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S outhern O regon M iner
The Paper That Has Something To Say—And Says It!
Volume Vili
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939
VOICE MIRROR which talks
back In a telephone user's own
voice has been on display In Ash
land and at least one husband was
known to have Inveigled his Wife
Into trying the device and then
smirking "how do YOU like It
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Chicks help save horses from
■leaping sickness. according to a
news account, and the horses have
our sympathy after listening to a
couple of early-rising Ismty roost
ers in the neighborhood doing thr
same for people.
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With the middle <>f summer aJ
ready here ami fall not 1< mj fin
away, the time is upprouching foi
the man who is against capital
punishmrnt to start oiling up his
deer rifle in readiness for shooting
at moving bushes
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Civilization is said to have be
gun with the discovery of fire by
man. Next came the hire.
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foot specialist claims farm
ers are the wulkingest people in
the country but even so they prob
ably have the hnrdeat time get
ting on their feet.
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The Hood River experiment sta
tion has developed an early apple
And, we sup|>osc, It gets the worn»
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Unusual heat wave has been
sweeping southern Oregon and vl-
tailty has been at such a low ebb
residents haven't the energy to
ask one another If it's hot enough
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Newspaper front pages, hi nee
the innovation of daily war scares,
have revised the old bill-board
slogan from "Print It so the man
who runs can read" to "The man
who reads will run.”
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ASHLAND GAINS To Be Polonius! FESTIVAL PLAY
SERIES TO OPEN
PUBLICITY IN
HERE AUGUST 4
TRAVEL GUIDE
TEMPERATURES
SOAR HERE AS
NAIIVtS BROIL
A HHLAND’H drive for greater
Known through well-planned
publicity Is producing icsults am!
the city, surrounding vacation
spots, Shakespearean players and
the annual summer festival in the
Ellzaliethan theater here came in
for valuable picture and descrlpt-
ive attention when the Shell lour-
Ing service issued Its 1930 finger
“p tour travel guide, and again in
the July issue of Shell Pi ogress.
Shell Oil company employee maga
zine circulated throughout the
nation.
in the tiavel guide, hundreds ot
thousands of copies of which arc
being distributed free to motorists
over the west, Ashland dominates
the page adjoining an attractive
picture of Crater Lake. Reads lhe
travel guide description, "Ashland
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. widely known health resort,
with mineral waters of curative
qualities: fine homes: IJthia park
and playground."
The annual
Shakespearean festival and out
door Elizabethan theater occupies
eXteliMVe space. While Ileal by at
tractions in addition to Cruter
latke are listed as "abounding in
giMMl highways, fishing streams,
lakes, (sirks and forests.”
In the Shell Progress magazine
uie new Shell service station at
449 East Muin street, managed by
la?u Rogers and assisted by Bud
Gander and Carl Harris, a picture
page depicts a pair of Shakcsiiea-
lean actors in costume (Delmar
Sole in and Quern Elizabeth Lillian
Davis) being served gasoline by
Rogers, also In full Shakrs|>earean
regalia. Rogers, Gander and Har
ris also are shown In a general
view of the new station and de
scriptive matter with the pictures
describes lhe festival association,
the Ashland Elizabethan theater
and gives the Aug. 4-13 dates of
the annual play series.
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W’EATHEK was Ashland's main
topic of dislike thia week as
thermometers sputtered, humidity
bulbs <ine<i up and citizens con
cocted favorite cooler-offers or
truanted off to the hills and lake
resorts. Wednesday and Thursday
of this week, officially speaking,
touched 100 degrees while perspir
ing residents ran unofficial esti
mates up another 20 or 30 points.
Heal was so bothersome here
this week that political discus
sions, arguments for the Townsend
plan and family wrangles were
suspended pending relief from the
weather.
