f southern O regon M iner I he Paper That Has Something To Say—And Says It! ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939 HIGH SCHOOL TO GRADUATE 77 AT COMMENCEMENT > ruléis who enemies behind 1 1 / 1 like the Japan hus «lone tn the r policy -r of (Thlnn bus open and shut irtory 1 ponding thermometer in >t, :<>n hax given folk» beside« Hitler to gel the collar over. 1 1 1 I Powell, editor of the Int American and now ,f his town. refers to lx at "high hand«-d" Ight, to<>. Art something Iwnides pop’a for a new outfit 111 nan with nothing to «ay iccomcH u politician or an mcr ajM-aker. 111 ding to an ordnance ex- c const defense gun exert« jllion hor»e|x>wer puafi be- prujectilc Almort enough Clark Wood out «if la-«! by Vi-.Mton Lader time. 111 > announcers who gush vials have accomplished ig. nt leant They make the m sound better 1 r r el Clark Wood muy have tadlr in the coniinerclal ""Ing field. Moderi Mt, new type faces '»w-how tlmt goes with 1,1 has put the Miner Press “r* ahead of Its conipeti- Um Says; uute 77 students in elaborate common« ex«*rci»«-» »farting at H p m w<«lne»dny, May 24, In ti.«- Junior high gymnasium A "pedal r«-scrv«sl »<•< Hon han been art aside for Invitational guents, while ample »eating will pro- vld«*l for the large crowd which annually witnesses th«1 formal graduation of high school stu dents The complete program for the evening, as announce«] liy Supt. George A B ii » c < m -’ h office, 1» ilk follow»: l,r«K«sslotial, “March of the Brave,” Invocation, the Rev Melville T Wire, pastor of the First Method irt church Overture, "Th«- Italian» in Al geria, by the high school orches tra directisl by Ward V Croft. Vocal ensemble, "My Task" any»‘ quartet, "Sylvia Oomnu-ncement address, "A Four-Fold Program for Youth,” by Dr Bruce Baxter, preaident of Willamette university Presentation of diploma«, by Superintendent Briricor. Benediction, Rev M T Win ReceMional, »elected. Accompanist for the evening will be Joan Whitmore. <>rurder Take the Steps.'' Green and silver were nam«*d ciass co I oih an«i the rose was chosen da»» flower. Thow receiving di plenum Wtxineikiay night will in- elude the following. Henry Miller, Doreen Ik-Lisle. Robert Andrew«, France« Imhoff. Edmund Dew». Fay Davis, I»ui» NorbiTg, Esther Wade, I>a)c Hirn- cl wright. Opal Surber, Weldon Heard, Shirkiy Putman. Edward Cate, Alls-rta Durham, L-Roy McNeil, Margaret Lininger, Wil- liain <*urti«, Lucille Lebow, Marie Winkelman, (’ha lies Warren, Fem Wyant. Lucille Cleveland. Dal«- Rons. Nanette Lee, Eldridge Gray, Shirley Willard, Gertrude Wenner, Dean Abbott Dorothy Wizncr, Nina May Hen«. France» Miller. Kenneth Harris, June Bryant. Robert Cor- thell, Joe Je»»e), John Pratt, Mar jorie Freeman, Gaylord Vertat, Anne« Norns, Kathleen Cook, Shirley Walton, Leona Rowe, Olive l>avin. Alice Jane Cary, Clema I ert v, ■ Gere Rons, loin White. Leo Wine, Mel vin I’onley, Charles Jobbin», Billie LuebtM*. Ruby Hunter, Edward Blackwell, Damon Clifton, Dor othy Halfhill. Lils Welch. I>on Gcttling, I-arry Ia-igh, Edna Hanh, Everett Nance, Ruth Worxteworth, Patricia Has tings, Jack Bentley, Jules Powers, Norma Bishop, June Andrews, Dick Gardiner, Phoebe MacCollis- tcr, Robert Farlow, Jack Williams, June McDougal, Gifford Lee, Rob ert Isanti» and Ivan Peterson. Ashland Hotel Gets New Paint, Repairs Repairs and painting, totaling approximately $1000, are under way at the New Ashland hotel, ac cording to Mr. and Mrs. Lew Rey nolds, owners and managers. Exterior work is nearing com pletion, with a crew of decorators busy on interior refinishing. The hotel's entire exterior, including unpointed concrete rear walls, is receiving a coating of paint. Com pletion of work was expected late next week. • Tin* Yreka and Hilt teams met on the local diamond Sunday, with Yreka winning the game with a »core of 13 to 8 A home run was scored for th«* home team by Ern est Francis on a one base hit, due to errors but it won him the case of beer offered for the first home run. I----- George Sikes and Companion Are Invited to Be Guests of the Southern Oregon Miner To See Their Choice of the Following Varsity Theater Programs: (Friday and Saturday) "VACATION FROM LOVE” and “THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES” (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) •MIDNIGHT” with John Barrymore and Francis Lederer • l,,l.V» to I m * prognwrtve.” Please Call at The Miner Office for Your Guest Tickets Twin Plunges Will Open Saturday; Plan Many New Features COUNTY S CLINICI FOR CRIPPLES TO BE HELD MONDAY Ashland s Twin Plunges, jx,pu la r »■••«•»■■ational center of southern Oregon, will formally open Satur- erienced lifeguards on duty at all times one for each pool as suring safety for children. Chuck Price and Wess Crump have been named as guards. The two jxxds are kept at regu lar temperatures, one warm and one