S outhern O regon M iner
The Paper That Ha« Something To Say—And Says It!
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1939
Volume VIII
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NEXT SUMMER
VIRTUALLY taking the words
out of their mouths, Hchool
TVIEltCHANTS air pleased at Hupt Theo. J. Norby Tuesday
President Roosevelt'» pro­ I night outlined a plan for softball
posed change in the Thanksgiving ! and i elated summer recreational
date while foot bull schedule mak­ activities to members of the Ash­
er* are tearing their hair. Though land Softball association meeting
tile change might give business an with a sj»eclal school board com­
lidded week of Christinas trade, mittee including Norby and Frank
there cun I m - no doubt but that it I >uvls which almost completely an­
would work dreadful hardship by ticipated desirer of the group.
inconveniencing college pigskin
Th< softball sponsors - including
puck era.
Secretary Bill Snider, Harry Mor­
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ns, R I Flaherty, Chairman J
Keeping a new car from getting II Hardy and l-eonard Hall had
all scratched tip ,a like becoming attended the Joint session with a
immune to a disease You huve to view to securing Improvements tn
Inoculate yourself with a wrinkled i i inagement of the summer soft­
fender to make the real of the ball schedule and, after listening
to Norby’s outlined suggestions,
expoar I tinware safe
«ske< that they be crystal'ized
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into a working plan whicn could
A careless sinoket la a pcraon b« com» the basis for next »< (son's
who InmlMiatx communists for activities.
atiirtlng foreat flrea.
In his plan, Norby suggested
that u Joint committee of softball
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The worst peat la the guy who, backets and school board members
every time hr put* Ida beat foot outline standards of play, ground
forward, steps on aomt'body'a pet rules and otbei mutual interests
and agree on some member of the
com.
school svsti m to be selected as
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manager of the grounds and ac­
Nut Iona that avoid war at any tivity. This employe would be di­
coat are learning bitterly that the rectly ies|»<.nslble to Superintend­
price krepa rising.
ent Norby who in turn would rep-
resent the school district's inter­
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Foolish. ailly people are an as­ ests us well an the desires of the
set in any community it'a guy* softball association and players
like them that make dopes like Norby stiesscu his wish to broad­
en use of school athletic facilities
the real of ua look good.
during »Uli.mil season to include
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’,-nniM im.ti action. girls' and Jun­
The f tnmua American hot dog ior soft trail and perhaps Junior
la just 50 years old but the history baseball mat! action, along with
of muatard-on-the-Vrat has not guidance m other activities which
been told.
could ire synchronized with park
i M I ••all' nal du <•< tion
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Figures for the 1939 softball
Judged from newspaper ac­
counts of his hearing, most folks season will given in detailed re­
would agree that Bridges should ports which showed total receipts
be deported and the govern­ of 4537 53 and expenditures of
ment's witnesses along with him. $55« 12. leaving a net deficit of
120 59 About half the softball ex­
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pense was involved in Coach Skeet
The home-grown economist who O’Coaneil'» salary, which totaled
knows Just how the country should $270 Curi of lights for the three
he run generally is the same gt:y months of play was set at slight­
who saves a bucket of water for a ly over $70. while largest remain­
rainy day,
ing item wax umpire pay, $63
Balls and bats cost the school
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Setting Thanksgiving ahead is $62 60 tor the season.
Junior softball coats were set at
certainly akookuin with nt. pi >
vidlng the cranberries have been $114 31, which was borne by the
school district and was not
notified
charged against softball.
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Sponsors learned that O'Connell,
Kouthwestem oil producers. in softball "czar" for last two sum­
order to maintain crude prices, mers. had indicated he would not
have shut down their well* Editor
ivailable for the post next year.
Clark Wood, too, might maintain
Norby will refine his plan and
a revenue from his Weston I-ruder present it to sponsors for consider­
if he'd quit spouting.
ation at a later date, he said. J. H.
H ,.dy, voted chairman of the
group, summarized the meeting as
ng assured close understand­
ing and harmonious cooperation
between school board members
and the softball association which
should result in greater interest
in the sport here next season.
O’Connell to Call
First Grid Practice
Here Next Friday
tVASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug 24
’* State and county and other
local relief ugencies are having
duni|>ed in their laps the Wl’A
workers who have received the
pink slips of dismissal. By next
week the last of 650,000 who have
been on WPA for IM months will
be out. Share of this total for Ore­
gon and Washington will run into
several thousand. Reduction of
WPA rolls affects every county
and city in the northwest and in­
creases the problem of local relief
officers. On the heels of WPA dis­
missals comes a 50 per cent slash,
Sept. I, for the PWA employes and
in a few months PWA workers
will be rare as the dodo.
Congress refused to appro­
priate more funds to continue
PWA, but gave the President
every dollar he asked for
WPA. What congress did, in
effect, was to tell private busi­
ness to resume s|*ending Its
own money and not look to
the government to continue
indefinitely priming the pump.
Prior to the depression, pri­
vate business s|>ent 15 billion
dollars lumually, then with the
slump It husbanded its money
and the government step|>ed
in, spending iui average of
three billion a year. Now pri­
vate savings have reached iui
all-time high and congress
wants business to do its share
of spending, to relieve the gov­
ernment of the hiuid-out | h >I-
Icy. Business spokesmen who
have criticized the adminis­
tration for free-hiuid distribu­
tion of money are politely
told to take over the Job.
With the summer softball sched­
ule a thing of the past, Forrest L.
(Skeet) O'Connell, Ashland high
school grid mentor, is turning his
mind toward the coming football
season.
The former Oregon State bas­
ketball sensation says he will not
call the initial practice until 7
p. m. Friday, Sept. 1, which will
give him but 15 days to round out
a team to put on the local field
Sept. 16 to oppose Lakeview high.
O'Connell believes most of his ma­
terial will still be on summer Jobe
when the eastern Oregon eleven
Journeys over the mountain and
for that reason would not commit
himself on prospects for the grid­
iron debut.
However, O’Connell said yester­
day that he is looking cheerfully
forward to a big 180-pound line
and a fast backfield to send onto
the gridiron.
Twenty prospective footballers,
plus a turnout of last year's Jun­
ior high stars give O'Connell some­
thing to look forward to and to
work with.
Fifteen complete replacements
of uniforms and equipment will
give the pigskinners a break and
make the substitutes and regulars
look alike for a change. The line­
men's helmets will be painted red
and ends and backfield will wear
white headgear.
O’Connell will form his new grid
machine without the services of
Kenny Harris, Charlie Warren,
Walt I»ee, Don Gettllng, Larry
I^eigh, Jack Williams, Joe Jessell,
Bob Farlow and Bud Curtis, all
last year's graduating mainstays.
Ardis Warren is expected to
step in to fill the shoes of brother
Charlie in the backfield. He has a
year's experience there.
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CIRCULATION MANAGER
Kenton Robbins, graduate of
Talent high school and enrollee
at SOCE thia fall, has assumed
duties as circulation manager of
The Miner. He will be in charge of
Perhaps congress assumed the
correct attitude for government
agencies announce the upturn of
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collections and sales.
IJKANM BUTTONS and fancy
uniform» don’t scare Dan
Cup. Al least not when the
officer is willing to stund up
with the nuptial bound couple
after handing them a tickrt.
Monday evening Miss Ellen
Franco and < laude (Huck)
Cox, both of ¿Ashland, drove
to Treks In quest of a marry­
ing parson and decided to pro­
ceed on to Dunsmuir for the
ceremony. Nou th of Yreka
love's sweet rapture was rude­
ly Interrupted by the ncrrmii
of a siron and a gruff
“Where's the fire?” Explain­
ing their Journey, the officer
agreed marriage was a fine
Institution but that tickets is
tickets and wrote one out.
However he did melt to the
point of suggesting that the
couple proceed to Weed where
they could pay the fine and
have the ceremony read by a
Justice of the peace. The traf­
fic cop, after seeing the fine
paid, obligingly stood up with
them as witness during the
marriage ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox will make
their home In Ashland. Mrs.
Cor is a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. F. Franco of this city
and for several years has
taught school In Grants Pass
Her husband Is employed with
the Ashland division of the
Dollar Hus lines.
GULLY-WASHER
BREAKS 51-DAY
DROUTH IN CITY
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A REAL gully-washing downpour
inspired by towering summer
thunderheads broke Ashland's 51-
day drouth Wednesday afternoon
as natives were aroused by loud
thumpings from the sky and bril­
liant flashes of lightning. An esti­
mated quarter-inch of rain fell in
a brief downpour which cleared
smoke-laden air and filled curbs
to overflowing. No damage was
rej>orted from the local rain,
which took the form of a hailstorm
at the Scenic Heights orchard of
Mayor T. 8. Wiiey Farmers, city
folk and creatures welcomed the
brief downpour which cooled ther­
mometers and reminded frogs they
could swim.
Lightning
started
numerous
small fires In the surrounding tim­
ber, igniting one in Ashland's wat­
ershed, but all were reported under
control. The bolts struck a Cool­
idge street light pole, blew muni­
cipal power transformer fusee and
did other minor pranks, none
serious.
Developing thunderheads again
Thursday failed to produce rain
here, although electrical disturb­
ances were generated.
