Southern Oregon miner., May 15, 1936, Image 1

A Copy
S outhern O regon M iner *
A Copy
Successor to The Jacksonville Miner
ASHLAND, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936
Volume 5
Ashland*«
Wanted For The
Boost Campaign
Mussolini pledges that he will
maintain the opendoor in Ethiopia.
Hr has already done that, so of
He
course nobody should doubt his
word. Just recently he opened the
door and said to Emperor Haile
Helnssle: : "Don't
Helnssle
"Don’t rush off in the
heat of the day, Halle, but if you
must go here's your hat and there's
inuat
the open door."
door.”
Fletcher says fifteen slates have
quit F. D. R. But if you would ask
Farley, ho would say Fletcher is
just having a day drcam The time
is rapidly approaching however
^,'hen political prognosticatin will
x> in full flower and glory, 'rhe
statisticians will also be putting
in a lot of overtime.
While Die politicians arc scheme-
ing schemes the scientists arc find­
ing new methods of killing germs.
Tubes designed by Dr. Robert F
James and Dr. Harvey Hcntachlcr
of the Westinghouse company, give
out rays that kill germs in sixty
seconda and keep the air of an op­
erating room continuously steril-
iz ed. it is the final step in anti­
septics that began 18«.’»
The movement of wool in Boston
was small last week according to
the honorable press dispatches Too
early yet. The wool will begin to
fly the latter part of June when
the national convention is over.
"'rhe lion and the unicorn fight­
ing for the crown; the Hon whipped
the unicorn and drove him out of
town", said an old British jingle.
Now the British lion and the Rom­
an eagle each have their eyes on
Ute Mediterranean basin and North
Africa, and each wants dominat­
ion Each being a big nation they
probably will settle It by diplom­
acy rather than war
Eastern states that wasted their
forests now wish they had conserv­
ed them. Oregon still has mag­
nificent forests and now is the
time to adopt a program of con-
nervation »nd reforestation
Captain 8 N. Dancey, of Chi-
cago told a Medford audience re-
cently that less than ten percent
of the American people are edu­
cated and less than five percent
have any understanding of citizen­
ship. He was making a G. O. P.
»¡»each, too, so his audience must
have been pretty highbrow.
Population nas shifted consider­
ably during the past five yeaia
Among other changes,
Oregon
gained while California lost. And
in the next five years Oregon is go­
ing to have an Increased percent­
age of gain Better higways. better
opportunities, greter natural re-
scourcM,
While the New Deal is being
flayed by opposition leaders, it is
still quite popular in the opposition
ranks of Congress. The deficiency
bill, carrying the administrations
work relief appropriation for 1937
of nearly a billion and a half doll­
ars, wax passed in the house of
repiesentatlves by a vote of 340
to 37.
Texas, though big and un wieldy
state, can put on a burst of speed
that is simply amazing. Already
the deposed Emperor Halle Se­
lassie has received an offer
of
$100,000 for a two weeks appear­
ance at the Texas Centennial ex­
position.
"Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne,'
sighed the poet. Then he caught
another sort of vision, and contin­
ued: "Yet that scaffold sways the
future; and behind the dim un­
known standeth God among the
shadows, keeping watch above hin
own."
the
Sometimes it seems like
world is in a mad vortex of greed
and grasp. Brute power seems to
be in the ascendency and treat­
ies no longer sacred.
But the
world has been through
many
such periods and has always pulled
through. Don’t begin to make your
application yet for a membership
in the ancient aggregation of |>ess:
imists.
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LEGION AUXILLIAKY
The American tagion Auxiliary
will hold a business session and
work session Monday evening at
7:30.
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Poppy Day, SATURDAY MAY 28
Closer Contact with the farmers
and a better understanding be­
tween rural and city residents will
be a major plank in the platform
of the Ashland chaml»er of com­
merce. according to the drift of
sentiment and discussion at the
regular meeting of the board ofdi-
rcctors Monday noon
T L O’Harra, O. F. Carson and
C M Utwlller were appointed as
an a committee to round up local
Ic ulers and try to find some plan
to promote friendship and c<x»per-
atlon. It seems also that a slogan
for this cityis a thing much to be
d< sired and without which Ashland
iidght in time become as sleepy
and no ’count ax of Sister Medford.
Nothing like a good rousing slogan
to warm the cockles of the heart
and make life worth while.
