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About Central Point times. (Central Point, Or.) 1964-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1967)
CENTRAL POINT NEWS by Mabel V ia Hom Members of the William H. Harrison Woman’s Relief Corps of Central Point held a pot luck picnic August 15th at the Grants Pass City Park. P r e s id e n t Mrs. Grace Stafford was in charge of the business meeting which fol lowed the picnic. M r. and M rs. Ken Main warning and daughter, Carol, recently returned to Central Point following a two weeks vacation. They toured G ra n d Teton, Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park and Grand Coulee. Members o f th e Central Point Royal Neighbors of Amer ica attended a potluck luncheon on August 15th at the home of Mrs. Frank Ward at Fish Lake. Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thomas and family were Mr. and Mrs. F.D. McCarty from North Hollywood, California. Mrs. McCarty is a sister to Mr. Thomas. Monday evening, August 7th, Mr. and Mrs. John Booth from Orangeville, California, (the former Nita Maxey of Central Point) and children, Mike, Randy, LeaAnn, Virginia and Mary Kay enjoyed a picnic at TouVelle Park with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thomas and children, Jeff, Laura, Valerie, Lyn and Marty. The Booths also visited Mrs. Booth’s aunts, Mrs. Anna B. Davis of Central Point and Mrs. Pauline Hawley in Medford. Central Point Camp No. 3219 Royal Neighbors of America met at the Girls Community C lu b August 8th with other Southern Oregon Camps for a 12:30 luncheon. After the social hour State Oracle Betty Howell called the meeting to order to discuss plans for the State Convention to be held in Medford in the spring of 1970. A lot of plans were covered, but there are still many more to take care of in the future. All camps can now start making favors, etc. for the tables. There will about four hundred Royal Neighbors at the convention. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gebhard of Central Point and their daughter, Mrs. Roland Smith and her daughter, Lynne, of D i x o n , California returned Friday from a trip to Kansas and Nebraska. WORTH TRYING PLATTEVILLE, COLO., HER ALD: “District Judge Lester H. Loble of Helena, Montana, says publication of the names of juvenile offenders, and their parents, has been directly re sponsible for cutting the crime incidence in his area—in half.” “How much longer,” the small boy inquired, “will I have to eat spinach to be able to whip any body who tries to make me eat 4pjoach?” . •. • > *• > THURSDAY AUGUST 17, 1967 CENTRAL POINT TIMES PAGE 2 STATE FARM HOME The Children’s Farm Home has overcome financial pro blems which nearly caused it’s closure three years ago, Trea surer Alden L. Toevs, Corvall is, reported to the Board of Turstees at their July meeting. Teenagers from 23 of Ore gon’s 36 counties lived at the home during the last year and a half. TheChildren’s Farm Home borders the Willamette River on Highway 20 between Corvall is and Albany. Although the auditor’s report just completed for 1966 shows a deficit of $6,440, Toevs ex plained that the year began with a $21,805 deficit. “If it hadn’t been for that, we’d have closed 1966’s books with a $15,00 1966’s books with a $15,000 surplus,* he pointed out. Expansion and improvement of both facilities and program will be contempleted when the entire deficit is erased, Toevs added. Director Don Miller Ex plained that residents of the Farm Home are youth who have problems of one kind or another which prevent them from living in their own homes or in foster homes, yet are able to adjust to group living in the Farm Home. He says the most important goal of the Farm Home is to return a child to his own comm unity. At present, the Children’s Farm Home is set up to care for 50 teenagers - 8 girls and 42 boys. It is unique among Oregon’s 15 licensed private child-caring agencies in that it cares for disturbed adolescents in a coeducational setting with g irls and boys going to school together and eating together in a central dining hall. The program at the agency is financed by Oregon United App ea l, gifts and bequests of private individuals, and state tax funds which are used to purchase care for children who are the state’s responsibility. About half the children at the Farm Home fit this latter category. Last year approximately 50 per cent of the Farm Homes’ current income came from the state’s purchase of c a r e program; about 30 per cent from Oregon United Appleal; and the remaining 20 per cent from all o t h e r sources, including gifts, sale of farm products and money transfer red from the Home’s capital funds. Miller credits the brightening financial picture to two things: the state’s purchase of care plan and the willingness of the staff to work long hours at low wages. Now that finances are in better shape he plans to add more staff members and to re novate of the existing cottages. During the past year three cott ages, built in 1920’s were torn down because they were fire hazards. The agency's financial prob lem s really began about 10 years ago when it had to start draw - ing heavily on reserves and capital funds. By 1964 the finan cial situation was critical and the Farm Home appeared on its way to extinction. This crisis attracted the governors attention and he app ointed a committee to study fin ancial problems of all private child-caring agencies in the state. From this committee’s recommendations grew the pur chase of care plan established by the 1965 legislature by which the State Public Welfare Com m ission pays the appropriate agency to care for children win are the responsibility of the state. Cal Monroe, Corvallis, is c h a ir m a n of the Children’s farm Home Board of Turstees. He credits the board under leadership of past chairman, R. W. Henderson, Corvallis, with developing financial support that haft enabled the Children’s Farm Home to continue to im prove ii& rogram . z» Any Time -Anywhere— Reasonable Rates - z Theifcroubie with good advice to that it usually in* terferqpwith our .plans. 