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 .
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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
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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
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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
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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
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B ear Creek O rchard.
Miss Dorothy B ergstrom of
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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.
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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. |
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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
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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
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BUY mA
WAR BONDS
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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.
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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
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______ 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
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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
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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
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