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VOL. XII
Illis AND THAT
(By OLD TIMER)
To tke Editor:
Julius Caesat was the first to
make January 1 the beginning of
a New Year.
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Julius, from whose name Jan
uary was derived, was un old
latiu deity
On early Roman
corns he wits icpu'sented us hav
ing one head with two bearded
foies, one looking forward and
the other buckwurd
backward (Sort of a
prototype of later duy politicians )
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Janus was worshipped as the
sovereign disposer of wur und
peace and the dispenser of the
fortunes of munktnd, The gules
of his temple, according to an
ordinance, were to be opened at
the beginning of a war and re
main open until peace was estab
lished In every country subjected
to Rome During the long space
eluseti
of 700 years the gates were
'
only three times.
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About two years I “K<‘ Harry
Bridges was ordered deport cd.
Uncle Sam appears u little slow
in handing Harry his hat and
flow
wishing him bon voyage
cornel
USO Celebrates
Holiday Week end
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ASHLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1944
Hattie oF iarawa To’d In Pictures
New Ycur’s Eve and the eve
ning of New Year’s Day were
celebrated ul the Ashland UBO
with dancing both evenings New
Year’s Eve dunce wus formal,
with the K3rd General Hospital
Orchestra furnishing music. The
dunce, enlivened by noisemakers,
wua in full swing till evening un
til midnight, when the funmakers
paused to usher in the New Year
with singing Auld l-ung Sync and
other traditional songs of g<»d
will.
The hail was decorated with gay
festoons of many colored serpen
tine and with large posters dis
played on the walls advising such
New Year resolutions im "Write
that letter home," "Dance a lot;
don’t intermission loo much,"
"Love, honor and obey your first
sergeant,’’ "Never miss the 11
o’clock bus for a U8O miss "
Senior hostesses who served <>n
New Year’s Eve were Mrs Bert
Freeman, Mrs W D Jackson,
Miss Victoria Tavener, Mrs Mar-
cel la Rawe, Mrs Henry Galey,
Mrs. H S Aikins. Those who dec-
orated for the week-end dances
were Voyle Specht. Tech. Sgt
Marvin Timmerberg. Pfc. Woody
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Uncle Zeke opines all that will Shotten, Pat Rawe, Bea Krueger,
be left to the Japs at war’s end Frances Aikins. Ruth Rouse, Mar
will be Japan. However, that guerite Grünewald Refreshments
should be plrnty roomy enough were served the hard-working dec
for all the Nips that will be left. orators by Mrs Naomi Grünewald
and Mrs Roger Rath Mrs Isaura
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We read that Russian soldiers Pierce, desk hostess, was also
wear ths beat overcoats of any helpful with the work of prepat-
army And their courage la all ing for the New Year’s fun.
In the afternoon of New Year’s
wool and a yard wide. too.
l>ay, guests at the USO listened
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to the Rose Bowl game, while cof
Tile scheduled "bowl" games fee and sandwiches were served by
having been wound up, the pig Mrs. Naomi Grünewald
skin gladiators should voluntarily
All during the holidays the UflO
offer to do their part in kicking has been fortunate to have the
the Japs out of the South Pacific. use of a large corn-popping ma
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chine, loaned by a group of SOCK
Tnis being a political year, it students, and the odor of parched
wouid be fitting to launch a corn has been a welcoming fea
"save gas" campaign.
ture to those entering the lounge.
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Director Bayonne Glenn, in com
A spare blanket is now ai
menting on the week-end holiday
port an I as a spare tire.
stated: "Everyone had a jolly time
and without any of the unpleasant
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How is It since you turned over fiatiires that sometime* accom
pany New' Year’s celebrations The
that new leaf?
New Year’s celebrations ended a
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The Japs will soon say "So very pleasant holiday week-end at
the USO”
sorry," and mean It.
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POST-WAR PROBLEMS CLASS
LARGE ATTENDANCE I HELD WEDNESDAY NIGHTS
U. S. Mann« Corp» Photo«
The first session of the Post
AT CHI KUH DINNER
Many valuable pictures were taken by daring Marine Corps combat photographers during the bitter
A large crowd attended the an War Problems class met last night
Battle of Tarawa, including the three reproduced above. Upper photo shows a group of Marines assem
it ih.- City Hall
nual New Year dinner program at
bling on the beach after surviving terrific gunfire. American dive-bombers are overhead. The brave
Dr.
Waller
Redford,
president
the Methodist Church last Satur
group, center, advances toward Jap machine-gu nests which they succeeded in wiping out shortly after
of
the
Southern
Oregon
College
of
day uuon. For 50 years this din-
the picture was taken. A squad leader points eut direction of Jap nest In lower photo, two Marines man
a machine-gun amid wreckage as a third Leatherneck lays aside his ride to assist them,
ner iiaa been held on New Year s Education, is in charge of this
class, which will meet each Wed- I
Day, and not one year has been
NOTE: Arthur Curtis, nephew of ths- editor of the Miner, received wounds In this battle and
missed through all that time. For nesday evening at 8:00 for 11 or
has I h - vii brought to the States for medical attention. His home is in I jm Vegas, Nevada.
hO years tills church has been or- 12 weeks.
