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r Ekgional 14 Running for Phoenix School Board; Election Set Monday BY HELEN NIKODYM Mail Tribune Correspondent Phoenix - Fourteen candi dates are running for election to the school board of the recently reorganized Phoenix ichool district. Seven positions will be open when voters in Phoenix and Talent go to the polls this Monday. Observers wonder why so many persons are running for election. Also, this election .. Is different than previous ,' school board elections since seven persons will be elected to the board instead of the ' usual five. Registered voters will vote at large, or for all seven zones which represent Talent, Wagner Creek and Phoenix. Length of the term of of fice will depend on the num- : ber of votes received. The candidate receiving the hlgh- est number of votes will serve the longest term - four years. : The rest according to votes received, will serve from one to three years. ; Candidates Qulized Candidates were asked why they were running for elec tion. Here are the answers given in a personal interview. The following are running from the Talent and Wagner Creek area: James Cyphers - "I served on the Talent board and feel there is a very good future for our small school system. Joyce Goodrich - "I was on the Talent board. I am vitally Interested in our school and all the more so in our new combined system and would like to carry on." Samuel James - "One rea son is I am very interested in our schools and feel a board member has an opporunity to do things. 1 have been in on this consolidation from the start and want to see it suc ceed." Lynn Newbry - "I was on the Talent school board. My main interest is to be able to finish the job started arid have a hand in seeing our combined districts grow and succeed. Harold Smcllzer - "My main interests are to see our children get a good educa tion, see our money spent wisely, and sec good cooper ation throughout our school system." 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Main St. M.dford, Oregon SIZES Ladies' Men's Girls' & Boys' FRIDAY, APRIL 29-11 A.M. to 2 P.M. Pauline Baker - "I believe we need a board that will fight to save our schools. If we are nut eternally vigilant, surrounding areas will nibble off bits of our district until we won't be self-supporting. A lot of work went Into our consolidation and we don't want the fastest growing area of our district appropriated from us without a fight." Curtis Barnes - "My chil dren go to school here and I believe this is a good way to show my interest." Jcanette Grove - "I had three years to serve of my last term. We worked hard for consolidation and I would like to continue on a cause I believe in." Allen Harris - "I worked hard for our consolidation and would like to do my part to help it succeed." Protect Boundaries Melvin Latlle - "I feel pres ent school boundaries should be protected." Merle Simmonds - "The cit izens favored consolidation and I would like to see a junior high school and other accomplishments." Fred Wilcox - "I attended school here for 12 years and have always been Interested and more so with my own children here In school. I am most anxious to have the best school possible." A. E. Trozicr - "I am inter ested in the best educational program possible and If elec ted would work with that aim In mind." Dr. McGeary - "I am inter ested in providing the best education that can be obtain ed for children of Phoenix Talent area." ! MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dford, Or. ' A Wednesday, Apr. 27, 1 960 School Vote Set In Butte Falls For This Monday By MAHY JO HARRIS Mail Tribune Correspondent Butte Falls - The annual school election for Butte Falls School District No. 01 will be held at the high school between 2 and 8 p.m. this Monday. Purpose of the election Is to elect one local director for a five-year term, one rural school board member, Zone 3., for a two-year term, and rural school board mcmbcr-at-large for a two-year term. Voters also will be asked to vote on increasing the tax levy for fiscal 1060-61 to pro vide for necessary expendi tures, District No. 91 has no tax base so the total budget must be submitted to the vote of the people. Budget for the coming year totals $126,189.76, of which $96,602.40 has to be raised by taxes. Budget board members are Duane Burton, chairman; Earl Dean, secretary; Mrs. Bob Ed mondson, Mrs. Duane Burton, Joe Dyer, George Rowdcn, Doug Finch, Mrs. Harry Dal lon, Charles Ferguson, F. E. Poole, William