Friday, Oct. 13, 1939
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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trailed their Talent home for a
ranch of Mr. and M in Sherard
nou th of Ashland. Both families
have tnkii* poaiieMion of their
I new piopertieN
Southern Oregon
Miner
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• M in Nina Vetter and hah
1 lackwell of Ashland called on '
I relatives here Friday
Leonard N. Hall
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at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
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• 'I he l-adies Aid met In the home
of M in Charles Holdridge Thurs
day afternoon.
• The Talent Townsend club met
Tuesday evening in the city hull, '
arranging a pot-luck supper A
program followed dining with
Mr. Davis of Medford being the
s|M'uker of the evening
SET YOU IRKE"
“THE TKUTH Wild-
AMERICA’S SAFEST FORM OF TRAVEL!
The derailment of a Southern Pacific passenger
train below Klamath Falls last week serves to illus
trate that accidents are exceptions and not the iule
with railroads. Striking a boulder in a cut, the tiain
ripped up track and disrupted traffic tor several houis,
but no injuries were suffered, either by passengers oi
crew.
Despite steadily mounting highway traffic death
lists, American railroads have been able to make safei
their handling of passengers and freight. Seldom do
they receive credit for their good work.
Railroads possess inherent virtues, including the
construction and maintenance of their own highways.
They pay an unusually heavy tax burden, the Southern
Pacific being Jackson county’s largest contributor.
Yet the railroads are damned and cussed beyond their
due.
With rail travel by far the safer, more comfortable
method, it is regrettable that more people do not use
it. However, loss of business is the natural result of • Miss Evelyn Applegate. Mrs
Elsie Miller, Elmer Applegate of
savings offered travelers by the automobile. Many Williams
and Mrs. Minnie Chit
who prefer to ride in comfortable, roomy coaches drive wood of Jacksonville visited Tues
day at the Chester Applegate
their cars because they are unable to pay the higher home.
Earnest Applegate returned
price for railroad luxury and greater safety, especially with them for a few days visit.
• M r and Mrs. F. E. Russili
during the winter months. With them it is drive or spent
Sunday in Grants I “ass with
stay home.
Mrs. Russill’s son and daughter-
Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Perhaps more genuine bargain excursion rates in-law,
Bechtel.
might help acquaint the new generation with the ad • Miss Aileen Iniow. who is teach-
ing school in Gold Hill, visited
vantages of rail travel, but coaches will never be filled over
the week-end at the home of
to capacity as long as one must pay a high premium her parents, Mr. and Mrs Vai
Inlow.
for railroad tickets.
• Kenneth Bell, who is employed
The Miner has a juvenile fondness for the puffing, in Tionesta, Calif., visited at his
Saturday and Sunday.
smoke-belching iron horse and would like to see it home
• Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clary of
resume its rightful place as the busy carrier it deserves Klamath Falls visited Monday at
home of her parents, Mr. and
to be. Price keeps hundreds and thousands of people the
Mrs Ed Grimm.
from enjoying the safest, most comfortable travel in • Mr. and Mrs Walter Manuel
have moved into the home form
the world.
erly occupied by the Palmer
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DILEMMA OF THE OKLAFORXTAXS!
With sasonal harvests drawing to a close in Cali
fornia. where thousands of midwestern “dusters" have
taken refuge, an acute problem of housing and hunger
faces authorities who already are hampered by a short
age of relief funds.
The crop-following itinerants, mostly from red-
soiled Oklahoma, present a difficult burden of desti
tution, despair and malnutrition. To say that California
invited the influx by her constant luring of tourists
does not solve the distressing situation of thousands
of tin-can nomads broken down and destitute on her
southern acres. That the problem is California’s reward
for overeffective publicizing puts no bread in mouths
of the stranded, nor does it clothe children’s backs nor
rehabilitate desperate families.
The situation is the accumulated result of indus
trialization, land exhaustion, depression—all mixed
with an overproportion of human worthlessness. Of
course all jalopy tramps are not on the bum through
choice, but most of them always have dwelt in the
valley of bad management of poor white trash. Back
in their home states before depression and prior to
drouth most were not listed among the industrious,
the thrifty or the intelligent.
Solution of the problem lies neither in condemning
the migrants as a class nor in maudlin, sympathetic
glorification of their plight, which is a product of
adverse economic forces which have magnified their
stupidity. It is to be hoped that some humane way
out may be found that neither coddles the worthless
nor works severe hardship on the willing hungry. For
tunately, Oregon has not presented itself to the middle
west as the one ideal haven and, consequently, we have
no peon problem distressing our best minds.
