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i MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1SB0 'UlWUi'UU Regional News Planning Commission Holds First Meeting In EP Neglected Dog Returns To Girl Who Befriended Him; Dies At Her Feet By DOTTIE HARBISON Mail Tribune Correepondent Eagle Point - The E a g 1 e Point Planning commission was officially organized Sun day morning. Johnny John son was elected chairman and Stewart Hopper wai elected secretary Members appointed to the commission are Johnny John- ton, Stewart Hopper, Ray Tresham and David Harbison who, along with Mayor Ed Putman, have been attending the County Planning commis sion meetings in Medford the past three months. The committee will contin ue to attend the meetings in Medford and the surrounding communities, accvrding to a spokesman for the group, and hope to discuss mutual prob lems as well as gain ideas on the procedure of the commit tee. ApprOTM Plans - At their first meeting the commission approved the sub mitted plans for Ray Barrow's subdivision on South C st. A discussion was held on the duties of the commission and the procedure for making re ports and recommendations to the city council. , A permanent meeting date EP Girl Hospitalized After Riding Mishap Eagle Point - Miss Laura May Noble is convalescing in the Saqred Heart hospital from injuries sustained Wed nesday morning when she was thrown from her horse. - She received scratches and back and face injuries. Miss Noble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Noble, Brophy rd.. Eagle Point, was helping her grandfather, Ver nle Mathews, round up range cattle above Eagle Point -Miss Noble's horse was traveling at a fairly fast pace and successfully jumped clear ot the irrigation ditch, but its ftont feet landed in a bog hole of knee depth, throwing Miss Noble over the horse's hfad. Miss Noble was uncon scious for a few hours follow ing the accident has been set as the fourth Tuesday of each month, with the first meeting on Septem ber 27 unless a special meet ing is required prior to that time. Meetings will be held in the Eagle Point Library un til further notice. The immediate items to be considered and acted upon by the planning commission will be a code for trailer courts within the city limits, a com mercial zoning within the city limits, problems involving the sewage lagoon system, and a system for permanent survey markers within the city limits. Fire Endangers Brooder House Phoenix - Flames from a brush fire endangered a brooder house and other farm outbuildings at the Howard Logan chicken ranch on Dark Hollow rd. Sunday afternoon but were stopped by a state policeman and neighbors. Approxima tely three- fourths of an acre was burned before the officer, a boy about 10 and neighbors brought the fire under control using hoses and wet gunnysacks. The of ficer said a gust of wind could have directed the flames to ward the brooder house con taining an estimated 48.000 baby chicks and a hen house containing a large number of chickens. The neighbor was unable to get the Phoenix volunteer fire department. Finally an operator called one of the volunteer firemen. Other fire men were notified and the state department of forestry notified. Meanwhile the state police officer cruising the South Pacific highway saw the smoke and drove over to investigate. He also notified the forestry department. Logan was away from the ranch at the time the fire broke out Neighbors said they were so used to seeing brush being burned on the Logan ranch that they didn't think anything of the smoke at first until the buildings seemed endangered. Fire fighters thought the fire started in a small gully. By BESSIE BOYD FRAZER Mail Tribune Correspondent Yroka - Spot, a short hair ed pointer moved from the country to a place in town where his master and mis tress kept him tied securely in the back yard. He couldn always reach his water pun or feeding dish but waited pa tiently for his owners to re member him. He liked to hunt but his family went off week ends and left him at home. He sus pected that they had gone hunting without him and howled a little, just to show his resentment. Howling use up his energy and he didn't have too much because he was fed irregularly. when his people had been gone for two days, Toni, the girl next door, took Spot some fresh water. His dish was empty and he looked thin, all of his ribs showing, so she raided the bread box and took him a half a loaf of whole wheat bread which he wolfed down. In the icebox at home there was a ham bone with considerable meat attached which somebody mentioned cooking w i t beans, but the girl thought Spot needed the ham more than the beans, so she took it where she thought it would do the most good. Escape Suggested For four days the dog was alone, but Tom fed him and wondered why he didn' chew his rope in two and free himself. In fact she sug gested it to him. They be came friends and shook hands. Within a few weeks the people left again, without providing any food for the dog, so the bread box was emptied, but with seven hun gry cats to feed, a starving dog was a real problem. But Spot showed his appreciation by barking when anybody ap proached Tom s door. For a third time the dog was left alone, but by this time he had "had it and chewed his rope and dragged it after him to the girl's back door and barked. She recog nized his voice and called "Greetings, my friend - want some bread?" 