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S outhern O regon M iner The Paper That Has Something To Say—And Says It! ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939 Volume VIII FIGURES SHOW ATTENDANCE UP AT ALL SCHOOLS JEAN'S Impatience to kill is being demonstrated In Oregon an well an Europe. With hunting »ca non KI «lay» off, already one per son han hern »hot for a deer. 111 Apparently fighting experience means little to Uncle Ham's army A recent order han forbade mar ried men from enlisting, and a number of local swains, after read ing of the butchery across the ocean, have ubout decided to null their niurrlagc licenses on the front door und hang diapers in the windows for curtains 111 Which reminds Us that flat feel muy keep you out of the army, but not flat heads. Hear that bugle, Editoi Clark Wood? 1 1 1 Although courts arc supjeised to dispense nothing but Justice they still appear to consider the jMiAscsslon of wealth as an exten uating circumstance. 111 Hitler is becoming so haughty he'll direct his armies from the front, apparently believing he can't be touched with a Pole. 111 Armthar frightful part of Uic war is the sudden outcropping of news commentators who snout in harodipped, buck-toothed excite ment from every loud-speaker In town. 111 Wirephoto pictures may easily be Identified because of their rapid distribution of great areas of in distinguishable smudge News pic tures are one feature that well might better be late or never 111 Price of sugar has been sky rocketing locally this week in«ll- catlng that, despite American neutrality, we're headed for a sweet mess. 111 Nearly any dentist can tell you that collecting an old bill Is like pulling teeth, only harder. 111 The growth of individual de pendence on public benevolence seems to have started about the time free paper mutches took the place of the wooden kind |>eople used to buy. 1 1 1 This country will be well advised to determine, before entering war. whether wc have room for another veterans' organization and whether present veterans would be willing to pungle up for pensions for the new. 111 As war progresses everything goes up but the price of human life. GRID COACHES TAKING BOWS Just how the southern Oregon football conference will pan out will not be determined until con clusion of the season but. accord ing to moot coaches, each has state championship material ready and to date not one of them has experienced as much as a warm up game. Coach Snowy Gustafson of the Klamath Rails Pelicans thinks the loop is in the bag for his team and already has Issued publicity to the effect that he will have his gang on the field when the state title is decided. Medford, as usual, has all but donned the mythical state crown for the 1939 season. Bill Bower man, Tiger mentor, has been drill ing his squad at LakO o' the Woods for IO days and has start ed scrimmage but so far has not announced a plan of attack. Loren Tuttle of the Grants l ima Cavemen isn't saying much about his 1939 edition but it is generally conceded that they will be fairly strong and capable of coining through at crucial moments. Coach Skeet O'Connell's Ash land high school Grizzlies prob ably will be the dark horses of the conference since there has been no advance dope. From the i looks of things now, O'Connell will have about 27 men to choose from and only a few of them who know much about th«' game ’Hie (In.-, zlies’ first conference engagement comes with Grants Pass there Sept 29 • ItAlN FAI.LN HERE A half-inch downpour struck Ashland Monday afternoon, soak ing lawns and filling gutters to overflowing. Although no rain fell in Talent or Medford, it was gen eral in the mountains adjacent to Ashland and at Lake o' the Woods. AT Number 36 Folies Stars Christen Princess at S. F. Fair 1 ATTENliANCK figurus released by School Supt. Theo J. Norby i'nurmiuy revealed that an all- time high lias been reached at Ashland high school, with 302 »tudcnts enrolled. Junior high at tendance also was at recoril total with 290 students, while Uncoin grade school attracted 244 chil I, JT li «'ii and Washington grade school tuAHH1NGTON, D. C , Hept 7 215. ’’ Whi-n and if the United State« The attendance trend, said Nor 1 m involved in war (and it can hap by, lias been mounting in Junior pen despite administration effort!) und senior high sch<x>is in line an order is all prepared, awaiting with the general trend over the the President’s signature, which nation while attendance ut grade will give the government Complete schools is gradually shrinking, due control over labor. Such new-won to the lower mitional birth rate. legislation ax wages and hours, Upper grade schools can be ex collective bargaining, authority of pected to reach their peak in the the Nutional Labor Relations next two or three years, following Ixiard will ire tossed out the win which a nationwide decrease will dow by the war labor administra be the consequence of the declin tion if these statutes and regula ing birthrate. tions interfere with effectiveness Total attendance in all four pub (not necessarily efficiency). ljxtx*r lic schools was set at 1057 yes will be regimented as thoroughly terday, a record for tire system, as it is in totalitarian states .