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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Monday, Feb. 8, 1960 Qllt Oil a Limb By BOB WALTERS A story submitted the other day by Viola Rogers, our Tiller-Drew correspondent, made us a little curious. The story, which appeared on this page Friday, said nine Cub Scouts of Troop 91 had entertained at last Tuesday's meeting of the Tiller-Drew PTA. The boys explained the Cub Scout program and con cluded by giving what is known in Cub jargon as a "grand howl." Pretty routine, actually, ex cept that one of the Cubs was identified as "Charlie Porter." After all, it is an election year, and maybe . . . Naah, it couldn't be. The script writer for one of the terrorvision programs shown locally must have gotten his priv&le eye writ ing assignments confused with his westerns. Rory Calhoun, hero of "The Textn." had just ven tilated one of the town's belter-known citizens and was inquiring placidly about where he might hang his 45s for the night. "You'll have to pay cash for anything you get in this town," snarled a bystander. "That's all right by me." Calhoun replied coldly. "I've never had a charge account." ... so he finished his Martini, slipped behind the wheel of his Jaguar and drove slowly in to the sun set. Headed, of course, for his split-level home in the sub urbs. The Central Point Jaycees handled their awards banquet smoothly Thursday night, but we do have a suggestion. Why not nominate at least three persons, instead of only two, for the Distinguished Service award? ( A winner feels fine regard less of how many other candi dates there are, but a loser, if he had some company, cer tainly would feel a lot less embarrassed. So would the audience, for that matter. - Southern Oregon college had to hire two girls to re place one last week when Jani Pace turned in her SOC pennant to accept a position with a title insur ance company in Medford. Cynthia Rukovina took over as secretary to Infor mation Director Hugh Simp son and Virginia Smith is now secretary to Ray Pet ley, the general extension division's regional repre sentative. Day after day, the classified advertisement for the Lady Medford Beauty Salon is list ed under "Lost and Found." If you find it, please tell the owners. Rural Reflections By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley A farm er of the Upper Applegate has been doing little fancy math in order to convince his wife that his $200 power steering on his tractor is not too ex pensive. He says it costs him only 25 cents a week. P. S. Considering the nice bouquet handed this column in the Bob Walters depart ment last week, all due credit should go to Helga Mitchell, who started the idea in the Applegate-Jacksonville news column four years ago. Helga it at home nowadays at the Bear Creek plant by winter and at Squaw lake by sum mer, no doubt in the mean time adding unto her plans for writing a book oriwo and a column of her own someday. Cubs at Eagle Point Have Window Display Eagle Point Cub Scout Pack 48 has a window dis play at the Town and Coun try Dress shop on Main st. in observance of the golden anniversary of Scouting. "Scouting's Golden Year for God and Country" is the theme for the Scout O Rama to be held soon and Cubs will conduct a pre-ticket sale. All Scouts and children under 17 ( years of age will be admitted free if accompanied by an adult. Jacksonville Mrs. Henry D. Eiden and children Jeanie, 'A, and Lavina Carol, 2, were to leave from Medford airport last night en route to Frank furt Germany where they will join Air Force Staff Sergeant Eiden, who is stationed Jt Bit .burg. Sgt. Eiden is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. hi den, Jackson Creek rd. Eagle Point Hosts District FFA Meet By DOTTIE HARBISON Eagle Point - The Eagle Point Future Farmers of Am erica were hosts to the Rogue Umpqua District FFA Voca tional Skills contest Saturday for an all-day event with chapters from Central Point, Phoenix, Myrtle Point, Grants Pass, Marshfield, Illinois Val ley, and Eagle Point partici pating. Most of the contests end at the district level with the ex ception of the stunt talent and the project and chapter books divisions in which winners go to the state fair in Pendleton during spring vacation in March. The contest is de signed to provide special training and experience for the boys as well as the op portunity to work with