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ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937 Volume 6 Number 57 YULE SHOW TO ATTRACT CROWDS ♦ I Basketball Inaugural Set for Tonight ---------------------- — ( all FEHL REFUSES AHS, SONS HOOP i Santa For Sends Toy Shop Aid EXAM BY STATE SQUADS TO SHOW MENTAL EXPERT IN FREE GAMES REPUBLICANS have expressed enthusiasm for the adminis tration’s proposed encouragement of housing The tXJP's like some thing over their heads tis> es pecially a White House roof 1 1 1 Smoking has become such a universal habit that about the only wny for embalmers to really recreate that "natural look" Is to stick a clgarrt in a corpse's mouth 1 1 1 British humane society is complaining that gas masks for dogs make them uncomfortable It is a beautiful thing to know that someone always looks out for the IsMlily welfare of dumb ani mals, even though a few miles away, without Interference, hu- man beings nr<- being giuuu-d and slaughtered with Ohl Work! ubun- don K 111 We’ve finally discovered what became of that [M-st who sat back of us In whool and who was con tinually having the whole clans pass notea for him He grew up to I m - a diplomat 1 1 And speaking of |H>sts naturally reminda The Miner of Clark Wood again That Weston leader helms man is said to I m - nuttier than a bln of bolts 111 l^itMir disputes. in the long run, Increase activity There Isn't a jaw resting in the whole state 111 A night club singer was seized with an unending fit of hiccoughs this Week We knew thia new song, “Venl Venl,” would be hard to stop. 111 Everything seems to have some virtue, even a manure-spreader At least, you can't back one of them up to a microphone and turn it loose 111 And the reason so many goory goofy Aim me laws are passed Is because poll- i ticians are so busy hatting the breeze legislators Hit in a daft I 1 1 Absorbable metal screws have been developed to fasten broken bones together and now, perhaps, there is a chance for Earl Fehl's cracks to tie mended. 111 "New Resident (lathers Relics” says headline in the Daily Twid- dlings Well, he came to the right place 111 Texas Jack Garner shot himself a buck the other day. but some body probubly passed that to him 111 California's Golden Bears have decided to let Alabama and (oh boy, some pun) the Forty Thieves steal into the Rose Bowl ANNUAL TREE IS PROMISED The annual Christmas tree party slated for some later date this month brought forth a plea from the American Legion and auxil iary and other oi ganizatlons co operating, recently for cash, toys for repairing bv city firemen, and nuts to fill the Christmas packets Mayor t s Wiley win donate ins customary apples for the year's banner event for Juvenile Ashland. Each year the city lights and decorates a huge tree In the Plaza and all kids in the city are invited to gather to greet Santa Claus, sing carols and enjoy a real com munity Christmas party. Guy Applewhite of the Legion, Mis. Roy Frazier of the auxiliary or Mrs. R. L. Burdic should be contacted by donors willing to help. • BASKETBALL REFS TO EXAM An examination will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday, Dec. 4, at the high school for persons contem plating work as basketball offi cials during the coming season, according to B. C Forsythe, who will conduct the compulsory state athletic association last IJOTH of the HONH buskrtball big guns will boom tonight at the Southern Oregon Normal school gymnasium when the var sity team will tangle with the crack CCC quintet from Camo Prescott and the Frosh five will go to grips with Coach Skeet O'Connell's Ashland high school hoopsters The Frosh game Is set for H 30 p. m and the vaisity con test an hour later to avoid inter ference with the plans of Christ mas opening celebrants who arc Invited to take In the games, for which no admission charge will be made Besides bring a combination dis play of court strength by Jean Ebcrhait's SONS basket aces and the always popular high school net men. the two-game melee will introduce the most powerful ag gregation In the 400-square mile area of the Medford CCC districts All of the Camp Prescott players cither are former college players or have shone on high school or strong Independent outfits They came to Oregon from Munford. Ala . an<i have played as a unit for two years Lieutenant Wilson former star at the University of Florida, is player-coach and other "brush marines” who are rated high are Robinson, six foot two-inch cen- ter: Kaylor, former player at Ala bama Poly, and a forward named Kauroujwiluis The SONS mentor says the latter name alone would make him a cinch for a first- string berth on the normal squad. Starters for the SONS will be picked from the following 10 play ers Scroggins. Hoxie, Leavens. Sethi i. Schilling ami H«M all let termen. and Kenmitzer. Hansen, Towne and Jungwirth However, all ol the local squad of Ih or 20 men will be used dur ing the evening Most Important change to be made in basketball rulings in sev eral years will get its initial try locally tonight when the games will lie playiit with no center Jump except at the start of the first and second halves After each score, the scoml-on team will put the ball into play from the end lines under their own basket, First regularly scheduled game for the SONS in their newly fur- nished gym will come next Frl- day, Dec. 10, when they meet Rubensteins of Eugene, one of the strongest independent teams in the state, according to Eberhart, I who knows and vouches for the I powerful organization of ex-col lege stars. MVERY WORKMAN in »atl»- a and pli-aiw-d with hi» job at Santa Claus’ Toy maker»’ union, local No. I, located at the A kb land fire station. In fact, lalair trouble ha*» never cant a cloud on the ( hrintmax horizon there, tint mile»» the «moke eater» receive «nine more repairable toy» «non the Yule neanon will I m - dreary In st end of iihth for «ome |H>or kid». Firemen lire willing to de mote all their spare time for the next month at making and repairing toy«. However, they must huve material». Any old a agon, tricycle or small toy» w III I m - appreciated and, par ticularly, the need for wheels Is great. Around town somewhere— In a dusty closet, tn-hind the garage, on an outgrown and discarded toy—there must I m - hundreds of wheel» in a fair state of repair. Plea»«* find t hem and take them to tin- fire hall! With plenty of wheels the repairmen can re- place ones that arr mi*<drig and even make new wheel toy» from matched wet». Donor» are asked to not bring toy» which obviously are in Much a sail »late of de»truc- tion that even “Shampoo the Magician” couldn’t make them useful, because the station is t<Mi crowded to store such un necessary junk. If there is some public- spirited citizen who can lend a band saw (14-inch size) or a cut-off saw (Hi Inch) for the balance of the month, he may be a«»ured that It will receive excellent care and he will be amply repaid when he s»i-s the fine work turned out by Santa's local hel|M*rs. Bet ter yet. Is there an Ashland philanthropist who will dig down a little to help furnish a permanent shop? (At pres ent the work Is being done with handsaws imil other tools of tiM> limited |M»»«ibllities.) Any how, every ¡M-rson in Ashland—e»|M-cially the kids —can help a lot by bringing In all those old unused toys and, by doing so, can make Chriktmas better for children whose holiday joy otherwise w III be pretty lean. — •--------------- SWIFTEST FLYER L’ARL H FEHL. former Jackson "* county judge and defendant in insanity proceedings in circuit court, yesterday morning held up the hearing hv his refusal to al low Dr R L m S’- in« llienlst and former state hospital head, to examine him for mental condition while he was on the witness stand Examination was to have been made by observation However, the court and counsel decided later to all ow Dr Steiner to testify in tile case. Fifty witnesses, 37 of them for the defense, have been subpoe naed in the case which is an out Establishing an unofficial l.OOO- cropping of trouble originating in kilometer record for women pilots, the famous ballot theft scandal of 1933 and recent suits brought Jacqueline Cochrane flew her plane against alleged "conspirators" by from Burbank, Calif., to San Fran Fehl following his release from the cisco and return at an average speed of 203 89 miles an hour. The state penitentiary a year ago. The hearings have attracted ca- metric measure for the round trip parity crowds to the Jackson is equivalent to 621.37 miles. Miss county court house this week. Cochrane made it in three hours, two minutes, fifty-one seconds SEND LETTERS TO SANTA CARE OF MINER PAGEN rp<> the children of Ashland 1 The Miner extends an invi invi- tation to write their letters to Santa Claus in care of this paper so that efforts may start right now to find the old gen tleman at the North Pole and tell him of their Christmas wishes Besides trying its best to help jog Santa's memory. The Miner will print the letters each Fri day until Christmas if the mes sages are sent in promptly and are not too long Just address your letters to Mr. Santa Claus, in care of the Southern Oregon Miner, Ashland, Ore., or bring them in yourself. GRIFFITH TELLS OF RELIEF DROP SONS SMOKER TO BE