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3 MONDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 19ft) MEDPOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEUFORD. OREGON VISIT AIRPORT Forty-five first grade pupils from Patrick Elementary School in Gold Hill visited the Medford Airport Tuesday afternoon. First grade teachers Mrs. Wilda Franks and Mrs. Barbara Toner accompanied the children. The educational field trip was arranged be cause of interest the children had developed in readiness preparation, a program in con junction with the Ginn Heading Series. The pupils visited the weather bureau tower and walked through the terminal. Then they were allowed to view and sit in this Rogue Flying Service plane. Principal host for the group was William B. Walker, office manager of the Fly ing service and father of a member of the class. Public Invited To Gold Hill PTA 'Coffee' on Thursday GOLD HILL - The ffoncral public Is invited to attend a "coffee" to be given by Gold Hill Parent-Teacher Association on Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Paul Molloy, Second Avenue, in Gold Hill, according to Mrs. Clayton Netzel, PTA ways and means chairman. Lunch will be served. All proceeds will be ear marked for the PTA budget ex penses. Committee chairman other than Mrs. Netzel for the 1363 64 PTA school year Include: Mrs. H. S. Deuel, program; Mrs. Byron Brown, hospitality; Mrs. Kenneth Fluck, room mothers; Mrs. Ivy D o h e r t y, publicity;- Mrs. Howard Hvall, historian; Mrs. Ogdcn Kellogg, legislation; Gilbert A. Mack, Runaway Tiller Fire Is Controlled TILLER - Fire fighters from the Cow Creek District of the Forest Service were called out Thursday afternoon to stop a runaway fire on the Willis Owens property. Since the fall rains " Mrs. I Owens had been clearing and burning brush on their recently purcnasea place, ine tire got away when a breeze came up about noon blowing sparks Into tinder dry grass. Mrs. Richard Bonncy, a neigh bor, was informed of the fire by Mrs. Cliff Hughes who was at the Owens place at the time. Mrs. Bonney immediately drove the five miles to the Forest Service Station for help. The fire had spread to the Harry Downey adjoining prop erty before being brought under control. However, the Forest Service had stopped the fire be fore much damage had been done. flood control delegate; Mrs. R. M. (Bob) Gray, magazine. Budget committee members are H. D. Force, Donald Mor row, and Mrs. Kellogg. This year's elective officers are Mrs. Ronald R. Kalista, president; Mrs. Byron Brown, vice - president; Mrs. R. M. (Bob) Gray, sccre'ary; and Mrs. Ida von Buskirk, treasur er. According to Gilbert A. Mack, principal of Patrick and Hanbv Elementary Schools of District Conferences Set At Sams Valley SAMS VALLEY - Commenc ing Monday and continuing through Friday, Nov. 8, the parent-teacher conference meth od of reporting will be used for the first time at Sams Valley Elementary School in grades one through the sixth, accord ing to Allen W. Hill, principal. This method will be used In stead of 'the. usual report card system for the first nine weeks period. Grades one throueh six will be represented in these con ferences for which 118 appoint ments of 20 minutes each have been set up, (lie principal said. ' The conferences have been scheduled from 2 p.m. lo 4:20 p.m. he said. Among October highlights at the school were the annual mas querade costume parade and room parties in observance of Halloween. On Monday, Nov. 11 there will be no school due lo the Veterans' holiday. Open house has been set for Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. for which plans are being made by the teachers and students. It will be held in conjunction with the Sams Valley PTA meeting. THIS WEEK The Flag Flies ...in Honor of... U Veteran i JOSEPH - WILLIAM t FROST P 'Just off Jacksonville Highway" MEMORIAL PARK WEDDING CHAPEL COLUMBARIUM 1395 Arnold Uno FUNERAL HOME MAUSOLEUM CREMATIONS Phone 773-7338 0 in Gold Hill, the following miliums nuve Deen named by Mrs. riuck, room-mother chair man: At Hanby Elementary room mothers for Norman Holden's fifth grade are Mrs. Terry Cle ment and Mrs. Hamilton Ecker; Mrs. Lois Hickerman's fifth and sixth grades are Mrs. Gerald Reaves and Mrs. Kenneth Fluck; Paul McBeth's sixth grade, Mrs. Gerald Martin and Mrs. Luther Gann; Mrs. Mil dred Black's seventh grade. Mrs. Donald Aarseth and Mrs. E. W. Despain: Jack Parker's seventh grade, Mrs. Bob Morris ana Mrs. James Wheeler; Wal ter Dohcrty's eighth grade, Mrs. Arthur Boye and Mrs. John Childers; Leon Myers's eighth grade, Mrs. Roland Washburn and Mrs. Norman Olson. At Patrick Patrick Elementary school room mothers are: Mrs. Bar bara Toner's first grade, Mrs. L,eonara McMahan, Mrs. Ken- cini uuiur and Mrs. Orin B Wallace; Mrs. Wilda Franks, first grade, Mrs. Howard Hvall, aim mrs. L,yie iwcurafly; Mrs. Marie Brannock's second grade, Mis. Herman Kamnine and Mrs. Leonard Kcll: Mis Mr Howell's second erartn. Mrs Clayton Netzel and Mrs. Melvin Williams; Mrs. Mildred Mack's third grade, Mrs. Donald Mor row and Mrs. Richard Straus; Mis. Alice Bencka's third grade, Mrs. Lee Currcy and mrs. John Roberts; Mrs. Bar bara Elherton's fourth grade, Mrs. Wilbur Eicher and Mrs. Joseph Dotson; and Mrs. Ida von Buskirk's fourth grade, Mrs. Gene Holderness and Mrs. James Kcnney. The Gold Hill principal an nounced that the Lions club will sponsor a sausage breakfast to be served from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10 