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t SCU1 MEWS Medford High School Edited by Baibara Nul t o n; Reporters, Connelie Hinesly, Rosemary Eismann, Peggy Fisch. Margie Good. Sandra Kline, Bobbie Hale, and Sandra Kay Heide-mann. Gala Tornadia week events filled the last few days at Medford High. Monday the ribbon sale began and con tinued throughout the week. Thursday evening "dozens" of cars met on the parking lot for a noise parade to a bon fire on Barnett rd. where a pep rally was held. A Klam ath Falls "Pelican" was burned in effigy by the foot ball players, and a serpentine around the bonfire ended the ceremonies. Friday committees worked all day in readying floats for the float parade which began at 2:30 p.m. All clubs not en tered were charged a $5 fine. Pep and spirit continued with the Klamath Falls-Med-ford game Friday night. Pre game ceremonies crowned the King and Queen of Tornadia with Yell Queen Shirley Ruth erford and-Yell King Dave Havlick officiating. Arnold Wolfe was crowned King and Jean Warnock Queen. Attend ing prince and princesses were Booth Deakins and Pat New bry, juniors; Terry Earl and Karen Stelle, sophomores. As a close to the week, the second anual Tornadia semi formal was held in the boys' gym Saturday night. Shouts of joy filled the air when James Johnston, physics teacher, announced that the new physics rooms were ready for use. Thursday and Friday physics classes could be seen parading between the new and old rooms with stools, scales, metersticks and other equipment. . Newly decorated and equip ped with the latest in up-to-date facilities, the cafeteria is expected to open soon. The date for re-opening Jias been announced previously, but construction problems have prevented it. Crater senior portrait cou pons have been on sale for the past two weeks. The coupon entitles the Crater to one glossy print to be used for the yearbook. All proofs from the pictures must be returned to the photographer by Nov. 7 and no picture will be sent to the Crater unless the student has given the photographer his coupon. Seniors who wish to gradu ate with this year's class musi have filled out a petition of graduation with his counseler before Oct. 22. A total of 38 credits and a Red Cross card are required of all those de siring to graduate. Junior class members have flooded the ticket window this week to j?ay the balance on the new' class rings. These balances ranged from $6 to $35. Any other member of the junior class who wishes a class ring has another chance to order one the first week in November. After the last ordering, the only way to obtain a ring will be by ordering them indi vidualy and directly from the company. There will be an additional charge for all in dividual orders. Thursday, 10 representa tives of independent colleges in Oregon and Washington were presented to seniors in terested in attending college. Students were invited to hold 30 - minute conferences with the representatives of their choice. Three of these conferences were held. The colleges represented were Linfield, Whitworth, Lewis and Clark, Sacred Heart school of nursing, Uni versity of Portland, Willam ette, Reed college, Marylhurst, Good Samaritan, and Pacific university. Ronrpspntatives of the serv ice academies will be at thet school Oct 30. They will represent West Point, Annapolis, and New London; So far there have been 10 boys sign -up to talk with the representative, but others in terested in the academies are urged to sign up with the dean of boys. Washington-dTD - Former President Truman Saturday indirectly called Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon a char acter assassin and said Nixon would be "the easiest to beat" of . prospective Republican presidential candidates in 1960. Guaranteed to restore nrm mi . mnA Surtim fa Inn rtntl Plfttec - lA or no cost ! POMWENT. WASH. . ABLE. SANITJUV PLASTIC LINES. One application lasts many months 8rof essional quality can not harm plates. SERS PRAISE IT! RHEAL Dental Plata IIMER complete Kit for bolb uppers and lowers, NOW only... 2- Central Rexall Drug We Give S&H Green Stamps MAIN t CENTRAL Crater High School By Darlene Tomlinson In order to recruit new members to FHA, a member ship drive was held last week. Senior Mary Howard was in charge of the drive. The ten tative number of members is 93. A slumber party to be held Oct. 24 will climax the drive. FHA district conference will be held at Crater Nov. 1. Chapters from Crater, Klam oth Falls, Phoenix, Medford High schools, McLoughlin Junior High school, Hedrick Junior High school. Rogue River, Grants Pass High and North Junior High and South Junior High in Grants Pass will participate. Arvella Prom is the district chairman for the conference. Miss Mildred Deischer, state FHA advisor, will attend the conference. Arvella, president of Cra ter's FHA, attended a Nation al FHA Convention in Kan sas City last summer. She was the only district chair man from Oregon to attend the convention. She also at tended a state officers' re treat in Gearheart. Biology students missed the experience of having a snake loose in their room. One night last