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t I If ,4? !.;( WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBIiK S3, 19KI MBDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. IUEDFOKD, OREGON Regional Roundup by Cleve Twltchell Mail Tribune Regional Editor One thing that people seem to love to get excited about is zoning. The idea of having any zoning at all infuriates some persons. Others fight running battles with business men they feel are violating zoning regulation already in effect. A bit of skirmish is in progress now out in the area northwest of Central Point. The area, part of the North Central Point Zoned area, is set aside for residential and agricultural uses. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pruitt bought part of the old Blue Moon ranch and moved the office of their livestock trucking firm into their home on the property. 'Some nearby residents, however, complained that the Pruitt business was in violation of the zoning restrictions for that area. Among them was Mrs. William P. Wheeler of the Crater Park subdivision, who spoke to us about the matter on the phone the other day. Subsequently the coun ty planning commission office asked the district attorney's office for an opinion on whether Pruitt's business did con stitute a violation. The attorney's office determined that it was and advised Pruitt either to stop doing business at that location or apply for a zone variance. Hearing Tentatively Set Oct. 7 Pruitt took the latter course of action, and according to the planning commission office, a public hearing before the Board of Adjustment has been set tentatively for the aft ernoon of Oct. 7 in the county courthouse auditorium. The Board of Adjustment will then make a recommendation to the planning commission itself. If the final decision is un favorable to Pruitt, he will have an opportunity to appeal. The opposing views on this issue seem to go some thing like this: Mrs. Wheeler said her group feels the trucks pose a hazard for school children in the subdivision. She said one of the firm's trucks knocked over a few newspaper tubes the other day on a corner where the children stand to wait for the school bus. Mrs. Pruitt, with whom we spoke yesterday, countered with the statement that there are numerous other trucks operating in the area and that the family firm's trucks do not travel at excessive speed. She also said she and her husband had been advised before they bought the prop erty that they could operate their business there. They believed that because Ihc business involves trucking live stock, it should be considered an agricultural use and with in the specifications of the zone. DA' Office Didn't Agree The district attorney's office, however, evidently did not agree with that contention, because it decided that Pruitt would need to get a zone variance to continue. What interests us particularly about this case is that it is the second time this year we have heard of a couple buying property after having been informed that they could legally operate a particular business thereon. The other case involved a family who bought property south of Talent and started building a structure near Highway 119 in which they planned to put a second hand store. That case sub sequently came before the Board of Adjustment, and the couple lost. The half-completed structure which was to have housed the second hand store was still sitting there the last time we drove by. . October The 15lh While Oregonians are slugging it out on Oct. 15 over the income tax bill, residents of northern Siskiyou county won't be standing idly by. They have an election of their own, a proposed $675,000 bond issue for the Yreka Union High school district. The district includes Yreka, Horn brook, Montague and other points in that area. The district board wants the money for purchasing of school lots, building or purchasing of school buildings, re pairing existing buildings, etc., according to the official ballot. Prospect School Reunion Attended By About 150 PROSPECT The Prospect school reunion held Saturday at the Rogue River lodge was en joyed by approximately 150 per sons who had attended the school between the years of 1950 and 1955. Some who had attended t h e school before 1950 were also present. The oldest ono there was Mel vin Hornbuckle of Medfoid, who graduated in 1942. Another was Square Dance Class To Start Monday UOGE RIVER - A class in square dancing will begin Mon day, Sept. 30, at the Take It Easy Square Dance hall. The hall is located on Savage Creek road between Rogue River and Grants Pass. The first two evenings will be planned to acquaint you with square dancing. There will be no charge for these two eve nings. Bob Glathar will be the in structor. Further information can be obtained by calling Med ford 773-41M2 or Grants Pass 476-6597. Talent Lions Sfafe Projects For Year TALENT Among Ihc projects which the Talent Lions club plans to work on during the com ing year, is care of Stearns cem etery and a Hallowe'en parly for the children. The Lions have built a bench for the park be hind the city hall and plan In start their animal light bulb sale on Oct. 1. Other projects are un der consideration. The group reports that about 90 per cent of the members have been attending every meeting. The next meeting will be held September 26 at the Tally Ho. Al Grabhcr, Is the new president. Bill Brown of California, who graduated in 1946. The person who came the greatest distance to attend the reunion was Mrs. Mary Brown Gregory, who came from San Jose, Calif. Another couple was Mr. and Mrs. Lee Acrcy from Eugene, both of whom attend ed Prospect school. Several others came from northern Cal ifornia. Prizes were awarded for va rious things. LcUoy Draper won a prize for having the grayest hair and lie and his wife to gether for having been mar ried the longest. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Peter son of Union Creek got an award for having the most chil dren, six, Hubert Nelson for having the baldest head, Mr. and Mrs. David Bliss for hav ing been married the shortest time, and Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Dcrohn for having the tiniest baby. Eight members of the class of 1950 from Prospect High school out of a possible 14 were present. Plans re being made to hold another reunion before too many more years roll by. This re union was for many the first time they had met since leav ing Prospect. The Rogue River lodge served a buffet dinner. RKMINDEK ISSl'EI) TALENT - Chief of Police Charles Roberts has again re minded bicycle riders and their parents that the laws are being enforced for their protection, lie explained that there is no charge in Talent for registering a bi cycle, and although registration Is not required, it will make it easier to trace a lost or stolen ! bicycle. 5l' Hit; MIIOKiKM' DISTANCE When the In- few miles south of Ashland. The existing high- terslate 5 freeway through the Siskiyous from Ashland to the state lino is completed, there will be considerably fewer curves than in the present highway. This fact is illustrated by the above photo which shows a portion of the freeway under construction (at left) and the present highway (at right) at a point a way curves off to the right a ways and then drifts back across the freeway route at the point designated by the arrow. But the free way will come straight down the hillside, fol lowing an imaginary line from the arrow to Ihc center of the bottom of the photo. Four Works By Valley Artists Now On Display At CP Library CENTRAL POINT - The Southern Oregon Artists asso ciation now has four ail paint ings on display in Ihe Central Point library. They are Ihe work of Mrs. Wallace (Gcan) Neccc, Gold Hill. The display will be changed once a month according to Mrs. . D. Van Horn, librarian. There are appproximalely 300 new books in the library. During September over 200 books, both fiction and non-fic tion, were donated to the U set of the Book of Knowledge and a seven volume set of the Garden Encyclopedia. However, donated books must be processed in the Medford branch of the Jackson county library before being returned to the Central Point branch, she said. Parents who wish to enroll their pre-school children for the story time at the library should contact Mrs. Van Horn before October 15. The story time will not be held unless a larger num brary. Included are a 27 volume ber of children can attend than Siskiyou Artists To Display Work At The Shamrock YREKA - The Siskiyou Ar tists association will feature a series of one. man displays of its members works at t lie Shamrock. Kaymore Scott of Ml. Shasta, a member of the association, now has seven por traits on display there. Mrs. Scott is interested In photography and al one time had her own studio of photog raphy in Mount Shasta. Recently New Rogue River Market To Open ROGUE RIVER - Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gail have announced that their new market will open for business Thursday. The new building, to be called Bantam Market, encompasses 2,000 square feet compared to only 1,100 square feet in the old building, which had housed the market since March 1, 1946. The new building, on Highway 99, is directly in back of but higher than the site of the old one, which twice was hit bv floods. The new structure is above the 1955 flood line. Provided are two eheckstancls and 22 parking spaces. she has taken up portrait sketching and painting, study ing pastels and watercolor at the College of the Siskiyous and oils under Lee Gossett in his Mount Shasta class. Mrs. Scott is a native of Cana da and was reared in Toronto and Montreal. She came to Mount Shasta during World War II as a member of the Civil Aeronautics Station. On display at the Shamrock Mrs. Scott has portraits "Becky," a watercolor; "B. J." oil pastel; "Jack," charcoal, "Fisherman," in conti pencil; "Little Mother" and "Sun shine," in oils and "Blue Lady," pastel. Each display will be up for six to eight weeks. Montague Is Host For PTA Session MONTAGUE The first meet ing of the new school year of the 25th District, California Con gress of Parents and Teachers, is being held in the club room of the Montague auditorium to day with the Montague PTA as the host unit. District President, Mrs. Lloyd Westby from Happy Camp, is conducting the sessions. McUne Stagecoach To Be In SOC Parade JACKSONVILLE - Goo r g e McUne of Jacksonville's Pioneer Village has accepted an invita tion to drive his stagecoach in the annual homecoming parade at Southern Oregon college. The parade will take place at 10:;t0 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2. Theme will he "The Past in Re view." Plans are being made lo have McUne give stagecoach rides in Lithia park after the parade. The stagecoach, built by Mc Une, is a replica of a Concord stage. It will be pulled by Fibber and Molly, a pair of while mules who were part of the wagon train traveling Ihe old Oregon trail from Independence, Mo. lo Independence, Ore., in 1!W. About 2.,IHK) veterans of the Spanish American War are still living and their average age is (14, says Ihe