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ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940
Volume IX
111
The new year la about at hand
and residents are busy climbing
out of their piles of Christmas
cards to thruat heads of theii
resolution« above water for a few
brief hours Any good resolution
deaarvaa to ace the light of day
at least once a year.
80 ASHLAND MEN
ENJOY HOLIDAY
FROM CAMP LIFE
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And the boys who feit thry were
too old to go around ringing door
lly JACK BENTLEY
belle on Hallowe’en saved the tour APPROXIMATELY 80 soldiers
for Christmas eve and ended up
fiooi Battciy B. Ashland’«
feeling unuaually young
National Guard unit stationed at
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Camp Clatsop, Dre., pulled into
llnbit is a dangeroua thing A«hland Saturday night and Sun­
While grinning a “aame to you" day morning The boys will be
to the happy holiday well-wishers, home tor 11 days beginning with
we almoal slipped and extended Dec. 21 and ending Jun. 1. They
greeting« of the aeuaon to Editor must I m - in camp by reveille Jan
Clark Wood, who trail« the week­ 2
It is the first opportunity thut
ly field with hi« We«ton Leader.
many of the boys have had to
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come home although some enjoyed
Along with the job of trying to the privilege over the three-day
keep the resolutions, a lot of folk« Armistice week-end. According to
now will Ire busy reading the fine Clifton M Irwin, commanding of-
print on back of the easy payment In > i of tin- 249th Const Artillery,
contracts that were «o alluring thl« probably will I m * the last leave
any of the men will have until
before Christmas.
their year of service is up. About
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th only chance anyone will have
The new year promise« to be a of making the trip to Ashland
repetition of the old no far aa pol­ will be on a three-day week-end
itics and government are con­ and then it is doubtful if they will
cerned According to figure«, we re I m - allowed ’o come.
getting along nicely and making
We agaUi want to mention the
important progress In national de­ names of those men who are re­
fence and aid to England, but ac­ maining in camp.
All of them
cording to die-hard obstructionists stayed voluntarily so that those
in congre«« we will continue to who really wanted to come home
make a hell of a me»« of every­ could make the trip. Those who
thing Perhap» the quickest way remained in camp are as follows:
to give the defense program a Pvt. 1/CI Wayne G. Brown, Pvt.
push in '41 is to punh the defeat­ 1/CI Kenneth L. Evans, Pvt. 1/CI
ists and appeaser« in this country Ix-wellyn E. Peachey, f*vt. James
into the ncart st river.
1’ottri, Pvt Erwin Hilkey, Pvt
Howard Lockwood, Pvt. Hugh
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One of Chrtatmaa- tragic touch­ Spruill. Pvt. Arthur Struve, i*vt
es la that Grrnwny, Inventor of Donald Crouch. Pvt. 1/CI Clar­
Santa Claus and so many other ence Childers. Pvt Victor Son-
fine old customs, should have fall­ dreal and Pvt. Gerald Vogt.
Just before leaving Camp Clat­
en into such evil repute among
rest of the world because of her sop, it was learned that Battery
equal ability to develop customs B would have to complete approx­
imately 100 rounds of sub-calibre
of opposite intention.
practice and 10 rounds of service
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fire by Jan. 11. It will be the first
The coming twelve-month won’t time that many of the men have
lie so bed if the word "war" can ever seen actual service on the
go in one year and out the other. six-inch gun.
The sub-calibre practice will be |
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held first in order to give the men
While severe storms have been an idea of what to do under ac­
lashing the coast and other areas, tual service fire. Sub-calibre prac­
southern Oregon has been nestling tice is conducted under the same
among Its usual seasonal quota of principle as service fire is but a
warm raindrops. Natives, suppos- one-pound shell is used instead of
w> i, footed, have survived the 108-pound shell. If weather
their flu an<l sniffles, the holiday permits, service fire probably will
rush and jostling at the exchange b<- conducted Jan. 11 or as soon
counter to eye their woodpiles and after as weather permits Sub-cal­
marvel al their slight depletion. ibre practice is held at Battery
Pussy willows will be coming in off Pratt at Fort Stevens and service
creek tranks before many more practice is conducted at Battery
weeks and school kids will be Allen, Fort Canby, Wash.
