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MAIL TRIBUNI, Mtdfsid, Or. Greatest Period of Air Pollution Was Mazama Eruption The greatest period of air pollution for the Rogue river valley was probably the time after Mt. Mazama blew Its top and formed Crater Lake, but the greatest polluters of air are people. Today's generation is the first to be concerned on a large scale with the harmful effects of man-made air pol lution and only In recent years have effective, wide spread measures to control and minimize air pollution been undertaken. These statements are taken from an introduction to a re port received here by the city council Thursday from the Oregon state sanitary author ity. The sanitary authority conducted a six-month study into air pollution In Medford on request of the city council. The report points out that some remarkable results, once thought visionary and impos sible, have been achieved. Pittsburgh and St. Louis, for example, have cleaned their air and rediscovered horizons they had lost. 1 ' Cancercin strike anyone, but you can strike back! Cancer can be cured by early diagnosis and prompt, proper treat ment. Cancer can be arrested as research progresses. Your course is clear - an annual check-up for every mem ber of the family, a contribution to the American Cancer Society to help further cancer research, education, treat ment. Give today! The Independent Insur ance Agents who dis play this symbol urge you to "Fight cancer with a checkup and check." Get behind the American Cancer So ciety's 1960 crusade. Jackson County Association INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS Sunday, April 10, 160 . If these once-smoky indus trial giants, with investments in factories of many millions of dollars, could clean their air, smaller communities with pollution problems on a much smaller scale should be able to do it also, It was observed. Medford and the Rogue val ley is a region many have sought out either as tourists or as permanent and semi permanent residents as re lief from the smokes and smells and air-borne irritants of industrial metropolises, the report points out. The report states: "It would be shameful if the slogan 'It's the Climate' which the Kogue River-Crater Lake region has blazoned for years were to be replaced with a scornful 'It's the Smoke.1 "For Medford has, as Its residents are keenly aware, an air pollution problem one that In some periods be comes severe." SIZE COMPARED French Indo- China was larger In area than Texas. A GUARD YOUR FAMILY WwTlJjepenJttit 1 V Insurance 1 1 AGENT I iiy vow piMT f School Hedrick Junior High By VICKI TOENNIGES Report cards were given out Wednesday with a request to bring them back early. An urgent call has gone out from the vocal music depart ment for cellophane or green grass hula skirts to be used in the operetta. Full orchestra practiced Fri day in preparation for the orchestra and band contest to be held in late April. The Hedrick Junior High PTA will meet in the speech room April 11, at 8 p.m. En tertainment will be provided by the music department with Ron Bartlett in charge. Some of the art work that placed at the Scholastic Art contest is being displayed in the hall display window. Student council met Wed nesday and discussed school dances and the fence around the tennis courts. Sherry Lynn Dwight won the prize offered by the li brary for being the first per son to bring in a news article telling the purpose of library week. Short book reviews have News been included in the daily bulletin. Patsy Reed reviewed "Miss Charity Comes to Stay" by Constant. Janet Sherrill re viewed "The House of Sixty Fathers" by De Jong. Also of interest in the li brary is the display of old books and the science display in observation of National Li brary Week. Table tennis and shuffle board tournaments are being played during the noon activi ty period to determine the champions of the girls' physi cal education classes. Crater High School By LA VONNE LA FEVER Rae Burritt was chosen Girl of the Month for March. Tuesday during the Girls' League meeting, she was awarded the silver disk, on which was engraved, "Girl of the Month for March, 1960." This year, Rae is active in Quill and Scroll, honor soci ety; she is first vice president of Comettes, in student coun cil and on the Constellation staff. Rae is also a committee chairman for the Mother's Day tea. In addition, she was senior princess for the March of Dimes dance in January. Last year she was secretary treasurer of GAA. She was also a former Girls' League representative and an FHA member. . Monday, nominees for next year's student council officers made their campaign speeoh es for the student body and faculty of Crater High school. Winners of the primary elections, which were held Tuesday, were president, Gary Barber and Dave Foote; vice president, John Doherty and J i m Allen; secretary, June Hopkins and Judy Dan ials; treasurer, Judy Kimmey and Phyllis Woods; business manager, Jan Bateman and Gary Meade; and yell queen, Lea Taberna and Becky Fer rell. The general elections will be held Tuesday, April 12. Mrs. Lavoy Stipic and Mrs. Mary Rueber spoke to all girls in an hour assembly held Thursday. Mrs. Stipic, Portland, Is with Northwestern School of Commerce as an educational consultant. She was formerly a high school teacher, and previous to that, a physical education teacher. Mrs. Mary Rueber, also of Portland, is an instructor at Nancy Taylor Modeling, poise, and charm school. She teaches mainly proper walk ing and sitting. She is also an Instructor for Dorothy Car negie schools. Daniel