SPORTS FEATURE DEC. 9 ^CTION, thrills and spills galore will be furnished sports fans next Thursday evening. December 9. when the SONS Letterman's club will stage its first smoker of the year in the normal's gym. The event will get under way at 8 p. m. A fine card is being arranged, with many local Ashland and nor mal boys taking part in wrestling, boxing and stunts. All bouts will be conducted un der amateur rules with plenty of good, clean, fast action. Approxi mately six boxing and five wrest ling matches with special stunts and music between events will be scheduled. Always a special at traction will be a free-for-all wrestling match with the ring crowded with heavyweight foot- ball players. Although Matchmakers Al Simpson and Ken Schilling have not yet announced pairings, it is rumored that several grudge fights will add fire to the mixup. Committees in charge are. be sides the matchmakers. LeRoy Clarke, publicity; Everett Sand berg. tickets; Harry Johnson, ring; Virgil Jackson, music. Admission prices will be low and comfortable seats will be provided. Proceeds will go to the school ath letic fund to be used in bringing basketball teams to Ashland. Although declaring that future WPA work will proceed under decreased quotas, E J. Griffith, regional WPA administrator, told 30 Ashland business men at a dinner meeting in the Ashland ho tel Tuesday evening that projects planned for a later date will be undertaken wherever possible and James J. Strobel, executive for pledged his personal assurance a large paint company, probably that every consideration would be will go down in history as the given to local undertakings. Figures quoted by Griffith show only citizen of Los Angeles who did not claim that city to be a that the 1937 relief rolls in Ore ------- •— training farm for the delights of gon have been reduced from a I.K ENNE EXAMINER WILL heaven. He isn't the first to shout 1936 peak of 22.500 workers to the praises of Oregon and, particu 11,000. and appropriations cut BE IN ASHLAND DEC. larly, southern Oregon. But when throughout the nation from $2,- ------------------- •------------------- Furnished for information of Strobel spent half an hour at the 215,000 to $1.500,000. Griffith pointed with pride to Miner readers is a recent bulletin Ashland Chamber of Commerce ' the progress made by his depart- , recently in unsolicited admiration from the secretary of state's office of this locality as compared to the ment since the early experimental which stall's that Ward McRey southern California terrain, he at stages of "alphabetical" emergen- nolds will make his regular bi least laid claim to local approval | cy measures. He listed hospitals, , weekly visit to Ashland to conduct Strobel, who has traveled in roads, public buildings and many examinations for all persons desir every state in the union and in other tangible and permanent re ing permits or licenses to operate many places abroad while with sults of the work and stressed the motor vehicles. Harry louder productions, stated fact that such employment Is not HILTS (Special)—The sawmill dole but, rather, honest he was certain that he had never relief or which a fair rate of poy of the Fruitgrowers Supply com McReynolds will be at the city labor for seen so beautiful an area as this hall between the hours of 11 a. m. pany closed operations here for exists. Oregon country. and 3 p. m . Friday, Dec. 10, the season Nov. 24. completing an Three Project« Under Way At the meeting were discussed output of 3,000,000 feet more lum new projects which put 30 men ber this year than cut in 1936. to work in Ashland Wednesday The recent decrease in lumber and which will call for the serv sales leaves a large stock of lum ices of 20 more as winter con ber on hand, much of which will By LARRY HUNTER tinues. They Include street surfac be absorbed by the company's ing, park improvement and exca planing mill and box factory dur vation under the SONS gym and ing the winter months. construction of chemistry labora The entire plant recently went tories, additional physical educa on i 35-hour per week basis, in tion and recreation rooms, and order to give employment to 20 storerooms there, in addition to additional men. landscaping and seeding of the Winter 'improvements provided normal school campus. Chester for by the company's budget will Corey, Lithia park supervisor, give employment to a number of drew plans for the landscaping additional men and will include and is in charge of the work installation of a new steam feed Ivan E. Oakes, state deputy ad for the sawmill, a wood hopper ministrator, and F. E. Thompson, with