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ASHLAND OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942
Ashland Made
Afghans Comfort
Convalescents
Years Have Not Erased Skill of One
Time Professional Tailoress
■ as
Number 39
Selby Seeks Seat
On City Council
Petitions were in circulation
Wednesday to place the name of
Lloyd Selby on the ballot for city
councilman at the forthcoming
election. The petition was filed at
2 p. m., just three hour* before
the deadline.
Other candidates for council
posts are Dr. W. J. Crandall and
J. P. Daugherty, filing for re-elec­
tion, and J. A. Putman, new can­
didate. Fred Taylor, councilman
for many years, is not seeking
reelection.
Selby is at present a member of
the board of School District No.
5 and since coming to Ashland
has been active in civic affairs.
Enrollment at
Public Schools,
College Lighter
"Whi n ix man goes to a tailor , signed little dresses from these I
for a new suit he selects the goods, ' materials and twice a year -just
Is measured, has one fitting, pays prior to Easter and Thanksgiving
Exhibit at Local I SO for the suit and leaves the shop j a box goes forward to the or­
Pickup Expected When
satisfied. But not so with a wom­ phanage at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Center of Attraction
Fall Work Diminishes;
The matron of the home wrote ;
At Civic Women’» Tea an buying a new dress. She can Mrs. Arthur, who makes her home I
Many
Youth Employed
find more things wrong, even wh?n with Mr. and Mrs. I F. Andres at [
By IJMO Reporter
Enrollment
m Asnauia puuuc
the dress Is a prefect fit. It would 73 Gianitc street, that when word
Vva*«o«K<.U4i, u.
i«« •«««•»)—
Uttle threads of wool saved by
scuoois is approximately Xu per
Having completed tneir unoincial thiilly housewives, become mighty be too loose, or t<x> tight, or didn't comes that a box from her will
cent under uie la-»x opening uay
summer recess, most ineniueis ol signans to cointort camp Vvnlte hang right, or something, and the pc coming soon, the news is greet­
mark, according to liguiea re­
ths senate and bouse are now back pauenui convalescing in wheel tailor would have to fuss around ed with much concern by many
leased trom oupt. T. a. xvoiuy a
und waste a lot of time just to anxious little people who fondly
in Wasnington preimiliig to cast
cnuirs.
on ice alter tne rust days leja-
satisfy a whim. No, I never liked hop«- that one of the dresses will
their votes on taxes, on wage
Seventeen warm, beautiful af-
tration. A cneex-up Monday eve­
fit thefti. And that, Mrs. Arthur
freezing, on farm price stabiliza­ g huns, eacn a riot of color and de­ to tailor for women."
ning at tne senior and junior iugn
tion an<l other vital legislation
It was Mrs. Martha Arthur declares, is all the comfort one
sign just like mamma made back
scuoois and Lue i-ancom ana Vvaaa-
Following the President s "you home,' were on exmbit Tuesday at speaking. Hhe was displaying a could a«k bringing joy into the ,
uigion grade acuoora reveaieu a
do it or 1 will" order In regard to the Woman's Civic tea, held at the collection of dress«-«, the result of lives <4 these children who know '
Uruxi ol 9ZZ, compared wild xux9
stabilizing wages and farm prices USO center.
her own handwork the past sev­ not what it la to have a mother;
on tne opening day or 1641.
to sew for them.
in order to prevent further infla­
Teh committee in charge of the eral months. They were small gar­
Tnere is notrnng alarming about
tion, both houses of congress are leu were: Mi« diaries Weaver, ments, made for children in an
Mrs. Arthur is the grandmother
this situation, in tne opinion or
showing how rapidly tney can president and Mrs. Harry Mitchell, Iowa orphanage and are the latest of M re. Andres, whom she reared ‘
senool onimais, who state that
come to an agreement when it vice president. Mis. L. K. Coombe of more than 600 made by her In from infancy. Hhe has made her |
many junior and senior nigh stu­
seems necessary. The President and sirs. Clara Fulmer pou,ed. An the past 11 years.
