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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. FRIDAY. AUGUST 19, I960 LJ Tflhlofc j MmmU W ftsS By . E. NEALON jl Table Rock - The B, L. Dodge-. Ranch, consisting of more than 1,500 acres, on the east side of, the community with headquarters and build ings near the Dodge bridge, has been sold to James C. Wil son, an attorney ot Los Altos, . Calif. The new owner expects . to make a cattle ranch out of the property, ' which has ' some 80 acres under irriga tion, and an ' extended strip of river frontage. The deal was handled by Frank Straus the Sams Valley realtor. ' , A country cooked dinner was enjoyed by Sams Val ley Granger and invited frie -ds last Tuesday evo- ning on the moKjuiio-free lawn at the Bill Duggan home. We made the same mistake we have made be fore in , letting our eyes judge the capacity of our stomach, and later having to look for the Turns. The business meeting was iaken up in discussing the possibility of organizing a fire control district, or con solidating with the Central Point rural fire protection district. Claude Hoover, a member of the C.P.R.F.D. gave a lengthy description of the necessary work to be done to organize a dis trict. A meeting will be held later, when it is expected all residents of the areas i which would comprise any proposed ' fire control dis trict will attend to discuss pros and cons of any plan for fire protection. Bob Waiters' . Out On a Limb column in ' Monday's M.T., entitled "The Rivalry, reminds us that there was probably more , rivalry be tween Medford and Ashland some 60 or more years ago than now. That was when dwellers got their drinking water from dug wells, with ail KAyia well (ui, vwu aiuuuu town for customers. There was a well with pitcher pump and tin cup, on the corner of Main and Central, in Med ford, . now occupied ? by - the shoe store. The so-called city water for fire control and irrigation pre sumably came from Bear creek,1 for both Ashland and Medford, with Ashland being upstream, having the first chance at the water. We re- ffriAmhni tfnlnD tn AchlnnH In attend some function at the old chataquoa b u 1 1 d 1 n g - I think it was a sermon by Billy Sundnyi Going into a restroom we noticed a sign put up by the janitor, "Please Pull the String." Someone had written In big letters under the sign, "Med ford needs the water." Wp helieve that both cities profited immensely by this rivalry and their efforts to out do each other, Ashland in getting their wonderful, health-giving LIthia water, the beautiful park, second to none in southern Oregon, and its world-famed Elizabethan theatre, where each year thou sands come to attend Shake spearean plays. Medford like wise has developed a water system with an abundance of pure, soft spring water, com ing from a spring in the high hills, and is away out In front as the leading commercial and business city of southern Ore gon. So, unknowingly, the pull er Ul 111(3 BlliUB mciy iicavc touched off a spark of energy that is still alive. T Herman Manning Jr. of Bothel, Wash., a buddy of Bob Dunn's while stationed - in Austria, left Saturday after a week's visit here at the Dunn home. . . ' The first picking of Bart- lett pears was finished Thurs day, at the Hull Orchards, Modoc finished Tuesday. .. - One party tells us the old pine is worth a thousand dollars as a landmark, and we should make some one pay for it. Another said - since ine cui ioois were in the road right-of-way, we couldn't do anything about it. Another counters this by saying in oia pina na orlly as it was there long before any road. We finally cauaht ud with Steve Wilson, as he flitted from place to place, and he is going to have one of his wood ' utchers look over the situation, and see if some lumber might be sal vaged from the tree. Cutting the tree will work a hard ship on the woody wood- peckers, who have been . using the outer bark to store their acorns for winter use. A tree with a diameter of S feet, a height of more ' than 100 feet, and 25 acorns to the square foot-how many are in the tree? When we were running the observation post, which was near the tree, two young soldiers from Now York were looking over the tree and saw the acorns (they called them nuts) neatly placed blossom end cui and fitting snugly in each hole. They were per plexed and wanted to know what kind of tree it was. Said they had never seen a tree thai bore its fruits or nuts in that manner. Next week's Tablets, Aug 26, will be written by Bessie, as far as we know now, the opinions expressed in that issue will not be our own. In sending in news, don't forget the five