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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1960)
1 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or. A Monday, March 28, 1960 Out .on a Limb By BOB WALTERS A Guided Tour When we first came to southern Oregon a few months ago, we saw a sign alongside highway 99 which pointed in the general direc tion of a good-sized chunk cf snow-capped rock. "Mt. Mc Loughlin," the sign read. Thinking this a handy b!t of information, we filed it mentally and a few days later commented -to an acquaint ance about how beautiful we thought Mt. McLoughlin was. The comment was received with a cold-eyed stare. "You mean Mt Pitt," snapped the friend. End of conversation. Since then, we've been un able to get a reasonable ex planation of why we should call Mt. McLoughlin Mt. Pitt. Decided, however, that it's probably wiser to go along with the Oregonians of long standing. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Or something like that. But a few problems remain We're expecting visits from a relative or friend or two this summer and feel we should have some pat answers for the questions that are bound to come. The one about the moun tain will be easy. We'll just glare at the questioner for the proper period of time (at least a minute and a half) and say, "It's Mt. Pitt." Nothing more. Other questions could be trickier, though, so we've worked out a few replies: Visitor: "How did Klamath Falls get its name? I don't see a waterfall." Walters: "Well, there was this little tribe of Indians liv ing down around Los Ange les, see, and they decided they'd pack up and move. They were losing about two ponies a day on the freeway. So the Indians-there were 43 of them, plus a Chinese cook and an Italian public relations man-told their leader, a big, burly guy named Klamath, that they'd follow him until he was too tired to go any further. They agreed to make their new home wherever he stopped. "So they walked for days and days and finally ole Klamath couldn't take anoth er step. He dropped flat on his face from exhaustion. " 'Look," whooped one of the tribe. 'Klamath falls!' "And that's where they set tle, see?" Visitor: "Oh. Well, how about Grants Pass?" Walters (with a yawn): "Simple. There was this guy named Grant, see, who was a private in the Union army during the Civil war. He was stationed back East some where and one day his com manding officer told him to take the week end off because the troops were going into battle pretty soon. "Now Grant wasn't over joyed about the possibility of getting shot in the head, so he married his grade school sweetheart and they climbed in her covered wagon (which was why he married her; he couldn't afford a wagon on a private's salary) and they headed West. They came to Oregon, built a little cabin up the highway a piece and start ed having little Grants. "Pretty soon other travel ers and their families began settling there and now it's a thriving community. And all because the army gave Grant a pass!" Visitor: "Say, that's really interesting. Now tell me about Gold Hill-did they really find gold there?" Walters: "No, the name's a mistake, in fact. "Many, many years ago this area was having probably the coldest winter in its history and the coldest place was about 13 miles north of Med ford. No one even wanted to go up there, because every one who did came back say ing that it was 'just colder'n h-!" "A lot of people have made their home there and the win ters have been pretty mild since then, of course, but that description of the area seem ed to stick. People started running their words together, though, and pretty soon everyone was calling it Gold Hill." Visitor: "Amazing! You know, I just can't understand how you've learned so much about southern Oregon in such a short time!" Walters: "Easy. I'm a liar." ' ,lir,.. THE JIM FOSSENS AND THEIR PREFABRICATED HOME Houses Go Up in Double Quick Tim Applegate Resident Builds Prefab Homes in Spare Time By MAUDE ZIEGLER Mail Tribune Correspondent Applegate Valley - There is no stormy weather that is go ing to beat Jim Fossen out of a day's work. He is a builder of houses in the winter, as a side line, and does his own prefabricating in the comfort of a shop. When the weather clears he sets the house up and has the roof on in a few days. Fossen works at logging for eight or nine months of the year, and has carpentry as a winter oc cupation. He doesn't know just how nor when he got started at the business of prefabrication, but ever since his year each of shop and mechanical draw ing in high school in Aikin, Minn., he has studied build ers' magazines and has gain ed experience at remodeling and building from time to time. , Secret of Plan He says the secret of his unique building plan is the "W" truss rafters allowing ceiling joists and rafters built in one unit. This allows flexi bility in placing partitions be cause the trusses are self-sup porting He builds the sides in panels District 6 Schools Work On Choral Music Program By MARY KELL Mail Tribune Correspondent Gold Hill-Charles A. Mey er, superintendent of District 6 schools, has announced that he is interested in developing a choral music curriculum program that will coordinate with the elementary schools throughout the district, which includes Central Point, Sams Valley and Gold Hill. Principals