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ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937 Volume 6 5e A Copy _____________ i Number 51 CITY TO ATTRACT 1,000 TEACHERS FALL DRIVING SEASON YEAR S MOST DEADLY Pl IE smait driver is the one who 1 knows the loud "well enough" to realise lie should Is- careful 111 Seventy-five uir channels have been set aside for television broad casting. und II may not be long until the lucky listener can also see comedians luy their eggs 111 Since the advent of war in Asia, Was Said has risen to great prominence us a IICWN MOUIXT i 1 1 According to President Roosc- Veit’s radio add reas. part of the load of relief will haw to he trans- ferred from the shoulders of gov- ernment onto community chests 1 1 1 Tills department must admit that Alf Landon, to say the least, is u consistent man When he rounded up his •■followers" "followers" this week, he took the ' air again 1 1 ’ 1 alarm would Viewers with breeze easier if they realized they're simply gong with the wind. 1 1 1 The administration can expect little help from Wall Street A ■lock market speculator is a pe- culiar being who blames the gov- ernment when quotations decline and who gets mad at the income taxing department when they go up 1 1 r All work and no play might make Jack a dull boy. but it aupe brightens up things for the child lulsir exploiters 111 Somehow. Il would be a pleasing sight if women would take their hats off to modern milliners 111 Although no one would wish an other drouth onto the midwest, a Big Wirxl from Kansas will dry up. lot of republicans are hoping the 1 1 1 May I m * one Hollywood marital trouble comes from trystlng too many people when the inate'x away 1 1 1 With the end of deer hunting season coining Sunday, six Oregon nimrods have bitten the dust In stead of venison steaks 1 1 1 As often as not, the fellow who clucks at the unraked leaves on his neighbors lawn is the san.«* one who throws candy wrappers onto U m downtown widcwalkN 1 1 1 spoil taneous personality is one who can have a corking good time without first pulling one. A • ASHLAND TO GET SHASTA CONFAB Plans were approved at the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland asso ciation convention concluded this week In Susanville, Calif., to hold the eighth annual meet of the or ganization in Ashland, it was an nounced Wednesday by Manager Tom Stanley. Approximately 400 people from Modoc, Lassen, Sffllsta, Tehama. Trinity and Siskiyou counties in Cal fornia and Jackson, Klamath and Lake counties in this state will gather here in October, 1938, as the result of acceptance of the in vitation tendeted by Ralph Bil lings at the 1937 confab Much credit foi the okeh is due A H. Banwell, secretary of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in Medford and member of the Won derland board of directors. • WI1.KINN PARDON SOUGHT AFTER DRINK PENALTY Friends of M. O. Wilkins, Med ford attorney who formerly prac ticed in Ashland, plan petitions for his pardon from a sentence of three months in the county jail and >1.50 fine meted him by Judge H. D. Norton this week after Wil kins was convicted of drunken driving as an aftermath of an ac cident in Gold Hill several weeks ago when the defendant crashed his car into a filling station. Judge Norton, in passing sent ence, admonished Wilkins for bringing discredit to his profes sion by his conduct. Would-Be .Musician .Makes Foot-Notes On Cross-Country Hiking ANNUAL TWO-DA Y MEET, SONS GYM, SET OCTOBER 29 4 FEW HOI ICS late for the ‘ Siskiyou hlghwuy &*d¡4 dedlca- —- lion ceremonie*, Into Ashlund Wednesday evening trudged Frank I'lccinlmii, an author- ity on hlghwuy*. At least, he should I m * —for since .lune 3, Iih’«!, he ha* done a hitchless hike through 3I states from Portland, Me., arriving Portland, Ore., last week. Mr. I'lcciiiliinl (no kin the Alabama pickiminnle*) admits to about 30 years of age tint offered no expliuiuthxi ns to how he ntised such a long black heard and shaggy am* of hair in only 30 years, lie claimed that his long jaunt is in the interests of publicity' which he hopes ho|M's to use In crushing li<ill\ h <><>d and the "Illiums" or the symphony <>r- chest ru stage. 