MONDAY, MARCH B, 1961
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
REGIONAL
NEWS
John Stafford, Regional Editor
Correspondents: Upper Applegate Valley Maude Zieuler; Lower Applegate Valley
Jcanctle Head; Butte Falls Mary Jo Harris; Central Point Dolores Armstrong and
Klo Vincent; Eagle Point Dottle Harbison; Cold Hill-Sams Valley Mary Kell; Grandvlew.
Lone Pine Dot Simmons; Happy Camp Hazel Davis, Betty Reedy; Hornbrook Katherine
Chapman; Illinois Valley Katherine Scott: Jacksonville Bette Hosklns; McLeod
Caroline Harding; Murphy Mrs. R. J. Mlllemann: OUrlen Letha Cooke: Phoenix
Mrs Leo Furrv; Prospect Velda Barr; Shady Cove Evelyn Watson; Table Rock
R. E. Nealon; Tiller-Drew Viola Rogers; Williams Shirley Fischer; Yreka Doris Rob.
Inson and Betty Calkins.
PTA Honors Past Presidents
Two Winners ol
Bank of America
Awards Named
Yreka Stephen F. Pucyo,
principal of the Yreka High
school, has announced the
winners of the Bank of Amer-ir-n
awards program. They
are Caroline D. Mcambcr and
Kenneth E. Lange. Caroline
will be . valedictorian and
Kenneth the salutatorian of
the graduating class in June.
These honors are won on
the basis of scholarship,
school activities, leadership,
character and personality.
It was also announced that
two of the winners who will
be given engraved plaques
are still competing for the
$1,000 top awards In the an
nual achievement awards
competition.
The two students will be
considered with other high
school winners In this area
for the right to attend zone
interviews to be held in April
in Roddlngs. They are Caro-J
line Dorothy Meamber, sci
ence and mathematics, and
Kenneth Lange, liberal arts
Certificate Winners
, Winners of certificates of
merit for outstanding scholas
tic attainment in specific sub
jects at Yreka high are Mari
lyn A. Smith, music; Sharon
K. Lick.art; Patricia L. Whit
man, English; Mary Jane Har
rison, foreign language; Viv
ian L. Standly, business; Rol
lie L. Elsea, agriculture, and
Barton T. Lanning, industrial
arts.
Students participating in
the zone event are competing
in four fields. These include
fine arts, science, mathemat
ics, liberal arts and vocation
al arts. Tlie prizes in this cate
gory range from $25 to $130
in each field.
i It was also revealed that
zone winners will compete for
top awards of $250, $500 and
$1,000 in each study group at
the finals to be held in May.
i In a statewide achievement
awards program, seniors
from more than 600 public,
private and parochial schools
will contest for cash prizes to
taling $69,000.
Medford Contractor
Only Bidder for
Yreka Swim Center
Yreka - A Medford con
struction company was the
only bidder on the Ringe Me
morial Swim center at the
Yreka city council meeting
March 2.
Mvers Jones Construction
company submitted a bid of
S109.800. The bid exceeds
available funds by about $28,-
000. There is a possibility it
could be reduced by $3,150
by eliminating alternates,
, A balance of $81,309 re
mains of Ringe funds. The
land cost the . city $5,500.
About $2,300 has been paid
to Oscar Piemme in fees for
preparatory work. Piemme
had estimated the cost of con
structlne the pool at $00,000
Councilman Harry Fried
man said he was disappointed
that there was only one bid
der for the job. He said he and
the r e c r e ation commission
would not like to see any pool
features eliminated. "The pool
as designed is a minimum
pool for the present size of
Yreka and anticipated pool
use," Friedman said. "T h e
pool should be a place Yreka
can be proud of and one be
fitting the generous bequest
to the city by Mrs, Ringe,"
ho added.
Yardstick
Piemme, city engineer and
designer of the pool, said, "If
there had been more bidders
we would have some kind of
yardstick to measure with.
I'm not sure the bid we have
is not out of line at all. Some
bidders simply knew there
the job done and that's why
thev didn't bid," he said.
Piemme recommended that
the council wait 14 days for
further study before accepting
or rejecting the Medford bid.
Councilman Ed Doyle suggest
ed a bond issue to pick up
the difference.
Friedman said the reason
for the lack of bids should be
investigated to see if steps
could be taken to remedy the
situation. He also said the
possibility of obtaining funds
through governmental agen
cies should be Investigated.
One Yreka contractor said
hn had Intended to bid but
saw it couldn't be done with
the money available. He indi
cated other contractors In the
area felt the same. The coun
cil voted to postpone action
until the March 16 meeting.
A report on the city sales
tax was presented and showed
that, to date, the city has col
lected $26,082.
In other business, the coun
cil heard a bid of $26,650
from Vernon Young, Yreka
contractor, for installation of
29 street lights. The Interest
rate would be 6V4 per cent,
bringing the total cost of the
installation to $24,952 on a
seven-year basis, ihe agree
ment would be a lease-pur
chase type.
