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
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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
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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.
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Monday, after queuing in the
snow all night to buy a wed
ding dress at a sale price of
$5.59.
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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,
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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.
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The pamphlets are free and
society spokesman said they
would be especially suitable
for children who have re
ceived pets for Christmas.
The society stressed that
pets in a home can help chil
dren develop k in d n e s s,
thoughtfulness and generosity
traits, but added that the pets
should be treated as com
panions and not as toys.
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