4 CORNERS A » POLLUTION WOES Joe Foss MONTHLY MEETING HELD AT SHADY COVE C OR VA LUS - Representatives of Oregon's forest Industry and theOregon Legislature met with o f f i c i a l s of Oregon State University’s Forest Research Laboratory this week to review proposals for a two-year study of disposal methods of wood and bark wastes. The OSU Laboratory has lau nched the study of air pollu tion problems with special re search emphasis on wigwam burners. The 1967 legislature passed a measure which will provide funds for the study. A grant proposal has been submitted by the laboratory to the U. S. Public Health Service under the Solid State Disposal Act of 1965 for additional funds to conduct the research. Laboratory engineers Stan Corder and George Atherton, directors of the research, out lined the program to the re presentatives. They noted that the forest industry in Oregon must dis pose of over 2 million tons of wood and bark waste each year. Corder said that the study has the immediate objectives of reducing air pollution caused by wigwam burners and in find ing acceptable ways of disposing of material now burned. He pointed out that the research also will prove various utiliza tion methods of bark disposal. The Forest Research Lab oratory will survey the industry and other agencies with similar air pollution problems and then give a choice of alternate sol ution to the problems, the engineers said. After the preliminary survey has been made, the laboratory is planning to make full scale tests of acceptable methods of burning wood and bark wastes. During the study, the labor atory will cooperate with the State Sanitary Authority and other Investigating agencies studying the pollution problems of the forest industry, the eng ineers noted. Under term s of the m^-’sure passed by the Legislature, the FRL will report its findings to the governor, legislature, State Sanitary Authority, and the forest industry. Periodic meetings are planned with the agencies ofthe state’s forest industries and with the air quality control and improvement committees prior to the final report sche duled on Aug. 31, 1969. The Shady Cove Civic Associ ation held their regular monthly meeting Wednesday, August 9th in the Shady Cove Grange Hall with 36 persons attending. The luncheon was served by the Grange ladies, topped with a w ild b la c k b e r r y cobbler, c o u r te sy of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Houston. In c h a r g e of preparing the food was Mrs. Walter Sattler, assisted by several members. In the absence of Chairman Charles Bridges the Business Meeting was conducted by Mr. James C. Wilson who gave a brief history of the origin and purpose of the group. This is a pet project of Mr. Wilson’s and he works diligently on getting guest speakers on subjects of interest to the people and per tinent to the needs of the c o m m u it y . T h is assoc 1- ationwas started as a monthly luncheon, to get the business people better acquainted and to promote understanding and dis cussions of the needs facing the community. Mr. Wilson spoke of one problem of the Immediate future as being the need of a water system. W ith the inevitable influx of people this growing population cannot survive without adequate water supply. The Shady Cove-Trail Fire District has made appli cation for domestic water from the R o g u e Basin Water Resources Project, but a legal body is not now established to accept and administer this water when it is available. G u e s t s p e a k e r was Mr. Carnegie of the Bureau of Land Management who talked on ways and means of acquiring a suit able location from BLM for a r e s e r v o i r sight for future distribution of domestic water in the area. It was affirmed that this would have to be apolitical taxing subdivision of state, county or municipality to secure the BLM sight for this purpose. F u tu r e m e e t i n g s of the Association are to remain on the second Wednesday of each month at the Shady Cove Grange Hall with a 12 o’clock luncheon served by the grange women. September 13th is the date for the next luncheon when Mr. Orie Moore, of the County Sani tation Department, Is scheduled as guest speaker to discuss our s a n ita tio n Problems and alternate means of handling them. Mrs. Virginia Carpenter is secretary for the organization. Anyone wishing any information about the group may call her at 878-2274. Attending the meeting were representatives of the Ameri can Plywood A ssoc., the Pulp and Paper Industry, Southern Oregon Timber Industries A ssoc., Western Wood Products^ W e ster n Forest industries A ssoc., Western Wood Pres ervers Institute, Willamette Valley Lumberman’s Assoc., West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau, Industrial Forestry A ssoc., Oregon State Depart ment of Forestry, and the State Legislature. Other agencies represented were the Oregon State Sanitary Authority, the Lane County Air Quality Control, the associated Oregon industries Air Quality Committee, and the Western Wood Products Air and Water Improvement committee.- ‘ - i i » i.b i ■ Phone: 664-1167 REVIEWS FOOD OUTLOOK CORVALLIS - If present supply and demand expectations mat erialize, families will probably pay from 1 to 2 per cent more for their food in 1967. This is in line with the 1.7 per cent average annual price rises of the p a s t d e c a d e according to Velma Seat, Ore gon State University Extension foos marketing specialist. Although food costs are likely to Increase less than the cost of many other goods and ser vices, consumers are particu larly s e n s i t i v e to price Increases on food. Food is pur chased oftener than other items, so “1 r r l t a t i o n is more constant,* Mrs. Seat says. Canned and frozen fruits that may cost more this year due to weather-caused crop losses Include apples, peaches, pears, sweet cherries, prunes and apricots. Mrs. Seat suggest that shoppers might do well to watch for sales on “ old pack* fruit often cleared from stock before the current year’s processed food puts pressure on storage facilities. Protein foods take the bigg est bit out of the food dollar, according to OSU’s food mar keting specialist, and prices on beef and pork are up from re cent months. A bright spot, from the consumer standpoint, is turkey. Heavy supplies may be reflected in attractive prices at retail stores. Although egg prices rise dur ing the summer, this year they are expected to stay well below 1966’s high level. A large tuna catch, and larger-than - usual stocks of canned salmon should result in the “sale* tag being hung on these two protein foods. Watch for specials on your favorite brands, advises Mrs. Seat. In spite of Increase costs, the per cent of disposable In come spent for food at home this year should be down from last year, OSU’s food market ing specialist says. Consumer spent 18 per cent of their take-home pay tor food in 1966 - but this year 17.5 per cent is expected to cover fam ilie s’ expenditures on pur chases of food for home con- consumption. 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