Friday. Jan. 17, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
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RACKETEER HAS NO PLACE IN PROGRAM
OF NATIONAL DEFENSE!
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WOMENS FASHIONS
AND DEMOCRACY
%
I^INCE THE EARLY COLONIAL
Ar,.’
TIMES WHEN SUMPTUARY
LAWS LIMITING GOOD
CLOTHES TO THE VERY
WEALTHY WERE LAUGHED
OUT OF EXISTENCE,
THE U.S HAS SCORHEO
CLASS LABELS
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A poll was recently taken in Portland by the Ore-
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gonian on the subject of strikes in defense industries,
Ninety percent of the people queried said that the
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federal government should take steps to prevent such
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strikes. Only 10 per cent said no.
Of the union members queried, 83 percent favored
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federal action, as against 17 percent which opposed it.
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|§MONG OTHER THINGS, AND WITHOUT THINKING
A large number said they always had believed in
labor's right to strike, but now thought the emergency
ABOUT IT, WE RECOGNIZE THE RIGHT OF EVERY
justified temporary limitations of this right. Nationi
||| WOMAN AND GIRL TV LOOK HER BEST.
defense, they observed, overshadows all other consid
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erations.
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The poll also asked how strikes should be prevented.
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only the prjv / leged
Seventy-nine percent of those answering favored com
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DRESS WELL.
pulsory arbitration by the government.
This poll undoubtedly represents the collective
opinion of practically all the people of this country,
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including thoughtful workmen. It is a bitter commen
tary that when the government is conscripting tens of
|£ ll OVER AMERICA GOOD, STYLISH CLOTHES,
thousands of young men and paying them a dollar a
SMART APPEARANCE AND GOOD GROOMING
day, and offering their lives to the country, a radical
ARE SYMBOLS OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
segment of labor that is being paid the highest wages
in history, and working the shortest hours, forces
strikes for more.
razzberry.
Most significant fact produced by this poll is the
Occupants of the New York car were five elderly
attitude of union workmen. They, no less than the
people.
From their appearance they were cultured and
public at large, are overwhelmingly opposed to strikes
probably
belonged to the affluent class. It was plainly
in defense industries. This bears out the opinion that
the majority of working men are sincerely patriotic, evident that they were worried about what was ahead
and want to work for their country’s defense—and of them on the highway and deeply embarrassed by
that the recent strikes simply have been forced on the treatment accorded them by the highway hoodlum.
them by a small number of racketeers and malcontents. There was a feeling among the Ashlanders that a good
The labor leader who falls into that category—and sock on the jaw would have been a lesson to the offend
there seems to be too many of them these days—is the er, but he was out ahead and it was a closed incident as
far as he was concerned.
worst enemy the honest worker has.
The statutes take care of the traffic violator but it
will require an intensified educational program to
TRAFFIC EDUCATION SHOULD INCLUDE
eliminate the “wise guys” from the highways.
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COURTESY TO OUT-OF-STATE VISITORS
TALENT MILL TO
SAW U S TIMBER
of hi» mother, Mr». Frances Tame
their grandparent« there returned M(>(|for(| Mil Nt* 11 Ill HUN
home with them.
• Mr ami Mm 1 Walter
Smith
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Ashland called on h’lativea here
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An interesting dieplay of Ore
’ Monday.
• Harvey Thayer re-enrolled In gon gem stones and minerals ia
I the CCC for another six months found at the Santo Agate Shop
• Mia. Ray Harland waa shop and Museum In Medford Thia col
ping in Ashland Monday
• Harry Hendrickson, night watch lection should do much to make
man at the McKean sawmill, la the public conscious of the rate
able to be out after a spell of flu atones and minerals of thia are-
• Mm Roy Estes returned home lion aa well as attracting the at
Wednesday from Eugene wheie tention of tourists to thia little
ahe spent the paat week viaiting known resource.
her daughter and son-in-law. Mr
Santo, a collector for many
I
and Mrs. Lloyd Cochran.
