Univ oí Oregon
IjEING Scottish, we often won-
<ler why the whole world picks
on us. Istst year, in need of a car,
we followed with eager intereet
the Gilmore Economy Run und
j. -unced with pride upon the win
ning car, plunked down our cash
with reluctance drove it up to
the present time completely happy
at gaining the extra four miles
per gallon it saved us. Now with
lower gas consumption etaion shrd
this year’s "stingy driver's con
test" a whole flock of cars finish
ed with lower gas consumption
Can It be that the automobile
manufacturers are In cahoots and
playing a "my year, your year"
sort of game?
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Volume X
$34,775 GRANT
FOR ATHLETIC
FIELD OKEHED
According to the New Yorker,
Bulgaria really is in a spot, for
she must decide between defiance
and appeasement Just to make It
hard, both methods have iwen
Theo J Norby, city school sup
tried and failed.
erintendent, received a wire from
Senator Rufus Holman last Friday
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Headline "Fuehrer and Duce telling that the >34,775 WPA
Agice'
Hounds more like one of grant had been approved, thus
those marital compromises with making the pro|tosed athletic field
II Duce playing the role of the for Ashland a certainty.
The school btiard will provide
henpecked husliand.
approximately
>12.500
as
its
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In a recent "Htrange as it : started sometime in February,
Seems" article by John Hix, hr Norby stated.
Preliminary ar-
pictures "The living Plate." A I tang emen Is have been under way
Kansas couple, according to Hix. for some time but no definite op
lias eaten for 30 years from one eration schedule has been follow
plate, an equal share to rah; but ed The new facilities will include
upon close scrutiny we discovrr a grand stand to replace the one
the lady has the only visible coffee which burned last summer, a
cup. Knew there would be a catch turfed football field, both softball
somewhere.
and baseball diamonds, dressing
looms a.id a quarter mile track.
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It is expected that the work
Women are the strangest peo
ple' A delegation of them is re- will progress rapidly enough to
ported to have disturbed a recent l>ermlt play on the turf field in
meetin gof the Washington state Hepternber, but complete details
representatives by crying "We of the project are not yet avail
want panes!"
They’d probably able.
Scream at the quietude of a ceme
tery
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DISASTER squad
SEES ACTION
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1941
300 Draftees Due At
Ft. Stevens This Week
By JACK BENTLEY
CAMP CLATSOP, ORE . Jan 20
Approximately 300 draftees ate
expected to artive at Fort Stevens
tins week to begin their year of
mililaiy training
The draftees
will spend four months in prelim
inary training and will then be
transferred into sepurate batteries
throughout the regiment. Battery
B expects to get about 40 of these
men.
Nearly 30 men from the 249th
Coast Artillery have been assign
ed to train the men until the regi
ment is transferred to the fort.
Supply Sgt. Delbert E. Jones and
Prvt. ist Class Kenneth L. Evans,
cook, are the only men from Bat
tery B detailed to help in thia
training program, and they will
probably continue at the same
type of work after their transfer.
Sub-calibre practice has been
slowed up somewhat by the bad
weather, but probably will be con
cluded within the next few days.
According to present plans, the
service practice will not begin un
til the first of May.
A bad storm struck the camp
Thursday night and continued Fri
day with the wind velocity reach
ing 60 miles per hour at times,
however, very little damage oc-
curled because of the quick action
on the part of the men. The cook’s
tent in the Battery B area did rip
open, but quick removal of beds
and personal belongings kept the
losa at a minimum
Either on Monday night or Tues
day morning the second battalion
is scheduled for a four-day biv
ouac which is to leave upon 20-
fainute notice. Upon the return of
these units, the first battalion of
which Battery B is a member will
leave on a similar bivouac.
Hickness has been at a minimum
thia past WT-dr Vifh-owly Vernon
Rush and Benny l-oftsgaard con
fined to the infirmary. Rush with
the flu and Loftsgaard with the
measles.
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The German consul. Frits Wied
emann. has been asked to move
from the headquarters he occupied
;
in Man Francis« «> when the two
The practice drill of the La-
OH sailors grounded the nasi flag
that flew from the building The giona well-trained Disaster Re
il'iriun said h<- had n«> idea where lief company cause considerable
to go. We would suggest Germany. excitement here Monday night.
