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About Central Point times. (Central Point, Or.) 1964-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1966)
N O T IC E . .. .. Attention Naval Aviation men I •Ve need a llat of men lntereeted la weekend drill* to Seattle Na val A ir Station once a month. Phone Ted Stamper at 772-2217. Give name, rank/rate. Need list before January 16, 1966, Oregon Traffic Toll Jan. MO, 1006: 10 Jan. MO, IMS: 10 toy N o r m ajean O n hat* are off again this week to the Central Point Rescue Squad for their effort* Sunday night In rub freezing temperature* In the *earch for the vehicle which left CENTRAL POINT n w ti t It was a cold, cold night lor the Central Point Rescue Squad when they were called by state police Sunday night to a point six miles above T ra il where a vehicle had left the highway and plunged Into the Rogue River. A search Is still underway for missing Luther Lavem Lambert 43, driver of the car. STEVE MAPE1 crackerjack crew they are. Citlsens of Central Point have donated and donated to make the truck (RescueS) and the hoys equipped with needed supplies (or emergency use. The crew doe* so much good far so many people we are wondering If perhaps some person* in the outlying area could come to the rescue this tim e to offer a few small things that would he apprecia ted. Number one, the fellows really need a camera. Any type of flash camera would be appreciated and it does not have to be a new one. The camera would be used to take picture* on rescue call* for the news m edia. Certainly some one must have a camera lying about the house which Is no longer used. Also they are badly In need of a new «living mask for rescue operations. Donation* for the mask may be sent to the Fire Department or to the Tim es office. A n d .. anybody got an old perculator? Many times the boy* are out a ll hour* of the night and a good cup o f hot coffee would sure taste wonderful. They could hook a pot up to the generator o n which the flood light* work. The boys havrnt asked for these things but a little birdie told me they are sorely needed. So- what are we going to do about It? *********** The replacing of silver coin* with base metal* ha* stirred up quite a furor In some craft*. Old Uncle Leadmold, who 1* quite a money maker s e t,. . . . " It Just goes to show how far this government has gone In competing with private enter- prlse........... just at I was gettin' Into production on my Kennedy H a lf dollars, the government comes out with a counterfeit line of Its own.............." Now wa are going to discus* anim al pets again. We were pleasantly surprised this week to hear of Friends of Animals, In c ., a national organization which la promoting the spay ing and altering of mixed bread pats to prevent unwant ed births. Tha wonderful news I is that for folks who cannot afford tha faas, tha organisa tion Is w illin g to help. (cont'd. on page 7) i PAID Permit No 16 IO centi per copy THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1966 RESCUE SQUAD SPENDS COLD NIGHT IN FIRST CALL OF NEW YEAR That poor guy about to fro«e to death, but we have never heard any member of the our friend* have asked. W ell folks, a man was missing, that's why. Our rescue crew did not know whether or not he could still be la the vehi cle! I Poetage STEVE MAPEL RESCUE SQUAD ANSWERS FIRST NAMED LOCAL CALL OF NEW YEAR WINNER IN YOUTH LEADERSHIP Into the river at 3 a. m. in search of the m illing car! ! water during the night. "Why couldn't they have waited t ill morning when the visibi lity would have been better?" U.O. y u M w tÿ w e e k ly ! VOLUME n , NUMBER 4 ter Lake Highway. P ll te ll you, I cure wouldn’t have wanted to be In Barry Hurd'* boot* when he took four dive* We have been asked several tim e* this week why the car had to be pulled from the B O X H O LD ER L O C A L OR R U R A L R O U TE Second C lass Postage Paid At Medford, Oregon the highway and went into the Rogue River near Casey State Park on the Cra squad complain about circum stance*. . . . the boys insist they are on call at a ll tim e* to help when needed, and a TIMES Bulk Rato Steve Mapel, son of Mr. and Mis. D .C . Mapel, 5O7S Dobrot Way, Central Point, has hern named the local winner in the boys division of the Youth Leadership Contest of the Benevolent and Protec tive Order of Elks. Two contestants in each division, one boy and one girl, were entered in the local con test by a ll of th e high school* Luther's wife, Pearl Eileen Lambert, also 43, was trans ported by ambulance to Ro gue V alley M em orial Hospital where she is reported in lair condition. Mrs. Lambert told police she managed to open a door after the car went into the river. A passing motorist noticed car tracks leaving the highway and stopped to inves tigate. He helped Mrs. Lam bert up the steep bank and notified officers. Four members of the Res cue Unit responded to the call. They were‘*Lloy Sutton, Assis tant Fire Chief; barry Hurd, Captain of the rescue squad; Lt. Francis Marshall and Jerry O'Connor, first aid man. Hurd, a trained diver, entered th e river In search of the vehicle, hampered by darkness and no underwater lights. After a one hour search he located the car in some 10 feet of water. With the help of the other men, !..