City Attorney Joe Correla
recommended delaying action
until he determined if t h e
matter had to be advertised
for bids. The council voted
to hold the light measure over
wasn't enough money to get 'until the March 16 meeting.
Eagle Point Students
To Take Merit Test
Eagle Point - Twenty-one
students at the Eagle Point
High school plan to take the
National Merit Scholarship
qualifying lest this week,
Richard Traylor, principal, an
nounced today.
The test will be administer
Llm baaBaa
ed at the high school and all
students who wish to be con
sidered for the Merit scholar
ship to be awarded in 1962
must lake the test at this time.
The qualifying lest is a
throe-hour examination of ed
ucational development. It
the first step in the seventh
annual competition for four
yen r Merit scholarships pro
vided by the National Merit
Scholarship corporation and
by sponsoring corporations,
foundations, associations and
individuals.
The scores of students who
take the test this week will
be reported to their schools
before the end of the spring
semester in time for use by
class advisors. Scores are used
in many high schools to help
students make decisions about
college attendance and field
of study. Many students who
do not expect to win a schol
arship take the test in order
to learn more about their in
dividual strengths and weak
nesses in the areas measured
by the test.
Grants Pass Area
Women Visit
State Legislature
Grants Pass - Mrs. James
Basker of Grants Pass and
Mrs. Raymond Millcmann of
Murphy traveled to Salem last
week to take part in the cere
mony connected with the sign
ing of House Bill 1011.
This bill was the legislation
putting into effect ballot
measure No. 6 from last No
vember's election. The meas
ure called for allowing the
state to increase its bonded
indebtedness without the use
of tax dollars for the purpose
of building college dormitories
and health facilities at state
institutions.
In an attempt to explain the
measure to the voters, people
from all over the state took
part in a program of speaking
to as many organizations as
they could contact, and Mrs.
Basker and Mrs. Mlllemann
were active in this capacity in
southern Oregon.
People who had taken part
in this effort were the guests
of honor at a reception at the
Marion hotel in Salem. They
would have been privileged to
witness the actual signing of
the bill had not the illness of
the governor made this im
possible. Mrs. Mark Hatfield
received the guests at the re
ception and she was assisted
in the receiving line bv Chan
cellor and Mrs. John Richards
of the Oregon state system of
higher education, and by Mrs.
Wickes Shaw Beal, under
whose direction the program
of explaining the measure to
the voters was carried out.
Regional Calendar
Gold Hill The Gold Hill
city council will meet, Mon
day, March 6 at 7 p.m. at new
city hall location.
Gold Hill-Gold Hill Health
unit will meet Tuesday.
March 7 at 1 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. Albert Gascon, high
way 09 north of Gold Hill.
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Gold Hill Odd Fellows
lodge will meet Tuesday
March 7 at 8 p.m. in the
I.O.O.F. hall on Fourth ave
Gold Hill-Women's Society
of the Gold Hill Community
Methodist church will meet,
Wednesday, March 8 at 1 p.m.
at the home of Mrs. Frank
Carter, Upper river road.
Gold Hill-Gold Hill Volun
teer Firemen will meet Wed
nesday, March 8 at 8 p.m. at
Fire hall.
Gold Hill-Gold Hill Lions
club will meet Thursday.
March 9 at 7 p.m. for a din
ner meeting at the Gold Hill
Grange hall, Sixth ave.
Gold Hill The Gold Hill
Parent - teacher association
will meet Thursday, March 0
at 7:30 p.m. The annual Phys
ical Education program will
be held the same evening at
Hanby Elementary school's
gymnasium.
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Murphy - The Murphy PTA
will meet March 7 at 8 p.m.
at the Murphy school. Miss
Shcryl Youde will present a
talk on the Philippines. Elec
tion of officers will be held.
Grants Pass - The Grants
Pass High school PTA will
meet March 7 at 8 p.m. at the
high school.
Prospect The Prospect
PTA held its Founder's Day
program last week at the
school cafeteria.
Honored guests were for
mer presidents of the unit,
Mrs. Frances Pearson, Mrs.
James Grieve, Mrs. Fern Ste
venson, Mrs. Frank Boothby,
Mrs. Clarence Hedgpeth and
Mrs. O. Bastiani. They were
presented with daffodil cor
sages. Mrs. Ray Maurer, co-chairman
for the Hobby Fair, re
ported that entries for the fair
were being received from
Shady Cove and Trail and she
Invited the local people to dis
play their hobbies at the
show. A list of chairmen
heading exhibits will be post
ed soon at local stores. Infor
mation may be obtained by
calling UNion 9-2195 or UNion
9-2233.
Mrs. Frank Boothby an
nounced that the Prospect li
brary would be open within a
few days. This is the first per
manent public library at Pros
pect. Mrs. David Neville will
be the librarian. The library
is located next to the fire sta
tion.
