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Home My WebLink AboutC.P. American 06/30/1949 (2)C. P. American ~ •'a~14~(9 P ~ 0 Musings,. " sv me eat:ar ' How our little city has' grow. lolks. This writer little thought we avould ever liva to see the day titati Central Point would ever have a first class school district. Back in 1932 when we took Tom Pankey's place on the ltlcal school board ono began to struggle avith the problems of providing an education for the youth of this city, we had all we could do to keep the dlstricf on an even keel as a district of the secono class ~ without 'ever dreaming it would grow into a district of fna first class. But such is life Fn the Far West, as the feller said. While we are pleased to see the consolidation of these three districts with ours, which makes one gran;, dish•ict reaching from Beall Lane north and west to the neighborhooo of Foots Creek,' .north abnost t. Sams Valley and northeast to abmr .the center of old Camp While, we cannot help but feel a bit sad when u~e think of the changes it will make in some ways. No longer will w. have a Gold Hill high school basket- ball team giving us a run for our money each year. Nor see lire crowd o[ Gold Hill rooters shouting lustily for their team. But t.:: world must move forward and somr things must fall by the wayside. He Hum! - Yea Bo! Did you ever see sui weather?` Cotd enough every even- ing to freeze the ears off a brass rhonkey--yet fairly warm by the middle of the afternoon. And her we have been bragging for thew forty years that the Rogue Rive- valley never suffered from high winds nor tornadoes. Now we note in last nights paper that a hig~ wind raised the root of a largr garage on Barnett Road near Metl ford, then dropped it down so hart that'one of the walls of the build fog collapsed. We wonder if sue' - ihings were brought into the coon try by some of the newcomers whr have flocked into our county in re ceht years? Tt so, they can takr [hem right back where they came from, and welcome. Former Long Time Friends Are Married A friendship which had eic[ender~ over a period of at least forty gears was consumated, Sunday after noon, Tune 20th in the quiet service that wedded Mrs. Maude Helfric': of Central Point and Mr, Earl Helm. of Portland. The single ripg service was real by Rev. L. H. Camp, pastor of th, Church of Christ in the home o[ tM bride. Guests present were tote and Mrs THOEE 0(STOIGTS VOTE ~0 UNITE W(1N CENTORI PT, Four Jackson county school dis- tricts x•ill be consolidated into one Lst class district as a result of elec- ~ions held Monday in Gold Hill, Willow Springs and Table Rock These three districts will combine with Central Point to create a di;~ lrict with an assessed valuation of ]vet §4,000,000 which is large ey ]ugh to, build a here central hit' ~! ~chool building to accommodate t'~-e ' Tore than 300 high school studen's -n the new district. In Gold Hill, where the issue war Qtly contested, the vote was 107 in favor of Lhe consolidation and 110 against. It.acns the heaviest vote zvcr cast in a scSuol election there. 'n Willow Springs consolidation carried by a vote of 46 to 33, wh!le in Table Rack the vote showed th; t ~~. the proposition had em'ried by a 'slim n.orgin of three votes-39 for and 38 against, No election was I held in Central Point as the question I '+ad carried by a very large majority at a former election heir? June I anti '~ nn re-vote had.bcen sought here Tlie measure had also carried in the three districts voting Monday. ibut remonsh~ances had been f0ed ~'~, requiring a re~vote. Under the ', Oregon school Law the school board ~, `n the disfric! having the largest it assessed valuation (in this case. ~~. Central Point) will take over the '. affairs of the new consolidated ds- triet until the next annual school election. The official order declaring the new disp~ict boundaries ~ will be made by the county boundary board as soon as the official canvass of the votes cast in the three districts is made. Then an audit of the books of the dish~icts involved mast he made, -alter which th8~ Central Point board will take over:~a It is reported that the Central Point bom~d~has already taken an option on a tract of land adjoining the city on the north for a site of tie new high school building. The 27-acre tract lies beTween Highway 39 and the county road extending north from the end of Third streets. Thug it is readily accessible [rum both the highway and also from the clip center. Il is.reported that this tract was formerly rv$!in the City :imils and it is planned to have it tgain taken into the city sa as W provide fire protection and water and sewer service. The size of the tract provides plenty o[ town for athletic fields, '~ ;ymnasium sites and the like, or tor', 'uture expansion in the building ion self.