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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1960)
I MAIL TRIBUNI, Msefere', Or. 1 I Fridty, April 22, 1960 Tablets By Table Rock-The secretary's report of Easter Sunday'! sea don of the local Sunday School gave the attendance at 55. with 100 per cent of the members present. There were 18 men present, which was a record for some time. The Easter lesson, an appro priate program, and Easter sermon, by Garland Shlnn, A S. Union missionary, and the Easter egg hunt for the youngsters concluded the ses sion. ' John Caird. a ctrtifltd appraiser from the county aisetsor's office, was out lhU way Tuesday, getting data on the local irrigation ditch, its shareholders, the acreage under irrigation, the amount of water used, and types of soil. Accord ing to him, all property within the boundaries of district 6-C will be reap praised this year, as many of them need adjustment, and the assessor does not go along with the scheme to make a blanket per cent raise on all property. Caird says the appraisal will likely show some raise in property values. ' White City is first in the new telephone directory, and Elwood Abbott is the first name In the book, which makes it easy to find. We like this, as we get news from around the Sams Valley area from the Abbotts. Mrs. Cuy Nelson received a letter a few days ago from a friend in California tell ing her about reading in the M.T. the many chores .performed by Happy, the Nelson's collie watch dog. If Happy realises how we have spread his fame, may be he won't growl at us the next time we go snoop ing around the Nelson farm, -. i The sudden death of Rob ert McMullen, an employee of the Darling dairy, occurred Tuesday at the farm house where he and his wife had lived for several months. Graveside services were held Friday at the I.O.O.F, ceme tery in Grants Pass. We felt there was a bit of irony on last Friday's page one of the M.T. where it was stated in one column thai a $1,000 per year raise for elected county officials .had been approved, and in another a county official had atated that the county had paid all it could to the hospitals for the care of in digent patients. It reminded us of what the late Alex Sparrow told us when he was county Judge. He said he had Just attended meeting of judges and commissioners in Portland, and it seemed to him the main business of those attending was to try to gat their salaries raised. This he refused to go along with. His salary, if we remember right, was $1.(00 or maybe $2,000 a , year. Salaries those days were set by the legislature. He was asked if he couldn't be a belter judge, and serve his county better if he got a salary of $2,500 or more. He answered by i saying he was doing the very best he could, and wouldn't do any different if he got twice as much, and thought a person should be willing lo go beyond the mere standpoint of money for the love of his country. This was his way of look ing at it, and doesn't imply that the recent boosts were not needed, for after all the budget committee should know whether they were or not. As to donations to the , hospitals, we think those ; who sell the stuff that puts . men in the gutter should ' contribute or at least thty j should help support thtir offspring. . We were talking with Don Faber (little Don) recently, and he told us of the terrific loss they sustained in the re cent warehouse fire in Mod ford. There is some Irony In this story as the Fabcrs sell lire Insurance, but had very )ittle on the burned building and contents. This must be family tradition, as we re rn ember Don's grandpa, E. C. Feber, who sold insurance on the side, while he ran a uro eery and clothing store, which caught fire one night, and Was considerably damaged, and carried no insurance, Well, anyway, no one can lay the Fobor's "burn, outs" are Insurance fires. A state highway crew was ; setting slakes tlhrough her Tuesday, and reported that paving operations will commence in 30 days, when the road from the Modoc . 1 ' : . - Summer Recreation Board Sets Meeting Br MARY KELL Mail Tribune Correspondent Gold Hill - A meeting of the summer recreation board, which consists of representa tives from several different community groups, will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Hanby school cafeteria. Tentative plans for a pro posed summer recreation pro gram for youngsters of this area have been discussed at two preliminary sessions of the board. Gilbert A. Mack, principal of Patrick and Hanby Ele mentary schools of district 6 was elected at the last meet ing of the board to serve as general chairman of the sum mer recreational board. Leon Myers, teacher and coach at Hanby, was named recreation al director by the group. Two Instructors The summer recreation pro gram will hire two qualified Instructors to be in charge. It is estimated that the mini mum expense will be about $750 for a six-week program which would consist of three hours a day, five days a week. Flooring Business Opened in Yreka Hornbrook-A new business, Modern Floors, was opened last week In Yreka by Loren Cummins in partnership with C. H. (Chuck) Ling of Yreka. Both men have been em ployed for several years by Turner i Furniture