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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1945)
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER, THURSDAY, AUC.USI a, 194$ overtime pay ,us well as hospital benefits, insurance, railroad puss privileges. Immediate need is for machinists, boilermaker*, pipetit- ters, electricians, carmen, signal men, switchmen, brakemeii, Bre men telegraphers, carpenters and others. The agent at uny Southern Pac ific station will accept applica tions for employment, and the railroad will furnish free trans portation to qualified applicants from point of recruitment to the job, it was stated. SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Published Kvery Thursday at 167 Mam Street, Ashland. Oregon Carryl H. & Marion C. Wines, Editors-Publishers Mntered as seoond-class mall m atter In the poet office at Ash land, Oregon, February 18, 1938, under the act of Congress of M arch 3, 187». JEEPS ARE EXPENSIVE The covers were pulled off the new Jeeps which are being manufac tured by an eastern automobile concern this week to reveal what the) will be like, as to performance, cost, etc. And to those who have studied the prices of them, we are afraid that many people are going to be sadly disappointed. There has been a widespread desire, we have noted, for ownership of one of those little cars, which all of us have seen so blithly running up and down the road, driven by army personnel. Many, many times have we heard some one say that they would be fine for going hunting and fishing in, others could envision a thousand uses for them on the farm, until it all added up to a tremendous desire for Cpl. James Harris Will Return Soon from «heir forthcoming A Free Country By Ruth Taylor grow with the times to a newer and finer fulfillment of the law of liberty - which is the law of righteousness. This is a free country. Sure it is - but free for what? THE LOW DOWN the little motor buggies. It is free for work. No man has But we are afraid that this week's announcement that the little cars, to be what his father was before from Hickory (¡rove now being manufactured for civilian trade with a few modifications him. No man has to work where his father worked. In time of from the army type, will cost something like $1050 at the factory and emergency we may voluntarily re As a young nation back there with the extras added, (and without which they wouldn't be much gulate our man power but it is in Plymouth Rock times, we good to a farmer, the price delivered in the west will come close to being done under the laws we ourselves were a sturdy and thrifty lot. We made, which are to be abrogated had to be sturdy and alert or we $aooo. That is a lot of money for such a car, and we have a notion that when the need is over. would not have survived the bliz It is free for knowledge. No zards and tomahawks. the sale of them will not be large. Our Mayflower grandma and Before the war regular pickup trucks were selling for much less, in man need stay ignorant if he has grandpa had a log house out the will to learn. Ths history of fact for about $1000. O f course the jeeps are equipped in some respects the country has proven that. Of there in the edge of the forest— as a tractor and can be used for field work in farming, ind the OPA course, there are differences in no running water—no grocery has classed them as a half-ton truck, which makes them more expensive. educational opportunities - but store and bakery and beauty shoppe down on the corner. But to those people who had visions of owning one for just knocking the man who truly wants to These folks laid the foundation learn, who is willing to work at around in, and expected to get them for $200 or $300 are going to be i the job of getting ahead, can do for a great nation. Thrift was the so. No man need stay ignorant. corner-stone. Without a stock of sadly disappointed. It is free for courtesy. Where beans, and corn, and smoked each man is counted as one, there meat stored in the summertime, need be no servile scraping nor there was no eatin’ in the winter condescending nod. Each man is time. free to accord to every other But as time rolled along and as KEEP OREGON GREEN man the same courtesies of be the country prospered we started havior to which he is himself en joining lunch clubs, and golf The past three weeks has witnessed one of the most disastrous tires titled. It takes but one person to clubs, and book reviews. We took in Oregon history, that in the Wilson river area, near Tillamook. be polite. on some fat around