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Shady Coye Girl
Takes First in
Speaking Contest
Miss Millie Haynie, Shady
Cove, won first place in a pub
lic speaking contest sponsored
by Talisman lodge. Knights of
Pythias, at Crater High school
Thursday. Her topic was "Youth
Looks at the Future."
The winner studies at Eagle
Point High school under Bert
Simmons, speech coach lor the
school.
Second place was won by Bill
Frake, Medford High school,
student of DeVere Taylor, and
third went to Miss Sandra Saw
yer, Trail, also "of Eagle Point
High school. Five contestants
were entered.
Speaks Wednesday
Miss Haynie will speak Wed
nesday, April 3, at 8 p.m. in the
Pythian building. Medford, with
Carl Gregorius, Grants Pass, as
her opponent. Gregorius won
the Josephine county contest.
The public has been invited.
Gifts were presented to the
winners of last week's contest
by Hugh Welsh, Grants Pass,
grand chancellor of Oregon
jnights of Pythias, who served
as master of ceremonies. Judges
were R. C. Isaacs, Gilbert Mack,
G4ld Hill elementary school
principal, and Gay Hallett, Cen
tral Point.
Don Lacy. Central Point, was
chairman of the contest and Tom
E&vidson and Chancellor Com
liander James O'Duane, both
Hedford, were co-chairmen.
Winner of the bi-county con
test this week will go to Port
ai(J later to enter the state con
test. Winner of the national con
tort, to be held at Memphis,
Tenn., Aug. 11, will receive a
14.000 scholarship from the
I Instructors Review
UFA Convention
Jackson county vocational ag
riculture instructors reviewed
the recent state Future Farmers
of America convention and
awards presented there Wednes
day afternoon at a meeting in
1 he Crater High agriculture
room.
Also discussed were adult ed
ucation programs at the two
schools and plans for a larger
agriculture shop exhibit at the
county fair in August. A live
stock judging contest for FFA
boys was also considered.
Attending the meeting were
Ed Griggs. Crater vocational ag
riculture) instructor, who presid
ed: Bill McFarlaine, Crater agri
culture Instructor; Jack Dube,
Phoenix agriculture instructor,
and Nat Etzel, Eagle Point agri
culture instructor.
Next meeting will be held
April 18 at the Eagle Point agri
culture building.
Fairbanks Couple
Buy Ashland Motel
Ashland Mr. and Mrs. Earle
L. Hausmann, Fairbanks, Alas
ka, have purchased the Ashland
motel In Ashland and take over
the business April 1.
Hausmann has been affiliated
with the Piggly-Wiggly com
pany, a national chain store sys
tem, for the past 29 years. He
is also president of two other
Alaska corporations.
Mrs. Hausmann, who has
taught art at the Everett Junior
college, Everett, Wash., plans to
have an art studio at the motel.
Beside some immediate re
modeling of the living quarters,
the Hausmanns plan future ex
yktnsion of the motel facilities.
Thy also plan to build a separ
tk'a residence on the property.
I4yor Snider Gets
frozen Salmon Gilt
Itayor John Snider was re-
anient last week of a 5 pound
Joozen silver salmon and a pro
clamation sent by Seattle Se
JDnr's King Neptune VIII.
lresentation was made by the
"Flying Restaurateurs" of the
Washington State Restaurant as
sociation, who stopped here Mon
day during their air tour of 22
Pacific Northwest cities.
The group also invited local
members of the restaurant in
dustry to attend the ninth an
nual Pacific Northwest Restaur
ant Convention and Exposition.
1o be held in Seattle's Civic aud
itorium April 911.
Local people greeting the Fly
ing Restaurateurs in addition to
Mayor Snider were Betti Boyle.
Jackson hotel manager, Paul
Smith of the Groceteria, and
Henry Byers of Henry's Broiler.
About 23 per cent of all the
food consumed in the U. S. in
one year is served in public
eating establishments, according
to industry surveys.
