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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1962)
SUNDAY. AUGUST 19. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TH1BUNE. MEDrOHD, OREGON The Week in California f ' PURCHASE BUILDING - The Rogue Valley is now making some repairs to the structure Girl Scout Council, Inc., are completing and other changes will be made in the fu- transactions regarding the purchase of the turc. The Girl Scout headquarters have been First Christian church building. Ninth and located at 500 East Main st. since 1927, but Oakdale ave. The Girl Scout organization will move to new quarters soon after Sept. 1. Area Girl Scout Council To Move Headquarters Sept. 1 The Rogue Valley Girl Scout Council, Inc. will have new headquarters some time after Sept. 1, having purchas ed the First Christian church property, at Ninth st. and Oak dale ave. as a permanent home for Scouting activities, includ ing training. The Girl Scout organization was organized In Mcdford In 1027. The Scouts have used the city owned property locat ed In Hawthorne park, 500 East Main st. They have re paired and remodeled 1 h e building several times during these years, the last in 1956 when two new staff rooms were added. The building of the new freeway and other changes made in that area caused them to look for other quarters. Mrs. B. E. Culy announced that a committee was formed some time ago to look for a new location. This appointed committee included Mrs. Scott V. Davis, Dwight Houghton member of finance committee and Mrs. Michcle T. Rossi. It was felt that the First Chris tian church property could lend itself to use by the tit?l Girl Scout program. Repairs and slight changes will be made at the new site. The committee was enlarged to include Adam Richtcr, serv ing as finance chairman for Girl Scouts; Thomas McFad den, 225 Black Oak dr., local camp property use chairman, and Fred Gatter and Richard Gray, both members of fi nance committee. This committee working with the president, Mrs. Culy, completed the transaction. It is now planning and making the necessary needed repairs. Changes will include a new roof, exterior painting and in terior decorating. Extended parking area Is now planned on the south. This will be delayed to give the First Christian church use of the building on the proper ty until they move to their new quarters. The sanctuary will be used for meetings and an expanded program is planned for all registered Girl Scouts. The new offices for the organiza tion will be located in t h e main building with entrances on Ninth st. and on the second floor on the northeast. The lower floor, with more than half of the space being ground level will provide rec reational facilities, with kitch en adjoining. Many rooms in this lower level will be used for troop meetings and other activities. The purchase and improve ment of this property was made possible by the sale of bonds bequeathed to this area of Girl Scouts from the estate of the late John R. Tomlin. The First Christian church will continue to hold religious services, Sunday school and offices in the building until their new building is complet ed on Crater Lake ave. The Scouting program is ac tive during the week days only except for special occa sions. The organization is a participating agency in the United Crusade and other area fund drives for opera tional funds. President Kennedy 'Starts' Giant Dam Project During Visit By United Preii International President Kennedy paid a "non-political" visit to Cali fornia last week to help fel low Democrat Gov. Edmund G. Brown break, ground for the $500 million San Luis dam. Kennedy, availing himself of the time-honored presiden tial custom of visiting west ern resource development projects during a congression al year, also became the first president to spend a night in Scenic Yosemite National park. He wound up his tour in Los Angeles. But the main attraction of Kennedy's visit was his ap pearance at the dam site, lo cated near Los Banos on the western edge of the San Joaquin valley. There he and Brown both spoke before thousands and simultaneously pressed buttons detonating dynamite-grenade blasts. This signaled start of construction on the dam, which is the larg est joint state-federal project ever conceived. Brown, who is seeking re election against Republican Richard Nixon, said he was pleased to have in attendance "a president who regards the West as an equal partner in the nation's destiny". He hail ed the beginning of the San Luis project as the start of a new era for California farms and industry. San Luis dam was first con ceived as a federal reclama tion project. But it will be constructed and used jointly by both the federal and state governments. High Dam Whe nthe 320 foot high dam in the arid barren foot hills is completed, probably in 1968, it will store 2.1 mil lion acre feet of water. Half the water will be used by the federal government to service 500,000 acres on the west side of the valley. The state will use the other half, channeling it to giant pump lifts in the Tehachapi moun- When you are ready to buy your dream house . . . JCF will supply the KEY to ownership with the best home loan financing available! STOP IN . . . AND LOOK AT THE DISPLAY OF SHAKESPEAREAN PRINTS AUGUST 13th thru AUGUST 20th CF JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN- Home Office - 2 East Main, Medford Ashland Branch - 337 East Main, Ashland tains for eventual delivery to southern California. The San Luis project will cost $511 million. But this is only a small part of the total California water plan cost which is estimated at $12 bil lion. Kennedy was accompanied to California by Interior Sec retary Stewart L. Udall. While in the state the president took the opportunity to shake hands with local and state dig nitaries at various stops. Elsewhere, there were these developments: Amendment: The State Su preme court refused to keep the Francis Anti-Communist amendment off the November ballot - but noted it had not ruled on the constitutionality of the measure. Attorney General Stanley Mosk ordered that printing of the ballot argument booklet proceed. Former Attorney General Robert W. Kenny and others had asked the court to keep the measure from the ballot on grounds that its text had been changed after it was titled and summarized by Mosk. Proponents of the meas ure argued this was only a "misunderstanding", The court's decision was 6-1. Stagg: Amos Alonzo Stagg, everybody's "Grand Old Man of Sports", was honored on his 100th birthday anniver sary. More than a dozen cities across the nation held ban quets honoring the former University of Chicago foot ball coach who has lived in Stockton for the past 30 years. Stagg's comment: "I didn't think I'd make it. But I did. I'm 100 years old today. Some way or other, it's hard to be lieve." His advice for living to 100? "Go into training, ex ercise. No smoking or drink ing. No eating to excess." Fire: Southern California's worst fire of the summer forced 300 persons to leave their homes. However, all but four houses were saved. An admitted arsonist, Jerry Tay lor, later was arrested and charged with setting the fire near Claremont, which ap proached the stage of major disaster. Sinatra: A night club pho tographer, who earlier had denied reports of a fight be tween him and Frank Si natra, filed suit for $275,390 damages against the singer. The photographer, Jimmy Jaye, said he was taking pic tures early Sunday in a San Francisco nightclub when Si natra asked why he had not asked for permission to take the photos. Jaye, in his suit, said the singer grabbed him and tried to choke him. RECEIVED SETBACK Washington - (UPI) - Federal grand jury investigation of an alleged fist fight involving Teamster President James R. 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