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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, March 8, 1945 LOCAL HAPPENINGS amounts for full employment, public works, rural elec trification, financing of crop insurance, loans to stimu late building, medical care .education, improvement of The Junior Endeavores of the Curler to Portland lust Saturday PublUhed Every Thursday at 167 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon ou rhomes, cities and farms, and the development of Church of Christ had a party re where Mrs. Fred Van Curler will In a hospital for medical transportation facilities and river valleys. This is but cently at the John Schoenwald remain treatment. She has been very ill, Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers a partial list of what public money is to be spent for. home. und was advised to seek the aid Garden and Lawn Grass Seed. of u Portland specialist. Mr. and Other billions will be spent for relief and rehabilitation Garden Tools at Marshell-Wells Mrs. Dewey Van Curler returned Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash of Europe. Only increased taxes or debt can provide on . the . Plasa. Phone 2-1231. land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress A , Sunday night to their home A short business meeting was the money. of March 3, 1879. held at the beginning after which ' And yet the budget message indicated that the choruses were sung and then | Jack Dwieht McCoy paid a “masses of consumers” will be relieved of excessively many interesting games were fine of $1.00 and costs in the OUR TRANSPORTATION MONOPOLY I Justice Court Monday on a high taxes. Apparently, Federal deficits are to go on played Mrs. Schoenwald and h e r ' ^ y g ® of not having a motor va- Coming up on March 14 is the hearing before the indefinitely. daughter Patricia served lo v ely 1 nicle hcenso. Public Utilities Commission in the matter of extending The United States can live in a financial dream work’ Memorials for Decoration Day. refresments. Twenty ch ild ren and expanding the franchise of the Rogue Valley Tran until it rolls out of bed. Place your order Now. Burns were present. sit Company. It might be pointed out that with the clos Memorials. Mrs. John Schoenwald and Mrs ing down of activities of Camp White the locally owned An automobile accident on the time, of course, comes first. As Earl Downing are sponsors of this transit company has seen a corresponding drop in re Not Vain Religion the result of the continued un group which meet each Sunday highwuy over the Siskiyou« oc Joanne Downing is the curred Tuesday morning about venues. To offset this, application is being made to “If any man among you seem precedented civilian telephone evening. ten o’clock, resulting from the to be religious, bridleth not his demand, there were at the end president. handle traffic to all points between Ashland and Camp tongue, but deceiveth his own of the year 224,573 pending ap- ROmmtq* Sale Friday and Sat- snowy surface of the road. As re White, which the present permit does not allow. heart, this man's religion is vain.’ plications for telephones. 96% of urday. March 9 and 10. at Postal ported to the local police depart From the time we first went to which were for residence tele- Telegraph office. Sponsored by ment a truck stopped on a turn. Of course this situation hits directly at the Grey Sunday Siguard Moll, of Sonoma, Calif school or church, we have phone service. the Junior-Senior PTA. hound Bus company’s business, the said Greyhound heard and "Toll and long distance calls j Mrs. Hattie O. Anderson, moth- j ornia approached the truck from known that same text having a practical monopoly on the business, and they from James. We bowed our heads reached a record total of more cr of Mrs. Moster of Bush street, the rear and started to puss it. reverent listening, but did we than 289,700,000 calls, an increase is visiting this week with a Coming from the opposite direc are using their influence to head of fthe PUC from giv in also bow our heads in prayer that of more than 29,000,000, or 12%, daughter in Pasadena, California. tion wus E. F. Koble of Ashland, ing the Rogue Valley Transit company the permit they by these same standards our reli over 1943. She plans to be gone for a couple who seeing that Moll was going to pass the truck, stopped his car are asking for. gion not be counted vain? ‘The payroll for the year was of weeks. some distance from the truck in We may observe all the con Mrs. G. L. Neal of Butte Falls