years, reports that there are 30
• An auxiliary pump ia ladng in gem stones and over 100 minerals
stalled on the village fire truck to be found In Oregon, several of
With the new equipment the l<a-n) which ate common only to thia
truck will be able to conduit flrea section The atones are displayed
wherever water la available Many both In the rough and after pol
r of thoae living outaide the city ishing ami cutting have revealed
limits ate high in their prillae of
their beauty Other Items to be
thia addition to the fire equipment found in the museum are arrow
aa they feel that it will prove a heads. many < specimens
apecimens of iietri-
wonderful help to them In caae of
bones, leaf fos-
fled woods, fossil
i.
file
things of geological
ails
and
other
• Mix Bertha Hungate and mo
gems from othei
ther, Mm. Elisabeth Palmer, were Interest, and
business callers in Aahland Sail countries
Visitors arc welcome to the mu
in da v
• Dale O’Harra of Ashland and scum at all times ami will find
Mr. Santo ready to discuss any
Olive Hill visited ¡a Glendale Sin
day afternoon with Mr and M in questions they might have in re
gard to gem stones or problems
I, C. inn.
In atone cutting and polishing
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MineralH on Display
ASHLAND STUDENTS ON
HONOR ROLL AT UNIVERSITY
Among the 160 students at the ’ w'.
University of Oregon to make the I
fall terms honor roll with a grade j
point average of 3 5 or better were i
Marilyn Christlleb and
Ixdlta |
i“isi son, both <>f Ashland
Grades arc computed on the ■
imsis of grades for each hour In
thia computation, a grade of "A" |
is listed as 4, a grade of li ’ u->
3 < • ■ .i.H 2. ami ' 1 > as 1
Miss Christlleb. a graduate of
Ashland high school, is a senior
majoring in physical education at
the university. She was a member
of Amphibian, swimming honor- |
ary. and was president of (hl
Hockey club She is the daughter
of Mr and Mrs B H Christlleb
Miss Pierson, a junior majoring
in music at the university, is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs W E
Pierson.
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JOB PI-AtEMENTN GAIN
An Increase of more than 4
percent in job-filling activities |
over the best previous year wax
registered by the state employ- !
ment service during 1940, accord
ing to the annual report of Direc
tor L. C. Stoll. Placements were
170,'69. compared with 117,019 for |
the previous year, and 70,102 in
1938
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Dial S331
REMEMBER WHEN
every political campaign called for torchlight pa-
fades’ A sight, It was, to watch several hundred
men marching along the street, each carrying a flam
ing torch. Then at the end of the march, in the Court
House square or city park, the orator of the occasion
blasted the opposition and lauded his own candidates
the same aa Uslay. Remember?
• H Sweigart of Malin was a
Oregon’s efficient secretary of state has accom
caller in Talent Sunday.
plished beneficial results in his ceaseless campaign to
• Mr». Joe Spitzer and baby son ’
reduce highway accidents. Long after Earl Snell has
returned home Thursday from the |
We do not "Blast” the opposition, but
relinquished his post the program he has inaugurated Forest headquarters announced Community hospital in Ashland.
let our clients "I at nd" our service.
• Mrs. Martha Norris of Jack
DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER
will continue, for he has made motorists traffic con Tuesday that the Talent Saw Mills sonville
visited her son Alfred and
Inc.
will
receive
the
contract
for
scious and in so doing has doubtless saved the lives of the purchase of 1,000,000 board family over the week-end
LITWILLEK
t Mr and Mrs Wayne Cowdrey
countless persons.
feet of Douglas fir in the Union and children spent Sunday visiting
FUNERAL HOME
creek district of the Rogue River relatives near Central Point.
Snell has worked on the theory that car drivers National
forest.
(We Never (lose)
• Mr. and Mrs Neal Tripp visit
take more kindly to suggestion than to law enforce The winning bid was 75 cents ed Saturday and Sunday at Glen
C.MIJtwiUer
Phone 4541
ment. There are laws aplenty on the statute books per 1,000 board feet. However, an dale Their daughters, Lynn and
50 cents must be paid Sally, who spent the holidays with
governing the operation of motor vehicles and these additional
by the buyer for slash removal
laws, like those governing other functions of our daily and timber stand improvement,
making the total cost $125 per
lives, are looked upon by not a few car owners as some thousand
feet.
thing to be violated—if they can get away with it. At
• Ladies of the Methodist church
times these infractions result in serious accidents and and
Sunday school gave Mrs.
the law steps in to mete out punishment.
