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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1952)
I t School Boards Set Elections Monday Patrons of the Medford city school district will vote tomor row for a member of the city school board. The election will be held from 2 to 8 p. m. in the girls gymnasium of the senior high school. Only candidate who has for mally entered the race is Otto A. Ewaldsen, 20 Ross court. The outgoing board member, who is not a candidate for reelection, is E. Ronald Rice, 302 Van couver avenue. Ewaldsen's name will appear on the ballot. Voters desiring to cast a ballot for any other person must write in the name and place an X before it to have the .vote counted. C. W. (Bill) Anthorn is the only candidate for election to the District 6C .school board, rep resenting the Central Point-Gold Hill area. Polls will be open from 2 to 8 p. m. at Central Point and Gold Hill. Elections are also slated (rom 8 to 9 p. m. in each of the coun ty's smaller districts. MOVING? Save by Renting a BEE HIVE U-DRIVE Vans Stakes and Pickup Trucks TEXACO 6th i Grip STATION Phono 1-9174 Eagle Point Bond j Election June 27 Eagle Point A special bond election will be held at Eagle Point on June 27 to amend the city charter by allowing a bond ed indebtedness not to exceed $15,000, according to City Re corder Sam F. Coy. The election was ordered by the council, to raise funds to purchase a new pumper truck and equipment for the city fire department, Coy explained. The special election will be held from noon to 7 p.m. at a central polling place to be an nounced later. At a council meeting follow ing a June 10 public hearing the city council approved a total budget of $24,245.10 for the 1952-53 fiscal year. No special election on the budget is neces sary, Coy related, because of a five year continuing levy voted in July, 1950. The total tax levy for the next fiscal year is $8,127.55 with only $687.21 inside the 6 per cent lim itation. Estimated receipts for the year are set at $16,856.41. Alaska Students First Atop Peak Fairbanks, Alaska U.R) Four University of Alaska stu dents have conquered 17,130 foot King peak for the first time. The peak, highest unclimbed mountain in North America be' fore the Alaskans made the ascent last week, is near the Yukon-Alaskan border. Al Paige, leader of the four man party returned to Fair banks by plane Friday. He said his party had reached the sum mit and planted a University of!Goldray CP Rural District Boundary Hearing Slated Tuesday Central Point Petitions for inclusion in the Central Point Rural fire district are expected to be presented to the county court Thursday at 10 a. m., dur ing an open public hearing on the proposed district's boundar ies, according to officials of the rural fire department here. Several residents and busin ess owners of the proposed Jacksonville district have pressed intentions of seeking ad mittance to the Central Point district, they said. This is being done by submitting a petition "... prior to the date of such hearing . . . signed by 80 per cent or more of the record own ers of real property in any area adjacent to such district . . . ", according to state law, and if approval is given by the court. The law also points out that the court may change the pro posed boundaries at the hear ing "... by reducing the area of such proposed district . . ." The proposed district bound aries for Central Point are as follows: On the north, all of low er Table Rock east through up per Table Rock and across Rogue river; on the east, south to the Crater Lake highway, .east to the Foothill road, south to Coker Butte road; on the south, west to Schulz road and the Table Rock Market road, south to De Barr road, south at Howard avenue across the Pac ific highway and west to meet Ross lane; on the west, north paralleling Military road until it rejoins the Old Stage road, then west Vi miles, then north passing iust west of Tolo to the dam and lower Table Clerk Sits on Robbery Suspect To Hold Him Until Police Arrive Portland (U.PJ A flying tackle by a passerby ended a brief robbery splurge by a 39-year-old gunman Friday night only eight minutes slltr a state liquor store was robbed. George Henry Stephenson, Portland, a railroad worker, was jailed on two charges of armed robbery after he was captured and disarmed and then identi fied as the man who an hour previously had held up a neigh borhood grocery several blocks from the liquor store. Citric Gives Chase Joseph Kennedy, 64, liquor store clerk, chased Stephenson from the establishment after the suspect had pulled a .38-caliher revolver and pocketed about $58. Kennedy caught Stephenson counting the money behind a tavern, but the gunman broke away from him and was fleeing down the street when Lyle K. Arends happened by and joined the chase. Arends downed the fugitive with a tackle and was sitting on him, with Kennedy holding the robber's gun, when police ar rived. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Riizo, owners of the grocery store, picked Stephenson from a police lineup as the man who took about $70 from them an hour earlier. CALIFORNIA WEATHER By United Press North California; Fair through Sunday except for partly cloudy extreme north with few scatter ed showers; no decided change in temperature; variable winds 10-20 mph off coast mostly south to west. Sunday. June II. 151 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE YZW Budworm Spraying Slated in Oregon Salem U.R) Some 640,000 1 a million acres are still to be acres of Oregon forests will be I sprayed. The program is expect sprayed in operations beginning led to be completed next year. next week to kill spruce bud- worm the State Forestry depart ment said Saturday. The project will begin as soon i as the spruce budworms emerge. The Stata Forestry depart-1 ment will spray 366,000 acres! and the U. S. Forest Service BIRTHS HIGGINBOTHAM To Mr. and Mrs. Orland, 104 Elk street, Medford, June 14, 1952, a girl, 7 lbs., at Osteopathic hospital. 280,000 acres. The state will spray land in northeast Oregon and the U. S. 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