FRIDAY. JANUARY 27, 1961
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. HfDFOHDE.
Regional News
John Stafford. Regional Editor
Correspondent: Upper Apple gate Valley Maude Zieglet: bower Applcgate Valley JeanetU
Head; Butte Falls Mary Jo Harris: Central Point Doiorei Arms Irons:; Eagle Point Dottle Harbl
on; Gold HiU-Samt Valley Mary KeU; Grandview-Lone Pine Dot Simmons; Happy Camp Hazel
Davis Bettv Reedy; Hornbrook Katherine Chap-nan: Illinois Valley Katherine Scott; Jackson
ville Bette Hosktns; McLeod Caroline Harding; Murphy Mrs R. J. Millemann; Phoenix Mrs. Leo
Furry; Prospect Veld a Barr; Shady Cove Evelyn Watson: Table Rock R. E. Nelson; Tiller-Drew
Viola Rogers; Williams Lauretta McPherson; Yreka Doris Robinson and Betty Calkini.
DfCJOLn
is as young as they feel.
Hickle was known in this
area as the "sheriff of Spring
st.," due to the fact that a
number of years ago dances
were held at the Roxy Ann
Grange hall for the public and
Hickle was appointed to act
as deputy sheriff to keep
down any trouble that might
arise.
ANCIENT DULCIMER John W. Hickle of
Medford is shown demonstrating how a 120
year old dulcimer is played. The instrument
is played by striking its strings with two
sticks. The tone is similar to that of a piano.
Old Instrument
Loaned To Museum
By DOT SIMMONS
Lone Pine Correspondent
John W. Hickle, known to
his friends as "Web," 2303
Spring st., Medford, who will
be 83 years old this June,
still has a love for an instru
ment which was designed be
fore the piano.
Hickle played the dulcimer
for barn dances in about 1898.
It Is played lying on a table
with two sticks and the tone
is similar to the piano. It
uses the same type of wires.
The dulcimer was made by
Dan Van Anthwcrt, German
born maker of musical instru
ments. It is about 120 years
old. The frame is black wal
nut and the back is of cork
pine. Practically all the origi
nal wires are still on the in
strument. Because of its play
ing technique, the dulcimer
became the ancestor of the
pianoforte.
Two Hammatl
In the middle ages only one
slick was used to play the
dulcimer, but it is now struck
with two hammers. The dul
cimer stems originally from
the near eastern Snntir.
Hickle has loaned the dul
cimer to the Jacksonville mu
seum where it is being dis
played for public viewing.
Hickle is a carpenter by
trade and retired nine years
ago. He still drives a car and
docs his own house work and
yard work. He boasts that one
Hickle played the dulcimer for barn dances
in 1808. The unique instrument was made
by Dan Van Anthwert, German-born instru
ment maker.
Regional Calendar
Eagle Point - Volunteer
workers will work on the
Eagle Point Scout-Community
building starling at 8 a.m.
Saturday and Sunday. Work
ers who can't work all day
are requested to donate a liulf
dny of work. Polluck lunch
will be furnished at noon on
both days.
Murphy-A Mexican dinner
sponsored by the Murphy PTA
will be held tonight at Murphy
school with dinner to be
served cafeteria style from
6:30 to 8 p.m. Dinner will be
followed by films on Mexico
and a program by the Spanish
students of Mrs. Frances Gu
tierrez.
Prospect - A benefit dance
will be held Jan. 28 at the
Prospect Community hall.
Attend Band Clinic
Murphy - Four Murphy
school eighth grade students
attended a band clinic con
ducted by the University of
Oregon music department in
Eugene Jan. 20 and 21.
The students are all mem
bers of the Josephine county
grade school band. Attending
the clinic were Angela Cham
berlain, Ginger Stone, Mickey
Maurer and Kathleen Cathey.
The students were accom
panied by James Jamieson,
director of elementary bands
for southern Josephine coun
ty, and Jerry Raines, director
for northern county schools.
