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S outhern O regon M iner The Paper That Has Something To Say— And Says It! Volume VII ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938 CHAMBER GROUP OUTLINES PLAN FOR COUNCIL NOD J’HE iidvcrtlsing committee of the Ashland Cha in lx-r of Com merce, headed by P it iiurdy a« chairman, met Wednesday night and outlined a lithla water pre motion plan which will I m - pre sented to members of the city council at their regular sesnion Tuesday night. Aug 2 Tiie plan, which Includes neon signa advertising Ashland's free lithla water fountains at the plaza, is designed to develop thia city's renown as a mineral water center and to acquaint paaalng tourists with the liquid, and would direct attention of passersby to the mountain water and lithla foun tain«. Others present at the meeting Included Ralph Koozer, Guy Gixx). C P Talent, Elmer Hiegel, Lew Hansen. T H Wiley. Dr W E Blake, Guy Applewhite, Dr. W J Crandall and H L Claycomb, as well as a representative of a sign company. The contemplated plaza signs are a part of a long-range city development program worked out some months ago by the Chamber of Commerce. Orchard Employ« ‘Big Game’ Hunters to Rid Trees of Rodent Foe Number 30 Town Clown! GAME hunting, in a oiiiidl way, came to south ern Oregon this week when Mum-rest orchards employed a crew of men to rid trees of wild animals whl<h were dr ven to «-atlng bark, beaver fashion, by lack of better fare. Although It was not expect ed that field mice a taste for Rogue river pear», a crew of 12 men discovered the creature« couldn't even wait for the iuM-loii» fruit to riften. Knowing something about the formula for «ucce«*», the tiny rodent» »farted their work from the ground up, <M>me- tlmeo skinning the bark from tree« a» much a« four Inches above the to|moll. When poison proved unsuc cessful, the orchard crew was set to digging out the mice, often folding nearly a dozen working on a single tree. The mice not <»nly have been "barking like a beaver,” but thry've also tx-en killing Um many trees, according to or chard 1st«. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS DENY COACH IS EYED’ SUPPOSED "inside” story that Ashland school board members were considering the ap pointment of Forrest (Skeet) O’ Connell for the post of city school superintendent, as published in a Medford daily paper Wednesday 111 was tagged as without foundation Many people can use a let of by members of the board here late big word», but it Isn't everyone yesterday. who can think of them and then “We have about 20 applications discard 'em for slrnple, effective for the position, but O'Connell has English neither applied for the Job, nor 111 has he ever been considered," de But (’lark Wood, the Weston clared a board member when In leader's ink fountain, can't even terviewed by a Miner reporter yes think of the simple ones terday. "Although we consider O'Connell a fine athletic coach and 1 1 1 * a worthy member of our high Down in Hollywood, where di 4 NATURAL-BORN CLOWN 1» Jlmmy Baughnian, shown above school faculty, he is not fitted for vorce acttlenirnta run Into the a» Grunlo In “Tamlng of the Shrew,” one of the play» to be such an appointment either by million«, there ia some doubt prescrite«] during th«- Oregon Shakespeareun festival In Ashland training or experience. whether It'« better to have loved Aug. 5 to 13. Kaughman's «haracterizations hâve becorne as well "The Job ot school superintend and lost. known a» the festival Itself. Ile I» an Ashland boy, the son of Fire ent U an important one. incurring (bief Clint J. Baughrnan. 111 many obligations and calling for I>ouglaa Corrigan had little trou much teaching, executive and busi ble flying the wrong way and ness experience. The superintend Bad Check Writer To landing In Ireland, but keeping the ent is in charge of a teaching staff American aeronautic« bureau from of about 40 faculty members, and Be Sentenced Today flying off the handle will I m - a must administer the expenditure bit harrier of $70,000 annually as well as be W C (Sonny) Flackus, 29. of a diplomat for the school system 1 1 1 Ashland, will face Circuit Judge and the spearhead for all its ac With thousand« of acre« of vir H D Norton in Medford today to tivities gin Oregon timber going up in Normal Officials Ask receive sentence on a charge of flame«, atnokera are telling each obtaining money under false pre “Under no circumstances will we Room Rental Listing other what ahoulrl be done with tenses. filed by an Ashland busi consider the appointment of a man yyiTH strong determination to who has not had extensive exper the firebug« who «ct 'em. ness man Anticipating a greater fall en- break into the victory column ience either as a school superin Flackus pled guilty to writing i rellment of students, officials of 111 and stay there. Ashland’s