Veterans Administration. Erickson Named New President Of Siskiyou Retired Teachers YUEKA Dave Erickson has been chosen new president of Ihj Siskiyou Division of the Cal ifornia Retired Teachers associ ation. The election took place at a luncheon meeting the or ganization held in the dining room of the Colony House In Yreka recently. Chosen to serve with Ihe new president were Dorothy lllppler, first vice president; Doricc Young, second vice president; Rita Prather, third vice presi dent: Myrtle Smith, fourth vice president; Helen Sherman, re cording and corresponding sec retary, and Sidonai Beaughan. financial secretary and treasur er. Hartsel Gray was apiniinled cnairman of the Auditing com mittee. Other business conducted at the meeting Included a collec tion taken for the Laura Settle Scholarship fund. A letter was read with reference lo the Northern Calilornia sectional meeting which will be held Ihe latter part ol October Time and place for this meeting will be announced at a Inter date It was decided to abide by the by-laws with reference to the designated months when the meetings are held, These months are March. June, Sep tember anil November. Twenty two mcmbcro were present at Ihe meeting. The No vember meeting will be held Thursday the Hlh at Dunsmuir. i L - - 1 , 7 with a MONOGRAM oil healer featuring the MAGIC MIXER BURNER Ai low $OQ75 K High, nirdium or low , , . what fvir Hume you irl on your Monogram, you know the en clusivo design of Ihc Magic Murr Hurncr will givt you mor heat from every drop of fuel. Serving you MODERN OH with HIAT! WESTERN OIL AND BURNER CO. PHONt 772-5266 did last year, she said Mrs. Ray Chavis was substi tute librarian while Mrs. Van Horn was on vacation recently. Library hours are 10 a.m. 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. -12 p.m. on Saturday. The library is also open Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Evans Valley PTA Meets New Teachers, Makes Plans By GLADYS R. BOULTER Mall Tribune Correspondent EVANS VALLEY - The Par e n t Teacher association of Evans Valley met with Presi- Physician Plans Gold Hill Office GOLD HILL-Dr. C. L. Pan socn, ostepathic physician and surgeon, will open an office Oct. 1 at 520 Second avenue in Gold Hill. He will share the Clark J. Walker Agency Real Estate offices, according to Mrs. Vir ginia Plummer, branch man ager. Dr. Plansoen, who has a prac tice in Glendale, will be in his Gold Hill office from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday of each week. Mrs. Plummer said if Dr. Plansoen gets the support ol the people in this community, he has indicated that he would be interested in building a med ical clinic in Gold Hill by spring. An effort is being made by Mrs. Plummer to get a drug store here. She stated that in order to get a drug store and pharmacist in Gold Hill it is necessary to have a doctor. Dr. Plansoen is married. Th couple has a son, Tom 16 and daughter Vicki 13. The family now resides in Grants Pass and the youngsters are attending schools there. If he builds a successful prac tice in Gold Hill, Mrs. Plum mer said Dr. Plansoen plans to move his family here. dent Mrs. Richard H. Taylor for the first meetine of the year, in the school gymnasium recently, to help formulate and carry out plans to make the best educa tion possible available for the children. Mrs. Taylor introduced the new scoutmaster, Ray Isley. He replaces James Varney, who left the community. Isley invit ed all boys from age 11 to 18 to attend the first scout meeting lo be held in the small lunch room. Mrs. Leslie Gravatt, program chairman, introduced Principal Earl Covey, and turned the pro gram over to him. Covey wel comed the parents and spoke briefly on the present enroll ment. On the first day of school there were 132 students, he said, while at present there are 139 students. The average class room is 93 per cent of the rec ommended load, leaving some capacity for growth. There are six teachers, and he himself will teach science and mathematics with Henry Perry, 7th and 8th grade teachers, Co vey said. Perry introduced members of the staff: Mrs. Marion Scad ding, cook, and bus drivers Jack Koop and Ralph L. Weide. Ford Patterson, school board chairman, was asked to intro duce the board members, Mrs. Fritz Carlson was the only oth er member present, however. Perry commented on the school's new look, due to paint ing and general repairs. The new teachers were intro duced and each spoke briefly. Mrs. Betty Maggard, teaches first and second grades and girls P.E. She has been teach ing for five years and is from Fresno, Calif. Mrs. Twila Block teaches the third and fourth grades, also the upper grade vocal music. She is a long time resident of Rogue Valley. After she and Mr. Block sold their orchard in 1960 she returned to teaching. Carl Carlson teaches the sixth grade and is the band in structor. He was raised in Cen tralia, Wash. While he was a theology major at the Multno mah School of Bible, he decided elementary teaching was his field and later graduated from Southern Oregon college. He announced that band would meet twice a week, Mon day and Thursday. Assemblies are being planned for once a month which will give the band an opportunity to take an active part in the programs. Perry, who acts as football coach, announced that the first game of the season would be Sept. 27 at Trail. Newcomers were asked to stand and introduce themselves. At the close of the meeting the eighth grade mothers served coffe and cake in the cafeteria. 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