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SOUTHERN OREGON la one of
k those delightful spots in the
west where, during fishing season,
most of the manpower goes to
tongue
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Trouble with most political ar
guments, Just before election day,
is they won’t hold as much water
M a snood
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English speaking peoples have
more In common than we thought.
<*hamberlaln, like our own Hoover,
seems to be a fellow whose mouth
Is his own worst enemy
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Volume IX
As part of the crippled child
ren’s program of the state public
welfare commission, a clinic for
crippled children In Jackson coun
ty will be held in Medford May
14, 15 and IS in the Jackson coun
ty health unit office
Admittance to the clinic will be
by application, which can be made
through the Crippled Children's
services of the state, public wel
fare commission, the Jackson
county public welfare commission
or the Jackson county health unit.
Who made arrangements for the
clinic.
Children Flock Here
For Festival Today
The llth annual music festival,
children's division, opened at 1
p m. today in the SOCE physical
education building.
Mayor Thornton Wiley and
Pres Walter Redford were to open
the program with addresses of
welcome, followed by musical
numbers by Medford Junior high
orchestra, grade school choral en
semble, band ensemble, Junior high
choral ensemble, Butte Falls band,
folk dances, Rogue River boys'
chorus, Ashland Junior high chor
us ensemble and several numbers
by the Grants Pass schools.
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FORFEIT BONDS HERE
Bail bonds of 110 each were
forfeited by Roy Delaney and
James A Mullen for failure to ap
pear In city court Monday. The
pair were arrested early Sunday
by city police and charged with
being drunk.
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Bob Brantley
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)
"THE GREAT VICTOR
HERBERT**
"HENRY GOES TO
ARIZONA*’
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
“YOUNG TOM EDISON”
(Wednesday)
•‘NURSE EDITH CAVELL"
"MILLIONAIRE I’l-AYBOY”
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Please Call at The Miner Office
for Your Guest Tickets
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ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940
Number 19
ASHLAND POPULATION CLIMBS
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FOUR OF BARD’S
PLAYS WILL BE
PRODUCEDHERE
Principals in High School Play Tonight!
Oregon Journalism still exhibits
occasional evidence of an unjeal-
ous camaraderie, the Journal thia
week congratulating the Oregon
ian for receiving a college award
for Journalistic excellence. How
ever, the bouquet wax so brief fpHESPIANS from southern Ore
that the type itself wouldn't make
gon and all corners of the na
an impraaaion if molded into a tion will produce four of William
bullet
Shakespeare's most famous plays
in Ashland's outd<xir Elizabethan
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Science In all Its wisdom still Is theater during August, according
able only to destroy life, not cre to plans formulated at a meeting
of festival association officials in
ate It.
the Uthla hotel Thursday night.
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May I» This summer's series, cov
From the way things look, about ering a week of presentations, will
the only person who could ever comprise the sixth annual pro
beat Roosevelt was his mother.
duction of the famous works in
original form.
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The other day someone accused
William Cottrell, of Hollywixxl,
this department of disliking re will direct the plays in the absence
publicans and we'd like to correct of Angus Bowmer, and Mils M
the ugly rumor now. We love 'em, Bowmer will act as art director.
for they made us democrats what Plans for the festival include
we lire today
streamlining of the plays with
presentation in a modernized man
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The supreme court has upheld ner. while the outd<x>r theater it
anti-trust convictions and fines self will have improved acoustics
brought against middl<*westem oil Other progressive innovations are
companies and motorists are with planned to make thia the most
holding their rejoicing, knowing successful scries of all.
Greater local participation in
that the court coats, fines and
■ o all will be passed on the dramatic, technical, costume,
design and publicity phases of the
them
plays will be stressed, according
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to Cottrell, who has served ax
Railroads are inaugurating a assistant director during last four
credit plan for purchase of tickets, years of the productions
but imagine embarrassment of the
Annual meeting of the Shakes
pay-as-you-go traveler who de pearean FesUvai association will
faults on a payment several hun be held in the Lithia hotel Mon
dred miles from home. Or when day, May 20, at which time new
the repossession agent takes non officers for the coming year will
paying customers back to where be elected. Present officers, who
they started.
have given the "go-ahead" signal
to the famous productions, include
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Ever since reading that Editor Dr. Walter Redford as president.
