Voir ot Oregon Library
This ’n That
by The Old Timer
March wus nam ed after Mars,
the God of war, the U. S. consti
tution went into effect Murch 4,
1789.
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Berlin and Tokyo are receiving
a well m erited shellacking.
In World War 1 "work or fight
wus not a political footbull.
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Turkey has got down off thi
fence and entered the w ar again
st the Axis.
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Uncle Zeke says he can remem
ber way bock when the only ‘isn
folks worried about was rheumu
tism.
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Oregon legislators are now o:
their own financially. Monday I
ing the last payduy for the 10
session.
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It isn’t so much the rationing
Or taxes or talk of inflation;
The problem th a t’s worry in
most of us
Is this thing that they call th
duration.
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Germ any is calling up its wo
men for w ar service. It will b<
significant if the Am erican Con
gress parallels its action.
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A fter-m idnight revel e r s no
doubt are realizing "there’s no
place like home," since Jim m j
Byrnes swung his big stick.
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The Red Cross drive is on. Givt
generously.
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The ultim ate debt of 300 billion
is conceded by congressional fis
cal leaders. The present debt is
234 billion. A month before Pearl
Harbor it was 55 billion.
W ashington s birthday w a s
high-lighted in the House of Con
gress w ith a brawl. The p artici
pants were Rankin (Miss) and
llook (Mich.) Rankin grappled
and took a few pokes at Hook be
cause Hook had called him some
sort of a liar. Next day both apol-
igised to the House but not to
each other. However, no Purple
Hearts will be awarded.
Local Demos Will
Aattend Jackson
Club Dinner Friday
Several Ashland democrats are
planning to attend the Southern
Oregon Jackson Club dinner 4o
be held this Friday at G rants
Pass a t the Redwood Hotel. It
will be the first Jackson Day
dinner to be given by the recent
ly organized club, comprising de
mocrats of four southern Oregon
counties.
Mrs. Harrison Burton, Port
land, president of the N orthern
Oregon Jacksoh club, will be the
principal speaker. O ther notobles
expected to be in attendance are
Henry Aiken, Heppner, state De
m ocrat comm ittee chairm an re
cently returned from W ashington,
D. C., P. E. Ivory, K lam ath Falls,
Lee Stuart, Eugene, Lane county
chairm an, M arvin W arlick, E u
gene and D exter Rice, Roseburg
Music throughout the evening
will be furnished by a hillbilly
band.
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Services Held For
Mrs. Orpha Milhoan
Services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the L itw iller F u n er
al Chapel for Mrs. Orpha M il
hoan of 407 King Street, Medford
who died Friday, February 23 at
t h e P ark View Convalescent
Home. She had been an invalid
for the past five years. The Rev.
B aker of Medford officiated and
members of the Royal Neighbors
lodge of Ashland attended in a
body.
Mrs. M ilhoan was born in Jack-
son county, W est Virginia, on
A ugust 1, 1890. She a t one tim e
lived in Ashland, but has made
her home in Medford for the past
19 years. She was a m em ber of
the Ashland Royal Neighbors
lodge and a m em ber of Christ-
Church.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. M arjorie Dinigan and Mrs.
M argaret Hoxie, of M edford; two
sisters, Mrs. Charles Kappel, of
Colorado Springs and Mrs. H. B.
Ayers of C entral Point; and three
brothers, S. S. Ring of Denver;
R. W. Ring, Yoder, Colorado and
M. A. Ring of Ashland.
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Hailed into city court Tuesday
on a charge of shooting in the city
limits, David Bruce Ring, 18, was
fined $10.00 and 2.50 costs after
pleading guilty to the charge.
The affair came about as a result
of the youth shooting w ith an air
rifle, at a youngster on a bicycle,
riding on W ater Street. The pellet
richoted
off
the bicycle
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4. _ fram e
and struck the youth. The fine
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paid by Ring.