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FORMER LOOKOUT J. F. G. Cone, who manned the old lookout
station on Mt. McLaughlin many years ago, provided incentive for
many monutaih climbers to make the rough pilgrimage. Cone, who
ran away from his home in France when a boy, is now being
sought. He is believed to be about 78 years old. Above photograph
was taken when he was about 47 years old.
Scholarship Awarded
To Three Students
Three students from Medford
Senior High school and Phoenix
High school received Elk Lum
ber scholarships Thursday.
Ann Buchwalter Garner,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
G. Garner of 2009 East Main St.,
Medford, received a scholarship
to Willamette university. An ac
tive member of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship of the First
Methodist Church of Medford,
Ann has held the offices of sec
retary, treasurer and publicity
chairman of the group, and has
been its representative to the
Inter-Church Youth cbuncil. She
has also been a member of the
youth choir.
High School Activities
Her high school activities have
included participation in Future
Nurses of America, of which she
is the president. Pep club, Latin
club, French club, Physics-Chemistry
club, Ski club, Girls Ath
letic association, and. Girls'
League. She was chosen Girl-of-the-Month
by her fellow stu
dents, and is an Honored Queen
of Job's daughters.
Richard Ernest (Jim) James
is a senior in Phoenix High
school, and has been awarded a
scholarship to Willamette uni
versity. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Richard James. His
father is superintendent of
schools in Phoenix. Jim is a
member of the First Presbyter
ian church of Phoenix, where
he sings in the choir and serves
as usher. He has been moderator,
vice moderator and treasurer of
the , Westminster Fellowship of
the church and its representa
tive to the Interdenominational
Youth Group.
Athletic Activities
His activities in high school
have included football, basket
ball and track. He was named
most valuable player in football
in the fall of 1956 and was an
end on District 6 all-star team.
He has served as sports ' editor
for the school paper, member of
the student council and class
president in his junior year. He
has been a member of the na
tional honor society for the past
two years, was representative to
the Beaver Boys' State, was a
member of the cast of the school
play in his junior and senior
years and won the Elk's leader
ship award in his senior year.
He has maintained honor roll
New Buyer Named
At Mann's Store
Mrs. Donna Doyle assumed
duties last week as the "ready
to wear" buyer at Mann's De
partment store, 14 North Cen
tral ave., Medford, according to
John P. Moffat, store president.
Mrs. Doyle will supervise and
select merchandise for the wom
en's dress, sportswear, coats and
suits departments. She has been
assistant buyer at the store for
the past ten years. Mrs. Doyle
resides at 623 South Ivy St.,
Medford.
She replaces Mrs. Mildred
McCarty as buyer who moved
recently to Glendale. Calif. Mrs.
Kathleen Esp, who has been a
sales lady with Mann's for the
past three years, is the new as
sistant buyer. Moffat said.
grades throughout his entire
high school career.
Joyce Lorene Gregory, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J.
Gregory, 609 Catherine St., Med
ford, has been awarded a schol
arship to Lewis and Clark col
lege. Gregory is the Medford
branch manager of Peck
Brothers.
Many Groups
Joyce, president of the Girls'
League of Medford High school,
has served for two years on the
student council. She has also
been for two years a member of
the pep club. Future Teachers of
America and the school choir.
She is now a member of the
Madrigal group, and was recent
ly chosen to be a member of the'
All-Northwest choir to assemble
in Boise, Idaho, the first week in
April.
She is a member of the First
Presbyterian church of Medford,
where she served as moderator
of the Westminster Fellowship
youth group in 1954, as Fellow
ship chairman in 1955 and as
Witness chairman in 1956-1957.
She is a member of the West
minster Fellowship choir and
has taught in the Vacation Bible
school for the past two summers.
Joyce was a delegate to the state
meeting of Presbyterian Youth
in her senior year.
The Elk Lumber Scholarship
committee will be considering
other applications for scholar
ships in mid-April, and will con
tinue to accept applications be
yond that dale, it was an
nounced. Water May Be Short
In Northeast Area
Hermiston (U.R) Water
supplies in the Umatilla-Walla
Walla basin seem likely to be
somewhat shorter than normal,
according to W. T. (Jack) Frost,
Oregon snow survey supervisor.
