Friday, Dec. 6, 1940
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Obituary
Southern Oregon Miner
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Mam Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
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Entered as second-class
matter February 15.
1935, at the postoffice at
Ashland, Oregon, under
the act of March 3,1879.
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“THE TRI TH
BETTY JEAN NEW BitV
Funeral services for Betty Jean
Newbry, aged nine months, who
died Nov 26, were held at 1:30 p.
ni. Nov. 29 at the I Jt wilier Fun
eral home with the Rev. J. R.
Turnbull officiating
Interment
was in Mountain View cemetery
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MARGARET E. I’ENTEIt
Funeral services for Margaret
Elizabeth Penter, 82, who died
Nov. 26, were held at 3 p m. Nov.
29 ut the IJtwiller Funeral home
with the Rev. George W. Bruce
officiating.
Interment was in
Mountain View cemetery.
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HENRY FOX
Funeral services for Henry Fox.
63. who died Nov. 30. were held nt
9 a. tn. Dec. 3 nt the Litwiller
Funeral home with Father Mea
gher officiating, interment was In
KM >F ccmct< Iy
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Jl'I.II'S P. WOLF
Funeral services for Julius P
Wolf. 74, who died Dec? 2, were
held at 9 a. m Dec. 5 at the Our
I-ady of the Mountain church with
Father Meagher officiating Lit
wilier Funeral home was in charge
of arrangements interment was
In the Mausoleum.
Leonard N. Hall
Editor and Publisher
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CHRISTMAS OPENING IS TONIGHT-
LET’S GET IN THE SPIRIT!
This evening all Ashland business men will unveil
their special Christmas windows and will offer a num
ber of prizes as w’ell as distributing free noisemakers
to youngsters through the Chamber of Commerce.
The opening will be in the traditional manner and
probably will be one of the best of many successful
events.
Be sure to come dow’ntown tonight and join the
hundreds of window-shoppers. The spirit of holiday
good fellowship will be contagious and you’ll get an
inner glow that always makes Christmas the best-loved
of all the holiday seasons.
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LET’S LAY OFF NAGGING THE HIGHWAY’
DEPARTMENT FOR A WHILE, AT LEAST!
A week ago, when Oregon’s Gov. Charles A.
Sprague formally opened the new highway over the
Siskiyou mountains, he declared that the state high
way commission was pushing road improvements in
all parts of the state and “will go as far and fast as
funds will permit.’’
Lest the meaning and logic of his words be lost on
local folks, perhaps it would be well to point out that
other sections, as well as this, have highway improve
ments badly needed and that continual nagging of the PRESS AND POLITICIANS ALWAYS ARE BUSY
state highway board to “do this first’’ is useless and, SINGING THEIR OWN PRAISES!
if anything, tends to hamper and obstruct the highway
All newspapers take themselves far too seriously,
but the daily press particularly seems to excel at
program.
Every few months a drive is made to bring about overdoing.
enough pressure to force the highw’ay department into
Newspapers—whether once-a-weeks, six-a-weeks
immediate straightening of the Plaza bottleneck and or full dailies—all become just so much waste for
chests are beat, letters written and delegations ap starting fires, wrapping up garbage or for outhouse
pointed to nudge Oregon’s roadbuilders.
use after they’ve been scanned. Nothing in a news
But whereas Ashland’s one bottleneck is a source of paper ever becomes immortal and why it is that those
motoring irritation, for example Klamath Falls has of us in this business should pat our shoulderblades in
two miles of bottleneck that really is bad. The highway self-praise so persistently is hard to understand. We’re
running north out of the business district is so narrow all in this racket to earn what we can and bulldoze
and crooked it makes Ashland’s plaza turn look like the the rest. Service becomes a newspaper policy only when
Indianapolis speedway by comparison. Which should it is fruitful of greater profits.
illustrate the complex problems facing the highway
Being just a weekly newspaper, naturally The
department, and the futility of each community self Miner is among the lesser offenders against the com
ishly insisting that its particular problems should be munities on which publishers feed. The daily papers—
peace to their souls, if any—are the more malevolent
given preference.
Naturally, The Miner is just as anxious to see all of the fungi, and they are the most vain.
possible and plausible improvements come to this area
TWO-YEAR CONSTRUCTION
as any one of the hepped-up humdingers haranguing
PROGRAM IS UNDER WAY
state officials, but we believe that patience, faith and What Other Editors
humility would be particularly becoming, especially
The Pacific Telephone and Tele
Are Saying!
graph company and its subsidi
now that we’ve finally realized the dream of a super
KLAMATH’S AWFI L RECORD aries will spend in gross construc
highway over the Siskiyous.
