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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1955)
o FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL "TRIBUNE Thursday, September 22, 135S 5 TABLE ROCK Occupation Changes Told Table Rock Sam Glass, the ex-marine and hired man, who Duts the tractor through its paces on the J. L. Nealon farm, is leaving this week for Corval- lis to take up his school duties at O.S.C. Other young men who nhave been a great help to local farmers in planting and harvest ing crops, who have recently gone into other occupations are: Bhd Robinson, now at White City Plywood; Elgin Robinson, with Porter Lumber company in Medford; James Vanderpool, with Midway Meats; Clyde Hal- fill, with Ross Lumber company. Snd Delbert MacDonald, now in the Navy. Mrs. Eva Ringo of Medford, was a brief caller here Sunday. Table Rock teachers now on duty are Bob Sage, principal of Washington school in Medford, Dick Reum at Talent, and Miss Grace Bigham at Shady Cove Twentv-nine youngsters of Table Rock are attending grade school in Central Point, going back and forth in the bus pilot ed by Ray Wyatt, while seven high school students go in the Sams Valley bus, making a to tal of 36 within the boundaries of what used to be district 44. ' Relatives taking part in a pic nic dinner here Sunday at the R. E. Nealon home were Mrs Emma Houston, Mr. and Mrs James Cornutt of Kanes creek Mr. and Mrs. Milton Houston of Applegate, and the Crage Hous ton family of Trail. The Bill Bishop family were y recent week end vacationers at Crescent City. Donald Patterson, chairman of the Central Point school board, a recent visitor here, in forms us that the delay in start ing construction of new school buildings was caused by the slowness and underestimates of costs by the architect. Owing to the rising costs in labor and ma terial it is believed the delay will Increase the cost some $25,-, 000. Ashes and burnt leaves fell here in quantities during the re cent fire on lower Table Rock. We have seen both of the Table Rocks burned off several times in the past years, but not with the weather conditions that pre vailed during this fire. Some tnree-score friends and neighbors dropped into pay hom age to Table Rock's oldest citi zen at the Ray Wyatt home Sept. 4, where a Sunday afternoon open house was held to cele brate H. W. Davisson's 90th birthday. Mr. Davisson, a long lime resident of this district and Southern Oregon, a farmer, or- chardist, banker, merchant, and Sunday school teacher, a Chris tian man, calm and even-tempered at all times, he seems to fit in any position he undertakes. With a firm grip in his hand shake, and a gleam in his eye. that would be fitting to a per son 30 years younger, he looks as though he would celebrate many more birthdays, and we Join with many others in wish ing they may all be pleasant ones. Mr. and Mrs. George Joseph of Yakima, Wash., owners of the Modoc orchard, who have been living in their home here at the orchard since pear picking be gan, left Thursday for their heme, taking with them Ernest Hamilton who will be employed at their Yakima orchard. The Orville Shore family have the sincere sympathy of the com munity in the sudden and un timely death of Mrs. Shore's brother, Arthur Copinger in Medford recently. Charles Smeltzer, of Black- well hill, was a business visi tor here Thursday, and speaking of the recent fire there said he lost two houses and his deep freeze, which had just been stocked up with pork, fryers, other meats and fruits and a winter's supply of sweet corn and other vegetables. s Alex Hamilton, home on va cation from Washington, D. C, where he is employed in the Q post office, was visiting rela tives last Saturday. He was ac companied by Miss Violet Klo bas, a student at OSC, of Bend, Ore. Mr? and Mrs. Lawrence Fitz patrick of Long Beach, Calif., former residents of Table Rock, called on friends here recently. Mrs. Fitzpatrick, the former Hazel Byrum, was born and grew up here, the Byrum fam ily living in the house now oc cupied by the Robert Sage fam ily, built by Mr. Byrum after buying the tract of land from J C. Pendleton. The Fitzpat ricks left here some 30 years ago. Between 800 and 900 cattle are on pasture at the Table Top ranch, 700 belonging to the ranch, where they will be kept as a part of the farming venture, some being fed out from time to time for the market. The ranch crew are now filling silos, the ensilage and the large sup ply of hay on hand will be used for winter feed. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Leavitt of the Old Stage rd. were brief visitors here with relatives Saturday evening. Lucille Smith, a clerk in the district court office, says .it hooks like their office may be moved to the upper floor of the courthouse. If this is done Judge Rawles Moore will -be dispers ing justice on a higher level. G. B. Bowman, lessee of the local TouVelle farm, would like to rent a barn in this vicinity to store his winter supply of hay. He states that the tenant's house on the farm wilj soon be remodeled and modernized. The Don Richardsons were down here recently to attend the dog show at Medford where they entered Smokey, the ' elk hound dog, the same breed, but not relation to Rex, the pup that somewhat resembles a ped igreed Berkshire pig. Smokey won second prize at Klamath Falls, her sister taking first, also the two repeated at Med ford. Smokey might have