Frost said smaller than nor
mal snow packs coupled with
only fair soil moisture condi
tions in the northeast Oregon
area will cut water supplies to
some irrigators.
However, good soil moisture
conditions in the northeast Ore
gon area should make up for
snow lost during early season
thaws, resulting in near normal
water supplies in the area, Frost
forecast.
In general, snow cover on the
Walla Walla river watershed is
only 86 per cent of the 15 year
average from 1938 to 1952, 82
per cent of normal on the Uma
tilla watershed, 72 per cent of
normal on the Willow Creek
watershed, and 90 per cent in
northeast Oregon.
Area watermasters reported
to the water forecast meeting
held during the last two days
that the reservoir situation in
the northeastern area is excel
lent. ARRESTED NO. 281
Glendale. Calif. (U.R) City
jail is just like home to Richard
Lee Hicks, 53, who was arrested
Friday for the 281st time for
drunkenness and chose to serve
10 days in jail instead of paying
a S50 fine. His police record be
gan in 1923.
sfrious French
Lookout Sought
After Many Years
Mountain Man Drew
Many Visitors to Peak
By Mary Jo Harris
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Butte Falls The old lookout
station atop 9,000 foot Mt. Mc
Loughlin, which withstood the
fierce onslaughts of wind and
lightning for so many years, was
forced to yield at last but to
man rather than to the elements.
Forest service officials were
fearful that mountain climbers
seeking shelter in the structure,
which is built on an eight to 10
foot rock and concrete founda
tion, might be injured if it
should collapse. Thus they re
moved the steps for safety. To
day the structure has fallen in
on the foundation.
Lookout Abandoned
The lookout post was aban
doned approximately 20 years
ago, when on clear days a look
out on Mt. McLoughlin could
view vast reaches of forest, but
there were too many days when
clouds shrouded the high alti
tude peak while lower level
posts were not so hindered.
Present day forest service
practice favors maintenance of
more lookout stations on less
lofty promontories, where clouds
are generally aboe, father than
trying to watch great areas from
a few high peaks. The Rogue
River National Forest now has
many stations, all of which have
telephones or short wave radios.
J.F.G. Con
The old station on Mt. Mc
Loughlin has always held inter
est for passing airmen and the
few hardy hikers who each sea
son make the four or five mile
climb to its lofty site. But years
ago, when the post was manned
by JJ.G. Cone, quite a number
of people made the pilgrimage
just to see and talk to the lonely
lookout, a character straight out
of a book.
Cone had run away from his
home in France when a boy and
for years sailed the seven seas.
He became something of a
scholar and philosopher and
somewhere along the way at
tained unusual proficiency in
photography and in knitting and
chocheting. His work in the lat
ter craft rivaling that of the
most skilled feminine hands.
The lookout's sartorial tastes
were as unusual as his other at
tainments. His coal black beard
and hair were allowed to grow
long, the hair being kept neatly
braided with bright colored rib
bons. An elaborate lavalier us
ually dangled from his neck, the
locket peeping out below the
beard.
Wor Loincloth
For summer wear the moun
tain man encumbered himself
only with a loincloth, though
when visitors hove in sight he
would bow to convention by don
ning a mother hubbard dress
or a pair of shorts. On his in
frequent trips to town, or near
by Lake O' Woods, Cone would
deck himself out in shirt, shorts
and high boots.
The colorful J.F.G. Cone has
been gone for many years from
the little stone and wooden sta
tion where he kept his lonely
vigil. Today there is a quest to
find him. His full name is Jeff
Francis Cone (pronounced Co
nay. About 78 Years Old
Cone would be approximately
78 years old this year and was
last reported still alive in Ash
land in August, 1939.
