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About The Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1936-195? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1937)
CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN CENTRAL POINT, OREGON. VOLCMK IX M usings^ I BIG Oy an Innocent Bystander THURSDAY, FEBRUARY U , |9a7 BANQUET IS Grange Players E Enjoy Trip to BY MANY SCOUTS Corvallis Meet NUMBER IN Scouts to Stage Big Party Next Thursday at Gym CENTRAL PI. IIIO E FOR HOOP LEAD Did you notice the sun the other Neat Thursday evening Boy and day? Appeared to be the same old Girl Scouts are having a Valentine sun, but awful rusty. Hasu't had and Washington Birthday Party at much use this winter. the High School Gymnasium. A • • • general good time is planned for all Well, at last FDR has done just At the 1.1th Annual Medford Dis Central Point Grange won first Tuesday evening three plays were present which is to be confined to County clami B. Conft n1 what we had a hunch he would do, trict’s Fathers and Sous Banquet place at the county dramatic con given. They were "Oliver’s Big Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, their (Southern Division ) conceived a scheme to pack the Su held Monday night at the Medford test held last Thursday night at the Date" a side splitting comedy pre parents, committees of the two I j w Pet. preme Court so there won't be any Junior High School gymnasium 395 troops and the sponsoring organiza Medford Senior high school when sented by Wlllakentie 4-H club, Central Point 0 .......5 l.ooo more adverse deoisious on New Deal Scouts and their Dad- enjoyed a full they presented the oqe-got drama, “ Riders to the Sea.” a tragedy, pre tion. Plans have not been made in Phoenix ..... .......... 4 1 .800 propositions. And we hope (though course turkey dinner which was pre "The Tiger's Claw.” fla y« by the sented by Columbia county Little detail yet but leave It to the Scout i Jnckaonville ..... , .» 2 .500 that hope is rather faint) that Con pared by the Boy Scout Camp Cook. Sams Valley Orange, "Out of the Theatre group and "A Nephew In to do things right. 1 Talent ................ .200 1 gress will so amend the propo»**l le Ralph Smith, and hiis assistants. Bud There will lie a sinull admission Night” and “ Managing Mother” hv the h u ii» '1 i 4 gofitody presented by Gold Hill ............. ..... 0 5 .000 gislation as to take the stinger out feebler and Wade Ball. 21 Scout charge for adults ouly. May we ex- the Gold Hill Grange were also Clackamas county. Central Point and Phoenix high o f it. plain the situation concerning the Mothers, two from each Troop, given the same evening. After the plays all play groups schools continued to make it a two- • • • While the Scouts were served the boys and men iu real T h e iast and director of "The were treated to refreshments by money; team race for the county class U The more they leave the basic home style. Many additional Moth- Tiger's Claw" left Monday morning meeting in the old church building members of the extension service. championship, southern division, by there was some expense as rent heat things, such as the Constitution, theier from each Troop volunteered to for Corvallis, where t h e y represent knocking over Gold Hill and Talent Wdnesday the Central Pointers and light which was paid by one Supremo Court, and the like, alone, I serve. Lester Price's Swing-Band ed Jackson county at the annual last night in surprisigly hard-fought the better we will like It. We have furnished preliminary and dinner Home Interest conference on the said farewell to Corvallis and re committeeman of the Boy Scouts. battles. turned home in leisurely but enjoy This was too much to expect one to no objection to their proposition ol ' music during the evening, Oregon State campus At Central Point, the league-lead able fashion. Road conditions were pay but divided up, the expense for allowing Supreme Court Justices,! Anniversary Week for the cele- They returned home Wednesday, j ft. ven better with ail snow ing Pointers won their fifth stralgh' and ice each one will he very .