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PofM rpt) DATS allied purchases of wui commodities have been concen trated mostly In planes, but H won’t be long before they’ll want Uncle Hain to stow his wallet and sympathies tn their cockpits, and later his men. 111 People of the west const spend more money for automobiles than for dollies, proving that cars do get more wear than shoes. 111 Volume IX CENSUS TO GET UNDER WAY IN COMING WEEK The coincidence is revealing that tile last dale tor filing us IA/HEN the nuuonui 10-ycai cen- a candidate for public office oc kux b< gins Tuesday, April 2, curs on April fools’ day 30 of th«- JM applicants wno at tended census schol Ui Medford 111 The anti-lynching bill soon will lust week will la- selected to tally reach the senate floor, where icMidvnls of Jackson county. Elmo Andiews, Chick barlow, southern legislators arc planning Carol Quackenbush. Cathrine to hang It. Hlackmer, Mis Carter, Mr Cul- 111 oetlson and Jua|a.*r Reynolds will In France cabinet posts arc «•numerate in the Ashland district shifted with every report from the April H has been set as the day western front und a premier novel for questioning all transients in knows when he’ll find himscll tourist camps, road houses, shanty stuffed back Into a bottom drawer «.owns and nob«« villages. Enumerators will ask place of 1 1 1 Belief that having some of the birth, of purents’ birthplace, vet hair of the dog that bit you is a eran and social security datr* us good remedy the morning uftei ual <M9CU|>atloD, industry and class probably accounts for the large of work, mother longue, number of children, questions on rnurrlage number of (raid bartenders. In addition, every 14th and 29th 111 person questioned, by rotation on With eggs selling locally at 4 census blanks, will be asked sup cents a dozen, southern Oregon plementary questions designed to rabbits seemed content to let hens give a cross-section description of handle production during U m the |M>pulation of the nation the Faster season. same supplementary question« that drew blasts in congress from 111 A Grants Pass fisherman openc I Senator Tobey and others. I rata sought from persons other the season by catching a 33-pound Chinook salmon in itogue rivei iMU) the 14111 and 29th will 600 last Sunday and, after putting up cern his or her name, relation to a stiff tail tie, finally was land«* I others, personal description, edu cation, place of birth, place of by a cameraman. residence at the time of the in 1 1 1 complete census in 1935, and Mankind is heavily Indebted to questions concerning employment the sun, but Americans were es status and income when the sub pecially so early this week when ject is 14 years of age or over. sunspots temporarily isolated At the same time a census will them from Europe by disrupting be taken of fanners and farms communication. with an income of $250 from any agricultural or stock raising occu 111 invention is that demoniacal pation defining the subject as a paradox that create« gadgets to farmer. Moat of the farm ques save time and then devises pin tions are chiefly about farm pro duce and the extent of soil con ball machines to waste it. servation and soil building prac 111 ticed by the farmer. Home of the Business is crying that current questions asked other than those domestic troubles are the result of above will include: government interference, but it Amount of farm equipment can be remembered that during used. Ibusiness was in the drivers Proximity of electric power seat and did worse. lines. , Extent of cooperative selling 111 Nothing la entirely useless Even and buying. How many days the farmer the face that stops a clock starts worked for other persons. the men running Amount of money paid for farm 111 labor. Funny thing about straw votes Amount of land under irrigation. and Gallup polls is nobody seemed Other farm land owned by the to mind answering questions until farmer. th« federal census occurred during Amount of mortgage on farm a democratic administration. and lnleiest rate. Taxes levied against property, 1 1 1 Says Clark Wood in his Weston both tea) and personal. Amount of money spent on new Leader: "The ultimate in obscur ity is reached by the hick wn<. equipment, feed or for farm sup isn’t talked about in a hick town.” plies. And we’ll bet there’ve been times when Clark wished he was that hick. 1 1 1 Too bad the Finns had to lay down their arms before they had beaten th«* hammer and sickle into plowshares. ------ •------------ F. E. Thompson New Head District WPA F. E. Thompson, who resides on Granite street, recently was appointed manager of district four of the Works Progress adminis tration ami is the WPA repreasn- taUve within the territory com- prising the district of Josephine, Jackson, Klamath and I^ake coun ties. He will be responsible to the state administrator for the proper promotion, execution and coordin ation of the program in the dis trict. Thompson has been connected with th«* WPA since its inception. • LEE MERRIMAN TO TEACH Is*«* Merriman of Trail, who now is a student at the Southern Ore gon College of Education, has just signed a contract to teach the fifth and sixth grades in th«* Pros pect school, district No. 59, ac cording