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PROSPECT Skating Nights Set By MICKIE LARSON Prospect Mr. and Mrs. Don Andresen are holding skating parties for children in the community hall on Tuesday nights and on Satur day nights for adults. A good turnout will be help ful in keeping the project go ing, Andresen said. Lewis "Steve" Stevenson returned home from the hos pital Jan. 15. Several new cases of hepa titis and pinkeye are reported in this area. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest San derson and family, from Oak land. Ore., visited the home of his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sanderson recently. Gerald Gardner, pastor of the Church in the Pines, is staying in Ashland, where he is intending classes. He returns home on week ends to deliver his Sunday school and church sermons. Members of the Prospect Lions club logged several fallen trees from the National forest land, the money from which will go to the. March of Dimes. Also benefiting from the project will be the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, the Salvation Army and various local community projects. T The logs were hauled to Elk lumber company sawmill in Medford Saturday. Jan. 13. Leo Hoag, Charlie Skeeters ?nd the C.M.&D. logging fur- pished trucks. ; A tree was also logged and .sold for , the benefit of the Good Shepherd church, Jan. -17. 1 Antone Ring reports that he lias trapped eight coyotes re cently and with hounds, treed two bobcats. The next meeting of the PTA will be held in the school cafeteria Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. This will be a dessert meeting.. Speaker will, be General Hix, who will speak on radio active fallout and a film on the hydrogen bomb will be shown. Tests were given in home economics department of the Prospect High school and Miss Kathi Snyder was crowned "Miss Betty Crocker Home maker" for this year. Kathi received a pin and a certifi cate. Saturday, Jan. 18, the alumni of Prospect High school played the varsity team and the grade school played the junior varsity team. At the half there was a blanket toss, with all of the money going to the March of i Dimes. jv On Jan. 11 Miss Lorretta Orgain, the junior candidate, was crowned queen of the "Snow Ball." She was spon sored by the Prospect High pepsters. A work day was held Jan. J 4 at the Community hall by Jhe Home Extension unit. The "project was to paint the Com munity hall kitchen. St. Martha's Guild will hold "stay-at-home bake sale," :Jan. 28. A sale of this kind is ;pne where money that would ;be spent to make items to be CSold will be donated instead. ;All donations may be given ito Margaret Grieve. y Mr. and Mrs. Halvor Gar den moved into their new ;home this past week. U Mrs. Raymond Artmier is expected home this week aft r undergoing surgery in the Sacred Heart hospital. I Mrs. Ralph Parton, who has "been seriously ill in a Med ford hospital is reported to be much improved and has returned home, where she will be confined to bed for some time. ."" Linda and Martha Freeland have been staying with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ;Joe Josephson, while their mother was in the hospital. ;Mrs. Freeland is now recup erating at the home of her husband, John's, parent in Valley. ; Getting together for a pot luck dinner Jan. 14 were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. Foy Vaughn and Mr. and Mrs. Bud Chandler. The occasion was Mrs. Vaughn's birthday. 7. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Goode and son Jim, entertained friends Jan. 12 with a buffet dinner, followed by an eve ning of pards. . Miss Kathi Snyder was hostess to a large gathering of high school friends at her home Jan. 13 in honor of her 17th birthday. Bob Gilmore and Al Prigge returned from a week of va- Stops Heart Gas 3 Times Faster Certified laboratory tests prove BELl-AMS tablets neutralize 3 times as mack stomach acidity in one minute as many loading digestive tablets. Get BELl-AMS today for the fastest known relief. cationing at Sun Valley, Jan. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Svinth, former residents of Prospect, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Burrill Jan. 8. Guests Wednesday, Jan. 15, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Doe were Mrs. Guy Parker and Mrs. H. D. Powell of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Van nice visited with their son Vern, and family of Durfur over the week end. They trav eled to Willamette university to see another son, Don, and then to see Kenny Jr. The Prospect Lions auxil iary held a dinner meeting at the community hall Jan. 8. Plans were revealed for the luncheon to be held in honor of the state officers Jan. 25, at the Rogue River lodge. Shady Cove, Butte Falls and Prospect will be co-hostess for the event and Pros pect will provide the enter tainment. Meetings of the Great De cisions discussion groups will begin in February. Anyone interested