an all-time high and exceeded a This section of Oregon has pretty punk transporta ventions of our religion, but it hundred million dollars, totaling spent the week end visiting with order that Mr. Moll might pass tion and mail service, with the Southern Pacific rail will count for naught if we de $104,043,347, an increase of $10,- her brother ,C. E. and Mrs. Clark. safely. The road, covered with road, having a monopoly on the rail service and the ceive our own hearts. We know 306,606, or 11% over 1943. Garden and Lawn Grass Seed. snow was quite slick and Mr. what that means - the twisting of Garden Tools at Marshell-Wells Moll lost control of his car on the “The number of employees on Greyhound, having just about a monopoly on the bus facts, the coloring of things to "supered” turn in the road, and our payrolls at the end of the on the Plasa. Phone 2-1231. service, and that well known bus company is owned by make them appear different, the year was 43.534, the highest of Rummage Sale Friday and Sat the car sideswiped Mr. Koble’s the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads, hedging, mental-apologizing, ali record. urday. March 9 and 10. at Postal car causing some damage. Mr. biing so that we might evade our Telegraph office. Sponsored by Moll admitted that the accident “Common shares earned 6.61, whic hgives the railroad a real monopoly on transpor was his fault and settled for the o w n r esponsibilities, creating as compared with 6.69 in 1943. the Junior-Senior PTA. tation in this section. mental pictures that do not exist. Earnings on its average invested Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Van Cur damages, amounting to $42 to Mr Of course the Rogue Valley Transit Company is a We know that if we permit pre capital in 1940 were 6.06%, and ler took Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Koble’s car. .unreasoning bias, resent in 1944 they had declined to very small drop in the bucket in transportation in this judice ment, dislike of our brothermen 5.79%. Although costs of opera of the State of Oregon, for section, in comparison with real competition. Competi to drive out friendliness and love tion have risen sharply, adversely Huffman Given Mini Court the County aforesaid, Adminis tions is the lifeblood of trade and these transportation and a willingness to be of service, affecting net earnings, our com mum Fine Thursday .. trator of the Estate of FRED are deceiving our own hearts pany has had no increases in its companies need it as muct as a store or any other busi we Furthermore, C. E. Huffman was given the HENRY GILBERT deceased, and w e m a y lead price levels, nor has it profited having qualified, notice is hereby ness, m aybe even more. exemplary lives, but if we do not by its large volume of business. minimum fine in city court last given to the creditors of, and all as the outcome of his Many of the organizations, such as the Chamber of bridle our tongues, our religion is "As we now visualize our forth Thursday, pleading guilty on February 5th persons having claims against We know what it means to coming work, our postwar re Commerce, the city boards, several of the Granges, vain. to striking Nate Bates in the of; said deceased, to present them, bridle our tongues - not to pass quirements will be such that it as required by law, with shipping organizations, and many others in this area, on possip as fact, not to tell what will be necessary to make plant fice of the Elk’s club Secretary. verified in six months after the first pub The fine was $15 and $2 50 costs, have gone on record and have submitted resolutions to we think as what we know, not expenditures aggregating more which Mr. Huffman paid. Sen lication of this notice to said G. to spread rumors, not to speak than $175,000,000.” the Public Utilities Commission favoring the granting unkindly tence had been postponed at the H. BILLINGS at his office in or discourteously. Oregon. The report was characterized o fthe new franchise to the Rogue Valley Transit. It is There was a verse by Edward by Mr. Powley not only as on an earlier hearing, to await outcome Ashland, G. H. BILLINGS, Administra of injuries to Mr. Bates, so that with the hope of better transportation that these re Rowland Sill we had to learn in nual accounting to shareholders, he coyld testify. In the affray tor of the Estate of FRED HEN which defined it still fur but ps a report "to the men and solutions were passed and it might behoove individuals school Bates sustained a broken jaw. It RY