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10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday,- Feb, 7, 1960 Medford Senior J Receives Award For High Quality jliss Anne Clarkson Mat thews, daughter of Mr. and Blrs. Ralph Matthews, 601 Da kota St., Medford, has re ceived a certificate for her excellence in English language skills in the 1959-60 achieve ment awards program of the National Council of, Teachers of English. Miss Matthews, a senior at Medford High school, was one of about 800 to receive cer tificates after competing in rigid testing and judging among some 5,000 high school students from throughout the country. Medford High school also received a certificate com mending it for its English program from the national council. Sent to Colleges Miss Matthew's name will be sent to all of the nation's colleges and universities along jvith names of other winners with recommendations that they be considered for scholar ships. The NCTE adopted the achievement awards program in 1958 to grant recognition to high school students for excellence in English. A fol low-up survey of the first year winners showed that they had received more than $800,- 000 worth of scholarship aid when they entered college. The NCTE, a non-profit pro fessional organization, works with English teachers through publications, conventions, and other educational materials to help improve the teaching of English from kindergarten to the college level. Longest railroad tunnel in the world is the Simplon con necting Italy and Switzer land beneath the Alps. It is 12 miles long. RECEIVES CERTIFICATE Miss Anne Clarkston Matthews, center, receives a cer tificate from Mrs. Frances Ruck, Medford High school English teacher, for her excel lence in English language skills. Lester Har ris, principal at Medford High, holds an award the school received for its English program. Mrs. Ruck is English teacher at the high school. Medford High School Edited by Jim Frake. Staff: Sue Reule, Diane Mohr, Ann MacManama, Jim McCormack. E d o n a Pace. Rita McBeth. and Es ther Jacobs. Ann Matthews, senior, was notif ied last week that she has been named one of the top English students in the nation. Based upon competitive tests designed by the National Council of Teachers of Eng lish, Anne was selected among the eight . winners and run-ners-up in Oregon. Connie Paulsen has received a membership pin and certif icate showing that she is now a member of the McCall's Teen Fashion board. This has been awarded be cause of her outstanding achievement in sewing and clothing classwork, and has met all standards in the Na- ! tional honorary organization. Her nomination was made by her homemaking t ea c h e r, Ruth Hockersmith. The art department is mak ing plans for their annual trip to the Northwest High School Art exhibit. It will be held Feb. 19-21 in Portland. Seniors will be able to be gin ordering graduation an nouncements and individual name cards Wednesday. The sale will last about five days. Samples of . these will be shown in American problems classes for students to decide prior to ordering. Name cards must be paid for in full when making an order. Announcements will be paid for when they arrive this springs. An Oregon Health Careers day will be held April 9 for any junior or senior who is interested, but who has not previously attended. Careers day will take place on the campus of the University of Oregon medical school and at the university dental school. . Registration will start at 9 a.m. with an orientation pro gram following at 9:45 in the library auditorium of the uni versity medical school. Look to the Future . . . NATURAl-ly fit's GAS! Four panels, which will last about two hours, will form immediately after the orienta tion program. Students will then go to the Oregon museum of science and industry where they will be guests of the Ore gon State Medical Society for lunch. At the museum, stu dents may view health career exhibits, have an opportunity to talk with representatives of individual occupations, and visit general museum exhibits. Students attending will pro vide their own transportation. Al Carver, driver training teacher, states that he expects to have 81 students' in this semester's classes. The classes are held for six weeks and the students will receive driving certificates upon satisfactory completion of the course. Track practice began last week with three times for the first week. Only 32 boys have turned out for the spring sport, oCach Dean Benson has reported. This week practice will be held every day. The coach added that there were still many more hopefuls that would turn out later. m m n in UMVJJMM I for a if o limited time ony- TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE For your old Water Healer On a NEW GAS "DAY & NIGHT" Jetglass Water Heater! Chairmen for the junior-senior prom, to be held in May, met Thursday to discuss plans for the actual construction of I me props ana aecorauons nec essary. Mike Phillips, junior class president, called for reports of the various commttees, and announced that most all of the groups are ahead of schedule. Although the theme has been decided upon, the junior planning committees will not reveal the details until the night of the dance. Police Find Car, But No Driver Summoned to the scene of a one-car traffic accident Fri day, Medford city police found the car but no driver. Police said that early Fri day morning a car apparently made a right turn at the inter section of North Pacific high way and Table Rock rd., went up over a curb, striking and knocking down a state high way directional sign. When police arrived at the scene, they found the car with the front bumper and grill damaged, but no driver. Police checked the license number of the vehicle through the department of motor ve hicles in Salem and found the car to be registered to La verne Griffie