While residents mopped their
brows wise members of the shady-
side athletic club gathered in the
breezy doorway of the city fire
hall, only known location in the
municipality with an arctic expos
ure. Overflow refugees suffered in
the park and at soda fountains
and fire guards doubled their vig
ilance as surrounding forests
crackled under a blistering heat
and low humidity which dropped
to 14 Wednesday and climbed back
up to 35 Thursday noon. As eve
ning approached towering thun
derheads were forming off to the
south and east and Humidity Ob
server Robert Dodge predicted
that the present heat wave would
be broken— if at all—by an inva
sion of one of the lightning-mak
ers.
According to Dodge, whose
moisture-noting
duties
extend
through the fire season, below 30
humidity doubles danger to for
ests while upwards of 40 or 50 per
cent moisture content in the air
greatly lessens combustible incli
nations of timberlands. (Relative
humidity indicates the percentage
of moisture contained in the air,
100 being saturation point or all
the moisture air will absorb).
The present tepid weather got
under way last week-end when
Weather Observer Louis Dodge
noted 96 degrees Friday, and 98
on Saturday. Sunday the red col-
- umn climbed to 96, then fluttered
. at 93 Monday and went up to 97
Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday’s
high point was 101 degrees and
Thursday’s top was 100 degrees,
which seemed to be hot enough for
everybody. A steady barometer in
dicated a continuation of present
weather conditions last night.
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Four Outstanding
Bouts Will Feature
Monday Ladies’ Eve
Motilaría motorist bettered
airline schedule time between Ok-
Inhotiui and his home state by five
Ladle«* night and four out4tand-
hours and he should be made to lng wrestling bouts will feature
spend the time saved reading a the Medford armory's weekly mat
manual on highu'ay safety.
card Monday night. Promoter
Mack Lillard has matched Cow
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Clark Wood maintains that he is boy Dude Chick, former junior
Weston's leading editor. With that heavyweight champion of the
Oregon hamlet lioasting but a fill world, with the Polish roughneck
ing station, a bar and Clark's so- Joe Smollnski for the top main
i newspaper, h<- may is- right event. Smolinskl will be returning
for once. At least, he's got more to the armory after several
lead than anybody else north of months absence.
l 'endbtoll.
Sgt. Bob Kennaston, another
former junior heavyweight cham
pion, will be on hand to do battle
against Otis Cling man. the classy
performer from Amarillo, Tex., in
the semi-windup position.
Next on hand, Toots Estes, the
good looking favorite from Elk
W M Van Vlcet and R. E Van Cite, Okla, and Bulldog Jackson
Vleet, California stockmen, and vicious Portland hammerlock ar
tist, will go to the post. Estes
Vlggo lawmen, butcher ami
cutter, tins week took aw the doe« not wrestle along the
East Side and Plaza meat mar "slaughter-house” angles of Jack-
kets, the shops’ slaughter house on son but is considered clever
Bear creek and other properties enough to give the Portlander a
Ol the estate of the late Christian tough going dVer.
Petersen, according to Administra
Bobby Wagner and Tony Mor
tor J. H. fl.it io t
elli will furnish the fireworks in
The three new men, experienced tile opening go. Morelli is not a
in handling stock and marketing, newcomer to Medford, having
will make their homes here and worked there about a year ago
will conduct the business along when he met with considerable
the line« of the late owner. They success.
are from Clovis, Calif., near Fres-
The first three matches will be
no, and also took over the Peter- for six 10-mlnute rounds or the
sen estate's 45-acrc ranch on Ne- best two out of three falls while
vada street and a Third street the Chick-Smolinski affair will be
hi>use.
for one hour straight time or the
Mrs. Petersen and daughters first man with two tumbles to
Mary and Verna and son Jack will his credit.
continue to make their home in
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Ashland.
1200 SEE HACKSTAGE
About 1200 persons viewed the
FARMSTEAD HOMES
inner working of a dial telephone
WASHINGTON, I'. C.
(Spo exchange
last week-end as the
dal) Farm Security administra
tion which is building "farmstead'' local office of the Pacific Tele
homes, announces that 29 such phone and Telegraph company
homes in Oregon cost a total of conducted an open house which
$48,680 The maximum cost was featured many interesting exhibits
Most
$1779, the minimum $1626.