GILBERT, deceased. ther: women of the company, and to in this area to take a like stand in the matter. It is of “The ill-timed truth we might the public which the company was announced in court that a J Dated February 15, 1945.2 15 4t. settlement had been made be have kept, vital interest to all. has the responsibility and privil tween Huffman and Bates in SOUTHERN OREGON MINER ★ ★ ★ BEGGARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS Who knows how sharp it pierc ed and stung? The word we had not sense to say, Who knows how grandly it had rung!” This does not mean we should overlook evil. Not in the least. We have a duty to condemn evil in all places where it exists. We must condemn the evil act - but we must not generalize about evil doers, lumping the innocent with the guilty. We must not confuse the issue. We must localize it in order to eradicate it. It doessn’t matter what our neighbor does or how he lives up to his religion. We have ours, and our religion is a mockery if we do not live up to its teachings. Our duty is plain - and there is no evading i t “If any man among you seem to be religious, bridleth not his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.” ege to serve”. S g t Manley Leggett which Huffman had settled for Weyburn Kenyon, logging truck driver employed by Skeeters log the doctor’s fees and other ex ging operations, was injured penses. when a truck he wus driving was struck by a log from another The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has de Works on Secret Units nounced the increating number of proposals for govern An Eighth Air Force Bomber Coast Guard Recruits truck. Station, England—Sergeant Man- on Inactive Duty List ment financing of business after the war. Its annual re The Miner for Q uality Printing. ley J. Leggett, 25, of Ashland, Ore Young men of 17 enlisting in port states that “if the private enterprise system is to makes continuity tests on the re the U. S. Coast Guard hereafter, survive, the financing of industry for peacetime pur ceiver-indicator unit of secret until further notice, will be plac equipment, used on Eighth Air suits should not be undertaken as a governmental func ed on inactive duty for an indefi Insurance Force B-17 Flying Fortresses for nite period of weeks following tion except in periods of emergency.” Criticism was navigation and bombing through enlistment, reports Recruiter O. aimed not only at direct government loans, but also adverse weather conditions. ‘you can depend on’: L. Puckett, 806 S. W. Morrison The intricate and ingenious Street, Portland. Previous to government guaranteeing of loans made by private mechanisms, assigned to the care March 1, recruits were sent to banks. of Sgt. Leggett and his co-work- • Automobile training stations on the day of Business’s staunchest supporters cannot do other ers, enable the heavies to pick out enlistment, but the new proce • Fire and pound German war targets dure permits them to continue than condemn industries that look to government for even when they are entirely ob their schooling or work for sev • Life extensive financial aid in peacetime. Admittedly per scured by thick cloud layers. eral additional weeks before de • Health-Accident manent government restrictions have made it harder S g t Leggett is the son of Mrs. parting. Gannie 1. Leggett of 243 Mount for enterprising individuals to creat new undertakings F of example, it is expected that ain Avenue, Ashland. Before en Burns Agency all 17-year-olds enlisted in March and expand ol dones, but continuing the wartime prac tering the army air forces in Nov will remain on inactive status ON THE PLAZA tice of going to government for money will mean the ember, 1942, he was an aircraft until late April, Puckett said. fhechanic for the Boeing Aircraft . certain destruction of independence. There is no excuse Corporation, Seattle, Wash. Applicants must be 17 years for business men who pursue such a policy, while at the Pacific T. & T. Co. l , ’ . Sergeant c S The Ashland is „ „ a mem of . age, . 