home with Mr. and Mrs. Andres
dents are employed in tne oicuaias
gave them a deadline of October 1 attractive tea tagle with lighted
Mrs. Arthur began her mission a good many years. It is her belief
and outer pursuits in tne vauey
fur handling thia situation, and It centerpiece, colonul flowers and of love after passing her 82nd that one grows old only alter
Football Scores Pant Week
and wul oe returning to acnoor as
now seems quite deilnlte thut by pistes of assorted home rnudc birthday and she will be 94 the reaching the point when life holds
.Medford 13-Yreka 0
soon as tneir services can De dis­
that date the President Will have cookies was arranged.
corning November. Although bed­ little interest. She is alert to all '
Klamath Falls 15 Grant Hi 0
pensed witn. Cruet loss in legcs-
final orders from congress to
Mrs. C. C. Dunham, looking very fast much of the time the past that is going on about her, reads
.Marshfield 7-Washington Hl 0
Lianon is ui tne nign sexioms, as
freeze wages at what they were pretty tn a smart black gown, three years, she has continued the newspapers to keep informed
Bend 30-Burns 14
born grade schools are only Bright­
this summer and to pul a parity green pili box hat and corsage of her sewing with the same expert on world events and is ready to I
ceiling on farm prices.
Prospects for the Ashland high ly less than in 1941. Primary
fresh roses, accompanied by Cay skill that marked her work in ear­ discuss current topics any time. I
The speed with which congress Hufman, USO music chairman, lier days when she was a profes­ She expects to continue her dress­ football squad looks more promis- grades snow an increase, witn Lin­
has acted on this measure stands churiningly sang two groups of sional tailoress. Friends have sup­ making for the orphanage as long ing by the night. accurding to coln making a gam or rive and
out by contrast with the stalling ballads during the tea hours. Her plied her with cast-off dresses, as her eyesight will permit, for as Coach Roland Parks, who reports Vv ashington nine. Lincoln nad 30
which they have done in regard to warm, lovely voice harmonized shirts and occasionally hew bolt she remarked, there will be great­ I that 45 players are now in suits. Ulis year and 31 in 1941; Vvasn-
ington nad 44 tins year compared
the tax bill. It is argued that in with the spirit of the occasion.
goods. Never confining herself to er need than ever now with this
The ranks were considerably i
with 35 in 1941.
putting through the largest tax
war
going
on.
patterns,
she
fashions
cleverly
de-
I
bolstered
by
the
return
of
Billy
The afghan Idea started a year,
partial schedules were carried
bill in history much time must be ago when Mrs. Charles Fortmiller
Elam, last year'a quarterback, and
consumed td consider the argu­ received a letter from the North THE FORCE H TN ONE
Mark Marquess, spark plug of the out Monday and Tuesday rooming
ments of all interested groups, but giving her the Idea of starting one OVER ON YE EDITOR
1M1 junior high team. Parks add­ senool ore was renewed ui earnest.
Civilian defense activities will be
it is still the general opinion here Upon Interesting her friends, It
Things have been going on
ed that a lot of power is showing
earned out on the same pian as
that a lot of the delay has been whs decided to csil upon the wom­
under the odi tor's very nose
up from the junior high squad.
caused by the desire of many con- ' en in the community to make
the past few days, the discov­
Barney Riggs, who was out­ last winter and spring .according
A fine of >250 and a Jail sen­
to Supt. Norby. Parents will be
gressmen to postpone final action squares or turn in odds and ends
ery of which has left us some­
tence ol six months was meted standing at tackle last year,
contacted in regard to what stu­
on taxes until after the election of wool. As usual Ashland ladies
what flabbergasted. Evidence
out to Alfred M. Ballard, Camp might be shifted to halfback un­
dents will do in case of air raids
Months ago, the secretary of responded wholeheartedly — the
of the work of sona* of the
Willie soldier, Wednesday by jus­ der the Parks system.
treasury pleaded for immediate ac­ squares poured in from all direc­
force is to be found In the
tice M. T. wums, wno Heard the I
The physical conditioning pro­ and other activities.
