S outhern O regon
The Paper That lias Something To Say—And Says It!
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1939
Volume Vili
In Strong Comedy Role!
L’UROi’E I m mu 1<1 to hr preparing
1J for u lightning war and per
haps that's whirl Mil be The last
one ccrtainaly failed to be enlight
ening
llullroutbi are advertising paM
anger safely, which «hows good
inginc-uity
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Washington (liangriM arc unk
ing for a luw requiring u majority
vote before the United Staten car
enter u war fought on foreign noil
Which might I m * tuntumount to
voting our own land into Imltli*
field
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Growers To Take Part in An
nual Nut TVur Oregon State col
lege news story.* And we nuipect
their first stop will be to n|«*culatt
at Clark Wood in Weston
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The umiy air corps will sp«*nd
>45,000 <>n Medford's landing field
during the coming year. Well.
Medford hun lots of air that ought
to be gtMMl for something
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At this time of yenr. with In-
cendiarista rampant In the tinder
dry forests, residents of the north
west know how Europe must feel
about Hitler
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In the opening game of the
evening Bert Simmons' new pitch
ing find was t<>«> much for th*-
Mnier Press and the green-shirted
lads went down to a 12 t<> 9 d<-
feat. While Bud Jones whiffed only
five batters, most of the blows
were |H’p Ups and the Talent In
field gave him excellent support.
Score by Innings:
>: H E
Miner Press 103 040 1
9 0 7
Talent
210 243 X 12 li 0
A-T’. h to Grants Pass
For Final Ixiop Game
Tile Ashland-Talent baseball
nine will journey to <¡rants Pass
for their final game of the season
with the top flight Merchants on
Sunday. Charlie Skeeters' gang
took a 17 to 0 drubbing from the
Merchants in their previous en
counter at Ashland and the local
lads have sworn revenge on their
trip to the Climate City.
The (¡rants Pass game will start
at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the fair
grounds park.
Harris Ixuids League
Hurlers, List Figures
Kenny Harris, young Dodger
pitcher, is leading the Ashland
softball league in games pitched
and games won. Although both
Jones of Talent and King of the
Pine Box have a perfect record,
they have worked in only one
game this season. The fidlowing is
a list standing of all the pitchers
who have taken part in the current
season:
Name, Team—
Jones, Talent
King, Fine Box
Harris, Dixlgerx
<’. Warren, Dod
Ausland, Rogues
Barksdale, Rog
Tallis, Elks
Rose, Miners
Woodward, 1*11
O'Toole, Miners
Hungate, Talent
Thoretton, Talent
Favero, Elka
R. Combest, Tai
Vail, Roguex
Westfall, Pine B
Perdue, Talent
W
1
1
0
1
6
4
8
ft
6
ft
ft
0
0
0
0
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0
Sc.honnicker, PB 0
I, Pct.
0 1.009
0 1.000
.818
2
.600
2
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.900
ft
.571
.571
6
4
.555
7
.462
.375
ft
8
.272
.900
2
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2
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2
.000
1
1
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1
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A UHLAND'S fifth annual Shakespearean festival, which opened Fri-
day, Aug 4, played to steadily increasing audiences thia week and
directors and officials of the presentations were expecting tonight's
version of "Comedy of Errors and Saturday night's final play, "As
You Like It," to draw capacity crowds to the outdoor Elizabethan
theater in Li thia park.
Started here five years ago by Prof. Angus L. Bowmer of the
Southern Oregon College of Education dramatics staff, the festivals
have grown until actors and playgoers from all points in the United
States are annually attracted here for the productions which are
-«-presented in the authentic manner
of U iiliam Shakespeare's day on
a civic Elizabethan stage which
reproduces appropriate setting and
properties.
ine 1939 repertoire of four
plays, "As You Lake It,” "Comedy
' oi sarors,' "Hamlet" and "Tam
ing of tne Snrew," are being pre
sented in an eight-night senes on
uie outdoor stage. Perfect weather
ror tne productions has held
A CCORD1NG to a trustees’ re throughout the senes, which have
port recently filed with the been declared successful both from
county court, the Ben E. Evans a dramatic and financial stand
loan fund now stands at >15,302 37. point. Budget figures will be sat
This fund is the bulk of the es- isfied, officials have declared.
tate of the late Ben F. Evans who
Curtain on the Fnday and Sat
left the principal in the hands of urday
win be drawn
three trustees with authority to at 8:30 performances
o'clock both nights and
use the income for the purpose of persons planning
to attend either
assisting worthy students in and or both plays are advised
to make
adjacent to Ashland to obtain an reservations early as possible
at
education.
the
ticket
office
at
the
Elizabethan
J. W. McCoy, chairman of the
board of trustees, assisted by F. S. i theater.