Blasts of the city fire siren quick
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treaders of the American rescue gionnaires, state and city police,
ship Mission became a little too city employees and the Litwiller
enthusiastic in their communist ambulance to the scene of the
agitation an da sa result loot their "disaster."
license to collect funds It seems
The problem for the drill was a
that the plight of the poor Spanish supposed wreck uf a southbound ,
JxiyaUs*. refugees in France was pasenger train which had crashed
becoming secondary to the promo into the Union Oil company tanks.
tion of communistic ballyhoo over I The resulting explosion had trap
here.
ped the passengers in the flaming
wreckage Quick action and coor
e
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Contribute«! tongue-twister: If dination of the various groups
there were one fewer fuehrers spoke well of the organization
The drill was staged in honor
there would be fewer furors.
<>f the visit of Albert C Kelly,
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state department commander of
We have always contended that the Legion.
it was unmanly to drive in front
Food stamps, when the US de
of the girl’s home and summer
partment of agriculture's plan is
her with a blast of the automobile
extended to thia county the latter
horn. We are wondering if Al
part of January, will be handled
Jenkins, mayor of Salt Iaike. bar
on a mail order basis, according
read our mail or whether Its just
A change in Oregon's Bang's to announcement made today by
that the "minds of great men - •'
Jack Luihn, chairman of the atate
and something about "channels.' disease cont nil law to permit the ■ public wealfare commission and
use
of
calfhood
vaccination
as
well
Anyway, we see where Ab hai
i M Louis Bclangie. area director
told the young men of his city t< as the present teat-and-slaughter of the Surplus Marketing adminis
"get out of the car and call foi method, will be advocated before
tration.
the young lady as a gentlemai the present Oregon legislature by
Jackson county ia one of many
should." That's taking undue ad the Oregon Dairyme./s associa counties in the new Oregon area
tion
aa
the
result
of
action
taken
vantage of us we thought of it
at the recent annual convention to receive the stamp plan. All
first.
held in Grants Paas.. The disease families receiving public assist
y y
y
control committee, headed by E ance will be eligible to purchase
Propaganda note Facta in Re L. Peterson, Coquille, considered food stamps by mail after they
view. published by the German all angles of the Bang's disease have been declared eligible by
Library of Information, comes to problem, including the newest Mrs. Blanche D. Lyman, county
thia office each month to keep us findings on calfhood vaccination, welfare administrator Records al
enlightened as to the “true” state and then submitted a report ready in the welfare department's
of affairs concerning Germany agreed to unanimously by all con office permit making up the list
On the cover thia month is a photo cerned.
of eligibles without requiring per
of Hitler happily reviewing a
The proposed law changes would sonal interview.
group of workers The picture cap permit the use of the calfhood
tion la: Adolf Hitler, photographed vaccination method under definite PORTLAND CHAMBER TO
when he is happiest: with his restrictions as outlined recently
SPONSOR HAWAIIAN TOUR
workers for peace in a Germany by Dr. John R Mohler, chief of
rid of class divisions. "It has never the federal bureau of animal in
The Portland chamber of com
been my intention to wage war, dustry It was pointed out that merce expresses the desire that
but rather to build up a state with calfhood vaccination will appar Oregonians from all sections of
a new social order and the finest ently be a valuable supplement to the state will join the Trade De
possible standard of culture. Ev present highly successful control velopment Tour of Hawaii, spon
ery year that this war drags on methods, but that it involves close sored by that body and scheduled
is keeping me away from this
to leave San Francisco March 20
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work." (From Hitler's address of
The 21-day tour includes round
WELFARE
COMMITTEE
GIVES
July 19, 1040) We still think ac
trip steamer fare, tour of Oahu,
I’lHLK ASSISTANCE REPORT taxis between steamer and hotel
tions speak louder than words
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The December public assistance in Honolulu, room with private
SECRETARY TO VISIT
report of the Jackson county pub bath and all meals The all-inclus
Earl C. Reynolds, secretary of lic welfare committee shows a ive cost varies from >320 to >356,
the Klamath county chamber of slight decrease in the number of depending on the hotel accommo
commerce, plana to be in Ashland cases handled and in total amount dations selected.
