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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, August 24, 1944
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon
CARRYL H. WINES, Editor and Publisher
. OUR OWN BACK
YARD
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By K U H TAYLOR
"The wisest thing, we suppose,
that
a uun can do tor his land is
Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash­
the
work
that lies under his nose
land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress
1 with the tools that lie under his
of March 3, 1879.
haud.” We may not be a k.ng as
he ot whom Kipling wrote. We
may be only "hitie" people with­
out influence or power. But the
The Logging Industry Suffers
smgan applies to us - wherever
Recent orders ot the ODT regarding the rationing of we
whatever we do.
heavy duty truck tires, has hit home immediately in A live,
tew ot' you will remember
this section. The use of logging trucks was cut down how Edwurd Bok started out to
beautify America a lifetime ago.
immediately.
He didn't urge extravagant plans,
Apparently there is no doubt that the number of to accomplish the end at the be­
heavy duty tires for trucks and buses is limited, and ginning. ft wasn't a great cam­
as the military vehicles get first call on the remaining paign. But as a result of his work,
roses began to grow where there
supply, civilian use must be curtailed. But in a section were
weeds and our litUe towns
where the logging industry is one of the leading in­ became garden spots All he did
to get people to beautify
dustries of the area, such as wre have here in Jackson was
their own back yards.
county, it will mean a decided drop in production from We all know how one rundown
the county, unless some substitute is found or other house will depreciate the property
remedy found to help the situation. For the logging in­ value of an entire street. And
fixing up one place is conta­
dustry in this area is decidely carried on on rubber how
gious - making all property on the
tires. There are a large number of trucks bringing in street more valuable.
the logs from the woods and again there are a large What has this to do with us to­
Well, maybe I am wander­
number of trucks carrying the finished products of the day?
ing around Robin Hood's barn -
mills on rubber tired wheels to its final destination. but I am getting right back to
Inasmuch as these loads of logs and lumber are heavy,! the post-war period - and to per­
responsibility.
they require the best in tires and a large number of sonal
How your town handles the sit­
them. Already, reports have come in of restricted uation of jobs for returning vet­
schedules due to the lack of tires, and as time goes on erans, post-war unemployment,
of factornes to peace
we may be sure that the industry will be further re­ conversion
time production - will have a lot
stricted unless more tires are forthcoming. It is a mat­ to do with the way the nation and
the world handles the same pro­
ter of deep concern to all.
We have not mentioned the other trucking industries blems.
If you keep freindliness alight;
in the county and the bus lines through Ashland, but if you keep up the habit of work­
they too will suffer because of this lack of tires, and ing together; if you, like the pion­
eers who founded America, solve
the community too, will suffer with them. It is serious! your
problems in a neighborly, co­
operative spirit, there is a lot
better chance for the nation - and
for the world.
Those Pacific Isles
This is the duty of the little
As the war in the Pacific grow’s and we are taking people
in the little towns - of you
more and more of the islands in that vast empire away : me and our friends and neighbors.
from the enemy, the question comes up more frequent­ We must beautify our own back
and make our community a
ly. What are we going to do with them? We gather yards
living proof of what conscientious,
from what we read that most of them are of small cooperative planning can do We
value as far as industry is concerned, about their only must prove that we are just as
in time of peace as in
value being as outposes of our defensive system, to intelligent
time of war; that we care just as
fortify and arm and keep armed, to protect our islands much about our neighbors as we ,
and mainland from another attack such as we suffered do about our Allies; that ppverty.
destitution, want, persecution at !
at Pearl Harbor.
home move us to action as much I
The islands we have won back that are of any real as these same things stir us when
value from agricultural or industrial viewpoint, al­ the yare thousands of miles away. .
Unless we can retain war time '
ready belong to some of our allies, such as England, unity,
unless with our advantages
the Netherlands, etc., and only the smaller more poor we can demonstrate the four free­
of the islands apparently belong to the Japs. But we doms in America, they can not be
made secure any place in the
can hardly turn them back to them when this war is world.
over. We have now learned to our sorrow that any of We don't have to do the whole
the islands they owned were fortified, and closed to all job at once. All we have to do is
our part of it - we have to do
foreign inspection.
is to clean up our own back yard.
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you should know about
First National Bank
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You may make a loan lor any
J Q worthwhile purpose. . .
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The cost is lo w ...
You repay monthly over
Q a year’s period. . .
Natives of these Jap dominated islands have been
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about liquidated and apparently the people now living New Series of Blue
on them are mostly of Japanese descent. If we kept Stamps Valid Sept. 1
them, would we have to take the inhabitants also or Five more blue stamps worth
could we remove them to Japan ?
ten points each a total of 50
points,
be valid for buying
Yes, the problems facing us in the far Pacific are rationed will processed
foods begin­
many and will take a lot of good common sense to ning September 1, 1944,
OPA of­
eolve. And after all the American lives and property ficials announced this week.
G,5 H5, J5, K5,
that have been lost in winning them back from the en­ and The L5, stamps,
will be good Indefinitely-
emy we can hardly overlook them, or let them go back
Following the Introduction of 10
point stamps last February, it
lo that enemy when peace settles over the Pacific.
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A New Industry Is Born
New industries are tne inevitable aftermath of the
tremendous human efiort involved in modern war.
Alter tne last war it was tne automobile. After tms
war, which has hinged on air power, it will be the air­
plane. Tne aviation industry, including commercial air
transportation, has a future that literally staggers tne
imagination. The Administrator of Civil Aeronautics,
Charles 1 ¡Staton, predicts 300,000 civil aircraft three
years after the war, and 500,000 by the end of tne first
postwar decade. He believes that there will be a need
xor double the existing 3,000 airports.
Even during the present war, the commercial air
carriers have turned in a performance little short of
miraculous. By nearly douoiing the number of hours
aloft for each aircraft, they were able with half the
equipment to fly 15 per cent more revenue passenger- ‘
miles in 1943 than in 1942, 31 per cent more express
pound-miles, and 70 per cent more mail pound-miles,
xet stepped up service was not attained at the sacrifice
of safety. Number of miles flown per fatal accident in
uomestic air carriers operations reached an all-time
nigh of 46,560,835 in 1943, against 22,020,572 in 1942.
Coincident with the growtn of the air carriers to
the stature of a full fledged service industry, has risen
tne problem of regulation. As the close of war draws
nearer and as further expansion of aviation impends,
tnis problem becomes increasingly serious. There is
uanger that conflict between the states and the Fed­
eral government will hamper efficient airline service.
H.n example of such conflict threatens in Colorado,
which has under consideration a set of airline regula­
tions which, if put in force, would contradict and over
lap existing Federal laws, making airline operation
through Colorado virtually impossible.
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has been the policy of OPA to
validate five blue stamps on the
first day of each calendar month.
Loans made in any amount
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