week, a small gar ter snake' escaped from its container in Ogden Kellog's room into the adjoining room. It was found in the morning by Clarence Miller, science, physics, and chemis try teacher, in his room. At a Curtain Callers meet ing Wednesday, Oct. 14, an amendment was made to the constitution of the club. The amendment stated that from now on the selection of the winners of the Jerome Award would be made by a commit tee of faculty members in stead of the members of the club. The Jerome Award is awarded to the boy and girl giving the best performance in a school play. Also, at the same meeting, slides were shown of last year's fall play "Tom Saw yer" and if the two trips that Crater students took to the Shakespearean Festival last summer. Saturday, Oct. 18, a car wash was held in front of the library in "Central Point. It was sponsoredby the junior class in order to raise money for the Junior-Senior Prom. Wednesday afternoon sen iors were given talks by rep resentatives of the indepen dent colleges in Oregon. Jun iors who were interested . in going on to college were also given talks by two of the rep resentatives of Oregon's in dependent colleges. Informa tion was mostly about financ ing your college career. Thursday night the annual bonfire was held. Students met at the school, went down town for a few yells and then went back to the school for the bonfire. The Comettes were in charge of the bon-fine. Members of the Comettes voted at a meeting last week to have- letters put on the front of their sweaters. The letters will cost $2.25 each and candy sales are going to be held to help raise the money. At .a recent meeting mem bers of Science club elected Nathan Parrish president. Other officers are Sheila Nei dermeyer, vice, president, and Marian Moore, secretary-treasurer. Freshman class officers for the coming year are Gilbert Harrison, president; Jan Bate man, vice- president; Charla Jo Meyer, treasurer; June Hopkins, secretary; Janet H o b b s, Cheryl Ghelardi, Mary Lee Rowden, queen, Su san Cummings, and Beverly Klimko, yell squad. Hedrick Junior High By Nancy Duncan The seventh, eighth, and ninth grade classes elected of ficers Friday, Oct. 17. The ninth-graders elected Mike McCollough, president; Fred Keith, vice president; De Etta Lawson, secretary; and Norman Olsen, treasurer. Officers elected by the eighth grade class are Gibb Mitchell, president; R i 1 1 a Den Herder, vice president; Janet O'Sullivan, secretary; Sandra Gannon, treasurer; and yell lealers, Julie. Wray, Frances Bessonette, Susan Filatreau, Sharon Urie, and Valerie Bevel. Julie Wray, who y received the largest number of votes, is yell queen. Seventh grade officers are Steve Root, president;. Sandra Joyce, vice president; Sandy Jones, secretary; ' and Bob Stoehr, treasurer. The seventh-graders chose as their yell queen, Beverly Bush and yell leaders, Pat Selby, Mar tha Dixon, Sue Root, and Christy Finch. The Pep club held nomina tions this week. Those nom inated for president are Laura Rupert, La Mora Gur ney, Sunny Gastineau, and Sue Brumback; for vice pres ident, Barbara Whalin, Caro lyn Knoll and Cheryl Taylor; for secretary-treasurer, Betty Jo Shackleford, Janet Ayres, Janet Turner, Deanna Kun kel, and Charyl Wainscott; and for sergeant-at-arms, Rita Olson, Linda Cooper, Sharon Dixon, and Jo Ann Kingslien. Several Hedrick girls ush ered at the Civic Music pres entation in the Hedrick Jun ior High school auditorium Monday night, Oct. 13. The lunch sack brigade headed for Hawthorn park last Tues., Oct. 14, was a group of Hedrick's home room Red Cross representa tives en route to a noon meeting. Sherry Lambert, Future Homemakers president, ap pointed chairman to plan and coordinate meetings for each of the coming months. Janet Crawford will be chairman In October. Other chairmen-and their respective months are Deanna Kunkel, " November; Jill Barnes, December; Sun ny Gastineau, January; Sha ron Sites, February; Jo Ann Klingsline, March; Ellen Montgomery, April; and Mar tha Gifford, May. Hedrick. students, faculty, and supporters are proud of the performance by our band, stingers, and majorettes at the Crater-Medford football game during half-time Oct. 10. The eighth grade girls play day after school Monday, Oct. 13, in which the Hedrick girls entertained - McLoughlin, was pleasing to those whopartici pated. Mrs. Mary Ann Atha nas, faculty advisor, echoed the words of the girls when she termed it "a success." Bandaged and antiseptic painted legs that are seen be long to eighth grade girls who have been taking part in home room soccer games dur ing activity period. Football coach, Barney Riggs, has been turning a wishful eye upon the best of the kickers. One girl's accurate and long range kicking has earned her the name of "Miss Groza." She is Janet O'Sullivan.