other advisors and FFA boys. First, second and third place ribbons were awarded in each event. In the project book divisions, Ed Griggs of the Crater chapter was advi sor with John Ousterhout and James Bunker judging the ad vanced completed books. Don Ryan of Crater placed first, Bill Rassmussen of Phoe- A Late Christmas For Great-Grandma Jacksonville The tree and gifts had been ready for a long time and, last week, .Christmas, finally came to a Jacksonville great - grandmother, Mrs. W. A. Childers of Valley lane. Her granddaughter, Mrs. "Cotton" Cox arrived from Fresno, Calif, for the be lated celebration last week with her husband and three children. Randy, Sharyl and Susie. Other family members present included Mrs. Childers daughters. Mrs. Leonard McKee, Jack sonville, and Mrs. Bill Smith and Mrs. Clifford Wolff. Medford. Wiley Named to Head United Fund Ashland Howard Wiley last week was elected presi dent of the Ashland-Talent United Fund, succeeding Stan ley Jobe. C. M. Litwiller was chosen vice president, Dom Provost Jr. was elected treasurer and Thelma Tabor was re-elected secretary. Under the new state law, she also was named reg istered representative for the non-profit organization. Six new directors, Sid; Ainsworth, Paul Workman, Lyndel Newbry, Richard Isaacs, Dr. Alvin Fellers and Edd Rountree, were named to three-year terms. Jobe was re tained on the board as an ad visor for one year and Dr. Elmo Stevenson was named an honorary director. Honors, plaques, certificates and awards were made to sev eral organizations and indi viduals following a banquet held in Lincoln school Thurs day night. Floyd Vogel, outgoing chair man of the fund drive, was presented a plaque as was Richard Isaacs, assistant chairman. Fire Chief Issues Citizens' Reminder Eagle Point -David Kahl, Eagle Point fire chief, would like to remind citizens not to call the operator for at least five minutes after the sirens blow to inquire about the fire to enable the firemen to obtain the necessary informa tion themselves. Citizens are also reminded that it is in direct violation of the law to follow within 500 feet of a fire truck or park within one block of a fire truck or within three blocks of a fire. To report a fire, dial "O" for operator and be sure to speak slowly and distinctly giving the fol lowing information-the name and location of the fire in cluding the street-city and any helpful information. Above all don't forget the ad dress, Kahl added. IV Senior Wins Science Award Cave Junction Mark Nel son, senior at Illinois Valley High school, has won a Bausch and Lomb honorary science award for outstanding scholastic standing in science subjects and will be eligible to compete for a science schol arship to the University of Rochester. The award consists of a bronze medal which is pre sented at graduation in nearly 7,000 schools. Two to four of I me scnoiarsmps are awaraea J annually. nix second, and Elvin Hawk ins of Eagle Point third. David Woolf oik and George Gilman judged the beginning completed records with Chet C a s t o r of Phoenix placing first, Willie Debrick of Crater second and Dale Vaughn of Eagle Point third. Bob Lonzway and Bob Hayes were judges for the be ginning current records with Allen Bray of Crater first, Bob Ryan of Crater second, and John Patrick of Eagle Point third. Ryan's, Castor's and Bray's records will go to State. Chapter Scrapbooks Crater Chapter of Central Point received first place for the chapter scrapbook and will go to state. Grants Pass was second and Illinois Val ley third. Leonard Kokes of Marshfield was advisor with Clarence Davies and C. Hoov er judging. Crater Chapter received first place on its treasurer's book with Pete Melsted as treasurer. Phoenix with Ernie Bolz was second and Illinois Valley with Gerald Gibbson was third. Bill Mac Farlane of Crater was advisor and Bill Jess and Norman Barnes serv ed as judges. Eagle Point Chapter will go to state with their secre tary's book taking first place. Dale Vaughn is secretary. Phoenix took second with Mike Lowery as secretary and Crater with Don Ryan took third. Bill Mac Farlane was advisor and Shy Callaghan and Allen Barnes were judg es. Danny Day of Eagle Point and King of Myrtle Point tied for first place and Steve Kes ler from Phoenix and J. Pat rick of Eagle Point and Steve Williams of Grants Pass all tied for third place in the rope work division. Norman