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5c A Copy S outhern O regon M iner 5c A Copy The Miner Hasn’t Been Here 60 Years But It Will Be! ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1936 Volume 5 GREET KIDDIES HERE DEC. 3RD AUTOS lire coining * out with every kind of con traplion for radiator grille« but Hallowe'en masks And we thought Rube Goldberg hud imagination! • Cash dividends listed by corpor ations for tin- first three wi-«-ks this month reached the staggei mg total or jooo.ooo.ooo Alxnit two per cent of this was distributed to the workers who earned It ’»mid giiuil fanfare and news reel speeches. Workmen's bonuses wen handed out under the uppluudirig eyes of cameras and repot lers, but aolhlng much lias been said ot the ,n s share that went to company .cads. PERHAPS SOMEBODY TOLD PROFESSOR TUGWELL YOU CAN CATCH MORE FLIES AND LESS HELL WITH MO LASSES' Spanish rebels hav«- been re- (Mined in (losm-ssion of the out* Hkn Is ot Si.1.11 Ki |..i M M V tinff weeks now, without having yet reached the city's center That burg must be as spread out as l»s A ng c Ice. • Landon, I‘inchut und Will iam Allen VV hit« may start framing the 19 m republican pluUorin, hints u news stoiy. They oughta build it in tne shape of an arbor and have u decent place tor sour grapes. e We heard a givat commotion up the mam street early this week and turned to see a huge truck bearing the legend, ' Alias A ah land ” Isii more of em would miss something e Art (Hie) Powell of the Central Point American wags hla head in wonder that it look Us iaf king to notice he is a scholar end u gentle man. Al this rate, the Miner has hopes of even gelling wise to him someday. e Uninformed people are com- maritime plaining because workers will not arbitrate their differences with employ - «■in Trouble is, ¿mpio want tne seamen and long shoremen to arbitrate victor- lea already gained by the un ions. That wouldn’t be arbi tration, that would la* surren der, , City’s CliriHtmaN Opening To Feature Holiday MerchandiMC Ashland merchants’ Christmas opening, in which business houses cooperate to bring to local people the spirit of Yuletide in addition to everything that is new in gifts will be staged next Thursday night, December 3. Store windows, brilliantly dis playing new stock, Will be un veiled at 7:30 p. rn. and the com mittee in charge of this year’s opening claim it will be the city's beet. As in the past, each store will give prizes of merchandise, with many establishments using var ious methods of distribution. There will l><- n<« hwiik I given this V' ‘i for the best decorated window, but a piiz.c will b<- given for the out standing Christmas tree in any private yard. Prizes to be given by the dif ferent business firms probably will be U'- k I until the week before Christmas, when the best tree award will be made. In addition to the brightly light ed display windows of the various merchants, the city will decorate streets in true Christmas fashion. Manta's own trees will be set every few yards up and down Mam street. Santa CbMia himself will te In Ashhuid on the niglit <>! Def-ember 3 distributing noise makers and gifts to all the kiddies who Hill be out in lull force to nee the ancient gen tleman. The Yule opening committee consists of John Daugherty, chair man, Paul Finnell, Melvin Kaegi. T. L. O’Harra, Tom Simpson, Hain McNair, Fred Taylcr, Dom Pro vost, Bob Ingle and Frank van Dyke. -• CHRISTMAS SEALS GO ON SALE HERE Ashland, with the entire nation, starts its yearly battle against the white plague’’ today. Christmas seals thousands of them are on sale und in the mall as the National Tuberculosis as sociation launches its annual cam paign to combat the dread disease. Chairman of the local sales committee is Mrs. Harvey A. Woods. She is assisted by the following: Mrs. Jean Eberhart, Mrs. Ena Wilshore, Mrs. Grace Andrews, Mrs. Willard Eberhart, Mrs Frank Van Dyke and Mrs. Forrest O'Connell. WITH ALL THE COi-DS NOW PREVALENT IN ASHLAND. ONE 18 REMINDED THAT GOS SIP ISN’T THE ONLY THING THAT TRAVELS FROM MOUTH I’D MOUTH • The quota for Oregon this Medford police urrested a year is set at 6,00^,000 seals, thumber for throwing rocks at or approximately six per cap passing motorists. The transient, ita, wnidi iiH-uiis that Ash in court, insisted he was sick and land will have to alMHirb near didn I know whut he wus doing. ly 30.000 to keep pace. Probably sick of being left to --------------- •---------------- walk. ACTIVE CLUBS ENJOY PARTY Fun and frolic prevailed at the Cigaret advertising spoiled at least one Ashiiuider s Tnanksgiv- Chateau Wednesday night when mg dinner, The chap doesn’t the Active clubs oi Asnland and -unoke, and spent the whole day Medford met to enjoy an evening worrying how tie was going to en of dining and dancing. Approxi joy good digestion without stall mately 150 Activians and their guests