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ASHLAND. OREG O N . TH U RSD A Y . O ctober 12, 1944
National War Fund
Drive Gets Under
Way Here Monday
hr. Westerman
to Address AAUW
Panties Production in Pacific
Dr E. J. W eslermun of SOCE
departm ent «*/ history will be the
speaker ut the first m eeting of
liie Ashland blanch of the A m er­
ican Association of University
Women, according to Miss Ethel
Fl unk Thompson, Ash 1 u n d Reid, incoming president of Uie
chairman of thiz yeur'» Nutionul gioup
Dr. W esterinun will dis­
Wui Fund drive nus set up his cuss the developm ent of G er­
licudquuitcm in the Gas company m any's bid for world domination
o l ii c e a rid is getting plans per- und will give* a brief resume of
fccted for the drive to ruise A sh­ Vurjous proposed m ethods of deal
land's shure of the totul for the mg with postw ar Germany.
seventeen agencies participating
The group will m eet Wednes­
in the cutnpuign.
d a y evening Oct. 11, for the pro­
Monday the business district gram and a business session at
was upportioned off to be cover­ the home of Mrs. W M. Poley on
ed by solicitors who will m ake a G resham Street. Assisting Mrs.
thorough cunvuss of the business Poley as hostesses will be Misses
tricl Thoet appointed to HU Lillian Nicholson, Edith Bor k
duty .in- J V Weitzel and und Bertha Stephens.
E. E. Vuil of the Pluza district,
Miss Reid stated th at the or­
Hbmei Billings ol the district ganization hopes Ui be enlivened
from Pioneer to Ouk Street; Arch I with u num ber of new members,
B u l k ,d a l e a m i S i e v e Z a i k a th e
the coming year, particularly
district from Ouk to First street; t from incoming school faculties us
Sid Reed and Paul Finnell from well us from other Ashland resi-
First to Second and Mr. Gilmore , dents eligible for mem bership
will cunvpsN the Lum ber yard dis i Mrs. Robert Dodge, retiring
trict und A. A. Snider und Don ' president, is chairm an of the
Provost from Second to G resham 1 yeur's program committee.
The residential district is being
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divided up as per election p re­
cincts and Mr. Thompson is ap ­
pointing a cuptain for each dis­
trict and asking them to enlist
such aid ns they muy require to
cunvass then districts.
Roland
Parks will hundle the schools.
Said Mr. Thompson Monday, in
commenting on the drive rhis
is tile d a y t h e N a tio n a l W a r
Camp W tule's G ls und girls
Fund Drive starts in Ashland. from ine Medford, A shland and
Your contribution to this fund I G r a n t s Pass u r e a w ill swing out
goes to Die United Seam an's Set • I to music of one of the nation's
Wui Prisoners Aid, to re ­ I top-flight orchestras when t rank
lieve thousands who are hungry, , ic Masters and his band play lor
USO and other agencies doing 1 an enlisted m e n s dance ul the
helpful things for our boys in I post's sports arena next Monday
service. Ashland has over one , night .Gctobei 16.
Salvaged Jap parachute silk provides m a te ria l fo r M a rin e P rivate
thousand boys in service; poss­
i ’l u lls uie now under way to
P in t C la n Joseph C. Im b a rra to (left) who uses his spare tim e on
ibly your buy, some good friend 1 make it the most entertaining
a South Pacific island to m ake ladies' panties. H ere M a rin e P r i­
or acquaintance is oh may be in social event in the camp's history
vate First Class A n to n M . F itzko obligingly serves az a mod«!.
a prison cam p, in the jungles of and the acquisition of a "name '
Leathernecks send the com pleted products to wives in th e U . S.
the Pacific or in some bleak cold 1 bund was the first step toward I
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A rtie Camp H e w ill a p p i e c i a t e making it an assured success.