Do you want a free membership
in the chamber of commerce for
a whole year? That's the prize
t<> lx* awarded to the writer of the
best Ashland slogan All you have
to do la to write the best one. But
you'll have to hurry While no def-
inile date for closing has been set,
all entries should be sent to the
chamber of commerce office within
tne next few weeks "Speed” might
be the basis for a good slogan
As a further mark of progress
the directors are planning to have
new literature descriptive of Ash­
Inn.. published soon. The winning
slogan will lx* featured in this lit-
eratura.
H L. Claycomb, R. E. Detrick
and Dr C. A Haines were appoint­
ed as a committee to inquire of
the state game commission as to
a report that more pheasant eggs
were available. If so it was the
| opinion that softie of the eggs
could be used in this area to in­
crease the wild life.
To Have Traffic
Check Made Soon
SALEM May
14 Crews of
traffic checkers will begin work
on Oregon's principal highways
May 19, It was announced by
state higway officials with a view
of determining definitely the im­
portance of each highway with re­
lation to future expenditures of
state and federal aid road funds
With a federal appropriation of
$300.000 the survey is expected to
take a year's time and will be all
inclusive beginning with an in­
ventory of highways now under
way by 25 parties placed in the
field a month ago. These parties
will report in detail upon present
conditions' of each road, higway
officials said as well as the traffic
checkers counting all automotive
vehicles, their origin, destination
and commodities.
Upon the basis of this survey
< fficials of the Oregon Pacific
Highway association declared they
will establish their contention that
a more equitable portion of state
and federal funds must be alloted
to U. S. Highway 99 as the most
important and heaviest carrier of
traffic within the state. Present
traffic density maps of the State
highway department show
that
more thLn 60 per cent of all traf-
fic in Oregon is over Pacific High-
way U. 8. 99. while statistics
from the secretary of states office
on out of state car registration
show 56 percent of all cars regis-
tered at offices on this highway,
While a year will be necessary
for making the complete survey,
highway officials believe that an
additional six months will be need­
ed to compile the data before it
will be available for use.
Local Eagles To
Install Officers
Installation of officers will be
held by the Ashland aerie of the
Eagles lodge at the meeting to be
held on Thursday night. June 4,
new officers having been elected at
the last regular meeting. The off­
icers to be installed are as follows:
Merrit Randles, president; Tom
Carter, vice-president; Lloyd Lacy,
of Talent, chapTain; Melvin Beagle,
re-elected as secretary; R. G. Gar­
rett, treasurer; Art Morang, inside
guard; Terrance McCarthy, out­
side guard; W. L .Stewart, three
year term trustee; A M. Brownlee,
re-elected as conductor.
Meanest
The champion of the aggre­
gated order of low down, low
lived, low browed, ornery g<xxj-
for-nothinga must have been
abroad last Haturday evening,
hell bent on bettering his rec­
ord.
Whoever it was, he swiped
a Mother's Day cake from the
•creened in back porch at the
1*. D McDougal home, 128 Pio­
neer Ave , which was intended
to be the motif for a tender
sentiment instead of loot for
a piffling pilferer.
Shirley and June McDougal
had bought the cake and left it
In the porch, later to be sprung
as a surprise for the
"best
mother in the world” at the
dinner hour. Dinner on the table
family assembled, to the porch
they went with happy anticipat­
ion of pleased surprise, and the
cake
well, the cake wax
gone. Some sacrilegious cyclops
had toted It away.
If a meaner trick has ever
bMn perpetrated, it has never
yet gone on record.
Number 20
Rairoad Across SONS Orchestra Formal Opening
Southern Oregon
To Give Concert Of New Storage
Being Considered
Plant Saturday
Frank McColloch, public utilities
commissioner, has sent letters to
the chamber of commerce of Ash­
land. Klamath Falls, Grants Pass,
Medford,
Roseburg,
Portland,
Marchfield and Burns, relative to
proposals for a cross state railroad.
Reactions of the communities are
being sought on the proposals.
McColloch stated he was not in a
position to divulge what interests
had requested the cooperation, oth- 1
er than to say the came from the ’
national capital from persons ap­
parently well informed ax to con­
ditions in Oregon.
Following replies to the letters,
the utilities commissioner announc­
ed he would call a meeting of the
communities with Governor Mart­
in in order to outline the state's
policy.
The initial step. McColloch said,
would be a survey at Federal ex­
pense contemplating eventual rail­
road construction from Burns, via
Klamath Falls,
to the Oregon I
Coast; also from Humboldt bay,
California, to Coos bay.
