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by Tha Old Timer
Next Sunday ia Mother’s Day
1 lie originator was Mtaa Anna
Jurvis ol Philadelphia. A resolu
tion passed by Congress on May
10, 1013, fixed the second Sunday
in May a national day dedicated
to the memory of mother.
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The carnation worn on Moth
er’s Duy is the least that we can
do. It spcukH in eloquent manner
of a felling that is too deep for
speech. Wise are we if we spend
a part of that day in church, list
ening to a message that deepens
Wiioui us regard for the day and
for her whom we try to honor
on this day.
Life, being governed so largely
by sentiment, must have these
seusons, and frequently. We are
better men and women for pay
ing u tribute of love to her who
bore us, guided us and taught us
the wuys of right-living, and
showed us how it is always best
to be honorable and true and up
right.
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Speaking of the punishment of
war criminals, the Allies were
cheated at the close of World
War 1 by German Judges. The
original list of 900 German offic
ers and officials was whittled
down to 49 indictments, of which,
however, only 12 were actually
brought before court. Half of the
defendants were acquitted. The
other half sentenced to mild pri
son terms but spirited away
from their cells after a few days
of confinement. This time, how
ever, the Allies will see that
stern justice will be meted Axis
war criminals, regardless of rank.
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We read that in Philadelphia
last week German-born Mrs.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wife
of one of World War l ’s most pub
licized draft dodgers, was grant
ed United States citizenship. Un
equivocally disavowing any sym
pathy with or belief in Hitler's
National Socialism, Mrs. Bergdoll
later told reporters, “Publicity
means nothing to me: becoming a
citizent of the United States is
the most important thing in my
life."
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If a chicken could be develop
ed that dines exclusively on in-1
sect pests, Uncle Zeke says thati
he could then have a combination
poultry yard and garden.
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Mother Hubbard’s bare cup
board was a couple of hundred
years ahead of the time.
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Juvenile delinquency was a rar
ity in the days of old-fashioned
parents.
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The anxiously awaited V-E-
Day arrived Tuesday. Hallelujah!
Now on to Toyko.
Health Association
Will Meet May 18
Report of TB Association
WUl Be Given; Election of
Officers Slated
Jackson County Public Health
Association has slated a meeting
to be held in Medford on Friday,
May I8th, Mrs. Elwood Hedberg
president has announced. The
meeting will open with a 12:30
luncheon in the court house audi
torium. Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar,
executive secretary of the Ore
gon Tuberculosis association will
address the gathering.
Mrs. Dunbar will give a re
sume of the work of the mobile
X-ray unit, which will include
this area in its itinerary later in
the year, to offer people of this
section a chance to have chest
X-rays taken. This is a service
provided without cost to the in
dividual, but is financed by the
annual Christmas seal sale which
was carried on so successfully in
the 1944 drive under the chair
manship of Mrs. Ruth E. Bauer,
and which raised $5865.
Election of officers will also be
included in the afternoon session.
The following nominating com
mittee has been appointed by
Mrs. Hedberg; Mrs. Ernel Stearns,
Ashland; Mrs. Stewart Porter,
Phoenix; Mrs. Norman Gail, Gold
Hill, and Mrs. Lewis Ulrich, Mrs
Moore Hamilton and Miss Helen
Bullis of Medford.
Mrs. Pearl Crouch returned
Wednesday from a three weeks
visit in Oakland with her mother
and brother. She made the trip
with Mrs. Barker.
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Monuments and markers. See
Burns Memorials. On the Plaza.
