TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thuriday, April 25. 1957
ILLINOIS VALLEY
Lodge Elects Officers
Br HELEN BOTTEL
Cave Junction New presi
dent of the Ker'oy Eagles Aerie
is Dudley Andre, who was elect
ed at the Thursday night meet
ing. Milt Pierson was named vice
president; Hank Spletstoser, sec
retary; Larry Johnston, treasur
er, and Louis Aller, chaplain.
One-year trustees are Hal Moore
Sr., Roy Mills and Everett
Starks.
Vern Yeargan is outgoing
president.
Joint installation of Eagles
and auxiliary officers is tenta
tively set for the first Saturday
in June, when Grants Pass
Eagles will conduct the ceremony.
farm near Kerby, are for the
most part enriching the Illinois
river. During last month's heavy
rains many were washed from
their temporary pond and into
streams which carried them to
freedom.
Home last Tuesday from a
four-month vacation which took
them 15,000 miles and into 15
states are Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Davis, who say they had a near
ly perfect trip with no accidents
or car trouble.
A new grandson, John Robert
Howell, arrived while the Da
vises were visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Howell,
at Davenport, Iowa.
Mrs. Walt Colpitts, Illinois
Valley Day Camp director, and
Mrs. Vern Yeargan, her assist
ant, met Thursday in Grants
Pass, with Lois Baker, field di
rector for Girl Scouts in this
area, to discuss plans for the
annual summer day camp here.
Dates for the local day camp
at Grayback park were set for
June 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 26.
A Day Camp staff meeting is
planned for Tuesday, April 23,
from 10 to 2 at St. Matthias
Episcopal church.
Repair work on the Kerby
ditch which supplies irrigation
water to a considerable portion
of the valley, is being done by
Bud Randolph, Charles Trefe
then, Gary Wylie, William
Klein, George Keller, Roy Mills
and Clem Robinson.
Breaks at the Frank Knight
property near the Q Bar X
ranch and behind the slaughter
house in Cave Junction have
been mended. Two bulldozers
are being used on the work.
In charge of the annual can
cer fund drive for the Illinois
Valley area is Blanche Lackey,
who announces the inauguration
of "neighborhood envelopes''
here.
The large envelopes, each con
taining a number of smaller
ones, will travel from house to
house, with each contributor
placing money in a small enve
lope before passing it on.
The drive got under way here
last week.
A going away party honoring
U.S. Forest Service District
Ranger Herbert Rudolph, of
Powers, was given Thursday
night at the Izaak Walton league
clubhouse in Grants Pass. .
Rudolph has been transferred
to a position on the timber man
agement staff in the Umpqua
district at Roseburg.
H. C. Obye, Siskiyou Forest
Supervisor and his wife,, men
bers of his office staff and other
employees of the Siskiyou Na
tional Forest district and their
wives presented Mr. and Mrs.
Rudolph with several gifts, in
cluding an electric frying pan.
Easter parties, egg and treas
ure hunts were held in each of
O'Brien school's three rooms
last Friday. Bringing colored
eggs, candy, cookies and other
treats were Mrs. Bob Brecken
ridge, Mrs. Emma Lemm, Mrs.
Eugene Felton, and Mrs. George
Alcorn.
In the first fly-up ceremonies
ever conducted by the three-year-old
O'Brien Brownie troop
No. 206, five little girls received
their wings Thursday night at a
patluck dinner meeting given by
the O'Brien Parent Teacher As
sociation, sponsors of the troop
At the same time, the five
fly-ups, together with a sixth
new member, Virginia Stephens,
received their Girl Scout pins in
an investiture service which
placed them in the newly
formed Intermediate troop at
O'Brien.
uraauating Brownies are
Leah Stephens, Kathleen and
Bobette Breckenridge, Jeannie
Rogers and Linda Kay Wade.
Barbecued steaks were the
fare at the celebration of the
Easter season birthdays of
Frank Gant and Harry Floyd at
a potluck dinner Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Floyd in Holland. Mrs. Floyd
carried out the Easter theme
in her table decorations.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Gant, Mr. and Mrs. How
ard Bearss, Howard's father.
Carl Bearss of Grants Pass, and
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bunch.
Bids Opened for
Grading, Paving Work
Salem Two Medford firms
are apparent low bidders for
about three miles of grading
and -paving work on Table Rock
rd. and the Crater Lake highway
Jacksonville rd., about two miles
northeast of Central Point, ac
cording to the Oregon state
highway commission.
Low bidders for the project
were the Hughes and Dodd com
pany and the Tru-Mix Equip
ment company, both of Medford.
They submitted a joint bid of
$133,693.70
Commission acceptance of the
bid is pending approval by the
Jackson county court. The
county also must deposit S30.300
with state as its share of pro
ject's cost, according to the com
mission.
Other bidders were the J. C.
Compton company, McMinnville,
$1.57,502.70; Central Paving
company. Independence, $137,
653.70; M. C. Lininger and Sons
company, Medford, $138,041.70;
the Central Heating company,
Eugene, $138,759.20; and F. L.
Somers. Medford, S171.583.70.
Another Easter birthday was
observed Sunday, when Mrs.
Oliver Boyd was honored at a
dinner for nearly 20 friends and
relatives at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Strom
men at Harbor, Ore.
Attending from the valley
were Mr. and Mrs. Oliver. Boyd
and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Boyd.
Jiggs Morris is busy these
days excavating a combination
trout and irrigation pond on his
property, the old John Valen
ranch, near Takilma. Mr. and
Mrs. Morris purchased the farm
lands and buildings from Por
tola Tree Farms, after Valen
sold the big timber acreage to
the Grants Pass firm several
years ago.
