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About The Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1936-195? | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1955)
Centrai Point VOLUME XXVII Rural Fire Budget Set at $30,370 For Coining Year AMERICAN CENTRAL POINT, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON $350,000 Bond Issue Asked for Erection Of 2 Grade Schools Erm.1 • • ST® •; 1 *1 r • r ’ • CENTRAL POINT SCHOOL—Pictured above is the architect’s sketch of the proposed elementary school for Central Point. 'District 6 residents will be asked Thursday, April 28. to vote for or against a $350.000 bond issue to provide money to build elementary schools at Central Point and Gold Hill. The Central Point building will contain 12 classrooms and a multi-purpose room in addition to office space. The unit has been designed for expansion in the future. A subscription drive to add readers of the Central Point American will be conducted in this area next week by mem bers of Crater chapter. Order of De Molay. Boys of the chapter are plan ing a house-to-house campaign in Central Point. Central Point Routes, Gold Hill, and Howard district. A commission on each new subscription or renewal will be given to the chapter by the publishers of the American Boys of the chapter plan to use money earned from the cam paign for chapter activities. In addition, three individual prizes will be given to the three boys who sell the greatest num ber of new subscriptions. SPEECH CLINIC DATE May 12 has been scheduled as the date for the next speech clinic at Central Point Junior high and grade schools, according to word from Principal C. A. Meyer this week. CONVALESCING J. E Vincent is reported con valescing very satisfactorily at his home on east Pine street fol lowing a recent heart attack. OFFICE REPAINTED The office of the rural fire de partment has been redecorated. Citizens of School Distict 6 will troop to the polls next Thursday, April 28. to vote on a $350.000 bond issue for the construction of two new elem entary schools, one at Gold Hill and one at Central Point. Polling places have been set up at Gold Hill school gymnasi um and at Central Point Junior high gymnasium. Residents of precincts 76, 78, 79 and 80 will vote at Gold Hill. Election precinct residents of 22, 24. 25. 69. 70. 71. 71 A. 72,. 73-A. 74 and 75 will all vote at Cent ral Point. Polls will be open from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. According to information from the board of the school district, the two new buildings are need ed now because of crowded con ditions at both schools. At Gold Hill, first and second graders have been divided into two sections and basement and sub-standard rooms are surrently being used. At Central Point the lack of room space is serious, board members state. Every available classroom is in use now includ ing several that are being used on a "get-by” basis. Sites owned by the district are available for both schools. The $350,000 bond issue will erect the two buildings, provide furnishings and take care of oth er related costs. Four classrooms will be constructed at Qpld Hill and 12 Classrooms and a multi purpose room are proposed for Central Point. Polio Vaccine Fails to Arrive, Shots April 28 Ralph Lattie Opens Mill Cafe Today Ralph Lattie, former chef at Rogue Valley Country club and at the Jackson hotel, opened Ralph's Mill Cafe at noon today. Lattie. who makes his home on Grant Road, has been a resi dent of Central Point for the past five years. He was chef at at Rogue Valley Country club club for two years and for three years at the Jackson hotel. Previously he was in Holly wood. He has been in the restaur ant business for the past 29 years. Several of his recipes have been given national publicity and have been published in maga zines. His wife, Marie, will be as sociated in the operation of the cafe. Former operators of the res taurant on Highway 99 were Jim Asher and Jim Shanks, both of Medford 30 Voters to Decide Bond Issue Thursday A total of $30,370 has been proposed as the 1955-56 budget for Central Point Rural Fire Pro tection District following prelim inary estimates of the budget committee and board of direct ors at their nteeting Monday evening at the fire hall. The budget for the coming year Reveals a slight increase over the 1954-55 financial fund. The budget for the past year was $28,607. A public hearing on the pro posed budget hak been called for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at the rural fire hall. A budget election date will be announced following the public hearing. Members of the budget com mittee are: Ray W. Wyatt, chair man. Charles Bateman. Franklin Gebhard, Mrs. Ernestine Charley and Fred Hall. Board o’f directors for the fire district are Dr. Alvin Roberts, David L. deArmond, Claude Hoover, Larry Hull and Bert Smith . De Molay Chapter To Conduct Drive For New Readers NUMBER THURSDAY. APRIL 21. 1955 GOLD HILL SCHOOL—A four-classroom elementary building is planned for crowded conditions there. It is planned for future expansion to eight rooms or ing will use frame construction with brick veneer exterior, steel sash, slab floors simple low pitch roof and a plastered interior. Features of both proposed school use of "open corridors" to all rooms and the use of natural north light. Robert J. is architect for both structures. Johnson to Leave For FFA Contest Donn Johnson, Oregon state FFA public speaking champion, will leave Friday, April 22, for Phoenix, Arizona, to take part in the regional convention and pubic speaking contest. State winners from the 11 west ern states will compete in the regional public speaking contest slated for Monday, April 25. Johnson will present his speech. "Let's Put Our House in Order,’’ which deals with farm legisla tion. Also making the trip will be Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kunzman, Crater vocational ag instructor and FFA chapter advisor, Norm an Barnes and Kenneth Bigham. The party is expected to re turn home late next week. CIRCLE MEETS TODAY The Women's Service Circle of the Presbyterian church is meet ing today, Thursday, with Mrs. Cliff Smith on Grant Road. TO OPEN BIDS Bids on construction of the fire hall-library building for the city of Central Point will be opened at the special council meeting called for Monday, April 25. The meeting will open at 7:30 p.m. No Official Word On O&C Money No official word has been re ceived by officials of School Dis trict 6 as to the distribution of O&C timber funds as reported last week School District 6 is slated to receive over $84,000 from the $685,859 to be divided among the 28 school districts in Jackson county. The money was divided on the basis of school census fig ures. « Use of the fund by school dis tricts is limited to the payment of existing school construction bonded indebtedness. Gold Hill to ease more. This build with asphalt tile, buildings will be Keeney. Medford, Spring Concert Set for April 20 The annual Spring Concert, presented by the Crater High school music department, will lie given Friday evening, April 29, in the high school gymnasium. Music Director Norman Caroth ers reported this week that a full program of musical enter tainment has been planned for the annual event. Featured in musical selections will be the 49-piece Crater band, 80-voice mixed chorus and the 15-voice Lavaliers. The public has been invited to attend the annual event. A small admission charge will be made. WEEKEND IN ALBANY Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Gorden spent the weekend in Albany visiting their son and family, Mr and Mrs. Theron Gorden, and C’ndy. Friday was Cindy’s sec ond birthday. Shipment* of Salk anti-polio vaccine have not yet been re ceived in Jackson county and no definite arrival date for the vac cine has been announced. If the vaccine arrives, first and second grade pupils in this area will be given the shots on Thurs day, April 28. Plans are complet ed for the mass vaccination and action will depend on arrival of the vaccine. It was expected that the new vaccine, recently approved, would be here and available for Thurs day, April 18. Children from Central Point, Howard, Lone Pine, Eagle Point, Gold Hill, .4hady Cove and Rogue River will be brought to Central Point grade school for the vaccine. TO VISIT CRATER Eighth grade students at Cent ral Point Junior high will visit Crater High school on May 11. The prospective high school students will spend the afternoon at Crater. VALLEY WEATHER U S Weather Bureau Max Min. Prec. 36 48 April 14 T April 15 49 28 50 37 April 16 .07 49 36 April 17 03 April 18 50 33 02 April 19 45 33 .12 53 April 20 36 .12 Weekend forecast calls for con- iiderable cloudiness, a few show ers and warmer afternoon temp eratures.
