MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16, 1963
Regional
Roundup
By Cleve Twitchell
Regional Editor
li Alcdiord iuulh ut Giants
Pass, or U it cast? Here's
another one of these ceo;
graphical questions that ap
parently hasn t been settled
one way or the other - not
dissimilar from the Hcllgate.
or-Hellsgalc or Hilt-or-Hilts
issues.
Priscilla Averill, our Grants
Pass correspondent, says she's
argued the point on several
occasions with state police
officers over there. She thinks
Medford is cast of Grants
Pass, but the state police
usually refer to accidents on
Interstate S or the Rogue
River highway on the Med
ford side of Grants Pass as
being "south."
Technically, we sup pose
that Medford is southeast of
Grants Pass, but maybe the
word "southeast" is too long
and complicated for police re
ports. A glance at the map
gives us the impression that
Medford is more to the east
than it is to the south of
Grants Pass, and so if we had
to choose between east and
south, we would pick cast.
Of course, for someone
'thinking of highway 99 or In
terstate 5 on a statewide basis,
as the state police would, the
roads theoretically do run
north and south - most of the
time.
9
New Year's in California
Bertha Hanscom, our Phoe
nix correspondent, spent New
Year's in southern California
and reports that it wasn't as
noisy as she had expected but
that the celebrating was still
going on in some towns
throughout New Year's day
she said she had a hard time
getting her husband, the Phoe
nix watermastcr, out of one
of those towns. "Must have
been the water," she figures.
On New Year's day, the
Hanscoms visited the San
Diego zoo. "Now I've heard
of people seeing pink ele
phants," she comments, "but
we saw pink and blue rattle
snakes, and we were sober
too."
The rattlesnakes are at the
San Diego zoo, and the sign
on the cage said they are
found in southern California.
"My husband, who loves to
argue and had seen the pink
but not the blue rattler," Ber
tha adds, "was telling me how
a snake will change its color
to match it surroundings. The
sand and pebbles in the cage
were a light color and looked
pinkish." That story went
along just fine until Bertha
flsked him why the beautiful
blue rattler over in the corner
of the same cage hadn't
changed his color too.
Prospect Firemen
Save House, Bui Need
Funds To Continue
'. Prospect-Thc Prospect Fire
! department was called to the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Mickey
Gorum in Skeelers camp yes
.terday morning.
The fire originated in the
;flue and did not do much
damage, thanks to prompt
'work by the volunteer fire
-department.
The fire department is in
need of funds to continue in
operation, it was pointed out.
Donations may be left at any
of the places of business in
Prospect.
Meyer Given New
Contract By Board
Of School District 6
By MARY ALICE BRUSHA
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Central Point-Superintend
ent Charles A. Meyer of Dis
trict 6 was extended a three
year contract by members of
the board at their meeting
Jan. 9.
Meyer has held the super
intendent's post for the past
three years. Beginning with
the Central Point Elementary
School in 1946 as principal.
he has been connected with
the district since that time.
Everett Faber, representa
tive of Faber and Anhorn In
surance company and agent of
record In charge of the in
surance program for School
District 6, went over a policy
with board members. The
board accepted the policy as
presented.
Bill Russell, German in
structor, with the help of one
of his students, explained the
Illinois Valley
Legion Post Thanks
Christmas Donors
Illinois Valley The Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary unit No.
70 and the American Legion
have expressed their appreci
ation of the financial assist
ance and food donations giv
en to their Christmas basket
project.
They wish to thank all the
organizations, schools,
churches and clubs and every
one who helped make it pos
sible to give over 30 baskets
during the holidays.
All contributions were
picked up by the Grants Pass
Elks club who assembled and
contributed the baskets to
families in the Illinois valley.
The American Legion aux
iliary held their first meeting
of the new year on Jan. 2
with Mrs. Irene Sturgis con
ducting the meeting in the
absence of Mrs. Harper Mann.
It was decided that the aux
iliary would renovate the
kitchen floor of the American
Legion building. Mrs. Les
Henery and Mrs. Fred Sal
vage were appointed chair
men of the project.
Central Pt. Couple
Hosts Trail Riders
Central Point Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Kurz were hosts
to the Medford Trail riders
Saturday at their home at
3914 Crater Lake highway.
Glen Porter, president, con
ducted the business meeting.
