Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday April 26, 1945
changes in the Cabinet im m edi­
ately .He will, of course, install
people of his ow n choice in the
secretarial staff ,and w ill reorgan­
ize the White House to suit his
ow n ideas. This w ill doubtless
mean the elim ination of Harry
Hopkins, Judge Rosenman and
others.
After the San Francisco Con­
ference, it is expected that Fran­
ces Perkins, Francis Biddle and
Postmaster General Frank W alk­
er and Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau may be replaced.
Apparently, Truman w ill make
a very careful selection of the in
dividuals he names on important
jobs, and having named them,
w ill give them ample authority
and expect them to carry on with
out further coaching from the top
Cars Damaged in
Wrecks on Highway
era feed them and are kind to and of the dentist by Billy Wren.
them. This is “Be Kind To A ni­ Florence Curry was the announc­
mals Week."
er.
in physical education, the boys
Lanuru Kyker has been trans­
Damage estim ated at $100 re­
Published Every Thursday at 107 Main Street, Ashland, Oregon
ferred fom Room 2 to the Lin are high jumping. The record ol
coin School.
three feet, one inch is held by sulted to an auto operated by Or­
three boys, Xerrell Clifton, Char ville C. Hamer, Central Point,
Room 3
Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers
when it collided with a car driv­
Many of the children of Room les Skinner, and Jon Cooper.
en
by Vern Walker York, Put-
3 have been out of school with
Room 8
Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash­
man
Auto Court. Ashland, on
chicken pox. Some of them are
Spring activities are keeping highway 99, according to a report
land Oregon, February 15, 1936, under the act of Congress
now coming back to school. Don­ Room 8 very busy. Preparing foi
arch 3, 1879.
on file, with the state police.
ald Gay, Karen Johnson ,and the “Spring Concert” is both fun
Hamer was attem pting to pull
Wilma Welch are back again. and work. The girls are practic­
into
a private drivew ay in front
The children will be happy to ing folk dances and both boy»
fact, many of the reports made
of York's auto, according to the
have the others back in school
and girls are working on chorus report.
by his special com m ittee which
A newcomer from the Lincoln and band numbers.
investigated war contracts were
Another accident report on file
is Louis Lindley. He is in the se
"The "Buy War Stam ps” con­ states that a truck driven by H.
sharply critical of the Adminis
cond grade. Recently, B ettie B lat­ test which started last month
tration. Other than for the ex c el­
ter came t© Room 3 from Med shows the boys in the lead with W. Work, Talent, hacked into a
lent work done by his commit
building causing un estimated
ford.
$9.15 invested and the girls with damage to the truck of $50.
tee, which was known as the Tru­
The boys and girls enjoyed $6.00 to their credit.
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man Committee, Senator Truman
HARRIS ELLSWORTH
coloring
some pictures of alittle
Many of the pupils are poison-
vas
just
an
average
Senator—
Congressman from Oregon
girl with a big umbrella and her oak casualties, several to a very
Monuments and markers. See
ible, effective, but not outstand­
pet duck with a rain-cap on. painful degree. Colds and one Burns Memorials. On the Plain.
ing.
THE CAPITAL MOURNS. The
After the pictures w ere colored case of chicken-pox have caused
Quite likely, President Truman
Capital is in a state of official w ill be about the same kind of a
and cut out, they w ere put a- many absences. Ruth Taylor,
round the blackboards in a color­ Earlene Barrett, Beverly Robert­
mourning which w ill continue for President that he was a Senator
B y R uth T aylor
ful border.
thirty days from the date of Pre- President Truman is a modest
son and Philena Jacobson are all
NEW MATTIIEHNES
One thing that is stressed in
«d en t Roosevelt s death. The City man and a very genuine sort of
back at school after absences
r’ACTOKV TO VOl
Now
that
the
weather
is
nice,
tales told by those who have
of Washington ,being accustomed person.
caused by illness.
the
‘children
are
having
good
OLD
MATTRESSES M U n
watched our armies at their far
to big news breaks and sudden
LIKE NEW
times playing in the sunshine
Room 8 now has the music
Although
Truman
is
not
a
New
flung
battle
stations
the
world
shocks, has apparently quickly
The members of the H. H. Club room clock. It does not keep per­
NEW BOX Sl'KINOS
absorbed the recent world-shak­ Dealer, he is a Party man. As a over is the desire of our boys for play with the children and both fect time but with Raymond Mc­
good
Party
supporter
and
a
Dem
­
music.
Every
entertainer
has
WHILE
THEY LAST
ing event, and business goes on
the little boys and girls are en ­ Donald setting it once or twice a
as usual. One thing is clear, how ­ ocratic Senator, Truman, w h ile in come back with the feeling that thusiastic about the games they day the pupils are ablb to be
ever, and that is Franklin Delano the Senate, generally voted in the greatest audience in the play. During the noon-hour the pretty nearly on time for their
Roosevelt is going to take a place support of Adm inistration poll world is are GIs.