cool, and are filled with natu ral tasteless mineral water which is heated and filtered constantly. Several springs on the grounds supply a large storage tank from which the swimming pools are filled. CRIPPLED children’» diagnos- tic clinic for children of Jack- son county will be held at the health department in the county court houae May 22, 23 and 24. Dr, A. E. Merkel, health officer, announced thia week. The clinic is being arranged under the auspices of the crippled children’» division of the State Public Welfare com- mixHion an«i in conjunction with the Jackson County Health depart ment and Jackson County Public Welfare commission. Any person under 21 years of age of apparent normal mentality, who is suffering from a condition leatling to a deformity of the bones, joints or muscles, or who is actually suffering from such a de formity, may attend the diagnos tic clinic upon referral by their parents and family physician. In addition, the deformities of cleft palate, harelip, bum contractures and plastic skin contractures are included. PAVING GRANITE STREET IN DOUBT Carter, Kennaston Feud To Be Renewed Monday at Armory Number 20 DRILL AND DINE 250 SATURDAY *pHE first annual southern Ore gon National Guard review will get under way at 6 o'clock Saturday evening, May 20, with a banquet in the Elks temple which is expected to seat more than 200 persons, according to Capt. Hubert Bentley, commander of Battery B, Ash'and. The banquet will feature a num ber of prominent officers, headed by Maj -Gen. George A. White, in a brief speaking program. Follow ing the dinner guardsmen and reviewing officers will assemble at the high school field at 8:15 p. m. for a drill exhibition and presen tation of faithful service medals to members of Grants Pass, Med ford, Klamath Falls and Ashland units. • Following the exhibition, which is open to the public, guardsmen will march through the city to the armory, where a public military ball will conclude the evening’s celebration. Soldiers will wear new regulation uniforms for the first time Saturday night, and the eve ning will be enlivened with mar tial music by the Ashland band. Whipple’s nine-piece orchestra will play for the evening’s final at traction. Officers who will be in Ashland for the event include Maj.-Gen. White, commander of the 41st di vision and adjutant-general of Oregon; Lieut.-Col. Raymond F. Olson, chief of staff for General White; Major Kenneth Rowntree, instructor for the 249th Coast Ar tillery; Major Claude B. Wash burn, commander of First Battal ion, 249th Coast Artillery, and commander of the 249th in the ab sence of Colonel Clifton A. Irwin, and Captain Arthur B. Bates, plans and training officer for the 249th CA. National Guard units to be in full-strength attendance here in clude Co. C, 186th Infantry, Grants Pass; Co. A, 186th Infantry. Med ford; Battery D, 249th Coast Ar tillery, Klamath Falls; Headquart ers company, 186th Infantry, Med ford, and Battery B, 249th CA, Ashland. Men to be honored with presen tation of faithful service awards will include First Lieut. Beecher Dan ford, Ashland, who will receive a 25-year medal, while 20-year awards will go to Major Clyde G. Young, First Lieut. William R. Clary, both of Ashland; Sergeant Reuben H. Pitz, Medford. Fifteen- year: Captain Carl Y. Tengwald, Medford; Captain Bentley, Ash land, and Second Lieut. Bruce W. Moffatt, Medford. Ten-year medals will be award ed to First Lieut. James W. Grigs by, Medford, and five-year med als to Second Lieut. Lynn Neeley, Sergeant Leonard A. Warren, Ser geant William A. Hoxie, Corporal Rolland E. Andrews, all of Ash land, and Private First Class Ralph D. Smith, Medford. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18 - In the large, rambling depart ment of agriculture building—it covers many acre», house» thous- i and» a small, select board is studying the map to ascertain how much land Uncle Sam has acquir ed and taken from the tax rolls i of counties. Decision of these of ficials may bring substantial dol lars into county treasuries and af ford an unexpected source of reve nue. There are a couple of bills in congress which provide the fed eral government shall pay some thing in lieu of taxes for “con- , servation lands.” The board is ' researching to learn the number of acres and what the cost would be to the government. Pending this report, the house committee on agriculture is marking time, will do nothing at the request of Henry A. Wallace, secretary. Under this legislation, Harney Marshall Carter, the ex-Univer- county might receive something With City Attorney Frank Van sity of Missouri wrestling coach, Dyke's opinion that the park board, will have a chance to prove that for the land acquired by the gov can n«rt be asseawd the cost of his win of last week was not a ernment and used for a wildlife paving the east half of upper fluke when he tangles with world refuge at Malheur Lake. In pur Granite street adjoining Lithia junior heavyweight champion Bob chasing this land the government park, the city council decided to Kennaston in the top main event caused a tax loss to that county. i. iet with the county court in an at Medford armory next Monday Ekischutes would have some com effort to obtain aid in offsetting night. Last week Carter made a pensation for the timber recently Lhe cost of proposed jvork. Street first-class monkey out of Kennas purchased and added to the Ocho- department fund» available arc not ton by out-wrestling him and then co forest and the prospective ac .uiequatc and it was thought that out-slugging him when Kennaston quisition of land in vicinity of Sis residents of the street might be turned dirty. The pride of Gold ters. Lake county could expect a willing to offset part of the bur Hill had his feelings hurt when little for private land that went den by paying a higher footage the lighter and faster Carter into the antelope reserve in the Hart mountain district. These are late for the improvement. smeared him from pillar to post insances of possible benefits under I A group of Allison street resi- throughout most of the hour and, contemplated legislation. d< nts were present at the city although he was scheduled to the While would be council's meeting Tuesday night leave for southern California this principally application in the seeking information on paving of week, agreed to remain if Mack states, many other 11 w-estem states have their thoroughfare, and were re- Lillard would give him a chance to lost property off the taxroll when f erred to the city superintendent, redeem himself. the government stepped in to car- The council, presided over by Carter is thoroughly dissatisfied I ry out some conservation pro- Ralph Koozer in the absence of with the foul decision verdict of , gram. School districts have suf Mayor T S Wiley, approved pur- last week and feels i^ire he can fered from this loss of taxable chare of a $700 water sterilizer trounce the champion if given an property; some districts have fold- for the Community hospital, and other chance. | ed up. also authoriz«*d calling of $25,000 Bulldog Jackson, considered to One proposal is a straight 10 auxiliary water bonds for July 1. be the meanest man in the wrest cents an acre a year to be paid to The Ashland Radio club was ling profession, comes to Medford counties where the land is located. given use of city noise-locating armory for the first time in sev- Another is a complicated method i auio equipment and authorized to « ral years to face Pete Belcastro of compensation which few mem mage a house-to-house canvass of in the middle bout. Both bone bers of congress who have read radio disturbances. Councilmen re benders are known to stop at the bill understand. The board ferred to the police department a nothing to win their bouts and a designated by Secretary Wallace request by George B. Icenhower wild and woolly affair is expected is seeking to work out a plan and that his son be allotted reserved to be the result of these two rnean- if the amount is not too large, nor parking space in front of an East ies in the ring at the same time. payments do not constitute a pre Main street store to be used for Eddie Rogers gets another cedent, they may make a favor tne mounting. chance to even the score with able report—and again they may .. _©------------- Sailor Dick Trout in the opening not. Anyway, there is a gambling go. Trout put Rogers through an chance for the taxpayers. airplane spin last week to take the 111 only fall and leave Rogers a President Roosevelt will step on mighty sick man. foreign soil next month when he The first match will go to the dines with King George VI in the The Talent city firemen will sponsor a benefit dance in the mat at 8:30 p. m. promptly. British embassy. The ground of - - •---- Talent city hall Saturday evening. the embassy is as much British as .May 20, proceeds of which w-ill aid • Mr. and Mrs. J. Clark were in any part of that empire, just as Yreka Saturday. the Boy Scout troop. the Soviet embassy is part of Rus The week-end dance is expected • Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward sia and the French embassy part to draw a large attendance and drove to Klamath Falls Saturday, of France. President Hoover dined contribute needed funds for the • Leonard Pullen and a group of with the King of Siam when the Possession of almost double the scout troop which the firemen re- friends drove to Holland, Ore., latter was a Washington visitor, legal limit of fish caught at Fish over the week-end. cently organized. but the Siamese rented a private lake during the week-end netted home. Dom S. Provost a $25 fine plus Only 800 residents of Washing $4.50 costs in Justice of the Peace ton will be invited to