This ’n That
by Th« Old Timer
If we had our say-so only meri
torious bills dropped in the lcgis
lative hopper at Salem would be
considered, that the passage of
necessary appropriations be ex
pedited and an early adjourn
ment taken.
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The average cost per day of
the 1943 session was $2,797. The
largest item was $80,000 for
clerks and stenographers. The
mileage costs of members were
$2,630.
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With bombsdropping on Tokyo
its no wonder that the Mikado be
moans that "the war situation if
becoming serious*.
*74« Pop**
2.00 per year
S&ndkùty, *7o £ay--/ln(l
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ASHLAND. OREGON. THURSDAY, Thursday, January 4, 1945
Well Known Local
Club Burns Friday
Army Flight Nur«« Examines Patient in Franc«
OPENS NEW RESTAURANT
Mrs. Reba Abbott, well known
in Ashland, hus opened a new
eating place the past week. The
location is at 25 South Pioneer,
just back of the bank building.
The new place is brand new hav
ing just been completed. The
building is of cement block con
duction. Mrs. Abbott has a wide
circle of acquaintances in Ash
land, as she formerly operated
the Dandy Lunch in 1937 and
later operated a similar business
in Klamath Falls.
Voi. 13 NO. 47
Rev. James Edgar
Heads Mason Unit
A fire of unknown origin Fri
The Rev. James H. Edgar, re
day night destroyed the widely
tired Presbyterian minister, was
known Chateau, three miles west
jf Ashland, completely destroy
elected to head the Siskiyou
ing the big wooden building and
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons,
all of its contents. Tentative loss
at the annual election held at the
has been set at around $15,000,
Masonic
temple, Dec. 28. He will
with a very small amount of the
loss being covered by insruance
reign as Excellent High Priest.
The club has been closed for
He has been assiciated with the
V
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The first U. S. flag to wave the past couple of years, but in
varous orders of the Masonic
lodge for many years, having re
over Japan may see service again its heyday was widely known as
It was 91 years ago that Comrno a night club and entertainment
ceived his Symbolic Degrees at
Gold Hill Sergeant
Everett, Washington, in 1918. Dr.
dore Perry planted the 13-starred pot par excellence. Only recent
relic near Tokyo on his forma ly a new ownership had been
Walter Redford is the retiring
(
Jets
Bronze
Star
visit to Japan. The historic ban perfected, known as the “Club
nm n..
.High Priest and closes a very
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, IT- successful year for Siskiyou Chap
ner was exhibited at a fpir held Chateau, Inc.” and under direc
ALY—Staff Sergeant William C. ter.
in Phildelphia in 1864 sponsored tion- of Mrs. Terry Coffee, Louie
Garrels of Gold Hill, Oregon, has
A list of officers follows
by President Lincoln to raise hos Freeland and Richard J. Cox. Re
been awarded the Bronze Star
Excellent High Priest, Rev. J.
pital funds for the Union Army. pairs and improvements were un
posthumously for heroic achieve- H. Edgar. King, Joseph A. Lang-
It disappeared after the fair and der way at the time of the fire,
ment in action in northern Italy, try; Scribe, William W. Williams;
was discovered recently. The flag so that the club could have been
He served in a medical batta- Treasurer, George W. Dunn; Se
yellowed but untorn, is now dis opened Sunday night for a big
lion, 91st "Powder River” Divi- cretary, Rufus E. Detrick; Cap
played in a museum in Philadel send off with a New Year’s party.
sion of Leiutenant General Mark tain of the Host, H. Herman May-
phia. A suggestion, now under The club had been purcha ed
W. Clark s Fifth Army.
b e r r y ; Principal Sojourner,
consideration, has been made from a company headed by Wil
Second Lieutenant June L. Sander« af Canton, Ohio, an Army aursa, checks
His widow, Mrs. Betty Garrels, Frank H. Barnthouse; Royal
that the flag be sent to Gen. Mac- liams Briggs, local attorney.
•
Arch Captain, Stephen J. Zarka;
Lost in the fire were the instru the condition at • wounded soldier aboard the transport plane in which he lives in Gold Hill.