••orc registrations are expected headed by Hitler and Stalin Big as summertime Jobs are concluded shots in the labor movement and business agents will have nothing Mari) Teachers Study, Travel tO say of the city's 43 faculty mem Employment of women and bers, rejairted Norby, 24 spent at children under Hi will I m * com ><-ast pull ut their summer vaca pelled by the labor adminis tions studying al various colleges tration If the contest Is of rd teen ot those studying also long duration and iiuuqsiwer traveled during their vacations, Is required for the field, and while an additional 12 enjoyed th«- protective laws now on .summer trips. Those attending the statute books will l>e ig Joann Gilby (left) holds a Juicy bottle of clirislening milk while Treasure Island Prince«« takes her school included Ruth Anderson, nored. I j U mit serving at home firx «wig for the camera, and Pamela de Vonie (left) tie« on a rattle and offer« the calf a pair of «./SC. Hollis D. Beasley, U of W; will be under as rigid disci bool lew. The girl« are »t*m of the New Folic« Berge re at the Golden Gate International Exposition, C meliu Hulst, U of W; Forrest pline us labor in the front and the calf, a blooded Jersey, wa» born to one ot the «tar cow« on exhibit in the California Dairyland U Connell, OSC, two-week coach's lines. building. The girl«, on Treasure Inland direct from I’srin. had never wen a <alf before — and were school; B C Forsythe, U of O. There are other measures ready th-e thrilled! John Koehler, U of O, Al Simpson, for the signature of the President U of O. Martha Addy, SUE, Greel An agency for price control, for ey, Colo.; Wilma Nutter, 8OUE selective service, for war trade, Those attending school and also control of finance and. of course, traveling Included Elliott Mac- an administration for food produc- j Crackcn, Columbia university, Uon and control. If the United San Francisco and New York States is dragged into a major fairs; Margaret Macy, U of C, war again, as it was in 1917,I Eddie Simmons of Medford suc Coach Al Simpson discerned an Golden Gate exposition, Earl Rog things will be different. This all is unbright outlook for his 1939 jun ers, U of O, Golden Gate exposi part of the industrial mobilization cessfully defended his southern ior high football team after first tion; MUdnd Million, SOCK, <;<«ld- plan which can swing into action i Oregon-northern California golf few practice sessions this week. < n Gate exposition; Maxine Con when the President pushes a but-1 championship Monday when he de feated Leland Clark, also of Med ASPOKESMAN for city band Simpson will have no lettermen over, U of O, Golden Gate expo ton. members, Henry Enders Tues with which to build a team and sition, Eleanor Coombe, U of W, Social Security board already ford, in a match ending on the Golden Gate enpMiUon ami \ n has notified the higher-ups that 40th hole at the Rogue River Golf day night described a tattered has but few boys who have had tribe oi tooters badly in need of gnd experience. Several heavy • '«1.1 I’. C . H.o rh t HUI. U of (>. there now are 30 million people course in Medford. Simmons was five-u ------- --------- -----up at lunch funds for new uniforms and elicit lads are turning out and he ex (•olden Gate exposition, C. Edna working in industries which will Kennedy, ScXJE, Golden Gate ex be needed in war, and each indi time but Clark evened it at the ed expressions of sympathy from pects his squad to average between position, I-os Angele» and Santa vidual of the 30 millions is repre 36th hole. They halved the next Ashland council members during 125 and 130 pounds, Simpson said. Barbara, Bertha Stephens, U of sented by a card giving his or her three holes and Simmons won the their regular semi-monthly session. So far no schedule has been ar Result of the clothing conversation ranged for the green and inexper (), Golden Gale exposition, Alice life history. These SSB cards are 40th Hubert Bentley of Ashland took was that City Attorney Frank ienced eleven. French Willits, SOCK, motor trip supposed to be confidential, and Those who have reported for to Grand Rapids, Mich., via San are not even G-men have been the first flight when he defeated Van Dyke received instructions to Francisco and Yellowstone; Doris permitted to examine them—but I Dick Sleeter, Medford. 