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VOLUME XXIII
ASHLAND. OREGON, MONDAY. MARCH 20, 1944
Wei come a Home, Champions
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Ashland Boys Swamp Lava Bears
In Final Clash cf State Tourney
By Tommy Newton
A vastly under-rated bunch of boys from Ashland
figured to finish 6th or 7th in the 25th annual
number e Oregon State High School Basketball Meet by the
pre-tourney dopesters, roared over an outclassed Bend
j team, 55-35, to capture the first state crown to come to
I Ashland in 22 years.
I The scarlet-shirted Grizzlies were really champ
ions Saturday night, coming from behind in the second
quarter and setting a pace that the Lava Bears were
i unable to keep. It was Jay Samuelson who led the
j fighting Ashland team with eight field buckets heaved
in at the right time. Every time the Easterners started
closing the gap, Samuelson would loop in a one-handcr
from the side to keep the Grizzlies' lead safe. Then in
the second quarter, Samuelson and Winnie Roberson
got red-hot, scoring 16 points in five minutes. From
there on the boys from Bend were never in the ball
Ahland' Fighting tirizzlien Oregon's No. I Team. Bat-k Row - Kiggs, Q,uackenbuft, Bartelt, Kob
erHon, Landing. Front Row - Garrett, Samuelson, Reedy, Kanniuito. Not In Picture - Waybrant,
Jandreau. ' (Courtesy of Ashland Daily Tidings)
Seniors Make Final Preparations
For Gay Nineties Revue March 31
"Bertha the Beautiful Type-
writer Girl" or "His Heart and
Hand at Her Feet" ia gradually j
shaping up as a show, in spite
of tne lost practices which had
to be cancelled due to the basket
ball conferences. The success of
the team, however, has been a
stimulus to the cast, who are de
termined to put on as food a
show in their way as has the team
on the basketball courts.
WILLIAMS NEW TO CAST
First casualty of tlje cast was
Winiield Roberson, who was forced
by the press of outside activities
and his position on the first
string to withdraw from the com
pany. Don Williams has been as
signed to the part of Bridget in
his place.
INVOLVED PLOT, HAPPY END
The story tells of the lush and
lovely Bertha (Betty Sue Reed),
who is forced by circumstance to
work as a typewriter girl for
(Dirty) Daniel Desmond (Jack
Newton); said circumstances be
ing the death of her father (Bud
Gettling) and the stealing of her
fortune by aforemenUoned Dirty
Dan. There to stand by her and
'to fall in love with her is young
David Desmond (Jack Waybrant)
whose nobility and goodness shine
like a beacon throughout the play,
He, however, is pursued by th
possessive Clarice Claybourne
(Bess Warren), and only escapes
her clutches by chance. Skeets
(Puss O'Harra) and Sally (Jeanne
SUllman) bounce through the play
as light comedy characters, al
though at the end Skeets proves
to have lived a double life. Brid
get (Don Williams), an FBI man
in disguise, hounds Dirty Dan re
lentlessly, and brings him to Jus-
tied, while Glenwood Garfield
(Bob Hufman), aide-de-camp to
Dirty Dan, repents in time to be
forgiven instead of punished.
Quiet little Mother Bancroft
(Gemmy Lee Cooper) suffers
throughout the play, but has her
own surprise and happiness in the
final scenes. In fact, all ends
happily for everyone except Ber
tha's pappy and the villain of the
piece.
CHILDREN'S SHOW WED.
Children's performance of the
play will take place at 3:00 p. m.,
when grade school and junior high
school students will be admitted
at a most of 13 cents each. This
special performance will also con
tain the same olio acts which will
be featured during the evening
adult performance. High school
students are asked to attend the
evening show on Friday evening.
U. of 0. Symposium
Presents Program j
Two vivacious blondes and a
pretty brunette representing the
U. of O. spoke to the AHS assem
bly, Monday, March 20, on the
subject, "Juvenile Delinquency."
Fay Pettis, freshman from Eu
gene, Alice Harter, junior of Eu
gene, ajid Louise Fletcher, fresh
man front, Portland, introduced by
Mr. R. B. Clark of the speech
and dramatic department of the
university, presented three phases
of this very timely topic, how ex
tensive is this problem, how Ore
gon handles her cases, and how
other communities are meeting lo
cal situations.
'Less than 2 of American
school children become delin
quents", stated Miss Pettis, "but
of this group 75 become adult
criminals." She continued by stat
ing that it is a misconception to
game.
