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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1942)
Thursday, Aug. 27, 1942 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 6 THIN AND THAT (B> Old Timer) T\j the Editor: If the sun scorched grass that fringes Ashland's main thoivugh- The Medford Craters, winners of fares could be converted into bri Oregon-California baseball quettes, the problem of keeping the the home fires burning would be league championship and holders of the President s cup by virtue of greatly helped. two straight wins over Klamath til It's passing stiange that coal is Falls, are making plana for several beUig imported from Utah while post-season games to be played at coal deposits almost at our back the Medford fairgrounds. The Craters are dickering with door are undeveloped. Coal selling at $16 a ton merits the appelatiun Eugene, state league champions, of "black diamonds”, and inciden ............................................ ............... tally should be an incentive to de velopment of local resources. • < » Elmer Davis, director of Information, warns us that as a nation we are not yet “ankg deep in the. war.” Such being the case, Uncle Zeke wonders what's it go ing to be like when we are in it up to our waist? » * * The Japanese want to colonize the Pacific. Well, they're making a good beginning they've begun rapidly to colonize the bottom of the Pacific- around the Solomons. < < < We're certain to lick the Japs eventually but, first, we must lick a whole lot of our war savings stamps. ... Real estate Ln German industrial towns is going up fast. But not in price. Craters Top 0 & C Baseball League Friday and Saturday! for a game at Medford and a semi- pro team from Poitlund al>o has shown Interest in cuming south for a clash with the Craters. The Chico Cubs are practically signed foi two games ut Medford and the Crater management plans to have about six more home games before the Craters hang up their suits. • John Bill Ricketts owned the first American circus and gave ex hibitions in Philadelphia as early as I792 LITHIA | Greenland ia the world's moat sparsely inhabited urea, with .04 persons u squaie mile. DO you icmeinbei when you I used to chew licorice and make I yourself believe you were chewing | E N T E it T A I M K N T tobacco? Phone 7 Ml I A smile la rest to the weary, daylight to th* <NHcouiaged. sun shine tu the sad, and Natuie's beet antidote for troul.le Years ago, barbers, aside from hair cutting, commonly practiced surgery und dentistry of the day. ( MATINEE Th urn. and Sat. Continuous Sunday <MI Friday, Saturday ANNOUNCING A NEW SCHEDULE TWO COUNTRY BUMFKINS ...hwt nor •• dvmhl leaded with laefhil I I K W l . . à I Bus Service between Ashland, Camp White and Medford has been revised to include an addition al bus as follows: This appears to be an air war, with everything else stringing along behind it. Hitler is making a costly bid for the oil of the Causasus. 111 Cut those weeds now. Don't wait for Jack Frost. Tim Holt iii So much preaching. CYCLONE ON HORSEBACK SUN • MON • TUE James Cagney in 4 CAPTAIN OF THE CLOUDS In Technicolor Wed’sday & Thursday Barbara Stanwick Joel McCrae in GAMBLING LADY Plus Victor MacLaglen in CALLING ALL MARINES Every Wednesday Night MOVIE MONEY AUCTION preaching t i is only t There's no Canaan in politics. ------------- •------------- IN DEFENSE WORK Virgil Jackson accompanied W. A. Snider to Portland Tuesday morning where he will enter de fense work. He and Snider were in the city last week making ar rangements for their jobs. His fa mily will remain here for the pre sent, pending housing arrange ments in Portland or Vancouver. ------------- •------------- WILL JOIN MARINES Marvin Ring, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Ring of Bellview, is spending a few days at home prior to joining the marines. Marvin, a graduate of 8. O. C. E.. taught at Empire the past year, going to Portland to work in the shipyards during the summer. He has taken his physical and will leave Monday to become a "devil dog. ------------- •-------- HEADED EAST Corp. Buzz Roberson spent a few days in Ashland with his pa rents, Mr and Mrs. C. E. Rober son, and other relatives and friends He has been assigned to officers' training school at Aber deen Md., and will leave for that point from Fort Stevens. ------------- •-------------- On a dried j?rass pad with a wind of three miles per hour, 85.3 percent of all cigarettes tossed away ignited the grass. The aver age time for ignition was five minutes. < / r Oregon’s green forests produce enough timber to build 40.944 homes per year or one home for each family in the state. tit Fully 75 per cent of the revenue taken from timber sold on state forests is returned to the local county, according to Lynn F. Cronemiller, assistant state forest er in charge of land use. with Anne Shirley and Richard Carlson piu« OUTLAWS OF CHEROKEE TRAIL Leaving Ashland: •Plus WEST POINT WIDOW 7:00 A. M 7:30 A.M 5:45 A. M 6:30 A. M. with Three Mesquiteers Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Leaving Camp White: 4:30 P.M 5:00 P.M 5:15 P. M 6:15 P. M BROADWAY w I th George Raft and Leaving Medford Pat O’Brien 5:35 P.M 6:35 P.M 4:50 P. M. 5:20 P. 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