! KLAMATH NEWS
Thursday, Sept. 24, 1925
WORDY FIGHT!
YOKK. Sept. 2.1.-- United I
re morry cross firo ( ,
fans uiiiI runnier uituhiiiIoim
furinor iM-il follow In tin,
alnl lliuir continued Wed-I
I
ir J. I'avln, superintendent '
Anll-Kiiloon Ioiikui) cf Now I
imi',I u Hlntomi-nt In which
P Dial I no claim fur the
(made by William I). Antler
iini r siiporlntiMidont and con-
freer wcru unsupported by
mild Hint Aiiilrrxnn had
ly avoided niiy Judicial do
i. n of Ilia i lalma hy
and told of hi apparent
i in uvnld meeting leugiic
in u discussion of pruof of
bus.
ml Ill-will," Ih IIhvIm iIiwi.
lif Andl'I biiii'i, fooling
IiIk farmer follower. J utit
killKiiaut 1hii former super-
lit Ih may g shown tiun
kn Amtoraon la going In tell
moll Limn Island how
b-mintiinl dry ruiisiltuonoy"
York waa hoodwinked hy
i-Saloon loaKiio In the last
rk KUliornnlorlnl campaign.
"ii la IrylnK lo pnrauudo
Hi- to rontrlliuin liri.ono In
Dial ho may pay tila debts
-free li rarry on hi fight
liitilliim unhampered.
Kate of Roys
W Girls in City i
st Even to Date
iilii.ilH'd g'.rl In birth ro
r Iho wunk In one hospital
illy when, Willi the woek
, two hoy liable wore horn,
shortly hy tlio hirlh of
hal'lc.
nd Mra. (Ilonn Stiver of
Irdrn avenue are the prnud
of ii hnhy girl. Thoy nro
p Unit they have found no
whlrh to k!vo young Mi4
first name.
k-rond girl of tho week waa
.Hr. und Mr. It. C. Mor-r-'siilenia
of Klamath Fulls.
(!:' a: 141 Michigan avonuo.
hil Mra. A. F. .Mlchaelson
iving felicitations of their
vir iho blrih of a son. .
. und olrs.jW. L.' Clement j
ird a baby boy ,wa born, 1
Hie score, . which Jould
Hod dlanalor In the, boys'
ill" ulrla had won.
'Miltnl nutliorltloa nro won
hat tho end of the week
fur n mnnlh that 'a all It
f Iho prompt and regular do
r The Klamath Npwb lo your
r pliii'o of business. I'hone
It and service will Blurt as
you wish It to.
s-Stitch Is
tty Trimming
for Little Frock
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Commonplace Crossarm Plays Important Role ih
' Dramatic Story of America's Telephone Service
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HOOVER OUTLINES
j A serlea of advertisements in The ,
sewn will io more man alarl peoplo
thinking of you and talking of your
offering; it will bring you new liusl
I nnaa. Have ua mihmlt a tentative
icampalcn. without obligating you la
' nr way- . ,.(,'
I j -Brmsing Oouaisj Fr Log, i
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Yel,ovw Pine Cross Arms Entering
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By R. T. BARRETT
ui-hinu ia nmch more
ciimniMDplaco than a tele
phone crorfsarm.
The seeker for romance
would scarcely hope to
nnd it in a plain, unadorned stick
of timber bolted near the top of a
tint lean prolate pole.
And yet. If a crossarm could talk,
It could tell a tale not altogether
devoid of drama, which is precise
ly what the crosnarm cannot do.
To It has fallen the Ironic fate of
he Jug doomed to silence, although
playing an all-Important part In
the speerh of others. It Is one of
the mute Instrumentalities by
which the mesMages of millions are
hurried on their way.
Hut there Is romance, surely. In
hflplnjc to speed a nation's spoken
words. In the Iran mission of
America's telephone tlk there Is
a drama thai holds ah orbing tn
tvretrt an urmndlng succession of
nets and scenes In whirh the grin
ning mask of romedy and the pain
distorted face of Trtigudy alter
nately apntiar And for all of these
hrenes the crossarm, as It were.
sets the stage. ,
The simple truth Is that without
the enmaann America's far-Hung
network of telephone vires would
have been well nlgh Impossible.
Sn serious were the difficulties en
rountured by early telephone engl
liners In denting with "crosstalk"
t.MiwfHn parallel wires that It was
Inhered for a time th.it not more
than one wire, .or pair of wires,
rmild he run on. a single pole line.
These difflmltles. however, wore
rtveri'ome. and the crossarm m
r.ime a regularly remenlied and
lurpfrtinjilv tmpurtatit Item of tele
phone plant
Today s pol carry ng from fimr
to six crossarms, or sometimes
more, each accommodating ten
wires. Is a common sight in the
open country. Despite the Increas
ing uafl of aerial and underground
cable, it is safe to say that without
the open-wire lines which the cross-
arm makes possible the develop
ment of the telephone to anything
like Its present scope and extent
would have been impossible.