in joining classes should contact Mrs. Darwin Bivens or Mrs. Leo Hoag. The January meeting of Prospect Garden club will be held Jan. 21, at the home of Mrs. Richard Lowery. The topic for the afternoon will be "color in the garden, year around," and the display will be "spring catalogs." Host esses will be Mrs. Robert Conger and Mrs. Earl Mil lard. The annual meeting of the Community club will be held in the Community hall Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. There will be an election of five new board members. Candidates seeking election are Ralph Goode, Everett Shafer, Heston Grieve, Don Andersen, Bob Bean, Wayne Griffeth, Dolan Woods and Harold Anthony. The Community club board has nine directors serving a two year term. The four di rectors remaining on the board are Clarence Hedg peth, 'Stub" Bean, "Mel" Rochester and the Rev. Gard ner. The five directors going off the board at this time are Ward Blaine, Ray Maurer, John Gartman, Dwight Moore and Wayne Griffith. After the election Thurs day evening the new board meets for an election of a president and the appoint ment of a secretary and treasurer. At the same time the new president appoints two directors to serve with him on the executive commit tee. Coffee and doughnuts will be served. Galen Miller Harvey will be at the high school for the third national assembly Tues day, Jan. 28, at 2:30 p.m. "Happy" is a pianist and organist as well as a humor ist and has appeared on radio, stage and television. Prayer for today "Let my words be sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them." Morgan Challenges Bus Fare Increase Portland IIP) A proposed hike in city bus fares from 20 to 25 cents a ride was chal lenged Tuesday by Oregon Public Utility Commissioner Howard Morgan. Morgan said the city of Portland, in granting the fare hike, had not complied with an Oregon statute which re quires that the fare increase contract be submitted to him and which gives him 90 days to study it. He said that if the public utilities commissioner files objections, the ordinance cannot become valid unless ratifietd by voters of the city. City officials had no im mediate comment. The fare hike is scheduled to go into effect Sunday. MESSAGE OF DOOM Mansfield, La. (IP) Mrs. Howard Averitt sent an emer gency message Monday to her husband at the factory where he worked, police reported. When Averitt, 35, appeared at the factory gate, police said, his wife killed him with a blast from a shotgun. WAKE UP RARIN'TO GO Without Nagging Backache Now ! 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Fanning (right), successor to Abe Murdock, members of National Labor Re lations Board meet in Washington. From left: Philip. Rodg ers, Stephen Bean, Boyd Leedom, chairman; Joseph Jenkins and John Fanning. They face heavy slate. (International) ILLINOIS VALLEY City Makes Bond Payment By HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction A payment of $3,850 in principal and in terest on city of Cave Junc tion water bonds was made last week. This leaves the city's water bond debt at $51,500, divided into three issues, $25,500, $14,000 and $12,000 respec tively. An extension of the city's water line to include the Illi nois Valley Ranger station is underway and ditching work is being done by Ranger sta tion employees. -According to Watermaster Art Drews, serv ice will probably be started by the first of February. Otis Hussey who last sum mer quit his lumbering job to prepare for a teaching ca reer, has received assistance in the form of a Ford Founda tion scholarship. The grants, which in Hus sey's case will pay tuition fees at Southern Oregon col lege, are part of the Ford Foundation program to en courage future teachers, espe cially those majoring in science. Mr. and Mrs. Hussey and their three children moved to Ashland last fall where the former sawmill worker en rolled as a freshman. He grad uated from Kerby Union high school with the class of 1946 and later served as a second lieutenant of Company C, Oregon National Guard, Grants Pass. Grants Pass High school de baters will come to Illinois Valley High school Tuesday, Jan. 21, to open the debating season here. Friends gathered recently at the Laurence Cushing home on ihe Holland Loop road for a surprise house warming. After a combined gift was presented to the fam ily, a potluck supper was served. The newly-reorganized Illi nois Valley 4-H Beef club will meet at the home of Oliver Wilson Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m. First meeting was held re mently at the home of Nellie Nicholson. Anyone interested in beef raising will be wel comed. Visiting Mrs. Isabel Mellow last weekend were her son and ' daughter-in-law, Mr. and MfS. Charles Mellow of Port land. Mr. 