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Jacksonville Council Approves Proposed $53,382 City Budget By BETTE HOSKINS Mail Tribune Conetpondent Jacksonville - The Jackson ville city council approved a proposed 1961-62 city budget totaling $53,382 at its meeting last night. The budget was prepared by the council budg et committee. . Specifically, it calls for a general fund of $17,427; water operating fund of $16,140; wa ter construction funds total ing $4,245; bond and interest fund of $7,770; state tax street of $7,500, and water deposit of $300. A public hearing will be held May 23 to consider the budget. In other action, the council gave final approval to an or Hornbrook Voters OK School Tax Hike; Two Board Members Recalled Hornbrook i Hornbrook voters went to the polls yes terday in a special election to decide whether school tax es should be increased and whether two members of the school board should be re called. Returns for the tax pro posal showed voters favored raising the school tax from 80 cents to $1.30 per $100 of assessed property valuation. The measure was approved 112 to 61. The tax Increase measure Pre-School Clinics Slated in Gold Hi ' Gold Hill-Two pre-school clinics will be held for children in the Gold Hill area. The first Is scheduled for May 3 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The second will be June 7. Both clinics will be held at Patrick Elementary school in Gold Hill. The pre-school list has been divided according to areas. The May 3 clinic will be for children having Route 1, Central Point address or living in the Sardine creek area. Letters containing in formation about the clinics and questionaire to be filled out by parents will be mailed April 19 for the May 3 clinic. Letters for the June clinic will be mailed May 24. Anyone having ques tions may call ULrick 5-1410. , Physical examinations may either be obtained at the pre-school clinics or from a family physician. Regional Calendar Gold Hill - Quale Bernal, assistant traffic manager for Southern Pacific railroad, and A. L. Kilborn, superintendent of Southern Pacific's north west division, will be guest speakers at the Gold Hill Chamber of Commerce meet ing Thursday at 12 p.m. at the Grange hall. W. D. Long more, district freight and passenger agent, and George M. Joyce, trainmaster, are also scheduled to speak. In dustrial development will be discussed. Gold Hill - The public is Invited to hear Hanby school speech squad winners Thurs day, April 20, at 7 p.m. at Gold Hill Grange hall. Oh,my aching back Nagging backache, headache, or muscular aches and oains mav emotional upsets or day to day stress and strain. And folks who eat and drink unwisely sometimes suffer mild bladder irritation . . . with that restless uncomfortable feeling. If you are miserable and worn out because of these dis comforts, Doan's Pills often help by their pain relieving action, by their soothing effect to ease Madder irritation, and by their mild diuretic action through the kidneys tending to increase the output of the 13 miles ot Kidney tuoes. So if nagging back ache makes you feel dragged-out, miserable ...with restless, sleep less nights , . . don't wait ... try Doan's Pills ... get me same nappy reuet minions nave enjoyed for over 60 years. Ask for large, economy size and save money. Get Doan's Pills today! Doan's dinance regulating subdivi sion development. The ordi nance calls for submission of detailed plans for all proposed subdivisions. The plans should include a proposed street lay out, along with detailed water and sewage system plans. The council agreed that the city would not vacate any more dedicated streets for an indefinite period. A reminder was issued to residents that cleanup time is currently in effect and will extend through April 30. It was also announced that per mission to do any burning must be obtained from the city recorder or police chief. It doesn't necessarily mean that a permit must be obtained. was relatively simple when compared with scrambled re turns for the recall measure. The recall of board member Frank Cardoza was approved by a slim 82 to 80 margin. Andrew Skeahan received 77 votes at Cardoza's replace ment. Joan Michaels received 21. Approve Recall Voters approved the recall of board member Jack Wayne 80 to 78. To replace Wayne, Ralph Bennett, a write-in candidate, gathered 52 votes. Thomas Burcell received 32 and Ernest Fickard, Jr. 23. At this point Wayne had been replaced. Then in the regular school board election, Wayne led all candidates with 59 votes. Jack Cross received 54 and Skeahan 49. Cross and Wayne were incumbents. What will now happen is that Bennett, Cross and Skeahan will be on the school board until July. Then Cross, Wayne and a third member, to be appointed by W. E. Rob erts, county superintendent, will serve regular terms. District 6C Speech Festival Scheduled Central Point The annual District 6C speech festival will be held Saturday, April 