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ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1939
TRIO TO APPEAR
ON BALLOT FOR
BOARD ELECTION
people
were
middled
jT new lawn which went
lili» week and, iaxauae
city If nothing elM, the
i to h<* wor»e than the
1 1 1
la celebrating lie 100th
nd tiie national «port la
lC(. where every knock
I boost.
1 1 1
msend plan, deepite its
fault», ha* been a pro-
t. of dime« for its pro-
id vote* for it* chain-
111
jnbest bloke Is the guy
, Illg to act mum t
X course, Clark Wood
dumb to even act.
111
convicts went on strike
n coal mine because the
unled them fancy scant-
Hacks to snooze on, and
I outside can derive some
rorn the knowledge that
lie n-ceasion has pene-
:k walls.
111
motorists who arc being
_o pungir up another dol-
isw drivers' licenses will
away in their billfolds
-bit liquor licenses, which
Jy place the two should
together.
111
has been dcvelojied for
high h<x-la, but one that
more appreciate«! would
al gas for heels.
111
used to say that the air
muid be free, but Euro-
l Asiatic claim-jumjierw
led that idyllic belief into
Hers.
ER UNION
RVICES SET
esbyterian. Congregation-
Kopal
and
Methodist
will begin holding union
evening services al 8
une IK The services will
iruugh l-at>>r day Sunduy
tnber offerings will go
uitertaining church and
luaic will be furnished by
rch. Those interested are
led to preserve Die sched-
•hed herewith, which out-
rices until Aug. 1.
lb Episcopal church, the
L Edgar, speaker
15 Methodist church, the
1* Senter, speaker.
1 l>>ngrelational church,
Melville T Wire, speaker.
Presbyterian church, the
tries M Guilbert, sp«*aker.
6 Episcopal church, the
nes P Banter, spi-akcr
3 .Methodist church, the
irle« .M Guilbert, speaker.
30 Presbyterian church.
■ Melville T. Wire, speaker
•
CANADIAN'» HURT
' < All MISHAP HERE
(ear-old Vancouver, B. C.,
ituart Hamilton, suffered
ann and head lacerations
morning when the car in
> wa» riding overturned on
view section of the Pacific
following collision with a
» driven by J. H Williams
»ds father, W. G Hamil-
*er of the overturned car,
I broken ribs, as did a son,
IR Hamilton received in-
® a shoulder. The Canadian
was touring the coast and
™te to southern California
■" ' lilent wreekeil their
«nd them all to the Com-
w..,-
hospital to recover from
Ul'* their hurts.
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Adams left Monday for
*K'> where he will enter
raining school.
larleH T. Landing
and Companion
nv,ted to Be Guests of ths
thern Oregon Miner
°
I^lelr Choice of
the Following
Varsity Theater
Programs:
l'r,'lH.V and Saturday)
„ ,r B- DeMILLE’H
union pacific "
n,h>.i, Monday, Tuesday)
•lEfTE DAVIS in
»Alta VICTORY"
•
* c»ll at The Miner Office
_Y°ur Guest Tickets
^AMDi of biiMl Engle, candidate
for clerk, und Frank Davis
and fnuik Van Dyke, candidates
ror directors, will appear on the
ouliol in the Ashland school dls-
Hicl election to he held irom 2
p. in. to 7 p. rn. Monday, June 19.
Engl«.* will run unopposed to sue*
ce«xl himself, and Davis and Engle
win be unopposed for the two open
directors jhh »I m . Davis' and Elwcxxl
iiedburg’s positions on the board
will expire, with Hcdbcrg declin­
ing to run again.
The election, which is expected
to draw a light ballot, will ire held
m Die cily nail council room Al­
though voters may write in names
of other candidates, the el«*ction is
being conceded to the three can­
didates whose names will a ¡»¡tear
on the ballot.
Ashland's new school superin­
tendent, Theo. J. Norby, arriv«d
last week-end and will be available
al the high sch<s>l office through­
out the summer, he indlcatwl this
week Norby formally announc«d
election of five faculty members
lor next fall. Ln explaining, the
appointments, Norby declared he
was very well pleased with the
type of people Ashland was able
to secure for the vacancies here,
The five instructors will bring
here varied educational back-
grounds of five institutions.
Replacing Earl Kogers as junior
high c«rach will be Alexander
Simpson, graduate of the Univer­
sity of Oregon and local man. Kog­
ers' ¡«»st was made vacant when
he was promoted to the principal­
ship of the junior high. Simpson is
a member of 1’1 Kappa Alpha fra­
ternity, a graduate uf Southern
Oecgon College of Education and a
former president of th«* AaBociat«xl
Students of SOCE.