in the multi purpose room at Patrick Ele mentary school. The public is invited. Proceeds will be used lo finance a community Christ mas party for all children in the area, Mack said. Regional Roundup by Cleva Twitched Mail Tribune Regional Editor From time to time around the Rogue valley one hears a tale about how news, both sports and general, of the Medford schools is "always" played up in the local newspaper v.hile there is almost "never" anything printed about certain of the schools in the outlying communities. This is a tale that has success written all over it. It evokes the sympathy which people naturally feel for an underdog, ana it has a logical sound to it. In fact, there's only one thing wrong with this story it just doesn't happen to be true. We have found the story quite intriguing each time we've heard It, for two reasons. First, we reside in District 6, whose high school, Crater High, is frequently cited as one of the schools given a back scat in news coverage. And second in asmuch as we work rather closely with the general news coverage of the regional area communities and also sub stitute on the sports desk one day a week, we have some what more than a passing interest in the subject. Magnifying Glass Was Needed One of the more recent versions of this bit of mythology came to our attention in the form of a letter in the com munications section three or four weeks ago. The author claimed that sports coverage of Crater High was so under played that it was almost necessary for him to use a mag-. nifying glass to find a word about the school. Armed with our magnifying glass and a ruler, we set out last week to see what we could find about Crater High School on the sports pages. We picked the month of September and measured the stories, headlines and photographs that were published con cerning the respective efforts of the Medford and Crater varsity football teams. We determined that during September a total of 297 column inches was devoted to Medford High and 212 to Crater. In other words, Medford received about 40 per cent more coverage than Crater. If there were approximately the same number of Mail tribune readers in School District 549 as District 6, one could possibly argue that Medford High was receiving "played up" news coverage. But in actuality there are between three and four times as many Mail Tribune readers in District 549 as there are in District 6. As a matter of fact, there are as many Mail Tribune readers in District 549 as there are in all the other school districts of the Rogue Valley put together. And so if we fig ured the news coverage strictly on a per-reader basis, we would find that the coverage of Medford High is possibly be ing played down rather than up. A Curious Aspect One of the curious aspects of the letter to which we re ferred above, was that it bore a Gold Hill address. When it comes to general news coverage. Gold Hill is perhaps the best covered regional community in the valley. It is, in fact, somewhat over-covered. Gold Hill ranks fifth among the regional communities in terms of number of Mail Tribune readers. But in column inches of news coverage (we've kept figures month-by-month over the last two years) it has al most always been among the top three, occasionally first, and frequently second. It's a strange but true circumstance that the persons who complain most frequently about lack of news coverage are often the ones who are actually getting the best coverage, A parallel, situation exists in the communications section of the paper. The letter writers who shout the loudest about the "slanted press" are often the same ones who have been granted hundreds of column inches of free letter space in which to express their views. Special Election Slated In Rogue River on Nov. 20 ROGUE RIVER Voters here i would not be losing a fire de will go to the polls for a spe- partment but with the combined cial election Wednesday, Nov. efforts of both city and rural. 20 to express their views on two issues. The matters were placed on the ballot by vote of the Rogue River City Council at a spe cial meeting last Monday. Vot ing will take place at the city hall from 2 to 8 p.m. The first is a proposal to amend the charter of city of Rogue River so as to provide that if a person charged with offense wishes trial by jury, he shall pay in advance to police judge the sum of $30 for jury tecs. This arrangement would raise the pay of the jury from $1 to $5 per day, with the per son charged paying the salary ot tlie jury tor the tirst day. The second proposal is to an nex city of Rogue River to the Rural Fire Protective District. It seemed to be the feeling of the council present that the city would have a much stronger and better equipped fire department. The council also pointed out j that a great percentage of the rural fire department members ! live in the city of Rogue River ! and that the Rural fire station itself is in the city. Thus the I rural firemen are familiar with all city problems concerning the matter, and with the com bined equipment and paid fire chief would possibly lower fire rates, city councilmen felt. Montague PTA Hears About Civil Air Patrol MONTAGUE - I n I c resting talks and reports highlighted the meeting of the Montague Parent-Teachers Association last month, hold in the multi-purpose room of the Montague Elemen tary School, with the president, Ward Foster, conducting the session. The evening's program was