to word received by Regis trar Marshall Woodell. ----------- •— • Sam Jordan and W. J. Chipman spent Wednesday fishing at Sav age rapids on Rogue river. Arthur L. Coggins 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) “BROADWAY MELODY OF 19 IO" “FULL CONFESSION" (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) "THE REPUBLIC OF FI NLA Nil" “THE LIGHT THAT FAILED" LOUIS-GODOY FIGHT • Please Call at The Miner Office for Your Guest Tickets GOLF COURSE GETS REPAIRS The Ashland golf course which is open to the public at green fees, now is in good condition through out and will be improved further when sunshine permits top dress ing and weed killing, according to Jean Eberhart, golf club director in charg«* of course tvpairs. Saturday Eberhart and a crew of eight men mowetl all greens, tees and brought three fairways into good playing condition, and repaired damage where the creek had overflowed its banks. Other fairways of the popular nine-hole course are being mowed this week by Charles van der Walker, who has been employed as greenskeeper for the next two months. He will be assisted in his work by one or two helpers as soon as weather permits. ------- •------- - Medford Rounds Out Nine for S-0 Loop Medford’s entry in the Southern Oregon Baseball league is grad ually taking shape, according to G. A. (Doc) Gitzen, manager. Stiff practice sessions are being held on th«* Medford high turf at 4:30 o’clock every aftern«»on. Gitzen is looking forward to a strong team with his lineup so far about Ilk«* this: Geo**ge Git zen. catcher; Orville Hampel, first base; John Gitzen, second base; Dick Hoffman, shortstop; Bud Reinking, third base; Sam Van Dyke ami Bob Newland in the out field, with another yet to be signed. Ray Tungate, Al (Lefty) Wimer and Skinny Wilson have agree«l to handle mound duties. ----------- •---------- DRAW FISHING FINES Margaret Martha Beer and Bert Leon Patrick, Medford, Monday were fined $25 plus $4.50 costs in the court of Justice of the Peace M. T. Bums for angling without licenses. A state policeman appre hended the pair while they were fishing in Bear creek. ------------•----------- • Mr. and Mrs. Proc Klum of Bly this week visited here with friends and relative*. ottaL Sowthiny £ ay--/Ind. £ay4 9tl ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940___________________________ Number 13 Terry Talent Heading Washington Office Oi Bureau of Narcotics Personalities in Canadian Election TIIAT reut« are iiiiusuully high In Washington, D. C., thc Heather «-old, and an al- nicht total aiow-nce of garuge« exista were the first Impre«- nions of Terry Talent and laniily on arrivai tlie re re- eently, wbere Terry ha« been placed In charge of the Dis trict of < oliirnbiu’« burruil of nun otlc« office. Talent, son of Police Chief <’. P. Talent of Axhliuid, was • t ransferred to the national capital from New Orh-ans. ^Ll. C ANADA voted Tuesday, March 26, in the «|M«<iaJ election Thc move Is another promo called by Prime Minister Mackenzie King, left, U> give a “new tion in Terry’s steady climb mandate" In snp|»ort of his war government. Mrs. George Black, cen with the treasury depart ter, a parliament member from the Yukon, campaigned in the snow ment’» law enforcement divl»- bound northwest territory seeking votes. Sy I van us Apps, right, ion and he now Is In charge of youthful Toronto hockey star, promised to retire from the ice sport the District of Columbia iu««l if he won a parliament seat. King’s entire liberal cabinet was re- surrounding area, with five •*lect«*d. early returns showed. agents under his direction. An unfurnished apartment costs the Talents *50 u month, according to a letter received by th«* senior Talent here, and "everybody |««rks their cars in the street—why they don’t build garage« hasn’t lieen found out yet.” Terry, .Mr». Talent and their thrce-year*oM son Terry Jr. live four mile« from his work and already are putting on Starting at 7:30 o'clock tonight, pr«*»sure to persuade their March 29, doors of the junior high Ashland relatives to visit will be opened to the public for thrm and see the town. Terry, the first open house in 13 years. his letter chid«*«, would like to The general plan for the evening show Papa how to really run will be much the same as that of a dcjMvrtmrnt. the yearly high school event. The projects of the students will be viewed by parents and visitors in their respective classrooms. Ex hibits of the work that is being done in the class rooms and in club activities will be shown. At 8:45 p. m. the main program will start m the junior high gym nasium. Numbers on the program will include selections by the jun ior high band and orchestra, the junior high chorus, plays, folk SCHOLARSHIPS for student« dancing and pyramid building. planning to attend the South The public is cordially invited ern Oregon College of Education \V ASHINGTON, D C. March 28. are made available through the ’ F< km 1 stamps will be extended to attend this event and become state board of higher education for to several more Oregon and Wash better acquainted with the work the year 1940-41 to seniors grad ington town» within a few months I i that is being carried on at the uating from Oregon high schcxils and U the depression