store, lay ing plastic tile, floor cover ings and plastic wall tile. They have taken courses from the Armstrong installation school, and will attend a re fresher course in June. They will do custom work in homes or offices. Both Cummins and Ling are natives of Siskiyou coun ty. Cummnis, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob Cummins, makes his home in Hornbrook where his wife, Ruth, is a teacher in the local grammar school. They have two chil dren, Loren Howard, a stu dent at Yreka high school, and Jennifer, who attends ele mentary school here. In addition to his floor cov ering work, Cummins also is the high school bus driver for the Hornbrook area, a posi tion he has held for many years. GaieUe Grange to Dedicate New Hall Yreka Gazelle Grange will dedicate its new hall at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The state Grange master will be in charge of dedication ceremonies. The former Grange hall was destroyed by fire about two years ago. Following Sunday's cere monies, i a dinner will be served. The public is Invited. Gazelle Grange recently In itiated a class of about 60 candidates with the Green horn Grange degree officiat ing at the ceremonies. Siskiyou to Have Hay-Pellet Mill Yreka Siskiyou county will have a potrable hay-pellet mill shortly after the first of June. Owners will be Mr. and Mrs. John Cawley of Yreka. Manager -operator will be Leonnrd Shelton. The mill will be available to all farm ers In the county. Myers was authorized by the board to prepare a sched ule that would Include such activities as baseball for boys, Softball for girls as well as other popular playground games. There will be a regis tration fee for each child participating. Myers also was instructed to draw up a set of rules and regulations that youngsters will be required to follow. The instructor will have the authority to suspend a youngster s privilege of tak ing part if rules are dis obeyed. In this case the reg istration fee would not be returned. Youngsters who have completed the fourth grades, and including those through 16 years of age will be eligible for the program's activities. Swimming in Rogue River will not be a part of the sum mer recreation program. The board voted to eliminate swimming in the river as a part of the project because of certain risks and responsibili ties that would be involved in the supervision of a large number of children at that location. The decision was made after a thorough discus sion and study of the prob lems. Youngsters will have an op portunity to take swimming lessons at the Hawthorne swimming pool in Medford Details will be announced later in regard to this pro gram. Organizations and repre sentatives named by them to promote the interests of a local summer recreation proj ect are Gold Hill city council, Delos Walker and Fred Lester: Gold Hill Grange, Willard Taylor; Gold Hill Lion's club, Donald Morrow; Odd Fellow Lodge, H. D. Force; Gold Hill schools, Gilbert A. Mack; Gold Hill Health unit, Mrs. Delos Walker; Gold Hill Garden club, Mrs. Ferd Jones; Gold Hill PTA, Mrs. Paul Molloy; Woman's Society of the Gold Hill Community Methodist Church, Mrs. George T. Allen; and Amethyst Rebekah lodge, Mrs. Clyde Kell. Two Slightly Hurt In 2-Car Collision Yreka Two persons suf fered minor injuries during a two-car collision on highway 97 near Weed at 2:05 a. m. Tuesday. The California highway pa trol cited Victor E. Peterson, 35, of Weed, for driving while under the influence of intox icating beverages. Officers said Peterson's car smashed into one driven by Johnnie R. Rogers, 27, of Weed, after Peterson failed to see Rogers' turn signal. Botli drivers were treated at a Weed clinic. MS Hews Open House Set for CP's Jewell School Central Point-The annual open house and spring music program will be held Tuesday evening at the H. P. Jewett Elementary school. Open house will last from 6:30 to 9 p.m. and the music program will be presented by students beginning at 7 p.m. Directing the program will be Mrs. Ruth Brewster. Classrooms will be open for visiting before and after the program. Refreshments will be sold by the PTA. corner to the junction with Dodge Bridge road will be paved. We understand that much of the expense of the county road work through here this spring was caused by having to meet specifi cations of the state and fed eral governments, and also because the wide rightaway south of the Dodge Bridge road was given to the coun ty by the Army for road purposes, with a specified width. To put up fences in side the given width would be foolish, for in time, peo ple who had bought land and built houses would find their houisi were in the road way. The lady who delivers our M.T. (always on time) tells us that after reading our col umn she feels she knows the people In our community, and really likes our dog and hog tales, and says keep up the good work. We appreciate her interest, and if we weren't re stricted on adjectives, we would say we think she is a mi I l fine lady. However, wc may run out of hogs and dogs, and may have to use sheep, cattle and maybe skunks. Thought for the dayi Self praise is hall scandal. Tlllcr-Drew-Rusty Russel of Milo, Ore., completely demol ished his 1955 Victoria