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CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN a VOLUME XI CENTRAL POINT. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3. 1»3» I » I am1.- I MISS AVERS WEDS ■ NUMBER 43 i- ‘Millionth Visitor’ Honored Guest of Jackson County I Blind May Read Mrs. Hedrick’s Story Helen Hedrick, authoress daught er of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Norcross of Central Point, was honored re cently by a request for permission to publish her short story "The Road Kid” in Braille, to be distri buted to the blind throughout tho state of Maine. Mrs. Hedrick glad ly gave her consent to the transcrip tion, and hopes her blind readers! will get much enjoyment from •!'»' story. "The Road Kid" was published in the Saturday Evening Post during 1938. and was the first story by Mrs Hedrick to be accepted by them for publication. it deals with the smudging season among Southern Oregon orchards, and paints a vivid picture of the smudge. Other stories by Mrs. Hedrick ' are: "Wildcat Kiss”, and "I Re- member The Rain”. Mrs. Hedrick is one of the new I authors whose work has been re cognized with’n the past year and it is thought she will be among the "best sellers". What a life life! ’ An editor sure does get it coming and going Recently our "Sport Gagger” has been inak- tnak- ing l-emarks concerning the condt- tion of the fish screens it ir the vari-} vari- i ditches about th.-( cus * irrigabtion —‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ the The Federated Church of Central DIAMOND LAKE. Ore—Aug 3— the reception committee for a tour ASHLAND, Aug.2.— (Special) — county. And at least in some cases , Point was the scene of the most (WN8)—Miss Olive Beede, pretty of Medford and vicinity after which With four playa in readiness, the he spoke from personal knowledge, lovely ceremony of the season Sun- Orgon Shakespearean Festival will having seen the screens (or lack of 19 year old student of Antioch, they were taken to Ashland, where day night when Miss Avys Ayers, they are to be greeted by a chamber open its fifth annual season iu Ash them) himself, But what he had she hap- California, who. because of commerce committee. They will land Friday, August 4th. Produced to say seeins to have got under the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. pened to be the millionth visitor to rm tin over night at the Hotel Lithia Ayers, resident« ot Central Point, in the civic Elizabethan theatre, in hide of some of the irrigation offlc-' Shasta-Cascade Wonderland as guests of Director Walter H. .Shasta-Cascade the civic Elizabethan manner, the als, who claim he was all wet. Meb- became the bride of William Grimes, the plays are true Shakespeare, Wide be he was, but that lad has been eon of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Grimes.' building at the Golden Gate Inter- ' Leverette of the Shasta-Cascade also of 'hat city. The bride, popular national Exposition Is now enjoying Wonderland Association. After a attention to the Festival has been fishing up and down the streams of I givn by drama lovers throughout this county all his life and we be- in church circles, was given away a two weeks tour ot the Shasta- sightseeing tour of Ashland and by her father. Cascade Wonderland of southern vicinity Thursday they will be taken the nation. It is acknowledged to lieve he knows what baby trout , Miss Ayers was stunningly dressed Oregon and northern California, by the Ashland committee to Yreka be the premier dramatic event of the look like when he sees them. iu a wedding gown of white lace arrived in Jackson county Wednes for another overnight stop enroute summer season on the Pacific coast. over white satin. Her halo tiara day, August 2. She and her mother. to Mt. Shasta and home. Some sixty persons drawn from So when K.D.P. says he saw fell to a lovely finger-tip veil of silk ’ Mrs. Ethel Beede, has spent the past Miss Beede started her Wonder- every corner of Oregon and several hundreds of trout in an Irrigation net. She carried a bouquet of or ! week at Diamond Lake as guests of land tour Monday morning, July 24. eastern stats take part in the plays. flume a mile below the screen, we| chid gladiolus. i Mr. and Mrs. George L. Howard of traveling by Pacific Greyhound One bundl'd seventy-five costumes have no reason to douht his story ! Miss Ruby Webster acted as maid- I the Diamond Lake Resort Company. Lines, bus transportation for the ot fine fabrics and rich colors are How they got there is another ques-} of-honor. Her dress was pink lace The vacation at the Gem of the Cas trip having been the gift of that now hanging In the