‘ mail. Be sure who have served at least 10 years, tojhration of Scouting’» 27th birthday a somewhat tie»* but !,app>" «roup. | victory from the cellsrlte Gold HHl goo troni lhe r0adwav and come. retire on full pay if they so desire. I was launched in this Crater Lake They reported a very pleasant i Cement Makers, 2 11 4, before a good But we don't like thiR idea of shov- j Area Council. Over 1,250,000 re- drive to Corvallis with road ccThdl-1 The . entire . . . group . . . had a very plea crowd. Grimes, Central Point for sant visit ing in a half dozen new members I gistered Scouts and Sconters joined Horn, much better than expected. Up-; v" ‘ * ‘ ‘ h ,; H,hr° P f“ m" y R e a l W in t e r Is ward. scored nine points for high while tho old ones ate still in office with twice that many parents ami on their arrival" in "c V ^ IH s ' they |the/ , hc plliys bolh MoniH honors, while L. Walker hit for eight and thus making an unwieldy body friends to inaugurate the week. Experienced by were registered at the Hotel Corval-: ,M" uf ' n" even markers to lead the Cement Makers. out of it. Sounds like hooey to u.-. A wonderful program was enjoyed lis where rooms had been reserved j Dorothy Smith and Don Smitn Phoenix, defending champion«, Local Young Lady • 9 m and the council and District commit- for all Jackson Co. delegates. , visited their cousin who Is attend- were forced to go at top speed to And we note that even Friend tee members introduced, Mr H, **, Tlje Central Point group then pro- [ *’•* O- s - Miss Marjorie Jones returned defeat Talent. 22-14, in a thrilling Bob of the Mail Trlb, who has b e e n ¡Jewett was introduced as District ceeded to tfcu «ajqpui» w)(ere tjiey fe-| Carol apii Juim Furry visited Tuesday night from Gaegle. Califor game on the Phoenix floor. CenteV such a slavish follower of Franklin j Reading chairman as w e l l as visiting gistered at conference headquarter*, friends on the campus, N’ewland showed the way with 1" Delano, couldn't quite stomach this school principal. Mr. E. P. Stone of a,ld jjiu tie preparations for present Mrs. Richardson visited her son nia where she^has been visiting her point*. sister. She reports that the people latest move on the part of his little Troop 10. as Troop Committee chair- , jn)? TiKl;r'8 cla w " which wl.< Ronald at U. of O. and Mrs. William tin god. There may be hopes f o r j man, was one of the banquet com-l(|)p f|rS( play given Monday evening, Foley made a hurried visit to the around here don’ t know anything our worthy master-scribe after all. ; tnittee. | On the same program was "Halfway Bruce Powells, who have many about the snow. She hiktv been snow Mrs. Jean W att All credit for the most success- j i mn,y’ ' presented by Terrahonne friends here and other relatives in ed ln for aboqt tvur weeks. The And John Perl snow tv*>* waist deep In lhe roads Kirgene. Everybody in the country seemed ful Fathers and Sons 'Banquet ever Grange from Deschutes county. Tuesday was given over to very Those making the trips wtti'e Mrs. and ns high as ten feet were it had to be having so much fun playing held in Jackson County is due this Are Quietly W ed Banquet Committee,” said tfelh intereatiug «.-ourrrenut- up Dramatic», .Mas Richardson. Mrs. Kuln Foley, drifted, 'fhe snow was so deep hooky on account of the flu, we just around the cabin that it eov«.'»ed the joined In ourselves. And we're free Hullis, Medford District Chairman. conducted by Miss Elizabeth Barnes Mr Arden Tyrell, Dorothy Smith Among the many scouts receiving and jj Palmer Young, and thorough Carol Furry, Don Smith, June Furry windows thus eliminating light and An announcement which will come to admit that it wasn't so darned vision. Most of the ears were as a complete surprise to many of much fun after ail. But we always badges was Glen hotter of Troop j inspection of the campus. Some of and Clifford Conrad, members of tho snowc.d in. The Eddie Martin car their friends in the valley I* that of did get into hot water when we play 40, C entral Point, who received hi® j the Central Pointers were quite play cast. Edyth Bohnert, director. tenderfoot badge from Scoutmaster . famllar wlth the campU!i s0 they Rob Sparks prompter, alga lielmer was stuck In the road one night and the marriage of Mrs. Jean Watt and ed hooky, anyway. 