SUNDAY, AUGUST 7. I960
Hillbilly Event
Planned Aug. 13
At Prospect Hall
Prospect - The ninth annu
al Hillbilly Jamboree will be
held at the Prospect Commun
ity hall and surrounding
grounds Saturday, Aug. 13.
Festivities will be launched
by a parade through Prospect.
The entries will be judged at
the school grounds at 9:15
a.m. Parade time will be 10
a m. Trophies and prizes will
be awarded upon arrival at
the Jamboree grounds.
Following the parade cere
monies, the day's activities
will include games, races, and
entertainment. Prizes have
been donated by the mer
chants of Prospect, Union
Creek, and vicinity.
Girls competing for the hon
or of being Jamboree Queen
arc Barbara Allen, Vicky Ly
cett, Virginia Eastman, and
Shirley McElmurry. They are
being sponsored by the Com
munity club, Sharon Owens,
last year's queen, will crown
the new queen at midnight.
Dancing from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. will be to live music.
Food will be available during
the day. Proceeds from the
Jamboree are used to finance
the Community hail.
Higher Payments
Allowed in Law
Some veterans' widows re
ceiving dependency and in
demnity compensation may
be entitled to receive higher
payments as the result of a
recently enacted law, S, T.
Brannock, contact represent
ative, VA Domiciliary, White
City, said Friday,
The amount of dependency
and indemnity compensation
is now based in part on the
rank of the deceased veteran
at the time of his separation
from service.
The new law, known as
. Public Law 86-492, allows the
widow to receive payments
based on a higher rank, pro
vided the veteran satisfactor
ily held the higher rank for
at least six months and was
holding it within 120 days of
the date of his death or sep
aration from the service,
Brannock said.
The VA lacks the necessary
Information to identify these
eligible widows. Widows
whose husbands at one time
held a rank higher than their
rank at separation, under the
above conditions, should con
tact the VA Contact office,
post office building, VA Dom
iciliary, White City.
Assistant Cashier
Named at Bank Here
The appointment of Ken
neth A. Wright as assistant
-cashier and general loan offi
cer at the Medford branch of
First National Bank of Ore
gon, has been announced by
Joe A. Moore, vice president
and manager of the branch,
Wright has a background of
13 years with First National,
starting at Salem branch in
1947. He was promoted to in
stallment loan officer at Leb
anon branch in 1952, and four
years later moved up to gen
eral loan officer.
Wright was active in a
number of community organi
zations in Lebanon, including
the Lions, chamber of- com
merce, Jaycees, Parent-Teachers
association, Elks, United
Fund and American Legion,
Local Youth Gets
Institution Term
Bobby Vernon Wright, 18,
of 3225 Table Rock rd., was
sentenced in circuit court Fri
day to the Oregon State Cor
rectional institution for three
years for burglary not in a
dwelling.
He had pleaded guilty to
entering a Medford church
July 31, 1959, where he took
about S80.
Marvin Lee Hamilton, 17,
of 895 Gibbon rd.. Central
Point, pleaded guilty before
Circuit Cgurt Judge James
M. Main to burglary not in a
dvel lingo Judge Main ordered
a pre-sentence report. Hamil
ton is charged with entering
a lumber yard in Central
Point.
Medford Attorney John
Dellenback was appointed
counsel for James Vernon
Dickinson, 43, of 328 North
Riverside ave., Medford. Dick
inson is charged with bur
glary not in a dwelling.
Washington Man Is
Arrested by Police
Stephen Charles Pratt, Se
attle, Wash., was arrested by
state police Friday on charges
of petty larceny. '
He is charged with taking
spinning reels from a Grants
Pass Motel, state police said.
Josephine county sheriff's dep
uties returned him to Jose
phine county.
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