Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 20, 1963, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 A WEDNESDAY, of: P s sueiiu :i ins ' t' AIDED BY COMMUNITY-Mr. press their appreciation for household shower given for them by 140 Hornbrook residents to make up for belongings lost when fire destroyed the Suetta home Jan. 24. In background Is Mrs. Suetta's mother, Mrs. Robert Thompson. Hornbrook Residents ji vc tjiiunci - - . w nn imr nrirnF in rirR By KATHERINE CHAPMAN Mail Tribun Staff WrlUr H o r n b rook - Hornbrook area residents this week gave an outstanding display of the good old American spirit of community togetherness when some 140 of them gathered at the school house to help RegionalCalendar Eagle Point - Thursday, 8 p.m., Jaycee meeting at com munity building. Dinner can celled. Hornbrook - Saturday, 6:30 p.m., parents' club of Horn brook grammar school will sponsor fund raising dinner at school house. Each one attend ing is asked to bring can of vegetables to be added to "hobo stew" planned as main dish. Music for dancing will follow dinner. Shady Cove - Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Guardian council of Jobs Daughters will meet at home of Mrs. Carroll Wat son, ah line omcers ana members of council urged to . attend. ' ' Prospect - Monday evening executive board of Prospect PTA will meet at home of Mrs. nay iwaurer. rn lor Founder's day meeting will be made. Crater FFA Chapter Has Exhibit at Central Pt. Library Central Point The spot light falls on the Future Farmers of America, Crater chapter, at the Central Point library this week. I The exhibit features awards j the students have earned through their concentrated ef forts since 1959. Listed also are the stale officials of the FFA, who are Mollis McDonald, president; Jeff Carl, vice president; Les ter Stevens, secretary; Larry uai unci , UCPIUIvI , O I C V c Kesler, reporter; Tom Hender son, sentinel. Crater chapter officials arc Pat Neal, president; Bob Ryan, vice president; Terry Bycoff, secretary; Allan Bray, treasurer; LcRoy Rider, reporter; and J. C. Caldwell, sentinel. 57- IDQ5ljnii3r Kl v aa ',: WORK UNDER WAY-Work ha; started on corjtmc'.'-r of the new annex to the Siskiyou County Hospital, which is to be finished one year from the starting date. The contract was awarded to the A. J. McMurray Construction Company at cost of $71)8,539. This new unit will hold rooms for surgery, x-ray, lab, maternity and delivery, mojue, FEBRUARY 20. 1863 f is e and Mri. Frank Suetta ex- iui i wiiiiiv - - - 0 m out an unfortunate neighbor. Less than a year ago, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Suetta and their three sons moved here from Vacaville, Calif., to the ranch they had just bought from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cummins! Last 'Jan. 24, tragedy struck the family when an early morning fire reduced their home and all its con tents to a pile of ashes. In keeping with a long standing tradition of this small community, a house hold shower was held for the S u e 1 1 a s Tuesday evening, Feb. 12, and they received numerous articles to help them set up housekeeping again. They are In the process at present of clearing away the rubble from the site of their former home in preparation for the building of their new home. Arrangements for the par ty were made by Mrs. Robert Cummins and her sister, Mrs. Henley Clawson, assisted by many other members of the community. Illinois Valley Demos Receive Flag Flown Over Capitol Building Illinois Valley - Congress man Robert B. Duncan, along with Josephine county Demo crats James F. Harris and Edward Hare have presented the Illinois Valley Democrat ic club with a U.S. flag that hus been flown over the cap- ltol building in Wasmnglon, D.C. The presentation, made at recent meeting, was in ap preciation of the club's ef forts in the last campaign. Harris and Hare were unsuc cessful candidates for county commissioner. Club President Fred Kiuif- man received the flag on be half of the club. Harris made the presentation. Guest speaker Donald Jones, county assessor, spoke on current tux legislation be fore the stnte legislature. Hare reported on the success ol the governor s prayer breakfast held In Salem re ccntly. t: "IT? : T .V Ja- I 1 ' 1 la V I Meanwhile, On Other Side of the Slide, School Goes On For Stranded Pupils By HAZEL DAVIS Mail Tribun Correspondent ' Happy Camp - Classes have been set up in three private homes of Indian creek resi dents to provide school for the 75 or more stranded students on the other side of the land slide that blocked the road two weeks ago. Principal of the Happy Camp Union Elementary school, John Sugden, first started holding school in a school bus that had been taken through the slide after the roadway had been cleared to some extent for necessary traffic. According to Sugden, the bus-school created problems, so when Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kuehl offered a spare room Grants Pass School District Tax Levy Grants Pass The budget committee for Grants Pas City School District No. 7 this Shady Cove Grange Members Hear Talk On Oregon Statistics Shady Cove - The Shady Cove Grange held its regular bi-monthly meeting Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Shady Cove School gym with Master Johnie Minor presiding. Several members volun teered to build a backstop for the Shady Cove school. A committee report was given by Cecil Kee on the new Shady Cove Planning commis sion. Other reports included the agricultural report by Mrs. Frank Linden, commun ity service report by Mrs. Marguerite Pote and legisla tive report by Johnie Minor. Mrs. Chester Calloway, lec turer, gave a resume of Ore gon statistics. Visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fulton of the Butte Falls Grange. Fulton sang a solo during the entertainment per iod accompanied b y Mrs. Charles Wells at the piano. Shady Cove - Newcomers to Shady Cove Bre Mr. and Mrs. Max Carpenter who have purchased the Abcrnathy res- i Idence and arc living there now. They also have property in Eagle Point where they are planning to build in the fu .lure. The Carpenters came to the area from Aptos, Calif. Their son, Don Carpenter and wife also came up to the area from California and are living in Mcdford. Other newcomers to the area arc Mr. and Mrs. Harold Davis and two small daugh ters from Grants Pass. Davis is employed by the Bureau of Public Roads and expects to bo working In the area for about six months. They are renting the old Paul Davis house next to the Dresser s at Trail. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Phillips of Central Point are renting the Peterson house while they arc building a new home in Sams Valley. They expect to be able to move Into it shortly. RECEIVES WINGS O'Brien Larry Smedlcy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barnes, has received his wings after completing the required Jumps in paratroop training at Ft. Benning, Ga. He will now be on standby for duty and emergency call at Ft. Bragg, N. C. autopsy and a new central supply system. The present recreation room will be taken Into this unit. When the move into the new quarters is made, then the rcmodelmn of the present hospital will begin, so that it can hold more beds. The money for this project was raised by subscription and by grants. MEDFORD for the school, Sugden agreed that this would be a better solution. Since that time, two more classrooms have been set up, one at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey Willis and the third at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Attebery, Across Creek Twice Books, assignments, folding tables and chairs for these classrooms were taken to the temporary schools by Sugden and any help that he could find, across Indian creek on a foot-log around the slide area, and again crossing the creek with the supplies in a borrow ed jeep across a forest service bridge near the slide area. According to one parent of an Indian creek student, any one who had had to use the footlog knows what a terrific Will Go Up week approved a proposed budget of $2,330,570 for the 1963-64 school year, with an estimated milloge levy of 66.1, approximately 12 mills above last year's assessment. City School Superintendent Ralph E. Jones said that about 4 mills of the tax jump is due to the fact that the country's contribution has been cut to the $10 minimum per census child. In recent years more than $30 per child was receiv ed from this source. Other factors responsible for the tax boost include loss of tuition fees from the county school district, which opened its own junior high schools this year; the addition of sev en teachers to provide lor next year's expected enroll ment increase of 200' to 250 students; and the cost of main Applegate Valleyites Plan Musical Comedy To Raise Funds for Grange Floor By MAUDE ZIEGLER Mail Tribune Correspondent Applegate Valley - People of Applegate valley and other areas are cooperating in pre senting a musical comedy on March 30, proceeds to go for a new floor in the Upper Ap plcuatc grange hall. The floor is to replace the present cement flooring which is said to be unsatisfactory where warmth and ease of dancing are concerned. Ap proximate cost of flooring is $400. The comedy is written and produced by Mrs. Edna Saw yer, and is titled, "Mother Goose Lives Again." Mrs. Lora Scott and Mrs. Clifton Childers are assisting Mrs. Sawyer in the production. R.J. Richey of Medlord will act as master of ceremonies, and Boyd Gibson, principal of Ruch school, will be the nar rator. The comedy will be pre sented at Ruch school audi torium. Applegate Valley - Harley Hall of Little Applegate is a successful archery hunter, having recently killed an elk dressing 380 pounds in the Coquille unit on the Coos riv er. Hall says this is his first big game with bow and ar row, although he has been practicing fur some time and has killed rabbits and a cou gar. He was accompanied on the trip by Dan Patch of Mcdford. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, job that was done by the prin cipal in getting supplies up there to the students. Classes are being taught there by Mr. and Mrs. Dave Maxon, members of the ele mentary school faculty, and Mrs. Victor Duesenberry, a substitute teacher, ail living on the other side of the slide. Construction is progressing slowly at the slide site and guesses range from one week to two weeks before the road will be declared safe for the passage of the school bus. Work on the slide is being done by V and K Logging company of Happy Camp and the Siskiyou County Road de partment crews. The county crews have been drilling the bluff during the night for blasting to move the 12 Mills taining added classrooms and buildings constructed during the past year. Teachers salaries would be set 5'2 per cent above the 1962-63 schedule, 'for a total Increase of about $73,000. Sal aries on the new schedule range from $4,800 for a be ginning teacher with a bache lor's degree to $7,500 for a 14-year teacher with a mas ter's degree. The committee trimmed ap proximately $25,000 from the amount originally requested for operation of district schools next year, and set a salary schedule $20,000 below that originally submitted by the Teachers Welfare commit tee at its first appearance be fore the budget group in De cember. Applegate Valley - Mrs. Harlan P. Bosworth is leading group discussions in the Ruch community on the Great De cisions topics. Those attending the first meetings held at the Bosworth home were Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Offenbacher, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tweedy, Mr. and Mrs, Bert Harr, and Mrs. Henrietta LePlniec. The meeting on Algeria will be postponed for this week, and will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy next week. N. California Television Log PrngrnmR llstrd beluw are received from the television fctttt urns and the Mall 1'rthune as!.uiiie!i no responsibility except to make changes as tupplted KVIP-TV (Channel 7) Wednrttdny 5:011 liroken Arrow 5:30 Mickey Mouse Club 6:00 .Ncwsbeat Northsiate Huntley-Bnnkley ti an International Showtime 7:30 Vtt Ron Train 8:30 CoinR My Way y :(0 Our Man Hifigina 10.00 Nnked City 1 1 :0O News Final 1 1 :10 Sporlsca.st 11:15 ToniKhl Show U 25 Late Nev Thursday (t 30 Kducational 10:00 Price is RiRht 10:3t Concentration 11:00 Jane Wynian 11 ;Ur Ymim Kor a Sour 12:00 Ernie Ford Show 12 30 Father Knows Beat 1 .00 Loietta Young 1-30 -TV Bingo 2 oo Dav in Court 2 24 Midday Report 2 30 Seven Kt-vs 3 00 Queen tor a Day 3 30 Who Do You Trust 4 .00 American Bandstand 4 30 Discovery 4 ,V Handstand News 6 00 Super Car 3 30 Mirkev Moue Club ri oo Ncwsbeat Northstate :15 Hunt ley -Bnnklcy t 30 Father Knows Best 7 00 Gurstwaid Ho 7:30 Ozzie and Harriet ft oo Donna Heed 8 30 Leave It To Beaver 9 00 My 3 Sons 30 McHales Naw 10.00 Fred Astaire Premiere 11:00 News Final 1 1 :U Sportscast 11:15 Tonight Show 12 25 Late News Friday t 30 Kducational lu-QO Price I RiRht 10 30 Concentration 1 1 oo Jane Wynian 11 30 Yours For a Ronf 1J 00 Frnie Ford Show 12 30 Father Knout Best 1 00 l.oretta Young 1 30 TV Bingo oi) Dav m Court 2 24 Midday Report II no Seven Krv 3-oi 4jueen tor a Dav 3.30 Who Do You Trust 4 0i American Handstand 4 30 OtM'overv 4 55 Himrt!.!am1 Newt, 5 OO Jill's Prtv Tunc 3 3i Mtckrv Mouse Club ti 00 Neushcat Cap C. Vandagrift REAL tSTATI APPRAISER, CONSULTANT I NEGOTIATOR ANNOUNCES HIS NEW LOCATION 1 King Street Phone 779-1666 Medford, Oregon OREGON rock faster during the day. Only small blasts can be set off due to the homes nearby. New Road Planned A very fine piece of road way is predicted to replace the narrow one -lane section that was completely closed due to the slide. In order to remove the slide to make the road safe, the equipment had to go to the top of the slide and work toward the bottom. Since the work involves the moving of a huge piece of solid overhanging bluff the work was slowed down more than was expected at the first report. The road Is closed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for all traffic including pedestrians, due to the falling rocks. The slide is about three miles north of Happy Camp. Jacksonville Will Share Cost of Widening Bridge Jacksonville - The Jackson ville City Council has agreed to pay half the cost of widen ing a bridge over an irriga tion canal near the end of Huener lane. The council met last night with Jack Hoffbuhr, secretary-manager of the Medford Irrigation district, to consider the project. The bridge is 12 feet wide at present. Plans call for widening it to 24 feet. The council agreed to share the cost of construction and maintenance with the district. Water Charge Lowest In other matters at the meeting, Councilman George Brewer and City Superinten dent Albert Hacker reported on the water resources meet ing held in Central Plont Feb. 13. Brewer noted that a com parison of rates charged by valley cities for hookup to water lines showed Jackson ville's charge to be the lowest in the valley. Prospect Arfisls Bring Works For Shady Cove Exhibit Prospect - Fifteen persons attended the recent art meet ing held here at the home of Mrs. Archie McKillop to hear a talk on modern art. All members present brought examples of their work to be put on display at the Riverview cafe in Shady Cove. The exhibition may be seen there now. Prospect - John Ham from Sunnyvale, Calif., and his family will visit the Clinton Snodgrass home this week end. Mr. Ham and Mrs. Snod grass are brother and sister. Their mother, Mrs. Cecilia Leavett, is improving from a recent major operation and may return home soon. Prospect - The Catholic dis cussion club has begun pre Lenten lessons in the study of the Catholic doctrine. These meetings are held in the homes of various members. Prospect - This has been a bad skiing winter all around. Paul Pearson and Mr. and Mrs. John Gartman spent last week end at Sun Valley, but reported that the snow there was not very good to ski on. Yreka De Molay Has Installation Yreka - Charles "Chuck" Cloyd was installed as master councilor of Ieka chapter, Or der of De Molay, in impressive ceremonies held in the Ma sonic Temple at Yreka recent ly with Duane Miller, Past Master Councilor officiating as installing officer. Seated with Cloyd were Wayne Trucblood, senior councilor; Steven Scammell, junior councilor; Greg Krank, senior deacon; Larry Glenn, junior deacon; Richard Craw ford, senior steward; Ron Cloyd, junior steward; Greg Steward, chaplain; and Don Madden, marshal. Other installing officers were Lynn Skinner, senior councilor. Francis Farley, jun ior councilor; Rev. Donald D. Donihue, installing chaplain; Rodney Stewart, P MC, in stalling marshal. Millie Mil ler whs installing musician, and Harry Scammell is dad advisor to the leka chapter. JACKSON COUNT Appleiate: MyrlU Krouse, Provolt 2468 Applegau Valley: Maude Ziegler, 899-1333 Aihland: Faith McCullough. 482-0714 Butte Falla: Mary Jo Hrrli 865-2128 Central Point: Ontta Slmmoni. 664-3094 Mary Alice Brush. 684-3191 Derby: Ina Hayei 446-3957 Eagle Point: Oottie Harbicon. 448-3274 Evans Valley-Wimer: Roberta Sletten, JU 2-3373 Cold HiU. Mary Kelt 055-1128 Jacksonville' Betty Hoikini. 899-1209 Lone Pine. Dot Simmons, 772-9676 Phoenix: Bertha Haiucom, 535-1469 Prospect: Velda Barr 869-2212 Rogue River: Lauraine Laws. JU 2-3451 Shady Cove: Evalyn Watton. 878-2351 I - . ..i. Mm' . . .it.- T7i As .a y K;A,yl-:w;t;V;K'': -wr r W PS.V STURDY OLD BRIDGE-One of the High way 62 bottlenecks that will be avoided when the 6.5 miles bypass of Prospect, now under construction by the Bureau of Public Roads, is completed is this bridge just south of the community of Prospect. Built around 1918, the bridge has withstood both high water and numerous accidents. Logging Jaycee Membership Drive A Success Central Point Publiciy Chairman Ernie Kennedy of the Central Point Junior Chamber of Commerce report ed to the local unit at a recent meeting, on his attendance at the Feb. 8, Oregon State Jay cees winter meeting, held in Bend, Ore. Kennedy said over 600 guests participated at the banquet, held following the meeting, the largest attend ance on record for the annual affair. An initiation ceremony con ducted by the Central Point Jaycees was directed by Bill Tope and Everett Peyton of the Medford chapter. Receiv ing the obligation were Dar rell Anderson, Bob Clark and Dennis Bateman. Bill Kennedy, vice presi dent, conducted the program, with Bill Tope outlining the SPOKE" program composed of first year members. Tope explained the meaning of the five letters used in the title, and the purpose of the mean- New Shoe Sfore Opens In Grants Pass Grants Pass A new shoe store opened in downtown Grants Pass this week. Known as Hal's Bootery, it is owned by Hal and Marge Schmoll, who operated a simi lar store in Red Bluff, Calif. The new shoe store is on Sixth St., at the location of the former Buster Brown Shoe store. SCHOOL DONATES Montague Lester Newton Montague Elementary school superintendent, reports that the pupils of his school con tributed $34.10 to the March of Dimes fund. ) HOW COME Fluhrer's Holsum BREAD NOW TASTES BETTER THAN EVER? BECAUSE PREMIUM QUALITY HOLSUM IS 4 HOURS FRESHER Regional News CorniDondcnt and Theii , .ajy ing. Participating in the "Speak Up Jaycee" program were Larry Cranston and Dennis Bateman. Vern Capps, second vice vice president, also chairman for the Jaycee flag program, gave a detailed report on Ihe flags displayed throughout the city on Lincoln s birthday. Two other apllications for membership were accepted and approved, and, according to Gay Hallett, the recent membership drive has been an overwhelming success. Advertisement Are You Looking For Something? 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