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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAYEPTEMBER 14. 1960 O O MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. MEHCY FLIGHT Happy Camp loggers ting choker at a V and K Logging company prepare a stretcher to lift K. L.' Anderson operation when a log rolled on him. His aboard a Mercy Flights plane at Happy condition is termed good by Sacred Heart Camp airport yesterday. Anderson, shown hospital. Pilot for the flight was George E. 'yng "ear the large group of men, was set- Milligan, Medford. This Careless Doe Met A Woman Driver By BESSIE BOYD FRASER Mall Tribune Correspondent Yreka - Archery hat been revived in Siskiyou county. For three weeks . there will be open season for deer, but the only weap on allowed is bow and ar row. The odds seem to favor the animals who manage to keep out of range. Most hunters are equip ped with powerful binocu lars and report that the deer just stand on the high est hill and laugh at man's feeble attempts to slay them. - Joan Vieder got her deer this week, however. She was on her way to Sheriff Cottar's office where she works as secretary and ma tron. Driving from her ranch in Scott valley, a large doe leaped in front of her car - resulting in con siderable damage to the front end of the car and permanent damage to the deer. A sheriff's deputy arrived on the scene but there was n't enough left of the deer to feed the guests at the Sis kiyou county jail. The game warden was called and he disposed of the carcass. Joan hopes there aren't some little orphans looking for their careless mother. PARTIES PLANNED Tiller-Drew-Several parties were planned at last Friday's meeting of Club 227. A "back to school" dance for teen agers will be held this Satur day, followed by a social eve ning for club members and friends Saturday, Sept. 24, and a masquerade ball Oct. 29, the Saturday before Halloween. Enjoy The Great Whiskey of 1 fi' Vg 8 fwNNIN THI WEST t-&z$ti sslwJ soikbsI TWO BOTTU.NOS- J I TakB YOUR cmu I M sun'nV JUs Sj BROOK SUS,NV STRAIGHT, BLEND Rich, heartr. fine Lis ht. smooth, Kmtucky Stnlsht ceplionallr ina Bourbon whliVey Kantueky Uitt M60 M60 1 44 Qt. . W Qt. 'Top Gun' Trophy Goes To Portlander; Medfordite 2nd In Fast Draw Contest By KATHERINE SCOTT Mail Tribune Correspondent Illinois Valley A Port lander, Dave Pruess, won the "top gun" trophy during the "fast draw" contest held as part of Kerbyville Ghost Lone Pine Lists Teacher Changes Lone Pine - Changes in the teaching staff at Lone Pine school were announced yes terday by Principal Lee Mer riman. Mrs. Elvera Wrynn, former sixth grade teacher, will re place Mrs. Aileen Johnson with the fourth grade and Jack Brown replaces Ralph Monroe, who has been trans ferred to Hedrick Junior High school. Mrs. Alice Saunders will be at the school each Tuesday and Thursday to in struct orchestra. Merriman also announced that renovation of the library has been completed. New ta bles, chairs and shelves have been installed and a new set of encyclopedia and many oth er new books are available. School enrollment has in creased l Ji- than 13 per cent over last year, Merriman add ed. This week's figure was 183 as opposed to 1950's total of 159. TEACHERS' NIGHT Tiller -Drew -A-"meet the teachers" night "and a potluck will be held by Tiller-Drew PTA this Tuesday evening. Kentucky Straight or Kentucky Blend ... Sunny Brook tastes better, richer than any other whiskey! By barrel and bottle, by pack horse and wagon. Sunny Brook rolled westward with th early settler.. Why this Kentucky whiskey? It tasted best. It still does. That's why it has so many loyal buyers today. Town's Labor Day festivities. George Flanagan of Med ford's Thunder Colts Fast Draw , club won the second place trophy plus a belt buckle for being the best dressed "gun slinger." Rocky Jones of Cave Junc tion won a belt buckle as the best dressed gambler and My ron Terpening of O'Brien won a similar prize as the best dressed drover, Old Cars Displayed Judges were Albert Carner of the Music Center in Grants Pass, Earl Swift of the Old Timers Car club in Medford, and Mrs. Vivian Deaton and Hank Splestoser of Cave Junction. , The Medford club had Its old cars on display through out the day and the Jackson ville '59ers and the local Old Time Fiddlers