6 • have , at least one year of r high school, have parent’s consent same time pretending to carry the banner of private ber of the 486th Bomb. Group, pass a physical examination, be commanded by Colonel Glendon enterprise. It is useless and hypocritical to damn the Has Annual Report Overing, Orange, Mass. The American citizens and must fur bureaucrats and then go with hat in hand begging The annual report of the Paci P. 486th is a unit of the Eighth Air nish legal proof of birth date and fic Telephone and Telegraph com place. money. Dr. H. A. Huffman pany for 1944, summarizing the Force’s Third Air Division, The ----------- o----------- Business must fight for the maintenance of economic company’s all-out war effort, de division cited by the President NOTICE TO CREDITORS its Englend-Africa shuttle Dentist independence not only by presenting its case to the pub tailing the impact of the war on for its operations and visualizing its bombing of the Aircraft Plants at IN THE COUNTY COURT OF lic, but by scrupulously adhering to policies in daily forthcoming work and its require Regensburg, Germany. THE STATE OF OREGON FOR 12-14 Swedenborg Building operation that coincide with the ideals it asks the pub ments for materials, manpower THE COUNTY OF JACKSON and money, was issued Wednes In the Matter of the Estate of lic to support.. In fact ,the public has a right to demand Bellview District FRED by N. R. Powley, president, Phone 21501 HENRY GILBERT, De this from business because in the final count it is the day, according to R. B. Hammond, Goes Over the Top ceased. public, wholes political freedom depends upon oppor telephone company manager here The undersigned having been Mrs. Lennox .Chairman of the appointed by the above entitled tunities and jobs in free industry, which stands to lose Excerpts from the report fol Bellview district, has completed most if American industry should ever fall under the low: “The demands for telephone her canvass and is happy to re control of government. service continue to exceed pre port that Bellview has gone 100% a Of all the ludicrous things we have heard over the radio the past weeks is some of our fine opera stars attempting to sing .some of the modern moaning and wailing that passes for music. While such stars as Lawrence Melchoir, Lawrence Tibbett, and others mays sing some of the Wagnerian roles, arias from Rigletto and other with finesse and with real talent, they cer tainly are out of place in such songs as, “Don’t Fence Me In,’ ’and “Accentuate the Positive” It can be said they sing them with dignity, but that about ends it. * * * FINANCIAL DREAM WORLD Study of the President’s last budget message to Con gress indicates that the Federal debt is to reach at least $300,000,000,000 very soon, which means $2,100 for every man, woman and child; that the “peacetime” nor mal expenses of government are to be doubled, trippled and maybe quadrupled over what they were before the war (interest alone on the debt at present is 4.5 billion) th at the govenment intend to appropriate unlimited vious record levels. With its tre mendously increased and mobile population, and teeming with un precedented activity, the terri tory of the five Pacific Coast states in which our company op erates rapidly has developed into one of the most important strate gic military and production cen ters of our country, “Since January 1, 1940, our net telephone increase has totaled 640,223 telephones, or 33%, - a five year period unequaled in telephone history. Our net tele phone increase for 1944 was only 19,853 telephones, considerably less than any year since 1933, and compares with the 1943 net in crease of 187,002 telephones, the highest on record. “Promptly meeting as we have all telephone requirements vital to the war effort, it is a matter of deep regret and great concern to us that the unavoidable physi cal limitations of our plant have . prevented us from . meeting fully , toS^horteat'pSSiWe in the current Red Cross Drive and “Gave More Than They Did Before”, exceeding last year’s quota by a substantial margin. Thè following business con cerns have gone 100% to date ac cording to Bob Ingle, Chairman of the business district:- Dr. E. A Woods, Bushnell Studio, Wick Furniture, Pancake House, La Marre Drugs, Elks’ Barber Shop, Elhart’s Book and Music Store, Lithia Beauty Parlor, Ramsay’s Jewelry Store, Zarka’s Service Station, Standard Cleaners, Ash land Sporting Goods and J, P. Dodge and Sons. Other concerns have also gone 100% but they aren’t included in this list because their names hav en’t been submitted. “As soon as they are turned in paper recogni tion will be given”, Ingle stated. Mrs. Russell Miller, Chairman of the Green Springs district, a large area extending from the Klamath Junction to the Klamath County line is ready to receive contributions and will start her canvassing today. I t ’s a Treat When You Eat, and Find • • • • SUPERIOR FOOD NICE SERVICE PLEASANT ATMOSPHERE FAIR PRICES A shland C afe In Ashland Hotel Building Open 6 a.m to 10 pm Except Sundays