'I he ilineraiil Italian Mart ed oui with S5 in hi» jeans, neglected Io budget and, in less than two years, s|M*nl the entire sum liefore arriving here. One outliMik is bright for him—if he fails to sup plant Kotiert Taylor or Leo pold Stokowski he's a cinch to rwelve several offers to act us winter headquarter* for flea circuses. I DANGERS of autumn driving, * gninly proved by accident fig ures, sii' underscored by records of the United States weather bur eau in Portland, Secretary of State Earl Snell announced today ’’When we found from oui acci dent files that nearly a third of each year’s automobile mishaps oc cur during the full, we opened a campaign to make the autumn of 1937 the safeat quartet of the year instead of the most perilous." Snell said "The weather bureau sent us data which go u long way to prove that the driver must la* extia cautious during the fall months.'* Here's why uutumn plOVidt'M I mo I driving weathei :" Daylight hours ate greatly i shortened. On July I there are 15 I hours, 41 minutes between sunns* and sunset, contrasted to eight hours, 54 minutes Iiecember r 1 Two-thirds of the years , dense fog occurs during the lust three months of the year, most o! the . i - remaining third occurring during T-V. the winter. Throughout the western part of > * r A the slate nearly two-fifths of the • », /, annual precipitation is an uutumn affair Rain makes roads slippery /MI.MI’I.ETF.I) SECTION of bench flume on the Black Canyon main and decreases visibility. canal, which will serve 40,10<i acre* of the new Payette division Freezing weather may occur of the Boise Federal reclamation project. An irrigated grove within any time after mid-September in the confines of the present project can I m - wen in the valley below. eastern Oregon, and after niid-Oc- tober west of the mountains. Cokl snaps lower the driver's efficiency, cover the highways with frost, ice or snow, and cause moisture to freeze on the windshield Thi re-fourths of autumn days ure cloudy in western Oregon Monday, October 25, the Ashland Cloudiness decreases daytime vis ‘ Music Study club will present their A diversion program to broaden Several hundred people at dedi ion und brings on earlier twilight. annual benefit concert at 8 p. m the market and to increase con- While wuilut cuiullUum* aie fre I in tlie Civic club house with the i sumption of fall and winter pears cation ceremonies high in the Sis quently more difficult than fall 1 program to be made up of vocal, produced in the states of Oregon. kiyou mountains 10 miles south of conditions, they usually act in a instrumental and choral numbers Washington and California through Ashland Wednesday afternoon and positive way to keep traffic off ■ by some of the most talented mu- the development of new export nearly a hundred at a celebration banquet in the Li thia hotel that the highways or force motorists to . sicians in southern Oregon and domestic markets has been Bert Miller will be in charge of announced by the Agricultural evening heard Chairman H. F. drive with skill and caution But in autumn the driver has nothing the evening's entertainment, for Adjustment administration, ac Cabell of the state highway com to force him to lower his speed ’ which a .small admission charge cording to word received at OSC mission, Supreme Court Justice Hall S. Lusk and many other dis except his own good sense, Snell I will I m * made. by N. C. Donaldson, executive sec Included on the program will be retary of the state agricultural tinguished persons laud the pro pointed out. gress of the state, and this area in "Reducing iiighway speed a [>lano solo by Flossie Thompson. conservation committee. particular, on completion of the surest way to cut our fall I presented by the Frieda Ernestine The program will operate Snell declared. "Thirty-seven per Hartley studio; violin solos by through an agreement between the first step of the new Siskiyou cent of our 1936 traffic fatalities Gladys Jobbyns, presented by secretary of agriculture and the highway which is so vital a link occurred during the last three Lucie Landen; two vocal solos by • Oregon - Washington - California in the chain of Pacific coast com months of the year, and that con- Mary Ann Gates of Medford, ac Pear League. Inc., an association merce. R. H. Baldock. state highway companied by Mrs Smith, and vo organized by the producers and dition must be improved." cal solos by Clarence Gates of shippers of this fruit, to conduct engineer, and Erank Walker of s Talent, both