Engle and G. H. Wenner, declared
that the fund is available to all
seeking to obtain
education.
Whether in high school, college,
business college or other special
ised lines. The report continued:
During the 10 years this fund
has been administered a total of
283 loans have been made to 145
different individuals. Total loans
made was >33,678.15. Loans paid
to date, >19,507.52. Unpaid loans
outstanding >14,170.63, of which 'THE DODGERS, first half soft
ball champions, and the Elks,
a total of >1775.50 were charged
off as losses. Recoveries of >48.75 second half winners, will clash at
leave net losses >1726.75. Of the 9 o clock tonight at the high school
losses above shown, one in a very field for the city championship
substantial amount was occasion anu possession of the trophy now
ed by the death of the borrower, held by Hilt as last season's win
otherwise repayments have been ners. The victor will represent
very satisfactory. Considering the Ashland in the district playoff in
volume handled and that in prac Grants Pass Aug. 14 and 15, at
tically all cases borrowers are which time Ashland, Medford,
without employment at the time Grants Pass and Klamath Falls
loans are made, the trustees con representatives will battle for the
sider that the losses show a high district crown and right to enter
ratio of integrity on the part of the state tournament. The Elks
these young students. The total and Dodgers have met four times
loan fund now is >15,302.37. The tins season with the Dodgers win
principal or investment fund ag ning two games, one 12 to 0. Park
gregates >36,777.05. Interest rate er Hess, Dodger pilot, has two able
of three per cent per annum is pitchers in Kenny Harris and
Charlie Warren while the BPOE
charged on all loans.
big gun is Bill Tallis.
The Dodgers have taken part in
Counties Will Get
17 games, winning 13. The Lodge
played 16 but were less for
Forest Lands Coin men
tunate, winning but half.
As a preliminary game, the Pine
WASHINGTON, D. C. — (Spe
cial)—Every county in the Pacific Box nine will meet the Miner Press
northwest from which revenues at 8 o'clock. Winner of the cham
are derived by the forest service pionship game will meet Grants
of the department of agriculture Pass at the Climate city diamond
soon will receive a kick-back from at 7:45 Monday evening.
the government. The 20 forests in
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Oregon and Washington contribut
ed most of the >2,785,611 which
came from sale of timber, and of 1 Band Concert Set
the >2676 which resulted from sale
For Park on Sunday
of Christmas trees.
The states within which the for
In deference to the Thursday
ests are situated will receive 35 night Shakespearean play, "Ham
per cent of the receipts, to be let,” Director Ward Croft post
apportioned to the counties; 25 poned his regular Lithia park band
per cent goes to school funds, and concert to 3 o'clock Sunday af
10 per cent into a fund for con ternoon.
struction and maintenance of for
The weekly concerts have at
est roads. Secretary Wallace says
that in some places, county re tracted a large following from
turns from national forest receipts Ashland and surrounding commun
amount to more per acre than as ities and have been a popular
sessed taxes on similar privately Thursday night feature in the
owned lands surrounding the for park. ------------ •------------
ests.
EVANS STUDENT
LOAN FUND NOW
SET AT $15,302
There are 200 bones In the hu
man iMxiy but the one thut gets
the leust use Is the skull.
Tile Elka softball team dug deep
into thrir bag of tricks to down
the Rogues 9 to 0 to win the sec
ond half championship at the high
school field Wednesday night
Barksdale, starting on the nmund
for the Rogues, failed to live up
to his reputation made in the clos-
Ing weeks mid the Izxigemen
knocked him from the box In the
first inning A us land wan called
upon ..nd iMtsd until the fifth
a ent back in. only
when
to be replaced by Eberhart in the
sixth
Tallis, who did a gcnxl Job in the
box for the winners, was given
better nup|M>rt by his teammates
than in moat other games this
season
K H E
Score by innings
Elka
400 203 X
9 0 3
6 0 ft
Rogues
000 321 o
Batteries: Tallis to Newton;
Burksilale, Aualand and Eberhart
to Daugherty.