Persons desiring reservations
over Sunday and Monday for the expended aa compared with the
purpose of conferring with local same month in 1939. There also should write direct to the Portland
chamber of commerce officials. He was some shifting in the types of chamber of commerce.
will be accompanied by Mrs. cases the biggest change being
Reynolds.
in old age assistance cases. Here
Picks and shovels sold for >10
the December 1940 total was 707 each during the California gold
which is 33 less than the 740 of! -ush.
1939
and Companion
Totals for the various types of
cases were reported as follows:
Are Invited to Be Guests of the
275 general assistance cases, >4,-
J. R. Turnbull, Minister
Southern Oregon Miner 467.98; 707 old age assistance
cases. >13,937; 84 dependent chil
To See Their Choice of
Bible school 9:45 a. m. Robert
dren cases, >2,539, end nine blind
the Following
Gillmore, superintendent.
assistance cases, >251.
I^eonard J. Eilers, cowboy evan
Varsity Theater
gelist, will speak on "The Round
EXAMINER COMING
Programs:
up for God Goes On" at 11 a. m.
A traveling examiner of oper Ralph Gillmore will sing "Lead
(Friday and Saturday)
ators and chauffeurs will be at Me to Calvary."
At 7:30 p. m. I .eon a rd J. Eilers
the city hall in Ashland from 9
"CAPTAIN CAUTION"
a. m. to 5 p. m. Friday, Jan. 31. will speak on "Roll Out." Music
All those wishing permits or li by booster choir.
"FATHER IS A PRINCE"
censes to drive cars should get in
Meetings nightly except Mon
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
day.
touch with him at this time
Tuesday: "The Cowboy's Main
"UNTAMED"
Wednesday,
"Lost
• Henry Currie had a sudden at Purpose”;
tack of appendicitis Sunday morn Horses and Lost Men"; Thursday,
ing and was taken to the Vet "Lights Along the Trail"; Friday,
Please Cali at The Miner Office
erans' hospital at Roseburg for "Life is Like a Movie", and Satur
for Your Guest Tickets
medical treatment.
day, "Hitting the Bull’s Bye."
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FOOD STAMPS
SENT BY MAIL
Dairymen Advocate
Bang's Law Change
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AL SIMPSON
First Baptist Church
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Soloists To Appear On
Music Club Program
AHS-MHS FIGHT
FOR 2ND PLACE
District Four Standings
W. 1-
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Pct.
Roseburg
5 0
1 000 i
Ashland
2 2
500
Medford
1 1
500
Grants Paas
0 5
000
The curtain will ring up tonight
on tne annual four-game basket
ball series between Medford and
Ashland high schools when the
two teams tangle on the Medford
¡court, a 7:30 preliminary starting
I things off.
A win is badly needed by both
teams since they are tied for sec
ond place in the district standings.
Roseburg leads with five wins and
no defeats while Grants Pass has
failed to win a conference game
in five starts.
If one is to believe in compara
tive scores. Ashland is many
points better than Medford but
anything can happen in a ball
game Medford has been set down
52 to 35 by Roseburg and Ashland
has dropped two close tilts to the
Indiana The Grizzlies have won
two from Granta Paaa while Med
ford baa taken one.
Coach Jerry Gastineau ia ex
pected to uae the aame starting
lineup that haa been on the court
for Ashland moot of the season
and probably will conaist of Jan- |
dreau and Provoat at forwarda.
Smith at center, with Weaver and '
Fowler at guards
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The two teama tangle on the
Aa' uid court in the aecond of
the series Tuesday. Jan. 28
Miss Louise Woodruff, head of
the music department of the Sou-
them Oiegon College of Educa
tion and program chairman for
the Ashland Music Study club, has
innounced that the club will pre
sent three vocalists on the Monday
evening program at the civic club
house.