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ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, Tnursday, March 1, 1945
¿2.00 per year
Medford Wins District 4
Hoop Championship
Baptist Church
Observes 68th
Anniversary Here
Ashland Places Second After
Thrilling Win From Grants
Pass Friday Evening
Popular Ashland Religious
Canter Observes Founding
Date; History Reviewed
The First B aptist Church of
Ashlund has celebrated the sixty
,-ighth anniversary of the found-
tig of the local church. The re-
jiu s show th at on Feb. 17, 18< i,
negates troin the Table Rock
.ad W agner Creek churches, m ei
. ul a lew oilier B aptist fainiliv~
. ji»iuand, at the Asniund School
touse, and organized a regular
ju p u st Church, Eider J. F. u iau -
.ord was elected us M oderator,
jnd Horace Root as Clerk. A rti
cles of Faith and Covenant were
adopted as those found in J.
Newton Brow n’s Encyslopedia ol
Religious Knowledge. The ch ar
ier m em bers of the new church,
were Elder Joseph R itter, Caro
line R itter, L. W. Robertson,
Mary Robertson, M. A. Robertso.t
Elizabeth Hill, Mrs. E. A. Rittei
and Sarah Ella R itter. Elder Jo .
eph R itter was elected as the first
pastor.
No inform ation is obtainable
regarding any of these early
pioneers, but Mrs. Robert G arrett
of 124 M anzanita Street, is a
daughter-in-law of Robert ano
June G arrett, who became m em
bers of the B aptist church in the
year 1877. In the year 1884, the
new church building was built ai
the corner of Church and High
Streets.
Mr. C. J. Foster is another pion
eer m em ber of the church, having
united w ith the body about 52
years ago. On Jan u ary 6th, 1894
he was elected as T reasurer of the
church and P resident of the
Young People’s Union. During
this tim e he has held other re
sponsible positions, and is now
the senior Deacon. On Sunday
morning, Feb. 18th, Mr. Foster
was given special recognition ano
presented w ith a large type T est
am ent and Psalms.
Last Sunday m orning, the past
or, Rev. Gordon C. Griffin,
preached on the sam e tex t as was
used when the church was organ
ized seixy eight years ago. Many
changes have taken place during
this time, including the new buila
ing a t the corner of First and
H argardine streets, which was
built in 1912. D uring the past
two years the present edifice has
been re-finished and better S un
day School room accomodations
made.
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Local Young Man
Rescued from Jans
JlaA. SanteilUtUf,
M edford’s Black Tornado sw ept
aside all com petition in last
week’s hoop tournam ent in A sh
land to win the district 4 cham p
ionship and the right to represent
the district in the district three
playoff this week a t Bend.
Friday nights games got off to
an exciting sta rt when Medford
played the K lam ath Falls team.
The Pelicans from K lam ath Falls
showed a g reat im provem ent and
pressed t h e
Medford t e a m
throughout the game. Although
the K lam ath boys never w ere in
the lead, m anaged to tie the score
four times in the fourth quarter.
The game ended on a tied score
25-25. A three m inute overtim e
period was played and Bob W at
son came through for Medford
on a free throw on Jim Noreen’s
foul to m ake an extra point and
a few seconds later made a field
goal to give them three extra
points to win the game 28-25.
ASHLAND BUMPS G. P
In the final game Friday even
ing Ashland was team ed with
G rants Pass and in a thrilling 33
to 31 victory won the right to face
the Medford conference leaders
for the final game Saturday night
The game was close throughout
and nine different times the score
was tied.
A fter two m inutes of play Sam
uelson of Ashland collected the
first points for Ashland and by
the end of the first period the
score stood 10-8 for Ashland.
G rants Pass stepped forw ard d /r -
ing the second q u arter and as the
half ended had the lead by the
score of 20-16. In the first m in
utes of the third q u arter Ashland
tied the count a t 20-20. The score
then see-sawed back and forth
during the fourth period to end
with a tie of 25-25. Ashland h u r
riedly ran the score up to 31 be
fore G rants Pass could top them,
but G rants Pass evened the score
in short order w ith field goals by
Lutz, Boyce and Bertrand. In the
final seconds of the game Don
Flaharty sank a shot which gave
Ashland Grizzlies the winning
edge of 33-31.