Out at Southern Oregon College
tion on taxes so that additional tions. The 17 artistic afghans re- ,
columns of this Issue and it
caae. i3aliard_ was accused of beat­ gram will be over this week when
of Education the same forces
funds could be collected this year. | present team work, our American
leuvrw us practically S|M-ech-
ing up Robert Preston in the ear­ the boys will get down to 'serious
which have curtailed registration
but all talk of new taxea payable wa yof doing things. Each soldier
less.
ly morning hours of Sept. 11 at business. Parks plans to start
at tne high schools have uampered
thia year has now been abandoned wrapped in one will feel the spirit I
It has been the pur|*ose Of
the comer of East Main and Oak working out plays by the end of
enrollment in the state school. Re­
Most of the more recent pressure of Ashland's women folk, comfort
the .Miner to work for the best
streets. Judge Bums stated, in the week. The practicing field, lo­
of the treasury department has and kindness.
Interests of Ashland and It is
cated west of the grandstand, is in munerative jobs in industries of
I imposing the penalty, that if Bal­
the valley are bolding numerous
been concerned with insisting on
comforting to know that our
Besides exhibiting the afghans,
lard would be willing to pay hos­ fine shape now and the mentor students who mignt otherwise ue
larger taxes than Congress wanted the silver collected at the lea will
efforts have tM*en appreciated.
pital and other expenses tor Pres­ said the boys will probably feel pursuing their studies at the col­
to enact. Il is still questionable provide USO soldier visitors with
To all who have hade us bon
ton he would consider a recoin-' the turf under their feet in scrim­ lege. One factor aiding m registra­
whether a tax measure will finally coffee or punch during the month
voyage we say thank you! It
mendation from the district attor-. mage sessions soon.
be passed before the election, al­ of October. Thus are shown the
is a sendoff we shall never for­
Efforts to fill the open date, tion is the pre-induction training
ney to reduce his term. Ballard
course in which men from la to Zb
though some experts here think It results of group cooperation prev- ,
get and we will carry only
indicated that he would be will- j Nov. 6. with upstate teams has years of age are eligible. Tne col­
will be difficult for congress to aient in our modern era.
pleasant memories of our so­
met with refusal but Parks said
ing to do it "if he coud."
lege has been allotted a quota of
postpone final action for six weeks
journ in Ashland.
Among USO council members I
Ballard was accompanied by his : he is contacting Weed, McCloud 42 men for this course. Ine pro­
more.
and
Redding
in
an
effort
to
get
'
present were; Mrs
Will Dodge,
mother, Mrs. R. F. Ballard, of'
gram includes reserved enlistment
At any rate, the taxes to be paid chairman and Mrs. Charles Haines, WILKINHON SCORES
Woodland, Calif., who stated that another home game.
I in the army, navy, air corps and
next year will undoubtedly be canteen chairman, also Mrs. Earl ANOTHER BULLSEYE
The
season
starts
Oct.
2
against
staggering as compared with oth­ Lcever, former chairman of the
John Wilkinson's store window her son was not quarrelsome ex- i Lakeview there and the first home coast guard and pernuts two years
er years and even those people War Recreation oomnuitee.
decorations are becoming the talk F fept when drinking. Evidence pro­ game is listed against Klamath ol college work, regardless of
duced at the hearing tended to
whether the person is subject to
with very low Incomes will be re­
Falls Oct. 9.
Another example of good will of the town. Recently the popular
draft.
quired to share in taxes. If the 5 toward the soldiers in Ashland is Ted's Feed arid Seed store mana­ show that the soldier attacked J
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without
provocation, I i
Most important addition to the
j>er cent Victory tax goes through expressed by the announcement by ger scored a'hit with an airplane Preston
BILL WILLITS GAINS
collège curriculum this year is the
which Is just a small part of the Mis Wilbur Hiet, USO volunteer, design which was made of mater­ Preston was seriously injured in PROMOTION IN NAVY
present tax bill, everyone earning of a chicken dinner to be given by ials from stock representing seeds the encounter and wits hospital­ I William Clark Willits, better two-year course in secretarial
412 a week or more will have 5 the Townsend club Thursday eve­ carried by the firm. This week he ized for several days.
known to his Ashland friends as science, with Mrs.. Frances White
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per cent deducted from wages or ning for 25 service men.
has a new design.