After greeting the new mem
bers and guests, he discussed
with the group the coming
Jackson County Horseman's
association meeting to be held
at the courthouse Wednesday
in the auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
Forter also announced that
the trail riders will have a
pot-luck dinner January 26 in
the scout-community building
in Eagle Point at 7:30 p.m.,
and urged all members of
other horse and pony clubs to
attend, and to bring a covered
dish. Following the meeting
there will be a dance.
The next board meeting
will be at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Vincent Swinney,
1478 Spring St., Medford.
TMI Grolicr, a self tutoring
machine. According to Rus
sell, the machine needs im
provement, both in quality
and mechanism. Speaking on
"Programmed Learning", he
said, "It has real merits but it
is very new, containing many
bugs, although in my opinion,
it should be watched closely
by administrators, school
boards and teachers because
it is one of the coming new
methods."
The board agreed a letter
of appreciation should be sent
to Steve Wilson, for his large
contribution to decking and
completion of the roof on the
stadium.
Board members also agreed
that the Crater facilities
would be made available for
the Boy Scouts Circus April
6. This event is usually held
in Medford, but the returfing
of the Medford field makes
that an impossiblity this time.
Meyer stated that there are
39 students at Crater enrolled
for Saturday classes being
conducted at Southern Ore
gon college. Both seniors and
juniors are in the group, for
able and gifted students.
The board directed ' the
budget committee to investi
gate all possible building sites
for a much needed additional
school for the district.
RegionalCalendar
Gold Hill-Friday, 12 noon,
Gold Hill Garden club will
have a pot-luck luncheon, fol
lowed by business session at
the home of Mrs. Albert
Garcon, highway 99 north.
Sams Valley - Thursday, 8
p.m., Sams Valley PTA will
meet in the school auditori
um. Charles Meyer, superin
tendent of district 6, will
speak on observations of team
leaching.
Phoenix-Monday, 7:30 p.m..
Phoenix City Council will
meet in council chambers at
the community club.
Central Point - Tuesday,
Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m., Siskiyou
Archaeolugical society will
meet at the Crater Rock mu
seum. Lone Pine-Thursday, 2:35
to 3:45 p.m., Third grade Blue
birds, Lone Pine school cafe
teria, Mrs. Yvonne Earnest,
leader.
Grandview - Thursday,
10:sn a.m. U.F.W. will meet
at 2200 Roberts rd Church
annex, pot-luck luncheon at
noon.
Lone Pine-Friday, 2:35 to
3:45, Second grade Bluebirds,
Lone Pine school cafeteria,
Mrs. Eugene King, leader.
I.one Pine - Friday. 8:15
p.m., Roxy Ann Grange, cor
ner Spring st. and Valley
View dr. - meeting, open to
public, on "Disaster."
Roeue River-Thursday, 7:30
p.m., special meeting of Rogue
River city council at city hall.
Chrome Producers Committee
Slates Cave Junction Meeting
By LETHA COOKE
Cave Junction - An execu
; tive committee appointed 10
'days ago to compile informa
tion concerning sulphides and
"minerals in seven southern
Oregon and northern Cali
fornia counties will meet Sun
day in the offices of Weldon
and Stilling here to discuss
findings.
It is hoped that the com
mittee's findings will lead to
.a government expenditure of
S1U.00U for an exploratory
iurvey, which if satisfactory,
would signal the go-ahead for
a $3.5 million sulphide re
finery and smelter in this
area.
Members of the committee
from Grants Pass are Mrs.
Lesley Davenport, Wesley
Picron and Robert Graham;
Cave Junction, Mrs. Murphy
Hicks and Elwood Hussey;
Crescent City, Ed Carlson.
Others are still to be appoint
ed to represent more of the
seven counties of the two
states.
Committee members will
furnish information to miners
so proper forms can be filled
out and returned for the rec
ord determining the explora
tory survey.
Close to 150 interested peo
ple attended the Southern
Oregon Northern California
Chrome Producers meeting
Jan. 6 from Curry, Humboldt,
Douglas. Jackson, Josephine,
Del Norte, and Siskiyou coun
ties although only about 95
signed the guest register.
