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ASHLAND, OREGON), THURSDAY, November 11, 1943
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ARMISTICE DAY
USE V-MAIL
FOR SAFETY
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An Oregon wartime tradition/
wax upheld again this week when
Major 14. P. Cody, state army re
cruiting and induction officer, re
vealed that the district WAC re
cruiting headquarters had
re-
crived u bulletin from Washing
ton announcing Oregon as leading
the nation, by a wide margin, in
the current nation-wide WAC
"All-States" rccr'dtlng campaign.
At the time« of the announce
ment Oregon army and civilian
WAC recruiters had completed
over 27'/, of their quota. Nevada
held second place honois and
Washington third. The campaign
objective is to replace, with a
woman recruit, each soldier re
ported killed or missing in action
since Dec. 7, 1941
Tn« bouthorn Oregon Regional |
Here's a picture and a message
Educational Conference which wus
that millions of Americans are
held on the cumpua of the South
studying today. It’s a reminder
ern Oregon Collage of Education
that our service men and women
ended Friday, November 5, after
in the armed services live from
a successful session with a large
one “mail call" to the next in
attendance of classroom teachers
longing and hope for a word from
and leading educators of ths
home.
state. Owing to transportation
When interviewed by the South
difficulties this year’s conference
ern Oregon Miner on the subject
Included only two counties, Juck-
of V-Mail as portrayed in the hun-
aon and Josephine.
ireds of thousands of posters ap
State Superintendent Rex l*ut-
pearing throughout the country,
nuni spoke Friday morning con
Major B. P. Cody of Oregon Re-
cerning the functioning of the
.ruitlng Office said:
f
stale office and the work of the
“A letter from home is probably
teachers, commending them espe
« better morale-booster than any
cially for the work they have done
thing else ever thought of. That’s
in issuing ration books
he reason were stressing the
Friday morning's address was
/alue of V-Mail. By using this
delivered by Dr. A L. Strand, THIS AM) THAT
wonderful process you can be
president Oregon State College, 'By OLD TIMER)
jure that your letter will reach
In the afternoon George J. Rony. To the Editor:
/our service man or woman with
lecturer, traveler and commenta
tafety and speed. V-Mail is a
This is the 25th anniversary <».
tor, waa chief speaker.
modern miracle that cuts down
the cessation of hostilities 1L
Dr Strand, discussing liberal World War J arid of tne signing
miles of distance and days of
ism versus natlonallam plead for of an armistice between the Allies
waiting.
a liberalism broader than racial and Germany, in London the ah
The process of V-Mail i» an in-
and national lives, and stressed niversary ts observed by a two
teres ting one. tour letter is mi-
the need for an educational pol minutes silence in memory of the
crofilmed, and, in the final pro-
icy to insure this expansion of I fallen, together with a special
cess, it becomes one of 1500 let
liberalism.
ters appearing on a single roll of
service at the Cenotaph in White
Other speakers appearing be hall. The two minutes silence is
film. One mall sack of film does
fore the general assembly during generally observed throughout the
the job of 36 sacks of regular
the conference were Dr. Frank British Empire.
mail. Arriving at its destination,
S PB-MASI
Parr, executive secretary of the
the film is enlarged so that your
Your latter, microfilm«! through the V-Mail proc.»», 1« a».ur.d of safo
_
f < 1
Oregon State Teachers' Associa
letter is legible. Your original let
Forgotten for a century and a
and »peedy delivery. Carrying their Menage to the families of Ammcai
tion: A L. Qralapp, superintend half, President Hoover revived the
ter is kept on this side. If some
men in the Armed Forcea overaoaa, hundred* of thousand« of Po***’’’ •»“
ent Klamath Falls Schools; Dr. award of the Purple Heart on the
show card* like the above have been di»tributed throughout the Latum. thing should happen to the film
Bruce R. Baxter, Resident Bishop bicentennial of the birth of George
in transport ,the original letter is
Methodist Church, Portland area; Washington The award was then
re-filmed and a new shipment
Dr. Walter Redford, president made retroactive to 245,000
made at once.