conveyor system at the plan Medford area engineer, were with ing mill, two new lumber handling t Griffith at the meeting and both gasoline tractors for use in the responded to a call from Toast yard and one power transfer at master J. H. Fuller by expressing the green chain. appreciation and approval of Ash The improvements will be com land cooperation. pleted during the winter shut- Mayor T. 8. Wiley, Dr Walter down. Redford of the normal, Ralph Bil ——•--------------- lings, county commissioner, Guy NO LICENSE, LN COURT Applewhite of the city council and Chester A Mitchell, truck driv- IV. R. L. Burdic of the Chamber of Commerce each spoke briefly er, arrested by state police for qta the benefits received in their' lack of PUC license, is scheduled particular fields by the life-saving to appear in Justice court Satur- day to answer to the charge. now deal measure Los Angeles Resident Admits Oregon Awe HILTS MILL CLOSES WITH 2,000,000 FEET INCREASE OVER 1936 ON THE HOUSE! ’Tis the night of the opening, And all through the town Are nose-tracks on windows As we’re hunting down The prizes and plunder The merchants donate. (And there’s one six feet high As I find what I rate!) I skip by the dress-shops And such hoop-de-day, For fear that my ticket Adorns lingerie! But I linger near restaurants, And just dream how it feels When a fortunate ticket Deals a brace of free meals! 90 FREE GIFTS READY FOR YULE SHOPPERS HERE pLANS have developed without a hitch for the grandest Christ mas opening ever staged in Ash land starting at 7 o’clock this eve ning. according to C. M. Litwiller, general chairman. Nearly 100 mer chants will display valuable prizes in their show windows for claim ing by holders of lucky tickets. The tickets 6000 of them have been distributed this week throughout the city and the ad joining area. Mrs. Marchial Stans bury. chamber of commerce secre tary, contacted school heads at Wagner Creek. Neil Creek. Talent, Bellview and Lincoln, and Santa Claus in person delighted students there Wednesday when he distrib uted tickets and told of the fun fest in store for tonight. Also con tacted was the Weyerhauser Lum ber company camp at Hayden mountain and a promise of tickets to employes was given. Today Santa will make the rounds of lo cal schools on the same mission. Unveiling at 7 P. M. Windows will be unveiled at 7 p. tn for perusal of the many holiday shopping specials offered by merchants. The city band will play for a half hour, starting at the Plaza and continuing at in tervals in the various parts of the business section. Noisemakers and toys will be distributed to children at 7:30 p. m. in the Plaza by Santa Claus with the compliments of the Ashland Chamber of Com merce. A special feature in continuance of the opening fete will be a free morning matinee for children at the Lithia theater at 10:30 o’clock Saturday. In addition to the prizes offered by individual firms, six fine tur keys have been purchased from funds solicited from merchants and will be on display, a number on each bird, in windows of the city recorder's office. Ask Winners to Register Each holder of a lucky ticket is asked to register with Mrs. Stansbury at the chamber office. Prizes may be claimed from don ors at any later date. Although some merchants had not indicated what gift would be offered in their window at a late hour yesterday the following list records most of the awards, with a few to be added today: Ashland Laundry, $1 credit; Harrison Parts, car mirror; Clay comb Motor company, defroster; Litwiller Funeral home, live tur key; Texaco, five-quart oil change; Amos Swap shop, decorated let ter box; Madden's Tire shop, tube repair; West Side grocery, fruit cake: Nutter and Moore real es tate. sack of potatoes; Mary's (Continued on page 6) SEEN in By Our KEYHOLE REPORTER J ELLIOTT MAC CRACKEN taking his mattress apart to see what makes it tick. GUY LEWIS going rah-rah in a Joe College porkpie hat. CARL (Butch) HENDERSON beaming into the transmitter and DOC COOK explaining that it was a call to the girl friend. PARKER HESS plaguing AL PRESCOTT with phoney phone calls. CLARK THOMAS telling GENEVIEVE SANDER "Your violets are sweet and so are you.” CHET WOLTERS showing signs of growing up by his changing voice. VERNETTA SWARTSLEY filling a page full of hieroglyph ics in lieu of handwriting. HAROLD BOOTHBY doing a Santa Claus act in a papier- mache fireplace. W D. (Gorilla) JACKSON losing on straight falls and skinned kneecaps tc AUBREY (Meanie) MILES. SADIE MILLER explaining her choice of Christmas joys. ROY (Pavlova) CRAFT’ going into a dance quicker than you can say Bill Robinaon