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counting the days until spring va­
cation. Even members of the local
Battery have completed a third of
their one-year training in the reg­
ular army and are agreeing that'
camp life isn’t so bad If it weren’t i
for the ominous news from abroad,
this would be an unusually cheer­
ful and promising new year just
A city-wide revival will be con­
ahead There’s always one fly can ducted by the Reverend and Mrs.
get Into the ointment, and this Lloyd Johnson, nationally known
time the fly Is a nazi bomber.
evangelists, at the Foursquare
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Gospel church located at Fourth
National defense orders have and B streets, starting Dec 31.
boomed railroading until the lines' The gospel is presented very viv­
business future looks as bright aa idly and in a unique manner and
their shining rails.
Ignored in to see and hear Rev Johnson is
quieter times, the iron horse be­ to see and hear the late Billy
comes an industrial hero when the Sunday in action.
Meetings at 7:30 o’clock every
need arises.
night, except Monday and Satur­
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day. with good music and singing
Moore Hamilton, editor of the Everybody is welcome regardless
Medford News, laments the lack of creed or belief, rich or poor.
of words that rhyme with "Merry
New Year's eve will be a special
Christmas" adding another reason, watchnight service with different
besides a lack of ability, which speakers and special numbers for
keeps this department from com­ each hour until midnight.
mitting poetry.
Foursquare Church to
Launch Revival Series
Here Next Tuesday
The Miner Staff Wishes You [BATTERY MEN
TO PLAY AHS
QUINT TONIGHT
Mint*r Today Ends
9 Years of Service
As Upstart Paper
lyiTII
today'»
Issue
the
’’
Southern Oregon Miner
will complete nine full year)
of service In Jacksonville und
Awhlund. The pa|M-r wus first
Issued Jan. I, 1932, us the
Jacksonville Miner und in Feb­
ruary, 1935, hum moved to
Ashland, where the nuriM* was
■titered to Its present form.
launched u | mmi the uncer­
tain sens of journalism during
one of the nation's worst de­
pressions,
The
Miner
has
steadily grown from a four-
column, four-page newspaja-r
to Its present size. First three
years the pu|M*r was printed
in a Medford shop by its
present editor-printer until, a«
the publication grew, it was
able to Install Its own equip­
ment. Since that time the
physical bring of the |Mibllca-
tlon ha» continued to expand
until today The Miner also rn-
couipiMM-» the most modern
luid completely equlp|M*d com­
mercial printing department
In
Ashland,
pioneering
In
bringing
many
mechanical
improvements to this are*.
For Its steady growth. The
Miner is deeply indebted to Its
tolerant friends and patient
readers und to them It feels a
gratitude for which words arr
inadequate. With their help.
The Miner will strive, during
the coming year, to be more
and more an asset to the com­
munity which has mothered It.
Bicycle Licenses For
1941 Ready Jan. 15th
To allow time for clearing usual
year-end rush for automobile li­
cense«. Ashland police will defer
issuance of bicycle licenses here
until Jan 15. at which time the
officers will start dealing out the
miniature metal plates to owner»
of wheels.
License plates w*ill cost but 15
cents each thia year, same as last
year when the licensing ay sUnn
was introduced, while titles will
cost 10 cents each Owners who
now hold titles to their bicycles
will be out only the 15 cents for
license. Chief Talent explained,
while new titles must be obtained
by new owners of new or second­
hand wheels, same as automobile
titles are handled.
Vacation Will End
For Scholars Soon
Christmas vacation, looked for­
ward to with enthusiasm anti
plans, all too soon will end for
Ashland students, although no
classes will start for another
week.
College students at SOCE will
take up winter quarter registra­
tion Thursday, Jan. 2, while high
school, junior high school and
grade school students will be mas­
ters of their time until the fol-
lowing Monday, Jan. 6, when
studies will resume.
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O. C. Crawford
Harry Chipman
Mrs. R. F. Parks
Mrs. W. A. Gran
Louisa Martin
lack Bentley
lane and Leonard Hall
I
SNELL URGES
CAR DRIVERS
USE CARE IN ’41
”T ET'S begin Forty-one without
a one!”
