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ATTEND THE TOURNAMENT GAMES!
Ashland’s athletic treat of the year is here again!
The Southern Oregon College of Education s (nee
Southern Oregon Normal's) 12th annual invitational
basketball tournament for class B high schools ot dis
trict 14 is in full swing today, with quarter and semi
final games being played this afternoon and tonight
in the normal gymnasium, and with finals set tor
tomorrow. That the show is both exciting and packed
with fascinating action-drama can be attested to by
the hundreds who already have watched the clash ot
37 teams as they “sort the sheep from the goats."
The Miner dares anybody, whether they’re basket
ball fans or not, to watch ANY ONE of the tournament
games without getting a kick out of it. Everybody
should make it a point to see as many of the con
tests as possible, especially the blood-and-thunder But the poor business man or operator is required to
finals on Saturday.
be ready for each and every one of them with com
The tournament, thanks to the local college, is this plete knowledge of the law. requirements and specifi
city's high point of interest for students, coaches, cations. He’s supposed to be able to match experience,
players and parents of this entire section of Oregon. wits and information with ’em all—or suffer penal
We should make certain that the hundreds of visitors ties. extra expense or closure.
here this week-end are met with hospitality and an
Hence, there’s no wonder that most business men
evidence of interest. All of us have been interested in
resent
this kind of snooping by a corps of inspectors,
promoting the popularity and welfare of Ashland and
now—right NOW—is the greatest chance we’ll have many of them nothing but political job holders. An
operator wonders why, if he is required to learn about
during the year.
Not to mention that it’s probably the most pleas every department in his own business, why it is that
ant chore of the twelve-month, as well. See you at the a half dozen men are needed to trip him up.
The state legislature could perform a real service
games!
to
the
people of Oregon if it would pursue a program
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of consolidation and paring-down in governmental
LEGISLATORS MAKE TWO JOBS GROW
functions. The never-ending parade of inspectors from
WHERE ONE GREW BEFORE!
Salem is but an isolated item in a topheavy jumble of
The effort to give the people of Oregon a chance confusion and duplication.
to vote on whether they want the state milk control
be able to make it without stop
board continued was defeated early this week, and the
ping at Bermuda.
bureaucrocacy will continue without ratification.
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Which action is entirely consistent with legislators’
Upon application the major
telegraph companies will get you
habits of burdening the commonwealth with overregu
a song sung in a distant city to
By MINER STAFF WRITER
lation, over-regimentation and general cussed extrava
whomever you designate. Valen
tine’s day of course gave quite an
gance of function and regulation. The state is infected THREE thousand Italians left upbeat
to this feature of their bus
with an ever-increasing trend towards more and more
France in one day in a move to iness but was "Drink to Me Only
Italy’s nationals and With Thine Eyes" the favorite re
dumping of public funds into pockets of government expatriate
provide more men for the army. quest that day? No, “Jeppers
employes including, among others, endless numbers of Not so long ago II Duce could Creepers" was away out in front,
have just about depopulated Cali the wire companies report, with
boiler inspectors, sanitary snoopers, safety specialists, fornia
that way.
the first named song a poor sec
weights and measures testers, liquor control stool-
ond.
Funny people these Amer
pigeons, etc,, etc. Every month, yea, almost every Two hundred and fifty thousand icans
dollars is being spent by 20th-
week a horde of fussbudgets come fingering, testing, Century-Fox
on filming of Stan-
asking, auditing, gumshoing. Inspection may be neces ley’s African search for Dr. Liv-
—
ingstone. More than that has been
sary, but such functions have been exaggerated and spent
J FACTS
on a picture in Hollywood
multiplied by pea-brained legislators and state de but in this case they have the pe N
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culiar situation of spending 10
partments to the point of costly nuisance.
times as much picturing a happen
As one Ashland man put it, greater efficiency, ing as was spent on the actual
Twenty-five thousand dol
less expense to taxpayers and decidedly less annoy event.
lars, they say. was the total ex
ance to business could be attained if inspection duties pense of the Stanley expedition.
were consolidated. Say, one man inspect boilers and
yyHILE double-parking of auto
while they were introduc
is sometimes resorted
adjoining machinery, etc., instead of a regiment, each ing And
the celebrities from the floor to as mobiles
a time-saving expedient, the
of a New York night club someone resulting confusion and slowing up
with his particular brand of prying.
called attention to one they had of traffic make it doubtful whe
Said this man, “I once asked one of these fellows overlooked,
Mickey Rooney, who
any time is actually saved in
why he was sent over the state looking at one special was hiding behind a pillar. Reason ther
the long run. in the opinion of
for his reticence was not known Secretary of State Earl Snell.
feature when he might as well, without additional until someone said that his con
car which is double-parked
cost to the state or extra expenditure of time on his tract forbade his taking bows and in One
a narrow street for five minutes
some
others
maintained
that
his
part, eye several connected machines and save every contract told him to keep out of may cause inconvenience and de
lay to several dozen drivers, since
body a lot of trouble. His reply was, ‘But we’re spec night clubs. Take your choice.
