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REGIONAL NEWS n fVJ "h K I l J lis RECEIVE CERTIFICATES Dr. Elmo Stevenson of Southern Oregon college is shown presenting gift certificates to winners of a ticket sale contest for a Red Cross benefit concert held in Eagle Point Sunday, $105 Collected at Red Cross Benefit Concert - Eagle Point Tonl Spears and Leslie Geren received first and second prizes re spectively for turning in the largest am-unt of money col lected from selling tickets for a Red Cross benefit concert held in Eagle. Point Sunday. Donald Benson and Roy Cottle were prize winners in high school competition. Dr. Elmo Stevenson of Southern Oregon college presented prize' winners gift certificates of $10 and $5 from Swerr.'s and Mann's of Medford. The grade school and high school bands presented the Petition Requests EPID Board Meet Eagle Point Over 40 sig natures have been secured on a petition being circulated among water users of the Eagle Point Irrigation district requesting the board of direc tors meetings be changed from the first Tuesday afternoon to the first Tuesday evening of each month. The request asks that meet ings start -at 7:30 p.m. The change would take effect May 1. According to the petition, the change is being requested to enable district members farming and working away from home during afternoons to attend the meetings and gain firsthand knowledge of Regional Calendar Prospect The Rev. James W. S. Carmon, bishop of the diocese of Oregon, will be at Prosoect's Episcopal church of the Good Shepherd for confirmaaon services Thurs day at 8 p.m. He will hold Good Friday services in Pros pect Friday at 12 p.m. PATTERSON PLUMBING & HEATING CO. "The One Trip Plumber" 827 WEST JACKSON ST. 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Nealon; Tiller-Drew Viola Rosen; Williama Shirley Fischer; Vreka Doris Rob inson and Betty Calkins Winners were Toni Spears, on left, Leslie Geren and Don Benson, on right. Connie Berryman accepted a certificate for Roy Cottle, another winner who was unable to attend. concert. A total of $105 was collected and turned over to the Red Cross. Stevenson thanked school authorities, students, band members, the Junior Red Cross and ticket chairman for their work in helping to make the concert possible. "There were 15 T.ed Cross First Aid Training course classes held during the last year and more than 300 people were enrolled," Ste venson said, while reviewing work being carried on by Red Cross groups in Oregon. at Night ditsrict business transactions. The interest in attending meetings has stemmed from other water users attending during the last several months and taking an active part in the district manage ment. A group spokesman said they feel the meetings should be held at a time when the majority of water users could attend. The petition will be pre sented at the directors meet ing April 6. Jacksonville PTA Elects Officers Jacksonville New officers for the 1961-62 school year were elected at the Jackson ville March PTA meeting. Those named were Mrs. Ralph Rutherford, president; Mrs. Jack Long, vice presi dent; Mrs. Wes. Worden, sec retary, and Mrs. Willis Gil man, treasurer. The Jacksonville 4-H club led the PTA group in a flag salute and conducted a model 4-H meeting as a part of the program. Lee Ragsdale, Med ford High school athletic di rector, talked on the athletic program known as "the Med ford growth" and showed slides. Mrs. Viola Davis, ways and means chairman, report ed that the recent PTA rum mage sale was a success. An announcement of plans for a school carnival to be held in April was made. Refreshments were served by third grade mothers. GOOD NEWS CLUB Lone Pine - Mrs. L. V. Young, 1975 Spring St., Med ford, has started a Good News club at her home. Children In grades one through six are encouraged to attend. The children meet in her home every Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m. They have group singing, entertainment and learn scrip tures. SYSTEM? PLUMBING METAL Jackson MEDFORD John Stafford, Regional t A Jp St V Legion Observes 42nd Anniversary Happy Cam p American Legion Post 530 of Happy Camp observed its 42nd anni versary Sunday at the Grange hall with 45 people attending a dinner. According to Roy Inlow, commander, the purpose of the dinner was a membership drive. Projects the local post has been active in this year include donation of $500 for the Log Cabin memorial building and $300 in mate rials for the building. At pres ent, Inlow