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34 The Sunday Missouhan. Pecemboi 22. 1 ttl8 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS Western Bank Employes Promoted I I Five key employes of the Western Montana a i a I Rank were promoted by the board of directors at its monthly meeting Thursday. i a A Fossum. who joined the bank in ISMii.

has been advanced from assistant vice president and manager of the real estate loans department to vice president, lie will continue as manager of the department. Martin Moss has been elevated from assistant cashier to as- i a vice president in the same department, retaining the post of assistant manager. He became associated with the bank in llttil. Both men are active in community affairs. Three statters in the Time-I'ay Department have been made assistant cashiers, Duane Scheeler and Flatow formerly were unit officers, and K.

I.ipski was budget loan officer in the department. Moving these staff officers up from the ranks is in keeping with the bank's policy of recognizing employes who have earned added responsibility, according to President Boss K. Hunt. He said the bank constantly is on the alert to recognize individuals whose work is exemplary. lltl.Hi.T.-..

tmmmm Funk Promoted by Insurance Agency Richard A. Fossum VPs New Car Repair Shop Rapidly Hearing Completion He qualified for the agency's honor club both years as a salesman and ranked in the top three in the agency for production. As a district manager he has received the field management award four times, This honor is awarded to the top 15 managers in the nation. Kenneth E. Funk.

109 Takima Missoula District manager of the Joseph C. Odell Agency of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co, and life insurance affiliate. United of Omaha, has been promoted to assistant general agent at the main office in Great Falls. His responsibilities will center around recruitment and work with large groups. He will take over his new position after the first of the year.

Funk joined the Odell Agency in 1960 as a sales representative in Bozeman. Two years later he was advanced to his present position as district manager in Missoula. i Kenneth Funk Plenger Named Store Manager held prior to leaving for Ellensburg preparatory to opening of the store there. He and his wife, the former Lolita Bratton of Missoula, have two daughters; Traci. 2'2.

and Wendv. six weeks. storage wing contains the car foreman's office, a general office, locker-lunch room, rest rooms and store room. Work on a new load adjuster and car puller, which will be used to shove loads bumped out of kilter in transit back into orderly and secure position, is complete except for electrical work. The new stock-cleaning tracks across from Bud Lake Village were completed in mid-summer and have been in use since.

The stock cars on one track are cleaned with hand tools, and sand supplied from the next track is placed in the cars. Two pairs of tracks for cleaning box cars, gondolas and special cars have been laid: 2.300 feet of pavement has been placed between them, and drainage gutters have been built. A pump house to be used in conjunction with these tracks will be built in the i g. Plans are being prepared for a service building for the car cleaning crews. Although westward extension of the terminal is projected, starting date has not been announced.

Plans call for extending the yard past the new grade built last year to a point near Bud Lake Village. that work can be done on the undercarriages. An air-operated retarder will hold the car in place. Retractable hoses that will carry lubricating oil. cleaning fluid and air.

and oxygen and natural gas for welding have been installed overhead for convenience. 24-Hour Service Round-the-clock service is planned to facilitate emergency work as well as carry on repairs which need not be rushed. Soon after the new car shop is put in use. demolition and dismantling of several old structures will get under way. These are: Old car shop, lum-ber storage building, storage platform, journal packing building, blacksmith shop.

lavatory and heating plant building, paint house and car office. Early this fall the old car wheel shop was turned over to the Missoula Fire Department for burning as part of a training program. Next spring after these buildings have been removed the tracks will be extended eastward to connect with existing tracks. Already a temporary connection has been made on the west. Carmen's Service The carmen's service and cars, extend the length of the building.

The building has three large, overhead doors, operated either electrically or manually, at each end to provide entry and exit for the cars. In addition, it has three 10-foot doors, two on the east and one on the west, for use by trucks or fork lifts in moving equipment and supplies from two loading platforms on the east end. Heating is provided by 37 infra-red ray gas heaters. Eleven exhaust fans have been installed. Fluorescent lighting has been installed overhead and more is to be placed at the sides.

Among equipment innovations are two automatic car movers called "rabbits" a small one at the east end that can handle one car and a large one at the west end that can handle a string of cars. Derailers Provided Two power derailers are located outside the west end and a spring a i 1 has been placed outside the east end as safety devices to prevent cars from rolling where they aren't wanted. Hydraulic jacks and a jib crane have been installed at the south track to facilitate lifting the superstructure of cars so By GERALD G. ALQUIST Business News Writer Construction of a new car repair shop as part of a four-year. $3 million modernization of the Missoula terminal of the Northern Pacific Railway Co.

is nearing completion. Presently the project is about 90 per cent finished, estimated Robert L. Urbach. instrument man and acting division engineer. He anticipates that the car shop will be ready for use about Feb.

