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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February S, 1SS8 CENTRAL POINT Skills Contest Slated By DORIS HUGHES Central Point The Rogue Umpqua District FFA skills contest will be held at Crater High school Feb. 15. Begin ning at 10 a.m. In the high school cafetorium, there will be a short business meeting led by George Gilman, presi dent. - Also scheduled are a tal ent contest with stunts, hog calling, agriculture spelling, and in the afternoon in the agriculture building there will be contests in welding, rec ord books and rope work. Ed Griggs, head of the Cra ter High school agriculture department, issued an invita tion to the public to watcn the contest. Brownsboro visited a few days this week at the home of her son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Leonard, of Snowy Butte rd., Central Point. Last Friday, Jerry Hrabal, state FFA secretary from Oregon City, visited the Cra ter Chapter to interview the seven state farmer applicants. ; Interviewed were Dave Mack, George Gilman, Lyle Bigham, Neil Roberts, Allan Barnes, Bill White and Jerry Leonard. Also visiting the chapter was Dr. Henry Ten Pas, head of the agriculture education department at Ore gon State college. With Dr. TenPas was Gordon Gilbraith, Oregon State college student who will take his practice at Crater next fall. Ed Griggs said that George Gilman is preparing to enjer into a contest with other boys throughout the state. The win ner of this contest will be named in March at the state FFA convention in Bend. The winner will receive $100 and will be named "Star Dairy Farmer of Oregon." David Mack and the par liamentary team of the Cra ter High school FFA have been practicing, for the state semi - finals parliamentary public speaking contest which will be held Feb. 28 at Junc tion City. There are six boys on the first parliamentary team and seven boys on the second. Grange Notes Phoenix Grange Phoenix Grange will meet Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. The program will be arranged by Vaughn Quackenbush of the horticulture committee. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Loffer and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ham ilton will be the serving com mittee. Gertrude Lewin, Publicity Chairman A benefit dance will be held Feb. 14 at the Central Point American Legion hall on Pine st. There will be dancing from 9 p.m. until 1 ajn. The Valentine dance will be put on by the Central Point Volunteer Fire depart ment. Highlight of the eve ning will be a prize which will be given away during the evening, Wendel Panter iaid. i In the past the men of the Volunteer Fire department have had to furnish their own firemen's suits. Proceeds from the dance will be used to pay for clothing. Butte Falls Grange The Butte Falls Grange met in regular session with all but one officer present, and Mas ter Elga Abbott presiding. Ted Fredenburg conferred the third and fourth degree obligation to Mrs. Ed Burg and first and second degrees to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Casey. Committee members named are ways and means, Robert and Grace Wells and Everett Moore; agriculture, Hugh Laird and Robert Elsom; community service, Frieda Moore, Minnie Green and Lucy Smith; membership, Earl Deen, Mildred Laird and Emogene Abbott; insurance, Earl Deen; legislative, Ernest Smith; investigating, Maud Arnold, Edna Burg and Wilma Casey. Master Elga Abbott gave a report on the recent meeting of Grange Masters held in Central Point. He also an nounced the meeting Wednes day, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. for all Grange officers at the Cen tral Point Grange hall. HEC Chairman Emogene Abbott announced the next meeting at the home of Mrs. Ross Arent, Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 12:30 p.m. All members are urged to attend and re minded this is a po'tluck din ner meeting. The next serv ing committee for the Grange meeting will be Mr. and Mrs. Dean Stockton and Miss Edna Burg. Pie and coffee were served by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith and Mrs. Elga Abbott. The next regular Grange meeting will be March 3. The social meeting will be Feb. 15, and will be announced by the committee in charge. Irate Mother Takes White Girl Out of Little Rock School Fresh sheep blood mixed with flour makes a raw pud ding prized by the Sherpas of the Himalayan regions. Little Rock, Ark. HP! The parents of a white girl whom a Negro student called "petty white trash" refused today to let her return to Central High school where bomb threats and other incidents disrupted classes. The name-calling and an other clash involved Minnie Jean Brown, 16, a Negro stu dent who had been involved in two previous incidents shortly before the Christmas holidays. Minnie Jean was hit with a thrown purse Thursday after she called a white girl "petty white trash." Later a bowl of soup was poured over her head as she ate lunch in the cafeteria. Students Chant A group of white students followed the Negro girl to the DrinciDal's office after the soup pouring incident, chant ing "down with the niggers." In December, the Brown girl was suspended from school for pouring chili on two white students. After she was reinstated, a white stu dent, David Sontag, 16, pour ed soup over her head during a lunch period because she called him "poor white trash. In another incident Thurs day another Negro girl, Car- lotta Walls, charged that white student Herbert Blount and "several other trouble- Horse, Two Dogs Reported to Society A horse and two dogs, abandoned for an estimated four days, were reported to the Southern Oregon Humane society Friday, and were taken to the society's shelter on Table Rock