APPLICATION APPROVED
Eagle Point - The city of
Eagle Point received a tele
gram from the department of
health Thursday morning
which staled, "Your applica
tion for grant for an out-fall
pump station force main waste
and stabilization pond has
been approved to date. The
federal share of the project
will total $29,130."
WELL CHILD CLINIC
Eagle Point - Twenty-five
pre-school youngsters were ex
amined in the well-child clin
ic in Eagle Point recently by
Dr. A. E. M e r k e 1, public
health physician. Immuniza
tions were given for smallpox,
diphtheria and polio. Mrs.
Dean Collette, health chair
man for the Eagle Point Parent-Teacher
association, staled
they were pleased with the
number that turned out for
the two-hour period.
EP Grange Will Sponsor
Trenc Planting- Contest
By DOTTIE HARBINSON
Eaglt Point Correspondent
Eagle Point-The Eagle Point
Grange is sponsoring a tree
planting contest for members
of the Eagle Point Livestock
411 club and are awarding a
plaque to winners in the orna
mental and field divisions.
This announcement was
made at the regular meeting
of the Eagle Point Livestock
club following a demonstra
tion by Merle Stone of the
Kershaw Nurseries Monday
evening in the vocational agri
cultural building of the Eagle
Point High school.
Stone started with seedling
Winter Nelis pear trees and
showed the members how to
trim the roots, cut the stock
and where to cut the home
stock to graft it into a hybrid
Bartlett pear. Following the
demonstration which included
actual grafting and wrapping,
Stone gave the members ac
tual experience in trimming
while he grafted various types
of hybrid fruit trees, includ
ing some dwarf varieties of
pears and apples and gave
each member a tree to take
home, cautioning them to
plant the trees two inches
above the graft for a regular
tree and below the graft for
a dwarf variety.
Grange Public Service
Chairman Charles Hoover told
members of the club that re
search and study which had
gone into the tree planting
project for the past two years
could aid the growth of their
trees. He continued by saying
that their aim was to have
shade trees in every pasture
and trees in every lot from
the Villas rd. to the Timber
line above Eagle Point. Thou
sands of trees were planted
in the past two years. With
the help of past experience
and research to aid everyone
in protection and caring for
the trees, they hope to have
a much larger percentage of
trees growing this year.
To encourage the youngsters
interest in growing and rais
ing trees, Hoover announced
that the Grange would spon
sor a contest within the club.
He told the group the Grange
would give them each seven
evergreen trees, one Colorado
blue spruce, Arizona Cyprus,
Sitka or Alaska spruce, Nor
way spruce locust and cedar
tree. A fiber bark pot was
furnished for them to plant
their Colorado blue spruce in
and they were cautioned to
plant the Sitka in a coffee
can and keep all trees out of
the hot sun if possible during
the summer.
As part of the contest, each
youngster is to plant part of
their trees in an irrigated pas
ture and protect it with a
wire fence to keep away rab
bits, cattle and deer. Research
has shown that by wrapping
the young trees in plastic and
leaving the tip exposed that
the pests and rats cannot bite
through it to harm the young
trees. The remainder of the
trees may be planted in their
yards.
One Year
The contest is to last a year
with the trees being judged
on their growth, protection
furnished and landscaping.
The Grange will replace any
tree that does not grow until
April 1. The Grange spokes
man stated that they just re
ceived 1,000 trees to be given
away locally.
Kay and Lequitta Stephen
son, Nancy and Susan Carroll,
Lanny and Jerry Hansen, and
Scott and Collins Maynard
were welcomed into the club
as new members. This brings
the club enrollment up to 35
and the second largest single
club in the county at present.
Following a report on Suf
fix sheep by Izora Hays, the
leader Ray Dowell introduced
the new Jackson County 4-H
Agent Jerry Brog. With most
of the youngsters being new
members to the 4-H program,
Brog explained the Summer
School program in June, the
Summer Camp for all 4-H
members in July, the County
Fair in August, and the demonstrations.
Rock Collecting Hobby
Turns Into Business
By VIOLA ROGERS
Tiller-Drew Correspondent
Tiller-Drew - A stone by
any other name would sun
hold the interest of and have
a fascination for Claude East
man, stone mason turned rock
collector.