Lithians tendent or principal.” worthless checks July 16 following Amerlcaniam: Claiming we're a Southern Oregon Normal achool A PPEARTNG in their first inter his arrest by Ashland officers will pack their spikes and balls The expression came as an af nation of hero worshipper* and have asked that persons wishing city softball contest, the league . and bats for an early Sunday trip to rent furnished and light house- lending Hilt outfit will play host July. 22. when he was placed In to Yreka, where they will meet termath to a newspaper column everybody cuaalng the president . keeping rooms to students to reg to the Grants Pass all-stars on city jail until transferred to the the fourth-place Californians for written by Billy Hulen of Medford 111 county lockup in Medford last which claimed "In his two short ister with the SONS office, giving It now appears that. In the location and type of rooms avall- the Ashland lighted diamond to Saturday. He had waived grand the fourth league encounter of the years as coach of Ashland high night. July 29. at 8 p. m. leagues second half. The game world race for armament suprem ! able. Jury hearing after being bound will be called for 2:30 p. m. at the school's athletic teams, the ex Hilt will line up its strongest acy. the hlndmo«t will catch the The achool'a official list of array of talent behind the upshoot- over in the Ashland Justice court, Siskiyou county fairgrounds dia- Oregon State college basketball devil, and entered a plea of guilty in star (O’Connell) has done such a r<s>m« will be completed Aug. 10. pitching of Bill Tallis for tonight's court Wednesday Judge | mond. fine job and made so many friends ' 1 1 1 ami residents Interested in furnish game, and will enter the fray circuit With the return of Patterson Norton set today for passing of The reason it'« «o hard to apply ing accommodation« are adviser] doped as an even match for the sentence. and Schopf, and the reappearance that he is actually being seriously horse sense nowndays I« because to telephone information before hand-picked climate city represen of Pitchers Merritt. Krinock and considered for the position of city ------------ •--------- — you can't cluck to a machine and I that date. Schonneker expected before Sun school superintendent.” tatives who dropped the Miners get anywhere The present superintendent. day. the Lithians will be back in 4-0 at Grants Pass last Monday. form for the baseball wars. The George A. Briscoe, has tendered 111 With windmilling Harlan James Lake o’ Woods Camp five players have been on firelines his resignation, effective at the Clark Wood says the only yel and Gordon McCollum as pitching in Oregon and California for the close of the spring term in 1939. low streak in a hick town is put Registrations Open ' staff, the nil-stars will be a tough last week. Pitcher Phil Griggs also Briscoe will complete 26 years as there by the state highway depart | nut to crack, however, and should For Ashland Lasses ■ w81 be on the Ashland bench aS -head of the public schools here at ment Yeah, everywhere but Wes : bring to Ashland the cream of the will Bill Leever. an infield addi that time. ton. 'oants Pirns outfits With Hilt School board members further Registrations for the girls' sum making one ot the most spectacu The school board's new tennis tion who has looked good in prac 111 mer camp to be held at I-ake o' lar climbs in the local league, the courts, being built on Siskiyou tice sessions this week. Jack Bald pointed out that it already has Japan has abandoned plana for the Wooris Aug 22 to Aug 29 boulevard near the high school, ing has returned from a sojourn in been agreed that no appointment holding the 1940 Olympics They've should be made as soon as possible j game is expected to be a ding- will be completed and ready for Portland, and will be in uniform to fill the coming vacancy will be dong battle from the first to the too many hurdle« there now. made until late fall, at which time at the Ashland Chamber of Com last pitch. play in about a week, according to for the Lithians. merce office, according to camp The Yreka Miners, who last qualifications of the applicants officials. 111 Regular league games here had The pair of concrete courts will Sunday defeated Glendale 1-0 on will be weighed and decided upon. Styles do bizarre thing« to wom officials The camp will be open to any lx-en postponed by Secretary Skeet be girdled by steel poles and extra the California lot, are doped to be High School Principal B. C. For en's clothing, but when It makes O'Connell because of the absence 'em shove two skinny legs into a girl 10 years of age or older, re of a number of players from sev heavy gauge screening and will one of the toughest teams to beat sythe has applied for the post and gardless of whether she is a mem- introduce wire nets instead of the in the circuit. Last meeting of the is being considered, according to pair of shorts and appear in pub eral teams who have been fighting lic, it'« time to reach for the dark ber of the Camp Fire organization fire. The schedule will be resumed usual ones of cording. Poles are two clubs here saw the Yrekans the board. This year will mark the 11th sea being set for floodlights, but the nose out 4-3 inners over the Lith glasses next week, with games getting courts son for the local camp. may not be lighted at -this ians, evening an earlier 4-3 de under way Tuesday night. 