your held in keeping these ugen-
The M asters crew, an organi­
cies functioning Ashland has a zation of 2J musicians und en ter­
quota to meet, so let's get it over tainers, recently earned the title
w ith; don't w ait to lx- called on, of No. 1 Bund on the Victory P ar­
TALENT. Oct.lO—Mr. a n d (By OLD T151EK j
gas is short and shix-s are not ade of Spotlight Bands, heard
too good, so when down town nightly over 184 netw ork stations, Mrs. Guy Shepherd of Stayton, To the Editor:
A utum n, according to a poet
come to the H eadquarters in the when they appeared on tins pro­ Oregon moved to T alent last
week and plan on locating here is the perfect season. H ere’s one
Gas Company, make your con gram for their 29th time,
guy who never has to rake up
trihution, get u sticker for your i Masters is the composer of perm anently.
Wayne Cowrey has been a pa- the leaves.
window und show to ull that you such hit tunes as "S catterbrain”
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are loyal to our boys in service. i and "Charm ing L ittle F aker”. tient at the Com m unity H ospital
( This is N ational Fire Preven-
Remember you can't, make your ; Keynote of the band's popular in Ashland the past week.
contribution too large.”
Mr. and Mrs. H. Carson and tion Week, com m em orating the
i appeal to night club crowds in
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, New York, Chicago and Los An- family moved from the B abb’s Chicago fire O ctober 8 1871, and
gl las hotels is its balanced com­ camp ground to Lincoln last dedicated to increased fire pre-
bination of sw eet and swing week where Mr. Carson will be , vention activities.
rhythm s.
employed .
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N ext Monday night's dance,
Mrs. Eva Wedge was taken to
P opular legend has it th a t Mrs
, sponsored by Ihe Special Ser­ the Parkview Conval e s c e n t O 'L eary’s cow let go w ith a $176-
vices Office .will be a formal af­ honie last Friday. It is reported 000,006 kick th at knocked over a
Sulc of the East side M arket fair, open only to Camp White her condition is very m uch im - , lan tern and sta rte d the fire,
wus made the pust week, b ring­ enlisted personnel and girls from proved.
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ing Worth U. H ardesty und fam ­ Medford, Ashland, G rants Pass | At the last regular G range I H ow ever, the O ’Leary’ cow has
ily from Turlock, California, to and surrounding towns.
meeting Mrs. O live Floyd and been vindicated. A t a reunion of
Nothing has been overlooked Mrs. A. F. Brockw ay were pre- ' the R etired Firem en's Associa-
take over the new business. The
II, al in, h id e s th e meat m a r k e t to make certain the girls will be sent as visitors. Mrs. Floyd spoke tion of Chicago, P resident Jo h n
und the slaughter house facilities in for u grand and glorious night. to the Grange in regard to uie Dooley, who was a boy of 10 at
of Mr. Lucas. The newcomers Chartered busses w ill take them National War Fund Drive, b. N. the tim e of the fire, declared th a t
have also purchased the home of to and from the dance. There will G allatin was appointed chairm an "the fire was started by bum s in
Virgil if. Chapm an at 801 Siski­ be free refreshm ents, and sou­ of the drive lor the T alent dis­ the barn, drinking and sm oking
you boulvard. Mrs. H ardesty and venir program s to m ake it a last­ trict and it is hoped to get the and rushing the grow ler—not by
five year old daughter have come ing memory. And each girl will drive under way at once. The the cow ”. Dennis Ryan, another
be given a rose to adorn her program tor the evening consist­ m em ber agreed and said he got it
to make their home here also.
The
H a r d e s ty
fa m ily
a r e hair.
of singing and games with straig h t from "Peg-leg" Sullivarf
It was pointed out, though, ed
friend* of many years of Mr. and
Mrs.
Brockway taking charge. who was rig h t on the scene.
Mrs. Lucas and on a recent visit that in order to assure them ­ Booster night for the Talent
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they were so impressed w ith the ■ selves of transportation, girls in G range will be held T hursday
A Marylar. accountant has fig-
country here th a t they decided to , the Ashland area should register October 26. The H.E.C. held ' ured th at the discovery of Am er-
m ake their home, und to en ter ' w ith tin- Ashland USO at their their meeting at the G range Hall ica by C hristopher Columbus,
earliest convenience.
business here.