Burgess of Myrtle Creek was advisor for the group with Cliff Moore and Ray Dowell judging. In the grass, legume, and weed identification division, Wendell Seat of Illinois Val ley was first, Marvin Barzel of Myrtle Point second, and Frank Dyball of Eagle Point third. Wally Eickler of Illi nois Valley was advisor. Agricultural Math Agricultural math found Stephen Kesler of Phoenix placing first, Madison Patuck of Eagle Point second and Steve Carroll of Eagle Point third. Ashton Forest of Grants Pass was advisor. Henry Milner of Illinois Valley placed first in oxy acetylene cutting, Dan Mers- seman of Illinois Valley was second, and Donald Mitchell of Crater third. Gene Streight, Pacific was advisor with Nat Etzel and Ed Learning as judges. David Doss of Myrtle Point placed first in brace cutting with Dan West of Myrtle Point second, and Everett Adamson of Eagle Point third. Jack Dube of Phoenix was ad visor with Don Mc Govern as judge. In the beginning arc weld ing contest - Jim Walker of Crater placed first, Tom Kim ball of Crater second, and Da vid Kissell of Myrtle Point third. In the advanced arc weld ing Don Pestka of Eagle Point placed first, Elvin Hawkins of Eagle Point second, and Ron Kirsch of Myrtle Point third. Nat Etzel was advisor for both groups and Ed Learning judg ed both groups. Spelling Contest Chet Castor of Phoenix edg ed Steve Pfuger of Illinois Valley for first place in the spelling contest. Bill MacFar lane of Crater was advisor. Illinois Valley placed first, Crater second, and Phoenix third in the stunt contest. Ed Griggs was advisor. Donald Carnes of Eagle Point won first place with his accordion solo in the individu al talent contest with "Rogue Ramblers" of Crater second, and "Sufferin Seven" of Phoenix third. Jack Dube of Phoenix was advisor with Charles Martin and James Bunker judging both stunt and talent contests. Nat Etzel, Eagle Point chap ter advisor expressed his ap preciation to everyone who helped make the contest possible. 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 Doitie Harbison, HI 6-3274 Gold Hill-Sams Valley Mary Kell, UL 5-1126 Hilts Mrs. M. F. Cavin Hornbrook Katherine Chapman, GR 5-3586 Illinois Valley Margaret Crowl Jacksonville Bette Hoskins. TW 9-1209 Phoenix-Talent Joe Cowley, KE 5-2918 McLeod Carolina Harding, TR 8-2260 Meadows Nellie Bergman, HI 6-1267 Prospect Frances Ring, UN 9-2211 Rogue River Myrtle Whipple. JU 2-1141 Shady Cove Evalyn Watson. TR 8-2251 Table Rock R. E. Nealon, TA 6-2097 Tiller-Drew Viola Rogers Yreka-Montague Carol Petersen Crater Teacher Named to Attend Guidance Course Don Miller Begins 16 Weeks' Training By DORIS HUGHES Central Point Don Miller, a. member of the Crater High school teaching staff, is one of 35 teachers to attend the University of W a s h i n gton Training Institute. The 16-week course, which begins today and lasts through Mav 27. is nrovided under au thority of the National De fense Education Act. Teach ers from Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Ore- DON MILLER Attends Guidance Course gon, Utah, Washington and Guam will attend. The teachers will devote full time to concentrated preparation for guidance po sitions to which they will be assigned when they return to their home districts. Qualifications for selection included a minimum of two years successful teaching ex perience; a minimum of three semesters or five quarter hours credit in guidance courses beyond the bachelor's degree, and recommendations by the school principal and district superintendent con cerned. As one of the enrollees, Miller will be trained to estab lish a counseling program and to identify able students and guide them into fields in which their capabilities lie. The training will enable Miller to set up such a pro gram upon his return to Cra ter High school. His work will be of a' confidential nature--seeing a problem from a stu dent's viewpoint and helping him to find a solution. Numerous educators, con sultants and lecturers will guide the course. Miller, a teacher at Crater High school for the past three years, will be temporarily re placed by Stanley Gilmore, who is from Nebraska. As in the past, Miller will be in charge of the Central Point summer activities pro gram. Woman Misses 25th Great-Grandchild Hornbrook-Had Mrs. Mary Shinar lived only a few more days, she probably would have seen her 25th great grandchild. Mrs. Shinar, who