FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, Jtnutry 27, 1957
Ministerial Association Mere Has Varied Activities
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COUNTY JAIL SERVICES For many years several local
churches have conducted weekly religious services in the
county jail. Recently the Ministerial association assumed the
responsibility of scheduling the churches for the weekly
services. One of the early churches to conduct services there
was the First Church of the Nazarene. The youth group of the
church purchased the portable organ in 1947 that is used in
the weekly services. Above a group from that church sing in
the corridor lead by George Sherman (third from right), one
of the church jail service directors responsible for the ar
ranging of the Nazarene church services. At the organ is Mrs.
Bill Brewster and George McUne Jr. is in the left foreground
cross from Ron Warner.
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DAILY
DEVOTIONS The Rev. Escil Hiser, pastor of the
Church of the Brethren, (above) is one of Vne ministers who
ppear on Daily Devotions Monday through Friday on KBES
TV from 11:50 until noon. The program, arranged by the
Ministerial association, also features ministers from the Grants
Pass and Ashland areas as well as Medford and neighboring
towns. Although television is a relatively new field for the
local association's programs, they started radio broadcasting
as early as Nov. 12, 1927. Besides the Ministers' Roundtable on
radio the association also schedules ministers for the radio
program Morning Devotions.
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HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN The Rev. George R. V. Bolster,
rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church, visits Mrs. J. D. McPher
son at the Rogue Valley hospital. The Ministerial association is
trying to make arrangements for a sen-ice whereby ministers
would be notified when members of their congregations are
hospitalized. The ministers would serve on a rotation basis
as hospital chaplain. The Episcopal church here conducted
such a service on its own several years ago. Mrs. McPherson
is the secretary at St. Mark's and has been hospitalized for
more than a month with a broken ankle.
House Asks Congress
Salem lU.RI The House of
Representatives Friday passed
a memorial asking Congress to
hold up termination of the Klam
ath Indian reservation.
The bill was sponsored by Rep.
Roseburg Man Found
Guilty of Manslaughter
Roseburg iU.R) Forrest
Winn, 67, Roseburg. was found
guilty of manslaughter Satur
day by a Circuit Court jury in
the fatal beatins of E. D. (Doc)
Wood. 72-year-old cardroom cm
plovce here last November.
The jury deliberated about
seven hours before returning its
verdict. Circuit Judge Charles
S. Woodrich set next Tuesday
at 9 a.m. as time for sentenc
ing. Winn had been charged with ,
rcond degree murder following
his altercation with Wood. 1
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To Hold Termination
Keith Skelton. Eugene Demo-
ciat. He noted that Interior Sec
retary Fred A. Seaton had al
ready urged Congress to delay
the termination date.
Skelton said the memorial
was introduced at the request
of the Oregon Council of Church
es. Second Degree Murder
Trial Set at The Dalles
Th e Dalles (U.R: The second
degree murder-trail of Eugene
C. Hatch of Yakima. Wash . is
scheduled to open here Monday.
Hatch is accused of beating
Walter Freeborn of Great Falls,
Mont., to death. The altercation
took place in the Montana sales
man's trailer home here.
WEATHER By United Press
Northern California: Sunday
fair.
Group Organized
In Ashland in 1914
With 8 Pastors
Eight pastors of churches In
Jackson county met in the Pres
byterian church in Ashland Feb.
17, 1914. This meeting was the
beginning of the Rogue River
Valley Ministerial association.
From this group the Medford
Ministerial association came in
to being some years later which
is still active in Medford today.
Originally formed as a non
partisan organization to promote
an "Oregon-Dry" campaign with
a slogan of "Oregon-Dry-1914,"
the association has during the
last 43 years supported and
compaigned for many and varied
activities and interests in the
valley.
Twice Monthly
The meetings were first sched
uled twice monthly at different
churches in the county and last
ed for the entire day. The pro
gram would include several talks
and a sermon with luncheon
served by the women of the
host church.
During the early 1920s the
ministers in the Medford area
held meetings besides the reg
ularily scheduled Rogue River
Valley Ministerial association
meetings. This group came to be
known as the Medford Ministrial
association.
Later in the 1930s and early
1940s other Ministerial groups
appeared in the valley at Ash
land, Grants Pass, and Rogue
River. The last recorded meet
ing of the original Rogue River
Valley Ministerial association
was Feb. 3, 1942.
