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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, July 27, 1944 GRANDMOTHER S WAR BONDS FOB GRANDCHIIDREN S FUTUBE LOCAL HAPPENINGS Lee Ryan, local th eatre m aiia- gvr la spending several days In P ortland on a busines trip. He will return to Ashland F rid ay or S a t urday. Wed & Thurs. L. Pettingill, an employee a t the Palace Cafe, went to P ortland as week to move hia wife and d au g h ter to Ashland where they will m ake their hom e hereafter. Mr. P ettingill has been here sev eral months, a fte r working for a year in the shipyards in P ortland, where the work caused a break down in his health. Finding the clim ate salubrious here and much im proved in health the fam ily have decided to m ake their home here Vera Baker. B eatrice W ines and M arvin W ines accom panid Rev. Howard Rees to Cam p Adams n ear Oregon City, where they will spend a week a t the C ongrega tional COnferenc for high school students They will re tu m Sunday July 30. The Miner for q u a lity P rinting The Rsv Gordon C, G riffen and i wife left two weeks ago on the ! s ta rt of a two m onths vacation, visiting a t present at Iaikeview. prior to th at with Rev. G riffin's j brother in California. They will go on to the coast for balance of the vacation som etime this week. The vacaUon sta rte d about Ju ly first. THE STEAK HOUSE Mrs. G race Sher wood a n d ' d au g h ter cam e down from P o rt The W.C.T.U. is m eeting this land the first of the week and are afternoon a t the home of Mrs visiting w i t h Mrs. Shewood's O F Carson 107 M anzanita brothers Verne and Gen« H a st ings. Mrs Lucy Holland of P ortland and Mr and Mrs Will N orris were The M ethodist Church a t T al dinner guests of Mr and Mrs ent, Oregon, gave a welcome re H enry Newton Monday M rs Hol ception on F riday evening to Dr. land left th a t evening on the train and Mrs. G. W. B ruce as they fo r her home in P ortland a fte r begin their second y ea r in this spending two w eeks with her pastorate. Clarence Holdridge p re sister, M rs Norris on Liberty St sided a t the dinner table program . ________ He gave the main address of wel The W eslyn Servce Guild of the come, In which he called a tte n ; M ethodist church realized over tion to the fact th a t th e church $12 from their food sale held last m ust lead In every com m unity en- ! S aturday erprise. plus N e w e s c e ^ e d e i Oi th e sarvea'« ■ o i l .idveottxroo« d o cto r! 'JjJjJJ J JJJJJJ U JM J Mr. and Mrs. Jim Howdyshell H a rry Slebler has sold his place spent Monday evening w ith M r ju s t north of Ashland. and M rs H enry Newton --------- ------------ Miss Amy Ram sey is recouper- Mrs. N. C. K rause is home with atin g at the G ranite Sreet Conval- h er parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. escent Home. She recently under- Crosby. for the duration. Sgt. and went an operation in a Medford Mrs. Krause, from erly lived a t hospital for the removal of a cat- San Luis Obispo and Marysville, a ra c t from her eye. California, but Sgt. K rause has * ------------ now been tran sfrred to an un- Mrs W. L. Bell of Olene, Ore- known station. Mrs. K rause and gon,, visited M onday with Mrs. her sister. Koreen Crosby, are R eba P. Keisey. both employed in the office a t the i --------- B ear Creek O rchard. Miss Dorothy B ergstrom of --------- i P ortland is visiting w ith her par- Grain threshing began a t the ents. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Berg- R alph Billinger place Tuesday. ' strom . In church work until she was m ade an alm ost com plete Invulid by pariMylic stro k es which begun seven years ago. Funeral services were held ut the Litwiiler Funerul Chapel on S aturday, July 22. Interm ent was made In the Mountain View cem e tery. ——-------o ------ — open under new management open 21 hours a day R e s ta u r a n t and Fountain Service Sixes There a limited num ber of on April 20, 1885, und w as 89 AA-3 priorities for essential farm y ears of age and past. num ber will be issued. A limited M ourning her passing are three num ber of AA-2 priorities will daughters, M rs Jessie Lee S tr a t also be issued there. ton, Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Bes In general, the FW B can issue sie May Welch, Exeter. Calif., Mrs lum ber certificates for any essen M aude Reed, S an ta Monica, Calif, tial farm use. and one son, Thom as J. Fuson, of The principal exception is resi Medford. Services were held from dence construction. Lum ber will the Litwiiler F uneral chapel on only be issued for rebuilding or Tuuesday, Ju ly 25. restoring farm houses dam aged by fire, floods and sim ilar