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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Jew District 6 Assistant Superintendent Directs Curriculum Study
Ron Petrie
Filling Newly
Created Position
By MARY COLLEY
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Remember "school days,
school days, good old golden
rule days" when all we had to
worry ahout were "readin",
ritin', and 'rithmetic"? Times
change and new avenues of
learning open.
The school children of today
need more than enough arith
metic to reconcile a checkbook
they need to be able to plot
the co-ordinates lor space ingni.
They must be able to read and
remember about the new na
tions of the world, and who can
write fast enough to keep up
with changing governments.
In today's shrinking world,
communication with neighbor
ing countries is a necessity.
Thus more languages are taught
in school.
Alone with a greater assort
ment of subject matter to be
taught, teachers today must use
a variety ot metnods.
Study Under Way
A curriculum development
and co-ordination study is now
under way in school district 6
under the supervision of Ron
Petrie, who is the district's first
assistant superintendent of
schools.
Until recently school district
6 was the only district in Ore
gon with a school population
of over 2900 to be without the
services of an assistant super
intendent. The need for an as
sistant superintendent has been
felt for some time and with the
continuing growth of the district
it became necessary to divide
the work load of the superin
tendent's office. In July the
board of directors hired Petrie
to fill this post.
This position entails many
duties. One of the most import-
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NEW POST Ron Petrie, the first assistant superintendent dis
trict 6 has ever had. sits in his office in the district administra
tion building in Central Point.
ant is directing the curriculum
in a school district which covers
an area of 250 square miles,
District 6 is the result of con
solidation of six districts, in
cluding two incorporated towns,
Central Point and Gold Hill. lis
school range in size from a five
teacher school with a teaching
principal to a 42 teacher school
with both a full time principal
and a vice-principal. No two
schools in the district are alike
in size, organization or type of
community organization.
Present Problems
The diverse sizes of the
schools, their organization and
community situation serve to
present problems to Ihe board
of directors and the administra
tion. One of these problems has
been to maintain effective co
ordination of course content be
tween schools and between
grade levels.
An outlined course of study
for English, grades 1-12, was
developed by 22 representative
teachers of the district in .Inly
and August under the supervis
ion of Petrie.
To insure that children gel
continuous development of
skills, administrators plan to
continue to develop scope and
sequence outlines to eventually
cover all subjects. Additional
resources will be used to
strengthen areas ot textbook
weakness and lack of follow
through. Areas of stress will be
noted so that all classes on each
grade level will have a more
uniform development between
schools.
Over a three year period Ihis
chronological system for intro
ducing new concepts in all sub
jects will be standardized
throughout the syslem accord
ing to Petrie.
Plans are being made tor a
pilot program of team teaching
at Crater in three 11th grade
English classes and for a de
velopmental and speed reading
program at Ihe 10th grade level
in selected classes.
Previous Posts
Petrie formerly was with the
slate department of education
and has been that department's
representative on various edu
cational committees, including
one studying innovations in edu
cation, lie was a consultant to
the governor's committee on
children and youth in 1963 and
in 1M2 was consultant to the
national migrant education
workshop at Alamosa, Colorado.
In 10(10-01 Petrie was a sup
ervisor of student teaching at
Oregon State university. He re
ceived his Bachelor of Science
in education from Oregon Col
lege of Education and his M.S.
in education at OSU.
Petrie is married and has
three children. He and his fam
ily reside at 209 Princess way
in Central Point.
Prospect Cub Scout
Den Mothers Discuss
Forming Fifth Pack
PROSPECT Cub Scout Den
mothers here met Sept. 23 at
the home of Mrs. Ray Maurer to
make plans and discuss organi
zation of another pack.
There arc four packs at pres
ent hut more boys than can be
handled in them are eager to
join.
The group also made plans for
activities lo be carried out this
winter. The Cub scouts meet
every Monday evening after
school at the community hall
or at different homes.
Tablets
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Miil Tribune) Table Rock Correspondent
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your needs.
Wednesday of each week is shopping day for Mr. and
Mrs. John L. Thomas, so the Table Rock Store will be closed
on Wednesdays until further notice.
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Miss Linda Dor an, local girl, has accepted a position
with a computer company in Portland. In the final exami
nation in business school at San Francisco, her grades topped
at 100.
Mrs. Margaret Williams of Medford has been spending
some time visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ray
Doran. Other relatives visiting at the Doran home were Mr.
and Mrs. C. P. Parson of Bull Head City, Ariz.
Charley Hoover from over Agate way dropped in the
other day for melons and told us that he has 100,000 shade
trees coming by airplane from Michigan. Many of these
trees are high class stock and will grow into beautiful trees
that will adorn the State of Oregon and keep it green for
many years to come. Charley says this would be his desire:
to keep Oregon, the state that has made him what he is, green
and beautiful long after he is gone.
