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 — .. — . . 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»luis Jennings of Hollywood visited here with friends for several days this week. ------------ •--------- — It goes without saying that the chap is often a nuisance who says without going. Weston Leader. ------------ •------------ 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" • 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. A —. 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 ------------ •------------ 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. ------------ •------------ ------------ •------------ 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. ------------ •------------ 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." \ ““ 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 S * 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. ------------ •------------ 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 (Continued on page 4) 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. ------------ •------------ Quarreling powers remind one of the boyhood jeer: "One’s afraid and the other dassent.”—Weston Leader. ------------ •------------ • Mr. and Mrs J. E. Niles of Alturas. Calif., have been visiting here this week with relatives and friends. ------------ •------------ • Mr. and Mrs. D. Perozzi re­ turned Tuesday from a trip to the northern part of the state. ------------ •------------ 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.