of the various schools and music teachers met with him recently to dis cuss preliminary plans for such a program, giving con sideration to the classroom singing aspect. The committee includes Russell Carr, Sams Valley Elementary school; Bill Brewster, Jewett Elemen tary school; George Johns, Central Point Elementary and Junior High schools; Arthur Straus, Crater High school, and Gilbert A. Mack, Patrick and Hanby Elementary schools in Gold Hill. Music teachers Mrs. Ruth Brewster, Marvin Throne, Mrs. Joanne Sousa and Norman Carothers, .as well as Bob Lawrence, as a music consultant, from the county office complete the committee. Program Suggested The superintendent suggest ed that a program be worked out that would help to keep the same enthusiasm among children of all ages as is found in the primary depart ment. He said the proposed program would coordinate classroom singing in grades one through eight throughout the district, and he wants to cordinate vocal music in the junior high grades so that it will correlate with the Crater High school program. 1 The Oregon Education sys tem recommends that music should be a continuing pro g r a m in the elementary grades, with consideration given to the variation of in terests and abilities. The committee indicated they would prefer a program that would include supervised music in each classroom, with the classroom teacher acting the role of instructor for the morning opening exercises, and instruction by the regular music teacher twice a week for classroom music. The spe cial music teacher of each school would continue to di rect the choral groups which already are a pari of each school's curriculum. Second Meeting Held A second planning meeting was held in the band room at Crater High school last Wed nesday by the regular music teachers of District 6 schools to outline a program that will be presented for approval at the next meeting of the Dis trict 6 Music Curriculum com mittee, which will be held in the band room at Crater High school this Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Marvin Throne, music teacher at Hanby Elementary school, said other music teach ers who are preparing the new curriculum program are Mrs. Joan Sousa, Central Point Elementary school and Mrs. Lorna Meyer, Junior High school; Mrs. Ruth Brew ster, Sams Valley and Jewett Elementary schools; and Mrs. Marie Brannock, Patrick Ele mentary school. Bob Law rence also met with them last Wednesday. A combined cuorus consist ing of elementary and 'Junior high pupils from the different schools of District 6 will pre sent a Music Festival on May 13 at the Central Point Ele mentary and Junior High schools. SC Fire Chief Warns of Hazards Shady Cove - Trail - Athel Dudley, acting fire chief of the Shady Cove - Trail fire department . he would like to remind ' residents to see that a; . ry grass around buildings and all oth er fire hazards are removed before the hot, dry summer sets in when the fire danger will be at its peak. Those who have a great deal of dry grass to burn are requested to get in touch with the volunteer fire department and arrange to have some help standing by. Another aid -in preventing fires, the chief said, is to see that all old bottles and other pieces of broken glass, and tin cans are picked up since many grass fires are started from sun rays reflecting on them. BF Residents Meet To Discuss Hazards Butte Falls-The Butte Falls town council met recently with property owners to dis cuss probable fire hazards to the town with the fire season rapidly approaching. A decision was made to burn all brush and waste ma terials from the old railroad line to the property lines cir cling Butte Falls. Volunteer help is requested and several volunteers have worked to get the project underway. Lone Pine - Lone Pine safe ty patrol members went to the I Bedford police station on a f ;!d trip recently. They were iven instructions on safety and how to prevent accidents. 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 Dotfie Harbison, HI 6-3274 Gold Hill-Sams Valley Mary Kell. UL 5-1126 Grandview-Lone Pine Dot Simmons. SP 2-9676 Happy Camp Happy Camp H.S. Journalism t Class; Deanna Dunn Ho'rnbrook Kalherine Chapman, GR 5-3586 Illinois Valley Katherine Scott. 5203 Jacksonville Bette Hoskins, TW 94209 McLeod Caroline Harding, TR 8-2260 Meadows Nellie Bergman, HI 6-1267 Montague Carol Peterson Phoenix-Talent Joe Cowley; KE 5-2918 Prospect Frances Ring. UN 9-2211 Rogue River Cecile Camden, UL 5-1569 Shady Cove Evalyn Watson, TR 8-2351 Table Rock R. E. Nealon. TA 6-2097 -Tiller-Drew Viola Rogers Yreka Ruth Middleton, VI 2-2807 . four by eight feet or eight by eight with openings for doors and windows and spray paints the priming coat on exterior walls. This is done in a shop owned by his father, Ed Fos sen, Upper Applegate dairy man, and all the walls can be set up in one day. The Fossen homes go up in double quick time, too, be cause Fossen's family, includ ing his wife, his parents, and his brother, Don, turn out in the old fashioned way in lend ing a hand. Pre-Cuis Lumber Fossen has built two rental houses at Ruch, and is start ing to build his own home there, and since it is a split level design and too compli cated for pre-fabrication, he is pre-cutting the lumber. His next job will be to build his own shop on his Ruch prop erty which he