partook in the affair which ing tne habit. was said to be the clubs' biggest • and best. Why is it that whenever you drop a coin in a public place and had a dozen strangers help look )or it, the darn thing always la a fenny when found? • This department is losing its grip. The Hungarian /|NE PILOT (absent), one shrimp who has challenged 'J fence (wire) and one plane half ills townsmen to duels air and minus chocks) Sunday already has fought two of conibiucd to render s]>octators them and we cun l think of a at the Medford air]H>rt speech smart crack yet. less aa well as helpless as the • plane, having been cranked, careened madly and In u If rebels keep blasting away at startling manner across the Madrids fine old buildings and landing field until it was met treasures, the wonder soon will be face to face by the proverbial that they figure the place is worth immovable object—which in capturing. All they'll have left this case turned out to lx* a pretty soon will be geography. fence. —•----------- Having i>een stopped in an abrupt manner, the plane brought itself to rest on its nose, causing considerable damage, not only to itself, but to spectators'—many of them A three-day convention bringing from Ashland—blood pressure together delegates from Crater us well. Lake union, wnich includes Chris Damage to the plane, owned tian Endeavor organizations of by Tom Culbertson, was esti southern Oregon, opens today in mated at ¥1400. The pilot left Ashland mid lasts until Sunday » afoot was a student. ------------ •------------ night. Mayor T. S. Wiley will welcome • Frances Hardy, who teaches in the many young people who will the Koscburg high school, is be here, and tne Rev. James E. spending the holidays with her Morgan will extend the welcome parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hardy. • Miss Dorothy Ann Sictler, dean ot the churches. All sessions will be held in the of girls at Ashland high school, First Christian church with the left Wednesday for Portland where cooperation of the Congregational, she will spend the holidays with Presbyterian and Christian her mother, Mrs. John Sidler. • Harry May, former Ashland churches. Social rooms of the Congrega boy, now teaching in North Bend, tional church will be the scene of was in Ashland Thursday. Clar the convention banquet Saturday ence Woods also was here, spend night. There will be a nominal ing the day with his parents, Dr. and Mrs E. A. Woods. cnarge made. Runaway Plane Lands On Nose As Student ¡Left To Pungle $1400 C-E Convention To Open Here Today Miner Staff Skips Two Page« To Gorge Fowl OECAI'KE the Miner staff ** wanted to take time off to make certain gestures over two turkeys won at the Elks smoker Maturdav night, the paper this week was con densed Into six pages. .Mi*ml*ers of the pa|M*r's crew left last niglit, following mailing of today s issue, for Portland, where new printing equipment will I m * selected for the .Miner plant. A new press, additional type and other typ ographical tods will I m * pur chased which will enable the firm to render l»etter service and offer a wider variety of type faces. Today arid Saturday the of fice will I m * I ii charge of Gor don MacCrackcn. I ASHLAND CHURCHES CENTER OF WORSHIP AND THANKSGIVING Hundreds of Ashland folk ob- served the serious side of Thanks giving yesterday in local churches. At the Nazarene church a union service waas hekl with other churches joining. The Rev. Mel ville T. Wire, president of the Ashland Ministerial association, was in charge, and other local pas tors participating were the Rev, Merle L Edwards of the Presby terian church, Rev. C. E. Dunham of the Baptist church; Rev. James E. Morgan of the Christian church; Rev D. E. Nourse of the Congregational church, and Rev E. E. Wordsworth 'if the Naza rene church. Last evening, at 7:30 o’clock, the Full Gospel temple held its praise and prayer service with the Rev. R. J. Harer giving the Thanksgiving message. Both the Trinity Episcopal anti the First Church of Christ, Scient ist held short services in the morning. —•------------ TOWNNENDITEN URGED TO HEAR BANTA REPORT ON By A. L. LINDBECK STATE .MEETING TONIGHT Stat«* ( apltal News Bureau of the Southern Oregon Miner C. W. Banta, state advisory QALEM Claims of Harry Boivin board member of Townsend area <»f Klamath county to a cinch No. 1, returned this week from a on th«* house speakership are hotly state-wide advisory meeting called protested by the so-called left in Portland Sunday by Dr. R. I. wing group who insist that the Shadduck. Oregon area manager. Klamath member has been count The meeting was called to con ing hl» chickens before they are sider action to be taken in con hatched. nection with the state area office, Boivin this week broadcast the financial support for which has announcement that he had the as- been withdrawn by the national surance of more than enough