4 and 3. study some method of providing practice sessions are Adams, Deck Bentley's defeat in the champion iumis for bandsmens backs and er, Haines, King, McElfresh, Grif Hitchcock, U ot W, Gohlen Gate war is different. ship flight came as a surprise the meeting left promise that the fith, P. Wordsworth, Childers, exposition, Edna Goheen, U of W, i • f when Denny Hull of Marshfield popular musical organization may Caton, Surber, Barker, Petersen, Golden Gate ex|x>siUon, New York Fann Security administra downed him Earl Leever. also of appear next season in uniforms of Ross. Ferguson, Athenas, Clawson, world's fair, tour of 31 states and tion has g 10.000.000 to lend Ashland, won over C. Schroeder, distinguishable pattern. Whited, Morris, Moseley, Smith, Canadian provinces; Eunice Hager, out this year (ending June 30, Medford, one up to take the sixth U <>f <>, <;<>iden Gate exposition; In the long session councilmen Bartelt, Landing, E. Wordsworth, 1910), to tenant«, farm labor flight. DeMers, Delsman, also heard a detailed explanation Samuelson, Edith Bork, taught at SOCE, Gold er» and »hare-cro|»|>cr» to en Among the Ashlanders who were of the city audit by Alfred W. Newton. Arant, Croft, Doris, en Gate exposition. able them to buy farm» of eliminated in the tournament were Mundt of Grants Pass, who made Brownlee, Hoffman, Elam and Faculty members who traveled their own. It 1» ex|MM'ted about Jean Eberhart, Frank Van Dyke, a number of suggestions for great Brady. during the summer included Mar 7000 loans will lie made—they I. C. Erwin. Dorn Provost and Bill er efticiency and economy of ef Simpson, in his first year as garet Page, Golden Gate exposi (Continued on Page 2) Allen. tion; Frances White. Golden Gate fort on the part of city depart junior high coach, is a graduate of ----------- •------------ Eureka, Calif., high school where ment heads and employes. exposition, two weeks travel In DRAWS FISHING FINE Oregon; Dorothy Witcher, Oregon NO DRIVING PERMIT Included among his proposals he played on various athletic George L. Metz. Klamath Falla, home economics conference at Edward C. Blackwell, 20-year- was a suggestion that W. E. Bar teams. He attended SOCE where Rhtxltxlendron inn, traveled in Yel paid $25 fine and $4 50 costs in old Ashland youth, this week paid telt be broken-in at the city re he was an outstanding football lowstone park. Sue Edwardes. San Justice of the Peace M. T. Bums’ a fine of $2 50 and $4.50 costs in corder's office for relief duty in player and was a mainstay on the Francisco and New York fairs; court Wednesday as the result of Justice of the Peace M. T. Bums' case of sickness, absence or vaca Ashland baseball team. He re Ethel Reid, NEA convention in an angling expedition to Fish lake court for operating a motor ve tion. Mundt also suggested that ceived his physical training degree San Francisco, Canadian Rockies, after the season there was closed hicle without a driver's permit. the gasoline tank in the city fire at the University of Oregon. He New York City, Washington, D. C., hall be removed to the city ware also was widely known as an ama teur boxer. house. Virginia and Los Angeles; Ruth Woods. Golden Gate exposition. ------------ •------------ Monthly finance reports will be ELKS RESUME MEETINGS New York fair, Canada. Curacao, handled by the city recorder's of Ashland Elks reopened weekly Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and fice, according to the outline, and Mexico; Lillian Nicholson, Oregon operations reports for the city Wednesday night meetings this By CHARLES B. ROTH beaches and Payette lakes. Ida.; street, water and light depart week following completion of a l^aVada Reed, Golden Gate expo ments in gTeater detail would be summer schedule limiting sessions to one a month. sition and California and Oregon; made available to the council. WHEN SHOULD A MAN ADVERTISE? Ethel Stockard, trip to Texas and The city also instructed Supt. Carlsbad Cavern; Clara Verhas- USINESS men often talk about are poor, because if you don’t ad Elmer Biegel to prepare bid re selt, dramatic counselor at sum the problem of when they should vertise then your public won’t know quests for water line replacements mer camp, Nevada, Arizona, Utah. to enable purchase of pipe before advertise most. Should it be when what you have to sell." California; Eugenia Carson, at war in Europe affects prices here. The public responds immediately ----------- •------------ tended NEA convention and fair business is good and sales come in San Francisco; Bertha L. Den easily or when business is slow and to the man with courage enough to invest his money in advertising even ton, Golden