'UOO MANY motoriMts on the
1 highway, who'll never think of
using cheap gas in their care, need
a better grade of Hoyle.
111
Thia iw the Kennon of the year
when southern Oregon folk« who'll
never have a portrait maile ate
letting salmon unit trout drag
them by the hand up to the bmd-
neHH end of a camera.
1
1
1
A well known radio program
has been plugging a pseudo na­
tional anthem in hopes folks will
take it to their hearts and the
Hpomtoring breakfast food to their
stomachs
111
Particularly during an election
year, politics are based on a study
of cause and defect.
111
Going to the dentist frightens
most people, but still that's better
than being able to take your teeth
out with your fingers.
111
Concerning the war in Europe,
either we can wash our hands of
the whole affair or tat the tn our
own blood.
111
Von Ribbentrop's explanation of
why Germany was forced to in­
vade Norway was about as con­
vincing as Prime Minister Cham­
berlain's yam ubout why England
didn't go to the assistance of
Czecix »Slovak la, Poland ami Fin­
land.
111
When the European war first
broke out, the wishful iwllef was
that the German people would re­
volt against Hitler The ¡ i II k - h
hoped internal strife would weak­
en their foe. but this week, with
allied reverses in Norway, it ap­
pears that the English are quar­
reling among themselves and the
Germans are more united than
ever. And although most Ameri­
cans want the allies to win. it is
to be hoped they’ll keep their
seats and not rush Into the ring
just because their favorite fighter
is taking a few punches.
1
1
1
Art (Hie) Powell, pilot of the
Central Point American, mayor of
his town and former school board
member. Is seeking the GOP nom­
ination for county commissioner.
Art is a pretty smart old codger,
for a republican, and should make
his party a good nominee,
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Volume IX_________________ ___________ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1940
DIRECTORS TO
PUSH EFFORTS
FOR FESTIVAL
DIHWTOKH of the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival asso­
ciation meeting in the IJthla ho­
tel Tuesday night granted Angus
L Bowmer’s request tor a year's
leave of absence, and will seek
continued production of the sum­
mer festival week in the Eliza­
bethan theater in IJthla park if
suitable directorship can Is- se­
cured Among applicants for the
job are Bill Cottrell, former as­
sistant director under Bowmer,
and Mrs Bowmer, former art and
costume director, who offer to
handle the plays under approxi­
mately the same budget as last
year.
Director Porter J Neff ot Med­
ford moved that the association
pay a maximum of $500 of an
$sttr> balance on hand for securing
a director and payment of inci­
dental expenses, which was voted
Further discussion of plans and
regular election of officers of the
association will be held Monday
night, Muy 13.
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‘Hap’ Gillette Ends 45
Years of Railroading
To Earn Retirement
U. H. ’HAPPY” GILLETTE,
Ashland y urdmastrr, re-
tlrrd Tuesday, April 30, from
service with the Southern Pa­
cific after nearly 45 years of
employment. With the excep­
tion of two runs, one from
Roseburg and the other out of
Gerber, Calif., Gillette, who
was born and raised in Ash­
land, always has worked here
starting as a brakeman, after
which he went on the road as
a conductor and thrn heeame
yardmaster in IfMW.
Mr. and Mrs. Gillette, with
no particuar plans announced
for the future, will visit with
their two daughters in Cali­
fornia and Nevada some time
this month.
Beginner Golfers To Junior Netmen Blast
Get ‘Free Day’ With Med fori tes Saturday
The Junior high tennis club
Instruction and Help pulled
a surprise 4 to 3 victory
out of the bag over the Medford
Junior high tennis team Saturday
morning. Medford previously had
taken a stinging 7-0 win the week
before.
It looked like another drubbing,
however, as Burdic started things
off by losing to Long 7-5. 7-5
Cate didn't help things any when
he took a 6-4, 6-0 trouncing from
Ray. Tiny Billy Elam, who has
been the sparkplug of Junior high
athletics since he enrolled, came
through with his squad's first win
of the day when he turned back
Jones 2-6, 7-5 and 8-6.