Mr. and Mrs. Cantrell were among the nice folks here
from Bill Duggan's smogless land of many oaks. The Can
trells are recently from California. When asked how they
like it here, Mrs. Cantrell replied: "We love it the green
fields and forests, highways where a person can travel and
see the wonderful sights without creeping along bumper to
bumper for hours." Mrs. Cantrell has a relative teaching
school in California for a salary of $500 a month and has
just been given a raise to $700. This is the reason she is
staying in California, according to Mrs. Cantrell.
As this is written, the latest word we have from the
Sacred Heart hospital is that the condition of Sharon Simmons,
who was injured Wednesday morning in an automobile acci
dent, is fair. Miss Simmons, who was on her way to Medford,
where she is employed, was traveling east on Table Rock
road when near the junction of Pumice Lane and the Table
Rock road the small car she was driving went out of control,
hit one shoulder, then angled back to the other side of the
road. J. S. Richardson, who was in his yard some distance
away, said the car seemed to jump into the air and flip
over. Mrs. Alan Fleischer, Mrs. Vern Gebhard, and Mrs.
Robert Dunn, whose homes are near the scene of the acci
dent, succeeded in stopping and holding back traffic, consist
ing of cars driven by people going to their jobs and several
logging trucks.
We have received a letter loo lengthy to be used in this
column. The writer takes exception to our column in which
we said that the claim that the M.T. was a controlled press
and correspondents restricted from expressing their own opin
ions and such talk was hogwash. The word hogwash seemed
to irk him more than anything else. He said we slid several
stops down the ladder of good journalism by doing this. We
appreciate his intimating that we were several up the lad
der of good journalism in the first place. So we guess we
should have used some other word, for after all, we have
nothing against the hog. So we will say that the claim that
M.T. writers are restricted about expressing their own opin
ions just ain't so.
The letter writer said E.A. has the making of a fine
writer and could accomplish much good if he would just
steer clear of his brain washing tactics.
As to Ihe tax election, let's not get it into our beads
that those who tell us that money for certain things may be
short if the tax law is repealed are only trying to scare people.
The editorial in Wednesday's M.T. gave tax facts better
than I can. If you have not read it do so, and do some
thinking. We hear much talk about the $5 fee for filing your
return. The first year I became of voting age, Oregon had a
poll tax of $3, which at that time was harder to get than $5
now. In fact, when I went to cast my first vote, I didn't have
the $3.
Thought for the day The late Arthur Perry in his
Smudge Pot column once said: "You can count on the voters
doing all right in an election if they are not mad." Let's
not get mad!
Meetings Resumed By
Shasta Valley Bureau
MONTAGUE Resuming their
monthly meetings after a sum
mer recess, the Shasta Valley
Farm Bureau met at the Mon
tague club room Sept. 17. Many
business matters came before
the group at this meeting which
was conducted by the chairman,
John McMurry.
M. V. Maxwell, retired farm
advisor, who now is chairman
of the Siskiyou County Water
Supply committee, appointed by
the supervisors, reported on a
number of projects which he
had investigated in the past
months, chiefly Ihe Box Canyon
dam.
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First Grade Pupils
Get Readiness Tests
GOLD HILL-A11 first grade
pupils at Patrick Elementary
school in Gold Hill have been
given first Rrade readiness test
ing the past week, according te
Gilbert A. Mack, princii"!. One
svstem is the liarf Thotndike
test and the iih: is the Metro
politan Purpose of the tests is to
'.'.elermine student readiness for
reading on the first grade level,
and lo help teachers toward
grouping of students for better
reading instruction. Mack said.
First grade teachers are Mrs.
Wilda Franks and Mrs. Barbara
Toner.
Model Plane Builders
Attend Albany Meet
Five valley model airplane
builders. Dannie Hoehner, Dean
Gradwell, Jack Shaffer and
Hank Singmaster of Ashland
and Harry Lowe, Talent, attend
ed the Willamette Valley Model
Airplane association meet at
Albany sponsored by Takema
Kiwanis club, recently.
Hoehner won first in 'jA
class. Shaffer took a first in 1A
class and Harry Lowe third in
class C with his "Gool," the
largest model plane at the meet.
Due to inclement weather, Lov
withdrew his gliders.
This dam, if built, would
make a reservoir of only 450
acres in area and its prime use
would be for recreational pur
poses. Maxwell warned that all
such projects have to be justi
fied before money can be allo
cated for them. He further
warned that this area is a long
ways from a center of popula
tion and that water rights are
often more political than legal.
McMurry reported on the Bet
ter Government c o m m i t tee
which had met twice recently
with Gary Townley, Carl Rice
and himself representing the lo
cal group. He brought out that
serious ranching is good busi
ness, but that record of sales,
which is high in the county, has
aggravated the situation to the
extent that prices of land ex
ceed the production of land in
many cases.