W's-Who, What, Why, Where and When. Without these your story Is not com plete. . Jair and Tom, the live wire youngsters of the E. W. Robinson's, are spend ing the week with aunt Sally at the David Reese home in Yreka, Calif. . , As pear picking gets going, we are reminded of the time several years ago that a car penter came to the Jerry Fitz gerald farm and wanted a job working on Jerry s partly fin ished house. He wanted $3.50 an hour, but Jerry told him before he would pay that, he would finish it himself in his spare time. Tiie man insisted that he needed a Job the worst way, but would not work at his trade for any less. So Jerry offered him a job pick ing pears at 10 cents a box. So the next day he picked pears, getting 30 boxes picked in the eight hours. Jerry said that showed just what he was worth. He didn't pick any more pears, and the last time we saw Jerry's house, he hadn't finished it in his spare time. So the county court couldn't find but one Demo crat in the county qualified to serve on the home rule study committee. But what of it? Why should the Democrats feel so down in the mouth, when one con siders that the Republicans couldn't find but one Re publican in millions fit to run for president? The Alan Fleischer-'-! left Saturday for Portland, where they will visit friends and later go on' a camping trip down the Oregon coast bctore returning home. " Thought for the Day: Competition makes progress. Eagle Point Judging Team Wins First The Eagle Point FFA dairy judging team won top honors In the dairy judging contest nt the Jackson County 4-H and FFA fair Thursday. Crater FFA chapter won second place followed by Phoenix with third and Grants Pass with fourth. Margin be tween was close with Eagle Point scoring 1,174.6 points, Crater 1,148 points, Phoenix 1,113.5 points and Grants Pass 087.8 points. Leon Small, Phoenix, was high point individual with 461.0 points. Following him were Dennis Cornutt, Crater, 436.9, second; Roger Paul, Grants Pass, 412.8, third; Ron Greb, Eagle Point, 411.7, fourth; Grovcr Olsen, Grants Pass, 3HB.7, fifth; and Dale Vaughan, Eagle Point, 384.4, sixth., . . ! . Smoky Bear Club Said Successful ' Jacksonville-Librarian Mrs. Helen Roberts has announced that a Smoky Bear reading party, with refreshments, wili be held on the Museum lawn at 10 a.m. next Wednesday. Certificates will be award ed and all children who have participated in the library's summer rending program arc invited. Seventy-five children were enrolled for the project, and it has proved to be a very successful and rewarding sum mer activity, Mrs. Roberts said. Other news from the library hero Includes a recent addi tion of an old filing cabinet which was presented by Omar Bacon, Jackson county librarian. The cabinet was originally in the old Jackson county courthouse hero, now the site of the museum. Mrs. Ruber's after nea-ly five years as librarian, is tak ing her first vacation this week. Mrs. Lewis Applcbakcr is on duty at the library. Six From Yreka To Attend OTI Yreka-Six students from Yreka have been approved for enrollment in Oregon Tech nical Institute, Klamath Falls. They are James F. Bartlott, Daniel W. Behnke, Lool G. Collins, Gary W. Hanlon, Rob ert L. Skinner and Glno J. Trinca. Freshman orientation activi ties will begin on the campus Sept. 21. Dormitories will be opened for occupancy Tues day, Sept. 20. BF Schools Open Aug. 29; Two Teachers Needed By MARY JO HARRIS Mail Tribune Correspondent Butte Falls Butte Falls Grade school and High school will open for regular session Monday, Aug. 29, reports Wil liam B. Hunter, superintend ent of Butte Falls schools. Teachers are to report Mon day, Aug. 22. The teachers in service program will be held Friday, Aug. 26 at the court house in Medford. Grade school teachers in clude Mrs. Roger Harris, Mrs. Claude Curtis, Mrs. Dun Balch, Richard Pepple and Leonard Stratton, who also is principal of the grade school. High school teachers in clude Dean Boggan, Michael Estes, Mrs. Leora Morey and William Hunter, superintend ent. Selection of one grade school and one high school teacher is still pending. Custodians are Ray Cham bers, grade school, and Keith Scott, high school. Bus driv ers are Ray Chambers and Bruce Pingle. Mrs. Ray Shep- pard is in charge of the cafe teria. Mrs. William Harris is school secretary. School board consists of Mrs. Harry Dalton, chairman, Bruce Burton, Charles Fer guson, F. E. (Monnie) Poole and Bill Rodgers. Mrs. Wil liam Edmondson is clerk. Busses will run their regu lar schedules the opening day of school. The cafeteria will serve lunch at regular rates, 25 cents per student. High school