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6 The Nowi-Review, Roscburg, Ore. Mon., Feb., 27, 1961
Uncle Sam Favored Douglas County! Clide,s New Po?t 0ffi
With 2 New Post Offices In 1960
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ADDITION to the Glide school system is this ; handsome structure which harmonizes
neatly with the rest of the beautiful plant on a knoll overlooking the North Umpqua
Highway. . . . v ;
Glide's Modern
Result Of
Schools
By MRS. ARTHUR SELBY
PROGRESS in capital letters ac
centuates the phenomenal growth
of the Glide School District in the
last 39 years.
In the years 1900-1920 there were
three different districts in the vi
cinity of Glide, each with a one
room log cabin which served as
the schoolhouse. One of the schools
was called Lone Rock, located
across from the present Red Barn
restaurant; the second, Fall Creek,
was located on the Little River
Road about four miles south of
Glide; and the third, Mount Scott
School, was located on the present
DcShields place.
In 1921, residents held a special
election and voted to consolidate
the three schools and build a com
bination grade and high school
since the teaching in these schools
ended at the eighth grade.
Results of the election: Bonds
were approved to the amount of
$16,000. The present Glide Grade
School grounds location was se
lected and the seven acres were
purchased from the late S. J.
Shrum.
The concrete building was com
pleted and opened in 1922 with an
enrollment of 80 students and four
teachers.
Since that time, buildings and
buildings have been added and the
school area mushroomed into the
vast Glide School system of the
present.
Looking Ahead, W-D Schools
Take Building Site Option
The latest step toward the prog
ress of schools in Dillard District
116 is the beginning of a language
laboratory, which was started at
Douglas High school lor me t renen
department.
Tha iteD was taken through the
etforts of J. Carlyle Ross, head of
tha French detiartment with the
help of Lauren J. Costclloe and
funds supplied equally by the school
district and the National Defense
Education Act last fall.
But this Is just one of many.
Land Bought
An notion was taken on 10 acres
of land in East Winston, east of
the Winston Community rarK lor
a future building site for a junior
high school the past year. This
came about after the recommenda-
Umpqua District
One Of Oldest
The Umpqua Elementary school
Is located, almost in the center of
school district 45, and is one of the
two remaining non-high districts
left In the countv.
It Is also one of the oldest, the
first school being built here by Dr.
Cole in the early 1850'. The
school has four classrooms and a
large multipurpose room. To Die
west of the building, there is a
trailer house space andr at pres
ent, there are three teachers us
ing it. . ,
7b Enrolled
There are approximately 70 stu
dents enrolled. The high school
students of the area are trans
ported to the Oakland High School,
with their tuition and transporta
tion furnished by this district.
There are some 30 attending High
School from here. School buses are
also furnished for this group.
This cchool has a very active
and efficient parent-teacher group,
known as tho Umpqua School As
sociation. This group has equipped
tho school kitchen.
Croup Works
It has been a continuing work
ing group since the building of this
school house which was the re
sult of the consolidation of three
small districts some 10 years ago.
This district is now free of all
debts and starts, the new school
year with a clean slate. Plans are
being considered for blacktopping
part of the school yard, a new
ilagpnlo and tha painting of the
outside of tho entire school house.
lion by a citizen's committee ap
pointed by the School Board in the
spring of 1960 studied and made
recommendations on the building
needs of the district.
Through their recommendation
also a serial levy was passed to
raise $50,000 a year for four years.
The first year's levy was spent in
building two classrooms, a health
room and a multipurpose room, all
additions to the ienmue school.
The I960 levy will be spent to
build, a four-room addition to the
new Winston School, which was
built in 1959 at a cost of $340,000.
It houses grades 7 and 8 from all
of school district 116 and the sixth
grade from the Winston-Dillard
area.
Policies Stated
Due to the efforts of a commit
tee consisting of two School Board
members, two teachers, two prin
cipals, the superintendent and head
ed by Ray Talbert, principal of
Douglas High School, a handbook
outlining policies of the school
district was completed in the fall
for all school district employes.
Ten teachers were added to the
district since the spring of 1959 to
Inko caro of the overload and in
creased enrollment, which resulted
in going off a double shift at Du-
Inrrl schools.
