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BUILDING SITES Forms for the foundation of the upper campus buildings. To create a place to build, thous
new $460,000 science building at Southern Oregon college ands of yards of the granite hillside had to be removed,
in Ashland are shown in the foreground of the picture Appropriations to construct the buildings were received
above, and near the group of contractors' sheds farther by the state board of higher education from the state leg
away excavation is going on at the site of the 8292,400 islature last year and is part of the 20-year expansion
central heating plant that will furnish heat for all of the program underway at the college. .
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NEW GYM This new physical education
building at Southern Oregon college was
completed last year with funds appropri
ated by the state legislature and is a part
of the expansion program now underway
that will bring the value of SOC proper
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MEN'S DORM The new men's dormi
tory, located at the southeast corner of the
Southern Oregon college campus will house
144 single men students. At about the same
; stage of construction is the College Com
. mons building just east of Churchill hall.
' The Commons, containing kitchen facilities
and a dining hall, will have cafeteria fa-
Chains Required
For Timberline
Salem HP Now new snow
fell overnight but chains were
still required for travel to
Timberline with 224 inches of
roadside snow, the State High
way Department reported Sat
urday. Motorists were advised to
carry chains at Warm Springs
junction, with 28 inches of
roadside snow.
Highways were icy in spots
'at Wilson River summit. Sun
set summit. Siskiyou, Green
Springs, Bend, Chemult,
Quartz mountain and Seneca.
Austin and Seneca both re
ported 10 degrees, coldest
spots in the state.
The Congo river crosses
the line of the equator twice.
NEW CLASS
SPEEDWRITING
Day or Night
Beginning Monday, February 3rd
ROBERTSON
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
40 N. Riverside, Medford Phone SP 3-4264
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ties to nearly 3
by the college
40 acres yet
been acquired
with an eye to
college.
cilities to serve from 400 to 500 students
and will also be used for various students
functions. Both buildings are being con
structed of reinforced concrete and will be
heated by the 8292,400 central heating
plant now under construction on the upper
campus. Susan Homes hall can be seen in
the background.
Chamber Members Plan
To Attend Conference
Several members , of the participate, pooling their
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce plan to attend the
northwest chamber managers
and officials conference at the
Multnomah hotel in Portland
Feb. 2, 3, and 4. according to
Secretary Don McNeil.
Highlights of the meeting
will include discussions on fin
ancing chambers of commere,
new techniques in chamber
organization and regional in
dustrial development, McNeil
said.
The annual meetings are
unique in that chamber mem
bers from three states, Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho
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million dollars. Land owned
now totals 115 acres, with
undeveloped. The land has
piece-meal through the years
future development of the
knowledge to help train of
ficers and board members in
chamber organization and op
eration. It is reported to be
the only meeting of its kind
in the United States, McNeil
said.
Font Jackson County
Attending the meeting from
Jackson county will be Mc
Neil, Otto Frohnmayer, presi
dent of the Jackson county
chamber, and Board Member
Bob Taylor, in addition to
Clarence Bell, president of
the Ashland Chamber of Com
merce and Velma Jones, secre
tary. McNeil and Frohnmayer
will remain in Portland to at
tend the Oregon Industrial
Development conference
where Oregon's industrial de
velopment and industrial
parks will be discussed.
The noon speaker at the
Feb. 5 meeting will be Elmer
P. Wheaton, chief missile en
gineer of Douglas Aircraft
corporation, Santa Monica,
Calif., who will talk on gov
ernment procurement prob
lems and how to use state
planning and development,
McNeil said.
When the trans-Atlantic
cable was opened in 1853, the
first messages to be exchang
ed were between President
Buchanan and Queen Victoria
of England.
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Local Unit of
Council of Aging
Talked at Meeting
Another in a series of meet
ings to organize a local unit
of the Oregon Council on
Aging will be held at the Red
Cross building here Feb. 13,
Mrs. Enid Rankin, chairman
of community services for
the aging, has announced.
The meeting was scheduled
last week after a group of in
terested residents discussed
problems of the aging in this
area. The Feb. 13 meeting will
be open to the public, Mrs.
Rankin noted.
Mrs. Rankin will meet
with the executive board and
committee heads of the Ore
gon Council on Aging at the
office of Dr. Edward Rosen
ba"um in Portland Friday. Dr.
