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Vol. II
Rogue River, Oregon
THE TIMES
GOLD HILL, OREGON
Mar. 12, 1953
PLAN SHOW
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10 cents
No. 71
WATER SUPPLY
CRATER PTA SCOUTING FOR
AMATEUR TALENT IN GOLD
HILL, SAMS VALLEY
FORECASTERS SAY SOUTHERN
OREGON ABOVE NORMAL ANL
RESERVOIRS FILLING
Mrs. Norman G ail of Gold
Hill this week began a search
for am ateu r ta le n t for a show to
be sponsored by C rater high
Parent-T eachers Association on
Friday night, April 17th.
The show w ill be a benefit
for the PTA treasury, a sm all
adm ission fee to be charged but
no entry fee for the am ateur
talen t.
Mrs. G ail, who is in charge
of rec ru itm en t for the show
said th at am ateur ta len t w ill
divided into three c la sse s., .
pre-school and grade school,
high school students, and adults
Groups w ill not com pete a g ­
ainst each other but there w ill
be com p etition w ithin the class­
es.
Any kind of act, such as d an c­
ing, acrobatics, m usic, rea d ­
ing, com edy skits, singing or
any other entertainm ent w ill be
w elcom ed, Mrs. G ail said.
Gold H ill grade school student
body entrants w ill register with
Mrs. Audrey Beman and Sams
V alley am ateurs will register at
their school. However, any one
interested may co n tact M rs
Gall.
In addition to the show, there
will be a food booth where r e ­
freshments w ill be served.
With roads already becom ing
dusty from the warm spring days,
a more optim istic picture of the
future of w ater supplies was
painted than anyone had a n tic i­
pated.
O ptim istic was the report of
W .T . Frost, U. S. Soil Conserva­
tion Service and Oregon Agrlcul-
tu r* l station and R .D .C hurch, U
S. W eather Bureau, Medford.
Reservoir w ater supply in soutf
ern Oregon, based on seven r e ­
porting reservoirs, is 34 per cent
greater than average and 63 per
cen t g reater than last year with
a ll reservoirs 60 per cent or mort
fille d .
In addition, the pair reported
that southern Oregon's 1953 wat
er supply outlook rem ains good
to ex cellen t.
W ater content of mountain
snow -cover as of March 1 aver
aged 119 per cent of norm al In
the Rogue drainage basin.
Full w ater year runoff fo re­
casts prepared by the w eather
ROADBLOCK AT GOLD HILL
RESULTS IN CAPTURE OF
TWO WANTED IN COOS
PROGRESS ON THE BRIDGE
approach is being made by h igh­
way crews at Rock Point bridge
GIRL SCOUTS ANNUAL
DINNER HELD; BADGES
OF MERIT ARE PRESENTED
COUNTY CHAMBER TO ASK
FOR 99 HIGHWAY PLANS
freew ay. Board forms for the
cem ent are shown at left center
In the above picture.
NEW MILK PRICE ORDER FOR
JACKSON COUNTY APRIL 1
Distributors expect the price of
milk In the Medford area to go
up on April 1.
This feeling was expressed late
last week following a hearing in
the Jackson county courthouse at
which producers and distributors
subm itted evidence of increased
costs of production and labor
Albin Nordquist, field represent
ativ e of the Oregon milk m ark et­
TELEVISION FOR AREA SEEN
ing adm inistration, who con d u ct­
AS SUMMER POSSIBILITY
ed the hearing, said that a new
idm inistration order on prices is
Most of Jackson and some of
Josephine counties may be served to be issued about April 1.
by a television station late this
sum m er, it was announced Thurs
day as the F ed era l C o m m u n ica­
PINOCHLE CLUB
tions Commission granted a p e r­
m it for construction of a station
The Gold Hill Pinochle
transm itter on Blackwell Hill.
Club met on Thursday March
The television station w ill be
5th at t^ie hom e\of Mr. and Mrs.
operated by Southern Oregon
Clarenc
of Sardine Cr.