Chairman Gene Brown of
OB,rien, Collins McClcndon
of Crescent City, Bruce Man-
Icy of Medford, Ed Carlson a
local man with mining inter
ests in Del Norte county, Cliff
Kline of Crescent City and
John Weldon a local business
man, presented a panel dis
cussion followed by a ques
tion and answer period.
Manley, the Chrome Pro
ducers' Association lawyer,
and McClendon, with the local
area redevelompent commit
tee and head of the mineral
division of the Collier eco
nomic resources inventory
committee, revealed that the
$3.5 million sulphide refinery
and smelter was orally ap
proved and recommended for
a new apppcal at a meeting
with representatives of the
Federal Bureau of Mines and
engineers of Kaiser Industries
in San Francisco.
It was also stated that the
allotment made for a $500,000
sulphuric acid plant had been
extended until spring as it
was considered more time was
needed for location of sul
phide sources.
Fred Dayton of Josephine
County Area Redevelopment
committee said that Oregon
State Planning commission
has recognized the need of a
sulphide refinery in southern
Oregon. There are none In
Oregon now.
Rep. Sid Bazctt, Sen. Deb
Potts, Don McGregor, Jack
McMahan, and Gordon White
of the Bank of Illinois Valley,
expressed opinions and pledg-
I ed their support.
j An offer of a donation of
' Ian jl on which the smeller
could be built was made by
Elwood Hussey. Hussey also
spoke of a time before the
war when a smelter was suc
cessfully operated at Takilma
and the concentrates hauled to
a railroad spur at Water's
Creek and shipped to Tacoma.
He stated that the Illinois
Valley Grange helped pro
mote Oregon Mountain tunnel
and he was sure it would sup
port this project too even if
Oregon and California would
not.
The sulphide refinery and
smelter project has originated
from combined efforts of
chrome producers in southern
Oregon and northern Califor
nia In an endeavor to revive
the now dormant chrome in
dustry with the help of
various government agencies.
Len Ramp from the State
Department of Geology and
Mineral Industries field office
in Grants Pass clarified sev
eral points for the miners.
It was mentioned during the
discussion that deposits of raw
sulphur have been reported
in this region.
The Queen of Bronze, Grey
Eagle and Cowboy mines
would represent a large per
centage of sulphide and other
minerals locally, it has been
stated by those discussing the
potentialities of the Illinois
Valley.
Another point understood
by supporters of the proposed
industry is that new modem
smelters and refineries such
as this would not produce
odorous vegetation-killing
fum.j
RICHARD STRAUS
Heads Gold Hill Council
Community Building
Envisioned By GH
Council President
Gold Hill - The appoint
ment of Richard Straus as
new city council president,
made by Mayor Milton Stein
metz, was approved by mem
bers of the incoming council
at the January session.
Straus was the only one of
the eight elective city offi
cials who did not have to take
the oath. All other council
members, the mayor and recorder-treasurer
were elected
In November, 1962. Straus did
not have to seek re-election
since he was elected in 1960
for a four year council seat.
His present term will expire
January 1965.
Straus said his chief inter
est in the city government
here is to see and work for the
promotion of a community
building, a structure, he said,
that would house a city hall
with council chambers, li
brary, space for youth groups
such as the Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts, and possibly a
room for local organization
meetings.
He feels that instead of pay
ing out rent for a city hall as
the city has been doing, some
plans should be made to put
funds into a permanent build
ing for the townspeople.
Straus is of the opinion that
city hall type of community
building would not be too
great an expense for the peo
ple. More Industry
Among future accomplish
ments he would like to see an
effort made to bring into the
area some type of manufac
turing that would. be clean
and quiet. For example he
mentioned something like an
electronics plant or one that
assembles trailers and camp
ers.
Straus has been employed
by Pacific Northwest Bell and
has worked for the telephone
company the past 15 years. He
is a cable splicer in the south
ern district and works out of
the Medford office, he said.
He and his wife, Marcia
have resided in the area all of
their lives. He is a former res
ident of Sams Valley. The
couple -have resided on Sec
ond ave. in Gold Hill the past
nine years. They .have four
youngsters, daughters, Jackie,
a freshman at Crater High
school, and Janice, an eighth
grader at Hanby Elementary
school, and two younger chil
dren, Kimbra and Dick Jr.
iagie Point School Board Appoints Committees
Eagle Point Richfield Oil
company was low bidder for
pumping gas for School Dis
trict No. 9, and appointments
were made to fill vacant posi
tions on committees and on
boards at the district board
meeting last Thursday night.
