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rC a Copy ■ 1 Should But You Rsally Subscribe Today ' S outhern O regon M iner Successor to The Jack .son ville Miner » i i » 1 ★ Number 5 SS- III NlNEHM MEN’S MEET TO BE AAIIIITIFC Orflf IIEI.D DURING < OMING WEEK vUUR I It» wttll ★ 11 4 > ASHLAND COFC He’s Head Man! FOOEY ON MINE A special meeting of the Ash ♦ ----------------------------------- o FAVORS 15-MAN will land BuxineMX Men's association O-C MONEY AID lx- culled for some time next I CAVE-IN HOOEY week, at which time several sub COUNTY BOARD jects SAFEGUARDING of importance to the organi SAY J’VILLI ANS The mun who thinks too well of himself seldom advances. Ills mind Is xo filled with lilriiHvlf he lias no rextm for additional knowledge. • Timc conquers nil things es- pecially the fellow in u hurry Luck lx something that always sees you first when you’re looking for it. • The truth will always out, but it’s strange how the truth shuns the courtroom filled with criminal lawyers. That it never pays to point in public was tlie lesson learned thia week by a Phoenix resident, who wax fined $10 and costs for point ing a pistol. • Printers loathe Chinese wars be cause of the difficult spelling they Involve, but pity the poor radio announcer who hux to try to pro nounce 'em. • Another venture Into the strat osphere is planned this spring. However, if the Townsend old age (tension is turned down, the air will be pretty crowded. • January inay be the worst month for resolution-breaking, but then we always have garden-planting time, too. To facilitate coojx-ratlon with the < ounty’s several districts, the board of directors of the Ashland chamber of commerce Monday night went on record ax favoring formation of a 15-man develop- merit committee to further the in terests of the county as a whole. "In union there is strength" wax the underlying principle involved In the proposed combine with other chambers of commerce and com munities, Under the plan. Medford would and other sections of the county have six members, Ashland four, five. There has been a move u.foot tor some time to combine efforts of the Medford and Ashland cham bers for their mutual benefit, and it ix to thia end the approvement wax given. The Itoard also favored the pro vision of a two-day tourist angler license which would give those passing through a $1 license for a sh'irt period without the neces sity of purchasing a $3 annual per mit. Ix-gislation toward this end is being encouraged at Salem through Dr. James A Best, ac cording to Gordon MacCracken, secretary of the Ashland Chamber. A new building to house the commerce office was talked, to be financed by the city with SERA labor. The building would be lo cated on the plaza Director J. E. Thornton stated that a delegation of Valleyview residents are seek ing n new connecting link with the Pacific highway, eliminating the dangerous Junction at the South ern Pacific underpass Just north of Ashland. Listening to a home-grown, threadbare economist tell how to save the country, somehow, is re mindful of a bald-headed Itarbcr selling hair tonic -------------------- • Nothing seems quite so homey NURSI'RIFTIONS I'oni INTO as the muffled ticking of an alarm MINER OFFICE; IDEA TAKEN elock. WITH TOWNSPEOPLE, STAFF It’s great to watch a magician Subscriptions to the Southern pull a rabbit from a hat; nice idea. But level-headed people always re Oregon Miner have {toured into member the rabbit had first to be the newspaper’s new Ashland of fice in an unending Btream since placed in the hat. publication of the first issue here • One thing can be said for the last week. Miner staff said yesterday, how Hauptmann trial, anyway. They’re certainly making a darned good ever. that all comers would be show out of the murder of a tiny cared for, and should money pour in too fast, a money-funnel will be baby. purchased. Art Cooper, special cir A busybody, alas, seldom la on culation worker and advertising n an, will continue to spend much the list of unemployed. of his time soliciting subscriptions in and near Ashland, and it is with real appreciation the Miner ac- knowledges its wide reception into homes of this section. More than 2700 copies of the Miner were printed and distributed to readers last week, who are urged to have their names placed on subscription lists of the paper soon as possible so as not to miss An important meeting of the a single issue. Applegate Valley Improvement district has been called for Thurs day evening, February 7, to be held at the Applegate hall starting at 8 o’clock. According to Edwin Taylor, prominent Applegate rancher, the meeting will discuss Incorporation of the group and possible appro .SOMt- KAA'CH'i priation by the federal govern ment of funds for the construc OKI MV tion of a dam on the Barr ranch MA-YiSt 17 4 which would conserve winter run MEASUE 5 off of the Applegate river and Supply the district with ample water during dry summer months. The movement had been con templated for some time by resi dents of that valley, but it was not until recently that sentiment crystallized into formation of the improvement district. Taylor has asked all ranchers to be present at the meeting January 7 for a complete discussion of the proj ect and possible further action tending toward realization of the dam, which has been proposed as a 100-foot high structure at a point in the river said to be an ideal location. DAM BACKERS TO MEET THURSDAY APPLEGATE HALL zation will lx- discussed. Tlie meet ing will be In the form of u din ner. and such subjects as develop ment of Pompadour springs with private capital, the Increasing of the output of the Ashland granite quarry and other