Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 18, 1959, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 MA Ft TXIIUNI, Medferd, Oregon, Sunday, January 18, 1959 98 Building Permits Issued During December Ninety-eight Medford build ing permits for projects with a total valuation of $283,661 Cub Scout Groups Visit Mail Tribune Three groups of Cub Scouts visited the Mail Tribune pub lishing plant Friday and Sat day. Den 3, Pack 4, West Side school, visited the plant Fr day afternoon. Included in the group were Steve Shinn, Ron Gustafson, Ralph Brind ley, Bobby Kogy, Don Turn er, Tom Titus, Dennis Phil lips, David Culbertson, and Gary Ray. They were accom panied by Mrs. Ed Culbert son, Den Mother, Mrs. George Turner, assistant Den Mother, and Mrs. C. F.:Shinn. Members of Den 8, Pack S, Jefferson school, visited the plant Saturday morning. They were Roger Blaylock, Mike Carr, Mike Harding, Warren Harris, Richard Ricken, Ron nie Szpak, and Steve Wilkins, accompanied by Mrs. Michael Szpak, Den Mother. Den Mother Mrs. Margaret Smith accompanied a group of Cub Scouts of Pack 5, Den 6, Jefferson school, through the plant Saturday. Boys tour ing the Mail -Tribune were Tommy Wells, Howard Wells, Homer Wells, Kenneth Smith, Rickey Bishop and Gary Lee. werei ssued last month, ac cording to the city building department s monthly report . In December, 1957, only 35 permits with a value of $99, 765 were issued. Last month's figures show an increase in. permits but a decline in over-all valuation compared to Novembers 80 permits valued at $349,750. Single Family ' Thirteen permits were is sued for constructing single family residences in Decemb- ber. their total value $146,600 Permits for two new du plex dwellings totaling $30, 000 were also issued. New business construction accounted for four permits with a sum value of $34,000, and business remodeling or repairs for four more with a similar valuation. In addition, a $1,000 permit was issued for remodeling a motel. West Coast Airlines was is sued a permit for constructing jet fuel facilities valued at $12,000 at Medford airport. Receipts for permit fees totaled $1,114.35, according to the report. There were 891 in spections during the month. GLASS fer remedelHia and coMtruc Hm. We m happy to quote prices for (tool task, alumi nmm sash, and sliding patio SELBY cifs 303 North Bartlett PHONE SP 3-3613 Bill Proposed to Set Hauling Rates Salem-Rep. Clarence 'Bar ton, Democrat of Coquille, has announced that he-has. intro duced a bill. in the state legis lature which will set mini mum rates for log hauling in Oregon. ( ' The bill also would require out-of-state truckers to obtain a certificate of necessity and convenience from, the Public Utilities". Commissioner,. . h e said. - v' ' V: ' Barton said log hauling was one of the number one ' eco nomic problems in .the,, timber growing areas of .Oregon', and that a complete revision of existing statutes was long overdue. ' . S1HIL MEWS. Medford High School Edited by Barbara Nul ton. Reporters, Paulina Ashion, Margio Good, Peg gy Fisch, Connetie Hinoily and Tanya Endon. Mr. Kenny, from the Ore gon State Game commission was the speaker at an assem bly Jan. 12. The title of the speech was "Waterfowl Management." Accompanying the 20-min- ute talk was a sound color film which showed ' some of the basic principles of re source management and the application of these principles to the management of Ore gon's fish and wildlife. The film also showed the use of flyways by waterfowl and explained how each wild life commission throughout the continent does its share in conserving waterfowl and their nesting and feeding grounds. . " c ., There were two assemblies one was in the first period of the morning, and the other immediately after the first. The students were divided into two groups for these as semblies. ' It was decided at the Jan. 4 meeting of the Shutterbug club that a special night meeting would be held Feb. 17 to demonstrate the devel oping and printing of pic tures. A committee to arrange for food also was appointed. The halls of the schools are covered with various slogans and signs such as, "Don't be hairy, vote for Larry," "Get goin', vote for Rowan," "Big Nort,' the man with the hon est face," and many others. These signs are helping pro mote the annual Student Gov ernment day. Those students, who obtained petitions and the 'signatures of : 15 seniors, are running for mayor and tw:.L councilmen from each ward: After the final elections on Feb.' 4, the newly-elected mayor and councilmen will appoint fellow seniors to the many appointive offices. There are approximately six candidates for each office with the primary elections to be held on Jan. 19. sAs the senior class play gets into full rehearsal swing, various committees begin the work of planning costumes, light arrangements and scen ery. Heading the entire pro duction is Jim Fontaine as stage manager. In charge of the lights are Robert Stedman and Ken Peek, with Phil Morgan