Friday, Dec. 6, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 6 Obituary Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at 167 East Mam Street ASHLAND, OREGON * Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3,1879. ★ TELEPHONE 8561 “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 • 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. -------------— 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 • 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 ★ SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) ONE YEAR......... $1.50 SIX MONTHS...........80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) SET YOU FREE" 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. ★ * * ---------- --------------- 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 ★ ★ ★ 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. LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME $ 7 ''I J (We Never Close) Phone 4541 CM.LItwiUer 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. ----------- •------------ • 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. -------------•— 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 e • 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. Wet Feet? gargle LISTERINE Prompt action may forettall trouble Wet feet . . . cold feet . . . drafts . . . and t ut igue, may lower body resistance so that coldn develop and germs in the throat get the upfsT hand. After auch exposures, why not help Nature to combat such germs <>n tissue »urfu.-ea by gurgling promptly and frequently with I .uterine Antim-ptlc. Tratashowed that regular uaera of Lbterine Anti­ septic had fewer colds and milder colds than non-users. Lambert Pharmacal Co., St. / muu , M u . ■S' 3 3 3 3 CHRISTMAS 3 3 X s Reed and Young’s Texaco Service 3 w. See Our Window Tonight! S OPENING I ?• I WE RE JOINING IN THE You'll be Interested In our line of motoring iM-ressortr« . . . that always ure greatly ap­ preciated by men! I sefui gifts that iiutke the car a greater pleasure for all the fam­ ily! Ashland Hotel Building Phone 4501 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. • Subscribe for The Miner today. A QUART EACH DAY V Betty Always Wins! She’s got that extra some­ thing that it takes to put it over. Possibly she gets that sparkling brilliance from drinking MILK! CLOVER LEAF DAIRY Phone 67S2 “When Mother said Uncle Ben was on the line, and I took my turn at the tele­ phone, I thought he must be somewhere right near by. But he was hundreds of miles away, calling to wish Mother a happy birthday and to give us all a cheery hello!’’ Long Diatance binds families together. 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