Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 10, 1960, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextSCIHIL MEWS onoui snakes and some pre cautions to remember. Medford High School I1 throughout Jackson Edited by Jim Fraka. Staff: Rosemary Eismann. Diana Mohr, Edonna Pace, Etlhtr Jacobs, Rita Me Bath, Suzy Reule, Ann Mac Manama and Jim McCor-mack. Saturday the Teens Against Polio drive officially started throughout Medford. Busily washing cars and windows were members of all three classes. Money making bottle drives, dime-on-the-line, suckers, cotton candy sales, rummage sales, and baked food sales. County chairman Rosiland Randies officiates over the TAP drive. Cochairmen of the senior class drive are Paul Moore and Dean Goddard. They are assisted by a com mittee consisting of Sandy Sanner, Pat McLoughlin, Pat ty Barnes, Joy Olson, Doug Kliever, Judy Robbins, Duane Culbertson, and Penny Sam pert. Susie Thompson and Rita Johnson are directing the junior class crusade. Sopho more fund raising is led by Lois Stedman and John Alan- sky. The senior class will sell cot ton candy in downtown Med ford Jan. 16. Other future senior projects include a rum- mage sale, fashion show, sen ior assembly, and a bottle drive. The junior class chairmen have decided to keep their upcoming campaigns a secret. The sophomore class will hold a wheelbarrow race, sell ing popcorn, and selling suck ers. The TAP drive officially ends Jan. 30. On Jan. 26 a queen will be crowned from the class raising the most money. The candidates from one class have not been chos en yet. Money raising competition in TAP is not only among Semester exams beein Jan. classes but also among all the . 21 with English, mathematics, Listed as the production staff for "Pygmalion," the senior class play, are as fol lows: Sandra Sanner, stage manager; Barbara Shaw, as sistant stage manager, Sherril Christian, student director; Robert Stedman, auditorium supervisor, and Ken Peek, lights. Heading the properties staff are Pam Watson and Kathy Larimer, cochairmen. Staff members are Mickey Darras, Maxie Weston, Judy Burg hardt, Marilee Patch, Jean Wobbe, Pat Newbry, Ron Rob- erson and Bob Goodwin. Penny Linn is costumes chairman, and working with her are Shirley Boswell, Lois Wright, Rita McBeth, Mar jorie Wonderly, Donna Dell, Sharon Laing and Rita Miller. Working on scenery are John Hohensee, Bob Good win, Larry Lea, Mary Housel, Jim Wilson, Jaci Mee, Carol Slater and Bonnie Allingham. The Grips crew includes Ray Beliveau, John Frohn mayer, Ray Konapasek, Clint Stiger, Paul Moore and Keith Berg. Grips crewmen handle backstage rigging during per formances. Sue Fontaine and Peggy Keith are prompters and the make-up staff consists of Ce cilia Fichtner, Christine Sath er, Sandra H u 1 1 o n, Jean Pletsch and Loralee Sutherland. and business education tests On Jan. 22, exams in social studies, languages, and science will be given. Jan. 25 con eludes the series with tests in vocational subjects. Jan. 29 will end the first semester, and report cards are to be distributed that day. Second semester classes will meet for the first time Feb. 1. A revised plan for second semester registration will be used this year, the office an nounced recently. Jan. 12 all students must fill out their new schedule and have their counselors ap prove it. By Jan. 29 the sched ules must be signed and taken to class instructors to sign. On Feb. 1 they will be left with their last period teacher to be handed into the office. The University of Oregon and Oregon State college are having senior week end Jan. 30. All information and reg istration cards can be obtain ed from MHS deans. Cards and the registration fees must be sent in to the school by Jan. 20. This will be the only tune high school seniors will be invited to visit the two schools this year for this type of program. Measurements for caps and gowns will be taken during all three noon hours in the cafeteria beginning Monday, Jan. 11. Rental cost of the cap and gown plus the tassels, wnicn seniors may Keep as a memento, is $3.75. The rent al fee should be paid at the tune of measurement. The FFA held its annual school public speaking contest Wednesday with approxi mately 75 attending. The main speakers of the contest were Don Denning, who talked on the FFA as a leadership training organiza tion and John Caster, whose talk was about our farm lands being covered by highways, airports, housing develop ments, and industries. The winning speaker was John Caster, who will attend the district meet at Illinois Valley High school Jan. 14. The parliamentary team will also participate in the district meet. If they win, they