Festival Crowds Qrow
As Plays Near Close
SCHOOL BOARD
Comedy of Errors’ and
'As You Like It’ to Be HEARS KATBALL
Final 1939 Productions SPONSORS’PLEAS
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Elks Take Second
Half Crown From
Rogues W ednesday
Number 32
I aMEKIJC BE< K WITT of Medford is shown altove uh »he will
J up|M*ur in tonight'a presentation of “Comedy of Errors” at the
civic f.ll/atM-thun theater In IJthla park. Thin evening's |M-rfomuuicr
iiul "\s ton Like It" Saturday night will conciudr the fifth annual
Shake«|>earean festival. Curtain for both |irrformaiicen will be at
8:30 o'clock.
FREE CANNING
PEARS READY
AT CITY SHOP
L'KEE PEAKS for needy Ashland
families again are being pro
vided through the cooperation of
Medfoid packing plants, a transfer
company and city officials, and
may be had for the hiking at the
city wi. rehouse at First and C
streets.
The fruit, undersize and culls,
is sound and of good quality for
home canning, city officials ex
plained yesterday, and will be
available during the (lacking sea
son. Donated by Medford plants,
the fruit is being hauled here Lice
by Whittle Transfer company and
distributed by die city.
Those calling for the fruit are
tiring asked to not "sort over"
the pears but to take them as they
come. Some waste was experienced
last season when finicky persons
climbed onto the pile and sought
only the best fruit, causing con
siderable damage. Those making
the fruit available to needy fam-
Hies here are anxious that as much
good as possible be derived from
the pears.
Marshall Carter And
Cowboy Chick to Top
Monday Wrestle Bill
Marshall Carter, former Uni
versity of Missouri wrestling in
structor, will meet Cowboy Dude
Chick in the top main event at
Medford armory next Monday
night, according to Promoter
Mack Lillard.
Carter was the victim of what
he and the fans thought was a
quick count lust Monday. The Mis
sourian, with falls standing one
each, was beneath Chick on the
mat when Referee Yockley counted
him out. Carter claimed that his
shoulders were not down and that
he could have licked the Cheyenne
cowboy. Carter has been after
Lillard all week to rematch them
and finally was granted the bout.
"Chick is the most over-rated
wrestler in the business and he
has no dangerous hold except his
airplane spin and I know he can't
get me into that," said Carter fol
lowing last Monday's bout.
George (Wildcat) Wilson, form
er all-American footbajl ace, will
meet Sgt. Bob Kennaston of Gold
Hill in the second bout. Wilson is
an expert sonnenhurg artist and
will be remembered as the man
who missed one at the armory a
couple of years ago and broke a
ring post.
Tony Morelli, the smother-hold
artist, will face Toots Estes again
in the opener. Estes outsmarted
the Italian hist week and took the
final fall after being almost beaten
into submission.
ELKS, DODGERS
TO BATTLE FOR
TITLE TONIGHT
WASHINGTON, D. C . Aug. 10—
’’ Of Oregon's ow*ner-operated
farms 49 8 per cent are mort
gaged. Only 12 states have a high
er percentage of mortgaged farms.
Records for the sister state, Cali
fornia, are identical with the per
centages in Oregon, with Wash
ington state having 47.7 per cent
of its owner-operated farms car
rying a plaster. Considering that
these three Pacific coast states
are blessed with abundance of
water, unsurpassed climate, rarely
cursed with crop failure and the
people have one of the highest
cultures in the union, the number
of mortgages is intriguing. For
the entire United States the per
centage of these mortgages is 41.8.
Farm tenancy in Oregon is
21.7 (California the sanie),
w ith Washington 20 per cent.
Farm tenancy is highest in
the west in Idaho, 28.5 per
cent. Heavy tenancy in in the
south where the share-crop-
pers’ plight caused the admin
istration to launch Its Farm
Security
administration
through which loans are made
to tenants to purchase farms.
For the 1939-40 year, FSA has
$38,000,000 to carry on this farm
purchase program. Out of this
sum Oregon is allocated >148,110; I
Washington, >184,290, and Idaho
>185,001. Officials expect to make
18 loans in Oregon, 23 in Wash- |
lngton and 17 in Idaho. More than
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Taylor Williams To
Observe Anniversary
Saturday, Aug. 12. Taylor R
Williams will observe his first an
niversary as Western Auto Supply
company dealer in Ashland. Wil
liams was the former owner of
Taylor's lunch on East Main
street, purchasing the auto supply
business from Jim Starbuck, who
opened the store here.
