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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1961)
a -9 O 0, 3 O 0 Q O SUNDAY, JAM AHY , 1361 -Q ftO-O. Hew lllustrioui Potentate Friday Joe E. Jorgensen, Medford businessman, was fleeted II lustrous Potentalt of Hillah Temple by Oregon Shriners at Ashland Friday night. He succeeds H. S. Bullock of Grants Pass as head of the southern Oregon Shrine Tem ple, an organization sharing jurisdiction throughout the state of Oregon with Al Ka der Temple of Portland. Jorgensen, who served dur ing 1060 as Chief Rabban of Hillah Temple, has long been prominent in western Shrine circles. He is a member of Ro tary, Elks, Masons and other civic and fraternal organiza tions. C. H. Esselstrom of Rose burg was elevated to the of fice of Chief Rabban, Lyn del W. Newbry of Ashland, recently appointed state sen ator from Jackson county, will serve as Assistant Rab ban, Floyd H. Griggs, Cot tage Grove businessman, be comes High Priest and Prop het and John E. Blair of Lake view is the new Oriental Guide. Two Ashland men succeed themselves in key posts as a result of the annual election. M. Patrick Dunn serves again as treasurer and Frank H. Barnthouse continues as re corder. Past Potentate Elbert Len on and Past Potentate L. C. Taylor, both of Medford, com prise the finance committee with the three top Temple of ficers. Three past potentates will serve as trustees, H. G. Enders of Ashland, Paul B. Rynning of Medford and A. K. Cass of Grants Pass. Rep resentatives to the Imperial Council comprise Bullock, Jorgensen, Esselstrom and Newbry. Immediately following the election, Glenn L. Linn of Medford was appointed direc tor, George V. Dugan of Klam ath Falls becomes First Cere monial Master, Walter J. En- lund of Coquille, Second Cere monial Master, Edward G. Wulfekuehler of Ashland, Chaplain, Ray Frisbie of Med ford, marshal, and Ted R. Paulus, Grants Pass, is cap tain of the guard. A. K. Morse of Medford was elected Outer Guard and Harold Wood, Eugene, Orator. Hillah Temple, chartered in 1909, now has a member ship of 2,865 in Oregon. Shrine clubs are active in 10 Oregon communities including Med ford, and Hillah Temple boasts nine uniformed units. The Temple's headquarters for the past 51 years has been Ashland. Promotion of the hu manitarian program of the Shriners' hospitals for Crip pled Children is the major project of the southern Ore gon organization. , Dog Licenses Are Now Available Chris Haglcr, Jackson coun ty dog control officer, said Friday dog licenses are now on sale at various locations throughout the county. Dead line for their purchase with out paying an additional charge is Feb. 28. Licenses may be obtained at Gail's Gold Hill market, Rogue River Feed and Farm Supply, Eagle Point city hall, Cove Valley Supply at Shady Cove. Boothby's Sporting Goods at Prospect, Butte Falls city recorder. Phoenix police chief, Talent police chief, Ash land police department, coun ty clerk's office at the county courthouse, county dog pound al 2872 Howard ave., Med ford; Rasmussen's Super Serv ice. Jacksonville; Applcgate Shopping center, and the Cen tral Point city hall. All dogs over six months old are required to be li censed, Haglcr said. Fees are $2 for males and spayed fe males and S3 for unspayed females. After the deadline of Feb. 28 the charge will be S4 for males and spayed females and S5 for unspayed females. An additional charge of 25 cents will be made this year for replacement of lost dog tags. Before tags were re placed at no charge, Haglcr said. JOE JORGENSEN Named Potentate Decrease In Bank Debits Is Noted A decrease in bank debits for the southwestern Oregon counties of Curry, Jackson and Josephine was slightly less than a year ago. In No vember, 1960, the debit de crease was 4.4 per cent com pared to 12.9 per cent a year ago. Debits for November, 1960, totaled $84,472,219. For Oc tober, 1960, they totaled $88, 353,122, and for November, 1959, the total amounted to $96,966,706. Oregon, with 210 banks re porting, had an increase in bank debits in November, 1960, of 1.5 per cent compared to October, 1960, and a de crease of 1.6 per cent over November, 1959. Total debits for Oregon in November, 1960, came to $2,119,226,743; October, 1960, totaled $2,087, 526.305; and November a year ago, reached $2,153, 054,246. Bank debits represent the dollar value of checks drawn against the deposit accounts of individuals and business firms. Bank debits are con sidered good indicators of current business activity. v Court Requested To Remove Stumps Howard Norwood, repre senting the Rogue River Chamber of Commerce, re quested the county court Fri day morning that logs and stumps be removed from the water-skiing area near Sav age Rapids dam. Norwood suggested that the . debris could be removed eas ily by county welfare work crews while the water is out from behind the dam. The Rogue River man said the stumps and logs are a hazard to water skiers using the lake extending from the dam to Evans creek. A num ber of injuries, and at least one death, have resulted from subnierged hazards there. The county court has taken the matter under advisement. PLANE CRASHES Cologne, Germany - IUPD -Two persons were killed Fri day night when an air taxi plane struck a power line and crashed near Boerlinghausen airport. The death included pilot Eberhardt Schumann and the plane's only . passenger. The co-pilot, Briton Peter White, was critically injured. Thief Takes Roast From Restaurant A ihief entered the back door of the Trailways bus depot restaurant and made off with a roast Thursday morning. Eleanor 8. Poythress re ported the theft occurred about 10 a.m. Restaurant personnel chased the thief down the alley behind the reitaurant, where he dropped the roast. Although it was recovered, restaurant people said it was ruined by the thief's large, iharp ieeth. Chrii Hagler, Jackson county dog control officer, said he and hii crew made a thorough search of the area for the culprit, a large, fawncolored Boxer dog -but was unable to find it. The roast is valued at $7.65. This further points up the need for more stringent dog control, he noted. HOME DESTROYED Dallas, Ore. -iliPIl-Fire con sumed the farm home of the Forest Weston family on Cooper Hollow road six miles west of here late Thursday nicht. while firemen concen trated on keeping the blaze 9 containing dynamite, PNT WITH MEDFORD PAINT and Wallpaper Star 61 Wtlly D. 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