This *n That by The Old Timer Next Monduy is Lubor Day. © W M / / « Agitation lor the celebra xin of Lu our uay was begun by the Knights of Lubor who in 1883, $z.«.o l’ER YEAR lb ba and 1884 paruded in the city of New York. 1 1 1 In 1884 the organization adopt ed u resolution that the first Mon day of September should be con sidered Labor day and steps were taken to have it recognized as a holiday. / * 1 Workmen of all organizations joined in the movement. Oregon on February 21, 1887, passed the first law recognizing the day Other stutes soon followed. < * # On June 23, 1894, u bill passed Congress making Lubor duy u legul holiday throughout th e union. 1 1 1 We read that President Tru man expects to ask Congress to put the country back on Stand ard time ufter the legislators re convene. 1 1 1 Early in the war, clocks were advanced an hour to conserve electricity and fuel, but the need for this conversion has lessened. > > / Daylight saving wus first used in America in 1918, and in Eur ope in 1914-1918. The movement was started in Englund in 1907 by William Wilett. * * originated * But the idea with Benjamin Franklin. In l 7 8 4, while he was minister to France, Frunklin said in an article that if the people of Paris wished to save millions of dollars a year in candles they could do so by chunging their clocks. 1 1 1 Stronger labor leadership in holding unions to their no-strike pledge continues to be required in spots. ? * * v The Eastern approach to the Hargadine cemetery would be a good place to try out that $10,000 steam shovel. 1 1 1 Census bureau says the aver age futher is 44 years old. Aver age wife's age (confidential). 1 1 1 That Community center project has apparently gone with the wind. 1 1 1 Those crime broadcasts are be coming nauseous. Joshua originated daylight sav ing. Californian Here To Buy Cull Pears For Dry Packing I » » ► Phil Baker from Watsonville, California, has been in Ashland the past several days, coming to the Rogue Valley to buy all the cull pears possible from local packing plants. He stated Tues day that he had contracted for all the culls in the valley, estimat ed to be about 3000 tons, and these will be shipped out to Wat sonville, California, where his plant will dry them, pack them in 60 pound wooden cases and then wholesale them out to the grocery stores. In commenting on the work, Mr. Baker stated that the new method of handling pears was started two years ago in California, and the product proved popular in the retail mar kets. Insufficient quantities in California, has caused his com pany to look for a wider source and knowing of the commercial pear orchards in the Rogue Val ley, he came here with the re sult that he has contracted for the entire cull tonnage. In the past years, the culls from Rogue Valley packing houses has been a drug on the market; in fact there has been no market and the three to four thousand tons has just simply been dumped out to waste, with no financial return to the grower. Under the new setup, with Mr. Baker’s company taking all the culls, the orchard- ists will realize some return from them. Mr. Baker stated that his com pany is looking to this field for a future site for a drying and freezing plant, as they are de finitely interested in the freez ing of berries and fruits, a busi ness they are already in, with a wide market already established, he has been here but a few days, and was not prepared to make any statement regarding definite plans, but did say that his com pany was definitely interested in locating in the Rogue Valley. S a .M te .tltin .c i 7 a S c u t - - / I l t d S oul p a p a l *1Uat idtal S am etkû tÿ 7a S a y —A n d S a u l ________ Ashland Laundry Sold This Week to California Man ASHLAND, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON Big Oregon Hop Harvest Calls for 40,000 Pickers Former Owners have Owned And Operated the Plant For The Past 23 Years A deal was completed last week in which the Ashland Laun dry was sold to Joe E. Gentry of Riverside, California and Arthur Fredericksen of Klamath Falls. The new owners will take posses sion from Wirt Wright on Sept ember 3, according to the an nouncement made Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Gentry have been in Ashland the past several days to make final arrangements and to attempt to secure a home here. They have a daughter who will be in high school. Mr. Gentry will operate the plant, with Mr. Fred ericksen as “silent” partner. Mr. Gentry has had a wide ex perience in the laundry business, having been the Riverside mana ger for the Southern California Laundry Service Co m p a n y, which operates a string of laun dries throughout Southern Calif ornia. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have op erated the laundry since Septem ber 1, 1922 .thus completing ex actly 23 years of service in the community. They have not an nounced any plans for the future, except that they plan to catch up on some of their visiting with friends and relatives this sum mer. They will continue to make their home in Ashland, they an nounced. Auxiliary to Give a Farewell Party Friday The Auxiliary to the American Legion, plans a farewell party and dinner for Mrs. Mildred Har- msen. It will be held at the home of Mrs. C. M. Frazier, 107 Fork Street on Friday evening Aug. 31st with a covered dish dinner. Mildred Harmsen has been a very active worker of the Auxi liary. She has been the State Child Welfare Commission Chair man, the Units, Child Welfare Chairman past president, also has held different offices, while a member of the local unit. Mem bers regret her leaving Ashland. All members are invited and are asked to bring a covered dish and own service. Dessert will be furnished. With the harvest of a hop crop that is expected to be at least a million pounds greater than last year in full swin- v iamette valley hop yards are still in r.-ed of additional pickers, according to reports received by the state farm labor office at Oregon State college Forty thousand p.ckers will be needed in hops alone Additional thousands will be necessary to tnlsh up snap beans and harvest the western Oregon prune crop which Is expected to be almost double that of a year ago. Two girls are shown above spending their v acation—earning good money and having a pleasant •-me-ÎÎTa hop vard Below is a picking scene of a typical Willamette alley hop yard Housing facilities are avadable at piactically all yards. PFC. JOHN GRUBB TELLS OF WORK OF HIS 1306th ENGINEER REGIMENT ttOn THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 194J KOG Funds Sought for Fire Prevention Application forms for member ship in the Keep Oregon Green association have been received by Harry Chipman, Jackson county chairman. Anyone desiring to contribute funds to carry on the work of forest fire prevention is asked to telephone Chipman at Medford 2141 or Ashland 6432 and a form will be mailed upon request. There will be no other form of solicitation in the county, the chairman said. All monies re ceived will be sent to the associa tion’s headquarters in Salem to be used to carry on the state wide fire prevention program. , Voi. i j, No. 28 Local Church Observes 70th Founding Date / Presbyterian Church Ha* Week End Program Com memorating Its Founding In Observance of seventy years of work in Ashland, the Presby terian church Saturday and Sun day, held special services, and brought several noted speakers to the program. Outstandi n g speakers were Dr. O. LeRoy Wal ter .executice secretary of the Synod of Oregon and Dr. Charles E. Koehler, former minister of Ashland church and for the Local Men Pack Into the past 20 years pastor of the Knox church of Spokane. Sportsman Paradise Presbyterian Frank Neal of Ashland and The Rev George M Shuman, pre Col. John Davidson of Medford, sent pastor of the local church returned last week from a ruggeo presided over the Saturday after fishing trip, which took them noon program and the Sunday back into the real primitive areas observances. Other former minis on the headwaters of the Rogue ters present were the Rev. Hugh River. Mr. Neal explained that T. Michelmore and wife of Kla they went to the Imnaha Ranger math Falls, and the Rev. James Station by car and from there H. Edgar and Mrs. Edgar of Ash packed their belongings on a land. Rev. and Mrs. Lawrence pack mule and then hiked into Mitchelmore of Jacksonville were the headwaters of the Middle present as. well as the Rev. H. M. Fork of the Rogue river. Staying Roberts of Medford. Saturday afternoon’s program for a few days to enjoy the sup erb fishing, they then packed up was in recognition of the char their belongings and hiked in to ter members none of whom were the Seven Lakes Basin country, alive to take part in the cere where they spent a week in fish monies, but whose families have ing and enjoying the scenery. been and still are active in One clear day while there, they church affairs. Mrs. Bertha Win hiked to the top of a nearby ters, oldest member in point of mountain, nearly eight thousand years service, read the names of feet up, just to view the scenery. the charter members and intro Mr. Neal stated that it being a duced the descendents present. perfect, clear day, they could see Mrs. William Van Dyke gave per Mt. Ashland, Pilot Rock, and the sonal reminiscences of Father other high points around this sec Williams, founder of the church. tion of the country, although they The