civic matters will be chief topics. Meeting for tonight wax post poned till then, due to conflicting engagements elsewhere. The Miner will carry a complete story con- cerning the meeting in Its next Issue. TUNNEL PLAN IDEA TALKED Proposal for construction of u combined rail and highway tunnel through the Siskiyou mountains at an estimated cost of between three and a half to ten million dollars, depending on the length desired, wax the chief item in a long list of projects laid before C. C. Hockley, state engineer for the PWA in Oregon, at a hearing held in Medford Wednesday. According to C. C. Hockley, state engineer for the Oregon PWA, the meeting called at the city hall was primarily an explan atory one, for the purpose of hear ing the needs of Jackson county. The projects submitted today were not applications, he explained, but actual applications must be in the state PWA office before February 11. At the meeting Wednesday many important needs in this county were submitted for Hock- ley's examination, chief of which was the plan to construct a tun- nei through the Siskiyou moun- tains, to accommodate both rail and auto travel, at an estimated cost of $1,000,000 per mile. The plan states tnai uie benefits would be the approximate saving of three hours by train and one hour by auto between Portland and San Francisco; elimination of 28 com plete circles in a distance of 10 miles; lessening of danger from auto accidents incurred on the winding road, especially during the winter months; lowering of highway maintenance costs; re duction of cost for railroads, re sulting in a great saving to this community in the shipping of products; possible increase in tour ist travel; encouragement of fast* er train service, and possible use of new high-speed stream-lined trains on this route; increase of value of Pacific highway as a mili tary highway and defense meas- ure. The estimated cost of the tunnel depends upon the length, which I in turn would depend upon the el- S’MATTER POP -----•----- Senator Dunn Back At Legislative Duties Senator George Dunn, Jackson county member of the upper house of the 1935 Oregon legisla ture from Ashland, was able to return to his desk at Salem early this week, after being confined to his hotel room for several days as the result of an auto accident during the first week of the pres ent session. Senator Dunn, a political tradi tion here, received head Injuries at first reported as slight, later prov ing to be of a more serious na ture. 4’ Commissioner Billings At Salem to Meet With O-C l^and Group Ashland’s member of the Jack- son county court, Commissioner Ralph Billings, left for Salem early this week, where he met with other members of the executive committee of Oregon and Califor nia I^and Grant counties to con sider special legislation. Billings is secretary of the group. The meeting, called for Wed nesday, seeks legislation in the form of a memorial to the nation al congress to provide that, in case any transfer of O-C land is made, counties will be protected In an amount equal to that being paid on the land to the counties by the federal government. Eight teen counties of Oregon west of the Cascade mountains are in cluded in the group. Early in the settlement and building up of Oregon, railroads were given every odd section of land within 20 miles of their track as a special Inducement to build up the country and in 1915 much of this land reverted to the fed eral government. Railroads had been paying taxes on this land to the various counties, and the transfer of title cut off payment of taxes on considerable acreage until the O-C land grant refunds were authorized a comparatively few years ago. Billings and other members of the special representation will seek to safeguard payment of these moneys, in the event the land is transferred. Commissioner Billings expected to return to his home here late this week. I That some people are inclined to make a grand canyon out of a mole hill was the opinion expressed by several Jacksonville residents and city officials who gazed with amusement at stories and photos plastered over newspapers of the Pacific coast last week-end. The ’’misunderstang” all started when a few vacant lota with mine holes in their bowels sagged down ward and caved in due to excessive moisture which has softened over burden. At one place a sidewalk had settled about six inches, but the mine shaft under the street had been backfilled and city offi cials removed danger signs after an investigation under ground. Small areas at the Oscar Knox place, the R M. Johnson home and the Severance filing station had caved, but were refilled within a couple of days. It was pointed out by G. W. Godward, Jacksonville gold buyer, that approximately $75,000 in placer gold had been taken out of yards and lots there during the past 12 months and that $250 at the outside would repair all dam age that has been done. One development of the sensa tional news treatment given the cave-ins was the arrival of one family from southern California, who drove to Jacksonville to view a town which had ’caved in.” Al though they were disappointed in finding the town still quite nor mal and unperterbed, tney found their trip to be worthwhile after visiting the Museum of Southern Oregon, and other old landmarks of the famous town. Frequently, when pushing tun nel into the earth, miners suddenly- come upon old workings which i release a flood of water and mud into their shafts, but so far no accidents have resulted, save re cently to Oscar Knutgan, who suf fered back injures when attempt ing to change timbers without first setting up his replacements. Miners ther^ sell gold to Buyer Godward at the