H. H. Girls direct gam es for the duties.
Lily Pons in her first concert primary children. One of the fav­
in history along with the greatest cies. But, as everyone know s.
Room 8 recently saw a very
there
is
a
sharp
cleavage
in
the
in Germany - where she sang the
He not only served longer as Pre­
93 N. Main
Ph. 6271
orite games of the children is interesting m ovie "Tree to Tri­
Majority
Party,
the
New
Deal
songs that Germ any had barred Past One Out”.
sident than any other, but he was
bune”
and
heard
by
radio
Presi­
Asliland, Oregon
President during the depths of Left W ingers on the one side because their w riters were non-
Room 4
dent Truman’s address to Con­
and
the
normal
and
conservative
Aryan
-
and:
“No
concert
o
r
economic depression and during
,
,
Dale Cullop brought a very in gress. They were impressed.
Democrats on the other. Since the opera audience has
ever been
-
- "
'
war-time affluence. He was P re­
teresting
letter from his brother.
sident w hile the seeds of the pre­ late President Roosevelt headed more appreciative than these Clarence, who is in Germany. It
the party organization w hile this boys.”
sent war were germinating, and
was w ritten March 13.
cleavage was developing, he had
But is that surprising? Our
he was war President alm ost to
The letter said he was on the
little difficulty in keeping the
the time of final victory. W hat­
boys are used to m usic - of some Rhine River, and that he can a l­
support of both factions. It does
ever his critics say of other
sort or other, it has been part of ways say “I never have, and
not seem likely that Truman can
their daily lives. Is speaks of the never w ill again have my birth­
phases of his administration, Mr.
do the same.
homes from w hich they came, of day celebrated like this one and,
Roosevelt was em m inently suc­
W hatever political problems the hom es to w hich they hope to
cessful as Comm ander-in-Chief in
even though I would have liked
may arise to plague President return.
the prosecution of the war.
to have spent my birthday at
Truman in the future, he has tak­
Am erica since its inception has home, I wouldn’t have missed
TRUMAN A S PRESIDENT. en over the office in an atm os­
The question most people are phere of general approval and of sung. B ui America itself has been this for anything, for I really
asking now is “What kind of sym pathy for the gigantic task an orchestra. W hat is democracy think it was celebrated RIGHT
President w ill Mr. Truman make?’ with w hich he is faced. He quite but the blending of many instru­ for this year at least.”
He asked his ’Mon" to send
I cannot attem pt to answer that evidently has the wholehearted ments? Som etim es one instru­
question, but like nearly every- good w in of the Congress. He has m ent plays a solo role for a few him a package, saying "I don’t
one else, I am w illing to discuss already let it be known that he m inutes, som etim es another, but want cigarettes or candy, for
all are parts of the w hole sym ­
it
w ill appeal to the Senators and phony. The orchestration has a there is plenty of that here— but
I would like just som ething from
Hear The Facts Presented By
As Senator, Harry Truman was Representatives for advice and place for each. It you listen close­
home.”
a hard-worki n g, conscientious counsel.
ly you can distinguish the vari­
He also sent som e very inter­
man. He was not classified as one
It is not considered likely that ous instrum ents, none playing too esting paper m oney in w ith his
of the N ew Deal Senators. In Mr. Truman w ill m ake any loudly, none trying to overshad­
Representative of the Watchtower Society
letter. Some w ere 100 mark, 20,-
ow the other, but each according 000 mark, 100 m illion mark.
to the score su pp lem entin g and
He tells his parents not to
com plem enting each other.
worry about him, for he was in
Into this nation have come good health and feeling fine.
people of many nations, of many
B etty Davis from Room 8
faiths, of many classes. Blended brought to Room 4 a cocoanut
together, like the instruments in from N ew Guinea. It was sent by
the orchestra, they have become Francis G alletin, to her mother
an entity. They have made what and father. The class was very
123«/, West Main St.
Walt Whitman called “the music curious about it for it had the
of dem ocracy.”
m ilk inside and was very inter
Free
We are proud of our heterogen­ esting.
No Collections
eous population, proud of its
Dale K ing and Raymond Mc­
hom ogeneity. We are proud of Donald of Room 8 brought to
the traditions of the past, proud­ show us in Room 4 two very in ­
er of the present ability to work teresting pair of wooden shoes
and figh t and liv e together un called SABOTS, from Normandy
hampered by the prejudices, hat­ Peninsula, w hich w ere sent to
reds and petty biases of more his parents by Pfc. John L. Grubb
narrowly circumscribed nations
Carol Fowler, Room 4, brought
overseas. But w e are proudest of som e paper m oney from Belgium
all of the hope - no, the plan - 10 franc- and also som e from
ABOUT VITAMINS, and scientific research has
for a future when the brother­ France 10 franc. It was sent to
proven
their necessity for good health.
hood of man w ill be recognizee her by her brother who is in
all over the world and the na­ Germany.
EVERYBODY CAN FIND . . .
tions w ill live together in har
A program was given last
mony as their sons and daughters Friday afternoon by some of the
their favorite vitamin products in the complete
live in good w ill in our own students of the room. Two little
vitamins sections at Western Thrift Store in Med­
country.
