Friday, Dec. 19, 194! SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 Southern Oregon Miner Published Every Friday at 167 East Main Street ASHLAND. OREGON Wv [ Vj1 * V * * SUBSCRIPTION RATES i Lit Advance) ONE YEAR >1.50 nr V H M Entered as second-class matter February 15. 1935, at the postoffice at Ashland, Oregon, under the act of March 3,1879. ft. IS TELEPHONE 8561 CHAS M. GIFFEN WILLIAM SAVIN Publishers - a .. RM? Ujjj SIX MONTHS 80c (Mailed Anywhere in the United States) SET YOU FREE” “THE TRUTH WILL Volunteer For Civil Defense Work! About People You Know HILT SEWS • A group of friends gathered at the W W. Walker home last Wed­ nesday evening to extend birthday greetings to Mr. Walker. Those attending were Miss Holsizei, Miss Marina Cunial, Mr. and Mrs Walter Foster, Mr. and Mis. W W Walkei, Audiey, Buster and Billy Walker. Mr and Mrs W A Gran. Billy Gran, and Shirley and Gladys Sava jean The evening was spent playing games and visiting and all enjoyed the accordeon se­ lections played by Miss Cunial. Refreshments were served. • Elementary school resumed classes Monday morning after tx - , ing closed down nearly two weeks because of difficulty with the heating system. • Rodney Eastman enlisted and I left for training last week. • Mr and Mrs T Quamine and | daughter Gladys left Saturday for Chicago to spend the Christmas ' holidays. ' • Mr and Mrs. E McKeene were shopping in Ashland Saturday. • Mrs. Maud Wert was in Yreka ' on business Saturday • Among those shopping in Med­ ford Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haynes and son Fred, Mr. and Mrs. George Wright, Mr and Mrs. Vernal Nebeker, Mr. and Mrs. W. A Gran, Billy Gran and : Ernest Dutro. • Mr and Mrs. M Seif and I Mr. and Mrs Arthur Pedersen ’ were Ashland guests Saturday. • Miss Jean Baumgartner retum- 1 ed home from school at Berkeley j for the Christmas holidays Mon- j day morning. • Gordon Alphonse and Sam Dun- i away Jr. are home from college for the holidays. • For the fourth time this sea­ son tragedy struck the L. D. Fox logging operations crew, when E. O. Robinson was struck by a car their trucks in Dunsmuir when at Dunsmuir and died in the hos­ the accident occurred The body pital a few hours later. Mr. Rob­ is being shipped to Susanville, inson, with others of the crew, where his parents live Mrs Rob­ was moving the logging equip­ inson and Kenneth left Tue.wlay ment to the coast and had parked for Susanville. “The time has come for every American to do his part to perpetuate the freedom of the nation.” That was the message broadcast to the citizens of the Ninth Corps area by Jack H. Helms, acting region­ al director of the Office of Civilian Defense, in urging everyone to volunteer his services with local defense councils. Many Ashland citizens were quick to respond at the very outset of the emergency and have put in many hours of service since, but the local civil defense head­ quarters indicate that many more are needed in all departments. The need is particularly felt for more volunteers for service as air raid observers. The scarc­ ity of observers thus far has worked a hardship on those who are giving so freely of their time—forcing them in several instances to remain at their posts many hours in stormy weather. With additional vol­ unteers available, shorter periods of duty would be i possible and there would be reserves to call upon when i regular observers were unable to report. We are in the midst of an all-out war. so let us put put forth an all-out effort wherever our help is needed. ★ ★ ★ The Fight For Freedom! The soldiers and the sailors who fight in this war carry into battle a traditional freedom. They are not the unthinking, “heiling” subjects of a dictator. They are not slaves, living and dying like puppets at the whim of a master. They have been reared in the freest of all great nations, under the ideals which Lincoln called, “The last, best hope of earth.” They know what they are fighting for. They know how precious freedom is. And they know the sorrowful truth that blood must be shed if freedom is to be preserved. Back of the fighting men of America will be a pro­ duction machine unparalleled on earth. Labor and industry will not shirk the gigantic task that time and circumstance have given it. The price of failure would be the death of freedom. The days ahead will be hard and bitter, but no one can doubt what the eventual end will be—victory for freedom, for a way of life that re­ spects the dignity of man. • It is all there in one word—freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of worship, freedom of enterprise. These are what we possess, and these are what we are fighting to save and to perpetuate forever. • Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Barksdale returned to Ashland Wednesday after an extended trip during which they visited relatives in southern California and in Texas. • Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gosnell and family of Sams Valley were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs T. B. Gosnell. l • Mr and Mis M I* O'liari.i mil son were Jacksonville visitor* i Sunday. • Mi and Mrs James Putman are spending several weeks visit ing relatives in California and Ariaona • Mi' and Mis Arthur Coopci ot Weyerhauesei camp were Satin day visitors in Ashland • Captain and Mrs Marcus It Woods are the parent* of a da ugh ter. Brenda Joanne, bom Tuesday at the Community hospital • Everett Rundell, linotype op­ erator on the 1-ake County Exam­ iner at Ladceview, called at the Miner office Saturday Mr and Mrs. Rundell wen« visiting with Mr. and Mrs E. E. Bond of Ash­ land over the week-end. • Miss Lorraine Stevens visited in Ashland with her parents. Mr and Mrs. W. J Stevens, last week-end • Rev A. Paul Tidball of Glen dale. Ore, was a business visitor in Ashland Tu< sday. • Mr and Mrs Glenn Rush are parents of a daughter born at the I Cbmuunity hospital T ui - j . iv • Mrs r b Phillips I Karby visited friends in Ashland Monday • Mr uid Mrs H H Elhitrl wi re week-end visitors at the home of Mrs P I, Wait m Gold Hill • OS Easterling an employe of the Lake o' the Woods resort, returned to Ashland the first of the week. • Mr and Mrs Victor York are parents of a son bom Dec. 11 at the Community hospital. • Mrs Charles M Giffen and in fant daughter Ann Marie return­ ed home Thursday from the Com­ munity hospital. • Sailors in Uncle Sam's navy who are performing "night watch" receive an extra meal every night while on duty It consists of many sandwiches and a beverage FLASHLIGHTS!! A Flashlight lor Every Purpose! And Remember, only 4 shopping days until Christmas SIMPSON HARDWARE • John Icenhower returned to the naval training station at San Diego, Calif. Monday after spend­ ing several days leave at his home here. • Mrs. Charles White, Agnes White and Mrs. Julia Rice visited Mr. and Mrs. Bill Reed in Medford Sunday. SO CHRISTMAS MAY COME ...TO CHILDREN EVERYWHERE Every tribute to the departed is here a worthy one, regard­ less how humble or pretentious the service you wish. And you may be sure it is performed in good taste. It is better to know us and not need us than need us and not know us.” DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER Litwiller Funeral Home We Never Close—Phone 4541 DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS and STAMPS FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND