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
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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
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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. Hayworth (MC)
USN, of Asheboro, South Caro
lina.
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DR. K. N. TERRILL
C h iro p ractic P hysician
Specialising In the No«t-Con
fining Treatment of
Hemorrhoids (Piles)
Office Phone 4371
Llthia Hotel Building
Ashland. Oregon
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