died at 87 years of age, was buried Jan. 23. The following day, Glen E. Shinar Jr. was born in Ashland to Mr. and Mrs. Glen E. Shinar. Mrs. Shinar's two sons, Thomas Parr of Seattle and George E. Parr of Burney, Calif , saw their mother shortly before her death. It was the first time the broth ers had met in 42 years. Also : attending the funeral were Mrs. Shinar's two daughters, Mrs. Emma Kin ney and Mrs. Edna Clawson, and two granddaughters, Mrs. Donna Abner and Mrs. Lu cille Underwood, all of Klam ath Falls. ATTENDS MEETING Eagle Point-Postmaster and Mrs. James A. Wallis attend ed the recent state postmas ters' workshop in Salem. SOC Announces Dads' Day Plans Ashland Highlighting the Tenth Annual Dad's Day at Southern Oregon college Feb. 13 will be an evening banquet with an after-dinner speech by Dr. Arthur Kreisman. Dr. Kreisman, chairman of the humanities division at SOC, will discuss "Technical and Liberal Education," it was an nounced by Wayne Paulsen, program coordinator. Registration for the Dads will tiegin Saturday at 1 p.m., to be followed an hour later by the annual Dads Associa tion meeting. Visiting moth ers will be guests at a tea in Suzanne Homes hall during the afternoon, and both groups will be given conduct ed tours of the campus later in the day. The annual event, sponsor ed by Theta Delta Phi, men's scholastic honorary on com pus, will be concluded by a basketball game and dance Saturday night. The Red Raiders meet Ore gon College of Education in McNeal pavilion at 8 p.m. for an Oregon Collegiate confer ence game. The Ugly Man on Campus contest will be held at the after-game dance to solicit money for March of Dimes program. Officials Complete Troop Rechartering Eagle Point - The troop committee of Boy Scout Troop 48 met recently with Don Kimmell, . sponsoring institu tion president, and Harry Barneburg of the Big Pines council, to complete rechart ing of the troop. Twenty boys were re-registered and plans also were dis cussed for the Explorer Scout post sought for this area. Any boy 14 or older who is in terested in the program may contact Mike I'.aiser or Harry Hanscom for further details. SPRECKELS SUGAR 10-Lb. Bag SEGO MILK BABY FOOD DETERGENT PEAS Tomatoes 39 Apples r THRIFTY GREEN STAMPS, Medford Store dot. Council Discusses Pollution Problems By DORIS HUGHES Central Point A delega tion of citizens attended last week's Central Point city council meeting to discuss air pollution and fall-out from the burners of the Central Point area. Ed Collins of the Mt. Piit company discussed instruc tions and suggestions given by the state air pollution board following an inspection in November. He discussed with the council improve ments which he had made, including new grates for the burner. He mentioned writing to them a month ago to get an other performance. An air pollution test was made from the top of Rogue Valley Creamery, results of which revealed too much ash falling in the area, he said. The Council expressed ap preciation to Collins for his cooperation in attempting to help solve the problem. Fur ther consideration of the prob lem will be taken up at the next meeting of the council. Bacon Attends Omar Bacon, head librarian at the Public Library of Med ford and Jackson county, and Mrs. L. Mentzer, chairman of the Jackson County Library board, attended the meeting. Also attending were Mrs. Don Faber and Mrs. R. D. Kay of the Central Point Garden club. Under discussion was a re quest to keep the Central Point library open 30 hours per week. The council voted to send a letter to the county court asking for a longer period of open doors at the library. Bacon presented personal library cards to Mayor Free man Mason and council mem bers and answered their ques tions concerning new policies. Legal action was taken by the council to clear the title of the property owned by the Central Point Church of Help Yourself Tall Tins Gerbe Strain Oregon Food Giant Size Tastewell 303 Tins PRODUCE 3129 GREEN STAMPS Ashland Store Christ. In January of 1946, at the time of the purchase of the south 112 feet of the lots, the church was not incorpor ated. Request Approved Another action taken was approval by the council of a request to furnish water to the hospital. Vernon Capps and Lyle Paull were instructed by the mayor to make a study of the necessity of establishing a policy concerning the filling of excavations crossing city