purchased from the Buckley estate. He also has designed and built two pre-cut rental houses for his father Fossen, who is 31, is em ployed with T. W. McFadden, Timber Products contract log ger. The Fossens came here from Minnesota eight years ago. They have a son and daughter, aged nine and eight. Rural Reflections By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley -Dana Gearhardt is wondering how she is going to go about mak ing kangaroo steaks and kan garoo tail brawn as she stud ies the recipes in a cook book received from her letter friend in southern Australia, where kangaroo is a favorite wild meat. Her cook book is in the form of calendars with pud dings, cakes and meat dishes for every day of the year. The Australians make their hamburgers by mixing a prep aration similar to American meat loaf, Dana says. DEMONSTRATION GIVEN Lone Pine - The Lone Pine school staff met recently with Oak Grove and Wilson school staffs at Wilson school for, an artificial respiration demon stration o n mouth-to-mouth breathing. The demonstration was given by a representative from the California Oregon Power' company. 25 WORDS THE COMMUNISTS FEAR! They are your own words! The 25 words of truth you send to he broadcast behind the Iron Curtain. Six Top Entries Win Free Trips to Europe! Yes, the writers of the six best truth messages will be flown to Europe, together with a member of their family. While in Europe they may broadcast their very own words behind the Iron Cur tain over Radio Free Europe. Other prizes include 200 Halli crafter short-wave radios. A complete set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica will go to the best additional entries from each state. 256 prizes in all! Here's how to enter the 1960 Radio Free Europe Truth Mes sage Contest! Simply complete this sentence in 25 additional words or less : . "I believe the most important thing people behind the Iron Cur tain should know is " Send your entries te; CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM Box 10-P, Mount Vernon, N. Y. . r ctafftty. tifiosrihf end wiafJMietv. CmiH dww Aaril 30. 160. At CMMboNwH MKtand wilh wririn t ia HMk otintfy to ltd. Fnw Earopc Published as a public service in cooperation with The Advertising Council and the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association. IV Firemen Build New Firehall By KATHERINE SCOTT Mail Tribune Correspondent Illinois Valley - The Illinois Valley volunteer fire depart ment is erecting a new and larger firehouse at a site one fourth of a mile east of Cave Junction on the Oregon Caves highway. There are three units in the valley and each has its own equipment and members. One is located in Cave Junction, one in Selma and one in O'Brien. Members in the val ley department number in the 40s. AH units hold a combina tion business and social meet ing the first Tuesday of each month and each unit has an individual monthly meeting. Selma unit meets the second Wednesday of each month, Cave Junction the third Tues day and O'Brien on the third Friday. Dates for drills are set at the unit meetings and the board of directors meet the last Tuesday of each month. The depart ment also is starting a training program for men 18-21 years of age who are interested in becom ing firemen. Training sessions will be conducted in the O'Brien firehall the second Tuesday of each month. Butte Falls PTA Stages Program to Raise Funds Butte Falls-The Butte Falls PTA recently held its annual money making project for the year, a combination Spaghetti dinner, slave sale and auc tion, at Butte Falls High school. Randall Perkins showed forest service movies and William B. Hunter, superin tendent of Butte Falls schools, was master of ceremonies for the evening. Remainder of the program consisted of two numbers by the Mothersing ers, a piano selection by Mrs. Leth Meadows and a duet by Mrs. Virgil Conley and Mrs. William Harris. Everett Elrod of Shady Cove served as auctioneer for the evening. Project chairmen included Andy Hamstra and Leonard Stratton, slave sale and auc tion: Mrs. Leonard Stratton, publicity; Mrs. Harry Dalton, dinner and cooking; Mrs. Vir gil Conley and Mrs. Henry Tygart, purchasing; Mrs. Duane Burton, set-up; Mrs. Bill Lytle, serving, and Mrs. Randall Perkins, decorations. Proceeds will be used to meet budget requirements for the year. Regional Calendar Applegate Valley - The Ap plegate Farm Bureau group will hold their first meeting at the home of the president, Martin Grier, at 8 p.m. to morrow. All members and persons wishing to become members are invited. Come in and sign up chicks, to be given away & April 7th. Limited Red Cockerels per person for your free tJm ay April 4th amount. 10 V-jfc f rson. I , TSmf- Si ALBERS FEED & FARM SUPPLY 330 N. Fir f . . . to cash in on Offer Ends March 31 e Until that date your favorite electric dealer or plumber is authorized to offer you a $20 BONUS ALLOWANCE $20 in addition to your dealer's allowance, for any old water heater traded for a new, quick-recovery ELECTRIC WATER HEATER $20 BONUS ALLOWANCE $20 in addition to your dealer's allowance, for any old range . traded for a cool, clean, fast MODERN ELECTRIC RANGE UNTIL MARCH 31, THAT OLD RANGE OR WATER HEATING DEVICE IS A REAL GOLD NUGGET! TRADE NOW PUT . . CONVENIENCE IN YOUR HOME MONEY IN YOUR PURSE! 7 r ASK YOUR FAVORITE DEALER FOR DETAILS qra V
