S outhern O regon M ii jer
The Paper That Has Something To Say—And Says It!
Volume VIII
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1939
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POLICE REPORT
IS DOCUMENT OF
SAFETY, PROFIT
I)OC TOWN 8 END suya Hoose-
veit couldn't get enough vote«
for a third term but we recall hav
ing had. at some Ume or other, u
alight doubt ot the lull |M-n»l<iin-r’n
logic with figures
111
Next week Mara will be unus
ually close to the earth and, if
thing« don't Improve back here,
the vLaiting planet should Ire re
named the eight ball
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'rhe National Association of
Broadcaalcra, in aolcmn conven
tion, resolved In fuvor of right,
honesty. clean living, high moral«
and more buaineaa
111
It aeema that some people will
never learn. Every turn- Herbert
Hoover open« hla mouth he pula
the (roor elephant's foot in It.
111
Puzzle of the month: How can
you tell when a WI'A work. i is
on nt like?
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Inherent
harm
of
pension
achenma la their inference that all
people ahould do toward« provid
ing for their old age la to vote. •
111
Bouquets for the living arc a
tlnr gesture unless they’ve been
taken from aomebody else
111
Sometime« we auapcct the rea
son folk« grin In the face of ad-
veralty la because they don't know
what el«c to do.
111
The early bird get« the worm,
which la okay with everybody but
the worm, but why la It that the
early riser always get« himself
a motorcycle ?
111
German aarvaam hints that Eng
land la on Ila butt leg«, but It
ahould
remembered they're sea
leg«
111
Clark Wood la a modeat sort of
editor. Flattery roll« off him like
a Weaton «oak refuaea a drink on
tin- house.
111
The Japanese for two ycarahavc
been cloalng the open door in
China and now they're trying to
kick England* foot out of tin-
jamb.
111
Congreaa insists on an arms em
bargo, poaaibly because they want
no more handa across the aea
111
The world la breathlessly await
ing for the exploalon when Hitler
declares peace agalnal Danzig.
111
The Wl’A strike certainly sur
prised a lot of folk«. We were just
about convinced that reliefer«
would lean on anything, but it
appeara they'd rather fatten.
111
Bridge« flrat are painted with j
led lead, then a coating of Home
other color, but an intereated weal
coast la watching to «ce the color
of Harry Bridge« when the gov
ernment finishes with him.
111
The fellow who'« always kicking
seldom stand« on hl« own feet
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• Mr and Mrs. Hugo Reinbold
and daughter Joyce are vacation
ing at Soap Lake, Wash.
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• Earl Edxull of Klamath Fall«
was called here this week by the
illness of his mother, Mrs. F. W.
Falsa ll.
• Mr. and Mrs. U>uis Jennings
of Hollywood visited here with
friends for several days this week.
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It goes without saying that the
chap is often a nuisance who says
without going. Weston Leader.
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Ray Spencer
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)
“HONOLULU" pin*
“INSIDE STORY”
(Munday, Monday, Tuesday)
"THE STORY OF VERNON
AND IRENE CASTLE”
(Wednesday and Thursday)
"PACIFIC LINER" pin*
"MR. MOTO’S VACATION"
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Please Call at The Miner Office
for Your Oueat Tickets
Softball Sponsors
Challenge I Jons To
Seven-Inning Duel
MATTER of athlrtl<- hon
or and »ottlmll glory
_r will
i
I m - determined Tuesnay
>y night
at the high school field when
the sponsors of the Ashland
soft bull league square off with
members of the local Lions
club In the sciumiii ' s first (and
probably la«t) game snatched
from among the grandstand
kibitzers and backers.
Listed among the sponsors
will I m - J. II. and F. R. Hardy,
( het Wolters, Hal McNair,
George Shaffer, Hob Ingle,
Johnny Daugherty, Ike Fride-
ger, Bert Mlmmons and j»os-
slbly la-onard Hull and R. I.