1. The main structure should be completed by the first of the year. However, the communications and i a 1 departments have considerable work remaning. Urbach said that some more painting and various minor tasks remain in the car shop proper. The 120-by-242-foot structure on which work began last Feb.

6. is located about 1.000 feet west of the Missoula White Pine Sash Co. plant. It is 24 feet high at the sides and 34 feet at the center. The building was built entirely of steel and concrete, with insulation, plywood inner wall, concrete floor and translucent skylights.

Three service tracks, each capable of holding about five Roger B. Plenger, 24. Missoula native, has been promoted by Albertson's, Boise, Idaho-based food chain, to manager of the Ellensburg. store after two years there as assistant manager. Plenger a 1962 Missoula County High School graduate, went to work for Albertson's as a box boy when the Missoula store in Holiday Village Shopping Center was opened in December 1961.

He attended the University of Montana for three years while employed in the store. In 1962 he was promoted to variety manager and later advanced to stock manager, the position he Roger R. Plenger 41 Updating Federal Operations Urged by Plywood Executive cy while others would require additional financing. "None will be easy to implement." he said. "But steps must be taken if our nation's future needs are to be met." Gift House Features Imported Items The Gift House, a new business on the South Side, has obtained many fine imported items to feature its wide variety of merchandise.

The business is operated by Martin H. Eitel and his wife, Billie, with Mrs. S. John Mildred i Schile assisting. The business is located at 331 Southwest Higgins, in Meadow Lark Village.

Eitel intends to continue selling real estate as an independent broker. He has engaged in this field since 1954. Among the unusual items stocked at the Gift House are wine decanters and glasses from Italy, hand-cut crystal from West Germany, China tea pots and cups from England and many unique items from Spain. Hospital Personnel Aide Promoted Sharon Williams, personnel assistant at St. Patrick Hospital since March 1967, has been transferred to St.

Mary Hospital in Walla Walla. and promoted to chief of the personnel department. Prior to becoming personnel assistant at St. Patrick, she served as in-service education coordinator for two and a half years, and was an instructor in St. Patrick Nursing School for three years.

Miss Williams, a Washington native, is a graduate of Columbus Hospital Nursing School in Great Falls. Afterward she spent three years as a staff nurse in Memorial Hospital in Santa Rosa, before entering Montana State University at Bozeman where she earned a bachelor degree in nursing. Mutch's City Glass Works Opens Mutch's City Glass Works has been opened by Jay I). Mutch in temporary quarters at 1701 1 Middlesex St. Mutch will cater to all glass needs, including general glazing, art glass, insurance claims, store fronts, vehicle glass and home windows.

Plans are being drawn for permanent headquarters at a site to be selected in the near future. Mutch was born in Butte June 27. 1936, and moved to Missoula when his father. M. Douglas Mutch, bought the Missoula Glass Works at 215 E.

Main St. He attended local grade schools and Missoula County High School; served in the Marine Corps from Oct. 13, 1953. to March 14, 1957, and attended the I'niversity of Montana. He engaged in trucking and worked for Montana Propane Co.

until March 1964 when he went into business with his father and became manager of the firm. His father died last Aug. 24 and three months later Missoula Glass Works was sold. Mutch and his wife, Dianne. have two children, Lori.8, and Stephen, 7.

The family resides at 1601 Charlott Ave. 4-B's Serving 500 Free Dinners The 4-B's Buffet in Holiday Village Shopping Center will serve 500 free dinners from noon to 5 p.m. Christmas Day to the needy of the community. None of the 4-B's units in Missoula will be open Christmas Day for commercial purposes. The majority of units in other communities are to be closed also to enable employes to spend the day with their families.

Because it would be impossible to serve everyone at the same time, needy persons desiring to enjoy the free dinners are asked by President W. E. Hainline to call the cafeteria as to when they want to come and how many will be in each party. Gudith Joins Insurance Firm Larry Dean Gudith has joined the sales staff of the Big Sky Agency of Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. under Gene Hirst, general agent.

Gudith and a twin brother. Gary, were born March 19. 1947. in Wyandotte, Mich. He was graduated from high school in June 1965 after earning numerous honors, including student body president and senior class president and recognition of athletic prowess.

Having received many offers of athletic scholarships, he chose the University of Montana and arrived in Missoula Sept. 23. 1965. He played football as a freshman: spent the summer at home playing semi-professional baseball and lettered in football and baseball as a sophomore. About this time he received an offer from the Boston Red Sox to play on one of their farm teams.

However, because of arthritis he was forced to quit athletics. While attending the University he went to work for Barry's Shoes in October 1967, remaining with that business until joining Security Mutual as an underwriter. Last summer he was married to Linda Williams of Missoula. Gary, his twin, resides in Wyandotte and works as a draftsman for Great Lakes Steel Co. at nearby Ecorse.