He had a brilliant personality,
was a philosopher, scientist and
naturalist. Everything he did
was letter perfect. He was a
vegetarian and was never known
to be sick. He lived a clean life
and as far as is known, never
married. He did not use tobacco
or liquor in any form.
A story was once written on
this man's life and published
in a magazine.
He stayed with Evan Reams on
Wagner creek road for about two
years and often gave lectures at
Medford High school.
Two Farm Courses
Planned Next Year
Eagle Point Members of the
Eagle Point advisory board Tues
day discussed plans for the 1957
58 adult education program for
farmers.
Directors decided to offer two
courses because of the interest
shown in the one course held
last winter. First course will be
farm business accounting and
credit. It will start the first
week in November.
At the completion of that
course, another 10-week course
on farm shop skills and repair
will be held.
Attending the meeting were
Darrel Stanley, chairman, Don
Geren, Bill Jess. John Ouster
hout, Charles Stanley, Mert
Bradshaw and Nat Etzel, voca
t i o n a 1 agriculture instructor.
The meeting was held in the vo
cational agriculture building.
CONVERSATION PIECE When Jake Olsen of Olsen's Foun
tain, Eagle Point, had this new-style telephone installed in
his place of business people came from miles around to look
at it. Eagle Point youngsters who had never used his phone
before thought up excuses to make calls, just to try it out,
according to Olsen. The instrument, made in Sweden, is
called an Ericophone, and has the dial on the bottom. To
"hang up" the user merely sets the unit down. According to
D. O. Hood, president of Columbia Utilities, whose company
serves the Eagle Point and upper Rogue areas, many orders
have been placed for the new telephone. Above, Olsen demon
strates how the instrument is used. It weighs less than the
receiver of a regular phone.
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NEW DESIGN Looking more
like a piece of modern sculpture
than a telephone, many new in
struments like the one shown
above are currently being in
stalled by Columbia Utilities in
the area north of Camp White.
According to D. O. Hood, presi
dent of the company, the unit
is primarily designed as an ex
tension phone, but can easily be
adapted for use as a main phone.
Weighing only 15 ounces, the
instrument contains everything a
regular phone does except the
bells.
Speech Contest Winners
Named for State Match
Contestants who will repre
sent the southern Oregon dis
trict in the Oregon High School
Speech league tournament at
Oregon State college April 12-13
were selected Friday and Sat
urday. Selections were made in in
dividual contests held at Med
ford Senior High school. Win:
ners of debate contests were
named on March 9.
In the individual contests,
winners were as follows:
After Dinner Speaking
After dinner speaking, Bob
Bright, Medford, first, Larry
E-R Commission
Selects Bridge Site
Portland (U.R) Portland's
multi-million dollar exposition
coliseum will be located at the
Broadway-Steel bridge site on
the east bank of the Willamette
river.
The Exposition - Recreation
commission settled a three-year
controversy over location of the
S8 million facility Friday in a
unanimous vote for the bridge
site. The center was approved by
tile voters in May, 1954.
The initial vote on the
Broadway-Steel bridge site was
4-1 with Commissioner James J.
Richardson holding out for the
Buckman field location. Howev
er, he later asked that the
bridge vote be made unanimous.
The commission cited these ad
vantages to the Broadway-Steel
bridge site:
It could be expanded with
out great additional cost and
without relocating many fami
lies. It is close to the center of
the city.
It will enhance the beauty
of what is now an industrial
neighborhood.
Providence. R.I. (U.R) Rep.
Bernard T. McDonald intrpduced
a bill in the legislature Friday
which wquld cut the price of
haircuts for baldish men 65
years old and over.
Three Drivers Cited
After Accidents
Three drivers were cited by
state police Friday and Satur
day after accidents in Jackson
county.
William Isaac Childreth, 55,
of 2393 Jacksonville highway,
was cited for making an improp
er right turn after a collision
at 10:55 a.m. Friday on Highway
99 near the state department of
motor vehicles office.