streets. The settling of such excavations, when not prop erly filled, has been a cause of complaints by residents. It was agreed that anyone dig ging across the street should leave it in as good a condition as he found it. The next regular meeting of the council will be at 7:30 p.m., March 1, at the city hall. Water Problems Meeting Tonight Phoenix A public meet ing on water problems spon sored by the Phoenix city council will be held at 7:30 tonight in the grade school gym, announced Mayor A. H. MacKintosh. "We need pumps, pipes, clorinators, and electrical equipment to efficiently and economically provide water for our growing community," MacKintosh explained. "These improvements are expensive and we wish to dis cuss the several methods by which they can be financed," he added. MANAGER NAMED Central Point -Mrs. Anna Iverson is the new manager of the Royal Neighbors of America chapter here, accord ing to an announcement by Mrs. August Sukow. Mrs. Iverson will serve one year. MARCO DOG FOOD $J00 No.l Cans i79 PUREX BLEACH 1075" KLEENEX 59 PEACHES 10H 00 APPLESAUCE i OBEflOH Fwl SfOBES MEDFORD ASHLAND 13th and Central 1475 Siskiyou Blvd. PRICES EFFECTIVE THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT Dr. Bowman Wins ICA Appointment Ashland - Dr. Eugene Bow man, professor of mathematics and education at Southern Oregon college, will leave next month for Quito, Ecua dor for a two-year administra tive position, the college has announced. Dr. Bowman has been chosen as a teacher education advisor with the Internation al Cooperation administration, an agency of the state depart ment. Before coming to SOC in L I j DR. EUGENE BOWMAN Chosen for Position 1947, Dr. Bowman was an instructor at Coeur d'Alene Junior college and superin tendent of schools in Rock- ford, Wash. He received his master's degree from the Uni versity of Idaho and his doc torate from the University of Oregon. The Journal of Edu cational Research, Peabody Journal of Education and the Oregon Education Association Journal have all published works by the professor. Dr. Bowman will report to Washington, D. C. in March for three weeks indocrination followed by two months of Spanish language training. His family, Mrs. Ida Bowman and children Bill and Vir ginia, will join him in Ecu ador at the close of the Ash land school year. SUFFERS KNEE INJURY Tiller - Drew Vernon Mc Nees of Drew suffered a knee injury recently when he slipped and fell while work ing at the Lake Pleasant mill. He was taken to Forest Glen clinic where five stitches were required to close the wound. WESSON OIL Quart Bottle 400 Count Aqua White Yellow Pink Bagley Freestone 2Yz Tastewell 303 Tins MEATS Ground BeePib.49 Beef Roast . 9 U.S. CHOICE & GOOD Regional Calendar Eagle Point - District 9 Classroom Teachers associa tion will meet at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Elk-Trail school. Included in the busi ness meeting will be a report by the nominating committee. Shady Cove -The Rogue Wonderland association will sponsor a public meeting at 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 15, at the Rogue River lodge. Speak er for the evening will be a state highway department of ficial who will tell of plans for improvement and mainte nance of Crater Lake high way. Eagle Point -The Eagle Point Home Extension unit will meet at the home of Mrs. Robert Meyer on Ball rd. at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11. A discussion of forthcoming projects will highlight the business meeting. Anyone is welcome to attend. Sams Valiey-First through eighth grade pupils at Sams Valley school will hold Valen tine parties beginning at 1:30 p.m., Friday, according to Principal Russell Carr. CP to Open Bids for City Hall Feb. 16 Central Point -Lyle Paull, city administrator, announced that bids have been called on the Central Point City Hall plan and are to be opened Feb. 16. New plans and new specifi cations have been drawn to meet new requirements. In terest has been shown by four local building contractors, six in Medford, two in Eugene, two in Portland and two in Grants Pass. Sams Valley Students of j the Sams Valley Elementary school of District 6C present ed cash donations to the Jun ior Red Cross, Principal Rus sell Carr reported. The con tributions will benefit veter ans at Camp White as well as other places. (3331 Hi CC t Vi Gal. 4T 41 00 8T ONLY RICE ROIMI i 33 u i)