Mothers of the Winston PTA
worked diligently during the sum
mer months' and since the begin
ning of the school term to organize
a uurary ai we vwiimuii bi-muui,
From the 1922 enrollment of 80
students, the present enrollment
of Glide Elementary, Glide Upper
Elementary and the Glide High
School totals 688 students, plus 1U2
students at Deer Creek School
(annexed m 1923) and 37 at Toke
tee Falls School, which was built
at the time California Oregon row
er Co. began its network of instill
lations.
From the Glide School with four
teachers (including the principal),
there are now 48 teachers in all
schools plus four principals and
the superintendent of schools.
Lunches Carried
The students in the old days car
ried their lunches in tin boxes. To
day, Glide Elementary School has
a modern cafeteria, -Glide High
has a cafeteria as well as has Deer
Creek to serve the students hot
lunches. ' '
Instead of walking or riding
horseback, Glide Schools have
$101,157 invested in buses to take
the students to and from school.
The longest haul for a Glide school
bus, is the 84-mile round trip daily
to Toketee Falls to pick up the
high school students at that school
and others along the intervening
miles of the new North Umpqua
Highway.
From the first cost of $16,000 for
a school building equipment and
land; the present valuation of the
school buildings, furniture, equip
ment, grounds and buses is $1,087,
780. ' , v
Multipurpose Room Built '':
The latest .buiiding to be con
structed, is the new grade school
multipurpose building wnicn open'
ed in January 1961. The 110-by-92
foot building is used for the fol
lowing purposes; cafeteria for
graue scuooi pupils; upper graue
gymnasium; physical education
for both primary . and upper
grades; auditorium for upper and
primary grades; primary playroom
in wet weather; dressing rooms
for upper elementary grades. The
building cost $117,000 and $15,000
for equipment. At present an addi
tion to me Deer creek scnooi is
being completed at a cost of $27,
717. Tho Glide Rural School District
is one of tho largest, richest
and most complex in the state of
Oregon. It covers approximately
1,200 square miles. Tile district ex
tends from about two miles east
of Roscburg to the Douglas-Klamath
county line. The district joins
Sutberlin and Oakland districts on
the north, Roseburg, Roberts
Creek, Myrtle Creek and Tiller on
the west and south.
Clear evidence of the progress
of Douglas County within the past
year has been the completion, pres
ent construction or planning for
five new post office buildings.
Hoscburg, Winston, buttiernn,
Myrtle Creek, and Idleyld Park
have either gotten new post of
fices recently or are in the process
of getting one.
The Roseburg Post Office was
formally dedicated on Feb. 20,
Lookinggloss'
First School
Among the first school districts
to be formed in the County was
the Lookingglass School District
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The exact time when school was
first conducted in the valley is not
verified, hut the legend indicates
that a three month's term of
school was held in the fall and
three months in the spring with
the intervening month s vacation
in the winter and summer.
The original structure was a
sturdy log building on the bank
of the Lookingglass Creek in the
vicinity of the present Fred
Schulze Mountain view Dairy
Farm.
. One teacher handled all grades
with a varying enrollment of 50
or more students. His salary is
listed at $35 a month and of
course he boarded around consid
erable." v
Building Ereceted
In 1873 the Coos Bay Wagon
Road through the Lookingglass
Valley was opened and two years
later the permanent school site
was acquired. A new building was
erected there. It was torn down
in 1908 and much of the lumber
used to erect the nucleus of the
present grade building.
. In the fall of 1919 the patrons
of the school decided to add high
school facilities and the upper
floor of the church building was
rented. J. T. Lee conducted the
school with 19 pupils. Glenn Voor
hies and DeLos Williams made
up the first graduating class in
1922. The high school program was
conducted by one teacher until
1929 when the grade school build
ing was remodeled and enlarged
to accommodate a two-teacher
staff for the high school level in
addition to the increased grade
facilities for two teachers.
During the era when the WPA
was in effect, assistance was giv
en by the WPA workers, and the
present combined school and gym
facilities were built. The original
building was then converted to
the use of the grades while the
high school was enlarged to a
three-teacher setup and conducted
in the new building. The school
was maintained on that basis un
til 1943 when the district voted to
send the high cchool pupils to
Roseburg.
Dillard District Jointd
When the Roseburg district is
sued the decree in 1953 that they
would be unable to continue tak
ing pupils from the outlying dist
ricts unless tnose districts com
bined with Roseburg, the Look
ingglass district was again faced
with a problem. A decision was
eventually made to join with the
present Dillard district to serve
the high school pupils. Later the
seventh and eighth grade pupils
were also transferred to the Win
ston building.