■ O ctober 12, 1492, cost only about
Featured artists w ith Frankie Tuesday, October 10.
Mr. and Mrs. Lucus will keep
Mrs. Arnold C hapm an who 57,000. C olum bus him self receiv-
their home in A shland and Mr. Masters are his vocalists, Eddie was called to W akefield, K ansas ed 1500 pesettas, or about $300 a
Lucus will devote all his tim e to Williams, a Texas boy who re­ a m onth ago by the illness of her year, as com m ander of the Santa
his racing dogs, the breeding and cently joined the band; lovely m other returned home Sunday Maria. C aptains of the other
training of which he has followed Phyllis Miles, whose outstanding evening.
ships, th e N ina and the Pinta,
work on Columbia records is rap ­
for a num ber of years.
Mr.
and
Mrs
Charles
Estes
re-
Pj,id about 9,°.° pcsetas a
idly
gaining
her
recognition
as
Changes of personnel or busi­
turned to T alent Friday from '
^ J h e crew re-
ness methods is not contem plated one of the foremost girl singers
ceived
$2.50 a m onth. Food was
in
the
business,
and
M
arty,
Kay,
Yreka,
California
w
here
they
by the new owners. The m arket
furished for about $1.50 per
will continue to handle the finest P at and Jo, an all girl quartette spent a couple of weeks visiting m onth per man. Personally, Col­
steer beef which can be bought. who are M asters’ new est singing friends. They retu rn ed to their um bus w as given about $320 for
home in Crescent City W ednes- ii X “ * ?
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,
discoveries.
dgy
J discovering the new continents.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cuthberson
In the passing of A lbert E.
who sold the T alent M arket re ­ Sm ith and W
We endell
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W illkie the
cently are moving into the Itusho nation losses tw o typical A m eri­
house
for
a
m
onth
and
will
later
Several cases w ere heard in
cans, w hose courage and ca p a ­
justice Nelle Burns' court the move to A shland w here they pur- city for action are w orthy of e m u ­
N. H. Zacharlsen, Jackson coun­ past week including th at of Thea- I chased a home.
lation by young leaders of tom or­
ty w ar finance com m ittee ch air­ dore Roosevelt Kinney of Ash­ I .Lorna Haym an a form er resi­ row.
man, received notification last land, on two counts, of having no dent of Talent now living in
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week of a state conference O ct­ w arning devise on his car and , California visited friends here
Uncle Zeke opines th a t m oth­
ober 18 and 19 in Portland to failing to keep to the right of the I last week.
ers who scold little boys for carry
plan Oregon's p art in the 6th w ar road. On the first count he was ! H arry G raham who underw ent ing crazy things in th eir pockets
loan. The drive is scheduled for fined $1 and costs and on the sec­ the removal of his right eye at should look in th e ir own h a n d ­
November 20 through December ond he was assessed $2.50 and the community hospital in A sh­ bags.
18.
costs. A lbert Anderson of Pros­ land last W ednesday m orning re ­
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Ted R. Gamble, national d irec­ pect was fined $1 00 and costs on turned home S aturday evening.
In spite of this being F ire P re ­
tor, war finance division, and a charge of using void foreign li­
Mr. and Mrs. Elm er Cook left vention W eek, jungles in this
Robert Coyne, field director, will cense plates and $1.00 and costs last Tuesday for Idaho to visit m an's tow n should be given the
headline the schedule of events for not having a tail light. Dan relatives. They plan on being torch.
on October 18, w hen national Roland Schugart, Ashland, was away for two weeks.
