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Univ of Oregon Libi I Pap** NFKAKING OF SLOGANS— W<* liked, anil | himh along, th»' »lory about the fellow who. pass ing the It« »I Cross h«*n«lqusitern ■tuck his henil Inslil«' the door anti said to the knitting laities: ''Iteniciiibcr Pcurl Harbor and purl harder.” 111 'Phen there la the Chinese res taurant proprietor in Toronto whose menu reads: “Free French-Fried Potato«-«.” 111 And although It's solely older than thia war. the one about th«* «•entry who, hearing a footstep in the dark, cri«?d: "Halt! Who goes then Came the answer: "American.” Sentry: "Advance, American, and recite the second verse of "Tile Htar Spangled Banner " “I don't know it.” Sentry: •'Puss American!" 111 We nominate for air raid lady , next door warden the who always detects anything the nelghborh<KHl unusual in hours before it happens. 111 Hamburger bars have been in stalled In dining cars of trains between New York ami Philadel phia. What no hot dogs? 111 Vegetables, Mays a professor, can and do fall asleep Ami wake up. no diaibt, to find themselves in the soup. • THIS ANO THAT (By OLD TIMER) To the E«litor: With th«* sale of new autos and trucks banned ¡rending rationing and with the rationing in effect, "my kingdom for a horse” may become no idle wish. 1 1 i The Army and Navy need alco hol derived from sugar to make smokeless powder. Saving on su gar means powder for our soldiers and sailors < < < Tire Japs are making certain of one thing history will never ar cus«' them of being humanitarians A Virginia tire theft drew 12 ■Matta jail and S1W tii e The ao lice court justice in imptrsing sentence said: "We are at war ami 1 don't propose to permit ¡a*ople to go around stealing other peo ple's tires Tires are gold to«iay." 111 Some ¡»eoplc'a idea of cleanli ness is to gather up the junk on their premises and d«'|x>sit it on a convenient vacant lot. 1 1 1 By the way, what ever <ii«t be come of Mussolini? • Mrs Karl Leevrr and son. Richard, return«*«! to their home in Ashland Thursday from Beattie where Richard was under the care of an eye specialist for a few days. Ills trouble has proven to b«* not a.*« serious as was feared. *111 Mr. and Mrs Alden Powell ar«* enjoying a visit from Mr and Mrs C. W Sutton of N««rth Hollywood, Calif. Mrs. Sutton, who was Hazel Erickson, is a sister of Mrs. -Powell. 1 1 1 • Mrs. Clyde Young and «laughter. Marilyn are visiting with Col. Young at Camp I.ewls They ex pect to be away a week or ten days. 1 1 1 • Mrs. Bertha Rickli and son Jack of Roseburg returned to their home Tins.lav « v< mng aftri at tending the funeral of Mrs Rick- Il's brother, I«arz Eliason. 111 • Mrs Martha Addy is reported recovering from a major opera tion pcrform«'d in a Medford hos pital. Mrs. Will Dodge is teaching in her place at Lincoln school. • VOI„ XI All of the present corps of teachers in Ashland schools were retained for next year and a ques tion of raising salaries according to scholule of experience and in dividual merit, utter considerable discussion, ended with being au thorized by the district board. The bUMlneas was transacted at the ii'gular monthly meeting of the board held Tuesday evening. Other matters claiming official attention included reports by Hupt. Theo J. Norby on progress of stu dent manufacture of air plane mod els;’ carpentry, mechanics and electrical defense classes, progress of defense precautions at the schools, ami the recent NEA con vention at Han Francisco which he attended. Norby stated that arrangements have been made for the handling of students during air raids and that sand has been placed in each building for use in extinguishing any incendiary bombs which strike the buildings Additional sund will be sacked as soon as it can be dried He also t«»ld of plans for handling sugar rationing registra tion nt school buildings and In formed them of the increase«! reg istration in the schools due to the influx of workers at the canton ment The board approved hia at tendance at the city superintend ents' conference in Salem Mar. 23 The list of teachers is complete with the exception of junior high school coach to tak«' the place of Al Simpson, who was moved up to high school football coach with tin resignation of Frank O’Neil. —•— Ashland Man First To Make Lake Trip William M. Briggs reported the first of the week