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se A Copy < S outhern O regon M iner Ashland, Oregon, Friday, August 9, 1935 Volume 4 t Nuggets From The Miner By C. B. ♦ ”----------- —----------- t Kipling made himself famous by Maying “East la East and West la Weal and never the twain ahull meet.** But Kipling can't fool me. 1 know better. Every time 1 go to a new town I get plumb turned around Mere In Aahland, ao fur ua I'm concerned, cast la went and west I m cast, and the twain meet somewhere along Main street. Old Hol playa tricks on me by amlling down from the direction of the north pole at noon time. 4 4 4 y 4 4) Successor to The Jacksonville Miner If a stranger aaka me to direct him aomcwliere all I can do la to tell him to go a couple o' blocks weateaat, turn to the right und go caatnorth by aouthnorth one block, turn left and then aak somebody that really knowa. I'd buy me a compass. but it wouldn't do a bit of good. If I aimed it at the north It would jiggle around and point atraight southeast. Then I'd smash it and tramp on the wreck. Ter rible temper some old galoota have. • 1 can make it' to the postoffice with the greateat of ease. Daring young man atuff. Just go any di rection I think it isn't. But juat let me atruy around the comer. Had no idea Aahland waa auch a big city. The plaza district alone, if it were down there in aouthem California, would be a city of 10.- 000 population. And it haa the moat and the fineat directions I ever saw. I always uae the police headquarters aa my landmark and have no trouble getUng along. On your way you old dotard! • Some fine September mom I in tend to get up early enough to ace the exact spot where the sun cornea up. That will be east or somewhere within a hundred de grees or so, according to how dense my sense of direction la at the time. Then I'm going to suy to myself "That’s east, you old bone- head, and you're the only citizen that don't know it.*' Then it will flash Into my mind like an inspira tion and probably stay there until I turn around. • But by num and also by cracky, I'm going to conquer those direc tions. Old pioneer stock you know. Oregon or bust. Fight it out on that line if it takes all summer Uvea of great men all remind us etc. etc. etc. Add mouldy maxims. • Yes, sir, I’m going to conquer that silly obsession of losing the directions. Folks don't want a citi zen cluttering up the sidewalks of this fair city who can't even tell visitors the way to the Uthia foun tain . . . Item in the Daily South ern Oregon Miner of August 9, 1957: "An old resident created a sensation in the vicinity of the new palatial police station at high noon today. He took a few obser vations, squinted at the sun and then shouted 'Eureka! By gum, I’ve found them thar directions.” Ye editor may have his woes. Step in and swat him on the nose To show him you appreciate His work for city, home and state. • By constant use of a sufficient amount of deductive power, and with close scrutiny of daily press items, one might easily form the opinion that Chairman Henry Fletcher of the Republican nation al committee does not think any too highly of the New Deal. But you'll notice that quite a big bunch of Republican congressmen keep right on voting for it. • Some of the big financial and industi ial leaders think the na tural forces of economic recovery ought to be given a chance to as sert themselves. Well, why don't they put their shoulders to the wheel and start things moving? The average gazaboo is beginning to think that the big fellows are pulling back instead of pushing forward. The New Jersey man who tried to start a whispering campaign against PreBident Roosevelt prob ably doesn’t carry doorkeys. A man as little as that could crawl through any keyhole. We'd have more confidence in Uncle Sam’s proposed permanent liquor control system if it would enable the consumer to control his own liquor.—Weston Leader. conduct a study of the mining in dustry in Oregon, it was an nounced Wednesday. The committee was named fol lowing the defeat of a bill at the 1935 session to create a state min ing department The main purpose nt th<* committee is to launch a statewide educational program and to establish mining museums at the University of Oregon and Ore gon State college. Members are Dr. Warren D. Smith, University of Oregon; Pro fessor James H. Batchellor, Ore gon State; Robert M. Betts, Eu gene mining engineer; James T. Chinnock, Grants Pass; J. C. Bow en, Baker; Amedee M. Smith, president of the board of trus tees of Willamette university, and W. B. Dennis, Carlton. Oregon's third greatest resource wild life Is to be furthered through establishment at Oregon