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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.
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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.
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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.
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DISCUSS POLICY Lt.Don O'Brien, Grants Pass flight
commander, left, and Lt. John Keener, Medford squadron
commander, discuss policies of the squadron at a recent
session. The Oregon wing of the Civil Air Patrol recently
announced that Grants Pass was made a detached flight of
the Medford composite squadron.
Personnel Changes in
Lumber Yard Announced
Cliff Robards, formerly of
Fairbanks, Alaska, is the new
manager of the J. W. Cope
land retail lumber yards in
Medford, a company official
announced Saturday.
Robards had been associated
with the Columbia Lumber
company of Alaska for 10
years before moving to Med
ford. There he managed sev
eral of the firm's retail yards.
He was sales manager and
general supervisor.
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
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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."
The lumber yard will open
at 7:30 a.m. and close at 6 p.m.
and be open all day Saturday,
it was announced.
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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
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