han dling the sound problem. , Prompters are Colleen Ri ley and Bonnie Cox. Rose mary Tokar is in charge of props, with Cheryl Dunn, Barbara Nelson, Jim Fon taine, JoAnn Jamison, Carold distance, Carmen Bernheisel, Dee Anne Barnes, Marianne Samuelson, Danusia Kosecka, and Iverne Iverson working under her. Costume chairman is Karen Fisher and assisting her will be Vicki Palmer, Carol Hub bard, Karen Culbertson, De Wanda Winchell and Ann Shelton. ., The publicity committee is headed by Marybeth Ramsey with Leora Myers, Dave Hav lidk and De Wanda Winchell helping. The final production ' dates of the play, "The Diary of Anne Frank," will be Feb. 26 and 27. public speaking contest held Thursday, Jan. 15, at Phoenix High school. Members of the team are chairman John Caster, Pete Melsted, Don Denning, Nath an B a n r y, . Don Ryan, and Dave Foote. Don Denning is the public speaker. Both will enter the section al contest to be held in Febru ary at Crater. Speaking at the Spanish club meeting Jan. 12 was Walter Knight, a junior at Lews and Clark college. He spoke on his sophomore year spent in Europe where he at tended school in France on a scholarship. He also spoke on the opportunities for those who desire to study abroad for a year. ' Jim Fontaine led Tuesday's International Relations league discusson on Africa. This meeting was one in the series of conferences on "How the United States Should Aid Un derdeveloped Countries." 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The cover is green with a yellow Indian on it, which is the name of our team. ' Senior Mary Howard was announced the December Girl of the Month by Girls' League Vice-President Arvella Prom, Jan. 14. She is president of Comettes, Secretary of FHA, and a reporter on Crater Comments. Mary is also in GAA, Student Council, and Quill and Scroll. Newly, elected officers of the Chess club are Nathan Parrish, president; Bob Mor ris, vice-president; and Edwin Stuart, secretary -.treasurer. Among the other activities planned by the club are in struction in the game of chess. Under consideration by the Student "Council is the consti tution of a proposed Spanish club. The constitution was prepared by Rosalie Wilson, Darlene Tomlinson, and Con nie Black. Janet Scalberg was chosen Future Homemaker of Crater High school through the Bet ty Crocker Homemaking con test. She received the highest score on the test which was taken by all senior girls. She now has the opportunity to try to win the statewide con test. She was awarded a Fu ture Homemaker's pin. Oak Grove School The first grades have made a colorful bulletin board scene to remind us this is the time of the year to feed the birds. The second grade is learn ing to use rulers, to measure liquids, , and how to read weather thermometers. Each student brought a Christmas toy to school for "Show and Tell Time.'-Michael Herrin. In the varsity basketbaH team, Don Perry is the coach and A. T. Highland is cap tain; In the Junior varsity, Mr. perry is also coach and Dowen Grimes is the captain.. Mrs. Grace Kirtley's third grade is learning about rep tiles and toads. They saw filmstrips of these last week. Helen Bigger and Linda Jones are the champion hand tennis players of our room. -Luretta Bennett. Hartman Says Way Seen Out of Pear Decline in Northwest Area Mrs. Florence Connor's fifth grade is forming a Book club and planning to write about the gold rush days in Jacksonville.-Paul Larson. A plaque was awarded the staff of Jackson school for 1959. This was the United Fund award presented for outstanding citizenship. The school health room will soon be painted pink and brown. We are looking for ward to this as it will bright en up the room greatly. The fifth and sixth grades are having a ping-pong tour nament. Mr. Perry put up a tournament ladder to deter mine the champion. First they will have room winners who will play off to deter mine the school champion. Crater High School By Darlene Tomlinson . Student Government Day primary election nominations are in and the Democratic nominations are Vernola Hut chinson, Donna Burnett, and Joan Skov, county clerk; Charley Warren, Mike - Red mond, and Bill White, county commissioner; Doug Davis, John Caster, and Janet Scal burg, county school superin tendent; Allen Barnes, Jim Eldred, ;and Glenna Heath,' county treasurer; Byron Ro minger, Chuck Turner, Gayle Hagen, and Nelda Robbins, county coroner. The Republican nominations are Betty Baker, Sylvia Yell, Margaret Taylor, county clerk; Arvella Prom, Richard Hammersly; and Don ' Ryan, county commissioner; Hersch el Mack, Nathan Parrish, and Alice Thompson, county school superintendent; Elaine Kroon, Alice Croxton, Sherry Koellner, county treasurer; Jim White, George Hunt, and Gay Jones, county coroner. . -Students running on the in dependent ballot are Patty Kime and Jim Hayes, county clerk; Sharlette Hale and Jean Governor, county com missioner; John Cottier and Margaret Pendleton, county school superintendent; John Burns and Bill Laton, county treasurer; Bob Fowler and Sharla Blake, county coroner. The primary election will be held Jan. 20. Crater's FFA Parlimentary Team and Public Speakers Mrs. Dena DeKorte's fifth grade is learning about sci ence. Dick Howsley showed that heat could change a solid to a liquid. Christieann Ayers and Beverly Biehn made a candle which proved that heat could change a solid to a liqiud; let it cool and it's a solid - again. Fred Hobbs scratched a tin can and set it outside. It rusted after a while. James Westerf ield prov ed that chemicals changed the colors of flames. Kraig Par sons made a barometer, Sandra Rupp put an onion in the front of the room, and after awhile it began to smell which proved that solid mole cules do move.