Hunter and Mrs. Bill Edmondson. Out on a Limb By BOB WALTERS I Regional Calendar Gold Hill-The adult Bible study group of the Gold Hill Christian church will meet at the home of Mrs. Bessie Hen derson at 7:30 tomorrow night. Rumors Well, it happened again. Someone reported a rumor that Meier and Frank were going to build a store In the Medford area. Yawn. The latest rumor had It Ihit Otto Nledcrmeyer had sold the big department store cha'n an 8-acrc plot in the vicinity of Bybec's corner, a point lust about equidistant from Med ford, Jacksonville and Cen tral Point. After getting the tip Mon day morning, we tried to call Otto. When his phone didn't answer, we tried his brother, John. He wasn't home either, but we left a message with his wife asking him to call us. Otto finally called a few minutes before deadline, and we told him what we'd heard. "There's nothing to that at all," he said, after letting the yarn sink in. "I haven't sold any land to anyone." Brother John called next and greeted the "news" with a horse laugh. "That makes about the 15th plot of land that Meier and Frank have bought down h'jrc," said John after regain ing his composure. "They're going to build one heckuva lot of stores!" Just one would suffice. Butte Falls-The Butte Falls Lions club will hold its month ly family potluck supper at the Bill Thomas Community hall this evening. Lions will hold their regular meeting fol lowing the dinner. Applcgate Valley-A benefit potluck dinner sponsored by the Applcgate PTA will be held at the school cafeteria beginning at 7 o'clock tonight. There will be a white elephant and plant sale. Children May Enter In SOC Kindergarten Ashland - Parents wishing to enroll children In the Southern Oregon college kin dergarten for fall term 1960 may register Friday, April 29, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the kin dergarten, Supervisor Ro berta Wcstra has announced. Parents are requested not to bring the child being reg istered, since a visitation time will be planned in May. A child must be five years old prior to Nov. 15, 1960, to be admitted tn the kindergar ten, and a $5 deposit is re quired, Mrs. Wcstra said.. Gold Hill Past Noble Grands club of Amethyst Re bckah lodge will meet at the home of Mrs. James Clements at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Butte Falls Local Cub Scouls will hold their pack meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomor row at the Bill Thomas Com munity hall. Den 1 will pre sent a Paul Bunyan play, with members of Den 2 serving as stagehands. The public is invited. Sams Valley The Bible study and prayer group of the Sams Valley Community church will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller in Sams Valley. 81 SPRING CLEARANCE SALE OUER $300 IN FREE PRIZES! You do not have to buy or be present to win , . . ust register . . . and see our complete line of new 1960 Vacuum Cleaners and Polishers . , , and our Immense stock of STARK Rebuilt Cleaners. Prizes will be awarded May 1st, STAL3KS GENERAL ELECTRIC - LEWYT Many Others Hoover Regina Shetland Polishers! BAGS FILTERS DISPOSABLE BAGS HOSES BELTS Brushes Polishes Rug Shampoo Accessories YESI Anything for Any Make of Vacuum Cleanorl Liberal Trade-ins Budget Terms Exchange Privileges REPAIRING FREE REPAIR ESTIMATES PHONE SP 2-4998 aaaaoiwKMOwasaft.Xai Hill 1109 No. Riverside, Medford REBUILDING ALL SERVICES COMPLETELY GUARANTEED The Saturday edition of the Ashland newspaper gave fine coverage to Sena tor John Kennedy's visit. The front page carried three pictures of the senator ialk Inq with local residents. Bui we can't help won dering if they knew the identity of the gent who ap peared in two of the photos, once in the background and once face-to-face with Ken nedy, Answer: Mail Tribune Re porter Joe Cowley. Chuckle. When the repairman hauled our antique typewriter away Monday for the second time in as many months, we thought we might stand a chance of getting a new one. No such luck. "When we get a new type writer up here." said Great White Father, "we play mu sical chairs for It - and we play by seniority." Disheartened but not de feated, we spent Monday aft ernoon using a borrowed ma chine. Bright and early Tues day, the repairman returned our own typewriter. And, for sentimental rea sons, we were glad to get it back. It may be old but it has an Interesting history. A reporter in Boston once used it to write a story about a Tea Party. Walter Higgins, executive director of Rogue