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S outhern O regon M iner 5C A Copy 5C A Copy Phe l*a|M*r That Has Something To Say— And Says It! ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1937 Volume . 1 1 -J.U VVITH pin-bull machine» on the ’’ wuy out. jM'ihapa some of us cun atari jKirking our nlckcla Into piggy-bunks lignin 111 good example of Internationa) diplomacy I m sei'll In the vehement declaration that China and Japan hit engaged in an undeclared war K 111 Few people think they work for their health, but they juat haven't ■topped to think how poor their health would be if they »topped eating. 111 We of southern Oregon may be perauadeil that organized labor is playing hob with Industry in other place», but fortunately It doesn’t »trike ua that wuy. 1 1 1 Portland report» that its repub lican club I m growing, but what the OOP» really need I» a magic wand. 111 Trouble with nation» In the old world I m every time one make» a remark to the other, they get a raze out of ’em. 111 When told there I n a »hortage of hop picker» In Oregon, the ave rage punhumller think» you mean for him to pick a freight and hop to the next »tate 111 According to Portland AFT. leader», their battle with the CIO will be made public. We wondered when the secret would get out 111 Moat of the new modes are not »tylea, they’re enervation» 111 ’s (»old In That ASHLAND BRICK Thar RAIL OFFICIAL Thar Till, Says Fred Why Should Ashland Cower YARD DEVELOPS ANSWERS DEPOT from Trucks? LOCAL PAYROLL CRITICISM HERE 'I’AltE a number up to 140,(88) 1 and put It in terms of bricks and that is u lot of bricks, hut that many bricks arc few enough to put in a building the size of the Ni-w Llllila theater What I» un usual is the fact that Contractor Elmer Childers, in chuige of theater construction, »ays that each and every brick i» of the finest quality he has encountered during his year» of contracting experience throughout the state. To climax the uncommon aspect 1» the additional fact thut each of these bricks wus made by Ashland labor, of A m ) i land clay, In the Ashland Brick und Tile plant which is owned and operated by I*' L Smith just outside the city limits In Bellview. Smith purchased the bu»lne»s last March from a corporation managed by L E. Caul, and »Ince that time has made remarkable progress in production und mu: keting An average of eight men are employed by him in the com plete manufacture of regular building brick, hollow building tile und drain tile of all sizes The plant it located a quartcr- mbe south of the old normal school site anil is surrounded by five acres of natural red clay When the new owner assumed management "mud" was brought into the mixer by means of a con veyor licit which necessitated an extra lifting operation before the clay could be hai handled, and which was Inconvenient i..„ to use in wet weather, Smith ha» installisi a tramway whereby a amali car, operated by gravity, bring» the clay directly to the top of the (Continued on puge 6) fwo Medford Lad« (’(Mil Heels in Jug Funny thing about Clark Wood of the Weston Lender Every time he blow» himself for a meal, he Joe Pierce. 21, and Bernard hasn't anything left to cool hl» Matthews, 22, both of Medford, aoup with Sunday discovered that arguing • with cafe owners and breaking windows while In an intoxicated condition runs into money. They torlcltcd $15 ball each besides shelling out for a plate glass win dow broken late Saturday in an altercation at Ninlnger'» cafe After the two boys hail been re fused beer by Amos C. "Poke” Ninlnger they became incensed rj’IIE MINER I* cheered by and went elsewhere to procure the * response received—directly beverage, returning to drink it. and Indirectly—to an editorial Matthews fell through the window headed "A Matter of Near* as Ninlnger struggled to remove Murder" which greeted it» the intruders from behind his bar reader» last week. It alway» • I» plemuint to hear Vox Pop— Do You Park Wrong? Then Maybe We’ve Got Your Number Here! even If other place» pop, to I hh U ! With no attempt to be vin dictive, luid In an earneat ef fort to be helpful In eradicat ing the unhealthy iwruiiT of double-|Mirklng, we are going to go Mt III furAier this week in aiding our public. After lust Friday there cairn- a mixed ehorim of "Well, that hit» me awfully clone to home" and “Why, 1 nev«r read nuch a minty thing!" and **■ think they've got noinething there!" and "Oh, that’» meant for somebody elite, certainly not me!" Mo, here'» a little gueawlng content lor you, folk»! No ca»h prlr.cn, merely a little matter of life and death. The llceiiNe number» below were picked at random on Main street yesterday. In iMu-h case the driver had left for moiim * errand and the car