Mrs. Hugo Reinboid will give a
short introductory talk on "The
Art Hong." after which Mrs. Ste
phen Epler, soprano. Mrs. E. O.
Smith, soprano and Mrs. Frank
Wenzel, contralto, will be heard
in the program of vocal solos.
Mrs Wenzel, a newcomer to Ash
land, has had a wide range of
training and experience, having
•sing on the radio, in churches,
recitals, concert an«' opera. Mrs.
Epler has been a member of the
choir in the Riverside church and
has been soloist in other New
York City churches. Mrs. Smith is
already well known to Ashland
audiences for her interest in and
contributions to music here.
ACTIVITIES ADD
TO POLIO FUND
Number 4
PLAZA CORNER
IMPROVED IF
PLAN ADOPTED
JDEPORTS brought back by the
v local delegation which attend
ed the highway board meeting at
Portland Tuesday, indicate that
prospects are good for straighten
ing the dangerous Plaza corner.
The original plan called for
making a straight road from Oak
street to Water street, but it was
decided at the board meeting that
a modified plan leaving a slight
curve would stand a better chance
of being adopted because the
right-of-way costa would be much
smaller. According to the original
plan, a large part of the Ford
Motor company building and some
of the Claycomb service station
would have been included in the
right-of-way, whereas the new
plan will include only a small part
of the Ford Motor building and
none of the service station. Other
buildings affected by the project
are those occupied by Harrison
Parts. J. D. Mars and Sen, Postal
Telegraph, Billings Agency, Log
Cabin. Laughlin' Printery, Mitch
ell’s barber shop, Herbert’s gro
cery, the Westfall variety store
and Baird's cafe.
There will be no definite action
taken on the project until a care
ful survey of the modified plan is
made.
The local delegation attending
the commission meeting was head
ed by Mayor T. S. Wiley and in
cluded city Attorney Frank Van
Dyke. Councilman Ralph Koozer
and G. M. Green.
The local "March of Dimes"
progresses with the continued ac
tivity of the various committees
in charge of the celebration of the
President’s birthday.
The program committee an
nounces that card parties and
other entertainments have been
planned and the cooperation of
various organizations has been
CHECK ARTIST SENTENCED
Mrs. D. A. Sloan who recently gained to help add to the funds.
Steve Whipple's eight-piece or
was arrested in Aahland for pass chestra will provide music for the
ing bad check« has been sentenced President's ball which will be held
to an indeterminate term not to at the Elks temple Saturday
exceed one year in (he stats night. Feb. 1. Admission will be
prison. Sentence was passed by one dollar for adult couples, and
Business of a routine nature
Circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna students with student body cards
Dr. Merkel, county physician, told will be admitted for 50 cents per was undertaken by the board of
directors of the local chamber of
the couit that Mrs. Sloan was ad couple.
commerce, which met last night
dicted to use of a strong opiate
at the Ashland hotel for a regular
and that she would receive re
session.
quired care and cure at the state
The board went on record op
prison.
posing passage of senate bill No.
5, calling for establishment of
BONNEVILLE 4*0WER JOBS
Four-H club members throifeh- freeways along major and second
UF FOR EXAMINATION
out the state again have been in ary highways, to be under the
vited to participate in the seventh
The US civil service commission annual radio play-writing contest jurisdiction of the state highway
announces the following open com sponsored jointly by the state sta commission. A group of local auto
camp operators including J. Q.
petitive examination:
tion KOAC and the club depart
Power line foreman: This ex ment of the OSC extension ser Adams. H. L. Hubbard, Allen
amination is for the purpose of vice. Oregon has been one of the Becker and P. V, Swenson ap
filling existing and future vacan leading states in radio play-writ-1 peared before the directors in op
cies in the Bonneville Power Ad-1 ing, says H. C. Seymour, state position to the measure.
Creation of a small sinking fund
ministration throughout the states club leader.
was approved, together with au
of Oregon and Washington.
A manual containing the rules thorization to pay >21.98 to the
Applications must be on file
with the Manager, Eleventh US and suggestions for the contest collector of internal revenue as
Civil Service District, Post Office and a copy of the winning play the federal amusement tax on the
Bldg, Seattle. Wash., not later last year have been prepared for sale of rodeo tickets during the
than Feb. 10, 1941. Information free distribution by James H. « 1940 Fourth of July celebration.