Friday nights games set up
play for S aturday night with
G rants Pass and K lam ath as the
losers for the first round of play
and Ashland facing Medford for
the final game as the winners of
Friday events.
Saturday's Play
In the opening game Saturday
G rants Pass and K lam ath Falls
squared off and w ith G rants Pass
taking the lead in the opening
m inutes of play, but were soon
passed by the K lam ath Pelicans
who dom inated the game for the
balance of the play.
In the M edford-Ashland fray
Bastwick of Medford scored first
blood by m aking a basket in the
first 15 seconds. The first quarter
ended w ith the score 17-9. In the
second period M edford was able
to collect 12 counters and Ash-
lend but eight, w ith teh half end-
29-17 for Medford. The third per
iod ended w ith the score 40-25 for
Medford Ashland attem pted a
comeback in the fourth quarter
EVANGELIST STARTS
SERIES OF TALKS TUES.
Ashland Soldier
Killed on Luzon
Mrs. B. H. Crosby of 142 North
Main, received word from th»
w ar departm ent that her son, Li
Robert W. Riddle was killed i
action on the island of Luzon o
February 6th. No details wei
given regarding t h e circui.
stances. Lt. Riddle is the oldest »
five sons who are in the s^rvit
L{. Riddle enlisted a t Ear.
point, Idaho, in the 41st F it
Artillery. He has been overs»
nearl ythree years and had h
no leave in th at time.
City Employee
Resigns Thursday
Miss Eva Griffin, an employee
of the City of Ashland, resigned
her position as clerk at the m un-
icipal warehouse, the resignation
becoming effective today, March
1. Miss Griffin has been a trusted
and valued employee of the city
for the past year. She will leave
for Denver in about a month. Be-
fore leaving, however, Miss Grif
fin plans to spend a week visiting
two brothers at Lakeview, and
another visiting w ith another
brother a t Mapleton, and will
spend a couple of weeks at home
with her parents here, Rev. and
Mrs. Gordon Griffin, in resting
from her work.
Replacing Miss G riffin in the
city position is Miss Verona Wold
who has been substituting in a
clerical position at the Southern
Oregon College of Education
since October for Miss Claire
Scott. Miss Wold came in August
from M inneapolis to m ake her
home in Ashland.
H.
S.
Palmquist,
known as "The Sw ede Poet-
Evangelist" who started a series
meetings Tuesday evening at
the
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Nazarene at
and
Greets. The series will
^ast to M arch 11th. The Rev.
P alm quist is known as a dynamic
and « «xessful speaker, and Ash-
^and residents have been urged
t0 attend these talks,
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Day Only: March 15
Voi. 14 No. 3.
Committees Named
For Red Cross
War Fund Drive
Plans are rapidly shaping up
for the 1945 Red Cross Drive that
oegins M arch 1st, according to
Howard Oden, C hairm an ot the
‘drive for Ashland branch.
At a m eeting held last night in
the Ladies’ Parlor of the Elks
.eiupie, tne following Captains
./ere selected to head the various
.epartm enis of the drive: Special
_,ilts, Bill Briggs; Labor, H ero
. is h born; Schools and College,
.□land Parks; Service Cluos,
< i l l Douge; Business o is t..,.,
>ob Ingle; wile Creek, Mrs. O.
>unn and Mrs. Fred Engie;
.reen Springs, H erb H u su n ;
>ead Inaian» Mrs. Lanini; Beil-
iew, Steve C arter; Window Dis
play .Frank Davis; Publicity,
.indy Anderson; Red C r o ss
Booths and H eadquarters person
nel, Mrs. C. M. Frazier. Chairm en
nave not been definitely selected
»or Siskiyou and residential can-
/assing.
School children will set up quo-
.as in each school for a small
drive of their own, but this in no
way should influence the contri
butions of parents and parents
are not expected to give their
contributions through the schools
Two Hundred Million dollars is
the national goal, and Jackson
County’s share is $54,500. No
quota is being set for Ashland,
for the comm ittee felt our people
will give all they can and every
effort will be made to facilitate
contributions.
