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SIHIIL MEWS Medford High School Edited by Barbara Nullon. Reported by Peggy Fiich. Rosemary Eiimann. Sandra. Kline, Pauline Aihion, Tan- . ya Eanderi, Deanna Rus sell, Sandra Kay Hetde nano, Connie Hinesly, and Margie Good. Seniors were subjected to the following types of ques tions in the form of a written mental health test on Jan. 7 and 8. A sample of the questions, all answered with "yes" and "no," included, "Do you often hear a buzzing in your ears?" "Do you feel bad because your weight keeps you from doing things others can do?," "Do you attend school activ ities?" and "Do you have a habit of biting your finger nails?" These questions and an swers help advisors and deans get a better look at personal ities of the students who take the tests. The purpose of the Future Teachers of America meeting, Jan. 7, was to call roll and find out who had three ab sences and would be dropped from the club. It was also announced that there would be a committee meeting Jan. 9, to discuss scholarships. At the commit tee meeting it was decided that the FTA scholarship would be given to a graduat ing senior. The scholarship is for one year's tuition to an Oregon college and five dol lars a month spending money. Ten boys have signed up for the chess tournament which will begin Monday. The winner will be chosen through the process of elimination. The new art room at Med ford High was christened Thursday after school with coke replacing the champagne and donuts the cake. With much formality, Warren Wolfe was presented a pot of imitation flowers. The first game of the Girls' Athletic association intramur al volleyball tournament started Thursday after school. Final games will be played in two weeks. The GAA will be sending ten girls to the annual GAA state convention at Eugene Jan. 17. They are Pam Stacey, Stephanie Anderson, Sally Maulditig, Marida Winchell, Nancy Breeze, Jeanette Dahl trom, Amy Lou Vail, Margie Good, Linda Aubry, and Car olyn Foust. Miss Jane Crisp and Miss Pat Mounts will take the girls in their cars. Tending to sway away from the usual slapstick theme the weekly pep assembly bounded forth on some "rather rusty" jazz Friday. Pointed at both the Friday Crater game and the Satur day bout with Ashland, the skit depicted the age-old story of the three little pigs (minus one) and the big bad wolf. Petite little Susie Moore as the young aud sensitive Anne Frank, leads the cast in the class of '59's annual senior play. This years production, "The Diary of Anne Frank," deals with a Jewish family, forced into hiding during World War II, in order to save their lives. Completing the list of char acters are Judy McGraw and Dennis Barr as Anne's par ents, and Sylvia Morris as her sister., Pat Hanson, Judy Rei be, Bob Sheldon, Dewey Gail, Ted Lawson, and Glen Kaye also play important roles. A dime sucker will entitle some lucky students to prizes worth $10 to $15. The sucker sale is being sponsored by the pep club in order to raise money for new sweaters. The prizes contributed by Med ford merchants, will go to two boys and two girls and come to a total of more than $100. The drawing will take place at the Klamath-Medford bas ketball game. In order to retain their TAP class championship the junior class has begun a regular pa rade of fund raising projects with many more to come. Shoe shines Jan. 10, 17, 24, and 31, car washes Jan. 17 and 24, and a box social Jan. 17, at St. Mark's church with everyone invited are a few of the scheduled events ac cording to Doug Kliever, class TAP chairman. The seniors, in an all-out at tempt to prove to underclass men that they are tops in eve rything, have also organized many fund raising projects. Among these events are car washes, shoe shines, a senior- faculty basketball game with Bob Sheldon and Jim Fontain providing half-time entertain ment, and a cup cake sale. The Future Homemakers of America had a general busi ness meeting Thursday. The meeting was conducted by Caron Leffler, president. Jackson School By Olivia Jonason Alene Deubert When you enter Jackson school you see a model of our new United States flag on the bulletin board, with pictures of the new flag that was recently made in Wash ington, D. C. Alaska became a state at noon Saturday, Jan. 3. The new flag will be our official flag on July 4. Some of the classes are ex pecting letters from former class members who-have re cently moved to Alaska. The upper department bul letin boards displays book jackets of new books. The dis play feature Frosty the Snow man recommending us to read more during 1959. The girl monitors that do such an exceptional job in prepar ing the bulletin board displays are Linda Cosier, Karen Max son, Connie Bittle, and Jan King. We are all proud of our school library, which is open before school in the morn ings, during the noon hour, and again after school. In the mornings, student librarian, Carolyn Cole, will be glad to show students around and check out their books. Jackson school students are making an effort to show they appreciate their playground by keeping it clean.