of Hood River. A teletype message was sent to the Hood River police de partment but they are unable to locate Griffie. A check with the Oregon state police showed that the vehicle is not listed as stolen. Police have no idea where the driver can be and there was no indication at the ac cident as to whether or not the driver might be injured. Adult Classes Are Open for Enrollment Beginning judo is among adult education courses for which enrollment still is be ing accepted at Medford High school, according to Lindsay Vinsel, director of adult edu cation for' the Medford schools. . . " . Other classes include mil linery, cake decoration, inter national foods, beginning clothing, public speaking, bus iness law. basic mosaic, small boat seamanship, flower ar rangement, blueprint and me chanical drawing, beginning and intermediate typing, be ginning and . intermediate shorthand, briefhand and pub licity techniques. Information on the time and places of the classes can be obtained by calling the adult education office of the Med ford high school, Vinsel said. -( " a? 25 V in America'! finest water heater. Wa terproof Rustproof gives you ovor 30 mora hot water raster and mora economically. 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Robards was born and rais ed in Oregon. Following grad uation from college he started his lumber career with Wey erhaeuser company in 1932. His experience covered all phases of lumber and build ing material business and con struction field. SECURITY LAW Costa Rica passed a social security law in 1943. BLIND SCHOOL First U. S. school for th blind began in Boston in 1829. Oranges are considered ber-1 The Bourse is the Paris ries, botanically speaking. stock exchange. 3 BURK'S C Got a Valentine on the go! Then give Samsointe Streamlite The ligM-hearied luggagt that was made for adventure! Construction costs in the United States went up about 100 per cent from 1922 to 1929 and have risen 103 per cent since World War II. Police Investigate School Burglary Turner - (UPD - State police and Marion county sheriff's deputies are investigating a break-in at Cascade Union High school here Friday in which $526 was taken, along with a large quantity of food. Bullet Just Misses Policeman in Salem Salem OUT) A bullet whiz zed by a Salem policeman in a garage Friday where he was investigating a complaint of someone shooting out the garage windows. His 19 years in Alaska in clude several years as area engineer under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and as resident engineer, Alaskan dis trict, Corps of Engineers, with ' headquarters in An chorage, Alaska, a company official said. D. E. (Doc) Hazlett is new assistant manager at the Med ford lumber yard. For the last seven years, Hazlett has been auditor and chief supervisor of all Copeland lumber yards in southern Oregon, Califor nia and Nevada, an official noted. "Dependability is the new watch word of the lumber yard," Robards said. "Several changes will be made to em phasize quality, service and dependability. Copeland lum ber yard belongs to all in the Rogue valley." 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Main SP 2-4472 Bob Hamilton, ASB presi dent, will be in charge of the first teen-age program on KBES-TV Feb. 12 from S to 5:30 p.m. Each week a chairman and vice chairman will be selected from the student council to select a panel and other par ticipants from the program. Keith Berg, senior, will be vice chairman to help Bob, and he will head the next pro gram, Feb. 19. "Pygmalion." the senior class play, will be presented Feb. 18 and 19. Tickets for the production went on sale last week and may be pur chased from senior class mem bers, Purucker's Music house, and Barker's Men's store. Seniors who wish to sell tickets may pick them up in Room 6-b from Lenore Zapell, drama coach. Cash prizes will be presented to students sell ing the most tickets. Candidates for Student Gov ernment day offices had to have a petition signed by 15 seniors before they could run for ; office. Candidates for councilmen . could only have thein signed by people in their ward. Deadline for these petitions was Feb. 4. Each candidate was given a list, previously made by the steering committee, of regula tions for campaigning. Primary elections will be held Feb. 8 during all three lunch hours and from 3 to 3:30 in the auditorium. The general election will be held Feb.. 12. Student Government day, sponsored 'oy the Elk's lodge of Medford, will take place Feb. 24 and 25. Sugar Company Has New Packages The White Satin Sugar company now has newly-designed packages and bags of sugar on Jackson county store shelves, according to Harry Moss, White Satin sales man ager for Oregon. The new. design features a stylized sugar bowl in bright blue with the name "White Satin" on its face in white script, the sales manager said. On the one-pound packages, the sugar bowl lid and other parts of the box are. in colors cued to the specialty sugars inside such as ' powdered, brown, superfine, etc BEST WASHES, BOY SCOUTS, ON- YOUR GOLDEN JUBDUEE! nuwmuuaa mm hiiihiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiii oesnss swa dsnawwamm sea aw Ohrcr o mm stss Emu o n sQ ran o o OPUSES' '"SS'S' E3 lQlO 1Q60 fflElSAlf Congratulations to this nation's Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers and their adult leaders who are dedicated to building better citizens, a better com munity and a better world. It is with special pride that we salute this great organization on its Golden Jubilee! ..V .: '.' ' Insurance ( AGENT 11 "tttviy vou rtiT Ir Met. U. 8. fat. 0. f The men who proudly dis play this emblem, your local Independent Insurance Agents, believe that the .Scouts are worthy of your whole-hearted support and encouragement. i This salute is presented as a community service by . . 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