Clark Wood set a record with Porter J. Neff vice president,
"Asleep In the !>eep'' after more Frank Van Dyke secretary and
Ticket
than »IO years we've been wonder J. W McCoy treasurer
ing Just what he regards as the chairmen include Mrs Etta Schil
ling for Ashland and Mrs Chan
"deep" in a country print shop
Egan for Medford.
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Yep. Clark's so lazy it takes
him until 7 o'rliH-k at night to
Itet up In the morning.
Clinic for Crippled
Children Set May 14
oMal Sotndkùty, *7a gay -And.
Roberts Lauds Hanna
As Best Qualified In
Circuit Judge Field
THE EDITOR: The office
* of circuit Judge is one of
the most lni|M>rtant that the
voters of Jackson and Jose
phine counties have to fill at
the coming primary election.
Since a Judge has to | nmm
u|Ktn matters which may af
fect the life, liberty or prop
erty of any |>er»on, it be
hooves all of us to unite In
electing an attorney who Is
well qualified for this Import
ant tank.
Realizing my civic respon
sibility and believing that as
a lawyer who has been en
gaged actively In the practice
of law In thin district for
many years I should be In a
position to properly assist the
voting public In Its selection
of the best candidate to fill
thin position, I unhesitatingly
urge the election of Herbert
K. Hanna an |>osaesslng all of
the qualifications that go to
make an
Impartial, Just,
learnnl and able Judge, and
one who would fill thin office
with honor to himself and
credit to the community.
Very sincerely yours,
GEORGE M. ROBERTS.
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Bentley Ixow-Scores
Way to Medal Award
Seventy-four strokes for 18
holes gave Hubert Bentley the low
medal award for the combination
open golf tournament at the Ash
land golf course last Sunday. The
tourney officially opened the sum
mer golfing season for Ashland
fans
Bentley took 37- one over par
on each round with George Har
rington, Medford golfer, taking
the position of runner-up with a
first-round score of 39 and a sec
ond-round par to total 75.
Bentley and Bill Hutchinson, lo
cal pro, took first place in the
two-man best ball play with a
combined score of 72. Harrington
and Jean Eberhart were close on
their heels with 73.
Hutchinson, with a scratch 83,
and Jack Bentley, with a net 81.
shared the blind bogey award.
Bogey was 82,
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GOLFERS TO HOLD MEET
Ashland citizens arc being urged
to attend an open meeting at 8
p. m. Tuesday, May 14, In the
IJ thia hotel where a discussion
of the acquisition by the city of
the local golf course property will
be held. Purchase of the property
will come up for vote at the May
17 primaries and all cltixena are
urged to attand.
-♦ /^L'RTAIN at 8 o’clock tonight.
Let’s Keep What We’ve Got!
With election day just a week away, Ashland
voters who are proud of their community and jealous
of its many civic resources had better consider ser
iously their golf course, acquisition of which is pro
posed by ballot. Cost to the city would not exceed
$5500 for the self-sustaining tract, which includes
more than 40 acres of ideal industrial site, with
trackage available, as well as an unusually fine nine-
hole course.
Residents should keep in mind, when making
their decision, that thejf will be voting for or against
a community asset, not for the support of some
stranger's hobby. Golfers will continue to foot the
course’s bills, just as they have in the past. Only
change will be that Ashland will own the land, which
easily is worth its cost as ranch property, and be in
a position to furnish free water which now is being
wasted, and remove the land from under its present
tax burden. Maintenance of the property will con
tinue entirely at the expense of players. NOT TAX
PAYERS, and Ashland will be assured of a contin
uance of this civic asset.
May 10, will display resiult
of week» of effort on the part
of the above high school senior
dramatic and technical talent.
A three-act farce. “Stop Thief,"
wax selected by the seniors and
Director Ruth Woods for the
annual
presentation.