Mansfield, inspired by Elam's
win, went to work on Eden and
defeated him 6-2, 6-2. McCollum,
sensing a squad victory, then
trounced Hoey by the same score.
In the number one doubles
Burdic and Cate were beaten by
Rail Bargains Will
and Long. 6-4, 8-6. Elam and
Aid Exposition Trip Ray
Mansfield, in the number two po­
sition, won over Jones and Eden
When the Golden Gate Interna­ 6-4, 6-2.
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tional
exposition
reopens on
Treasure Island May 2b. Southern
Pacific will be ready with a wide Latourette Gets Boost
variety of excursion fares for
travel to San Francisco, according By Oregon City Paper
to S. J. Bailey, local agent for
Speaking of Howard latourette,
the company.
The extensive array of trans­ democratic national committee­
portation bargains is scheduled to inn n running for reelection In the
go into effect May 1, he said, and May 17 primaries, the Oregon City
will include coach, Intermediate Banner-Courier had the following
and first class roundtrip fares, to say:
"For some reason the Common­
also group fares for adults and
school children from all station's wealth Federation does not like
Howard Latourette. democratic
<>n the railroad’s I*aclfic lines.
In addition, the so-called "grand national committeeman. Although
circle" fares have again been pro­ Flavel is said to be fighting shy
vided this year to enable tourists of an endorsement, it is under­
to see both the San Francisco and stood that at the state gathering
New York expositions on the of Commonwealthers in Salem ho
swing around the country, with will be picked as the favorite
liberal stopover privileges en Due to the revolt of democratic
voters against Commonwealth dic­
route, It was pointed out.
tation he may not be endorsed,
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I-------------------------------------------- * but word will go out to 'get I a -
tourette.’
Lucille V. Smith
"Latourette is up for reelection
and Companion
after having served one term in
Are Invited to Be Guests of the the position of national commit­
teeman. Through some persons in
Southern Oregon Miner power in Washington he has not
been able to control patronage,
To See Their Choice of
but if he is reelected and a demo­
the Following
crat again is chosen he will have
the ear of the administration.
Varsity Theater
From reports from all sections of
Programs:
the state there seem to be no
doubts that latourette will win.
(Friday and Saturday)
"Clackamas county is particu­
'The FARMER’S DAUGHTER’ larly Interested, as the national
"ETERNALLY YOURS"
committeeman was born and
raised In Oregon City, attended
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
local schols arul remained here for
“THE REAL GLORY”
some years as a young man before
(Wednesday and Thursday)
taking up the practice of law in
"YOUNG AS YOU FEEL"
Portland.”
"HERE I AM A STRANGER”
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•
•
Mr.
and
Mrs. Charles Hogue re­
Please Call at The Miner Office
cently returned from a trip to
for Your Guest Tickets
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.J Ohio and Kansas.
Ashland golf course trustees
Tuesday night voted to throw
open the local course free of
charge to all junior and senior
high school students Saturday,
Muy 11, and on that day local
divot diggers will lx* on hand to
aid in providing transportation
and equipment for playing. Pro
Kill Hutchinson will advise young
players on points and form and
novice players, particularly, will
be encouraged to ap|>ear and prac­
tice a few swings, play several
holes or play all day, as lack of
experience will be no hindrance to
their enjoyment of the sport.
Theo J. Norby and Jean Elwr-
hart were named to coordinate
plana for the event.
Mayor Wiley Issues
‘(’lean lip’ Edict For
doming Week Here
(A Proclamation by
Mayor T. N. Wiley)
IN CONFORMITY with the
1 campaign to clean up, beau­
tify and Improve the appear­
ance of Oregon communities,
1 wish to urge all of our
citizens io join in this state­
wide effort which is to be con­
ducted during the week com­
mencing May 6.
A general
paint-up, clean-up, and flx-up
cainpulgn in our city will Im­
prove morale. Increase em­
ployment, help business and
advertise Ashland.