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plans for the 6th w ar loan drive I fined $1.0 and costs for using a
Mr. and Mrs. Combe of Ja c k ­
One of the m ost intreguing
will he presented. Second day of . car w ithout a m uffler; and H ar­ sonville
were business callers her m odern m ysteries is how the
the conference will be devoted to , mon S. Covington nvas cited by
neighbors get so m uch gas.
planning Oregon’s localized cam- | state police for having an untag­ Monday evening.
C. E. Miller of A shland has
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paign so it will coordinate w ith ' ged deer in his possession. He
taken over the m anagem ent of
If “it's the independent voters
the national cam paign, according was assessed $25 and costs.
the Talent garage. Mr. Miller who w ill decide the election,
to E. I'. Sammons, state chair
man.
A party of five left a week ago was a form er resident of Talent w hy so m uch m ud slinging?
Over-all goal was announced ' on a hunting trip, they were and is well known in the valley.
Uncle Sam is spending over 9
as $14,000,000,000. Five billion 1 Clyde Caton, John Nosier, Elmer
W eyburn Kenyon has the m eat millions an hour to c a rry on the
dollars is set as the goal for indi- i Heckart, Marion Mann and H ar­ question solved for some time, war. Boost the w ar Chest!
viduals, of which $2,500,000,000 rison Grimesley. Monday evening after a few hours hunt in the
m ust be raised in E bonds. M ar­ Mr. Caton and Mr. Heckart had Dead Indian country he returned
Mrs. Rilla York of Snokane
ketable issues will be on sale returned, but the balance of the w ith a fine buck.
Wash, and Mrs. Ina H ail of
from December 1 to December party rem ained to get their meat.
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B row nsville, O regon sisters of
Mr. and Mrs. W illiam Zum w alt Mrs. Nella Rice and Mrs. G race
Mr. Caton and Mr. H eckart each
16.
Oregon’s quota has not yet i retu rn ed w ith a deer and an an­ of Lakeview w ere transacting P utm an of A shland are here on
Big Name Band
to Hay for Dance
at Camp White
V
i TALENT NEWS !
Californians Buy
East Side Market
»
War Loan Meeting
In Portland Soon
been set.
4
Several Cases Heard
in Justice Court
' telope.
,
business in Ashland last Friday, a visit.
T h is ’n That
U. S. Engineers Sur­
veying Dam Site
U nited S tates engineers have
been busy for som e tim e su rv e y ­
ing the site for a 100-foot dam
’ to be built in th e Dead Indian
d istrict w here Frog C reek arid
E m igrant C reek join. This is a
goverm ent reclam ation project.
A t the p re se n t tim e the en g i­
neers are seeking a location for
an office in A shland, from w hich
to ca rry on th e ir work.
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Oregon Drivers
Step On It!
E ighty-five per cent of the driv
ers using the Pacific highw ay
during the m onth of A ugust tr a ­
veled at speeds up to 48 m iles an
according to S ecretary of S tate
Bob F arrell. Speed checks m a in ­
tained by the traffic engineering
division of the sta te highw ay
show ed th a t the speed of the m a j­
ority of drivers was slightly u n d ­
e r the rate set for July.
Only 15 per cent of the drivers
held th e ir speeds under 35 miles
an hour, the w artim e speed lim it,
com pared to 17 per cent during
the m onth of July.
Ashland Gridsters
Tie One, Win One in
Week End Games
Volume 13 N u m b e r 35
City Council
Orders ‘Nuisance’
Closed Up
, A t the m eeting of the city
Council last T uesday, a com m it­
tee rep o rt m ade by the B oard of
H ealth concerning the prem ises
of Mrs Alice S te w a rt a t 1257
Siskiyou B oulvard was heard.
Mrs. S tew art has been operating
as a “healer”, claim ing c e rta in
certain pow ers and has m ade it
know n th a t she has treated m any
individuals, said the comooittee
6ent to investigate the prem ises.
A fter hearing a com plain by
one of her “p a r e n ts ”, local h e a lth
au th o rities visited h er place. They
reported th a t it was in a "foul
and filth y ” condition; th a t Mrs.