played old time musical selections dur ing the afternoon. Floor-Warming Party Set By Club Phoenix - The Phoenix Community club will hold a combination floor - warming party - square dance at 8 o'clock this Saturday night. The party is designed to "break in" the new hardwood floor recently completed In the main hall. Local and out-of-town call ers will lead the square dances and food and coffee will be included in the $1.50 per cou ple admission charge. The club is located at the west end of First st. in Phoenix. the Old West Out on a Limb By BOB WALTERS Summer's Over Local thermometers still may be bursting right and left but as far as I'm concerned, summer is over. Finished. Done. Kaput. I spent most of the summer in Ashland. My "beat" takes me there and I also lolled away most of my off-duty time in Bard Town. But Ashland, you'll pardon the poor grammar, just ain't the same. No festival. No band concerts. No singing. No dancing. No picnics. No tourists. With the Shakespearean Festival- wrapped up for an other year, Ashland has settled back to being just another small town, albeit a nice small town. The theater has had its moments of glory for this year. Now it's just a rather quaint building, sitting on a hill. The pace at the once bus tling Mark Antony hotel has slowed to a yawn. You can find a seat In the coffee shop now but no atmos phere comes with it. Lithia park is still beauti ful, I suppose, but I can't help thinking of it as just a collection of trees, grass and water. The band shell looks cold, like something that hat stood for centuries while everything else around It crumbled. Most of the people you tee on the streets are just Ashland people going about their daily routinet. They don't teem excited about anything. If you've managed to bear with me, thank you. Perhaps I'm not the only sentimental slob in southern Oregon. But left get on a more cheerful tubject. Linotype operators, for instance. Nothing, but nothing, it as cheerful at a linotype op erator. These smiling bulwarks of American newspaperdom (wonder if there't tuch a word?) do have their quirks, however. One of them it the spelling of proper names. The name that seems to give Mail Tribune punchers their most trouble is that of the Ashland City recorder, W. E. Bartelt. That's B-a-r-t-e-I-t. For tome reason, they re fuse to believe it's Bartelt. It usually comet out Bartlei. Once it was Garbelt, and how they arrived at that spelling, I'll never know. I'm ndt even ture I want to. Without "contacts," a re porter is pretty well finished. Since Ashland is my reporto rial bailiwick, the city record er is one of my most impor tant news sources. And I certainly wish my lin otype operator friends (and you are my friends, aren't you? weren't you?) would spell his name correctly. If you do, I promise you the undying gratitude of Obb Watlesr. Kindergarten Sets Cleanup Saturday Rogue River' The Rogue River Community Kindergar ten has slated two cleanup days, one held this morning and the other set for 10 a.m. this Saturday, to prepare for the start of the school year. The kindergarten's board of directors held a meeting last week, to discuss plans for the new school year. Chief goal this year is to obtain funds to pay regular monthly rental for the building which the organization has used for the past four years. Many ex penses were eliminated in the past when local residents do nated time, labor and equip ment to carry out various projects. , The board's next meeting will be Tuesday evening, Oct. 4. LIGHTNING STRIKE Tiller-Drew-Cow Creek dis trict of Umpqua National for est sent men to a lightning strike fire at Cougar Butte last Wednesday. Cougar Butte is about three miles from Ab bott Butte. BAUXITE SUPPLY Jamaica's supply of alumi num ore is expected to last another SO years, AIR DISTANCE New York City Is about 2, Vast Rehabilitation Program Now Under Way In California By BETTY REEDY Mail Tribune Correspondent Happy Camp - A vast, new prisoner rehabilitation pro gram is under way in Califor nia for the 20,000 men and women incarcerated in Cali fornia's prisons. To relieve the overcrowded prison quarters and also provide a sound system of rehabilitation, Rich ard A. McGee, director of the California department of cor rections, has established con servation camps at 18 differ ent points throughout the state. These camps, also known as honor camps, serve a three fold purpose. They provide the prisoner with a means of re habilitation, allowing him to earn his board and room from the $3.50 a day which he is paid for his work. The saving to the taxDaver in upkeep of the prisoners plus relieving the need for bigger prison quarters is a second feature. Ambulance Makes 16 Emergency Runs Illinois Valley - Since the Valley Ambulance Service started operations here last May, it has made 16 emergen cy runs to Grants Pass. The ambulance was put here by L. H. Hall -f Grants Pass for use of valley resi dents. Herb Falkenhayen is in charge locally and said he would like to remind resi dents that all they need do is call operator if they need the ambulance. Eight men take turns driv ing the ambulance and one of them is always on call. Driv ers, in addition to Falkenhay- are Dave Chamberlain, Floyd Damoth, Wayne Spen cer, Donald Foster, Winston Tuttle, Richard Elson .and Phil Kellar. The ambulance has record ed 1,200 miles to date. Emer gencies included 12 automo bile and industrial accidents, one heart attack and one se rious illness. Rural Reflections By MAUDE Z1EGLEH Applegate Valley A bit of comparsion of West Virginia country , with that of southern Oregon says that the two are something alike, except that Oregon's is on a larger scale bigger trees and taller mountains. This Is the observation of Ruth Anne Carson next day after arrival at Star Ranger station from Morgantown, West Virginia. Ruth Anne came with her husband, Bill, who is joining the staff at Star Ranger station as a jun ior forester. I had not Idea what to expect," Ruth Anne said, with a bit of accent. "I thought we would be stationed on a lone ly mountain somewhere; I didn't think we would be any place as nice as this with lots of people around." The Carsons arrived a little ahead of schedule, and since living quarters were not quite arranged, they are guests of Star residents for a few days. Ruth Anne, who is making her first venture from her home state, is a home eco nomist, and expects to be come established In that field. She is quite concerned about local food prices, having gath ered that they are much high er than In her home territory. As to national forests, West Virginia has two, one of them very small, Reception, Program Set By Yreka PTA Yreka - The ancient art of story telling will be portrayed by Mrs. Ralph C, Kantz at a reception In honor of Yreka elementary teachers at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Jackson street school. Mrs. Kantz, of Redding, is the west district president of the National Story League which was founded In 1903 at the University of Tennessee. Yreka Elementary PTA President Mrs. Fred Caldwell has extended an invitation to all parents. Refreshments will be served and child care pro vided. MINT WITH Tuamflmei Third, the prisoners are em ployed in conservation and construction jobs which often could not be carried out through regular contractors because of the immense cost involved. The construction of that portion of highway 96 from Happy Camp to Swllhip creek, in Siskiyou county, is an example. Private contrac tors could not be found to do the job of widening and im proving this road because the vast amount of rock and earth to be moved made it imprac tical. Criticism of Camps There has been much criti cism of these camps, some by people of the area In which the camps are located who are fearful of escapes, others by law enforcement officers who feel the criminals are being dealt with too lightly. In many cases, this might be true, but the problem must be dealt with as a whole, and help given to the majority who benefit under this pro gram, and are able to return to normal life as useful citi zens. It must be borne in mind that while many of these men are hardened criminals, many others are persons who probably would never get into trouble again. Part of this program in cludes education, for statistics show that the average grade level of the prisoners is the 7th grade, highlighting the need for increased education al facilities. At present, there are 18 honor camps in Cali fornia. At camp 13 in Redding, night school courses are being offered on grade and high school levels. Of 104 inmates, 45 attend classes. It