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K .X SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Published Every Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon Carry! H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers Entered as second-class mall matter in the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. "TS" AV Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday March 1, 1945 they be produced in huge quantity and quickly. We will venture to say that if the federal government would cut out the “cost plus 10 per cent” way of doing Mayor T h o r to n E. W i l e y and ull the fixin's. Huns Lassen plan to leave some time next I of the Jackson Hot Springs is pre business and force the war industries to take the work week for N am p a, Id ah o , w h e re paring the pool, so thut those on a contract basis, ships and other materials of war Mr. Wiley will attend a two day boys who w ant to swim may do would be produced much cheaper and with a lot lesb « . ion of the Hoard of Regents of so. During the evening, severul tenderfoot scouts will take part manpower. It might be argued that they couldn't pro in an Investure proceedings. duce them in as short a time, but this we doubt too. trip to Idaho is an annual trek Mrs. Frank Merrill left this LOCAL HAPPENINGS for Mayor Wiley. The Board week for her home in Sacrum ento convenes March 14. Th« mayor California, after spending severul will be gone about a week, and months with her son and wife will attend to business m atters Mr. und Mrs. Harold Merrill. in Portland and other points on WHAT AN ARMY REALLY TRAVELS ON Don Hufmnn spent severul duys The sergeant, son of Mr. and the trip. The second year of shoe rationing has gone by and DIBBLE GENERAL HOSPI visiting with his m other, Mrs. Alfred B. Culver, Route Two A sm all group of school friends Cay Hufm an this week, retu rn still most Americans are well shod, in spite of fears as TAL. Menlo Park, Calif. Feb. 27— Mrs. Staff Sergeant Alfred B. Culver. Box 208, Ashland, Oregon, was j of Miss Vera Baker helped her ing Tuesday to Portlund, where they sat around their radios on that February after Jr. of Ashland, Oregon, patient presented the O rder of the Purple observe her fifteenth biithduy he has work. noon listening to the announcement that each person at Dibble General hospital, Mnn- Heart by the comm anding officer I Monday evening ut the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Burns have Dibble in a ceremony held at Miss V era’s sister, Mrs. Helen would be rationed to three pairs in 1943. Little did they lo Park, Calif., feels he's lucky he of received word from their son, Restad on Siskiyou Boulevard. escaped with nothing more ser the hospital this week. Pvt. Kenneth Burns, who has know that two years hence they would be getting along ious than a man-sized “hotfoot’’ Besides the Purple H eart and Games were enjoyed during the been with a railway transport on almost half that number. when the B-17 in which he was Air Medal, Culver wears the evening and the party ended unit at Fort W arren, Cheyenne, European theater ribbon w ith one j with refreshm ents. right waist gunner crashed into a Wyoming, that he has recently Fortunately, the beginning of rationing found the stone a . E. Madden, of the Madden been transferred to Carnp Carson wall while landing in Eng battle star and Good Conduct me- shoe industry with well stocked shelves and little cause land and was split in half, a mass dal. He entered the Army Oct. 10. Tire Shop, has been forced to Colorado, for further training. He 1942. and received his basic train- stay abed for a duy or two this did not state w hat type of train for W’orry. However, time passed, military needs foi of flames. ing at Kearns, Utah ,his arm ored week because of a back injury ing he will undergo ut Camp Car- leather increased, civilian production decreased; and This mission, sixth for the 22- instruction a t Lowry Field, Colo, which has caused him trouble, son. year-old Oregonian, had other today shoe manufacturers are in a quandary over the wise been an ill-fated one for gunnery training a t Tindal Field, A Mr Harth>y has sturted con. Hugh McKeever, of M arshall- immediate future. j'* -17 training at 1 yote struction of a nvw house on pro- Culver right from the start. ~ , Wells store, spent Monday in and D alhart, Texas. He w e n t1 It is interesting to note the sharp increase of an esti While the ship was over G er overseas Nov. 9, 1943. perty lying between Greshum and on a buying t»'.p. He 1 Meade streets. He has sturted left Sunday evening on the truin many, he was hit in the left mated 65,000,000 pairs of shoes required by the armed shoulder ---------- -o------- work of putting in a basem ent and returned Tuesday morning, by flak from a 20 mm. Mr. and Mrs. Arch Barksdale forces for 1945 over the previous two years with 47,000- cannon projectile. returned Thursday from a two and plans to build a roomy mod- giving him a full duy in Portlund. 