wordrobe room tion. But we do know that last over pink taffeta and she carried a cade was one of many gifts present company, she was niet by reception waiting for their appearance Friday Sunday morning this writer was. bouquet of white gladiolus. James ed to Miss Beede. committees and entertained at Corn evening. driving up Little Butte Creek abovol Mr. and Mrs. Howard delivered ing, Red Bluff, Redding, Dunsmuir. Upstate Visitor ("Jim”) Grimes, brother of the Tho co<d open air theatre, with Eagle Point and stopped at a fi-h groom, acted as best man. Miss Beede and her mother to the Weed. Dorris, Klamath Falls and its carpet of green lawn has been Enjoys Rogue Valley screen on a big ditch said to belong i Rev. S. G. Parrish, pastor, per- charge of a reception committee of then proceeded with the Klamath improved. The ampitheatre has to a private company called th" formed the double ring ceremouy the Jackson County Chamber of Com Falls reception committee through Mrs. Betty Brown of St. Helens, been regraded, new lights installed, Eagle Point I Irrigation Company merce Wednesday. They were guests Crater Lake National before the flower decked altar. Park to i Oregon has been a house guest at green vines climb over the walls Here we found the paddle wheel Proceeding the ceremony Miss at the Hotel Medford Wednesday Diamond Lake where she remained the P. A. Tracy home for the past giving an air of coolness and com- turning merrily away, but the screen Nelda Ayers, sister of the bride, night and Thursday w-ere taken by a week. I two weeks, from there she visited fort. itself had been lifter from its beai - sang "Oh Promise Me”. She was ' friends in Medford and Klamath "As You Like It", which will be ings and tbe chain disconnected, accompanied by Miss Roberta Gaston 1 Falls and took numerous drives to shown August 4th, 8th, and 12th, There was apparently penty of room of Grants Pass. Miss Gaston also Miss Crokam Visits New Club Boasts ! points of interest throughout the and "Comedy of Errors”, presented under the said screen for most any | valley. On leaving for her home this played the wedding march by Men- I the 7th and 11th, are the two At Faber Home sized fish to swim through easiv. delsson, her sister Nancy playing i Over 150 Members morning Mrs. Brown said she would on new plays to be shown. The ever And almost the entire creek had tlie violin, forming a pretty duet ar surely like to live down here, having popular "Hamlet” is again presented turned into that ditch. been enjoyed her stay very much In spite with Angus Bowmer in the name rangement. Mr. Everett Faber and sister Miss • • • Central point Townsend Club No. of the hot weather. A reception for friends and rela Frances Faber and friend Miss Bar- role. For the third successive year It is just that sort of thing which tives was held in tbe church parlors bara Crokam of Portland arrived 1 met at the Grange hall Thursday the "Taming of The Shrew” will be makes tbe fishermen holler. Every immediately following the ceremony. Tuesday morning from San Francis evening with over a hundred pre-i Jesse Mathews from Two Buttes, given, this season on August 9th. sent The meeting was in charge Colorado and friend Dale Hall ar pays his bit Into man jack of them t Both Mr. and Mrs. Grimes were' in where they visited the exposition Curtain time for all plays Is at 8:30 the funds of the state for the pro graduates of the Central Point high on Treasure Island for a number of I of Vice President Mosher, in the rived Tuesday night at 11 o'clock to P.M. absence of President Powell, who visit his sister Mrs. Frak Homer and pagation of fish. Every license school and have many friends in the days. was unable to attend. that much to the community. They will be at home bought adds just j i family. We are told that the two Mr. Faber left here Friday to fund. And it hurts like heck to see to their friends after August 6th at meet his sister Frances, who had Secretary Martin reported that buttes from which the town gets its Glad Show to the» money wasted. They say: their apartment on Manzanita and been attending summer school at 150 members had been signed up, name, rise straight up in the air Open on Friday "Why should we be penalized to 5th sts., Central Point. PC.LA. She will teach school in which is considered a remarkable to a height of 200 feet with no other rais funds to > re-stock the streams record considering the fact that the mountains around. many The American joins their Marshfield ths comng fall. This is with trout, only to have the baby friends in wishiug them a long anil, «-her- second lacmla.