We are glad to note the re­
cent
improvements In
the
business district.
We also
wish to commend the efforts
of the Garden club In enoour-
aging the planting of flowers
and shrubs. Our desire Is to
maintain Ashland's reputation
as one of our state's most
attractive cities.
We urge each and every
citizen to do his or her part
by causing accumulated rub­
bish to Is- removed, by paint­
ing and repairing property
w here nvceasary, and by join­
ing wholeheartedly in this
s|»e<'lal campaign to make
Ashland more beautiful.
After all, our city is what
we make it.
FLOWER THIEVES
DRAW IRE HERE
A 110 reward personally has
been offered by Chief of Police
C. P Talent for information lead­
ing to the arrest and conviction of
any vandals stealing flowers or
shrubbery anywhere tn the city.
Tuesday morning a complaint was
turned in by a resident at Liberty
street and Siskiyou boulevard
whose tulip bed had been com­
pletely ransacked and that, along
with the report that several new
shrubs recently set out in IJthia
park had been stolen, climaxed
the several complaints that have
been turned tn.
Chief Talent, reminding that
three persona convicted of such
vandalism here in the past were
fined $35 and costs, declared. "I
have no patience with anyone who
is so mean and thoughtless that
he will tear out flowers which
represent hours of work and im­
measurable pride on the part of a
householder More than personal
loss, the destruction of flower gar­
dens means a black mark for
Ashland and the police force will
do everything in its power to ap­
prehend these vandals, and we
earnestly solicit aid of citizen» ”
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Klamath Attorney To
Address Grads Here
According to word from Theo
J Norby, city school superintend­
ent. a Klamath Falls attorney. R.
C. Groesbeck of the state board
of higher education, will make the
commencement address at the
high school graduation exercises
May 22.
G. A. Briscoe, former superin­
tendent, will deliver a greeting
speech to graduates.
PLAN THREE-DAY Girds for Race! BASEBALL WILL
CELEBRATION
MAKE BOW HERE
OVER JULY 4TH
2:30 P.M. SUNDAY
THURSDAY, July 4, will start
a three-day week-end of fun
and entertainment for Ashlanders
and visitors, according to plans
adopted Monday night by celebra­
tion committee members Walter
l^everette, Lee Ryan, I. F Andres
and Henry Metz were appointed
to negotiate with property owners
toward securing a suitable uptown
site for the carnival which in the
past has been located in Lithia
park Vacant lots across C street j
from the AlHn Lumber company |
were under consideration.
Mayor T. 8. Wiley was named j
honorary chairman of the celebra- i
lion and Walter Leverette was j
elected vice chairman to assist R
I. Flaharty, who offered his resig­
nation on a plea of conflicting
business engagements.
Arrangements for incorporation
of a sales event with the celebra­
tion were referred to the decora­
tions committee, headed by Metz
and his partner. Flloyd Richards
Main features of the celebration
will be a huge street parade and
rodeo to be staged on the Ashland
high sch<x>l athletic field. Other
events of particular interest will
include children's games, soap box
derby, dance, fireworks, bathing
Ix-auty contest, picnics in Lithia
park, softball, baseball, wrestling
card and a theatrical presentation
in the outdoor Elizabethan thea­
ter.
Total budget for the celebration
will approximate $2000. with more
than $300 of this amount to be
earmarked as prizes for entrants
in the rodeo's bucking, calf-rop­
ing, steer riding and cutting
events.
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Medford Craters To
Christen New Field
Saturday Evening
Medford's State league Craters,
rained out of their season opener
at Albany last week, will meet
Jack and Jill’s Tavern nine of
Portland on the fairgrounds dia­
mond in Medford Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon, May 4
and 5.
The grandstand at the new field
has undergone thorough renova­
tion and the playing field has
been put in excellent shape. A
complete lighting system is being
installed for night play.
Paul Hoffard. manager of the
Craters, had not decided, at a
late date, who would get the
mound cfa.ll for his club but said
that possibly Jimmy Rego, form­
erly with the Pacific Coast league,
will pitch Saturday night with
red-headed Steve Crippen work­
ing on Sunday.