artists under sponsor the program for the industry. Ashland cited the history of the ship of Louise Woodruff; violin Production of winter pears in the old road with various reminiscen- ' duets by pupils of Lawrence Hu three states represents 97 per cent ces at the roadside ceremonies bert, and glee club numbecH by the of the total U. 8. production of all which were culminated by tradi Junior high and high school glee such pears and the 1937 crop is tional ribbon breaking rites to of ficially open the new route to clubs under direction of Marjorie expected to be the largest travel. Scobert. Students at Ashland high school produced. During the past Booster organizations from cit Featured evening attraction will are busy under the direction of years Oregon has grown 37 per ies of this section, including the Miss Ruth Woods and Marshall j be numbers by a violin octette, cent. California 32 per cent, and Oregon Cavemen from Grants Woodell, faculty members, on presented by Raymond H. Cooke, Washington 31 per cent of the fall Pass and the local Lithians, added preparations for the anniversary which includes IJllian Lynum. and winter pear production in this color to the spectacle. Barbecued play, "Some Baby," which will be Nola Harwood, Viola Cleaver, Ol area. sandwiches and coffee were served presented late in November at the ive Eldridge. Ray Wilff and David The program Is based upon the to spectators and participants. Luinan of Medford, Harlalee Wil school. four major varieties of winter Cast members include Harold son, Ashland, and Corinne Har pears grown on the Pacific coast, Baughman. Velma Stubblefield. wood, Medford, accompanist. Also popular with the audience which are Bose, D'Anjou. Hardy Janet Young, Bob Hurdle, Esther and Winter Nelis. In accordance Wade, Faye Grubb, Warren will be numbers by the Ashland with the agreement between the Thompson, Merle Talent and male quartet conqxised of G. H secretary and the pear league, Yeo, Dr. C F. Tilton. Bert Miller George Martin. Scheduling an extra perform benefit payments amounting to 50 On the technical staff are Bob and the Rev. D. E Nourse; a vocal cents per box will be paid on sur ance to accomodate townspeople solo by Mrs Richard Joy, and a Dooms, Elaine Clements. Gene plus fruit shipped into certain des alter it was determined that the vieve Delsman, Frank Martz. Don tap dance specialty by Betty Ann ignated foreign markets. otiginal one-night showing prob Caton, lx-slie Segsworth, Margar Westlin, pupil of Mrs. Richard ably will be a sell-out to visiting The program also contemplates teachers. Angus L. Bowmer, di et Milhoan and Berle Cunningham. , Campbell. expansion of distribution in cer rector, announced this week that tain domestic areas where the per "Three Men On a Horse," normal capita consumption of such pears school comedy drama, will open has been low. Benefit payments next Thursday evening, October will be limited to pears equal to 28, at 8 p. m. in the SONS audi- By LARRY HUNTER or better than U. S. No. 1 grade tonum and also will be shown the with an additional tolerance of following night, Friday. October 10 per cent allowed for certain 29. defects. Fifteen students make up the The agreement applying to the cast of the modern play which has 1937 crop continues a program of enjoyed long runs on stage and similar character which was be screen recently. gun in 1930 and resulted in a ------ .------ <— substantial fherease in the per capita consumption of pears in the states to which diversions were made. MUSIC CLUB TO GIVE BENEFIT HERE MONDAY Kr'- Pear Diversion Plan Ready for Oregon, Coast Fruit (¡rowers REGISTRATION at 8:15 a m Friday, October 29. at the Southern Oregon Normal school physical education building will mark the start of a two-day in stitute and educational conference which will bring between 800 and 1,000 teachers to this city from Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Cur ry and Lake counties, according to C. R Bowman, Jackson county school superintendent. That figure represents the at tendance of teachers alone. Bow man said yesterday, and does not include speakers or officials. The 1937 gathering is expected to mark an Increase of from 50 to 100 teachers over any previous meeting of this kind, due chiefly to the additional invitation of the Curry county staff this year and concurrence of the institute