-- : Organized madness envel oped our halls before the Hornet-Crater football game when varsity yell queen, Sherry Lambert, and her company of yell leaders "led the students in a serpentine to the field. The Hedrick eighth-graders in a well-played football mixer handed their visitors from Ashland a 19 to 6 de feat Thursday, Oct. 16. DEATH TAKES WOMAN New York (UPD Mrs. Brice J. Moses, first woman to hold a. federal civil service post, died Sunday at the age of 100. Mrs. Moses was appointed in 1883 to a S900-a-year clerk ship in the Bank Redemption Agency of the Treasury .Department. Phoenix High School Representing the Phoenix FFA chapter at the National Convention are Leon Small, chapter president, and Bill Rasmussen, secretary. The boys left Saturday, Oct. 11, for Kansas City, Mo., where they attended the Annual Na tional FFA convention. Accompanying Leon and Bill were Bill Hubbard and Art Gardner from the Eagle Point Chapter. The delegates will return home Sunday, Oct. 19. The 1958 Scholarship-Qualifying test will be given at 9 ajn. Tuesday, Oct. 21. The purpose of the test is to pro vide a preliminary selection of secondary school candi dates for a large number of college and sponsored scholar ships. It is also used as an educational counselling aid in the school guidance program. Those taking the test are Roberta Burns, Gail Glidden, Margaret Ann Bolz, Sharee Lou Skipworth, Patricia Im hausen, Mary Cole, Sandra Skinner, Dana Halaas, and Susan Walker. Nine girls have been chosen from the chorus to represent the girls' nonette for this school year. They are Darilyn Popow, Bonnie Mullineaux, Dorcas Johnson, Nancy. Stew art, Pat Kidwell, Linda Prince, Margaret Ann Bolz, Pat Imhausen, and Ida Lee Coles. The group learns a variety of musical selections and is often called upon to sing for various community activities. FHA boasts seven new members so far this year. Campaigns are underway to get more members. Instead of the usual infor mal initiation a "dress-up" one will be held this year. Activities planned for this year are the Sweethearts' ball, a slumber party, and a Cakewalk. Twenty-four junior class members received their class rings earlier this week. The rings were ordered last spring four different sizes in the same style being made avail able. - - . The half-time show for the Phoenix versus Glendale game will have as its theme, "Homecoming". Taking part MAIL TRIBUNE, Meihti, Oregon, Monday, October 58, 195S II in the half-time events will be the band, the flag team, and the pep squad. The crowning of the home coming queen will be featured at this time. One of the four princesses - will be crowned queen by Tom Troxel, presi dent of the student body. The princesses are Nedra Harris, senior; Gale Leard, junior; Linda Goble, sophomore; and Bonnie Faytinger, freshman. x The first meeting of the Mask club "was held Thurs day, the main purpose being to elect officers arid choose a committee to draw up a con stitution. The ' results of the election were . Susan Walker, presi dent; Gail Glidden, vice-president; and Karen Golding, secretary-treasurer. . . The purpose of the constitu tion is to decide qualifications of membership and the activi ties of the year. Some of the activities to be considered are charade, pantomime, public speaking,- one-act plays, , and of course the school play. The math room has another new bulletin display. It is a poster showing a footba?! player, labeled Math, being tackled by another football player. The captain says, "Tackle that math! 164,000 engineers needed by 1965." . The poster, drawn by Eldqn Mitchell, includes drawings of math symbols, a robot, an atom, a planeV, and a rocket. Royal Family Aids Church Dedication London- (DPD -Queen Eliza beth and other members of the royal family took part on . Sunday in' the dedication of the rebuilt old church of St. Clement Dane's, which gave its name to the Elizabethan nursey rhyme, "Oranges and lemons say the bells at St. Clement's." , The three - century - old church, destroyed in 1942 by a German bomb, was reconse crated as central chapel . of the Royal Air Force. The $30, 000 organ used in the inaugur al services was donated by U. S. airmen in Britain. WHAT ABOUT STATE SE S-T-R-E-T-C-H LWICES? EVE NYE BELIEVES: A State Service must pass the test . of these Vital Questions: 1. Is the service essential? ' f" 2. Can it be improved? 3. Is it economically administered? 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U.S. production doubles every 20 years..We will require millions more people to make, sell and distribute our products. 5. MORE SAVINGS . . . Individual savings are at highest level ever $3$0 billion a record amount available for spending. 6. MORE RESEARCH . . . $10 billion spent each year will pay off in more jobs, better living, whole new industries. . 7. MORE NEEDS ... In the next few years we will need more than $500 billion worth of schools, high ways, homes, durable equipment. Meeting these needs will create new' opportunities for everyone. ADD THEM VP and you have Vie makings oj another big upswing. Wise planners, builders and buyers will act now4o get ready for it. riYfeEi; Send for this new 24 page illustrated booklet, "Your' Great Future in a Growing America." Every American should know these facts. Drop a postcard in mail today to: The Ad vertising Council, Box 30, Midtown Station, New York 18, New York Yam.. Great Fum iaa Growing Anenca MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
