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SCHOOL MEWS Phoenix Grade School We are having our semester tests this week in Mrs. Annie Gertson's room. We have made penguins and studied about their nesting habits, foods, and their lives in gen eral. We are learning to add numbers, and are reading Irom supplementary readers. The children of Mrs. Alice Swingles' room have a Read ing club. For every library book we read we get a star. In our reading club we read about Cowboy Tom. We made pictures and wrote stories about cowboys. We saw two movies last week, "Seasons of the year" and Adventures of Bunny Rabbit". Mrs. Jane Germer's first grade have been reading some of the beginner books by Dr. Seuss. Many of the children have made pictures of the characters they read about. We saw a movie called "Signs of the Seasons." We learned about our sun and shadows. The film also showed us that each season brings us some thing new and exciting to learn about. We had a new student join our group last week. His name is Scott Mitchell, from Ash land. We are learning how to add, and making number cards to be used in our arith metic games. The boys and girls in Mrs. Nadine Ramirez's second grade report they only need five more PTA members to ,:have 100 per cent member ship. Our teacher made a big thermometer for us to use. It has a ribbon on a roller, and we can set it at any tempera ture we want. We have two .new snails in our aquarium The children in Mrs. Fern Walker's second grade room are excited and happy to be able to write real writing, , Some of them can write their first names nicely in this "grown-up" style. This group of children were interested in the Inauguration. ! Mrs. Gertrude Wooten's sec ond grade is enjoying the li brary book, "Mr. Popper's Penguins." The boys and girls have brought interesting facts .to the class about penguins We have learned that pen guins are found only in the Antarctic regions. Explorers say that penguins are friendly and curious. They have not learned to be afraid because they have no enemies Mrs. A 1 e e n Bessonette's third grade is constructing a winter snow scene from news papers. They have also mount ed maps from their Weekly Readers. They are locating the states on them. Jeff Bertrand brought his record player for Mrs. Mar tha Brown's third grade room this week. He played his fa vorite collection of Fairy Tales and American Folk songs at "special interest' time and during the lunch hour. Bruce Kyles mother brought her television set to school so we could watch the inauguration. In PE we have FOR EVERY GARDEN NEED MULTI-PURPOSE 3 H.P SUBURBAN For farm or garden. Comes with aluminum engine, adjustable rear wheels. Can be used with alt rotors and attachments. DO MORI... WITH US WO UK fill MIRRT tf" warn CHOICE OF ROTORS, TRACT OR TOOLS, ATTACHMENTS, TOO! PARTS AND SERVICE SPECIALISTS JOHNSTON STORES 112 South Riverside learned a new game called four square. In Mrs. Lucile Scott's third grade room we are learning about the earth and the sun; how the earth goes around the sun, how the sun huats the earth and causes our seasons and weather, and how differ ences in the heat of air at dif ferent places causes wind. We go to the library on Wednes days, and are reading many books for which we get stars. We are learning to make writ ten book reports. We are using little clocks in arithmetic to learn how to tell time. In PE we play a game called "goofy ball" which is similar to base ball except instead of batting a ball, we kick a big rubber ball.. We are doing research on many topics of interest in sci ence and social studies in Mrs. Shirley Kannasto's fourth grade. Oral reports have been given on the Sahara desert, camels and date palms in so cial studies. We have also had some good oral reports on mi grating birds, seals, ants, bea vers and bees in our science class. Janis Barker and Jen nifer Wilcox have been ac companying, on the piano, some of the songs we are singing in music classes. We have made winter scenes from black, white and gray paper in art class. Mrs. Ardis P r a m a n n fourth grade class has found it is fun to race an egg timer when writing the one hundred multiplication facts. They have been painting winter scenes with i detergent '"oil paints." I - Mrs. Zuba Stack's room is preparing a . dramatization of the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel.'" Thc;y will present it to the combined fourth grades. All three groups will partici pate in the dancing. The part of Mother ;is taken by Chris tine Bradley; Father is Alan Vencill; Hansel is Donald Mc- Kernon; Gretel is Pat Hutch- ms; Karen Dill portrays the witch. A committee composed of Terry Philips, Patty Sweeny and Mary Hadley is working on the scenery. The girls of Wallace Eri's fifth grade have started their Valentine decorations by making : large white Valen tines from facial tissues. The intra-mural basketball games are well under way. The stu dents are showing interest with most of the fifth grade boys taking part. The girls have formed yell teams to sup port thir favorite teams. Bar bara B,rown has transferred to the Medford district. In Mrs. Agnes Rupp's room we have been studying weather and clouds. We have learned different kinds of weather and clouds. We have been busy reviewing for and taking our semester exams. On Jan. 20 we had the privi lege of watching President Kennedy's inauguration. Chip per Zundel