rd., society officers said Saturday. The animals, tied to a va cant house trailer on a va cant lot on Highway 99 near the 99 Tavern, were in "bad shape," it was reported. The society is trying to find the owners. The dogs, unfed and with out shelter for the time they were tied, may not survive, but if they do, and if they are unclaimed, they will be up for "adoption," the society spokesman - said. The. horse seems to be in- better condi tion. It is the first large ani mal cared for by the society in some time, it was reported. - The Busy Bees met Jan. 29 at Vi's Yardage Shoppe on Pine st., Central Point. Chery Cavin became a new member it The Busy Bees. Nancy Cavin is the publicity chair man. The business meeting was led by Terrie King, presi dent. The lesson, given by Mrs. D. E. Burelson, leader, was on napkin making. After he demonstration, the girls met for refreshments at the fcome of Mrs. Burelson. Terri Martin served as hostess with Patty Calendar acting as co Iiostess. The next meeting of ohe Busy Bees will be Feb. 12 it the Shoppe. Z Funeral services for Mrs. Joe Culbertson of Caldwell, Idaho, who died Feb. 2, were held Thursday in Caldwell Besides her immediate fam ily in Idaho, Mrs. Culbert son is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Clifton Smith and Mrs. Flora Shaw, both of Central Point. She is also survived by a brother, Clem Findley of Medford. All Dens of Pack 40 Cub Scouts have participated in the window display at the crater uepartment store in Central Point. The display is in honor of Scout Week. Mrs. uscar MinnicK was hostess Tuesday for a birth day dinner honoring Mrs. Ted Hill and Oscar M i n n i c k Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hill, Dick Hale, Miss Coral Hale and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Minnick. E. R. Yocom, civil defense director, said first aid classes will be given at the Central Point city fire hall beginning Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. All persons who are interested are wel come to attend. . Mrs. R. R. Lawton of Cen tral Point underwent surgery Monday at Rogue Valley hospital. ; The Rev. Paul O. Kroon, pastor of the Community Bi ble church of Central Point, returned Thursday from San Francisco where he attended g board of directors meeting of the Simpson Bible college. - Miss Ha Mae Higinbotham underwent surgery Feb. 3 at Rogue Valley hospital. Miss tJiginbotham is a teacher at Jewett Elementary school, Central Point. MONTGOMERY WARD 1 r5 Vlls 1 1 Here it is, a sure hit ; : ; Wards Spring Cata- ' log! Yes, the stage is set for a season of easy living, outdoors and in, with the fine items in our big, beautiful book. And it's a colorful showing . . . fashions for all the fam ily .. . furnishings for every home, colonial or contemporary . . . and a wondrous panorama of things. The show is free, so see it yourself. Get a Library Copy of our Catalog now. SP 2-807S or SP 2-4546 makers" kicked her in a cor ridor. School Supt. Virgil T. Blos som confirmed the incidents, but would not release the names of the students in volved. Mother Names Assailant But the mother of Frankie Gregg, 17, said it was her daughter who hit the Brown girl with her purse after the Negro student called her "petty white trash." "My daughter is not re turning to Central," Mrs. Gregg said. "I'm sending her to another school." ' Police and school cus todians searched the school building Thursday after three calls warning of a bomb were received. Two of the calls were re ceived at the school switch board shortly after classes began. Later in the day, a television station received a bomb call. Arraignment Set For County Head Pendleton (W Circuit court Judge William W. Wells set Feb' 14 at 1:00 p.m. as time of arraignment of Uma tilla county commissioner Ros coe Kelley of an indictment charging the official with "offering a promise to give a gift to attempt to influence an officer on his official duty." The charge was the upshot of a grand jury indictment dis missed by Judge Phillip K. Hammond that accused Kelley of "attempted bribery." Judge Hammond ruled that under Oregon law attempted brib ery was not an "actual charge," and re-referred the indictment to the jury. The charge against Kelley involves the alleged offering of money to a Umatilla county deputy sheriff to swear false ly about the breaking into of a warehouse several months ago. NAKED FORCES Billings, Mont. (IPI Ban tamweight Kai Yip of Edmon ton, Canada, stepped into the ring Friday night for his golden gloves bout and shed his robe, to the howling de light of 2,000 fans. No trunks. New Space Boss Rated Efficient In Relaxed Way By United Press Roy W. Johnson, the new Pentagon space boss, is not a scientist, but says he has a way with scientists. The 52 -year -old General Electric vice - president in charge of consumer products was appointed director of the Defense Department's Ad vanced Research Project agen cy Friday by Defense Secre tary Neil H. McElroy. He is generally credited with being the key architect of GE's decentralization pro grams and at last published report was making $158,000 a year. His new government job was expected to pay be tween $18,000 and $19,000. He has no ulcers and is proud of it. His associates at the GE offices in New York City report he works in a re laxed way, but gets things done. He plans an early retire ment from government and industry as soon as he whips the new job into shape, an Exams Announced for Civil Service Jobs Civil service examinations have been announced for oc cupational therapist, physical therapist and corrective the rapist for jobs in Veterans ad ministration regional offices, centers and hospitals through out the United States. 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