votes Townsend organization. The meet- to insure his election and was ing, by unanimous ilution, ready to consider requests for ap lauded Shadduck for his work and pointments to the various house urged that all Oregon Townsend committees Th«! announcement clube assist the head office fi- burst like a bombshell in the wide nanclally. ly scattered camps of his rivals for Membership of the Ashland the gave) wielding job and re pension club is asked to be pres sulted In a prompt consolidation ent at tonight's regular meeting, of opposition support behind Bull called for 7:30 o’clock in the of Union with Barnes of Mult Eagles hall, to hear Banta's re- nomah and Hyde of Lane with port on the meeting. It was de- drawing from the race in favor scribed by local officials as of of the eastern Oregon candidate. great importance to all Townsend - An active supporter of Bull’s ltes. candidacy declar<?d while in Salem this w«*ek that Boivin could not have more than 10 of the 38 demo crats in his camp while several erf the 21 republican members were pledged to the Union county man. Friends of Boivin on the other hand insist that the Klam ath county candidate knew what 'Hie Gabriel cup, awarded for1 he was talking about when he the highest percentage of P-TA made his announcement and insist membership according to school that the speakership fight is all enrollment, was won by Ashland over even If the BulJ-Barnes forces in an enrollment campaign just have not yet >un<! it out. ended. In th«* senate, vsltti W. IL The Ashland Junior-Senior Strayer of Baker refusing to high school ass«M-iation, with a yield to the plea of the demo membership of 181, is the crats that he get In the race, largest in the state, and the the presidency appears to be total parent-teacher member- in the hag for Franciscovlch ship here at this time is 38 of Clatsop county, one of the per cent. younger members of that Mrs. B. C. Forsythe was local body in |K>tnt of years. chairman of the membership drive, File early for your new au and credit for the fine showing i tomobile licenses Is the plea made by Ashland must go to her, I of Secretary of Stat«* Snell In said Mrs. A. C. Joy, president of i an effort to avoid the 11th the P-TA city council. ho.ir congestion which gener ------------ •------------ ally marks the annual rush • Mr. and Mrs Art Cooper spent (Continued on page 4) Thanksgiving in Grants Pass BOIVIN’S CLAIM TO HOUSE CHAIR IS QUESTIONED ASHLAND PTA WINS STATE CUP Number 48 AHS GRIZZLIES WREST 20-6 WIN FROM MYRTLE POINT HERE THURSDAY Final Game Draws Crowd of 600 For Holiday Thriller; Myrtle Point Drives To Within Three Inches Of Tie Score in Third Quarter STRIKING TWICE after thundering power marches and once with a shan>. sudden pass into the end zone, Ashland high’s Red and White Grizzlies ended their 1936 football season at the high school field here yesterday with a 20-6 win over a stubborn, hard-hitting Myrtle Point aggregation. With a Thanksgiving day crowd of over 600 persons packing the stands, the team of Skeet O’Connell hammered into Myrtle Point pay dirt once in the second quarter -just a minute and a half before the half-time gun and twice in a rousing fourth period flurry Coach Pat Rickard’s team reached serious scoring territory in the final second of play after a+------------------------------------------- march, through the air and on the ground, of 80 yards. After a ding-dong first quarter that saw both teams fail to gain MEDFORD HIGH’S BLACK consistently, Ashland finally gath TORNADO, the team that ered momentum and moved 45 couldn’t get enough competi yards in 11 plays for the touch tion in southern Oregon and down It was Walt Lee, intercept »ent an appeal up north for ing a Myrtle Point pass on his worthy opponents, was ex own 40 and returning 15 yards to tended considerable competi the visitors' 45 that ignited that tion Thursday. touchdown flame. In fact, Medford’s Black Steve Fowler slashed 12 yards Tornado slowed down to a lot off the Myrtle Point left tackle of trad breath on Hayword for first down on the 33. Walt Lee field by a Eugene high team got two yards at the opposite that seemed to know nothing tackle, and then Steve Fowler, on at all about storm cellars. The a reverse pass from Leonard War score was 44-0, and while no ren, pitched nine yards to tiny details could be obtained last Charlie Warren and the fighting night, it was believed that quarterback squirmed ‘ his way for Eugene considerably out five more before he was finally played the Medfordites. downed. near him. A pass for the extra Leonard Warren and Lee point was Incomplete. could get but four yards in The game, viciously fought two tri«*« and a shovel pa»« and made thrilling by long was incomplete. Fowler, on runs, saw the ending of Ash fourth down, cracked off hia land high football careers for own right tackle for six yards five Grizzlies. Jim