Mr. and Mrs. Eastman are
presently living at Myers
Trailer court in Milo, Oregon.
Eastman is working on the
new administration building
under construction at the Milo
Academy. The Eastmans' per
manent home is at McArthur,
Calif.
A few years ago Eastman
became ill and was forced
to give up stone mason work
for a year. It was during that
time that he and Mrs. East
man took numerous camping
trips and that he became in
terested in rock collecting.
This in turn led to cutting and
polishing gem stones and trad
ing with collectors in other
parts of the United States.
A year ago the Eastmans
began selling gem stone jew
elry. They now have 100 deal
ers in California and Oregon
and plan to have more. Some
of the stones they set in
mountings are imported from
Brazil, Italy and other coun
tries. Since both the Eastmans
like camping, traveling, and
rocks, they plan to spend their
retirement years combining
business and pleasure. They
will cut, polish and mount
stones in sunny southern Cali
fornia during the winter
months. During the rest of the
year their time will be occu
pied with rock hunting and
visiting their dealers.
Wherever the Eastmans set
tle for any length of time
they develop an interest in
rocks among the members of
the community. They are
home every evening and
would welcome anyone who
would like to look at their
rocks arid jewelry.
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homemakers, especially those with school
kids. New fabrics eliminate ironing chores,
save money because fewer clothes must
be purchased, cost less, are easier to keep
clean and neat. But you can't wear after
you wash until you DRY and in the
fall-and-winter rainy season, this can be a
problem ...
But it's a problem easily and automatically solved
by an ELECTRIC CLOTHES DRYER-built especially
to handle the newest wash-DRY-and wear fabrics.
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Tablets
By R. I. NEALON
NO. 10 IN A SERIES
Table Rock - The January
copy of the Economic News
published by American Insti
tute for Economic Research
was loaned to us by Ray
Wyatt. According to this non
profit publication, the Ameri
can economic situation is any
thing but bright, with billions
of our gold dollars now in
the hands of foreign countries,
while they refuse to buy our
products - wheat, cotton, etc
while we have continued
blithely along the primrose
path of more inflation and
lavish giving and lending.
Space will not permit giving
all the contents of this
pamphlet, but much of it is
almost a duplicate of -Jack
Kennedy's campaign talks,
and is probably where he got
much of his information. To
read this makes one think of
the story about Nero fiddling
while Rome burned.
Listening to President Ken
nedy's inaugural address last
ing just 11 minutes caused us
to get out the old Harpers
Weekly of March 4, 1861, for
a comparison with Lincoln's
which we found took two and
one-half columns of fine print.
This address made at that time
found the nation in a con
troversy and about to be
divided, due to the enslaved
Negroes, and 100 years later
the Negro population, who
were slaves then, it seems still
contribute to the nation's
troubles. The length of this
address is such that we will
not attempt to use it all, but
excerpts of some of the more
important statements, includ
ing the beginning and ending,
which are as follows:
"Fellow - Citizens of the
United States - In compliance
with a custom as old as the
government itself, I appear
before you to address you
briefly, and to take in your
presence the oath prescribed
by the Constitution of the
United States to be taken by
tho. Prpcirfpnt hefnre he enters
on the execution of his office.
I do not consider it necessary
at present for me to discuss
those matters of administra
tion about which there is no
special anxiety or excitement."
"Fugitive slaves - Thr
1 much controversy about
the delivering up of fugi
tives from service or labor.
The clause I now lead i at
plainly written in the Con
stitution at any other of its
provisions; 'No person held
to service or labor in on
State, under the laws there
of, escaping into another,
shall, in consequence of any
law or regulation therein,
be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall,
be delivered up on claim of
the parly to whom such
service or labor may be
due.' It is scarcely ques
tioned that this provision
was intended by those who
made it for the reclaiming
of what we call fugitive
slaves; and the intention of
the lawgiver is the law."
