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5e A Copy S outhern O regon M iner 5e A Copy Good Printing I h Our Habit Volume 5 ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1936 Miner Mellows; Gives George and Crew Best Wishes for Holidays XMAS IN REVERSEI /UIRIHTMAS, PORTMAN never 1 gets a bleak lit this time of year Just as soon us he finishes carrying packages and greeting curds, along comes the first of the month notice that every btisl- angling for t rade who With the king already abdi cated, Amos' baby named and the Brite brothers' fate sealed, pros pects for a happy newsy year for headline writers look pretty slim. • AMERICAN« ARE POKING FUN AT ENGLAND'S CORONA TION MEAT SALES. WHICH THREATEN TO RIVAL OUR OWN FOOTBALL GATES • Europe, fearing another general war, is courting American good will again by mumbling something alxiut readjusting debts from the lust war. But when money talks, they all speak In broke English lly A. L. I.INDBECK Slate Capital News Bureau of the Southern Oregon Miner UALEM Wealth would become k the yardstick by which votes would Is- doled out If the Wittiwer federation should succeed with its program The federation ha* In corporated in Oregon under the leadership of a group of Portland citizens, including John Schroeder. Veteran chief clerk of the legis lative ways and means committee Under the pro|M>sal of the federa tion all taxpayers would be re warded with an extra vote Per sons paying more than $50 a year in taxes would be given two extra vote* and those paying more than $100 a year In taxes would lx* given three extra vote« It I* un derstood that an attempt will be made to refer the program to the voters through a pro|a*sed consti tutional amendment ♦ • • The wml annual apportion ment of highway funds among the .36 counties of the state was completed by Secretary of State Snell this week. Un der this apportionment $800,- ooo Is distributed among the counties every six months on a basis established In 1931. County courts are rx|M<cted to make a fight for un Increase of this amount at the forth coming legislative session. Getting buck to the season, we notice that an editor is a guy who spends a<> much time writing shop and mail early articles he never gets around to doing his own till about December 24. • Golf courses have been installed near Routh African gold mines and, like Ike Fridcgar, miners spend their leisure seeing who can nugget the farthest Seven hundred automobile driv ers were convicted on various traffic counts in Oregon courts during September, according to re ports filed with Secretary of titate Snell The list ill« llldi M but 78 drunken drivers who suffered rev ocation of their drivers' licenses in addition to fines and jail sent ence*. Twenty-five reckless driv ers had their licenses suspended <luring the month. • It has been intimated that the next four years will sec a show- Christmas Tree down between congress and the supreme court unless the court de- Winners dares showdown* unconstitu- tlonal Contest Will Be Named The Christmas tree contest News of the week remind* um that private Ilves of comedians sponsored by Ashland Chamber of aren't as funny as they sound Commerce to promote decoration of evergreen trees and shrubbery over the air that deck landscapes of many Art (Hie) Powell believes in a Ashland residences met with popu heavy diet for readers of his lar approval. Twelve entries had been re Central Point American. I-ast Week, In his Bystander, be served ceived before the contest closed 'em up a column of lead pi. Monday evening Winners will be announced at 1 o'clock this after- • Our recent campaign in this noon. Thursday, bw the JUdge.M, El column for the serving of olives in mer Hiegel, W F Knox and Dr. restaurants by the handful or not R L. Burdic. Winners will receive $10, $5 at all is bearing fruit. Yesterday a gallon can of something was re- and $2 50 awards for first, second celved from southern California and thin) places, respectively. • which sloshes suspiciously like olives, bearing the notation: Do Opens not open until Christ nuts, but when you do. take a handful into At the restaurant and spit meds at the waitresses. With first skiing of the winter • NOW IF WE CAN JUST being enjoyed Sunday above head THINK O F SOMETHING waters of Neil creek near summit FEH HIN« ; TO I SAY ABOUT of Mount Ashland, near the 7.000- foot level, snow sports lovers were MONEY . . enabled to unlimber their togs and Automobile dealers are display paraphemalia and start bruising ing their new models covered with