A n editorial from tb t San Jott, California, "Evening N twt",
plays w ere presented: “T he Little
ford.
A far off ambition in these Cook”, and “Mother G oose’s Par­
(San Jot» it on tb» main lin t o f Southern P acifist Coati Lin»)
warring days? Yes - but as man
EVERYBODY WHO SHOPS'.. .
has pogressed so w ill man pro­ ty ”.
Wanda Oden played 2 piano
W e have always resented those even more of these qualities during
gress still further. As the great
Southern
Oregon Vitamins Headquarters . . .
solos; “The S w in g ” and “Boating
snooty expressions, “across the war. You realize that both the wars
democracy, a nation with a poly
Finds
Medford's Lowest Prices
on the Lake.” Sue Pirtle gave a
tracks’* or “down by the tracks,” in which we are engaged are trans­
glot population, w e have the task
reading,
“My
Shadow”.
LeRoy
Finds Authentic Vitamin Information
with their implication that there portation wars and must be won
of playing so beautifully our un­
Stubbiifield played 3 piano solos
was something disreputable and not only in the foxholes and work­
Finds Medford’s Largest Variety
finished sym phony, that the rest
The boys and girls of Room 4
socially low-life about living near shops but on the railroads as well.
of the w orld w ill join in to make
Over 500 Kinds and Sizes
had a short mem orial service
railroad tracks. After living many Some of the particularly long trains
it a perfect whole. Then w ill the
years a block from the Espee’s you hear puffing and snorting these
Friday
morning,
April
13,
in
music of democracy fill the earth
rails, we rise to say that there are nights are troop trains and others
mem ory of our late President,
with celestial harmony.
many worse places to live.
are weighed down with war’s ma­
Franklin D. R o osevelt The stu ­
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Living close to the railroad has teriel. It is comfortable to reflect
dents planned the program and
its obvious advantages when you what a great job the railroadmen
30 North Central
show ed appreciation for his life
Phone Medford 3874
are a boy. Where is there a more are doing, driving their trains and
The second grade children are and work by choosing his favor­
romantic place than the right of switching their cars 24 hours a day,
reading stories about circus ani­ ite song “Home on the Range”
way, with wheezing switch engines, even while you are asleep.
mals, and how they came to the and incorporating a 60 second
puffing freights (which travel so
Back a few years, when trucks
circus. Som e anim a 1 s w e r e pause of silen t respect, placing
much faster now than they used and buses started to cut more and
caught in the forest and jungles. their heads on their desks, and
to) and speeding passenger trains? more deeply into railroad revenues,
Morning, noon and night railroad­ with the airplane as an additional Others were bom in the circus keeping perfectly quiet for the
They learn to do tricks. The keep- fu ll time.
ing holds attraction for a boy, competitor just ahead, as a boy
Room 5
which is why so many of them go living near the tracks you may
The fourth graders have new
into it, finding a romance which have wondered a little worriedly if
never dulls until they die.
readers, called “Luck and Pluck”
they would put your old friends,
“But how can you stand the the freights and passengers, out of
In art classes, the pupils have
noise?” someone asks.
business. I t took the war to show
made flow er posters. They have
Far from being bothered by the that a nation’s need of railroads
also practiced cutting letters.
noises, you get so you find them continues, that no nation can be
The fourth grade arithm etic
soothing and conducive to repose. great and strong without them.
has learned m ultiplication by
You get so you can tell the freight You are reassured by that, and by
tw o-figure multipliers.
trains from the passengers, and the articles and drawings that have
The third grade have finished
you distinguish the touch on the been published of vastly improved
their
newspaper. They named it
whistle rope of that individualistic equipment which will help the rail­
T h e Third Grade Flash”. All
engineman who makes his blasts so roads get their share of traffic after
the pupils wrote stories for it
short, sharp and distinctive.
the war. Such things mean your
and illustrated them. Robert
The various whistle notes repre­ friends will be able to stay alive
Lytle made the cover on the m ul­
sent to you these giant creatures of and that, drowsily safe and com­
tiplication chart.
fire and steel talking to one an­ fortable, you will continue to hear
other over long distances and on the trains chugging and puffing
Room 6
winter nights, when the wind is through the night.
‘The B oy With a Toothache”
blowing and the rain is pelting
• s e e
was a puppet show made up by
against the windows it is pleasant
We thank the San Jose News for
the class under the direction of
to think of engineer and fireman, so beautifully putting into words the
the science teachers. It was g iv ­
snug in their cab with the fire roar­ way we railroaders, and many other
en at the regular m eeting of the
ing below them, shunting lines of people, feel about trains.
17(J
PTA on April 12. The puppets
cars up and down the glistening
w ere m anipulated by Barbara
wet tracks.
Parker, Norma Cay, and Alan
If these night noises from the
Schneider,
w h ile the parts of the
The
friendly
trc"’’, are comfortable and appeal-
boy w as spoken by X errell C lif­
i
-o you during peace they have
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