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PORTER-WALKBR NUPTIAL
Helen Porter and Harvey Walk­
er, both of Ashland, were united
in marriage April 29 in Reno,
Nev. Following a short wedding
trip they are making their hom4
in the Enders apartments here.
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• Mr and Mrs Dick Adams re­
cently returned from a trip to the
coast where they enjoyed a week's
vacation. They visited in Crescent
City, Gold Beach and Marshfield
Clean-Up Is Good Business!
[AN EDITORIAL]
Jackson county has an eye-appeal that surpasses
any community within the entire United States. A
comparison of our natural environment and re­
sources with any.part of America leaves us with all
the advantage.
So in keeping we should maintain our physical
plant—our homes, our public buildings, our farms to
a similar degree of perfection.
It merely is good business to keep a home well
painted, protected by incidental repair and improved
by use of better gardens and ornamental foliage and
trees. Ashland has the most beautiful natural setting
in America, and we owe it to ourselves to keep our
part of it—our homes—as beautiful as Nature’s gift
to us.
Just the little things—paint, a touch of color on
lawns or porch, sweeping trees, well-kept outbuild­
ings, are necessities for a beautiful city. We have
every requirement at hand for a real campaign of
home improvement—good materials, dealers with
complete stocks, labor, money for improvement and
home building.
And there is one advantage we can stress—every
time you spend a dime or a hundred dollars on your
home, you have made that monev do double duty—
make you a better home as a permanent investment,
and circulate money through our entire community
and business structure to keep labor at profitable
employment.
Number 18
rJ’HE Southern Oregon Baseball
league will get under way Sun­
day, May 5, with the Ashland-
Talent team meeting the Crescent
City Merchants rm the high school
diamond. Opening pitch will be at
2:30 p. m. sharp.
As an opening day feature the
merchants of Ashland will donate
prizes for various feats of the day
such as the first single, first home
run, first out, first walk and other
events
Co-manager Al Simpson of the
A-Ts declared that his club is in
fairly good condition as the result
of stiff practice sessions and
should give the coast city lads a
busy afternoon Dick Skeeters,
regular catcher, may start on the
bench Sunday because of injured
ribs received in the Grants Pass
clash In the event he is unable to
play. Al Simpson will start behind
the plate. Frank (Nig) DiSordi,
P Ol' N T Y COMMISSIONER
fireball pitcher who was the main­
RALPH BILLINGS, candi­
stay of last year’s squad, will start
date for republican nomination
on the mound with Skinny Wilson,
for county judge, is vhown
George Bullion and Wayne Com-
above partaking of health-giv­
best on hand for relief duty. Del­
ing water of lithia fountain on
bert (Tiny) Jones is slated for
the plazu as he was girding for
first base with Collin Moore at
«train of final two weeks of the
second. Howard Jandreau at third.
campaign. Ashland residents are
Bob Strickland at the short patch
proud of lw>th their famous min­
and Don Montgomery, Eddie Joan-
eral .water and Billings, a prom­
is, Ed Learning and Charlie War­
inent citizen and popular neigh­
ren as fielders
bor.
Crescent City always has been
a hot rival for Ashland but Simp­
son and Charlie Skeeters, other
half of the managing duo, are con­
fident that Sunday will be their
A-Ts auspicious beginning. Ralph
Deo, veteran righthander, is re­
portedly ready to start as pitcher
for the coast club, and will be
Golfers from southern Oregon flanked by most of last year’s
and northern California have been Crescent City stars.