"Bill," has written his mother, as teacher. Mrs. White is main­
salaries, ¡»art of which will be con­
Taking his theme from the Keep LEAVES FOR EAST
Mrs. Alice Willits, teacher at taining one class in typewriting at
Square dancing was the feature
sidered taxea and part a form of of Wednesday night's program at Oregon creen campaign, Wilkin­
Lt. Elliott MacCracken left Washington sctobol, that he recent­ the high school, but will devote
compulsory saving, to be refunded the center. eGnuine figures were son has called to mind that popu­ this morning for Portland where ly was promoted to the rank of most of her time to the new col­
lege course.
after the war
demonstrated and taught by Pri­ I lar slogan In a novel manner. Us­ he will entrain for an eastern second class seaman.
As the tax proposals stand at vate August F. Heater o’ Camp ing charcoal as border, and scratch point to continue training. He
Bill joined the navy in April and
present, a married man with two White.
feed as background, he made the spent the past week in Ashland has been on a cruiser since the
children and an income of 42.000,
A musical birthday cake honor­ tree of ground alfalfa outlined visiting his father and mother. early part of June, being now in
will pay a tax of 465. If his in­ ing Private Glynn Sharpton's 22nd with salt. The result is a distinc­ Dr. and Mrs. Gordon MacCracken. the communications division.
come Is 42.500. the tax will be birthday was presented to him by tive fir tree, a gentle reminder to His appearance here at the open­
A graduate of Ashland high
O. G. Crawl ora, i earing editor
4163. if it is 43,000 ,the tax will Mrs. Charles Haines, Mrs. Anna help preserve Oregon's greatest ing of school seemed a natural school and completing two terms
of the Southern Oregon Miner,
be 4275. if 44.000 the tax will be Krueger and Mrs. Ailecn Kay. It resources, its forests.
thing and it has been hard for at Southern Oregon College of Ed­ has purcnased the Heppner Ga­
4528 and if 45,000 the tax will be was a soldier's drcam of a cake,
high school students and faculty ucation, Bill was active in musical zette limes and with Mrs. ciaw-
4807.
Virgil Jackson is expected home to reconcile themselves to the fact circles. Possessed of a good voice, iord, win leave Saturday moiumg
chocolate layers with oodles of
1
1
r
White Mountain frosting which to spend the week-end. He is em­ that he will not be in his accus­ his services were in demand in ' lor Heppner to assume charge ox
tomed place.
Congrcaa also Is expected within , was the artistic handiwork of Mrs. ployed at Vancouver. Wash
school and community activities.
i that newspaper. It will not oe a
the next two months to be asked J. M. Wagner.
new fieia tor the Crawlords as
to pass legislation for inducting
Bert Miller announces that the
they have lived in Heppner be­
youths of 18 and 19 years old into archery target has been complete­
fore. Crawford learned me print­
the armed services. Discussing the ly shot out and a new one has
ing trade in the shops or ine oid
future selective service situation, been ordeAid from Mr. DeMille
neppner Gazette ana the Heppner
*
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, na­ who has promised it in time fdr
Times. The Gazette was purcnased
tional selective service director, Sunday's American Archery con-
by an older brother, the late Vaw-
said, "we can't have a recess In I test.
ter Crawford, in 1910 and in 1912
Tuesday evening recordings were
the war until people grow up to be
the Times was purcnased by him
drafted." The young men have played for an appreciative audi-1
and was under his control until
proved most valuable to the army, ence by Mr and Mrs. Homer El-1
his death in 1935. His sons con­
¿CAMMERS
particularly in aviation, and it hart. Among the ¿elections were
tinued the business and the paper
our
therefore seems essential to our two numbers from Beethoven's
has been in the family lor 32
military leaders that they dip Into Fifth Symphony, and Jeannette
years. Acceptance of a lederal joD
the under-20 group, since the McDonald's singing of "Drink to
Dy Jasper Crawford, until recently
young men In their early 20s are Me Only With Thine Eyes." Re­
publisher of the Gazette Times,
most all in the armed forces al­ questnumbers will be played if the
left the shop without editor and
ready if they are not exempt be­ requests arc received a week in
printer.
advance.
cause of physical unfitness or their
The Crawfords came to Ashland
Cay Hufman, USO music chair­
necessity to war production.
in mid-summer 1940 when Mr.