bearing the platen had been, left unat tended and double parked, needlessly blocking traffic and haiii|M-rlng motorists who wiuited to park properly. Are any of these niiniliern familiar to YOU? Something coinen to mind about iui old adage, "If the »hoe fit»-------” and another which run», "It’s never too lute to mend!" 25-720 85-008 12-821 208-1157 82-080 250-104 1-018 1.18-020 18 38» 40-088 1.10-40« TI-177 1(1-200 281-5(12 2(1» (112 »0-4127 T 1-03(1 TI-KI8 208-082 Til-451 18-7«» 2(10-081 11-708 1.10-406 250-871 (Above are all Oregon num- hern. Those duplicated were found double parked In more (han one place.) • LICENSE EXAMINER COMING Notice received thia week from the office of the secretary of state indicates that Ward McReynolds, state examiner of operators and chauffeurs, will be at the city hall here Friday, September 3, between the hours of 11 a. m. and 5 p. m. to conduct tests for all persons wishing permits or licenses to drive automobiles. Such persona are urged to contact the exam ine) during those hours. Number 43 I’air Jailed for Fire I‘lug Perch for (’ar When a man parks in front of fire plug, that's bad. but when he parks his c.ir on top of one it's likely to result in a drunk and disorder!}' charge and did Sunday when officers discovered Ivan Turner. 2». and A T Prettyman. 22 both of Phoenix, in an auto mobile jammed into a hydrant at intersection of Oberlin and Hel man streets Turner plead guilty In city court Monday morning and was fined $.’> and costs and given a 20 day jail sentence, which was suspended on condition that he leave town Pret tyman was released Sunday on $15 bail. II THE NEIGHBORHOOD < HI RCH Congregational Church school, 9:45 a m , Mrs. Glen Prescott, superintendent. Morning worship. 11 o’clock; sermon. "Christlike Christianity.” Young people's meeting and evening service with the Nazarene church. Rev. M T Wire preach ing. I,’RED Hl ERMAN, local grocer, look his pay for groceries Monday in dust—hut It wasn't a dirty drill—the dust was solid gold! A transient who preferred panning to |Minhandllng prof it rred ii sriinll vial containing U few flake« of the precious metal In exchange for a short lisi of groceries. The prtmprwtor rwttlnuxied value of the poke to lie slight ly In excess of the retail price of the grubstake and, al though Sr hiicriruui had no ac curate method of measure ment and says he probably will have to send to the mint lor his money, the "good old dais" medium of exchange is more than worth its weight in gold to him as u novelty. BRISCOE URGES REGISTRATIONS According to an announcement released Tuesday by Supt of schools G. A Briscoe, registration of high school Mtuilintn will occur between the hours of 1:30 and •I 30 p m. on the afternoons of Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs- day. August 31, September 1 2 B C. Forsythe, high HChOOl principal, will be in the School office at that time to register and assign students contemplating at tendance during the school year, 1037-1038 Briscoe stressed importance of contacting Forsythe at those hours, during which he will have adequate time to discuss problems an<l courses of study for prospec tive students Other faculty mem bers will assist the principal in registration. PINBALLS OUT, PLAYERS REST Complete observance of the anti pinball order reigned in Ashland yesterday, ail machines having been removed or padlock to pre vent play after midnight Wednea- i day, final day of their legality. In Medford, -- -- . — Earl . Sims wai ar- rested shortly before noon Thurs day, charged with operation of a lottery. He was released on his own recognizance and given until this morning to plead. Sims' arrest was a test case ar ranged by attorneys for operators and owners of the machines after Murray Bel), previously declared willing to be used as litmus, had declined the sacrifice. His machine was placed in Sims' establishment after being open to play during the morning in Bell's hamburger stand in Medford and arrest of Sims followed at the hands of Sheriff Syd I. Brown and Deputy William Grenbemer. Attorneys seek to test validity of a ruling handed down recently by the state supreme court against the machines and punchboards. • Toots Estes, Marshall Carter To Head Bouts Promoter Mack Lillard has lined up a grappling card for Monday night that should "pack ’em in," he said, at the Medford high school arena. Toots Estes will meet Marshall Carter In top main event of the groan program. Danny Savich will meet Bob Wagner in the middle event and Wild Man Zim—that man who wears long hair and al most no clothes - tangles with Sailor Dick Trout To date, Estes has lost no bouts hereabouts, while Carter, a new- comer, is rated one of the most clever wrestlers In the