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CONSTRUCTION AND DESTRUCTION Two of the biggest new, stories in Klamath
County during the year concerned both construction and destruction. On the "eon
,tuPtioLn".,jide was the $834 000 addition to the Kiamath Falls Post Office. The sides
of the buildings are being extended out and the interior of the building is being re-
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HOSPITAL BORN A new hospital was born Nov. 2 when ground was broken on a
hillside site for the $3 million Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital. The ground
breaking was the culmination nf months of work to raise fundi for the hospital. The
four-story structure is now rising, built by a Rosoburg firm under a $2.09 million
contract. Shown here breaking ground are, Irft to right, Boyd Sanderson, hospital
administrator; Congressman Al Ullman, and Jim Stilwcll, head of the fund-raising
campaign.
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DEER HASSLE The Oregon Game Commission and the Oregon Fish and Game
Council hassled bitterly during 1963 over, the status of the Oregon deer herd and
the best methods for maintaining end improving the herd. Here, a group of interested
eitiiem inspect some bitter brush, a prime deer food, during a "show me" tour o.f;
ranqelands in the county in AdhI conducted b.v the commiitinn wkirk .alii.;..: it.r
h daer herd ii of adequate
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School Problem
Also Made News
By DAN WALTKKS
The community bonds Innclli
cr -to build a hospital.
11 splits over the host way of
educating Us children.
A new campus rises on a hill
side. And an old lumber mill burns
in the cold nilit nir.
These are I he elements of
news the constant explosions
of mind and matter as man
seeks to live with man and
these are the elements nf the
news of Klamath - 10fi:i.
II was like other years in the
way that each man is like an
other. But it was dillcront in
the same way.
Life came to many almost.
I, (XII) babies born in Klamath
Vallcv Hospital.
And death also came to
some peacefully, to others vio
lently. II is perhaps significant that
the m o s t outstanding news
event of the year is also a ban
ner of community pride.
A campaign to raise funds for
construction of t h e 141 - bed
I'reshvlerian Intercommunity
Hospital in Klamath Falls
opened in March.
Virtually every scRincut of
Ihe community got behind the
campaign with time, effort and
money. Weyerhaeuser Company
and its employes donated more
than in jht cent of the goal.
Auctions, a Mardi Cirns, a car
wash and pennies from school
children money from all wont
inlo the pot.
April 21, it was announced
thai more than $1 million in
cash and pledges had been
raised,
Willi that total assured. I h e
hospital site was dedicated Mav
l'i. with Arizona's Son. Barry
(loldwater delivering an ad
dress. Hovd Sanderson was named
hospital administrator d u r i n s
' l lie summer and federal funds
i to aid construction were
pledged in August
Todd Construction Cumpanv
oi iioseiHU'g was awarded the
w m minion contract tor con-
s.'iicuoo ami ground was nroK-
en .soy. s. hoik on me tour-
siory mowing is now under wav
the culmination of months of
effort on behalf nf Ihe commu
nityand indications are thai
the hospital will ho operated on
a debt-free basis
Another news story that pro
vided continuing Interest
throughout the year was that of
school district Woiig;fnizit-ion.
It was a, cI'ii.iA'a'ot'ivJ year for
school i'ii'iu-. which
bait -bur n fHi-'if 4 iijsaussion
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late in the summer and i ynroJ 4.1 ..... ulm '
But after this show of public
opinion, school officials and in
terested citizens worked on a
plan to divide the county inlo
two districts resulting in the
county court's adoption of the
so-called Wiard Street Plan.
The plan, which was unveiled
in its entirety Dee. 10, lias yet
to face the public in three hear
ings next month, and then at
the polls.
T lirce of Ihe persons who
were mixed up in the school re
organization problem during the
year were placed in that posi
tion in May with their election
or reelection In local school
boards.
Ilollin Cantrall was roe'sct
ed to the city elementary school
board and Conrad Borsting was
reelected to his seal on Ihe
Klamath Union High S c h o o I
board.
Lou Kcllison was elected to a
spot on the KU board for the
lirsl lime.
Tint election, on May 7, also
saw the approval by the vot
ers of the largest budgets in
history for both city school dis
tricts. And in another big election.
Klamath County citizens voted
"no" o-l on t h e legislature's
Jim million tax measure Oct. 15.
It was a banner year for con
struction, not only of the new
hospital, but of a new cam
pus In,- Oregon Technical Insti
tute nearhv. a new lire station
at Mitchell Street and Shasta
Way. an Vft'll 00(1 addition an l
remo,n!in 'r'v at the Khm"'h
I'alU Post Ollice, a bridge over
Ihe Link River for Highway !17
at the end of Main Street, and 1
an overpass on Washburn Was
lii carry traffic over railroad '
tracks. !
The new campus for OTI is
being built on a site north nf
Klamath Falls and is sched
uled to be completed in time
Inr occuoancv in the r.ill
I'M. Two classroom kniMinr.
have been completed and
ministration building, a libraiv
catcteria and a gymnasium
partially completed. Work
cd late in Ihe vear on
dormitory
Also slated for construction
near Ihe OTI-bospital complex
' is a new fire station and a new
Baptist church.
The year saw tile completion
of a new high school at Chilo
q u i n. Ihe enlargement of the
high school at C.iichrist and the
announcement of plans for con
struction of a new high school
at Henley next year.
Construction was completed on
Hie Klamath Extension Project,
w hich brought Hxxisands of ad
ditional acres unties ImgaWon.
The fnniliiies vwne dMli'aaleyl in.
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News' Events tn
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NEW GYMNASIUM The gymnasium of the Oregon
Technical Institute campus is shown in this photo. Each
of the four pillars in the building contains a staircase
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FIRST COUNTY PARK Klamath County dedicated
fM first park in July Hagelstein Park, 10 miles north of
SMwrneth Falls on Highwev 97. shown in thit Danarmie
oij. Bat launching facilities were added during the j
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destruction" of a train which occurred when a Northern Pacific freight derailed
near Algoma Nov. 4. More than 25 cars of the train left the tracks and two cars were
thrown into Upper Klamath Lake.
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to the upsfairs gymnasium.
new campus northeast of
be finished by next fall.
year to the park, slated to become the firit In a series
ot parks administered by the county government. Land
tor the park was donated by William Hagelstein '
Wednesday, January 1, 1M4 V
The gym and the rest of the
Klamath Falls is scheduled to
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