shins and knees. According to John Daugherty, cellophane so now about every thing comes wrapped In the stuff president of the Mount Ashland ski club, no snow has fallen on but cellophane. their course on the 4,bOO-foot level 7.8 miles up the Mount Ashland road from the First National bank ^Lrek For Tree Ends corner here, although some rain been falling. General Search has With flurries of snow in the mountains early this week. Daugh Being Made Sunday erty said he has appointed a spe While Ashland folk were avidly cial committee to pray for enough following accounts of searches for white blanket to slick up their two lost planes over the week course for the holidays. The Nell creek pass meadow, end, a pair of local youths, Nixson Denton and Bob Davis, both 18, where skiing was possible last gave friends and relatives a start week-end, is two miles beyond the when they became*'*lost” on Dead Mount Ashland run, and was eas Indian mountain above snowline ily accessible by auto although chains were necessary. Sat in d.iy -------- •— Leaving in search of silver fir Christmas trees, the boys bogged down a short distance beyond Entries Pour summit of the mountain grade Naming of and walked several miles in dark- ness to an old barn where they Interest in a name has been took refuge for the night. Sunday to the extent that 62 en- morning they reached a rural tele aroused tries have been received in the phone and sent greetings to anx Boulevard naming contest. ious searchers. Competing suggestions Nixson and Bob, like Paul Bun been pouring in steadily to have the yan, "got their tree" and returned chamber of commerce office since with two silver firs. announcement of the'contest a --------- • week ago. A $5 award will be NO MAIL FRIDAY made to the winning contestant, Uncle Sam's unsung holiday It is expected that more than 100 heroes, the postal clerks and car entries will be in hands of the riers, will get a brief respite to local chamber before the contest morrow, Christinas day, front al closes January 1. Judges, Mayor T. S. Wiley, Bill most never-ending toll. There will be no mail deliveries again until Eberhart and Leonard Hall, will Saturday morning, save for spe decide upon a winner and submit cial delivery and perishables. his suggestion to the city council, Clerks and carriers have been which will meet first Tuesday in working double shifts in Ashland January. Official name of the «luring the week in an effort to Boulevard will be made public keep packages and mail going out about January 6. ----------- •----------- on time. • Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carson of • • Arthur Goss, who has been vis Pittville, Calif., are guests of Mrs iting at the home of his parents, Carson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Rob Goss in Turner, Clint Dunlap, during the festive season, Ore., returned Sunday, Skiing Season Neil Creek Pass with Its Santa v Claus, deco rat tons, Includ ing Tom and Jerry, gifts, kind Kluhin and tu-lpfulness for the poor, would not be complete In Aahliuid without a special gesture of Its finer Interpreta tions from the Miner. Eor months past we have ribbed, roasted and poked at a worthy rival and his flock of hirelings like a Christmas carver having a fine tine with roast turkey. But thut was all In fun. At least for us. Sincerely, though, we are so mellowed by the occasion— and a mighty fine <M-raslon it 1s—that we want to extend our sincerest holiday wishes to our neighbor (and com petitor) George Green, arid to all of the fine ¡»eople who help produce the Ashland Dally I Klings. Wi- wish all of them u merry Christmas and a happy New Year. In fact, we're not even going to send George that marble head-stone we had decked out with a s|teclal Inscription for his Christmas card. Ia>t the glad Tidings come forth! S anta 7 come AMD take AWAY -TMESE ’PRESEMTS VOU tePT last year / keep O ut ' STAR OF EAST’ IS PRESENTED Siskiyou Justice Strikes Again! Something different in enter tainment was offered by the Pres byterian church Wednesday eve ning when they presented the The recent* conviction of the Brite brothers on a "Star of the East,” a nativity pageant, directed by Mrs Wilmer first degree murder charge, without recommendation, Poley. With a cast of more than 30 in Yreka has caused some comment hereabouts where performers, the play was a popu the boys and some of the circumstances relating to lar success The special lating system, with elaborate settings, their crime were known. aided in enhancing the production, There seemed to be some substantiation of the which featured a pasture in Judea and the stable at the inn in Bcth- claim made that the arresting officers, who were killed lehem. by the brothers, “stuck their necks out” and precipi The program opened with Christmas carols played by the tated violence by bursting in on the brothers in their Sunday school orchestra under di mountain retreat on a simple assault charge, which rection of Mary Ixiuise Roberson. Included were a Christmas hymn, might have been controversial. Many are inclined to . prayer by Rev. M_ L. Edwards and believe that if the officers, and their complaining wit a reading by .. Elisabeth ............ Martz White gift presentation followed ness, had been willing to wait until morning to make a short talk by the Rev. Edwards, their arrest, no serious violence would have resulted. Members taking part in the However, Siskiyou county’s heavy peace officer loss pageant were Miss Edna Goheen. Marjorie McNair, Velma Brower, should be taken into consideration when weighing the Laverne Roberson. Marilyn Young. Mary Uorthcll. Mrs Crawford. final verdict, which will mean execution for the half Marie Prescott. John Icenhower, breed brothers. Looked at from a long-range view, it Bert Swartsley, William Edwards^ Mrs. C. W Lyman, Mrs. C R seems to the Miner that the best ends of justice will Bowman. Barbara Jean Moore, be served by carrying out the capital punishment Dorothy Scofield. Nadine Shinar, Josephine Curtis, Phyllis Dozier, sentence. Margaret Sarah Wagner, Venita * Of course, execution will be a little hard on the Loy Roberson, Mary Louise Rob- , Brite brothers themselves, but stern disposition of all erson, Marguerita Lyman. Yvonne ' Miles, Jackie Porter. Rosalie ' murderers who shoot peace officers is, in the long Stauffer. Carol Fern Edwards and long run, the most humane thing the law can do. Sherry Ann Stansbury. MINER ISSUED DAY EARLY’ Because the staff wanted to sit up Thursday night and watch for Santa, instead of work on the paper, and because there will be io mail deliveries Friday, this week's issue was printed Wednes day night and posted for Thursday morning delivery. The staff, along with Ashland merchants who ar- tanged a special page of greetings in this issue, extend the season's best wishes to Miner readers. - --------- •— VFW MEETS Veterans of Foreign Wars aux iliary will meet Monday, Decem ber 28, in the IOOF hall for regu lar session. The Walter A. Phillips post also will meet then, joining the auxiliary for a Christmas par ty and refreshments. ÌABBY 1 Q ertie In For Boulevard "Whether anything is proeuc ed on * small or large «call makes little ilifTcicnce II the properties are al tractive." Drunk or sober, people just shouldn’t go around killing other people. Sets In As GORE LOSES IN Winter Days Stretch Out SUIT FOR FEES ASTRONOMICALLY, or something. Old Man Win ter moved in on Oregon and Shortly before midnight Monday the northern hemisphere Mon a jury of 10 men and two women day and, as slight comfort to returned a circuit court verdict In the cold prospect, also brought with him the gradual length favor of the defendant in W. H. ening of daylight. Gore's 188,000 suit against Jack- For Monday, December 21, son county. was the shortest day of the Gore claimed the county owed year hereabouts (although him the amount sued for because they all seem unusually short of services rendered in 1926 in to shoppers Christmas week, connection with passage of the and too, too long to young Oregon-California land grant tax sters) and officially the first refund bill by congress. day of winter. But you can't believe in Attorney Guy W. Cordon of signs, almanacs or what is set Roseburg, counsel f~>r upstate Ore down on paper, for the past gon-California land grant counties week has been more spring and a member of the Oregon com like in Ashland than spring mittee of which Gore was chair itself, with a few scattered man, contended that the county wringings of moisture in the was under no obligation to recom valley accompanied by some pense Gore even though Attorney snowfall in the hills. G. M. Roberts delivered final talk And, according to most for the plaintiff, answering Cor Ashlanders, they hope it will don's points and insisting that a be a cold day before Old Man contract did exist. He cited as Winter pays a visit here, per proof letters of the county court sonal-like, date or no date. judge and statements to news- papers. Gore’s attorneys were undecided CHRISTMAS SEAL SALES TO CONTINUE THRU HOLIDAYS on further steps to