is planned to extend this program to other camps. At Siskiyou county camp 41, there are 63 men. They work an eight hour day, six days a week. Saturday night they see movies in the recrea tion hall, which doubles as a barber shop. They are pro vided with medical attention and have good meals. The bar racks, bathrooms and kitchen are scrupulously clean, $5 Million Project The portion of highway 96, from Happy Camp to Swillup creek in Siskiyou county, 16.7 miles, will be finished about 1963 at a cost of $5 million, according to M. Van Schaik, resident engineer sta tioned at Clear- Creek honor camp 41. This stretch of road is one car wide, with occasion al spots where it enables cars and trucks to pass. At one point, the road is four feet wider than a car, with no shoulder on either side, and a straight drop down to the canyon floor of . 2,000 feet. When completed, the highway is to be two lane, with should ers on both sides. Because of the extreme amount of dirt and rock to be moved in building this road, private contractors could not be found to .build it, and the money has come out of a sepa rate state fund for Inmate re habilitation, plus apportioned state and forest service funds. The labor Is furnished by con victs at Clear Creek honor camp 41, for which they are paid $3.50 a day. Heavy duty equipment Is contracted for, and since inmates are not per mitted to ride mobile equip ment, operators also are hired. Started in 19SB The cost per mile of this project is $270,000, and It was begun in January, 1996. Sur facing of the road will be done by outside contractors, Van Schaik stated. At present, the road is within 2V4 miles of Swillup creek. The rest of the road will be completed by the Eureka district and by the bureau of public roads, which is at present working on the stretch between Orleans and Weitchepec. An odd indication of the trend of our times, is that, percentagewise, a higher num ber of native Californians are committed than non-natives. In type of crime, the highest increase has been In narcotics law offenders. McOee states that "voca tional Incompetency has a major responsibility as a cause for crime. It has been demon strated that great numbers of these men have great native ability to meet the require ments In every conceivable type of craft or trade, but they never have had proper train ing. A similar situation exists at the California institution for women." MEDFORD PAINT ana) Wallpaper Store eth t Helly Dlsienally Acres from Pelt Office PHONE SP 2-9321 We Give S1H GREEN STAMPS Regional News Correspondents Appleffate Viola Cook: Sasle Point - Dottle Dot Simmons: nix - Helen NikSiVT Pi Nealon- Talent - r if V. T Boyd Frascr. Threehorn Camp Near Drew Reported Ready For Limited Number of Campers By VIOLA ROGERS Mall Tribune Correspondent Tlller-D r e w Threehorn camp, situated twelve miles from Trail and eight miles from Drew on highway 42, will be a boon to picnickers and over night campers. It is now ready for a limit ed number of campers as a dry weather camp. Ranger John Wilson says they hope to have crushed rock on the drives some time this fall. The camp grounds are shel tered by towering sugar pines reaching to a height of 200 feet. Mitchell creek borders on one side of the grounds, and a small stream that emerges from a slough and runs into Elk creek flows along the opposite side. Water for Threehorn camp will eventually be brought into camp from a spring across the highway. Water is now available from a pipe across the road and down a little from the camp. Ranger Wilson says the water that flows through the pipe from Candidates To Address Meeting Applegate Valley - State Representative Evelyn Nye and candidates John Dcllen back and Robert Duncan will be guest speakers at a special meeting of Upper Applegate Grange this Saturday, discuss ing measures on the Novem ber ballot. Dr. Edwin R. Durno, con gressional candidate, also will discuss the measures, accord ing to Mrs. Anna Scott, Grange legislative chairman. Dr. Elmo Stevenson, presi dent of Southern Oregon col lege, also will be a guest speaker. This Is not a regular Grange meeting, and all per sons in the community or else where are invited. IE DICK &. DALE HOSKINS Builders Roseburg "We ieil mote. electlicalLf. heated komei than any ottteti tff& " FOR FULL INFORMATION ON SAFE, CLEAN, ECONOMICAL ELECTRIC HEAT, VISIT A CALORE ELECTRICAL LEAGUE DEALER OR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. BAUMfiR'SVSrIEET METAL' & HEATING 840 N Riverside - Medford - SP 3-4346 BROOKS ELECTRIC , 1116 N Riverside - Medford" - SP 2-5209' COURT STREET ELECTRIC " 1127 Court Streets Medford - SP.?