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10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, April 19, 195 SCiHIOOL W1WS Medford High School Edited by Barbra Nulion. Reporters, Margie Good, Tanya Enders. Sandy Kline. B. J. Hale. Pag Fiscb. Rose mary Eismann. and Con nette Hinesly. Darlene Hunt, Carolyn Mencke, Doug Kliever and Jim Frake attended the state high school speech tourna ment at Oregon State college April 17 and 18. They were able to go because they placed in the Southern Ore gon district speech tourna ment recently. - Tryouts for next year's Pep club will be held May 1. This year's juniors need not try out again. Nominations have been held for next year's officers. The following girls were nominated for next year's Girls' League officers: presi dent, Carolyn Mencke and Judy Bash; vice president, Charlene Highland and Bon n i e Allingham; secretary, Karen Morlan and Elaine Jennings; treasurer, T o n i Spence and Pam White. Dean Goddard won the Knights of the Pythias ora tory award in the local divi sion April 13. Registration for the 1959 60 year started April 14 for juniors and sophomores. On alternating days, jun iors and sophomores were registered in the-morning or afternoon. Every day before and after school students could register. Room 15 was one register ing room. The class of 1960 has two new counselors, Mrs. Naomi VanDyke and Robert Semon. After April 16, registration may be made only before or after school. A previous ap pointment with the counselor during his free period may also be used for registration. completing or having com pleted three years of math will be excused from remedial English and math classes. Deadline for registration is April 24. All signed registra tion forms must be returned by thjs date. After vigorous try-outs Thursday night after school, the following people were chosen to be on the 1959-60 rally squad: juniors, Sandra Semple, Joy Olson, and Nancy Becken; sophomores, Ann Barker, Pam Gilkison, and Diane Lewis. Boys chos en were Jim Randies and Johnny Boyce, sophomores. Judy Lambert, a junior, was chosen as an alternate. The rally squad was chosen by voting members of this year's and next year's student council and the senior mem bers of this year's rally squad. Jaci Skelton, yell queen and Johnny Cantrall, yell king, will lead next year's rally squad. Senior Sharon Carr- was cosen April Girl of the Month last week. She is class repre sntative to the student coun cil, a member of Future Nurses of America, Torch Honor, and choir, and also took an active part in the senior class TAP program. Creek 9 to 2 on April 14. ,7th grade: Mr. Quacken- bush's class during the last six weeks had a student teach er from Southern Oregon col lege. His name is Tom Rupp 6th grade: Mrs. Kneebone's class is studying Central America. They have an ac quaintance in Peru that gave them a tape recording of information about Central America. 5th grade: Mrs. Edler's ac tivity class has been doing embroidery work. They have made doilies, pillowcases, pot- holders, table clothes, and many other things. Mr. Bailey's boys activity class is working on an oil field project, collecting stamps and corns. Special tests were given Mr. Ruck's American Prob lems classes this past week. These tests were to determine in accordance with tests taken early in the fall if students could learn more in a large or small class. According to the . new schedule, biology is required of all students and a seventh period has been added to the classes. Only seniors taking ad vanced English and those BIG GREEN RED FIR Slabwood $12 $1400 Double Load 300 en. ft Jumbo Load 400 en. ft Order Early - Quick Delivery Phelps Fuel Go. SP 3-5878 T Howard School Reporters, Judy Curliss And Keith Longie National Library Week has caused much interest in our school this week. Since the theme this year is "Wake Up and Read" we used a large water color painting of Rip Van Winkle for the center of interest with a table dis play of two dwarfs made from plastic bowling pins, appro priately clothed and headed with hollow guards. The re mainder of the bowling pins were set inside book jackets. Suitable captions in standout cut letters were added and the suggestion "Don't be like Rip Van Winkle! Wake up and Read." Spring Parent-Teacher con ferences are being held April 16, 17 and 20 as a final aid to teacher and parent. 8th grade: Mr. T. Coney's Varsity boys dropped their baseball game with Griffin Creek 11 to 3 and the Varsity girls won from Griffin Creek 26 to 5. The Junior Varsity boys lost their game to Griffin 4th grade: Mrs. Van Valzah: We are drawing means of transportation on paper towels. Mrs. Murray: We are draw ing means of transportation with chalk. We are also mak ing an April bulletin board. 3rd grade: Mrs. Berry's class 'for art we made spring flowers out of colored paper. 2nd grade: Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. Mann: We gave an assembly on a musical "Goldi locks and the Three Bears." We also had choraf reading and a rhythm band. 1st grade: Mrs. Arney: We made a mural on the seasons of the year. Miss Klocker: All the chil dren have drawn a picture of a part of the book they like. McLoughlin Junior High Edited by Joel Gregory The 1959 McLoughlin Op eretta "Gypsy Troubadour," will be presented next Thurs day and Friday in the boys' gymnasium. