretical ios sibilitics arc: Any of 10 choice for Ihe first pull, times the same lany of 10' for the second pull, times the same 'any of 10 1 fur the third pull, or 10 x 10 x 10. This theoretical total is 1.000 prelix. es. With all-number calling t h e usable total of BOO prefixes is figured by: Multiplying any of eight holes for the first dial pull ithe 1 and "0" or Operator arc for special services', times any of 10 for tlie second pull, times any of 10 (or the third pull. Thus 8 x 10 x 10 equals 800 prefixes. A look at the present method shows three basic reasons for the limit of MO prefixes using two letters and a numeral such as TU 2. Please Note New Address Paul's Rock Shop 229 ALAMEDA Jewelry Findingi Rough and Slabbed Materials CUSTOM CUTTING and GRINDING Of ALL KINDS or ROCK Ptul and Agnti Kindsvottr 229 Almid TU 4-7219 PAGE S-B creased by about 50 per cent. Usable letter-numeral prefixes such as TU 2 total some 540. All numeral prefixes allow some 800 combinations. By the end of this year, about half of the U.S. and Canada will be using ANC. Outside of these countries about 90 per tent of the world's telephones use all numbers. In Oregon nearly two-thirds of the phones have ANC num bers. This figure will rise to more than nine out-of 10 by the end of 1964. Astoria. Baker. Corvallis, Oregon City, Portland and Al bany arc some of the exchanges due (or all-numbers next year. Salem, Eugene. Bend, Med ford, Pendleton, Roseburg and Warrenton are presently using the ANC svstcm. Needed Growth The first and second dial pulls are limited to eight choices each because there are no let ters on the dial by the first or last hole. (A dial with 26 holes would be needed to take advan tage of the 26 letters in the alphabet.) Next, t he use of the last hole (zero) for the third pull in a prefix iTH 0 for instance! would cause endless confusion w ith the letter O ((wind in the sixth hole. Last, the letters associated Maximum growth allow. villi the filth, sevcnlh and ninth holes (JKL, PliS and WXY) do not form usable combinations in several cases. Thus, due to the three limita tions above, the present system gives: A letter potential of 8 x II. or lit combinations fur the first two pulls such as TU. Six ty four x 9 Ithe choices lor the liiird dial pull' totals 576 pre fixes. Subtracting UB made imprac tical by certain JKL, PUS and WXY groupings leaves a net of only 540 prefixes generally used today. Kven il nameless prefix es such as XS 1 were used to employ the 36 now avoided, the total of 576 prefixes would be inadequate within a few years. Experience thus far has shown lliat all-number calling works well in hundreds of cities and towns around the country w here it has been in general use for as long as live years. In many 'if these communities, wrong numliers have dropped since the change to ANC. LtKik-alikes such as the letler I and numeral 1, the letter O and numeral zero; and sound alike such as HI and 1IY, CE and TE. VU and TU arc some of the sticklers avoided by all numliers. Once letters have been re moved from telephone dials the numerals can be grcatlv en larged to aid dialing case. Arabic numerals are truly in ternational, unlike Hoz'iis of il phaln'ts found on the globe. Be fore many years have pasbed, telephone calls to prints a 1 1 around the world will he as commonplace as dialing to the next town or slate. BUSINESS TRIP? Charter a motUm, low wing Piptr. Klamath Aircraft Klamath Fallt Alrpart Ph. l.lHtl Dittrichs Sell Plant; To Retire Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dittrich, con. signecs for 18 years for tlie Un ion Oil Company of California products, have transferred the business to W. R, Wainright and his son. Bob, of Prineville. The changeover is effective at once. Mr. and Mrs. Dittrich have retired from business after 3 years with the company and plan extensive travel in the United States. They will leave next week for Long Beach to visit a son, Jim, his wife, Lisa, and two children, Timothy Carl, and Tina Lisa. Wainright has been with Un ion Oil Company as a distribu tor for 17 years. The family has moved to Klamath Kalis and will make their home for the present on Patterson Street. The distribution area includes part of Klamath County and part of Northern California. During the years tlie Dittrichs have lived in Klamath Falls, they have been active in num erous groups. He has been a member, and past president of the Klamath 'Falls Lions Club, a member of the Klamath Coun ty Chamber of Commerce, and First Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Dittrich (Torki), a regis tered nurse, was at one time .supervisor of Hillside Hospital. was an assistant to Dr. Hugh Currin for five years, then spent 10 years as an interior deco rator with the Lucas Furniture Company. She is a member of the Klamath Falls Sornpliniist Club. The couple has built three homes in Klamath Falls. Prior to coming here they were in business in Everett, Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. Dittrich was presented with a gold watch by the Union Oil Company on his 30 years of af filiation. WC Marks 17 Years Seventeen years ago West Coast Airlines celebrated its first official (light between Se attle and Portland, thereby be becoming lor a short time the country's only "local car rier's airline. The Dec. 5, 1SI48, service con nected the two pivot cities with Grays Harbor, Olympia, Cheili tis and Astoria, culminating six years of planning and negotia ting effort. This month, cnteiing its 18th year, Vtcst Coast Airlines is ad ding (wo Fairchild F-27's turbo propcllcr planes to its fleet and by mid-January, with com pletion of major overhaul on another, will have nine of (he 40-passengcr, 300 m.p.h. car riers in service. One of the new planes, acquired this fall from Aloha Airlines, of Honolulu, already is flying after refitting and overhaul, and (he second will go on Ihc line by Christmas. For the first time in its his tory. West Coast Airlines will he dispatching a predominantly jet-prop fleet on flights to 45 air ports in six Western states and Calgary, Canada. Eight DC-3's will he retained in service. The buildup in F-27 capacity will be reflected by the Dec. 23 schedule, which calls for 33 daily jet-prop flights and 21 D-3 flights. P.y Jan. 13 Ihc F-27 schedule w ill lie increased to 38 d a 1 1 y flights in addition to 24 with DC 3's. The total will he substanti ally more than any previous flight load, and in terms of passenger and cargo capacity, will represent an increase of about 50 per cent over a year ago. One of today's F-27 trip flights from .Seattle to Portland will carry more passengers than all of those launched on that open ing day in 1!MB. NKHKASKA NATIVE J. Sterling Morion, U. S. sec retary of agriculture under President Grover Cleveland, was the originator of Arbor Day. Morton was a native of Nebraska City. Neb. 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 Willy 'Jeep' vehicles 477 So. 7th Ph. 4 (104 Emergency Fhont: Charlit Ramp, 2-4951 Vi. - cat. ' l TTnrriMn-rri ii e liiWii W-' fri m CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP Ed Dittrich. left, turned over keys of Union Oil of California distribution plant in Klamath Falls to new owners, W. R. Wainright, center, and son, Bob Wainright, recently of Prineville. Plant is lo cated at 1459 South Sixth Street. Mr. and Mrs. Dittrich will travel, seeing the United States for the next several months. SP Railroad Planning $90 Million Purchases Southern Pacific will spend $!K) million on new rail equip ment in i'.MA, including 133 new locomotives at a cost of about $34 million, Donald J. Russell, president of the company, has announced. Also included, Russell said, is an initial order for 2,7(19 new freight cars which will cost $53 million, and 17 new post office cars costing over $3 million lor operation in passenger trains. The locomotive purchase is believed to be the largest made by any American railroad in re cent, years. Suppliers will in clude all major American build ers. Most of the new locomotives will be big 2,500 horsepower units, but some will range up to 5,000 horsepower. "Purchase of these powerful new locomotives is in line with the steady trend tow ard heavier loadings and faster train speeds," Uusscll said. The 133 new locomotives to be acquired in 1964 are in addition to 40 new units purchased this year al a cost of almost $9 mil lion, Kusscll reported. SP's die- Tidewater's California Plant Bought By Humble Tidewater Oil Company and Humble Oil & Refining Compa ny announced recently that they have entered into an agreement for Humble to buy Tidewater's California refinery, its market ing facilities and certain of its transportation facilities in Cali fornia, Washington, Oregon, Ida ho. Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii and five foreign supertankers for $:i2ti,0ft0.ooo. Under the terms of the agreement, Tidewater retains title to all of its proper ties except those mentioned spe cifically. Hence, Tidewater will COMPLETE MACHINE SHOP & STEEL FABRICATING EQUIPMENT of THE PETERS COMPANY 1933 S.E. Union Avenue Portland, Oregon Tues., Dec. 17th at 10:00 A.M. (P.S.T.) 400 Ton Peters Hyd. Press Brake; 12'x?" Cincinnati Shear; Peters Combination Angle 4 Plate (6'xVj" angle & 8' nJ," plote cap), T'xVi" Peters Vertical Angle & 32" J. M. Robinson Initial Type Bending Rolls; No. 306 Barnes Vertical Hone; 4" Sellers Horij. Table Type Boring Mill; No. I A WIS Turret, 27"x90" American; 20"xllS" Axcl son, & I8"x72" Hamilton Engine Lathes; No. 4 K&T Ploin Horn. & No. 2 Ohio Univ. Mills; 4' II" Col. American "Hole Wizord" & 5' Pond Structural Type Radiol Drills; Tool & Cutter, Drill & Misc. Grinders; (3) Metol Cutting Band Sows; 8'x30" Gantry Type Multiple Torch Flame Cutting Machine; (11) Arc Welders to 600 amp.; Hyd, Shop Press; I5HP Air Compressor; No. 2 Mitts & Merrill Hyd. Keyseaier; Pipe Threader; Floor Drill; Hoists; 10 Ton OET Crone; Air & Electric Hand Tools; Approx. 25 Tons Steel Stock; Factory Eiuip.; Small & Perishable Tooling; Inspection Equip ; Hyd. Components; Office Equip.; Etc., Etc. FREE ILLUSTRATED AUCTION BROCHURE ON REQUEST WIRE, WRITE, For fop INDUSTRIAL PLANTS CORPORATION America'! Forenoil AUCTIONEERS lit S. loSoll. St., Chlge 4, III. WAbaih 2-731S NIW VO.IK e scl fleet, he said, now numbers over 2,200 units. Tlie 2,799 new freight cars already on order for 1964 will be in addition to 4.359 cars acquired in 1963 at a cost of nearly $71 million. "Many of tlie cars we will re ceive next year," Russell said, "have been specially designed and equipped to handle certain types of commodities. We've equipped them Willi the most modern devices to fit them for tlie tasks they'll perform." As an example he cited 100 new Hy-Cube Hydra - Cushion cars, which will be used to haul automobile parts from the mid west to California auto assembly plants. "These cars, twice as long and two feet higher than a nor mal car, are equipped with spe cial loading devices and have two 20-foot door openings on each side to permit rapid load ing and unloading," Russell said. "They were designed in cooperation with tlie automobile manufacturers who will use them." continue in the West and in the Mid-Continent and Southern areas as an oil and gas produc er and in the East as a refiner and marketer. By disposing of its western re fining and marketing. Tidewater will obtain funds to reduce its substantial debt and to enable it to expand its production opera tions in its Western and South ern Divisions and become a more effective competitor in re fining and marketing in the areas in which it wll continue to refine and market. INSPECTION: DEC. 11TH TO DATE OF SALE PHONE Dollar Rtalixation TOLIDO OITROIT Ms. O o Oo OO
