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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1959)
Downtown Mail Carrier Retires After 37 Years James A. (Asher) Neff, who has become a tradition in downtown Medford as a mail carrier in the business dis trict, retired from the postal service Feb. 28, after carry ing mail in Medford for al most 37 years. He entered the postal serv- Chairmen Named For Committees In YMCA Program Jay Pierce, president of the YMCA board of directors, an nounced recently the appoint ment of volunteer committee personnel for the youth work section. The youth work section is In charge of all programs for YMCA youth which are not of a physical education na ture. Dr. Bill Meyer has been ap pointed chairman of the Youth Program committee, which sets policies and ap proves plans in the youth work section. Dr. Frank Wil son has accepted the chair manship of the Boys Club "Work committee which is re sponsible for "Y" Indian Guides and the Hi-Y program. Mrs. Marina Gardiner will serve as chairman of the Girls Club Work committee . which will oversee the Tri Hi-Y and Junior Tri Hi-Y program. Other Chairmen Chairman of the Day Camp and Trips committee is . John Dellenback. The committee will operate the YMCA Day Camp and organize special trips for Y members. The Youth Council commit tee will be ' headed by Mrs. Opie Harrison. The committee will promote, organize and administer the social program for teen agers. The Boys-Girls Building Program committee chairman has not been named. Other laymen serving on YMCA committees are How ard Lage, Brad Broyles, John Dellenback, Jack Pepper, Bill Glomb, Lon Skinner, Jim Doyle, Harry Brownlee, Mrs. Robert Dames, Mrs. Sam Jen nings, Mrs. Naoni Johnson, Mrs. Edith Baker, Bill Hicks, Bill Williams, Wayne Struble, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baker, Mr. - and Mrs, Merlin Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mee, Mrs. Thomas Ball and Chris Hut ton. The Physical Education com mittee will be headed by Ray Offord again this year. He is a member of the board of di rectors, and has been chair man of the committee for the past thr,ee years.. Members of' the YMCA on the committee are Chuck Thompson, Dr. William Rob erts, Fred Sears, Jerri Hut ton, Don Day, Vi Lewis, Jo Kidd, Jay Pierce, Lanell Wil kes, Ron Sherman, Betty Mc Ginty and Bob Nelson. The Aquatic committee, headed by Dr. William Rob erts, is composed of Wilson Gilinske, Helen Tweedy, Dutch Farfan, Ruth Adams and Don Day. Church Athlet ics, chairmaned by Chuck Thompson, has Chuck Clem ens, Ron Sherman, Price Sha fer, and Bruce Burns serving on it. . j The Swim Team Parents committee, Ken Thompson,! chairman, is c o mposed of i Maurice Ritchey, Bill Selleck. Roy Wilkes, Mel Hess, Vinson Vaughan, Jim Rowan, Wright Scovile, Ralph Hibbs, J. H. Hopkins, and Bob Scott. Other subcommittee chair men are for women's volley ball, Vicki Fowler, with Carol Rose and Vi Lewis. Women's gym chairman is Ellen Teng esdall, and for the weight lift ing committee, Chuck Cox. Canyonville Man Elected to Post ' A.M. Cooper of Canyon ville was elected president of the Cascade chapter of the Oregon Association of Nurs erymen at a recent meeting in Canyonville. Other officers include El wood Stansfield, Medford, vice-president: and J. Vernon Marshall, Medford, secretary treasurer. Marshall was re elected for the third consec utive year. He also was elect ed to represent the Cascade chapter on the state board of directors. Elected to serve on the i board of directors for the chapter were Doris Moore, Roseburg, two-year term; Tom Carter, Ashland, two - year term; W. R. Magness, Rose burg, one-year term; Alan Baker, Klamath Falls, one year .term; Myron Lehne, Roseburg, past president and director at large for two years. ice here in 1922, after serving in the Marine Corps for two years. Neff was graduated from Medford High school and while in high school he was active in athletics, playing both football and basketball. He did both while in the Marine Corps, besides being on the swimming team and rowing team. Since entering the postal service he has devoted much of his time to music, having played in the Elks band, the Philharmonic orchestra, and the Ashland Civic band. He has played for years in the Apostolic Faith church or chestra, and is a member of the church. On Commission Neff is serving his second five-year term on the Med ford Rural Fire commission, and was chairman of the commission last year. An interesting sidelight to Neff's postal career is that his father entered the postal service in Reno, Nev., in 1906. He transferred to the Medford office, and retired V. 2 ss ..." ' 'fki'l :d?A i?Pk JAMES (ASHER) NEFF Retires from Postal Service here in 1922, the year Neff entered the service. He also has a brother, Adiel, who worked for sev eral years in the Medford of fice, and is now with the post office in Santa Monica, Calif. Asher, as he was known to to his patrons, plans an active life in his retirement. "I have seen hundreds of professional men and business men come and go," Neff said, "and I can count them all as my friends. I will miss them." Members of Congress Receive Douglas Firs Washington, D. C. - Mem bers of Congress and a num ber of Congressional officers have a green sample of Ore gon. Some 600 baby Douglas firs, each about a foot high, were distributed to them by Three Tree Farms Added in County Three more tree farms in Jackson county have been cer tified by the Western Pine association, E. L. Kolbe, chief forester of the Portland asso ciation, has announced. They are Echo Spring Ranch tree farm consisting of 360 acres owned by H. A. Hogan, Jacksonville; the Bar 3 Ranch tree farm, 250 acres, owned by Marion and Louise Dunlap, Jacksonville; and Squaw Lake tree farm, 1,050 acres owned by Bert and Christine Harr, Jacksonville. The three are among 38 new tree farms added during February which brought the total tree farm program to 6,837,893 acres. The Western Pine tree farm program now lists 1,391 tree farms, Kolbe said. Representative Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.). The "Oregon Do-It-Yourself Kits" were sup plied by the Blitz-Weinhard company of Portland. Last spring, Porter super vised the planting of a Doug las fir in Times Square, New York City. The brewery, Ore gon's only and largest at' that time embarked on a modest international program to help publicise the 1959 Oregon Centennial. Theplan met with phenom enal success. More than 63, 000 persons received two-year-old Douglas firs to plant in their gardens, yards or flower pots. In a letter to his colleagues, Porter observed: "The two-year-old is about a foot high. It is no good except for plant ing. Won't even make a good fire. But Oregonians hope you'll join this modest refor estation plan which has grown in proportion and even en larged 'Keep Oregon Green' to 'Keep the World Green." The Douglas fir seedling kit, inside a narrow cardboard tube, was ready for planting. Porter said "this potential giant will flourish with ten der loving care." He urged his colleagues to come to Ore gon to see "your new tree's brothers and sisters in Ore gon during the 1959 Centen nial." Porter told his colleagues it might be necessary to re plant the Douglas fir "because MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, March 8, I95 J no one really wants a Doug las fir breaking through the ceiling." The Fourth Congressional District of Oregon, which Porter represents, has more Douglas fir than any other congressional district. y j To Improve Your? vV Optical Services m Maico Hearlnj Glasses available only through the optical profession. 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