"If the slave is to be sur
rendered, it can be of but
little consequence to him or
to others by which authority
it is done. And should anyone
in any case, be content that
this oath shall go unkept on a
merely unsubstantial con
troversy as to how it shall be
kept? Again, in any law upon
this subject, ought not all the
safeguards of liberty known
in civilized and humane juris
prudence to be introduced, so
that a free man be not, in any
case, surrendered as a slave?
"I take the official oath to
day with no mental reserva
tions, and with no purpose to
construe the Constitution or
laws by any hypercritical
rules; and while I do not
choose now to specify par
ticular acts of Congress as
proper to be enforced, I do
suggest that it will be much
safer for all, both in official
and private stations, to con
form to and abide by all those
acts which stand unrepealed,
than to violate any of them,
trusting to find impunity in
having them held to be un
constitutional." "Slavery - One section of
our country believes slavery
is right, and ought to be ex
tended, while the other be
lieves it is wrong, and ought
not to be extended. This is
the only substantial dispute,
and the fugitive slave clause
of the Constitution, and the
law for the suppression of the
foreign slave-trade, are each
as well enforced, perhaps, as
any law can ever be in a com
munity where the moral sense
of the people imperfectly sup
ports the law itself.
"The great body of the
people abide by the dry,
legal obligation in both
cases, and a few break over
In each. This, I think, can
not b perfectly cured, and
it would be won in both
cases after the separation ei
th sections than befor.
Th foreign ilavt trad,
now imprfctly suppress
ed, would b ultimately r
viviy wiHn.N MMricti.: !
on section, while fugitiv
slaves, now only partially
surrendered, would not b
surrendered at all By the
other."
"Nothing gained by haste -My
countrymen, one and all,
think calmly and well upon
this whole subject. Nothing
valuable can be lost by taking
time. If there be an object to
hurry any of you, in hot haste,
to a step which you would
never take deliberately, that
object will be frustrated by
taking time; but no good ob
ject can be frustrated by it."
"The issue of civil war in
the hands of the South - In
your hands, my dissatisfied
fellow-countrymen, and not in
mine, is the momentous issue
of civil war. The government
will not assail you. You can
have no conflict without being
yourselves the aggressors.
During this address Presi
dent Lincoln talked on 14
different subjects, from ap
prehensions to the threat of
Civil war which might re
sult if the new president
tried to prevent slaves from
being taken into the so
called free states. Although
the Negro question is still a
problem, we have come a
long way, when you con
sider that 100 years ago in
th United Stales of Ameri-
ca, human beings were sold
on th auction block just as
wt now sell cattle.
President Kennedy's ad
dress was so recent that com
ment is not necessary, except
to say that every one we have
contacted of both parties
claims it was outstanding. We
have met a few who are fear
ful that there is so much to
do that the strain may be too
much, and might impair his
health. Those who feel this
way should read, "Survival,"
in the January issue of Read
er's Digest, a true story of his
exploits in World War II,
where his energy and endur
ance was tested to the limit.
Tiller-Drew Writer Is
Postal Service Clerk
Mrs. Viola Rogers has been
Mail Tribune Tiller-Drew area
correspondent for one year.
However, her writing experi
ence exceeds more than the
year she has been a Mail
Tribune correspondent.
She corresponded for the
Myrtle Creek Mail for four
years prior to joining the MT
staff. She likes corresponding
because it gives her a chance
to write news of happenings
in her area, she says. "I like
words and putting them on
paper," Mrs. Rogers says.
She calls her most enjoyable
writing experience to date a
story she wrote about the
Dahack Gardens in the Tiller
Drew area. "Mr. Dahack told
me of the numerous people
who had visited the gardens
after reading the story in the
Mail Tribune," she relates.
Although she and her hus
band, Glenn, have no chil
dren, Mrs. Rogers is active in
Tiller-Drew PTA affairs. She
is also a member of Club 227.
Her other activities include
managing the Drew Cash
store and clerking in the Drew
Rural Station, branch of the
Tiller post office. "I also cook,
clean, wash, iron,' sew, attend
church and play with a four
month old German shepard
BEING TRANSERRED
Happy Camp - John Rea
gan, of the California state
highway department, is being
transferred to Fort Bragg
from Happy Camp. Reagan
has worked for the depart
ment for a number of years
in the Happy Camp area. Mr.
and Mrs. Reagan and their
four children will move to
Fort Bragg Jan. 28.
