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se A Copy S outhern O regon M iner a Copy Ashland, Oregon, Friday, June 21, 1935 Number 25 Successor to The Jacksonville Miner Volume 4 60 FREE SUITS FOR BEAUTIES HERE FOURTH Ashland Light, Power Rates Are lowest In Entire State Oregon iUtes in 100 and 250-kllowatt- hour classes in Oregon cities from 2500 to 5000 people give Ashland consumers the edge in residential electric costs, it was announced in a report from the federal power commission In its survey of resi dential rates in this state. Facta, based on net monthly bills for 25, 100 and 250-kllowatt- hours in residential services show that Hillsboro and St. Helena are highest, Newberg second and Ash land third. The bathing beauty contest scheduled for July 4 tn Ashland Aimer McPherson returned home now promises to be one of the n beautiful blond, but yuu can’t main attractions of the big day, make us believe «he’« a dumb one. according to a committee for this • enterprise, oomposed of Ixigan Knowledge can come from book« Ninlngcr, chairman, Charles Fort but not intelligence. miller and Millard Grubb, who al • ready have laid plans for staging Coal miner« in a Kansas pent* the big show, tent la ry went on «trike, perhap« In the first place the celebration because there waa dirty work un committee, in cooperation with derground. Fortmiller's, a knitting mills rep • Probably the beat way to get resentative, are giving to the first 60 entrants a high-quality wool ahead in the world la to use the bathin gsult of the latest and one you were born with. smartest style for use during the • bathing suit of the latest and If Uncle Sam's postmen ever end of the show, will become the catch the popular fever and go out property of the girl entering the Under liberal provision« of a on «trike, they'll have the public law which went into effect June contest. In addition to this, there sympathy if they make it around will be a first prize of $15. a sec 12, 1935, taxpayers whose proper first of the month. ond prize of $10, a third prize of ty now is being foreclosed by • a season ticket to Twin Plunges Jackson county for delinquent Talk la cheap unUl the conver worth $10. and a fourth prize of taxes are given an opportunity to sation gets down to the dotted $5 Certain other prizes are being save it. line. Any person whose property is added to the above list by mer • chants of the valley. The commit described in the pending foreclos Nudism 1« no indication of gen tee Itself will start the ball rolling ure suit may, by making a 10 per erosity; it doesn't follow that, be by offering 63 /rises, none of cent payment to the sheriff, obUin cause they have none on their which are worth less than $4. a six months extension of time to backs, nudists gave their last shirt put those taxes in good standing As an added attraction, a north to someone. and avoid the foreclosure. west knitting mills company Is • Reports indicate that a large Art (Hie) Powell of the Central sending its prize collection of old- number of people do not under Point American is complaining be fashioned bathing suits which will stand provisions of the new law cause Medford hogged the "Pear- be modeled for the big show. and its easy payment privileges, All girls wishing to enter the therefore all parties whose land is A-Dise" slogan for herself, instead of including the entire county. Mi- contest are asked to Immediately now being foreclosed are urged gawah, Art, let etn keep it; serves register at Twin Plunges between to confer with the district attor the hours of 7 and 8 p m. dally or ney or the sheriff so the matter em right. at Fortmiller's between 9:30 and may be fully explained to them. • Because they weren't taken for 11 am. daily, where name and A final decree could have been a free ride, many administration various measurements will be taken tn this suit on April 4. 1935, taken. Measurements prescribed by but action has been withheld to critics are riding Roosevelt. Sylvia of Hollywood wil ble used permit taxpayers to make this • It’s more graceful, too, to take as a basis. Measurements incude small payment and thereby save reverses on the chin than to take size of neck, bust, upper arm. their property from foreclosure. wrist, waist, hips, thigh, calf and them chinning. After the decree is entered no ankle. • redemption is possible under the Judges will be selected from present law. It is planned to have If a man travels too fast at his play, then he has to coast through Ashland. Medford, Klamath Falla, the decree entered July 15, 1935, Granta I’m« and Yreka. Prizes will and anyone desiring to stop the his work. be awarded on the following point foreclosure, so far as it affects • Herbert Hoover Intimated, in a basis: Thirty per cent for meas their property, should consult the recent political speech, that the urements. 