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*1kat J h * VOL. XIII Knights Templar Elects Last Wednesday Wednesday September 0, the Malta Comman a e r y N o . 4, Knights Templar, held their an- naul election of officers, at the Masonic Temple. The following were elected or appointed for the coming year. Vivian T. Wilson, Eminent Commander, Medofrd; Elmer C. Biegel, Generalissimo, Ashland; M. P. Dunn, Captain General, Ashland; George W. Dunn, Trea surer, Ashland Rufus E. Detrick, Recorder, Ashland; George W. Neilson, Senior Warden, Medford John P. Daugherty, Junior War den, Ashland; Oliver D. Frazee, Prelate, Medford; R a l p h E. Sweeney, Associate Prelate, Med ford; Vernon A. Turpin, Warder, Medford: Joseph A. Langtry, Standard Bearer, Ashland; Fred A. Purdin, Sword Bearer, Med ford; and William J. Wallace, Sentinel, Ashland. Plans were made for a public installation to be held in Ashland Wednesday evening, September 20th at which time several Grand Commandcry Officers will be in attendance. H. Herman Mayber ry, the retiring Eminent Com mander, has enjoyed one of the most successful years in the his tory of Malta Commandery. This week Ute MINER br- i lags another improvement to , it» readers with the use of i eight pages instead o t tne lour wmcn nas been its tormat tor several years, included in the eight pages will be a serial story, starting this week, God is hiy Co-Puot" a best seller of a couple years ago. This story win run serially tor sev eral weens ana tnen will be followed by another late ser ial story. Also included w ill be a page ot comics, a column written by Paul Mallon, well known Washington newspap er columnist and several other interesting features on cur rent topics. . Last week new type faces were added so that the MIN- EM would present a more readable appearance, and in Bringing this new feature this ween, is la line with our pol icy of bringing the best to be had to our readers. (By This *n T b it OLD TIMER) To tbe Editor: As far back as Shakespeare's day, there was “the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creep ing like snail Unwillingly to school.” Central Point Editor In Ashland Saturday Blue Tokens To Be Grouped After Sept 17 Enrollment Figures .. on Local Schools Given Figures released Monday after noon by Theo. J. Norby, Ashland school superintendent shows that a total of 903 pupils were enroll ed on the opening day of school, ivionuay, beptemoer 11. Prelim inary figures show that 2o2 stu dents were enrolled at the Wash ington school, 243 at the Lincoln, 263 at the Junior high and 215 at uie senior high. In comparative figures, the Washington school shows an in crease of 32 over the 1943 figure, Lincoln had in increase of nine, junior high an increase of four and the high school a drop of 41. Mr. Norby stated that the senior class is the smallest in several years. Eighty-three new students entered the first grade Monday, 42 at Washington and 41 at Lin coln. ............. e------------ Lions Club Hears Major Hughes At the regular meeting of the Ashland Lions Club Tuesday night, the members had the plea sure of listening to a talk by Major H. L. Hughes, recently re tired by the army and now mak ing his permanent home in Ash land. Major Hughes, in a long active career as a regular army man, has seen most of the world, but the past two and a half years since the United States has been in the war, was stationed in Iran, where he had an active part in getting lend lease supplies and war material to the Russians first through the Persian Gulf and later by way of the Mediter ranean sea. At a seaport, the supplies were unloaded by Amer lean soldiers, and then by rail and by truck, sent across Iran to the Russian border, where Rus sians s took sian look over m the e job jo o of 01 getting gen where the supplies to the place wh needed. Major Hughes had an active part in all this work i and his descriptions of the activities there were vivid and most inter esting. The hour he talked was greatly enjoyed. Cpl Tommy Laird was a guest of Dick Trites, also,^ _ *. Bobert Dodge, chairman of the entertainment committe e, a n- nounced that next week, the sup ervisor of the Rogue National Forest, will continue a talk start ed on Tuesday, S e p t 5, and sev eral county and city officials are being invited to attend also. Lions are urged to keep the date open. Portland Woman Dies at Home of Son in Ashland Rachel Clara Jenks, of Port land died September 10, 1944 at 9 p.m. at the residence of her son, 581 East Main street where she came two weeks ago to visit. Mrs. Jenks was bom February 15, 1870, in Ohio. The family came to Oregon from Michigan in 1920. The survivors include, three children: Harvey O. Jenks, Fall Creek Oregon: Mrs. Isa Johnson, Portland; and Jim H. of Ashland: one sister, Mrs. Alice Frye, Car- son City, Michigan. Mr. Jenks died in Michigan January 22, 1938 and a son, Joe died at the age of eight years. The deceased was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Portland. The funeral services were held at the Litwiiler Funeral Home, Wednesday, September. 