111 Bulletins may be obtained from time, said board members this feat at the handp of the Ashland SONS Summer School Fortmlllcr ’ s team, also sharing Fighting forest fire is a tough th«- Chamber of Commerce giving week, the illumination depending boys. Enrollment in Rise row to hoe, and you don't get any a list of equipment needed and de I the top spot in second-half play, on final total outlay required for Merritt or Griggs will be the thing planted but blisters in your scribing activities offered at the will Journey to Medford tonight to the work Cost of the improve probable start2rs on the mound meet the top-ranking outfit of ment, without lights, has been set for Ashland, with Simpson receiv With 110 students enrolled for hands. camp. that city, probably Wooden Box at $2500 and work has been in ing. At first will be Patterson, the second session of summer 111 j or Timber Products. Johnny charge of Frank Jordan, local con with Leavens at second, Schopf at school, a 40 per cent gain over the LANDSCAPE UNDERPASS Airplanes are riding piggy-back I Daugherty's aggregation will be tractor. Th«- Oregon state highway de shortstop and Ager at third. In corresponding period last year was now. and it won't be long before minus thei rpitching fortress in The new tennis layout will re left field Dick Porterfield probably noted at Southern Oregon Normal they'll even want a government partment is engaged in clearing Darby O'Toole, who is working in and landscaping banks of the I*a- place an antiquated pair of courts will start, with Parker Hess in school. Total enrollment for the pension to carry them along. cific highway at the underpass I eastern Oregon, but will borrow on the high school grounds which center and Lyle Reeder. Balding, two sessions is 197 students. Summer school will end Aug. 111 north of Ashland. Shrubs and one or two players from idle Ash have become useless. Baughman and Burden ready for We don't like to put a sag in grass will be planted during the land teams to fill vacancies. the call in right field. Bill Leever 19, with fall classes getting under -------- •------------ ----- • --- : - -- way Sept. 19. With a number of the usual high plane of thia col fall also probably will see action. ------------ e------------ ----------- •------------ lower division subjects being add umn by mentioning that guy Clark ‘Pete’ Nutter Buys ed to the school's curriculum, fall Wood so often, but the publicity- TO RECKITT MARINES HERE Catherine Gillette Taylor Lunch Stand Team Wrestling To Be enrollment is expected to exceed hungry tank terwn topic tattler A recruiting party for the Opens Beauty Salon that of last year. went anti sent hi« picture to the United States Marine corps will ------------ •------------ Earl (Pete) Nutter has pur Repeated At Medford East Oregonian at Pendleton The visit Ashland W«*dnesday, Aug. 3. victima printed it, accompanied by from 9 a. m. to 10:30 a. m. in the Catherine Gillette, daughter of chased the lunchroom of Taylor Mat Mixups Monday a blurb, and made matters worse post office building. Sgt John W. J. R Pittenger, has announced the Williams located between the old by running a photo of Clark at the Grantham and Sgt. William B. opening of Kay's Beauty salon in Tillings building and the Oregon Because of the popular demand age of 13 As a lad. Editor Wood Simmons will be in attendance to the Lithla hotel barber shop to hotel on East Main street and looked like he might have a future. answer inquiries concerning mar day. Modem in every respect, the early this week took over man for more team wrestling matches He lures do lie. shop will be outfitted with chrom agement of the popular sandwich in Medford, Promoter Mack Lil ine service. lard has announced another great ium furnishings and latest equip shop. 111 Williams, who has operated the match to headline his card for ment. (Famous iAst Word«: Hello, Monday night at the Medford Mrs. Gillette, who has been con stand for several years, recently I next there, Mister Wood. What brings high school field. nected with Luella's beauty shop bought out Jim Starbuck, local you to Ashland?) Sockeye Jack McDonald and in Klamath Falls for the last few Western Auto Supply company years, will take charge of the new dealer, and will reopen the store Joe Smolinski are teamed this shop in