Thanksgiving Services
Activities of the original as
sociation started early with
many union services scheduled.
Union Thanksgiving services
were first held in 1921 in Med
ford -and have rotated among
Ihe churches since that time. The
first year services were held in
the First Christian church with
the Rev. E. P. Lawrence, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church,
preaching.
Combined Memorial Day ser
vices were started in 1926 when
the Rev. W. H. Eaton of the
Baptist church delivered the
sermon. Many noon and even
ing union prayer services were
scheduled during the years and
in the 1920s the Sunday evening
church services were combined
and arranged by the association.
During the summer months
Sunday evening services were
held in the city park. According
to minutes of early Ministerial
association meetings, the park
services were later changed to
Sunday afternoon and attract
ed a large congregation during
the months of July and August.
The Medford city council gave
the use of the park for the com
munity meetings and all pastors
of the cooperating churches
would assist with the music at
the service.
Good Friday Rites
Joint Good Friday services
were first tried in 1944. Now
the association also sponsors
daily joint noon services during
Holy Week. The group of min
isters has supplied pastors for
the baccalaureate services in the
local schools since 1921 when
the Rev. J. R. Sasnett of First
Methodist Episcopal church
spoke.
In November 1927 the associa
tion was able to obtain radio
broadcast time for the schedul
ing of a series of seven religious
programs. Since that date the as
sociation has continued sponsor
ing radio programs intermittent
ly to the present time.
Today the Medford Minister
ial association arranges for min
isters to be heard over one of
the local radio stations on an
early morning program called
Morning Devotions and Min
isters' Roundtable which may
be heard on the same station
at 8:30 p.m. Sundays. The latter
program consists of a panel of
ministers and a moderator, also
a minister, who discuss questions
that have been, submitted by
the radio listening audience.
Daily Devotions
Another program in the broad
cast media by the association
is Daily Devotions that appears
on the local television station
Monday through Friday from
11:50 until noon. The program,
arranged by the Ministerial as
sociation, also features ministers
from the Grants Pass and Ash
land areas as well as Medford
and nearby communities.
Several schools of religious
education have been cooperative
ly sponsored by the group and
it has been instrumental in
bringing many speakers to the
valley.
During the years the Medford
Ministerial association has spon
sored religious census of the
city's population as well as in
the public schools.
Several years ago by the re
quest of city officials the as
sociation started furnishing a
chaplain for city council meet
ings. The chaplain opens the
Recently the Ministerial as
'sociation assumed tha responsi-
COUNTY FARM HOME Services are held
weekly at the county farm on Sunday after
noon by different Medford churches sched
uled by the Ministerial association. Above the
Salvation Army group leads the singing dur
ing services they conducted one Sunday.
Shown are (left to right) Mrs. George John
stone and Lt. Johnstone, commanding officers
of the Medford Corps who will leave Wednes
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MINISTERS;' ROUNDTABLE Four ministers
discuss a question submitted by a radio listen
er during the Ministers' Roundtable program
heard over Radio station KMED Sunday eve
nings at 8:30. The program, arranged by the
Ministerial association, features ministers
from the local churches. Above (left to right)
are the Rev. John O. Reynolds, assistant
Forest Service Launches Program
To Improve
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The U.S. for
est service has launched a cam
paign for a five-year program
called "O p e r-
ation Out
doors" design
ed to improve
the recreaiton
al facilities of
the national
forests.
I f Congress
gives it the go
ahead with
Robt. smith tunas tnis ses
sion, the forest service hopes to
invest $85 million in the pro
gram before it is completed.
President Eisenhower asked Con
gress to put up S11.5 million this
year to get it started.
'With the steady growth of
our population, there is an in
creasing need for recreation un
der natural outdoor conditions,"
the president said in his message
bility of scheduling the church
es for the weekly sevices held
in the county farm home and the
county jail. The few churches
that had previously held services
incorporated in to the schedule
and the association guarantees
that weekly services are con
ducted. . "
The Jackson county jail, which
is approved by the Federal
Bureau of Prisons, must meet
many rigid requirements. The
Bureau gives points to prisons
for rehabilitation programs and
the county jail receives them
for the religious services held
there.
Several years ago the associa
tion printed and distributed 500
Medford church directors to ho
tels and other businesses. They
also keep the American Bible
Society scripture literature rack
in the Greyhound Bus depot
supplied.
The Ministerial group owns a
reprint of the film "Martin
Luther" and has it available on
a rental basis to churches and
local organizations."