Wesley Nicholson, Eugene,
pastor of the First Congrega
tional church, is chairman of
the council.
Discuss Need
At last week's meeting,
Mrs. Rankin summarized
what persons in this area are
doing towards organizing a
committee here. Several oth
ers interested in the problem
also discussed the need for
such a group and what could
be done.
Glenn Klein, representing
the inter-agency council, has
been elected temporary chair
man of the group.
Besides Mrs. Rankin and
Klein, others attending the
meeting here included Ron
Rice, representing the Med
ford Kiwanis club; Venita
Jones, extension units; Verne
Nusbaum, social security of
fice; R. H. Lunday. U.S. Em
ployment service; F. L. Glan
ning, recreational coordin
ator for the Camp White
Domiciliary; Mrs. Henry
Padgham, president of the
Jackson County Public
Health association; Mrs. Pos
ton, Red- Cross community
service; Dr. A. Erin Merkel,
county health officer; and
Mrs. Chester Guches, repre
senting Rogue Valley hospit
al, and the Public Health as
sociation. Mcrrfy Barnett Opens
Real Estate Office
Martin R. (Marty) Barnett,
formerly with the Tooley Real
Estate agency, has opened the
Barnett Realty at 836 South
Riverside ave., Medford, he
has announced.
A member of the Medford
Realty Board and Multiple
Listing service, Barnett has
been connected with real es
tate for 2Vz years, two of
them as office manager of the
Tooley agency here. '
Prior to becoming affiliated
with real estate, he founded
and operated the Curb Serv
ice bakery here. He plans to
handle all types of real estate.
Confrocf Awarded
For Freeway Work
Salem :IP The State High
way Department Saturday
awarded a Sl,142,973 contract
to Kuckenberg Construction
company, Portland, for 2.70
miles of grading on the Lowell
st. 21st ave. section of the
Baldock Freeway in Portland.
There were nine higher bids
on the Federal aid interstate
project.
Arizona reaps $200 million
from tourists annually.
Campus Grows
From One to 15
Acres in 10 Years
By BOB VROMAN
Mail Tribune Staff Writer
Just a little more than 10
years ago, one could point to
the two large buildings near
the south city limits of Ash
land and say to a visitor,
"that's Southern Oregon col
lege." If the visitor returned to
day he would have to crane
his neck in a half dozen dif
ferent directions, up hill and
down, for the once tiny cam
pus has grown to a sprawling
75 acres with another '40 acres
up on the hill that is still
undeveloped.
Modern buildings, including
a library, gymnasium and
dormitories, have sprung up
in the last few years and
more are under construction,
which when completed will
bring the total value of the
school's real properties to
nearly 3 million dollars.
Ranks Fourth
Outside of private colleges,
Southern Oregon college now
ranks fourth in the state in
enrollment, with Oregon state
college first,; University of
Oregon second and Portland
state college third. Just this
term, a record 995 students
registered for classes at SOC
and by 1965, according to a
recent estimate, this college
will have an enrollment of
2,500.
Plans are already underway
to ask for appropriations
through the state legislature
to finance construction of
eight more buildings in the
next five years to accomodate
the anticipated rise in enroll
ment, according to Business
Manager Don Lewis.
Under construction now are
the $460,000 science building
and a 8292,000 central heat
ing plant, which were ap
proved by the state legislature
last year through the state
board of higher education.
Men's Dormitory
In addition, a $42,000 men's
dormitory and the $269,000
College Commons1 building
are being erected with funds
loaned to the college by the
federal government in Aug
ust, 1957. Dormitories, hous
ing and other buildings such
as the Commons that are self
supporting built by money
acquired from various sources
by the college and do not
come out of tax funds.
The new two-story science
building, containing 22,000
square feet, will house 16 to
20 classrooms to instruct stu
dents in physical chemistry
and the biological sciences.
Each department will be
equipped with a modern lab
oratory and a .large lecture
hall in the building, equip
ped with audio-visual teach
ing apparatus, will provide
seating for 100 students. The
foundations of the building,
located up the hill from the
library, are now being laid.
New Heating Plant
Also in the foundation stage
is the new central heating
plant that will contain two
automatic oil-fired furnaces
with provisions made for a
third when the need arises.
More than 1,500 feet of walk
in tunnels will carry steam
pipes to key distribution
points, where they will go
underground to heat buildings
in the entire upper campus.