McCallis and a first down on the five- ter, right end; Cliff Bromley, yard line. Lee swept wide left tackle; Bud Etzwiler, left around his opponent«* left guard; Bill Wimer, right flank and when he finally tackle, and Leonard Warm, halted, the ball was just right halfback, all ended their inches from the goal line. high school football «lays Fowler hammered at the with yesterday's season finale. center of the line, and the And, to say that they ended it Grizzlies had their first touch in a burst of glory would be an down. The big fullback’s place understatement of fact. Each and kick for the extra point was every one of them really were high and squarely through the gTeat yesterday. Bill Wimer played upright». A great goal line defense mid the best football of his life, and way through the third quarter was especially fine when he was saved Ashland from being scored booting the ball on kickoffs. All upon. Starting 70 yards from pay of his kicks traveled low and territory, Myrtle Point, led by the hard to the goal line. Although the Grizzly backfield 180-pound Ray Nelson who, in this march, was literally unstoppable, naturally was in the spotlight, the passed and drove its way right entire line turned in great exhi down to the goal line. Four first bitions. Time and again they downs they put together and when sprung Walt Lee and Charlie War that powerful advance was at last ren loose for sensational runs, and halted, the ball was only inches as before mentioned, their goal line defense was outstanding. from the goal line. The game gave the Grizzlies a In that savage display of season record of five games won, defensive strength that the two tied and two lost. Grizzlies displayed, it was the The closeness of the battle can center of the line that held not be gauged by the score, as like a stone wall, With first the first downs indicate. Ashland down on the Ashland 10, Nel made nine to their opponents' 11, ■ son hit left guard and was although three of the Myrtle Point stop|>ed cold by Jim Brady. first downs were garnered off the Nelson passed to Haworth for Grizzly reserves eight and one-half yards, and the ball was leks than two yards out. Scheidereiter stop- lied Nelson after a gain of one yard, and the entire team again rose up to smash the hard-driving Nelson just three inches from a touchdown. Walt Lee booted out to the 35, and that ended the visitors’ threat until they finally scored against By Our Ashland rese-ves in the final per KEYHOLE iod. REPORTER Walt Lee’s 20-yard sprint around left end with perfect block ing and Charlie Warren's 12-yard blast off right tackle set the Griz zlies up for their second score. With the ball on the eight, Fow ler got two at right guard; Lee, through a nice hole at center, got four more, and then Fowler shot V--------------------------------------------- through the same spot and slid ELDON CORTHELL, a-hunt- into the end zone. Again his boot ing early Sunday morning near for the extra point was perfect, Crater Lake, reaching for his and the score was 14-0. gloves while GEORGE SHAFER Joe JesselL the redhead who sang “Sweet Violets." replaced Don Gettling after GENE SMITH risking the the Medford game, recovered muds of upper Klamath Lake a Myrtle Point fumble on the just for a little duck Bhootin’. visitors’ 22-yard stripe, and W. D. JACKSON, atop the Ashland moved to its third Siskiyou grade, saying "I’m dis- touchdown. Lee got one at gustipated with this old jiloppy" right tackle, and a running and driving a new one back over pass from Leonard Warren to the hump, just like that. Lee gained seven yard». Fur EBE DUNN and IKE FRIDE- man Carter went a yard and GAR doing a fine job of hog a half through guard, then calling at the Elks raffle, and made* it a first down through EBE patting each ham like it the same hole. was a long-lost protege. Carter was in motion :>efore the DOC HAINES arriving in ball was snapped on the next play, town just as the season’s big and Ashland was penalized five gest wind hit the district and yards. Leonard Warren then somebody hinting it wasn’t co pitched perfectly into the end incidence but cause and effect. zone, and Carter took it for the JAKE SHORTRIDGE. JESS touchdown. Lee's attempted place SMITH and FRED PATTON kick for the extra point was being completely exhausted by smothered by the entire Myrtle their social activities at the Point team. Elks club. In the waning moments of the JACK BEARSS being accused ball game and with Ashland's re of hunting for wood ducks in serves sent in en masse, the vis Bear creek by PHIL STANS- itors passed and powered their BURY. way across the goal line. The scor Mr. and Mrs. J. R. WICK el- ing play was a short pass from bowing their way through their Nelson to Dement, who took the new store and sitting down on Medford Beaten SEEN in a DAZE ball la th« end cone with nobody a pile of boxes with a sigh