1 O- -..... Riding Association Hears Finance Report Members of the Ashland Rid ing association met Thursday ev ening at the city hall to hear re ports on the horse show held la bor day. Finance committee re ported a net balance of about $800 on hand, and it is planned to use the money for repairs, im provements, etc. on the grounds and for the promotion of another show. A committee of Jim War ren, Walter Hamby and C. L. Fiddler was appointed to inves tigate when and how the next show will be promoted and re port their findings and recom mendations at an early meeting. ----------- o Re-Opening Slated For Copper Mine from • range of about 200 yards. J mw my bulla* hit hla bom and excuted. S In a briew, but impressive cere mony at Camp White headquart ers last Thursday afternoon, Cot ohn R. Young, camp commander, presented the treasury depart ment war bond flag to civilian employees as a fitting tribute to their participation in the war bond program. Of blue and white “Minute Man” design, the flag was for mally accepted by Chester L. Thompson, civilian representa tive, and then flown on the camp flagstaff below the stars and stripes. eviuauuing uie ceremony 14- W i m a m xx. xxarx'etx, w a r u v r u l O l- ■ xxvex, icm m ucu ei«m an w m aeis t ix a t oy Ministerial Ass’n Plans for V-l Victory Day services of praise and gratitude is planned and hereby announced by the Ash land Ministerial Association. If the announcement of the Europ ean Victory comes during the night people are urged to go to their own churches at 10 o’clock the next morning. If the announ cement of victory should come during forenoon people should go to their own churcnes at 3 o’- clock in the afternoon. If the Victory announcement s h o u ld come during the afternoon every one should attend the union ser vice at the Baptist Church at 7:30 in the evening. Even though there should be a service in each church during the morning or afternoon of the day the an nouncement comes there will al so be the evening union service at the Zaptist Church at 7:30 of that same day. The ministers have a well plan ned program prepared and ready to present any time the announce ment comes. The entire public uxexr lu u u u u c u p u i- UXCJ. 00X1 ue 1X1- auüxixeixxai in uixxtgmg nuxue aouxicx xUcxr boxxa, oxuvuexa uxxU jjuawoijua uow ou uxe x i^ a u a j O j j o o c S ox O uxxxjs iranís. xu m axin g the p resen ta tio n , Cox. 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"The Jerry strainghtened out and then I gave it to him anew White smoke and flame flowed from his engine and large pieces of his plane flew off. I watched him half snap-roll and dive to ward the ground.” Said L t Millard M. Claybome, of Waverly, Tenn., whoee wing L t Alphnnse was assigned to protect: “No enemy plane was ever more thoroughly destroyed and I am sure that the German pilot never got ou t I shall add that L t Alphonse la the perfect wingman.’’ L t Claybome also shot down a Me 109 on the same mission. L t Alphonse, who already wears the A ir Medal, flya with the fighter group commanded by L t Col. Phillip E Tukey.Jr. of Thia w ill be a familar sight in Oregon’s big potato producing Cape Elizabeth Me. __ ____ wife, ____, ___ ie pilot’s Mrs. ______ Gwen- arets for the next month or so a s approximately a thousand Mex- dolyn m R. Alphonse, resides in Ok- ican nationals help harvest the s tate crop of spuds. This is the se> laohma City. His parents, Mr. i cond veer that Mexicans have b eea used for the potato harvest and Mrs. Louis Alphonse live in I The picker above started down t be row with 24 empty sacks ------- ■ ' heehed on his picking belt. Thre e Mexican farm labor camps Hilt, California. L t Alpsotue calls his big Thun have been established for potato ..picken la Klamath county and dsrbolt "Gwsndotyn”, in honor two opened in central Oregon 1 a October, according to the state hia wifi. An Eighth AAF Fighter Stat ion, England—Staff Se r geant Donald J. McCuiiach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln McCuiiach of Route 2, Ashland, Ore., is a crew chief in the Eighth Fighter com mand’s well trained army of air craft specialists, and is one of the men whose work contributes to the great aerial offensive against Germany. Assigned to a P-51 Mustang fighter base, Sergeant McCuiiach and his men help keep the swift combat planes in perfect condi tion tor long range bomber es cort missions, ground strafing op erations and low level bombing attacks behind enemy lines. A graduate of Tai ent High school, the twenty-eight year old logger had been in business with his father until the service call ed him in March, 1942. He has now been over seas