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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, February 12. 1957 chooll Mews McLoughlin Jr. High By Joel Gregory The honor roll for the sec ond quarter was issued Feb. 4. Eighty-five students had a grade average of '3.5 or high er. Twenty-nine of these were members of the seventh grade, 19 were eighth graders and 37 were ninth graders. The underwater court was a big secret until those chosen were honored at the FHA dance Jan. 31. Ninth graders crowned king and queen were Jerry Winetrout and Louise Willis. Seventh and eighth graders selected as princes and princesses were 4Tike Glines, Bob Clauson, Slly White and Jane Ward. The Rifle club continues to neet for practice at the ar mory. As of Feb. 1, those lead ing with the highest scores were Al Mercer, Dennis Gas ter, Sam Fagone, Steve Kehoe and Cheree Paulazzo. The ninth grade volleyball tourney for girls has con tinued to draw good crowds for the noon games. Unreport ed winners were home rooms 18. 9 and 8. The championship flight was won by Miss Max ine Black's room 9 with room 8 in second place. Winner of third position was room 24. Members of the championship team are Judy Tolle, Mary Kay Harris, Nancy Hinman, Linda Larimer, Susan Mitchel tree, Edonna Pace, Karen Simcox, Doris Ogden, Michele Watkins. Carol Wilcox and Marida Winchell. The Booster club marched at the game with Hedrick Feb. 6. Boosters are girls from the ninth grade and are spon sored by Miss Maxine Ander son. DeAnn Taylor is the club president. Home rooms are discussing a proposed teen-age code in cooperation with the PTA. Dating, going steady, time limits, and allowances are some of the topics being dis cussed. This idea came from a panel discussion at the Jan. 16 PTA meeting. The Wrestling club closed a perfect scheduled season with the defeat of Hedrick Feb. 4. Those winning points for McLoughlin were Robert Rix, Lewis Thurston, George Chambers, Merle Hampton, Ward Moyer, Russell Walker, Charles Shaw, Al Funston, Richard Connolly and Dave Jenkins. Final score wag 35 to 15. The Southern Oregon Dis trict Wrestling meet was held at McLoughlin on Saturday, Feb. 8. Wrestlers from the two Medford schools, Cen tral Point, Ashland, Grants Pass and Klamath Falls com peted. McLoughlin won first place and received a trophy. Klam ath Falls was second. Grants Pass third, and Hedrick, fourth. Oak Grove School By Scoti Taylor. Wayne Howard, Virginia Gandt, Sharon Hale, Karen Cor ned, and Betty Planken horn. The bulletin board in the old building hall of Oak Grove school has a winter scene made by the fourth grade. On the bulletin board in the art room are flowers made out of seeds by the sixth grade. The new building board has snow men torn out of white paper mounted on a blue background. The sixth grade put a Unit ed Nations scene on the new building board. There are 31 children from Oak Grove riding the bus every day. The bus drivers' name is Mr. Shuckly. Oak Grove's band has 23 members. The classes are held for 50 minutes on Monday and Wednesday. Pupils is band can earn an Oak Grove letter by earning 1,000 merits. The band consists of four cor nets, seven clarinets, two saxo phones, three trombones, one baritone and six drums. The band officers are president, Bruce Hess, and secretary, Denna Taylor. The band is conducted by Elmer Ayers. Oak Groves orchestra has seven members. The classes are held for 50 minutes on Tuesday and Thursday. Pupils in orchestra may earn an Oak Grove letter by earning the same amount of merits as the band members. The officers are president, Sandra Rupp and secretary, Lynn Taylor. The orchestra is also conduct ed by Mr. Ayers. Oak Grove, along with the other city schools, had its an nual World Clothing Week drive last week. Because of lack of cooperation a contest was held between classes. The class with the most pounds of clothing per pupil would win. The fifth grade won the contest, with sixth grade com ing in second. A total of 321V pounds,, or twenty bags of clothing was collected. Spanish class has about 34 members. Mrs. Esther Roberts is the teacher. The classes are from 12:50 until 1:40 p.m. . We are learning numbers from one to 30. We are learn ing about the family too. Songs and games in Spanish provide practice. Some of the pupils have Spanish notebooks which have pictures of things such as mother, father, and other things. The Oak Grove cafeteria has two cooks. They are Mrs. Knapp, who has been here for nine years, and Mrs. Cham pion who has helped for the past three years. There are about 134 people who eat at the cafeteria every day. CP Grade School By JODY VAN HORN All rooms from Grade I through 6 will have Valentine parties Feb. 14. The Pointer Pups of Mrs. Maurine Shore's fifth grade will play the Thunderbirds of Mrs. Laura Patterson's fifth grade Tuesday, Feb. 11, for fifth