Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday April 26, 1945 “What makes a man match- happy in the spring of the year when he gets in a fern patch?” This is a question which Mr. Harry Chipman, County K e e p Oregon Green Chairman, will try to help solve with the aid of Keep Oregon Green committee men and other citizens of this county. ‘If we can find out why people set fern fires, maybe we can remove the cause and save thousands of acres of junior for ests which burn up evry spring in fern fires in Oregon,” the county KOG leader said. Labeled as fernomaniacs by Dr. O. R. Chambers, Oregon State College psychology head, fern darners last year destroyed 1800 acres of fine young timber, fut ure Oregon forests, and 25,000 acres in 1943. “Dr. Chambers said fernoman iacs weren’t exactly criminals,” the county KOG leader comment ed, "that the real trouble was in their ignorance of what a fern fire will do in damage to young trees. If that is true then I want to ask every citizen of this coun ty to join in the campaign of edu cation of education. If you see someone start a fern fire, go to him and tell him those things: (a) that fire will not destroy ferns, it just kills off competing vegetation and the fern comes back stronger than ever; (b) that fern patches are the natural hot house for millions of young seedl ing trees which would die if not thus protected from the strong sun in early years; (c) that fern burning doesn’t make good past ure in the long run and the net result is a field of worthless brush where good timber could be growing but for repeated fern fires.” Legion Dines at the Legion Hall LITHIA NOW PLAYING Thru Saturday Sydney . ÛREENSTREET Peter tORRE Victor F R A N C fN Carol Poultry netting 4. 5. 4 6 foot Also hog and sheeep fence. 26. 32 and 39 inches high. Marshall Wells Store on the Plasa. Phone 21231. Sunday evening April 22 at 7 P. M. an excellent and enjoyable dinner was served to the mem bers of the Ashland Post no. 14, its auxiliary and their honored guests, and one of the best at tended this year. The Auxiliary President Mrs. J. Q. Adams gave the address of welcome, followed by the singing of America and grace given by the Auxiliary chaplain, Mrs. James Firestone. After the dinner, the program chairman introduced the master of ceremonies, Dr. Walter Red ford, Pres, of S.O.C.E.. He was given a rousing applause. One of the speakers, Frank Van Dyke, Jackson County representative gave a resume of veteran’s legis lation passed at the recent ses sion of the State legislature. He is a member of an interim com mittee, working tcwards co-rela tion of state and federal legisla tion for veterans. His e x p la n ation of the different bills passed was interesting and informative. After his talk Mr. Van Dyke held open forum and discussed many related subjects in answering questions. Major J. E. Hughes, recently discharged from U. S. Army En gineers was another speaker of the evening In this war his ser vices as a trained engineer was with the service troops with the Persian Gulf Command. He was responsible for the unloading of supplies and building port facili ties. He gave an interesting ac count of his experiences while in charge of assembly plants where trucks and jeeps were assembled Major Hughes stated that Iran, formerly Persia was interesting, but little changed from Bibical times. Mr. Paul Byers sang two songs “God 6e With Our Boys Tonight’ and “Song of Songs”, he was ac companied by Mrs. Marjorie Sed- lacek. A reading was given by Mrs. Shirley Barnes, also a poem read, “Just Seeming Happy”. The Kiltie Band was represented, they played three numbers The program ended with group sing ing with Mrs. Sedlacek at the piano. The Auxiliary received many compliments on the dinner and program. TALENT NEWS TALENT, April 24—Cpl. Leslie Mason is on furlough from the army and is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Vic Mason and other relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Williams of Wagner Creek were Talent call ers Wednesday. Mr. Willems is recovering from a recent injury in which he suffered three brok en ribs. Mr. S. E. Edwards transacted business in Ashland Wednesday afternoon. “Busy as a Beaver” a three-act comedy presented by the Talent high school student body Friday night was well attended and very much enjoyed .This was held in the school gymnasium. The cast of characters were Kenn e t h Grace, Roland Qua c k e n b u s h , Chester Rapp, Marvin Hart, Luc ille Marquess, Betty Montgomery Lilly Millage, Delores Hawley, Natalie Hayse, Delores Chapman, Betty Negles, and Leola Linds trom, Mrs. Elenita Bayles direct ed the play and the Talent orch estra entertained with music. Mr. M. Miles of Ashland fonr erly of the Talent Camp groun< was a Talent caller Saturday. Mr. H. E. Morgan of Medford visited friends here Monday. The Talent Fire men held s benefit dance Saturday night a< the City Hall with a large crowd Refreshments of sandwic h e s, cake and coffee were served through out the evening. E. A. Jennings has purchased a logging truck from C. Ragsdale of Trail. He is hauling for C. L. Skeeters logging Co. Several large properties chang ed ownership during the past week. The Laughlin place and Decker place on the Old Pacific Highway in Talent having been sold. Mrs. Ella McMahon left Mon day evening by train for Eugene to visit her daughter and son in law Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy. She plans on staying a couple of weeks. Mr. Ben Clark is spending the week in the Ruch district build ing a fireplace. Community Club held its re gular meeting in the City Hall