Urging Oregon drivers and pe­
destrians to exercise care in order
to avoid traffic accidents on New
Year’s eve and on the following
day, Earl Snell, secretary of state,
suggests this slogan.
Last year, four persons were
killed in traffic accidents in Ore­
gon on the last day of December.
This year. Snell and others work­
ing in the interest of traffic safety
in Oregon hope they can reduce
this toll so that the state can
start the new year with a clean
slate.
In view of the fact that statis­
tics show that pedestrians are
the heaviest sufferers during the
holiday period, the traffic safety
division has distributed several
thousand pedestrian-driver cards,
designed to acquaint both drivers
and pedestrians with the situation
regarding pedestrian accidents in
this state and containing sugges­
tions for avoiding such accidents.
These cards have been sent to
every city and town in Oregon
with a population over 200 per­
sons. There they are being dis­
tributed by members of local traf­
fic safety councils, service clubs
and other civic organizations in­
terested in traffic safety, police
and county sheriff officials. Those I
who receive these cards are urged
to give them thoughtful consider­
ation and to remember the safety
suggestions they emphasize.
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BAROMETER TAKES DIVE
Lending barometric sympathy
to storms general over the coast,
official barometer in Ashland
Tuesday morning dove to 28.70, a
probable low record during last
10 years here. Other points in
Oregon also recorded unprecedent-
fd Jowa,,bul rain was the wea-
ther's only consequence in this
vicinity.
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GET SMALL FINES
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Lawrence Ritzinger pungled $1
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LEEVER COMMISSIONED
and $4.50 justice court costs re-
William Leever, son of Mr. and
cently for failing to dim head­
lights to an approaching car. Mrs. Earl Leever. has been com­
while other contributors to Jus­ missioned second lieutenant in the
tice of the Peace M. T. Bums' US army reserves. He is a gradu­
county coffers included Ernest F. ating ROTC senior at Oregon
Koble, who paid $1 and costs for State college.
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faulty brakes. Roy Russell Miller
REDFORD TO PORTLAND
paid $2 50 and costs for improper
Dr. Walter Redford, president
license plates and Charles James
Martin of Keno appeared for pass­ of Southern Oregon College jf
Education, was in Portland last
ing with insufficient clearance.
week-end to attend a council
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Game« l<a>»t Week-
• Marie Mitchell of North Bend meeting of the state teachers' as­
SOCE 31, Rubensteins 38 (at is visiting until the New Year here sociation which arranged details
Medford).
at the home of her parents, Mr. of the state meeting to be held
Uttle Sons 33 at Medford 35.
during the holidays.
and Mrs. W. C. Mitchell.
Roseburg 18 at Klamath Falls
34.
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Probable reason why gabby peo­
ple seldom excel at anything else
Is because nothing else sounds as
good to ’em.
• BASKETBALL
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Something tells us that Con­
gressman Martin Dies belongs to
the old school which believed in
sneaking up on the bank bandits 1
with all sirens screaming.
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Game« Thl« Week-end:
Dec. 27 Battery B at Ashland.
Dec. 27 Grants Pass at Myrtle
An examiner of operators and
chauffeurs will be in the Ashland Point.
city hall from 1 p. m. to 6 p. m. |
TWO OF US, CHUM!
Friday, Jan. 3 to issue licenses,
It's okeh to hur.t or trap skunks
and permits to drive cars.
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in Oregon without a license, an
I--------------------------------- - official rules. Warning should be
taken by a certain occupant of
Mrs. C. H. Brown
the Ashland Miner’s noisome den
Weston leader.
and Companion
EXAMINER COMING
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Are Invited to Be Quests of the
Trinity Episcopal
Church
Southern Oregon Miner
To See Their Choice of
the F'ollowing
I)r. Claude E. Sa re. Vicar
Varsity Theater
Pr ograms:
Holy Communion 8 i m.
Church school 9:30 a. m.
Sermon and morning prayer 11
(Saturday)
"THE RAMPARTS
WE WATCH"
"CARSON CITY KID”
a. m.
Wednaday, Jan. 1 there will be
a service for the New Year with
sermon and Holy Communion.
