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
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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.
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