The proposal contemplates con­
struction and ownership of the I
fixed railroad plant by the federal
government. McColloch said, with
Jackson county has sponsored
operation by one of the connecting
a number of W. P A. projects and
■ines in each instance.
a recent report of county Engineer
The proposed routing would be
Paul B Rynlng shows that five of
in harmony with recommendations
them have been completed or are
made by the state of Oregon in
nearing completion. Two of those
petitions to the interstate com­
now underway call for measure­
merce commission in 1926 at the
ment of all bridges in the county
time the cross-state railroad wax
and the cutting down of infected
agitated. It is further proposed
orchardc.
to meet the commission's decision
The orchard sanitation project j
in that case to "restore the re­
consists of cutting down of infested lationship of the railroads to the
orchards, burning the brush, and several districts that existed prior
cutting the trees into wood Ob­ to the diMoluUon of the Union
ject of the work is to keep adjoin­ Pacific and Southern Pacific sys-
ing projects from becoming in­ tern.
fested.
"Oregon may be entering again
In UM briuge census project.cach upon a period of extensive rail­
bridge is measured, numbered and road construction.” McColloch said.
'ondtl'on noted and pia .s filed for "The proposed Gold Coast railroad
Improvement, lor use at a later from Port Orford up the Rogue
date. On this project ail the labor River to a connection of the 8. P
is furnished by the WPA without main line at Lelland in the upper
c> st to the county wit i the ex­ Rogue River valley is apparently
ception of gas and oil for tians- only the beginning of a possible
portation .
tremendous revival of the dreams
Improving of grounds and build­ of Hill, Harriman and the empire
ings at the county farm ir cne of I builders of 30 years ago to reach
tlie chief proiects. Main features the untouched resources of Oregon
are the excavu'.ing and Generating with railroad steel."
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of a ha.*e>i ent under the main
building,
enlarging the kitchen,
replumbing of all toilets and bath
rooms, enclosing two porches to
provide additional space, the re­
placing of a 28 year old heating
furnace with a new one; improv­
ing the txxm and installing a gran­
Poppy Day is drawing near,
ary. and repairs to the laundry the date being Saturday. May 23.
and the pump house The county And of all the special days that are
pays for all materials and one fore­ observed by the American people.
man. The WPA furnishes all labor. Poppy Day is one that brings the
The other two projects, the Mc­ most poignant thoughts of heroic
Andrews Ford bridge over Bear sacrifice.
It is a day of memory, and of
Creek, and the Valleyview bridge
over the same stream in the Ash­ appreciation, Those who gave
land diet net, have been completed their lives in the horrors of the
World War are at rest in peace
and opened to traffic.
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and free from suffering. But the
disabled veterans still linger on, in
many cases suffering almost a
living death. Anyone who has vis­
ited a veterans hospital has seen
results of the utmost horrors of
war.
Ashland Unit No. 14 of the Am­
Celebrating its first anniverary
erican
Legion Auxilliary will make
on April 30, the Resettlement Ad­
ministration points to an impress- I a canvass on Poppy Day, assisted
I
ive total of land and human con- , by “Poppy Girls." Buy a poppy
servation work in Oregon, Wash­ and wear it until after Memorial
ington and Idaho, said Walter A. Day. You will be doing a real serv­
ice to disabled veterans.
Duffy, regional director.
The poppies that will be sold on
The original authorization, sign­
ed April 30, 1935, transferred to Poppy Day are made by disabled
the new Resettlement organization veterans in the Rossburg Hospital.
the land program of the FERA. The proceeds of the sale are for
Organization work was undertaken their benefit.
The posters on display in the
immediately, regional offices es­
tablished, the Portland office being windows of the business houses
were made by seventh and eighth
opened about August 1.
Already 453,494 acres of ptoor grade school students for the Pop­
farm land have been accepted for | py Day poster contest. They were
purchase, in the cutover, burned made under the direction of Mrs.
over and second growth timber Marguerite Mills, art director and
areas of Oregon and Washington, are quite artistic in design.
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and the dry, depleted country of
Eastern Oregon and Idaho.
Purchase of this land involves
payment of $1,648,931.38, most of
it going to stranded families who
The Camp Fire Girls are giving
have been unable to make a living.
their
annual beanhole
luncheon
Such families will be given further
aid, if they wish it, in relocating Saturday noon at the entrance to
on good farms where they can Lithia Park and they are inviting
make a living, educate their child­ you to attend and enjoy a good
ren, and assume a normal share old-fashioned meal of baked beans,
cabbage salad, rolls, coffee, pie
of emmunity responsibilities.
and other good eats.