Hays, the most ver satile reader, was the student who has so far this year read the greatest variety of books. He won a hi-fi record by Marty Robbins, "Gunfighters Ballads and Trail Songs." Dick Herbstruth, the most quiet, most appreciative stu dent In the library during the week, as judged by the library staff, won a Kinastnn Trio record. John Anhorn was also recognized for being the most quiet, most appreciative student in the library during the week. Marv Snvnirp th mnt nrlo. Inal in depicting our National Library Week them "rr,n Wonderful New World, Wake up and Head." She won Ten nessee Ernie Ford's Spiritu als. Linda Myrick, Edith Viar and Mrs. Bates won honor able mention for their poster and bulletin boards depicting national Library Week. Chief Efferlch, represent ing the United States Navy, Sergeant Lone, the Armv and Sergeant Elble with the u. a. Marines spoke on those branches of the service Wer nesday to inform boys Inter ested of the opportunities available in tha xrmori r. ices and to try and encourage mem 10 nnisn mgn school. Also on Wednesday, Mrs. Ileen Newton from United Air Lines spoke on aviation and stewardess training for all girls Interested in this field. The OlrU' Leagu. skating party was held Thursday. April 7. Buses left Crater for Grants Pass at 8 p.m. Approx imately SO students attended. Jeanette MacDonald Filts Damage Suit L o I Angeles OTP Singer Jcanette MacDonald Thursday filed a $7,800 damage suit against writer James Brough who helped her write her autobiography. Miss MacDonald charged Brough was paid a $2,500 ad vance but that his work on her book did not measure up to either her standards or those of (he publisher. Miss MacDonald's suit also seeks to nullify Brough's share of roy alties In the yet-to-be pub pished book. Annexation Proposals Placed On Ballot for May 20 Election The Medford city council Thursday night elected to place two annexation propos als on the May 20 primary bal lot. One is a 8-acre tract boun ded on the south by East Jack son St., on the west by Barne burg rd., and on the north by Oregon ave. It is in the center of a residential district, al ready in the city, and should be annexed so zoning regula tions could be npplied, City Manager Robert Duff told the council. The second area, approxi mately 48 1 acres in size, is bounded on the south by Mc Andrews rd., on the west by Riverside ave., on the north by the east and west line south of the KBES-TV prop erty. It was pointed out that the proposed new freeway will skirt this property on the east across Bear creek and some measures should be tak en to clean up certain objec tionable sites. . The council approved an ordinance to amend existing city code provisions concern ing the regulation of poultry located within the city by ad ding that all poultry shall be kept in a pen or enclosure. The city had received a petition bearing the signa tures of 83 residents asking that it be made unlawful for chickens to run at large within the incorporated city limits of Medford, Council approval was given to tentative plans and specifi cations for the Fourth st bridge and for the 10th at., ex tension from Riverside to Wil lamette aves. The council also approved a deposit of $5,000 with the Ore gon state highway depart ment for design and engineer ing inspection of the Fourth st. bridge, and $3,000 with the department for engineering and inspection of the proposed 10th st. bridge. Duff pointed out that the highway department is pro viding these design and in spection service at cost. He noted that their facilities are extensive and their personnel better qualified than the city's for this type of work. Bids for two Studebaker Larks were awarded to De- Leigh Motors co., which sub mitted the low net bid of $2, 647.34 for the two vehicles. Six firms submitted bids. One of the cars will be used by the public works di rector and the other will be a general administration car to be used by the airport, parks, planning and administrative assistant. The council granted permis sion for one extra-width 45 foot driveway to be located on Apple st. to the Witham Parts and Equipment company. A similar request for a drive way on North Riverside ave. was rejected. A 60-foot extra width driveway was approved for Dr. Robert DeLorme for his clinic at 1108 East Main st. A request from the Texas company for two 25-foot driveways at Jackson st. and Riverside ave. was approved. It was pointed out that the driveways will replace an ex isting 80-foot driveway. Bidder prequallfication statements for T. R. Florey, F. L. Somen and the Rogue River Paving company were approved by the council. F. L. Somers was also gran ted an extension of time on the contract completion date for the Groveland ave. storm sewer. It was pointed out that Salem-fllPD-Oregon commer cial fishermen have petitioned the State Agriculture Depart ment for a direct referendum aimed at establishing a state seafoods commission. DICK HOUSE The House of Insurance 113 EAST 8th Phone SP 3-6607 L tondJl agent j ""fcaBeV"'"' this project was completed on Feb. 20, I960, and the original specified completion date was Nov. 2, 1959. Duff said the ex tension was for legitimate reasons and cost the city no additional money. Hearings Held Two public hearings were held Thursday at which no spokesman either pro or con attended. One of these was for paving Country Club dr., from Sutter St., west 320 feet. The paving proposal was ap proved by the council, but a call for bids was delayed un til the next meeting pending more information on the mat ter. The second hearing was on a requested zone change