In relating to the industry.
Washington state 44 homes have popular of all displays was a voice
been built for $81,124, the most mirror which recorded speakers*
expensive being $2199 and the voices for a *:play-back" through
receivers.
cheapest $1504.
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C alifornia Men Take
Over East Side And
Plaza Meat Markets
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NEE METEORITE HERE
The northwest's third meteorite
in three weeks was seen Tuesday
evening at The Dalles, then at
Are Invited to Be Guests of the
Bend, and in Ashland, where it
Southern Oregon Miner took on a brilliant blue ball of
light, and residents of Hilt and
To See Their Choice of
Yreka also reported seeing the
the Following
falling body. From Ashland it
Varsity Theater
appeared to be exhausting itself
near the summit of the Siskiyou
Programs:
mountains just south of town and
(Friday and Saturday)
generally followed the air lane
MADE FOR BACH OTHER”
through this section.
FRONTIER I’ONV EXPRESS'
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(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
FLAMES
BURN GARAGE
“HUCKLEBERRY FINN”
A garage and shed belonging to
(Wednesday and Thursday)
George Icenhower oil Allison
•INVITATION TO
street were destroyed by flames
H appiness ” plus
Tuesday forenoon and a late mo
“IT COULD HAPPEN TO
del sedan in the garage was badly
YOU"
damaged. The buildings were In
sured, but the car was not pro
Please Call at The Miner Office
tected. Total damage was estimat
for Your Ouest Tickets
J ed at $500 by firemen.
P. P. Whitmore
and Companion
Number 30
WILLIAM COTTRELL, «Mist-
ant director of the Oregon
Shak<*s|M-arcan festival, is pic
tured above as Polonius In Hain-
Irt. This piny Mill I m - pri-M-nted
In the outdoor Ell/ats-than thea
ter Aug. 5 and 10.
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at 8:30 p. m the curtain Mill
go up on the fifth annual Oregon
Shakespearean festival. The first
play will be ”As You Like It,”
which will be an initial shoMdng
by the Oregon actors.
Today the streets erf Ashland
are being decorated in preparation
for the festival. A huge banner
will be strung across Main street
pointing to the festival office. Al
ready the first arrivals for the
festival have reached Ashland
Mr. and Mrs. J. W Wright
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of
Carmel, Calif., visited the theater
Thursday. The Wrights purchased
the first sponsoring membership
ticket.
Festival officials stated that
those purchasing sponsoring mem
berships should make their choice
of plays immediately and obtain
their reserved Mate from the box
office. The office is open every
afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock in
the lobby of the Lithla hotel.
The list of plays which Director
Angus Bowmer will present, and
dates, are as follows:
”As You Like It,” Aug. 4, 8
and 12; "Taming of the Shrew,"
Aug 9; "Comedy of Errors,” Aug.
7 and 11; "Hamlet,’’ Aug. 5 and
10
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WASHINGTON. D C„ July 27-
Under the so-called Hatch bill,
passed by congress, all of the sev
eral hundred postmasters of Ore
gon are forbidden to be active in
politics "Die prohibition applies to
all federal appointive offices, but
there are more postmasters thkn
any other class.
Just to keep the record straight,
the action of congress Is the cul
mination of efforts started by U>e
late Frederick Steiwer, republican
senator for Oregon. It was Stei-
wer who introduced the original
bill to divorce politics from public
office, to forbid federal office hold
ers from attending conventions to
nominate senators, representa
tives. president or vice president.
The fact that the federal political
machine made the second nomina
tions of Taft and Hoover posslhle
was admitted by Steiwer and he
proposed putting a stop to such
practices, whether the machine
was controlled by republicans or
democrats.
For several years the Oregon
senator fought to _ get his bill out
of committee and on the floor. He
made no progress until New Mex
ico’s Hatch, democrat, joined him.
