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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1941 FLOYD MOORE IS TOP COWBOY AT $75 Stock Saddle Won In Rideoff With Two Others Celebration Big Success Ashland, July 8. Spl Floyd Moore of Ashland, In a rideoff with his brother, Ira Moore, and Stan Cooley, won the erand prize as the best all around cowboy at the Ashland Trail Riders' rodeo which feat ured the annual July 4 celebra- tion here yesterday. The prize was a $75 stock saddle. There were 40 other prize winners, who split an aggregate of f 400. It was estimated that 12,000 persons Jammed the streets and park during the day and night. Attendance at the afternoon showing of the rodeo was 2,700, with 1,300 turning out for the night show. Fortmlller Float Wins Fortmiller's store of Ashland captured the grand prize as the most beautiful float in the morning parade, with the Elks, the Full Gospel church and the Daughters of Union Veterans' floats following in that order. Bathing girls beautifying the Fortmiller float were Pat Clark and Shirlee Beck, both of Med ford, and Peggy Whittle of Ash land. Among other features of the parade, one of the best ever held here, were appearances of the Yreka, Cal., American Le gion drum and bugle corps and the Sheriff's Mounted Posse from Medford. The city band gave a" concert In the park dur ing the afternoon, and the eve ning was brought to a close with a colorful fireworks dis play in the park and a July 4 dance at the armory. Confined In Sacred Heart hos pital with a broken back she suffered in a fall from a horse last Monday, Miss Dorothy Rogers of 106 South Holly street, employe of the California-Oregon Power company, to day thanked friends for the many bouquets of flower and other kindnesses she has re ceived. She is able to see vis itors for a short time each day. Miss Rogers, who will be con fined In the hospital for a con siderable length of time, sus tained a compression fracture at the small of her back. Ac cording to her attending phy sician, she will undoubtedly make a complete recovery. E. L KING PROMOTED BY SOUTHERN PACIFIC Appointment of E. L. King, superintendent of the Portland division of the Southern Pacific company for the past 20 years, to the office of assistant to the vice-president in charge of op erations, became effective July 1, according to announcement by J. H. Dyer, vice-president In charge of operations. King was succeeded by J. W. Corbett, native Oregonian, who is being advanced from the posi tion of assistant to the general manager at San Francisco. City police Friday arrested two soldiers from Vancouver Barracks and turned them over to their commanding officer af ter on of them allegedly ad mitted striking Kenneth Sauby of Medford early Friday morn ing and taking his money from him. The soldiers were Sgt. Ander son Mockbee, Jr., 22, of com pany B, 1st battalion, 18th en gineers, Vancouver Barracks, and Private Clarence Strasser, 19, of the same company. Fol lowing their arrest, they were turned over to Second Lieuten ant Harold C. Brown, their commanding officer, who told police they would be court martialed. The soldiers told police that they came to Medford Thursday night from Grants Pass, where their company was bivouacing en route from Camp Hunter Liggett in California to Van couver Barracks. They met Sauby, they told police, and had several beers, after which Strasser admitted hitting Sauby on the chin and taking about $2.90 from him. The two sold iers spent the rest of the night in a local rooming house and were arrested by police when they went in search of a res taurant to get breakfast late Friday morning. ELKS WCHARGE BENNETT RITES Funeral services for N. H. Bennett, long-time Medford res ident, who passed away Wed nesday, will be conducted by Medford Elks lodge Monday at 2:30 p. m., in Conger funeral parlors with the Rev. Herald G. Gardner, chaplain of the lodge, officiating. Honorary pall bearers will be Grover C. Coram, T. E. Daniels, Earl Gaddis, John Wilkinson, Gus Newbury and H. F. Piatt; active pall bearers will be George Howard, Ken Howard, E. H. Sleight, J. T. Davis, Ray Wright and Cole Holmes. Mr. Bennett was born Decem ber B, 1883, in Bonepart, Iowa, and had been a member of the Elks lodge since January 27, 1910. MARKED BY FEW P.O. Medford postal station No. 1 at 31 North Bartlett street was closed yesterday after receipt late Friday of the resignation of Miss Edna Elfert as clerk In charge. Miss Eifert's resignation was attributed by Postmaster Frank DeSouza to ill health and overwork. The station will remain closed pending receipt of instructions from the postoffice department at Washington, D. C, Mr. De Souza said. The postmaster an ticipated that the instructions would authorize the calling of bids to operate the station. The