Miss Ruth Anderson of Port­
land, graduate of Oregon State
college, will fill the high school
typing vacancy. She is a member
of Kap|>a Delta Phi, Mortar Board
and was selected by the North­
west Christian association as
chairman of the Seal«-« k confer­
ence at Beatxsk, Wash
The new high school social
science teacher will be Miss Mar­
garet Macy, Salem, graduate of
Willamette university Miss Macy
was prominent in glee club activi­
ties as well as her chosen courses.
John Koehler, University of
Washington graduate from Spo­
kane, will teach English and art
at th*- high .school Hix activities
al U of W included art honorary,
1(M) hours of college work in the
field of art in addition to special
pre|>aration in English, and was
student body president and art ed­
itor of annual at Whitworth col-
leg«* in Spokane. Koehler was a
resident of Ashland until he reach­
ed the age of 12. his father having
been a minister here at that time.
Miss Maxine Conover will come
here from Waitesburg, Wash, to
become junior high ««jcrctary, li­
brarian and English Instructor.
She is a gradual«* of Waitesburg
high nchixil and Whitman college,
an<l has obtained special prcpara-
tlon In music, typing, shorthand,
bookkeeping and experience in li­
brary work. She is an accomp­
lished violinist and plays piano.
All five faculty appointees are
attending summer sessions at U
of O, DSC or U of Calif., Norby
explained, and will take over their
duties here next fall as first-year
faculty members.
Women’s Vote League
To Talk Government
The foreign policy of the United
States will be discussed at the
June meeting of the newly organ­
ized Jackson County league of
Women Voters to be held at 8
p. m. Monday, June 19, in the
auditorium of the Medford court
house.
Mrs. John F. Lawrence will
speak on the neutrality laws now
in force in this country and pro­
posed amendments now under con­
sideration. Mrs. I .a w fence has
made a thorough study of the
subject. In addition, a talk on
the United States’ foreign policy
will be made by a member of the
department of government and
foreign policy, which will bt* in
charge of the meeting. Mrs. Jus­
tin Smith Is chairman of the de­
partment.
.
.
Heads of the six departments of
th«* league will be present and
each will outline briefly the pro­
gram for her department for the
coming year.
Mrs. Leonard Carpenter will
preside over the meeting. A coy-
dial Invitation is extended by the
league to any woman interested
to attend this meeting.
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RECEIVES GAS BURNS
Frank Davis. Ashland street
superintendent, Monday evening
received painful burns about the
legs and body when he attempted
to light a pilot light on a gas
water heater at his home on Scen­
ic drive. Davis was confined to his
home for several days.
Number 24
Summer ’n? Fishin
YU ASHINGTON. 11 C, June 15
Congresa was told this week
one reason why prosperity has not
come to the I*aclfic northwest.
Key industry of that region is
lumbering and prosperity rises and
falls with it. Here is what the law-
makers were told:
In Oregon and Washington
forest products provide <40
per cent of the | payrolls. On
June I, 1939, there were 240
mills running 40 hours a week
and employing 30,000 employ­
es full time; another 11,000
were working three or four
days a week in ’80 mills and
there were 130 mills shut down
and 19,000 workers unem­
ployed.
For the last three years 50
cents of every dollar received
by the millmen has gone for
wages averaging 75 cents an
hour. Every million feet of
hnnlter sold represents $12,000
In wages; employes 20 men
for 100 days. The industry In
it»- two states in 1937 paid
$03,500,000 in wages; paid
$52,000,000 for materials, Kup-
plies and services, paid $75,-
000,000 In freight to trucks,
rail and water carriers; paid
$5,000,000 in tax«*«.
Construction tn 1938 in the
United States was 3.2 billion dol­
lars compared to 6.6 billion dol­
lars in 1928. I^ast year more than
half (53 3 per cent) of all con­
struction was so-called “public.’’
Private construction is in the
depths and the government has
been stepping into the breach with
its public works program.
The industry in Washington and
Oregon is at a disadvantage in
competing with western Canada
Wages in the Pacific northwest
states are higher, hours shorter
and with unemployment compen­
sation insurance and old-age bene­
fits the cost of production for the
(Continued on page 6)
BEARSS JOINS
STATE POLICE
Jack H. Bearss, well known Ash­
land man for the last 10 years and
employe at Fortmiller’s depart­ I
ment store until this week, today
assumed duties as state police of­
ficer stationed in Medford under
Capt. Lee M. Bown.
Bearss will patrol the Ashland
area, it was indicated last night.
His appointment came as a sur­
prise to his many friends here.
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• Mr. and Mrs. Roy Frazier and
children returned Sunday from
I^ake o’ the Woods where they
have been vacationing.
Angleworms .. twisted pin . . piece ot string
willow branch It alt
spells summer, which makes its official bow to North America on June 22
Ashland Poultry Firm
Plucks Turkey Market
A THOUSAND eat in' tur­
keys in one room, and all
of them a« naked as a jaybird
and a» ready for the roaster
a« a sinful man on judgment
day. A full thousand? Ye«,
and another thousand right in
after ’em!