boys are asked to report for football prac tice' Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 3 p.m. ; Hunter also reports that the new school bus will be off the assembly line on Aug, 19 and should be finished by Aug. 23. Teacher Needed In District 15 By VIOLA ROGERS Mail Tribune Correspondent Tiller-Drew - The new school bus hasn't arrived for school district 15 and to date there is a teacher vacancy for the third grade at Days Creek. But there are still four weeks until school starts. High school students will register from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sept, 7. Both the Days Creek and the Tiller schools will start Sept. 8. There will be hot lunches at both schools on the opening date. New teachers at Days Creek will be Howard Byerly, sci ence and mathematics; Don Moore, high school boys phys ical education and math; Miss Arlene Bush, high school girls physical education and sixth grade; and Carl Ellingsworth, fifth grade. Assistant cook will be Mrs. Lois Bcnnct. Superintendent for Dis trict 15 will be William E. Lewellen. Argle Matthews will re sume his duties as principal and seventh and eighth grade teacher at Tiller. Miss Rosie Alsip will replace Mrs. Oscar Ostlund as fifth and sixth grade teacher; Mrs. Elena Barber replaces Mrs. FlO' renco Sullivan for the third and fourth grades; and Mrs, Alvlra Ward will once again teach the first and second grades. Mrs. Hillard Lilllgren will be clerk; Hilton Park, custo dian; and Mrs. Earl Tlbbets and Mrs. Hilton Park, cooks The Richard B. Slaters were low bidders on the bus contract and since their new 72-passenger bus has not yet arrived, bus schedules and runs have not been worked out. Mrs. George Stone, whose bus contract runs for one more year, will continue to make the up-river run. Entries Filed for Manual Boat Race Happy Camp-George Wal ters, local sheriff-constable and chairman of the manual boat race sponsored by the Lions club, reports that seven persons have announced their intention to participate In the race, to begin on Sept. 4 at 7 a.m. Contestants have applied from as far away as San Fran cisco. Walters said. The Klamath river manual boat race was first instigated in 1U53. Anyone may enter the race who has a manually operated boat. Entrance fee is $10 and last day for filing application for participation is Sopt. 1. LOG SCALER INJURED Happy Camp Ernest Splnks, an employee of the forest service at Happy Camp, was Injured recently while scaling logs. He stated that he jumped from the water tank to a log, and bumped his head. He was knocked uncon scious a-id his left arm was broken. Spinks is working in the office while his arm heals. Regional News Bob Walter, Regional Editor Correspondent: Applegate Viola Cook; Eagle Point - Dottle uoi aimmons; nappy camp - nazei uavis; nornorooK - itatnerme unapman; Illinois vaney - Kather ine Scott; Jacksonville - Bctte Hosklns; McLeod - Caroline Harding; Meadows - Nellie Bergman; Phoe nix - neicn niKoaym; erospeuv neaion; uaient - am xoung; xmer-urew - vioia Boyd Fraser. Drive for Forward; By KATHERINE CHAPMAN Mail Tribune Correspondent Hornbrook - With the elec tion of a committee of local residents to represent the community with the Soil Con servation district and with the power to sign the needed Boy Scouts Go Fishing, 'Catch' Coastal Storm Yrcka-Boy Scout troop 36, under Scoutmaster Bill Hass of Yreka, went to Crescent City over the week end to go fishing, but all, they caught was the tail end of the hur ricane which lashed the Pa cific northwest. According to Robert Tor mey, junior Scoutmaster, 17 boys and four adults made the trip. Friday night they camped at Judiah Smith park at the mouth of Smith river. Up at 5 a.m. Saturday, thqy broke camp and awaited "Snappy" Goodrich, who was to ferry them to a small island 500 yards from shore where they intended to fish. A stiff wind was blowing, the boat was small and only five boys could be taken at one time. The 10-mile long island was barren, rocky and covered with driftwood. It's one lone pine tree was bending double in the ever increasing wind. For three hours the Scouts tried to set up camp but in a 70-mile wle it was impossible. They iT.ked the length of the island and wig-wagged for help. One boy defied the wind and took along his fishing pole only to have it snatched away from him by the waves. "Snappy" Goodrich rescued them with his big boat, the Sea Witch, which took 45 min utes to reach the mainland throngh the 20-foot waves. Everybody was groggy from battling the sea and wind, their eyes blood-shot and their mouths filled with sand. But at least they had an In teresting week