at 1827 North Riverside ave., from residential to limited commercial. This change was 45,000 Books Are Available at SOC Ashland - Throughout the Oregon state system of higher education, a constant flow of library books is exchanged among the institutions to pro vide Oregon students with complete library facilities conducive to personal re search. "This sharing of volumes supplements the 45,000 books available to the students at Southern Oregon college," ac cording to Librarian Myrtle Funkhouser. The Southern Oregon col lege library is housed in a two-story modern building of reinforced concrete, complet ed In 1951. On the first floor the library of children's lit erature is maintained by Elea nor Everett, librarian of chil dren's literature, and her as sistant, Wanda Ruger. This special section is provided with an eye to SOC majors in elementary and secondary education. The second floor provides ample office and work space for the additional members of the library staff, and will seat 200 students. Here the volumes are shelved, and cataloged by the dictionary method, a cross filing by title, author, and subject matter. Catalog librarian is Lucy Ann Poucher. Reference Librarian Thorton Shivley, reference librarian, handles the special facilities offered by the main library, including wall maps and mounted art prints for circulation. The library main tains a newspaper room with over 15 state papers received daily. The Christian Science Moniter is also available, and both the Portland Oregonian and the New York Times are microfilmed from 1956 to the present. The library sub scribes to 400 periodicals which are bound for refer ence. A wide selection of phono graph records, covering the fields of drama, music, secre tarial skills, and languages, are offered for circulation. A special collection of over 300 paper-back books is now maintained by the Southern Oregon college library. "The quality of books being printed mm mm granted on recommendation of the planning commission. Two public hearings were scheduled by the council for its regular meeting April 21. One of these is for the South Riverside area sanitary sewer and the other for paving Ni antic st. This will be the sec ond public hearing on the sanitary sewer, it was pointed out, because after the sewer was approved following the first hearing several substan tial changes in plans were made. 'The council called for bids for excavation, embankment, curbs, gutters and base mater ial on the 10th st., extension from Riverside ave., to Will amette ave., and Siskiyou blvd., from the west line of IOOF cemetery to Highland dr. Bids were also called for In this manner is enabling 11' braries to take advantage of relatively inexpensive vol umes," Miss Funkhouser said. Special Section An additional special sec tion of the library is the col lection of text books for ele mentary, junior high, and sen ior high. An effort is made to keep the collection up-to-date and to include all of the texts on the adopted list for Ore gon. The first collection of ele mentary and Junior high school textbooks, totalling 760 volumes, was cataloged dur ing the school year of 1938-39. was begun in the spring of 1954. Mildred Johnson is the Sou thern Oregon college library, assistant in charge of circu lation. One of the unique fea tures of her service is the non existence of petty fines. The library handles all late re turns with concern about the individual circumstances, and levies fines accordingly. Advisory Group A faculty library commit tee appointed by Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, president of Sou thern Oregon college, serves as an advisory body to the librarian. Miss Funkhouser re fers specific problems to the five-man committee which acts as a Iiason between fac ulty and library. One member of the committee is retired each year and a new member appointed. M y rt 1 e Funkhouser has been with the Southern Ore gon college library since 1928, and now has a staff of eight members. Helen Sinko, li brary assistant, Joyce Rust catalog clerk, and Barbara Cornell, secretary, work di rectly under her supervision. "Our library has improved its facilities each year since its founding in 1926," she said. "With the added special services we are now provi ding, student at Southern Oregon college is able to lo cate reference material in al most every conceivable field of study. This we owe to ex pansion of our own facilities and expansion of libraries all over the Oregon state system of higher education." WARNING To Those Attending The Open House At 214 West Main St. (TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN) To View The Ingenious Ways Man Has Developed To Disguise The Light Globe Please Watch Where You Wander. There Are Several Low Hanging Fixtures That Block All Passage Except To The De termined. Please Attend (Between Two and Four Today) At Your Own Risk. Keep Your Eyes Open At All Times. I'-fnfrr paving on the 10th st. exten sion ironi Riverside ave., to Highland dr. License Applications Liquor license applications for the Club 100 Cafe, 40-42 North Front St., Summit Gro cery, 803 West Second St., and Walt's Grandview Market, 2330 Crater Lake ave., were deferred until the next meet ing. An application request from the Club 100 received a favorable 4 to 3 vote of the council, but it was not a ma jority because the Mayor and Councilman Robert Baccus were absent and it had to be deferred. The council approved the acquisition by the city of ap proximately .42 acre of land from the IOOF cemetery at a cost of $2,250. 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