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4-H CLUB NEWS Phoanix Club On April 3, 1958, a meeting of the Phoenix Beef, Swine and Dairy club was held at the Holmes home. We talked about the skating party that will be held at the Ashland Skat-way. We had a movie about judging beef steers. Spencer Buffington, Reporter Absentee Ballots Available Notary Signature Needed Teena Paige Sewing Club The regular meeting of the Tenna Paige Sewing club was held at 7 p.m. on April 7 at the home of Mrs. C. A. Asfr ton, our leader, with Glenva Brown serving refreshments t ourteen members were present at the meeting at which some of the girls wore dresses which they had made. Others of the group told what project they were working on. We discussed fitting of pat terns and Mrs. A. E. Sidener, our assistant leader, showed us how to tape a pattern to give a better fit. We discussed the 4-H sum mer school and requirements what you needed to become eligible for a scholarship. We also talked about the moth er's tea which we plan to have at our next regular meet ing. Carol Myers, Pat McCue, Nancy McKay and Elaine Mc Kay are to serve on that com mittee. The next meeting will be held at the McKay home on May 5 at 7 p.m. Caroline Sidener, Reporter. Conference Set For Industrial Forestry Men A number of problems in industrial forestry operation will be discussed at the an nual meeting of the Industrial Forestry association sched- ued fpr the Multnomah hotel, Portland, Thursday, April 17, according to President Nils B. Hult, Junction City. Topics for discussion in clude problems of government timber, tree farm taxes, start ing new forests by planting and seeding, preventing forest fires, improving trees through genetics and closer wood uti lization. , VirgU T. Heath, State Su pervisor, Bureau of Land Management, and Walter H. Lund, Assistant Regional For ester, U.S. Forest Service, will address the association's mem bers at the annual lunchon on management problems of gov ernment timber, Hult said. The association leader said IFA represents more than 7,000,000 acres of private for ests in western Oregon and Washington's Douglas fir re gion. Its members operate 250 wood-using plants em ploying more than 63,000 people. The association founded the now nation-wide tree farm program in 1941 and has cer tified more than 5,366,000 acres as West Coast tree farms. The association also operates the Col. W. B. Gree ley forest nursery at Nisqual ly, Wash., which grows mil lions of trees nuually for tree farmers. The association's for est tree improvement pro gram, started in 1954, is also centered at Nisqually. Eight association foresters, located at Medford, Eugene, Portland, Nisqually and Seattle, are available to . all private forest owners to help them study tree farm oppor tunities, Hult said. The meeting will conclude with election of board of di rectors and officers for 1958, rein uledtiVi m we eiZof-te Bereth P. Hopkins, county clerk, announced Saturday that absentee ballots are now available. Her office will start mailing them immediately to electors whose applications are on file immediately. Applications from service voters should reach the clerk's office before April 25 to en sure enough time for mailing out and return of the marked ballots. Civilians may apply for absentee ballots up to five days before election, she said. If it is convenient, the elec tor may come to the clerk's office to apply and while there mark his (or her) ballot and sign the affidavit on the en velope before the county clerk or a deputy. Otherwise, the elector must arrange to have the affidavit signed before a notary public No ballot mailed in is valid unless it carries a notary's sig nature AND SEAL except in cases where service voters sign before a commissioned oficer, Mrs. Hopkins added The service voter's ballot must be mailed in the return envelope furnished with the ballot and must carry the name of the service voter in his own handwriting and must be witnessed by a commis sioned or warrant officer (no noncommissioned officer be- CENTRAL POINT Schools Plan Open House By DORIS HUGHES Central Point Annual open house for Central Point schools will be held on Thurs day evening, April 24, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Stu dents at Central Point ele mentary and Junior High school and Jewett elementary schools will have work on display. Both cafeterias will be open throughout the evening with cake, pie, milk and coffee be ing sold by the Parent Teach ers association. Following open house, there will be a concert by the Central Point Junior High school band un der the direction of Harry Meyers. New officers have been elected by the Crater FFA chapter, and are to be in stalled June 1. Elected were Allen Barnes, president; John Caster, vice-president; Don Ryan, secretary; Mike Red mon, treasurer; Don Denning, reporter; Kenneth Wood, sen- tmal , and Pete Melstead, as sistant treasurer. President Allen Barnes also serves as president of Rogue-Umpqua district. He received his State Farmer degree this year. Crater Chapter boys have been working on plans for the parent-son banquet which will be Monday evenng, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Crater High school gymnasium. The boys expect an attendance of about 400 persons. Featured highlights of the banquet will be a talk by Ed Manary, State FFA president, installation of honorary mem bers, and the presentation of FFA Foundation awards. are presented to boys who have done outstanding work J in farming. Dave Mack will give the speech that won him honors at FFA State. Dave will leave Central Point, Sat urday, April 26, for Helena, Mont., where he wilL partici pate in the Regional Public Speaking Contest. A committee meeting of Good Bike Light Required By Law Bicycle riders are remind ed of the city ordinance which requires all bicycles to have lights on the front in working order by Police Chief Charles P. Champlin today. He said this violation is the heaviest recorded by his of ficers in enforcing the ordin ance. Riders at night should also obey all traffic laws even more carefully than during the day and should attempt to wear light colored clothing, he added. Champlin also warned bi cycle riders to keep their bi cycle in good operating condi tion, secure a 1958 license, not to ride double and to stay off the downtown sidewalks. Deadline Given On Well Signup Less than four months re main for well owners to regis ter claims for rights to ap propriate ground water, Lewis A. Stanley, state engineer, an nounced in Salem Friday. The 1955 legislature set a deadline of Aug. 3, 1958 for well own ers to file registration state ments. Exempted uses of ground water