ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943
VOL. XI
OSC Honor* Ace Grad;
• ?<> Million Pounds Metal Ashland Postoffice Often
College Honored Also Collected by Chev. Dealers On Saturday Afternoons
ASHLAND U.S.O.
NEWS NOTES
MI m Frances E. Dodda, Aah
Ittiwl 1)80 <iir«*«tor, visited Gump I
White thia week, hiii I interview- 1
e<l Public Relation* Officer, Lt
Kenn«* h Lucky, about dlstribu-1
lion of th«* weekly Ashland 1)80
bulletin
Lt Lucky recently viwiled the
Ashland center and noting that
the center "ha» a lot to offer
aohiiera," naked that 5(X> bulle-
tina be distributed In I'luup Whit»'
Inalead of th«* uauul 300 weekly.
75 ENJOY KANDWHHEM—
Heventy-flve visiting añidiera
enjoyed aandwiciiea und cotte«* in
th«? Ashland UBo Center Sunday
at the uauul buffet supper. The
men apreail their own sandwiches
and carried their own dishes to
the kitchen.
Junior ho«« tease a
were present to help the soldiet
guests serve the supper.
PICTURE* SHOWN—
Featured now on the bulletin
board of the Asiikuxl U8O center
are prints of the pictures taken
<>t U8O activities, by Bob Kent.
Heve ral orders for reprints have
been made.
NUMBER 52
New President of Federal Council
of Churches, Bishop II Hl Georg«?
, Tucker, heud of Episcopal Church,
wants unite»! Church action for for
victory und just peace.
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Annual Pre** Conference
To Open Friday, Jan. 22
‘ U of O„ Eugene. Jan. 20 Th«*
25th annual Oregon Press confer-
■ cnee will open on the University
| of Oregon campus Friday, Janu­
ary 22, with representatives from
most of the s ates leading papers
' expected to be on hand for the
MONTHLY PLAN COMPLETED two day session. Mary Conn
Mrs. Paul Finnell, chairman of i Brown, K< dmond. is president of
Refreshments Committee of the the association.
Nearly every diacusrion oy con­
USO, has announced the monthly
plan for providing refreahmenta ference representatives will cen­
for USO week ends
Th«* first ter around some phase of the
week was taken care of by the war as it affects the press in
Trinity Guild. which «ionatrd general and Oregon newspapers Ui
Repr«*senlatives of
homemade ctKtkles i aúlles of th«* par icular
Presbyterian
Church
provided various war agencies, including
cookies for the second week, la­ the censorship office, office of
dies of the Mrthodiat Church the war information, WI’B und OPA.
third w««ek
The Hospital Auxi­ will b«* on hand to answer ques­
liary Sewing club will meet at tions
the USO and bake doughnuts tor
Featured speaker for th«* meet­
the fourth week end The ladies ing will be Wendell Webb, As­
of tile Chris;ian Science Church sociate! Press correspondent who
will provide refreshments for the covered the battle of Midway.
fifth week end.
Governor Earl Snell and retiring
Mrs hlnnell asks anyone will­ Governor Charles A Sprague al­
ing to donate cookies, to call her, so are expected to appear on the
t«?epbonc 3451.
program of the journalistic gath­
ering
WIVES CLUB MEETS—
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The Service Men* Wives club West. Point, Annapolis
met Tuesday at 12:30 for a cov­
Examinations Feb. 6
ered dish lunch and social games
Fifteen members were present
Civil Service examinations for
The business meeting was con­
ducted by Mrs W«*sley Cartright, the purpose of aiding members of
who announced that wives of all Ccngress In making d***t gr,allot s
officers and enlisted* arc invited to the United S:ates Military an«l
to attend the club meetings each Naval Academies have been poet-
Tuesday at 12:30 sharp, at the ponoi from January 23rd to
USO clubhouse in Idthia Park. , February 6th. Congressman Har­
Also, women of Ashlund are in­ ris Ellsworth states. The change
vited to Join the group on Thurs­ ' in date is requdlted by the War
More time is re­
days at onc-thir.y for the physi­ Department.
cal training of k««ep-fit hour. quired for that Department to
This activity is not limited to determine the number appoint-
service men's wives, and «»thers : ments available to members of
will tie welcomed. For this ac- | Congress
tivity slacks should be worn
Accordingly. Civil Service ex­
aminations will be held February
EXECUTIVE MEETING HEI.D I 6th in the post office building
The Ashland Junior Hostess in cities in the Oregon Fourth
Ix-ague officers held an execu- I Congressional District listed by
tive meeting at a dinner in the the Civil Service Commission,
Eugene,
Marshfield,
Plaza Cafe. Wednesday, January namely;
13.