This class is being offered at
garuzed and contributing to the
MARVIN EUGENE HALL
mural and spiritual qualities of the request of local business men
OREGON FIRST IN COST OF SELLING
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Funeral services were held Fri-
this community.
MRS.
MILLIE
NHEKARD
, day afternoon for Marvin Eugene WAC CAMPAIGN
WAR BONDS LOW
The program as introduced by
Funeral services are being held Hall, 15 months old son of Mr.
Ralph Billings, who was toastmas
Oregon placed first in the na
The American public is being
ter, was as follows: A solo and today at 1:30 at the Litwiller Fun and Mrs. Arvid Hall The father tion by filling the largest propor libeled by misinformation con-
is
in
ovetseas
service
eral
Home
for
Mrs.
Millie
Sher-
un encore by Mrs. Lucille McKay;
tion of its quota in the recently
Survivors include his parents, concluded All-States WAC re cerning the cost of selling war
two trio numbers by Mrs. Cora ard, who passed away Tuesday
grandparents, Mr and Mrs. Albert cruiting campaign, it was an bonds and the rate at which wai
Bruce, Lucilie McKay and Mrs. after a lingering illness.
This
Surviviros include her husband, Peterson and Mr and Mis. Clyde nounced by Maj. B. P. Cody, com bonds are being cashed in.
Lottie McGee, accompanied at the
is the conclusion of Forrest E.
Mrs
Hall
of
Ashland;
four
aunts,
children,
Albert
Sherard
and
four
piano by Mrs. Della Weber; New
manding officer of the Oregon re Cooper, district representative of
Year remarks by the pastor, who Mrs Gladyse Gale and Cleo Ken Frank Fuller, Myrtle .Wilma, and cruiting and Induction district.
I the Oregon War Finance Commit
emphasized the Day of Prayer as yon of Ashland, Mrs. Jessie Lewis Maxine Peterson of Ashland and
Rhode island finished second in tee. who reported this week to
suggested by the President of the of Talent and Mis. June Whitsett one uncle, Walter Peterson in for- the drive.
N. H. Zacharisen, Jackson County
I eign army service.
lulled Slates.
Following Dr. at Grants Pass.
"Even though the All-States chairman. Cooper has just re
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Bruce’s talk he called for a mo
campaign has come to an end
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Patterson with new glory to the State of turned from a conference of U. S.
Miss Agnes White, who is a
ment of silent prayer, which was
Treasury executives where plans
followed by oral prayer by him student at Willamette University, have returned from San Francis Oregon," said Maj. Cody, “women were made for the fourth war
co.
While
there
they
attended
the
spent
the
holidays
with
her
moth
self. The program closed with the
of the state are still needed in loan scheduled for this month.
East-West game on New Year's
showing of the moving picture, er, Mrs. Charles A. W’hite.
large numbers to step into thou
”"ie out-of-pocket cost of sell
"Unto the Hills ” which is a true
sands of important WAC jobs. The ing war bonds is 1-33 of 1 per
story of a boy who was raised in
mote Wacs the Army gets, the cent. Cooper reported. This un
the hills of Kentucky and whoi
sooner our Army will be up to usually low cost of selling bonds
was transformed by the influence
total strength.
is in contrast with cost of 2 per
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of the missionaries of the Meth
cent in the sale of similar war
odist Church.
GUEST AT BRUCE HOME
bonds by other Allied nations.
The Methodists are now looking
Chaplain Leonard DeMoore was
"Rumors about the high cost of
forward to the celebration of the
a house guest at the home of Dr. selling war bonds can be laid t
eightieth anniversary celebration
and Mrs. G. W. Bruce over the ignorance or enemy propaganda,”
which will be some time during
week-end. On Sunday morning he Mr. Zacharisen stated yesterday.
1944.
preached in the Presbyterian "Only in America could billions
Church, taking the pulpit for the of dollars be raised at such un-
I
pastor Rev. Howard G. Eddy, who usually low cost.”
HARRY CHIPMAN
is ill in the hospital in Portland.