- Two new waste cans painted in school colors have been placed on the school grounds, and are being used by students. Re cently, Mrs. Precia Medley's homeroom put on an assemb ly entitled "Litterbug Trial." The assembly was well done and impressed us all with the idea of keeping our school grounds clean. Our custodians Wade Harmon and Jim O Duane, have made our front school yard very attrac tive by spading around all the shrubs, keeping the walks swept and all the leaves rak ed. We have been having trou ble with our telephones re cently. The telephone comp any sent men over to repair them several times but could find nothing really out of or der. One repair man found that two young scientists Tommy Shopp and David Long were using an old tele phone jack as the ground for their crystal sets. The tele phone repairman took time to explain to the class how it was that our phones didn't work and the central tele phone office was hearing a local radio station on its lines. In preparation for the bas ketball games, our Pep squad is working hard. The squad meets every Wednesday noon The officers of the Pep squad are president, Sonia Goodlin; vice president, Connie Bittle; secretary, Olivia Jonason; treasurer, Lee Ann Riggs, and reporter, Carol Longan. McLoughlin Junior High By Joel Gregory A cheering McLoughlin student body opened the first prep assembly of 1959 for the basketball game against the Hedrick Hornets in the rival gym. The cheerleaders pre sented a skit which took place in a fortune-teller's house. The fate of the Hedrick Hor nets was revealed and a Hor net defeat was pictured. All three grades had games sched uled. "Take me to your cheer leader" is the caption on the huge purple-people-eater ban ner displayed in the main hall. Many clever signs have been created this year for each of the games. Carl Wash burn has been the leader in this work. The Teens Against Polio drive is to start soon. Carl Washburn, student body rjresi dent, announced. Cans for re ceiving contributions will be placed in lunch lines, milk lines, and near the door of the candv booth. Geortre Clearwater, president of the Lettermen's club, is in charge of the project. The art classes have dis played various paper mache "personalities" in the two dis play cases by the main en trance, creatures ranging from a purple-people-eater and prehistoric monsters to domesticated animals and or dinary people have been made. Students whose work earned display qualities were John Lampkin, Sharon Baize, Sharon Pulliam, LuWayne Stine, Larry Byrne, Corla Earl, Barry Peterson, and Jacklyn Ammons. FORGETS EYEGLASSES London-4UPD-Viscount Hail sham, Conservative party leader, had to scrap his pre pared speech and speak off the cuff to a meeting of in dustrialists here Monday night. He forgot his eyeglasses and was unable to read his prepared text. Crater High School By DARLENE TOMLINSON At the kick-off assembly for the March of Dimes Tuesday, Jan. 6, a contest was held to see which class could string the most money across the gymnasium floor. The results were seniors, first; sopho mores, second; juniors, third, and freshmen, fourth. Instead of the usual dance held after the game, the mov ie "Showboat" was shown af ter the Crater-Medford game Jan. 9. The show starred Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion, Ava Gardner, and Joe E. Lewis. Sponsored by the Future Homemakers of America, the show was also shown at 3:30, Jan. 9. A flag with 38 stars and a picture of the new flag with 49 stars present an interest ing contrast in the history room. The flag belongs to Donald Lacy and it was found in the walls of his home. Juniors and seniors are see ing films and listening to lec tures on how to use the li brary quickly and correctly. The juniors are using this as a forerunner to the research papers which they will write next semester. The seniors are learning how to use the li brary correctly. Hedrick Junior High By Nancy Duncan Beginning Monday, Jan. 12, the new photography class will feature 10 meetings in as many successive school days. Any eighth or ninth grade student may join if he can provide a suitable camera and 10 pictures he has taken to show that he may be able to profit from the class. Monte Kounz instructs the class. The second nine weeks ex amination schedule has shak en many students from their casual pursuit- of knowledge, and they may be seen work ing harder. Tests covering special subjects, such as band, home economics, and physi cal education and health, will be given Jan. 19 thro'ugh 23. English and mathematics tests will be given on Tuesday, Jan. 27, history and geography on Wednesday, Jan. 28, and for eign languages on Thursday, Jan. 29. Students will receive their report cards on Wednesday, Feb. 4. The band's dance "Rudolph Romped," was held Jan. 9 after having been postponed on Dec. 19, because of fog. The dance's theme was to have been "Rudolph's Romp," but it was changed to past tense to agree with the post ponement. The student body was sur prized when it read on the front page of the Mail Trib une that its president, Chuck McNair, had been flown from Bandon, Ore., to Medford for an emergency appendectomy by Mercy Flights'. If Chuck would have waited another week, he might have had the distinction of having been Mercy Flight's 900th passeng er. During McNair's absence, Susan Garner, student body vice president, presided over meetings. Vicky Enderi and Bonnie Lowry, speech and debate class members, presented af ter dinner speeches on a radio program at KYJC Saturday, Jan. 10, at 6:30 p.m. Until