brought a televis ion set to add to our social studies. The students have been CtONOMICAl 214 H.P. SCOTSMAN The ideal power package for smaller garden plots-unques-tic n ably the lowest-cost tiller in the high performance class. ?13995 $10. Down k TIllIR yTri II sv VERSATILE, EXTRA-RUGGED PROFESSIONAL Built for the toughest jobs iron engine, rear wheels and "unitized' construction. MEDFORD busy in Mrs. Kathryn Stan cliffe's fifth grade room tak ing their semester tests and are now looking forward to the second semester. We are collecting and arranging a sea shell exhibit in social stu dies to help us understand more about the southern gulf states. Since our teacher spent five weeks in the southern states this past summer, she was able to bring back many pictures, information and in teresting objects for us to enjoy. Lloyd Hale's sixth grade class is finishing a unit of study on Mexico. We have been making our own maps of Mexico showing the different regions, areas of rainfall and the distribution of population. The students in Mrs. Gladys Sloan's sixth grade have cho sen teams for a spelling con test. Karen Bolz and Marcta McGeary are captains. They will record the 100's made on Fridays for the next six weeks. The girls have learned two new folk dances; "The Rochester Schottische" and The Ace of Diamonds." Boys from the fifth and sixth grades have eight teams playing intra-mural basketball under the direction of Lloyd Hale and Wallace En. The sixth grade girls have organized four yell teams. Oak Grove School There is a bird feeder out side Mrs. Nancy Gustafson's first grade classroom window. The children bring bread crumbs from their home for the bird feeder. Several birds enjoy our feeder. The birds are interesting to watch. They have also been study ing about water and fire. They performed an experiment showing that fire needs air, They made snowmen in art class, decorating them with buttons and material. They learned how to fold and cut out snow flakes in art last week. They cut them out of pastel sheets of paper then sprayed them with snow ine snow tiakcs make our room colorful and attractive Mrs. Marjorie Gandee's first grade room is working on a weather calendar. They bring reports on it every day. Dar lene St. Clair brought a bird feeder, and Bruce Matlack's father made a bird feeder. They are also testing things that float. Mrs. Dena DeKorte's fourth grade elected officers for their room. They are, president, Terry Eppinger; vice presi dent, Linda Stephenson; secre tary, Christine Elmgren; and treasurer, Jerry Rasmussen. We are making a scene of the grasslands and of the des ert. Each of us has made pic tures of winter sports. We are studying about Greece in geography. Glenna Wobbe brought some money from Greece to show to the class. The class put up a map and pictures of Africa on the bul letin board. In James Hennebeck's fifth grade we are making projects, after a week's work of re ports, of the southern states in geography. Some of the children are making salt maps, glass paint ings, and oil derricks. They are making roads with fac tories on them, product maps, grams, and paper mache maps. In science, we have done a lot of experiments with mole cules. We expanded and con tracted them. In health we are studying bones and muscles. There are over 500 muscles and 200 bones in our body. We are studying communi cations in Mrs. Kathleen Wil son's third grade. We are try ing to see how many ways we might be able to commu- LEGAL NOTICES IN THE CISCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK SON COUNTY No. 9387 NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT In the Matter of the Estate of EDNA F. FURMAN, Deceased. notice is nereDy given inai xne undersigned, as Executor of the estate of Edna F. Furman. deceased, has filed his final account in the Circuit Court of the State of Ore gon for Jackson County, and that Monday, the 13th day of March, 1961, at the hour of 1;30 o'clock in the afternoon of said day and the Court Room of said Court have been appointed by said Court at the time and nUce for the hearing of objections thereto and the settle ment thereof. Dated and firat published Feb ruary 1, 1961. Date of last publication Febru ary 22, 1961. O. H. 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This was our first conference game. We also defeated Griffin Creek 35 to 15 in our third game of the season. Buford Johnson, of the Med ford Safety council, came to award us a four-year safety certificate at an assembly held Jan. 12. There are not many schools in Oregon that get this certificate and only ap proximately 4,000 schools in the whole nation receive the award. The yell leaders taught the fourth, fifth, and sixth graders the school song after the award was presented.. Boys and girls went to the gymnasium to get their bi cycle licenses Jan. 17. Tom Ward brought his bicycle into the gym so Robert Phillips could show us the correct bi cycle signals and talk to us about bicycle safety. Medford High School Edited by Sandy Shugart Staff: Janice Nelson, Sue House. Nancy Housel, and Mike Callan Plans for the junior-senior prom, one of the most import ant events of the year, are now being made. Cochairmen Mike Gannon and Nancy Duncan have an nounced committee heads. The decorations committee will be headed by Carl Washburn. Joel Gregory will be responsi ble for providing entertain ment. Sandy Shugart will head the