000 pairs for 1943 and 48,000,000 for 1944. This, of Fortunately, Culver was lying weeks visit in Los Angeles. Arch ern ,h? ,ne do*ng a!l of the Mrg McKeever run the store | in the floor of the ship, w ith his says it „ his iirat vacation, (from wo,uk h1" n sc,i’ Mr’ ,urt,ey pruncs his absence. course, will be reflected in decreased production of civi on * — t. t ------------- 1 * u _ ----- as a profession. feet toward the nose, ...i— when the . his cleaning work a t Standard orchards . , . . . i Mrs. B. Ulstad and two daught- lian footgear, and it has been estimated that Mr. and plane made a belly landing and Cleaners in nine years and he A large num ber of guests turn- P au| ilu. a|1{, Ht.verl arc ln Mrs. Doaks and their children will have almost 30,000.- ram m ed into the wall at an a ir - ; and bis wife thoroughly enjoyed ed old ..... for . the , . Royal . .. Neighbors .A shland again ufter severul mon held in the IOOF hall lhs t ,n Detroit field in England. “I coundn’t e v e n ’Visiting Wlth m em bers of his card .P party il 000 fewer pairs of leather shoes this year. feel the jar, C ulver describes, ad family and friends of his school last W ednesday evening. Twenty- .. . . . . . a few days to visit The shoe industry will attempt to relieve the short ding how, when the ship broke in days. It is Mr. B arksdale’s form er s*x tables of cards were in play. Home for age as well as possible with a large supply of unration two, he slid out under the wing, home. i pinochle, bridge and 500 being with Mr. and Mrs. A1 Snider, who his foster parents, is J. W. but not before his feet had be Capt. Wm. W estfall spent the I= ’<i Fo.lowi? the ed shoes as it has done in the past, but an application of “nice and w arm ” from the week end w ith his m othei, Mis. • i to th lin in e i > w her m erchant murine and has been ol ’shinola to the closet’s present supply will be neces come flam ing wreckage. Ed. Butler, coming in from a base Pa ,,ld to «lining room w h in places in his duty, mostly sary to extend their wearing time as long as possible It was on unlucky m aiden voy in California. He has recently re- co^ ee and cake in ubundunce muny to the South Pacific. He has seen age for the Flying Fortress, a turned to the United States f ro m jwa> enjoyed. So, shine ’em up; they’ll last much longer that way. action at Saipan und other hot W alter K errigan and Mrs. Ker- spots in that area. He will leave brand-new ship which had been a tour of duty as pilot w ith the ★ ★ ★ given to the crew when their re Air Transport Command, in the rigan of Beach S treet left for Friday for San Francisco, where gular ship had to be overhauled. India and China theatre of oper- Portland via K lam ath Agency by he will rejoin his ship, for fu rth OUR ECONOMIC CY CLE The bom bardier w’as the only ations. Also visiting at the paren- Bus to contact Price Adm. Board. er work. The young man has The great majority of groups and individuals writing m em ber killed in the crash, al tai home at the same time was Barney Riggs, S 2/C came in made his home with the Sniders though all the crew were hos Capt. W estfall’s sister ,Miss Neta last Friday, from a trip to the for several years while he attend- writing and talking of postwar planning in this country pitalized following the accident. Westfall, a teacher in Roseburg South Pacific on a Liberty ship, ec| school. appear to accept without much question the thesis that The top tu rret gunner had also schools, he si a m em ber of her armed Mrs. Mabel Hansen of Junction the economic cycle,—or prosperity,—starts with fac been hit while the Fortress was Sid Reed, well known form er guard crew. Barney is one of City, spent the week end with over the Reich, receiving 20 mm Ashland business m an and Elks I last year’s Ashland High athletes tory payrolls. To this thesis Harry Ferguson, Detroit flak wounds in the arm and sto Club secretary, spent several „ i her m other here, Mrs. Emma has been renewing acquaint- j j ayes farm equipment manufacturer and economist, takes ex mach, and the ball tu rre t gunner, days in Ashland the past week i • i a He n c e s w ith re la tiv e s a n d frie n d s ception. His contention is that the economic cycle has hit by flak in the eyebrow, made He had returned from a visit to here. Memorials for Decoration Day. it an even three of the crew [ his m other, in Los Angeles, a n d | Seaman Don Sears came in its beginning with the land; without prosperity on the wounded Place your order Now. Burns over Germany. on his way to Brem erton, last Thursday from Farragut, Ida- land, there can be no prolonged and solid prosperity in Culver’s six missions w ere div was Washington .where he had re ho, w here he has recently com -| Memorials. the rest of our economy. He reminds us that the exist ided evenly—three over enemy- cently purchased a business. i pleted his “boot” training period. ence of 100 per cent of our population depend upon occupied France and three over At the regular m eeting of the He will retu rn to F arragut this Kjc*»::*»':*:»"«:«».»:»:»:*::* Germany. Most of the tim e he Ashland Post of the • Am erican Friday for assignm ent to ship- what the farmer produces, but