-2463 ) , ELECTRONIC SERVICE . 18 N Grape - Medford - SP 3-1071 ENLOE ELECTRIC Rt. 1, Box 415 - Talent - KE 5-1269 FELDMAn' & OLSON -, Medford - SP 3-2811 237 East Main - Medford - SP 3-2811.1 ' HARRISON ELECTRIC Rt. 2, Gibbon Road - Central Point - NO 4-2091 MODERN PLUMBING & SHEET METAL 613 East Jackson - Medford - SP 3-5368 ROGUE ELECTRIC SERVICE 961 Shafer. Lane - Medford - SP' 2-6603' iRUSH ELECTRIC COMPANY 1023 S Riverside - Medford - SP 2-4960 TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN 214 West Main - Medford - SP 3-6241 ' ' YOW'S HEATING, AIR CONDITIONING & SHEET METAL 1729 N Riverside -. Medford - SP 2-4534 - .; WIRE YOUR HOME FOR MODERN, LOW-COST ELECTRIC HEAT ON COPCO'i WRE-ON-TIME PLAN... MAKE BUDGET PAYMENTS AT LOW INTEREST RATES... ASK YOUR LEAGUE DEALER OR COPCO SERVICE OFFICE. Heaf - 1 (NOT FIRE) Bob Wallers, Regional Editor Valley . MRUde Ziegler; Butte Falls - Harbison: Gold Hill-Sams Valley . TTtf iUn.ri - vm-T" " a spring has never been test ed so it would be preferable for campers to bring their own water, The camp is now equipped with four concrete fireplaces and four cedar tables and benches. The tables and benches, which are made at the forest service warehouse t Roseburg, are made of 3 by 12 foot planks. They are smooth and sturdy. The two restrooms are bolted to 900 gallon concrete septic tanks. This will en able the forest service to have them cleaned whenever necessary and will eliminate the necessity of having to dig new pits and moving the buildings as they have had to at other camps in the past. The buildings are roofed with fiber glass, making their white interiors very bright and clean looking. The fiber glass roofs also will shed show easily. According to Ira Poole of the forest service, the land for the camp site was ob tained two years ago from O and C in a land exchange. Yreka High Student Injured in Wreck Yreka - At noon Tuesday there was an accident at Ober lln road and highway 99 in volving a Pacific Motor Transport truck driven by Joe Brown of Redding. Harry Jones, Hornbrook, a student at Yreka High school, was driving a pickup and was reportedly uninjured, but Ca roll Archambault, 131 Dexter St., Yreka, also a student at Yreka High, was taken to Sis kiyou County hospital where he was reported In serious condition. Highway patrol officers are investigating the accident. by - Wire Mary Kell- Crandvlew-Lon. P ne ' oe- niuon; lapie. kock - k. Ann Katzenbach; Yreka . Bessie It is the only area along high way 4Z where the forest serv ice has enough suitable land for a forest service camp. Future Plena Future plans for Threehorn camp call for 29 camp sites, and a group picnic area near a parking area. In the com pleted camp there will also be seven trailer loops where cars pulling trailers can turn around. At present there Is one trailer loop. In the immediate future, the plans are for 10 units and a group area. Expansion will be as necessity arises and money is available. The camp at present covers approxi mately four acres. When you are traveling highway 42, watch for signs pointing you to Threehorn camp. Then drive through the beautiful camp grounds and If you have time stop for awhile and enjoy nature. There is no poison oak in the premises. The signs point ing you to the camp are the work of Ira Poole. Chico State Offers Extension Courses Yreka - Chico State college has announced It will start one extension course in Yreka and one in Mt.. Shasta at 7 p.m. this Monday. Art 150, classroom environ ment, a two-unit course meet ing for 30 class hours, will start in room 18 of Jackson Street Elementary school In Yreka with Mrs. Helen Ebert as instructor. Psychology 151-A, pupil personnel work, will meet at Mt. Shasta High school with Dr. Margaret Fagln as in structor. Persons wishing further in formation should contact Dr. Tom Preece, superintendent, Yreka High school, Victor; 2-2B21. KDSONHUIt.,lflSmi.H. .HISttiWllWMWtIfM0f ttMHMmmm.mamm 600 air miles from Los An geles.