With the passing of Steiwer,
Hatch carried on and after a bit
ter battle in M'hich 100 per cent
new dealers were defeated by a
combination of republicans and
conservative democrats, congress
enacted one of the most sweeping
reforms that has ever been under
taken in national politics. Incident
ally. Oregon’s delegation with the
exception of Hence supported the
reform bill and all six house mem-
tiers of Washington state opposed
It.
Interpretation given the meas
ure is that it blocks control of the
democratic convention . next year
by Mr. Roosevelt and strengthens
the position of Cactus Jack Gar
ner.
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Those thousands or women who
work in packing plants during the
season, the men and women who
pick apples and pack them, the
workers in the dairy industry, the
employes in small sawmills, all
those who constitute a formidable
army in the Pacific northwest are
subject of a controversy which has
beeen raging between the White
House and congress for months.
National Grange and others
want them exempt from the
Mage-hour law, hut Mr. Roose
velt protests, declaring that
protection of this lau- is need
ed by the louest paid class of
labor In the nation. Applica
tion of the Mage-hour I mm ', as
interpreted by administrator
Elmer Andrew«, Mould cause
many canneries and small
hum mills to shut down, de
priving fruit producers of n
market mid depriving mill
workers of employment, ne
cording to argumenta for ex-
emptlon.
Negotiations for a compromise
are being held this week, but
there Is little prospect of legisla
tion being enacted before the ses
sion closes.
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Republicans and democrats alike
from the western states are united
on one phase of the President’s
lending program. This is earmark
ing 90 million dollars for reclama
tion projects now under construc
tion or which have been author-
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Former Iowans Will
Picnic in Riverside
Park at (’limate City
Former Iowa residents and their
families will hold their 1939 picnic
for this section at Riverside park,
Grants Pass, Sunday, August 6, it
is announced by R E. Blanken-
burg of Grants Pass, president of
the Iowa society.
A pot-luck dinner at noon will
be followed by a short program
arranged by R. J. Wright of
Grants Pass, after which visitors
from other towns will entertain
with music, readings and talks.
Last year’s picnic was held at
Jackson Hot springs, where more
than 150 former Iowans went to
enjoy the reunion.
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TO BAN SHRUB DIGGING
WASHINGTON, D. C. — (Spe
cial) Tourists who dig up shrubs
from government-owned land are
headed for trouble under a bill
which has passed the senate and is
now in the house. The bill places
the shrub-stealers in the same
class with "any person, firm or
corporation” who without lawful
authority shall damage, sever or
remove any timber, tree, shrub
or other forest product upon any
government-owned lands, includ
ing ceded Indian lands, and lands
within the O&C grant or the Coos
Bay Wagon road grant. The act
does not prevent a miner or farm
er of clearing his land.
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CHANGE BOARD MEETINGS
Tlie Bellview school board met
in routine business session at the
Bellview school house Tuesday
evening, according to Member L.
D. Meservey.
In future meet
ings will be held on the third
Thursday evening of every month.
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“Portrait of Arthur Atherley,**
famous IMfh Century English mas>
terpiece by Sir Thomas Laurence,
on exhibit in the Fine Arts Palace
at the Golden Gate International
Exposition. On loan from movie
actress Marion Davies, the paint
ing will remain on Treasure Island
until the end of the Fair.
NEW STORE TO
OPEN AUGUST 12
Ashland's newest business ven
ture, the Metz-Richards five, 10
and 25-cent store, will open on or
about Aug. 12, according to own
ers Henry Metz and Floyd Rich
ards, who with their families have
moved here from California to
push remodeling and other prep
arations for the openirtg. The new
store will occupy the entire ground
floor of the Bergner building at
70 East Main street.
Metz comes to Ashland from
Fresno while Richards is from Vi
salia, both men having had ex
tensive business experience with
J. J. Newberry company stores.
Tneir reason for selecting Ashland
for their location was given as the
result of having "taken a shine”
to southern Oregon and yesterday
Metz declared “We have been
pleased with the reception people
and business men of Ashland have
accorded us, we like the folks here,
the community—and the weather,
too.”