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THOMAS WILL LECTURE
Clark Thomas, Ashland city po­
liceman and graduate of the FBI
national police academy in Wash­
ington. D. C., has been asked to
address the Oregon police officers’
training school in Portland Oct.
16 to 21.
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PINCH CHECK PASSERS
Nora Calavan and Nora Cath­
erine Huffman, transients wanted
here for circulation of bad checks,
were arrested In Portland late last
week. They will be returned to
face circuit court charges.
draws $io V ine here
Wilbur E. Dellenbach. Cedar
Rapids, la., was fined $10 and
costs in city police court Monday
on charges of disorderly conduct.
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• Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dodge
were the obviously pleased parents
of a seven-pound daughter bom
early Monday in Community hos­
pital. Bob cigarred his friends fol­
lowing the event and admitted his
daughter was quite a lady.
• Everett Sandberg, following
summer employment in Lakeview,
visited friends in Ashland over the
week-end. He is remembered here
as an outstanding student at
SOCE two years ago.
J. P. Daugherty
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)
“LUCKY NIGHT”
and “ROBERTA”
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
“»ROADWAY SERENADE"
(Wednesday, Thursday)
“1JCT FREEDOM RING”
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Please Call at The Miner Office
for Your Quest Tickets
>ni, of Oregon Lll.r
Songstress For S. F. Fair
Ixrvely is the word best describing this picture of Ruth Robin, the
songstress coming with Phil Harris and his orchestra to the Golden
Gate International Exposition for two weeks; and enchanting is the
word which best tells of her voice. Harris and Miss Robin open for
free concerts in the Temple Compound twice dally August 29. They
will appear for free dances in .Music Hall for two weeks beginning
the same data.
Hobson Signs Three Rev. Dunham to Leave
AHS Graduate Stars For Baker Pastorate
Howard Hobson, basketball and
Sunday, Sept. 3, the Rev. C. E.
baseball coach at the University Dunham will preach his last ser­
of Oregon, this week contacted mon at the First Baptist church
Kenny Harris. Charlie Warren and here. Following that he will as­
Delbert (Tiny) Jones relative to sume pastorate of the First Bap­
athletic careers at the school. All tist church in Baker. His successor
three youths are said to have
talked favorably to the former. has as yet not been announced.
Rev Dunham has served in Ash­
SOCE mentor regarding his prop­
land for nearly 12 years and will
osition.
Warren and Harris probably will assume his new work in a larger
church. He is a well known and
report for frosh basketball this popular
clergyman here, long hav­
fail. Jones will save his energy for
ing
been
active in religious and
the baseball nine where he will be
eligible for varsity competition in welfare work.
He will be accompanied by Mrs
the spring. Warren's size is ex­
pected to fit Hobson's plan of us­ Dunham and, later, by their
ing smaller men for his hoop crew daughter Ruth. Dr. Clyde E. Dun­
ham, a son, will continue his chir­
next season.
All three are graduates of Ash­ opractic practice here.
land high school and Jones at­
tended Southern Oregon College of
FORFEITS $50 BAIL
Education.
Lynn E. Mills, Medford. Monday
forfeited $50 bail in police court
OREGON PENSION PLAN
when he failed to appear on reck­
GROUP TO HOLD PICNIC less driving charges resulting from
his arrest here by city police Sat­
Nationally known speakers, free urday evening.
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coffee and a basket picnic will
feature the first Ashland rally
WILLIAM J. GLENN
Sunday, Aug. 27, of the Oregon
William J. Glenn, who died at
National Pension plan, according his Valley View home Sunday, was
to Information from plan head­ cremated in Grants Pass Tuesday
quarters in Portland.
following services at the Litwiller
The picnic will be held in the Funeral home. Bom April 15, 1867,
upper grounds of Lithia park with in Montesano, Wash., Mr. Glenn
speaking starting at 2:30 p. m. I and his wife, who survives him,
"Hie public is invited.
came to this vicinity in 1910.
TRUTH about ADVESTiSlKfi
By CHARLES B. ROTH
Number 34
PUBLIC SCHOOL
DOORS TO OPEN
HERE SEPT 5TH
(’HEE'rED COOLLY by student»
was Supt. Theo. J. Norby'»
reminder this week that Ashland'»
four public schools will open for
classes and study Tuesday, Sept.
5. In preparation for the event all
buildings have been undergoing
cleaning, painting and varnishing
operations and will offer students
a sparkling but booksy welcome
following Labor day.
In anticipation of the opening
Principal B. C. Forsythe of Ash­
land high school will start regis­
trations Tuesday, Aug. 29 in his
office. Hours will be from 10 a. m.
to 12 noon and 1 p. m. to 4 p. m.
daily. All students expecting to.
enroll for the 1939-40 school year
are being asked to register early
as possible to facilitate arrange­
ment of courses and classes and to
enable students to select subjects
most desired. Forsythe said this
week that if enough requests are
received, new courses may be
added this year.
