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
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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
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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.
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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.