MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A
Monday, Feb. 1, 1960
Oiit on a limb
By BOB WALTERS
USSR Student Asks
'Peace Friendship'
As the advertising people would say, "something new has
been added.
We're calling it a "Regional News" page, which, we
admit, is a pretty vague term. But, as was pointed out in
an editorial Sunday, we'll stick with it until a better name
comes along.
The new page, regardless of what we call it, will be
designed to give our subscribers outside the Medford area
news of their respective communities. We hope it will in
terest all our readers in the Mail Tribune's circulation area
of southern Oregon and northern California.
Ordinarily, the news appearing on this page won't knock
you out of your chairs.
Eisenhower, as far as we know, has no plans to visit
Butte Falls. They're not building a missile launching base
at Gold Hill. And triple-ax murders, we're certain, are few
and far between at Eagle Point.
But the day-to-day actions of community officials, the
spot news stories that can't be predicted and activities of
organizations and individuals are news. Often they affect
entire communities and their residents.
We'll do our best to keep up to date on what's happening,
and why it's happening. We're here to serve our readers
and this page, we believe, will help us to better achieve
that goal.
It won't be an easy job, but we think we have a staff
that can handle it. Reporting for you will be 18 correspond
ents, whose names and telephone numbers you 11 fmd listed
elsewhere on the page. Some have been correspondents for
many years, other only a few months. They're competent
DeoDle. and they're enthusiastic.
They'll cooperate to the fullest with news sources in their
communities, and they'll hope for, and expect, a return of
that cooperation.
The new page will .be published three times a week,
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Eventually we hope to
exDand it to a daily basis. But first things first.
On each page will be a "Regional Calendar," under which
scheduled meetings of organizations throughout the area win
be listed.
Our Applegate Valley correspondent, Mrs. Maude Ziegler,
will continue to write her "Rural Reflections." They've
proven popular during Mrs. Ziegler's years of writing for
the Mail Tribune and we hope she often finds herself in a
reflective mood.
Mr. R. E. Nealon, who might be called "Mr. Table Rock,"
will write a column called "Tablets" for each Friday's page.
Mr- ilealson has been wjf-iiiBjJ off and on for this paper for
bout 46 years. At the rate he's going, he'll probably be
writing for 46 more.
All our correspondents will try to stay on top of the news.
They'll be attending meetings of your city councils and other
community organizations, they'll stay in contact with your
police and fire departments and they'll be tracking down
anyone who has a story.
Whatever the story, they'll treat it fairly and on the basis
of the facts. , .
We'll try to do an accurate, thorough job of covering our
circulation area. We hope you like it.
By KATHERINE CHAPMAN
Montague A Russian stu
dent attending the University
of California made an impas
sioned plea for "peace and
friendship" during a Rotary
club-sponsored visit here by
37 foreign students over the
week end.
The student, who spoke
after club members and other
students had joined in singing
Russian and American songs,
Board to Inspect
Schools of 6C
To Plan Budget
Gold Hill-Members of the
district 6C school board and
those on the budget commit
tee will inspect all schools
in the district Wednesday to
determine essential budget
items including maintenance,
repairs and new equipment,
according to C. Norman Gail,
chairman. Others on the board
include Bill Askwitch and
Bill Anhorn, both Central
Point; Jerry Fitzgerald, Sams
Valley and Wilton White,
Tolo.
On - the budget committee
are L. C. Higganbotham and
Dr. Nelson, Central Point;
Lester James, Sams Valley,
and Donald Morrow and Al
bert Deuel, both of Gold Hill.
The men will begin the
inspection at Crater High
school at 9 a.m. Later they
will inspect Central Point
Elementary and Junior High
school and the H. P. Jewett
Elementary school.
During the afternoon they
will inspect the Hanby and
Patrick Elementary schools in
Gold Hill and the Sams Val
ley Elementary school.
Some people, it seems, have an uncanny knack of saying
the wrong things at the wrong times.