Frank Holdrige a pleasant sur
prise Sunday afternoon, it being
Carelessness and insufficient knowledge of car her
birthday. Those participating i
handling and traffic regulations also contribute a full included Mesdames E. E. Foss,
share to the accident record. These factors have claim W. Balderstone, Lera Walty, Gen- I
Holdrige. C. W. Holdrige,
ed attention of traffic officials and in recent years evieve
Mary Higgins, Agnes Hackler,
much has been accomplished in the direction of safety Margaret Mathes, Anna Hamilton,
Nell Fenton. I C. Williams, S. J.
on-the highways.
Welburn, Parthena Terrill, Nell
Do you know how much value you receive in a
In general, motoring on Oregon highways is an Young and F. L. Holdrige.
• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trefe-
orderly, safe and pleasurable pursuit. There is an them
and family moved to Kerby
Kilowatt Hour? Enough lighting for the fam
occasional blot on the landscape in the nature of a last week.
• Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bradley
ily’s evening reading... a day’s radio enter
“smarty” driver, who labors under the impression that moved
from the campground into
tainment... fifteen hours of refrigeration!
the highway is all his as long as he is using it and such the property recently vacated by
Mr. and Mrs. Trefethem.
a driver is apt to convey to tourists the idea that mo • Mr. and Mrs. Don Maynard
Add to these the many other comforts made
torists in this part of the world are as wild and woolly left last week for Seattle where
possible by Electricity, and you will immediate
Maynard is employed.
as the old west. Such is not the case, for Oregonians Mr
• Mr. and Mrs. Al Sherard spent
ly realize that for “value received,’* Electricity
are as cultured and refined as the people of the rest of Sunday in Grants Pass visiting
has no equal! Present rates nable you to make
their daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
the Union, but an occasional “bad apple” shows up and
Mrs. W. Whitsett.
further economies as the Kilowatt Hours are
which may confuse the stranger within the gates and • Will Thatcher of Colestin is
calling
on
friends
in
Talent
this
increased.
cause him to brand all df us as bad mannered.
week. Mr. Thatcher is a former
An incident of this nature occurred last fall which resident.
• Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sloper
illustrates the point. A party of Ashland people were and
daughter Loretta of Pros
returning from the coast. As they were approaching pect were week-end guests of
Mrs. Sloper's parents, Mr. and
Sexton mountain they overtook a car bearing a New Mrs.
Bob Logan.
York license. Because of the winding road no effort • Walter Wolford of Valleyview
is employed at the Bates service
was made to pass and soon there were several cars station
during Mr. Bates' illness. ,
following. Among these was a car driven by a man • The Talent Study club met
who apparently was trying to make it to San Francisco with the Community club at the
hall Wednesday afternoon.
for dinner (it was then about 4:30 p. mJ. After follow city
• Mr. and Mrs. L. R I^ewis who ,
IT’S CHEAP TO USE ELECTRICITY!
ing the procession peacefully for a time he began to have resided south of town for
the past year moved to Los An
honk his horn, keeping it up over a distance of two or geles this week.
• Mrs. Bill Hotchkiss andmot her, <
three miles. This nuisance did not disturb drivers Mrs.
Guy Hamilton, spent Wed- I
ahead of him except the car in the lead. It was plain to nesday in Klamath Falls.
be seen that the New York driver was not accustomed • Mrs. Dora Smith and son Al
who have a large supply of glad- ,
to the type
of road he found himself on and finally - i Iola
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bulbs in the O. S. Butler con- I
when a wide shoulder was spotted he drove off the crete building are busy with the ’
pavement and allowed the other cars to pass. The
mlSet ,
“Your SERVICE Department
smart aleck went by tooting his horn raucously and •
Tame returned home sat-
giving all whom he passed what might be termed the X. heTa» caned b^the <&th ’
ELECTRICITY
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Ashland Light Department
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