MEDFORD. MAIi; TRIBUNErMEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1943.
PAGE TEN
TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. Martha M. Winnlngham,
83, passed away in Jacksonville
Monday evening. She had been
111 but a short time.
She was born on Forrest
Creek. June 19. 1860. In 1876
in Jacksonville she was united
in marriaee to Mark Watkins.
Two years later they followed
the pack trail into the Apple
sate, where she spent the rest of
her life. Mr. Watkins passed
away in 1900 and was laid to
rest -In the Jacksonville ceme-
. tery.
Three children survive this
marriage, Mrs. Pearl Stephen
son, Butte Falls; Mrs. Mamie
Winnlngham, and Robert Wat
kins, Applegate.
On June 27, 1917, she was
united in marriage to Mark
Winnlngham, who also survives.
There are also 12 grandchildren
and 4 great-grandchildren. Three
of her grandsons are In the
armed forces.
Services will be held In the
Conger chapel Thursday at 2:30
p. m with the Rev. Louis C.
Kirby officiating. Interment will
be In Jacksonville cemetery,
El
George Davis, employed at the
Perl Funeral home In Medford
for the past three years, an
nounced this morning that he
has purchased the Lowe Funeral
home in Lebanon, Ore., and will
leave Medford in about three
weeks to teke over management
of the establishment. Mr. Davis
returned last night from Le
banon where he and Mrs. Davis
spent the past few days com
pleting purchase of the business.
The young man came to Med
ford from Portland and previous
to that had been employed in
Chehalls, Wash., his home town,
by the Boone Funeral home.
He Is a graduate of the San
Francisco College of Embalmers.
Mr. Davis stated today that
he had enjoyed his associations
with Medford people very much
and that he had made a number
of friendships which he valued
highly. .
GOLD HILL MAN
FINED FOR SPEED
John A. Pepovac, Gold Hill,
charged with violation of the
basic rule on the Pacific highway
was assessed $9 and costs in jus
tice court yesterday. The arrest
ing officer said Tepovac was
traveling 90 to 55 miles per hour
when halted."
Leonard Goheen, California
motorist, was assessed $19 and
costs for violation of the basic
rule, and $1.50 and costs for hav
ing no operator's license. He was
also arrested on the Pacific high
way. Leslie J. Kauffman was fined
$1.50 and costs each for no ve
hicle license and no operator's
license. '
Soldiers Aid In John Day's Corn Harvest
Hulolno in tha corn harvest en the Blue Moon ranch of John Dar recently war six soldiers
from Camp White, who obtained two-week passes from their army duties. Along with other work
ers they harvested some 400 ton of ensilage for cattle feed. From left to right, the harvesting
crew were Alex Lavin, Joe McCulley, Jack Day (on cab), Doy's young son) Ted Morgan. Don
Nissin, Forest Thomason, Jack Gillespie, Cpl. Csap, John Day, Pic. Castillo, Bill Workman and
Pvt. Mitchell. Kneeling, left to right, are Cpl. N etherley. Floyd Hedgepeth. Pfc. Franks. Pfc.
Kippes. (Courtesy Camp White Rogue).
HUNTING STORY
Ossle Johnson, 22, of the Eagle
Point district, appeared yester
day before District Attorney
George W. Neilson and gave his
version of the hunting tragedy
last Saturday in the Butler Butte
country which cost the life of
Charley Andrew Layton, 37, of
Shady Cove. Other members of
the hunting party verified John
son's statements.
Before the fatal shot, Johnson
and Layton had wounded a buck.
Layton, while trailing the ani
mal through the brush, was shut
and killed.
District Attorney George W
Neilson quoted the widow as
saying she desired no further le
gal action against Johnson, grief-
stricken by the tragic error. She
said the youth and her husband
had been friends since Johnson
was a little boy and each fall.
the past five or six years, had
gone hunting together, and a
close attachment existed between
the two men.
The coroner's office was ad
vised that Layton, employed in
logging operations by Charles
Skeeter, was Insured in the sum
$4000. Skeeter recently took
out insurance policies for all his
employees, the district attorney
said.
NAZIS EXECUTE 19
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VRV Calendar
Wednesday
' Regular dance at Service Club
No. 1. Bus leaves old Cham
ber of Commerce building at
7:30 p. m.
By United Press
The Netherland Aneta
agency reported that 19 persons,
mostly students, have been exe
cuted by German occupation au
thorities in Amsterdam as repri
sal for the slaying of several high
Nazi officials.
The report, quoting an official
communique sent the Stockholm
Daily Social Demokraten, by its
Berlin correspondent, said the
men were put in death "in ex
piation" for the slaylngs of
Lieut.-Gen. Hendrik A. Seyffnrdt,
Dr. Folkert E. Posthuma. and
other German occupation offic
ials, as well as for a number of
acts of sabotage upon railways in
occupied Holland.
Thursday
Special formal dance at Serv
ice Club No. 2. Bus leaves old
Chamber of Commerce building
ai a p. m.