'and Mrs. Robert Nolan are adding a large room and a fireplace to their home near Cave Junction. Carpentry work is being done by Doug Hanby. While working with a Skil saw last week, local contrac tor Bob Ford escaped perman ent injury by hair's breadth. The index finger of his left land was cut to the bone, but no tendons were severed. The first class on soils was attended by 27 adults last Tuesday at the high school vo cational agriculture building. Instructor Ralph Burns told of the various subjects to be taken up during the ten three hour lessons, and named sev eral speakers who will ap pear. Ray Elstrom, district ranger Dave Chamberlain, timber management assistant and John Shallenberger, al of the Illinois Valley ranger station, attended instruction sessions USINESS OPPORTUNITY National concern has limited number of openings for this and ouUying areas for ambitious persons to manage local wholesale distributing business. May be handled in spare hours to start, if desired. Honesty and dependability more important than past experience. This is a wholesale business dealing in products nationally known and consumed the world oyer. Radio, TV, magazine and newspaper budget of over $5,000,000.00 yearly. This opportunity for persons of high type character only. FUTURE POTENTIAL UNLIMITED Applicants must have car, good references and 52,900. which is secured. This opening will pay exceptionally high weekly earnings to start and rapidly increase as business expands. No high pres sure applicants wanted, as no selling is required. If you qualify and have a since desire to own your own business, write today, giving phone number and resume concerning yourself. For local confidential interview write Merchandising Division APC, Tribune Box 2548. in Grants Pass Monday, Tues day and Wednesday of last week. The American Legion Aux iliary voted to make a con tribution tovard the March of Dimes at its regular meeting weanesaay evening. Presiding in the absence of President Marge Cooke, was second vice-president Edith Hayes. Mrs. Dorothy Smith, a for mer resident of the valley, visited friends in Cave Junc tion Thursday. She and her husband, Harvey Smith, now live in Grants Pass. A going away dinner party at the Todelope cafe honored Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Stevens last week, shortly before "Steve" left his post at the Illinois Valley ranger station He is transferred as general supply clerk to the Rogue Ri ver National Forest Service office in Medford. Naval Air Cadet David Arn old, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Y, Arnold of Cave Junction, was recently chosen to act as com pany commander of his unit during the last two weeks of his pre-flight training course at Pensacola, Fla. TSgt. George F. Allen, his wife and two daughters, were guests at the Bert and Bill Woodbury homes in O'Brien last week. George is Mrs. Bert Woodbury's son. Stationed in the Philippine islands for two years, the ser geant and his two daughters arrived at San Francisco by boat January 9. His wife had flown to her home in Oklaho ma in October because of the death of her father. An unusual problem con fronted members of the Jose phine county-unit school board recently when Coos county school officials noti fied them a family was mov ing into the upper reaches of the Illinois river canyon, some 40 miles of winding dirt roads away from the nearest high school. As two sons in the family are of high school age, Coos county asked the local school board to consider either pay ing for extension courses or room and board for the boys at a point nearer Cave Junc tion. After considerable discus sion the board turned down the request. Yet unsolved is the question of how the boys will get a high school educa tion. Taking their DeMolay de gree at a district meeting at Central Point last week were four boys from the local Red woods chapter, Wendell Seat, John Wurn, Bob Ellstrom and Dennis Bottel. Ortis Seat and Les Hoff went over with the boys. A red, white and blue back drop depicting a large Life Scout badge set the stage for the presentation of a Life pin to Mike Hanby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hanby Thursday night at Illinois Val ley Troop 20's Court of Honor. Scoutmaster Eugene Pulley made the presentation after another Life Scout, Noel Tur ner, gave a reading on the heritage of Scouting. Three Eagle Scouts of Troop 20, Gary and Loren Meredith and Stan Love, stood behind young Hanby as he received his award, which is the last rung of the ladder before the Eagle rank. K BUTTE FALLS By MARY JO HARRIS Butte Falls The holiday season saw many servicemen home visiting families and friends.' Two Butte Falls boys home were TonyJRambo and Gene Henshaw. Pfc. Tony Rambo of the Army, spent nine days in Butte Falls and the valley vis iting with his family and friends before going on to spend several days in Red lands, Calif., with other rela tives. From there -he returned to Alabama. He is a son of Tom Rambo of Butte Falls. Gene Henshaw of the Navy, spent three weeks at home with his wife, family and friends. He left Jan. 11 to board the USS Cavalier at Long Beach. Henshaw left for overseas duty