will qualify to go to state. I he Medical Roundup by Emerftns Consultant in Aledirbie. Myo Cltele Emeritus Professor ol Medicine Mayo CHnte A Curious Reaction of Some Psychiatrists An, able and progressive and clear - thinking psychia trist friend of mine was just telling me Thursday, Jan. 7, was State Game Commission Day. A discussion was given to all interested students on the wild life and wild fowl man agement ot today. A movie was shown on the work of preserving game for genera tions to come. The first list for member ship to Quill and Scroll will be sent Jan. 15. All those wishing to obtain their mem bership and pin for this jour nalism honor society should report to Room 246 as soon as possible. Crater High School By LaVonne LaFever Mr. and Mrs. Scobie and their daughter, Carolyn, visit ed Crater Tuesday, Jan. -5, to present a National School As sembly to the student body of Crater High School. Scobie, a prominent lover of nature and animals, brought with him 17 different species of snakes, both pois onous and non - poisonous, which Carolyn and her father handled and displayed. A short discourse was given on the characteristics of pois- A Comette shoe shine was in progress Friday, Jan. 8, in order to raise money for the basketball banquet which the organization will sponsor in the near future. Hedrick Junior High By Vicki Toenniges The Hedrick band will sponsor a dance Friday, Jan 15, with proceeds going to the band fund. The theme is "Journey to Jazzland." The . advertising committee for the dance has set up a dis play in the showcase next to the home economics room in the upper hall. Shown are in struments used in jazz music. A special Christmas issue of the "Buzz-ette" was given out to Hedrick students before vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Barbara Han- el are parents of a daughter born Dec. 30. She sent a cake to all her classes. Mrs. Hanel is girls physical education in structor at Hedrick. loolt to the Future . . . ..WATOKAUy flt's GAS! DON'T MAKE HER BREAK HER BACK! On Thursday. Jan. 14. a special assembly will be held for the first initiation cere mony for the Junior National Honor Society. Membership in the organization is based on a 3.5 grade average and the qualities of scholarship, lead ership, citizenship, character, and service. The executive council of the Torch Honor Society of Medford High school will conduct the ceremony. a The topic for the student council meeting last week was the noon danced. Noon dances are held every Monday and Friday as part of the noon ac tivity program. It was decid ed that unless there was more participation by students, the dances will be cancelled. New students enrolled after the holidays were John Rog ers, seventh grade; Roy Mc Dowell, eighth grade; and De anna Harper, ninth grade. GIVE YOUR WIFE A GAS DRYER SID Hanging wet clothes is a backbreaking job . . . hauling heavy baskets of wet wash around . . . stringing clothesline. Wrestling with soaking wet sheets, tablecloths, bedspreads is hard work. Now's the time to get a Gas Dryer. Why GAS? Because Gas dries clothes so soft end fluffy. And a Gas Dryer costs less to in stall, less to operate . . . and is faster, too! I I I J See your gas appliance dealer" or visit our display floor CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC UTILITIES COMPANY Phone SP 2-5284, Mdford MU 5-5291, Ashland for the tops in TV entertainment watch "Playhouse 90" CBS-TV On Dec. 23, an assembly was presented by the Hedrick band, chorus, Stingers. The band opened the program with "The Messiah Overture." The chorus sang "Susanna," "Silent Night," and "Ding Dong Merrily." While the band provided background music, the Sting ers marched and did several formations in keeping with Christmas. The Droeram ended with the band playing "O Holy Night" while the Stingers formed a Nativity scene. The lights were turned out and only the handlights held by each girl illuminated tne scene. that recently, when at a meeting of a psychiatric as sociation, h e q u e s t i oned some of the most cherish ed theories of the psychoan- drTalvarez 'alysts - such as castration fear and penis envy - and his friends chided him; they said he was "fight ing a straw man." They said, "What's the matter with you? Don't you know that we have lost faith in all those old theories? Don't you know that we are now giving only lip service to that stuff?" My friend said, "Yes;" he had suspected that the more intelligent psychiatrists had their tongue in their cheek when they talked about the old weird theories; but still he was shocked at their con fessions of disbelief. As he said to his friends, "How, then, can you go on