-Dick Howsley, Kraig Parsons. In art, we are making sten cils. We cut a pattern out of waxed cartons and dabbed the inside of them with a sponge on another piece of paper, making a textured de sign .-Janice Main. James Hennebeck's sixth grade is working on a play, "Abe's Winkin Eye," to be given at the school assembly program Jan. 30. The class has completed a mural on the "Downfall of the Incas." The battle scenes are realistic. It has been put in the Art room. -Don Adams, Nancy Elmgren. REDS INTERRUPTED ' Berlin (DPD Police broke up an unauthorized Commu nist demonstration Friday out side the Hilton Hotel in West Berlin, where about a dozen Reds gathered to lay a wreath in memory of two Commu nists, killed near the scene 40 years ago. HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE Mc Andrews at Court Phone SP 3-9068 "We are beginning to see our way out," Prof. Henry Hartman of the Oregon State college horticulture depart ment said Friday concerning pear decline. Speaking before the annual meeting of the Jackson Coun ty Fruit Growers' League Professor Hartman said work on pear decline will result in development of better trees better methods of growing and better practices at less cost will be worked out. "There is no final conclu sion yet although we have some insight into pear de cline," Professor , Hartman said. Sponsored Jointly . .. The pear decline research project is sponsored jointly by the fruit growers league and Oregon State college, Hartman said. A considerable portion of the financing is and will be provided by the league, he added. Working on the project are Dr. Roland Blake, horticult urist at the Southern Oregon Branch Experiment station, Clifford B. Cordy, Jackson vounty horticultural agent, and OSC plant pathologists and soil specialists. Decline is not just one thing or cause, the OSC hort- lculturalist said. Different types of the disease also ex ist, he said. Approximately 500 to 600 trees in the Jackson county area have been affected by decline, Professor Hartman said. To obtain information on pear decline in this area the researchers studied case his tories and read published in formation on the disease. Case history information was ob tained from owners of orch ards with decline and those who had orchards, with little or no decline. Orchardists, fortunately, had complete rec ords on care of their orchards-amounts of fertilizers used, irrigation practices and other information on orchard operation. Provide Background By trying to fit their ob servations .and- studies into patterns, the decline investi gators hoped to provide a background for the disease, Professor Hartman explained. Washington and California fruit trees have also suffered from decline, the professor said. Those studying the prob lem in Washington believe root-stock is the basis of the trouble. It is true that Jap anese root stock is more sus ceptible to the disease, than French root stock, but this is not the primary cause. Pro fessor Hartman said. Decline has been observed also on trees having French . root stock. California trees have suf fered from a fungus disease which attacked the tree roots, but that problem does not af fect this area, Professor Hart man said. Traced Decline Kesearcners in this area have traced quick decline to what Professor Hartman calls the "infernal triangle" - min eral nitrogen, water and or ganic matter. Flood irrigation on top of late spring and sum mer application of sulphate of ammonia fertilizer turns ele- Grange News v Live Oak Grange At our first meeting of this year all new officers were present. The charter was draped in memory of our late member, Cora Hawks. Roy and Lyndall Cameron declined their, offices, Mattie Smith was elected Pomona and Lloyd Smith as steward. All officers not installed at Central Point were installed at this time by Frank Hall. Mrs. Lorraine. Bradfield, former member of the Grange now living in Salem, was a guest. Mrs. Lillian Rawlson be came a member, aemitting from t Castle Grange in Cali fornia, i . Worthy Master Carl Chris- tenson appointed Ray Frantz chairman of the agriculture committee .and Frank Hall, chairman of the legislative. At the : close of the meet ing refreshments were serv ed by the Charles Whites' and Elizabeth