According to police, Childreth
was traveling south in the left
lane of the highway, then made
a right turn in front of another
vehicle, which was traveling
south in the right lane. Driver
of the other vehicle was identi
fied as John Robert Barker, 62,
Vancouver, B.C. There were no
injuries and damage to cars was
reported minor.
Pomeroy Glenn Sorum, 22, of
1309 Thomas rd., Medford, was
cited for failure to signal, and
Richard Edward Wallace, 24,
Sunset drive, Medford, was cited
for following too close, after
their cars collided at 2:10 a.m.
Saturday on Thomas rd., near
Stewart ave.
According to police, both cars
were headed south on Thomas
rd., when Sorum slowed down
to make a left turn. Wallace's ve
hicle approached from the rear,
swerved left, collided with Sor
um's car and came to rest on
the lawn at Sorum's residence,
police said.
Neal, Ashland, second, Vivian
Stevenson, Ashland alternate;
panel discussion, Greg Monroe,
Ashland, first, Dick Corum, Med
ford, second, Jacque Colton, Med
ford, alternate; extempore, Hil
ton Graham, Grants Pass, first,
Jim Corum, Medford, second,
Bill Frake, Medford, alternate.
Humorous reading, Ray Nico
demus, Medford, first, Douglas
Dean, Grants Pass, second, Dav
id Guardino Grants Pass, alter
nate; impromptu speaking, Greg
Monroe, Ashland, first, Tim Kea
ting, Ashland, second, David
Frohnmayer, Medford, alternate;
oratory, Pat Medley, Crater,
first, Hilton Graham, Grants
Pass, second, Millie Haynie,
I'Eagle Point, alternate; poetry
reading, Barbara Johnson, Ash
land, first, Barbara Cox, Med
ford, second and Donna Langley,
Grants Pass, alternate; radio
speaking, Greg Milnes, Medford,
Bruce Boldenow, Medford, sec
ond, Sandra Sawyers, Eagle
Point, alternate.
Serious reading, Kiki Dodd
ridge, Ashland, first. Bob Fish
er, Grants Pass, second, Ted
Lawson, Medford. alternate.
Participating schools were Il
linois Valley, Eagle Point, Tal
ent, Phoenix, Grants Pass, Cra
ter, Ashland, and Medford.
Judges were Bill Sampson, Bet
ty Lou Dunlop, Dorothy Stolp
and Marshall Woodell, all cf
Southern Oregon college.
Debate contest winners were
Ashland, Greg Monroe and Tim
Keating, A division, and Eagle
Point, Millie Haynie, Carole
Sheppard and Sally Mongold, B
division.
Byron Price Leaving
Power Administration
Portland (U.R) Byron
Price, assistant administrator for
the Bonneville Power adminis
tration, will resign effective
July 1, 1957, the BPA announc
ed Saturday.
Price is leaving to accept the
position of general superintend
ent and secretary of the Eugene
Water & Electric Board. He will
replace Ray B. Boals who has
announced his retirement
Contract Awarded
For Table Ends at
Crater Lake Park
A contract has been awarded
M. C. Lininger and Sons com
pany, Medford, for construction
of 120 pre-cast concrete table
ends for Mazama camp ground
at Annie Springs in Crater Lake
National park, according to Tom
Williams, park superintendent.
The work is part of the "Mis-
Commission Lets
Bids for Highway
Construction Work
Portland (U.R) A major road
widening project on Highway 99
south of Salem was approved
for construction here Friday
when the State Highway com
mission received a bid of S605,
067 on the work from Roy L.
Houck and Sons.
The commission also approved
a bid from Tom Lillebo of
Reedsport for construction of
bridges at three locations on Pa
cific highway north of Grants
Pass. The Lillebo bid was for
$286,592.
The city of Delake in Lincoln
county offered a gift of $87,000
worth of city-owned land on the
north side of the D river for a
state park. The 20-acre tract lies
just east of Highway 101. The
commission agreed to study the
offer.
Other Bids
Other bids received at Fri
day's meeting here included: -
Benton Grading and paving
project at Philomath; Corvallis
Sand and Gravel, $12,942.
