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WEDNESDAY,
ecial
Regional Roundup
by Cleve Twilchell
Mail Tribune Regional Editor
In a column Nov. 20 we were discussing the proposed route
of a freeway which the California Division of Highways plans
to constmct from Crescent City to Gasquct to replace the
presrni U. S. 199 highway between those points. While an
nouncing the project, the California officials stressed that
every effort will bs made to protect both the Redwoods and the
Smith River Canyon.
In connection with that project, we feel the following ma
terial will be of interest. It is taken from a letter to Mail Tri
bune staff member Peggyann Hutchinson from Sam Hclwcr,
district engineer at Eureka for the California Division of High
ways, and from a talk Helwer gave for several organizations
in that area. Here are the highlights.
Avoid Groves If Possible
"Our efforts to preserve the Redwood groves start in the
ery first stage, or conception of a project. Every effort is
made to avoid the groves completely, or to locate the route
where it will do the least possible damage where it is impossible
to avoid them altogether. These studies are made in coopera
tion with the California Division of Beaches and Parks. The
cnnsl ruction of the Redwood Parks Bypass and the preservation
of the Avenue of the Giants is positive evidence of this policy.
Highway construction costs are materially increased due to
this careful selection of routes.
"Due to the immense expanse of Redwood groves and estab
lished parks, it is not always possibly to avoid them com
pletely. In some instances, outer fringes of park lands are
i lvolved in highway construction. Where this becomes neces
sary, every effort is made to protect the bordering trees and
other natural features of the area. . . ."
Contractors Protect the Trees
Helwer goci on to explain that a provision is made in every
construction contract involving projects through state parks to
safeguard the park features. Contractors are directed to pro
tect all trees and other natural features. In some cases trunks
of trees are wrapped in burlap or even protected with heavy
timbers to prevent injury to the bark.
Some people often ask, "Why bother to build freeways
tnrough the Redwood country at all?". The following remarks
from Hclwer's speech shed some interesting light on that ques
tion: "Throughout the years, leaders In the promotion and de
v lopmcnt of tliis vast area (the Redwood Empire) have all
recognized that the most import single factor still lacking for
realization of this development is adequate transportation.
This ii true whether you consider development as the utilization
of these natural resources or whether you consider development
as (he conservation of these resources to be set aside as a vast
park or recreational area. Until the average citizen can reach
this area in comfort, convenience and safely, it will not be
possible to fully realize and develop the tremendous potential
of its resources. In spite of an accelerated highway program
in the last seven years, we still get letters from people who
have visited this area who state they were so frightened on our
narrow, crooked roads they will never return.
Redwood Empire Depends On Highways
"No other area in California is so dependent on highways for
Its transportation neds. Railroads are non-existent between
Eureka and Grants Pass, and all of you know what the rail
road service is between Eureka and San Francisco. Even the
service of the one-cvery-othcr-day passenger car was seriously
threatened just recently. This minimum facility is being
operated at a loss, because this Is no longer the way people
want to travel. This leaves the Redwood Highway as the
transportation and economic lifeline of the entire Redwood Em
pire. Its devt'jpmcnt to adequate standards is absolutely es
sential. "This fact was recognized by the California Slate Legislature
in 10 when it designated the Redwood Highway as part of
a 12,500-milo system of highways to be constructed as freeways
and expressways. Ultimalcly the Redwood Highway will be a
freeway from San Francisco to the Oregon Line. . . ."
Featured In Pacific Pnwcrland
The November-December issue of Pacific Powcrland, (he
publication put out by Pacific Power nnd Light Company and
distributed with its bills, contains a photograph of our Prospect
correspondent, Velda Barr. She is shown talking to Jim Wilson,
district lineman for the Prospect, Union Creek, Trail, Shady
Cove and Butte Falls area. Tho photo accompanies an articlu
about Wilson's work and his hobby, exploring tho back country
of the Upper Rogue area.
Siskiyou Historians
YREKA A Christmas pro
gram entitled "A Gift to Our
Families" will bo presented at
the next meeting of the Siskiyou
County Historical Society Sat
uidny at 2 p.m. at the county
museum.
A panel composed of Rita
Prather and Norman Fiock of
Montague and Rosemary Fran
son and Hazel Pollock of Yroka
will present the program. Each
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DECEMBER 11, 1963
Creative Writing Seminar Launched. By Phoenix High
To Meet Saturday
participant has written a family
history or traced a family tree.
