MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
FRIDAY. AUGUST 19, I960
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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
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ine Scott; Jacksonville - Bctte Hosklns; McLeod - Caroline Harding; Meadows - Nellie Bergman; Phoe
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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
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Valley - Maude Ziegier; Butte Fails
Harbison; Gold Hill-Sams Valley -
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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
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"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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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