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Festival to be August 11-28 Sotiik&m ôleça+i Formerly the OKfcloOLrfsfiPER Oregon Shakespearean Festi Southern Oreqoa Miner val AxMoelatiori will present the P u 111 $ ijf kj 4 (s © i «noi $3.00 per year eighth a n n u a l Shaketipeureun festival August II thruugh the 28th, under the direction of A n gus L. Bowmer. These plays will he presented in the Elizabethan 3.00 PEH YEAR A S III.A N lI, JACKSON CO UN TY, OKF.GON T I,„r,J ,y. | u„ e,„. manner. Volume i j . Number 14 "Othello," " L o v e 's Labour’s S K IS N l k i law t," "King John," and "The M erchant n I Venice" are the plays to he presented this year. According to Robert E. Dodge, president of the association, th e ' Annual Guard T raining Camp $11).(10 yeurly sponsoring m em -1 Bruce Smith, Gordon Miller. for all Rogue River National Bond election for the Ashland bershlps wdl Include eight ad R e v e re n d G eo rg e M S ch u m an . Forest employees Is to be held School District 5 will be schedul missions this ear, and will also Dorothy Morris, Richard J o y , from June 9 to 11, eleven miles ed for July 15, was the decision Include federal tax. Letters were Fred Haight, Kay Clark, M ar gery McClary, T o d Tlddutt, of the Board of Directors at its east of Butte halls. mailed out to all persons who Bob Phillips, John Lane«, Vemta This school is prim arily for regular m eeting Monday evening. held m emberships last year in the training of lookouts and The entire Board was present to (lie association asking them to Roberson, Dr Elmo Stevenson, and Harry Kannasto have signed smoke chasers employed for the go over the plans which Marion riiicw their m em berships, In or Stokes, architect pf Stokes and sum m er months. der to obtain funds to complete entry blanks to ented A shland’s City Tennis tournam ent that will Forester Don Stoner from the Allyn, had brought down for the the construction of the stage. begin June 13, according to Ray Supervisor’s office in Medford Is consideration of the board m em Fletcher, head of the local Y M bers. in charge of the training camp. C. A The George A. Briscoe school The Ashland District person Dr. William E Bracker, who nel that are attending as students will be built south of the p re heads the Y M C A. tennis com are; John O'Connor, dispatcher sent W ashington school so as not m ittee, announces that the dead in the Ashland Office; Hal J e w to disturb the old building until line for entry in the tournam ent ett, headquarters firem an; Mi the new one will be ready for Talent, June 9--C i t y water Is June 10th Entry fees are 25 chael Rayes, Robinson B utte occupancy. Additional space Is to h o o k s have been printed and are cents for junior division and 50 lookout: and Henry Nahss, Big be added at Lincoln whici> will flow being offered for sale. As cents for seniors, and blanks for make that a 12 teacher school. Elk Guard. soon as the sale Is consum m ated, entering are available at Eber Having had some difficulty in Ranger Harold Thomas and the contract for excavating the harts, Marshall Wells, Ashland District Assistant Bob Dunn will securing ample space at t he well will be awarded. Hardware, A A B Sports Shop, act as instructors along with four W ashington site the Board deci Chief Cooper says there will Biard's Hardware, The Rogue other Rogue River Rangers and ded that it would be wise to p u r probably be a w ater shortage Men's Shop, W estern Auto, F ire chase from the City the front 10 assistants. dining the time the well Is being stone, Cham ber of Commerce, The Ashland office will not acres of the Axel property on dug since the site is the same as and the Y.M.C.A building. open the rem ainder of this week W alker Avenue. As the city the present lower well. Fletcher also announced that grows this will give room for e x because of the school. aw ards for this year’s tournam ent pansion of the school facilities. COMMUNITY CHEST PLAN are In the form of a small gold Business and civic leaders of statue m ounted on a base, and tin1 various