Flaharty. With FlaJiarty as
president of the Lions club
arid Hull a member, It Is ex
pected that the rival outfits
will draw lot« to see which
ha« to take the pair. Lions
players will Include Dr. R. E.
I'oston,
Ned
Mars,
Nknet
O'Connell, I. F. Andres, Bill
Snider, Chau Beebe, Walter
Leverette, George
Goswlck,
Angus Bowmer, Pete Nutter,
Art Cooper, I»well Ager, John
Broady, Paul Finnell, C. M.
Gullbert and Harry Hurst,
who will map strategy and
run for the doctor.
Tuesday night will see other
attractions In addition to the
8 o’clock sponsors-Llons clas
sic, with two junior league
teams opening the evening at
7 o’clock and at 9 p. m. the
Dodgers will be hosts to the
Grant« Pas« league leading
Cave Shop outfit.
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MAY RESTRICT
WATER USE HERE
IN LATE SUMMER
IV1TH water supply in Reeder
i’ll I EE OF POLICE C. P. TAl^-
reservoir dropping at the rate
J ENT'S semi-annual report of
of more than two inches daily,
the doings ot hla department was
Ashland water users may go on
read berote city councilmen in
restricted use later in the summer,
regular session Tuesday night and
it was indicated by Water 8upt
was received with approval. The
Ear) Hosier to councilmen Tues
report gave detailed information 1
day night. Normal storage of 800
wnich snowed an Impressive auto
acre feet at this time of the sea
safety record here, an unusual po
son is down to 600 acre feet and
lice efficiency, a substantial in
residents with large lawns may
come to the city from fines, license
soon find their lavish use of water
sales and servicea, and also point
curtailed.
ed out that local officers receive
Early July rain« helped length
leas than average pay for their
en the city'« supply, and at pres
type of work and that the depart
ent the water is in good condition,
ment la undermanned.
gushing from city mains as clear,
Only 38 traffic accidents, moat
cold, sweet fluid. Installation of a
of them mere fender-acratchlnga.
device to remove taste from dead
were reported within the city llm-
algae has been getting results,
Ita during the first half of 1V3U.
Hosier pointed out, and residents
Policemen sja-nt 1220 hours on
are assured of a palatable drink
foot patrol duty during the last six
ing supply throughout the season.
months, found 326 doors and win
Councilmen also heard other
dows unlocked, patrolled 18,875
business matters, including semi
miles in the prowl car and by mot
annual report of Chief of Police
orcycle and warned 402 law vio
C. P. Talent, reports of paving
lators without necessity of arrest.
progress on Granite street; Mayor
Seventy transients were fed or
Wiley appointed a city band com
given shelter while of the 42 ar-
mittee and the middle of August
reats made, 41 resulted in convic
was set as deadline for city de
tion« while the other case was not
partment budget estimates to fa
filed by local police.
cilitate early completion of 1040
Fine« assessed in city and state
budget figures.
courts totaled *547.50, money re
City Supt. Elmer Biegel was
covered and returned to merchants
delegated to study elimination of
and buaineaa men was *1101.55.
confusion in some house numbers
value of returned property wax
and City Recorder J. Q Adams re
*242, and *1000 worth of stolen
ported that city expenditures have
cars was recovered here.
been under budget allowances for
One car was stolen in Ashland i
the first six months.
and was recovered during that
time while two vehicles stolen
elsewhere were recovered by local '
Telephone Display
|Mj||ce and one car thief appre
Attracts Crowds As
hended. Police also arrested a
Grants Paaa gunman here after
Open House Feature
he had eluded officers In Granta I
Paxn and Medford.