SOCE; Dale F. Ginn, superintend wounded soldiers of the A.E F in
More than 40,000,000 V-Mail
ent Grants Pass Schools; H. P. the first World War.
letters have been dispatched ov
Jewett,
superintendent
Central
erseas without the loss of a single
v 1 1
Point Schools; peonaril Mayfield,
November is “Christmas Mail letter! It is small wonder then
Honors for "singularly meritor
principal Medford Senior High
Hany Chipman opens his I new ing Month" this year. The Post that the Army Postal Service has
School, and Dr. I). V. Poling, high ious action," on the field of battle, soda fountain on Saturday, the Office Department is very anxious adopted the slogan, "V-Mail . . ,
school representative Oregon State were leaa generous in Washing 13th. This young man deserves to give the public the best serv to be sure!”
ton« time, only three Continental
System of Higher Education.
ice possible, so here is a bit of
much credit for his success.
Sectional meetings included the soldiers receiving the award dur
helpful information that will aid
A
few
years
ago
he
opened
a
following discussions: "Report of ing the Revolution.
small news stand with borrowed both the Post Office and the pub
Jackson County English Commit
lic.
Wearers of the Purple Heart capital, and by honest diligent
tee," by Mrs. Ethel Krauss, Rogue
The war effort has taken over
attention to a little business, Har
have
their
own
veteran's
organi
River High 8chool; "Language in
ry
now
opens
one
of
the
nicest
and
30.000
of our skilled workers, and
the Elementary Grade«" and "Pri zations, with national headquart neatest places in the city.
also more than half of the pre
Word was received last week
at
I^anslng.
Michigan,
founded
er«
mary Arithmetic" by Miss Lillian
The pubilc sheuld .and we feel viously available transportation. of the tragic death of First Lt.
C. Downey; "Klmientlry JtrtencF' in 14132.
confident will, assist him and his For this holiday season we will Lee Earl O’Harra on November 1
and "Primary Reading" by Misx
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wife in their endeavors to give have neither skilled help nor suf neur Mojave, California.
Hitler Proposes Finish Fight -
Tillie Schlumberger; ^Social Stu
the young people of this cojpmun ficient transportation, so it is nec
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
dies" by Mias Joy Hills, director headline, And when the smoke of ity the atmosphere of a clean essary that ail parcel mailings be
M P. O’Harra.
of curriculum of State Depart battle disappears it wUl be the
wholesome place to spend an hour made in November, but be sure to
Funeral services were conduct
ment of Education; "Pre-induc- finish of Hitler and his gang.
mark them “Do not open until ed on Monday afternoon at the
o.r an evening.
lion Science" by Dr. Siemens of
The Miner is ^tot asking the Christmas.”
New« from* the ^cnMhweat Pa
Litwiller Funeral Chapel with a
the
University
of
California;
"Ashland Business and Profession
Greeting
cards
should
likewise
detail from Camp White in charge.
"High School English Essentials" cific proves that when Gen. Mac
al Interests" to extend Harry be mailed during November and Chaplain Virgil Jackson of Camp
by Mrs Lucille O'Neil of Klamath Arthur gets a few planes he "Congratulations" at $2.00 per
not later than December 10 this White and the Rev. Earl F.
Falls High School; "Administra knows what to do with them
throvi' in a page Ad. - the 50 or 75 year, and it would be very smart Downing of the Church of Christ
tors" by State Superintendent Rex
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bucks to swell our collection to put "Do not open until Christ gave the messages of comfort.
Putnam; "Home Economics" by
Those hell-raising Jap« at Tule plate - but why not spend that mas” on them also.
Members of the American Legion
Mias Gertrude Raskie, assistant lake should be exchange,J for A- amount at Harry’s in a real ges-
acted as pall bearers.
This
information
is
not
an
or
state supervisor of Home Econom merican soldiers and civilians held
turr to make his opening day a der, but is a helpful suggestion
Interment was in the I.O.O.F.
ics; "Visual Education" by Dr. by the Japs in the Philippines
huge success.
addition
of Mt. View Cemetery.
given
by
experience
and
a
sincere
Curtis Reid, Extension Depart -
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Lt. O’Harra was born in Wheat-
desire to ba most helpful to our
ment, State System of Higher
Uncle Zeke asks: Wouldn’t it be Women’s Society Meets
land, Wyoming on May 15, 1920.
public.