end. EP Fire Department Has Two Openings Eagle Point - The Eagle Point fire department has two openings for volunteer work ers. Applicants may apply at the city hall or by contacting Fire Chief David Kahl. Volunteer workers meet the second ant fourth Tuesday evenings of each month where they receive the standard training course of all firemen. Training films are used and there is actual experience with the fire hoses and each man is taught to operate the truck. The truck cannot be taken out of the shed by any one who is not a volunteer fireman and covered by the in surance. Each fireman is paid two dollars for each meeting at tended, ' Rural Reflections By MAUDE ZIEGLER Applegate Valley-A lot of things go into painting a pic ture, says Juanita Anderson at Wanagan art shop and serv ice station below Ruch. Sometimes it's moving a house or a barn or a field or whatever her client has or dered. Sometimes it's just giv ing a haircut in case of doing a boy's portrait. She has been doing haircuts since a long time ago when her family lived 2 miles from town (Cot tage Grove) and hair cuts were in demand witli four boys and a husbanJ to keep groomed. And boys don t have to sit long for a portrait, because Juanita docs much of her work from a snapshot. She has done several portraits and cabin scenes this summer, in cluding one painting of the Darrell Mitchell summer home on Beaver creek. CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens EsNmilci Glidlf Phone SP 1-1014 Evenlno- Valley - Maude Ziegier; Butte Fails Harbison; Gold Hill-Sams Valley - - r raiitcs miiK, outsuy vuvo - cvaiyn wanon; tame ttocK - n. . Viola Rogers; Williams - Dam Project Moves Comittee Selected applications, another step was taken Monday evening in the preliminary work in instigat ing a feasibility study of the proposed flood control dam project in the Cottonwood Creek watershed area. The meeting was held at the Grange hall with an at tendance of 40 persons. Meet ing with the local group were John Lenz, a U.S. govern ment engineer with the Soil Conservation service office in Yreka; C. H. Ault', a Soil Con servation representative from Medford; Vayne Ralston of Yreka, chairman of the Shas ta Valley Soil Conservation district, and district deputy master of the Grange, and Mark Petty, assistant ranger at the Oak Knoll Ranger sta tion of the U.S. Forest Serv ice. Fred Mitchell, chairman pro tern of the local group, introduced Lenz, who re viewed briefly the informa tion presented by him at the first meeting on July 11, and also answered questions ask ed by some of those present. Ralston remarked that the Shasta Valley district has heartily endorsed the feasi bility study," and also that Secretary Puts in 8-Hour Day, Then Pans for Gold By BESSIE BOYD FRASER Mail Tribune Correspondent Yreka-Mavis Miller, secre tary to District Attorney Al bert H. Newton Jr., puts in eight hours serving the pub lic during the day. Then after five o'clock her real work begins. She has some mining claims on the Middlefork road down in the Humbug area, where she goes every evening to prospect, do her assessment work, feed her dogs and get away from the maddening crowd. The other night she drove to the summit, stopped for a lingering look at Mt. Shasta and started down the narrow, crooked road. A big fir tree had fallen across the road about halfway down. As there is very little traffic over the mountain, she knew better THOMPSON SEEDLE Fresh picked Thompson seedless at their peak of flavor goodness. These beautiful grapes are perfect for des serts and fruit bowl snacks. A real tasty treat during the hot weather Guaranteed by Safeway. Gold Bond Stamps Save For Valuable Gifts for Every Member of the Family Mary Jo Harrii; Central Point Mary Kelt- Crandview-Lone Pine- Ann Katzenbach; Yreka . Bessie "the Grange will co-sponsor the local group." Petty's comments were to the effect that "the U.S. For est service was interested in the project mainly from a recreational standpoint." Ault stated that "the plans of the local (Hornbrook) group has been discussed in formally by some of the mem bers of the Rogue Soil Con servation district board," and that "the group could be rea sonably sure of the support of the Rogue board should the plans develop to the ac tion stage." Before election of the com mittee, on a motion by Tom Watt and seconded by Oscar Barnum, it was voted that the chairman of said committee be appointed by the elected committee. The names of eight men were then placed in nomina tion, and by secret ballot the following five were elected to the committee: F. L. Burns of the SS Bar ranch at Hilts; Glen Robertson, Rob Cum