Christmas music will be pro
vided by a choir from the Yrcka
High School Music Department,
under the direction of Dnnicl
Soarcs, vocal music director
RegionalCalendar
GOLD HILL - Thursday, 7
p.m., Gold Hill Lions Club will
meet at the El Rogue Cafe for
a no-host dinner and business
meeting. At that time the Com
munity Christmas Program
Commitlce, Alva A. Walker
chairman and Jack J. Cannon,
will give a report of arrange
ments, and final details will be
discussed.
ROGUE RIVER - Thursday,
7:30 p.m., Rogue River City
Council's final meeting of year,
in city hall.
WHITE CITY - Thursday,
7:30 to 8:30 a.m., Kiwanians
will meet at the A and W
restaurant for a business session
and breakfast.
Reception Planned
To Honor Minister
GOLD HILL Everyone In
Gold Hill and vicinity Is invited
to attend a reception hollering
The Rev. and Mrs. William
Stacy and family. He is the new
minister of Gold Hill Community
Methodist Church.
Tho reception is planned (or
Sunday, Dec. IS from 2 to 4
p.m. at the church. The wom
an's society is host of the event.
ATTENDING CLASSES
O'ltHIEN - Mrs. David Wil
son and Mrs. Walter Freeman
of O'Brien, both teachers at
Kerliy, have been attending
mathematics classes at Grants
Pass on n new theory of mathe
matics required for teachers.
Thirty lessons of three hours
each are required lo complete.
Ihe course.
TREE DOWNED The Phoenix Christmas
tree lay on the ground Sunday in the woods
above Butte Falls as the Phoenix Volunteer
Firemen and Auxiliary prepared to carry it
to the flat bed truck donated by Haggard
Lumber Company, of Phoenix. This is the
second annual Christmas tree cut and erect
Prospect Lions
Sell Timber To
Aid Community
PROSPECT The Prospect
Lions Club recently purchased
a timber blowdown sale from
the Prospect Ranger District.
All Uie logging and other work
involved in the sale was donat
ed. The money derived from
this timber is going into the
club's community betterment
fund to pay for community
projects.
Logging of the timber was
done last Saturday and Sunday.
D. M. (Bud) Chandler did the
falling and bucking of the trees,
Lewis Bidcn donated the fork
lift caterpillar which loaded the
logs on trucks driven by Cliff
Chapman, Larry Lacy, Clarence
llcdgepath, Earl Bliss and L. L.
Lambert, all of Prospect.
Other men who helped includ
ed Hud Denny, Harold Hixon,
Frank Hammer, Roscoe Larson,
Hoy Vaughn, Sherman Poole
and George Hubbard. Vic Chap
man served as logging boss.
Eight loads of logs were
hauled to the Olson Lawyer
mill, which payed a premium
price for them.
L. E. Clevcnburg was chair
man for the event.
Tho Lady Lions served the
men hamburgers and coffee.
Christmas Program
Eyed For Gold Hill
Sams Valley Youth
GOLD HILL A community
Christmas program (or all chil
dren in tlic area of Gold Hill and
Sams Valley is being arranged.
It was sparked by the Gold Hill
Lions Club. Assisting the Lions
with their project will lie oilier
sponsoring groups. Final details
will be announced later as will
thj date for the event, which
will include a visit by Santa
himself.
In the meantime all children
who wish to participate may
contact the Lions Club Commit
tee, which has charge of ar
rangements. Alva A. Walker is
chairman, and Jack J. Cannon
will assist him.
It was indicated that the pro
gram would consist of such
numbers as recitations, vocal
and instrumental.
It was stated that the Gold
Hill Grange will donate Ihe use
of its hall for the children's
Christmas program and furnish
a tree.
Prospect Lady Lions
Plan Bazaar Friday
PROSPECT - Friday,
Dec.
13 is the date set for the annual
Lnrisimas uaznar 01 uie rros-
poet Lions Auxiliary. It will
start at l'.':30 p.m.
Chairmen of Ihe event this
year are Zella Ash and Tressic
Vaughn. Hand made items,
baked goods, candies and stuff
ed (mils will be featured.
Gold Hill Chamber
Postpones Meetings
Iiulu hill uecausc of the
busy Christmas season, Gold
Hill Chamber of Commerce will
not mm until alter Ihe New
Year commences.
The annual meeting for elec-! organizations totals 210, school
lion of officers for l!M will be officials said, about 25 per cent
held Thursday, Jan. Id. At that I of the high school s entire stu
lime Ihe nominating committee, idenl body.