Klamath
county ” motorists
in 1940 a toUl of $46.000.000
Let’s give the Oregon state highway department should be downright ashamed of tion
and it is now anticipated that in
record they have been making
credit for the many good things it has done for roads the
thia year. As this is being written 1941 the gross construction ex
in southern Oregon and let’s quit bawling our eyes out the total number of automobile penditure will run well in excess
in this county in 1940 is of $55,000,000 throughout the Pa
for more long enough to give the boys up at Salem a deaths
26. But at the rate these fatalities cific coast, in keeping pace with
moment’s peace. Sure we need the Plaza bottleneck have been happening the past few the public's requirement for tele
the number will probably
removecT, but then there are hundreds of projects weeks,
be increased by the time this is phone service and in meeting ef
equally worthy over the state and we feel certain that printed
and still further increased fectively and patriotically the
company's responsibilities in the
it is read.
all will be attended to as rapidly as is possible or before
Motoring is a risky business. national defense program, it was
practicable.
The combination of high speed, announced today by N. R. Powley,
Listening to the highway association squawkers, human weaknesses, and imperfec president, according to H. 8. Atk
tions of machinery is bound to ins, Ashland phone company
one might think the state was ignoring its roads!
result in a certain number of ac manager.
This two-year construction pro
cidents. But Klamath’s number is
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fast mounting above that neces gram of approximately $100,000,-
A SEVEN MILLION DOLLAR PAYROLL
FOR PEOPLE OF OREGON!
A note from J. A. Ormandy of Portland points out
the expenditures of the Southern Pacific company in
Oregon during 1939 and we believe the figures are im
portant enough to be brought to the attention of all
readers:
More than $7,000,000 was paid in salaries and
wages to its 4000 employes; about $1,000,000 was paid
in state, county and local government taxes, and mil
lions of dollars were spent for materials and supplies
produced in Oregon.
The importance of the Southern Pacific company
to Oregon, as indicated by these figures, speaks for
itself, and emphatically.
WHY A PRE-ARRANGED FUNERAL PLAN?
FOURTEEN: Under this plan you select the casket,
vault, clothing, etc., and verify the numerous details
essential to a complete funeral within the amount you
feel is justified and at a time when you can clearly
reason the soundness of the idea. No pre-payment is
necessary.
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sary number. So far this year
right in this one county we have
had 26 fatalities and numerous
lesser injuries, and we still have
more than a month to go. And
that month, with snow and icy
roads, is one of the most danger
ous of all.
It is generally admitted that
this traffic record is appalling,
and it is also admitted that some
thing must be done about it. What
to do, of course, is a hard question
to answer. But we can be more
careful. And those motorists who
refuse to be careful and are con
victed of drunken driving or reck
less driving or other serious traf
fic violations should have the book
thrown at them when they go
before the judge.
That is a drastic remedy, but
maybe it will work. Valiant ef
forts have been made to tell the
motoring public of the need for
more driving care, and the acci
dents continue at a still greater
rate. Now we should try the one
remaining alternative and make
traffic violators suffer by paying
heavy fines and sitting in jail.
Then maybe they will be convinc
ed that driving a car is a serious
business and should be done with
the maximum amount of care.- -
Klamath Basin Progress.
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• Mrs. Buster Tutter of Mount
Shasta is visiting here with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Chipman.
• Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Black are
the parents of a son bom Wed
nesday at the Community hos
pital.
FERMIN ZANA
Fur.cral services for Fermin
Zana, 80. who died Dec. 1, were
held at 11:30 a m Dec 4 at the
IJtwill.-r Funeral home with th.-
Rev. George W Bruce officiating
Interment was in Mountain View
cemetery.
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JOHN BOYD LANE
Funeral services for John Boyd
iAtie, 76. who died Nov 30. were
held at 2 p m. Dec. 3 at th. I.it
wilier Funeral home with the Rev
Brostrom officiating
Interment
was In Mountain view cemetery
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• Mrs. Arthur Rose in visitin,-
in Grants Pass for several days
this week.
• Mr and Mrs E N Slack left
Tuesday for a visit with t .-l.«t iv.- -
in Iowa. They plan to be gone
until after the holidays
• C R. Bowman Wednesday re
turned from a business trip to
Portland.
• Is-Boy illll of Talent under
went a minor operation nt the
Community hospital Wednesday.
• Mr. and Mrs. I D. Pittman
visited in Prospect last week-end
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Peterman.
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with I .uterine Antim-ptlc. Tratashowed
that regular uaera of Lbterine Anti
septic had fewer colds and milder colds
than non-users.
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000 is one of the largest in the
history of the company The ex
penditures are in general in the
following clossifications: Land and
buildings, $3,800,000; central of
fice equipment, $25,000,000; sta
tion equipment, $41,800,000; ex
change lines, $18,000,000; toll
lines, $10,200,000; general equip
ment, $2,200,000.
• Mr. and Mrs. Earl Neeley left
Tuesday on a business trip to
Reno.
• Miss Nellie Dickey was a busi
ness visitor in Medford Tuesday.
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