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Riverside ill hto3tv """' Muvk irrrfi Mill when its I TIME TO RE-TIM I BUY IfiskJ SP 3-4511 Ifhottl. His affections wore transferred to Ton! and he spent hours guarding her front door. The cats helped him and at times there was such an assortment of live stock on the front stoop that visitors hnd to go around the house and enter by the back door. A day came when Spot'; owners moved out and took the dog with them. Six months elapsed and nothing more was seen or heard of him. Tonl became part owner of mining claims' down In the Humbug mining district and most of her weekends were spent there and she wondered if the dog ever tried to find her. One night she heard some thing under the cabin and thought It might be a small bear, as there were some in that area. Whim she looked early next morning, there was Spot. He had crawled back as far as he could and no amount of coaxing could bring him out. The girl went in after him and dragged him out, when she sat him down he col lapsed. He was just a living skeleton and his mouth was full of porcupine quills. She took them out with some pliers and offered him drink of water, which he re fused. He gave a little yelp and died at her feet. He had found a dog's best friend, but how and where he came from she will never know. Out on a Limb By BOB WALTERS Upper Rogue Grange Holds Birthday Meeting Happy Camp Lions Schedule Boai Race Happy Camp - The Happy Camp Lions club has made plans to reorganize the boat race down tne ruamam river over the Labor Day week end The race will start at 7 a.m. on Sept. 4 at the Swal lows resort and will travel to Happy Camp that night. The next morning at 9 o'clock, the boats will enter the water and go on to Clear creek where the race will finish. The boat with the best total time will win. There will be S600 in prize money for tne iirst t n r e e prizes and numerous spot prizes, donated by mercnanis along the river, for the best time in each area. There will be a big celebra tion in Happy Camp during the race. The Lions club is sponsoring a donkey baseball game Sept. 3. The fire department is spon soring a dance that evening. The Lions club Is also putting on a carnival. David Foofe Travels o Washington, D.C. Central Point-David Foote, son ot Mr. and Mrs. waiter Foote, left for Portland last week, where he met Jeff Chang. Chang was chosen gov ernor of Beaver Boys State and Foote was selected as the state's first citizen. David and Jeff traveled from Portland by . train to Washington, D.C. The boys ar rived in Washington Friday and will stay until July 29. Boys from all SO states will be represented. Sponsored by the American Legion, Boys' State is open to high school juniors in the state who are sponsored by an organization or group. David was sponsored by the Elks Lodge and is a student of Cra ter High school. While in Washington the boys will tour the city, visit the House of Representatives and the Senate in Congress and study the government first hand. Horse Injures Rider Near Hornbrook Hornbrook - Her name is Hone y," and she's the 'sweetest mare on the ranch," but she turned fickle on Sun day and spooked with Loren Cummins aboard. She put Loren flat on his back for an Indefinite time. Loren, with his father, Bob Cummins, was riding across the hill back of his home when for some reason known only to the horse, Honey rear ed and came down with one forefoot in a hole. She threw Loren off and then fell on top of him. It was feared at first that his leg was broken, but X-rays at the Siskiyou Gen eral Hospital in Yreka reveal ed no broken bones. Instead he suffered several painful ruptured blood ves sels and Is now recovering at His home. Tiller-Drew - Rattlesnakes are not only exceptionally numerous this summer, they are also bold. The Charles Porters killed a six - rattle snake on their porch last week. The Night Crew Saturdays at the Mall Trib une are quite a bit different from the other days of .the week, especially for the two men assigned to the night shift. With the exception of these two, all the other news room staffers work a normal day time shift. They arrive In the morning, attend to their re spective chores and leave about 3 o'clock or so. Not so with the night crew. Our two heroes arrive at 3 p.m. and stay on the Job until the presses start turning out the Sunday morning edition at about midnight. One man Is the night editor and the other handles sports copy, reads proofs and makes tele phone checks with local news sources. The night crew consists of the city hall reporter and my self. Of course we had to pass rigid tests before being as signed our Saturday night jobs. Intelligence, alertness, devotion to duty and many other points were considered before The Boss finally de cided we were ready. Oh, there was one other thing too. We happen to be the newest and youngest staff members, not counting the two playboy summer replace ments. The Saturday night jobs, to be honest, represent what's known in the military as a . . . Well, they call It some kind of a detail, but perhaps. we should leave well enough alone. Working Saturday night really isn't so bad. Do you think we cart that other guys our age are out paint ing the town red, wining. dinning and making gen eral whoopee? Noilree. It says here. ' But there is one draw back. There's no switch board operator and all the calls are channeled into the news room, no matter what the ' caller's business may be. (Don't ask me why there's no switchboard op erator. For all I know, she just leaves early and no one's found out