Friday, June 28, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner pen portraits of O regon People You Know! DRAWN FOR THE MINER BY MAC PHERSON Published la very Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND. OREGON ★ Entered as second-class matter February 1ft. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. ★ TELEPHONE 8561 •THE TRUTH WIIXX r • Vic Sunder visited in Ashland with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W G. Sander, last week-end. • Mr and Mrs J W McCall and son James of Portland visited here last week end nt the home of Mi­ ami Mrs. Paul Finnell. • Bill Huffman left for Portland Monday where he will enlist in the US army. • Mr and Mis. Kenneth Burns returned to their home In Duns inuir Tuesday following a visit here with relatives and friends • John DeMille of Klamath Falls visited here early in the week at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs It M DeMille • Mr and Mrs lx>uiw Pratt of Leonard N. Hall Editor and Publisher ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR ..... $1 50 SIX MONTHS 80c ( Mailed Anywhere in the United States) K \ *S < —q «7 SET YOU FREE" JULY 4 CELEBRATIONS ARE A FEATHER IN OUR CAP—LET’S KEEP THEM SO! a • HILTS NEWS • Now that Ashland’s city officials have counter­ acted the earwig nuisance by releasing thousands of parasitized earwigs it has been suggested to The Miner by one resident—whose ideas are both timely and utilitarian—that the powers that be gather together several hungry goats and turn them loose on weed- burdened parking strips, vacant lots and indifferently- kept yards. Goats wouldn’t be a sachet to the community, but they certainly could clean up a number of eyesores. ★ ★ ★ SO WE’LL LEAVE THE WORLD’S TROUBLES TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES THIS WEEK! A good friend of The Miner dropped in the other day to offer his counsel to the editor and we publicly acquiesce to his suggestions. First, he explained that we were erroneous in a recent declaration that within 10 miles of Ashland there stood millions of feet of commercial timber. “However,” our friend added, “there is plenty of good timber within about 25 miles of town, which is rela­ tively closer than 10 miles would have been a few years ago.” And not being much of a timber beast ourselves, and never inclined to climb the hills and cast a calculating and trained eye at the stuff, we’ll be content to let the blamed things keep their distance. Another point mentioned concerned last week’s front-page editorial on the recent “sneak” election by the school board. Our critic would have gone even fur­ ther than we. His third point included cautions against writing too much about the present war in Europe because, he explained, “None of us really know a great deal about the conflict, its causes and probable implications, and we can do little good and much harm by over-enthus­ iastic discussion.” Well, we’ve got to agree he’s right and, besides, we can’t think of another thing to say about it anyway. So we surrender to summertime lethargy and just let the world plod on in its blundering, stupid way without important editorial help from this department. We make one reservation, however—we will not sign an armistice with the republicans, if we can get our hands on additional coals to heap on their heads, the dopes. Klamath Falla visited here last week end with relativ«*« and friends. • W D Jackson made a business trip to Portland early this week • Mia. 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