S tew art told them th a t she had
a feeble-m inded son, w ith the
m ental pow ers of a six year old,
who also had the pow er and who
1 treated w hen she was too busy.
She also said th a t a t tim es she
boarded patients on the prem ises
and at the tim e the investigation
was m ade, she had a blind m an
whom she said she was treatin g .
The rep o rt was accepted, and
the city attorney and the chief
of police w ere ordered to im m e­
diately abote the nuisance and
order the so-called tre a tm e n ts to
cease, and take such o th er action
’ as they th ought necessary.
On Tuesday Mrs. S te w a rt w as
arrested by the city police on the
charge th a t she had failed to com ­
ply w ith the order of the B oard
of H ealth. In city court she plead
guilty to the charge and w as
Uned $200 and costs of 2.50 and
was given a th irty day ja il se n t­
ence. The Ja il sentence was su s­
pended and $162.50 of the fine
upon condition th a t she pay $40
and close up the place by not
later th a t S atu rd ay night, O ct­
ober 14. She paid the $40 fine and
stated th a t she intended to be
closed up ai- per the conditions
given by the police court.
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The A shland football team s u p ­
set the dope forecasted for them
the p a st w eek end w hen the se n ­
ior high school team tied w ith a
12 to 12 score w ith the K larnath
Falls high school, w hich had
been doped out to w in th e game.
W hile the G rizzlies did not win
the gam e, it was a decided m oral
victory for them for they had
been held scoreless in tw o form er
tries w ith M arshfield and Y reka.
The gam e w as played F rid ay on
the W alter P hillips field here.
The o ther gam e was th a t played
S atu rd ay afternoon w hen the
ju n io r high boys w ent to M ed­
ford to play the ju n io r high team
there, com ing hom e on the long
end of a 6-25 score.
Tw o gam es aw ay from hom e
are scheduled for this w eek, the
The A shland m ethodist church
senior high team playing a t L ake-
view and the ju n io r high team w a sthe scene of a p re tty w edd­
going to G ra n ts Pass, both on ing cerem ony last Tuesday, O ct-
[ ober th ird , w hen Cpl G enevieve
Friday.
T he F rid ay n ig h t gam e here I McGee, a m em ber of the Wo-
was unusually w ell attended, as , m en's A rm y Corp and the daugh-
a perfect fall evening was the 1 ter of Mr. and Mrs. A llen O. Mc-
setting for the game. A large ' Gee, becam e the bride of S Sgt.
crow d tu rn e d o u t as a resu lt M elvin B ake? K ipp, son of Mr.
and backed the local boys w ith and Mrs. F. E. K ipp of Evanston,
th eir w hole h e a rte d support. A Illinois. Dr. G eorge W. Bruce of­
goodly n u m b er of fans w ent to ficiated.
M edford S a tu rd a y afternoon also I T he bride w ore a w hite lace
to see the ju n io rs open up w ith over taffeta, w ith a lace D utch
some real football ta le n t to run cap and veil and carried a bou­
over the M edford jun io rs w ith ­ quet of pink rosebuds and w hite
chrysanthem um s. She w as given
o u t m uch trouble.
in m arriag e by h e r father. The
AMERICAN LEGION
sister of the bride, Mrs. Colver
MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT F. A nderson, was m atro n of hon­
or and was dressed in rose color­
T he re g u la r m eeting of the ed lace gown.
Follow ing the cerem ony a re ­
A shland A m erican Legion Post,
No. 14 was held T uesday e v en ­ ception was held in the church
ing, w ith th e new post com m and­ parlors. T he w edding cake was
e r Em il K roeger in charger and cut by the bride, assisted by the
assisted by the new a d ju ta n t C. groom and Miss Eva B u ckhalter
M. F rasier. S everal business m a t­ of K lam ath Falls continued the
ters of in te re st to the Legion serving. Mrs. H u b ert K idd, of
w ere ta k e n up. S everal m em ­ K lam ath Falls poured. A ssisting
bers v o lunteered to m ake new w ere the Misses L aura Billings
panels for the H onor Roll board, and B etty Sue Reed.