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Rogue Valley
Transit Company
Wins PUC Case
Local Company Begins Naw
Schedule today following
Approval of PUC
Rogue Valley Transit company,
a locally owned bus company op
erating between Camp White and
Ashland, was notilied Tuesday
mat they had won their case be
fore the Public Utilities Commis
sion to allow them to carry pas
sengers for points between Med
ford and Ashland, a service tiic^
have been denied under their foi
oier PoC perm it George Roberts
speaking for the company Weu-
nesday morning, stated that the
new schedule will become effect
ive today, May 10th. Previous
times of arrival and departures
will be maintained for the pre
sent, it was announced, except
that the bus line will follow the
old highway through Talent, and
stops will now be made for pas
senger at all intermediate points
between Ashland and Medford.
A new schedule of arrivals and
departures will be worked dut
and announced later.
The decision of the Public Util
ities Commission came about be
cause of a petition from the local
company to increase its service
to pickup and deliver passengers
on the intermediate points, when
the revenue fell below operating
expenses as a result of the slack
ening of activities at Camp White
The company was originated at
the heighth of activities at Camp
White and at that time did a
flourishing business in carrying
military personnel and civilian
workers who lived in Ashland
back and forth daily. The peti
tion was opposed by other
through bus lines on the grounds
that they were operating a sche
dule of sufficient number of
buses to adequately handle the
traffic. The cage was heard in
Medford on March 14th and no
further word had been heard
since that time until the news
came Tuesday that the Rogjue
Valley Transit had been granted
the permit to operate a new sche
dule.
The company Is owned locally,
and is headed by A. L. Schneider
a Mr. Roberts and others. A new
bus has been installed recently
and other improvements are con
templated in the near future.
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Ray Shuster of Talent was fin
ed $21.50 and $2.50 costs in city
court Tuesday on a drunk and
disorderly charge. Herman Birr
of Ashland and Myrtle Furch of
Talent forfeited $10 bond each
when they failed to appear in
city court on charges of disorder
ly conduct
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Useful Mother's Day gifts at
the Marshall-Wells store on the
Plaza Phone 2-1231.
Vocal Pupils Will
Be Presented in
Recital Tonight
Elaine Sutherlin and Marilyn
Young WUl Be Heard at
SOCE Tonight
Presented in a song recital to
night at the Southern Oregon Col
lege of Education auditorium will
be the Misses Elaine Sutherlin
and Marilyn Young, vocal stud
ents of Mrs. Cay Hufman, Ash
land music teacher .The Misses
Young and Sutherlin are well
known in Ashland Music circles,
as they have taken part in numer
ous church and school music af
fairs. The recital wiU start at 8.15
On the program Miss Sutherlin
wil lpresent the following musi
cal numbers: The Lord Is My
Shepherd, I Love Thee, My Moth
er bids Tne bind my hair, Aria:
Musette's Valse Song from “La
Boheme”, Weig e n 1 i e d, E i n
Schwan, I Heard a Piper Piping,
Ah! My Beloved, A Memory, A
Birthday.
FoUowing Miss Sutherlin’s pro
gram will be a series of songs by
Miss Young as follows: The Pub
lican, Ah! Love, But a Day, Pag
an Prayer, Do Not Go My Love,
Im Kahne, Caro mio ben, Se tu
m’ami, Aria: One Fine Day from
“Madame Butterfly”.
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ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDA, MAY io,
Ashland Students to Present
Music Concert Friday Evening
As a climax to national Music
Week, the combined piusic de
partments of the Ashland junior
and senior high schools will pre
sent a full evening’s entertain
ment of music Friday evening at
the Junior High auditorium. The
concert will be the culmination
of much hard work on the part of
the directors, Miss Nora Lunde,
director of vocal work and Irving
Minck, director of instrumental
work in the two high schools.
About two hundred students will
take part in the entertainment.
There will be numbers by sep
arate choruses of the two schools,
numbers by the combined chor
uses, and numbers by the junior
nigh band and the senior high
band, and numbers by the com-
oined bands.
The program will start at 8:00.
Admission has been set at .20
-ents for children, 50 cents for
adults and two adult tickets will
admit an entire family.