said, three mem bers are donating labor on the building. The local post also owns a lot next to Hall's store. A lack of funds has prevented them from building their own hall at this time, so they voted to help restore the Log Cabin building. Fire Department Receives New Truck Yreka - The Yreka fire de partment received a new fire truck last week. The white truck is the first cab truck the Yreka department has owned and replaces a 30-year-old model. It has a capacity of 1,250 gallons per minute and has a 500 gallon auxiliary tank, two booster line reels and front end intake and rear end discharge devices. Other equipment includes a high frequency siren, pub lic address system and two way radio. Four Girls Injured In Jeep Accident Williams - Four girls were Injured over the week end when they were involved in a jeep accident on Westfork rd. near Williams. Injured were Sally Herriott, 16, of Applegate; Marlene Waters, 15, of Williams, Shir ley Kint, 15, of Felton, Calif., and Diane Brewster, of Pro volt. The girls were riding in a jeep which went out of con trol and overturned. TO ATTEND WHEATON Happy Camp Gaylon Lee, Happy Camp High school senior, will enroll in Whea ton college, Wheaton, 111., in the fall. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Lee of Happy Camp. AIR TOO THIN Boston - .An atmosphere too thin to transmit sound waves adequately is believed found at a height of approximately 1,000 miles above the earth's surface. 4 - Sams Valley Students Present Music Proqram at PTA Meeting Sams Valley - "Around the World with Music" was the theme for a special music pro gram given by students of Sams Valley Elementary school recently. Mrs. Ruth Brewster, school music teach er, directed the program. It was a featured part of the last meeting of the Sams Val ley Parent-Teacher association held at the school. Alfred Go wen, president, conducted the business session. Pre School Clinic The following members were nominated as officers for the ensuing year: Mrs. Ralph Ellis, president; Mrs. Larry Varin, vice president; Mrs. Edwin Taylor, secretary, and Mrs. Orvll Mosc, treasur er. Nominations will remain open until the April meeting Those on the nominating com mittee were Mrs. Stanley Hall, MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Editor Firemen's Ball Grosses Over $200 Phoenix - The annual St, Patrick's Day Firemen's Ball sponsored by the Phoenix Volunteer Tire department and auxiliary grossed well over $200, it was reported last night. In a door to door canvass, Phoenix Watermaster I. J. (Irv) Hanscom, sold over $189 worth of tickets. The auxil iary's cakes and pies brought $39. The money will be used to purchase new equipment for the fire department, As sistant Fire Chief David Hag gard said. During last night's regular fire drill the volunteers split up into two crews. One under Capt. Clark Brown toured the city limits of Phoenix locating fire hydrants and standpipes. The water master accom panied the crew with Assis tant Fire Chief Haggard and checked the hydrants and standpipes as to condition. Another crew under Capt. Lloyd (Nick) O. Nikodym and Fire Chief Leo Furry held hose drill. They practiced hooking up to a hydrant and putting the hose in operation under a variety of circum stances. ' The firemen and their wives will hold a Beatnik par. ty Saturday, April 15 in the Phoenix Community club house. Dance music will be furnished by a record player and each couple is asked to bring a potluck for dinner. Crater FFA Honored At State Meeting Central Point - The Crater High school Future Farmers of America chapter received two awards at the recent FFA state convention held in Cor vallls. In recognition of the past year's activities, the chapter was awarded the Master Chap ter and Superior Chapter awards. To earn the awards, the chapter participated in parliamentary procedure dis trict and state contests. Alan Bray, Delmer Smith, Pat Neal, Todd Caster and Dave Foote represented the Crater chapter at the conven tion. Bray served on the com mittee which selected the state's out standing future farmer. Smith was awarded the State Farmer award. Foote completed his term as state reporter and was awarded a $300 scholarship. Benefit Dance Held For Heart Patient Happy Camp - A benefit dance was sponsored by the volunteer fire department March 18 for Wilbur Briden tine at Russells hall. According to Frank Looten, fire chief, a total of $256 was collected from ticket sales and a cake auction. Looten (aid that one cake was sold for $50. Bridentlne underwent open heart surgery Feb. 21 In San Francisco, and has just come home with his family from Albany where they were stay ing during his convalescence. ILLEGAL POSSESSION G 0 1 d H i 1 1Mark Elijah Miller, 18, 243 West Pine st, Central Point, charged by Oregon State poliec with il legal possession of Intoxicat ing liquor, entered a plea of guilty in Judge Norman R. Matteson's justice court, Gold Hill district. Miller was fined $25 plus $4.50 court costs and sentenced to work five hours at the Jackson County court house in Medford under the supervision of the building superintendent. FILM SCHEDULED Eagle Point-"Angel In Ebo ny," a film on the life of Sam uel Morris, will be presented at the Reese Creek Commu nity church at 7 p.m. Sunday. The public is Invited. Mrs. Milton Sanderson and Mrs. E. L. Frederick. Mrs. Wayne J. Mllkowskl PTA health chairman, an nounced that the annual pre school clinic will be held Wed nesday, May 3, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Sams Valley school. Physical examinations by the Jackson county health officer will be given to young sters who will enter school In September. Vaccinations will be offered. More com plete details will be an nounccd at a later date. Mrs. Edgar Pleasant and Robert Ellis, school principal, will be in charge of decora tions for eighth grade promo tion exercises this year. The executive board will meet Tuesday, April 11. at 7:30 p.m. at the school. The next regular session of the unit is slated for Thursday, April 20, at 8 p.m. ORE Personally By JOHN NOTES FROM A TRAVELING REPORTER Editor's note: Personally Speaking does not want to compete with travel notes appearing elsewhere in the Mail Tribune. However, the fact is we did take a trip last week and feel compel led to review a bright spot. This will be the first and last account of our travels. Horse racing has never held a favorite spot in our heart. However, it may In the future. For you see, the wife was brought up with a nag In the back yard and has a strong love for what she calls "Beau tiful animals." Her horse was named Prince. Good old Prince Is probably long gone now. As a matter of fact, whenever the Mrs. sees a jar of glue, she gets a tearful look in her eyes. Well, to make a long story short, we decided that her love for horses should be sat isfied last week by watching the horse races at San Fran cisco's Golden Gate race track. Now people who bet on horses are classed in two cate gories. The poor and the very poor. We still had a few bucks in our pocket when we ar rived at the track, so we were probably in the poor classifi cation. After paying close to $3 just to get in the gate, we neared the very poor level. What followed needs some ex planation. There are thousands of theories on betting horses. Some people figure the good jockeys must be on the best horses. This isn't always the case, as we discovered. Johnny Longden, who has ridden more winners than there are liver pills, was up on Fine Print in the third race. The Golden Gate Han dicap, written by Ed Ro mero, said about Fine Print. "Not to be counted out." Well, there were nine horses racing six furlongs. Fine Print charged out of the starling gate like someone had whispered something about a glue factory in his ear. His ears were laid back and his nose was high in the air as he scented vic tory. This was most discon certing to Stafford because he's seen too many early leaders bite the dust at the finish line. With Johnny Longden up, however, It figured that things must be in good hands. After all, Longden had ridden 5,ouu winers. The horse and jockey combination was a mismatch, however, as Fine Print faded in the stretch and finished next to last. Longden was sub jected to a few unkind words from unhappy spectators toi-i lowing the race. No doubt he ' has heard these sweet noth ings before. so we were aown s. t-nite you lose, you've got to bet again just to get your money back. So with this in mind, we deserted the "good jockey" theory. Next came what we have elected to call the "consensus" theory. One of the dally pa pers carries a racing page which has the first three choices of eight so-called ex perts for each race. We soy i so-called experts because we suspect they are this in title only. Otherwise, they wouldn't be picking horses for news papers. They would be rich. Again relying on Ed Ro mero, we noted that he listed Carmen's Reward as the fa vorite in the fourth. Five oth er experts picked the horse to win. Finguring that they couldn't all be wrong, we put two bucks on Carmen's nose to show. Carmen broke out of the gate in the lead and went the mile like a shot, winning easily. We got our two bucks back, . plus 80 cents. This success called for another wager. More Ability was the consensus in the fifth. So we wagered $2 for him to place. Well, our luck was running at a feverish pitch by this time, and More Abil ity won going away. We were $2.80 ahead. Fay's Night Out was the consensus pick in the sixth. 