Arthur to be carried by U. S.
is about to be evacuated tram France to England. The Arm y needs 1 0 ,0 0 0
forces when the invasion of Jap ments of the band header by Mr
LJ
x
I
of the Third Veil- W' H°-
mare nurses.
Freelend, the instruments having
JOnn M. o h U lI i romot- Master
ward Oden; Master of the Second
an proper begins.
been put in the building only
to
Masfpr S p r c r o n n i Vei1,
Rev. A. H. MacDonnell;
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LU IV ld S te i oeigeant
Master of the First Veil, George
With the “bowr* contest over that day as the band had arrived
15th ARMY AIR FORCE IN Mack; Chaplain, Robert E. Dodge
Uncle Zeke opines that Gen. from California to be on hand for
ITALY—John H. Shull, 33, of Sentinel, William J. Wallace;
MacArthur would doubtless wel the opening night. No insurance
Shady Cove, Oregon, has been Grand Principal Sojourner, Rob-
come the assistance of some pig of any kind covered the instru
skin artists in kicking the Japs ments, the mirrors, the piano, or
promoted
to the grade of Master ert E. Dodge installed the officers
Services were held from the
Thu annual New Year Dinner I
out of the Philippines.
building.
Litwiller Funeral Chapel ,on Fri-
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The fire is reported to have day f°r Lloyd Orville Peterson,
Food for the U. S. Army is
supplied to the extent of more started in the east end of the world Wur veteran, who died Miss Lundy, the director of music
building, where the platform for Christmas day at his home at 153 in the •—»z. me director oi music I An electrical specialist Sgt 1
than 38 million pounds a day.
the band is »Rueted. It is entire- Granite 8treet He has
”h“ ‘* shun » •i
“ . “ ■,rX|T" The
estlay
Even me
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sang In the Time p o u,biic
f Roses and commanded bv Col. Thnmn. w
first meeting of tl
the
,
A government in exile is a lia ly across the building from the ,nvahd since
“If You Kn»uz M.. »„a
Y Y r----1commanded by Col. Thomas W.
« « new
Y on“
,kM ♦ .u l , K,ne? Steed- ot Etowah, Tcnn.
The year for the Lions club was held
bility, as witness the fuss created kitchen, the bar or any of the WorId War_ Th(l Rey
o f a ll
thpr
del,ght «roup has flown more than 145 ? uesday evening, the meeting be-
other fixtures of the place.
over the Polish situation.
A kP^ . Byers “ang combat missions against strategic ing held at the Plaza Cafe in-
The big building went up like was in charge of the services. ' In- "The
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Job was a patient man but he tinder, with the fire spreading to g ™ * * WaS made at Phocn,x’ The Lost Chord” , and “Dear targets in southern Europe and stead of the Li«*ia Hotel Coffee
T h. D °M- .,ne’r.u.„.
the Balkans.
Shop. Among other rountine
didn’t have to worry about mak ail Parts of the building in a short' Mr pe
^ h rk PS’ J588’ Sgt Shu11 entered the service, business taken up was the selec-
ing out in income tax return.
,me. The Utree owners managed head Mlnnestota. December ,, tor of the ‘ M
« ru J is u S . Methodist Church in May 9, 1942.
tton of a new clerk, A1 Snyder,
S e S e n ^ r o o T S p l ^ Z ^ 3 “/
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Klamath
Falls
gave
the
principal
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to
replace
Harry Chipman, who
Beefing about gas and gassing the future have not been learned. | In ‘Md yf , 9f8 P e ^ ^ d ' a n d
address on the subject, “The Tug P •
i R o n o iY ro
resign*d. Next meeting will be
about beef neither fills the tank
?ki the Futur® Ajnong other 1 *"1US KeCeiVe W O lC l held on the regular meeting night
or the larder.
| was a private in 41st company, things he said, “This New Year of Death of Ml’S HaStV Tuesday evening- and will again
Patrons Changed to j 18 Rec. Battalion, 162nd D. B. and is different than any New Year _ , J
' be held at the Plaza Cafe A
Men who make laws are not S3
was discharged with the 125th wc have ever had. For the first
Friends in Ashland received speaker is being arranged for
Medford
Rural
Route
essential as those who make busi
Residents * w^ho*live* along*'the j F9.s9 aHy ¿ ° mpany’ / * bruary 20; time in history we look back on *°™ the Past
of the death and will probably discuss the
ness.