While having lunch at a downtown restaurant the other
day, we overheard (okay, we eavesdropped) a woman pouring
out her troubles to a male acquaintance sitting next to her.
Seems the woman's husband was very ill.
"Ahh, I wouldn't worry about it too much," said her
friend. "Remember ole Mike? He was awfully bad off with
the same disease, but he always had faith he'd be around for
onnthcr ilav. Yssir faith."
The woman brightened for a moment then her friend
continued: ; .
"Course it finally killed him - but he sure had faith!
Amazing what a few comforting words can do, isn't it?
Hugh Simpson, director of information at SOC, came up
with this one and we wish he hadn't. -"What,"
he asked, "is a zooky?"
We took a deep breath, said we didn't know and prepared
for the straight-man role.
"Why, it's a key to a zoo, of course."
And that's about enough out of Hugh.
BOB WALTERS. Regional Editor
CORRESPONDENTS:
Applegate Valley Maude Ziegler, TW 9-1333
Butte Falls Mary Jo Harris. TO 5-2126
Central Point Doris Hughes. NO 4-1106
Eagle Point Dottie Harbison. HI 6-3274
East Evans Creek-Meadows Nellie Bergman
Gold Hill-Sams Valley Mary Kell. UL 5-1126
Hilts Mrs. M. F. Cayin
Hornbrook Kalherine Chapman. GR 5-3586
Illinois Valley Margaret Crowl
Jacksonville Betle Hoskins, TW 9-1209
McLeod Caroline Harding. TR 8-2260
Prospect Frances Ring. UN 9-2211
Rogue River Myrtle Whipple, JU 2-1141
Shady Cove Evelyn Watson. TR 8-2273
Table Rock R. E. Nealon, TA 6-2097
Tiller-Drew Mrs. Glann C. Rodgers
Wimer Marjorie Baker, JU 2-3832
Yreka-Montague Carol Petersen
Rangers at Star Station
Work on Many. Protects
By MAUDE ZIEGLER
Applegate Valley - Local
forest service men are en
gaged in a number of projects
in these weeks before spring,
and taking snow surveys this
week will occupy part of the
crew at Star Ranger station.
Neil Suttell, district rang
er, just returned from a train
ing meeting at Mt. Hood, and
will take several men on
treks over the snow courses
to gain training and exper
ience. They will go to Big
Red mountain and Little Red
Mountain in the Siskiyous and
to Gray Back watershed be
tween Thompson and Wil
liams creeks.
This is the first time in a
five-year period that snow
courses have bees run by the
local ranger staff, although
prior to that it was a custom
ary winter job performed the
first week of January, Febru
ary and March.
Road designing is a project
being done here for the first
time. Robert Snoich, who was
transferred here from the
Medford forest headquarters
last summer, is in charge of
the project. Twelve miles of
design are in process at the
present, and construction will
start on the timber access
roads when rights of way are
cleared and other necessary
preliminaries completed.
Laying out of timber sales
with stress on the small sale
program from a million board
feet on down is another under
taking at present This re-
quires a great deal of field
work, and is designed to de
velop better forestry in the
form of sanitation cutting,
Suttell explained. The sales
program also is expected to
economically benefit the buy
er .; Robert Snoich has charge
of turber management, with
Douglas McClelland and
Chuck Niver his assistants.
ON THE BEAM
Eynsford, England (DPD
The congregation at a 600-year-old
church here is sing
ing hymns softly to the ac
companiment of a muted
piano. "We don't dare use the
organ," Rev. A. Aubrey told
his nervous parishioners. "Our
oak beams are riddled with
woodworm and any violent
shock will bring them crash
ing down."
Tiller-Drew - The nominat
ing committee's report will
be discussed at the regular
meeting of the PTA here Tues
day evening.
Gold Hill Drive
Nets Over $250
By MARY KELL
Gold Hill - Residents of
this community donated more
than $250 to the New March
of Dimes drive held during
January in conjunction with
the county-wide campaign to
raise funds to fight polio,
arthritis, birth defects and
other crippling diseases, Mrs.