Hospital Service
The association is now attempt
ing to make arrangements for
a service whereby ministers
would be notified when members
of their congregations are hos
pitalized. The ministers would
serve on a rotation basis as hos
pital chaplain. St. Mark's Epis
copal church conducted such a
service several years ago.
The Ministerial association,
open to ministers of all denom
inations and churches, meets the
second Tuesday of each month
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Recreational Facilities
to Congress on the program.
"This is of major significance to
the physical and mental health
of the nation."
Reason for Program
The reason for the improve
ment program is similar to what
motivated the 10-year "Mission
66" program for improvement
of the national parks more and
more people are using these
great outdoor playgrounds to get
away from the urban life they
normally lead.
About 55 million visitors used
the national forest recreation
areas in 1955, according to for
est service estimates. That's
about double the number that
used them in 1950. By 1962, they
calculate the figure will be up
to 66 million.
National park service has esti
mated the visitors to their recre
ation areas for 1955 at 50 mil
lion, with expectations of it ris
ing to 80 million by 1966.
Like the national parks, the
national forests' recreational fa
cilities were built up during the
depression days, left to deterior
ate during the war years and to
become greatly overused with
the great increase in public us
age. Worn Structures
Some sections have been
closed indefinately" because the
structures were completely worn
out. Visitors, unable to find the
proper picnic and camping facil
ities, have gone to places where
there are no sanitary arrange
ments or fire-places and other
fire-prevention improvements.
As a result, streams that supply
water to nearby towns have
at 10 a.m. in the Fireplace room
at the First Presbyterian church.
President of the local group
is the Rev. Raymond Hum,
pastor of the First Church of
the Nazarene, with Mr. Clynton
Crisman, pastor of the Friends
church, vice-president, and the
Rev. Richard M. Jones, pastor
of Eastwood Baptist church,
secretary and treasurer.
NOW OPEN ON SUNDAYS!
SILVER GRILL CAFE
403 EAST MAIN STREET
OPEN-
Week Days: Monday thru Saturday 6 A.M. to 7 P.M.
Sundays: 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.
day to assume duties as oemmanding officers
of the Spokane, Wash., Corps; Lt. R. L. An
thony; and Salvation Army soldiers. Miss Elva
Davis, Miss Linda Bailey, Miss Mary Garrison,
and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wenzel. Mrs. Wenzel
is the young people's sergeant-major here.
The little girl at left and the boy are Linda
and Sandy Johnstone.
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pastor. First Presbyterian and chairman of
the Radio-TV committee of the association;
the Rev. Sherman Moore, pastor, Medford
Pilgrim Holiness; and the Rev. George A.
Trobough, assistant pastor, First Methodist.
Mr. Reynolds serves as moderator for the
program.
been polluted and the incidence
of forest fires has increased.
In one instance, a camper who
couldn't find space in a crowd
ed recreation area camped else
where and caused a fire which
cost $500,000 to suppress, riot
to mention the damage to the
watershed.
Under the "Operation Out
door" program, only forest-type
recreation facilities will be pro
vided, such as facilities for
camping, swimming, hiking,
horseback riding. Private busi
ness interests will be encouraged
to build profitable facilities,
such as restaurants, motels, ski
lifts, ski tows and boat docks.
Natural Condition
Roadside, trailside and water
side zones are to be kept in
more or less natural condition.
This will lead to a restudy of
unclassified sections of the na
tional forests, some of whicli
may be reclassified as wilder
ness areas.
The forest improvement pro
gram, like the park program, is
expected to be favorably receiv
ed by Congress, despite efforts
to trim the budget. Several sen
ators, including Sen. Hichard L.
Neuberger D-Ore.) and Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.),
have already called for such a
program. Both are members of
the Senate Interior committee.
. A second aspect of the new
program is planned for unveil
ing later. It will deal with im
provement and management of
wildlife habitats in cooperation
with state game departments.
Two Prison Inmates
Get 18-Month Terms
Salem (U.R) Two inmates
of the state penitentiary who
escaped last month were sen
tenced to additional 18-month
terms Friday in circuit court
here.
Benjamin T. Gaul and Ted M.
Simpson were free less than 24
hours after they walked away
from the prison grounds while
on a work detail.
MEDFORD
Problem Night
Of Office Managers' Meet
''Problem Night" will be the
theme Monday at the regular
monthly meeting of the Medford J
chapter. National Office Man
agers association, in the Medford
hotel.