food committee which plans the refreshments for the dance. Other committee chairmen are Jim Albright, programs; Susan Elder, publicity; John Alansky, clean-up; and Vickl Enders and Bruce Nieder- meyer, throne cochairmen. Dale Peterson, senior, has been selected as a finalist in the competition for a Westing- house science talent search em Oregon college's 13th an award. This means that he is nual high school speech con- one of the 400 students out of 4,000 who are still in conten tion for one of the 40 science awards to be awarded by the corporation. The winners were judged on a basis of a report on a sci entific project, an examina tion to show general scientific knowledge, and by forwarding a file. of recommendations by teachers and counselors. Dale is one of three from Oregon still in the competition. Lenore Zapell, drama advis or, has announced the cast for the forthcoming senior class play, "The Crucible" by Ar thur Miller. The cast includes Judy Nel son, as Betty Parris; Mark Goodman, Samuel Parris; Car olyn Finch, Tituba; Linda Jo Waltermire, Abigail; Ann Mc- JUBILEE OPENING CELEBRATION ONLY enlarged for deta&ra1 " Satisfaction guaranteed QT? A "D Q or your money back" OJZllYO ORE. Elrath, Susanna; Rosallta Patch, Ann Putnam; Diana Hiniker, Mercy Lewis; Sara Hinkle, Mary Warren; John James, John Proctor; Beverly Gebhard, Elizabeth Proctor; Bob Walker, Giles Corey; Dean Hiser, John Hale; Vance Welty, Francis Nurse; Bill Deckard, Ezekill Cheever; Lynn Offord, John Willard; Bob Betts, Judge Hawthorne; Dan Campbell, Governor Dan forth; DeAnne Taylor, Sara Good; Lane Hoxworth, Hop kins; and Shirley Hopkins, Martha Corey. Other staff positions include Bill Hobbs, stage manager; Jim Stever, assistant stage manager; Ken Peek, lights; Pat Bandy, sound; Diane Walker, property manager; and Joyce Roelfs, costume manager. Production dates are March 2-4. Seniors have recently learned that most schools In tlie state system of higher ed ucation will require College Entrance examination scores for placement beginning with the fall term 1961-62. All par ticipating schools stress that the tests are for placement and counseling, and not for admission as is the case for private schools. Medford Thespians have re turned from a trip to the Port land University Speech Arts Festival last Friday and Sat urday, and have scheduled another one Feb. 3 and 4. The students are participat ing in two categories: acting interpretation and oral inter pretation. Beverly Gebhard, Nola Robins, and Jim Doug lass will compete in acting in terpretation; Dean Hiser and Bill Deemcr, in oral. Linda Jo Waltermire, Margie Childers, and Mark Goodman will par ticipate in both events. While at the University of Oregon for their second trip, the troupe will present a one act play, "A Sunny Morning." Participating in the play will be Linda Jo Waltermire, Bev erly Gebhard, Bill Deemer, and Mark Goodman. Jim Douglass will be the stage manager, and Nola Robbins will be the prompter. Measurements for senior caps and gowns are being tak en all three lunch periods for the following three weeks. A $3.75 rental fee is required at the time of measurement. Ninteen Medford High de bate students attended South- ference last Saturday. Those attending were John Alansky, Nancy Duncan, Mike Higgins, Carl Washburn, Mar ilyn Conrad, Lindsay Dar- neille, Jan Barker, Roma Sims, Heather Rode, Sandra Gannon, Sue House, Larry Tut- tle, Rob Hoag, Garner Hau- pert, Mike Miller, Sue John, Sherrie Koblick, Linda Wil son, and Warren Olson. The participants entered the various events of debate, ora tory, radio, extemporaneous speaking, poetry reading,' im promptu speaking, and after dinner speaking. Two seniors, Linda Hess and Anne Younger, have been chosen to represent the Med ford High band at the annual Northwest Conference in Spo kane, Wash. The girls were Open-Tonight 6:30 'til 9 Beginning chosen out of 800 applicants to play in the 260-piece band. Carla Borough was chosen as a first alternate. Janet Snodgrass and Walter Humphreys, Ashland students, recently spoke to the MHS Fu ture Teachers of America club about taking pre education courses in college. The Golden Age club and a group of retired teachers were entertained by part of the MHS orchestra earlier this month. Also, as entertainment for the annual Kiwanis ban quet Dec. 21, the string orches tra played selections. Applications are now being accepted from local residents interested in giving a home to foreign students coming to Medford this fall for the 1961 62 school year. Mrs. R. E. Mencke, local American Field service president, urges all MHS students to remind their parents that the deadline for applications is in early Febru ary. Parents interested are asked to contact either Mrs. P. G. Humphreys, Ross lane, SPring 2-6968. or Mrs. Otto Frohn- mayer, 1656 Spring st SPring 2-9291. Flemming Expected To Return To State Eugene -0IPII- Chancellor John Richards of the Stale System of Higher Education said Tuesday that Arthur S. Flemming, former secretary of health, education and wel fare, may return to the slate soon to further look into the University of Oregon presi dency. Richards said he had been in touch with Flemming and that the next step would be a meeting with Flemming In Oregon. Grange News A Grange council meeting will be held at the Central Point Grange hall tonight at 8 o'clock. 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