last Sunday when he failed to ne gotiate a curve a mile below the Elk Creek store on high way 42. Rusty was unhurt in the accident. Applegate Family Has Two Businesses; Third Foreseen Candidates' Fair Set by Prospect PTA ProsDect - Seventeen can didates for nominations in the May 20 primary elections have been invited to a "can didates' fair" Monday night at 8 o'clock in the high school gymnasium. The Prospect PTA li spon soring the fair. Each candidate will be given five minutes to speak, according to Mrs. Doris Booth by, PTA legislative chairman. Mrs. Boothby said the PTA hopes for a good turnout as "This Is an opportunity for residents of the community to meet the candidates personally." Invited candidates include I federal posts from the Jack- all persons seeking county son county area, Mrs. Booth positions as well as state and I by reported. PATIO SUPPLIES H PLANTERS for your Yard or Patio PERMANINT PLANTERS. Your Choice, ONLY $1.11 Is. Sims t"(17" er 12"il2" (I" hit) 1 BUILDERS SUPPLY GO. 727 West McAndrews Rd. SP 3-4S73 By MAUDE ZIEGLER Mail Tribune Correspondent Applegate Valley-The Lyle Stoner family came to South ern Oregon to go into the egg business with hens in open laying houses as they do In southern California, and wound up with a second busi ness as fabricators of wire cages. Furthermore, they fore see a third business as com mercial worm growers. Lyle Stoner and his mar ried sons, Neil and Don, cleared nearly 40 acres on Thompson creek. Their ranch is located about a mile above Applegate shopping center. They started the project in October, 1958, and have set up two open air poultry sheds 176 feet long with 1,000 H and N white leghorns, each spend ing her life in her small cage. The Stoners made their own cages, adding a few rabbit cages to house their family rabbits, and found many other people who also wanted cages made. As a result, they filed in February, with the county clerk's office a busines' name of Stoner and Sons, Fabrica- Applegate Groups Elect Officers Applegate Valley - Officers In local extension units have been elected, and in the lower valley unit Mrs. Leon Offen bacher is chairman, Mrs. Rus sel Planalp, vice chairman, Mrs. Lyle Stoner, secretary, and Mrs. Thornton Gapen, treasurer. Mrs. Henry Mapston was re electer chairman of the Upper Applegate unit, Mrs. Glenn Bailey was reelected vice chairman, Mrs. Mike Loftus, secretary, and Mrs. Clarence Roloff, treasurer. The two units held a joint meeting re cently at the Grange hall with Mrs. Fred West giving a dem onstration on care of synthet ic fabrics. Forty-eight wom en attended, with the follow ing guests from the Williams unit: Mrs. Percy Fowell, Mrs. Howard Kincaid, and Mrs. Carl Neuber. The next joint activity will be a spring festival display ing unit projects, which will be held at the Grange hall May 7. Rural Reflections By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley - Autumn will steal the show in her loud blast of splendor, and pastel fruit blossoms want the stage of tender spring, but who has paused in April to see the woodland trees born again in their shy colors? The bronze of the black oak in her froth of blossoms turns to mauve in evening shadows. The olive green of white oak blossoms and of the gentle ash accentuates the almost-daffodil-yellow of the blooming ma ples. The willow trees In their curls add their own yellows to the tapestry of April that breathes for a glorious mo ment and is gone. BOB WALTERS, Regional Editor CORRESPONDENTS! Applegale Valley Maude Ziylr, TW 9-1333 Butte Falls Mary Jo Harris, TO 3-2126 Central Point Doris Hughes, NO 4-1108 Eagle Point Dottle Harbison, HI 6-3274 Gold Hill-Sams Valley Mary Kell. UL 8-1126 Grandview-Lone Pine Dot Simmons, SP 2-9676 Happy Camp Happy Camp H.S. Journalism Class Hornbrook Katnerlne Chapman, GR 5-3586 Illinois Valley Katharine Scott. 5203 Jacksonville Bette Hoskins, TW 9-1208 McLtod Caroline Harding, TR 6-2260 Meadows Nellie Bergman, HI 6-1267 Montague Carol Peterson " Phoenix-Talent Joe Cowley, KE 3-2918 Prospect Frances Ring, UN 9-2211 Rogue River Cecils Camden, UL 5-1368 Shady Cove Evelyn Watson, TR 8-2351 Table Rock R. E. Nealon. TA 6-2097 Tiller-Drew Viola Rogers Yreka Ruth Middleton. VI 2-2807 n JM til SPRING TULIP DISPLAY SEE THEM TODAY! Choose Your Fall Bulb Now From Actual Flowers Big Y Feed & Seed Co. 948 N. Pacific Hwy. Medford ton. They estimate they have sold 1,000 chicken cages. They make cages to order, not us ing their own specifications. Special Equipment For making the cages, the Stoners have a shop with spe cial equipment, including a wire cutting and straighten ing machine, a machine for cutting and bending sheet metal, and a spot welding ma chine. The rabbit cages are quonset type with dome top to be suspended under a roof, and the Stoners say they have a big demand for outside feeders made of sheet metal. Sales area for the wire cages covers southern Oregon and northern California. Their chicken cages, eight inches wide, and 16 inches high, have a awing type door, which makes escape impos sible, and they are cheaper than the ordinary cage. Good Background Stoner and his sons have a good background for their new venture, for the father was superintendent of