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Se A Copy S outhern O regon M iner A Copy Ashland, Oregon, Friday, April 19, 1935 Number 16 Successor to The Jacksonville Miner Volume 4 CITY NETS $1200 To Play Here! CLASS OF 70 TO LIGHT PROFITS I—--------------- -—i GRADUATE AT IN PAST MONTH ASHLAND HIGH UNION EASTER SERVICES FOR CHURCH HERE Distance lends enchantment, un- ^^^Kpss you're thinking how long It to An economist, it seems, I m a fel low talking about money, not earn- Ing It. • There seems to be no end to this craze for speed. With the aid of a parole board, n Michigan mur derer completed a life sentence in four years And it I m beginnlnK to look uh though ii man can't tie put in Jail for a debt against society, either. Popular music might become more popular if so many grown- melodies were not made ri- liculous with baby-talk words With fruit blossoms forming col ored patterns over the southern Oregon hills, with relaxing sun shine and soft rain blending in sweet-scented variety, it is hard to visualize the ruvages of drouth and sandstorm in the midwest, and still iiarder to understand how peo ple can lie content to live there for lifetimes. Our policy of reclaiming waste lands in one section of the country and plowing under good soil in an other section is quite like the cross functions of peace officers and courts, and parole boards and par dons. • The Newberg Scribe last week demonstrated the chunCe accuracy <4 typographical SHOT when a headline originally intended to read "city fathers” actually was printed "city fatheds." • American people, maudlin, sen timental, can justify the taking of life by a murderer, but not by the state. • After reading of auto deaths, it develops a lot more butchery is being accomplished with bumjters than with meat cleavers. • The neighborhood wood boxes will never be full this time of year until some smart inventor saddles an axe-bit on a baseball bat. • Though the midwest air is filled with sand, residents will have no more grit than they'll need to face the summer. • Tlie least we can say for Euro peans la that they are consistent They didn't treat our war debts with any more sincerity than they treaty each other. • We won't mind the next war so much if those who keep predicting it have to go too. • A Californian claims his hen is changing into a rooster. Funny what too much Old Crow will do to a man. • An Iowa grandfather's clock has been running since 1805 and hasn't yet been able to get away from it all. • Pigeons have been made to Jump from babyhood to maturity in four days under gland.treatments and it is expected sale of hats will in crease accordingly. You don’t have to have a funny- page at a nudist camp to sec a comic strip. -------- «-------- tv COUNCIL OKEHS F FOUR BUILDINGS The city council at its regular meeting Tuesday evening granted a permit for the Standard Oil com pany to erect an all-metal service station at the comer of East Main and First street, the present site of the Beaver building. The company’s application was accompanied by blueprints and specifications and Mr. Gale, a rep resentative of the company, ex plained the plans and assured the council that regulation of the storage tanks accorded with the demands of the underwriters as well as the state law. David Yale also interviewed dealers and others Tuesday asking bids on the construction because .of the fact that in early days there was much carelessness in titles, the company’s options on the Beaver and Schuerman properties were so drawn as to be automati cally extended for 90 days in the event it became necessary to quiet title. This will have to be done, it is probable. The Standard will put in three tanks, two of 3000 gallons capacity and one of 1500. ThFy will be four feet underground and two feet apart. Three other building permits were issued by the council Tuesday night as follows. Charles I. Homes, $200; J. A. Rutger, $300; C. O. Presnell, $200. The report of the city recorder to the city council at its regular session Tuesday evening showed receipts of $860.71 in the general fund with disbursements of $4,465 X0 The light fund showed receipts of $7,849.53 and disburse ments of $3,266.00. The water fund showed receipts of $3600.23 with disbursements of $2,772.16. The cemetery trust fund, receipts, $103.33, and disbursements $2000. Library fund, receipts, $19.50. dis bursements, $328.92. Sewer bond redemption, no receipts, disburse ments, $63.60. Sinking fund, no re ceipts, disbursements, $2050. Side walk bond redemption, receipts, $34.90, no disbursements. Paving bond redemption funds, receipts, $429.25. Cash balance in all city funds March 31, $53,031.59 In vestments in bonds and stocks, $57,416.85 total, $110,448. The report of the street superin tendent for the month of March shows a pay roll of $347.45 and bills oked of $250.13, making a total of $597.58. The report of the electric light department showed 465 of current supplied to indigents and 12,031 to I city departments without charge, I out of a total of 183,542 furnished, j The average price received for re- 1 Bident lights was 5.39 cents per ¡kwh; for resident lights and heat ers 2.38 cents per kwh; for com- ' mercial lights 3.16 cents per kwh 1 and for commercial ranges, power j furnished brought an average of I 2.72 cents per kwh; street lighting | consumed 24,540 kwh, and the street department paid the light 1 department 2.74c per kwh. Pro- ' duction expense was $281.55 and distribution