22, at Crater High school from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Participating in this years event from Central Point Jun ior High school will be: hu morous reading, V e r e n n e Mattheson, Sue Cornut and Dennis Smith, alternate; seri ous reading, Janine Parrish, Frank Roberts and James Welch, alternate; poetry, John Boyce, Elaine Wright and Judi Armstrong, alternate; oratorial declamation Leon Drew, Arthur Collins, and Larry Ford, alternate. Debate teams are to be se lected later in the week. Mrs. M. B. Caster, school librarian and sponsor of the Central Point team, reports a number of speech groups have been formed. Gold Hill Library In New Quarters Gold Hill - The Gold Hill public library has moved to new quarters in the city hall. Previously the library was located in the back room of the building. New quarters are in the front room former ly used as a city council chamber. According to library offi cials, the new location offers better lighting and a more pleasant atmosphere. In addi tion, they said books are bet ter arranged and more con venient for the patron's bene fit. The library is currently celebrating National Library week. No fines will be levied on overdue books the re mainder of this week. The public is invited to inspect the new quarters. PTA Fund Raising Program Saturday Applegate The annual fund raising event of the Ap plegate PTA will be held Sat urday, April 22 at the Apple gate school." Serving of a chicken noodle dinner will start at 6:30 pjn. PTA members and mothers of all school children are asked to bring a salad and a dessert plus their own table service. The price of the dinner will be by donations. Starting at 8:30 p.m. the movie "The Ket tles in the Ozarks" will be shown. The price of the movie will be 25 cents per person or $1 per family. Popcorn will be sold and coffee and donuts will be available after the movie. All are urged to attend and support the PTA program. Hollywood - (UPD - Actress Shirley Temple accepted the national chairmanship of the Multiple Sclerosis Hope Chest campaign Tuesday for the second straight year. Personally Speaking By JOHN STAFFORD Editor's notii Monday Personally Speaking d i s cussed aspects of the pro posed water filtration plant for Gold Hill. We recognixe there is more than one side to every issue. Thus, it is with pleasure that we print the viewpoint represented by Mrs. Vera Stewart of Gold Hill. We welcome Mrs. Stewart as a guest column ist. To the Editor: The city of Gold Hill has called an elec tion for May 9 at which time the registered voters of the city who have lived here for three months or more will vote on a $120,000 bond issue to finance a water filtration plant. I think the property owners and water users should be told the truth about the real costs of this thing. I attended the public meeting on April 12 at Patrick school, and It seemed to me that the meeting was pretty well rigged to keep cer tain facts from being brought out. Mayor Steinmetz stated that the Interest on a 20-year bond Issue of $120,000, at 5 per cent, would amount to $63,000. I don't know where he got this figure. In the official en gineering report prepared for Gold Hill in 1956 by Archie Rice of the engineering firm of Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merrifield (in Table I, page 10), he figures this in terest at a total of $77,400. Even if we accept Mr. Stein metz's figures, the cost would still be at least $12,000 per year for 20 years, or at least $1,000 per month. This in includes his estimated cost of a little over $3,000 a year to operate the filtration plant. Anyone can see that $12,000 per year for 20 years would be a total cost of $240,000. That is nearly as much as half of the entire tax valuation of our whole town. ' , , At the meeting Ial Wed nesday, it was stated that water charges of not more than $4.75 per month for each water user would pay the entire cost of this filtra tion plant. The thing they did not mention was that the city is now collecting over $8,000 per year from our present water charges , of $3 per month, and that this sum is being used for general city purposes. Now if this sum is to go toward ' payments on the filtration plant bonds, it obviously cannot be used for general city expenses, as the same money cannot be spent twice. So, unless the city council can cut $8,000 out of the city budget, which I doubt, they will have to do one of two things. They will either have to increase the city taxes to offset this amount, or else they will have to charge much higher water rates than they promised. Two of the council men present at the meeting admitted that a raise in taxes would be necessary, but one of them said they would not know how much until they make up this year's budget. Since our city taxes have gone higher each year for at least the past five years, we must conclude that they were col lecting a lot more money than they needed, or else they are going to have