causes. ; 397 East Main The Need Services Held This Week for Mrs. Hach for Comprehensive Auto mobile Insurance is now Modoc Forest Fire greater than ever. As Mrs. Elizabeth Hach, for 29 Brot Under Control years a resident of Ashland, died cars get older, worn in M arines from the K lam ath Mur- | ine barracks, soldiers from Camp Thursday, Ju ly 20 a t her home sulation can cause fire, will bring to approxim ately 4800 Tule l^ike and civilians have j on G ranite street. She cam e to Ashland in F ebruary, 1915, and Funeral Service Held th e num ber of Mexicans available brought under control a 10,000 her fam ily cam e to Oregon In tire shortage tends to fo r farm work in the s ta te by the acre fire in northern California, 1908. increase car theft, and for Rachel Grubb end of A ugust, reports J. R. Beck The fire, a fte r blackening large i Mrs. Hach was born near Friday and Saturday cost of repairing dam s ta te farm labor supervisor in the fifty miles south of K lam ath F alls J Ashland friends and relatives O.C.S. Extension service. areas of the Modoc National fores, 1 Crowley, Louisana, May 31, 1874. age is larger because of HE LOVED . .^ k T h AT e T j were saddened by the unexpected The period from A ugust 20 tp burned Into the northw estern edge i She was m arried to I-awson A. labor and material short news of the death of Mrs. M illard O ctober 10, Beck said, is Oregon’s of the Lava beds national monu- McClelland and to this union three children were born and were left i W alker Grubb a t Banning, Calif., m ost critical farm labor period. | -------- j —o—--------- fatherless quite young by the ac- , age. on Tuesday. J u ly IS, 1944, where cidental death of Mr. McClelland. V ' v •>roR°se‘? f?r ' she had been spending the last Ask this agency for com In 1905 she was m arried to six m onths fo r her health. o ther fall crops will call for thou- JUCKSOII H o S |) l t i l l Robt. W. Hach and of this union The funeral services w ere held sands of local farm w orkers in ad- ¡plete insurance protec in Ashland, Monday, July 24, a t dition to the Mexicans, he pointed ty health association is circulating th ere a re two living children. S u r viving her are the husband, h er! tion for your car NOW! . 2:30 , , o'clock . . . a .„ t T r-nity _ - Episcopal , out. petitions, advocating a special u n r l/n r o wM> G to r j* Loird Fj • V.NOiiS • CÍÍGAR B plus In Old Monterey with Qene Autrey Sun. - Mon. - Tues. in Gold Hill Power Plant Work Begun . _. .. .. , Allocation of 1500 ‘additional j The procedure under which Mexican w orkers for arrivel in farm ers m ay obtain p rio rity ra t- Oregon the la s t half of A ugust ings for lum ber fo r essential farm needs is being set up this week by the county farm rationing com m ittee, according to C. W. Thorn- berry, county farm labor a ssist ant. This is p a rt of the new lum ber rationing program which the W ar Production Board has arranged by which farm lum ber falls into two Dentist brackets. In the sm all sales plan, farm ers needing less than 300 board feet of lum ber during any calendar 12-14 Swedenberg Building q u a rte r m ay fill out their applica tions a t the lum ber y ard: This Phone 2150! plan is expected to be in operation next week. F arm ers needing large q u a n t ities of lum ber m ust apply to the F arm W ar Board at 312 North Dr. H. A. Huffman * * * * * * * * * * * * * BUY mA WAR BONDS * * * * * * * * ~ I church. Litw iiler F uneral Home About 3700 M exicans w ere in $36,000 tax annually f o r th r e e 1 daughter. M is. Steve Z arka; a son McClelland, all of Ash I had charge of arrangem ents. In- Oregon a t the peak of the pea years, to be used for building of ' Calvin land; a son, A. Eve fe tt McClel , term ent was m ade in the Moun- and - cherry - ' harvest * early . . in . July, . new units and im provem ents of land and daughter, Ruby S. T ay tain View cem etery in the fam ily B ecause of the lull in dem and for facilities at the Jackson county lor of P o rtlan d ; Lloyd E. Hach, plot beside h er husband, the late seasonal farm labor from now un- hospital. The proposition was M illard W alker Grubb, form er til the tim e beans and o ther late draw n up by the county court, and son of Pendleton, also two g ra n d postm aster of A shland, who died sum m er and fall crops reach their i th e health association agreed to children, C harles Z ark a of Ash in November, 1943. peaks, 400 of the M exicans have ; circulate the petitions. S ignatures land and P atricia Lindsey of P o rt Rachel V. D um as was born been sent to C alifornia by the w ar I of 3«3 registered voter« are need- land Mrs. Hach w as a m em ber and M arch 21, 1910 at