pipe construction in T oir r e n c e, Calif., and the three of them worked as steam fitters and welders. The third potential business of worms may be developed by seeding a few fishworms Lions Club Breakfast To Aid Covvie Fund Rogue River-A pancakt breakfast will be held al the Live Oak Grange hall Sunday with proceeds going to the Jim Cowie Fund. Cowie recently died of burns suffered when a gas tank blew up while he was working on a car with an aoetlylene torch. He was the father of two small chil dren and his widow expects a third in May. The breakfast, sponsored by the Rogue River Lions club, will begin at 8 a.m. and will last until 2 p.m. ft will be an "all you can tat" breakfast with a SI charge for adults and 50 :enls for children. underneath the dropping of the chicken and rabbit cages, according to observations the Stoners have made of others In the business. Not only does a fine crop of saleable fish worms result, but the drop pings are kept well mulched, and seldom need to be cleared away. In regard to laying flocks, the open laying sheds are the first to be introduced in south ern Oregon, and were some thing of an experiment last winter, but the senior Mrs. Stoner says the hens contin ued 86 per cent laying during the cold weather. The project was an object of concern to feedmen and poultrymen of southern Oregon. Stoner expects to build more sheds and to increase their flock to 10,000 or more. Eleven hundred baby chicks are on hand now, for which a brooder house has just been completed. At present eggs are sold locally from a refrig erated insulated storage room. The Stoners previously re sided in tile area operating the sawmill at Applegate in 1950 and 1951. Mr. and Mrs. Don Stoner live in Jacksonville, and Mr. and Mrs. Neil Stoner live on the Thompson creek property. The family expects to do more clearing for per manent pasture, and to raise a few cattle. California Woman Listed as Missing Yreka-The Siskiyou coun ty sheriff's office Wednesday issued an all-points bulletin listing Mrs. Betty Warmer, 31-year-old mother of three, as a missing person. Initial report was received from the Dunsmuir police deparmtent. Mrs. Warmer was described as 5 feet, 7H inches tall and weighing 180 pounds. She has dark brown medium length hair, light complexion, small moles on face, and was wear ing a dark blue sweater, black shirt and tan shews. She was driving a 1949 Chev rolet, California license AZN 258. Officers said she left her three small children at home early Tuesday afternoon and reportedly was despondent. Regional Calendar Yreka - Gazelle home eco nomics club will host its an nual luncheon for similar clubs throughout the county at noon next Thursday at the Shamrock cafe south ' of Yreka. Rogue River - A three-act comedy . entitled "Brother Goose" will be presented by students in the Rogue River Hieh school gymnasium at 8 o'clock tonight. Applegate Valley - Candi dates night will be held to night at the Upper Applegate Grange. All county candi dates have been invited. The public in Invited. Illinois Valley - The an nual program "Skimming Low" is scheduled for tonight and tomorrow night at the Il linois Valley High school. Participating will be mem bers of the Lions club, spon sor of the event. Proceeds will be used in the valley's summer youth program. Rogue River The Rogue River Council of Clubs will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the city hall. Illinois Valley - All Demo cratic candidates have been Invited to a potluck dinner sponsored by the Democratic club at 7:30 tomorrow night. Eagle Point -Five persons were fined $10 each in Eagle Point court last week for vio lations of the basic rule. Fined were Joseph Bartley of Med ford and Eagle Point residents Ernest Himmelman, George Spolick, Warren Peska and Alveria McDonald. Wherever you look, there are new economy cars. But when you look twice, chances are it's one of our SIMCAs You just can't find a better looking, more value -packed car for so little money. These styledin-Paris beauties come com plete with luxurious interiors, 4-speed drive, rust-proofed UniGard bodies, electric windshield wipers, and oversize brakes. Test drive one today. 99 PRICES START AT SIMOA. woiio-j most timntious icoiomy cm mroerto ro wait rr cmrrsu DICK KNIGHT CO. : - Riverside -6247 Join the fun . . . SJSSOM REM i FAME V. V , r '"--iiimi r Don't miss the 7th Annual Pear Blossom Parade . . . Saturn dayi Medford youngsters (from 6 to 60) will march in the annual salute to our number one agricultural product pears. The local businessmen who serve the community as Inde pendent Insurance Agents salute the young people of Jackson County who participate, and urge everyone to give them your support. The parade will start at library Park promptly at 2:30 p.m. and travel past on Main Street to Haw thorne Park. Special entertainment and presenta tions of cash awards will be held at Hawthorn Park following the parade. Join In the funl For comprehensive Insurance counseling, consult the local businessmen who proudly display this emblem ... I YOUty Independent 1 I Insurance I AGEliT B 'int vow nti f Ktt.v.i.rn.oi. r Jackson County Association -of- INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS
