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2 B WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14. 113 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Architectural Archivist Visits Jacksonville Sites v 8 1 7 lriiTTliTrTTirMgi t o o '-J TEMPORARY FIRE HALL The Talent Rural Fire Protection district's equipment is being based at this ball on Old Pacific ' highway near Main st. until a new hall is built on property recently purchased by the district at the corner of Main and I sts. At ; present the district has two trucks, the old Talent rural truck (right) which was housed at the Talent city fire station until the rural district was formed last year, and a truck on loan, seen above at left. At the end of this month, the department will receive delivery on two new trucks it is buying. When the new trucks arrive, the loaned vehicle will be returned and the old truck will be used In reserve. 971 Students, Adults Take Part in Recreation Program ' Ashland-A total of 971 stu dents and adults have partici pated in tlie Ashland Recre ation program now in its final week. The program headed by Pierre Roberts included swim ming, skaiing, baseball, track, bowling, golf, tennis, and jun ior theater work; Roberts was selected by the recreation committee, which is headed by Dr. Alex Peter son of Southern Oregon col lege. In the nine -weeks swim ming program, 60 per cent of all, the beginning swimmers learned to swim. In addition to the instruction in junior and senior life-saving for stu dents, classes for women were held. Seven instructors were in charge of the 547 swimmers who participated in the ses sions at Jackson Hot springs Skating Program Thirty students took part in the six-week skating program held at the Ashland Skating rink. They met once a week For the six-week baseball session, three leagues were formed for the 140 students who played. Rondo lanes in Ashland was the site for instruction in bowling. The one-day-a-week lessons were attended by 103 students. Golf lessons were provided by the golf instructor at the Oak Knoll Golf course for 23 boys and girls. Junior Theater Work Bob Chapin, a Southern Oregon college student, was in charge of the seven-weeks course in junior theater work held at the high school. As their culminating activity the 80 participants produced 4 one-act plays. , In addition they made all the sets and pro duced their own costumes. Jim Songster directed the programs in track and tennis. Thirty - eight participants took part in individual track events, pentathlon, and were in the All-Comers meet held in Medford. Forty students practiced tennis two times a week and played with Phoe nix twice. Regional News Talent Reading Club Holds Book Party ALICE BURNETT Mail Tribune - Correspondent Talent Nearly SO children costumed to represent their favorite characters from books attended the Library Book club party at the Talent city hall recently. Apparently the noble red skin still compels more ad' miration from children than does the man from outer space, according to the num ber of children who came in Indian attire. All of the cos tumcs showed a great deal of thought and effort and the judges, including Omar Ba con, librarian for Public Li brary of Medford and Jackson County, Mrs. Archie Estes, Talent librarian, her assistant, Mrs. William Sommer, Mrs. Harry Flynn and Miss Evelyn Haikkila, found the winners hard to choose. Winners under 10 were for a girl, Debby, Jennings, as a colored hobo boy, and Todd Simpson, as a helicopter; hon orable mention went to Eddie Lonch, Indian, and Clancy Stone as Mother Hubbard. Winners over 10 were Leslie Dean, cowboy, and Sally Simpson, Scotch girl. Honor able mention when to Elsye Smith, a gypsy. Gets New Members ' Glenda Evans was a win ner for bringing in the most new members to register for the reading club, and Karen Conner read the most books from June 3 to Aug. 3. She read 64 in that time. Bacon presented certificates to 58 children who had fin ished reading at least 10 books. Mrs. Ray Burnette was chairman of the party com' mittee for the Talent Feder ated Women's club, a member of the Oregon Federation of Women's Clubs, who sponsor ed the event. Members of the club donated cookies and punch for refreshments. Those serving were Mrs. Burnette, Mrs. Mae Lowe, Mrs. Flynn, and Mrs. James Enberg as sisted by the Misses Elsye Smith and Evelyn Haikkila. Prizes for the party were donated by Talent merchants. Jacksonville - Mrs. Preston Par ish, Fredericksburg, Va., former architectural archivist for colonial Williamsburg, was in Jacksonville this week on an extended tour of historical landmarks and historical so cieties across the country. Mrs. Parish recently re signed her post as architec tural archivist. Prior to that she was affiliated with Ken- more Mansion, home of George Washington's sister, Mary Washington Lewis, wife of Col. Fielding Lewis. Colo nel Lewis was an ancestor ot Merryweather Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition which explored the Pacific Northwest. Mrs. Parish said she was pleased with the stagecoach, the town of Jacksonville, "which has more historic value than any town visited,' and the effort of the people to preserve the town's historic values. Substance And Taste "By the architecture alone, one can see that the town was created by men of substance and taste," the former archiv 1st commented. "This is not our heritage sprung from it self, but a heritage uprooted from the east and replanted in the west. The settlers who came here brought the best of the good taste and substance of their eastern heritage," she said. Mrs. Parish decried historic "Honky Tonks," and urged integrity in restoration. In 1962, 70 million people have visited museums includ ing ones like Jacksonville's, This is one-third of the popu lation and more than the paid admissions to all baseball parks in the country, she pointed out. Caught In Movement She quoted August Heck sher. President Kennedy's mmi purcha While Stock v Lasts! US PLYWOOD CRAFTSMAN PREFINI5HED PANELING ,2nd.,"x4'x8' Black Walnut $1199-, Natural Birch Holiday Birch $799lperP,ne, Colony Oak $7" prP", Corner 6th fir Fir Streets ," Ai 111 TERMS! (it i fTYTTi r-rvrnfcOl 5333 I Plenty of Off-Street Customer Parking Tuckers Donate House for Club Jacksonville - Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tucker and family, Jack sonville, have donated use of the old "Jacksonville-Medford Railroad lines" depot for the headquarters of the Boosters' club. The Tuckers restored the historic depot to its original state last year. It and the roundhouse were built in 1890 by Honeyman de Hart com pany, Portland. In 1891 a New Year's Eve ball was given at the old U. S hotel in honor of the new rail road. In 1894 William Bar- num, his wife and sons, John and Bill, moved to Medford from New York. A third son, George, was born in Medford. In 1904, Bar- num acquired the "Jacksonville-Medford line,'' and in corporated it under the name of "Rogue Valley Railway company. At this time, he moved to Jacksonville where the roundhouse and the depot were located. RegionalCalendar Gold Hill - Wednesday, Aug. 14, 7:30 p.m.. Gold Hill Volunteer Firemen's meeting at Fire hall. Gold Hill - Thursday, Aug. 15, noon, Gold Hill Chamber of Commerce no host lunch eon and business meeting at Rogue Riveria restaurant. Gold Hill - Friday, Aug. 18, noon. Gold Hill Garden club potluck picnic luncheon and meeting at Ben Hur Lampman park. Prospect Aug. 18, the Prospect Art association will have an art exhibit on the Pearson lawn. Prospect Library Holds Kids Parade Prospect Kevin Burrill, who protrayed Llndburg, won first priie in the Prospect li brary children's parade re cently. Theme of the parade was "Count Down and Blast Off." First prize in the second di vision went to Mike Grieve, who protrayed a little Mexi can boy, and second prize went to Gina Burrcll, who represented Clara Barton. First prize in the third di vision was won by Dcbra Love who was dressed as Huckleberry Finn; second went to Jimmy Goodman, dressed as a scuba diver, and third went to Mark Boy er, who represented Toby Tyler. About 50 children partici pated in the parade, after which motion pictures were shown. Mrs. George Ring was mistress of ceremonies for the event. special consultant on the arts. "You are caught up, whether you like it or not, in one of the great movements of this, or any time - the search for meaning and beauty in life, the love of things that appeal lo something more than nat ural satisfactions." Upon returning to Freder icksburgh, Mrs. Parish said she plans to start a two-man foundation for American his tory teachers from the east to visit this area, see and study the "magificent frontier that took place here." Jack Sutton, Grants Pass, Siskiyou Pioneer Sites foun dation president, Mrs. George Brewer, leader in the Beek man house preservation, and Mrs. Houston Valentine, a di rector of the Jacksonville Boosters' club, toured Jack sonville with Mrs. Parish. S 'tews -jj. -': mmmmit&r -, afc"--..w - 1 "' mu -! fV,! U;-ify''M DELIVERING WITH EASE Mrs. Clifton Childers of Apple gate Valley took over the job of delivering mail on route 2 out of Jacksonville as of July 1 on a two-year contract. Since the route covers many miles (all through the Big Applegate and Sterling areas) and all the boxes are on the right hand side of the road, she ordered a Japanese right hand drive Datsun pickup through a Medford auto dealer. The vehicle was brought over from Tokyo on special order. Voters Reminded Of Forthcoming District Election Prospect Qualified voters in the proposed Prospect Rural Fire Protection district are reminded by the Prospect Volunteer Fire department that Aug. 16 is the date set for the district election. On the date, voters will be asked to vote for or against formation of the district and to elect a five-member board of directors, which will take office if the district formation is approved. The present acting board of volunteer department is recommending that the new board be apportioned so that each of the five general areas of the district will have rep rcsentation. Candidates and the districts they would represent arc: Rex Normand of the Red Blanket area; jack uenoiser oi ine Cascade Gorge area; Madeline Poole of the Wildwood area; John Davidson of the Pacific Power and Light area; Doug Klmmons of the Prospect area itself. Every registered voter In Gas Company Sends Letter to Leyen Rocue River Mayor John Leyen, Rogue River, has re ceived a letter from Murray S. Gardiner, district manager of the California-Pacific Utili ties company expressing the company's appreciation for cooperation during installa tion of a natural gas pipeline through Rogue River. Mavor Leyen observed some of the construction of the pipeline when it was brought into Jackson county recently. He and mayors mcn- rd W. Straus. Gold Hill, ana ames Dunlcvy. Medford, and City Administrator Freeman W. Mason, Central Point, vis ited the construction site with Gardiner. In a letter read lo the Aug. Rocue River council meet ing, Gardiner said the com pany expresses its apprecia tion "to you for the courtesies extended our contractor by ocaieiiiis him In locating un derground water pipes and storm drains. 'He also highly commends your police force for its as sistance In directing traffic. is our hope that the bene fits securing to your com munity by the distribution system scheduled for 1964 ill more than offset any ight inconveniences we have lused," Gardiner said. SNAKE KILLED Tiller - Charles (Butch) Zimmerman, 11, and his brother. John. 7, killed their first rattlesnake Wednesday. They are the sons of Mr, and Mrs. Joe Zimmerman . Young People Clean Up Church Grounds Tiller-About 40 young peo ple and their chaperons com bined work and play recently. They gathered at the South Umpqua Community church where they mowed, raked, and cleaned up the tall grass and weeds that were growing up around the church and par sonage. They also cleared the rocks off the parking area and dug a drainage ditch. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hughes of Milo arc the sponsors of the Youth Group of the church at Tiller. the Prospect area was urged to vote on the proposal. 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