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ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937
Volume 6
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The government health bureau
lists a number of ways to live
during hot weather, but omits the
most Important of not greeting
your friends with "Is it hot enough
for you?"
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After all, there la
A railroad coined the
America First," and
going to use a plane
gon forest
little Justice
phrase. "See
now they're
to seed Ore-
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Whan a headline announced the
marriage of "America's Sweet
heart," Ina Getlt, the office null-
ance, said "Don't tell me Shirley
Temple has went and done It!"
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Women are their own worst
critics, else so many of them
would not believe they had to de
pend on trick hats for attraction.
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One of the moat unusual fee-
turca of the generally unsettled
coast weather is the way Califoni-
Ians make excuses for It and Ore-
goni ans CUM it
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What the steel industry needs
pending action by the mediation
board la a moderation board used
where it will do the moat good on
both aides of the conflict
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The world la made up of two
types of people; those trying to
raise hell, and those trying to raze
it.
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(We could write enough of these
paragraphs to reach the bottom
of thia column if we'd Just pun
ourselves down to it.)
PLAYS OF BARD
GET UNDERWAY
ARRIVING in Ashland from her
‘ ' home in Thompson, N D.,
early last night, Irene Hlnion,
former nurse in the Community
hospital here where so much mys
tery has been present lately over
the discovery on Monday. June 14,
of the decomposed body of an in
fant, voluntarily went to the police
station and gave her signed state-
rnent which coincided almost ver-
biitim with a story of the case
released In the Miner during the
week of the discovery by Chief of
Police C. P Talent, stating that
he believed her to be the mother
<>f the child, that she had attended
herself at its birth and, reluctant
to destroy the body, had concealed
it until some time convenient for
giving It proper burial.
Since finding that a trunk had
been checked in to Miss Simon
at the local railway station Sun
day, local authorities have been
trying to find the nurse all this
week to straighten out the affair,
even to the extent of a fruitless
trip to Klamath Falls Wednesday
by Assistant Chief of Police M P
Dunn when rumor indicated her
presence there
Consequently, when Miss Simon
arrived in Medford on the train
last night, arrangements had been
made so that officers here ware
awnre that she was on the way to
Ashland in company with Bert
Swarlsley, Ashland friend who
had driven there to meet her. as
soon as she had started the trip
from Medford
On arrival In Ashland the pall
was accosted by Officers Dunn
and Thomas and Miss Simon went
voluntarily to Talent's office
where, after a few questions, she
gave her story freely, taking all
blame for the mistake.
Assistant
District
Attorney
George Nielson of Medford was
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Final Temperance
Shakespeare
rehearsals
are
Drama To Be Given
moving along rapidly these days
in spite of the fact that the lofty
On Sunday Evening
sentiments expressed by Juliet
(Kitty Ingle) must vie with the
confusion caused by Technical Di- | More than 300 persons made up
rector Bob Stedman as he is en - | crowd which saw the temjieraiive
gaged in rewiring the Elizabethan drama. "Prisoner at the Bar,' " en-
theater in Llthla park
acted at the First Church of Christ
All these preparations are tow- , here Wednesday night.
ard the third annual Shakespear- | The play will be repeated Sun
ean festival to be held August 2 day night, when all churches of
to 7 inclusive, under the direction the city meet in union service at
of Dramatics 'Professor Angus L the Baptist church, by a cast
Bowmer of the Southern Oregon headed by Hayward H Johnson,
Normal school, assisted by Wil- J superintendent of the Anti-Liquor
liam Cottrell of Cornish school of league of Oregon, and otherwise
consisting of the following local
the arts.
Afternoon and evening rehears citizens:
als are being held daily and most
Mayor T. 8. Wiley, Frank J.
of the characters have completed Van Dyke, C. M. Litwiller, Co-
the learning of lines, so that stage zette Harmson. V. D. Miller, u. E.
business, the tempo of scenes, and Messenger, the Rev. D. E Nourse,
the building of characters is be Mrs C. M Litwiller, the Rev.
ing emphasized at the present Melville T. Wire. Mrs A Segs-
time.
worth, Frank Davis. Newell Mor
Director Bowmer has expressed gan. Wirt Wright. G H Westfall.
satisfaction with the work and Mrs. 1W M. Brower, C. O. Pres-
promises still more Improvements nall, H. C. Galey. Mrs. Glen Pres
over last year's performances
cott, Ida Meyers, Mrs. 8. Carter
and Mrs. Gosnell.