about it yet -Then again, maybe her con tract prohibits working Sat urday nights. Switchboard Operators Union Local 26141 drives a hard bargain, I understand.) Anyway, we get all kinds of calls, usually just before press time when we're busiest the city hall man Is mark ing proofs with one hand and taking down a local story over the phone with the oth er; I'm fighting through wire service copy to see if Nixon and Kennedy have really de cided to team up on the Pro hibitionist ticket; the printers are yelling for the page-one dummy, and the pressmen are suffering their regular Satur day Night Seizures because they're afraid they'll have to work overtime. Paid over time, at that. The calls go something like this: "News rnnm " "Hello, this Is Sammy Pea- body. I've got a stomach ache and I can't deliver papers in tne morning. ' That s too bad, but there's I nn nnn 1- ' , 1 , " "c ucic ituiii uit: circula tion department now." "Oh. Well, can you toll them later? Willy Schmaltz said he'd deliver for me." "Yeah, I'll tell them. And why don't you take an Alka Seltzor." "A what?" "Never mind. G'night." "News room." "Hello I'd like to cancel my ad." "Sorry, maam, but there's no one here from the ad department now' "But I don't want the ad to run any more," "I understand that, maam, but there's nothing we can do about It here this is the news room. If you'd like to call Monday,' they'll see that it doesn't run any more." "Weill" Click. - "News room." "Shay, parm me, buddy, but I wonncr If you could anser a III qucshum for me. A pal an I gotta bet on what year Bnbe Ruth hit sixty homers. He sez it was 1023 and I sez 1001. Who's right?" "Just a minute." (Pause while staffer digs out almanac.) "Hello. It was 11)27." "1027? Well I'll be . . . thanksh for yor help, buddy." "No trouble at all. And bot toms up." Sometimes we even get a personal call or two, Samples! "This is Audrey. Tell Greg the bay has the mea sles." "Bobl This is an emer gency! I ran out of vinegar and we can'i have deviled eggs on the picnic tomor row!" Theie problems, of courie, ere solved by a few soothing wordi, such as "Tell him to icratch" and "Who needs deviled ege?" The other days of the week,' come to think of It, are pretty dull compared to Saturday. But the city hall man mid I would not be unhappy If the papor decided to hire two new men. A little social life never hurt anyone. Regional Calendar Eagle Point A n open meeting for anyone interest ed In the Community building will bo held at the Ed Kim mel home on South B si. at 8 p. m. tonight. : Eagle Point Thc South B St. sno nl I. ..il ...in ,. ... I ',, on""0 P"rk f,'0m ' ... ..... .,,, niesdiiy. A)1 former residents are Invited. By CAROLINE L. HARDING Mall Tribune Correspondent MoLood Tho Upper Roguo Grange celebrated Its 2Mb birthday recently. About 70 visitors from other Granges wore present to celebrate the occasion. The tables and hall wuro decorated In 23-yenr theme. The birthday cuke, shaped like the number 23, was doe orated by Mrs. Bob Cham berlain and Master Eiln made a replica of the first Grunge hull, H crude log cubln. Four charter member woro given pins. They wore Mr. and Mrs, Vic Chapman and Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Vaughn. Then the 23 year members were Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carl ton, Mr. and Mm. Tom Carl ton, Mrs. Hazel Ulrkh and Mrs. Georglo Grlevo. A committee was appointed TO VISIT SEWAGE PLANT Jacksonville The Jackson ville city council visited Klamath Falls, Saturday, to Inspoct the newly established sewage disposal field and plant there. Tills visit Is part of the council's investigation of pos sible types of sewage plants for Jacksonville. to purchase u now American (lag. Tho lecture program Includ ed several songs by Murgiiiut Hnnsnn with the Pullen Chor al Swliigstiirs of Mt'iKord. A nng by Deloy and Don Gillisple was also heard. Oth er entertainment included group singing led by the "Sourdough Mountain Sing ers" and Imitations of popu lar singing groups performed by local people. Tiller-Drew Men Fly ; To Aid Fire Flghten Tiller Drew - Koteslori Gone Carlson unci John Duvli of the South Umpquii District and Ranger John Wilson and roriwlnr Jack Wright of the Cow Creek district of the Umpiiiu district of the Umi quu . National forost wore flown t" Walla Walla, Wash., last week. From Walla Wulla they will go to the aid of, tire fighter In the Umiilllla and Wallowa areas. Clif D. Ouellerre and Ronald L, Rickerrs Have Formed a Partnership for the PRACTICE OF LAW Under the Firm Name of OUELLETTE & RICKETTS 128 EAST MAIN STREET . MEDFORD, OREGON mxTrrrHTmrxj ivumiffitiMj L PRICES ARE IV LOW! So.: jS) PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU WEDNESDAY JULY 27 r OREGON FOOD STORE! GIANT SIZE TIDE Regular 87c MARGARINE Tattewell, l ib. pkgt SHORTENING Cream Flake, 3-lb. Tin LOCKER BEEF HALF 49c ib. FRONT 14 43c b HIND -14 59c ib MARCO DOG FOOD No. 1 tint Cut, Wrapped ft Quick Frozen Strawberry Preserves 2 ,b"$S09 V Chedder Cheese Swiff Premium BACON JRICOTS No. 1 mm , Yakima Tilrom 419)' $239 Full k 26 lbs. 3p aT Market, 18-oz. jar Pineapple Juice Market, No. 2 tin Thick Sliced Swift't Premium ' ' 5 Ib. CANNED HAM No Watte No Bone Tomatoes, Fair Play Kleenex Tissues 00 400't, Attorted Colon OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT Effective Monday, July 25, the Medford OREGON FOOD STORE will remain open until Midnight! H .was MEDFORD ASHLAND 13th and Central , 1475 Siskiyou Blvd. PRICES EFFECTIVE THROUGH WEDNESDAY!