1 We bet $2 for Fay to place, j And si 're enough - she made It in a photo finish. Money i was coming in hand over fist, j Bolder wagers were defi nitely needed. Songman was : the pick of five experts In the ; seventh. However, one picked Park Royal. The Stafford the ory wns developed at this point. Park Royal was ourl pick for first, and won handl-l ly at six to one odds. At this point, we were ready to leave. However, we stayed for one more race. In the San Now Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Eat. talk, liuth or incest w about fr or insecure falxe teeth dmppinK, tllppicg or wnbbllnf FAftTKKTH holai plitM firmer nd rrmre com fortably This olent pnwdfr has no lummy ttnotf, pasty teste or ferlin Doe in t came nausea. H'i lkalin (Don-ftdd) Check "plate odor (denture breath) oet FABTBRTH a Br Ami counter Speaking STAFFORD Francisco Mile, feature race of the day, all eight experts picked Four - and - Twenty to win. Romero said "Going for fifth straight." this looked tough to beat. Another horse. Sea Orbit, was picked for second by six experts. This was the Stafford pick. Four-and-Twenty led coming down the home stretch. Then Sea Orbit made a bid, coming from fourth place, and won at the wire. We left the park as win ners. A few observations about horse racing: 1. A day at the races has no doubt destroyed many a home along with many a bank roll. 2. T h e r e is no system that works consistently in belting the nags. 3. People who can least afford it are continual Da- irons of race tracks. 4. Race tracks are n o t places to take small chil dren; however, there are scores of them running around unattended. 5. Betting is a sickness, just as is alcoholism. Prospect Hobby Fair Aoril 27 Prospect - The response of hobbyists entering the Hobby Fair to be held in Prospect on April 27 has been very good, according to Mrs. Geor gia McKillop, co-chairman of the event. She has received number of letters from peo ple outside of Prospect re questing information about the event. At a recent meeting, the following committee members were selected: art, Mrs. Duane Payne, Mrs. Elmer Goodman, Mrs. Frances Pearson and Mrs, Del Garden; junior art, Mrs. Ilene Watson and Mrs. Pat Lull; flower making, Mrs. Maxine Parton; basketry, Mrs. Myrtle Blaine; leatherwork, Mrs. Weldon Downing; cooper jewelry and rockwork, Mrs. Mable Hedgpeth; needlework, Mrs Karleen Maxwell; wood carving and flytying, Mrs. Jo Slack; rug and quilt making, Mrs. Charles Denney; photog raphy, Larry Drake; ceramics, Mrs. Florence Shafer, and other hobbies, Mrs. G. Killop, Mrs. H. Maurer and Mrs. P. Goodman. Any of these chairmen may be reached by addressing the letter In care of the PTA, Prospect, Ore. Mrs. Halle Maurer, co-chair man, has announced that the next meeting of all the com mittee April home. members will be on at 7:30 p.m. In her "WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP AMERICA!" Don't miss this significant, timely, and inspiring editorial message in Medford "This is the time for positive thinking. There is a time to stint and a time to save; there is also a time to buy-and the time to buy is now!" Eagle Point PTA Opposed to Medco Logging Road Eagle Point Mrs. Darrel Stanley was unanimously elected president of the Eagle Point PTA for the 1961-62 school year at the organiza tion's meeting last night. Other officers elected were Mrs. Vernon (Eileen) Rags dale, first vice president; Mrs. Otis (Roberta) Hill, teacher vice president; Mrs." Murray (Pearl) Bartling, secretary; Mrs. Elbert (Betty) Hefley, treasurer; and Mrs. Bennie (Marvel) Heffley, historian. Members voted to sign a resolution presented by the Jackson County Home Owners Protective association oppos ing the conversion of the pres ent Medford corporation rail road into a logging truck road. The resolution will be for warded to the Medco officials before the April 5 company board of directors meeting. It was prepared by Ben Day, association attorney, and out lines reasons for opposing the possible conversion. 