0. E. Vincent. • • • (jeted «0 guides for rest qf the billitb and Wdwtn Gebhard, stage Inside of half an hour the cur and John A. Perl, which was solemnized Nine fathers and eight scouts * t - !p ar(y manager and electrician respectively. two others were so covered with yesterday morning. One of our young lady friends snow that they were invisible. Milk tended the banquet from here. I _____ The ceremony was read at th" just returned from Sunny Cal. and was delivered in a sleigh driven by home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wort- says we don't know nothin' about _ , . __. . Negro Singers to ’ four horses fh e temperature at man by Dr. Shermau L. Divine at weather in this country. To judge| L i n c o l n D i s p l a y ’ times was as low as 40 degree below, 8:30 o'clock. Members of the Im from the talc she tells, she ran into Be Heard Tonight j Last week they had a very heavy mediate family and Mr. and Mv*. Draws Attention some honest - to - goodness win ter ralfl that melted much of the snow Thomas Semple wi re the only guests. IX’ j I’ lH kii NOV BORN down there. 40 below, eight feet : A t l«ocal Church The couple left immediately after \\D > 4 KM. ROBERTSON " n<* cauBe<l a flood. Getting to town TO MR o f snow, howling winds and all that. Considerable attention was at was the matter of walking thru the service by motor lor Sau Frun- Wonder if the C. of C. in Los Angeles tracted today by a novel display in A 12*/* pouud baby boy joined tho about four feet of snow and wading oi»co via the Redwoods hlghwuy. Tonight 7:45 P.M. is the time *o ■will put that in their next booklet? ¡the front show window of the Jack- other Roberston children and pro two raging erti«>b». One tnan was From the bay city they will sail for hear The Old Spiritual Melodies of * " * | son County Chamber of Commerce, frozen iu death late last week. Havana, Cuba, where they plan a The maritime strike 1» over, b m iarran(!ed by Harley H. Miller, agent South-Land sung by the Students of mises to soon be one of them in all vacation stay of two weeks. their good times. He arrived 8i((yr-j the aftermath will be felt for a Ions for the Lincoln National Life Iu- the Negro School of Piney Woods, After their stHy In Cubs they will Mississippi. Admission is free. We day morning February Q, was just aj U / K a t ? time. The men on the docks a re, sursn«* company. return to the United States and ww back at work (at the same old pay. Central piece of the display em- will Rifee n free w‘ l| offering to help Jjt{l*) too sarly to he a Valentine. spend a month visiting friends tf _____ by the way) but the attitude of the g mlnlaturp Ioa? Pahin iencpd educate the poor colored folk of the His name is Gerald Edward. Mrs. Come! Bring your Robertson and Gerald are doing i Only he is poor whose wants are Mr. Perl ln Tampa, Fla. Mr. and people who. although in no way cou-|ln w|th sp„ t ralls xhp ln the South-land. Mres. Perl will return home from friends, and enjoy this treat. The fine. Mrs. D. Booth is caring for p,Hny.—ilxeonard Da Vinci, nected with the fuss, suffered hug" vard an(, thP wood the fabin and Florida by motor to resume resi _____ losses during the time the men were fpnce, farae from Lincoln> birthplace Colored quartette assisted by Mrs. them. out, has changed mightily. And our farm near Hodgenvllle, Kv., the win Maulette, a colored teacher from tho Joe Mann out in bis bark yard dent*' here. A daughter weighing it lb* was with a pair of pruning «hears look school wilt interain you. guess is that laws are going to by dow card said. The Ceutrui Point health unit m"l passed which will make it hard for horn tf) Mr, a««* Mrs. L J. Stimpson ing up into a Locust tree trying to . , , Another interesting item is a re- Wednesday afternoon at the hont" of 401 Orchard last week. Mrs. locate a twig of new blight. such a catastrophe to occur again. , .. , .. , . Basketball Notes d .,.. on i __ i _____¡production of the Lincoln mask mad" of M"r. Kd Vincent for a one o'clock Stimpson was the former proprietor In spit« •from life by Leonard Volk in Chi luncheon Twelve were present af of the Central Point Beauty Salon. fessionai friends of the farmer” as Zoe Hill vowing all Kind of Playing before over 1,000 per cago on March 31, IS60. Arrange- ter a shori business session, a social Art Perry calls them, the farmers thoughts tf It was in the paper that about the window are numerous sons, the largest crowd by far to Mr. Joe Mann report that he was Mr. Mlnntck called her a sweetheart time was enjoyed. Mrs. Ray Frisby and fruitgrowers of Oregon are photographs of Lincoln and copies witness a