cities and counties will be on display at a later o f Oiegon are deeply concerned date. These trophies were dona Gladys M argaret Barton, who regarding the many campaigns ted by the Ashland Home and is employed a t the Ashland for funds which are continually Auto Supply, Ashland Sporting Laundry, m arried O t t o Carl taking place In the various coun Goods, The Rogue Men’s Shop, Abercrombie of Rt. 2, Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Nugent ties, according to t h e many and the Oak S treet Tank & June 2, at the Chapel of Rocks of Chico, California have p u r RUTH AUGUSTA TURNER Steel. Individual medals will be com m ents appearing in the dully and Roses, Medford. The Rev chased the L itw iller Funeral Talent, June 8---M embers of given by the Cham ber of Com and weekly newspapers. R u t h Augusta Turner, 619 erend D. E. Millard performed home from Mr. and Mrs. C. W. the Talent Grange m ade co n tri merce. Jackson County last year made South Central, Medford, Oregon, Litw iller. Mr. Nugent has been butions of tinned food and cloth died at the home of her son, the ceremony. some progress In consolidating The bride wore a pink and operating a m ortician business In ing for the flood victims of the Monday, May 31 .Funeral ser the many campaigns for funds by Columbia River area this week vices were held for her at the blue flowered silk dress with Chico for the past seven years, raising funds for 10 state agencies black accessories, and carried a and previous to th at time wa> Collections were made by Mrs. at one time under the name of Litw iller funeral home at 1:30 corsage of purple Iris, spirea, in Reno, Nevada. Both Mr. and Clarence Walden. the Oregon Chest and during the o'c l o c k , Wednesday afternoon, and rosebuds. Mrs. John Greach- Mrs. Nugent are graduates of the At the last m eeting of the sam e drive with t h e same June 2. with burial In the Ash er attended the bride as m atron State Teacher’s College in Chico, Grange, held June 3, Mr. and am ount of effort ruixed funds land cemetery. Mrs. Bette Hampton, C hair tor certain local character build- man of the "Miss Ashland" Mrs. Dale Momany were obliga- ! Mrs. T urner was 85 years of of honor, and John Greacher and Mr. Nugent is a graduate of served the groom as best man. ted in the first and second degree 1 the San Francisco College of Em in agencies. beauty pageant, announced this by M aster Lloyd Lacy. The groom Is employed by balming. The Nugents will be at I age at the time of her death and This combining of campaigns week that at the present time Raymond Inlow, m aster of the was born February 19, 1863 In the Cascade Fir & Pine Co. of 105 Nob Hill, w here they have in tbe Community Chest Is a for Jacksonville, Maine, and has re Ashland, where the couple will purchased a home. .They have there are nine girls entered in Bellview grange was a visitor. w ard step because it elim inates the contest that will be held sided In Oregon for the past m ake their home. I two children, Nancy Ann, and m any solicitations thereby re tw enty years. Her parents were Ju^y 2, in the Ashland A 'V tfy - The bride is the daughter oil Michael. lieving the business men <g our The girls are Margery N ew ton,' Mr. and Mi-s. Alfred Hanscom. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barton ofi Mr. and Mrs. Litw iller have com m unities from being contin She Is survived by Grove Bry Corvallis, Oregon. Mr. and M rs.* been operating the funeral home Eugenia Moore, Lucille Huilun- I ually harassed by a large num ber ant of Medford and a brother Herm an Abercrombie of Phil since 1935, and will continue to of individual solicitors and from der, Ann Pirtle, Betty Jean John Hansom, Seattle. Washing omath, Oregon, are parents of assist the Nugents in the busines being pressed Into service on a Hartsock, Rena Russell. Aliena ton. the groom. Owens. W illette Harnden and Monday evening, June 7, Wil for an indefinite period. large n u m b e r of campaigns. Doris Carouthers. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Harmon liam McGee was introduced to Also, In the organization of the These g i r l s a r e tentatively ten mem bers of the Ashland WILLIAM EDY BUTLER worked Sunday on their house Com m unity C h e s t w a s the William Edy Butler, Walker sponsored by the following m er in Medford, painting and rede Cham ber of Commerce, at a thought that a combined cam Avenue, died in the Ashland chants: Pentzer’s Dress Shop. corating the interior. dinner meeting in the Elks paign saves considerable expense Twin Plunges, Southern Oregon Community hospital, Thursday, club dinning room. McGee is Talent. Ju n e 8 - T h e C rater and so ullows a higher percent News Review, Soroptom ist Club,! the newly elected seretary of the May 27. Services were conducted Mrs. Lovina Shore had word Lake Cam pfire girls collected age of the contributors money to go to the cause for which It Fortm illers, W e 11 z. el s D epart-I Cham ber, und assumed his duties for him in the Litw iller Funeral from her son, Robert Ervin, clothing for the relief of flood chapel, Saturday, .May” 29, at who is in Japan that he had victims in the Portland-V anport ment Store, Varsity Theater, Ll- the 1st of June. wus intended. Following the dinner Ed Sing- 1:30 o'clock by the Reverend A. slipped, fallen, and h urt him area last week. They closed the Mr. H. (J. Enders of Ashland thia Theater, Busch Motor Com was City C hairm an for the Com pany, Ashland Cabinet Works m aster, president of the Cham J. Edwards of the Nazarene self. Robert is in the United drive Tuesday. ber, introduced Mr. McGee to church. Burial was m ade in the States Army and works as a Next meeting of the cam pfire m unity Chest campaign last year and Marshall Wells store. carpenter. Mrs. Hampton also ann o u n the small group. McGee stated: Ashland cem etery girls will be Friday, Ju n e 18, at and according to the reports Mr. Butler was the son of the city hall at 7:30. Any girl, 10 from the Oregon Chest office at ced that any m erhant that would "that h e thought Ashland a Mrs. Rice of Denver, Colora yeans old. is urged to ome as Salem a splendid campaign was like to enter a young lady be friendly town and already felt Mary C. Johnson Butler and made by the citizens of the city tween the ages 18 and 28, single, quite at home here.” He didn’t William E. Butler who crossed do is visiting her daughter, the group hopes to start a club of under his leadership. Pluns are to please contact the Ashland mae any convictions as to his the plains from Illinois in 1848 Mrs. Robert Lugar, this week. girls in that age bracket. being made for the Community Cham ber of Commerce, a n d plans as he stated, "that he and settled in Southern Oregon Mrs. Rice will return to Denver Chest campaign to be held this I leave her name with Bill Me- would like to have a little more in 1850. He was born January Thursday and take Mrs. L u HOME ECONOMICS CLUB 30, 1866. gar’s daughter. Pamela, with The regular m onthly meeting Fall and It Is recognized th at, Gee, secretary of the Chamber. time to get acquainted.” her. Butler was a stock rancher in of the Talent Grange sponsored Singrnaster then I n t r o duced this Is a crucial year inasm uch' Mr. and Mrs. A. J. P e terso n , Home Economics club was held Jam es Osborn, who is conducting Valley View all his life. Survi as if the com m unity wants a I greater federation of campaigns, | a campaign to get new members vors are his daughter, Mrs visited Mr. and Mi's. G ordon1 Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Emma Kilgore of Klam ath Falls, Greenwood of Medford Sunday. ) Clarence Walden. in the Cham ber of Commerce then the Chest campaign must Oregon and a son, Jam es F. B ut be a success. Osborn pointed out that he had gotten ten new members last ler of Auburn, California, also W. G. Simpson, Don Evans, week, who include: Acme Roof eight grandchildren and four Carl Hall, Cornelius Rost, Roy ing, Scheffel & Gilman, Evcel great grandchildren. A brother, Elliot, Floyd Crossland, Carvil Dress Shop, Bill Snider, Vic’s John F. Butler, also resides In Rost and Robert Rost