Richard Ahlwtt, Virginia Plum-1 The public is invited, renorlcd
mer and Jack J. Cannon will I Norman Carothers, music de
present a slale of olficcrs. ' parlmenl director.
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CHOPPING CHRISTMAS TREE Everett Blake, of the Phoenix
Volunteer Fire Department, swings his axe Willi the blade biting
deep into a fir tree in the Ranchcria area of the Rogue River
Nalional Forest. The picture was taken Sunday as firemen
and their wives went after the annual town Christmas tree. It
was erected Tuesday night in the lot next lo the Phoenix Grange.
The firemen and the auxiliary financed the lights and strung
litem. The tree is aboul 'III fed tall. An extension ladder was hook
ed onh the back of tho fire truck to reach the top of the lice
Tuesday night.
Regional News
High Costs Cited
As Reason for
Defeat of Bonds
TALENT Most residents of
the South Talent Sanitary Dis-
tri,. t ,,,. Iht Ihnii-
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area needs a sewer system, but
its eviuciucu uy uie vine hi h
bona election Monday, they arc
apprehensive about the cost.
A proposal to authorize sale
of $135,000 in bonds to construct
a system was soundly defeated
at the polls Monday, 93-37, ac-
I cording to unofficial returns.
As one resident of the district
, put it, "The people are in favor
ot a sewer system but not the
price.
The sanitary board had esti-
mated that it would have been
necessary to charge
h? o vh
niDi,iM11.nn,wl f
scwer connection
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Crater High Plans
Concert Sunday
CENTRAL POINT - The Cra
ter High School Music Depart
ment will present a free winter
concert of insDirational choral
and instrumental music Sunday
at 2 p m. at the school.
Thp ,.OIK.orl b;im cnoir Lilva.
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! ticipatc. Membership of these
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE,
ed by the local fire department. A Christ
mas sing around the tree and distribution of
candy by Santa Claus is planned for 7 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18. All church
choirs in the area have been invited. The
fire department is still looking for a Santa,
however.
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month service charge, plus a
15 mill property tax levy in
"rOCr 10 )a.V
order lo pay off S135.000 in
bonds, if all of them had to be
i so
jh addition
n, i,nri mm,
would onlv have financed
in-
: stnllution of sewer lines lo each
ixrsnn s properly line. Each
owner would then have been
responsible tor running lines
from the scwer connection to
nls "N''-
The city ot Talent is also af -
fccled by the defeat of the bond
issue, as its city council had
ciucrca uiio an agreement wim
the South Talent district to ex
pand Ihe city's sewage treat-
ment plant. The district planned
to use the city's treatment plant,
' wa" T r,Ui'1SC l' Xprdin:1 "
lo oav nail of the cost.
A spokesman for the citv ON LEAVE
said Tuesday that Talent will 1 TALENT RM2 Don Skun
proceed with improvements to drick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal
Us scwer system but only lo the ler Skundrick, Hid Pacific High
extent necesary lo meet its own way South, is home on 30-day
needs. leave from the Navv.
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12TH AND RIVERSIDE
MEDFORD, OREGON
PHOENIX-A group of Inter
ested Phoenix High School stu
dents is exploring the field of
creative writing in a special
study program here.
The program, launched this
fall b; the high school, is called
a "creative writing seminar
course study."
The students, numbering from
14 to 20, get together an aver
age of twice a month. They
meet in the evening in private
homes.
They are studying both prose
and poetry how to write, why
to write and how to understand
what has been written.
Alternate Emphasis
This year's study is concen
trating on poetry. Next year the
emphasis will be on prose. The
emphasis will alternate from
year to year in the future.
The purposes and objectives
of the seminar are three-fold:
To help students develop their
own talents in creative writing;
to introduce to them and famil
arize them with the techniques
available to them for writing
creatively; and to help establish
a basis for an intellectual and
aesthetic appreciation of liter
ature in general.
The participating students
were selected by the teachers
according to their promise and
desire to further develop their
abilities. Most are seniors and
juniors. There is one sophomore
in the group, however.
The Leaders
Leading the discussions are
Mrs. Laura Fett and Mrs. Janet
Clark, Phoenix High School
English teachers. They are con
ducting most of the meetings,
but on some occasions there
will be special guest speakers.
"All of the students taking
part are talented in creative
writing," Mrs. Clark explained.
"At the end of the year we hope
to publish an anthology of their
work."
A number of the students vol
untarily do creative writing be
tween meetings of the group.
Their works are then mimeo
graphed and distributed to other
students so that they can then
criticize each other's work.