Mrs. F ra n k Davis, a t the organ,
w hich is filled w ith nam es, and
as soon as these a re b u ilt the new played T schaikow skv’s “Concerto
crew w ill e re c t them . J. Q. in B -F lat M inor” w hile the Misses
A dam s is ch airm an of the com ­ M arilyn M cLellan in pale blue
m ittee w hich handles the placing taffeta and Flo A nn P erkins in
of nam es on the board and the shell pink tafeta, lighted the
com m ittee n o w
h a s several m any tapers. “O P erfect Love”
w hich w ill be placed on the w as sung by Mrs. R obert M ackay
board w hen it is com pleted. Any and “C lare de L u n e ” by Debussy
one w ishing a local boys nam e was played before the bridal p a r­
on the board should contact Mr. ty e n te re d to the strains of the
A dam s. A t th e m eeting a resolu­ j "B ridal C horus" from Lohengrin.
tion w as passed placing the L e­ D uring the cerem ony Mrs. M ack­
gion on record as opposing any ay sang M alotte's “The L ord's
V-Day celeb ratio n u n til hostili­ P ra y e r" and “Canzone Amoro so’
ties cease in all th eatres of w ar. E th elb ert N evin was softly p lay ­
It w as also announced th a t the ed. M endlessohn's “W ed d i n g
L egion has on file num erous i M arch” w as used for the reces-
pam phlets re la tin g to service­ , sional.
S, Sgt. Nye H. M unson of the
m en ’s legislation, and they urge
re tu rn in g v e te ra n s of W orld W ar P o rtland A ir Base w as the best
II to a tte n d m eetings of the post , m an and Jo h n Billings was usher.
O ut of tow n guests w ere Mrs.
and get these pam phlets, so th a t
they m ay know the latest reg u la­ i F. E. K ipp of E vanston, 111., Mr.
tions concerning ser vice m en's and Mrs. H. H. W ardrip, G rants
benefits, etc. Legion m eetings are Pass; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. W ardrip,
held second and fo u rth T uesday Y reka, C alifornia; Mr. and Mrs.
of each m onth, and the retu rn in g R. R. L aw ton and dau g h ter,
veteran s are welcom e. The m eet­ D orothy, C entral P oint. M r s.
ing ended w ith a fine din n er f u r ­ Lucy Creys, Mrs. L yle Schop-
nished by the new post com m and pert and daughters, Susan and
er and served by P aul Byers and Linda, Mrs. M elvin H. H all and
H a rry P hillips of th e K itchen daughters M ary Jo and J u d ith of
j M edford; Mr. and Mrs. H enry E.
com m ittee.
| P erkins and d au g h te r Flo A nn,
T he an n u a l R ally D ay Service Mrs. Evelyn M cLellan and daugh
orf the C hurch of C hrist Bible ' te r M arilyn, M esdam es H u b e rt
School w ill be this S unday. The ; K idd, Jules N apier, the Misses
service w ill open w ith a short ( L illian Redkey, Eva B u rk h a lte r,
program of num bers from some | O rpha M. H udson,
K lam ath
of the classes. The teachers of Falls; and S Sgt. Nye H. M unson,
the school w ill be honored by the i P.A.A.B., P ortland, Oregon.
classes th a t th ey teach w ith a
The new ly m arried couple left
I for Palo Alto, C alifornia, w here
sm all rem em brance.
T he atte n d a n c e goal for th e Mrs. K ipp is taking her in te rn ­
day is 219. An effort is being ship in Physical th erap y at D ib­
m ade to reach all w ho a tte n d ir­ ble H ospital. Sgt. K ipp w ill re ­
re g u la rly and those w ho do not tu rn to his duties w ith th e medi-
now a tte n d any S unday school. 1 cal corps at the P o rtla n d A rm y
T he service begins a t 9:45 A. M. I Air Base.
Genevieve McGee
Weds Illinois Man