basketball game In south going to find a way to put m stop running around some Tuesday and and that if Mrs. Mtnnlck got a di the county health nurse was a gues'. pf some of bis most famous writings. ern Oregon this year, the colored to such nonsense, or know the rea the orchard meq yf%w quite enthu vorce on that account, she wouldn’t On the desk of A. H. Banwell, Chicago Uoamer girls barnstorming son why. siastic. ahuut the suushine and figure marry Mr. Minnick anyway. chamber manager, was a gavel fash quintet fell before the umlifout.id that they will soon be able to start ioned from wood cut from trees 'it C<-ntral Point Townies, 2 4-19, In a This writer has spent a long and their spring work. Archie Parker around the street the Lincoln birthplace. A gift from thrilling battle last night at the T H E F K D K K A T K D CH U RCH weary life working for the other with a pretty red coast.le wagon. the insurance company, the gavel Medford armory. A complete line of Mazda lamps fellow. And in the course of those Ilex. K. C. Lewis, Pastor. Phone 51 Last Friday night the Townies and supplì«-» at Central Point Hard will be given by Mr. Banwell to hit manv vears are have come into con- . . . . . _ Mr. E. R. Gleason up at the Mr. Romberg, Rnpt. Sunday School . ' , . . i, i i i i year-and-a-half old son Brent, whom met their first defeat of the season ware. Knnday: 9:30 A.M. Bible School, I W.R.C. ladies’ quilting party. tact with workingmen of all kind*. l>o , i s e l n r l n , . i r A n a artl . lOAT/xW'o . . . oa h" is starting on a collector’s career, after eleven straight wins vo the everyone welcome " I have eaten your bread and salt; N'ormat freshmen team the srore be the inaiiager said. Mr. Arthur Mmheck Home j Why dœ* th- American mailed I have drunk your water and wine. 11:00 A.M. Morning Worship, ing 52 to 11. Iu the preliminary Green Eye H«sp ta bpre Thursday evening arrive in And the deaths that ye died, f have ti: 30 P.M. Christian Endeavor. game The American's team lost to Mr. Arthur Limbeck has returned many parts of California, Chouchllla, watched beside; and the life that ye Much Interest Jnnior uud Sonior Gronps. the Phoenix Townies. home from the Green Eye Hosplta Graeagle, Sacrement» and Petalu lived was mine." So we believe w# 7:30 P.M. Evening Worship Monday The American won from ln San Francisco where he was In Is Displayed In can perhaps feel and understand a Wedniwduy— 7:30. Family gath ma on Monday and It takes It th* Gold Hill team by the score of 30-20. serious danger of losing the sight workingman’s viewpoint ae not uiauy same time to get to some of th* ering, pmy«:r and BiWe study. Lincoln Banquet Tuesday The American lost to the o f both eyes. He is now much Im Rural routes nut of Medford. editors can. And never yet have The weekday Bible classva have Sams Valley High school • by the proved but will have to be very we believed that we were anything resumed their n-gohir whedule n- score of 5 4 to 37. Last Sunday night at nine o'clock follow* quiet for the next six months. He but a cog in the wheet of national The Townies have sent an Qrder suffered with hemorrhage of the re Orth Miller homeward went, o'er by- Although this is an off political life. S o man or group of men. be Tocwdny— 2 00, Chapter Sn n- for eight complete new basketball tina. His brother Lin Bonner ____ ______ ____ _____ _____ of paths strange and wild. For some mary. 3:00, Synthesis. 6:00, Fish they honest toilers or their employ year. President Roosevelt's proposal ers, has a right to do anything to increase the number o f supreme suits, burnt orange with black tr,,T1; NYe-virord went to San Francisco af-, unknown cause his car did sink, and erman's club snpper. 6:30 Kiioileld ter him and they returned here Wed-|aink, the evening was so mild. A Bible clans. 