be taken, lf any. Tuberculosis Christmas seals will remain on sale in lobby of the Ashland postoffice through the Ashland Sends Half holidays, it was announced by Mrs. Harvey Woods, chairman of the Ton Gifts To Bandon local seal sales campaign. The booth will be in charge of More than a half ton of articles Betty Whittle and Gertrude Wen have been donated by the Ashland ner. , townspeople for a gift shipment ----------- •------------ that was sent to Bandon yesterday MEDICS CHANGE MEET DATE by the Medford Rotary club. Jackson county medicos will All donations were of a prac meet on second and fourth Wed tical nature and will be used by nesdays, beginning in January, it Bandon residents. Included In the was announced here. The medical shipment were beds, cooking uten society will hold its annual ban sils, boxes of canned goods, fresh quet Wednesday. January 20, with fruit and even a sewing machine. program in charge of Dr. E. A. Chamber of commerce officials Woods, Dr. R. W. Clancy and Dr. were deeply gratified by the fine W. G. Bishop, chairman, the lat ter two of Medford. cooperation of iocal people. Number 52 FIREMEN WILL DISTRIBUTE 300 TOYS TO TOTS Red Cross, Legion and Auxiliary Combine In Effort VU’ITH better than 300 toys re- paired and made, the Ashland firemen are still hard at work to complete as many as possible be fore Christmas. Firemen, through cooperation of the Red Cross, American Legion and Legion auxiliary, are going to make thia Christmas a merry one for 100 or more children who oth erwise would not have been vis ited by Santa Claus. Fruits and candies also will be given, along with toys. All manner of toys have been repaired and built, the assortment ranging from dolls to wheelbar row's and wagons. Numerous handicaps have been overcome by firemen in building toys. When starting the work De cember 1, they had practically no equipment to work with. After borrowing an electric saw, an in genious fireman exerted his ef forts to build a turning lathe and an electric sander. With a vice the fire company possessed, this equipment has proven sufficient to accomplish much in the way of preparing cheer for unfortunates. Firemen will act as Santa Claus and will distribute toys to children known to be needy. L. M Wilson and J. W. King, regulars on the force, have been in charge of re pair and construction work, with the help of Volunteers M. L. and John Baldwin and Bruce Wallace. The toys will be distributed to day, Thursday, firemen said. ----------- •----------- Christmas Tree Fund Of Legion, Auxiliary Goes Well Over Top Santa Claus, in the flesh and with ample provisions, will make a special tnp to Ashland s Lithia park at 7 o'clock this evening (Thursday) to greet kiddies and all youngsters 12 years of age or under. He will pass 700 well-filled sacks of candies, fruits and nuts to his small friends at the large tree in the park entrance. Santa's special visitation has been aided and abetted by the American Legion unit and Legion auxiliary of Ashland, and through cooperation of both iocll newspa pers. Sponsored by the American Legion, with work of preparation being handled by the ladies aux iliary, a fund of more than $60 was raised by popular subscription through the papers to foot the bid. Although jointly sponsored by Legion and auxiliary and the Ash land Tidings, Legion officials ap pealed to the Miner for aid when it appeared that contributions might not be sufficient to assure success of the annual party, and in two days the Miner was able to swell the party chest by more than $11. Chief contributors to this ad ditional fund, which put the affair well into the black, included the following, to whom the Legion and auxiliary have requested their thanks be made public: Ashland Chamber of Commerce, W. D. Jackson, Dick Phaire, Aub rey Miles, Bohemian Club, A. C. Nlninger, Dick LaFleur, Southern Oregon Miner, Al Jordan and the local Western Union office. ■ SEEN in. DAZE JEAN HASTINGS knocking over his half-trimmed Christ mas tree with a tinkling tumble and then nailing it to the parlor floor to prevent a recurrence, and his brother VERNE adding it was lucky the thing wasn’t to be set up on the piano. NIXSON DENTON and BOB DAVIS looking for a Christmas tree, and going a little too fir in their search. ALLEN AUTREY having the tables and stuff—turned on him in recent sidewalk-sweeping fued of the WHITE HOUSE neighborhood. STEVE FOWLER and MARI LYN NOURSE playing a game of monopoly at a party. A STRANGER wondering what Ashland needs with a new FORT on North Main street.