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About The Times. (Gold Hill, Or.) 1952-1953 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1952)
BOXHOLDER LOCAL P. O. or RURAL ROUTE Sitw Everyone from Black* well H ill to the Jose phine County line reads The Tim es. It’s ev ery - bodies newspaper! Volume 1 The Tim es, Gold Hill,Oregon JAPANESE WAR BRIDE VISITING IN V A L L E Y M ary Doland, Jr., first Japanese war bkide to come into this area,and her husband Sgt. Floyd Doland, Jr., are visiting with the Floyd Doland fam ilv. Sams Valley ranchers. Shown w it h the senior Doland, M rs. Ruth Doland and young daughter, Deanna. (Tim es Photo by Mel Rees) REBEKAHS TO P A Y HONOR TO C O L F A X Plans have been made by the Amethyst Rebek-i ah Lodge of Gold H ill for a special p rogram i to be held at the M arch 19 meeting, honoring Schuyler C oif ax, founder The m em bers present at the anniversary gath ering were divided into three groups, each plan* ning to give a skit or a special number for the meeting. The March committee was announced and in cludes M rs. Dorothy Parker,chairm an; M rs. George Dorman, M rs.J. Lee G raffis, M rs. W ill iam Hittl.e, and M r s .C l yde Kell. A ll m em bers are u r ged to attend this m eet ing. To Clean Brush Residents of Gold H ill who have property front ing on the riv e r have suggested that the city** council and fire depart ment cooperate with them when they clean up and burn the brush and vines that have g r own up on their propert ies. The council agreed at their Monday night meeting, feeling that the work should be done be fore the fire season. FIRST JAPANESE WAR BRIDE ARRIVES IN TrtTS AR E A The first Japanese war bride to arriv e in the valley reached Med' ford Feb. 22 with her husband, Sgt. Floyd Do land, Jr. The couple was met by the senior Dolands, Sams Valley ranchers, where the Sergeant and his wife, M ary, w ill be for the next month. He then w ill be r e assigned to the U .S .A ir Force base in Kansas City. He is a radio techni cian with the armed forced radio service and before returning from three years in Ja pan, he made the last recordings of the late A1 Jolson whilp the sin ger-com edian was in Korea. He has the only three copies of the r e cording. Before entering the air forces he attended school in Gold Hill and Medford. March 6,1 952 u. a. roocAoa PAID rwwM w*. • N o .10 G O LD H IL L G ETTIN G R EAD Y TO P R E P A R E A N N U A L BUD GET The Gold H ill budget -the amount of money needed to finance the city’s government next year - w ill be prepared in the near future by six private citizens in cooperation with the city council. Old m em bers on the citizens finance comm ittee were Angus Todd and Ray D avis for one year terms and Ralph B ell for a two year term. Named to this comm ittee were W ilbur M a r tin for one year remain ing of a resigned two- year term, Paul Thomp son and M erritt Davis for three year terms each. The alternate chosen was H arry Smith. It is anticipated that the budget committee w ill begin deliberations soon and w ill have ail facta and figures ready for public digestion be fore early May. A large surprise to the Gold H ill Grange and the people who attended their whole pig saus age supper last Saturday night was the appear ance of a large troupe of entertainers from the Eve Prentice Studio in Medford;shown above with Eve. Photo below is of the hall, showing entertainers in the background. (Photos for the Tim es by Ralph B ell) Gold H ill Gets $ 1943 F rom State V O L U N T E E R FIRE DEPARTM ENT TALK S P R O T E C T IO N The Gold H ill Volun teer F ire Department met Feb. 27 at the F ire Hall and discussed p l ans concerning equip ment needed, not only to help, but to protect, the firefighters. The volunteers are working out a plan wh ereby they w ill drill twice a month in the near future,so when the new LaFrance fire equi pment is delivered,they w ill be able to handle it. At the present there are openings in the de partment for several volunteers to enable the group to operate at full strength. Those living in Gold Hill can put in their ap plication by contacting Shiny Street any active m em ber. One of the duties of • The Main Street o f this organized group is Gold H ill w ill get a bath to start the motors and early every Saturday check all the equipment morning from now on. each day to be certain The city council at it is in proper working their Monday night m eet ing urged City Superin condition at all tinges. One m em ber is assig' tendent George Turner ned to each day in the to supervise a bath for week to carry out this the Main street each program . Saturday morning. Gold H ill's share of the state gasoline tax es for the first six mo* nths of the year amoun ted to $1943, an in cr ease of $400 over the last payment made by the state, the city coun cil was told Monday ni ght. The city was also in* formed that they may qualify for other state funds for highway and road use up to $15,000. A council committee will make application for some of this money. JEDDELOH M IL L O PENS ON G A L L S SAUSAGE SU PPE R STAGED BY G RANG E L E F T B A R E SHELVES Even the cupboard of the Grange hall in Gold H ill was bare Saturday night after the sausage supper was served. E arly in the evening, it was necessary f o r Glenn Chase, in charge of the affair, to prohi bit any further "take out" sale of the sausage as a big crowd from all parts of the valley came and ate, some of them more than one supper a piece. Entertainment for the affair came in the form of a. big surprise as two Eve Prentice singer and accordion groups enter tained. The next Grange meet ing March 6th, tonight, w ill see completion of plans and transportation for the big auction sche* duled for all day Satur day, March 29th. It is to be held on the Grange Hall grounds The Jeddeloh Bros. Lum ber Company m ill and planer on G alls C r eek, which has run on and off all winter w ill reopen for its summer run in about a week, if logs come in as antici pated. Repairs have been do A load limit of 12 1/2 ne to the mill since it tons has been placed on was closed. Seventh street by the Gold Hill city council. The firm cuts both The decision was made pine and fir and does at Monday night's m eet custom planing. ing. _______ W.H.Hart of Rogue T h e r e w i l l be no River is behind the pla school in Gold H ill from ner. March 1 5-2 3,inclusive.