to collect nearly the same amount in the future. We are now having tests made of our city water at least twice a month, and some times three times a month. These tests 'have shown that our water is safe for human consumption. Our city record er states that only twice in the years that he has been record er, has a test been marked un satisfactory. In one case, he said, it was because the city employee taking the sample had dropped the cork of the flask on the ground, and the other test was one made dur ing the big flood we had some years ago. , We now use chlorine to kill the bacteria in our water supply. If we had a filtration plant, chlorine would still be used to kill the bacteria, and our water would still have the taste of chlorine. Ask anyone who has lived in Grants Pass where they have the same kind of filtration plant that is proposed for Gold Hill. If the time ever does come when we can no longer make our drinking water safe by chlorination, then we can cer tainly dig wells for a city water supply, as most other small towns around here have done. It would certainly cost much less than a filtration plant. Mrs. Vera Stewart 619 Fifth Ave. Gold Hill, Ore. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MLDFOHU, OHEGON REGIONAL NEWS Grange to Phoenix Approximately 500 trees will be brought to Phoenix this week from the Eagle Point Grange tree plant ing committee for free distri bution to homes around the town. John McLoughlin, urban agent with the extension serv ice, suggested to the Phoenix beautification committee yes terday that representatives of the local garden club tour Medford with him to view the tree planting program along residential streets. Plans for beautifying - Phoenix streets will be made later and car ried out by the Phoenix Gar den club, it was decided. Clearing of the brushy hol low or ravine between the north and south-bound sec tions ot the South Pacific highway can be done by chemical spraying, McLough lin said. Making a park of this area will have to be plan ned carefully, he said. Mc Loughlin and C. C. Hoover, of the Eagle Point Grange committee, suggested willows be planted. However, if this is to be a picnic area willows would scatter too many leaves over the tables to be prac tical, McLoughlin added. He suggested no flowers be plant ed in the proposed park area N. California Television Log Programs listed below are received from the television stations and the Mall Tribune assumes no responsibility except to make ohangei as supplied KIEM-TV (Channel 3) Wednesday 4:00 Search for Tomorrow 4:15 Guiding Light 4:30 Cal-Ore Panorama ; 5:00 Uncle Bill 5:30 Yogi Bear 6:00 News 6:10 Weather 6:15 Douglas Edwards 6:30 Wilbur and Mr. Ed 7:00 Mr. District Attorney 7:30 Mallbu Run 8:30 Danger Man 0:00 I've Got a Secret 9:30 Brothers Brannagan 10:00 Circle Theater 11:00 News & Weather Thursday 3:00 Brighter Day 3:15 Secret Storm 3:30 Edge of Night 4:00 Search for Tomorrow 4:15 Guiding Light 4:30 TB A 5:00 Uncle Bill Show 5:30 Roy Rogers 6:00 News 6:10 Weather 6:15 Douglas Edwards News 6:30 Award Theater 7:00 Hot Off the Wire 7:30 December Bride 8:00 TBA . 8:30 TB A . - 0 :00 Gunsllnger 10:00 Big Three Movie 11:15 News & Weather KVIP-TV (Channel 7) Wednesday 5:00 Death Valley Days 5:30 Lone Ranger 6:00 Newsbeat Northstate ' 6:15 NBC News 6:30 Bugs Bunny 7:00 Donna Reed 7:30 Wagon Train 8:30 Price Is Right 9:00 Hawaiian Eye 10:00 Naked City 11:00 11th Hour News 11:15 Jack Paar 12:30 Late News and Sign Off Thursday 5:00 Jill's Party Time 5:30 Rocky and His Friends 6:00 Newsbeat Northstate 6:15 NBC News 6:30 Brothers Brannagan 7:00 Sea Hunt 7 :30 Outlaws 8:30 Pat Boone 9:30 Ford Show Color 10:00 Groucho Marx Show. 10:30 Ernie Kovacs Special 11;00 llth Hour News 11:15 Jack Paar 12:30 Late News and Sign Off Public Hearing Set For Zoning Request Gold Hill - A public hear ing for consideration of a re zoning request by John Cogs well will be held in Gold Hill April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the city hall. Cogswell has asked that property next to his market on Second ave. be rezoned from residential to commer cial. He is proposing to build a new super market on the property. In addition, extension of First ave. through the area of Cogswell's proposed super market will be discussed. The extension would go as far as the sewage disposal plant at the edge of the city limits. Library Open House Scheduled Friday Jacksonville - The Jackson ville library annual open house tea will be held Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. National Library week will be observed. In addition, cere monies honoring the library as the first branch library In Jackson county will be held. Chairman of the event is Miss Clare Hanley. An arts- and crafts exhibit will be featured. Any valley residents wishing to submit their work for the display may do so. New residents are especially Invited to attend the tea and acquaint them selves with the library's facili