The boys and girls are really
working hard to m ake the forth
coming tin-can drive M arch 1 a
big success.
Quotas have been set a t 5 lbs
per student in all the schools.
This is the approxim ate am ount
per student collected in the last
tin drive held in the spring of
A new comer to A shland’s busi
1943.
ness district this week, is Wm. L.
If enthsiastic canvassing by Benson, who Monday took over
the students is any indication, the the sporting goods store of Al.
actual collection will easily ex Jordan at 161 East M ain street.
ceed the quota.
Mr. Jordan has been in business
UY BONDS-
The following chairm an have in Ashland for the past 24 years.
been appointed in each of the
Mr. and Mrs. Benson come to
but were unable to lead the Med schools: High School, Mr. Climer; Ashland from Seattle, w here Kir.
ford team. The game ended w ith Junior High, Virginia Lutz; Lin- Benson worked a t M arshall’s a
the score standing 46-33 for Med coin, Miss Allen; W ashington-Lee] well known Seattle sporting
ford,*" giving them th e district Rice.
goods store, w here he w orked in
championship, with Ashland hold
Collections by each school in the departm ent for repairing all
ing second place, K lam ath third the last drive were: Senior high, types of sporting goods. He is
and G rants Pass in the cellar posi 400 pounds; Junior high, 1400 planning to install facilities for
tion.
pounds; Lincoln, 1200 pounds; repairing of fishing equipm ent,
Following the games sports W ashington, 3000 pounds.
and all types of gun sm ith w ork
m anship aw ards w ere presented
Housewives and all eating est and repairing. He will also con
to J a ik Lutz of G rants Pass and ablishm ents are urged to save tinue to sell sporting goods.
Jim Noreen of Klam ath. A com every can. If collection arrange
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan began the
m ittee made up of the four m ents have not been m ade w ith job of m oving to Rogue River,
coaches of the district, John Rob a child, any school m ay be con w here they have purchased a
erts of Ashland, Al Simpson of tacted and these arrangem ents small acreage adjacent to town.
Medford, C a r l C arpenter of made.
Mr. Jordan has made the state
G rants Pass and M arble Cook of
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m ent th at he intends to catch up
Klam ath Falls nam ed the follow
on his fishing which he feels
ing as the outstanding players of
th at he has neglected of late. Last
the tournam ent: D arrell Riggs,
fall Mr. and Mrs. Jordan sold
Medford; Ja y Samuelson, Ash
In a recent issue of a Portland their home at 678 Siskiyou Boule
land; Jim Noreen, K lam ath Falls; daily paper w ere pictures of a re vard to Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Arnold
Je rry Ross, Medford; Al Rieble, cent ship launching a t the Com
G rants Pass; Jim Palm er, K la m ercial Iron Works in which Mrs.
m ath Falls; Jim Jandrefcu, A sh L aura B. Stephenson of Ashland
land; Jack Lutz, G rants Pass, was sponsor, in honor of her son
Bob Watson, M edford and Je rry Lt. (jg) George W. Stephenson,
Friends here received word the
Thorn .Klam ath Falls.
who was killed in action at Ren- past week of the death in Watson
By winning the district 4 cham dova Island Ju ly 2, 1943. The ville, California of the Rev.
pionship M edford m ust play in ship, the navy net tender USS : W. L. Mellinge r, o n J a n-
the district three tournam ent, to Sunfish was launched February I uary 21. Rev. M ellinger was pas-
be held in Bend this week end, 16. Lt. Stephenson of Ashland I tor of the Christian church at
betw een Bend, Redmond, P rin e was a m em ber of the 24th naval Ashland in 1903, this being his
ville, Burns and Lakeview, and Construction Battalion, the fam- first pastorate after graduating
the w inner of th at tournam ent ed SeaBees, w hen he was killed, f r o m college. H e served the
will then go to Salem for the and he and Lt. Irvin Lee w ere the church here for five years and
state tournam ent to be played first civil engineers corps of of then he and Mrs. M ellinger serv
March 15, 16, and 17.
ficers killed under com bat condi ed at missionaries in Mexica for
tions.
several years.