Wilmer: Bailey, Gold Hill
chairman, reported.1 ".
Sponsoring group was the
Gold Hill Health unit. Mrs,
Clarence Parsley was co-
chairman.
Mrs. Bailey said $110 of
the total was contributed by
residents within the city lim
its when women of this area
volunteered their time to go
door-to-door the night of the
Mothers' March. Pupils of the
Patrick and Hanby Elemen
tary schools donated over $40
and over $22 was raised by
the youngsters during a spe
cial event sponsored by the
Gold Hill Lions' club, when
members of the club challeng
ed the Hanby faculty to a bas
ketball game.
Residents outside town had
mailed over $56 to the chair
man at the time of her report
and more than $20 in coins
was deposited in a container
at the O. K. Pastime, she said.
Results of other donations
from Sams Valley school and
other coin containers had not
been turned in when this re
port was announced, Mrs.
Bailey said.
Mrs. Bailey was hostess fol
lowing the Mothers' March for
a coffee hour honoring women
who had volunteered their
time to participate in the
event that evening. Guests
were Mrs. Melvin Burnett,
Mrs. Clarence Parsley, co
chairman, Mrs. C. Norman
Gail, Mrs. Jerry Herrington,
Mrs. Paul Thompson, Mrs.
Paul Molloy, Mrs. Clyde Kell,
Mrs. Ivan Governor, Mrs.
Theron Boen, Mrs. Glen F.
Leach, Mrs. Loyd Governor,
Mrs. Delos Walker, Mrs. Ce
cil Van Horn, and Mrs. Clay
ton Netzel.
said "Even as all nationalities
represented here have joined
in song, it is the hope and wish
of my countrymen that all
peoples of the earth might
live together in peace and
friendship."
The students visited the
Montague and Yreka areas as
guests of Rotary clubs in the
two communities. All from
the university's International
House at Berkeley and from
the Davis campus, they con
stituted the fourth group in as
many years to participate in
the program.
From Many Countries
Countries represented in
cluded England, F i n la n d,
Egypt, Indonesia, Australia,
New Zealand, Germany, Hun
gary, France, Panama, Japan,
Italy, Lebanon and . Kenya,
East Africa.
The idea behind the pro
gram is to afford the interna
tional students : the opportu
nity of being guest in the
homes of American families
in order that they may learn
what they can about the
American way of life.
They arrived Friday after
noon, accompanied by Mrs.
E. S. Carlson, director of pub
lic relations at International
House. On their arrival in
Yreka, they were assigned to
their individual hosts, with,
whom they spent the week
end.
A round table discussion
over radio station KSYC was
broadcast from r-l:30 p.m
Saturday. Only official activ
ity was an inter-club ban
quet Saturday evening in the
Montague Community hall
The students introduced them'
selves, told a little of their
background, what studies they
were undertaking and related
their impressions of this coun
try and its people.
Judge McAdams Speaks
Judge James McAdams,
president of Montague Rotary,
gave a speech of welcome in
which he stressed that there
is little, basic difference
among the peoples of the
earth.
Leonard Krazynski, a grad
uate student in engineering
from Kenya, served as master
of ceremonies.
About 300 persons attended,
including Gene Rideout, gov
ernor of Rotary district 516,
which includes 11 California
counties, and Robert Rey
nolds, president of Yreka Ro
tary. One of the students, a
young French engineering
graduate, told his hosts, Mr.
and Mrs. Laura Paine, for
merly of Hornbrook and now
of Fort Jones, that he will
have to return to France Feb.
15 for military service be
cause of the Algerian crisis.
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T Gold Hill City Council to
Hear Ordinances Tonight
Junior Police to
Resume Meetings
At Gold Hill
Gold Hill - The Junior Po
lice organization, under the di
rection of Gold Hill Police
Chief .Floyd Taylor and Offi
cer William Zander, will re
sume its twice-a-week meet
ings beginning today, Chief
Taylor has announced.