rate of about $1500 J l week, while several quartz operations have been under steady production for some time. ----------- •------------ By BILLY Hl’LEN Folks, get acquainted with Mr. Wardlow Howell of Ashland, who does a fair bit of country center ing for Howard Hobson's swash buckling Southern Oregon Nor mal school basketball outfit. Mr. Howell is strictly a local product, athletically speaking, as similating the rudiments of the court game under two coaches, Russel Cripe and Jack Bliss, in his four years at Alma Mater, Ashland high Mr. Howell is rated by all, the greatest chunk of bas ketball flesh to ever be graduated from that institution. In describing the maple court antics of Mr. Howell, it can best be said that he resembles noth ing so much as a mountain having evation at which it was eventually a landslide. Mr. Howell stands six located. A survey wou.- determine feet six inches high and weighs this, it was stated The possible 217 pounds. He wears a number length of the tunnel is given as twelve shoe. And, he’s plenty from three and a half to 10 miles, tough. This would be an expenditure of Mr Howell, if you take uni- from three and a half to 10 mil- versity of Oregon’s Billy Rhine- lion. The attitude ot the railroad towaru such a project was not hart’s word for it, is the bestest center on this entire Pacific Coast. learned. And. Billy Rhinehart should know Another project which would di because it was Mr. Howell who rectly benefit Ashland is a $40,000 blazed the way for his team in Oiling 10 Miles Road gymnasium for the Southern Ore their three out of four wins over gon Normal school, the application Mighty Oregon. Awaits Good Weather for which has been filed with the Mr. Howell is what the baseball PWA for some time. It was in The Jackson county court, in playing boys call a "money play cluded in the list of needs intro er.” He is at his best In the old accordance with its 1935 road pro duced at the meeting. pinch. Or crises. For instance; in gram, expects to oil surface ten Guy Applewhite, relief chairman miles of county roads as soon as the second Willamette game down of Ashland, is working out the lo here the count was knotted up weather conditions permit and cal projects in detail, getting them tight at the end of the game. An expects communities desirous of securing quicker action, by paying ready for submission. overtime period was necessary. So half of the oiling, to bring the Mr. Howell went out and caged a When Mussolini met Cantor it field bucket and a free throw for total road oiling for the year to was a case of seeing I to eye.— the only points scored. Second in the 20-mile mark, acording to an Weston Leader. stance; with the score tied in the announcement issued from the second Union Oil affair in Portland county seat this week. The budget provides funds for the road oiling and about forty seconds to go, and it is the plan to oil ten miles Dick Jockisch let one go from fhe each year until all main roads on center. He missed. But, Mr. How the floor of the valley are treated. ell was there under the basket to Some oiling may also be done on take the rebound off his number market roads, if funds are avail- twelves and lay it in. For the ball able, it was said. game. County Judge Day said Tues- Mr. Howell has accounted for a day the oiling was "practical and few points in all the fifteen games cheap, and was necessary to save the SONS have played. To be ex the original investment of roads,” act, 192. Which is an average of some of which are now sadly cor 12.8 per battle. Which is not bad. rugated by four years of travel. Against opponents like Oregon, The county judge said no new Willamette, Multnomah club, Un- roads would be started, but •‘ef ion Oil, Irish Cash Stores and forts and funds would be devoted New York Harlemites. to saving and bettering those al Mr. Howell is 22 years of age. _ ready constructed." County Engi This is his third year under How neer Paul Rynning said “practi ard Hobson. He is unstoppable on cally no grading would be done the basketball floor and likes to be this year.” called, "All American.” Which may not be so far wrong at that if the SONS attend the National Alpha Tauri Will A.A.U. tournament at Denver in Present ‘Hay Fever* March. Which they most likely will do. The Alpha Tauri, dramatic or ----------- •------------ ganization of the Southern Oregon EAGLES WILL HOLD SECOND Normal school, presents under the SMOKER FEBRUARY FIFTH able direction of Mr. and Mrs. Angus L. Bowmer Noel Coward’s Tuesday night, February 5, the "Hay Fever.” The cast includes Eagles will hold the second of their many people who have entertained series of smokers. This event is audiences here in Ashland before. to inaugurate eliminations which They are: Sunshine Walters as will lead to finals. Judith Bliss, Jack Frost as Simon The winner of each bout is to Bliss, Helen Edmundson as Sorel have a succeeding bout with his Bliss, Bob Stedman as Sandy challenger and among the fore Tyrell. Dorothy Jackson as Myra most fighters in the coming card Arundel, Wanada Aldrich as Rich will appear Buddy Jacks, who chal ard Greatham. The scenery has lenges Harold Wright, the Chilo been designed by Mrs. Bowmer quin warrior, Frank Redke versus and is being built by the play pro Red Handsaker, both local boys, duction group of the Sons, under and Chuck Abel, Ashland’s favor- the direction of Mr. Bowmer and orite, against Bill Hawkins. Sev Bob Stedman. eral other bouts have been ar Judging by previous experi ranged for and fight fans predict ences, Ashland may well look for one of the best cards in this sec ward to a very successful produc tion for some time. tion. ----- •------ By C. M. Payne