done better at Medford but she bark ed at the judge, which was a terrible show of undogliness. However at Eugene in different surroundings she nosed out her own sister and came out first. The following is taken from a radio talk we recently made on a Grange program which many who didn't hear it seemed to be curious to know what it was all about. The purpose of these programs is to try and create more friendly, relations between farmers and their city cousins. We thought we' might in this broadcast outline some of the farmers' difficulties, and in that way help to build up more friendly relations with our city cousins, who in many cases seem to think we are a bunch of gangsters riding on the gravy train. - Like any other business, we try to produce all ' we can on our farms, but in doing this we are constantly plagued with sur pluses, notwithstanding that ac cording to Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson we only get 42 cents out of each dollar the con sumer pays for our products. There are many instances where we get even less. The price of things we have to buy and serv ice needs are far out of 4ine with prices we get for our pro ducts. Government experts tell us how to raise more, which if we do only add to the surplus which in turn brings about price supports, which get raich pub licity, although supports to many corporations in the form of tax write-offs and such. amounting to billions, are sel dom mentioned. Property taxes are another headache, farmers have too many acres to pay tax levies that city people pay. As an ex ample we know of a repair shop in tne same district as a farm. The shop grosses more than the farm on an average, as its in come is not influenced by weath er conditions, but in 1953 tjie auop paia oniy $36 in property taxes, while the farm Daid more than 10 times that amount or nearly $400. If we complain aooui tne ever-increasing taxes, we are told that we have them because we voted that way, but ii we refuse to vote for a pro posed levy, we are called short sighted or have been misinformed. The answer to our difficulties is not in Benson's plan to put more land into pasture and raise more livestock. If that was done on a larger scale, we would soon be plowing under little pigs as we did back in the 30's as you can't store livestock in the holds of mothball ships or caves. Nor does the bright idea of leasing farm land to Uncle Sam to get it out of production seem so hot, especially at $10 per acre, which m some loca tions wouldn't be enough to pay tne taxes. . There are many farmers who would be willing to lease their land to the government, provid ing they would pay the taxes, keep up the fences, and the weeds and rodents from taking over, and give the owners a few sheckels to jingle in their pock ets, and perhaps buy a pair of overalls once in a while. NOMA SPEAKER State Repre sentative Al Loucks, Salem, will be the speaker Monday, Sept. 26, at a meeting of the Medford group of National Office Man agers association. The 7 p.m. din ner meeting will be preceded by a 6:30 p.m. social hour. Loucks is associated with Home Fuel company of Salem. The meeting is open to all persons interested in office management. Reserva tions may be made by tele phoning Mrs. Naomi Burrows, Medford 3-1932, before noon Monday, Sept. 26. Beale Street Again Street HORNBROOK Former Resident Married Hornbrook News of the mar riage of a former resident here was thart of Robert Greive, Yre ka, to Mrs. Edna Tinsley, Yreka, Sept. 10, at Reno, Nev. Attend ing the couple were the bride groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs.. E. R. Greive, and a brother-iri-Iaw and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brolund. Tahoe City, Calif. The Edward Smith family vis ited their son, Dr. E. M. Smith, at Corning, Calif., last week end. Another son, Robert will leave soon for Rupert, Ida., where he will accept a ranch he acquired as a veteran, having terminated his position with California Oregon Power Co. at Medford last week. Miss Gail Howard, Carson City, Nev. and her grandmother, Mrs. Donahue, visited friends here Monday, Sept. 19. Miss Howard was a former resident of Hornbrook, her father Tjeing a quarantine inspector here. He was transferred to San Francis co whera Gail finished schooL Memphis, Tenn. flJ.R) They've quit crying in their beer on this city's most famous thoroughfare. For Beale street is a street again, not an avenue. W. C. Handy made Beale fam ous with "Beale Street Blues" but tourists in recent years couldn't find anything but "Beale Avenue." City officials decreed a dec ade ago that east-west'thorough- fares, of which Beale was one, should be avenues, not streets. And although Beale still rocked nightly with the sounds of mer riment, it just wasn't the same. Beale runs only about eight blocks eastward from the Missis sippi River, but , it's ' a symbol and a tradition to both tourists and mid-South negroes. Wooden cars pulled by hand still battle with automobiles in the crowded traffic lanes. Old autos park alongside flashy new models. The day of the top- hatted pawn shop greeter is past, but the pawn shops still line the first few blocks of Beale. A song made Beale famous anH another song helped make it a street again. Actor Danny Thomas was sur prised on a recent visit here to find Beale Avenue. So he sat down and wrote a song about "feeling, mighty blue, cause Beale Street Isn't Beale Street, it's