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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1937)
i rAOT! TWELVE rEtiFOITT) MAIL TRTBTTKE. fEPFORD OREGON". SUNDAY, ' .TTTLT 1 8." 1937 STATE LINE AREA : TAKESOVN LIFE Henry Ward, 55, Places Gun '.' At Head, After Phoning Neighbor Friday. SIX PROPERTIES IN VALLEY. CITY . Henry Ward, 5Ayear-old homestead tr In tha southeast corner of Jackson county near Copco, Calif., waa found drad In bed with a ahot through hit head Friday night. The death wound waa aellMnfltctcd. the county coroner offlca atatcd. Mr. Ward placed the m utile or a Jtt calibre rifle In his mouth and pulled the trigger, the coroner'a of fice aald. adding that death waa In atantaneoua. He loft a letter which ihowed that he had been dwpondent, according to the coroner'a office. Death occurred about 7:30 Friday rUtht. Shortly before that hour Mr. Wrd telephoned hla nearest neigh -tor taking Mm to call aa soon aa poa alble. The neighbor lived four mllea away and arrived at 8:30. He found Mr. Ward dead, lying across a bed In Ma cabin. The neighbor, whose name waa not procured, notified Coroner Prank Perl. Deputy coroner Will Dadgo of Ashland was aent to tno uomesieao era cabin. Ho removed the body to the P. J. Dodge and Sons mortuary In Aehland. " The man's mother, Mrs. W. E. Ward of Klamath Palls waa notified and she came with other relatives Imme diately to Aahland. i Plana wero made for Interment near Cap co whoro forebears were interred. MM ford and vicinity gained new property owners from points out side the atata. according to an an nouncement of recent aalea by W. J. ("Dad") Robert, realtor, of 730 West Second street, who handled the transactions. L. C. Oreenamyer sold to a. W. Mc Bee of Augusta. Kan., a seven-room house and aeven acres of land on the Old Stage road. Carl Wllkie. from Pender. Neb., bought nine acres and a seven-room residence on Meyers lane from Ralph Thomas, Ed Betchel sold to C. A. Rector from Olobo, Ariz., nine acrea and a seven-room home, known aa the old De Witt ranch. O. L. Ortman purchased an eight and half-acre ranch and a five room bouse on Beall lane from the Jackson County Building and Loan. . W. E. and Grace Jones from Hood i River purchased the large Milter resi dence In Jacksonville from Amelia Toff. Leslie Shaw, from South Dakota, bought a residence at 003 Maple stroet from Mrs. Phil Loosley. Mrs. Eva Zoe Carpenter sold a resi dence at 70S North Riverside avenue to C. L. Greener, from Washington. DRIVE CONTINUES E FETE AT ASHLAND NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR CAR DRIVERS E. Continuation of dally service at itedford city hall for the renewal or procurement of Oregon driver licensee waa announced yesterday by Ward McReynolda, atnte examiner of oper ator and chauffeurs. Mr. Mc Reyn olds was unable to say how much longer the special personal service would bo available. All driver license expired on Juno 430, but been use of ft last minute rush period of grace waa allowed by the secretary of atate'a office, Mr. Mc Reynolds pointed out. Now, however, he cmphaslrcd, drivers with old li censee are bring cited Into court, 60 arresU for no n -possession of the cur rent license having been made here about by the auto police In the put few dnya. ' To avert arrest, Mr. McRcynolda ad vised quick action In procuring the 1037-3U license. B. D. Nutter will be In the examiner's office on the top floor of the city hall every day to accept first or, renewal license applications. BY George Gllllngs, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ollllnga of 33 Lincoln street, won a 2fl priie for honorable mention In the junior division or the Fisher Body CratXtman's Guild model car design competition In Oregon, Portland headquarters notified the Mall Tribune yesterday. Announcement of the winners was made by Lester W, Humphreys, as Distant to Mayor Joseph Cnrson, in Portland where judging had been In progress since close of the competi tion July 0. Fourteen awards wero made In each state. George, a Junior In Medford high school, carved hU winning body model out of bnlsA wood, using only ordinary hand tools. It was a solid model, entirely hnnd-mnde. which In corporated George's original Idcoa on car body duslgn. For tho past three or four years tho boy has shown an aptitude for handicraft. Ho spends much of his spare time In modeling and has made about 100 airplane models. His father la office deputy in the county engi neering depnrtment. Val Estrello, CCD enrolee of Camp Wineglass, suffered a fractured tipper Jaw and the Ions of four teeth when trurk by a falling rock while at work with a crew of men on the rim at Crater lake. Rstrello won a leader In charge of ft crew. FelKiw workers noticed the falling rock but was unable to warn him in time and ho waa hit mil in the face. The rcok cut hla Up as well aa Injuring his jaw and teeth. KstrcUo waa brought to tho Pacrej Heart hospital in Medford and. ac cording to the CCC district surgeon, la recovering rapidly. The accident happened several days ago but was disclosed ouly yesterday. nrnruirt unm nnnrm JtUUNU Will I H DKUUU sSs SHOULD BE SPRAYED llP 111 LOCAL MOTORISTS TO RECEIVE TEST Medford motorist will soon have the opportunity of testing their acu mew In operating an automobile. Somo day this week the Oregon State Motor association will send a machine here in furtherance of lt rampnlgn to reduce accidents. It wtu announced yesterday y Word Mc Rcynolda. state examiner.. The exact date had not yet been determined. - The machine la housed in a trailer It is designed to dlseloeo a driver's vision and depth of i-erceptlon, alert ness In responding to signals and general Judgment. Errors of driving. if any. are revealed and the driver la then shown how they may be overcome. Purpose of the association In send ing tho apparatus around the state is entirely educational, Mr. McRcyn olda explained in asking public co operation. The first rover spray for the control of second brood codling moth should be completed on July 30 on all varieties of apples and pears, according to the advice of C. B Cordy, assistant county agent aim L, O. Oentner. eutomolgiKt of mc Southern Oregon experiment station Vse three pounds of arsenate oi Iad plus one-fourth to one-third pound of spresder In -ne hundred gallons of tcr. Growers should not use oil on apple in the aeoond brood sprays,, since It my complicate t:ie rcidue removal at harvest time. LAWN MOW nils sharpened We call and del si ma pt. !, tt 43 N Fir ,,mere .''? B,. PERli 1 21 illM Ala Vista Packing House ' 327 South Fir Street Under the management of C. A. KNIGHT. Owner; C. A. MARSHALL, Foreman, and MARIAN STANCLIT in charge of Packing and Sorting. We have installed a NEW IDEAL WASHER and have ample capacity to give QUICK SERVICE and GUARAN TEE FIRST CLASS PACK. Please call and see us. We will Pack and Store your Fruit and you can sell to whom you please. We also expect some very attractive FO B. Orders. Phone 1000. The Oregon Shakespeare Pestlval association's drlxe for associate mem berships will continue In Medford next week, following three dsys of successful canvassing on the part of the drive committee. A number of new names were add ed Saturday to the list of sponsors for the annual Shakespearean plays which will be held In Aahland August to 7, and early returns Indicate highly successful csmpalgn. Ashland's drive will formally get under way Monday, although a num ber of pre -drive memberships have been sold here. Because of the "Great- Aahland" celebration, commute: members decided to open their cam paign next week. Mrs. H. M. schilling is chairman of the Ashland committee with Robert Dodge, Mrs. fred Wagner and Mrs. John Puller assisting. The Medford committee, made up of Dorothy . Prultt, Doreen Leverette, Rychard Sleight and Roy Craft, re porta twelve new sponsoring mem bers, and Ashland added two to the list Saturday, Sam Birch. Portland pear broker and Shakespeare enthusiast, waa one of the first out-of-townera to pur chase a sponsoring membership. He plana to bring hla wife and two daughtera here for the week of the festival to enjoy the three plays on this year'a repertoire, "Twelfth Night." Romea and Juliet ' and "Taming of the Shrew." Following are the new