The new store is in the midst of
remodeling work, redecoration and
counter and fixture installation,
following which a large stock will
be arranged. Counter space in
cludes 641 front feet and the en
tire store will be indirectly lighted.
Complete infants’ wear and ladies'
ready-to-wear departments are to
be included in the establishment.
TRUTH about ADVERTISING
Miner Press Prints
8-Page Dorris Issue
Work on this week’s issue of
The Miner was condensed to a
minimum when the commercial
printing department of the news
paper “went to bat” for the Butte
Valley Star, at Dorris, Calif.,
which issued an eight-page special
edition.
The eight-page edition was com
posed and printed in The Miner
shop on two days notice and was
delivered Thursday noon, barely in
time for the staff to produce its
own issue for the week. The Dor
ris order is one of many out-of-
town jobs being handled by the
Miner Press since installation of
new printing equipment.
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EXTINGUISH SMALL FIRES
City fire equipment was called
to Coggins mill on East Main
street twice Sunday to extinguish
small grass and sawdust fires
which resulted in no damage.
By CHARLES B. ROTH
OF WHAT CAN A
a
gentle and a good man, asked,
in dedicating one of his books to
friend, a question which has but one
answer. He asked: ’’Of what can a
man be proud if not of his friends?”
Friendship is the finest thing in
human experience, but it is not con
fined to the narrow
limits of one person
to another person.
There are friend
ships of different
kinds. For example,
there are the friend
ships of business,
and they are surely
the finest part of
business. Just as a
man values his per
sonal friends above
almost everything Charles Roth
else in life, so does
a business value its business friend
ships.
The way a business wins friends
is the same way that an individual
wins them: by deserving them.
First the business must give its
friends value for their money. Sec
ond it must keep its word, Third
it must not neglect them, else they
will leave.
“Friendship," said wise and can-
aid old Doctor Samuel Johnson,
“n ust be kept in repair.”
Merchants and manufacturers, re
alizing this, keep their friendships
obert louis stevenson ,
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MAN BE PROUD?
in repair by going out of the way to
give value and service and also by
a proclaiming their regard for their
friends on frequent occasions.
The form of these proclamations
is advertising, which appears in the
newspaper and tells of the values
being offered, of the service avail
able and of reasons why you can
become and remain their customers
to your profit and satisfaction.
Business men who advertise real
ize that friendship is a pleasure—
and that it is also a responsibility.
Whenever a business man adver
tises it is a sign that he is seeking
the friendship of persons and that
he is willing to assume the respon
sibility of being a good friend.
His advertising is a warranty that
he will do his best to be worthy
of his friend’s confidence by provid
ing the best and the most economi
cal goods. You can’t keep friends
if you cheat or overcharge.
His advertising is a proof that he
values their friendship and intends
to be worthy of it. You can’t keep
friends unless you are willing to
live up to your highest Ideals, not
only for the present, but also for
the future.
The advertising in the newspaper
is much more than so many com
mercial announcements. It is an
overture toward friendship by a
man or a product which means to
be worthy of your friendship.
® Charles B. Roth.
P. R. HARDY denying that
he spent Wednesday in bed af
ter holding down the hot comer
for the sponsors' softball game.
CLARENCE SHAVER throw
ing the fire into the frying pan
when he pressed the get-hot
button on the Varsity cooling
system.
DON TRAVIS pressing his
palms together when illustrat
ing the length of his fish.
JEAN EBERHART jabbing
cigars into mouths of friends
since arrival of a red-headed
son.
BERT MILLER acommodat-
ing HOWARD MAYBERRY
Softball fans voting EBE
DUNN and his six-foot shotgun
as this country's logical answer
to Hitler.
GEORGE GREEN, back on a
vitamin diet, writing about
oomph of screen starts.
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LOIS and HERB MOORE
rullfunnlng frillfends cralfazy
willfith dullfubble talfalk.