Beale Avenue." Thomas sang the song at a big benefit here, and Mayor Frank Tobey promised to ask city com mission to make Beale a street again. Tobey was as good as his word and officials' heeded Thomas' plea to "give us back our Beale Street; take back your Avenue." City officials didn't turn Beale around and run it the other way. But they noted that calling it an avenue would "destroy the national tradition of Beale Street." GOLD HILL Twelfth Birthday Marked tdTuxluciiu? Sardines for scrumptious snacks! fill ' Norwegian Style with delicate . Hickory Smoked Flavor PACKED in OLIVE OIL Ttmpling as appttizors . . . tantalizing in salads . . . pleasing for light lunchts and suppers. -i 1 i n n n 1 03SE5 Gold Hill Mr. and Mrs. John Jones honored their son Jack on his 12th birthday by inviting a few of his friends to a dinner at their home on Highway 99N Sept. 12. Those invited -besides his brother Richard were Donald Fisher, Charles Johnson and Al bert Harrison. ; ' " Mrs. Edith Thompson is assist ing Mrs. Throne in the school lunch room this year. Mrs. William Golden, daugh ter Doris and Mrs. A. E. Ander-y son recently returned from a va cation trip" to California, Mrs. Anderson visiting at Bakersfield and the Goldens at Earlimart. Mrs. Lillian Burnett has taken over the "El Rogue" cafe at Gold Hill and is now operating it. The Christian church Sunday schoof is having promotion and rally day Sunday, Sept, 25. Pro gram will be put on by' the Sun day school, pupils for their par ents. Mrs. Lydit Fitzwalter of San Jose, Calif., has been visiting at the home of her niece and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Gover nor, also at the home of her sis ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Durkee. Blossom Gov ernor, daughter of the Ivan Governors, will return to Calif ornia with her. Mrs. Ethel Tustin, sister of Mrs. Ferd Jones, who has been visiting at the Jones home for the past few weeks, left Sunday for Mill City where she will spend some time with her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Johnson, also she will visit with her nephew and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wendall Jones at Detroit, Ore., and with relatives in Port land and Walla Walla, Wash., before returning to her home at Eckley, Colo. Mildred Gail, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gail, left Sun day to enter University of Wash ington at Seattle where she will take dramatics. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith will both enter Oregon State col lege, Corvallis, soon. Janet Nelson has enrolled at Oregon State where she will study home economics. Richard and Delores Cooper, youngsters of Mr. and Mrs. Ern est Cooper, are both attending St. Mary's school in Medford. Delores is a seventh grader and Rick is in his sophomore year. Roscoe Harmon, father of Mrs. Joe Rowden, has been visiting with the Rowdens recently. He is from California. Sgt. Willard Taylor of the Ma rine Corps, who has been visit ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Taylor, will return to the Marine Base at El Toro, Calif., to receive his discharge from the service. Previous to his leave he had been hospitalized for some time. Charles Cook, music teacher at Gold Hill grade school, has moved his band classes to -the basement of the Assembly of God church to make room for another third grade which was added this year. There was al ready two first and two second grades. There are 36 first grad ers, 41 second 41 third, 36 fourth, 30 fifth, 36 sixth, 33 sev enth and 24 eighth graders a total of 277 students. . . The first football game of the season- will be played at Rogue River Sept. 29; Gold Hill and Jacksonville at Jacksonville, Oct. 7; Prospect, Oct. 14 at Gold Hill; Sams Valley (tentative) Oct. 21 at Gold Hill. Dale Graham has returned to the eighth grade but is carrying Fox Exterminator Finds Varied Catch Schenectady, N. Y. flJ.R) A trappers life is an uncertain one, according to William O. Kergel. Kergel, paid to exterminate foxes as part of a rabies con trol program, set 44 traps re cently. His traps nabbed 17 foxes, a pretty good bag for a spring month. But he spent most of his time removing from the traps 14 woodchucks, six skunks, (scent ed variety), three raccoons, two 'possums, a weasel and a low flying crow. his arm in a cast. The annual Firemen's dance will be held at the Grange hall in Gold Hill, Friday night, start ing at 9 p.m. Sonny's orchestra will furnish the music. Every one is invited. The new Christian church be ing built is progressing with about two-thirds of the walls completed. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Collins spent a few days in Portland re cently. Mr. and Mrs. John Jore and daughter Diana have returned from a vacation trip to Los An geles where they visited with their daughter, and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith, their son Raymond Jore and family, and Mrs. Jore's mother, Mrs. Hannah Hanson and other rela tives. Their son Raymond is re covering from muscular polio which he contracted about four weeks ago. He was hospitalized for awhile, and although he is very weak yet, there is no sign of paralysis. . . . William Brewster, sixth grade teacher, and his wife and baby will start living in Gold Hill soon. Mrs. Brewster is a piano teacher, and plans to teach pu pils at her home. 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