The group, open to boys
aged 6-18, will meet each Mon
day and Friday at 6 p.m.
Thirty-four boys presently are
enrolled.
Taylor said Zander will as
sist with the training program
Progress Reported
On Community Hal!
By DOTTIE HARBISON have been completed and are
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Rural Reflections
By MAUDE ZIEGLER
Applegate Valley Notions
on spring gardening are pop
ping up m the snow fringes,
and Lora Scott on East Side
rd. has the most unique idea
of them all. She will grow her
own vitamin C in 480 feet of
wild rose bushes at the front
fence.
When the red rose seeds
(rose hips) of winter are har
vested into tea, juice, or jam,
they contain 200 times more
vitamin C than the same
amount of oranges, Lora reads
in her cook book, "Let Us Eat
Right," by Adele Davis. Peo
ple of Norway and Sweden
use the rose hips in soups and
stews, and in Sweden they
are canned like tomatoes. The
Indians knew their medicinal
value.
Lora will include with her
wild roses a good amount of
"Rosa Rugosa," a California
propagated shrub called "a
living fence," also rich in vi
tamin C, but to a lesser ex
tent than the wild rose.
Lora says the idea sounds
a little wild, but sne reauy
expects to do it, along with
the rest of her organic garden
ing.
WILLIAM ZANDER
Athletic Instructor
and will supervise indoor
sports, including boxing,
wrestling, volleyball, punch-
ing-bag practice and wesght-
lifting.
Holds Brown Belt
Zander, holder of a brown
belt in judo, came to Gold Hill
last July with his wife and
three teen - aged sons from
Fairfield, Calif., where he
was affiliated with the Solano
county sheriff's office. Four
of his brothers also are in law
enfprcement work in the
states of Nevada, California
and Oregon.
Zander's sons are among
members of the local Junior
Police group.
Assisting Taylor and Zand
er will be Willard Taylor and
Allen Hilkey. Chief Taylor
asks others who wish to vol
unteer to contact him at
ULrich 5-1021.
Eagle Point - Encouraging
reports were presented by the
special meeting of the Eagle
Point Scout Community Build
ing committee at the home of
Ed Kimell last Wednesday,
Harry Hanscom, chairman,
called the meeting to compile
the reports of the various
chairmen and to lay out as
signments for the forthcoming
building project. Nearly all
the lumber needed for the
building has been acquired, it
was reported, and sufficient
financial contributions have
been received to start con
struction, which includes foot
ings, beams, and pile lastings.
Further donations will be
needed and sought following
the laying of the corner stone
to complete the construction
of the building.
The building is located on
city property at the end of
South B st. where the new
city park will be located and
improved. Hanscom reported
that forms for the footings
COUPLE PLANS MOVE
Jacksonville - Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Lane will leave their
home here Friday for Van
Nuys, Calif., where Lane has
been transferred by the Fed
eral Aviation agency. Ac
companying the couple will
be Lane's father, George, who
reportedly i s recuperating
satisfactorily from a recent
stroke.
COMPLAINTS CHECKED
Gold Hill - Police Chief
Floyd Taylor said he investi
gated a complaint from resi
dents on First ave. that gar
bage had been emptied from
containers and strewn in the
alley behind the A. E. Fink
and Mel Kuikman homes. Tay
lor requests that all com
plaints be telephoned to him
day or night at ULrich 5-1021.
ready for footings to be
poured as soon as weather per
mits. The beams are being
constructed indoors to speed
the actual construction at a
later date and will be trans
ported to the building site
when needed. A partial base
ment has been added to the
original building plans.
When the footings are com
pleted, a public cornerstone
laying ceremony will be held.
Community Cenler
Set for Discussion
Hilts A public meeting
will be held at the Communi
ty center here at 7 p.m. Tues
day to discuss plans for using
a local hotel building as a
community recreation hall.
The hotel was selected as a
possible location for the proj
ect during a community meet
ing last Monday.