- 'aaiuht in (dub has only been in existence a! GRANTS PASS, Aug. 2,-w-( Spe trout turned loose in streams where happy married life. few weeks ' Vernonia last year. cial >—All flower lovers of southern there are open irrigation ditches?” Miss Crokam has been touring the Following th formal meeting the I Oregon are invited to attend the • • • country since May 19. She visited evening was spent with a cake walk fourth annual Grants Pass Gladiolus Reports Show ’39 •lust an idea. It is our belief that New York Exposition and says it it and other forms of amusement. The show here Friday and Saturday. No Out of the lowest depths there is Crops Best Ever very wonderful, The foreign exhl- cake was won by Mrs. W. A. Shell, the big irrigation companies are a path to the loftiest height.—Car charge is made for admission to see doing their best to comply with the bits are inunense, almost large en- who later took the cake downstairs the colorful blooms in the exhibit lyle. Reports from all over the district fish screen law. But the trouble •ugh to be elassd as propaganda. and gave it away to al desiring it. hall at Fifth and 11 streets, directly lies with the smaller farmers who show that the 1939 crop promises specially Russia's. This was all on Refreshments of ice cream, cook Lois |RI<*hivrdson threatening to opposite from the site of the three to be one of the largest the country t cannot afford to build the standard a much larger scale than Treasure ies and cake were served by a com take her car all to pieces, get an previous shows. screen. Why should not the , state'has known for years. Grain of all | Island, The lightings in the two mittee, the proceeds to go Into tho instruction book and put it back to- The events open Friday morning i of kinds is turning out very well. Sev-I fairs was about the same. commission take over the > job J club general fund. The club voted gether again. Then she could flx at 10:10 with a bicycle parade In for those unable ' eral farmers report yields of wheat furnishing screens 1 The two girls, who were Delta} to contribute regularly to th Trail her own car. Perhaps by then it which each entry will be decorated * .. . a. j i. _ r- a 1..... k«ln » a — n ava . 1».. r . to finance them themselves? That as high as 54 bushels per acre; liar- Phi Sorority sisters at the William- Blazer fund. I with blooms supplied by the grow would need fixing. ley from 60 to 80 bushels; corn is I would solve at least part of th« ette I’niverslty, met in Berkeley. I coining along fine and a heavy crop much ers. Judges from Pacific coast Billy Abbott eating too problem. While Miss Crokham is here, plans Mrs. Ross Wallace from Giants is expected. _____ Prices - of - all farm pro- ! ' 10 green watermelon and wailing long states are expected to have complet are made to take her to the Lake of Pass and Mrs. Alta Gordon from ed their tasks immediately after, ,,_} ducts are stronger than i for some ' and loud when he suffered the pangs Hurrah for the House of Repre-, the Woods and Crater Lake as a Tillamook stopped for a visit at the and the doors to te exhibit will be time. sentatives! At long last they are fitting climax to her sight-seeing Frank Homer home. Mrs. Wallace pains and miseries of over-indulg thrown open. The city band will A. (Bill) Gates of the Groce- W. ence. coming to their senses and refusing tour. Miss Crokam is a daughter of continued on home that evening but give a concert Friday evening at 8 in Medford, who la interested to longer be mere puppets of FDR. teria the city editor Portland Mrs. Gordon remained overnight in tomato canning, reports that the A Greyhound bus causing no end ° pl°ek. Journal. And also that nobody can spend traveling on the stage next morning. When the show closes Saturday The of excitement when It stopped In themselves rich. Now if they would tomato prospect is very good, n ght, all the blooms will be donat fruit is setting nicely and sizing un driveway of a filling station just repeal that crazy- social security! well. Picking will start about hadn's sold a gallon of gas for i ed to churches and hospitals. law and abolish the NLRB and then j Non-commercial in its sponsor September 1st. week«! They filled ’er up--, go home and call it a day we be-i ship. (lie show will pay homage to The onion crop in this district Wil II water. lieve our country would soon !