The second half was, all Ash- -
land, with Bend's biggest threat, j
tower jig Howie Smead, being
-ompletely smothered by Jim Bar
telt, Ashland's ball-hawking cen
ter. Bartelt, who scored 8 points,
turned in one of the neatest per
formances of the entire, tourna
ment. The Grizzlies really poured
it on in the last two stanzas and
proceeded to break the scoring
record set by Klamath Falls last
year. Though the Bears were a
rugged bunch, with 6 ft. 3 in.
Smead and a pair of 6 ft. 1 in.
forwards .they were no match in
the roughing department for Bar
ney Riggs and Del Landing, who
along with keeping Bend's big
boys in line, collected 10 and 6
points respectively.
LiO.VS NEARLY TIP AHS
Though it was all As t land in
the championship tussle, the job
of getting to finals was not so
easy. The Grizzlies opened their
tournament play on Thursday af
ternoon against a tough St. Hel
ens outfit.
The underdog Lions fought
hard and or a while it looked as
though the Ashland boys would
be eliminated before they got
started, but they managed to keep
in the ball game and the regular
playing time ended 28-28. In the
overtime Del Landing sank a lay-
in to give the game to the future
champs. -
PORTLAND TEAM FAVORED
The next night the Ljthians met
(Continued on page 4)
AIIS Opsns Yearly
Red Cress Drive
When every student in Ashland
Hi is seen wearing the lapel but
ton which designates him as a
contributor to the Red Cross, AHS
will have done its part in filling
the quota of $8,000 set for the city
of Ashland in this campaign, the
greatest in the history of the or
ganization. The drive was officially opened
at the student body meeting on
March 17, when the ASB pledged
$50.00 to the cause, and will con
tinue until March 24.
Acting-President Bob Hufman
named Barbara Helm general
chairman and ajipohued JHntityn
Young and Dick Memman to
sist her. This committee has set
up an attractive tally sheet on
which the donations will be record
ed according to homeroom quotas.
Juniors Decide Upon
Exclusive 1944 Prom
After much discussion and con
troversy, it has been decided that
the annual junior-senior prom
will be exclusively for iipporclass
men of Ashland Hi. This event,
scheduled for April 21, is the out
standing affair of the year, and
the juniors are working hard to
make it the best in the history
of AHS.
Our Coach-
Air Corps Examiners
Interview Enrollees
Captain Allshouse and Sgt.
Prouty representing the Aviation
Cadet Examining Board of Port
land interviewed the high school I
boys now enrolled in the army air
corps reserve about the formation
of a "Silver Wings Club." These
clubs are being organized through
out, the state. Each school in the
county belongs to a Wing, such as,
the Jackson Wing. Each high
school constitutes a Flight with
its local officers.
There are two purposes of this
organization, the paramount de
sire and need for increasing the
number of aviation cadet enroll
ments and the passing on to these
cadets of information and advice
that will benefit them during their
coming training period.
zlies. Out of a school
with a Student Body of
only 263 students, Simp
son has molded a team
that has taken just about
every honor possible.
think of delinquents coming from press releases from Port
below average groups of young j tand paperg had the Griz
people. They do tend to come from j zea marked down for
poorer homes as is shown by the defeat When the final
numbers in the detention home in
Woodburn, not because the poor
are delinquent but because pover
ty lends itself to delinquency.
War and" poverty aggravate but
do not cause this situation."
Oregon's lack of facilities in
court procedures, in providing ad
equately trained personnel, and in
planning for segregation of new
and old offenders was criticized
by Miss Harter. Other states have
gone for ahead of Oregon In esta
blishing rehabilitation programs
rather than detention or punish
ment programs for young people.
From Ashland this symposium
team is going to Grants Pass and
then to Medford. Nearly all sec
tions of Oregon have been includ
ed in their itinerary. They have
spoken before high school groups
in Seaside, Salem, Portland, Bend,
Klamath Falls, and in the Coos
Bay area.
"Render unto Caesar, therefore, the things that are Caesar's - - -"
To Coach Jumbo Simpson goes much of tha credit for the winning
ways of the 1944 Griz-
blow had been struck
and the smoke had
cleared, Al and his boys
were State Champions. r
Schools like Washington jL,
Hi of Portland with 1440
students fell to the Griz- P
zies as neatly as did
Though the Oregonian I
and its able sportswrit- I
ers didn't seem to think t
much of this feat, the f
fact remains that two of
the largest schools in
Oregon have felt the I
cuff of the Grizzly and I
both the squad and
the Coach are to be t
highly praised for doing
so well. State Champion
are such because of the
b o v s themselves, but
without the guidance of coaches like Al Simpson, teams would nevr
reach the heights of success that the 1944 Grizzlies have.