■ was able to place grappler hooks on the vehicle so It could be pulled from the muddy and turbulent waters by a tow truck. The Rescue Squad used a ll their lighting equipment, ropes grapple hooks and diving gear in the process. The cold, hungry and wet crew returned home at 5* IS am six hours after the rescue c all. Comments from the crew? "Boy! What we wouldn't have given for a hot cup of coflee in that sub-freezing tempera ture! " SCHOOL BOARD MEETING— Board members of school district 6 met Tuesday night in Central Point to discuss the forthcoming sch«x>l budget. One of the main objects of discussion was the construction of the proposed new junior high school, the property for which has already been purchased. Looking over the plans for the new school, above, are (front row, 1. to r . ) C . W. Anhom, Albert Thompson and H . S. Deuel, jr. In the back row are J. W . Fitzgerald, Jeff Shute (architect for the building) and School Superintendent Cha He* Meyer. DISTRICT 6 PLANS NEW BUDGET Directors of School Dist rict No. 6 met Tuesday evening in regular session with the two main items of the meeting being the shortage of classrooms and the new school budget. On the classroom prob RESCUE UNIT CALLED ON ROGUE AUTO ACCIDENT in this area. Judging was on leadership qualities and a c ti vities. Each Subordinate Lodge entered the brochures of Its winning boy and girl In the state competition, the winner* of which w ill compete In the national contest. Tan ya Redtngfield, Eagle Point, 1* the winner In the girl* di lem , Jeff Shute of the firm of Seibert, Hunter, Shute and Plumley, Architects, outlined preliminary cost of planning the proposed building program far the district which includes a new Junior High building on Scenic in Central Point, S classrooms, library and vision. Ma pel Is president of the Associated Student Body of teacher's at Patrick in Gold H ill and the compl etion of the new Sam's V a lle y Elementary School. According to Shute, this proposed program w ill be just under J2 m illion if Crater High, Is a member of the National Honor Society, member of the Art Club, the Letterman's Club, the Student Council, and Is student re presentative to the Crater Chapter American Field Ser vice. He is active in sports, is a varsity letterman in foot b a ll, also Is active in art, for which he received a Cold Medal on work submitted last year to the National Scholas tic* Art Competition In New building costs do not take a jump. On budget matters, C. A. Meyer, district superin tendent, was designated budget director. Dr. Bruce L. Turner •* resignation from the budget com m it tee was accepted and Dean Wilson was appointed to complete the remaining year York C ity. He was one of ten delegates selected to represent Oregon at the National StuderX Coun c il Convention in Lexington, Kentucky, last bine. In Au gust he attended the one week of his term . Paul Molloy was appointed for three years. Other members of the committee are W. C. Higinbotham, Don Mor Student Council Workshop at the University of Oregon, re ceiving hl* Leadership C erti ficate, and later was a guest speaker at the one day Dis row and B. J. Thums. The first budget hearing w ill be held January 27, at 8:00 p. m. in the Dist rict administrative build trict Student Council Work shop in Grants Pass. ing in Central Point. The board accepted the resignations of Mrs. Lor raine Linne Hanby of Gold H ill and Patricia Dungan Mapel has setved as Fresh man student council represen tative, Sophomore class pres ident, Junior class vice presi dent, and while a Junior was president of the Art Club. For the past two years he has been selected to participate in the Jackson County Able and RESCUE CREW Experts In the Held of assisting in di tris l disa«tet. three members of the Central Point Rescue Aid Unit are shown checkin^ their equipment after recovering a cat from the Rogue River near T ra il Sunday. Barry Hurd, center, made four dives Into the Icy water oi the Rogue to locals the vehicle. Other members shown are on the left, of Crater. Francis Marshall, and right, Jeny O'Connor. Also on the rescue aid squad when needed are Fire Chief Don Turner and Assistant Chief Elroy Sutton. They were not available for the Times photographer when this picture was taken. Gifted Child Saturday classes at Southern Oregon College. $1 CHARTER SUBSCRIBERS MAY USE County Schools Receive Grants Jackacn County school dia- tricti were among those listed to receive grants under the E l ementary Education Act, ac cording to Sena. Wayne Morse and Maurine Neuberger. The grants, within Project Prometheus, will allow 200 m - condary students from seven high schools to attend a six- week summer school program at Southern Oregon College, f* .\» f . J- . S - t £ C H ARTKR S U B S C R IB IR CENTRAL POINT TIMES 1 T h I* cirtlflae that THIS BLANK TO MAIL YOUR $1 1 ! 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