Valley Manor, says one of the mem bers approached him Just before Christmas to offer her congratulations. She said she thought the lights strung across the top of the building were beautiful and that it certainly was thought ful of him to have had them placed there during the Yule season. Higgins didn't have heart to tell her the truth. The lights were up there so the concrete finishers could see what they were doing. Who needs ... People who accidentally dial wrong numbers and then hang up without saying a word? Youths Campaign For Election at CP Junior High By DORIS HUGHES Mail Tribune Coirespondent Central Point - Central Point Junior High school will hold its annual elections next Thursday, according to Rich ard Traylor, student council advisor. Applications must be check ed by each teacher for grade ' averages and citizenship. Each student must have a 3-point average or better and contin uous satisfactory citizenship before being accepted to can didacy. Each application is signed by all teachers in volved. Second step in the elections requires that all students make campaign speeches one week before election. These speeches are made before the student body so that appear ance, poise, originality, and confidence can be observed by the voters. Campaign Posters Posters are displayed and all candidates conduct gen eral campaign efforts during the final week before elec tions. Candidate posters are placed by selection of the poster committee -whose du ties are to Inspect posters for size, originality, and attracr tiveness as specified by the student body constitution. Ac cording to Traylor, excessive or expensive poster or cam paign materials are discouraged. Traylor stated that leader ship and citizenship training was quite apparent by student enthusiasm and the good Judg ment that has been exempli fied by the selection of past student body officers. Stu dent body members have al ways exceeded 90 per cent in their voting turn out, he add ed. Principal George Johns stated that this year pnly grades six and seven will vote in the Junior high school elec tion, whereas in years past all grades, three through eight, had participated. Stu dents in all grades have indi cated that the present organi zation does not give students in the lower grades full op portunity for leadership par ticipation, he said. Changes Slated According to a recent vote, all grades, three through eight, have chosen to have two separate councils - one for Junior high and one for grades three through six. Full extent of this change will take place next fall when grades three through six will develop their own student council, elect their own officers, and develop their own constitu tion. Johns pointed out that this separation will provide more student participation, both for leadership and citi zenship and that student coun cil meetings will be better ad justed to meet the needs of both groups. Manor to Aid Local Economy, Higgins Tells Ashland Group Ashland Rogue Valley Manor, the swank apartment building now under construc tion atop a hill Just south of Medford, will make a "very sound" contribution to the lo cal economy, the manor's executive director told the Ashland Chamber of Com merce yesterday. "Frankly," continued Wal ter Higgins, "it's a windfall to this valley." Higgins, addressing t h e chamber's noon luncheon meeting at Omar's, backed up his statements by saying that 65 to 70 per cent of the el derly retired persons who will live at the manor will come from outside the state, thus Officers Elected By Williams PTG Williams - Mrs. Loretta Rak was named chairman and Mrs. Alice Hyde vice chair man when the Parent-Teacher group of Williams school elected officers recently. Other new officers are Mrs. Elizabeth Beard, secretary, and Mrs. Shirley Fisher, treas urer. Plans were made for the school cooks, Marian Brtttsan and Gertrude Davidson, to at tend cooking classes July 11 13 at Oregon State college. The classes, open to all schools in Oregon, offer the latest In formation on meal planning and nutrition. Mothers in Williams band together each summer to can and freeze foods, obtained either from their own gardens or from donations by neigh bors. They have found that this not only cuts the cost of lunches, but also provides more balanced meals for the students. Pre-School Clinic Set in Applegate Applegate Valley - A pre school clinic will be held in the Applegate school building next Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to noon, unnaren wno plan to