This service will begin at 9:30 a.
m. and the public Is cordially
invited.
Choir meeting Friday, 7:30 p.
m.
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
•BRIGHAM YOUNG”
•
Please Call at The Miner Office
for Your Guest Ticket«
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You are cordiall
worship with us.
ylnvited to
Oregon Children Have Best
Chance to Live First Year
PHIIJiREN born in Oregon stand
a better chance of living
through the first year of life than
children born in almost any other
state in America, according to
data released by the public health
research department of the Ore­
gon Mutual Life Insurance com­
pany.
Official records of the state
board of health show that In the
first 10 months of this year there
were only 499 deaths of infants
under one year of age, a rate of
34.0 per 1000 live births.
The rate for Oregon in 1939 was
36 6, the fourth lowest in the
country. The national infant mor­
tality rate for the year 1939 was
48 per 1000 live births, in 1938 it
was 51.0 and in 1937 it was 54.4.
New Mexico had the highest in­
fant mortality of all the states,
reporting 109 3 for 1939, com­
pared with Minnesota’s rate of
3S.4 for the year, the lowest in
the country.
Number 52
Oregon figures for the first 10
months of this year indicate a big
decline in infant mortality. If the
remaining two months of 1940
continue as favorably, Oregon will
probably have the lowest infant
mortality rate in the nation for
the current year.
In October of this year there
were 1365 births reported to the
state board of health, and 52
deaths of infants under one year
of age, giving the state an infant
mortality rate for the month of
38 1, one of the highest of the
year.
Three counties. Grant, Harney
and Sherman, reported no births
to the board of health for the
i
month.
Leading the list of Oregon coun­
ties for births during the month
was Multnomah, including the city
of Portland, with 421 visits from
the stork. Fifty births were re­
ported from Jackson county for
that period.
Four Attend Highway
Meeting in Portland
Four Ashland business men left
for Portland Thursday, where
they will attend the northwest
regional meeting to consider ways
of pushing earliest possible com-
pletion of Pacific highway mod-
emization.
Those making the trip from
this city included Mayor T S
Wiley, City Attorney Frank Van
Dyke, Chamber of Commerce Sec­
retary Dean Pieper and G. M
Green. Large delegations are ex­
pected to attend from Medford
and Grants Pass, as well as other
points along the Pacific highway.
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Quarterback’ Dine
Battery B Quintet
Members of Battery B basket­
ball team and commissioned offi­
cers of the outfit Thursday night
were treated to a banquet in the
Plaza cate by the Downtown
Quarterbacks club, Ashland ath-
letic booster organization. J. H.
Hardy,
Quarterback
president,
was in charge.
Officers invited included Lieut.-
Col. Clyde G. Young, Capt. Charles
Delsman
and
Lieut.
William
Clary. Team members dined in­
cluded Charles Warren, Ardis
Warren, Delbert Jones. Bill Hoxie,
Walter Lee. Kenneth Schilling.
Harold
Baughman,
MacKenzie
Roberson. Jack Weaver and Bob
Strickland.
JT will be a homecoming event
for Battery B basketball team
members tonight when they meet
Ashland high's Grizzlies on the
junior high court, the preliminary
beginning at 7:15. The gate re­
ceipts, less expenses, will go for
the Battery mess fund benefit.
All of the squad, coached by
Ken Schilling, are veterans of
Ashland athletics and will be
gunning for a win over their alma
mater.
The Battery lost one to the
Astoria coaches, consisting of
Wally Palmberg and company, in
three overtime periods and won
their first AAU game, taking Bat­
tery a of Klamath Fails 31 to 13.
The first five men on the regi­
ment team are from Battery B.
They hold a 51 to 38 win over
Westport who previously had
beaten Albany college, coached by
Don Faber.
The soldiers from Camp Clatsop
who will probably be in uniform
tonight are Charley Warren. Ar-
die Warren. Buzz Roberson, Ken
Schilling. Tiny Jones. Jack Wea­
ver. Bill Hoxie, all Ashland high
stars of other years, and Bob
Strickland and George Bullion,
former SOCE players
Th probable starting lineups for
both teams follow:
Ashland
Pos.