New Community Club
Officers Elected
Prospect - New officers
were elected at the Jan. 20
meeting of the Prospect
Community club,
Jerald Gardner was elect
ed president, replacing out
going president Doug Baker.
New board members are
Don Stuart, Ward Blaine
and Heston Grieve.
puppy," she says. "I do any
thing a normal housewife
does, except run errands. I
do not drive a car," Mrs.
Rogers comments.
N. California
Television Log
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KVIP-TV (Channel 7)
FRIDAY
5:00 Death Valley Days
3:30 Rin Tin Tin
6:00 Newsbeat Northslata
6:15 NBC News
6:30 Shotgun Slade
7:00 Pony Express
7:30 Rlverboat
8:30 Flints tones
9:0077 Sunset Strip
10:00 Detectives
10:30 Law and Mr. Jones
11:00 11th Hour News
11:15 Academy Theatre
12:45 Late News and Sign Off
SATURDAY
1:00 Why Teacher
1:30 Film Fare
2:00 NCAA Basketball
4:30 Enforcers
4:45 Carling Club House
5:00 Disc Date
6:00 Lawrence Welk
7:00 Fight of Week
7:45 Make That Spar
8:00 TBA
8:30 Tall Man
0 :00 Untouchables
10:00 Roaring Twenties
11:00 Stage 7
12:45 Late News and Sign Off
K I EM-TV (Channel 3)
FRIDAY
4:00 Search for Tomorrow
4:15 Guiding Light
4:30 Jeff's Collie
5:00 Uncle Bill Cartoons
5:30 Huckleberry Hound
6:00 News
6:10 Weather
6:15 Douglas Edwards News
6:30 Two Faces West
7:00 Sea Hunt
7:30 Rawhide
8:30 Route 66
9:30 U're in the Picture
10:00 Twilight Zone
10:30 Big Three Movia
12:00 News Sc Weaiher
SATURDAY
3:30 King Leonardo
3:30 Lone Ranger
4 O0 TBA
4:15 Santa Anita Races
4:45 TBA
5:00 Reading Out Loud
5:30 Why Teacher?
6:00 Dan Smoot Report
6:15 Industry On Parada
6:30 Price is Right
7:00 Tab Hunter
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Manhunt
11:00 News & Weather
An Invitation
From
Jay Pierce
Y.M.C.A. Board President
TO YOU!
Visit You YMCA
Sunday
SUNDAY IS ANNUAL
YMCA OPEN HOUSE
We, who have the responsibility of directing and administering th YMCA
program here, welcome the nationwide observance of YMCA Week as an
opportunity for all to learn more about this fine organization. This is, indeed,
a 100 community project dedicated to young and old alike. We are proud of
the strides the Y has made in recent years, in numbers participating and in
social usefulness. We are proud of our building, our diversified program, our
role in community life. Won't you visit us today . . . learn more about YOUR
YMCA.
JAY PIERCE
OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE
Open 2 P.M. to 5 P.M.
SWIMMING POOL
2:00 to 3:30-Recreotional swim
for everyone.
3:30 to 4:00 Life) saving
demonstration.
4:00 to 4:15 Girls swimming class
demonstration.
4:15 to 5:30 Recreational swim
for everyone.
IOBBY
2:00 to 2:30-World Service Movie
3:30 to 4:00-World Service Movie
2:30 to 2:45-Camp Movies
4:00 to 4:15-Camp Movies
GYMNASIUM
2:00 to 2:45 Trampoline for
anyone.
3:00 to 3:30-Midget league
basketball.
3:00 to 3:30-Weight lifting
demonstration.
3:30 to 4:00 Trampolin
exhibition.
3:30 to 4:30-Handball gome
SOCIAL HALL
3:00 to 5:00-Refreshments being
served.
BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY!
Courtesy of
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
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