It was announced that licens
ing of all d'ivcrs of farm equip,
mep.t will have become effec
tive Sept. 20.
The nominating committee,
which is to report at the Oct. 15
meeting, was formed. On it are
Leanard Shelley, Robert Hogan
and Morris Prather.
Mrs. Robert Hogan was ap
pointed as area membership
chairman. It was pointed out
that the chief advantage of farm
bureau membership is the
strength of organization in meet
ing with law making bodies.
Mrs. Hogan was chairman of
the dinner committee.
New Business Being
Started in Gold Hill
GOLD HILL A new business
to be known as the Gold Hill
Builders Supply is being estab
lished at 392 Second ave. It
will be located in the former
Gail's Market building, and will
be a complete Fuller Paint deal
ership. Mrs. Virginia Plummer said
plans are under way for open
house on October 1 or soon
afterwards. 1
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CISTERN UNCOVEHED-One of the three old cisterns under
neath Jacksonville was uncovered earlier this week when a sewer
system trench being constructed across California st. at Fourth
st. cut through part of it. The cistern may be seen just under
the shelf at right. It originally was walled with brick and was
used to store water for fire fighting.
Regional News
Gymkhana Slated
At Williams Oct. 6
WILLIAMS Final plans for
the Buckeroo breakfast, to be
served by the Williams Grey
back Brushriders, have been an
nounced. The date is set for Sunday,
Oct. 6. Serving will begin at 9
a.m. and continues through 1
p.m. On the menu is a selection
of ham, bacon, eggs, flapjacks
with a choice of coffee or co
coa as a beverage.
This breakfast will precede
the gymkhana that will begin at
1 p.m. at the Brushrider's
arena, located on the west fork
of Williams creek on Davidson
drive.
Percy Sowell, president of the
riding group, announced there
would be trophies for the con
testants finishing first in tho
junior, intermediate and adult
classes. Ribbons will be pre
sented through third place point
holders.
Some of the games to be play
include Texas barrel race, pole
bending, cowhide race, rescue,
relay, musical chairs and tho
keyhole race.
The group extends an invita
tion to one and all to eat all
they can for $1 and stay tho
balance of the day for the festivities.
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OTHER RELICS As might he expected in a place like Jack
sonville, the workmen who are constructing the sewer system
there are finding numerous relics of the past. The above is
one workman's collection, two old bottles, one of them with the
date 1890 on it, and what appears lo be a mining tool.
Cisterns Uncovered
By Sewer Excavation
By KATIIERINE 1IARREL1.
.Mail Tribune Correspondent
JACKSONVILLE-In the cen
ter of the intersection of Cali
fornia and Fourth sts. in Jack
sonville, a second large cistern
has been uncovered by sewer
excavation.
A first cistern was uncovered
County Teachers
To Meet Tuesday
Plans for a state teachers
conference will be discussed at
a meeting of the Jackson County
Classroom Teachers next Tues
day at 6:30 p.m. at North's
Chuck Wagon in Medford.
Guest speaker for the eve
ning will be Dr. Betty Lou Dun
lop of Southern Oregon college.
Music will be provided by the
Fishermen's quartet.
Reports on plans for the an
nual fall conference of Ihe De
partment of Classroom Teach
ers, NEA, will be given by Mrs.
Zelma Foote, Central Point
teacher and regional director
for the DCT, and conference
committee members.
The Jackson county unit will
serve as host for this state con
ference, slated Oct. 25 and 26
with meetings at Crater High
school and a banquet Oct. 25
at the Rogue Valley Country'
club.
earlier on South Oregon st. in
front of the Jacksonville li
brary. There are three such cisterns
in Jacksonville. The third is ce
mented over on the Jackson
ville museum grounds.
These cisterns are walled
with brick and measure 16 feet
by 16 feet.
In the early days of the com
munity, a large cement triangle
was erected in the creek bed
about three-quarters of a mile
up from the west end of Cali
fornia st. The triangle stood
three to four feet high and was
five feel long on each side.
From the bottom of this trian
gle pipes were laid to reach
each of the three cisterns. The
1 cisterns then were filled with
: water by gravity flow.
Tl.e fire department would
j use the cistern water for fight
ing fires, getting it out with a
; pump.
The pump is now in the Jack
sonville museum, and the ce
ment marker in the creek bed
can still be seen there by the
curious.
ATTEND MEETING
PROSPECT Four students
frnm Prnsiwl Htoh cnhnnl anti
! their teacher, Vern Haddcland,
! attended the student body coun
; cil meeting in Roscburg Sept.
1 23. Students attending were
Frances Artmire. Barbara
Beck, Kris Schaffran and Ar
i thur Andrcson.
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