Among the problems con­ Roseburg and Medford.
slderAd was tile President's Ball,
Th«* exact number of appoint­
which falls on January 27. It ment* that will be made from
will be a formal affair, and it the new Fourth District has not
was decided that a larger hall yet b«*en determined, Congress­
than that of the USO club house man Ellsworth says, but author­
will be need«*«! Margaretta Barnt- ization to take the Civil Service
housc was put in charge of In­ examination will be sent anyone
vestigating the possibilitlM for eligible if application is made
larger accommodations
An or- Such applications should be ad­
chestra will be secured for the dressed to Congressman Harris
occasion if at all possiblt* Marie EILswiuth. Ib'ile OffiM Building.
Pochelu was placed in charg«* of Washington, D. C., and must be
decorating the hall, the decora- received by him not later than
iions to be in the national colors I January 20, 1943.
of red, white and blue.
Candidates for admission to thc
Methods of (contributing to the Military Academy must be bc-
natlixial fund of returns front tween the ages of 17 and 22; for
the ITeaident's Ball will be the Naval Academy, between the
worked out later.
ages of 17 and 21. Candidates
Present at the meeting were for both Academys must never
Mary Gean Hendricks, Presidimi; have been married.
Marie Pochelu and Madge Mit-
cheli, first and second vice-presi-
dents; Ddrothy Burket, ■ecretary; Upton, director of the USO
Virginia
Hales
and
Frances YMCA unit at Medford.
White, Junior hostess chairmen;
The Coordina ing Council meets
Margareite Barnhouse, and di r- subject to call, on an average of
ector Frances Dodds.
once a month.
It was announced that 36 jun­
ior hostesses attended th«* dance
Two visitors from the Klamath
at Number one Service Club at Commandos stopped recently at I
the Ashland center, Miss Dorothy
amp White, Wednesday evening. Gilchrist and Miss Shirley Me-
ATTENDS MEETING—
Monigal.
Miss 'Frances E. Dodds, USO
Two sailors, Jim Cleveland and
director, attended a meeting of j Ed Ihiniels, both first class bug­
the Coordinating Council In Med­ lers who are on 15 day leave,
ford this week. Discussion at the »topped at the Ashland uso
meeting turned on recreation at ' Thursday and were treated to
Camp Whit«* and vicinity service 1 coffee and cookies, They were
clubs, dances and other programs on their way back to boat in
of interest to service men,
San Francisco harbor,
They
A special guest of the meeting have been stationed tn Iceland.
was Major Anderson from Fort | Miss Julia Hollick gave twelve
Ix*wis, who was one of the speak- j jars of fruit juice to the USO
•rs. Another speaker waa George [ recently,
DETROIT, Jan 18 More than
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
Tile special “Hom«-«<>ming" stag«*d . 120 million pounds of scrap me­
h«*re in honor <rf Captain Marion tals suffi« ten: to build Uncle
Carl, marine flying ace with 16 Sam 20 more submarines, six des­
Jap plane* to his credit, was troyers an«J a cruiser have been
mud«* the occasion for an out­ collect«?«) by the 8.(XX) Chevrolet
standing patriotic demonstration dealers in America as a portion of
on the pan of the entire institu­ their contribution to the war pro­
gram.
tion.
An activity sponsored by the
The college itself wax pi<-s«*nt«*d Victory S«* vice J>*ague, patriotic
with a distinguish«!
service alliance of American motorists
award by the United Stat«*» trea­ supported by Chevrole dealers,
sury department for service» ren­ the scrap drive has been a con­
dered already in th«* war waving.*« tinuing operation, under the gen­
Ix»nd and stamp drives. Jmmc- eral super-inion of William E.
iatcly following the special con­ Holler. Chr zrolet general sales
vocation where this was present­ I manager.
ed. individual students and »tud-
Cumulative totals through Nov-
ent organization» purchased more ember show that the dealers have
than *14,<XX) in war bonds while collect ed:
Captain and Mrs. Carl assisted at
of iron
and
th«* c«d)eg<* victory center.
steel 1,099,855 lbs lead; 197,-
Captain Carl ,a 38 graduate in 832 lbw oqpper, 171,943 lbw. brass;
mechanical engineering,
urged 104,827 Ibe aluminum, and 1 598-
students to keep their work in 668 lbs of other meals
good condition here until «silled
n addition, 7.128.923 lbs
of
and plan to finiuh their <x»urses scrap rubber have been amass«*«!
in case they are called before by Chevrolet dealers to swell
graduation
Good head work Uncle Sam's dimlniifhing rubber
»aves many “necks" in buttle, he stocks. Other items coll«?cted in­
added.
cluded 933,203 lbs
of paper,
205,978 lbs. of rags, 7,088 lb«,
of burlap bags, 3,228 lb«, of rope
Farmers Setting High
I and 145,051 lb«, of miscellaneous
Goals But Need Labor scrap. •
In the reporting period, dealers
junked
6,269 cars and sold an­
Oregon farmers generally are
planning their 1943 farm opera­ other 6,225 cars for scrap. Bat­
tions for an output that will teries Junked numbered 10.273.