20 per cent for posture district attorney or sheriff before present administration is attempt and poise, 20 per cent for ease of that date. ing to bum the house down to get walk, 15 per cent for general ap roast pig. Herby must've meant a pearance and 15 per cent for ap pen-house, like we hear about in plause. All entrants must take their the city. places on v’v“clal floats which will • Mountainous taxes make the fi be provided for them In the morn ing parade, and will be expected For the second time in success nancial road a steep hill to pull. to be dressed, and made up, ready ion, Robert Dodge will be delegate • At first glance we thought the for the big show at 3:30 p.m. af for the University of Oregon to the new government G-men were an ternoon of the Fourth at Twin Japanese-American student confer abbreviation for the multitudinous Plunges, where special arrange ence. this year in Portland the gimme-men who've been flocking ments are being made te take care latter part of July. of spectators. Actual bathing to Washington. Dodge, who knows many of the beauty revue will take place be 50 Japanese students who arrive • tween 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Nowadays, when you hold a first in Seattle July 23. was selected Entrants for the bathing beauty by Karl Onthank, dean of person mortgage on a piece of property, contest are being reminded to be nel at the university. you’re merely heading a parade. certain to register either at Twin Last year the conference was • Judging offhand from recent Plunges or at Fortmliler’s imme held in Japan, with Dodge repre barrages aimed at the 1936 elec diately. where a slip giving com senting Oregon. Many of the Jap tion, a republican is a calamity plete instructions will be given anese students will remain in the them, and measuresments will be United States to attend univer howler in political dress. taken. A schedule of the perfect sities. • ------------- •------------- Court machinery to speed up for measurements will be on hand for Kidnaper Waleys' trial, says a Inspection of those interested. DOCTORS VISIT WOODS HERE Dr. Denton Reed. Sacramento, news dispatch. That's just the Only first 60 girls to enter will trouble with court procedure, too qualify for a stylish, all-wool new Calif., and Dr. Sanford Wolllce, Portland, were visitors Sunday much machinery and too many bathing suit, given free. ------------- S------- — with Dr. Marcus Woods at the monkey wrenches in the hands of • Mrs. Guy Crosby of Crescent home of the latter’s parents, Dr. shysters. City spent the wek-end in Ashland. and Mrs. E. A. Woods. FORECLOSURES CAN BE DELAYED Bob Dodge UofO Member Jap Meet CAPITOL SITE ‘Qramp’ Hoffard 5 ASHLANDERS WRANGLE SOON IN LAW S TOILS LOOMS LIKELY AWAIT ACTION By A. L. LINDBECK (State Capital News Bureau) SALEM (Special to the Miner) - location of the new capital building promises to provide a bone of contention for the law makers to chew on when the spe cial session is convened to pass judgment on the capital construc tion program. The public works committee of the state planning board in a progress report filed with Gover nor Martin says that by all means Salem should be retained as the capital of the state but qualifies this declaration by adding “if a suitable site can be found” for the new building. The site of the old capital, the committee declares, 1* too small to accomodate a building of the size and type to which Oregon is en titled in view of an expected ma terial Increase in population dur ing the next few years. Several other sites are being studied by the planners who will make their rec ommendations to another report to be presented to the governor Fri day, June 28. Residents of Salem generally are pretty well satisfied with the present site which is centrally lo cated and which forms a part of what Salemites hope will be de veloped into one of the most at tractive civic centers in the entire nation. Legislators who have vis ited Salem since the fire and who have expressed themselves on the question of a location for the new building have been almost unani mous to their support of the old site and many of these can be de pended upon to oppose any at tempt to change the capital loca tion regardless of the recommen dations of the planning board. The old capitol, destroyed by fire the night of April 25, was constructed crosswise of the block, that is, with its two wings ex tending north and south of the main lobby or rotunda. Supporters of the present site point out that the need for additional space for the new building can be met by (Continued on page five) A NEW MINER SERVICE Starttag with this