. There Is, then, something of ro
mance In what the crossarm has
helped to achieve. And there is
hardly less of romance In the
crossarm Itself In the splendor of
the natural setting from whence It
comes. In the toil of tough-sinewed
lumbermen who fell and dress and
hlp the great logs from which it
Is fashioned, and in the unseen la
bors of scientists who have spent
years in finding means of exterd
tag its service life.
Shifting Source of Supply
The men who have sought and
found the great timber tracts
which supply crossarm s for the
nation's telephone system hare
been, of necessity, pioneers. For
the sources of the supply are con
stantly changing. As timber in
one section becomes scarcer nnd
more expensive, the centers of pro
duction are moved and new terri
tories developed.
The first telephone crossarms
were of Michigan white pine and
were made at South Bend. Ind.
Later Norway pine, cut from the
Michigan woods, was adopted and
generally used until about 1397,
when PoucJas fir. long leaf yellow
pine, creosoted Southern yellow
pine and heart red and black cy
press were first utilized. At pres
ent. Onuclas fir from the West and
yelluw pine from the South are the j
two woods mainly used for cross-
arms throughout the Bell System.
Yellow pine comes In small trees
while many of the firs are so large
that the logs must be shattered
with an explosive before being fed
into the sawmill. In the South, ac
cordingly, the cutting Is often done
with small portable mills" which
are hauled Into farmer's timber
patch, .while la the western fir
tracts operations are conducted by
a large organization. Each of these
large sawmill camps has Its own
railroad facilities, cook and bunk
houses, club house, church and
commissary. In addition to Its mill
ing equipment and power plant .
Creosote to Fight Decay
Both Douglas fir and Southern
yellow pine have the required
strength for crossarm purposes,
but some grades of the latter are
much more subject than the for
mer to the attacks of rot, which
quickly causes ,,the wood to de
teriorate. Bell System scientists
have' made a' painstaking study.
not only of materials which may
be used as preservatives, but of
the most effective methods of ap
plying them. A method of creo-
soting has been developed which
materially prolongs the life of both
poles and cros sarins. Briefly, this
method of preservation consists in
running the crossarms by the car
load Into huge creosoting cylin
ders in which the preservative
fluid Is forced deep Into the pores i
of the wood nnder pressure. This j
provides not merely a surface pro-1
tectlon but layer of wood fibres of
considerable depth which have
been Impregnated with creosote
and which thus resist the inroads
of the fungtw which causes rot. j
Extreme care must be taken in ,
Inspecting the crossarms from the
moment they leave the timber
tract until they take their place
must be without serious flaw or
defect goes without saying when
it is realized that all crossarms
must be strong enough to bear the
weight of the linemen who work
upon them, and that on a heavy
construction toll line, the dead
weight per pin, which normally is
about ten pounds. Is sometimes In
creased toy snow, sleet and wind
to 160 pounds or more per pin.
This means that, nnder these se
vere ' conditions, each crossarm
must sometimes withstand a dead
weight pull of 1.600 or 1.700 pounds.
Huge Annual Requirements
Supplying the Bell System's
crossarm demands Is one of the
many functions which the Western
Electric Company performs as tho
purchasing department of the sys
tem. The company's records show
that during YSIK the Bell System
companies used about &60.0UO yel
low pine .and 112.000 Douglas , ftr
crossarms and that, estimates for
the present year call for about R70.-
000 of the former and about 2O0.0U0
of the latter.
In estimating requirements for
equipment, such as crossarms, the
Bell System companies must o
course, provide not only for new
construction work and for normal -
replacements, but for such repairs
as may be necessitated by svver-s
sleet storms, floods, tornadoes or
similar emergencies. The poles
themselves usually suffer more se
verely than the crossarms dtim;
such emergencies, but ample re
serve supplies must be provide
to care for unexpected contfnir.t
cles. When an jmistiatty destruc
tive sleet storm struck the Mul Its
West last w'nter It found iM
Western Electric people watt in r
for It with 2V000 crostinn 3
stock In wsrehnusen in th
Tory affected and soA.imo in ;
points from whlrh he u-ti
WASHINGTON. Sept. 23. ( Unit
ed w News Commercial aviation
had its day before the president's
nl reran beard Wednesday. A bright
future for Its development, pro
vided the government lends a help
ing hand was predicted l:y a num
ber of official who have etudlcd
the prospects. ;
Secretary of Commerce Hoover,
who folio wc-d Pfit master General
New and other postoffico officials
on the stand, laid out a definite
program of government help, which
he said would assure commercial
service without a subsidy. He
urged:
1 Establishment cf an aviation
bureau in his department to carry
out necensary regulation.
2 Contracting the transportation
of mails by private concerns. The
revenue thus derived together with
additional income from .passenger
and express service, will Induce sub
stantial concerns to enter the com
mercial field. Hoover said.
3 Establishment of air ports at
important cities, which should be
done by the municipalities them
selves. "I believe with this minimum ex
tension of governmental activity,
we can secure a commercial avia
tion In the United States without
subsidy," Hoover declared.
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Red Hot Radio
Batteries
What you no longer have use for
may be Just the thins another is
aceklng. News Classified Ads bring
buyers and eellera together.
I
MASONS ATTENTION!