Heavier enrollment in the high
school is expected, according to
Forsythe, while a similar increase
probably will occur at junior high,
where Earl Rogers will start his
first term as principal.
Both Washington and Lincoln
grade schools will open Sept. 5 as
well as the upper grade institu­
tions.
Tests for first grade children
applying for admission to schools
in Jackson county outside of Med­
ford and Ashland will be given in
the office of the county school
superintendent in the county court
house starting today and contin­
uing through Wednesday, Aug. 30.
Appointment may be made before
time test is desired by phone or
mall.
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Hop Pickers Needed
At Grants Pass Yards
Hop growers of the Grants Pass
district said this week that there
is an urgent need for more pickers.
They estimated that at least 800
could be employed to the end of
the season, which is expected to
run for the next two weeks or
more.
All growers in the Grants Pass
and Applegate valley districts are
paymg pickers one cent a pound,
with one-quarter cent a pound
bonus for those remaining for the
rest of the season.
FOUR IN CAR WRECK
Four Klamath Falls youngsters,
riding in a car driven by Russell
Lloyd Luce, suffered minor hurts
when the vehicle went out of con­
trol and overturned on the Klam­
ath road near the overhead cross­
ing south of Ashland. The car was
badly damaged.
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PLAN WATERMELON PICNIC
Watermelon will feature the
California-Oregon picnic to be held
at Rogue Dale on the Crater Lake
highway Sunday, Sept. 3, accord­
ing to Owen H. Barnhill, commit­
teeman for the Ashland district.
There will be a program of music
and speaking after dinner, fol­
lowed by the usual good time fea­
tures.
• Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Keener of
Talent welcomed a son born to
them Saturday.
KEEP YOUR SALT CELLARS CLEAN
HE other day I read of an ec­
centric old woman, rich and so­
cially prominent, who went from
house to house judging the occu­
pants by the condition of the salt
cellars on their tables.
If these were clean and well kept
she put her stamp of approval on
the household, but if
they were not, re­
gardless of the gra-
eiousness and charm
of her hostess, she
put them down as
dowdy folks.
Not all of us. fortu­
nately, are quite so
critical, but in one
sense we are. And it
is good that we are.
We are critical of
the merchandise we
buy and of the mer­
chants from whom we buy it. It is
our criticism which keeps the stand­
ards of goods and stores high.
One of the many advantages of
advertising is that it invites us to
be critical of the goods being ad­
vertised.
The advertiser assures us that his
goods are good. He invites us to
compare them with others. We do.
If he relaxes for a minute and lets
his standards drop, we discern it.
We tell others. We cease buying
his product.
He knows that even the finest of
commercial reputations will sufTer
if a mere handful of people get wind
of the fact that the goods are sub­
standard.
They will tell their
friends Soon a whispering cam­
paign is under way. He suffers.
It is only by being careful at every
minute of the day that his goods and
service are up to high standard that
the man who advertises can suc­
ceed.
You expect more of him than you
do of the man who does not adver­
tise. The non-advertising manufac­
turer or merchant can fall down in
delivering quality and service. You
may expect him to. But the man
who advertises has to live up to his
high obligation.
So you see that advertising Is a
great vigilance committee, estab­
lished and maintained in your in­
terest, to see that the men who
aspire to sell you will always be
worthy of your trade.
The merchant who advertises
must treat you better than the mer­
chant who does not. He must treat
you as though you were the most In­
fluential person in town.
As a matter of cold fact you are.
You hold the destiny of his business
in your hands. He knows it. He
shows it. And you benefit by good
service, by courteous treatment, by
good value—and by lower prices.
Be critical of advertised goods
and stores which advertise. They
want you to be critical. Advertis­
ing invites you to compare before
you buy. It stands or falls on value
alone.
O Charles B. Roth.
HERB and LOIS MOORE
playing follow-the-leader into
Lake'o’ the Woods and HERB,
with wristwatch submerged, he­
roically holding high and dry a
36-qent flashlight.
JACK WALKER being a fig-
itive from a waker-upper.
ARDIS WARREN picking a
jitterbug parade ground to catch
up on sleep.
TAYLOR WILLIAMS observ­
ing "Maybe I shouldn't a bought
her, but I'm glad I did."
DON SPENCER pulling a pun
from behind the protecting post
olfice grille.
W. D JACKSON waking from
a doze in his car thinking the
war was on, only to learn it was
a motorist thumping his bumper.
WAYNE BROWN waiting
and waiting for a stogie from
newlyweds GERRY and BOB
HEATH.
BILL HOXIE shouting “Long
live King Cole.”