A committee, consisting of
Chairman Al Simmen, Aristeo
Perez, Vern Burns, Gino Trin
ca, Italo Marin, Cal Sharp
and Don Powers, was appoint
ed to draw up preliminary
plans.
Gold Hill - The Gold Hill
city counci will meet tonight
at 7 p.m. in the city hall on
Fifth ave. An ordinance to
control the moving and stor
age of explosives within the
city limits of Gold Hill will be
Consolidation Issue
Carries for Schools
Tiller - The old saying "the
third time's a charm" proved
true in the vote for consolida
tion at the Tiller and Days
Creek schools last Friday.
Consolidation carried in
both districts. The vote at
Days Creek was 64 for con
solidation and 10 against. At
Tiller it was 44 for consoli
dation and 5 against.
Several years ago a vote
was cast to see if District 15,
which is Days Creek, and Dis
trict 114, which is Tiller,
would consolidate. Both dis
tricts voted it down. Two
years ago it came up for a
vote again and District 15
voted it down and District
114 voted for consolidation.
In 30 days the combined
districts will vote for mem
bers for a seven-man board,
which will include one mem
ber from each former district
and five at large.
read this evening, officials
said.
Other ordinances to be con
sidered at the meeting include
one that would authorize the
city to sell a piece of property
on the Sams Valley road. The
other to be considered would
abandon certain streets in the
Water Parks addition of the
city.
Mark Boydon, county sur
veyor, plans to attend the ses
sion to inform the council con
cerning surveying matters.
E. E. Miller and John Cogs
well have been appointed by
Mayor Milton Steinmetz to
serve on the budget commit
tee. Joe Walsh recently spoke
to city officials, informing
them of the advantages of a
two-way radio system for Gold
Hill.
12 CANINE GUESTS
Eagle Point - Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Van Etten now have a
team of Huskies beneath their
house. It seems the neighbor's
Husky gave birth to 12 pups
the other day.
We Give
GREEN STAMPS
CENTRAL REXALL DRUG
Main and Central
Prospect Residents
Hit by Flu Virus
. Prospect i -At least 30 local
residents have been stricken
by flu, many of them by the
Asian variety, during the past
two weeks.
Two of the cases developed
into pneumonia, sending the
victims to hospitals. Doctors
have encouraged all residents
to get flu shots if they have
been or are likely to be ex
posed to the virus.
Many residents, including
all workers at Ross mill, al
ready have taken shots.
CLOSED
ALL DAY TUESDAY
and WEDNESDAY
MAIN AT CENTRAL
Cattlemen's Group
Officers Re-elected
Applegate Valley - Officers
in the Applegate Cattlemen's
association were re-elected at
their annual meeting held at
the Grange hall here recently.
LeRoy Offenbacher was re
turned as president; Lance Of
fenbacher, vice president, and
Fred Straube, secretary-treasurer.
Neil Suttell, district ranger,
told the group of the forest
service brush burning pro
gram, including burning of
swamp alders, which will
benefit the range. Mark Law
rence of Medford, represent
ing the bureau of land man
agement, and Robert Torhiem,
Medford, staff assistant in
charge of range and fires, also
spoke.
I Regional Calendar
Phoenix - The Lions club
will hold an auction at 7:30
p.m. Thursday in the Com
munity club building to raise
funds for the Phoenix pioneer
cemetery rehabilitation.
Central Point - The city
council will meet at 7:30 to
night in the city hall. All local
residents are invited, accord
ing to Lyle Paull, city administrator.
Eagle Point The Jaycettes
will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday
at the home of Mrs. Harry
Hanscom on Stevens rcL Num
erous subjects are to be dis- i
cussed.
Ashland - Medford School
Superintendent Dr. Leonard
Mayfield will compare the
educational systems of the
U.S. and Russia when he ad
dresses the weekly student
assembly at Southern Oregon
college at 10 a.m. Wednesday
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4th and Fir Streets
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