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Friday with a matinee for students Thursday after noon. Nikoli, John Alansky, re turns from college,' in the opening scene, and tells the gypsies of his plan to marry a city girl, Alice Jonason. His father, Todoro, Rome Atkins, is greatly disappointed when he hears this. Vario, Dave El gin, another gypsy frames Nikoli so he can become head of the tribe. Marko, Joel Gregory, a gypsy fortune-teller, and Tom, Wally Huffman, a college friend, counter-plot to have Nikoli. A variety of subplots reveal themselves be fore a happy ending is reached. The Future Homemakers of America had their - annual FHA week April 13 through 17. Each day the club select ed a "Teacher of the Day" THE BEST inTV SERVICE f your choice of TV Top quality ALL-NEW glass and parts Clearest, sharpest TV pictures Finest picture tube you can buy picture tubes 1 1 I BOTI PICTURE TUBES -RCA SILYERAMA AND 1CA MONOGRAM ARE PRODUCTS OF RCA ENGINEERING SKILL AND MANUFACTURING KNOW-HOW! BOTI ARE WARRANTED Monogipainni. Genuine RCA factory-rebuilt picture tube Economy viewing Finest factory-rebuilt picture tube you can buy FOR ONE-TEAR. When your TV picture tube needs replacing, see... AUTHORIZED DEALERS MEDFORD TROWBRIDGt ft FLYNN ELECTRIC ELECTRONIC SERVICE PURUCKER MUSIC HOUSE WALTS TV ft RADIO JOHNSTON STORES CHITWOOD & STONE TV MARCH8ANKS TV . MEDFORD RADIO & TV ASHLAND DON'S RADIO POINEER TV IRWIN'S TV and presented a fresh red rose, the national club flower. Those who received the honor were. Al itunteman, Larry Brunette, Mrs. Helen Casey, Ray Lewis, and Mrs. Jean Shepherd. Many activities were planned by the club each day in the week. Nancy McLaughlin is president of the club and Mrs. Joanne Weatherford, adviser. i Members of the operetta cast were guests at the Hed rick production "The For tuneteller." H e d r i c k cast members will be McLough lin's guests next Thursday afternoon. Students attending were Rome Atkins, Claudia Owen, Marsha Watson, Julie Latham, Joel Gregory. John Alansky, JoAnn Johnson, David Elgin, Lois , Stedman, Alice Jonason, Nancy Mc Laughlin, Wally Huffman and Bill Allen. ' High school counselers were guests at the Parent-Teachers association meeting Thursday evening. . Ninth graders will register for high school Monday and Tuesday with Miss Jo Kirtley, John Smock, Miss Jo Culbert son and Devere Taylor. CP Junior High School Edited by Linda Myrick Open House will be held April 28 at Central Point Junior High and Elementary schools. Many of the rooms will be decorated with some of the students' work. The decorations are on the Centen nial theme. Following visita tion of the rooms parents will hear a musical program pre sented by band and chorus members. The eighth grade girls are finishing up gathered skirts. Soon the girls wil start cur tains for the home economics room. The seventh grade girls are cooking and making cook ing notebooks. There was a track meet with Ashland April 17. The Point ers have won two track meets. Miss Hallberg of the State department visited Central Point Thursday and Friday. There were quite a few stu dents from Crater High school taking part in the annual Fu ture Teachers of America ob servance days. Some of them taught, and some just observed. This week is National Li brary Week, and the school library is decorated with "Wake Up and Read" posters. The Pointers' elections of officers for thg coming year will be held May 8. The speeches will be heard on May 1. Mike Glines, student body president, and Joyce Roberts, student body secre tary, will preside. Merchants Back Bill for Detaining Shoplift Suspects Salem -DPD- Testimony on Senate Bill 145 giving mer chants and their employees the right to detain and ques tion suspected shoplifters was heard by the House Judiciary committee Thursday. Merchants supported the bill and members of the Ore gon chapter of the American Civil Liberties union opposed it. Representatives of the Ore gon Retail council told the committee that 21 states, in an effort to curb the growing shoplifting problem, had laws identical to the one under consideration. Municipal Judge J. J. Mur chison, Portland urged the committee to approve the bill, saying that in his eight years on the bench he had seen the crime of shoplifting grow by leaps and bounds. William Babcock, represent ing the Oregon Civil Liber ties union, opposed the bill as an impairment of personal liberties. "I grant that shoplifting should be curbed, but we feel that the cure offered is worse than the crime itself," Bab cock said. Rep. George Layman (R Newberg), committee chair man, said the committee would consider the bill at an other meeting to be held soon. The Medical Roundup Emeritus Consultant la Medicine. Mayo Clinic Emrrifyi Professor of Medicine Mayo CUnie I 11 11 HPSkJ Experts are Constantly Guarding Our Health When I hear people sneer ing at the achievements of modern medicine, I only wish they knew that medical experts are e o n s t a ntly w atching over the health of the peoples of this world. In the Middle Ages, the Dr- Alvarez UaCK Ueatn killed millions of people. Peo ple died so fast that they couldn't be buried. Nobody then had the remotest idea how to stop the epidemic. It stopped only when all of the rats and the persons suscepti ble to the disease were