Pacific highway from the north J*1*
was wou,nd?id in line of an old year in which the whole “ Mrs. Grace Hasty, on Decern- merits of the Community Chest
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X reCOVered world has been at war. Looking ber ^2, in a Los Angeles hospital, plan.
The Nazis appear to have lots Talent city limits to Phoenix. d“ ty
batk today wc feel the brakes of Mrs. Hasty was well known in
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who have heretofore been listed C n r v iv in J h
k
» u
of fight left in them.
T
as patrons of Rural Route Two
b,m ar* h,a mothr5r' the past, and looking forward we Ashtond, being a member of a
feel the tug of the future.
pioneer family. She was the for- r ’ e ^ lu U iT lD er JNeeCleCl
How it is since you turned over out of Ashland, have been trans- LMrs„ * £ y Williams; brothers,
"Robinson Crusoe, on that lone mer Grace Houck, daughter of F e w e r T l ’U C k s M a d e
ferred to Rural Route 4, out of H t » ’ Petc2? °P’ U‘ S
that new leaf?
Medford, it has been announced. L a. Pfp
vj T nw i|' ’ aiy ly island, wrote, "I am cast on a Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Houck, early
Farmers who need lnm hor
This was done since Rural Rt.
f ’"yd.
W," ,arn? of tonely island but I am alive. I day owners of the Ashland hotel, emergency maintenance and re
Farewells On New
4 carrier had for years made this rain j y j
f**!»* r^’i *S M° r" am divided from man. but I am P he was born in Ashland, grew pair of farm dwellings may now
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raine Jordan of - Pendleton;
not starved. I am without defence to womanhood here and was edu- 'apply to the War Food A dm inic
Year’s at Local USO trip,
without
any
delivery,
while
..
A Mrs.
u
. against
man or boast, but I am
‘»e Ashland schools. She .ration V p r ^ " e n ^ r a U n g s " n - '
d
,
»•*
t
Fred
Prettyman,
Mrs.
Robert
jvt.
2
carrier
«lad
to
make
I
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a l . i _ j
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The singing of “Auld Lang nural
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,
,
.
,
Prettyman,
Ashland
and
Mrs.
on
an
island
where
there
is
no
"
a5
marrle1
d to Dr- Hasty, who stead of to War Prodifation
double
back.
. Medford.
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Syne" had a note of sadness as it the trip and . . then
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Chas.
Reeder
of
beast.
I
have
no
clothes
to
wear,
died
several
ago. Survivors
WPR’o h ^
was sung in the USO Club on The change eliminates this dupli 1
but it is too ho,
wear c l o t h e d ^ a brother years
Dr. Fred
Houck a, Board
¿iv field
n ia» offices
’ ' r c J , "m enhi
New Year’s Eve as all military cation of travel.
-B U Y B O M
friends and hostesses were think
ing of the “Good By’s’’ to be said
S/Sgt. George F. Smith came
on the morrow as the Club was
last Thursday to spend a long de-
being closed on New Year’s Day.
served furlough with his mother, the heart strings of Abraham of PH Jin H i r f H o i n
genev
ain ten an ce and
ronnii- of
gency m
maintenance
and repair
Many men expressed regret that j T .,
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.Mrs. V. O. Smith and sister, Miss old, and of Columbus, and the
farm dwellings.
In the regular monthly report Emm Lou s t Smjth hfls bpen
the Club was being closed and
Deaths in the Ashland-Talent
for severa,
flnd Pilgrim fathers and it is pulling
said they would miss their regu of Lions clubs activities just re- in the a
at ours today, and we dare not be area exceeded births by eight, ini P n h l i p T T K liH r R in r o
lar trips to Ashland. Most service ceived by the local Lions club, this ig his firgt furlough to ret(;rn submissive.