The thousand small trout,
which Jiggs bought recently
from the William Klein trout
Another birthday party last
week end, was in honor of nine-year-old
Mildred Michels of
O'Brien, whose mother .invited
school friends at her home for
an afternoon of games, gift open
ing, cake, ice cream cones and
punch.
Guests were Patsy and Judy
Mikkelsen, Linda Campbell,
Shirley Campbell, Glenda Mc
Donald, Kathy Bottel, Roberta
Cross, Loveta Cooke, Rosemary
and Georgie Michels, and "Doc
Cooke. Sending a gift but un
able to attend was Jeannie Rog
ers.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Haslock
have sold their Cave Junction
home to Sgt. and Mrs. Walter
Filman of the U. S. Marine
Corps.
They left Wednesday for
month-long vacation at the home
of Mrs.. Haslock's sister and
Central Poini Pig
Litter in Registry
James L. Frink, Central Point
Berkshire hog producer, has
qualified his Berkshire litters of
spring pigs in the Production
Registry program.
This program is designed to
bring out the ability of a sow or
gilt to farrow a good sized litter
and raise them to a litter weight
of 128 pounds for a litter from
a gilt and 144 pounds for a sow
when they reach the age of 35
days. At least eight pigs must
be farrowed and . at least this
many raised.
The program also Is a prere
quisite to the lean-meat certifi
cation program designed to im
prove the quality of pork.
In order for a litter to be
certified lean-meat, it must have
qualified in Production Registry,
two pies from the litter must
rbe slaughtered and carcass data
taken. The pigs must wei?h 200
pounds at 180 days of age; be at
least 23.5 inches in length; not
have more than 1.7 inches of
backfat; and have at least 3.5
square inches of loin-eye (lean
meat) in the pork chop.
Beauticians Plan to
Attend Convention
Several Medford area beautic
ians plan to attend the annual
convention of the Oregon Beau
ticians association at Gearhart
May 5 to 7, according to OBA of
ficials. Mildred Anderson of Cook's
Beauty clinic, M e d f ord, is a
member of the fash ion com
mittee of the OBA.
The convention will be fea
tured by a parade of Oregon
contest. Winner of the contest
will represent Oregon at the Na
tional Hairdressers and Cosmet
ologists associations' convention
in Pittsburgh, Penn. during July.
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MORE SCIENTISTS
Chicago U.R) The number
of scientists and engineers in the
united States had grown from
575,000 in 1947 to about 950,000
at the start of 1957.
family in Detroit, Mich.
bgt. Filman, who is makine
the Marines his career, is the
son of Mrs. Ed Yarbroueh of
Cave Junction. His wife's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Laborde,
also live in the valley. The Fil-
man's plan to live here after the
sergeant retires in 15 years.
May 9, 1800 was the birthday
of abolitionist John Brown; Tor-
rington. Conn., the place.
Trout are found in '
seven states of the U.S.
but
College Has Russian
Literature Collection
Beloit Wis. (U.R) Beloit
college has a representative col
lection .of Russian literature by
alumnus James Winkelman who
gathered more than 300 books
and periodicals from Russian
bookstores in Austria, France
and. Germany and by mail from
Moscow.
The group includes most of
the volumes awarded the Stalin
prize for literature between 1940
and 1951. There also is a set of
the works of Tolstoy and several
sets of Soviet dramatic works.
"It's one of the most exciting
acquisitions to come to Beloit in i
recent years," said H. Vail Deale,
director of libraries.
BACK HOME
Rockland, Me. U.R) John
Holmes was driving along when
he smelled smoke and discovered
that the rear seat of his auto had
been ignited by a discarded cig
arette. He headed for the fire
house where the blaze was extin
guishd. Holmes was once a fireman.
Bend Doctor President
Of Medical Examiners
Portland U.R) The State
Board of Medical Examiners has
named Dr. Max H. Hemingway
of Bend as president for the
coming year. Dr. George Page
of Portland was named secretary-treasurer.
if
Less than 300,000 U.S. public
school children are studying a
foreign language.
ALWAYS
If You Don't Come In
. . . You'll Be Sorry!
HUBBARD
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73rd Anniversary Sale
ENDS SAT., APRIL 27
BROS
Main and Riverside
Medford
To replace Harold Haslock as
finance officer of Glenn Morri
son Post No. 70 of the American
Legion is Blake Miller, who was
appointed at last week's meet
ing-
Dinner guests Saturday at !
"Madroak" the Kerby home of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cribb, were
Mr. and Mrs. Henri Appy and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bottel:
The pre-Easter event was also
a going-away party for Mr. and
Mrs. Appy who, with their four
children, will move to southern
California this summer.
C. W. Woods, owner of Woods
Tile company, Los Angeles, and
a tile distributing company in
Seattle, has purchased the Henri
Appy ranch. The Woods family,
who now live in San Fernando
valley, do not plan to move here
in the near future.
The three-act play "Skimming
Low," a satire of the old west,
will be presented this Friday
and Saturday at the Illinois Val
ley Lion's club.
Also on the program are var
ious novelty acts. Winners of
the king and queen contest will
receive their awards . at the
Saturday performance.
Proceeds from the show will
be used for the Illinois Valley
summer sports program, I. V.
Recreation Inc., which was start
ed by the Lions club two years
ago. ' .
Members of the Illinois Valley
High school band and choir will
participate in the annual Dis
trict Music Festival at McLough
lin Junior high school in Med
ford next Friday.
The choir is scheduled to ap
pear at 11:40 a.m. while the
band will play at 2:30 p.m. Buses
will take the students to Med
ford. '
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