Battery B
Provost ........... F........... C. Warren
Jandreau ......... F........... Roberson
Smith ............... C................... Jones
Weaver ______ G............. Schilling
Fowler ______ G
Hoxie
A preliminary game that will
rival the main fracas for action
and interest is the Southern Ore­
gon All-Stars-Southem Oregon
coaches affair scheduled to get
under way at 7 o’clock.
The tentative starting lineups
for both teams boast an array of
ex-Ashland and Medford prep tal­
ent. The probable starting fives
for these two teams will be:
All-Stars
Pos.
Coaches
Marris ........... F____
Gastineau
Stead ............... F..„.......... Simpson
Jessel ............ *.C........... Eberhart
Crosby ______ G......... ......... Hess
McLean _____ G...... —....... Nance
Since the All-Stars are anxious
to schedule games, anyone with
a team wishing to play them is
asked to contact Joe Jessel at
1122 West Fourth street, Medford.
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Gastineau’s Hoopmen
Rubes Pummel SOCE Will Tour Willamette
38 to 31 on Medford Valley Coming Week
Ten Ashland high school bas­
Court Friday Night ketball
players and Head Coach
e-
A veteran lineup of all-Ameri­
cans and all-coast basketball tal­
ent from Eugene, Rubenstein's
Oregonians, eased themselves into
a 38 to 31 victory over Southern
Oregon College of Education at
Medford high gymnasium last Fri-
day night,
The game I between Southern
Oregon and Multnomah college,
scheduled for the SOCE gym Sat­
urday night, was called off when
flu prevented the Chiefs from
making the trip.
The Rubes made a ball game
out of it in spite of the advantage
of experience and the Sons were
leading 7 to 6 qt the end of the
first period. The Rubes had forged
ahead 18 to 13 when the teams
went to the dressing rooms at
halftime and were out in front
24-20 when the final 10 minutes
started.
Ted Sarpola, ex-University of
Oregon flash, led all scorers with
and even dozen points while Jack
Butterworth, former OCE star,
tallied 10.
Chuck DeAutremont, turning in
a whale of a game for the Sons,
led his team with 11 markers.
Medford high showed possibil­
ities when they eked out a thrill­
ing 35-33 win over the Little Sons
in the prelim. The game was dead­
locked several times and it was
only in the closing seconds that
Frank Dixon, seeing his first year
of Medford action, sank a field
goal to pull the game out of the
fire.
The Sons are Idle this week-end.
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ELKS DANCE IS EVENT
Ashland Elks furnished Ashland
celebrants their one social center
Christmas night when they open­
ed their ballroom for a yule dance
which was well attended. Dancing
was from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. and
entire proceeds were used for cha­
ritable work by the benevolent
organization. Barney's orchestra
furnished music,
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• Mr and Mrs. Wayne Cowdrey
and children and Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Elmire of Phoenix were din­
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. F.
Parka Christmas day.
Jerry Gastineau will head north
early Monday morning, Dec. 30.
for their annual barnstorming trip
into the Willamtette valley.
At 7:30 o’clock that night the
Grizzlies will face Albany high
there and then will head on north
where they will meet Chemawa
Indians in a two-game series. The
first will be at 2:30 p. m. Dec. 31
and the next one the next night
at 7:30
Gastineau stated that he was
trying to line up a game for Jan.
2 but so far had been unsuccess­
ful. The Grizzlies will play Van­
couver high there Jan. 3 at 8
o’clock and then head home for
the start of school Jan. 6.
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SEEN IN A UAZE
I. C. ERWIN buying a New
Year’s greeting ad and inviting
his friends to come in and hear
the story that goes with it.
BILL BROWN, a confessed
gadget buyer, purchasing a pair
of colorful suspenders although
he has worn a belt for 20 years.
DON BRACE being robbed of
two celebrations by having his
birthday come on Christmas.
BOB PINSON’S window and
poise being shattered by a snow­
ball thrown by PHIL KEATON.
ERIC WEREN describing his
cat as a weather vane.
JACK FORSYTHE allowing
as how mid-western sub-zero
weather isn't so bad from in­
doors.
LAWRENCE RUDE declar­
ing army life isn't so bad,
especially during furlough.