game. THE LETTER WITH THE PLATE-GLASS FRONT! By LARRY HUNTER I like to reminisce a bit And see the folks I know. I like to have them write to me And say, “I just saw good old Joe!” I even listen patiently To tales of operations, And fish they caught, and mother-in-laws, And their smart kids’ quotations But there are those who get me down And always spoil my fun. Their letters enervate me, And here’s how they’re begun: ‘‘Do you remember our old Rill? It’s still unpaid to date; So please remit in full, at once, At current interest rate!” Although double and triple—parking is one of Ashland's worst traffic abuses, there are other prob lems which confront local motorists and users of that part of the Pacific highway which passes through the business section of Ashland. We refer, principally, to those groaning behem oths which rumble through the middle of town at all hours of the day and night and which take up more road space than two or three ordinary size vehicles. In a city the size of Ashland, and limited as this community is for both parking and driving space, the huge freight trucks, semi-trailers and trailers absolutely have no more business churning up the main stem than have railroad freight cars. Several of tne Miner’s friends and neighbors do a handsome business because of freighting through heart of the city, but just the same trucks on the main thoroughfare are a nuisance, and are becoming worse as the months pass. Perhaps the state will help to maintain our section of the highway whereas trucks on back streets would tear up surfacing that would have to be repaired at city expense, but nevertheless we are fast approaching the time when Ashland will have to follow the example set by other communities and lay out a truck route that circum vents the city’s business and traffic center. Doubtless, if we could have it arranged, more trainmen and crews would spend money on Main street if the Southern Pacific could relocate its trackage in the city center, but do you think for one moment that Ashland would stand for such a scheme? Of course not! ‘‘Why, the railroads ought to keep their damned racket and commotion down where it belongs, and not mar our business district,” would be the ready answer to such a proposition. But because trucks have been more subtle and gradual in their taking over of highway rights-of-way, we have come to accept them as a necessary evil. It’s not that the Miner wishes to attack or con demn trucks as common carriers or to boost railroad traffic particularly. But it does seem to us that if railroads are being required to maintain their own trackage and to locate their repair depots, their shops and do their shunting at a respectable distance from where people live and do retail business, then trucks should be required to be as discreet. Should Ashland force trucks to use a back route through town, there is no reason why state funds should not help maintain that route, as well as the regular highway through town. Truckers pay the highway department handsomely and well for the privilege of using public ways, and there is no reason why Oregon should demand that Ashland—and other communities—make a freight yard out of their main streets simply because it would cost a trifle more for upkeep if an alternate route were main tained for heavy commercial traffic. Requiring trucks to fit the city’s convenience and pleasure instead of the other way around as at present would be a worthy goal for those objectors to nuisance who raised such a fuss about shooting fireworks in the city during the July 4 season. OPPONENT NINE Highway Commission Asks Delay of Date fo Siskiyou Road Fete State Highway Engineer R. H. After a season of second guess Baldock this week suggested to ing by every baseball fan in Ash i the Ashland Chamber of Com land it seems only fair to let Lith- merce that a proposed celebration ian players voice an opinion on attending opening of the new Sis- talents of their opponents. I kiyou route be postponed until To gauge their beliefs in that some time in early October so line, the Miner for the past week that members of the highway com has circulated a bunch of blanks mission may attend. for each player to fill out. These The commissioners must go sheets have served as ballots for east late in September to attend the mythical Lithian all-opponent a convention in Boston, it was ex- nine the team which, according , plained in the letter from Baldock, to local players, would be the j who also suggested that the later toughest aggregation which could date- a fortnight after the actual be picked from the other five . job completion September 15— Southern "Oregon league clubs. also would be better because two They were picked from