California and her thousands of indigents are to
be pitied.
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family.
• Ralph and Wayne Sikes spent
Saturday and Sunday visiting with
their mother. Mrs Grac? Sikes.
They are employed at Lincoln and
Keno.
• Bill Brahs was In Medford Sat
urday on business and while there
visited at the home of his friend,
Warren Fichtner.
• Mrs. Donald Korth and Miss
Louise. Martin were in Medford on
business Tuesday.
• Mr. and Mrs Hlnlnger and
Kenneth Wenaus spent Tuesday
in Medford transacting business
• Misses Marjorie. Rosemary and
Patricia Bell attended the church
dinner for students in Ashland
Friday evening.
• G. W Willis, Luke and Melvin
Willis are in Needles, Calif., on a
short business trip.
• Mr. and Mrs Clay Barker and
family have moved from this dis
trict to their new home in Talent.
• Mrs. Homer Moore entertained
members of the Friendly class of
the Presbyterian church at an at
tractive dessert luncheon at her
home Thursday afternoon.
• Mr. and Mrs Con Austin are
in Vancouver, Wash., where they
are visiting for a short time with
Mrs Austin's daughter.
• Mrs. George Yockel left Sunday
for Montana, where she will visit
with her mother and father, Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Dahl.
• Mrs C M. Haines, Miss Alpha
Haines of Talent and Elton Petri
of Ashland were dinner guests
Tuesday at the home of Mr and
Mrs. Emil Gassrnan.
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• Jackie Farmer, who suffered
a broken arm at the Bellview
school last week, is improving.
• The home extension unit held
its meeting Friday in the Grange
hall. Mrs Carl Henry and Mrs.
Vincent Lanini were hostesses at
an attractive 1 o'clock luncheon.
During the afternoon an inter
esting discussion was held on
weight control. Four new members
joined, Mesdames H. B. George,
G. W. Nichols, R. L. Brantley and
W. F. Monroe. The next meeting
will occur Nov. 3 and will center
on vegetable cookery.
• Mr. and Mrs. Carl Henry have
moved from their home to the
Spires ranch in the Dead Indian
district.
• Dale Williams left last week
with Melvin and Marvin Poyer for
Portland, where they are exhibit
ing hogs and cattle in the Pacific
International Livestock show.
• Mrs. George Helms, Mrs. I. E.
Deadmond, Mrs. Claude Conley
and Mrs. J. E. Gowland attended
a meeting of the Federated Clubs
of Southern Oregon in the Ash-
land Civic clubhouse Thursday.
• The Bellview Grange sponsored
a <ianco Friday evening in their
hall. Music was furnished by Mrs.
.de.
Longstreth, Miss Ix>is
Firestone and Robert Heath of
Ashland.
Home-made
refresh-
ments of sandwiches and cake
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nerved at midnight. The com
mittee in charge Included Edwin
> K W M
• Mr and Mrs Ray ix-wis of
Ashland have purchased the prop
erty belonging to Mrs. Lewsadder
and will take possession soon
Mrs. Lewsadder will make her
home in Glendale, Calif
• Mrs Elizabeth Beckett of Cin
cinnati, Ohio, who has been a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. R F Purks
lor the lust six weeks, left Tues
day for Los Angeles, enroute to
her home.
• Tlie Talent P-TA held Ils first
meetuig of the season Friday with
Mrs. George Hartley, president,
in the chair. County School Supt
C R Bowman addressed the group
on "What the P-TA Can Do to
Help the School." New commit
tees for the season were ap
pointed.
• Benny Inman, a long-time resi
dent of Talent, died Monday morn
ing one mile north of town.
• The Boy Scouts met at their
club room Thursday evening with
Scoutmaster Bert Simmons In
charge.
• The Camp Fire girls sponsored
a dance in the city hall Saturday
evening, with music by the Mead
ow Mountain Hill Billies of Ash
land.
• John Schuler of Pine Ridge
forest camp was a visitor in Tal
ent Sunday.
• Amos Williams and family, who
spent the summer at Yacolt,
Wash., returned to Talent last
week Mr Williams was employed
with Everett Skeeters' logging
outfit.
• Mr and Mrs. Martin Paulsen
and daughter Verna moved to
Medford Tuesday. Mr. and Mis
Clare Waugh rented the house
vacated by the Paulsens and O
D. Goddard has leased the orchard
for the coming year.
• Henry Enders of Ashland war
a business caller In Talent Tues
day
• Mr and Mrs Sam Cobb of
Medford were calling in Talent
recently.
