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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!
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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