7:30, Clinrch Evident-- which will stop the free flow of com court Justices is expected to stimu and a new basketball The Townies will meet t he Med nesday January 24. I good Samaritan Bill Grimes would merce, any more than a man or late interest In th« annual election Wednesday— 8:30, Bible Dortrls- ' ' 1 be, and soon hi* car the same fate olasw. group of men have a right to ate? and banquet of the Jackson County 1 f ° r<I Merchant at the Medfor«! Arm- winner will tak" The Golden Link hlaxg of th*s [ shared. An 8.O.S. they quickly sent, out on the highway with a gun and Lincoln elub in the Hotel Medford «' ! ° r' ,0 n***'f- Thursday— T: 30, personal Evar,- all the proceeds after the »xp- n*e* Christian church and other friend« ■ and from the cheese factory ther«» *':30 Friday night. hold up a truck. gidhmt 8:30, Sunday School Meth These two teams have met at the home of Rev. and Mr 1 was sent, a truck to lend Its aid. Tha The president's supreme court rcc- I are paid ods Ewryvne hi welcome to th«s clashed before, the Townies winning Phillips and finished quilting a j sturdy truck came roaring down, it We believe heartily in the right j ommendation has created a national Hasses. in a close pitched battle by a score quilt for them A pot lunch dinner, hardly seemed corr*-ct, that soon of a workingman to refuse to work controveray which some observers The Ludh-s Aid Society will meet of 40 to 8*. this mighty power plant too, would as usual on Tbur>day aft«-rnoon at was enjoyed at noon for an employer he deems unfair. believe will cause a new and sharp I be mired past human aid. AH night 2:00 o'clock. And we also believe he has a right realignment of political camps Into to Join with hi» fellows in a mas* out-and-out conservatives on the o-e Sec Alexander Implement Co for ¡they struggled side by s i d e , 'M id P. T . A . N O TES shouts and roars and cheers, and rU K JXIIA» CHURCH paints and oils. demand for redress of real or fan- j hood and clear-cut liberals on th* _ ! Roy Jones' shack being near at C lifton A. H itn ip s. MtotaUr cied wrongs. And if he and his fel- Other, The P.T.A held a very f i n e meet- Bible School It) 00 A .M . ' Roland The W.R.C. met Saturday after- hand, hia woodpile disappears. The i Ing last Friday afternoon at tho lows see fit to use every peaceful ! mean» to persuade other men from j able crops of an entire district and j High School auditorium. Founder'» noon after the regular meeting Mrs neighbors all no sleep could get, for Hover, Supt. Communion and Preaching l l . uo Eva Smith and Mr» Minnick enter- clarion calls and lusty shouts a'rin- working for that employer, we again thus cause Immense losses to men , Day was observed and » fine pr find no fault But there we draw far removed from the seat of trouble gram was given bv the first grade lained with a number of dever lng. until at last toward Monday A .tl. Duet. Mrs. K K Seott and the line We do not believe any we bold they should he taken by the Both the play and the talk given by J stunts that caused much merriment.! morn. a V-8 Ford Its aid did bring. Mrs. Carl Hover. . ki,.. and coffee \t last by efforts huge and 'houahts Christian End*-a\or 6 :1« P.M. No man or group of men have a right slack of their breech*» and removed Mr. 8yd Brown pertaining to Safety They mi -" *<-rv"(j Th* next m*etlng will be the 20th' sublime, out from th" mud and goo, ble Brown, Leader: J. Ed Vincent, to siexe the property of anyone else, • • • for the modern youth. At laat the legislator* is beginning Refreshments were served by of this month. Mrs. Jones and Mrs. .and slime, our hero-*« brought 'em J supervisor. nor to use force or intimidation to Evangelistic Service 7:30 PM. cmpell thera to refrain from work to 'ind out what it's all about. What . mothers of the fourth grade and tho Karra will have charge of refresh- ] out. Poor Orth and Jim and Hh:i-j aith the new labor legislation, old there is quite ■ lot of sickness In rrsent and some entertainment will dow too, had earned tehlr rest the; Subject “ Jesus Speaking For Him ing there if they «o sec fit. whole day through. | self— Who Wag He?” age pension», and a number of j the community, there was a good, be prepared Prayer and Bible Study Wednes When any group of headstrong others about as full of dyDamlt*. I attendance. Leslie and N«-d Cash arrived Wed- j Archie Parker reporting to Mr. I day 7:30 P M Devotional Leader, The Founder’s Day collection men become so blind to the right»jour aoloos are learning just what Mr. Phillips will of other« as to force « shutdown of. "hot seat" means The '(reworks smogntad to two do I l o o and fifty nesday afternoon from Alturaa f o r , MoCoy of the Safeway that he Is I Winntfred Morris review th» Book of Zeehariah. a visit with their parents and fam ily.1 1 1 9 *% Improved. rçvitn. , all means o f transport for the perish-) should »»art soon now. LO CA LS \