that he success fully negotiated the trip to l«ake drive his car as far as Vollmer’s o' the W<xxls the past week-end. Entrance was made from the Kla math side and he was able to ranch, about two miles from the junction .of the Pelican Bay and lutke o''the W ihm I s road. From that point it was necessary to proceed on snowshoes as snow depth vari«*d from two feet to four feet. Th«* lake is still frozen ove/- with about two feet o( ice, Briggs stat ed, ami in the opinion of those familiar with conditions it is be lie vr-d the ice Will not break up for |H>ssibly two mon * s It also is thought that it would be the first of May or even later before auy toads to th«* lake would be open Four feet of snow is re ported between Ashland and the lake. K. Falls, Bend Want Berths in League Klamath Falls and Bend have signifie«i their interest in retain ing their f ranch is«' in the 1942 Oregon state Iraseball l«x»p, it was learned this week. The Elks lodge, for 15 years sponsors of the Bend club, said they could not be intereste«! this season. Baseball players in Bend say they will enter whether or not they have a sponsor. Jack Gordon, brother of New York Yankee's Joe Gordon, will manage the team. Medford, Albany, Hillsboro and Silverton already have signified their intentions to enter the league. A meeting in Portland Sunday will determine the nenew ing of the Ben«i anti Klamath fran chise and the possibility of ad mitting a Portland club. —•------------- Varsity Theater Programs: • Please Call at Th«* Miner Office for Tour Guest Tickets BONDS—WHICH? Eberhart System To Be Given Trial At Kansas City Board Makes Move In Regular Meeting Here Tuesday Night Southern Oregon Miner (Munday, Monday, Tuesday) "NOTHING HUT THE TRUTH" *7a ¿ay-And ¿aipí 9tt ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942 Teaching Corps To' Serve Next Year To direct health measures among the 250,000 coolies building the 1,700-mile railroad paralleling the Burma road, an allotment of ELDERLY COUPLES TO $1,150,00(1 of l< 11.1 lea.M«' funds has BE FETED APRIL 12 About a year ago the First been made. Methodist church sponsored a ser 111 “Love one another, ns I have vice honoring couples of Ashlaand love«, you.” No estrangement, no and vicinity who had been married emulation, no deceit, enters into 50 or more years. The responce the heart that loves as Jesus to the invitation was so general loved. It is a fals«* sens«* of love ami the tone of the meeting so that, like the summer brook, soon satisfactory that it has been de cided to make the meeting an g«ts dry Mary Baker Eddy annual event. At a recent church meeting the evening of April 12 was selected O. W. WILLIS to honor the elderly couples. A and Companion program following the lines of last year's service will be given and a Are Invited to Be Guests of the request has been made that any one knowing of couples in this vi cinity coming within toe scope of To See Their Choice of the invitation to please notify Dr. the Following G. W. Bruce either by telephone or note. If this is done promptly the invitations can be sent out in plenty of time. (Friday and Saturday) • "MARRIED BACHELOR” "WIDE OPEN TOWN" apcu MEETINGS PROGRESSING Evangelistic meetings under way at the Church of Christ Second and B streets, have drawr good audiences and interest if growing with each service, accord Ing to Rev Eai 1 Downing, loca pastor. Rev. B. Ross Evans is the evangelist It is expected that a number of Klamath Falls r»eonle will attend the services one night during the series. Crow's nest refereeing in bas-1 ketball will be given a trial at' Kansas City this week during the [ national tournament. At the invi-' tation of the tournament manage-! ment, Jean Eberhart, athletic di-! rector at Southern Oregon Colloge ‘ of E«iucatlon, left Ashland Sunday , morning for the mid-west city to assist in a demonstration of the new system which has proved pop ular wherever tried in the west. Information gathered here rela- ' tive to Eberhart's visit to the na tional tournament indicated he will supervise a clinic demonstrat ing the system. It is not expected that crow's nests will be used in the regular games as the system has not been adopted, but if it proves satisfactory to the national tournament officials it might be j accepted for future tournaments The new style of refereeing was used during