School to Offer Computer Course Training in computer science will be offered by Modern Business College along with accounting, arithmetic, typing and allied courses. Special courses in real estate and ap-priasing have been added to the cirrieulum. The computer science course will consist of lectures, textbooks and practical experience, using facilities available in the city for the equipment phase of the program. Instruction will extend 15 to 18 months. Attention will be' focused on the following: Introduction to electronic data processing, introduction to tabulation equipment operating and systems, computer programing concepts, advanced computer programing, and analysis and design of business systems.

Success of a real estate course offered by the school under franchise from the Weaver School of Real Estate of Kansas City. Mo. warrants repeating it. E. T.

Aasheim, operator, said. The next course will start Jan. 23. The appraisal course, which also will consist of about 20 sessions, will get under way in January. Fred R.

Barclay, county assessor and veteran realtor, conducted the real estate course just ended and will handle the real estate and appraisal courses opening next month. Radio Station Features Country Music Format of KGMY Radio, owned and operated by Mission Broadcasters. has been switched to country music with appointment of Robert H. Larson as general manager, announced Larry Larson, a director. Previously it offered a diversified schedule featuring so-called "good music." including classical, religious and popular.

8 Larson came to Missoula from Yakima. where he was sales manager for KLTI. an all-western station, from 1666 until this fall. A native of St. Paul.

born Dec. 14. 1929. Larson graduated from high schol in Richland. in 1947.

He served in the Navy during the Korean War and completed his studies Eastern Washington College at Cheney in 1955. majoring in speech and radio. He joined KI.ML Radio in Gillette. and was named manager in 1958. Prior to going to Yakima, he was on the staffs of stations in Spokane.

Tri-Cities and Walla Walla for six years Larson and his wife. Debbie, have two sons. Bobbv, 7. and Eric. 5 They reside at 2410 S.

5th St. W. KGMY Radio, located at 105 Arlington was purchased last April by a group of Missoula residents from Christian Enterprises. of Billings. H-W Apprentice Program Approved Hoerner Waldorf Corp.

of Montana has become one of an ever-increasing number of business firms registering their training programs and apprentices with the Apprenticeship Council, a division of the State Department of Labor and Industry. The firm's training program has been approved by the council That was a prerequisite for registering about 16 WASHINGTON. D.C. -Modernization of the administrative methods, forest harvest practices and budgetary systems of federal agencies was urged here by James R. Turnbull, executive vice president of the American Plywood Association.

Turnbull appeared as a witness at a hearing on federal timber management problems called by Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Small Business Subcommittee on Retailing. Distribution and Marketing Practices. Turnbull told the committee that it is imperative that federal agencies increase the effectiveness of forest resource man agement "as soon as possible." "The reason for our concern is simple." Turnbull said. "This nation faces a critical shortage in its timber land base." Turnbull said that by the year 2000 the nation will face a net shortage of between 110 and 300 million acres of land base, depending on the level of wood imports.

The association executive suggested a six-step program for meeting the nation's future needs. He proposed: 1. An accelerated program of forest road construction, timber stand improvement, planting and seeding, fire protection, insect control and research all Interested in STOCKS? STOCK FUND, INC. An open and mutual fund goals already adopted by the Forest Service: 2. A revision of federal administrative policies in order to assure long-range raw material supplies at a reasonable cost to producers and expansion of the sustained-yield unit marketing system.

3. An increase in the rate of allowable cut based on reduction in rotation rates, more intensive silvicultural practices and a more accurate forecast of future demands for timber. 4. A survey of merchantable timber within any proposed land-withdrawal area before final boundaries are drawn. Boundaries of the North Cascade Park were drawn before such information was obtained, he said.

5. Stronger support by the Forest Service of its own withdrawal proposals at public hearings. 6. Periodic reviews of the national interest and needs in connection with timber-producing lands previously withdrawn for recreation purposes. Turnbull said that some of the changes involved only poli haslzlng common stocks.

Ob inctives: long-term capital ap preclation possibilities, rea abto Income. ft a osrrcnj.MOKtfT wmrt i i mi i km t. f- r- ijoth 'i Montana Regional Office 199 W. PINE Phone 543-8359 MANAGED INVESTMENTS NORM BALK0 Missoula and Mineral Counties Phone 549 3924 ispfeeefiCtoaj StTBKSIFIED SERYICES.IWa i I 111 IT Moee rUi profaumngf from Woifamen'co LAURENCE E. LeCLAIRE Division Manager 2921 Thames Home 549-7012 AtwUcaeriwmay hmdt efftrtd Web it nM, lor yvr financial ploni hi KALISPELL LAWYERS Dale McGarvey and McPherson, and the lawyers expect to move in Charles R.

White will share office space in this March 15. Construction features include a stone new modern office i 1 i on Main Street west facade, plate glass southern exposure and, across from the Flathead County courthouse, on the interior, a Cathedral ceiling. (Staff Photo The $42,000 building was contracted by John byAlDarr) IS ai mm.