Butler Hospital Offer
For Ashland Refused
The official "kibosh" was placed,
at least for the near future, on
the offer of G. 8. Butler, local
man, to furnish $5,000 and a
building site towards a new state
tuberculosis hospital to be erected
in Ashland when directors of the
two present institutions at Salem
and The Dalles met with the board
of directors and Secretary of State
Earl Snell.
It was suggested by the board
that Butler, instead, offer the cash
for further improvements at the
two present hospitals, and recent
news from the state house indi
cates that the next new hospital
is likely to be situated in Mult
nomah county.
GUY ARTHUR PRICK, SR.
Funeral services for Guy Arthur
Price, sr., of ISO First street, who
died June 26, were held June 28
at the Stock and Litwiller chapel
with the Rev. F. E. Troutler of
ficiating. Interment wits at Moun
tain View cemetery.
Hooray For The Red,
White And The Blue!
Flying Hero Wins Coveted Medal
OKING just as patriotic aw
any
other
publication
which trie« to cover thio area
(don't knock thio chip off,
George!) the Miner will ad
here to Its usual custom of not
publishing a paper on Monday,
official day set for celebration
of Indejiendence day.
Aa a result, the entire staff
will spend inc holiday week
end shooting off firecrackers,
acquiring
sunburn,
cussing
umpires and eating ants In
picnic sandwiches (a welcome
change from a regular diet of
ty|»c-llce, we assure you!)
< urrying patriotism to the
nth degree, we will not pub
lish a pa|>er on Tuesday, Wed
nesday or Thursday, either,
but come Friday, wheel sissss!
BANG! Herr conies another!
STATE URGED
TO STABILIZE
TIMBER AREAS
QALEM Legislation placing ma-
ture timber on a more equit
able tax basis to perpetuate Ore
gon's timber supply is urged by
the state forester, in his annual
report, filed with Governor Martin
thia week. The report also recom
mends that the state acquire a
large area of timbered land as an
aid to the stabilization of forest
land ownership
The state forester also de
ciares that the lumber indus
try owes a social responsibil
ity to do whatever Is econom
ically possible to Insure per
manent communities through
|M*rpetuatlon of the timber
supply but |*olnts out that
many operators are financial
ly unable to carry on such a
program under existing con
ditions.
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The state board of control is
willing to sponsor an application
for PWA funds for a new tuber-
cuiosis hospital to be built in Mult
nomah county but insists that the
preliminary • work of assembling
the necessary data to support the
application be assembled by spon
sors of the ney institution. Gov
ernor Martin in reply to demands
from officials of the Oregon Tu
berculosis association that action
be taken immediately looking tow-
ard construction of the new hos-
pltal calls attention to the fact
that both he and the ways and
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EXAMINER HERE JULY 9
Recent announcement by Earl
Snell, secretary of state, states
that Ward McReynolds, examiner
of operators and chauffeurs, will
be at the city hall here between
the hours of 11 a. m. and 5 p. m.
Friday, July 9. Regular examina
tions will be given at that time
to all thdke wishing permits or
licenses to drive cars.
TO AN ELDERLY GENT IN A
GLASS HOUSE!
By LARKY HUNTER
Come out from behind the beard, Joe Grouch!
We know that, forty or fifty years ago,
You took the old man’s powder pouch,
And the Fourth of July was an unholy show!
And the townsfolks spent the rest of the year
In palpitating, shivery fear!
For you liked to snowball the Deacon’s hat,
Or sic your dog on the old maid’s cat!
But now your nerves and a liver condition
Have prompted you to sign a petition
In protesting dislike of explosive toys.
You forget, Joe Grouch, boys will be boys!