a few days, with Mrs. following completion of inventory week against Sgt Bob Kennaston First Baptist Church and Benny Wilson for a four out Mayer of Medford in charge until now under way. of six fall match. McDonald and Nutter is well known in Ash I then. Charles E. Dunham, Pastor ' Smolinski took their match last land. having cooked in local res Church school meets 9:45 a. m., week over Kennaston and Flash taurants for several years. R. L. Walker, superintendent. Kelly. Morning worship, ll a. m. "The Climate City Awes In the one-hour opener Flash Clothe» That Make a Man” will EXAMINER COMING Kelly will meet the bewhiskered Traveling Miners in be the pastor's subject. Ward McReynolds, examiner of Ala Pasha, a Hindu. Opening bell CLIFF BROMLEY and LEON Young People’s union, 7 p. m. and chauffeurs, will be will be at 8:30 p. m. ARD PATTERSON displaying 4-0 Inter-City Game I operators Evening service, 8 o’clock. The in the Ashland city hall between ------------ •------------ their unsoiled gloves worn while pastor will preach on "Light for 11 a. m. and 5 p. m. Friday, they Paul Bunyaned a forest MAN ARRESTED HERE GETS An all-star Grants Pass softball Life's Dark Moments." Aug. 5. THREE YEARS IN PRISON fire. team was too dazzling at bat for Prayer and conference meeting. The DAILY TWIDDLINGS Ashland's Miners, who took to the 7:30 p. m. Wednesday. ! George Garland, arrested by discovering, after all these road Monday night, July 25. to • H. H. Gearhart Ashland police a week ago and years, the invention of the tele meet in intercity combat. The re NEW POLES ARE NET turned over to Medford authori type. sult was a 4 to 0 defeat of the and Companion New painted power poles are be J. C. HAMAKER inducing ties, was sentenced to three years green-shirted wanderers ing erected on North Main street Are Invited to Be Guests of the in the state penitentiary by Cir- slumber with a thrilling murder The all-stars started off the by city workmen, replacing old and making things easy game with four hits and two runs, Southern Oregon Miner i cuit Judge H. D. Norton Wednes- mystery equipment on a Joint lead with the for the criminal by leaving the I day. scoring another pair In the fourth To See Their Choice of city light department, telegraph doors unlocked. Garland, a transient, was caught Although Miner batters hit Wind the Following and telephone companies Howdid Halloween originate? ELLEN PATTERSON ex selling articles he admitted having miller James' pitches at will, most Varsity Theater Why do we tremble when pending a half hour of energy stolen from Medford stores. blows were aimed directly at field on a coffee urn and failing to ------•— afraid? Why does a dog turn ers, Porterfield and Ager being the Programs: turn out anything but a cup of • Miss Jean Wall of Woodlawn. only two Ashland players to be 'round, and 'round before (Friday and Saturday) Wash., is visiting for an indefinite steaming water. credited with safe blows. Leavens lying down? Fascinating "RED RIVER VALLEY" RAY FRISBEE refusing to be time at the Mansfield home. surrendered mound duties to Me plus • Mrs. Homer Moore, who is a bored by witnessing another do answers to these and many lman In the fifth after allowing "INTERN ATION AI, member of the membership com his own coin trick. eight safeties. Th fireball throwing W. L. Pct. Tea m other common questions in SETTLEMENT' mittee of the Shakespearean festi HEADRICK BAUGHMAN McLean held the Pass outfit to ’ 2 0 1.000 Active Club "What’s the Answer,” a new val. sold tickets for the event in walking past a ^pretty pasture (Sunday. Monday, Tuesday) two scattered blows in final three 0 1 000 2 Hilt pictorial feature by Edward Bellview Tuesday. and returning to the fold. innings. 0 1.000 Fortmlllcr’s .... 2 SHIRLEY TEMPLE in I* Mis. Ethyl Parks returned to SAM JORDAN concluding But one error, on Grants Pass' I 0 1 000 Finch. Be sure to look for this Provost REBECCA OF her home in San Francisco the last that bricks are bricks be they second baseman, marred the entire 2 1 «67 Miner SUNNYBROOK FARM question-and-answer cartoon of this week after spending a few painted white or red. game. Batteries were, for Ashland, .333 2 .... 1 Battery B days at the Herman Helm home. FRANKLIN (BRINGHAM) leavens, McLean to Baughman; 000 0 2 Groceteria Please Call at The Miner Office IN EVERY ISSUE Grants Paas, James, McCollum to She plans to return later and lo YOUNG letting peroxide turn .ooo 0 3 Elks for Your Guest Tickets cate near Prospect. his eyes green. Pruitt .000 SONS ............. .... 0 3 JAPAN 1» tightening restriction» u on the tine of Iron and strel. but if the Nlp|Miii<'H<' are going to make progr«-»» In t'hlna, they'll have to gel rid of aome lead. i • A ASHLANDTEAM TO JOURNEY TO YREKA SUNDAY HILT, GRANTS PASS NINES TO MEET TONIGHT TENNIS COURTS READY IN WEEK SEEN IN « DAZE What’s the Answer SOFTBALL •
