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8 P THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 19S2 MEDFORD MAIL TB1BUNE. MEDFOF1D, OREGON California Logging Town Being Revitalized ding. Calif., did the plumbing, and George Gray of Yreka the painting work. Well drill ing was done by "Porky" En loe of Dorris. furnishings for Bullocks' home and office by Billy Krum of Weed. Project engineer was Walter Grimes of Chico, Calif. im I r ' I -ill '' 'Wr mk '1 Matt Tk J. reti J s? 1 MAIN STREET- This is the principal street In Tennant, Calif., an old lotting communi ty being renovated by C. E. Bullock, a re tired industrialist. Shown along the left side are many of the old homes that -Bullock has had remodeled so that they can be sold as modern homes. J. I! f - ii'itiiftii RENOVATED- This big house was once oc cupied by the superintendent of logging op- orations in Tennant. Today C. E. Bullock has had it renovated as a home for himself. 0- . a-'ji .. ii 5 n All!'9' THE REAL BREAD! Daily Average of Farm Hands $6.50 Washington - IUPH - Prelimi nary estimates of the 1001 hired farm working force Indi cate that nearly 3.5 million persons worked on farms for wages at some time last year. The Agriculture Depart ment's Economic Research Service said that hired hands worked for an average of SB 50 rhiily. A year earlier Ihe average pay was SB. 25 daily for a working force of 3.7 million. Of the 3.5 million hired hands in 1061. about 1.6 mil lion worked an average of 10 disys on farms and an average of 41 days at non-farm work for total earnings of $473. Most of these were students and housewives who were em ployed on farms during per iods of peak labor needs. Close to I B million hired hands averaged 134 days of farm work, earning an aver age of $881. Their average earnings from farm and non farm wages totaled $1,094. ERS said that roughly nine lenlhs of all farm workers are local residents - Ihe rest are migratory. BY DOROTHY STEWART Mail Tribunt Corropondant Tennant, Calif. In years past, this little community in Siskiyou county was an old logging community, which in 1954 was closed up and sold. But today, the town of Ten nant is experiencing a rebirth as a community for vacation ers, sportsmen and the re tired." Clarence E. Bullock, for merly of Galesburg, 111., is the new owner of the town. He is a retired industrialist who came to the west coast and heard of Tennant while in a hospital at Alameda, Calif., to undergo surgery. Bullock has decided to make Tennant into a place where people can "get away from it all." The community is located 13 miles cast of Highway 97, 50 miles northeast of the city of Weed, 4, MO feet up in a beautiful setting amid tower ing pines ar,d high mountains. Invests $320,000 Bullock has already invest ed some $320,000 into the project, he reports, in order to make the town more live able. A portion of this figure went into renovating the main house, formerly occu pied by the logging superin tendent. The old house has now been modernized for Bullock to use as a private home. It has five bedrooms, two bath rooms, living room and kitchen. Others of the buildings have been modernized as well, with gas heating provid ed for and a sewer system installed. The town's water supply is principally from An telope creek, whose waters come directly from Mt. Shasta and have been declared by government authorities to be among the purest to be found in the world. Store-Restaurant Another building Bullock has had renovated is a store restaurant which has been done up like an old-time gen eral store, with a pot-bellied stove for people to gather around when there is a nip in the air. Some 102 buildings stood in Tennant when it was vacated. Bullock is making use of 80 of them. The others are being torn down. Many of the build ings have been modernized into homes with two or three bedrooms, which will be of fered for sale. Bullock is in the process of I setting up a public utilities service district encompassing the town, so that the commu nity can be governed by a board of five directors. District Not Set Up Some it families are now living in Tennant permanent ly, but as yet they are re quired to pay nothing for the utilities they are using, since the utilities service district has not yet been set up. Tile creation of the district will be submitted to Ihe peo ple in Ihe area for vote. This decision reversed an earlier decision of Ihe Siskiyou board of supervisors after the dis trict attorney's office recom mended against it. The board went on record that Ihe dis trict would he in the public interest and ordered the elec tion. Bullock's plans call for making Tennant an attractive place for both tourists and more permanent residents. A modern motel is proposed for the use of people who want to come up for short periods of time to go hunting or just relax. Old Bunk House Ironically, the motel will be built on the site of an old bunk house that once had 52 rooms and just one bathroom. For the benefit of more per manent residents, a school bus runs daily to Dorris and Mac-1 Doel schools. A new church ! will be erected in the place of : an old one. However, the old church bell has been saved and will be used in the new j church. Working with Bullock as his chief superintendent on the project is Wayne Christy, who came down from Coos Bay. Work done on the town was under the general super vision of Earl Cummins of Yreka. Carl Langford of Red- t uwiMt-H AMD SUPtRiNTtNDENT-C. K and developer of lennaut, poses with his superintendent and m.iii.iui'i , ivayne Christy TM" A, -A Bullock, let!, owner Village Variety & Garden Sh Hunting i Fishing license! 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S. has informed Germany of them. Bull Killed After Collision With Car A young Jersey bull's bid for freedom was brief this week when it and a car, driv en by Arty Ivan Laws, 48. Rogue River, collided on In terstate Highway 5 between Rock Point and the Rogue Riviera. The bull was seriously in jured and the car was heavily damaged, state police said. The animal had to be killed. Laws, a Rogue River city councilman, was driving through the fog and couldn't see the bull in time to stop, he told police. Owner of the bull was John W. Childers, route 1, box 172, Gold Hill. Laws, his wife, Lauraine, 42, and a daughter, Elizabeth, 18, were shaken up, but didn't require immediate treatment. Halibut Cheeks lb. 89c Smoked Salmon! Catfish lb. 59c SALMON Fresh Ceught 79 ib. Scallops .ib. 85c Shrimp Small, peeled & de-veined Ib. 39 I Large Local Grown FRYERS Cut up, whole 49c lb. OYSTERS Extra Small Size 95 lb. Frog Legs $189 SEA BASS FLOUNDER lb. Fillets 55 FRYER GIZZARDS & HEARTS 29 lb. 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