In a letter to all Chevrolet
equal or exceed most of the war
dealers
listing these scrap totals,
production goals sei for the state
this year, R. B. Taylor, chair­ Mr. Holler said:
"Encouraging as the result has
man of the stale USDA war
board, reported at the end <rf the been to date, r«?cently inaugurated
first weeg of the farm sign-up offensives of the Allied Nations
drive now underway throughout accentuate the need for addition­
al scrap for the production of
the »' ate.
more tanks, guns, planes and am­
'Ihe farm plans that have been munition than ever. To accom­
turned in so far indicate that plish this, the war production In­
Oregon farmers intend to operate dustrie« will need more scrap
at top cajmcity to produce a than ever.
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maximum of essential crops The
"The end of the year means in­
extent to which these int«yntlons ventory time for most business
are carried out will depend on firm» an ideal lime for uncover­
the axsstance given by city dwel­ ing obsolete, broken, damaged or
lers, women and school children idle part» and machinery which
during peak cultivating and har- could feed the scrap rive.
vesting wiisona. Taylor believes.
"Scrap can help make 1943 the
Taylor said that all of the re­ Victory year.”
sources <>t the U. S. <h*[»artmeut
of agriculture, co-ordtnated by TAX RETURNS—
USDA war boards, will be used
A state income tax auditor will
to assist farmers get whatever is
be
at City Hall, Ashland, on
n«*eded to obtain peak production
from every farm. I »eating those February 27, March 1 and 2 in­
farm» needing assistance is one clusive, for the purpose of as­
of the main purposes of the cur­ sisting taxpayers in preparing to
fill out their tax returns for the
rent farm canvass.
year 1942.
Under the law recently passed
by congress requiring govern­
ment agencies to work six «right-
hour days, the local postoffice
will remain open Saturday after­
noons until 6 p.m with full ser­
vice the same as other days of
the week.
Only one delivery on the rural
rout«?» will be made on Saturday,
but in the fity two deliveries to
rf'Oidences are scheduled for Sat­
urdays
Overtime pay will be
giv«m the employes for this added
work.
CAMP WHITE
NEWS NOTES
MORTAR FIRING, JAN 18-24—
Mortar firing will be conducted
on the Beagle range of Camp
White reservation January 28 to
24 Inclusive, at was announced to­
day from headquarters. Firing
will be <»rried <xi between the
hours of 8 a.m, and 5 p.m.
Beagle range is defined as the
area nine miles nor h of Medford
that lieA in a rectangle six miles
wide to the west of Rogue River
and extends north for 10 miles
from
the mouth of Little Butte
Having Meat Troubles?
creek.
Help Offered Via KOAC Military and civilian personnel
are warned to remain out of the
How to manage the family food ar«?a unlesfi they have business.
supply with less meat is being Range guards will be posted to
discussed three times a week enforce this order.
over the st.ite-owm«Kl radio sta­
tion KOAC by three homemakers THIS AND THAT
who have combined practical ex­
(By Old Timer J
perience with a refre*her course To The Editor:
in home economics at O S.C. On
We believe that the time is op­
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday portune when concerted action
ar 10:45 a.m. one of the three is was being taken to compile an
on the program.
honor roll of the men of the
Mrs Fr«?d Morgan on Monday Ashland community in the arm­
discusses providing meat for ed forces of Uncle Sam.
guest dinners Wednesday Mrs.
rev
E. G. Mawon speaks on meat ex­
It strikes us that this under­
tenders, and on Friday Mrs. Cur­ taking should receive the approv­
tis Mumford speaks on planning al and support of our civic or­
the meat supply for an entire ganizations. Let them take the
week. These speakers are being matter up in their meeting» and
heard every week now for an follow it up with the appointment
indtrfinite period.
of committees for a general con­
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ference of all organizations to
More Farm Machinery
further the project.