dead. Most of us now think of that Black Death as gone and done with, but most of us do not know that it is still a constant threat to the health of the world. Every year there are epi demics of it here and there, especially in the Orient; and if it weren't for the constant watching of health officers who nip these epidemics in the bud, we could easily have terrible trouble again. In 1951, there were 15,399 cases of plague reported by the World Health Organization. Some 8,230 of these cases were from India. Few know that every so often a man dies of plague in one of o u r own western states, and few know what a battle it has been to eradicate plague in our ground squirrels. So long as some of them remain infected we men and women are in danger. I have just been reading that the United States has this year made a contribution of $3,000,000 to the World Malaria Fund. Great efforts are still needed to wipe out malaria in many parts of the world where it is a great curse. Recently, tremendous efforts have had to be made again to wipe out the mos quito that causes yellow fev er. Two hundred years ago terrible epidemics of yellow fever , were decimating the people in many of our sea port cities, including Phila delphia. Problem of Menial Health I imagine many persons, and even some physicians, must feel at times that in this column I talk too much and too often about mental disease. But, as I have said many times before, next to war, mental disease is our biggest problem. I was just reading that at a meeting in C a m b ridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Jack R. Ewalt, Director of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, which reports to the U.S. Senate and House, said that some 17,500,000 persons in this nation have enough ner vous or mental disease to re quire treatment. He figured that each year 1,814,000 per sons require treament 1,070, 000 of them in hospitals; 379, 000 in clinics, and from 365, 000 to 451,000 in the offices of psychiatrists. My own figures, obtained over the years, show that for one mildly psychotic person who consults a psychiatrist, there are 14 who see a gen eral practitioner, an internist, a surgeon or a quack. The quacks get 'most- of their in come from the mentally dis turbed. As Dr. Ewalt said, there is n't a city in America that has adequate provisions for the care of the mentally upset. Even if we had enough mon ey in our treasuries, we have n't enough properly trained personnel. Many of those who seem tto have been trained have been traind so poorly that they are of little help to the mentally disturbed. Some of them are so mentally dis turbed themselves that it is hard for them to help the mentally muddled. Letters From Women As I write this, several letters come in from very un happy women who tell me that their husband is a half crazy alcoholic who comes home every week-end to beat up the family. Much of the time, the man does not pro vide adequately for the child ren, and hence the woman has had to work to support them. Now she wants to know where she can turn to get help. She would be better off if she could get rid of her husband and never see him again. She wants to know if she can send him to a psy chiatrist. Obviously, a psychi atrist, who has to earn his living, doesn't want a patient who probably won't pay him anything. ! Worse yet, he doesn't want a patient who does not think he is sick or in need of treat ment. The woman tells me her husband threatens to cut the heart out of anvone who will report him to the police or will send him to a mental hospital. So far as I know, so ciety has not yet grappled with such a common problem We keep talking about spend ing a half-million dollars here and there for research into the causes of situations such as I have just described. We think surveys are wonderful. Wouldn't it be better to take the children out of a hellish home like that of the alcoholic man, and raise them where they would have a chance to grow up to be sane? Why don't we tackle that problem first? New Danger to Infants Dr. Paul B. Jarrett of Phoe nix, Arizona, says that recent ly in his city four infants suf focated while playing with plastic bags made of such thin material that it stuck to the baby's face with an elecro static charge. Because the child couldn't pull the stuff off, he soon strangled. Evangelistic Series Scheduled at Cenier A series of evangelistic services will start this eve ning at the new Medford Evangelistic center, according to the Rev. Ray McCoy, di rector. Speaker at the 7:45 o'clock service tonight and Monday will be Evangelist Zelma Kirkpatrick. Tuesday, April 21, and continuing through Sunday, the Musical Crusad ers will appear at the Center. Appearing with the Crusad ers will be Red Lane, bass fiddle player, and Julius Ham mock, evangelist. Mr. McCoy's sermon for the 11 o'clock service this morn ing will be "The Gallant Salmon." Sunday school will be held at 10 o'clock prior to' the service. The Center is interdenomi national and. the public is in vited to attend the services. SOC Group Holds Ceremony at OSC Ashland-Gamma Theta Up silon, national geography fra ternity on the campus of Southern Oregon college, con ducted initiation ceremonies at Oregon State college, Cor- vallis, recently. 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