Education
nice if the government with its
He was graduated form AHS in
Other local teacher« taking part
We
ask
your
co-operation
at
subsidy program would roll back A.t Methodist Church
the class of 1938. Survivors In
in the programs were: Josephine the price of taxis too.
The November meeting of the this time. Help us to help you. clude his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
a
Mail
early
—
and
mark
every
County- Beatrice E Hively, Hen
Womens Society of Christian Ser
P. O’Harra; two brothers, Dale in
•
s
ry Tetz, Supt. M B. Winslow,
vice was held at the Methodist thing "Do not open until Christ the Army Air Corps and stationed
Warren Bailey, Daphne Matthews WREATH HONORS BISHOP Church last Friday. After the mas.”
at Mt Berry, Georgia, and Robert
of Grants Pass, Mrs Julia Wil
buiincss meeting in the forenoon,
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of Ashland; and his grandparents,
liams. O’Brien School. Jackson
a delicious luncheon was served
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vern Mr. and Mrs. T. L. O’Harra of
County—Laura Phillips. Mrs Al
at noon by the following ladies:
Ashland.
bert Inland, Medford; Mrs Mae
Mr«. Loren Merfnger, Mrs. Ger- Anderson on Nov. 8, a son.
Two other members of the '38
B. Richardson, Central Point;
i ah! Gunter, Mrs. Hattie Konop,
class of AHS have given their
Florence Allen. Joe Fader, Clif
Mrs. J. H. McGee. Mrs. L. H.
Mr. 4n<r Mrs. L. C. Pratt and lives in the service of the country.
ford Robinson. Supt. T. J. Norby,
Gallatin, Mrs. John Billings, and sons of Klamath Falls visited in Master Sgt. Robert J. Farlow and
Mary McLaman, John O. Koehler.
‘Mrs. George Mason.
Ashland several days this week.
Lt. John Pratt.
Ashland.
Mrs. C. L. Bergstrom conducted
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the prayer circle and Mrs. B. L.
The week of November 7 to 13
Powell, the devotions. Mrs. Homer
is being observed throughout the
Billings assisted by Mrs G. H
nation to review results of this
Yeo and Mrs. M. A. Ring gave
Bi LEfrF
year's 4-H club program and to
the lesson study. Mra. Lucille Mc
plan for even a better year in 1944.
Kay sang two negro Spirituals.
M. L. Wilson, national extension
director, told the 1,700.000 club
) BE HELD AT
bers that they played an out
I
UTE TONIGHT
standing part in wartime food and
Mrs. Jewell Lockhart, assistant I
fiber production in spite uf great
director of the Ashland USO. calls
handicaps.
attention of dance recruits to the
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Chipman to Have
Grand Opening
‘Mail Early’ Is Advice
From Post Office
O’Harra Gives His
Life for Country
AMERICAN HEROES
dance at Camp White Thursday
evening, November 11. Armistice
AMS FOOTBALL SCORE |
Day. It will be a sports affair
ASHLAND
S31 ICELAND—The Rev. Dr. William
held in the Sports Arena, and is
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ROSEBURG *
0' B. Pugh, of Philadelphia, in as I given in honor of the incoming
suming the unfinished mission to
Protestant forces overseas, begun 96th Division men by the men of
the West Side, comprising those
by the late Methodist Bishop Adna
| Wright Leonard of Washington,
units separate from the 91st Di
B. B. CLARK
D. C., made a pilgrimage to the vision and which have remained
i cemetery here where the 14 victims in Camp White.
and Companion
of an Army plane crash last May
are buried. Aided by Deputy Chief
Are Invited to Be Guests of the
of Chaplains, Col. George F. Rixey,
LEIGH IS PROMOTED
U. S. A., and eight Army and Navy
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
if
Pvt Richard A. T^eigh, son of
Chaplains, Dr. Pugh conducted
to see
memorial rites.
; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Tzlgh, has
at the VARSITY THEATRE
Dr. Pugn, Stated Clerk of the
been promoted to private first
Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., suc jflnss. Pvt. Leigh entered the Army
(Friday and Saturday)
ceeded the Bishop as chairman of
April 16, 1943. and is now serv
"MISSION TO MOSCOW"
both the Grtieral Commission on
ing with a unit of the Army Serv
Army and Navy Chaplains and the
or
Service Men’s Christian League.
ice Forces Unit Training Center.