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Available in Oregon
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A house-to-house canvass
Oregon will get more farm should be made for the names of
machinery for this year’s food he men in the service, the
production job than the amounts branch of service along with the
allocated under the original state next erf kin. No doubt Supt. T.
quotas. Albert S. Girod of Salem, J. Norby could be enlisted in
chairman of the state USDA war the movement and arrangements
board’s farm machinery comm­ made to have high school stud­
ittee reports on his return from ents make the canvass for the
Washington D. C. Quotas for names of the service men.
many items will be increanM by
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25 'i, and some may be doubled
When the canvass is complet’d,
Girod «said. The increase is the the names should be published in
result of WPB allocation of more the local newspapers in order
materials to manufarturers. Even that corrections, if any, can be
with the increases, new farm made Copies of the honor roll
machinery will not begin to meet . should be run off on paper suit-
all needs, Girod warned.
i able for f raming and preserva­
County rationing committees tion under glasB, with space re­
will be advised of how much ad­ served for adding new names.
ditional machinery will be al­
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located to each county, and will
As a follow-up to the honor
use information now being gath­ roll a permanent memorial should
ered through the every-farmer be erected on the plaza.
canvass to determine the farms
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where the machines are most
Job was a patient man but he
needed.
didn't have to worry about tires,
gasoline, sugar and other commo­
dities.
MOBILE SPECTACLE SHOPS FOR THE A.E.F.
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Nineteen-Forty-Two was a year
of bumper crops—one of the big-
ges; being Washington-inspired
questionnaires.
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With Uncle Sam now* S115 bil­
lion dollars in debt, no one yet
has come up with a workable
method for unpriming the pump.
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The U. S. Army quartermaster
corps spend $404 annually on
each soldier for food, clothing
and supplies.
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Since no more sliced bakery
bread is the order of the OPA.
the old bread knife has been
whetted up for slieix'.
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Tojo says the war is just start­
ing. This means, of course, that
he can see his own finish.
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Berlin will not look the same
to the Nazis streaking home
from Russia.
NEWBRY PLACED—
State Senator Earl Newbry is
serving on the following commit­
tees in the current legislature;
Chairman
of Municipal Affairs;
V. S. Atmy Sigtul Cffi Pkoi»
Shown above Is one of the Army’s new mobile optical unite built by the American Optical Company for over­ Vice Chairman, Agriculture. Vice
Chairman of Irrigation and Drain­
seas service. These units will repslr or replace eyeglasses for soldiers in the field.
age. member of Assessments and
Southbridge, Mass. — Realising estimates that 15 per cent of the other instruments are a drill, axis Taxation, Federal Relations and
that true vlaion Is vital to victory, men in the armed forces wear marker and a tensometer for recre­ Industries.
ating a prescription from parts of a
the United States Army has added glasses
During World War I the Army shattered spectacle lens.
something distinctively new to its
A wide assortment of uncut
mobile battle equipment—spectacle decided to attach to the A.E.F. an
- JUST DUMB
shops on wheels, to be driven with­ optical unit which was stationed in ground and polished lenses is
a
suburb
of
Paris
As
the
head
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stocked
aboard
the
truck,
sufficient
in ride shot of the front lines to
repair or replace eyeglasses for quarters of thia original unit re­ to correct practically all types of
mained stationary, It was Impos­
soldiers, thereby keeping their eyes sible to give speedy spectacle serv­ eye errors. Arranged in specially
constructed cabinets reinforced and
keen for action.
ice to the soldiers in the field, the padded to withstand the shock of
Designed and built by the Ameri­ reason why the present units were riding over rough terrain are 36.000
can Optical Company at the request designed to be completely mobile single vision lenses. 8.400 frames.
of the Surgeon General's ofllce, so that they can follow a shifting 600 pairs of extra temples and 1.200
these unique, truck borne optical army.
spectacle cases.
shops—Aral of their kind and con­
The new mobile optical unit con­
The operators of the unit can
ceived especially for field armies— sists of a two and a half ton truck edge and mount 120 single lense«
are as complete as the average for carrying optical equipment and daily—sufficient for the average r«*
optical shop In the heart of New machinery, and a one-ton trailer for qulrements of a field army of 300
York City.
carrying the supplies of the crew 000 men. These operators perfor«*
only the technical work of prepa«
Each of the units, manned by a and a large tent.
The optical equipment ranges ing the glasses, while the profe
crew of eight army optical tech­
nicians, la designed to care for on- from diamonds for cutting lenses sional ophthalmic services of exam­
the-spot optical needs of a fighting to tour mounted emery stones for ining, refracting and prescribing
army of 300,000 men. The Army edging an«l shaping them. Among are handled by Army doctors.