the speech tourna ment is held at Linfield col lege, McMinnville, on Feb. 18, 19, and 20, the debate team will practice for one-half hour every Thursday morning in the "Little Theather." In ad dition, each debater will enter one or two individual speech contests. Those participating in in terpretation are Susan Hall, Kathy Allen, Sherry Lambert, Barbara Whalin, Becky Bar low, and Tom Deakins. Enter ing orations are Susan Hall, Kathy Allen, Sherry Lambert, Barbara Whalin, Mike Miller and Jim Winton. Salesman ship will have these persons entered: Bonnie Lowry, Sun ny Gastineau, Vicky Enders, and Mike Higgins. Bonnie Lowry, Sunny Gastineau, Vicky Enders, Mike Miller, Tom Deakins and Bill Dames will give after dinner speech es. The visual aids contest will find these students enter ed: Becky Barlow, Mike Hig gins, Jim Winton, and Bill Dames. Jerome McDougal's sixth period speech class and the debate team acted as judges for a debate in which Elaine Jennings and Carolyn Mencke opposed Doug Kliever and Dean Goddard. The debaters are juniors at Medford High school. Elaine Jennings and Carolyn Mencke received the most votes and were declared winners of the debate. In its 100 years, the nation's petroleum industry has pro duced more than 104 trillion dollars' of crude oiL FASCINATED Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Miko yan (second from left) is seemingly fascinated as he ex amines what appears to be the nose cone of a rocket, but in reality is an ultra-sonic dishwasher on display in the Westinghouse room at the Merchandise Mart in Chi cago. Mikoyan is on an unofficial two-week tour of the US. Small Worlds ?M Around Us ti : By Lynn M. Watkins t- The Touch-M-Not i Is Aptly Named They sure used their col lective heads, those serious students who first selected the scientific names for plants, fish, birds, insects, and rep tiles. Usually the most but standing characteristic of the object was selected. Some thing typical of its habits, structure, color, shape or the enviroment in which -it was found. And the boys became real clever at it. Because the Latin or scien tific name is usually a little difficult, ... we rename just about everything and more often than not in the true meaning of the scientific name completely escape us. It's fas cinating to select any of these names, the Latin ones, and search out the true reason why the thing was so named. Just to give you the idea, let's break down the name of a common woods flower and see how cleverly the sci entific name fits the predom inant characteristics of the plant. In this case even the common name means some thing. Grows in Shade Usually abundant along the edges of creeks and streams, as well as in damp meadows is reasonably constant, ' in many sections of America grows a common plant with the descriptive name of touch-me-not. This common name of course is derived from the habit of the flower or the seed-pod to snap open at the slightest touch. By getting highly descrip tive about this weed-like plant we could truthfully say the flower or pod is implusive, excitable or nervous, so anx ious to "pop" that it can hard ly contain itself. The small boys says, "It's quick." The flower of the touch-me-not comes in pairs, so natural ly part of its scientific name is Biflora or two-flower. The pods snap open so readily that another name seemed apt, impatient, because it is im patient; and pallida, simply because the flower is pallid, or sort of "washed out." How could they be more eloquent or descriptive? Important To Knor There are many reasons why the common touch-me-not is an important plant to know. It has, or was always supposed to have, special curative pow ers. The glassy looking stems HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL AvaiiaDie at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrews at Court Phone SP 3-9068 of the plant have a series of peculiar swelling at the leaf- nodes. These "bulbs" are filled with a juice; a juice that is considered highly effective in the treatment of poison ivy, The treatment consists of rub bing the fluid from the plant stems on the infected skin. There are many woodsmen, and farm boys, too, who insist the juice will cure the swel ling and the resultant rash caused by the oil of the poison ivy plant. Funny, that this property of the touch-me-not plant never came under the close scruting of the early students of botany who first affixed the names to plants in the first place. Maybe there was something they didn't know about at the time or per haps they, or some later ob served, took the name "touch- me-not" too literally. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate. 1959) Student Enrollment Totals 1,023 at SOC Ashland Registration fig ures at Southern Oregon col lege for the winter quarter totaled 1,023 students Satur day, college officials reported Although registration will not officially close until Jan 19, the late registration fee is now in effect, officials said The figures exceeds the reg istration total for the' compar able date last year when 919 students had enrolled at the college. Of the total 665 are men and 358 are women. Classes for the winter quarter started . Jan. 6 and will close March 19. BARGAIN GOWN Cardiff, Wales -OJPD- Patri cia Jones, 17, was married Monday, after queuing in the snow all night to buy a wed ding dress at a sale price of $5.59. - HAVE AN E EXTRA VACATIONS - ON THE WAYIrE 60 BY SHIP See us NOW even if you're going NEXT SPRING! -- Cem en in for FREH fully illustrattd literature. SEE GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE SP 2-6779 111 E. 8th EAGLE POINT Officials Take Office Eagle Point The Eagle Point city council met on Tuesday, Jan. 6, in the city library for the regular meet ing of the year. Mayor Ray Tresham called the meeting to order and the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The retiring mayor then presented the keys of the City to the newly-elected Mayor, J. Ed Putman, and council men Ernest Gregg, J. N. For- tin, and Lenn Hickman were sworn in by the recorder. Mayor Putman then opened bids for the new four-inch water main to be replaced on South B. st., with the con tract being awarded to Ken Hughes, Medford. Putman then made his appointments for the coming term. Appoint ed were Recorder-Treasurer, Laura A. McFall; Municipal Judge, Sam F. Coy; Chief of Police, Harold D. Ottosen, Fire Chief, David H. Kahl; City Attorney, B. Kent Black hurst; Building Inspector, Clarence P. Henderson; Li brarian, Mrs. Jessie Tycer; Civil Defense Director for the Eagle Point area, Bennie G. Hefley. Don Kimmel asked the may or and council to see if sec ond and D streets could be opened into his property for building sites. Iceland curry presented a map of the revised curve "at the end of West Main street and Mayor Putman appointed Don Ashpole and Ernest Gregg to take care of the necessary procedures on the proposed sewer. The Recorder was instructed to write the three gas companies in the city for gas bids for the city's use. The council approved that the water meter reading dates be changed from the 27th of the month to the 15th. The month of January the custom ers will be billed for one-half month minimum charges pro rated. Private Paul A. McLean, Camp Leonard Wood, Mo., spent a ten-day leave at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McLean. Dog licenses may be obtain ed at the city hall in Eagle Point until the first part of March. After the first of March there will be penalty for delinquent licenses. The drivers' license exam iner from Medford will be in the city library to give exams on Thursday, Jan. 22, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. A dinner party was held Jan. 4 at the home of Mrs Roy Stanley, with Mrs. Roy Swan as co-hostess. Guests were Mr. and Mrs Del Logan, Shady Cove; Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beebee and Mrs. Vera Nelson, Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Swan and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hoover, 'This is the terrific FREE fact book I told you about on TV" ... ED SULLIVAN FREE! OFFICIAL! UP-TO-THE-MINUTE! 40 PAGES OF FACTS AND COMPARATIVE PRICES ON 1959 CARS! COMPARISONS LIKE THESE... I00T ROOM. Check size of hump to judge front seat comfort. Sem your Mercury dealer for 1959 NEW CAR BUYER'S GUIDE. GET YOUR COPY- Medford, and the hostess, Mrs. Stanley. Gordon Stanley showed slides of Blue canyon and of Seven lakes. Bonnie, Vonnie and Connie Goering played several selections on their ac cordions and Connie sang two solos for the group. Mr. and Mrs. David F. Kin- man, Jan and David Jr., bel lingham, Wash., spent 10 days visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor W. Hay, Fred and Ellen re cently. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brugger returned recently from a two week vacation trip into Ari zona, returning through the Grand canyon, the Hopi In dian village and Lake Tahoe. While in Arizona they vis ited with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Young, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shearin and family and Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Nagel, who are wintering in Arizona. Mrs. Augusta Perry, Mrs. Donna Ashpole, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mrs. Ruby Stowell, Mrs. Jessie Tycer and Mrs. Gertrude Stanley were hon ored at a party on New Year's eve at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Swan, Brownsboro rd., Eagle Point. Mrs. Alice Selb, San Fran cisco, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ruby Stowell, and her sister-in-law and brother, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sta in o n s and granddaughter, Sharon Wise, visited at the Clayton Simmons home Sun day, Jan. 11. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hisey, Redmond, spent Sunday eve ning at the home of their aunt and uncle, Mr.' and Mrs. J. D. Brown, en route home from Klamath, Calif., where they spent the weekend. Miss Laurinda Kay McFall spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of Janet Jean Hannaford, Butte Falls Star Rt., E. P. They celebrated Jan et's fifth birthday. Other guests at the party on Saturday were Gwen and Chris Stockton, Ronda Ha worth, Jimmy and Jerry Han naford and Mrs. Hannaford. Debra Jean McFall was un able to attend as she has been ill with the flu. Mr. and Mrs. David Han naford and family were call ed to Medford on Sunday as their nephew, Phillip Crock er, had been burned and is confined to the Rogue Valley hospital. He is the son of Mr and Mrs. Lawrence P. Crock er, Jacksonville highway, Medford. Ft. 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