it completely shuts off the use of
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ialists in our particular line—one man couldn’t know
the lane nearest the parking line.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has If there is no one in the car it
all about a lot of things.”
been refused readmittance to the may also block two or three other I
Which, explained the local businessman, is just so United States and the government cars whose drivers wish to leave
not release his fortune of some the curb.
much bosh. For example, Joe Snoopschnozzle comes will
half-million dollars. After refus
Double-parking is dangerous not
down from Salem to investigate boiler tubes. He fires ing to serve in the armed forces only because it sometimes forces
the United States during the drivers to use the wrong side of
a bushel of questions at the boiler’s owner, jiggers of
war he was convicted of draft the street, if they wish to pass the
around here and there and then goes on his way. A evading but escaped to Germany double-parked car, but also be
where he has lived ever since, cause it has a psychologically up
few days later Peter Pry drops into the same place marrying
and becoming the father setting effect on approaching
of business and announces he's to inspect a machine of three children, and his wife has drivers, Snell pointed out. The av
been in this country three years erage driver becomes angry when
in the boiler room. He fires an oration of queries at pressing
his claim for release of
sees someone else grabbing a
the owner and asks him why hasn’t he done this, and the property. Refusal to serve was he
privilege which the law denies
based on any religious or po him, and in such a state of irri
didn t he know he should do that? He goes on his not
litical reasons but that he just tation is much more apt to act
way, but the parade continues.
wouldn’t serve and earned him the recklessly than under normal cir
title
of arch slacker. While the cumstances.
Each of these men admittedly is a specialist in his authorities
were trying vainly to
own branch of inspection; the boiler man is supposed extradite him he was made a pop Efforts to reach elderly pedes
hero in Germany and said trians in Oregon with information
to know boilers backwards, the next man machines. ular
that with money anyone could
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Pan-American Airways using
giant Boeings will soon inaugurate
a trans-Atlantic plane service.
First flights will be by way of
Azores to Lisbon and probably by
way of Newfoundland later in the
year when the weather moderates
Tn the beginning ships will carry
40 passengers on 72-passenger ca
pacity planes and figure to make
Europe in 18 hows.
Two tenders went to Azores
several weeks ago to provide for
refueling and the company has
had a skeleton crew there for a
year and have complete radio fa
cilities installed.
The Azores are a few miles
closer to the mainland than Ha
I waii is and the big ships should
about traffic accidents are being
counted upon to reduce the terrific
toll which automobiles have long
taken among this group, Secre
tary of State Earl Snell said to
day.
Tn Portland. Capt W C Epps
of the police traffic department
has appealed to the city's clergy
men to devote at least one Sunday
sermon to the subject of pedes-
tiran safety, in view of the fact
that seven of the city’s 12 traffic
deaths since January 1 have in
volved pedestrians over the age of
55.
Secretary Snell’s office is also
planning to cooperate with inter
ested groups in disseminating de
tailed information about pedes
trian accidents involving older
persons, and it is hoped that the
campaign can be broadened to na
tionwide proportions.
opinion is fast becoming settlrii
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that tourist tiuvvl ■ lx
one
of
major
incomes
to
the
Rogue
the i
River r valley Certain groups have
felt • for years,
that tourist
income
ten,
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■houkl lx' nursed and encouraged
.‘."but
only
here.
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_ of late years has the
idea become general It Is now
one of Uie main topics of conver
■ation where men gather to die-
cumh buainenH conditions.
Therefore, it I* fitting lloW to
diaeUHM one of the major
tional development* that ia grad
ually taking shape here. That de
velopment in an all-year highway
to Nike o' the Woods
Of recent years, winter sports
have takwi this country by storm
As proof, witness the development
of Sun Valle/’ In Idaho, just foi
one. There are many others. <>l ,
somewhat lesser degree, but all
are important in tii.it they Indi
cate the fact that businessmen
have realized the demand of the
general public for year-round re
creation.
In Lake o’ the Woods. Medford
lias access to one of the most
natural winter s|>orts M|«>t» in the
west To be perfectly frank, Mike
□’ the W imm I s has EVERYTHING’
it has, first all tlx- scenic tx-.iu
ty that a winter sports setting
could want
It has skiing possibilities that
leave nothing to be desired
It has a lake, that freezes to a
depth of two feet, and would af
ford ice skating that would not
take second place to St Moritz
And it is less than two hours
drive from Medford, if the high-
1 way to it is Improved, and made
fit for travel in winter as well ax
summer
It has a large colony of cabins,
or, as they are called, summer
homes, and it has adequate con
cession facilities to provide com
fort for guests in the winter as
well ax in the summer
There is no reason why Izike o’
the Woods cannot be as popular
in the winter as in the summer
All that remains is for the people
who want Ixike o’ the Wixxls open
in the winter to make their de-
mantis known, and a year-round
road will mxm result.
The facilities and the netting are
there for one of the finest winter
s|s>rts spots in the went
Th«* demand, alUiough latent 1«
there, tiecause people here want
IJlke o’ the W imm I s open for the
winter.
So, since it remains only for a
smouldering demand to
iirticuliite to bring about
it is time for people to
voice their opinions ivgai
I winter highway to Lake
Woods
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