Salem, Oregon. food adm inistration. Beck said. | ed. w orker of the Full Gos ' She had her high school work a t The W FA and the w ar m anpow er Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county a pel faithful church, being especially active Yreka, California. commission had approved use of physician, said the plan called for I H er m arriag e to M illard Grubb about 600 Mexicians for Industrial the building of a unit for com- ’ took place on April 9, 1928. To 14bor closely related to agricul m unicabie diseases, and one for this m arriage one child was born ture, Few er than 200 could be p atien ts suffering from m ental Millard W alker Grubb, now a lad placed in such jobs. ailm ents. He stated present facil of 12 years, the only im m ediate To replace those sent to Cali ities are inadequate. survivor. O ther than the son, her fornia, as well as to tak e care of Commissionty; A. E. Powell said m other, Mrs. M ary Dum as, m any additional needs, W FA has made Jack so n county has an Assessed J relatives and a host of friends are allocations providing for arrivel p roperty valuation of approxi left to m ourn h er passing. of 850 M exicans in Oregon on m ately $36,000,000, m aking the proposed tax a one-mill levy. The deceased was a devoted Aug. 24, according to Beck. ------------ o------------ mem ber of the T rinity Episcopal church of this city. She was keen SCHOOL CASH ly intrested in p atriotice work A pportionm ent of the $5,000,000 and w as a m em ber of the Auxil- school support fund to counties iary to the A m erican Legion and has been m ade by the S ta te De C onstruction of the power plant active in its plans. partm en t. The apportionm ent is of the Pacific-B eaver Cement _______ ______ m ade on the basis of actu al pu- She also ______________ participated in projects com pany in R ogue riveh a t Gold undertaken in W orld W ar 2, and P*1 days of attendance in each , _....... Hill is ......... now under way ___..... and will „ be was a m em ber of the M otor Corps county during the 1943-44 school . finished antj in operation in four of Ashland . ? eaL A b °u t half of the: fundI will | raonths, ag en ts of the com pany! Mrs. Grubb was prom inent in P® distributed in Dt*cember. Jack - i reported. The plant will provide social activities when in Ashland, son C ounty’s share of the fund is pow er fo r the cem ent plant and I ------------ o------------ 11169,358.________ ' possibly for Gold Hill stre e t light- i 4800 Mexicans Alloted Farm Lumber Mav Be Oregon Fall Harvest obtained by New Plan J ~ AS ALWAYS THE VERY BEST IN WORKMANSHIP AND THE MOST COURTEOUS TREATMENT We appreciate your patronage WARDROBE On tlie Plaza CLEANERS Phone 3281 Besides the plant, a fishway and river, under^specifications of the s ta te fish commission. Two years a go a hearing was held and on ag reem ent reached to this end. The power project has been un der consideration for several years and was held up by various law suits. Water Is Plentiful In Rogue Valley Irrig atio n is now a t its peak In th e o rch ard s of th e Rogue river valley, and there will be sufficient w a te r fo r the season, acco rd in g to Ed N. Judd, m anager of the M edford irrig atio n district. The possibility of any holdover w a te r in the reservoir is remote, Judd fu rth e r explained. H eaviest users of w a te r are the pear orchards. The season is five inches below norm al rainfall and m any of the creeks used for Irrigation are at a low stage. R estricted irrigation m ay be Invoked soon in sm all areas, to conserve w ater. Pioneer Woman Is Taken By Death D eath came S atu rd ay , Ju ly 22 to Mrs. M ary E. Wood, of 217 N. Main afte r an illness of three years. Mrs. Wood h as been a resident of Ashland fo r th e p ast 51 years, and has taken an active p a rt in church affairs and com m unity w ork when her health perm itted. She was a m em ber of the M etho dist church throughout h er life. She Is th e widow of Dr.. J. L. Wood, who cam e to Ashland over a cen tu ry ago M rs Wood w as born near Doweltown-DeCalb, Tenn„ Billings Agency Phone H7RI 41 E ast Main REAL ESTATE and REAL INSURANCE Special Cookie Sale Rosebud Creams Case Price Orange Creams Thinshell Sandwich 23c lb. Regular price 35c lb. Save 12c a lb. Taffy Bars Molasses Cooky Case Price Oatmeal Cookies 19c lb Iced Anise Regular price 29c lb. Save 10c a lb. Cases weigh from 14 to 24 lbs. Buy a Case Today METZ 5c - 10c - 25c and 31 Store IN MEDFORD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BUSIEST BLOCK YOUR FAVORITE CUT-RATE PRESCRIPTIONS DRUGS VITAMINS SUNDRIES TOILETRIES TOBACCOS CIGARETTES STATIONERY WESTERN THRIFT STORE 30 North Central Phone Medford 3874