State college of one of eight re gional wild life research and edu cational centers through a coop erative arrangement between the U. S. biological survey, the state game commission and the college. Furthering such activities on the entire Pacific coast, Oregon la the only state to be selected aa the only federal state center of thia kind because of its unusual abund ance and diversity of wild re sources. In no other state are conditions so Ideal for research with such a wide range of wild life on auch a large scale. The largest herd of POLICE CRACK wild antelope and the second larg DOWN ON STRAYS est herd of elk are found in Ore gon. And now the largest wild bird Police have received a number refuge in the United States is lo of complaints recently concerning cated in Malheur lake. the activity of other people’s live ----------- >--------- stock, chickens, cows, horses, ducks, etc. FIRE TRUCK GETS According to city attorney, NEW RED COAT Frank Van Dyke, up to 100 chick ens may be kept within the city Ashland's number two fire truck, limits without a special permit, if the big 1013 American 1-a France, they are kept enclosed and not waa receiving a new coat of vivid less than 75 feet from any dwell red paint Wednesday morning. The ing. new dresa la quite becoming. Police Officer M T. Burns stated Fire Chief C. L. Baughman how that cows or horses are not per ever, stated that the number one mitted to run at large in the truck will not be repainted at the streets but must be kept enclosed or strongly tethered. present time. --------- e But on the other hand, the newer of the two trucks probably will, I "ONT A I. RECEIPTS UP woman fashion, refuse to go out Postal receipts for the Ashland on a call unless dressed up in new postoffice during the month of summer frock. July jumped $359 over the same ------------•------------ month for 1934 which amounted to $1562. Postal receipts for July 1935 exceeded July 1933 by $329 July receipts for 1935 were $1921, for July 1934 $1562 and for July 1933 $1592. Blond Hitcher Steals Truck Joe J. Stevens of Talent, a truck gardener, is a sadder but wiser man. Returning from northern Cali fornia, where he had been deliver ing a load of truck, he stopped and picked up pretty and blond 22- year-old Mrs. Dorothy Osborne hitching her way north. Nearing the turn-off on the Siskiyou moun tains leading to Hilt, he informed his passenger that he had to turn off there and run into Hilt to at tend to some business. He said that she could get out and if she had not secured another ride, he would upon his return pick her up and take her as far as Talent. But she didn't mind the added mileage and would just as soon go to Hilt as not. Arriving in Hilt he stepped into a market. Returning in about 10 minutes, he found his blond passenger gone. So was the car. He immediately notified police, who informed nearby towns to be on the alert for the Ford pickup. Monday morning about 3:10 a.m. City Officer I’at Dunn, patrolling the streets, noticed a car parked on B street between Fourth and Fifth. And inside the car was a blond woman, asleep. The woman, giving her name as Mrs. Dorothy Osborne of McAles ter, Okla., was turned over to state police who will in turn hand her over to federal authorities. She is charged with transporting a stolen automobile across a state line, a federal offense. Stevens has his car back, but it is likely that he will not see hitch hikers in the future. • Mr. and Mrs. Walter Durgan returned to their home In Corvallis Sunday following a two weeks visit with Mrs. Durgan’s parents, Mr and Mrs. Louis Dodge. Most of their stay here was spent at the Dodge cottage at Lake o' the Woods. • Mrs. S. A. Parker returned to Ashland the latter part of last week from a two weeks visit in Tia Juana, San Diego and Nation al City, where she was accompan ied by her son-in-law and daugh ter, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Filson of Tennant, Calif. • Mrs. Bertha Corthell and Miss Marjorie Corthell recently spent several days in Portland as guests of Miss Alice Abbott. • Mrs. Jennie Hervey is spending two weeks in Portland with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Pefley. field last Tuesday afternoon in a seven-inning game. Bill Kannasto pitched for Ash land and with his teammates mak ing seven errors behind him and the Negros’ smashing out 18 hits, was in trouble continually. Hardy and Hulen got two hits apiece for Ashland. Box score: RHE Giants ................................. 18 18 1 Ashland ................... 