the midriff. It is free for friendliness. We We decided it was easier to let While there has not been a large amount of good live timber burned as are all equals under the law, yet, the fire is threatening to burn into the area where merchantable bound by the same rules and re the other guy do our heavy think ing for us. And now as a reward timber is standing, and if it is not controlled soon, may get into it. And gulations. We can therefore ac-( for same, we have a flock of 01 citizenry citizenry, , 2 qoo or so Bureaus and Grand to cap it all off, it has been reported that the fire was started from cord the comradeship of to our neighbor, regardless of his | j(jea Agencies with their feet un- moving a steam engine at a logging camp and can thus be attributed to class, __ creed or nnlnr 1 der « our table and their elbow m color in It is free for integrity. No man our ribs. We better choose to re being "Man Caused". W ith a long, hot summer here, conditions are favorable for such a wears the yoke of another. No turn to our Mayflower habits— man is bound to another as his before we find ourselves out in fire to get started in this area, also, and only constant vigilance can slave .Each man can stand alone- the alley. keep a fire from getting started in this area, with its large stands of incorrupt, and loyal to the fim ^ Yours with the low down, WW JO SERRA fine timber, or in some of the brushy areas, where the timber while not ideals. It is free for thought. The un -------o--- ---•• so valuable, provides cover for the maintenance of water for irrigating. fettered mind of man is the secret The Keep Oregon Green Association has done a fine job of educat of the advancement of the nation Ix>cal Republican ing the people of western Oregon in being fire conscious. Jackson Here no man need be told what Women Reorganize to think or when to think it. He The republican women’s organ county has always had an outstanding record for Keeping Oregon blows not hot or cold as he is ization, organized this spring, has Green and with the fire season at its heighdi, lets remember to Keep ordered. He can be for or against been reorganized this week and Oregon Green. A little care in putting out fires when out in the moun and, provided he keeps to the law will be known hereafter as the of the land - that self-made law Council of Oregon Republican tains may continue to KEEP OREGON GREEN. . of free men - he can think and Women, Inc. The reorganization act as he pleases. is in accordance with a move It is free for belief. No man ment over a large part of the need worship or not worship at state and replaces the former de the behest of his master. Each signation of Pro America. The or man is responsible to his own ganization was made early in the BEER STILL ISN’T FOOD conscience and to his own con spring, with the help of Mrs. The brewers have been rapped on the knuckles a^ain. This time the cept of God. Strong in his faith, George Gerlinger of Portland, he can stand or fall by what he Oregons national commi 11 e e- War Production Board did it. Beer, says WPB, is not food; therefore, believes. His beliefs are his own woman. it may no longer enjoy the AA-a rating for can enamels for food con This is a free country - found Leading the new organization ed upon freedom and free to is Mrs. Will Dodge as president; tainers. • Mrs. Larkin Grubb, vice presi Last fall the Federal Trade Commission ordered a group of brewers dent; Mrs. Henry C. Galey, secre to stop telling people falsehoods in their advertisements. They were say NEW M ATTRESSES tary; Mrs. Rollie Freeman, trea FACTORY TO YOU ing that beer is a valuable human fuel in today’s war effort and that surer and Mrs. Arthur Peters, OLD M ATTRESSES MADE Trustee. it has the nutritional ingredients of bread. LIKE NEW " It is necessary to ingest relatively large amounts of beer in order to obtain what would to a workingman be a relatively small amount of NEW BOX SPRINGS W HILE THEY LAST white bread,” remarked the FTC. We wonder if anyone really ever believed that beer is food.— C hrist REED’S MATTRESS CO. ian Science Monitor. 