enter first grade in September are eligible to attend. Immunizations will be of fered and Dr. C. I. Drum mond. county health officer, will be the examining physi cian. It is asked that each first grade child receive a physical examination at this clinic or from his own physician before entering school. Appointments for the clinic may be made by calling PRovolt 2506. brinelng "new money and new tourism" to this area. Construction of the 10-story, $53.4 million building is "about" on schedule, Higgins continued, and the manor should be completed by the scheduled contract date of Nov. 28. About 80 employees will be on the manor's payroll on a year-round basis, he added, and they, together with the 325 to 350 persons who will live there, will insure that the manor has "a very healthy economic impact on the com munity." Self-Sustaining Higgins emphasized that the building Is being constructed by a non-profit corporation and that Rogue Valley Manor will be self-sustaining. In short, that means it won't cost taxpayers a penny. The manor itself, he added, Is "as fire-proof a building as can be made. It's designed to last about a hundred years." Higgins also pointed out some other facts about the manor: ' It will contain some 3Vi acres of carpeting. Laundry equipment costing $28,000 was delivered last month. The auditorium will seat 400 persons, thereby enabling members to take local resi dents to social functions as guests. Hill Is 'Sturdy' The hill on which the man or is being constructed "is solid rock-it's sturdy." The manor will be air-conditioned summer and winter. It's constructed so that only 14 apartments will be over looking the parking lot. 18 Candidates Talk At Prospect Event Prospect - Eighteen candi dates for nomination in the May 20 primary elections spoke at the Prospect "candi dates' fair" Monday evening. Each candidate spoke for about five minutes and many of them later spent time visit ing with local residents. The event was sponsored by the Prospect PTA, with Mrs. Doris Boothby, PTA legisla tive chairman, in charge. Members can furnish the apartments themselves or let the corporation furnish them. They also can choose colors for their carpets, tile and walls. Higgins said the smallest apartment will cost $8,500 for lifetime use while the largest will cost $30,000. The three intermediate prices, he added, are $10,625, $15,625 and $23,1 000. Majority of the apart mcnts will be those costing $10,625 ad $15,625 for life time use. Assurance Fund Members will deposit $50 for each month of their prob able life expectancy upon en tering the manor, Higgins said, with the money going into the corporation's "life care assurance fund plan." That fund, he said, is de signed to eliminate the "one deadly problem" of operating such an establishment, that of persons entering the manor and later running out of money. Higgins emphasized that there are no mortgages be cause all funds are kept with in the 36-mcmber corporation which operates the manor, thus members will have no fears of being evicted. "They can't foreclose on themselves," Higgins concluded. r ' i j 11,1 itiii qpsjssiasjM f r'' It I ... y II ., ; II L - "! if f ' - ttn-enmge THE SMOOTHER BOURBON Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6Yre.0ld 86 P;wl .Ancient A, pin. rraaMsit, Ky. Prospect-The Prospect High school senior class will spon sor a film entitled "Bamboo Prison" at the school begin ning at 7:30 tomorrow evening. BOB WALTERS. Regional Editor CORRESPONDENTS: Applegat Valley Maude Ziegler, TW 91333 Butte Falls Mary Jo Harris, TO 5-2126 Central Point Doris Hughes, NO 4-1106 Eagle Point Dottie Harbison, HI 6-3274 Gold Hill-Sams Valley Mary Kelt. UL 5-1 126 Grandview-Lon Pine Dot Simmons, SP 2-9676 Happy Camp Happy Camp H.S. Journalism Class Hornbrook Karnerine Chapman. GR 5-3588 Illinois Valley Kathtrine Scott, 5203 Jacksonville Bette Hoskins, TW 9-1209 McLeod Caroline Harding, TR 8-2260 Meadows Nellie Bergman, HI 6-1267 Montague Carol Peterson Phoenix Helen Nikodym. KE 5-1388 Prospect Frances Ring. UN 9-2211 Rogue River Cecil Camden, UL 5-1569 Shady Cove Evalyn Watson, TR 8-2351 Table Rock R. E. Nealon, TA 6-2097 Talent Joe Cowley. KE 5-2918 Tiller-Drew Viola Rogers Williams Bonnie Mitchell, PR 2263 Yreka Ruth Middleton, VI 2-2807 The Sherwin-Williams Three Injured in Traffic Accidents j Three persons were injured j in one of two accidents oc I curring in the Talent area Monday, according to state ' police. 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