the ! weeks of travel would aid ma standpoint of hitting and base terially in blowing dust off the running ability as well as for their I highway, and that all the traffic performance in their respective j lines would be painted by then. positions in the field against Ash land. Although the final count was made with some ballots still un returned. it is worthy of notice that some member of the league With tomatoes coming in slowly leading Crescent City Chinooks this week, the Bagley Canning was picked for every position on company may be forced to wait a regulation baseball team by at until next week to start canning least one member of the local juice instead of beginning Satur club. On the other hand, Roseburg, day as had been planned. the tail-enders, were ignored com The tomato crop is later than pletely by the votes, although usual this year and the cannery Pierce and Avery. Glendale, and is accumulating enough fruit so Baker, Crescent City three play I that operation, once started, may ers who started with the Pirates continue uninterrupted throughout I the season. received mention. Only one man, Dick Lewis of Approximately 40,000 tons of to I Medford, received the unanimous matoes are expected from 5,000 approval in all selections, being acres under cultivation in the (Continued on page ti) i county thia year. Bagley Firm To Wait Canning Till Monday A. 8 ROSENBAUM, passenger agent for the Southern Pa cific company in this area, yester day declared that adverse criti cism towards the new railroad de pot here as set forth in a letter from Frank Van Dyke, Chamber of Commerce president, to J. A. Ormandy, general passenger agent for Oregon, was unjustified under existing conditions. The letter claimed local feeling was that the proposed structure would be entirely too small and inadequate for a town the size of Ashland and requested that the company consider enlargement on original plans. Van Dyke, when interviewed, said his letter was written be cause of conversations he had had with other Ashland people, and not from a personal standpoint. He said company officials had re- j plied that nothing likely would | come of his protest. Rosenbaum verified the state- i rr.ent yesterday and explained the Southern Pacific’s attitude on the whole affair. He said, “I feel that a company with so much experience in affairs k>f this area should be given credit for having some well-founded ideas on business conditions. The South ern Pacific company, in remodel ing the present antiquated station, will put forth a maximum outlay which is justified by traffic on the road. "When depots at Grants Pass and Medford were built in 1910 there was many times more busi ness over this road than now. At that time the Ashland ticket office handled about $10,000 business. Now a $2,000 month is excep tional. If stations in other towns of like size were to be replaced or remodeled today they undoubt edly would be of the same type as contemplated for Ashland. "The new station will be a very attractive building and will offer adequate facilities for traffic in this city for years to come. I think it would be nothing more than fair for critics to wait until the structure is completed before passing judgment. ’’The building will be built of wood because this is a wood coun try The people of Ashland may be assured that the Southern Pa cific company will not erect a de pot which will be a discredit to the town. The new depot and beautified grounds will be an ob vious improvement over the pres ent equipment." SEEN i. a DAZE RAY HAWK taxi-ing along the ground for a flight from the Chateau. WAYNE COMBEST joining the navy but denying that PARKER HESS had anything to do with it. AL PRSECOTT so all-aflurry he’s writing his name on dinner checks at the Palace cafe. C M LITWILLER being asked "Who was that sireen I heard you with yesterday.” HAROLD BOOTHBY all glor ied up about his midweek Sat urday off. POKE NININGER getting lost twice in the extra space created In his place by removal of pinball machines. HAROLD JOHNSON getting the wrong number on a few spark plug connections last night. ELLEN MERRYMAN feeling very tiddledy-heighty about a long distance phone call. DICK MESSENGER tying his bed down to keep it on the home range. BORIS KARLOFF’S picture at the head of BILL HULEN’S sport column in the Medford Mail Tribune. Or. as MIKE WOLCOTT says, anything to fill up space. DOC HAINES entertaining a pungent visitor in a black and white fur coat. BEN BALIS lost in the busi ness rush around the Palace cafe, the Miner office and the Standard cleaners. LES LUSK and DAISY KIN CAID shopping for jools at a late hour. PAT (PUNSTER) DUNN re marking that Ashland has plenty of police, In fact minions <rf ’em.