PROGRAM
Star Spangled Banner..........Combined Choirs, Bands, and Audience
The Heavens Are Telling...... ..... ..................................................... Haydn
Combined Choirs
My God and I...... ...................................................... ......,.... .
Sergei
Beautiful Blue Danube .......... _......... ............................. .......... ~ .¿»ran—
Junior High Choir
Lord of Spirits .............................................................................. Reissiger
Czecho-Slovakian Dance S o n g ........................ Arrangement by Krone
Chloe .........................:........................................................................... Moret
Senior High Choir
Blessed Is The N a tio n ..... ........ .............. .............. .........................Tkach
Curtains of Night ................■. ............. ................Arrangement by Strong
Battle Hymn of the Republic................................. ....... Steffe-Ringwald
Combined Choirs
Police Report on
Dogs Licensed
Chief of police Charles Talent
stated Wednesday morning, that
to date his office has issued 637
dog licenses. Of this number 498
have been for dogs within the
city limits of Ashland and 139
have been for dogs outside the
city. Eighty-five ownerless dogs
have been disposed of in that
time.
In commenting on the report
the chief stated that the money
from the sale of dog tags, $1.00
eacn is turned over to tn e county
recorder, who then remits 8U
cents back to the city on those
licensed inside the city. The city
has to pay tor those (logs dis
posed of. After April first a fine
of $2.00 per dog is added onto the
regular $1.00 license, but this
$2.00 goes to the county.
The chief also pointed out to
dog owners that under the new
city ordinance, dogs cannot be
allowed to run loose during the
months of April, May, June and
July. This ordinance was passed
to protect gardens and if dogs are
not kept penned or tied up, the
owner is liable to a fine. He asks
dog owners to remember this
new provision.
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Tribute to the Trombones...... ...... ....................................
Don Keller
Overture Eroica ............................. ...............................Joseph Skomicka
This overture is based mainly on the themes from Beethoven
Third Symphony. This beautiful symphony is never heard except
when played by a major symphony orchestra which is far too
Eight inches more water is now
seldom. Because of its beauty it warrants a more freequent hear
in the snowpack at Crater Lake
ing.
than at this time last year. This
Junior High Band
was the finding of R. A Work
Manitou Heights ...........................Concert March............... Christiansen and W. T. Frost, both of the Soil
Medication ................... ........ .. Symphonic Poem.......... ........ Frangkiser Conservation Service and Oregon
Agricultural Experiment Station,
“Dedication” portrays in music the various moods of mind brot
forth into expression. Beginning with a somble motif one dis
while making the regular month
cerns the changing harmonic and contrapuntal settings consist
ly snow surveys in the Crater
ent with these moods beginning with dejection and followed by
Lake area.
the supplicatory “Prayer for Peace” melody. Follows then the
The trip was made in and out
tumultuous expression on human striving culminating in exul
of the park in record time by
tation.
means of the Tucker Sno-cat
Senior High Band
which enabled the crew to travel
.’rayer frqm Hansel and Gretel.......................................... Humperdinck the 16 miles from snow line to
Iall of Fame ................................„...Concert March.... ............. Olicadoti
rusader’s Overture ...................................... .................................Butchel park headquarters in two hours
time. The importance of deter
Inspired by the deep sincerity of the medieval leaders who or
mining the water content of the
ganized the Crusades to regain the Holy Land from its captors
snow rather than measuring the
the composer has linked together several of the moods related
to the romantic story of the Crusaders
depth only is clearly shown by
Combined Bands
the fact that the water content
of
the park snows has increased
America........................................ .Audience singing 1st and last stanzas
one inch during the past month
Combined Choirs, Bands and Audience
while the snow depth has in
creased nearly 30 inches.