2 9 7 Batteries: Parks and Love; Kan nasto and McFarland. -----------_e----------- Modoc County Scene Of New Gold Strike Prospectors, seeking ever the lure of new gold fields, are pour ing into Modoc county, California, following word of a new and rich strike made at the Dixie mine. More than a hundred test samples have been taken from property surrounding the mine and the im mediate vicinity. Despite the rich value of the field, old time prospectors scoffed at the idea that a real ledge had been found, declaring that while it may be rich in ore, the main ledge, so far eluding the horde of miners, is still to be found. ----------- •------------ Church Guild To Have Dinner At Home of Winters The Westminister guild of the Presbyterian church will meet to night at the home of Mrs. Otto Winter on the Boulevard for a potluck dinner to be served in the back yard under the huge canopied walnut trees. Aoout 40 guests are bidden to be present at the dinner. Time is set for 6 o'clock. Perhaps it is because everything points now to recovery that it’s so dad-gum shy.—Weston Leader. Brad’s Bit O’ Verse By CLEM BRADSHAW BROADER VIEW I saunter through the valley Where walking’s at its best, Where I could loaf and dally And take much needed rest. But soon my eyes are gazing Upon a high green hill And longings most amazing Within my giblets thrill. A big hill always rights me When I feel like a dime; Its gentle slope invites me And makes me want to climb. And climbing brings me wheezes And racks my weary bones. I load the vernal breezes With forty tons of groans. But when I reach the summit And gaze upon the view, I find a song and hum it, And holler “Trallaloo!” I wrap my grizzled whiskers Around my lean, long neck And caper twenty friskers And whoop like billy heck. When I feel cramped and narrow, And cobwebs clog my mind, When cares and troubles harrow, And life seems one long grind, When scoffing and derision My hopeful nature grill, I find again my vision By climbing up a hill. Oh then the noise and clamor, The worry and the fray, The bickering and yammeb, Seem very far away. When life seems like a gamble, And all the world seems blue, To some high hill I amble And get a broader view. (Copyright, 1935) A Copy Number 32 Governor Names The Dark Giants TRUCKS HAULING College Will Be Wild Life Center Mining Committee Win Comic Game CROP MUST HAVE Martin recently named The Detroit Colored Giants b«*at PERMITS, Of Conservation a Governor WORD committee of seven member» to Ashland 18-2 at the high school Oregon Only ('oast State Selected For Wild Life ReNearch se Marshall E. Nauman, field sup ervisor of the motor transportation department of the commission now in southern Oregon for a short stay, announced that every effort is being made to protect the le gitimate truck operators in this vicinity from those trucks operat ing without proper PUC permits and plates. "We plan on protecting and co operating with the legitimate ear ners who are now operating with in the provisions of their respec- Uve permits and feel that there is now in the southern Oregon terri tory a sufficient number of trucks to transport the fruit this year," Mr. Nauman declared. "There will be a close supervis ion over carriers who are staying within their legal classification of their permits and also as to the correct rates to be charged and which are on file with the public utilities commissioner. "In case of an emergency where there are not enough trucks to handle the movement of fruit and some do not have the proper per mit, and in order that the move ment of fruit will not be retarded, the commission will issue tempor ary contract permits which will be in force for a period of 30 days. These permits will be issued from the state police headquarters in Medford. "We wish also to call attention to the change in the motor trans portation act made at the last session of the legislature in regard to farmers now supplied with ex empt plates. According to the change made, a farmer now sup plied with exempt plates can haul his own farin produce at any time but can only make five trips a month for his immediate neighbor and not more than 25 trips in a year. There is no limit on the load which he may haul but a very careful check will be made on these carriers who are not staying within the limitations of their ex emption. "According to the law a shipper who violates the provisions of this act as to securing rates lower than those on file with the commission is also liable and the commission intends to check these shippers as to rates as well as the carriers who are now hauling products for a rate below the established tariff on file with the commission.” Mr. Nauman will be available for truck owners or shippers in formation at the state police headquarters between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for