The Sunfish, designated as the
They returned to Ashland
AN 80 by the navy was the third ’ again for four years to serve the
in a series of such vessels under church here, and then moved to
■ construction by the Commercial j California and of late years he
'' Iron W orks in Portland.
has been pastor of the church at
Lt. Stephenson was honored Watsonville.
’ not long ago by a m onum ent be-
Mrs. Grace M ellinger and two
I j ing erected for he and Lt. L e e ! children, Maxon in the navy at
at their form er base in Maine, San Diego and M argaret in Los
w ith
appropriate ceremonies, Angeles, survive.
which Mrs. Stephenson attended.
Seattle Man Buys
Sports Goods Shop
Ashland Woman
Sponsors Launching
An Ashland fam ily was made
happy this week w hen they re
ceived official word from the war
departm ent that their son had
been rescued from a Ja p in ter
m ent camp in the Phillipines. The
fam ily is Mr. and Mrs. George L.
Carey, and their son is Clarence
V. Carey. Mr. and Mrs. Carey
had received no word from their
son in the past three years and
had throught him perished. Of
ficial word from the w ar dep art
m ent read, "Am pleased to in
form you that inform ation receiv
ed indicates the rescue by our
forces of Clarence V. Carey, phy
sical condition fair. Form erly in
terned a t Santo Tomas.”
The young m an was born in
Ashland and attended school here
At an early age he enlisted in
the navy and later in the regular
arm y w here he served eight years
He w rote his parents th at he was
going into the moving picture
business in Manila. This was be
fore w ar started w ith Japan and
he was evidently enterned w ith
other civilians w hen the Japs
overran the Phillipines early in
Seven Ashland youngsters of
the war.
junior high age were assessed a
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total of $44.60 the past week,
Miss Wilma From an and Miss
when com plaints were filed with
Alaine Cloudy, are visiting this
the police departm ent th at an
week at the home of Miss Fro-
epidem ic of window breaking and
m an’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
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street light depredations. was in
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Froman, coming down from Wil
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progress. Several B. B. guns and
lam ette U niversity a t Salem to
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.22 calibre rifles were impounded
spend a week, during a “term
by
the police. No court action was
end” vacation. Miss Cloudy’s
taken upon the promise of the
home is in Alaska and as her
boys th at all damage would be
home was too far aw ay to think
paid for, which they have faith
of spending a week there, she
fully fulfilled.
came to southern Oregon to spend
the tim e, visiting in this area. The above picture shows the contem plated addition to the Free M eth
Dr. E. E. M artin of Portland,
The two young ladies came Sun odist Church on East Main Street, which it is honed will be under district superintendent of the
day and will retu rn to Salem the construction soon. The rooms will be 30 x 30 feet, to contain four Nazarene churches, was a guest
rooms and will be used for Sunday School rooms. The addition has ,. ., .
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coming Sunday.
become necessary w ith the grow th of the Sunday School classes. The in
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Mayor and Mrs. E
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building will be m ade of cement blocks and to finance the undertak- ’*• Wiley, while attending to busi-
M emorials for Decoration Day. ing th> church
,.u in g each block for $1.75 each. Rec. E. R. Quick ness m atters in southern Oregon,
Place your order Now. Burns jg putor of the church and treasurer of the fund to build the new j Monday a conference was held at
Former Minister of
Ashland Dies in Calif.
Free Methodist Church To Be Enlarged
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Memorials.
«trueture,
Church of Christ
To have Dedication
T h e im provem ents recently
made in the sanctuary of the
Church of Christ will be dedicat
ed at the m orning service Sunday
morning.
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The m ajor portion of the work
has been done for over three
weeks, but the painting of the
woodwork had to wait upon the
availability of a painter. This
work will be completed this week
The Mens’ classroom, which can
be opened to accomodate over
flow crowds is also being finished
this week with the same m ater
ial as was used on the sanctuary.
The leaders of the church are
desirous of every m em ber being
present. All friends of the church
Klamath Falls which he attended, are invited.