will attend Camera, C. R. Foster, Alfreds Ashland. the 27th annual state encam p Flower Shop, College Cleaners, EMERY L. NEAL ment of the Veterans of Foreign and Sullivan's Signs. Funeral Services were held foi Singrnaster reports that the Wurs, June 15, in Pendleton. Mrs. Em ery L. Neal, Tuesday after Ashland Cham ber of Commerce Cornells Rost, Mrs. Floyd Cross- land, Mrs. Bernice Garen, Mrs. has gone on record as favoring noon, June 1, in the Litwiller Robert Rost, and Mrs. Frances the proposed bureau of reclam a funeral home. Internm ent was In This W e e k Rush, members of the VFW tion plan for utilization of the the Stearns cem etery near Tai auxiliary, will also attend the Rogue River waters for Irriga ent. Oregon Mr. Neal died in the CHILDRENS CLASSICS tion purposes. The vote was 67 Ashland hospital, Thursday, May encampment. for; 12 against; 30 with no opin 27» Art N a l l s , Pendleton, state "Twenty Thousand L e a- ion. Neal was born August 29, chairm an of the encam pment, has gues Under the Sea" Next meeting of the Chamber 1881 in Jackson County, the son announced t h a t Clyde Lewis, --Jules Verne Plattsburg, New York, attorney, will be Tuesday noon, June 15, of Susan C. Tollett Neal and William Neal. He was engaged in junior vice comm ander-in-chief in the Elks dining room. "Toby Tyler" farm ing in this area all of his of VFW, has been invited to a t life. - Jam es Otis tend the encam pment as repre Mrs. G rant Lorrey, a sister of sentative o f national affairs. "King A rthur a n d H i s Ashland, survives him. Lewis is originally from A ber K nights” Two petitions have been filed deen and Is well acquainted - Elizabeth Merchant throughout the Pacific N orth with Glenna E. Mitchell to pi ace EXAMINER COMING A Drivers License Examiner west. He is the first World Wat- the names of C. R. Ramsey and "Heidi" Il veteran to achieve high VFW G. Edwin Dunn on the ballot to will be on duty in Ashland on -S p y rl office and, according to tra d i serve as candidates for the five I Monday, June 14 at the City V P flr f e r m u _____ > ..... ........ I tion, is in line to become national year term for school board mem Hall from 9 AM to 4PM, accor "Swiss Family Robinson" ber being left open by G. H. ding to an announcem ent re com m ander-ln-chief in 1950. Wenner. The dead line for the celved from the Secretary of - David Wyss filing of petitions is June 14 and State's office. MRS. KARNES EXTENDS “Robinson Crusoe" THANKS TO ALL Persons wishing licenses o r the election has been set from Mrs. Helen Karnes, president 2 to 7 p.ni. Monday, June 21 at perm its to drive are asked to get - Daniel Defoe of the American Legion A uxil the City Hall In touch with the exam iner well iary, wishes to etend thanks to A petition has also been filed ahead of the scheduled closing the girls and boys, m erchants for Ben T. Lombard for the one hour In order to assure com and newspapers for their help ¡n year term. Lombard was appoin pletion of their applications with making Poppy Day a success. ted by the Board to take the a minimum of delay. Mrs. Karnes also wants to thank place of Frank J. Van Dyke who ull persons who contributed by moved to Medford. The law re Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moore and 270 East Main Phone 8011 buying popples, quires that at the first election daughter Ruth Ann motored to after such un appointm ent, a San Rafael, California Monday Dr. Harold Chilton of Phoenix member be elected to fill out the night and home Tuesday evening I was in Ashland Tuesday. to visit relatives. unexpired term NEWS REVIEW Tennis Tourney to Begin June 13 W/.MTED-A MULE Guard Training Camp, to be This Week Bond Election to be July 15 Work Will Soon Begin on Well Gladys Barton Weds Otto Abercrombie Help is Sent to Disaster Victims Nugents Purchase Funeral Home Nine Beauties in Contest McGee Introduced to Ten Members Campfire Girls Aid Flood Victims VFW Members to Attend Meet wow! W hat They’re » Reading School Board Member Election June 21 the new FORD BUSCH MOTOR CO. Friday M AC T June 18