©WSßiSl^ ©J^©©^ % £ay--Atid £cuf¿ 9t! Pop** *1kai aMoÀ. pitOGHESS 1» to be marveled al * Rubber. which started out aw an eraser of men's mistake*, now has reached the point where its incorporation into automobile tire and bombing plane construction erases men, too. 111 A voter's greatest difficulty is knowing where to place his cross so lie won't tie double-crossed 1 1 1 Moon airplanes that can truvel 750 miles an hour the speed of sound will be built, uncording to un authority Imuglne being a |ms senger in such a plane and then buying your "We're off!” hit you in the back of the neck after you get there. 111 Axioms cannot be denied. Even an army worm travels on its stomach. 111 Judging from the way alarm­ ists of both political parties por­ tray the next four years, the United Slates is going In for dou­ ble futures. 111 In war, as in any argument, one aide always claims to be bi eased with a God-given righteousness, but to a mun up a neutral tree it looks aa if this time both sides are going to the devil. 1 1 1 ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940 Volume IX ' a ................................i............. I STARTING ANNOUNCEMENT was made Monday by J Walter McCoy that he plans to resign manager­ ship of the Ashland branch of the First National I sink of Port­ land May 1 McCoy stated that in accepting his resignation, officers of the state-wide banking Institution specified that he la to continue on salary until he becomes eligible tor his pension, which takes effect in 1943 G H Wenner, assistant branch manager, succeeds ax manager, ac.-drding to McCoy, and C. E Hedberg is promoted to the post of assistant manager McCoy said, "I am pleased to see Gerald Wenner and EI wcxk J Hedberg receive promotions which they most certainly deserve Wen­ ner, who has been well known in the banking business here in Ash­ land sin< ' 1920. has u spb background of experience. He is thoroughly familiar with our com­ munity and with the most modern banking methods" Seven Team* Available ylGUO LASSEN, above, i«,m- pa rat I ve new comer in As*» Teams definitely indicating en­ bind buslnew. circle* and a part- try included Elks, Dodgers (Gro­ owner of the -daughter house ceteria-Ingle Drug), Pine Box and meat market holdings of ' company, Talent. Miner Press and the late Christian Prtrrsro, has Hilt, Calif , while Jack Kemnitzer taken over rein* of Axhland's was present to enter a team for aeeaad annual rodeo. The event, Southern Oregon College of Edu­ which wax unusually *ucce»»»ful cation in case an eighth outfit ax main feature of laxt -Wim­ was entered Dom Provost indi­ mer's July 4 celebration, again cated he might sponsor the final will I m - a one-day affair and will team to complete a balanced loop. I m - «(aged on the high school Final disposition of the question field. Serving with I-a**e«i and wax left for tonight’s session aiding In the work of rounding Teams were represented at the up bucking horwex, »leer*. rid­ Tuesday meeting as follows: Elks. er* and -iMM-ial event» are Hugh Harry' Morris; Dodgers, Bob In­ Barron, Ben (hriwtlieh. Jack gle; Pine Box, R. I. Flaharty; Luca», Ebe Dunn and J. Miller. Talent, Bert Simmons; Miner Tall? Just It! HIGH SCHOOLS SEND 325 HERE Ashland Students Aid In 7:30 i ° night, April 26. Ashland Soft- ball association officials and team representatives will meet briefly in the high school building to ar­ range tentative playing schedule, issue and regulate player con­ tracts and formally determine whether six or ejght teams shall constitute the league for this sum­ mer. In a preliminary session Tues­ day night team representatives named Bill Snider president of the association, Clyde Young vice president and lairry He.iter secre­ tary-treasurer. Leighton Blake, field supervisor and playground instructor for the summer, w.