meet the M. T. Bums' court Tuesday when King and Queen at the embassy state police charged violation of at a garden party. Gentlemen have game laws. Provost was alleged to have ex been warned not to offer to shake By CHARLES B. ROTH the King's hand and to bow twice ceeded the 10-trout limit by eight when approaching him, and to fish. A companion, H. S. Ingle, make their exit walking back also was fined a like amount. A MAN .NAMED CAXTON ward. Ladies can curtsy, if they OU may not remember ever the newspaper would complete the desire, but if they do they must hearing the name of William educational process for their goods kneel with the left foot backward, wasn't enough. It also had to do the The press will not be admitted. Caxton, but it was his life which 1 1 / makes your life today comfortable. job at less cost than any other me Farm bloc members are asking dium. He it was who introduced printing an embarrassing question. They And they found, after many tri want to know why the administra into England. This was in 1476. The introduction of printing has made als in different fields, that it did. It tion insists that a processing tax got their message to prospective should be levied to meet parity all progress possible. It wasn’t until 1638 that America buyers in a manner which was eco payments yet there was no men tion of special taxes to meet had a printing press, this at Har nomical as well as effective. Today this tame condition is un billion dollar national defense vard university, but 111 after that printing changed. Advertisers, using news A motorist was arrested in grew, and newspa papers year in and year out, find it national capital because the pers sprang up, and th® most profitable way in which to lice found him using an American tell their story to buyers. modern American flag as a seat cover. He was The reason is simple. The news charged with desecrating the flag. life began. paper is the great common denomi The printing press There is a movement a-foot to is the forerunner of nator of modern life. It reaches confine the use of Old Glory to CLYDE YOUNG remarking, in knowledge wherever practically every family. It has the naval ’ ?ssels and prohibit its use it is introduced. The confidence of its readers. It stands by merchant craft. Every cabinet an off-stage giggle, “Half a cab printed word, xeven for everything which is right and member has his own special flag bage is Better Than One.” MRS. ROBERT FLAHARTY which is displayed with the stars to this day, has no good and modern. The design is also alliterating “Have you heard the The advertisements in your news and stripes. rival as a quick broadcast of Lucie Landen's lovely means of dissemi paper are as much a part of its vi painted upon the door of their of ladies’ lilting lyrics?” ficial automobile. Charles Roth nating vital facts tal importance as the editorial and CHESTER FOWLER play-day- tit the news columns. and ideas. One of the aspirants for a pres ing without benefit of pants. The newspaper of today is one of As a matter of fact, most readers idential nomination next year had JESS BARTON having a thwart the modern wonders of the world. find it hard to tell what interests a speech prepared denouncing the removed via this column. DOM PROVOST and BOB IN It is the broadest, quickest, most them most—the commercial news, size of the agricultural bill. He flexible and most economical way of which is called advertising and was about to take the floor when GLE threatening’ to hire a Har getting a message into the minds which touches their lives every day, he mentioned it to a colleague. vard gulper as handy man on their or the general news, in news story, The colleague, an astute chap, re next fishing excursion. of the people. JACK WILLIAMS enthusiastic minded the candidate that he Early in our national history, editorial and cartoon. ally dancing his partner into a comes from a farm state in the nnd merchants manufacturers They’re both valuable. nidwest and such an attack would feed chute during a barn dance, sensed this power of the press. They This man named Caxton was one cost him the farm vote. Without and then kicking. began using it to carry their ad of the great benefactors of man comment the aspirant returned the BUD GANDEE trying to buy vertising facts and ideas into the kind. He lighted the lamp—and it typewritten manuscript to his c-lgarets from a telephone. W. D. (Call-Me-Collect) JACK- is still burning bright, though cen desk and locked it there. He ................................................. homes. These early advertisers were turies have fled since he lived. was that close to blowing up his SON using reverse English on the telephone. own boom. © Charles B. Roth. careful business men. The fact that Talent Firemen Plan Scout Benefit Dance Too Many Fish Draw’ $25 Fine Local Court TRUTH about ADVERTISING y