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.
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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.
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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,
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WHO IS
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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.
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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.
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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
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