Some discussion of an unofficial
may be obtained by writing to Morris, member of the KOAC
nature was undertaken in connec
this address or from the secretary staff, *r charge of this activity.
John Watkins of Washington tion with the state senate's action
of civil service examiners at any
first or second class post office in county won first place in last voting to abolish the present out-
year's competition with a play of-state registration system. Def
Oregon or Washington.
called "A Lesson in Applied Vet inite action and comments, how
erinary." *which dramatized the ever, were deferred until future
experiences of a club boy whose assemblies.
calf became seriously ill.
The chamber of commerce din
The contest is in three divisions ner with the Bellview grange has
again, incuding the state-wide and
The state tax commission an county contests, and the special been set for Friday evening, Mar.
14, pending ratification by the
nounces that it will have an in traffic safety state contest in
come tax auditor at the court which Earl Snell, secretary of grange itself. Frank Jenkins of
Klamath Falls is to appear as
house in Medford from March 6 state, offers a summer school
guest speaker.
to 14 for the purpose of assisting scholarship for the best 4-H club
income tax payers in preparing radio play dealing with traffic!
their 1940 state income taxe re safety.
turns.
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Single persons (or married and SAMUEL F. EDWARDS
not living with husband or wife)
Funeral services for Samuel F.
must file a return if his total net I
income is >800, or more or if his Edwards who died in Dunsmuir.
surtax i intangibles 1 net income is Calif., were held in Ashland
>500 or more during the year. Thursday afternoon at the J. P.
Married couples living together Dodge and Sons Funeral chapel,
must file a joint return or two with the IOOF lodge in charge
separate returns, if their combin of the service.
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ed net income is >1,500 or more
or their combined surtax net in FRANK E. SMITH
Funeral services for Frank
come is >800 or more during the
Ernest Smith who died Jan. 20
year.
Every person or married couple were held Wednesday afternoon
regardless of the amount of their from the Litwiller Funeral home.
net income must file a return if Interment was made in the IOOF
their gross Income from all sourc addition to Mountain View ceme
es is >4,000 or more. Every part tery.
RED HAMMOND putting up
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nership and every corporation au«
a magnificent fight to keep his
JOHN
DAVEY
McKINNEY
thorized to do or doing business in
stove from being cleaned.
Funeral services for John Davey
Oregon (not specifically exempt)
EMMET CLINE admitting
McKinney who died Jan. 20 were
must file a return.
that vacations can be postponed
held
Wednesday
afternoon
from
Returns for the calendar year
—at 10 dollars per day.
1940 must be filed on or before the J. P. INxlge and Sons Funeral
C. M LITWILLER bemoaning
The services were in
April 1, 1941, to avoid delinquency chapel.
charge of the Elks lodge and in the high cost of high bricks.
charges provided by law.
The ELKS CLUB planning an
terment was in the Mountain View
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addition
to the basement hall
cemetery.
CALLED TO BAKER
way.
Dr. C. C. Dunham left by train
MILDRED HERMISTON re
Thursday evening fo> Baker where AMS SEMESTER ENDS
Classes at Ashland high school turning from P-TA—with first
he was called by the serious ill
ness of his mother, Mrs. C. E. were dismissed today (Friday) as prize
BERT MILIJCR disrupting
Dunham. Mrs. Dunham recently the first semester came to an end.
returned to Baker from a Portland Studies will be resumed Monday the business mens’ luncheon
with a post mortem of a civil
hospital where she submitted tc morning as the second half of the
service examination question.
an operation. Her condition is re school year gets underway.
ported serious.
JEAN MOORE sporting an
• Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith of impressive eye bandage and
The Miner for prompt, profi Ashland spent the week-end vis sticking by her story of a fall
on the stairs.
cient printing.
iting relatives here.
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CC DIRECTORS
HOLD SESSION
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Play-Writing Contest
Slated for Clubbers
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Tax Auditor To Help
On Income Returns
SEEN IN A DAZE
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