«s i present to confer with the group, ) and regular state softball rules, I with possible local ground rule | alterations, were adopted. What ----- •----- Green Ashland Course Press. Leonard Hal); Hilt, Frank Ward, and SONS, Kemnitzer. School board, which has three rep­ resentatives as members of the softball association, was repre­ sented by Theo J. Norby, Frank Davis and Frank Van Dyke. School Supt. Norby indicated that toilet facilities would be pro­ vided on the field during the sum­ mer, and also made a number of suggestions relative to an elabor­ ate opening night's program, pur­ chase of new bases and other equipment. Tonight's meeting of officials and team representatives also will eye reports of ground rules in other southern Oregon communi­ ties regarding wearing of metal spikes, details of inter-city game arrangements and other questions. ----- •----- Music Program Will Parade Best Talent Of Ashland Schools Friday evening, May 3. was the date set aside for the second an­ nual combined high and junior high school music program, ac­ cording to Supt Theo J. Norby. The program will start at 8 o'clock, with selections by the Washington school orchestra, fol­ lowed by the high school girls' glee club, junior high orchestra. Junior high chorus, high school boys' glee club, junior high band, high school a capella choir and the high school orchestra The Washington school orches­ tra will be directed by Eunice Hager, junior high orchestra by Maxine Conover, high school and Junior high vocal groups by Har­ riett Hill, and the junior high band and high school orchestra by Ward Croft ----- ------•----------- OVERCROWDING COSTS George Hazlett, Portland man. was fined $150 and assessed $2.50 costs in Ashland police court by Judge C. O. Presnall Thursday on a charge of operating a vehicle with four persons in the front seat. Retiring Bank Manager, Two Who Move Up! ----------- ------------- M. T. Burns 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) "GULLIVF.R'N TRAVELS” ‘LEGION OF THE LAWLESS' (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) “SHOOTIN' HIGH” (Wednesday, Thursday) "ON BORROWED TIME” “THE ISLE OF DESTINY” • Please Call at The Miner Office for Your Quest Tickets . ■ -I ■ ■' .■ —... P J Number 17 « McCOY WILL END Rodeo Boss! SOFTBALL SKED July 4 Head! MAYOR WILEY TO TO BE OUTLINED BANK SERVICES SEEK 3RD TERM; HERE at TONIGHT HERE MAY 1ST LISTS PLATFORM o'clock to- Outlook for Sweden will not tie serious until she starts winning her battles, like Finland, which McCoy Well-Known Bunker never lost an engagement but did McCoy has been idenUfied with lose the war. the banking business in Ashland 111 since 1907 When the First Nation­ The fire season soon will arrive al bank of Portland took over the in southern Oregon forests and First National bank of Ashland in smokers who've tieen flipping theii 1937, he was appointed branch cigarets with absent-minded aban manager. Wenner, who started don will start cussing "firebugs." with the First National bank of Ashland 20 years ago, has been 1 1 1 assistant manager of this branch Census takers, busy counting since 1937. C. E Hedberg, assist­ noses for several weeks, are re­ ant cashier, who now becomes ax- ported to have found one in its six tan I manager of the Ashland own busineNX. branch, first Joined the bank In Makes Grass 1923 111 Ask McCoy 1s one of Oregon's best- Grow Beware friends who wear their feelings on their sleeves for gen­ known bonkers. He was bom in Man Who Mows erally they have something up 'em. Golconda, III., and started his business life as a Jeweler His too. XT O WHERE on earth, ac- banking career began in 1903 at A cording to sweating lawn­ 111 Norton, Kan , where he was as­ mower pusher», 1» *oil a» pro­ A pessimist is the fellow who sistant cashier of the First Na­ lific ax in Ashland. Especially is reminded that April showers tional trank until 1907 Coming to during spring month«» wbrni bring May weeds Oregon he became assistant cash­ the ground 1» *o saturated ier of the Bank of Ashland and that city employe» punch the U. 8. National bank, its suc­ holes below town to let the cessor, and in 1910 became cashier waler out. of the U. S. National and First One l(•• 700 spectators. plaining husbands gather helped organize in southern Ore­ Miss Claudia Buck. Pro-Music* gon. Twice McCoy has been elect­ around for a discussion of representative at the festival, in­ ed state vice president for Oregon their problems and start troduced Mayor T. S Wiley. Dr. in the American Bankers’ associa­ comparing notes. And al­ Walter Redford, SOCK president, tion though unusual ambition of and Theo J. Norby, Ashland school gruss here the year around is ■ - ---- »------------- superintendent Ray Ellison, Phoe­ a scientific fact, most vivid nix high school student, was pre­ description* come from local sented