Shown
above is a Bushnell Studio por
trait of the staff and cast and
they are, reading from left to
right, back row—Carl Isen bow
er, Joe Wurzer, Paul Brower.
Earl Schilling, Miss W oods, Dale
Kaegi, Rosemary Bell, James
Coomes, Jim Beebe, Dick Leigh
and -lack Hanoi. Front row, left
to right—Gene Perry, Dorothea
Flaharty, Ardis Warren, Joan
Whitmore,
Carol
McCollum,
Dale Williams, Jeannette Bur
ton, Peter Barker. Caroline San
der. Nellie McLain and Dick
Putney.
SENIOR PLAY IS
LAUGH TREAT OF
DRAMATIC YEAR
COASTING the biggest cast ever
to be seen in a high school
play in Ashland—16 in number—
the senior class of the local high
school will present an annual pro
Reject ion of the measure by voters prob
duction, "Stop Thief,” starting at
ably will result in loss of the property as a
7:45 o'clock tonight. May 10, in
golf course and loss of it as a recreational
the Junior high auditorium.
The play is one of the fastest-
asset to the community.
moving farces to be seen here for
time and with a talented
The city now has the cash on hand with which some
cast should provide an evening of
to make the purchase, and no cost will be passed on unusual enjoyment.
The Carr home is scene of the
to taxpayers. How much more useful that $5500 can play's
Nell, the maid, and
be to residents, school students and visitors if it is Doogan. action.
her sweetheart and a
crook, conspire together to
invested in the golf course property than if it is likable
rob the place by making
the rest
kept on deposit, where it can earn but a few dollars of the household believe _ they
are
interest a year! Isn’t the saving of a beautiful and kleptomaniac. From here the play
hither and yon and in
popular golf course worth more than the $25 or $30 progresses
volves everyone but the stage
a year the money will bring in interest if not used? manager.
Cast for tne play includes Rose
Not all of us use our park, few regularly drink mary
Bell as Mrs. Carr, James
our lithia water, and many never hear the summer Coomes as Mr Carr. Jeannette
as Joan Carr, Joan Whit
band concerts. But all of these features are ac Burton
more as Madge Carr, Caroline
knowledged assets we would not want to see for Sander as Caroline Carr, Carol
McCollum as Nell, Jim Beebe as
feited. So, whether you play golf or not, take the Jim
Cluney, Dick Leigh as Dr.
large view of the question—that our golf course is Willoughby. Dale Williams as Doo
Ardis Warren as the Rev.
worth keeping, especially when it can be acquired gan,
Spelvain, Stan Davis as Mr. Jam
for a few cents on the dollar!
ison. Peter Barker as Joe Thomp
son, Earl Schilling as Sergeant,
Jack Hanel as Officer Clancy,
Carl Isenhower as Officer O'Brien
and La Vern Gilman as chauffeur.
Miss Ruth Woods is directing
the play and Miss Cornelia Hulst
More than 1000 spectators and
Edward W. Kubli, republican is assisting.
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student performers packed the candidate for nomination for coun
Junior high school auditorium last ty commissioner, this week issued
Friday night when the city schools the following explanation of his
sponsored their second annual candidacy for Miner readers:
spring music evening.
"I am 38 years old, have lived
Feature attraction of the pro on- the Kubli ranch in the Apple
gram was the 25-piece Washing gate valley all my life, and during
ton school orchestra made up of the last 25 years have been en
Roy L. Houck, construction con
third to sixth-grade youngsters gaged in the general farming and
tractor on the Siskiyou unit of
and directed by Miss Eunice Ha stock raising business
"The Applegate valley has had the Pacific highway, expects to
ger. The group, which has been
practicing only since September, no representative in the court best his completion deadline of
played three selections with the house for many years, and at the Oct. 31 by a month, with opening
flourish of veterans. Miss Eliza request of many people who be of the new highway to travel on
beth Rule directed a chorus of lieve this section should be repre or about Oct. 1 if present late of
100 voices from Lincoln school. sented, 1 have consented to run for construction is maintained. About
two weeks additional grading
Miss Maxine Conover directed the county commissioner
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work remains, to be followed by
Junior high school orchestra in
black-top paving activity.