expense $505.97. Main- tenance of street lights, telephone lines and road cost $67.04 included connects and disconnects $32.30; I meter reading $28.25; advertising, $14.00; store expense, $3.65. Gen eral and miscellaneous expense, in cluding salaries, totalled $431.30. Fixed capital expense included transformers. $160.48, range wir ing $90 00 and general tractor $3562.50. Copco in March was paid $252.00 for 28,000 kwh. bringing total operating expense of $2,369.00 and current billed of $5,043.02, showing a net profit of $2,647.02. Easter will be fittingly observed al the various churches of Ash land There will be special union Easter services from 12:00 noon to 3:00 p m. nt the Methodist church on the west side and the Congre gational church on the east side. The subject of the services will be 'Tlie Ixtst Seven Words from the Cross " The pastors participating are as follows: At Methodist Church: 12:00 to 1:00 Rev. Dun ham, Baptist minister. 1:00 to 2:00 Itev. Hull, Methodist minister 2:00 tO 3 00 H' v I. E Glutton Niiz arene minister. At the Congre gational Church: 12:00 to 1:00 Rev. H A White, Nazarene. 1:00 to 2:00 Rev. Dunham. 2:00 to 3:00 Rev Hall A program of deep Spiritual de votion and worship for all people and the public may come at any hour and remain for one hour or for all the services since each hour will be different. Come for all the time if possible. G<xxl Music. This program is under the di rection of the Ashland, Ministerial Association. A special Invitation is being ex tended to all the school children to uttend the 12:00 to 1:00 services. Nimrlse Prayer Meeting There will be a sunrise prayer meeting held at 6:00 am. It weather permits it will lx- held in the old Chautauqua building, if weather is bad In the First Baptist church. This meeting is also spon sored by the Ashland Ministerial Association. It will be for both young people and adults of all churches ami will Include a short program of prayer and song and a ten minute talk on the "Signifi cance of the Resurection." At the Catholic church there will be sjwcial Easter services at the regular 8:00 a in mass. At the Christian Science church the usual Sunday services will be held the subject of the lesson-ser mon being "Doctrine of Atone ment.” There will be no Easter services at Trinity Episcopal church, with the exception of Sunday school. It Is the Sunday for the rector to be in Grants Pass and local Epis copalians will go there for their Easter devotions. --------- •----------- Checker Tourney to Iteally Open Park A retaining wall is being built along the lower side of Granite street opposite Llthia park and the street will be widened. Granite Is being strewn on the wide path through the park which served as a roadway for trucks used in park work. Play on the tennis courts is ac tive every good afternoon and horseshoe pitching is being in dulged in. When Dr. Smith and his cronies start the annual checker tourney in the park, that play ground will lx- officially opened for the season. Se Brer Rabbit, snapped as he was on his way to Idthia park last night by Photographer Bushnell, has Ix'en very busy this week "planting" colored eggs in Lithia park for young Ashlandent to seek Sunday morning, starting at X o'clock. Sponsored by Ashland American Legion, Eagl<*H, Modern Wood men and Boy Scouts, Brer comes out of the fields once a year to be king for a day. Prizes will be given youngsters adept at un covering Mr. Rabbit's tokens, and all .Ashland kiddies are In vited to take part in the fun. Antoinette Detcheva, above, will apjtear In a piano-violin concert at the Southern Oregon Normal school auditorium with Lawrence Herbert Monday eve ning, April 22, at 8:15 o’clock. Antionette Detcheva (Mrs. Gordon Claycornb) is a pianist of rare ability, having received her training in Vienna and, with Hubert, violinist formerly with Rubinoff, will bring to music lovers of southern Oregon a clas sical treat. Both are widely known. HI INSTRUCTORS MEETSATURDAY High school instructors from southern Oregon will gather at Ashland high school tomorrow to discuss various phases of vocation al guidance. Teachers of the High school uniting with the Southern Oregon State Normal are spon soring the meeting at which Dr. V. V. Caldwell, of Monmouth, form erly of the Southern Oregon Nor mal, will be one of the speakers and Miss Blazier, head of the home economics department at Oregon State college, will be another. The conference will open at 10 TOWNSEND CLUB am., adjourning at noon for luncheon which will be served by DANCE IS SET AT the home economics department of the Ashland high school in the ARMORY MAY 1 school cafeteria. There also will be an afternoon The local Townsend club will session. The meetings are open to give a dance at the armory Wed the public, Prof. G. A. Briscoe nesday, May 1. to raise funds to states, and all interested are in- be sent to KNX to finance radio j vited to attend the sessions. publicity for the Townsend plan. ----------- •----------- Frank Jordan and Boyd Tucker will furnish old-time music and British Woman To the Royal six-piece orchestra will play for modem dances. Material Keep for Observation for refreshments of sandwiches, cake and coffee have been donated Mrs. John Bull, British subject, by local business men. Mrs. Rosa who has been mooching on various Powell heads the committee on re Ashland families, was turned over freshments and ladies desiring to to the police by Mrs. Leah Cald assist should see her. Clarence well when she took up her abode Lane will be floor manager. Nom in the Caldwell home and refused inal prices prevail. to either pay board or vacate. She was taken before Judge Coleman, j. p., Medford, and the case was continued and she was placed in the county jail for observation. Being an alien and a public charge she is believed subject to depor tation and the matter will proba bly be taken up with the immigra tion authorities. County Judge Day is expected to consider the case on his return from a trip to Portland on county business. ----------- •----------- GIBSON CALLED TO JOSEPHINE BY FIRM S’MATTER POP................................ By C. M. Payne Ben H. Gibson expects to leave Monday for a weeks trip in Jose phine County to assist newly ap pointed agents for California Western States Life Insurance Company, whom he represents. Earl J. Knutson, who formerly handled this work from Medford, has been placed in charge of the Portland office and has asked Mr. Gibson to handle some of this for him. ----------- •----------- - ASHLAND LIBRARY LOANS 5540 BOOKS IN MARCH The report of the Ashland public library for the month of March shows a total of 5540 books loaned of which 5,427 were from the main library, 10 loaned city schools, and 103 loaned rural schools. The larg est day's circulation was 312 and the smallest 156. Attendance at the reading and reference room totalled 3,250. Books bought with county funds totalled $108.06. ----------- •------------ BRIGGS SAYS EAST IS LEANER THAN WEST W. M. Briggs, who recently re turned from a trip to New York, reports conditions little if any bet ter in the east than in the west. He says that while all are hope ful that prosperity is "just around the comer", there is much uncer tainty aa to the future. Upwards of 70 pupils will be graduated from Ashland high school in the class of 1935, ac cording to present expectations. Commencement exercises will be held in the Junior high school gymnasium the evening of Wed nesday, May 22, at 8:00 p.m. Dr. Bruce R. Baxter, president of Willimette University, wiil deliver the address to the class. Details of other commencement activities have not yet been decid ed upon. The following are mem bers of the senior class and, bar ring dropping out because of ill ness or other unforseen obstacles, will graduate with the class: Alicia Applegate, Wava N Arant, Orville M. Balgaard, Cathryn Doyle Bates, James Wallace Baughman, Dorothy Bectel, Rob ert E. Bell, Jr, David Hilding Bergstrom, Annie Laura Brainard, Gladys Brantley, Velma Brower, Vernon James Burnett, Dorothy Marion Bums, Earle G. Canfield, . Donald Carson, Catherine Alice ' Cason, Mary Lucielle Chipman. ' Adrienne Ellene Clawson, LaVem Dalkenberg, Bettie Durkee and Ruth I. Elam. Mildred Lois Gideon, Velona Goldy, Marian A. Gould, Leo H. Grossman, Clifford L. Hall, George L. Hall, Robert V. Hardy, Marg aret Ann Harker, Carl G. Harris, Kenneth L. Harrison. Anna Mae Hazlewood, Dean Harry Home, William A. Hoxie, G. Arthur Icenhower and Lola M. Johnson. Doris Berenice Jones, Bernard William Jungwirth, Hjalmer O. Kannasto, Victor Lanini, Beauford K. Lawrence, Marietha Irene Lemmon, Raymond B. Lininger, Helen Mansfield, Mildred Lucille Martin, Aiieen Frances McCoy, Caroline Rose McNeal, Harry Errol Miller, Charlotte May Mitch ell, Juanita Moon and Muriel Lois Morse. Roberta Mae Nourse, Kathryn J. Orr, Elizabeth O. Page, Marion L. Parker, A. Llewellyn Peachey, Robert Paul Pinckney, Louis Carroll Pratt, William Rodney Rogers, Phyllis Henryetta Sparr, Frances Elvina Spencer, Marjorie Florence Stratton, Elyga Surber, John O. Thompson, Geneva Jeanette Viers, Ernest M. Wallin, Frances E. Weaver, Glenn R. Weybright, Della Irene Willard, Mildred Viola Youngs. ------------ •----------- Fuller Proposes • Demonstrate FHA Benefits By City Judge J. H. Fuller appeared be fore the city council Tuesday eve ning in behalf of the Housing com mittee and asked that the city take over one of several properties in which they have a large equity because of past due and delinquent taxes and assessments and use them in conjunction with the hous ing committee to make a demon stration as to what could be done in the way of improving old prop erties. The house, under his plans should be in a commanding posi tion and would be widely adver tised and sold, probably at auction, for cash Material dealers and builders, Fuller said, had agreed to furnish material and labor all to take their pay prorata, after the sale of the property. The matter was referred to the realty committee with instructions to investigate and report back at a special meeting of the council or at the next regular meeting. ----------- •----------- ♦----------------------------------------- ♦ SEEN In A Daze By OUR KEYHOLE EXPERT -—4 BILLY BRIGGS having a fine dime on Broadway. ARTHUR COGGINS yelling to HOWARD ABEL, "No wonder you're good, boy, you work in a BOX factory!” MERRITT RANDLES looking for a pair of gloves. AL JORDAN sweeping off his cat. JOHN MILJUS making a couple dozen "players" spike their tongues. CORRINE ROBINSON reciev- ing a promise to keep her name out of here. BEN FORSYTHE t rowin’ a kit tenball right past SOME of the Klamath Elks Wednesday. HUBERT BENTLEY and CHET WOODS running bases. TWO STUDENTS suddenly los ing their singing voices and walk ing chalk lines on sight of a uni form. BILL O BRIEN’S cowlick ob- stinately and starchily standing up for its rights. THREE LADS’ kite higher than a kite.