include that used for stock water; ground water for watering lawn or non-commercial garden not exceeding one half acre; that used for single or group domestic purposes in an amount not exceeding 15, 000 gallons per day; and that for any single industrial or commercial purpose not ex ceeding 5,000 gallons per day. Failure of any person to register his well by Aug. 3 will deprive him of his right to continued use of ground water from that well, Stanley said. Forms and further informa tion, and permits to appropri ate ground water, can be ob tained by writing Stanley at Salem. Boy Scout Troop 40 was held April 7 at the home of Earl Yoakley. a film on Boy Scout camping was shown by Del Wright, camping councilman from the Medford office. Com mitteemen attending the meeting were A. D. Van Horn, chairman; Earl Yoakley, Bob Morris, Ken, Toner, Jim Back en and Scout Master George Ray A balloon and bubble gum parade led the way to the Girl Scout play day held at the Central Point park Wednesday, April 9. The af fair was sponsored by troop 190 who invited the fifth grade troop to participate as guests The first event at the park was the regular flag cere mony with the girls repeating the pledge of allegiance, the Girl Scout promise, and the reviewing of the Girl Scout laws. Several songs were sung before playing the many games planned by the Skunk Patrol. These were led by Gloria Thompson and Anita Townsend, patrol leader and scribe. Edith Voil, program aide, worked with this patrol. How to roll a bed that will stay tied until a girl reaches camp was demonstrated by Mrs. Bruce Stewart who is the neighborhood chairman in charge of all Girl Scouting in the Central Point area. The Wishing Mundlin Pa trol, with Donna Thompson as patrol leader and Barbara Beck as patrol scribe, pre pared and. served a picnic supper at the home of Mrs. I Ralph Mundlin, leader of Troop 190. Funds for the food were available from the cook ie sale held recently under the supervision of Mrs. Wayne Thompson. The fifth grade Girl Scouts in elegant cos tumes presented the play, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The fifth grade Girl Scout Troop is led . by Mrs. Art St. Germain and Mrs. Bruce Stewart. Sharon Trautman is the program aid working with these girls who will re ceive their sacond class rank badge this spring. Wishes built the campfire planned by the Helpers pa trol, whose leader is Vicki Caldwell and" scribe is Ruth Harger. After lighting the fire, girls in each troop placed a stick of wood on the fire and made a Girl Scout wish as it burned. The Medford Fuel company furnished wood for the campfire. Name tags for the play day were made by Karen Bowdoin and Elaine Johnson of the Helpers patrol who planned the schedule of events. In a circle by the campfire the Girl Scouts closed the play day by sing ing Taps. low the rank of sergeant may serve as a witness), she ex plained. Period For Applying During the five days im mediately preceding the elec tion, electors may. apply for and VOTE AN ABSENTEE ballot in the office of the county clerk provided an affi davit accompanies the appli cation. It must state the na ture of the emergency which makes it impossible to vote in person on the day of election she said. If an elector be comes ill and bedridden at home or in a hospital after 5 p.m. the day before election he may send in an application for an absentee ballot by an agent of his choice. The appli cation must bear the signa ture of the applicant and must be accompanied by an affi davit signed by his physician or a practitioner stating the patient is able to mark his own ballot but that it would be injurious to his health or person to leave his bed and go to the polls, Mrs. Hopkins said. The. affidavit on the back of the envelope in which the bal lot is returned by the agent to the county clerk's office must bear the signature of the elec tor and must be signed before a notary public and carry his official seal, i Persons whose jobs require tha they leave home before the polls open and who run the risk of being delayed after work for any reason so that they may find it impossible to get tq their polling place on election day should use the absentee ballot, Mrs. Hopkins urged. Anyone employed by the railroads or trucking or trans portation companies, travel ing salesmen or other business men whose duties may require sudden trips out of town should take advantage of the absentee 'voter service also, she added. Students, teachers and gov ernment workers together with servicemen must apply as early as possible to assure return of the ballot to the clerk's office before 8 pjn. election day. Ballots Will be Checked Absentee ballots will be counted the day following the election by a special election board appointed for the pur pose. Poll books will be checked by the board to en sure against any possibility of an elector voting in person and by absentee ballot. If an elector who has applied for an absentee ballot and has marked it and mailed it back to the county clerk wishes, he Personal Income, Retail Sales Down Washington (IP) The gov ernment reported Friday that personal income and retail sales two important econom ic indicators continued to de cline in March but at a slow er rate than earlier this year. Government econom ists said these figures, along with unemployment and employ ment statistics announced earlier this wek, provide new evidence that the general busi ness decline, though continu ing, is slowing down. - Personal income in March was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $341,500,000, 000, about $300,000,000 under February rate. Total retail sales in March were one per cent below February and two per cent below March, 1957. County Shop Addition Now Ready For Roofing The 33-foot long addition to the county shops at the fairgrounds which was start ed early this year, is ready for roofing, according to County Engineer Paul Rynning. The $20,000 project is t)f re inforced concrete and has been built partly by county employees during slack times. Use Tribune Want Adz L Li TfaVLPiny. II I I East M,m St. DAIRY'SMITH Ge"" "The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast Love." Psalms Want A Summer Vacation?.. But . . . lack of money is standing in your way? Go ahead and make plans! When you figure out how much you will need, see us. You'll like our friendly personal service. CONFIDENTIALLY YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR TRUST! Til DIVISION OF PACIFIC f I AH C I TCPiL PACIFIC .INDUSTRIAL Ji j ' J&am- 16 South Central Phone SP 3-5308 may vote in person but he must declare he has received and marked such a ballot. 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