Snow surveys m de at Annie
Springs this month showed a
water content of 37.2 inches as
compared with 36.1 inches last
While our readers know before receiving this issue of the Miner that month. Snow depth at this sta
V-E day has come, by official proclamation coming to Ashland on tion is now 84.5 inches as com
Tuesday nforning, May 7th, yet the official news was anticlimatic in pared with 113.3 inches measur
that numerous rumors, via the radio, etc., had everyone keyed to the ed last month.
point, that when the official news did arrive, there was nothing but a
Mrs. Ida Potter and son Glen
feeling of relief left.
were in Ashland a week Tuesday
In Ashland, Tuesday nearly
from Jacksonville the guests of
every business was closed for the
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Abbott on
day, with only the railroad and
Liberty S t
bus lines, the post office and the
bank and one restaurant open for
Mrs. Violet Whittle and Robert
business as usual. There was no
Dodge of Ashland are on the jury
celebration of any kind.
All of the churches had a chosen in circuit court Monday to
thanksgiving service some time hear the murder trial of James A.
during the day. These were well Wolf, 63, charged with the killing
attended, it was reported. At the of Percy H. Ijames at Gold Hill
evening service at the Baptist several weeks ago. Follojving the
Lions Club Sponsors Contest
church, a well attended meeting selection of the jury Monday,
On Keep Oregon Green Posters
was held, presided over by the they then visited the scene of the
crime at Gold Hill. Seven women
Ida Ricks of the Ashland Sen
Rev. Gordon Griffin.
and
five men make up the jury. ior high school was named the
The opening prayer was offer
Circuit judge H. K. Hanna ex winner of the contest for the best
ed by the Rev. Clarence McCall;
the first meditation on thanksgiv cused the jury Tuesday on ac Keep Oregon Green posters, spon
count of V-E day, but hearing of sored by the Ashland Lions club.
ing, with Homer Billings offering
the prayer. The Rev. Earl Down testimony in the case was resum Winning second place in the con
ed Wednesday. The trial is ex test was Frank Gordon of the
ing spoke on Penitenance, and
pected
to last all of this week. Junior High school and third
Mrs. Edgar followed with a pray-
er; Mrs. George Bruce sang a) The following jury was select- place by Della Cunningham of
solo; the Rev. Ward Pratt gave a ed- Violet Whittle, Ashland: SOCE. Prizes of five dollars for
meditation on Intercession, fol- Chester Wendt, Jacksonvi l i e ; first, three dollars for second and
lowed by a responsive prayer by Glen Darby, Medford; Edith L. two dollars for third place was
the congregation, and Dr. George Jac°bs, Central Point; Glenna given by the club. Phelan Ben-
Bruce spoke on Remembrance, ^ s h , Medford; Emilia G. Tuttle, ford, Mrs. R. E. Poston and Rob
followed by a meditation on De- Medford; Rose Singler; Otto Nie- ert Dodge was the committee to
dication by the Rev. George Shu- dermeyer, Jacksonville; Robert judge the exhibit of posters. Nine
man. Benediction was pronounc-
Dodge, Ashland; Helen Ensing- entries were made and all have
ed by the Rev. Gordon Lindsay.1 er> ^-a8le Point, and Ada K. Wil- been on display at the Dodge
furniture store window.
For the individual the day was £o^> Medford.
Friday afternoon Dick Trites,
one of rest. There was little acti-
Lyle Thurman, Medford was
president
of the Ashland Lions
vity, as there are no war plants sworn i*
alternate juror,
club and Charles Ogle, executive
close. Apparently most people I
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staid quite close at home.
_ Mrs. Cynthia Smith a nurse at secretary of the Keep Oregon
Green Association of Salem, pre
In talking to those .bout town. S “ r“
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‘he navy spent a few last last sented the prizes at a meeting at
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f X T n f reHef We<* visiting fie n d s, the Smiths the senior high school.
there IS a deep feeling of relief were furmer residents of Ash
Mr. Ogle, in commenting on the
that the war lr n Europe
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art work .stated that judging was
and a determi: ¡nation to carry on ____
made on the message conveyed
the war in the Pacific. There was before we can say “peace” and and second on the correctness of
no desire to celebrate, for all it w ill be real peace,
detail in the pictures. He is look
realize that the Pacific war is yet
Wednesday morning business ing for a drawing such as these
to be won, and that many sacri- was resumed as usual, with in the Ashland entries, for post
fices, much loss of life in the schools and businesses open, to ers and other advertising to be
armed forces is yet to be made carry on “business as usual”.
put out by the KOG committee.