with the normal school homecoming, many of the teachers being alumni of the school. In charge of the big confab, as members of the executive commit tee, will be Ann Sprague, super intendent of Lake county schools; Fred Peterson, Klamath county superintendent; H. H. Wardip. Josephine county superintendent; C. R. Bowman. Jackson county school superintendent: Beatrice Williams, Curry county superin tendent. and Dr. Walter Redford, president of Southern Oregon Nor mal school. Immediately following registra tion, opening sessions will begin at 9 a. m. in the physical education building with music by the Jack- son county teachers’ chorus under the direction of Esther Church Leake. Greetings from the Oregon state teachers’ association will be extended by Mrs. Lucy Rogers, president, with Dr. Redford pre siding over that phase of the con ference. Other speakers on the two-day program will be Dr. Edward O. Sisson, professor of philosophy at Reed college; Dr. W. E. Arm strong, school of education. Mills college; Dr. Paul McKee, author of several books on elementary education and professor of educa tion at Colorado State Teachers college: Miss Janet Woodruff, as sistant professor of physical edu- (Continued on page 6) Anniversary Play Cast Working At Ashland Hi School SONS TO PRESENT ‘3 .MEN ON HORSE’ DIE-HARD! Tommy Manville, millionaire, And four times wed, to date, Has picked another lady fair, The daily papers prate. It seems that Mr. Manville, With a trust naive and simple, Goes overboard for every Jill With blonde hair and a dimple! They all take him for lots of dough But here’s what he likes bestest: Did Tommy have to earn it? No, His papa mined asbestos! So Tommy works no sweat to pay A gob of alimony, And contemplates again today The blondes of matrimony! —--- •----- Bellview Grangers Will Dance Tonight Bellview Grangers and the gen era! public will cavort again to night at the Grange hall, the oc casion being another of the well known dances sponsored by that organization. Mary Stenrud, L. H. Pankey and Roy Crow are in charge of the affair which will present music by Dickey’s orchestra, refresh ments and the usual good time. -------- •— CARNIVAL IS SUCCESS Approximately $200 was cleared by a carnival staged by students at the junior high school Friday night, a slight increase over the figure hung up last year by the popular entertainment. Business Houses To Rise On New Route Among the charter businesses along the new Siskiyou highway will be a service staUon and gar age being built for Clyde Caton near the Normal school close to the south city limits, and a serv ice station opened this week by Roas Tilley near Siskiyou station at the upgrade end of the recently completed 10-mile stretch of super highway. Caton for several years had op erated a station with wrecker service and first aid headquarters at Klamath junction and will build the new and larger reenforced concrete structure to keep pace with travel diverted to the pres ent road and to accomodate his increasing Ashland business in body and fender work and general automobile mechanics. Tilley's new station in the Sis- kiyous is of rustic design with a 24-hour lunch counter. HELEN PEARSON in her cups and BETTY ROSENBAUM hurrying to the rescue. (Just coffee cups, you gossips.) VERNETTA SWARTSLEY admitting that the jail janitor is a sweep man. DEAN HORNE trucking on down to a big spill. MARIETTA HAMAKER and MABELLE JONES disgracing their better halves by running out of gas in Medford. HAROLD JOHNSON com plaining that steak sauce is darned flat drinking. MRS. ARTHUR WICK wield ing an optimistic fly swatter in the great outdoors. J. E CHAMBERLAIN, the Ashland specialist, christening his latest achievement with a bottle of citrate of magnesia. NATE BATES sagely observ ing on the occasion of his birth day anniversary yesterday, that he has reached the era of say ing nothing when asked his age. CLARK THOMAS casting sheep's eyes at people who work in glass houses MAX CROWSON competing with KNX in the middle of a good program, static on him! VELMA BROWER cannon balling up the street with a hot wire. BERT MILLER holding up a football game while he leisurely ambled across Modoc field. WANDA CURVES craning her neck. KENNY HARRIS appealing to this department for protec tion from PARKER HESS, whose predatory instincts are heightened by the full moon