COOKS GET NEW SON
three numbers, Ward Croft led
Mr. and Mrs. J. Morgan Cook
Complete at present are 10.1
the high school band, and Miss
Harriett Hill directed the high became the parents of an eight miles from Ashland to Siskiyou
school boys’ glee club and the pound son early Friday when the ’ station. With end of the paving
girls' chorus in several numbers lad arrived at Community hos contract on the mountain in Oc
which were the highlight of the pital, where he and his mother, tober, the Oregon side of the Sis-
evening The boys’ glee club had the former Frances Hardy, are kiyous will be graded and paved a
I distance of 16 25 miles from in
received a superior rating at the doing well.
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trait <>f the Community hospital
SOCE music festival held here
• R. S. Schuerman of Ashland on Siskiyou boulevard in Ashland j
several weeks before
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was a business caller in Talent to the California border, entirely.
replacing the old Pacific highway. I
• Subscribe for The Miner today. Friday.
Music Treat Packs
Rubli Tells Reasons
1000 Into Junior Hi For Seeking Election
ALL OVERLOOKED
RESIDENTS TO BE
SOUGHT MONDAY
STATISTIC - MINDED residents
of Ashland will be cheered to
learn that census returns from
this community already indicate
that population total will exceed
the 1930 count of 4544 by at least
several hundred, according to A
Moore Hamilton, assistant area
manager now stationed in Port
land.
Nose counting here resulted in a
5020 total in 1910, a drop to 4283
in 1920. a surge back up to 4544
10 years ago and this year prob
ably will finish somewhere just
short of the 1910 figure, unofficial
returns indicate. Although enum
erating has been completed in
Ashland and most sections of the
county, audit of census reports
will not be completed for some
time, according to Hamilton, when
exact and official figures will be
announced.
An additional one per cent
' enumeration is expected Monday.
May 13, when a census taker will
be stationed at the Ashland Cham
ber of Commerce to contact all
residents who may have been
overlooked during the regular
count, said Hamilton. Residents
unable to get to the office during
Monday are asked to phone in and
some arrangement will be made
whereby they can be included in
the official count.
Ashland's population gain, al
though comparatively small, comes
at a time when most cities in
the state and throughout the na
tion are experiencing a decline.
Portland and Medford are among
cities busy rechecking their counts
in a desperate effort to equal their
1930 totals.
“The general decline in urban
population returns is due mostly
to better roads and more cars.”
explained
Hamilton,
"and al
though the immediate trading
area of most cities has increased,
actual residence within the cities
boundaries has shrunk. More and
more people are moving into rural
suburbs, as evidenced here in
Jackson county, where the total
population will be increased by the
rural count.”
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Citizenship Day Is
Set for May 13th
According to announcement by
Mrs. J. W. McCoy, the third an
nual citizenship recognition day
observance sponsored by the Mt
Ashland chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, will be held
in the Southern Oregon College of
Education auditorium at 9:45 a m.
May 13.
This program will form a greet
ing to those who have become 21
years of age since the same time
last year and was conceived by the
Ashland chapter and since has
been adopted as a nationwide
practice.
An extensive program has been
arranged and includes an address
by Dr. Sherman L Divine, state
president. Sons of the American
Revolution.
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SEEN IN A DAZE
By Our
KEYHOLE
REPORTER
Siskiyou Highway Job
To Be Completed For
Travel About October
CLARENCE (Squeak) SHA
FER scratching his head and
wondering why his slippers
won’t hold water.
CHICK FARLOW muttering
"when” to keep himself from
getting too much sugar in his
. coffee.
WELDON
(Little
Ike)
HEARD riding a merry-go-
round horse without the aid of
music.
BUZZ ROBERSON claiming
he was misquoted in The Miner
last week; it seems he didn’t
cut up all the grass with his
golf game because you can't dig
up the fairway when you're in
the rough all the time
J. H HARDY joining the
ranks of grandfathers on the
arrival of STANLEY DAViD
COOK early today.