More Irrigating Wat
er Than Last Year
War In Europe Ceases!
Jury Selected for
Murder Trial Monday
Poster Contest
Winners Named
Here Friday
Volume i j , Number i j
Gov. Snell Will
Talk at Chamber
of Commerce Meet
Annual Banquet of Local
Chamber Will Be Held May 24
Date for the annual banquet of
the Ashland Chamber of Com
merce nas been set at Thursday,
May 24th, Mrs. Alice Patterson,
secretary of the Chamber stated
Wednesday of this week. The
meeting will be held in the din
ing room of the Elk’s temple, and
will start at 7:30. A fine program
has been arranged by Robert
Dodge, chairman of the program
committee, and will feature a
talk by Earl Snell, governor of
Oregon. Several other talks and
musical numbers have also been
arranged for.
Harold Merrill, chairman and
his committee nave made all ar
rangements for the banquet,
wiucn will be cooked and served
by the ladies of the Bellview
Grange. The banquet will start a
7:30 in the evening and will be
for Chamber of Commerce mem
bers and their wives. Following
the dinner, the meeting will be
open to the public who want to
hear Gov. Snell’s talk. Harry
Travis and Ray Spaulding make
up the committee in charge of
the menu, and they have promis
ed a banquet of unusual qualities.
Several special guests have
been invited and includes the
mayors of the nearby towns, pre
sidents and managers of the sev
eral Chambers of commerce close-
by and other noted guests.
A committee headed by Arch
Barksdale will start selling ticx-
ets tor tins long looked forward
to atiair. iicxets may be secured
from any member of this cornnut-
tee or tney may be bought at tne
office of the Chamber of Com
merce in the etiy hail.
Memoers are urged to get their
tickets early as the sale will close
aoout a week prior to the ban
quet.
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Citizenship Award
Maae at Ashland Hi
Winners of the Walters Citizen
ship cup were named this week
rrom among the graduating class
at Ashland senior high school.
The winners were Paunne Ulstad
and Lowell Hall, and they will
have their names engraved on
the cup. The honor is awarded
each year for the outstanding boy
and girl in the senior class.
Miss Ulstad has been active in
school affairs. She is co-president
of the Girls’ League, a member
of the Quill and Scroll society
and is a member of the Rogue
News staff. She has been a maj
orette and helped lead the drill
team last year. She has been
active in girls sports and is now
on the tennis team. Sne took a
leading part in the senior class
play.
Lowell Hall is a football star.
He has held a high standard in
scholastic endeavors and has been
active in church affairs at the
Christian church. He is a mem
ber of the Lettermans club, and
Honor Society. In his junior year,
he was vice president of the Boys’
League and has served for two
years on the student council. He
was also a member of the Hi-Y.
The two winners were elected
by the students from a list of
three boys and three girls select
ed by the school faculty.
Local Man Named
to Budget Committee
W. W. Robinson, Ashland Real
estate dealer, has been named to
a three-man Jackson county tax
budget committee for the 1945-46.
Also serving on the committee
will be Ben Harder of Medford, a
retired banker and Arno D’ Boh-
nert of Central Point, a farmer.
All have served on previous bud
get committees and bring a well
experienced group together.
The committee, acting with the
county court, will prepare the
1945-46 budget, which goes into
effect July 1. The first meeting
w ill be held as soon as budget
estimates have been filed by vari
ous county offices and depart
ments.
High School Music Concert, Friday Night, May 11, 8 p.m.