ties, Miss Hanley said. No fines will be collected on overdue books during 11- Ibrary week. Give 500 unless someone could provide constant care. Conversion to Park "The city owns a large sec tion of that area and the re maining property owners have said - they would be willing to see the property converted to a park," Mayor Faye Car ver said. "As it is now it is an eyesore." , The urban agent said he would have a list of trees recommended for planting along streets and around homes in Phoenix. He suggest ed residents of the new Ha cienda Park subdivision at the south end of Phoenix plant Award Presented For Small Motor Yreka - A miniature mo tor which can only be view ed through a microscope was one of 11 winners at the an nual Miniaturization Awards dinner held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City last month. : The small motor was built by' William McLellan, son of Mrs. R. E. Westover of Yreka. McLellan was awarded a cer tificate of excellence. McLellan built the motor last year in answer to a chal lenge by Richard P. Feyn- man, California Tech profes sor of physics. Feynman of fered $1,000 to the man who could build a rotating elec tric motor only l64th of an Inch in size. With the thousand dollars McLellan entered the nation al miniaturization contest against 117 other entries. Of the 11 winners his motor was the only one that required a microscope to see. McLellan made the trip to New York to accept the award. He is a senior re search engineer with a Pasa dena electronics firm. Krambeal New Eagle Point Jaycee Head Eagle Point - Keith Kram beal was elected president of the Eagle Point Junior Cham ber of Commerce at the regu lar Jaycee meeting April 13. Krambeal was a charter member of the organization. He is presently a District 9 teacher and has been active in community activities. He was first vice president last year. Lloyd Mynatt was elected first vice president. Other of ficers include: Gordon Peck, second vice president; Rick Wolgamott, secretary; Andy Mead, treasurer, and Harry Hanscom, state director. Hans com is a past president. The officers will be install ed at a joint banquet with the Ashland Jaycees Saturday, April 29 at the Mark Antony hotel in Ashland. School Open House Set for Thursday Central Point H. P. Jewett Elementary school will hold open house Thursday, April 20, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Examples of each child's school work will be on display in the rooms and teachers will be available to answer any questions concerning curricu lum or any other phase of school activities. In the library, colored slides of the youngsters participat ing in . various school events will be presented. An exhibi tion of the childrens art work will be shown in the cafctorl um. Refreshments will be served by the PTA. Hornbrook Parents Club Makes Plans for Final Activities Hornbrook - At the regular meeting of the Hornbrook Parents club last week plans were made for the final ac tivities of the current school year. On May 24, the all-school picnic will be held at Jackson Hot Springs north of Ash land. Graduation exercises will take place May 25, and school will be out on May 26. At the next club meeting May 4, election of officers for the ensuing year will be held. President Mrs. George Smith appointed to the nom inating committee Mrs. James Dickison, Mrs. Harley Baker and Mrs. Lewis Burket. School Principal Harley Baker thank ed the Parents club for the landscaping work they had done on the school yard. He also introduced to the mem bers Mrs. Mary Ann Mitchell, ! WHO IS J. R.? John Stafford, Regional Editor Correspondents: Upper Applesate Valley Maude Zleelerj Lower Applegate Valley Jeanette Head; Butte FallsMary Jo Harris; Central Point Dolores Armstrong and Flo Vincent; Eagle Point Dottle Harbison: Gold Hill-Sams Valley Mary Kell; Grandvlew. Lone Pine Dot Simmons: Happy Camp HaEel Davis. Betty Reedy; Hornbrook Katherino Chapman; Illinois Valley Katherlne Scott; Jacksonville Bette Hosklns; McLeod Caroline Harding; Murphy Mrs. R. J. Millemann: O'Brien Letha Cooke: Phoenix Mrs. Leo Furry; Prospect Vclda Barr; Shady Cove Evelyn Watson: Table Rock R. E. Nealon; Tiller-Drew Viola Rogers; Williams Shirley Fischer; Yreka Doris Rob inson and Betty Calkins. Trees to Phoenix the same trees and flowers to provide a unity of beautifica tion of the area. Silver maple grows fast and provides good shade, he pointed out. He said he would prefer to work with a small group such as the gar den club to plan the overall tree-planting program. Trees make ideal gifts, he suggested. Lone Pine PTA To Sponsor Kindergarten Lone Pine - The Lone Pine PTA will sponsor kindergar-' ten for children who will be entering school next fall. It is scheduled to begin Monday, May 1, and will be from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Parents are encouraged to bring their children and reg ister them. They will discuss arranging a car pool to re turn children