The meeting will start at 7
p.m. and social hour will begin
at 6:30 p.m.
Questions Asked
Those attending have been re
quested to place questions rela
tive to office problems in the
question box, which will be
placed at the door on meeting
night. Open discussion will be
held on the questions. The meet
ing will be open to office man
agers, office personnel managers
and supervisors.
At the December board of di
rectors meeting. Dr. Alvin V.
Miller, chairman of the business
administration department at
Southern Oregon college, sub
mitted his resignation as associ
ation president.
On Jan. 28, Dr. Miller will be
gin an orientation period in
Washington, D.C., for a position
he recently accepted as a mem
ber of the U.S. official mission
Prisoner Escapes
For Four Hours
Walla Walla (U.R) A con
victed murderer was back in
his cell at the Washington State
prison Saturday after a "Hou-
dini" escape which gained him
four hours of freedom.
Ervin Squires, 29, escaped on
Friday afternoon when he re
cruited an unidentified inmate
to pack him into a bale of socks
marked for outside delivery.
The bale was tightly secured
with a thin steel band but
Squires was armed with cloth
ing shears and escaped once the
bundle was outside the walls.
Squires was wearing civilian
clothes, presumably acquired at
the prison tailor shop.
Two off-duty guards spotted
him in a local tavern four hours
later and -apprehended him.
Squires, who had been con
sidered dangerous, had only one
comment.
"Gee," he said, "I am surpris
ed to see you guys."
Sucker Creek Project J
Discussed at Meeting !
Cave Junction Victor Bochl :
of Grants Pass, representative
of the Southern Oregon Recla
mation conference, discussed the
proposed Sucker creek irriga
tion project with members of the
Illinois Valley Chamber of
Commerce recently.
The Chamber has asked the
bureau of reclamation to revise
its report on the Sucker Creek
project. Presented early last
year, the report termed the pro-i
ject as "feasible," but left in '
doubt a few important questions. I
The Alamo, famous Texas and
American shrine, was originally
built as a chapel for the mission
San Antonio de Valera of the
Franciscans.
EVERY WEDNESDAY
AT THE
VARSITY
ASHLAND
ANNOUNCING
THE SHOWING 1
OF ANOTHER GROUP
OF THE FINEST
JAN. 3Q-"R0ME0 AND JULIET"
FEB. 6-"FAN FAN THE TULIP"
FEB. I3-"BEAUTIES OF THE NIGHT"
FEB. 2G-"RICHARD III"
FEB. 27-"MAN WHO LOVED REDHEADS"
PRESENTED IN AN ATMOSPHERE
OF QUIET, COMFORT, FRIENDLINESS.
DOORS OPEN AT 8:00 P.M.
ORGAN CONCERT 800-8:30
COFFEE IS SERVED FREE DURING OUR
FRIENDLY COFFEE INTERLUDE
"CURTAIN AT EIGHT-THIRTY"
Slated Theme
under the International Coop
eration administration.
Dr. Miller has been at South
ern Oregon college since 1949,
starting as chairman and instruc
tor in the secretarial science de
partment. In 1951 he was pro
moted to assistant professor of
business education and in 19o6
to associate professor of busi
ness education. He has been a
member of several service and
fraternal organizations in addi
tion to the National Office Man
agement association.
Vice President Frank Martin,
Ross Lumber company, will be
the new association president.
Jack Hartley, Hubbard Brothers,
was elected vice president, and
Jess Vail, Moore Business Forms,
Inc., will fill Hartley's position
on the association's board of di
rectors. Rose Convention
Scheduled Here
The Medford Rose society will
be host to the Northwest District
convention and Rose Show of the
American Rose Society on June
7 and 8.
This will include the five
northwest f states and western
Canada as well as a part of nor
thern California.
Eldred Peyton, president ' of
the local society, has appointed
Carl W. Norris and Mrs. L. G.
Gentner as co-chairman of the
convention.
Mrs. Nat Schoen, Vancouver,
Wash., the northwest director of
the society, will be the guest
speaker at the regular meeting
in the courthouse auditorium on
Monday, Jan. 28, at 7:45 p.m.
The new officers of the soc
iety will be installed at this
meeting.
All gardners who are inter
ested in growing roses are urged
to attend this meeting and be
come members of the local and
national Rose societies.
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