SINGER CALLED
Hollywood, Cal., Oct. 8. (U.R)
Bob Eberly, one of the nation's
leading band vocalists, told
friends today that he has orders
to report October 12 in his
native Hoosick Falls, N. Y., for
army induction. He is married
to the former Florine Callahan.
Miss Zlegfield of 1936, and has
. an eight months old son.
YOUTHFUL COUPLE
Delbert W. Stover, 17, and
wife, Marjorie Arlene Stover, 15,
charged with theft of auto parts,
waived a grand jury hearing be
fore Circuit Judge Herbert K.
Hanna yesterday, and each was
granted a six months' suspended
sentence, on pleas of guilty. Mrs.
Stover was directed to report
weekly to the district attorney.
Her husband, recently discharged
from the navy as "undesirable,
under the suspended sentence
must work and not associate with
bad company.
Leonard Snodgrass, another
juvenile, charged with larceny of
livestock, was also granted a sus
pended sentence.
The trio, all residents of Port
land, were also charged with
entering a closed forest area
without a permit and were
granted suspended sentences on
that count also. Authorities
claimed the young people, on an
auto trip, killed a cow in south
eastern Jackson county and pack
ed it in the trunk of their car.
In hauling it north the meat
spoiled.
California Stores
Enjoy Sales Hike
San Francisco, Oct. 6. (U.R)
Retail sales in California during
August increased -11 - per cent
over the same period last year,
the Bureau of tha Census, De
partment of Commerce, - an
nounced today. -
sales for the first eight
months of 1943 were 20 per
cent higher than the correspond
ing period a year ago, it was re
ported.. .
Dm Mall Tribune Want Aria.
MAJOR DUNHAM AMONG
INVADERS AT SALERNO
Major Don B. Dunham, a
nephew of Mrs. George R. Carter
of this city, and Wellborn Bee-
son of Talent, was in action in
the American landing at Salerno,
Italy, in mid-September. Major
Beeson was born at Klamath
Falls December 1, 1910.
His mother was the late Katie
Beeson Dunham, well known
member of the pioneer family.
She syent her early life in this
valley. Teh father resides in
Klamath Falls. Major Dunham
was an officer of the paratroop
ers, and was educated at the Hill
Military academy at Portland.
WAPITIS EI)
EXPERIENCED FRUIT PACKERS
BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS
PACKING HOUSE
So. Pacific Highway
MEDFORD, OREGON
Beauty
on the ,
double
HELP IN HAYING
Six farm boys representing as
many different states, now m
the army and stationed at Camp
White, learned how haying and
corn harvesting is done in the
Rogue River valley the past two
weeks. Hailing from Minnesota,
New York, Montana, Kentucky,
Iowa and New Mexico, the sol
diers received two-week nasses
from their army duties to work
for John Day on his Blue Moon
ranch. They were among many
soldiers who were released on
passes to help 'in the fruit and
on ranches.
In the corn they helped har
vest approximately 400 tons of
ensilage which Day will use to
feed his 250 head of steers. He
said they were excellent work
ers and that thev enlnveri ho.
ing of help in the harvest.
uie soldiers were Cnl.
Pfc. Castillo, Pvt. Mitchell, Cpl!
Netherly, Pfc. Franks and Pfc.
Kippes.
A typical division of 15,000
men uses about 2,000 motor
driven vehicles. .
IN FALL SERVICE
With the Most Rev. Edward
D. Howard, D. D., Catholic arch
bishop of Portland, presldirg,
Medford's Troop 1 held its fall
investiture last Saturday eve
ning in Sacred Heart church. Lo
cal Boy Scout officials, members
of the parish troop committee
and numerous friends of the
troop were present for the un
usually solemn occasion.
Highlight of the ceremony was
the presentation to Scouts Jerry
Hunter and Harold Rickman of
the Ad Altare Dei cross. This
award, a highly coveted one
among ' boys in Catholic-spon
sored troops, is earned by meri
torious service at the- altar of
their parish church. Only once
before in the history of Troop 1
has this recognition been paid a
Medford Scout.
. Bill Neely, Tommy Spatz and
Tommy Steffi were admitted to
tenderfoot rank. They received
their badges and were invested
with the Scout neckerchief by
Archbishop Howard.
Scout Roger Weiss received
his second class-badge. Service
stars were presented Howard
Rickman and Robert Rickman.
Philip Horton and Harold Rick
man were awarded perfect at
tendance bars and service stars.
Archbishop Howard, in ad
dressing the gathering, made
clear the personal interest he
and other Catholic bishona of
the United States have in the
Boy Scout movement. He paid
tribute to the outstanding serv
ice rendered by the Scout pro
gram to the youth of the na
tion and pointed out the eager
ness of such religious leaders
as nimseif to promote a wider
participation in the program un
der Latnoiic smsDices thraueh.
out the country.
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THE trained men of tha Coast Guard arc
new on active duty with shore patrols, .
on convoy service and manning the in
vasion boats on far flung fronts. They MUST
be replaced AT ONCE with woman to per
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and clerical work. Cherokee Sailer. SPAR
represantative. is interviewing young women
this week at the Jackson County Chamber el
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