from school, Parents are requested to bring the child's birth certificate. On the second day buses will transport the kindergarten children to the school. Mrs. -Mabel Hundley will instruct the children this year. Determination of the cost will depend on the number par ticipating. Purpose of the kin dergarten is to orient young sters on preparing them for the first grade. The kindergarten will con tinue to May 26. For further information, on boundaries or age limit, parents can contact the school office, at SPrlng 2-8669. In conjunction with National Library week, the fifth grade will visit the Med ford public library Thursday, April 20. Lee Merriman, prin cipal, has encouraged parents to visit the school library this week. On April 18, children in grades one through six were given achievement tests. These are standardized tests, so teachers may have a better understanding of the child's background and needs. Achievement tests are not used for grading, but to help teach ers strengthen their program. Grange Sponsoring Benefit Dinner Hornbrook Hornbrook Grange No. 39, will sponsor a ham dinner Friday, April 21 at 7 p.m. at the Grange hall for the benefit of the Little League basketball team. The Grange is sponsoring the team this year. Those at tending are asked to bring a dessert. All other food will be provided, and the public is urged to attend and lend their support to the youngsters. The awarding of a rifle will take place that evening at the conclusion of the meal. Elections Held at Crater High School Central Point Danny Hays was elected student body pres ident for the coming year at Crater High school's recent election. Other officers elected are: vice president, Kerry Koop man; secretary, June Hopkins; treasurer, Beverly Kl i mko; business manager, Marlon Payne and yell queen, Jolene Greene. Thursday eight candidates will be selected for the yell squad, with four to be elected at the general election, Fri day, April 21. who was hired in March as the fifth teacher in the local school. Serving as the refreshment committee for the May meet ing will be Mrs. Al King and Mrs. Paul Jones. Mrs. Alex Conger will provide child care. YOUk HAIR K-C THE NtW ff.&UZ EASY WAY t-a?i MODERN PLUMBING & SHEET METAL 613 tail U'.Ven Strait Phone SP J-S368 O Hoover said he would give the town Colorado blue spruce, Ingleman blue spruce, wmte spruce, Norway spruce, Russian Olive (has a willow type leaf), golden weeping willow, Black hills spruce. mountain ash, and pine. He suggested these trees be wrap ped carefully with old news papers with manure included so they can be ready for im mediate planting when each home-owner receives them. Spruce make good foundation trees for backyard planting. McLoughlin added. Holloway Named Kerby Principal Williams-Williams school has received official notice that Richard Holloway. school principal for 11 years, has accepted the ap pointment as principal of Kerby school. He will re place retiring Archie John son. . Alvin Lisonboe, principal of Oak Grove school will succeed Holloway as Wil liams school, Lisonbee has been in the county school district for six years and was formerly band instruc tor at Williams. His successor at Oak Grove has not been named yet. U.S. UPS POPULATION Washington - (DPI) - The population of the United States was 182,714,000 on March 1, according to a Census Bureau estimate. This was an Increase of 2,927,000 over March 1, 1960. Irak : kl . :b3fK"y ; ?v t ''vL y'i E You don't need good soilr O to have a good lawn q Success depends on the fertilizer you use, not on the soil. Any soil can give a satisfying grass lawn if fed regularly with protein building TURF BUILDER'9. Re-seeding a thin, spotty lawn this spring? Sow Scotts seed at the economy rate and fertilize with TURF BUILDER on the same day. With Scotts you need far fewer seeds per square foot and far fewer pounds of seed in all to build a lovely, thick lawn. You'll spend less than you would for so-called "bargain" seeds, with none of the risk. Scotts is all perennial and 99.91 weed-free. The most lawn per dollar a lovely lawn that lasts. ,:' - : Y . Ask us about the Scotts guarantee ... a better lawn or your money backl Bring your hum problems to our Lawn Program Advisors. They have the know-how and the experience to help you achieve the kind of lawn you want. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1861 Memorial Day Plans Jacksonville Plans for their part in the forthcoming Memorial day observances at Jacksonville cemetery were made Friday evening by mem bers of the auxiliary of Cen tennial Post 100, American Legion, recently. Mrs. Lend McBeth, auxil iary president, reported on her visit to the recent hobby show at Camp White domiciliary. Plans also were discussed concerning the state Legion PAINT-UP SPECIALS! at Medford's New Paint Store 5 FOOT HEAVY DUTY HOUSEHOLD STEP LADDER PAINT THINNER (In your container) ..'......... 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