TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, July 29, 1952
Lucky You
by Dick Shaw
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P- I D News, Gossip, Comment
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By SID HOLLINGSWORTH
Marvin Kahn has returned to
his desk, tanned and rugged
from his encounters with the
wild country of northern British
Columbia.
Attractive bookmarks are av
ailable in the library, made and
furnished by the Junior Red
Cross.
Commander James Almond of
World War II Veterans plans
to go to Grant Pass for cere
monies in connection with : the
chartering of the auxiliary of
the only other post of this or
ganization in Oregon.
Clarence Bryan, canteen man
ager, knows something about
publicity and advertising. He
has obtained a stock of neat
book matches in blue and gold
with the legend of Camp White
Domiciliary on one side and an
etching of the front offices on
the other.
This is a heavy week of game
parties. Events are scheduled
for Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, sponsored by the VFW
auxiliary, the Cooties and
Trench Rats, Gold Star Moth
ers and Del Rogue Post, VFW.
Although convention business
Table Reck
Table Rock Earl Peffley,
Sams Valley farmer, seed grow
er, orchardist and Democratic
committeeman was transacting
business here Tuesday.
According to reports Miss
Betty Blackwood, local girl, and
Bud Thompson of Wenatchee,
Wash., were married recently in
Grants Pass and are now living
in Wenatchee..
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Doran
of Redding, Calif., visited here
last week with relatives at the
Rav Doran home.
The Aubrey Taylor combine
has been doing some grain
threshing in this section and
Taylor reports grain yields bet
ter than last year.
Like a little boy who had
at Klamath Falls suspended reg
ular American Legion auxiliary
office hours for two days, the
cigarette distribution to "non
comp" vets was conducted as
scheduled Monday afternoon.
The fishing club chose Elk
creek for their angling this week
while the wheel chair club
goes to the Gladiola parade at
Grants Pass Friday.
Dorothea Glass, librarian, has
an interesting four weeks in
prospect. She left Saturday for
Portland where she will meet
a friend and together they will
go by way of the Alaskan high
way north as far as Fairbanks.
After an extended visit through
out the territory they will board
a vessel at Seward and return
home by sea.
Chaplain Henry W. Anderson
will be on military leave at Ft.
Lewis, Wash., between August
3 and 17, and in his absence, the
Rev. Perry Johnson of Temple
Baptist church, Medford, will
officiate.
News of the fatal collapse of
Sergeant Charles A. Smith at
an off station party Saturday
night was a shock to domiciliary
members. Smith had charge of
details and was well liked by
the men.
Assistant Manager Roy W. An
derson is motoring through Cal
ifornia on his two-week's vaca
tion.
found his lost teddy bear, Moore
Hamilton, the dignified Medford
postmaster, stopped in last Sun
day and joyfully reported that
he had found his lost boat. It
was hidden in some brush on the
south side of the river which
the searchers had passed with
out seeing, but the sharp eyes of
Robert, the youngest Hamilton
offspring, spied it.
At the election held at the
school house last Monday to
vote on the formation of a rural
fire control district and direct
ors for the same, 39 votes were
cast, 30 in favor, six against and
three blank.
Mrs. M. H. Goodlin is spend
ing the week visiting relative,
at Cocoran, Calif.
Our many song birds which
have been doing such marvelous
singing all through the spring
months are now passing the hat
so to speak. The linnets, orioles
and robins are taking their pay
in Black Republican cherries,
while the spring hatch of robins
are taking their toll in the
strawberry patch.
Miss Maxine Gorden, a mis
sionary with the Berian Mission
Inc., who has recently spent sev
eral years in the Belgian Congo
showed pictures taken in the
missionary field there, and
many of the crude utensils used
in their way of living, at the
school house one evening last
week.
-We have just received a state
ment in detail of the financial
condition of Jackson county up
to June 30. 1952, from the pres
ent treasurer Ralph Sweeney,
who is the first treasurer in o;ir
remembrance who could give
the county's financial condition
on a- moment's notice.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers
and niece, Miss Carol Myers left
Saturday on a motor trip north
that will take them as far as
Seattle where they will visit
relatives before returning by
the coast highway.
Bugs and insects of which
there seems to- be countless
numbers this year, took a beat
ing here early Thursday when
dust was poured on by airplanes
flying over the clover and alfal
fa fields while the big orchard
blowers were shooting great
quantities of dust upward from
the ground.
Delmer Smith the Central
Point bee man Was in this sec
tion Friday placing some of his
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Man 'Hears Call of Lord';
Slays Wife, Four Children
Waterville, Wash. -jsTJ.P. A
27-year-old carpenter who kill
ed his wife and four children be
cause ' the Lord wanted me to"
said Tuesday, "I only wanted
them to be happy."
Matthias Swearson,- who said
he '"learned the word of God"
busv bees in seed fields. . 1
Henry and Betty Shaknis o.
Sams Valley were business vis
itors here last Tuesday.
The Houstons and Rodgers
families, and friends are having
a get-together, and picnic dinner
starting at eleven o'clock Sun
day, August 3, at TouVelle park.
These two families settled in the
Beagle district in pioneer days
and many of them spent the
greater part of their lives there.
It is expected that a large num
ber of relatives and old time
friends will attend, bringing
basket lunches. t
Miss Donna Nealon, popular
Table Rock girl, whose marriage
to Robert Runn took place July
19 at the First Methodist church
in Medford, carries with her the
well wishes and hopes for a life
of much happiness from her
many friends here. Miss Nealon
was active in 4-H club work and
social activities in the commu
nity. With a sunny disposition
and high sense of humor she
was a good pal who will be
greatly missed. The young
newlyweds will make their
home Central Point.
only two weeks ago, told officers
he shot his three-year-old daugh
ter, Peggy, with a .22-caliber
rifle. He then used a butcher
knife to slash his wife, Joyce.
23, daughters Kay, 4. and Karen,
2, and his son, Matthias Jr., six
months.
Belter World Sought
"I only wanted them to be
happy,' he told Bridgeport Po
lice Chief Lyle Prothro. "I killed
them so they could all be to
gether in a better world. I killed
our dog, too. because the chil
dren would like to have it with
them."
When arrested after the slay
ings Sunday, Matthias was nude
to the waist and was suffering
from self-inflicted knife and
gunshot wounds none of them
serious. He was found four miles
from Bridgeport, and told offi
cers he was "going to church.'--Insanity
Hearing Planned
'He was treated at the Brew
ster, Wash., hospital, and then
taken to the Douglas county jail
here. Prosecutor Robert Hensel
said no charges would be filed
until an insanity hearing could
be conducted.
Prothro said neighbors in
formed him that, as far as they
could recall, Matthias went to
church for the first time last
Sunday. They said he enjoyed
a good reputation and was a
'"fine man who seemed to love
his family." He had no criminal
record, and he owned a new
house and two automobiles.
French 'Weddings'
Carried Too Far
St. Nazaire, France U.R)
Twenty teen - agers faced trial
Tuesday for carrying a game of
"make - believe marriage" be
yond the verbal "I do" stage.
A conscience - stricken girl
participant said boys and girls
aged 14 to 16 took the roles of
bride, bridegroom, minister
mayor and witnesses for the ov
erly - realistic game last month.
Following a mock wedding
ceremony, she said, the entire
wedding party repaired to the
bridal chamber for consumma
tion of the "marriage." "
All 20 were summoned to ap
pear August 7 before a police
court on delinquency charges.
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