More than 500 Townsend club
Harold S. Alkins, Pacific Tele
Another of the department's un members of southern Oregon art-
sung public helps Included the In expected to picnic in Llthla park phone and Telegraph company
formation service which answered Sunday when the annual gather manager in Ashland, Is playing
1324 questions and 224 citizens and ing of plan backers will assemble host to hundreds of interested
other police officer« were given for an all-day program starting southern Oregon visitors this week
assistance. Forty-three dogs were with games and contests at 10 during an open house observance
of the inauguration of dial tele
picked up by police a job re a. m.
in this area.
ported us disagreeable to patrol
Noon will be the occasion for phones
Most interesting of the varied
men because of damage often suf picnic lunches, covered dish style,
fered to uniforms furnished by the followed by speaking and musical displays is a voice mirror which
investigating officers.
program at 2 p m Martha Spank enables telephone users to talk
The police have maintained a er, national delegate, will be prin into a receiver and then hear their
24-hour auto, fishing and dog li cipal speaker of the afternoon, ac voices in return. Other exhibits
cense service the only such con cording to D. D. Davis of Medford, include a model of Alexander Gra
venience In ail of southern Oregon member of the arrangements com ham Bell's first telephone, teletype
transmitters, cutaway cables, toil
and netted the city about *600 mittee.
directories from aJl prin
from car plate sales and *125 from
Members of about 20 Jackson charts,
dog licenses beside« giving anglers county and surrounding clubs will cipal cities of the world and many
and hunters a license service at ail [ be present at the picnic, to which other fascinating and educational
hours.
all persons interested are invited. displays.
The open house, to which all are
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Food for those not bringing bas invited,
will continue from 1:30
ket lunches will be on sale during
p. m. to 8:30 p. m. today and Sat-
Dodgers Nab First
the noon hour.
urday, Alkins said.
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Half Title Easily
DANCE TONIGHT
EDITORS
’ REPARTEE
Starting at 9:30 o'clock tonight,
As Miners Row 18-6 Friday,
The bacteriologist who say« "a
the first of a series of
dances will be held in the VFW germ can live more than a year
The driving Dodger« of Manager hall here with music by the Mead- on a dollar bill" has gotten Len
Parker He«« blasted their way to ow Mountain Hillbillies, A special Hall to thinking that he'd rather
the first half softball champion- | district meedng of members from be a germ than an insect.—Clark
Wood in Weston Leader. And how
«hip Friday night on the high Grants Pass, Klamath Falls, Med about that rag you're living on,
ford,
Brookings
and
Ashland
VFW
school field when they overwhelm
chum?
ed the Miner Press 18-6 in the will be held here Saturday eve
final game of the first bracket. > ning.
• Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Bundle and
The result put the losers in sec- i
Eskimos know how to keep thin, sons Joe and Bill returned this
ond place.
an explorer says, and neither know week from San Fiancisco where
The game got under way with . nor care how old they are. It's an they have been visiting the expo
promise of being a hard-fought I ice way to be.—Weston Leader.
sition.
battle when the Dodgers scored
twice in the first on an error, a
walk and a fielder's choice and the
Miner Press came back in their
half to push three tallica across
with a combination of two walks,
two errors and a whistling single
By CHARLES B. ROTH
by Rose. The Printers added to
their lead in the second with an
other run when Bud Silver blasted
ADVERTISING’S NO MYSTERY
out a long homer to right-center.
The Dodgers took over the lead in
He continued to advertise in the
OME of us remember well when
the first of the fourth when three
John Slattery started in busi newspaper. His business continued
hits and three walks pushed across
ness. He couldn't have been over to grow. He couldn't know all his
four markers, making the score 25 and he had only a few hundred customers by name now, of course,
6-4. The Miners came back in their
but they felt that they could buy
half with one run, but the winners dollars in capital. But he did have
pushed ahead again in the fifth a wife and two fine boys. He wanted from him with confidence because
he had been recommended to them
with two more. The Pressmen to make them com
by another friend whom they had
scored their final tally in the last fortable. He quit his
always trusted.
of the fifth while the Heaxmen job, went in on his
added five each in the sixth and own.
This other friend who recommend
seventh to complete the rout.
ed John Slattery was the newspaper
At flrst he would
which carried his advertising.
come to us and in
In Friday evening's first en his frank, likable
Whatever you read in the news
counter Talent lost a close one to way ask if we would
paper you naturally feel you can be
the Elk» 12-11 to place the Club
lieve, because you know that a repu
men in a tie for third place and buy from him. We
table newspaper will not accept ad
drop the Talentlte« to sixth posi liked John. It flat
vertising from any but honest and
tered us to have him
tion.
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reliable concerns.
invite us to become
Because this young man starting
his customers. We
Claycombe Gains US began trading with Charles Roth in business made use of that aid he
built his business. As his business
Publicity Job at Fair him.
He treated us so considerately and grew he was able to give his cus
tomers better service and more for
Gordon Claycombe, former pub so honestly; he gave us such good their money.
service;
he
was
so
grateful
for
our
licity director for the Portland
Although few of the persons read
Community Chest and feature patronage, that we enjoyed being
writer on the I*ortland Oregonian, his customers. It made us feel good. ing his advertisements and becom
was appointed assistant to George Others felt the same way. His busi ing his customers realised it, they
were all indebted to the newspaper
Creel, United States commissioner ness grew.
to the Golden Gate International
for its service in bringing to their
Then
he
began
asking
more
people
exposition, according to word re
attention an opportunity of getting
ceived In Ashland, Claycombe'« to trade with him than he could more for their money by publishing
reach
in
person.
He
had
to
run
former home.
advertisements of this enterprising
Claycombe will be in charge of small advertisements in the news young man.
paper,
which
he
wrote
himself
after
the US commission's publicity de
Advertising is serving us in this
partment. Besides directing all store hours.
same way every day, by bringing
newspaper, magazine and radio
As he grew larger he ran larger
publicity Claycombe lias been com advertisements, and where In the information of where we can buy
missioned to write a book on the beginning he had a handful of cus most advantageously, by helping us
United States government. This tomers, now he had several hun to And what we want at the lowest
possible prices.
book will be published shortly un dred.
• Chari«« B. Roth.
der the title "Your America."
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Siriusly Inclined
The pi oblema of the entire dog
kingdom appear to weigh heavily on
Rover’« aaddened brow. Perhaps be
realizes that on Tuesday. July 25.
Sirius, the Dog star, is scheduled,
according to «uperatition. to bring
four or six weeks of hot weather —
the dog dr/» which Hover, and 40.
000,000 other pooch •> dreads.
PLAN BOOSTERS
SET FOR PICNIC
TRUTH about ADVERTISING
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Number 29
AIRPORT RODEO
GROUNDS GAINS
COUNCIL FAVOR
^8 an outgrowth of the July 4
celebration committee's suc
cess with a rodeo feature here re
cently, Councilman Ralph Koozer
presented city dads with a rough
plan for developing the municipal
airport into a permanent rodeo
grounds at the regular council
meeting Tuesday night and the
idea was received with interest
and approval, although no definite
action has yet been proposed.
According to Koozer, the high
school grounds, where the rodeo
was held this year, do not offer
adequate facilities for such events
and other athletic attractions and
a permanent rodeo grounds com
plete with corrals, pens, chutes,
grandstand and race track could
be erected by the city at minimum
cost on the unused northwest corn
er of the city's airport.
"Since cutting of the new high
way past the airport grounds," ex
plained Koozer, "sub-irrigation
has been cut off from the uphill
portion of the airport, and the
ground is useless as a landing
field or for agricultural purposes."
The plan, as developed at a re
cent celebration committee meet
ing, would include a race track
and baseball diamond as well as
rodeo equipment.
The idea is being encouraged as
a means to further embed Ash
land as the recreational center of
southern Oregon and northern
California and is receiving the en
thusiastic support of Chamber of
Commerce officials, business men
and city council members.
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Mine Assessment
Work Must Finish
By September 1st
TV ASHINGTON, D. C., July 20—
” Write it in the book that
President Roosevelt will have the
kind of neutrality bill he is asking
from congress Basis for this pre
diction is the fact that Mr. Roose
velt manages, somehow, to get
what he wants. Once he has an
objective he cannot be prevented
from achieving it The man per
sists until he wins.