Clatsop Culverts and grad
ing Oregon Coast highway north
of Seaside; James G. Robertson,
Clackamas, S23.742.
Curry Grading and paving
Gold Beach-Hunter Creek sec
tion of Coast highway, 1.50 mil
es; Central Heating company,
Eugene, $223,055.
Gilliam and Wheeler 23.59
miles of oiling on John Day and
Wasco-Heppner highway; Rus
sell Olson company, Pendleton,
$23,699.
Lane Coast fork relief bridge
of reinforced concrete and tim
ber overflow bridge on Willa
mette highway three miles east
of Goshen; Hamilton Thorns,
Eugene, $23,982.
Marion Masonry block chap
el in Silver Falls park; G. A.
Lantz, Salem, $12,995.
Polk Grading and stone base
3.96 miles of Burns Corner-Su-ver
road seven miles south of
Monmouth: D. F. McKenzie, Sa
lem, $87,396.
Tillamook Two bridges over
Wilson river 23 miles east of
Tillamook on Wilson River high
way; George E. Berry, Beaver
ton, $104,618.
Umatilla Paving 24 miles at
Echo; Russell Olson company,
$6,616. '
OUT OF BOUNDS
Detroit (U.R) Fred A. Har
rison told the Detroit draft board
Friday that their greetings and
invitation to join the Army flat
tered him but explained that he
could not accept. Harrison added
that he is a Canadian citizen with
residence in Riverside, Ont., and
is 60 year old.
Rome, N. Y. (U.R) Hiram
Prior, 49, who police said told
them "I never did like cats,"
was sentenced to a year in jail
Friday for killing a black cat
by slashing its throat with a
jackknife. "I will kill any black
cat that crosses my trail," po
lice quoted Prior.
WATERLESS
SHAMPOO FOR
A new all weather
shampoo for dogs. No
fuss... no muss. You
simply rub Dry Bath on
your pet and towel off. It's
economical to. ..costs just
a few cents a bath.
CLEANS
DEODORIZES
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DRY BATH
sion 66" improvement program
for the park, Williams said. The
concrete ends will furnish 60
camp tables.
Lininger's bid was $2,160.
Other bidders were Peyton, and
company, Klamath Falls, $3,540;
Redimix Con crete company.
Grants Pass, $4,050; Builders
Supply company, Medford, $3,
650; W. H. Conrad company,
Medford, $7,740; and Medford
Concrete Construction company,
Medford, $10,320.
New campgrounds at the park
are scheduled to be completed
by the end of this summer un
der the "Mission 66" program.
Last .fall contracts were award
ed for two comfort stations and
this spring contracts for two
more comfort stations will be
let, Williams said. He added that
last year roads and water and
sewer systems were constructed
under the improvement pro
gram. "Mission 66" is the program
in which Congress appropriated
$4,328,000 for improvement of
facilities at national parks dur
ing a 10-year period ending in
1966.
The park superintendent al
so announced that two new per
manent employees have been
added to fill positions recently
vacated .
Charles D. Skevinglon, 32.
formerly of Rogue River, will
replace Harley Jones as heavy
equipment operator. Skeving
ton, who served, in the Army
from 1943-45, is married and hag
two children. They are residing
at park headquarters.
Lynn R. Williamson, 31, has
been transferred from Mt. Rain
ier, Wash., to replace Paul Turn
er as district ranger. He will su
pervise seasonal park employees
operating checking stands as
well as road patrols in the north
ern half of the park, Williams
said. Williamson, a World War
II veteran, will reside at park
headquarters with his wife and
two children.
Portland Records 12th
Traffic Dead This Year
Portland (U.R) Portland
recorded its 12th traffic fatality
of 1957 Saturday when Mrs.
Maude Hamburger 79 died at
Providence hospital of injuries
suffered when she and another
woman were struck by an auto
mobile Thursday night. .
The other woman Mrs. Agnes
McKinnon 65, was in serious
condition at the hospital.
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