Mr. and Mrs Williams are using
columns of The Miner this u*eek
to extend personal thanks to their
many friends and customers for
making possible a successful an
niversary.
CAI.I. FOR ROOMS
Persons having rooms available
for renting to college students arc
being asked to register their va- ,
cancies at the Southern Oregon I
College of Education office.
J. A. Ferren
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)
“CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI
SPY" and
"NEWS IS MADE AT NIGHT"
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
“ICE FOLLIES OF 193!)"
(Wednesday anil Thursday)
"FOUR GIRLS IN WHITE"
and "FIXER DUGAN"
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Please Call at The Miner Office
for Your Guest Tickets
GRANGE ASKS WAR VOTE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(Spe
cial)—All members of the Oregon
congressional and Washington del
egation have received a petition
from the Washington state Grange
asking for a law to require a ma
jority vote of all eligible voters in
the United States before the Unit
ed States can enter an armed con
flict on foreign soil.
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TO CALL LAST SHASTA BIDS
WASHINGTON, D. C- (Spe
cial) — John Page, reclamation
commissioner, «ays that the last
secUon to be advertised for the
Shasta dam project, south of the
Oregon line, will be a huge double
deck bridge across Pit river. The
bridge will carry the Southern Pa
cific railroad and highway 99, the
Pacific highway. Bids for this sec
tion will be called for within two
months, according to present
plans.
Vf EMBERS of Ashland's school
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board Tuesday night heard
requests and suggestions of city
sot tball team sponsors and ap
pointed a committee including
School Supt. Theo J. Norby and
Director Frank Davis to meet with
the sponsors Thursday, Aug. 17,
for discussion of plans for the
1940 season.
The night league backers ex
pressed a desire to obtain and give
closer cooperation in conduct of
the grounds and equipment, and
emphasized that their words were
not intended as criticism but as
suggestions for a more successful
season next summer. Managers
and sponsors asked that balls,
bats, bases and grounds be main
tained to an efficient standard
and pointed out that the games
were showing a profit to the school
board. Charging off full salary of
an athletic director for the sum
mer to softball was regarded as
a misleading item, inasmuch as
the director’s duties include coach
ing of junior players as well as
supervision of three nights a week
for softball.
The school board, in charge of
Chairman Etta Schilling, later in
the evening discussed toilet fa
cilities for the athletic field and
accepted the resignation of Miss
Marjorie Scobert, junior and sen
ior high music instructor. Miss
Scobert will teach in her home
town, Eugene. Replacing her will
be Miss Harriett Hill who for the
last two years was vocal music
supervisor of St. James, Minn.
She brings a total of seven years
experience to Ashland schools and
has attended University of Oregon,
Northern Normal and Industrial
school at Aberdeen, S. D., De Paul
university, Chicago, and North
western at Evanston, Til. Her
mother at one time had lived in
Ashland.
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Water Restrictions
Now Effective Here
Ashland water users went on
restricted use Thursday, Aug. 10,
when the city undertook to ob
serve dry season precautions which
would assure adequate water pres
sure. fire protection and domestic
supply. The restrictions are in the
nature of a division of water use
hours rather than a limitation of
quantity, although users are re
frained from wasteful practices.
The city water department has
outlined
complete
instructions
which are included in a display
advertisement on page three of
thia issue and water users are
advised to clip the notice for ref
erence.
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SEEN IN A DAZE
HOWARD WILEY" christen
ing JOHNNY DAUGHERTY'S
store by breaking a bottle over
the front.
FLOYD DICKEY, disappoint
ed fisherman, hooking nothing
in two days but a woman's dress
with nobody home.
BOB STEDMAN happily con
templating a trip to the barber
following the end of the Shakes
pearean festival.
BERTHA HEER fishing for
sardines from the top of a lad
der.
TED PIERSON trying to keep
the cigaret habit while under
going a series of throat paint
ings.
CHARLIE WALTERS mut
tering “Apache, ugh!”
MARGARET SHORT prompt
ing herself with handwriting on
the wall.
I. C. ERWIN and DARBY
O'TOOLE bristling with fight
ing spirit in a vocal sort of way
at the Sunday ball game.