with a $4 cash award by fishermen who are property War-Victim Relief gifted Pm-Musica, college honorary, for at understatement. his prize-winning national music Public school students of Ash- ' wirk Mater The presentation was land this week have been filling i Slash Fees At made by latrry Hunter. The larger division of the festi­ small can-banks with pennies for Golf val. which will bring about 1300 the hungry and homeless war- grade school children to Ashland, stricken children in other lands as Golf trustees Tuesday night win postponed from Thursday. part of the children's crusade for April IS. to Friday. May 10. be­ children week, April 22 to 30. in­ voted to slash green fees on the Ashland course to 25 cents for cause of the prevalence of meas­ clusive. Each child and student In pub­ nine holes per player, but left the les. ------------- •-------------- lic schools of Ashland are being all-day rate of 50 cents for any asked not compelled to give as week day. THREE FINED FOR FISHING Trustees and golfers are becom­ IN ('MIKED CREEK W A TERM many pennies ax years they are old, or anything down to a cent, ing active in a campaign to pro­ Fines of $25 each, plus $4.50 and the money will be forwarded mote use and Interest in the local court costs, were assessed John to Citizens National bank in Em­ course, where improvements have Bert Smith and Merle L. Smith, poria, Kan., from whence it will been made to continue it as one Klamath Falls, when they ap­ be turned over to a Jury of award of the prime recreational assets of the community. peared in Justice court here Mon­ headed by Eleanor Roosevelt. day on charges of fishing in the closed waters of upper Little Butte creek Just below Fish lake. James Delroy Nendel, 18, Klam­ ath Falls, was given a 15-day suspended Sentence in the county Jail and assessed $4 50 court costs on a charge of fishing In the upper Little Butte creek without an angler's license. The arrests were made Sunday by a state police game warden. ------------ r~ i I. FLAHARTY, above, is general chairman of Ash­ land’s July I celebration com­ mittee and is pushing plans for an even bigger and better In­ dependence day observance. He succeeds H. L. Claycomb, and is owner-manager of the Pine Box company and a prominent civic figure. O. I. W. McCOY, left, will resign hi* managership of the Ashland branch of the First National Bank of Portland May 1 after having served here since 1907. He will retire on salary until 1918, when he will l»e eligible for pension. Center Is shown Gerald II. Wenner, assistant manager who will move up to manager May I and, right, Is C. E. Hedberg, assistant cashier, who will he promoted to cashier by the move. Wenner joined the First National bank in 1920 while Hedberg joined the institution in 183S. Wiley Outline» Plans Mayor Wiley’s ambition, if elected to another four-year term, is to push continuance of this rec­ ord toward the goal of tax-free government. Also included in his announced plans are readjustment and reduction of city electric rates in confirmation with other utility organizations securing action on straightening of the plaza high­ way bottle-neck, maintenance of a clean and attractive city, con­ tinued efficient law enforcement and realization of plans for new fire department quarters. Less than a week previous to Mayor Wiley's announced candi­ dacy, The Miner had editorially urged a ’draft-Wiley" campaign and his statement of candidacy came as welcome news in Ash­ land, where he has established himself as one of the city’s most popular public figures. ------- —«------------ WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25. ’ Peeler logs, choicest trees of Hughes To Open Douglas fir forests in Oregon and Washington, are the mainstay of the plywood industry. These logs are being exported, processed and. Chet Hughes. formerly in in many instances, shipped back charge the produce department to the United States to compete of the of Safeway store here, will with the product of local plywood open a new business, the Quality mills For a year efforts have Produce market, Saturday morn­ been made to have congress enact ing. a law curbing the exportation of market will be located in peeler logs. The senate has passed the The Swedenburg formerly such a bill and hearings now are occupied by the building Southern