Concerning cashing in of war
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ami Companion
bonds, Cooper stated that “
the
ELBERT MASON KINDRED
Are Invited to Be Guests of the
number being turned in is much
Funeral services were held last smaller than state headquarters
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday for Albert Mason Kindred had anticipated.
to see
55. who passed away Dec. 28. Sur-
Figures released by the State
at the VARSITY THEATRE
vlvors include his wife, two sons, Office shows that Jackson County
(Friday and Saturday)
Clyde of Fields, Oregon and El has invested $4.624.433 in Series
"OX BOW INCIDENT”
bert of Ceres .California and two E war bonds since May, 1942
daughteis, Mrs. Alvina of Martin, While the exact percentage of re
. AND
South Dakota and Mrs. Maiie demptions in this county could not
"AERIAL GUNNER"
Koenig of Omaha, Nebraska and he ascertained, Mr Zacharisen as
or
four brothers and two sisters .
serted that the figure is propor
(Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
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tionately low
"DIXIE”
Mrs. William Specht of Silver-
Please call at the Miner Offict I
‘ in visited last week whb her
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
for Your Guest Tickets
sister, Miss Carrie May Smith.
Reynolds on Dec. 28, a daughter.
with
WAR BONDS
Number 50
Women Launch
S.S. “Nehalem”
Wiimen workers on the produc
tion line at the Kaiser Company,
inc., Swan island Yard, were hon
ored at an "all-women’s” launch
ing on Wednesday, January 5, at
11:30 a. m., when the S. S.
"Nehalem,” 47 th tanker to be
built here, slid down the ways as
the first ship launched in 1944.
The sponsor was Mrs. Leo Rob-
irds, burner in hull fabrication on
the day shift, who has worked at
the big tanker yard for 16 months,
and has never been absent. She
has been tardy twice, once due to
a flat tire. Mr. and Mrs. Robirds
are the proud parents of four
children, three boys and one girl,
He also ia employed at Swan Is-
land.
The two matrons of honor were
Mrs. Ida Paulina Kinnari, ship
fitter helper who has worked for
16 months at Swan Island and has
missed but five days, and Mrs.
Vera Crocker Dittemore, marine
electrician who has worked for 15
months with only four days of
absenteeism. Mrs. Crocker is the
mother of two daughters, one of
whom will join the marines on
January 7, two days after the
launching. Mrs. Kinnari was bom
in Finland.
The master of ceremonies was
Mrs. Virginia Lemire, assistant
personnel manager for women and
woman’s counsellor co-ordinator
for the three Kaiser yards in this
area.
Mayor E. N. Oberg of Nehalem
appointed his wife "Mayor for a
Day" to participate at the launch
ing and extend the greetings of
the citizens of the honor city to
the women on the production line.
Mrs. A. R. Nieman, wife of the
assistant general manager, and
Doctor Lois Meek Stblz, consult-
ing director of the Swan Island
and Oregon Shipbuilding Corpor-
ation’s Child Service Centers, also
spoke.
The invocation was given by the
Reverend Dorothy Harding, Ben
nett Chapel Methodist Church of
Portland.
The plates that hold the ship in
place on the ways were cut by
the following burners: Florence
Signalness, Thelma Vaneps, Edith
Ferguson, Francis Woods, Chris
tine Sweet, Colleen Jungers,
chosen from the three shifts and
various departments in the yard.
The women guards acted as
color guard and raised the Amer
ican flag: women workers greased
the ways and hung the electric
j clocks, handled the public address
system, and in fact took over
every launching duty usually as-
signed to men.
The 40-piece all-girl band of
Vancouver High School, directed
by Julia Wunn. played.
On the launching platform and
at the luncheon in the sky room,
no men were permitted.
The ship was named for the
small coast resort city of Nehalem,
famed as the scene of burled
treasure,
marooned Spaniards,
Galleons. 13den with bee’s wax
candles and such like, It is named
primarily for the Nehalem In
dians.
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Students Achieve
Scholastic Record
The following students at the
Southern Oregon College of Edu
cation achieved excellent scholas
tic records during the fall term,
their grades ranging 3.50 or bet
ter. out of a possible point aver
age of 4.00: Phyllis Ansama,
Reedsport; Gloria Raniele Cad-
man
San Diego, Calif.; Ann
Crandall, Ashland; Eleanor Mc-
Colm, Grants Pass: Lois Post.
Lakeview; Dorothy Riggs, Klam
ath Falls: Mary Alice Wolford,
Roseburg.
The following students achieved
a grade point average of 3.00 to
3.50 for the term: Helen Bekker,
Ashland; Mabel Boggs, Las Vegas
Nevada; Dorothy Dodge, Medford;
Henrietta Hall, Gerber, Calif.;
Fannette Hodges, Merrill; Alice
Mae Johnson. Paisley; Elva Mat
thews, Days Creek; Verna Dean
Meggs and Berthiel Nelson. Klam
ath Falls; Sue Patkinson, Ash
land; Verna Paulson, Medford;
Marie Pochelu, Paisley; Mary Pa
tricia Rawe, Ashland: Lois Thomp
son, Talent, and Ruth Walker,
Ashland.
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Dave Snider and Jim Moss were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Emmatt.