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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
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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.
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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.
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