Oregon being held by a house committee. Gas company and will handle The peeler log business is im­ fresh vegetables and fruit exclus­ portant. giving employment to ively. thousands of workers in the Pa­ The new proprietor pointed out cific northwest. It is realized, how­ that the specialty angle of his ever, that when peeler logs are store will through connec­ shipped out of the country the tions with permit, local trucking busi­ cream of the forest resource is ness, daily the fresh supply of all being turned over to foreigners and gradually reducing the avail­ seasonal fruits and vegetables. able supply which is required for American plywood plants and the workers therein. Chet Produce Market Here re* In the last six fiscal years $53,387.830 ha* been distrib­ uted to the farmers of Wash­ ington and Oregon through Triple A of the department of Agriculture. Of this sum Washington received $32,492,- 656 and Oregon $20,895,174. This is but one source of gov­ ernment money which has been poured into the Pacific northwest. I'nder the farm security administration in the past four year* Washington has received $577,986 and Oregon $1,202,252. These con­ tributions are for resettle­ ment projects. < » r With a single exception, every member of the house of represen­ tatives from Washington and Oregon is supporting a new pen­ sion proposal. This is to furnish pensions for the widows and or­ phans of World war veterans, re­ gardless of whether death was service connected. It is estimated that if the bill becomes law it will require taxes of $48,000,000 a year to meet the claims, pro­ viding all eligible apply for the pension, which they probably would. The sponsor for this pen­ sion proposal is a Mississippi con­ gressman who served 90 days in the World war in a training camp. Chief opponent is a war veteran who is a member from California, his contention being that veterans already have been well taken care of. 1 | VTELDING to persuasion of busi­ ness men and friends. Mayor Thornton S Wiley last week-end announced his intention to seek a third term in the fall general election. His platform will be based on Ashland's record of tax and debt reduction during his eight years in office, on his police, electric and water departments' records, and on continued efforts to make this a tax-free city. In 1933, when he first assumed office. Mayor Wiley and his ad­ ministration was faced with a bonded indebtedness of $644,619, of which $15,329 was city owned, leaving a net debt of $629.290. Last financial report, as of Dec. 31, 1939, showed this obligation had been reduced to $399,368, of which $66,868 in bonds were city- owned. leaving a net debt of $332,- 500. When Wiley took over .the reins of municipal government $8000 in delinquent water rent was on city books, which since has been cleared. 1 1 Because of the apprehension of nut growers of the Pacific north­ west that Brazil nuts will swamp the market since England now re­ fuses to permit importation of the nuts, the federal tariff commission probably will make a study of Brazil nuts. The walnut control board has made this recommenda­ tion to the secretary of agricul­ ture and the latter will request the President to issue an order for such investigation. The depart- (Continued on page 4) HAROLD JOHNSON asking AL BROWER why the fatted calf was still on the hoof. WINSTON HOTELL, after seeking fish for severed days, ad-libbing that “Not al! suckers are in the creek.” ROY PARR directing CHES­ TER CORRY into LILLY'S on a bobcat hunt. SHERM POWELL explaining finer points of the Townsend plan to CLIFF BROMLEY, who is for or agin' it either or both, for longer and hotter argu­ ments. ARLIE WORRELL denying seamstress proclivities despite a dressmaker's sign to the con­ trary. LAWRENCE (Death Valley) WILSON’S friends giving him a fabulous mining reputation. ANN JORDAN returning from a fishing trip with the re­ mark. "If you think that 31- pounder was big you should have seen the one I got away from!” DR. C. A. HAINES using a stomach pump to drain water out of the creek to catch fish without getting his new leader wet. TED (Red the Barber) HAM­ MOND going into the real es­ tate business on a non-commis­ sioned basis. HARRY HURST, busy at a reupholstering job in his Lithia theater, deciding hip pockets would be the best thing to cover seats with.