Gate exposition. Eu sales are hard? gene. Those who believe in advertising when the condition of the market is Other members of the school most intensively when everybody not so good as he would like to see system spent their summers in the has money, argue logically enough it. The public responds always to Ashland claimants received $638 REPORTER following cities: Vera Amy Nor that it is wise, as Shakespeare him courage. of the $237,944 distributed to elig ton. Portland; Harris Rude. Ash In 1921, when America had a short ible jobless workers by the state land; Charles Weaver, Ashland; self pointed out sev business depression, A. W Erick unemployment compensation com fx»ts Hogan, Reedsport; Frances eral centuries ago, son. now dead, made the directors of mission during August. Becker, Spencer. Ta.; E S Cor- “to lake the tide a company in which he was inter The August total was six per thell, Ashland, and Ward V. Croft, when it serves." Ad cent under that for July but boost ested, agree to spend $150,000 a vertising then will Ashland. month for advertising during the ed the cumulative total since ad- prove of most value, ministration of the act began to next 12 months. some men believe. $9,141,778. Business fell off. The directors ORA DUFFIELD plum per Those, on the other The Medford office covering wanted to renege, Mr. Erickson Jackson and Companion hand, who believe and Josephine counties turbed when a sack of fruit ex wouldn't let them, He made them accounted for $4559 of the state ploded over the highway, while a business should Are Invited to Be Guests of the spend their monthly advertising al- total. DAVE and VI WHITTLE gig money for tell gled from a discreet distance. Southern Oregon Miner spend lowance. He had faith. ------------•------------ ing its story most DR. G. B. HULL deciding a To See Their Choice of When prosperity returned, as it aggressively when new car would just about fill a the Following always does, that company, because times are slow, say Charles Roth cavity in his transportation. of courageous leadership, skyrocket that advertising is a Varsity Theater AL JORDAN being unable to ed to the top. a position it still business-building force and that it Motion pictures in color will be produce any lamb chops for an Programs: holds. shown during the next meeting of absent-minded customer. Is, therefore, needed most when (Friday and .Saturday 1 What had happened was that its the Glad-to-Meet-You club Sept. MARIAN VAN NATTA de business needs building. "EUROPE UNDER THE public, you consumers, read those 14 in the Talent city hall when ciding he won't enlist but will Whenever we have a temporary SWORD" lull in business we see the specta advertisements and subconsciously Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Short of Ash stay at home to care for the "(ALLING DR. KILDARE" cle of many advertisers “drawing became friendly to a business which land will show their collection, widows and orphans. "< OME ON RANGERS" taken of many interesting spots LEONARD PATTERSON ad In their horns" and refusing to spend would continue to tell you its story, in "THE LONE RANGER" the west over a period of years. miring a new partial plate in in bad times as well as in good. The money for advertising until times (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) Members and friends are cor his rear-view mirror and nearly public reciprocated bv giving it its are easy once more. dially invited to attend. "HARDYS RIDE HIGH" necessitating new bridgework trade. The late P. D. Armour, great for his passengers. (Wednesday, Thursday) Whenever a business man adver packing magnate, had t) sanest TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY MARGARET McLEAN, a re “CAREER" tises it shows he has faith In him Roland C. Casad of Covina, cent bride, traveling from Klam view on the subject. "TORCHY RUNS FOR self, in his community, in his goods Calif., who is visiting here at the ath Falls to Ashland to ask her MAYOR" He always told his associates: and in his customers. home of Roy Hartley, will give an mother how to can peaches. • “Advertise when times are good, be He Is a good business man with address at 2 p. m. Sunday, Sept. HENRY ENDERS admiring Please Call at The Miner Office cause then your dollars show great whom to trade. I 10. in Lithia park on the subject the lighting effects on ROY for Your Guest Tickets eat returns. Advertise when times O Charlaa B. Roth. I of national economic recovery. FRAZIER'S new station. I Ashland Golfers Bow In Southern Oregon ('hampionship Play Junior High Grid Hopefuls Turn Out For ‘Green’ Outfit TRUTH about ADVERTISING SEEN IN A DAZE B . Ashland Jobless Get $638 During August E. H. McGee Colored Movies To Feature Talent Meet \ i