840 Students According to statistics pre sented by Mrs. Burton Jen sen, association chairman, there are seven Eagle Point school buses that will cross the proposed road twice a day. This means 840 students will cross the road daily, she said. The present regulations would give trucks on the Medco road the right of way over public vehicles, she indicated. Dur ing foggy weather in particu lar this would create a danger to anyone riding the buses, Mrs. Jensen said. In answer to questions, Mrs. Jensen said the association was told it would cost ap proximately $2 million to con struct the logging road. It would save the company about $50,000 a year, she said. It would take nearly 40 years to pay for It, she stated. Laurence Tweedy of the Jackson County Juvenile De partment and detention home spoke on policies and needs of the department at present, There is a ratio of four boys to one girl handled in the home at present, he said. Tweedy explained the need and interest shown in several of the service groups for a Forest Service Camp. This could handle approxi mately 30 boys. It should have school facilities, a shop where the boys could build tables and benches for parks, garden space and other facilities, Tweedy said There Is a possibility state and federal aid could be ob- talned for such a program, 'Tweedy said. Weelcly in the April 2nd issue of WEDNESDAY. MARCH 29, 1961 Hunting Problems Considered at Aoplegate Applegate - Members of the state game commission and area law enforcement agencies met with more than 60 Aoplegate area residents recently to consider problems connected with deer hunting in the area. Major complaints were reg istered against careless and reckless hunters during the regular deer season and ex tended season. Cases of hunt ers shooting across the Apple gate river damaging property and livestock were cited by residents. Hunters shootfig out of cars also was men tioned. One farmer said that some one is going to get shot if con trol over hunters wasn't tight ened. He said he keeps his children In the house during the eight day extended season. "Hunters don't even care If they shoot out of a car parked In front of my house," a farm er commented. The November hunting sea son is held to control the resident deer population, Dave Luman, state biologist, said. He said the hunters have 89 no- cent success in the Apple gate hunting unit. However, he mentioned that a large part of the kills were made during the extended season. "The problem Is unfortun ate," Luman said. "We can regulate the deer season but we can't regulate the hunt ers." He was asked why Oregon doesn't adopt an any deer hunt for the entire season 3 Candidates for Elementary Board Happy Camp-Herbert Son neborn, principal of the Hap py Camp Elementary school, has announced that three can didates have filed their inten tions to rim for school board positions to fill expiring terms of three present members. According to Sonneborn, Dr. George Chambers, John Dole zal and Joe Waddell, filed their intentions before the deadline March 17. The election will be held April 18 at the community church. The polls will be open from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. according to Sonneborn. Serving on the election board will be Mrs Gilbert Woolwebber, inspec tor and Mrs. Ted Jensen and Mrs. Clinton Hegler, judges. Expiring terms are those of Robert Haskell, Roy Curtis and Hugh Wright. i'r Tribune E 5 Meeting 'We're selling recreation," Luman said. He said if the whole hunting season were made either sex, deer hunting would lose some of Its appeal. "The either sex season would put pressure on hunt ing numbers. Ranches would be overrun with hunters," he commented. He pointed out that an either sex season was tried at Silver lake in eastern Oregon with little success. In answer to a question as to whether the extended ei ther sex season was held to obtain additional revenue, Jim Vaughn, regional game com mission supervisor, said it wasn't. "The extended season is to use up unfilled deer tags," he said. Vaughn urged the group to send a representative to a state game commission meet ing in Portland to present problems. "Deer are a crop and should be harvested by the people of Oregon," Vaughn remarked. Frank Baum, state police officer, assured residents that if they file complaints against hunters, the police would serve a warrant. In a straw vote, the major ity opposed the extended deer season. 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