the recent Invitational peared highly satisfactory. If meet at the local college and ap- there was any tendency to slow the game it was not evident to the spectators and the efficiency of the system was not questioned Should the system be adopted by the Kansas City officials for 1 next year it is likely that many 1 conferences throughout the coun- I try will follow suit. i ------------- •------------- Number 11 C-C Dinner Plans Going Forward Governor .Sprague to Be Principal Speaker At /Annual Affair Arrangements for the annual banquet of the Ashland chamber of commerce are being carried ahead under full steam by Chair man C. R. Ramsey, the date de finitely scheduled for Thursday evening, March 19. The banquet will be held at 7 p. m. in the grange hall at Talent, sponsored by the Talent grange. Principal speaker will be Gover nor Charles A. Sprague, discussing a timely resume of Oregon's pic ture in the present conflict. Tickets have gone on sale at the Chamber offices and will be available from various volunteer salesmen early next week. It is urged that those persons planning to attend make arrangements to secure their tickets as soon as pos sible, because of the limited seat ing facilities. A special program is being pre pared. Walter Stafford, energetic young editor of the Siskiyou Daily News in Yieka, will be toast master. Meanwhile, President R. E. Poston has called a meeting of the board of directors for next Wed NEWS FROM FAR EAST nesday, March 18, at the Plaza An air mail letter from their cafe. Routine business accumu I son Robert was received Wednes lating over the past two weeks I day by Mr. and Mrs. C. B. An-1 will be cleared away. All directors i drews. It was mailed from a point | are asked to make special efforts in the Far East, where Robert is 1 to attend. ----------------------------- stationed with the United Statesj navy, and was the first word his had received from him Snider Coffee Hou«' Increases Plant Capacity 400 parents since the outbreak of hostilities. The letter stated he was well and : Percent To Carr for Fast Growing Business he cautioned his folks to believe * H. S. Harrison, proprietor of the Five years ago, come the first Ashland and immediate vicinity. only those reports released by the , Harrison Parts company, has re mejd. present demands it was high command. Robert is doing ceived a check for $7,508 from the of May, a young couple came to To necesaffy to increase the roaster his second hitch with the navy, state highway department in pay Ashland from southern California, having previously enlisted while rented a small building and set capacity 400 percent and grinder of high sch«x>l age. At the end of ment for his P;aza corner proper up roasting and grinding equip capacity boo per cent, 'i'nis called his first hitch he returned home to ty. Backers of the project believe ment to give the people of the for more r«x>m, and space for complete his high school work and this indicates that plans for im provement will go forward. Rogue river valley really fresh warehousing the raw cotiee stock then returned to the navy. So far as known, this is the first roasltxl and fresh ground coffee. was obtained at the rear of an ad ------------- •—---------- payment made on property com The idea caught on rapidly here joining budding, with an option ing within the improvement zone. in Ashland and ere long products ior more space as the demand Omer property owners are said to of the new concern were finding grows. Facinties for handling the be negotiating with tn«» state for sale in other communities of the neeavy cotfee bags have tx-en built payment and in the meantime valley With th «dr faith tn thrir and larger >oa<Mng chutes pro Oregon's traffic death toll for buildings are being vacated. product and confidence in their a- vided. As coffee is taken from the The Harrison Parts company, blilty to sell it. the Snider Coffe«* roaster it is taken across the room 1941 was set at 396 today by Earl House, Mr. and Mrs. W A Snider, to the grinder, from where it is sneil, secretary of state, who said first to vacate, now is operating proprietors, soon was covering a packaged, weighed and started on tneie was a total of 49,674 traffic in the former Schuerman grocery territory reaching from Yreka, its way to tne sales room and accidents in the state during the building