Defeated in his supreme court
bill he has since attained part of
his plan through death and resig
nations and has staffed the court
with new deal liberals. Defeated in
his effort for reorganization of
government bureaus, he has won
out and grouped in three new
agencies an assortment of bureaus
which were overlapping. Defeated
in his monetary authority, he has
recaptured control over the dollar.
Defeated in his desire for a neu
trality law which he believes will
restrain dictators from starting
war in August or September, the
best guess is that he will force
congress to come through.
The reason Mr. Roosevelt is
successful in dealing with hostile«
in congress where his predecessor«
failed is that he is a better poli-
tician. If he encounters a reverse,
he does not retreat. Instead he
bides his time until the stage is
set and then goes smashing
through.
Being . president is a man-
killing job and eight years
saps the vitality of any in
cumbent serving that long,
yet Mrs. Sarah Delano Roose
velt, mother of the President,
declare« he is physically fit
for another four years. White
House physician Ross Mc
Intyre (Oregon boy), attests
that Mr. Roosevelt is in the
pink, nevertheless Roosevelt
children have said they hope
their father will not serve a
third term as they are solicit
ous of his health. Then along
come the pessimists and point
to the record: every president
elected in a year ending with
"0” dies in office. Thus 1940
should be a hoodoo year for
whoever is elected.
» e e
They call it "the big bill" the
3.6 billion dollar self-liquidating
loan proposal of Mr. Roosevelt.
There is plenty of opposition to
it. but the President wants it en
acted before adjournment. In it is
suggested $460,000,000 for the
rural electrification program. For
fiscal year 1940 congress appro
priated $40,000,000 for this pur
pose; there are applications for
*60,000.000 more than the appro-
priation. Among the applications
are many Oregon and Washington
communi ties.
Farmers availing themselves of
REA spends approximately *100
for wiring and *200 for appliances
during the first six months he De
ceives electric service. Additional
expenditures come later as the
farmer learns how convenient the
power is. Farm plumbing instal
lation is about *200. A survey
shows that on REA projects 86
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—(Spe
cial to The Miner)—A last minute
effort by congress has extended
the time for making assessment
work on mining claims. For sev
eral years a moratorium has been
granted on assessment work,
amounting to not less than *100
a year, until a moratorium be
came accepted as a habit This
year, however, congress decided to
eliminate the moratorium and took
the position that if a claim holder
wanted to retain his claim he must
do the assessment work.
It was so late when the congress
clamped down that little time re
mained before the July 1 deadline.
This situation was so precarious
for thousands of claims that con
gress rushed through an act ex
tending the time for making the
assessment work until September
1, at noon. That is now the dead
line for performing the work that
should have been taken care of
before noon July 1.
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Quarreling powers remind one of
the boyhood jeer: "One’s afraid
and the other dassent.”—Weston
Leader.
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• Mr. and Mrs J. E. Niles of
Alturas. Calif., have been visiting
here this week with relatives and
friends.
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• Mr. and Mrs. D. Perozzi re
turned Tuesday from a trip to the
northern part of the state.
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SEEN IN A DAZE
Little JUDY BRIGGS describ
ing a shaking up by declaring
"the goat was goin' lickety-spit
when he bumped me!”
HERSCHEL CLAYOOMB,
super-salesman, talking new car
customers into buying a horse.
WALT LANDGRAF accusing
MARGARET HOXIE of always
having at least one office clock
set at quitting time.
FRED TAYLER preparing for
a fishing trip and leaving chaos
and confusion in his wake while
his wife CLAIRE, after a sur
vey of the wreckage, starting
a rehabilitation project.
LES BROILI and AL BLOT
TER cutting fancy patterns in
their truck on loose gravel.
Mt. C. A. HAINES wonder
ing now what’s he done after
getting a siren from a state po
licemen bent on giving him an
emergency case call.
DIANA DAVIS happily los
ing a 10-cent bet.
DOROTHY CHAPPELL rous
ing the police and fire depart
ments with the crook of her fin
ger.