the next 10 days in Medford. ------------ e------------ Evidences Found Mountain Beaver Ashland Vicinity Tom Hudson found, about three miles east of the Skyline mine on the Skyline mine road, several pieces of cut willows, apparently sheared by the teeth of a beaver. But the location didn't agree with the nature of a beaver, being mere ly a round hummock quite a dis tance from water. Several open ings into tunnels showed that the work probably was done by a mountain beaver. This animal is smaller than the typical beaver and instead of mak ing its home in the water will find a relatively dry piece of ground but which is underlaid with water. The tail, instead of being big and flat and slippery is small and nar row. ----------- •------------ North Bend To Change Its Name CITY SAVES $25,000 Ashland is richer by about $25,- (XX), according to figures released by Mayor Thornton S. Wiley at a council meeting Tuesday night, in which figures were read showing the savings made during the last two years in the cost of running the city, saving the town about $25,(XX) annually. Reductions in salaries and per sonnel, the retirement of $86,000 worth of bonds during the year bnng to the city an annual saving of $4305 in interest, and other cuts and economies which are due to the action of the council, ac cording to Mayor Wiley, effect huge savings. CWA and SERA relief agencies have expended in this vicinity $61,817.35 on improvements and new construction work. This amount cared only for the payment of workers, the city and state standing cost of the materials. $20,155.12 Saved by Economy Figures released showed that $20,155.12 has been saved through economies in the electric light de partment through salary cuts and reduction of personnel in last two years. Savings in other depart ments follow: Street, $677.80; re corder, $810; fire, $840; cemetery, $363, attorney, $90, and treasurer, $90. Further savings were effected through the establishment of a new power rate with the California Oregon Power company for elec tricity purchased by the city which amounts to $3318.57 annually. The cost of heating the city hall and the warehouse with electricity for two and a half years, $5897.20, has been considerably reduced by use of oil and wood. He stated that it was due at least partially to the activity of the administration that $406,604 was spent in this vicinity by the state highway commission during the year 1934 and '35, which re acted to the good of workmen of Ashland in labor and materials. Wiley further added that credit should be given the council, heads of the departments, the city sup erintendent, city recorder and city attorney for this splendid showing. Jordan Granted Wine Permit Al Jordan of the Army Goods store requested permission during the business session to obtain a state license for the sale of pack aged wine. Chief of Police C. P. Talent recommended that no furth er wine permits be granted within the city limits, but the council failed to act upon this at the present time due to protests from persons present. ----------- •------------ DATE FOR TAX PAYMENT SET Foreclosure sale on all tax de linquent property, up to and in cluding the year 1930, will start Saturday, August 24. according to word from the sheriff’s office. Since the first publication last April of the delinquent tax list of 1162 pieces of property, payments have reduced the number to about 650, according to Sheriff Syd I. BrownH* A much smaller number of property pieces is expected to go to final sale due to the large num ber of payments which are contin ually coming in. Delinquent taxes, under Oregon law, are now payable in half or whole payments. With the filing of the decree of foreclosure sale, the one-tenth payments are discarded North Bend stole a march on its sister city, Marshfield, recently by changing its name to Coos Bay, thus checkmating the latter town by using the significant name of the important harbor. North Bend, now Coos Bay. has a population of about 4000 and Marshfield about 5000. North Bend is nearer the sea and ships must pass North Bend to get to Marsh field. The latter wishes them to continue to pass but North Bend has intentions of inducing some of them to see the uselessness of going farther. AUTOS COLLIDE Susue L. Allen of 96 Laurel street and Mrs. Rose Federeco of San Jose collided on the corner of North Main and Laurel streets Wednesday. Neither was hurt, though both vehicles were badly damaged. 'Young CLINT BAUGHMAN, grandson of FIRE CHIEF BAUGHMAN, nudging his grand dad and saying, "Gadamt, I like 'em big and I like ’em red,” dur ing process of repainting number two fire truck.