• Ed Colpit of Taft, Calif, and
Mr. and Mrs. Chai les Doty of
San Gabriel, Calif , have been
guests for the last week of Mrs
Haw.
• Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Jones have
Dunn, Louis Pankey and Miss
Marie Walker.
• Mrs Rosemary Ring was hos
tess at her birthday party Friday
afternoon at the Bellview school
Her guests included students of
the primary department. Misses
Clarice Brantley, Marie Gresham,
Beryl Slym and Inez Yockel,
dressed attractively in black and
orange costumes, served refresh
ments.
• The Community club, which
held its meeting Wednesday, was
well attended with 23 members
present. Mrs Claude Conley and
Mrs. J. E. Gowland reported on
the meeting they attended in Ash
land of the Federated Clubs of
Southern Oregon Mrs. R. D. Rey
nolds led a discussion on the life
of Columbus and Mrs. Taylor
Williams read a ballad about Co
lumbus. Refreshments wore served
by Mesdames Arnold, Deadmond
and Lanini. For the next meeting
Mesdames Byrd, Modrell and Bam
ford will be hostesses and Mrs.
R. E. Bell and Mrs. Oscar Talent
will plan an interesting program.
• Dale Williams entertained a
group of boys at a birthday party
honoring the anniversary of Don
Nosier one evening last wm'k.
At the close of the evening at
tractive refreshments were served.
• The meeting of the tableaux
team slated for Sunday has been
indefinitely postponed.
Mirror B^r^er Shor
and Kroms
Kates Always Reasonable
TOM C HILTON
SAM DAVIES
• Joe Tryon la a patient in the
Medford
Community
hospital,
where he underwent an appendec
tomy Wednesday.
• Bud, Harold and Joe J oiich ot
Wakefield, Kan . who have la-on
working in fruit in the Talent vi
emity tor the last two month*
have returned home
• Mi and Mri Martin Twombley
and family, who have been living
In the Talent camp ground lot
the lust three months, left Thurs
day lor I'oi lei Ville, Culll , whin-
they will make their home
• Mis llaw ami .-.on Kenneth left
Saturday morning for eastern Ore
gon, where they will visit rela
tives ami enjoy hunting
• Mn Waltai Davis Hi
C M
Hallies and Alphu Haines spent
Friday in the Bellview neighbor- I
hood visiting with Mr and Mrs 1
Emil Gussman
• CharUi
Mon
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called on friends in Talent Sat - I
urday.
• i-; ■( • i Y .i:
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one of th* gioup of Ashland pa|M*i
carriers who enjoyed a trip to the
San Francisco fair, returning Sun
day night.
4 Goalie uml lli-anu Calkin, of
Medford spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lowe and
Mr and Mrs Harry Hamilton.
• The Home Economics club of
Talent Grange held an al I-day i
meeting at the home of Mrs Tom
Beil Friday
Twelve members
were present to enjoy a covered
dish luncheon
• Mr and Mis Oovdoo Higgins
of San Francisco are visiting his
mother, Mrs Helen Higgins
• Tlie Home Extension unit held
an ull-day meeting In the city .
hall Wednesday, during which u
vegetable plate dinner was dem
onst rated.
• Eiva 'n»>inpson Monday start
ed attending a Medford buMincsx
school.
• < 'ti.ii lie Skectei n and
of four hunters returned from a
successful trip in eastern Oregon
• The P-TA s|M>i>Nore<l a r<-« <-j>
tlon for local teachers Wednesday
evening in the city hall, with an
interesting program adding to the
pleasant evening.
• M in Kat,- Edgar, who spent
the summer at the home of Mr
and Mrs. E. Cook has returned
to her Seattle home Mrs Elgar
and Mrs Cook are sisters
• Mis LoulM WUkenaon of Dead
Indian soda springs is a guest of
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr
and Mrs Claude Jones.
• Mn B b Huson's siMte: from
North Dakota is spending the
month here.
• Don Hungati* and Ellen May
Woiks were quietly uniteli In mar
riage In Washington recently, and
ar* enjoying a wedding trip Into
California Both attended Talent
high school nml bear the best
wishes of their many friends
• Hill Pratt of Ashland called on
Mr. and Mrs Rush Monday
• Mrs Bertha llungute has pin
chased property of M in I. (>
Lindley, who Ilves on the Coco
Butte road out of Medford M in
llungute and her mother, Mrs
Elisabeth Palmer, will take | m > n
Nesslon soon
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