General Hershey also said that man annnounces that Mrs. Homer
Crawford accepted a job as oper­
married men with children would Elhart will take over the Listeners
ator on the Miner, then published
probably be called for military Hour every Tuesday night the
by Leonard Hall. He continued
service next year. He pointed out winter. Music Study club will
for a few wonths with Giffen
that although he has Issued in­ sponsor one program a month.
and Savin, present owners of the
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structions not to break up homes
printing equipment and spent sev­
until necessary, there is no law or STICKERS TO BE ISSUE!)
eral months on the road as repre­
regulation which prevents the IN UKU OF PLATES
sentative of the West Coast Ink
drafting of married men with
company of Portland, a business
Commemmorating the hundredth
children.
conducted by Fred Miitenberger.
' anniversary of the Old Oregon
Pointing out the speed with Trail and the historic meeting at
When war conditions made it dif­
i
which men are being mobilized
ficult to continue ink manufacture
Champoeg in 1843 ,a windshield
which is much faster than in the sticker showing an oxen-drawn
and still more difficult to travel,
iast war- General Hershey said prairie schooner against a back­
the two got together on a lease
that it may be necessary to mobi­ ground of typical Oregon scenery,
of the Miner.
lize between 10,000,000 and 13,000,- will be issued motorists who regis­
Both Mr. and Mrs. Crawford
000 men. "We will have to come ter their cars for 1943. The state
have been active in civic, frater­
to the realization," he said "that legislature provided for license
nal and church life of the com­
there are not e'nough single men,
munity, the former belonging to
plates designed to advertise the
that there are not enough married centennial event ,but due to war
the Lions club, chamber of com­
men without children" to mobilize restrictions on steel, it was neces­
merce and the Elks lodge. Mrs.
such a force. "The supply of men sary to substitute windshield stick­
Crawford is president of the guild
is limite," he said, "even when ers for the u)iunl steel license
of Trinity Episcopal church, is a
you consider the 18 to 50 age plates. Motorists will retain their
member of Chapter AC, PEO. the
group, because we are rejecting 1942 plates for 1943, •
Ashland Choral club and has ta­
about 33 per cent of those called
ken an active part in war recrea­
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for duty."
tion and USO activities.
MILS. CRAWFORD TO BE
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HONOR
GUEST
AT
TEA
A general tightening up of those
A SON IS BORN
Officers of Chapter AC, PEO
things which are limiting produc­
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Tuter of
tion is also expected to be pushed have arranged a tea honoring
Dorris, Calif., announce the birth
Mrs.
O.
O.
Crawford
who
is
de
­
rapidly. Donald Nelson, head of the
of a 7-pound son at Hillside hospi­
War Production board, said that parting Saturday to make her
tal, Klamath Falls. Sept.22 The
production of war supplies has In­ home at Heppner. The tea will be
young man has been named Del­
creased 350 per cent since Pearl held at the home of Mrs. Dom
bert Leon. Mrs. Tuter is the dau­
Harbor, but that even greater pro- Provost between the hour» of 4
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Chip­
and 5 o'clock p. m. Friday.
(ConUnuad on page 8)
man of Ashland.
WASHINGT®
Grizzly Prospects
Brighter With 45
Players in Suits
Maximum Fine Meted
To Fighting Soldier
Editor Buys Weekly
Paper at Heppner
Report to the Commander in Chief
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ORDERS* OBEYED,
AND OBJECTIVES ATTAINED I