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Friday, January 1, 1937 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 Musical Notes Device Diagnoses Heart Action By LA WHENCE Hl BERT • Now that Christmas has come and gone it’s time for post mor- tems and such. Most people seem happy about it, although I suppose that a scattering few here and there are sUll grouching around, but they don’t count anyhow, so it’s time now for a happy New Year to you, and you. and you! • The only peculiar thing about Santa Claus this year as far as I am concerned was this: Every year I usually receive lots of ties and lots of socks this year, no ties and only one pair of socks. I suppose the explanation is that the rest of the world hasn't got a sock to stand in any more than I have. And to top it off. the pair I did get was two sizes too small. My motto for next Christmas is "More and larger socks.’’ • Jean Claycomb is back from Portland and reports a nice trip and a very pleasant visit with her brother. Gordon Claycomb and his wife, the former Antoinette A precision instrument which determines the heart action, pulse Detecheva, well known concert rate and records high or low blood pressure by the means of chart*, is pianist who was heard here in the new "heartometer." The graph gives a graphic report of the waver recital some time ago. ing in minute variations of heart action, and the blood pressure is de • The Music Study club has an termined in millimeter cales conforming to the standard mercury col nounced that members of the pro umn. as a red and blue neon light shows pressure, eliminating the use gram committee for the next meeting are Miss Marjorie Sco- of a stethoscope The char’ when completed shows a permanent lead bert. Mrs. Lawrence Hubert and mg of the entire diagnosis. Photo shows Miss Muriel E. Jenkins having O. H. Barnhill. This affair will be a "heartometer" reading Charles Cook is supervising the recording held January 25 at the Civic club Note the upper right hand neon light which shows the high and low house and as usual the public is iressure urged to attend. • Leslie Kincaid is back from college for the holidays and will versity. along with her violin, and leave January 3 to resume studies. as we also know her as a capable He looks the same and acts the bassoonist I think that this is a same, so perhaps college isn’t good place to mutter that thar hurting him any. He’s mad. word “versatility.” She will most though: he had a chance to play likely attend the Rose Bowl game two engagements while here but in Pasadena or the East-West tilt left his fiddling tools at school so in ’Frisco. At least she and her lost out on some sheckels and folks. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cog gins. haven’t missed one for a such. • Jean Billings also is back in long time She will be back Jan town from school and seems to be uary 3. to. leave the same day for as pert as ever. I don’t know the University of Oregon whether she is playing in the • Frank Johnson is back from school orchestra or not—make a Alaska for a brief visit with his family. Frank crashes this column report, Jean! • The Ashland Orchestral so by virtue of his banjo-picking ciety has not been rehearsing the ability—and also because his last two weeks because of the brother Andrew is one of our few holidays. Rehearsals will begin viola players. This column might again January 5. when a new ra not always come out on time but dio program will be worked out you sure have to have credentials for presentation in about two to crash it, by gum! weeks. • Floyd Dickey. Fat Parker and • Vivian Freeman has been en Chick Farlow can smoke more ci tertaining a house full of guests gars on a four-hour shift than any lately and my guess is that part three men in the west. Cigar sales of the entertaining was done on men always hit town the day be her violin. fore they play a job and the mer • Alice Coggins made a flying chants all stock up in anticipation visit to Ashland and- then left for Their theme song should be the south. The young fiddler has "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” been studying cello at the uni • Life in the Raw: Chick Farlow telling Corrine Robinson that she can’t keep her tempo and Corrine stating that drummers don’t count anyway! So round and round and round, far into the night. • Ashland had not one single Christmas program featuring any of her numerous musical organi zations The SONS singing festi val took place several days before the holiday and if it hadn’t been for the churches, who certainly Red. white, and ulue plaid in an did their share, Ashland would mported tweed makes this strik- have been without music on ng version of the coachman's coat. Christmas. It has ample flare and r vent back. • A concert that might set a The lining is red crepe The hat ■ few of our more sedate music white toyo with red grosgrain ! critics back on their heels will ; take place next Sunday at 7 p. m. inserts in the crown and ornament I over the National Broadcasting company’s network when the fa Denton, Alice Willits and a host mous General Motors Symphony of other folks who have helped so orchestra will be directed by Paul much. Once again, happy New Whiteman, our foremost modern Year! music exponent But the dirty dig REAL ESTATE and is this: the orchestra has to be REAL INSURANCE Phone 211 41 East Main augmented by members of his own band to enable it to perform the numbers listed on their program. • Billy Buehling received as a Christmas present from Germany one of the cleverest mechanical toys I’ve ever seen. It’s a war tank which does everything a real tank does. His brother, Fritz, now is a burnt wood expert, having (Continued from page 1) received the equipment Christmas state, especially those who be day and is good at it already. As long to the wheat league or long as he doesn’t try to experi the wool or apple growers ment on the back of his guitar who do not propose to let Gill it’ll be oke. or any other leader stand In • And to the following I heartily the way of a program that wish a very happy and prosperous promises any relief from the New Year They all have meant present situation with its a lot to the musicians and music threat to the financial sta lovers of Ashland, either through bility of thousands of inno their musical ability or through cent bystanders. their whole-hearted cooperation in Of course any legislation the putting over musical events in our city: Louise Woodruff, Mar Oregon lawmakers may enact to