Such was truth and not a
hungry bum’s dream the other
day when the /Ashland Poultry
and Egg company here ship-
jwd two one-thousand lots of
dresM*d birds to San Fran­
cisco. George Frohrich, man­
ager of the local firm, had
purchase«! the turkeys from
near Eagle Point for the off-
seitMon trade in California.
Following dressing opera­
tions—which is some ¡ticking,
if you ask th«* feather-jerkers
at the plant on Water street—
th«* birds were ship|>ed by re­
frigerator truck to the metro-
politan market. Pending ship­
ment, they were laid out in a
large refrigerator room at the
Ashland ice plant and they
looked, at a glance, like an
awful lot of light and dark
meat.
Last month alone the Ash-
land Poultry and Egg com-
pany bought, dressed and
shipped more than I 90,000
¡>ounds of poultry, in addition
to many hundred dozens of
eggs which Frohrich buys,
candles, grades and distrib­
utes.
The local business, which in
scope is considerably more ex­
tensive than the average per­
son realize«, furnishes retail
and whole-sale customers with
a single dr«-ss«*d fryer or a
carload of them. All the fowl­
loving gourmet must do is tell
George how many, and the
pickers start snatching the
birds bald.
Men of Battery B
Leave for Clatsop
MONTANANS BUY
KNOX YARD HERE
Fifty-two enlisted men and offi­
cers of Battery B, 249th Coast Ar­
tillery, left by special train Mon­
day afternoon for Camp Clatsop,
Ore., where they entered summer
training courses.
The battery was accompanied
by Maj. Clyde G. Young, Capt.
Hubert Bentley, commanding offi­
cer, First Lieut. Beecher Danford,
First Lieut. William R. Clary and
Second Lieut. Lynn Neeley.
• Mrs. J. H. Harker returned
Monday from a trip to Montana.
TRUTH about ADVERi ISING
By CHARLES B. ROTH
JUST WHAT IS GOOD WILL?
FEW months ago, according to tant thing a business man has is
that beguiling writer, Bruce the good will of his customers. Ev­
ery business which has that is suc-
Barton, a large factory caught fire.
It burned to the ground. Sirens cessful; every business which does
shrieked. Crowds milled. Firemen not have it fails.
fought the flames. Newspaper re­
Good will is not a mysterious
porters scurried here and there aft­ quality like genius, It is a simple.
er stories. Consternation reigned.
commonsense matter depending
Amid al) this confusion the most upon doing simple, commonsense
serene man in sight was the presi- things.
dent of the factory,
The first of these consists of giv­
he who should have
ing good value and service, that
been the most cxcit
the business may win and hold
ed. Alighting from
friends. The second consists of mak­
his car, he strolled
ing the fact that the business is the
over to where that
kind which wins and holds friends
which he had spent
known to its customers, by telling
years in building
them of its ideals and its services
was becoming a to
and its merchandise.
ta) loss. He was
This telling process Is called ad­
calm, at ease,
vertising. Whenever a manufactur­
disturbed.
er or a merchant advertises in the
A newspaper man
newspaper he informs you that he
spied him, asked Charles Roth
is the kind of business man whom It
him why he was no
would pay you to patronite. He
more concerned. He explained that makes public the fact that he wants
the loss was fully covered by in­ good will and that he realises the
surance and that, besides, the most only way he can keep it is by living
valuable asset of the business up to his promises.
hadn't even been touched by the fire.
You as a customer get more for
"To what asset do you refer, Mr. your money when you patronize a
Burlingame?”
concern with good will. Good will
"Why, to our good will. We can is proof that the concern has done
build a new factory—now we'll have something to warrant the friendship
to. We can buy new machinery­
and confidence of its customers.
better machinery than was in the
You see, good will doesn't just
old plant. As long as the good will happen. It is created—by good
of a business is intact, nothing else goods, by good service, by good ad­
matters," he concluded.
vertising.
He was right. The most impor-
• Charles B. Roth.
A
Charles W. Ailin and son, C.
Wesley Allin, both of Missoula,
Mont., this week took over the
Knox Lumber «ximpany here fol­
lowing purchase of the C street
yard from O. F. Knox, owner and
operator for the last four years.
The senior Allin had formerly
been engaged in the lumber busi­
ness in Salmon, Ida., two years
ago, and was attracted to Ashland
following several trips through
this section. Allin was high in his
praise of this <dty, and especially
of Lithia park, which he declared
was his favorite spot for relaxa­
tion.
The firm name will be changed
to Allin Lumber company, and
most present employes will be re­
tained. The yard deals in lumber,
fuel, building materials, roofings
and paints and previously to Knox’
purchase of the yard, was oper­
ated as the Carson-Fowler lumber
company for 27 years by O. F.
Carson, now retired.
Both Allins, with their families,
will make their home here, while
Knox indicated his plans for the
future were indefinite.
VFW Will’Sponsor
Picnic Here Sunday
Starting at 10 a. m. Sunday,
June 18, a picnic will be held under
the sponsorship of the Ashland
post No. 3423, Veterans of For­
eign Wars, in the upper end of
Lithia park. All posts of district 8,
Klamath Falls, Ashland, Medford,
Grants Pass and Brookings, are
invited.
A basket lunch at 12:30 p. m.
will be followed by a softball game
between Klamath Falls district as
challengers and another picked
team from the Rogue River dis­
trict. Games and entertainment
have been arranged for the entire
aftern«x>n.
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MRS. W. C. BROWN DIES
Following several weeks illness,
Mrs. W. C. Brown died in Com­
munity hospital early this morn­
ing, June 16, at the age of 48
years. She is survived by her hus­
band of this city and one son, Ken­
neth Brown of Hilt, and her moth­
er and a sister. She was a member
of the Rebekah lodge and the
Baptist church. Funeral arrange­
ments will be in charge of J. P.
Dodge and Sons.
HOTELS FILL AS
POSTMASTERS
COME FOR MEET
ASHLAND'S hotels and tourist
camps were filled last night
to capacity as postmasters and
families from Oregon and northern
California points arrived to at­
tend the annual convention of the
state
Postmaster's
association
which will officially get under way
at 9 a. m. today, June 16, and
continue through Saturday.
State President Dr. George Lar­
kin of Newburg was to call the
convention's first formal meeting
to order this morning in the au­
ditorium of the Varsity theater, at
which time the host postmaster,
J. H. Fuller of Ashland, was to
give the welcoming address, fol­
lowed by a well-rounded program
of talks and business. Important
speakers of the day will include
George W. Purcell, national as­
sociation president, William J.
Dixon, national superintendent of
postmasters, Harnson Parkman,
national purchasing agent, A. D.
Lawrence, railway mail service
superintendent of Seattle, and a
number of other prominent postal
officials and authorities.
Election of officers, selection of
the 1940 convention city—with
Newport heading the list of likely
choices—wall occupy
Saturday
forenoon sessions, while a picnic
in the afternoon and dance in the
evening will conclude the enter­
tainment program. Today’s fea­
tures include a drive to the sum­
mit of Mount Ashland, golf tour­
nament, open banquet in the Elks
temple at 7 p. m., at which time
Governor Charles Sprague is to be
principal speaker, and noontime
luncheon for ladies.
Elizabethan Fashion
Show Plunges Feature
For Sunday Afternoon
Twelve girls in Elizabethan garb
will parade at Twin Plunges Sun­
day afternoon in a fashion show
sponsored by Ashland merchants.
A tavern keeper, with bartenders
and hostesses, will make a sharp
comparison between the new and
old.
Gentlewomen and pages will ac­
company Queen Elizabeth in her
first public appearance.
The girls and their sponsors are
Gerry Wenner, Ingle Drug «xim­
pany; Louise Logan, Fortmiller’s;
Beverly Beals, J. C. Penney com­
pany; Ann Kos, Chamber of
Commerce; Helen Lois Winning­
ham, Claycomb Motor company;
Ralph Lamb, Greyhound Tavern;
Jean Moore, Pete’s Lunch; Mrs.
Bobby McNair, Plaza cafe; Cor-
rine Croft, Twin Plunges, and fes­
tival, Queen Elizabeth.
Ward Croft's Twin Plunges or­
chestra will present a concert at
2 p. m. to introduce the program.
• Lois M. Bowmer, consultant In
costume design, will give a short
talk illustrating the Elizabethan
style.
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EXAMINER COMING
An examiner of operators and
chauffeurs will be in the Ashland
city hall from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Friday, June 23. to issue permits
and licenses to drive cars.
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CHARLES PORTER admir­
ing theater lobby mirrors be­
cause he meets such distinguish­
ed looking people m them.
AUBREY (Smokey) MILES
and MIKE (sk! sk!) WOLCOTT
decamping for a fershing trip to
Rocky Pemt to kertch trert.
LEE (Casey Jones) RYAN
playing railroad.
HARRY HURST being reti­
cent about standing on his head
after losing a bet.
EARL
SCHILLING
and
JACK CLARK, softball fans,
adding considerably to the
strong breeze at Wednesday's
games.
HAP DUNN’S departure from
the Medford state police office,
via promotion, leaving room for
about three more.
JACK BEARSS qualifying to
pinch people somewhere besides
in the foot.
DELPHINE SACKETT look­
ing over the old home town.
MRS
GRACE ANDREWS
apologizing to a truck driver
after a minor collision.
IKiSTMASTER JOHN FUL­
LER agog over being host to
the state’s post-card readers.