Friday, Jan. 17 and is scheduled to be in Ja pan for six months. He was married to the former Miss Myrtle Rambo a short time before entering the service and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Henshaw, Butte Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hen shaw are parents of a boy born Dec. 22 at Sacred Heart hospital. He weighed five pounds, five ounces, and has been named Johnny Lee. Ma ternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Davison, Mid way, and paternal grandpar ents, are Mr. and Mrs. John Henshaw, Butte Falls. A baby shower was given for Mrs. Randall Perkins Tuesday evening, Jan. 14, at the home of Mrs. Henry Ty-gart. Pofio virus pulls no punches. It grants no leniency to the young father who "planned" to be vaccinated . . . but let it slide. It shows no mercy for a housewife too busy to be vacci nated or have her children given shots. Polio can come when jou least suspect it ... to shatter your family ; . . to bring tragic disaster to your children. One shot doesn't give maximum polh protection. Three ' DON'T PRESS YOUR. LUCK! injections are needed. Have you and your children had START YOUR POLIO SHOTS NOW! This message is published as a public service in cooperation with The Advertising Council, the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the American Medical Association and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis en Return Guests included Mrs. Charles (Red) Capello, Mrs. William L. Harris, Mrs. Lee Jolliffee, Mrs. Gene Irwin, Mrs. Ralph Weise, Mrs. Per kins, guest of honor, and Mrs. Tygart, hostess. Games were played throughout, gifts opened and refresh ments served. The population of Butte Falls was enlarged by the ar rival of two new residents, a boy and girl both born rJan. 9. The first was Doug Lee Scott, who weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces. He was born at Sacred Heart hospital. Mother is Mrs. Ralph Ownby and ma ternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sheppard of Butte Falls. The girl, Debra Lynn, weighed 6Vi pounds and was born at Sacred Heart hospi tal. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Donald (Porky) Smith and paternal grandparent is Louis Smith of Butte Falls. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Curtis during the holidays were Charles L. Moody, Oakland, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and rs. Fienston of Medford and Mr. and Mrs. James A. Halla mon of Giandale. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rodgers of Toketee Falls and Mrs. Jim Rodgers were in Butte Falls last week to move the remain ing articles from the Jim Rodgers home. While here the Rodgers visited the Jess Rodg ers. Ms. Jim Rodgers is the Wednesday, January 22, 1958 mother of Jack and sister-in-law of Jess. Charles Moody of Oakland, Calif., was a dinner guest at the N. B. Stoddard home dur ing the holidays. Moody is a staff member of Cogswell col lege in San Francisco, and is a brother of Mrs. Ed Curtis, Butte Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith purchased the Jim Rodgers property which they have rented to the Chester Ellis family. Lloyd Holm and Cal Beck of Grass Valley returned last week to visit friends. Holm worked last summer for the forset service in Butte Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Helbig and son, Donny, were guests in the Bill Harris home last week. While here Mrs. Helbig also visited the Jess Rodgers and Al Hartlerodes. Mrs. Hel big is a sister of Mrs. Rodgers and Mrs. Hartlerode. A "workday" committee meeting of the Butte Falls Lion auxiliary met Wednes day, Jan. 15, at Scotties cafe to work on favors to be pre sented at a luncheon Satur day, Jan. 25, to honor state officers. Hostess clubs for this luncheon are Butte Falls, Prospect and Shady Cove. CLASSROOM FIRST AID Chicago (IPI Army S3c George C. De Mario has writ ten to his parents from Japan that his night class in judo requires a lot of homework. The homework, he said, con sists of giving his bumps and bruises first aid. a MEDFORD MAIL MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTJHE ELEVEN WARNING ON CHEMICALS New York (W The Army's chief chemical officer warn ed Monday of possible Soviet developments in chemical, biological or radiological war fare comparable to the Sput nik. The officer, Maj. Gen. William M. Creasy, said the United States must be alert to "the fact that the hazards in the field of chemical, bio logical and radiological war fare can be as great and as far reaching in their effects upon our ability to survive and defend ourselves as those in atomic warfare." " the full course? tt takes 8 months for maximum protection. Polio shots are spaced this way: the second is given two to six weeks after the first and the third is given seven months after the second. Set up your immunization schedule now. Check with your physician or local health department. 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