members: Af.h land Rev. Charlea Qullbert. Dr. Mnttlo B. Shaw. .Medford Mrs. Porter Nefr. Plrst National Bank. 9. M. Bullls. Mayor aeorrje porter Mrs. E. E. Q ore. Blgelow's. Alfred S. V. Carpenter. Mrs. Alfred fl. ,V. Carpenter. Mrs. Loonnrd Carpenter. Oeorgo A. Hunt. Louisa C. Leo W. W. Walker. With tho sponsoring memberships. which sell at 5, go six reserved a?at tickets to any of the performances. The association, headed by Judge Earl B. Day, hopes to establish the annual southern dramatic festival oi sound, permanent basis. LOCAL and PERSONAL Home for Week-End J. D. Bow- dish. Medford builder now employed at Crater lake, arrived here Friday evening to spend the week-end at his home, 1260 Sunset avenue, ' Meeting Tuesday Southern Oregon Gem and Mineral society will hold a regular semi-monthly meeting In the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at 7:30 Tuesday evening. Ylftlting Grandmother Richard Ward, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ward of Klamath Palls, former Med ford residents, la spending a few days with his grandmother, Mrs. J, D. Bowdlsh of 1360 Sunset avenue. Frllftfi in Army Louis H. Lawaon, son of Mr. and Mra. W. M. Law&on of 322 North Central avenue, was enlisted at Portland July Ifl for ser vice with the United Stat army air corps In the Hawaiian Islands, It was announced yesterday by Set. WUUs 3. Estep, recruiter here. Undergo Operations P. L. Coon of Grant Pass underwent a sub-mucous operation In the Osteopathic hospital yesterday moinlng. Julia Vanderpool, young daughter of "Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Vanderpool of Klamath Falls, had her tonsils and adenoid excised at the hospital Friday morning. To IlaTe Tonsils Fxclsed Ansll pearce, scaler for the Rogue River na tional forest at the Pelican Bay Lum ber company operation northeast of Crater lake, arrived here yesterday on sick leave. He was said to be Buffering from tons! lit Is and 1 to have his tonsils excised tomorrow. Army Stutlon Re-Opens United State army recruiting station has i been re-opened in Medford city hall following the return of Willi S. Estep, sergeant In charge, from a va cation spent in visiting relative and friends in Idaho and Utah. Appli cations aro being received for service In nearly all branches of the army, both foreign and domestic, Sgt. Estep said. Here for Week-End Bernle Hughes, ranger at Crater Lake national park, la spending the week-end In Med ford. Two New Residences Applications were made at .the city building In speetor'a office yesterday for permits to construct two. new residence. They were made by Jim and Lee Neff of 807 Bennett avenue for the construc tion of a house and garage at a stated coat of 92000 and by Delbert J. Berg man of. 811 East Jackson boulevard for the construction of a residence and garage at a stated cost of $2800. Returns to Duties Richard M. Culbertaon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thorns A. Culbertaon, Sr., left by train last night for San Diego, Cal where he will resume hi duties with the United State navy. He had been home on leave since July 3. Culbert aon 1 serving on the airplane car rler Lexington which steamed away to assist In the search for Amelia Earhart while he was on furlough He will be assigned to duties at Coro- nado until hla ship returns to port. K I wan Is Speaker Ben O. Lipscomb of Portland, field representative of the social security board with head quarters In Klamath Falls, will be the principal speaker at tomorrow's week ly luncheon -meeting of the Kt warns club In the Hotel Medford at 13:16. He will explain administrative fea ture of tbc social cecurlty act. The club will welcome a a new mem ber Cornelius Collins, new owner of the Medford Lumber company whose Klwanis membership was transferred to the local club after his arrival here from hi former mid-west home. BIRTHS Born to Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Otllnsky of Jacksonville a girl weighing six pounds and ten ounces at Sacred Heart hospital Friday afternoon, July 16. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Emll Tarns of 838 South Newtown .street a boy welching seven pounds and six ounces at Sacred Heart hospital yesterday morning, Saturday, July 17. Judgment for K0 damages woe given In a British court for disin fecting a house without giving no tice, this being "wrongful Interfer ence with property." Cue Mall rrlbune want ids Confers Here Fred Ames, member of tho Unlt?d States regional forest staff at Portland In charge of timber sale procedure, conferred here yes terday with Karl L. Janouch, super visor of the Rogue River national forest. Mr. Ames waa en route to Eugene after making an Inspection at the ret lean Bay Lumber company and the Chlloquln Lumber company op erations on the Rogue forest. Two Felicitations Only two cham bers of commerce In the whole United States congratulated Tacoma when the Washington city wo chosen for an army nlrbnse. It Is declared Jn tho current issue of "Tacoma Prog ess,,, a magazine published by the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. One was the Jackron County chamber uf Commerce and the other the Dayton, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce, said the magazine article, written by T. A. Stevenson, secretary -manager of the Tacoma chamber. Tho choice of Ta coma for the alrbase stirred up con siderable resentment In some quar ters, especially In Portland whlcn had been campaigning for the air base for Itself. At tho time of re ceiving the local chamber's congratu latory messago the Tacoma organtz- , at ion expressed lta gratitude and said It would assist Medford In procuring j a secondary base. Medford Publicity Word was re ceived here yesterday from Under wood 6s Underwood by A. H. Ban well, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, that the photo service would distribute to its hun dreds of newspaper and magazine cli ents photographs of Mrs. Hlldcgarde Lange Ryan and her ctght-montha-old baby, Artls Jean, who were taken aloft by Tex Rankin, stunt pilot, after the sky show held here July 2. A story would be sent out with the i photos, Underwood & Underwood wrote. Feature of the story la that Tex Rankin gave Mrs. Ryan her first airplane spin 30 years ago when she waa eight months old. Thus two gen erations wero given their lnltal spins by the famed pilot. The photos and story were sent to Underwood & Un derwood by Mr. Ban well. , Army General Here MaJ-Oen. George S. Slmonds, commanding the 9th corps area of the United States army, stopped at Medford municipal airport yesterday afternoon on his return to his Presidio headquarters after a flight to Fort Lewis, Wash, where he went over plans for army and national guard maneuvers. He remained only long enough to havfl his plane refueled. The - ship was. piloted by Col. Jacob Flckel, air of ficer of the 8th corps area. Other arrivals yesterday Included Lieut. X.. G. Saunders of Boiling field. Wash ington, D. O, who 1 making a cross country flight in a Douglas obser vation plane and who arrived from Hamilton field. Cal., and departed for Fort Lewis. Lieut. H. A. Boushey of Fort Lewis arrived late Friday In a Douglas observation en route to Sunnyvale. Cal. Vacation la East Madeline Solder. assistant supervisor of tha dlruioa of employment In WPA district 4, left Medford by train Friday for Minne apolis, Minn., where she will spend a month vacation. Evpect4 Home Joe Burroughs and B. L. Sanderson, delegates from th local Elk lodge to the national convention In Denver, Colo., are ex pected to return this week. They report a very enjoyable trip and much appreciation of Denver hospitality. Driver Cited Almond Wilder Hill. 49, of Medford, was cited by stats police yesterday afternoon to appear in justice court tomorrow afternoon on charges of cutting In while pass ing another car. Hill was cited on the Pacific highway south of Med ford. Class flapper O. A. Meeker Sun day school class of the . First Meth odist Episcopal church will have a pot-luck supper Tuesday night at 6:30 on the lawn at the L. F. Blttlc home, 113 South Oakdale avenue. Those attending are to brine a cov ered-dish and service. Birth Announced Of Interest to their many Medford frlenda Is an nouncement of the birth of a daugh ter to Mr. and Mr. Earl Wymore of Portland. July 14. The baby welshed 1 six pounds and ha been named Dor- othy May. Both mother and daugh- I ter are reported getting alone nicelv. I Mrs. Wymore was formerly Miss Mar- j jorle Hon of thla city and both she and her husband resided here prior I to moving to Portland, COOLERWEATHER SEEN FOR TODAY pcu to report poaslbl, ftret. L!bt nine ttrlke, rt reported but no bl,zo iu Immediately discernible. Localized electric storm, were also reported In Portland and fialem. Of ticlal forecast for the Rrgue valley was for cloudy weather today and tomorrow, cooler today. Because rural Juror, are more familiar with measuring distances by paces rather than by feet. Okla homa's new hlghwey patrolmen are checked for length of trld. Seal Thumb, Ride SAUNAS, Cal. (UP) Al Sllfh, 33-year-old golf professional, aver, that the training of seal, ha, reached a point where they now know how tc give the hltch-hlklng signal. Sllgh. driving a county truck, encountered , seal which had come ashore and wandered four mllea from the ocean. The seal promptly signaled his hitch hiking desires with a flip of Its tall, and Sllgh took It aboard and back lo the ocean. Scattered thunder storms checks the mercury rise In the vallev vrxtrr- day and cooler temperatures wen- predicted for today. Yesterdays high est reading was 92, five under Friday's peak. Rainless electric storm v r.nn.H last evening in the Butte Fail. hu. trlct, Rcgue river national forest ob-j server. hln v.-u . u vtuwjy 10 meir BINDER TWINE Standard quality, 600 ft Highest quality, 600 ft .$5.25 per bale $6.00 per bale GRAIN SACKS 6c and each All very good quality sacks for Wheat, Barley and Oats. See us before you buy. GRAIN STORAGE 323 N. Froht BONDED WAREHOUSE LOW INSURANCE RATES See us now for grain storage space in our new concrete fire-proof warehouse. Our storago warehouse is dry and clean and rates reasonable. A new 20 ton truck scale bas been installed for quick and depend able service. Let us haul your grain for you direct from the field to our storage. F. E. SAMSON GO. SEEDS - FEEDS - FERTILIZER 229 N. Riverside : tasi STRIKING NEW FEATURES include leetl Flame . . . No Cenk.iMea . . . New Type Peel Ualt . . . New preceil far kaalelfylaa ad arifylaf air . . . New t nelat.r aalt teniae, ! a,av eta.r, w.lca c.mkl.ed tlv, ..,nan vemll eAcleaty. laaaartlal teiH pre re St feel recavery. CON VICTi n. One convicted of, and under sentence for, a crime. Webster It's a crime for women to carry wood. A crime to impair children's health with sooty smoke-laden air and fumes. These two were convicted of such crimes by a bard to handle wood-fired furnace. But they've escaped now. They're free forever from drafts and dampers, wood and ashes. , Escape furnace work, install the new Cen tury Zeph-o-lator. It not only brings you all the glorious comfort and convenience of Cen tury automatic oil heat, but properly condi tions the air you breathe. It washes and puri fies it, then adds the correct amount of mois ture and heat for best health. It also supplies plenty of domestic hot water. A complete heating and air conditioning system contained in a single, attractively de signed cabinet-type unit, self-operating" and attontion-free. Ask your dealer for the rea sonable cost. CENTURY ENGINEERING CORP. CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA For Oil Heating of Any Type See H. 0. PURUCKER ELECTRIC WIRING CO. I 'Dreamed of a HOME of OUR OWN" "But we thought it wouldn't be possible to have one for many years to come 1 "One day we talked with Mr. McKay. He showed us how to plan safely and economically. He showed us how to build on the budget plan just the type of dwelling we were looking for at just the price we can afford to pay. He revealed to us the joys of home ownership. He explained how we can trans form the payment of rent into mortgagc-liquidating install-ments." FHA The pride of building your ideal home, which you have dream ed about for years, are within your reach. Let us help you make it possible Timber Products Company MEDFORD PHONE 7 OREGON END OF N. CENTRAL 217 W. Main. Phone 458