Sheffield. The HEC met Thursday, Jan. 15, with 16 present for potluck at noon. Most of the afternoon was taken up in a discussion and explanation of the proposed subdivision ordinance by Planning Tech nician Jack Eaton and Edwin Gebhard, member of the plan ning commission. All present voiced their op inion that a matter of this nature should be voted on and not left for a few to decide. Ashort meeting of the HEC was held. Letsy Miller was installed as chairman. Ar rangements have been made to hold a pirate party. Satur day, Jan. 31. This will be open to the public and a small charge made for refreshment. ments of the fertilizer into toxic agents which may seri ously damage or kill the feed er roots, it is believed. It is now recommended that orchardists apply a minimum of nitrogen, lightly disc under organic material such as de caying plant life arid water should be applied only when needed. No nitrogen fertilizer should be applied this year in orchards with decline, it is recommended. Traced Decline Researchers in this area have traced possible quick de cline causes to improper bal ance between water applica tion and application of am monia sulphates and ammonia nitrates in fertilizer and soil elements. Failure to keep this delicate balance may result in decline. Flood irrigation of pear trees cuts off the oxygen to the roots. This and applica tion of the ammonia sulphates and ammonia nitrates at the same time in fertilizers and manure upsets nature's deli cate balance, damaging the Medical Society Holds Annual Dinner The annual banquet of the Jackson County Medical So ciety was held at the Rogue Valley County club Friday night. All 60 members attend ed. Dr. Oscar Heyerman, out going president, presented the gavel to Dr. Florian Shasky, president for 1959, who intro duced President-Elect Dr. F. T. Burich, Secretary Dr. Duane Gillum, and Treasurer Dr. Ralph Thompson. ' Delegates to the state medi cal society are Dr. Shasky and Dr. B. G. Cope. Entertainment was furnish ed by "The Shadows," local singing group made up of stu dents at St. Mary's high school. . : THE COMPANY HE KEEPS Glasgow, Scotland - (DPS - James Stuart, a retiring mem ber of parliament, was pre sented with an oil portrait of himself Friday and said his wife told him "it shows you rather hard and tough." "Considering I have lived with politicians and you for more than a third of a cen tury, what do you , expect7" he replied. . About 47 million Americans live in the suburbs. feeder roots and resulting in quick decline. For that reason it is now recommended that orchard ists don't apply even a mini mum of nitrogen, manure or turn under organic material such as decaying plant life. Water should be applied only when needed, according to the recommendations. Prevention Sean Researchers hope in this way to prevent widespread loss of fruit trees while they continue to work toward the final solution of the pear de cline problem. Paul Culbertson, chairman of the experiment station committee introduced the pro fessor and told some of the background of the pear de cline problem. The decline problem has be come increasingly severe within the last three years in this area and has become extremely important in Wash ington for the last five years. The problem is immediate and a solution is needed, the committee chairman and pear grower said. An additional re search program has begun with a sizeable investment in volved, Culbertson said. Pro fessor Hartman inaugurated the program in August and has accomplished more results in four months than those in vestigating the problem in Washington have in four years. IIIAHR and POWER TOOLS ACME features all of the nationally advertised do-it-yourself products . . . at . prices you want to pay! 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PAX kills these seeds and those that blow in from Si,flram ,V-T continuing iosk or digging or spraying to remove th firwififi wai pay r . ... aiso gives positive con trol of mouse-ear chick weed. . Maw. i-y the neighbors' lawns for j T ends torever the 90-ioo ffcv. TT i ' Ml" VrS) APPLY PAX EARLY for besf results 1 3. fort if ?ies Your Lawn Beautifies lawns by sup plying one normal feed ing of nitrogen plant food. 4. Controls Soil Pests Kills lawn mofh larvae (sod web worms), cut worms, earwigs, grubs, ants, night crawlers. and most other soil pests. BUY PAX FROM YOUR Favorite Garden Supply Store The following arc Southern Oregon Pax Suppliers: BELLVIEW FEED STORE . Ashland, Ore. BIG "Y" FEED & SEED 1948 N. Pacific Hwy. ELTON'S FARM & GARDEN 217 West 6rh FABER'S FARMERS SUPPLY Corner 11th and South Fir GRANGE COOPERATIVE Central Point ' Ashland, Ore. MEDFORD FEED ft SEED CO. 330 North Fir St. MONARCH SEED & FEED CO. 6th and Bartlett 10th and South Fir MORTON MILLING CO. 10 W. Jackson Blvd. PACIFIC FEED ft SEED CO. 4th and Front Sri. TALENT FEED STORE Talent, Ore. TED'S FEED ft SEED STORE Ashland, Ore. SORAN ft WHITE 17 West 4th MID-COAST DISTRIBUTORS Medford, Oregon both -placed second in the .