writing papers about these theories, when in your hearts you know that they are silly and with out basis in fact? Why don't you do like I have been do ing, and openly confess that you do not know what causes much of insanity?" Actually, this week as I was reading the autobiogra phy of the famous Dr. Ernest Jones, of London, the closest friend of Freud and later his biographer, I was impressed to see how many of the early leaders in psychoanalysis had lost their faith, not only in Freud's theories but in their own: A Drug to Help in Curing Cancer For years, experts have been looking for a chemical which would make cancer cells more susceptible to x rays than are the normal cells - it would cause cancer cells to succumb to a smaller dose Duane Payne tricia Lull. and Miss Pa- During the past month, members of the Lettermen's club have collected scrap iron. Ten tons of scrap iron netted the club $326, which will be used to purchase jackets for members and welding equip ment for the school. Sno-Ball. queen candidates were selected at a meeting of classes late last month. Sen ior candidate is Virginia East man, junior candidate is Zi Rena Brehm, sophomore can didate is Nan Govenor, and freshman candidate is Renlda Griffeth. The queen will be selected at the annual Sno-Ball, a semi formal dance sponsored by the Pepsters which will be held Jan. 23. Suzanne Rogers is president of the Pepsters. The student body presented a Christmas program prior to the holiday vacation. The freshmen presented the skit, "The Day the Bells Rang." Sophomores did a pantomime to "Prancer Dancer and Nerv ous," and the juniors present ed a mock Christmas wedding. Seniors acted out the original version of a "Beatnick's" Christmas. . The Future Homemakers of America are planning a din ner for their parents Jan. 21. The meal will be prepared and served by the girls. A neD assembly was held riday, Jan. 8, for the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade bas ketball teams before they lett for their games witn mc-Loughlin. Many students have ad mired the model of a castle in the display case next to the library. The students who made it are Karen Ruhl, Jean Farley and Marty Davis. The castle is approximately 1V5 feet tall and is made of marsh mallows, ice cream cones, candy frosting and charms, all of which rests on three blue mirrors. Prospect High School By Lh Filchel. Suzanne Rogers, Virginia Eastman The Prosnect Hieh school student body presented "Hill billy Weddin' " recently. "'Members of the cast in cluded Tony Yell, Dave Hall, Marilyn Valentine, Suzanne Rogers, Sandi Burrill, Eldon na Bean, Marlys Owens, Jo Ann Yates, Mary Walker, Joe Jones, Scott Grieve, Carolyn White. Paul Roger, Carl Car- din, Don Gillespie, Mike Bur rill, Floyd Scaife and Clifton Chapman. Th play was directed by Last Saturday, Suzanne Rogers was installed honored queen of Bethel 56, Interna tional Order of Jobs Daugh ters, at the VFW hall. She also is grand Bethel junior prin cess of the state. She is a sen ior at Prospect High school. Lee Gitchel, president of the student council, called a meeting recently to change ar ticles in the high school con stitution. One change pro vides that one letter and the rest pins be presented to stu dents earning them, and an other is that there must be a treasurer's report posted each month. Another change provides that a 5 per cent activity tax be collected after each activ ity instead of each semester as had been suggested. USE GLASSES Philadelphia-In an average cross section of American adults, two of three men and women wear eye glasses. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 of rays than will injure the normal cells. Now, I read that Dr. W. Y. Szybalski, at, Rut gers Institute of Microbiology, has a substance called BUDR that greatly increases the sen sitivity of cancer cells to ra diation. People should not im mediately ask for the drug. It probably will first have to be tested by many men; and then, if it works well, it will be made widely available. Mv reason for mentioning such a drug is to let people know that research is constantlv be ing done, and to tell them not to give up hope - perhaps the cure they want will be found in time to help them. A Now Drug for Goui ' A new drug for use in cases of gout was described in the second Pan-American Con gress on Rheumatic Diseases in Washington. Dr. E. B. Montgomery, of Toronto, Can ada, said that a drug called sulfinpyrazone has a power ful effect in getting uric acid out of the body. It will be in teresting now to see how use ful it is in the practical treat ment of Datients with gout. 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