Pits for the giant oil stor
age tanks have already been
dug in a leveled-off area on
the granite, hillside and
trenching for the underground
pipes is underway.
The men's dormitory II, lo
cated off Indian st. in the
southeast corner of the cam
pus, is further along. Begun
last year, the concrete walls
of the structure are nearly
complete and it is estimated
that it will be ready for use
by fall of this year. The dorm
will house 144 single men
students.
College Commons
The 14.991 square foot Col
lege Commons building, locat
ed east of Churchill hall just
off the highway, was also be
gun last year and is begin-
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FAMILY HOUSING To provide housing
for married students at Southern Oregon
college these apartment type buildings were
moved from the upper campus to a location
on the other side of the highway that is
now known as College Court. Several other
homes in the area were also acquired by
the college. Student housing at SOC is the
REMODELED The building above, for
merly the old gymnasium at Southern Ore
gon college built in 1935, has become the
Britt Student Center containing a snack
bar, book store, ballroom, and offices for
student publications and faculty members
as well as 10 class rooms. The number of
ning to take shape. The build
ing will contain a kitchen and
large dining hall with facili
ties to serve 400 to 500 stu
dents cafeteria style and also
will serve as a place to hold
various student functions. The
building is constructed to al
low additions that will double
the serving and seating capaci
ty of the cafeteria for future
needs.
Southern Oregon college be
gan as an offshoot from a re
ligious demonational academy
established in Ashland back
in the 1860's and had many
ups and downs before the
state legislature in 1925 ap
propriated $175,000 for the
building now known as Chur
chill hall that was built on
land donated to the college by
the city of Ashland.
Gymnasium Built
In 1935 the gymnasium, now
the new Britt student center,
was built and the campus re
mained virtually unchanged
until after World War II.
With the large number of
students registering under the
GI bill, it was necessary in
1946 to build the men's dorm
I at a cost to the college of
$56,650 and the women's
dormitory, Susan Homes hall,
at a cost of $405,340, in ad
dition to several temporary
classrooms. Also acquired at a
cost of $84,000, were a num
ber of family living units to
house married students.
In 1947, the construction of
the Student Union and the
science hall called for an ap
propriation by the state leg
islature of a total of $56,902,
and in 1949 the $358,09 col
lege library' was built. The
president's residence, costing
$23,471, was built in 1950.
Utility Building
A utility building on the
athletic field, then being de
veloped, a pump house and
an incinerator were built in
1954 and last year the new
physical education building
was completed at a cost of
$390,703, in addition to a mo
tor pool building to house col
lege vehicles.
Also completed last year
was the remodeling of the old
gymnasium into the modern
Britt Student Center.
A gift to the college of over
S135.000 from the estate of
Amaiia Britt of Jacksonville
made possible the conversion
of the structure and the doub
ling of its size by the addition
of a side wing". Housed in the
building are a snack bar, book
store, lounge, ball room and
school publication offices as
well as 10 classrooms and fac
ulty offices. According to
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Southern Oregon College
President Elmo Stevenson, the
building is the "heart of the
campus."
Acquisition of Land
The acquisition of land for
the expansion of the SOC
campus has been a slow and
laborious job, according to
Lewis. Individual lots had to
be negotiated for to make up
plots largee nough to acomp
lish the large buildings and
to keep the campus unfied.
Last year the college also
expanded its family housing
facilities, m o vi n g several
frame buildings to an area on
the lower side of the highway
now known as College Court.
The purchase of the property,
which included several exist
ing houses, cost the school
$137,000.
Classrooms at SOC are so
full now that another 100
students would cause cramped
conditions in certain courses
and more night classes would
have to be added, Lewis said,
but the real problem is stu
dent housing. All the dormi
tories and family living units
are full.
Expanding Curricula
Not only is the campus ex
panding its curricula and now
offers a master's degree in
elementary and secondary ed
ucation. Along with the ex
pansion of the teacher train
ing program, a program of
general studies was added,
with special emphasis on the
division of humanities, social
studies and science-mathematics.
Through the efforts of SOC
planners, in cooperation with
the state board of higher ed
ucation, Southern Oregon col
lege will contfiue to flourish
as more and more students en
roll and facilities to educate
them are expanded. Indica
tions are that it is well on its
way to becoming one of Ore
gon's major colleges.
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to the Spanish crown.