Reception
GRAND MASTER
and Other (iraml Lodge Officer
Hatunlay, Scot. 20, 7:00 p. ni.
All planning to attend banquet
please notify Brother Griffith at
postottice. or Brother prather at
Currins Drug Store, by Friday
noon. No visiting brothers ex
amined after 6:30.
iEVEtlEAmi
nTS'lo
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Illght from the
factory ' Li ' Fris
co, fresh, .and
strong.. v
If you'f old bat
teries , are run
down your set
will be noisy.
' Bring' yeur old
ones ' In for ' a
free test.- . '
: We test ' your
tubes free ' of
-charge. . .
Earl Shepherd Co.
Radio Kupplleft, Ffanos.
SOT Mala St. .
the pols as parr of -the
Bell System's enormous telephone he promptly shipped into lU.
equipment. That the crossarms ' area.
Local Briefs
Knlrmi (lull To Mm One of! - loniior Itinl.liiit J. C. whitaker, j To Knur o. A. Miss June
Iho. most Intoroatlng rliihs of Iho resident who owned tho Whitaker Bradbury, daughter of .Mr. and Mrs.
year will hold lis meeting tonight r,ro(.crr romp;,ny recently fold to'll. E. Bradbury of the Henley dis
i the I'roabviori. churrt whe'tIie psgly chain ha3 ,rict plaIining 0 ,0e ,he latter
. arrived in Klamath Falls to trans- part of the week for Corvallls.
Many from 1.II.H,,.ln A number hll their Initio gathering of ho, a,UUs whitaker now where she will enter Oregon Agrl-
of Chiloqnln realdonla. memliera or Jr- ' iu.-... ....... k his ' home '
S.r IrW wore in at''" Ml Vera Houston. Other off!- makra 1,19
cors aro anas mho I'liinney, vire
presidont: Mlas Joan Perry, secrc-
YOU
can get the best
AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING
and -MACHINE
SHOP WORK
at the
CRATER LAKE
GARAGE
K. Q. AYER, Prop.
(At the game for twenty years) '"'1
23 Huh St.
Phone 326
Ashland.
i cultural college for the winter.
'v 4
W.
tondanre on Tuesday night when
Ihe Mcdford degree team put on
tho work for tlii Klamath Falls
chapter. if .
Visitor, from hrrls Mra. Bill
llngolatein of Dmrrla, accompanied
hv Mrs. McDonnW, also a resident
tary, nnd Miss Mary Walker, treas
urer. Mrs. W. S. Slough Is h'ndei
for tho organisation.
Hrro from Algoma Mrs. Jean
Wlnjor and Mrs. Jack Connors are!
of l')orr'la. were rimcng tho visitors , Includ-d In the out-of-town visitors :
In the city yesterday. shoppers In Klamath talUl
Iioiivina for pVlianl Among the
many students who will leave over i
the week-end for) schools through-1
out the atnte or, the coast is MlaJ
Gladys Lditta of Henley, who plans
to leave for Monmouth on Fri
day afternoon, where ahe will enter
her first year In (the Oregon State
Normal school
I yesterday. Both Mrs. Wlnsor and
Mrs. Connors make tjieir home In
Algomn. I
From Ijikovlow
of Lakevlew Is Ii
nrss.
-Charles Arthur'
town on busl- j
-fashioned cross-stitch -la .
fi'ctive trimming for little
new frock, And she has
w bright colors too, for the
pattern is put on in tng-.
PKora yarn in Chinese jade.
f'p blue and tangerine.
Ak-e
; Yjm
j Lucky
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L Oo Oo Fe
V" Cffi tran" j : ; 2.
This location sstill remains the headquarters for the
Crater Lake Automotive Co. for the sale of
Paige and Jewett Cars.
STORAGE GREASING GAS OIL
Klamath Lodga No. 1S7 Menu
every Friday night. S. R. ReiUey
N. U.
Canton Crater No. T Meeti
very Wednesday evening. Car
Sandell, Commandant.
Ewaona Encampment No.
Meets every - Tuesday night,
A. I Westfall, C. 1.
45
Trospertty Rebekah Lodge No
104 Meets first and third Thnra
I days. Mrs. Elizabeth Sanders, N. Q.
BECAUSE
IT'S DEPENDABLE
one imfjortant reason for
your choice of
Southern Pacific Lines
Your travel responsibility ceases when you board the train.
Comfortable trains leave at convenient hours. You arrlye at
your destination rested and refreshed and on tittle.
Service most everywhere en the Pacini: Coast, plus four popular
ror.tcontinental routes to the east.
Economical, too-rcJuced roundtrlp fares make trawl sur.
prisingly Intensive.
For complete information, communicate with,
SGitliera Paific.Iines
J. J. MILLER. Phone 709.
District Freight & Passenger Agent.
Room 205 Hopka Bid?. 8th and Main Sts.
Klamath Falls, Ore.
)r saaW
Opening Dinner Dance
Of The Season
Reservations now being made
or the first of the series of
Dinner Dances to be given
Thursday Evening, Septem
v ber 24th at the
White Pelican Hotel
$3.00 a Plate
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