Students Like It
Student reaction to the pro
gram appears to be highly fav
orable. "I have always wanted to do
something like this," said one.
"It gives those of us who en
joy writing a chance to do more
of it."
Although most of the students
are taking part to improve their
writing ability, one of the group
said she enjoys the seminar be
cause it helps to make her a bet
ter reader. "I'm getting to un
derstand poetry better and to
be able to interpret what I'm
reading," she remarked.
Three sessions of the seminar
have been held so far.
On Nov. 5 the group discussed
the role of the artist in society,
specifically the poet: who is he,
what he creates and how. A
Nov. 19 meeting dealt with
Talent To Trade
1913 Fire Truck
In On 1934 Model
TALENT Talent is losing:
an old friend.
i The 50-year-old LaFrance fire
truck is going to be traded in
! on a "newer" model,
j The old truck, which Talent
i acquired ill 1913, was brought
out of retirement last summer
to be used as an auxiliary
pumper for the city's volunteer
i fire department.
I But last night the Talent City
' Council decided the time had
come lo get a better auxiliary
; truck.
Tho "nnwer" mortal the citv
is acquiring is a 1934 Mack
' "k, which the Talent Rural
Fire Protection District had
I borrowed this year while await-
, mg Ihe arrival ot its two new
trucks, which finally were de-
livered a couple of weeks ago.
The city of Talent is buying
the 1934 vehicle from Fyr Fyter
, Sales and Service of Medford
for $1,900. It will be allowed
1 $700 off for trading in the 1913
truck.
The council in other action
last night also ordered paving
of three streets in the city. Fair
view Street, the extension of
! Vallev View Road bv the Talen
poetics, the methods and char
acteristics of poetry, metaphors,
ellipses, rhymes, rhythms, in
versions, symbolisms and so
forth.
Study Purposes
The third meeting was held
last night, for the purpose of
studying poetic forms and the
purposes of poetry.
On Dec. 17 tne seminar wm
meet to discuss how poetry is
created.
A Jan. 7 session will deal with
the relationship between the
poet and his audience and such
questions as what determines
the relationship, can u De al
tered, and when and how are
nnems Dublished?
The rhythm and rhyme of
poetry will be studied on Jan.
21, using masters of the sonnet
and free verse narrative to il
lustrate how rhythm and rhyme
influence the meaning ot a
poem.
Evaluate Progress
On Feb. 4 the group will stop
and make an evaluation of the
seminar up to that point. Stu
dents will discuss what they
have learned and how new con
cepts have aided them in their
own writing.
Dr. Arthur Kreisman of South
ern Oregon College will be a
guest on Feb. 18 to talk on
Ruch PTA Slates
Program Friday
APPLEGATE VALLEY Ruch
Parent Techer Association is
preparing costumes, scenery,
and treats for the Christmas
program to be presented by
Ruch school Friday, Dec. 11 at
8:00 p.m.
The traditional Christmas
story will be presented in mu
sic and song, and the program
is in the charge of Miss Ann
Van Valzah, third grade teacher.
The choruses of both primary
and upper grade pupils are di
rected by Mrs. Ilene Ogicr,
fourth grade teacher.
PTA women in charge of
making costumes and revision
materials on hand are Mrs. Wil
liam Davis, Mrs. Neil Suttell,
and Mrs. Gordon Talbot. Those
supervising scenery and paint
ing of back drops are Mrs. John
Cameron, Mrs. Clarence Wil
liams, and Mrs. Jack Fitch.
Officers of the Ruch PTA
Chapter elected earlier in the
year are Mrs. Glenn Bailey,
president; Mrs. Jack Fitch, vice
president; Mrs. Jack McKinney,
secretary; and Mrs. Ernest Sta
lun, secretary.
Committe chairman include
Mrs. Glen Travis, parliamenta
rian; Mrs. Art Goss, member
ship; Mrs. Harlan Cantrall and
Mrs. William Bethany, refresh
ment; Mrs. Neil Suttell, publi
city; ways and means, Mrs.
Martin Gricr and Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Hart; Louis Straubc,
budget and finance.
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"How a Poem Means" in rela
tion to one specific poet.
The March 9 session will be
devoted to the subject matter
of poetry, particularly to how
subjects popular in one period
of history have been ignored in
others.
The subject matter of poetry
in modern society will be dis
cussed April 7 with study of a
number of contemporary poets
and how they give their poems
meaning.
A summary and review is
scheduled for May 5, to be fol
lowed May 19 by a meeting de
voted exclusively to the creative
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