93 N. Main Ph. 6271 Ashland, Oregon A POOR SOLUTION In Paris the lights may soon be dimmed. In the huge textile mills of Lyons, the spindles are idle. In Belgium the great stell nulls in Liege, Charleroi and La Louviere are shut, and in many a European village there is ample food, but no way to get it to the hungry cities, says f ime magazine. Why is the economy of Western Europe still paralyzed? It has a coal famine. Like a wagon without a horse, it lacks the power to start. Until the coal shortage is solved, there is little chance that Europe s shattered economy can be rebuilt or that any sizable trade with the United States can be revived, says Time. The only remedy that France suggests is to nationalize its coal mines. It seems to have the idea that state solialism of industry, such as the Hitler government established, will in some miraculous manner en courage increased production .even though it destroys the incentive that flows from individual opportunity. According to the latest figures, this fuel year will see the United States 37 million tons short of its coal needs. We tried temporary so cialization of the coal mines as a remedy for coal strikes. The result was not surplus coal but continued shortages, One gloomy official in the European area, says: "If the people don’t get coal, you can count on choas and revolution.” That would mean less coal and more freezng. We had the modern revolution— strikes— in in the United States mines when our country faced its greatest war dan ger. And the result was less coal. It takes more than revolution and government seizure of property to get production. Until the people learn this, they must expect suffering. Union Service Station GAS - OIL - LUBRICATION RALPH A. FOSTER Dealer "Service With a Smile" Railroad Needs Men to Move War Trains nel’S destroyed 130 enemy air plane», probably destroyed 5J and damaged 63 others. The group has been authorized six battle participation stars, and was awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its "outstanding performance of duty m bombing aircraft factories at Wiener Wou- stadl, Austria, lust May." The group completed opera tions in the MTO with a perfect (100 per cent within 1,000 feet) bombing ussuult on Turvisio Motor Transport Depot in north ern ltuly. n • With the 15th Air Force—After long service in Italy with the 15th Air Force, Cpl. James II. Harris of Box 1291, Medford, Oie. will soon return to the United States with the veteran 456th Bomb Group. He has 85 points. Since coming overseas, he lias been assigned to the 456th Bom bardment Group commanded ly Col. Thomas W. Steed, of Eto wah ,Tenn., a B-24 Liberator bomber group which has partici pated in numerous bombings ot German-held targets throughout southern Europe and the Balkans The veteran unit is being re turned to the States for a period of training and receipt of new equipment before jumping into the battle against Japan. The training and additional equip ment has been made necessary because of the changed tactical situations which ground and air men of the group will experience in the Pacific Theatre. The group has flown 238 com bat missions since entering the Mediterranean Theatre of Opera tions, having bombed such vital targets as Vienna. Austria, Wien er Neustadt, Austria; Munich, Germany; Ploesti, Rouma n i a; coastal fortifications on southern France before D-Day; as well as numerous other pin-point bomb ing on enemy troop concentra tions in northern Italy. In all, the group bombed over 126 different targets, dropping nearly 14,000 tons of bombs. Gun Shortage of workers has kept a number of critically needed Southern Pacific locomotives and cars from their job of speeding men and war materials toward Japan, L. B. McDonald, vice pre sident in charge of operations for the railroad, said today. The railroad needs 5,000 more men. To date the Army’s plan to furlough 4,000 soldier-railroadfrs to work on western rail lines for 30-days periods, has increased S. P. personnel by less than 100, Mc Donald said. Railroads have been given top employment priority rating by the War Manpower Commission, and from his temporary head quarters at Potsdam, President Truman has issued an urgent caN for 65,000 men to work on west ern railroads alone, it wa3 point ed out Workers will receive standard pay, which in most cases includes Jim Powers in Crew of Hospital Ship Jim Powers. Seaman, first da s USNR. of Ashland, Oregon is a member of the crew of the I S. Nuvy Hospitul Sh.p Sumaritan now undergoing repuirs in Port land, Ore. The Samaritan, commanded by Commander W. A. McCreery. U. SNR evacuated wounded f ’ l i n i the historic buttles of Iwo Jnna and Okinawa this year. In 1941, the Samaritan's role of «™,|cy was played at Saipan and elle- The Samaritun has 600 beds and is a modern floating hospi tal. It carries 14 doctors, 19 nurses three dentists, three hospit a 1 corps officers and 153 enlisted corpsmen. The Senior Medical Officer is Captain R W. 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