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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON Straus Reelected To ASCS Office Albert L. Straus, route 2, box 400, Gold Hill, has been reelected chairman of the Jackson County Agricultural Stabilization and Conserva tion committee, according to M. B. Caster, of the local ASCS office. Straus was elected by dele gates from seven local agri cultural communities who met at the courthouse and elected the county committee for J963. Straus has bjen a member of the ASC committee for 15 years and chairman for five years. Other committee members elected were Vernon Gebhard. route 2, box 271, Central Point, vice chairman; Donald Nichols, 941 Green Springs highway, Ashland, regular member; George Jess Jr., route 1, box 346, Eagle Point, first alternate; and John Nie dermeyer, 1014 Old Stage rd., Medford, second alternate. Bert Wilcox, county extension agent, also is a regular com mittee member. The Jackson County ASC committee administers the fed eral farm programs in the county, including the 1963 wheat stabilization, 1963 feed grain, agricultural conserva tion, wool incentive and con servation reserve programs. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1962 Juvenile Officials Investigate Group of Girls a t Medford High Court Signs Orders Renaming Officers The Jackson county court signed orders Friday reap pointing county officials and one committee member. Arnold Bohnerl, Central Point area farmer, was reap pointed to three years on the county budget committee. Robert J. Carstensen was re appointed county engineer for four years. William S. Man ning was reappointed con stable for two years. Elmer W. Donahoo was reappointed for two years as county serv ice officer. The court also approved an allowance for travel and lodging to permit Manning to visit various western Oregon constable offices next week to study their operations. Manning said he expects no small claims service will be needed next week. Various business firms of the area and the district court have stated no small claims summons need be served until after Christmas. Jackson county juvenile authorities are making fur ther investigations of a group of girls at Medford High school which could have developed into a "gang" be fore processing the individual cases, according to Juvenile I Director Lawrence Twcedv. Some the girls have been ordered picked up and lodged. The juvenile department has not yet held individual interviews with the girls and their parents, he said. He agreed with an earlier state ment by Medford police that the reports on the group were greatly exaggerated, particu larly the reputation of the leader. The seven necklaces shoplifted from local , stores used to distinguish members were returned, Tweedy added. All of the boys who had formed the beginnings of a juvenile gang earlier and were involved in local burg laries have been returned to their parents on probation, Tweedy said. He noted all of the boys have l.Q.'s of 140 or better. An I.Q. of 100 is con sidered average. Home on Provation Friday one 17-year-old boy was sent home on probation. A 17-year-old girl was held over in detention for medical reasons. A case involving a 17-year-old boy was continued pending finding a home for him. A 14-year-old boy was released on probation to rela tives. A 15-year-old girl was sent home on probation. A case of a boy on parole from MacLaren School for Boys was dismissed since he had met the parole conditions. Thursday night two teen age girls were picked up by state police on a back road in Sams Valley on charges of being runaways and released to their parents. Two 16-ycar-old boys who ran away from Woodland, Calif., and Sparks, Nev., were picked up Friday and lodged in the county jail because of lack of room in the detention home. A 17-year-old boy is being ncid in the county jail on a felony charge, and a 16-year-old boy is being held on a felony charge in the deten tion home. Busy Week in Court Friday, Dec. 7 started the busy week in juvenile court with seven cases processed. One girl was committed to Hillcrest School for Girls for violation of probation. Anoth er girl was released to ncr parents as a ward of the court and will be transferred under the interstate compact to Cali fornia authorities on charges of being beyond parental con trol. A 12-ycar-old girl was granted probation, and two girls received suspended com mitments to Hillcrest, one for violation of probation and the other for being beyond par ental control. Thirteen other cases were dismissed by the court having met the terms of probation. Suspended Committment Monday, Dec. 10, a 15-year-old girl received a suspended committment to Hillcrest Fri day she was committed to Hillcrest after violating her probation and following a hearing in the judge's cham bers Tuesday, six cases were heard. One was a Fairview hearing for a minor child. A 17-year-old boy was remanded to district court on auto theft charges. A 17-ycar-old girl's case was continued, a 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old boy were placed on probation, and a 17-year-old boy was dismissed. County Council To Meet on Tuesday The regular monthly meet ing of the Jackson County Inter-Community Council will be held Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the Jackson County Public Li brary at noon. The program will consist of reports of the delegates to the "Oregon Conference on Chil dren and Youth" which was held last month in Salem. Fourteen delegates from Jack son county attended the con ference. 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