our standard of * livine is m was j. . . . . * • ’ ***& aa m w u ith i m the e s same a m e v crew. i e w , w W e a earer rer Legion Tuesday evening, the board duty, or to some of the d ic ta te d very largely by the prices—or our capacity to of the Purple H eart and the Air comrades and m em bers of the navy’s training schools for furth- j buy,—of the products of agriculture. The largest single iMedal- he adm its that he isn’t A uxiliary were entertained by er duty. He finds the w eather of credited w ith downing any fight two service films, which were in- north Idaho quite t ugged in com- economic segment of our population,—the farmer and ers principally because “there teresting and instructive. Follow -) parison to that he has enpoyed in those rural dwellers directly dependent upon the farm were never enough to h it!” It ing the pictures the Legion had Ashland the past seasons. for their livelihood, accounts for 40 per cent of the to Seems the big bombers always a good m eeting with discussion W, T. (Mickey) Boatright in such excellent escorts that on subjects vital to all members. vestigator from San Francisco tal. A very heavy percentage of the raw materials used had the “Jerries were scared away.” Members of the Legion are urged who has been visiting W. J. Ker- in industrial production come from the farm. C ulver’s first mission, over St. to attend these meetings, and to lgan departed for the Bay Dis Nazaire, France, ended in a forc enjoy the good “eats” the chef trict. Whether we look at the farm from the standpoint of ed landing field has each m eeting night. Boys of the three Ashland Boy a producer or a consumer, its operation is basic to all w hen the ship in ran an out English Miss Shirley McCleary under Scout troops are planning a pic of gasoline, other elements of our economy. Quite clearly if the this incident providing an incit w ent an appendectomy at the hos nic and swimming party at Jack- ON THE PLAZA prices of farm products,—food, clothing, and those oth ing introduction to his career as pital this week. She is the daugh- son Hot Springs next Monday gunner. ter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy McCleary 1 evening w ith hot dogs, ice cream Sgt. Alfred Culver in California Hospital as Result of England B-17 Plane Crash Insurance ‘you can depend on’; • • • • Automobile Fire Life Health-Accident Burns Agency er things which go to make up our “cost of living”, are unduly high, our cost of living will be unduly high. If, on the other hand, the farmer is not prosperous, some 40 per cent of our national market will suffer from his financial inability to buy the products of industry. The application of mechanization, power, and those other conditions which have given us our miracles of production in industry, must be applied to the farm, for the simple reason that the lower the production costs on the farm, the more the farmer will profit and the lower will be the prices included in the cost of living. Thus all other costs will gradually be lowered, and the rising spiral of inflation should be halted. It is a some what novel thought, too, that major improvements in fann production methods can permit the family-size and family operated farm to be profitable, without subsidy. Certainly this thesis of Mr. Ferguson’s for the first time takes into account the possibility,—and even the necessity,—for making agriculture an equal partner with industry and trade in the creation and mainten ance of a sound economy for the country, and he main tains that it can be done and will be done if business men will adopt and effectuate that point of view. THE MANPOWER SITUATION There is considerable agitation at present in Wash ington over the manpower situation. Washing officials are convinced that there is a manpower shortage, that production is slowing up because there are insufficient workmen to do the work. We are all aware, of course, that it is hard to get men to work, at present, yet we feel that in the huge war industries of this nation, that the hoarding of men, and the downright waste of man power by putting huge numbers of men on work that does not justify it, is a known fact. Personally we have not worked on any of these jobs, so are not able to speak from experience, but we have talked with many who have worked on the jobs in ship yards, in plane plants, and other war industries, and the story is the same, employing huge numbers of men where it is apparently not needed. We realize that in war time, cost of ships and planes and tanks is not taken into consideration, only that Scenes of Ashland's Basketball Squad in Action Top row—left. Provost O'Harra. Samuelson. Jandreau. and Raedy: right. First five demonstrates backboard leap Bottom row—left Coach Robert grins approval at something or other: left canter. Provost and Jandreau. junior standouts, tip one in: right canter Manaa- tr Gena Barry makes with the towels during breather—classy gams seemingly without head and body belong to Dommia Provoati rlaht. O'Harra, first stringer before mid-term graduation. Jumps for a high one. ’