When the war ends 1944, according to a report by Dr T-,U/ U^ U t i l i t y LSUyS
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men find Ashland a friendsly and Ashland is listed as being first in to his home for
it
may
be
the
future will be bet- R- E. Poston, in his report on vi- Butane Service
members in district 36-E,1
hospitable city and say they hope new
which
is
southern
Oregon
fcad
’
1
™,mber
O
?
h
bat£
,iOn
ter
anything
worid has tai statistics’for the year..
Purchase of the butane air-gas
to return to Ashland again some ing all the other cities ot this £ th^S o u th b 'p ao L c He hns
U
S
enter
the
^
e, were 107 births; 59 males systems of distribution at Yreka
day.
,
l,h 1 aciflc- He haa New Year with prayer—prayer and 48 females. The deaths total- and Dunsmuir, Calif., has been
Mrs. Jewell Lockhart states, in district in new members. In the 2?
mcn and women in the ed 115, of these 61 were males announced by Martin E. Sands of
closing the club, she has enjoyed national contest Ashland, plated hts a d w im r e ^ a n i’ha88 ^ 0 ° , ° i | ior
in
division
four
of
cities
of
4
000
f adventures, and has seen a lot armed
service-prayer
for the and 54 females.
Medford, vice-president and gen
her work immensely and found I. »
w* f M
evr«
SM
OW
SB b bt*
VS nt
S to the c civilians
J V
ciue s 01 i w u I o
a W
c w
tio
n « O
since
e i in n g C 0
se
iv ilia n s a
v e r the world—pray
^ r i ^ _____ I Age
An,. groups
a r™
all ll o over
of those who died eral manager for the Oregon and
ig we,,
it very pleasant to work with the to 6,000 population, Ashland has lSouth Pacific s t
er that all of us will act like men were as follows six infants; three Shasta divisions of the California
senior and junior hostesses and tied for third place with Sunny- known in Ashland as he
expresses gratitude to the USO vale Calif, and Babylon, New duate of the hi h school hpre* nd of eternal destiny. We must look 1 to 10 years; three 10 to 20 years; Pacific Utilities Company. Con
for a city not built by Chruchill, H from 40 to 50; seven from 50 sideration involved was not re
Council members and committee York-
SOCE.
nor by Stalin, nor by Roosevelt, to 60; 31 from 60 to 70; 22 from vealed.
chairmen for their splendid sup The local club has been very
but built by the faith and loyalty 7® to 80; 24 from 80 to 90 and
No change in personel or oper
port and cooperation as well as active the past year and many
of
men and women who yield to oight from 90 to 100. There were ating policy of the utilities, for
new
members
have
been
added
city officials and citizens of Ash
the tug of the future and seek to lno deaths from 20 to 40.
to the rolls of the club. Plans are
merly owned by the Coast Coun
land.
go God’s way.
Causes of death in this section ties Gas and Electric Company,
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tentative for even greater acti
Our ideal purpose for the New were cardiac, 45; cerebral hem-
Buy bonds to buy bombs to vity during the coming year.
Jefferson Horace Terrill, for Year is for a new and better orrhage, 17; carcinoma, 14, acci- with headquarters in Santa Cruz,
bomb bums.
Subscribe for The Mbier today. several years postmaster at Tal world economically, socially, pol- dent 8; arterisclerisis five; bren- Calif., is contemplated, according
ent died at his home in Talent itically, intellectually, and all cho pneumonia, three;; congeni- to Sands.
The California Pacific Utilities
built on the deep and secure tai malformation, three; still Co., in addition to the newly ac
(resident of Talent for over 60 spiritual
foundations. In the new birth, two; acute gastroenteritis quired properties, operate in Kla
world, if there is money for war, two; miscellaneous, 12.
math Falls, Ashland Medford,
L Terrill served as a member of so must there be money for
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Grants
Pass and Roseburg. Com
Eugene, Dec 30—(Special) “Big hog fuel 'to the tune of 4,200,000 th® Talent school board and was peace, for health, for education,
Monuments and Markers. Ord- pany headquarters are in San
Timber Gets Religion” is the title gallons annually.