article, the Southern Oregon Miner pre sents a new news service to readers which comes direct from the state capitol at Salem. Written by A. L. Lindbeck, the weekly^ digest of happenings, of interest to every Oregonian, will be complete, authoritative, well written and terse. News, comment, interesting side an gles and forecasts of what is to come will be found in his ar ticles which will keep readers of the Southern Oregon Miner posted from week to week on all important happenings of state. Lindbeck. writing from the press room of the state capitol, in close touch with the governor and all branches of government, Is in an advantageous position to supply Ashland readers with an exclusive Miner service. CITY COUNCIL S’MATTER POP ****** By C. M. Payne TO BUY BUNTING At regular meeting of the Ash land city council Tuesday evening it was decided that Ashland should be decorated for the Fourth with flags and fitting trimmings, and purchase of material was author ized for the purpose. Three building permits were is sued, one to H. L. Claycomb for a service station and remodeling of a used car lot, with cost estimated at $2000. Another permit was granted to Frank Jordan, for re modeling of a Scenic Drive resi dence to total $250, and a third to W. D. Jackson for a rear porch and dining room for his Palace cafe, to cost $125. J. Q. Adams, city recorder, re ported a cash balance of $74,674.98. City Judge Fuller reported $145 receipts for the month of May, $32.50 of which were court costs. Expenses of the electric depart ment for May were $2216.35, with a net profit of $2887.37. Payroll for the water department was $902.03, with bills amounting to $348.97. Librarian's report listed 23 books donated, 38 purchased and 27 new members. An additional $50, to be used for wiring, was granted for use In wiring the Chautauqua building Elizabethan theater. ------------- •------------- KESTI BAILS, SCRAMS Ivar Kestl, Ashlander arrested on a charge of being drunk In a public place, was ordered to ap pear In court last Monday morning and upon failure to show, his $10 bond was forfeited. Kestl was ar rested late Saturday evening and released Sunday morning. ------------- •------------- Wish the supreme court had spoken before the big shots of the Graphic Arts code took ua for 10 bucks.—Weston Leader. se PAUL "HOOSIER” HOFFARD Paul “Hoosier” Hoffard, former coast league star, now batting up wards of .400 to be way out in front of the Southern Oregon league sluggers, will be one of the feature attractions at the high school field here Sunday when his Medford Rogues will return to what they disdainfully refer to as a "pillbox” field to meet Ashland's hustling Lithians The game Is re garded as a crucial contest for the two nines and a large gallery is expected. 3000 3-C’S WILL BE HERE ON 4TH When a complainant thinks cer tain acts are going to cost him money he wants criminal prosecu tion but, when the financial ends can be disposed of satisfactorily, very often guardians of the law discover their complaining wit nesses have changed their minds about prosecution, and now the latest charge brought against George High, Ashland man under four-year sentence, on a charge of setting fire to the Balfour Guth rie barn near here in January, 1933, is up in the air. Frank Haab, complaining wit ness, brought charges against High of fraud in the sale of prop erty, but Monday telegraphed District Attorney George A. Cod ding that “the case has been set tled" and asked that the charge be dropped. Codding said yester day he had taken the request un der advisement, but that no action had been taken. Robert N. (Babe) High, also un der four-year sentence for com- pliicty in the arson, was still in jail yesterday, following withdraw al of one of his bondsmen, J. C. Ray. Bond was set at $5000, and it was understood Robert High was endeavoring to effect a new bond to secure release. High had been out on bond pending filing of an appeal to the state supreme court, time for which expires July 1. George Roberts, his attorney, was denied a motion for an ex tension of time until September 1 by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton Tuesday on the grounds that two extensions had already been grant ed and that enough time had been allotted. District Attorney Codding also said yesterday that the three cul prits from Ashland who plead guil ty to their respective charges last week will go before Judge Norton this morning for sentence. They are Floyd Shepard, 18, state train ing school escape, and George A. Roberts, transient youth, arrested here a week ago for grand larceny for theft of a Medford automobile, and Basil Petroff, 45, charged with a statutory offense involving a seven-year-old Ashland girl. Ac cording to