Ma) Gen
Hank it
McLo)
commandant of the Second cv.*ps area
pins the Distinguished Hying Cross -the most coveted medal in Ameri
can military aviation— on the tunic of Lieut. Richard Aidworth. U. S. A.
(retired), superintendent of Newark airport, at Mitcheli field where also
a formal ground and air review was held, to honor the flier for an act
of heroism he performed more than ten years ago The medal was
awarded to Lieutenant Aldwcrth bv President Roosevelt for his heroic
action of more than ten yr.us ago when he deliberately crashed his dis
abled pursuit plane in the breakers of! Rockaway beach, narrowly escap
ing death, rather than imperil a group of children on the sandy shore,
where he might have landed safclv
‘Old Wives’ Tale
Causes Merry Chase
Wild rumors of a combination
"murder and suicide” late last
night were dissipated somewhat
by local police in the wee sma'
hours o(, the morning when they
told their version of the story,
which runs as follows:
A call from a local woman in
dicated that Paul Mitchell, 18, had
shot his step-father, Oscar Lowe,
at the Lowe residence on East
Main street and then had taken
his own life in a nearby field.
Investigating
officers
found
Lowe looking very hale and hearty
and far from being a bullet-riddled
corpse, and he said that the lad.
apparently drunk, had come home
bleeding about the nose and hands
from some apparent previous en
counter with some unknown per
sons or objects, and had pointed
an empty .22 caliber rifle at his
step-father, who knocked the
weapon from his hands. The youth.
Lowe went on, then went across
a field, where he was last seen.
Officers believe that the youth
will sleep off his jag and turn up
in the morning with a long face
and swagger length fur jaquettes
on his teeth It is not known that
charges of threat with a danger
ous weapon will be pressed.
Lowe was called upon Thursday
morning to pay a fine in city
court for the release of Mitchell,
who with Clyde Crawford, 28, of
this city, was charged with being
drunk and disorderly. Mitchell is
a frequent offender with quite a
record of bad conduct on file with
the local gendarmerie and was a
former associate of Elmer Haab,
Jailbreak artist.
MRS. H. A. UNI) GETS $25
SLOGAN PRIZE IN CONTEST
Mrs. H. A. Lind of Third street
Monday received notification that
she was one of 200 winners of a
$25 merchandise prize for slogans
submitted during May in a na
tion-wide contest sponsored by a
sea food company.
Inclosed in the letter was an
order, drawn on Loomis and Nel
son grocery, local dealers. Having
submitted three entries, Mrs. Lind
did not know which slogan had
been selected as winner.
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LOCAL COUPLE MARRY
Miss Mary Louise Roberson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Roberson, and Howard Mayberry,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. May
berry, were united in marriage by
the Rev. Sherman L. Divine at
10:30 a. m Tuesday in Medford
before members of the immediate
families from this city. Mr. and
Mrs. Mayberry will live in Cali
fornia.
A Copy
Number 35
’Mystery Corpse’ Case Closed
NURSE RETURNS
TO SIGN FULL
craxy to pick the law's best loop
hole fur escape from punishment
‘CONFESSION’
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NEW TALENT
CUT-OFF WORK
SET TUESDAY
TOOKING over the job Thurs
day, Jack Harrington, super
intendent for the Jacobsen and
Jensen Construction company of
Portland, specified the days im
mediately following the July 4
holidays for start of work on the
new Talent cut-off, 3.43 miles of
concrete highway extending from
a point slightly north of Jackson
hot springs to a juncture with the
old road just north of Talent.
Hill Lind, formerly with Berke
brothers, will be foreman on the
clearing and pipe laying which
will give employment to a crew of
about 30 men at the start of the
job. Blueprints call for a 500-
foot change in the course of Bear
creek about a third of a mile from
the south end of the job, a 32-
foot bridge sub-contracted by Tom
Lillibo, Coos county contractor,
across Wagner creek, and a great
many tiles and culverts for drain
age Concrete pavement will be
used with oiled shoulders, sup
plemented by crushed rock.
The contract calls for comple
tion of the entire stretch by De
cember 31, 1937, and the finished
rerouting will eliminate several
dangerous curves that have cost
a number of lives in recent years.