opened by program chairman, Mrs. Gene Brecedn. who intro duced Mrs. Arnold Paul, who is the personnel officer of Sis kiyou Squadron No. 118, Civil Air Patrol. Mrs. Paul introduced Major Clifford Stone, the squad ron commander, who addressed the group relative to the cadet program, which the local squad ron is currently conducting. Crater, Eagle Point Youths in Contest Don Gail, Crater High school and Mike Charley, Eagle Point High, were winning speakers In the Soil Conservation District sectional speech contest on "Woodland Management" held Wednesday night at Grants I'HSS. They will participate in the state semi-finals tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Omar's in Ashland. Gail is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gall, lite. 1, Gold Hill, and Charley is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Chnrlev, Crater Lake Hwy., Eagle Point. Chairman was Bert Easter brook, Illinois Valley. Major Stone spoke on the val ue of cadet training for boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 14, explaining how it augmented education in gener al. He stressed how the train ing developed leadership in the community and civic affairs. Major Stone concluded his re marks by asking that adults as sist in the program as instruc tors in the various phases of cadet training. Also introduced to the assem blage were cadets Jean Cool and Doug Tabor. Both partici pated in a 10-day training period at Mather Air Force Base this last summer. Miss Cool told among one of the main things she learned was respect for fel low men and herself. Tabor gave a general resume of the trip to Mather A.F.B. and described the activities which included attending classes, drill work. He also described how cadets had to keep the barracks clean, and he also told of the recreational activities. The 10 dny period was concluded with graduation exercises and a dance. Mrs. Dorothy Van Orsdel, eighth grade teacher, introduc ed William Hansen, citv manag er of Weed, whose talk was based on the continual need for adult education. Hansen, made additional remarks pertaining to the cadet program, stressing its value to the youth of today. He said, if a country is to be of service it must bo educated, for knowledge is power. RegionalCalendar BUTTE FALLS - Monday evening, Butte Falls Parent Teacher Association will meet instead of on Nov. 11. Meeting date changed because Nov. 11 is Veterans Day holiday. GOLD HILL - Tuesday, 1 p.m., Gold Hill Health unit. At Mrs. Melvin Burnett's home on Upper River Road. W W GOLD HILL - Tuesday, 8 p.m., Odd Fellows lodge No. 129 at the lOOF Hall. PROSPECT - Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Prospect Home Extension Unit will meet at home of Mrs. Bill (Donna) Butler. Commun ications in the family is the pro ject, to be given by Mrs. Lloyd Hale and Mrs. Harry Sanford. BUTTE FALLS-Wcdncsday, school pictures will be taken, grade school in the morning and high school in the afternoon. GOLD HILL Wednesday', 8 p.m., Ametheyst Rebekah lodge No. 97 will meet in the Wilbur Martin home on Second Avenue in Gold Hill. Second nomina tions of officers will be held. Burial Insurance Sold by Mail . . . You may be qualified for $1,000 lile insurance ... so you will nol burden your loved ones with funeral and other expenses. This NEW policy is especially helpful to those between 40 and 90. No medical examination neces sary. OLD LINE LEGAL RESERVE LIFE INSURANCE. . . . No agent will call on you. Free information, no obligation. Tear out this ad right now. . . . bend your name, address and year of birth to: Central Security Life Insurance Co , Drpt T-224, 1418 West Rosedale. Fort Worth 4, Texas. Adult Education Starts Tonight In Butte Falls School District BUTTE FALLS - Adult edu cation at Butie Falls High School will begin its first fall session tonight with three cours es being offered. James Yule will begin in structing a 10-week general shop and crafts course which will meet each Monday at 7 p.m. in the high school shop. Regis tration fee for this course is $10. James Powers, formerly with the Phoenix, Ariz., Vocational Program, will instruct a course in basic radio and electronics which will also meet Monday night for 10 weeks in Room 5 of the high school building. This will be from 7 until. 10 p.m. There will be a $10 registration fee. Darwin Moore, who will be assisted by Duane Smeltzer, will begin a course on judo and ju jitsu in the high school gym. Tuition for this course will be $6 for a 10-week period from 7 until 9 p.m. also beginning Monday, Nov. 4, and continuing until Jan. 20. The judo course will be in structed by trained personnel from the Medford Judo Acad emy and is open to both men and women and young people over the age of 15. ' The courses will be interrupt ed during the Christmas vaca tion, since many families make holiday plans, but then the re maining sessions will be fin ished out until Jan. 20. Advance registration may be ms.de for these courses at the high school office. People in Iho cnmmlinitv who WOllId be interested in other types of adult courses are asked to contact the high school office and make thoir wishes known. If interest is shown by enough people in 1 Regional News a particular course every effort will be made to provide the course if a qualified instructor is available. The continuance of the pro gram will depend upon the num ber of people registering for each course. 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