Broadcasting com pany which now
iwon
high prize
Da
operates radio station KUIN in
b was high for
for
men.E
Grants Pass.
j'Thompson
the ladies
Studio and offices w ill be set
won
the
coisolation
prize far
up in Medford
tie ladles, Ind Claude Rich far
the m en . ‘
ENLARGING "RED SHUTTERS"
Directors of the Jackson County
The Gold Hill Girl Scouts
C ham ber of C om m erce last week
and fam ilies held their annual
decided to ask the State Highway
dinner Monday evening, March
Commission what their future
9th in the school ca feteria, Aftei
plans were for Highway 99, p a rti­
a lovely dinner the girls each»
cularly concerning the construc­
had a part in a program honor­
tion of a new highway in the
ing the founder, Juliette Low.
Blackwell Hill area.
Mrs. Hazel Holderness,
Girl Scout leader, presented all
th e girls with h.'^sekeeper b ad ­
ge*-
The following girls receiv
ed second cla ssV a d g e s^ e le n
Hood, ¿u z an n e Hood, Marilynn
Harrisoa, Donna B urnett, Sandra
DensmoM, SandraUiope received
her world tfe-fo il \a d g e .
ring design
badges weife Iva biay Governor,
H elen H oottand Sandra Hope.
HeletnHood and Sandra
WORK UNDERWAY ON NEW
Hope were awarded conservation
COURTHOUSE ELEVATOR
badges.
Donna Burnett received a
Construction was started last
very rare badge for a girl, that
week on a new $14, 000 elevator
being one for rabbitry.
in the Jackson County courthouse
Virginia Munday, Iva Mas
It is expected to be com pleted
Governor and C arolene Armstron;
in about a month.
received tenderfoot pins.
F am ilies who attended
HOBBY CLUB
the dinner were Mr. and Mrs.
The Gold HUI Hobby Club Lester Bean, grandparents of V ir­
ginia Munday; Mr and Mrs Louis
m et at the home of.Mrs A .C .
Hope and son Donald, Mr and Mrs
Moser on Friday of l^st week.
H. Dens more; Mrs. Ivan Governor
There Will be Vo Hobby
Club m eeting Ihlv » tc V but wiL and daughters;Mrs M elvin Bur­
be the foil owl n f\w e e ^ w u h e r e ­ nett and son,Bruce.M r. and Mrs
Melford Hood.Mr and M n .A lb en
sidence of Mrs Edith Graff is on
Harrison and ton. A lbert. Jr
Highway 99 .
\
A roadblock setup north of Gold
Hill last Tuesday night resulted
in the arrest of two men wanted
in Coos County.
They were Merle F. Blue, 27.
Yreka, and Ernest Burton, 30,
Eugene.
In their car, police said, they
found guns and am m unition as
w ell as a blackjack.
who last week began pouring
cem en t for a big retaining w all
to prevent slides on the new 99
Mrs and M a. C harles Hum
m el, ow n^saw d operators of the
"Red ShuttMb G rfA ' on Hlghws;
99 are e n la r ju S g ^ e * cafe.
Good w eather caused a steady
Increase In em ploym ent in Jack-
son county during February
GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SALE
The Gold HUI Girl Scouts
are now baking urVers for cookies,
and will d eliver tlfcm March 28.
The Y iris a r i observing
N ational G v ^ c A t* Week, and
a ll orders wHl
p re d a te d
bureau Indicate 112 per cent of
the norm al flow at the Middle
Fork of the Rogue river near
ITaspect
HEALTH CLUB
The Gold Hill H ealth
Club m et on Tuesday, March 3
at the home of Evelyn Thom p
son on 2nd Avenue. There were
thirteen members present and
two visitors, Mrs. Louis Hope and
Mrs. Treva J one
Mrs. Me If J d Hood report
ed there were
y babies at
the we,
ic w hich was
held Fel
at the C o m -
munity
(lurch.
pre-school
clinic fo r,
ch llJK j; who are
entering sc x>l next term . It
w ill be hel i t the sam e place,
on May 5
A food sale was discussed
and w ill be held around the first
part of April.
Refreshments were served
by hostess Mrs. Maude Dickenson
and co-hostess Mrs. Maysel G ar­
rison.
There w ill be a b i-m o n th
ly Jackson County H ealth Unit
m eeting in Medford Thursday
March 19th at the Girls C o m ­
m unity C lub.
SAUSAGE SUPPER
The Gold Hill Grange will
hold lu annual Sausage Supper
Saturday March 21st at the Granne
H all.