TWO-DA Y FETE
REPLETE WITH
ATTRACTIONS
gETTING UP Wednesday, the
Browning Amusement company
carnival sounded the opening note
In the Fourth of July fete which
is in turn the starting gong for
the busiest six weeks seen in Ash
land for many years.
The Independence day celebra
tion itself wil feature two days,
July 4 and 5. crammed full of
every sort of entertainment for
celebrants from the ages of one
to 100. Hosts of people from all
over southern Oregon and north
ern California are expected on
those days and Ashland .tradition
al host city of the area, will be
all dressed up in freshly painted
and decorated finery to outdo
herself in welcoming her guests
to the inviting cool reaches of
Lithia park for picnics, to her
many fine bathing resorts, and to
the concerts, games, shows and
fun-fests to be staged In honor of
the 161st anniversary of the na
tion's independence.
First of the series of sum
mer dances sponsored by the
Llthians, recently reorganized
civic booster club, will be
given at Twin Plunges Satur
day evening, July 3, with
Dickey's music.
The Browning company show
will be featured in the upper end
of the park throughout the cele
bration with rides, shows and con
cessions galore. Food and drink
concessions will be operated near
the carnival site by local persona,
four having signed with William
Briggs, chairman, to date They
■ include Veterans of Foreign Wars.
A. C. Martin, Bellview P-TA and
' R. J. Forsythe.
Sunday will see a water car
nival at noon at Twin Plunges,
a concert by the Ashland mu
nicipal band, directed by Ward
Croft, at 1 p. m., and the first
of two baseball games be
tween Medford and Ashland
town teams at 2:30 p. m. at
the high school field.
Monday, July 5, the bathing
beauty contest will draw attention
to the Plunges at 11 a. m., fol
lowed by kiddies' athletic con
tests in Lithia park at 1 p. m. At
that time another concert also will
be given in the park.
The second grudge baseball
battle between the Lithians
and the Craters is called for
2:30 p. m. Monday.
More band concerts at 7:30 p. m.
in the park will give way at 9
o'clock to the big wind-up Lithian
dance on the open-air pavilion at
Twin Plunges.
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• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Denton.
Ellsworth Danielson. Arthur Gru-
enwald and Miss Ann O’Donnell,
all of St. Paul, Minn., are visiting
Mr. and Mrs G. O. Oium of this
city.
SEENm. DAZE
BEAUTYENTRIES
CLOSE TONIGHT
FURMAN CARTER looming
Midnight tonight is the deadline as a possible rival of William
set for girls to file at Twin Steigs’.
Plunges or the Chamber of Com
SEVERAL PEOPLE being of
merce for entrance in the 4th of fered jobs over the holidays,
July bathing beauty contest to be they finding adequate but in
held Monday, July 5, at the Plun sincere excuses.
ges, according to Karl Nlms, man
Half the Battery B roster re
ager of the resort. Winner of the counting BUD GANDEE antics
contest will be crowned Miss at Camp Clatsop.
Ashland to rule over both the
W. D JACKSON being held
Independence day fete and the up by AL PRESCOTT.
Greater Ashland celebration which
CLARK THOMAS and JACK
is slated for July 16 and 17.
BEARSS breaking Olympic rec
The following 22 girls have sig ords for the over-the-counter
nified their intention to compete: jump in retaliation for their re
Jean Neil, Alice Loftsgaard. cent expose in the Miner as
Helen Dunn, Dolly deSantis, Flor sports commentators de-luxe.
ence Hubert, Imogene Hopkins,
DICK APPLEGATE window
Ruby Turner, Helen Combs. Shir buying
himself
some new
ley Walton, Edith Cullop. Marilyn clothes.
Christlieb, Ethelmae Thompson,
PARKER HESS making a
Marjorie Dozier.
quick- and revealing—Job of it
Velma Conner, Jeanette Car from the shower room to rear
mean, Patricia Deakin, Juanita platform of a fire truck.
DARRELL LEAVENS and
Moon, June McDougal, Shirley Mc
Dougal, Laura Mae Ross, Sarah JIM RILEY working far, far
Noble and Gertie Wenner.
into the blight.