J " ' and for religion. One tenth of the #r NOW for . spring., delivery, Francisco.
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spector for this district. He also money spent, in the present war |
Memorial« on the Plasa. —Medford News.
of a fascinating article in the Dec I Case pays high tribute to Col- was a deputy county tax assess-
would easily have saved the
ember 30th issue of the Saturday one^ W
. B. Greely, secretary-man or for many years.
world if it had been actually and
Evening Post and written by one ager( the West Coast Lumber-
His parents, H. J. and Lucy wisely consecrated to spiritual
of Oregon’s prominent writers,
and objectives. This war
post as National Forester some settling at Brownsboro, Ore., aims
has
made
plain how lurid self
Robert Ormond Case.
fifteen yars ago to work with the where he was born August 3, ishness is, it and
how beautiful self
Using
the
Tillamook
Burn
of
The past week the local Ash-1 came into the office to open the
,933 M the staetink point lot m„0 ¡ M
X
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sacrifice is.”
land post office claimed a be- letter, it was found to contain
The Rev. Dr. G. W. Bruce, pas
ern public awareness of forest Caso points out has had much to by his wife Parthena and daught-
$2-50 *n War Stamps. The opener
tor of the local church presided. lieve it or not when they found of
fire dangers, Author Case goes on da with working up what he er Barbara
the letter disclaimed it, and by
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The dinner program was closed the owner of a letter addressed
a
gradual
process of elimination,
by singing the Doxology and a simply as Maxine, no street ad
in
questioning
various Max
New Year prayer offered by the dress, no surname and no way ines, the owner the
was found. It was
of identifying its sender or its found out that the letter had been
owner.
grow trees; how Oregon sawmill j “Big Timber Gets Religion” c h u rc h o f Medfold ofifei^ting MRS POYERS BROTHER
included in a Christmas box,
In cleaning up the last of the which arrived in a bad state as
X p n f 7 h ° e rewnndd
be read by every Oregon- Music was also furnished by the KILLED IN FRANCE
mail one day, a sealed letter ad
more of the waste of the woods ian. Case is at his best on a sub-1 Friends
Friends church.
church. Interment
Interm ent w
as
was
Mrs. Melvin Poyer received the dressed to “Maxine from Grand the covering was off and some of
and sawmills.
! ject which is close to his heart. made in the Stearns cemetery at distressing
news the past week pa” was found amongst the first the items out. The letter with the
Coming in for important m en-, Timber is a crop and should be Talent.
San Francisco, on Christmas day,
tion is the newest development treated as a crop, he suggest as The large number of friends from the War Department of the class maik There was no street and had become mixed up with
death
of
her
brother,
Pfc.
Wil
address, and no other way of the first class mail.
in waste utilization, the Spring- he goes on to tell of the real pro from Talent and vicinity, who
field, Oregon, Willamette Valley gress being made here in Ore- came to pay their last respects to lard Shortridge, of the engineer identifying its intended recipient.
Now the “Maxine” has her
he had been killed Postal
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employees, thought of all Christmas present and the post
Wood Chemical Company, $2,- gOn and Washington toward a the departed attented to the high ing corps, that
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in
action
in
Belguim.
No
further
the
Maxines
they
knew
of,
recall-
500,000 plant which will make mOre enlightened handling of our Rveh2idW
Mrh i S n hi’ commun- detai1« b“ve been" learned
in^ 'som eihing^ike"^ of "toem office has the satisfaction of
ethyl alcohol from sawdust and; forest lands.
ity held Mr. Terrill.
i matter.
War Stamp« had been In the box. knowing that the mail went to
Services Held for Methodists Enjoy
World War Veteran New Year Dinner
Locäl Lions Club
In Top Place
7 ^ u V T « r e f,i Z i L o c a l Deaths More i^ ^ ^ J X T d e m e ? '
Than Births in ’44
Services Held for
Talent Postmaster
Oregon Writer Tells of Timber Work
In Saturday Evening Post Article
Local Post Office Claims a ‘Believe It
Or Not” in Locating Letter Owner
it« intended recipient