Six major oil companies
turned in sealed bids for
pumping gas for the district's
use with Richfield's .2386 for
supreme and .2105 for reg
ular per gallon just fractions
of a cent lower than both
Mobile Oil company's .2438
for supreme and .2138 for reg
ular and Associated's bid of
.2438 for supreme and .2135
for regular.
Mobile was low bidder and
awarded the contract last year
with Associated Oil having
been low bidder for a number
of years previously. Other
bidders were Union Oil com
pany, Stanford Oil company
and Shell Oil company.
Appointments made for the
Future Farmers of America,
Eagle Point Chapter, board
of directors were Darrell
Stanley, Ira Woolflok, Oscar
Hansen, Phillip Nevin. and
Jack Caldwell. Rafel Garden
er and Wayne Ash were ap
pointed to serve on the dis
trict budget board along with
present members Fred Arnes.
John Ousterhout and Norman
Chapman.
Ed Learning was appointed
as a board member and John
Ousterhout as n budget com
mittee member to serve on a
committee for studying the
teacher's salary schedule.
Chairman Darrell Stanley sug
gested this committee be set
up to include a member of
the superintendent's office,
board chairman and a board
member, a member of the
budget committee and repre
sentatives of the teacher's sal
ary committee.
Superintendent Glenn D.
Hale told members of the
school board that an emer
gency evacuation schedule
had been made up for the
school some time ago and that
this schedule is in all schools.
Plenty of notice for emergen
cy evacuation to allow all
youngsters to be safely trans
ported home before any dan
ger is prevalent.
All bus drivers have left
their telephone number with
the bus superintendent and
in case of insufficient time to
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call all drivers, there are
plenty of either present li
censed bus drivers or former
licensed bus drivers who will
immediately go into action to
see that the youngsters are
taken home.
Eleven high school students
will be taken advantage of
the "Able and Gifted" class
es being offered at Southern
Oregon College beginning
Jan. 19. Assistant Superin
tendent Robert Work noted
that two students would be
taking field biology, three
creative writing, one exposi
tory writing, one literature,
three in projects in biology,
and one project in mathema
tics. Work told the board that
these students had been care
fully screened and were aca
demically high in their school
studies.
The next board meeting
will be held on Valentine's
day, Feb. 14, with a curricul
um meeting at 7:30 in the Arts
Department of the Eagle Point
High school prior to the board
meeting. Mr. Chapman, in
structor of the Art Depart
ment will give a lecture and
explain the progress in that
department.
Bill Ruck of the Medford
School District presented an
informal lecture on the Ore
gon School program to ac
quaint the board with that
phase of the curriculum pro
gram. Ruck told the group pres
ent that 23 class A school
districts and 9 colleges and
universities had all submitted
reports and suggestions to
help bring an improvement
of the student's education.
Thsi is being done through
higher teacher preparation
and education and by improv
ing the educational climate
in public schools.
lie noted that caution is the
keyword with all changes be
ing done on a small scale so
they could work out the bugs
as they go and expand when
it is a proven and beneficial
system.
Ruck compared convention
al type of classroom teaching
to the team system that is be
ing tried in some of the
schools in Massachussets that
are using it and a couple in
California.
In the conventional system
of teaching now used it was
pointed out that the teachers
must teach in several subject
matter fields while the skill
and talents of several adults
can be utilized by the team
system.
The teacher who now must
perform a variety of non in
struction tasks would have
household and secretariat
needs taken care of by cleri
cal aides. The teacher who
now has limited contact with
other teachers would have
team meetings and an ex
change of ideas.
Ruck showed the group a
comparison of salary costs
where the team svstem cou'd
be used to much more ad
vantage of the student at tho
same price the conventional
system is used.
ENLISTS
Prospect- Friends and
neighbors will be interested
to know that Scott Grieve,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Heston
Grieve has enlisted in tha
Navy. He left Jan. 7 for Port
land, then was transferred to
San Diego for his basic training.
N. California
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