continues junior high school. There will be and to students who have attended and surpluses accumulate the no admission charge. Those at institutions of higher learning. stamps may be made available in tending will be given diagrams of the building which will enable High school seniors and first- several hundred communities. year college students making ap The stamp plan works like this: them to find their way to the plications for these awards must Anyone on relief can purchase a various rooms and exhibits. have their applications on file be book of orange colored stamps for fore April 1, 1940 Blanks may be $1. In the book (they come like secured from the principal of any regular books of postage stamps) Oregon high school or from the are blue stamps with a value of registrar's office at the College of 50 cents. W’ith the orange stamps Education in Ashland. the reliefer can buy any food es The scholarships at SOCE are sential in the store, but the blue valued at $25.50 applying toward stamps can be exchanged only for charges totaling $57 50 at the col certain commodities which are lege of education. listed as surplus, which vary from Every type of musical enter ----------- •------------ time to time By this method, for tainment from future Nelson Ed- dollar of stamps bought the dys (in the person of Bill Alves) Quints every reliefer has purchasing power of to a potential Ignatz Paderewski $1 50 for $1. (in the form of little 36-inch, four- Dealers (grocers) obtain their year-old Kathleen Hartley) will of surplus commodities greet the audience at the Parent- Tuesday supply through regular channels and re Teacher sponsored amateur hour The Ashland Lions club Tuesday ceive their normal profit. It now coming Friday, April 5, in the was host to 24 high school and is proposed in congress that Fed junior high gym. The program, first of its kind junior high basketball players at eral Surplus Commodities corpora their annua) appreciation dinner tion purchase surplus at the source in many years, will feature vocal, given by Lions to the boys at the and at wholesale and thereby the piano and accordion solos, tap money for removing surplus dancers, tumblers, a string trio conclusion of every sport season. Pres. R. I. Flaharty presided through the stamp plan will go and a large variety of other mu and entertainment featured John further as it will eliminate profits sical numbers. Preliminary try outs were held Tuesday evening Eads, Metiford magician. Tail of the middlemen. 1 r 1 and the large number of appli twister Pete Nutter kept the as- cants were pared to about 29 ex semblag«* in good humor with his Turkey growers of the Pa cellent numbers, the winners of repertoire of antics with his cific northwest have been which will be determined by vote Spizzerinkter bird which extracts given a hint by the bureau of of the audience. First prize will be coins from members almost pain agricultural <*conomic» to $5 in cash, second $4. third $3 and lessly. raise l(> and 12-pound birds. four honorable mentions each will High school players attending Of th«* stocks of turkeys now receive $2. were Bob Dunn, Bob Steams, Bud in cold storage 65 per «-ent Provost. Chuck Jandreau, Ardie weigh 16 |M«iinds or over. Warren, Earl Warren. Bob Weav These are birds which con er, James Smith, Albert Newbrv. sumers pass«*«i up during the Stan Davis. Richard Ormonii and holidays. Practical r«*asons for Dale Williams. Junior high guests 10-12 pound birds include such included Dale Adams. Alven«- Mon matters as smaller faniili«*» roe. Bill Burdic, Tommy Mans and the size of ovens found in Leighton Blake, little All-Amer field, Bill Green, Jimmy Bartell. modern homes, especially in ican football center from Willam Fred Kannasto. Winfield Rober apartment house«. The 16- ette university, has signed a con son, Bill Davis. Bill Elam, George pound and over turks are in tract to coach football in Ashland Marsh and Coach Al Simpson. demand only for the hotel and high school, according to an Brief talks of appreciation were rewtaurant trade. Th«* bureau nouncement by Supt. Theo J. Nor given by Captain Ardie Warren also predicts that producers by last night. Blake probably also for the high school squad an«l Fred w ill raise four to five per cent will teach social sciences in addi Kannasto for the juniors. more birds in 1940 than in tion to his athletic duties. He. ----------- •— 1939. Oregon stands fifth in together with a basketball mentor TRUC KER FINED HERE turkey producing states. to be signed within a week, will Homer S. Dawson, Ashland, Sat f < < replace Coach Forrest L. O’Con urday paid a $15 justice court nell who will resign at the close Drainage «listricts on the lower fine plus $4.50 costs for operating of spring term, and Miss Margaret a truck without th«* required PUC Columbia are expected to con Macy, history and English teacher tract for 7500 kilowatts of Bonne plates. ville power for pumping purposes, who will leave because of mar ----------- •------------ the senate committee on appro riage. Blake will come to Ashland with EXAMINER HERE TODAY priations has been informed, and An examiner of operators and 8450 kilowatts will be sold to REA an outstanding athletic record be chauffeurs will be in the