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school's most serious problem right now,
as student enrollment this team reached an
unprecedented 995. All available housing
units on the campus are full, as well as
both men's and women's dormitories. Ex
pected enrollment at the college by 1965
is 2,500 students.
square feet in the building was nearly
doubled by the addition of a side wing.
Money for remodeling and expanding the
structure came largely from a $135,000 do
nation from the estate of Amelia Britt,
Jacksonville. Dedication of the student cen
ter took place in December.
Medford Youth's
Car Kicked In
By Klamath Trio
Bruce Niles, Medford, 22,
and an employee of "Walker
the Weeper" trailer coach
sales here, has just had his
repaired car returned to him
after three youths kicked in
its side in Klamath Falls last
weekend.
Twenty-two-year old Niles
said he had his newly acquired
car for about two weeks and
was visiting his family in
Klamath Falls when the in
cident occurred. He and two
other Medford youths, Shelly
Harrison, 20, and Bill Jami
son, 21, were all sitting in the
car at a Klamath Falls Serv
ice station when three youths,
in their twenties, suddenly
jumped out of their car, ap
proached the parked car and
started kicking m the side
One of the trio rammed his
fist through the canvass top
of the convertible also, Niles
said.
When this happened Niles
and his friends jumped out of
Niles' car and subdued the
trio. They then shoved them
into the back of the damaged
car and took them to the po
lice station. They were booked
on disorderly conduct. All
three paid for the $148 worth
of damage done to the Niles
car, the car owner, said.
Sentenced in municipal
court Monday on the charges
were Emanuel Kazes, route 3,
Klamath Falls, Dean John
son, 2421 Orchard ave., Klam
ath' Falls and Richard Berg,
737 Plum st., Klamath Falls.
Each was fined $100 and sen
tenced to 30 days in the city
jail in addition to being placed
on six months probation.
"They were drunk at the
time and I guess the sight of
a bright shiny new car made
Dr. L G. Genfner
Participates in ;
Two Conferences ;
Dr. Louis G. Gentner, en
tomologist for the Southern
Oregon Branch Experiment,
station, participated in two.
conferences in Portland rer,"
cently. 5 . ,
About 65 state and federal.
entomologists from seven of
the western states and Brit
ish Columbia attended the
seventh annual Pacific Vege
table Insect conference. Re
suits of research for control
of pests on truck cropi and
other related crops wert dis
cussed. Also discussed were new-
methods of spray and dust
application, Dr. Gentner said.
Problems and research re
sults were discussed at - a
meeting of about 100 repre
sentatives of the agricultural
chemicals industries.'
Spray Conference
The 32nd annual western
cooperative spray conference
was held in Portland Jan. 2)2-
24 with about 70 state ard
federal chemists, entomolo
gists, horticulturists and
plant pathologists from seven
western states and British
Columbia attending. They
presented latest research find
ings on control of pests and
diseases of fruit trees, spray
residues on fruits at harvest
time, spray injury from pesti
cides to fruit and foliage, and
the status of various spray
materials under the Miller
amendment.
Under the amendment, all
pesticides must undergo an
extensive series of tests for
effectiveness in controlling
pests, residue on food crops
at harvest and safety to hu
man beings and warm blood
ed animals.
Results of tests for each ma
terial must be presented to'
the food and drug adminis
tration for study before it can
be put on the market for use
on food products, and it must
be used only as specified, Dr.
Gentner noted.
Dr. Gentner appeared on
the program of the seven an
nual Oregon Agricultural
Chemical applicators' short
course at Oregon State col
lege, Corvallis, Jan. 29. He
served on a panel with oth
er staff members to discuss
the status of tree fruit pest
control.
Temblors Shake
Ecuador Area
New York (1PM A "very In
tense earthquake, probably
near the Ecuador Columbia
border," was recorded at
11:17:46 a.m. est Saturday by
the Lamont Geophysical Ob
servatory seismograph of Col
umbia University.
The earthquake registered
a magnitude of seven on the
10-point Richter scale, a
spokesman for the observa
tory said.
RECORD BUDGET
Bonn, Germany - OP The
West German government has
announced a budget of $9,
334,000,000 the largest in
its postwar history for the
1958-59 financial year start
ing April 1. The announce
ment Friday said the budget
represented a $428,571,422 in
crease over last year's figure.
them want to break it up for
some reason," Niles said. "It
still makes me mad every
time I think of it."
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