for one year. Civilian Employees at Camp White : c Given Bond Flag 1 MEDFORD— Andrew' J e l d ness, veteran miner of the Squaw creek district, near the California state line in southwest Jackson county, reports extensive opera application blanks tions toward reopening the Blue should be so grateful to God for t Ledge mine, a copper property in Victory- that every other ithèr "*£Eing thing ¡ are very suupxe, out m e cover Siskiyou county, California. Jeld should be laid aside while they lrom m e former gas coupons ana ness reports a large crew s clean attend this service of praise and w e mueage reeora are requned ing out the shafts and re timber gratitude. “Let us watch and to be rneu wim me application. ing them, conducting surveys to pray, for we know neither the I „ — ------- ----------— check copper available, and oper day nor the hour” when Victory i ating a diamond drill. The work cometh. “Be ye also ready.” ------------o------------ I i reportedly is being conducted by government finances and a Los M hlmtok D—Preliminary plans | Angeles syndicate. ; for the Vvar Cnest campaign in The mine is reportedly owned 1 Jackson county, in areas outside by the Guggenheim interests. It Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lucas, well the city of lvieuiord, were recent known /tsm ana resiuents, receiv- ly maue wnen representatives of eu word tne last weex mat uieir tne War Cnest and comm unity sun, i-L ikennetn Lucas, was re Cnest met witn J. h . Hariey, gen ported missing in action, wnen eral cnairman lor tne canipoxgn. lt was agreed that tne Connn- xiying his mission over Lrermany on August 24. He had been stat unity Chest woula raise part of ioned in isngiana. He joined n a i the War cn est quota assigned to lery H. her tour years ago in Jackson county, as was done last oeptember. He later transierred year. The Menxord Community to tne air corps, completing his Cnest w ill soncit only persons training m Texas. He was a oom- living in or wonung in Mecuord. Mrs Olive Moyu, who managed oardier and navigator on a Fly ing Fortress. At the time of his the campaign in tne rural areas graduation he was the best «11- last year, w ill handle tnat part of around athlete in the class of 204 the campaign tnis year. Early plans for tne campaign w ill be ooys. Hes was a graduate of Modesto perfected to prevent contusion Junior college, graduating just and duplication. Present at tne meeting besides before his enlistment. He has chairman Earley, were frank been overseas about a month, ' Van Dyke and Trank Thompson I of Ashland and John Moffat, El formerly was o w n e d b y t h e wood Hedherg, Frank Hull, A. M. Towne estate of Boston, and has Cannon, Otto Fronnmayer, Ralph not been operated for some 20 , Sweeney, Herb Grey, Tony Man- years. no and Lee Bishop of Medford. FRIENDS OF LOST HILT AIRMAH TELL OF HIS SHOOTIHG DOWH HAZI lbre bullets into the unfortunate German until he went into a ver tical dive, trailing s m o k e and flames to finally crash into the ground and explode. “He tried to get away from me by banking Into first one cloud and then another”, said L t A l phonse. "but I followed him and when he finally broke out into the open I poured lead to him ¡^ ¿ *5 2 “ Number 31 Mexicans Helped Harvest Huge Oregon Potato Crop Last Tear Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt, meeting at Quebec, have a big job on hand Under rationing re gulations laqning the speedy defeat of you can use your blue tokens span and Germany. this week only the same as usual but after September 17th, you That country* is* the richest w ill not receive any more blue which nourishes the greatest tokens from the stores and from number of noble and happy hu then on you w ill have to use man beings.—John Ruskin. your blue tokens in groups of 10, if you do not have as many as 13 The average *citizen is doing blue tokens after September 17th you can pool with a freind to some bombing too—daytime he make a unit of 10 blue tokens, swats flies at night mosquitoes. rationing officials reminded the Germany ¿ i W n invaded by public this week. the Allies. Wonder where HTJer After September 30th blue tok ens w ill not be usable and w ill and his gang are hiding. have a value only as a souvener Politicians *throw mud, football of one phase of food rationing, players roll in i t officials said. An Eight A A F Fighter Station England—Not long ago at this V I I I Fighter Command Station station in England, P-47 Thun derbolt pilot 1st Ltz Louis G. A l phonse of H ilt, California, took at little time, to leave his lmpres sion on the Luftwaffe. While escorting the American heavy bombers over Bremen, L t Alphonse spotted an Me 100 some 32,000 feet in the air menacing the rear formation of bombers. He chased the Jerry down, from cloud to cloud, before getting his victim in range of his eight wing <**»®VtC'<^ ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, Thursday, September, 14,1944 Uncle Zeke, who* is an ardent Jeffersonian, is tickled pink over the announcement t h a t the County Democratic Committee plans to stage a parade. He says he’s fed up on cut and dried County Commissioner Arthur speeches over the radio and Powell was in Ashland Saturday, craves a chance to kick up his to see about some county proper heels and holler. ty which the county has for sale Incidentally, he ^wistfully re here. Mr. Powell stated that Ash land has received about $1500 calls the days of yesteryear when from the sale of tax delinquent the lusty crowing rooster and the land so far this year. Local sly coon were the respective em schools have also received its blems of the Democratic and Re portion of the income from these publican parties and were proud sales, since all taxing bodies re- ly borne aloft in torch light par the sales ades to the strains of martial ceived a portion made. The county has the past music and red fire galore. Furth several years, sold tax delin ermore. Uncle Zeke opines that quent property for a fair apprais it was a sorry day when these ed value instead of just the a- old party emblems were discard mount of taxes due. in this way ed and the donkey and the ele the county has disposed of some phant became the trademarks of $350.000 of property in the last the respective parties. Nest, the famous feeipg the in three years, said Mr. Powell. While here Mr. Powell com ventor. mented on the coming election, September*wu a'fateful mon being up i for re-electii re-el ion as a county commissioner and stating th for two of our presidents, Gar that he was the only county ■ of- field and McKinley. On July 2, ficial with an opponent on the 1881, President Garfield, while ticket this f a ll on his way to attend commence -o ment exercises of Williams col- * L. Pettingell last week opened I lege, was shot while standing in the Depot Cafe at 552 A street, tthe railroad station at W ashing - which was recently operated by ton, D. C. by Charles A. Gesiteau. Herb Huston, now at Weyerhau- Garfield died on September 19 ser Camp 4 operating the camp at Elberon, N. J. — During a store. Mr. Pettingell has spent public reception at Buffalo, on the past week in redecorating September 6, President McKin and remodeling the building, ley was shot by an anarchist, last week was open for business, Leon F. Czolgocz, and died eight which he has also purchased and days later. Both assassins were ■ ■■ o ....- - - - - */* £ay--And £ay¿ 9t! to rn fiber o M m In the 04LC. B i A visit this week to the Snider driven coffee grinders, sack i Coffee Company,-managed by A1 and are then ready for the mar Snider, will quickly show one et. Most of the coffee from t local business goes into the re: that there is a lot of coffee going aurant trade, Mr. Snider delivt through the store. Tuesday, Mr. ing his wares as far as Grar Snider was roasting coffee, one Pass and shipping as far as Yi bag, weighing one hundred and ka, California. fifty pounds, at a time and run The local business was esta ning through a batch of coffee lished by Mr. Snider’s son, W every few minutes. Here is a liam in 1936. With the outbre: i most complete little coffee grind of war, the father took over t ing establishment ! business tha the son and his wi In telling about the work, Mr. could go into defense work ai Snider stat ed that he bought both are now working at Kaisei about a ton and a half of green yards at Portland. They plan coffee beans per month. The return to the business as soon beans coming from different the need for men abates and thi parts of South and Central Am can leave the defense work. erica, are mostly graded on the When the business was run 1 , place where grown. In determin the younger Mr. Snider, a pean ing how good coffee shall be, it butter making machine was al remains with the owner to blend kept going and the roasting the different grades and varieties certain types of fancy nuts w 1 to make good coffee. The best also done. This has been disco: I grade comes from Brazil while . tinued and Mr. Snider concei j other, cheaper grades come from trates on the grinding of coffi I Colombia, Venzuela, Guatemala only- ! and other central American re- i While Mr. Snider is away fro ! publis. the store delivering, the place About five or six dif ferent of necessity closed, but durir grades are kept on hand and be the days when he is there, co fore roasting, are blended to get fee is retailed over the counter , the best ground coffee from the whoever may want it. Reade: grades. A modem small roasting wil lfind it interesting to drop i oven, heated by gas and very and see the business, and we wi carefully controlled roasts the guarantee that the smell of roar green beans. After this they are ing coffee w ill make one wai iru n through the regular power some of i t