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invited to participate in the low-
medal open tournament opening
the 1940 summer season at the Trio Chosen for Trip
Ashland golf course Sunday, May
To Legion Boy State
5. The tourney will be a combina­
tion event offering low-medal
Boys chosen for the American
competition with three award.» in Legion
state encampment to be
each of the amateur and profes­
in August on the Reed col­
sional divisions. A blind bogey held
campus near Portland are
tournament will be drawn in var­ lege
Donald Willcox, LaMar Ormond
ious flights and also a two-man and
Charles Delsman. Alternates
best ball play award. Play will be
are Ardis Warren. Del­
in order on an 18-hole basis selected
Bohn and Robert Broili.
throughout the day. Hubert Bent­ mar
All expenses for the trip to
ley. Ashland's golf champion, will Boys
’ State will be paid by the
represent Ashland and other big Ashland
post of the American
names in southern Oregon and
northern California will be pres­ Legion.
ent.
• The Bellview P-TA executive
Entertainment w’ll be provided committee
will hold a special
for those who do not play and
in the school house this
everyone is invited to visit the meeting
May 3.
course Sunday and participate in afternoon.
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the season's first big tournament. • Bert Wade ‘a confined to his
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home by asthma.
GOLFERS PLAN
OPEN TOURNEY
Second Annual Spring
Music Festival Opens
In Junior Gym Tonite
The second annual spring music
festival for all Ashland public
schools will open at 8 o’clock to­
night, May 3, in the Junior high
auditorium. Three hundred stud­
ents will participate and will in­
clude choruses, glee clubs and or­
chestras from the high school and
junior high. Washington and Lin­
coln grade schools. In tryouts held
during the SOCE music festival,
the high school boys’ glee club re­
ceived a superior rating, which is
highest given, while the chorus
received an excellent rating.
The Christmas music event and
the spring program are the only
two sponsored by city schools each
year and tonight's feature is the
only one from which revenue Is
derived for the benefit of the
music departments.
Eunice Hager will lead the
Washington
school
musicians.
Maxine Conover the junior high
orchestra. Harriett Hill the high
school vocal groups and Ward V.
Croft the high school orchestra.
SEEN IN A DAZE
BERNICE NUTTER finding
a quarter nesting in her hair
and wondering from where so
she can go back for more.
BILL SNIDER with an itch
only fishing can scratch.
R. E. (Doc) POSTON looking
for a hammer so he could spike
the punch.
GEORGE (The Biggest One
Got Away) SHAFFER buying
a new catfish-powered waker-
upper alarm system.
JOHNNY MURPHY still qual­
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ifying as teacher’s pet even
MEN OUTGRADE WOMEN
though he is an alumnus
AT SOCE IN WINTER TERM
CLIFF (Two-Gun) BROM­
LEY inquiring for a bullet-proof
Men students at Southern Ore­ vest so he can clean his snootm
gon Col'ege of Education had a irons.
higher grade point average for the
CHARLIE WARREN and
winter quarter than did the wom­ JACK
WILLIAMS
singing
en students, according to Regis­ "We’re in the jail house now"
trar Marshall E. Woodell. The after PARKER HESS, the old
combined average for the men spider, lured them into a cell
was 2.46, while the same average and locked the door.
for the women was 2.41.
F. E. RUSSILL squeezing a
According to available records, capacity load of juice out of
this is the first time that the men Ashland creek water at the city
have ever exceeded the women in power house.
scholarship.
I. R. BARKSDALE giving up
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fishing for trout in favor of
TWO GET TRAFFIC FINES
fishing his glasses out of a
Earl Chester Olson, Kernville. stream.
Ore., was fined $2 and $4.50 court
BUZZ ROBERSON and JACK
costs when he appeared In Justice BENTLEY allegedly slashing a
of the Peace M T Bums’ court golf course caretaker out of his
Monday charged with lack of op­ job by getting to the grass first
erator's license. Ruben Arthur
B. C. FORYSTHE calculating
Huff. Yoncalla, posted $7 bail that "These politicians going
when arrested by state police for the rounds lately better be sure
lack of a muffler on his car.
they don’t fall through a plank
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In their platform.”
• The Rev. and Mrs David Tres-
BERT MILLER sporting a
ton of Klamath Falls were week­ pair of paint-spattered overalls
end guests at the J. E. Gowland and looking as ambitious as a
rainy Sunday.
homa.