former ministers present were introduced. were fifty miles or more away. Following the banquet Satur Asked if the fishing was good, evening, Dr. Walters gave Mr. Neal -stated that it was ex day the address of the evening, “Yes ceptionally so as there are few terday and Tomorrow,” outlining people in that area. They had the function of the church the all the fish they wanted and past and its responsibilties in in the smoked a few to bring out, the future only way they had to bring them In the Sunday morning service, out. Dr. Koehler gave the anniversary sermon, “The Victorious Church”. VICIOUS DOG BRINGS Mrs. J. W. McCoy was organist FINE TO LOCAL MAN Arrested last Wednesday by and several appropriate hymns city Police, Cadwallader Ellis of were sung under the leadersop of Siskiyou Boulevard, was fined Miss Florence Allen, director. $25 and $2.50 costs in the city ' “Open the Gates of the Temple” court on a charge of allowing a was sung by Robert C. Wright of vicious dog to run at large. Num Medford and provided an intro erous complaints had been re duction to the sermon by Dr. ceived by the police throughout Koehler, the past 12 years and investiga tion proved that it was the same Three Inches of Snow dog, which has belonged to Mr. Ellis for the past 15 years. The Falls at Crater Lake Three inches of snow fell on person bringing the complaint had had the misfortune to be bit the rim of Crater lake Friday ten by said dog| Mr. Ellis plead night and Saturday morning, E. guilty in city court and $20 of E. Leavitt, park superintendent, the fine was suspended on condi reported this week, and some tion that the dog be taken care of, rain reportedly fell in the park area. Visitors to the park have and not permitted to run loose. been advised to travel equipped with tire chains during the re County PTA Council mainder of the season. Pfc. John Grubb, who has been from Arion to Houffalize, Bel with the 1306th Engineers in the gium, main lateral road in the battles through Belgium, France Battle of the Bulge, in spite of and’ Germany, wrote his parents snow, rain, thaw, tank retriev here this past week and enclosed ers, tanks, and the lack of a road a list of the things accomplished base. At one time only 5 divisions by his battalion. The list of ac of the 45 on the Western Front complishments is long and inter were able to continue their at Sailor Killed Saturday esting and we are pleased to tack—all used N-4. print it herewith, to give our Fifty decorations: 1 Silver Star ! on Crater Highway readers a view of what was ac 1 Soldier’s Medal, 23 Bronze Star PhM. 2/c Bryan Milton Yor- complished. Medals, 20 Purple Hearts, 1 Croix ton, 23, was instantly killed about de Guerre avec Palms,, 2 Croix de From August 5, 1944 to May 2 a.m. Monday when the coupe Guerre avec Etoile d’Argent, 2 he was driving sideswiped a car 8, 1945, this regiment assigned to Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de Third US Army, and in support driven by Hollie Alvin Rhoads, Bronzes. 8 Berrydale avenue about a mile of XX, III, VIII, or XIX Corps, operated in France, Belgium, Battle participation Cred i t. north of Medford on the Crater Luxembourg, Germany and Aus This regiment has received and JuaKe highway. Yorton had been home on leave tria, carrying on mine clearing, is eligible for 4 Bronze Stars for to Meet on Sept. 19 At a meeting held in Medford Applegate Girl Shoots from the navy for the past three road recommission and mainten battle participation credit in the weeks and was visiting his par ance, general construction and campaigns of Northern France, last Friday, plans were laid for ents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Yorton bridging every important river Ardennes, Rhineland, and Cen- the September meeting of the Self with Rifle Wed... including the Seine, Ma m e , tralEurope. Violetta Beatriz Harrington, County Council of Parent Teach routs 3. Meuse, Mosselle, Nahe, Rhine, Meritorious Service Unit A- ers Association. The meeting will 21, shot herself through the right Danube, Isar and Inn rivers 35 wards Plaques for meritorious be held September 19, and the temple at the family home, a Ashland Man to Re* bridges were constructed. service have been awarded by the topic under discussion will be ranch house on the Circle G. The following are the high War Department and Headquar “Compulsory Military Training.” Ranch in the Little Applegate turn Soon to States lights of the record: ters. Third US Army, to Com Among Ashland women on the district last week according to Assembly Area Com m a n d, Longest bridge (Budenheim, pany B and to the Medical De executive committee are Mrs Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris, France, First