At the present time the pupils
in the first six grades are being
taught in the Lookinglass facilities
with four teachers and an enroll
ment of 100.
1960. The pew building, located on
SE Kane St., replaced the outgrown
facilities in the Federal Building
at the corner of SE Cass Ave. and
Stephens St. , ,
The new structure cost an es
timated $425,000 including furnish
ings, fixtures and grounds. It was
built by the Todd Building Co. of
Roseburg.
The staff of 44 postal employes
began operating from the building
on Jan. 21, I960.
As Clyde Carstens, recently re
tired Roseburg postmaster put it
on the day of dedication, "T h e
new building marks a real mile
stone in Roseburg's progress."
New construction in the North
Umpqua area to cause the most
interest in the area, was the new
Idleyld Park Post Office. The build
ing was completed Aug. 10, 1960
and dedicated on Sept. 24. The
60 years of history of the Idleyld
Post Office with pictures, was pub
lished in the News Review of Sept.
16, 1960.
Mrs. Theda M. Losee. had orjera-
ted in the very small quarters in
the rear of-the old Idleyld Park
store for 10 years. Due to the in
crease in volume of mail and the
added star route between Idleyld
Park and Toketee Falls, it be
came neccessary to expand the
space required for a postoffice. Mr.
and Mrs. Losee hired James and
Stritzke of Roseburg to construct
a new, modern building on their
property and the U. S. Postal De
partment equipped it with modern
furniture and fixtures.
At the present time construction
is under way on the new post
office buildings at Winston and
Sutherlin? Tentative completion
dates have been set for July for
the Winston office and April for
the new building at Sutherlin. Both
are being constructed by North
Bend Realty of Salem.
The Winston office will have 2,
452 square feet of interior floor
space with a 240 square foot load
ing platform and 9,000 square feet
of parking and maneuvering area.
It is being built on the East side
of Rose Ave.
The Sutherlin office is being con
structed on E. Everett St. between
State and Umpqua Sts. It will have
3,000 square feet of interior floor
space with a 405 square foot load
ing platform and 6,368 square feet
for maneuvering and parking.
Bids are still being called for
on the new post office building to
be constructed in Myrtle Creek.
The building is scheduled to be
constructed on Broadway St., one
half block east of First St.
The new building will contain
approximately 4,181 square feet of
interior floor space with a 405-foot
platform and 8,129 square feet for
parking and maneuvering.
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IDLEYLD PARK Post Office is one of the county's
It is located far up the North Umpqua Highway,
dedicated last summer.
newest
It was
And Roseburg's Is, Too
League Of Women Voters
Being Formed In County
Efforts are being made to form
a Roseburg chapter .of the League
of Women Voters. Oregon now has
19 such chapters.
Mrs. M. L. Christensen said
meetings are planned in the near
future to select a temporary chair
man and committees on by-laws,
nominations and membership. Mrs.
Christensen is one of the persons
spearheading the effort.
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ANOTHER NEW LOOK came to Roseburg in 1960 with the dedication of the First
National Bank of Roseburg. The daring design of this home-owned bank was soon
matched by the modern structure of another bank, U. S. National, this year. (News
Review Photo) -.
MOOSE TO HELP
The Drain Moose Lodge has
agreed to help the American Le
gion Post repair and maintain the
Drain Veterans Hall. Installation
of a hot water heater, electrical
wiring repair and complete inter
ior painting are planned.
Michaels Ranch Offers
Much Diversification
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Michaels
have two ranches in the Days
i rccii area, ana uiey nave divers-:
Ifiration aplenty.
The 550 sere ranch supports 107 '
Herefords, which are driven to his
1,300-tcre Reals Creek Ranch ev
ery year. lie has 120 acres of the
first ranch under irrigation and he
seeds 500 acres of the second
ranch by airplane. i
The demands for improvement
of the ranches have been great, j
Last summer he built Hi miles
of fence and is scheduling another i
mile this year. Ho built a trout- i
stocked pond for Irrigation. He ;
put in new corrals and plans a !
grain and hay acale soon. Besides
rattle, he has sheep and prunes. I
Twenty-five more acres of prune
trees (2.000) will be Planted tins !
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