mins, Fred Mitchell, and Frank Cardoza. The committee planned to meet shortly to elect a chair man and a secretary. than to look for help. It was impossible to back up, and there was no room to turn around, so she decided to re move the tree, which fortu nately had broken apart. She looked at her bare feet in thongs, bare legs in shorts, and with her bare hands-her gloves were at the mines-she went to work. The only help she had was from the sun which sank behind the moun tain. One precious hour was used up in clearing the road and by the time her chores were taken care of it was too dark to do any panning in the creek, so she took a sack of rocks home with her and washed them in the bathtub until she found what she was looking for. She says that she is so gold happy that she looks for the yellow stuff in coffee grounds! lb. SS Betty Crocker CAKE MIX All regular 39c varieties cake mixes. Amer ica's favorite complete mix in the package. 4 Schools in Happy Camp Set Opening By BETTY REEDY Mail Tribune Correspondent Happy Camp-James Foote, newly appointed principal of Happy Camp High school, stated that the high school will begin classes August 29, as will the Happy Camp Elemen tary school. Foote has employed Pat Whitman as office secretary, and so far has hired one new teacher, Robert Hokanson, who will be the boys' physical education instructor as well as coach for the basketball and football teams. Hokanson is from Grand Forks, N.D., and is a graduate of the University of North Da kota. Foote is still searching for a woman teacher for the girls' physical education 'and homemaking classes. The high school cafeteria will not operate this year, due to a deficit fund of $1,500, but Foote is hoping to make ar rangements of some sort for the students to have hot lunches. Other high schools in Siskiyou county are facing the same problem, and are solving the difficulty by hav ing high school and elemen tary school cafeterias combined. LUMI $10 to 2 U-HAUL- Timber MEDFORD McAndrews & Sage ropes M 1 s Genuine I960 Young Leg o' Lamb Tender "USDA CHOICE" lamb with the long por tion of the shank bone and excess fat removed. $11 for Changes Made at Ranger Station at Butte Falls Butte Falls-The Butte Falls Ranger Station, U.S. Forest Service, has experienced sev eral staff changes recently. Randall Perkins is the new ranger. Doug Finch is now In the supervisor's office in Medford working in fire con trol under Bob Torheim. Gor don Walker is working as act ting district assistant. Don Strong, former ranger, has been transferred to Baker, Ore. ' Mr. and Mrs. Truman Puch- bauer are newcomers to the Butte Falls ranger station. Puchbauer is the new assistant ranger. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hughes also are newcomers. Mr. Hughes is the district engineer. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hart and son live in the new forest service trailer house. Hart is an engineer's aide. Al McCorquodale, from Louisiana, is working in the timber sale department with Virgil Wilson, John Hoffman and Chuck Hayes. Hoffman, also new to the Butte Falls station, is an ex perienced smoke jumper. Bob Ellis, scaler, scales hun dreds of thousands of board feet of logs per year. He has scaled up to 70 truck loads per day. During the peak of ARGAIN SAT. A.M. Only PrdmEs Company FUEL SALES YARD Road Spring "USDA CHOICE" Lamb lb. BIG SAVINGS ON COFFEE! Folger$-M.J.B. Here's proof that savings are great at Safeway th.s week-end on two famous brands of top qua lity coffees. 2-lb. Tin $1.09 I -lb. Tin Air Conditioned for Your Shopping Comfort 3 Stores To Serve You the season he averages 50 loads per day. Don Perala is the new proj ect forester. He will be in charge of all project work done on the Butte Falls ranger Idstrict. There are many phases of work in the timber stand improvement. Six men helping Don in this work are Darwin Moore, Lloyd Holm, Gene Irwin, Glen Sheppard, Don Ellis and Bill Irwin. These men have been trained in this work and the training will continue on in T.S.I, as well as other work in the forest service. Mrs. Wayne Casey heads the clerical department. Miss Priscilla Poole , works part time as assistant to Mrs. Casey. The Butte Falls district had five fires during the last bad lightning storm but thanks to the experienced fire fighters, all fires were less than one fourth acre. PARTNERSHIP Happy Camp - Carl and Mary Paul have purchased a half interest In the Union Service station operated by George and Louella Swem. Mr. and Mrs. Paul came to Happy Camp from Klamath Falls, where Paul had attend ed Oregon Technical Institute. a Load OREGON Phone SP 2-8086