(Sanday, Monday, Tuesday)
A human link between their
New Orleans. I^t.
home churches and the nation's
Before entering the
Armed
"HELIX) FRISCO”
servicemen and their Chaplains, Dr.
Please call at the Miner Office I Pugh, by the time he returns late '' Forces, Pvt. Leigh was attending
the Southern Oregon College of
i
for Your Gueat Tickets
) in November, will have covered
nearly «very front.
l Education in
Ashland.
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By Ruth Taylor
"Here lie we dead because we did
not choose
To shame the land from which we
sprung.
Life is perhaps no great thing to
lose,
But young men think it is,
And we are young."
We, who remember th« casual
ty lists of the last war, walk ween
ghosts today. Besides the soldiers
on our streets, we see those other
lads whose lives were far too
short, who loved Life too greatly
to be miserly with it when their
country called.
In the Armistice Day pause this
year there will be new heroes to
remember. Pearl Harbor, Bataan,
Corregidor, Wake Island, Guadal
canal, North Africa, Sicily — be
fore this article appears there will
be as many other places all over
the globe hallowed by those who
could say as did A. E. Housman
I _ ____
_f___ t.__ for
. __
in the "Epitaph
the _______
Fallen:"
I "Here lie we dead because we did
: not choose to shame the land from
which we sprung."
They have given their all—and
it was so much! Who knows what
great things they might have ac
complished,
what
great
good
might have come to the world
if they had been allowed to live,
what things they might have cre
ated, discovered, invented, taught!
We have to face the fact that
before this war is over, thousands
upon thousands of these, our
finest, will have died. They will
be Americans — maybe rich, or
poor, maybe black or white, may
be Protestant, Catholic or Jew;
but NOT German-American, Rus
sian-American, Italian-America*;
not a "son of the American Rev
olution," not an immigrant—but
just citizens of the United States
—Americans
who loved
their
country and its ideals of freedom
and equality enough to offer their
lives that these ideals of justice
and democracy might not perish.
We, too, though We cannqt
fight, must not "shame the land
from which we sprung.” We have
a duty as binding upon us as that
of any soldier as long as this war
lasts, Afterwards we have an-
other duty, too—that of seeing
to it that they did not die in
vain, that the promises made in
the Four Freedoms are at last
fulfilled for all the people of all
the earth, and that those who
come after may live as free men,
unafraid in a free world.
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TALENT NEWS
Sam Wilburn made a business
trip in Portland last week.
Lysle Tame and Al Sherard of
the Dead Indian district were in
Talent Saturday.
The Talent Garden Club met at
the home of Mrs. George Galbreth
Wednesday afternoon. Fourteen
ladies were present.
Mrs. Melissa Came ran of Phoe
nix visited her mother, Mrs. Lou
isa Combest, Sunday afternoon.
The Tfclent Extension Club met
at the City Hall at 10:30 a m.
Wednesday, Subject for discus-
sion was “Getting the Good from
your vegetables," given by Miss
Farrell.
Bill Laurence of Medford was a
business caller in Talent, Monday,
evening.
Mrs. M. F. Franklin and daugh
ter, Mrs. Dan Maplesdon, left
Thursday morning for Texas,
where Mrs. Maplesdon’« husband
is stationed. Mra Franklin will
return soon. Mrs. Maplesdon will
remain in Texas with her husband.
Mr .and Mrs. Floyd Parks of
• Central Point visited at the home
of Mrs. Bertha Hungate, Sunday.
Those moving to Prospect l ist
week were Mr. and Mrs. Cliff
Green and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Hervy and Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Cowdrey. The men are
employed by the Skeeters lumber
company.
Charles Rusho employed near
Prospect, was badly Injured on his
head and shoulder when he fell on
a large saw.
Mrs. Meda Fox left last Thurs
day for Brisbane, California to
visit her sons. Lowell and Harold
»nd their families.
Mr .and Mrs. Vict6r Millbum'
of near Grants Pass visited friends
in Talent, Thursday.
Mr .and Mrs. W. M. McKenzie
of Jacksonville called in Talent
Sunday afternoon. They ar« for
mer residents of Talent.