. Mrs. Pat Goodman, presi
dent, announced that, in ac
cord with their program for
school improvement, the PTA
would purchase awards to be
presented by the school to out
standing students in various
achievements. These awards
will be given ' during open
house in April.
Roscoe Larson, superinten
dent, gave a summary of the
problems facing the high
school in raising the achieve
ment level. He stressed that
according to the Conant re
port, one hour of homework
each night is necessary for
seventh and eighth grade stu
dents and two hours for high
school students. He asked that
parents cooperate in seeing
that students have a quiet
place to concentrate. He stated
that the attendance record
was showing an 8 per cent
lag and asked that parents co
operate in bringing this up.
Members voted that the
nominating committee for
1961 officers be Mrs. Charles
Denney, Mrs. Duane Payne
and Mrs. Hazel Gardner,
chairman.
Marc Smith, principal o
the grade school, suggested
that the PTA write a letter to
Stanford Hansell, slate senate
ways and means chairman,
urging the passage of the Zieg-
ler-Hoyt bill, calling for a
raise in the per census child
fee from $105 to $130. The
Prospect schools would bene
fit financially from its pas
sage. The members voted that
this letter be sent.
Mrs. Carol Drake, chair
man for Founders Day, in
troduced guest speakers. The
first speaker was Mrs. Frances
Pearson, who was a student,
teacher, and later a PTA pres
ident in the Prospect school
system.
She mentioned that 100
years ago only a few Indian
families lived at Prospect, but
that about 1870 the first
homesteaders entered the re
gion. Among these homestead
ers was Chauncey Nye, whose
wife, Amarantha Nye, had
been a former teacher In the
Roseburg district. She ran the
first schoolhouse as a free
community service. The
schoolhouse is gone now but
the name Schoolmarm creek
is still used to designate the
creek which ran by the school.
The first organized school dis
trict was started by Squire
Stanford Aiken in 1889. Lum
ber, labor and land for the
school were donated by A. H.
Boothby. The school was built
on the present site of the
Prospect schools. It was called
Dcskin school, but on Nov. 9,
1889, the little hamlet of Des-
kin changed Its name to Pros
pect and the school was i
known as the Prospect school.
This school was open from
July to October. At the begin
ning, there were often as
many as 16 children in at
tendance. Within a few years
the .population fell off and
often a teacher was hired who
came from a large family of
little brothers and sisters who
would bring them with her to
swell the attendance to the
necessary four to six level re
quired to keep it open. These
first teachers received $20 to
$25 a month and did their
own janitor work. The heat
for the building came from
a cast-iron stove. According
to present ideals, some of
these teachers would be con
sidered sub-standard. Often
they had not completed high
school.
In 1910 the school term was
extended to six months and
the teachers' salaries were ad
vanced to $40 a month. At that
time a modern school was
built consisting of one large
room that could be converted
into two by pulling some fold
ing doors.
Heston Grieve, a member
of the first class to graduate
from high school, continued
the history. He told of the
year he and all the members
of the eighth grades of Jack
son county participated in a
mass graduation on the old
Chautauqua stage in Lithia
park.' He entered Prospect
High school by pulling the
folding door and moving to
the other side of the room.
In contrast to the present
championship basketball team
the five boys who composed
the entire high school student
body learned their basketball
out of a book with the aid
of a woman teacher. Along
with two substitutes from the
seventh and eighth grades,
they had to practice on a dirt
floor court 20 by 30 feet.
Needless to say their first year
in competition resulted in a
last place finish. In 1926, they
finished second in the league.
4-H Guide Dog Club
Program To Be Held
Applegate Valley - With a
view to forming a 4-H guide
dog club in the Applegate
area, Clarence Phaffenburger,
member of board of directors
of Guide Dogs for the Blind,
Inc. of San Rafael, Calif., will
meet with parents and chil
dren at the Ruch school Tues
day, March 7, at 7:30 p.m.
Phaffenburger will present
dogs now in training at the
Siskiyou Guide Dog club at
Ashland, according to Mrs.
Darrel Mitchell, who trains
dogs for the Ashland club. A
film on the San Rafael guide
dog story will be shown. Chil
dren from nine to 18 years of
age are eligible to belong to
a 4-H dog club, and applica
tions of those interested in
4-H guide dog training will
be taken, Mrs. Mitchell said.
Gold Hill Council To Discuss Zoning
Gold Hill-A regular meet-compliancee with such Issues
ing of the Gold Hill city coun
cil is slated for Monday,
March 6, at 7 p.m. in the coun
cil chamber at the new city
hall location.
Mayor Milton Steinmetz
said information from the
League of Oregon Cities on
methods and ordinances for
zoning will be presented. He
stated that an attorney will
be present to advise the coun
cil of their legal position in
steinmetz stressed that prop
erty owners interested in zon
ing should attend this meet
ing. Questions on the budget
will be discussed, he added.
Last Monday night the may
or and councilmen held a con
ference at the city hall with
the attorney. Purpose of the
meeting Steinmetz said, was
to discuss legal details pertain
ing to certain city ordinances.
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