Wednesday afternoon. i; I Washing Machine PARTS AND REPAIRING Mrs. Charles Skeeters spent II. L. Moore, Ashlund reul Mrs. Juck Curry and son Gru- the week end in Prospect. hani left for San Francisco on estate man, wus a business visit business this week. While in that or in Medford Monday. Mrs. Early of Tide Luke tran section they will visit with re SOCK Faculty sacted business in Ashlund thia latives at El Monte. Member Resigns Sgt. and Mrs. Chas. Dahlke and week. Southern Oregon College of Ed Sgt. and Mrs. Bernard Krug spent Mrs. Zerretu Reed li ft Wednes ucation .Ashland April 24—Dr. Sunday afternoon visiting in Ash day morning to return to her Edwin Westerman of the fuculty lan\l. home ut Alameda, California, of the Southern Oregon College Mrs. Delia H. Rose of Ashland of Education has resigned to go was fined $150 und costs and giv ufter spending two weeks visit to the University of Colorado at en a 20 day jail sentence in city ing with her purents, Mr. und Boulder. He will succeed Dr. S court this week on u drunk und Mrs. J. F. Emmett. Harrison Thomson who is leaving disorderly charge. $100 und the Cited to nppeur in Justice the University of Colorado to be jail sentence were suspended on Court this week were Roy Clur- come cultural attache to the Am condition that the $50 und coats ence Haney of Mulin, Oregon, on erican embassy in Czechoslova be paid and of future good be u charge of not having u muffler kia. Dr. Thomson is author of a havior. und not huving u rear view mir history of Czechoslovakia and R. W. Martin of Los Mulinns, ror on his truck. Archie Ernest was editor of the “Journal of California, was in Ashland for Vnlentine was cited to appear on Central European Affairs." Dr. several days this week on busi u charge of not having u driver’s Westermann will assume editor ness. license. ship of this Journal whose func Mrs. Jessie Hunt of Ontario, Bob Hufrnan writes his mother tion. he states, is to give small Oregon, has purchused a home in thut he is stationed ut Cump European countries an interna Ashland and will muke her home Howze, Texas, where he is get tional medium through which here. ting basic training us an infan they can express their problems. tryman. He was recently induct Mr. and Mrs. John Hormack of Dr. Westermann states that in ad ed in Portland. He worked for dition to editing and teaching he Eugene were business cullers in COPCO prior to induction. Ashland for several days. will continue research in medie val European history. Dr. Walter Redford, president of the Southern Oregon College of Education, expressed regret to lose Dr. Westermann who has been on the Ashland faculty ap proximately a year, having taken up are work of Dr. Arthur S. Taylor now serving as assistant field director of the American Red Cross at San Diego. Both Dr. and Mrs. Westermann have made themslves a part of the commun ity. Mrs. Westerman is a profess ional librarian and has been act ive in the local chapter of the American Association of Univer sity Women. They will leave for their new home within a week or ten days. ---------- o------ -— One of the very bright social events of the spring season was the one in which the members of the Forthnightly Study Club en tertained their husbands at a six thirty dinner last Monday even ing. The dinner was held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Brisco on Siskiyou Boulvard. The guests were seated at flower-cen tered tables in the two large front rooms. A two course dinner was served, following which the guests were led in games by Mrs. John Billings. The committee in charge and assisting the hostess W e ’ll h e lp y o u r c a r , ♦ through the evening was Mrs. Eric Weren, Mrs. C. M. Litwiller, your tire», your battery Mrs. H. H. Elhart and Mrs. John SEE YOU THROUGH Billings. Daniel Robert Snell of Ashland forfeited a five dollar bail in Jus tice court when he failed to ap pear in answer to a charge of driving with four persons in one seat of his car. Eldon Scripter, Mgr. L e o n Malcolm Haynie, 18, waived preliminary hearing in East Main and Gresham Phone 21781 Justice court on April 19th on a charge of larceny in the theft of $75 from a local feed store. He was bound over to the grand jury for further action. James Adams forfeited five dollars bail in justice court on a charge of permitting an unlicens ed minor to operate his car. 1 I At The Sign of The Flying Summer-Proof i Red I Headquarters i Horse L. Scripter & McKeever MOBILGAS ^LD JUDGE S A Y S... “ Judge, remember that place up In the moun tains where wc went trout fishing last year?" “ I sure do, George. We had a great time up there, didn’t we?” “ I’ll never forget it. But this will interest you, Judge. I heard just yesterday that the revenue men raided a big still right near there. Guesa that’s where all that high- priced moonshine we heard about has been coming from." “ Wouldn’t be a bit surprised. I saw in the paper the other day where the Government has raided thousands of such stills during tka past year." “ Sounds sort of reminiscent, doesn’t it, Judge?” "Exactly and it’s not hard to figure o u t As soon as the distillers stopped making whiskey and devoted their entire facilities to the production of industrial alcohol for the Government. . . the racketeers muscled in again.” “ I hate to think of how that might have spread, Judge, if the Government hadn’t found it possible, without interfering with our war effort in any way, to permit a short resumption of legal whiskey produc tion recently.” Ringer Rolls to Fit any Make or Model __ 31 East Main Ashland ruMia »pantani by Canfarnu t f Aitatali» Hatarat»