Sergeant Laurence over the Rhine), 2320 feet. This tachment. Phil Stansbury, treasurer; M r who said death was instantane F. Rude of 142 B. Street, Ashland, is one of the longest military R. L. Crosby, past county presi ous.. The girl’s mother, Mrs. Viola We all can be proud of the ac Oregon is on the first leg of his bridges built in world history. dent; Mrs. C. L. Wolff, Ashland Ruff, told Morris the girl had complishments of this regiment. return to the United States after Longest fixed bridge (Schard- Its reputation stands high among PTA council; Mrs. C. M. Frazier been in ill health all of her life four months overseas. He has ing over the Inn), 1100 feet. and was confined to a wheel and Mrs. Frank Van Dyke. completed processing for rede Most important bridge (Thion- Third Army units. chair. ployment at Camp Brookly, near ville, over the Moselle), 24 hours Morris said the weapon, a 22 Sugar Stamp No. 38 calibre Suippes, France. automatic rifle, had been before completion, the XX Corps Engineer Regiment First Sergeant Rude, a mem bridgehead position was critical, to Leave Europe Soon Valid on September 1 borrowed from C. V. Moody, a ber of the 767th Field Artillery 48 hours after completion, troops Sugar stamp 38 in ration book neighbor, last spring. The girl’s Battalion, will receive a furlough who crossed on this bridge enter With the U. S. Forces in France four will become valid Sept. 1 little brother had found three old at home prior to departing for the ed Metz. The letter of commenda —After two years’ service over office of price administration an shells and loaded the rifle, later Far East. placing it in the girl’s closet, Mor tion received from XX Corps and seas in Great Britain, France and nounced today. said he was told. His records, physical condition, Third U. S. Army is a rare tribute Luxembourg, the 398th Engineer It will be good for five pounds ris The family was having their personal clothing and equipment to a General Service Regiment. General Service Regiment has ar of sugar until Dec. 31, 1945. evening on the back porch Longest Bailey bridge in Euro rived at Camp Chicago, near have been checked and appropri The current sugar stamp, No. and did meal not hear the shot, they ate corrective measures applied pean Theater of Operations 2220 Reims, France, for redeployment, 36, becomes invalid August 31. as part of the processing given feet Budenheim. Probably the out of the Theater. OPA is continuing the current told the deputy coroner. every man being redeployed in world’s longest, 1540 feet of Engaged in camp construction ration rate of five pounds of sug the Assembly Area Command, j double -single Bailey launched as in England before D-Day, the ar every four months because of Ashland WAC Is The 17 tent camps in the area,! a unit. unit was rushed to France when the shortage of supplies. No im each named after an American Longest single span Bailey in Cherbourg was captured and stay provement for civilians is expect Released from Service city, process about 8,000 men dai France (Thionville, across the ed working on reconstruction of ed this year. Stocks are lower Camp Beale, Cal. August 27— Moselle) 190 feet. ly. the harbor during the summer now than they have been for ten T/5 Mary M. Becken, 200 Gresh Quickest construction (Arnavil- and fall of 1944. It later moved years. am St,. Ashland, Oregon has re The 767th landed at Le Havre, ceived an honorable discharge France, on March 11, 1945, and, le, across the Moselle) 70 feet. into combat position with infan proceeded by way of Deippe. ! Class 70, in 5 hours (including re- try units along the Moselle River Blue Hummingbird, fullblood- from the Women’s Army Corps Corporal Becken enlisted in on the German border when Von ed Cherokee Indian, pleaded guil where the outfit stayed for two movel of Bailey). Most bridged city: Metz, nine Runstedt attacked. After the Nazi ty to a charge of threatening to December 1943 and has served a weeks, to Trier, Germany. As drive was reversed the engineers commit a felony and was sentenc a medical technician. signed there to the 23 Corps in bridges. Largest barge bridges - over returned tb construction work ed to a term not to exceed 18 Her son, Lt. Richard L. Beckon the 15th Army sector, the unit engaged in occupation duty over Seine, at Fontainebleau and Mon and rebuilt several hospitals. months in the state penitentiary of 820 Oak St., with the Sixth . Members of the unit are; Pfc. in circuit court in Medford Thurs Armored Infantry, has seen act a wide area until ordered to te reau. Outstanding road work. Re Joseph M. Peterson, 520 Terrace ion in both North Africa and Camp Brooklyn. day. building and maintaining N-4 Street. Ashland. Italy.