>-•' the 8250,000 gladiolus industry of largest in history, peeking around that corner and promises to be the Shirley K'-kaid and Aileen Ber- JoJsephlne and Jackson counties. be berries will The late crop of making friends with good times j ry nearly getting to Diamond l^ike An especial treat 8>r gladiolus heavy, according to the present out- once mor*. for an outing. fanciers will be the special section look. ♦ ♦ for new and unnamed hybrids creat val- pear crop throughout the The Minnie Nicholson scurrying hith- By the way, we want to commend I ed by the exhibiting growers. ley is very good. According to re- er and yon 1» the village before de Everett Faber on his public spirit ports from the packing houses, the parting for a stay In the Siskiyou«. in sponsoring a softball team for Howard Dunlap married iVola De Bartlett crop is exceptionally- good. this city this summer. The boys Troop 4 0 of the Boy Scouts glee- Tour of Medfor July 22 at Yreka. One packing house foreman reports have had lots of fun—and so have fully planning a swmming party to he went through a lug of Bartletts, the fans, for that matter, And it Rogue River for a much-needed taken at random just as they came is a whole lot better for all concern- i cooling oft. from the orchard, and found only- ed to have such innocent sport ta one wormy pear. The fruit Is also Residents all agog over the dras occupy their time, and energy. Hope very smooth and well sized and CHURCH <’F CHRIST tic changes being made at tbe Lew next year the younger lads can get there should be few culls thrown Clifton A. Phillipa. Minis'.« Grimes service station. It seems the their own league going. But as we out. Prices to the growers is also Bible School 10:00 A. M. Round write this our old heart is still going station is to do a right «bout face higher than for a number of years. Miss Lysle Gregory. pltty-pat from the excitement of and look right out on the highway. Hover, Supt. Primary Supt. that last game with the Catholic Mr. and Mrs. Minnick were dinner Communion and Preaching 11:00 Men. That last-minute rally sure Cherubs of the jitterbug age guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eldred at A.M. Sermon subject "What Do grieving because a huge yellow was a humdinger. Butte Falls Sunday. After dinner moon was being "simply wasted!" We Mean By The Acts of Tho the men fished. Mrs. Eldred is Mr. Apostles?” McJlmsey's daughter. Ted Hill dispensing lovely glads Christian Endeavor, Junior and J. A. Cash and gladness—for who can be the Senior 7:00 P M. AND COMPANION recipient of those choice blooms and I Again the time has come when the Evangelistic Service 8:00 I’M Are Invited To Be The not be breathless with delight? big loads of fruit boxes are seen on I ' A Convert at a Prayer Meeting”. Guests of The I the highways of the county, Prayer and Bible Study Service The Little Minister delightedly Wednesday 8:00 P.M. CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN from what we hear the crop Mrs. Eula and the discovering that the weight of one's Foley In charge of "Training For year ia going to be one of the best CRATERIAN THEATRE, Medford racquet makes a difference In one's Service’. Miss Lysle Gregory, lead the valley has has for many a year. tennis game. to see either of the two following And for a wonder, ’he prices an- er in “Christian Action.” pictures better than they have been recently. Always Welcome! t'oid nights creeping tantalisingly Wonder if the fact that there is a Into the harried lives of an over Ending Saturday Nite! presidential election next year has THE FEDERATED CHURCH cooked population, only to disappear anything to do with all this? Any- Phone 51 In the heat of each sizzling dawn — The Alexander Dumas Classic way. we don't hear Mr. Wallace sav Stanley G. Parish, Pastor. but we can stand that sort of thing the man in the iron mask ing "we planned it that wav". Bible School—9:45 a. m. Louis Hayward—Joan Bennett we can—We hope! Morning WorahlD—11:00 a. m. —■or— All honor to Charley McNary and Christian Endeavor—7:00 P m Purkeypie dreaming a beau his bunch of helpers in Washington. Evening Service—8:00 p. m. Sunday. Monday, Tuewla, tiful dream of a rock garden which The influence of these men has 1-adíes* Bible Class—Tuesday at ■ bo fears will remain only g dream. awakened Congress to a sense of Its 2:30 p. m. Mickey Rooney—Lewis Btone responsibility and once more they Elk’s softball pitcher informati Prayer Meeting—Wednesdav st and The Hardy Family in A egos Bowwier, above, appears as Hamlet in tlie production are looking carefully nto all leglsla-, ’Jr» Minnick Wedneaday night ‘-hat INDI il IRDY GFTS 8:00 p. m »afli* name at th« Sbake«p«>arvan Festival which opens of • SPRING FEVER tion offered by the president and the surely made it hard for him Choir Practice — Wednesday at tn A»hlan<l Friday, August i. Four plays, three of them and bis wjM-*y»d ' tow of spepdora. ■ -JW’slb's, w-ill be -hiring th»« w-A when ahc could outyuJl hJa motbor 8:30 p m »So what? ehr (Cluirrhrii I