grade semi-finals in the basketball intramurals. The Black Comets A of 4 CLUB -mi NEWS Buttered Buns The third meeting of the Buttered Buns was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Savage Feb. 3. The meeting was called to order by our president, Mary Savage. The flag salutes and the minutes were given by our secretary, Donna Debrick. We all introduced ourselves to our two new members, Marion Royce and Karen Griggs, by giving our name and age. Nine members and two leaders were present. After old and new business, all the members had a writ ten test about cooking. The meeting was adjourned. Mary Head and Mary Sav age gave a demonstration on bran muffins, and later serv ed refreshments. The next meeting will be held March 3 at the home of Mary Head. Shirley Savage, Most Aircraft Said Built Prior To 1948 Madison, Wis. (IP) The Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration reports that 58 per cent of the 87,531 registered aircraft in the country were built before 1948. DC-3's account for more than one-fifth of the aircraft flying scheduled service ac cording to the CAA. No planes of this type have been built since 1945. The number of private planes per population is high est in the western states of Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota and Idaho, with ratios of one for every 696 persons to one for every 967. , ' ' : ' ' M r s. Willette McLarrin's room will play the Black Comets B of the same room for the fifth grade B intramur al basketball championship. Officers were elected in Mrs. Shroe's fifth grade room as follows: president, Gerry Woods; vice president, Jody Van Horn; secretary and trea surer, Karen Gariner; and student representatives, Su zanne Flynn and Randall Ca-vin. Zif -t-n v; ' t the n'utt I i A Thousands ask us why.;. OIZ-Z1- "Its the V , fater . The Encyclopaedia Britannica's answer is that, since beer is over 90 water, the composition of the water used in brewing greatly affects .the character and quality of the beer. Olympia's own artesian wells are one of the world's few sources of water so remarkable that it is naturally perfect for brewing just as it flows from the earth. It is this rare water that achieves for Olympia-and for you- a refreshing good taste that never changes. Oly For detailed explanation see sub-section "Water" under "Beer and Brewing" in the Encyclopaedia. Mud Slide Delays Service To Astoria Portland (W A mud slide between Rainier and Clat skanie Monday night delayed freight service from here to Astoria, it was reported by Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad officials. ,The slide was reported about 6:45 p.m. and covered an area some 50 feet long and 20 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Crews hoped to have it cleared away early today. j ATOM DISASTER LAW London (IP) The govern- a ; j . ii. ... I mem sam luudy 11 will enact ! legislation holding -private owners of nuclear reactors financially responsible for ac- ! cidental atomic disasters up to $14 million in personal or ' property damage. Sir Ian Hor ; obin, parlimentary secretary ' to the Ministry of Power, said j "All owners of such reactors ; will be subject to the same ' duty as the Atomic Energy Authority of preventing dam age to property or personal injury from radioactive contamination." MISSILE IDENTIFIED ' Naples, Italy (IP) A mys terious "missile" which streak ed through the sky Friday night turned out today to be a World War II German rock et accidentally discharged from a scrap dealer's foundry. Police said scrap dealer Giuseppe Fiammingo explain ed that his workers had mis taken the two-foot-long rocket for a harmless piece of steel tubing and dropped it into the foundry furnace. The heat ignited it and sent it scream ing through the roof into the sky where it was sighted by the Vesuvius observatory. Fi ammingo said he didn't know about the rocket until he re turned from a business trirj Monday. 'MOON' SCIENTISTS MEET Dr. James Killiam Jr. (left), President Eisenhower's science advisor, discusses litera ture about the Moon with Richard Gimbol, curator of aeronautical literature at Yale University Library in New Haven, Conn. They are attending a two-day conference at Yale with other top scientists of the nation. FORGETS CLOTHES New York (IP) A 55-year-old man waltzed gaily up Third ave for 11 blocks in 19-degree cold Monday clad only in a right shoe and left sock and singing "Melody d'Amour" at the top of his voice. At Bellevue Hospital he said he was Edward Sul livan of Hudson, N.Y., and had been drinking around town since Sunday. He couldn't remember what hap p e n e d to the rest of his clothes. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Dead Line on Classified Ad: 3:30 p.m. for following day. except 10 a.m. for Monday; for Sunday, noon Saturday. 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