on East Main street. John Calif., on the south to Grants Pass eventually over the counter and past year. A total of 8,005 persons Laughlin has moved his printery out the trout door. across the street next door to the were injured. to the north. In addition to the coffee busi Economic loss due to traffic ar- I Western Auto Supply; the Herbert This in brief, has been the his ness, the Sniders have the most cidents was estimated at $17,820,- grocery is closing out. as is the tory of the Snider enterprise. Fuller Paint store, leaving only complete line of spices in south 000. it would be needless routine to ern Oregon. Then. too. there is a Mitchell's barber shop and Baird's While fatalities exceeded the cafe on the ground floor in that go through the stages of expan line of fountain syrups and other sion. but suffice it to say that the supplies that work in well with a 1940 toll, the death rate, showing section. It is understood that these business has increased to the wholesale business. This with the the number of persons killed in establishments have arranged for point where it was necessary to retail business they have conduct propoi non to the exposure to ac new locations. W. W. Robison, increase the capacity of the plant, ed has kept the "company" busy cident, snowed a slight decrease, realtor, and J. A. Langtry, insur and this has been underway the ami from the looks of things they Snell said. Traffic accidents took ance, have their offices in the a death toll of 11.6 persons per front of the Laughlin printery. past week. will have to use more daylight Original equipment was small, saving to get everything taken one hundred million miies of travel compared to 11.9 last year. Ore designed to serve the n«*eds of care of. gon was one of the few states in SCOUT COMMITTEE the nation to show any improve TO MEET MONDAY ment in the death rate in 1941, A meeting of the Ashland dis the rate for the nation as a whole trict committee of Crater Lake going up four percent. Area council. Boy Scouts of Amer Time is the most valuable ele There were 108 pedestrians kill ica has been set for Monday, ac Jacksonville s Keuskins «won me ment in the war effort, declares 15m annual suvt, invitations« ed. a decrease of 18.8 percent from cording to K. A. Wells, Scout Robert B Taylor. Oregon USDA oasaetuail tournament in tne 11- the pedestrian toll of 134 in 1940. executive. war board chairman, in urging I nais neiu at Uie cooege gym aa»- Non-collision accidents for 30 per The meeting will be held at 6:15 the state's observance of "Plan uruay mgnt wnen tney ueieateu cent of the fatalities during the p. m. at the Plaza cafe. Wells has against wartime shortages during Bonanza asked that all members of the to 24. Cni.oqiun toox year. the statte's observance of "Plan tmrd piace with a zo to 22 win Railroad motor vehicle accidents committee make a special effort and Plant for Victory" month, over uarainer and lourth piace showed an increase of 27.5 percent to attend. March 9 to 31. went to latent wnen they defeated but deaths from this type of acci "Tires are short, and so are Central t'oint 22 to 19. dent dropped from 16 in 1940 to help, machinery, fertilizer, burlap, In tne consolation bracket Ro 15 in 1941. Bicycle fatalities in and just about every other article gue River came in tor turn piace creased from eight in 1940 to ten that is used on the farm, but winning a convincing 25 to lu de in 1941. time is shortest," Taylor said. While 76 percent of the traffic Two Ashland high basketball teat oi Langlois. Five things listed that every Tne 18-team tourney was pro accidents in the state occurred in players. Charlie Jandreau and Bud farmer can do now are: nounced a success in every de urban areas, these accidents ac Provost, were elected on the all 1. Plan and carry out his farm counted for only 31 percent of the district basetball team in a poll of partment. ing operations so that his farm fatal accidents, indicating that ac votes from coaches and sports At the state class "B" meet in will make a maximum contribu cidents in rural areas are more writers in Ashland, Medford, Eugene Butte Fans won the title tion to meeting the war fo«xi goals likely to prove serious, Snell's fi Grants Pass and Roseburg. by defeating Westport. set for the county. gures showed. Of the fatal acci Jandreau, who was elected cap —--------- •------- 2. Make sure that all of his dents in cities, slightly more than tain. became the first player to FREEBERG RITES HELD farm machinery is in top shape Final rites for W. A. Freeberg half occurred in residential areas. make the first team three years and ready to go. Of the 96,712 drivers involved in a row. First team selections 3. Report a conservative esti were held Saturday at the Dodge in accidents during the year, 493 were Jandreau and Hank Harman, Funeral chapel under auspices oi mate of his seasonal labor needs were Involved in fatalities. Thirty Medford, forwards; Bill Wall, to the nearest U. S. employment the Masonic lodge, R. W. McNeai percent of the fatal accident driv Medford, center; Don Fawcett, in charge and Rev. J. H. Edgai service office, and make the most ers were under 24 years of age, 52 Medford, and Provost, guards. efficient use of the available la delivering the message. Robert percent were between 24 and 60 Second team places were won Dodge, accompanied by Mrs. Gor bor supply. years and nine percent were over by John Gray, Grants Pass. Neil don Tripp, sang "Hymn of Praise." 4. Conserve supplies of short 60. Ed Hughes. Roseburg, center; materials, such as burlap ami bail Pallbearers were C. H. Thomas, Saturdays and Sundays proved Schrimpf, Grants Pass, forwards; William Wallace, S. B. McNair. ing wire. the most dangerous days of the Bob Havard, Grants Pass, and 5. Be prepared to ccxiperate Sam Jordan, L. D. Meservey ana week, so far as fatal accidents Chet Fowler. Ashland, guards. Bill with his neighbors in exchanging Emerson Easterling. were concerned. The hours five to Green. Ashland center, won hon —------ •------------- help, transportation or machinery. 8 p. m. saw the greatest number orable mention. EXAMINER DUE MONDAY A traveling examiner of opera of fatal accidents Following the SHARYON' AT CAMP ROBERTS usual trend, most traffic accidents Word has been received in Ash tors and chauffeurs is scheduled occurred on clear days during day land that Robert Sharyon recently to arrive in Ashland Monday. Mar. light hours. was assigned to the California re 16, and will be on duty at the city ------- •------------- placement training center at hall betw«?en the hours of 9 a. m. Young men who want to play A SON' AND HEIR and 3 p. m. All those wishing per Camp Roberts for 13 weeks l»asic baseball will have a chance to Friends are congratulating Mr. break into the Oregon state league training. Sharyon is the son of mits or licenses to drive cars are Mr. and Mrs L. G. Sharyon, 31 asked to get in touch with the ex and Mrs. Don Hinthorne upon the competition for the summer when birth of a son. The young man the Medford Craters hold a base aminer during these hours. Gresham street. • made his debut at 3 o’clock a. m„ ball school at the Craters' park, Tuesday, March 10 and weighed the old county fairgrounds lot. • -Dr C. C. Dunham attende»! a ELIASON RITES MONDAY Funeral services for I»aiz A six and one-half pounds. He has Saturday and Sunday meeting of chiropractic physicians in Salem Sunday. The meetin«r was | Eliason were held at the J. P been named Thomas Dean. Because the army is taking so -----------•------- ’ailed for the purnose of outlln-I Dodge and Sons funeral chapel at many young men from the valley. 2 p. m Monday. Rev. J H. Edgar ng to members of the group steps A Dr. Walter Redford, president of Dutch Lieber, team manager, and to be taken in entering the med officiated and Mrs. E. O. Smith Southern Oregon College of Edu Hoosier Hoffard, veteran coach, ical corps of the U. S arm«* | and Mrs. Paul Byers sang "In the cation. attendee! a meeting of the are stressing youth for the Crater Several of the group have made Garden” and "The Old Rugged board of higher education in Port team this coming summer. applications for positions with | Cross." The body was taken to land this week. He returned to Those trying out are required to Grants Pass for cremation. commission ratings. Ashland Wednesday morning. bring only glovea and shoes. i Local Industry Expands to Meet Demand for Popular Products Harrison Receives First Plaza Check Oregon’s Traffic Death Toll Set ------ 9 Time Biggest Factor In Farm War Effort --- J’Ville Redskins Invitational Champs ------- e------- Jandreau, Provost Rate First Team • ---- •---- Youths Have Chance At League Play • --