contract, Mr. DeSouza said, pro vides that the operator or clerk In charge must furnish the quar ters, light, heat and necessary equipment. Glass We sell glass, raglaze rour nroken windows reason ably Trowbridge Cabinet Works Despite the heavy automobile traffic throughout the county Friday, July 4, police reported only two accidents causing In Jury to occupants of the cars involved. Neither person was seriously hurt. Clinton L. Neeley, 19, of Jacksonville suffered a long and deep laceration on the back, bruises and cuts when the car in which he was a passenger, oper ated by Rodney Stead, 21, of Medford, left the Pacific high way just this side of the county farm and plunged into a ditch on the west side of the road. Neeley was taken to Commun ity hospital in the Perl ambu lance and was still there last night, though not badly hurt, his attending physician stated. An investigating state police man, who talked to witnesses of the wreck, quoted them as say ing the car, northbound about 3:30 Friday afternoon, ran into the ditch and turned over. The machine was considerably dam aged. Another youth riding with neeley and Stead was unidenti fied. Dorr Barrett, of 314 Howard street, Medford taxi driver, was released from Osteopathic clinic Saturday afternoon following treatment for a bruised left arm and shoulder and minor cuts he sustained when the car he was operating left the Pacific high way near Phoenix early Satur day morning, rolled over and struck a tree. The Perl ambu lance took him to the clinic. HOLLY THEATER E There was smoke but no fire yesterday. Smoke bellowing from the Holly theater building at West Sixth and Holly streets brought out the entire fire department at 3:47 p.m. in response to a gen eral alarm. The thick smoke, however, came from papers George Taylor, janitor, was burning in the furnace, the smoke, instead of going upthe chimney, pouring out the doors at street level. "I just figured somebody would think It was a fire," Mr. Taylor commented as firemen rushed into the smoke-filled cellar. Tricre !s No Pea! 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Undivided Profits Total Liabilities.. , 39 320 IS . 5.827.74 . 2.791.42 - 4.478.84 - 11.443.38 .8331.148.38 FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDFORD FIFTY BOY SCOUTS LEAVE FOR CAMP Fifty Boy Scouts from Med ford and nearby communities are leaving today for a week or more at Camp McLoughlln, summer camp of the Crater Lake Area Council at Lake of the Woods, according to Ken neth Wells, Boy Scout executive and camp director. Fifteen camp leaders have been on hand for the past week getting the camp in final shape. New canoe racks have been built, bunks shifted about, tents put up, and all general work necessary for a boys camp com pleted. According to Wells the camp staff Is now fully chosen and will consist of the follow ing: Kenneth Wells, camp di rector, Chris Barker, assistant camp director; Dick Sleeter, waterfront director and camp doctor, George Schrader and Delmar Kolda, camp scoutmas ters, James Hoey, Bob Holmes, Bill Jones and Roger Zwanzi ger, camp assistant scoutmavt ers; Charles Davis, instructor in archery, George Corum, cook, Bob Dager, second cook, and Alvis Winn, dishwasher. SAFE,lANT4TH IN CITY, FOREST As far as fire was concerned, It was a safe and sane Fourth of July hereabouts. Not a fire was reported by Rogue River national forest, the state forest patrol or the city fire department. All expressed their gratitude for the public cooperation that made the spot less record possible. All recreational centers In the Rogue River national forest were utilized to capacity, head quarters said. No accident of any kind was reported. MEDFORD AUTO OVER ASHLAND HIGH DRIVE Ashland, July 9. Spl.) Harry Lawrence of Medford drove a car over the bank on the high drive overlooking Lithla park Thursday night. He was alone and uninjured and small dam age was done to the car. It was put back on the road without calling a wrecker, police report ed. The mishap occurred at about midnight. The car was regis tered to Wayne E. Toulouse and Pete Arcade, Medford. Births PRYNE To Mr. and Mrs. Archie, 1024 N. Front St., July 4, a boy, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. LISTER TO THE PRSSIilG PARADE "JOHnB.nESBITT' CALIFORNIA ORANGE BT 'eW 'B I 1 8b II. SJ) SUNDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY 7:30 P. EL ! ZtfZ V" - Z J I afc hatever it was this lonely gentleman came to is important to everybody, everywhere, every day. see, it couldn't have been very interesting, or very important to many people. Contrast this scene with the audience that turns to newspapers every day. Every weekday, the 37,000,000 families in the U. S. and Canada buy... and read... 43,300,000 news papers. 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