jorie Scobert, Mrs. E. A. Woods, require compulsory arbitration of members of the Ashland Orches labor disputes would only apply tral society, and the Waltz Queens. to local strikes, such as that in | Lucie Landen. Ward V. Croft. Mrs. the woolen mills at Portland or Ernestine Hartley, Mrs. Arthur strikes by teamsters, truck drivers Coggins, Mrs. Fuller, E. C. Hurd, or other purely local groups. It BOHEMIAN CLUB BEER and members of the Music Study would have little, if any, effect is the beer with the best club. The Nourse girls’ trio, Rob on the maritime strike which is, flavor . . . served through ert Dodge, Mary Roberson and after all, the one which is pinching O. H. Glass Coils . . . Flossie Thompson, Lew Hansen, the producers right now. That in I V. O. N. Smith, Elharts’ Music volves a national issue and will I store, the Tidings and the South- require federal legislation if it is I em Oregon Miner, KMED and its to be reached. All the Oregon leg I entire staff, Mrs. Aikens, Mrs. B. islators can do in that connection will be to memorialize congress and even such action can be ex pected to meet with serious oppo sition on the part of organized • What Ashland Make», Makes Ashland • labor. * • • Hereafter state officials and em ployes who tour the country at public expense attending conven tions and conferences must limit their expense claims to $7 a day. This amount is expected to cover Pullman charges, meals, hotel rooms, taxis, tips and Incidentals. CHURNED BUTTERMILK - - - 10c per gal. If they can not live within this allowance, the board of control ruled this week, they can make up the balance out of their personal PHONE 24 pocketbooks. If they can get by on less the saving is theirs. The Happy New Year to • ••••• •• • • • • • • • ••• si^n on this dotted line r Billings Agency EXPECT STATE LEGISLATURE STRIKE ACTION I I state will allow them a flat $7 a and officials enjoyed a three-day day while out of the state on pub vacation this week. Several of lic bilslneas Action to this effect fices, including those of the gov was taken by the board as a pre ernor. purchasing department and caution against "chiselers," a few budget division, did not open at of whom persist in padding their all Saturday following the Christ expense claims far In excess of mas holiday, while others main this approved allowance "Dead tained only skeleton crews suffi beats" also came in for a share cient to keep the office open amt of attention at the hands of the answer the telephone The only board when it was voted to sum departments working a full crew marily dismiss any state employe Saturday were the automobile who attempted to crawl out from registration department which under a soldiers bonus loan or to was swamped with a deluge of unload onto the bonus commis applicants for the new 1937 li sion or land board a piece of prop cense plates, and the state library erty which he had purchased with whlah found it necessary to take u state loan and on which he had care of heavy demands for books allowed the interest and taxes to from all sections of the state accumulate without making any Employes who composed the effort to discharge his rightful skeleton crews on duty hist Sat obligations urday will I m * given the day off • • • next Saturday as also will many Dellmore Lessard, state senator of those who rested up from the from Multnomah county, has filed Christmas festivities last Satur suit in the circuit court to teat day • • • out his right to a seat in the forthcoming session Lessard Is an A report on state building needs attorney for the World Wai Vet just released by the state plan erans State Aid commission At ning board emphasizes the imme tonwy General Van Winkle In i recent opinion to Thomas Graham, diate need of a state library Jr.. senator-elect, also an attorney I building and another office bulld- for this commission, ruled that I ing Replacement of the present this position constituted a lur to supreme court building and office I membership in the legislature lx>ssard in his petition for a de building by new structures at claratory judgment upholding his some time in the future also is right to the senate seat contends visioned by the planners who call that he is only an employe and not an "officer” as contemplated by the constitutional provision un der which the attorney general would rule him out as a legislator Furthermore Ix'ssard contends he was not appointed to his post but was "employed" With less than three weeks remaining until the legislature convenes the court is expected to advance the case for early determination • • • attention to the need for purchas ing necessary ground for building sites ut this time, recommending acquisition of tne four blocks im mediately north of the present capital site With federal grants available through I’WA the re port points out the library and office buildings could I m * financed ut this time with state appropria tions of only $750,000 for each. 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When Governor Olcott convened the legislature in special session in 1921 to finance a pro posed "industrial exposition" to be held in Portland in 1925 the law makers promptly turned thumbs down on any attempt to unload this burden onto the property owners through a tax levy A pro posal to finance the state's con tribution to the fair through an increase in the gasoline tax met with approval of a large majority of the house members but failed in the senate where it was im possible to muster a constitutional majority back of the program and the proposed fair died a premature death. Congressman William A Ekwall haa offered to donate the services he performed for the state as cir cuit judge protem for Multnomah county, but not until Secretary of State Snell had turned down his claim for $10 a day the statutory allowance for * these same serv- ices Snell ruled that inasmuch as Ekwall is still a member of con- gress and drawing pay from the federal government he Is not en titled to pay from the state. • • • A majority of state employes .53 SECOND STREET FOR SOUR STOMACH - - - GAS PAINS - - BLOAT - - HEADACHES DIZZY SPELLS due to Constipation An Excellent LAXATIVE Not Drastic . . . for Rheumatic and NEUROTIC Pain due to Sluggish Bowels- Mildly Diuretic VANTAGE Contains 30 Ingredients, 21 of which are Natural Herbs! (.LORIOLA NEW HEALTH FOR $1.25 2 Bottle» for $1.1»« A S HL A N I) V A N -TA G E AGENTS EAST SIDE PHARMACY Start the New Year RIGHT! 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