Ashland projects in 1941. The REA pro hind him, having been voted Wil city hall from 1 to 5 p m. today, jects are In Washington, Idaho lamette's most valuable player for both 1938 and 1939, where he March 29, to issue licenses and and Oregon. played center on offense and back permits to drive cars. r r ♦ ed up the line on defense. He play ----------- •-------- -— All six senators of the Pacific ed freshman ball at Washington • Ruth Parsons left for her home in San Francisco Thursday fol northwest are participating ac State, was a member of athletic lowing a visit here with her father, tively in the debate on the pro honorary groups at Willamette posal to extend for three years and president of the Order of W. B. J. Parsons. • Mrs. May Davis visited in the act authorizing reciprocal He gained his high school exper Klamath Falls last week-end at trade treaties. These senators, ience at Camas, Wash. Il’ arrangements can be made, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt with practically all other senators west of the Mississippi, regardless Blake will conduct spring foot Padgett. • Erroll Miller of Klamath Falls of political affiliation, are opposed ball practice here and will come spent the Easter holidays here at to the extension This is the bat to Ashland during summer months the home of his mother, Mrs. Jes tle which was predicteil in this as playground supervisor and to space last year. It actually affects manage softball league play. sie Miller. Norby expects to be able to an • Gene Ritzinger early in the the paycheck of every worker in week left for Eugene where he the land and the housewives, too. nounce selection of a basketball coach within a week. (Continued on page 4) will be employed. Junior High 'Open House’ Set Tonight DEADLINE FOR > SCHOLARSHIPS SET APRIL 1ST: TRYOUTSUNCOVER MUCH TALENT FOR AMATEUR PROGRAM Lions Hosts To For Junior and Senior Hitfh Schools C OF C DINERS HEAR GRIFFITH AND EYE FILM AN INTERESTING and inform ative speaker, George E. Grif fith of the division of education and information, US Bureau of Forestry, gave an address, “Amer ican Frontier of 1940 and Its Bearing on the National Future" as the feature attraction of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce annual banquet held in the Li thia hotel dining room last night, March 28. Toastmaster C. M. Lit wilier in troduced the president of the Grants Paw Chamber of Com merce, Edwin C. Coates, who in turn introduced Vice Pres. Virgil Younce, Directors Charles R. Cool ey, P. J. Thielen and Harry Met calf. Guests attending from Med ford included Carl Yanough and A. S. Rosenbaum. Short talks were given by R. I. Flaharty and Mayor T. S. Wiley, who extended a cordial greeting to the visitors. As part of the entertainment, Mrs. E. O. Smith sang two solos, "The House That Jack Built,” and “Robin, Robin, Sing Me a Song,” accompanied by Mrs. Roy Hartley. Arthur L. Coggins presented motion pictures of southern Ore gon forests as the main attrac tion of the dinner program, and music was provided by a violin, cello and piano trio composed of Chester Woods, Edna Hash ana Agnes Jones. NEW COACH TO HEAD SOFTDALL A representative group of city softball league sponsors met Tues day night with School Supt. Theo J. Norby to adopt a plan of the school board whereby the 1940 field manager for the softball loop would be the same as the director of the summer playgrounds—the new football coach chosen by the board to replace Skeet O’Connell, who handled softball grounds and operation last season. The new director will meet with team sponsors in the high school at 7:30 p. m. Monday, April 15, at which time plans for the season will be formulated and league en trants listed. Those present at Tuesday night’s meeting were Supt. T. J. Norby, Harry Morris. W. A. Sni der, R. I. Flaharty, P. R. Hardy and Leonard Hall. ----------- •------------ PETE’S LUNCH REOPENS FOLLOWING RENOVATION Pete’s Lunch, popular lunch loom on East Main street near the Metz-Richards store, reopened today following closure for spring cleaning and renovation. Painting, cleaning and rear rangement of some equipment for improved service occupied Earl D. i Pete) Nutter and crew all day Thursday. ----------- •------------ • Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pinson of Dunsmuir early this week visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Hughs. SEEN IN A DAZE WILLAMETTE STAR IS NEW FOOTBALLCOACH PARKER HESS carrying col ored Easter eggs back to the old hen. LEE RYAN wrenching a mus cle with body english while play ing a pin-ball machine. GLENN SIMPSON running out of gas across the street from his pump. JOHN HOTELL pulling out a catfish and the fish throwing him back for being too small. PETE NUTTER saving the surface and thereby all by pro viding a freshly-painted sample board for the curious. CLIFF BROMLEY, when all else failed to start an argument, shouting a couple of “Heil Hit lers.” E. C. WALLS clawing the air in an original dance created on the spur of the moment when inspired by an unexpected noise. CHARLOTTE SHORT won dering how to acquire one of the more important requisites of college equipment, a fur coat. RAY BUYERS enjoying a brisk pUi-ball game from the depths of a comfortable chair.