Codding, Petroff now claims the confession he allegedly signed for Chief of Police Talent at time of his arrest last week was the result of trickery. Petroff, a Russian, in a statement made to the court last Friday when he plead guilty, attempted to hide be hind his nativity in saying he did not understand the English lan guage too well, and that he did not fully understand significance of the confession when he signed it. Petroff, apparently, is follow ing the course of many apprehend ed men who, on first blush, blurt out the truth and then, on reflec tion, attempt to "cover up” by claiming they were falsely influ enced to sign confessions. Petroff was considered a serious case by the district attorney’s of fice, it was learned, despite the fact that two Ashland men ap peared and testified to his reputa tion for good character a week ago. A slap on the back and an ad monition to “go to it” comes easy, but when all but three of Ash land's businessmen dig down into their jeans and produce hard- earned coin to back up the coming Fourth of July celebration, that's sincere endorsement, according to William Briggs, local attorney member of the celebration com mittee canvassing for underwrit ing funds. Briggs was assisted in his work by Harold Aikins, Ben Gibson and W. M. Walls. An objective of $600 was set for Ashland businessmen. which hi* been reached, in addition to $125 subscribed by Medford mer chants. But three local business men declined to underwrite the celebration, it waa learned. Ac cording to Briggs, celebrations in the past always have returned at least 60 per cent of sums under written, and it is expected pledges this year will be used only in part. An additional $300 is expected to concessions in Lithia park, six of be realized by the committee from which already have been let. Other revenue will accrue from the Shakespearean plays to be pre sented in the new Elizabethan theater in Lithia park under the direction of Angus L. Bowmer, and from a 42-round boxing show to be staged in the building. According to information re ceived by the celebration commit tee, which is headed by H. L. Clay comb, there will be a minimum of 3000 CCC enrollees and officers here for July 4, and parking space has been requested of the city for 300 3-C trucks on that day. Looks as though the NRA will Among attractions in Ashland July 2, 3 and 4 will be a carnival, Never Reign Again.—Weston (Or) which will be set up in the lower Leader. park, where all concessions will be located, the committee stated. New Talent Postoffice Soon To Be Completed L. W. Tame, postmaster at Tel ent, announced this week that a new postoffice building will be in readiness about July 1, when ef fects of the office and 175 lock boxes will be moved across the Pacific highway Into Tame’s new building. The structure, 16x18 feet, will be finished in stucco and will be used exclusively as a post office. Tame received his postmaster's appointment January 18, and re ceived confirmation for moving of the office, following a local en dorsement in Talent, June 1. ------------- •-------------- BEEKEEPERS PICNIC HERE SUNDAY, WITH PROGRAM Rogue river valley beekeepers will gather in Lithia park Sunday for pastime and discussion of bee keeping problems, it was an nounced here yesterday. Coffee and ice cream will be furnished by the beekeepers, and all picnickers are asked to bring basket lunches. All southern Oregonians inter ested in the care of bees are in vited to attend the picnic and to join the throng of visitors. Spon sors have promised that no vicious bees will be in attendance and that their buzz will only be in conver sation. ------------- •------------- QUARTET AT NAZARENE The Harmonian brass and vocal quartet of Northwest Nazarene college will be in Ashland Church of the Nazarene Friday evening, June 21, to give a sacred concert. This service will begin at 8 o’ clock. You will enjoy this evening of entertainment. Do not fail to hear them. SEEN ». MIE RILLING SCHUERMAN deny ing his small boy a few shots on a pin-ball machine with the ex planation. "Now son, don't inter fere with papa's investments.” ART (SCOOP) COOPER look ing like CAL WELLS, almost, in that big slithering sedan. A SOUTHERN OREGON EDI TOR didn't actually get to his Last Word, he merely knocked off for vacation. KEN MADDEN playing golf at 5 a.m. with no clubs. LARRY HUNTER with a blond. RUTH WARREN telling CHARLES TONNER to not lock the door. MARIE CARSON, formerly Rig don, pining for FRANK. DOC SHORT dodging cars in a Dodge. HELEN RICE being black mailed into buying the Miner four handsful of ice cream. FRANK DAYTON dubbing JERRY GAULT, and his careen ing truck the "Silver Flash.” M. C. LiNINGER becoming grandfather of a grand son, san of EARL LININGER.