The proceeds are to be used to
FOB SALE—Wedgewood gas cook
stove, circulating gas heaters, finance the summer camp at Lake
one % bed and springs, one full O’ the Woods. They will need $75.
bed and springs, »4 bed mattress, for expenses. If Saturday happens
camp cot, card table, carpet to be a rainy day the luncheon
sweeper, new Winchester rifle. will be served in the Elks dining
Inqire at the Miner office...... tf room.
The College Orchestra will give
its second annual concert in the
SONS auditorium Sunday after­
noon, May 17th, at four o’clock.
This is the fourth and last in a
series of spring recitals sponsored
by the pupils of Miss Lucie Land­
en of the Music Department and
an even larger crowd is expected
than at the previous recitals.
Luder the superior and enthus­
iasts leadership of Miss Landen,
I
Five WPA Jobs
Near Completion
Poppy Day To Be
Obeserved May 23
The Ashland Ice and Storage
company has completed the con­
struction of a new cold storage
plant and the public is invited to
an open house for inspection of the
building tomorrow, Saturday from
8 o’clock in the morning to 10
o’clock in the evening. Visitors will
be shown the entire plant, and
there will be treats of ice cream
desserts.
The new plant, which was er­
ected at a cost of >15,000, is locat­
ed near the old plant. It has the
most modem refrigeration equip­
ment that could be obtained, the
locker service for patrons who
wish to keep quantities of perish­
ables too large for the family ice­
box, being a feature.
G. S. Butler, is the president of
the company and deserves much
credit for his part in the forward
move. Charles Spindler, who for
27 years has t?en manager, super­
vised the construction of the new
building and installation of equip­
ment.
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Poppy Day, SATURDAY MAY 23
t
MISS LUCIE LANDEN
the College Orchestra has been
gradually increasing its member­
ship until now it is an outstnding
organization cf the Normal School.
The orchestra has had the highest
praise as to its performance, par­
ticularly when it played for the
recent Educational
Conference
Visiting educators of note were en­
thusiastic in their prai.’c of the
orchestra, not only as to perfor­
mance but as to the type of music
that it played. They were also
very complimentary to the or­
chestra’s conductor, Luc»e Landen.
Of part- ular ccmir.cnt has been
the hov’-ng of th • orchestra which
is vigorous and show j the result of
carciul training on the part of the
conductor. The orcn<-stia is alive
and >esponsive to its leader and
plays >vi*h a professional precision
not often found in jour.g crchcs-
tras.
Flic orchestra is further adding
to its U.irels in ;>'.«ym;< t’ e ac
cotr.pjnnnent to tb-j Weber Con-
ccrt»:tucl>' with Floss‘0
»st; son.
SATURDAY
A feM-far-an fun frolic
with ls«»ht..f
CEO.RAR
Joan Bennett
'SHKOUIMT
UNE
Walter Connolly
Billie Burke
PLUl
CHXE-
_With—
Edmund Lowe
Vorginia Bruce
Resettlement Is
Showing Results
Patronize Beanhole
Luncheon Sat. P.M.
JANET
GAYNOR
TAYLOR
FLOSSIE THOMPSON
pianist, is now a student of Ernest-
ular phase of orchestra! work and
the orchestra proves itself attent­
ive at all times and a sympathetic
accompanist for Miss Thompson.
Flossie Thompson, brilliant young
pianist, is now astudent of Erest-
ine Hartley and has many times
appeared in the role of soloist and
accompanist, not only in recital,
but over the radio as well. At the
age of thirteen, she played a recital
at the Normal School which won
her a year's schodarship with her
present teacher. Miss Thompson
has piano fingers, skimming over
the keys with surety and gives
promise of being a pianist of real
attainment. No small credit sholud
go to her teacher, Frieda Hartley
who brings to her teaching, years
of sound study; first a member
of tF.c Portland Master Class of
Louis Victor Saar, and, later in
Chicago with the world famous
pianist, Rudolph Ganz.
The public is cordially invited
to att< :.d this concert which starts
promptly at four o'clock.
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P. D. McDougal spent the last
week-end in Yreka, where he in­
stalled a new press for the Yreka
News.
BINNIE BARNES
Lewis Stone
Isabel Jewell
Coming
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