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A S H L A N D , JACKSON C O U N T Y , OREGON Thursday, March i8, 1948
Vol. I j. No.
Irrigutionist and reclamation
Plan Scout Program RpcjHpnk Hlrav
interest* «re preparing for a bat
For Older Boys
nCMaWIÏS UKay
tle with the sportsman groups
June H when the public hearing
Teen age boys who are inter
la held on the Rogue River Bas
ested
in Air Scouts, Sea Scouts
in project. According to R. M.
or Explorer Scouts now have an
KENT of the Tulent Irrigation
district the recently released re
opportunity to join a troop de
Voters Say Nix on
Bellview Is Only
port gives the water boys some
signed
for
them,
according
to
SUM
TO
BE
SPENT
ON
Airport
Proposition
powder for their guns and they
District To Vote No
NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Don MacWhlrter, leader of the
SUPERVISORS SALARIES
hope to be able to sell the plan.
City Voters rejected the idea
TO
SERVE
BOTH
AREAS
Consolidation of five school
group, which is being sponsored
of buying an airport this week districts into one was voted by
KENT says he feels as though
Twelve hundred dollars was
Talent, March. 17—Consolida for the second time in a period residents of Ashland, S o d a
the addition of dams as proposed granted the Parent Teachers As by the Elks.
would help the fishing, would sociation recreation committee by
The group meets ea.h Thurs tion of the Talent Phoenix school of two years when they voted Springs, Valley View, Neil Creek
just change the style a bit. Fish the Ashland city council Tuesday day evening at MacWhirter’s district was passed by Talent 533 opposed and 286 in favor of and Siskiyou, at an election held
ermen claim, however that they’d evening. The money will be spent shop building, which is located at and Phoenix voters at an election the proposed purchase.
Wednesday night. The sixth dis
cause a sport fishing loss of mort for salaries during this summer's Fourth and A streets. Boys 15 held in both cities Wednesday
The property, co-owned by W. trict, Bellview, voted against the
than $2,000,000 a year.
recreation period. Th e P T A to 21 are eligible, and MacWhlr evening. The vote was 96 for and P. Hamby, and partially develop measure and will not be included
DR. GEORGE HULL is lobby group is to add $600 to that sum ter points out that no previous 78 against in Talent and 95 for ed has been used as an airport In the consolidated district.
to 15 against in Phoenix.
site for the past year but will be
lng for a city ordinance which for equipment.
scouting is necessary.
The vote in three districts was
The
next
step
will
be
for
the
would require that all city elec
plowed
up and reconverted to unanimously in favor of the mea
Frank O’Neil Is chairman of the
boundary to fix the boundaries farming land, according to Ham sure. Soda Springs, 10 for , 0
tions which concern sums of summer recreational program,
PARKS HEADS ELKS
money over $5.00 be held in tht fjr all age groups. Mrs. James
Roland Parks was elected Ex of the new district, after that has by.
against; Neil Creek, 36 for, 0
roof garden of the Llthia hotel »wade and I-es Grant are other alted ruler of the Ashland lodge. been done the residents of the
Hamby further stated that fol against, and Siskiyou 21 for, 0
and that voters not be permitted members of the committee.
B.P.O.E. No. 944 at the annual new district will vote on a site lowing the harvesting of the against; Ashland voted 332 for
to use the elevator.
The age group from 8 to 12 election held Wednesday night. foi the new consolidated high grain crop to be planted he plans and 21 against; Valley View vot
Story of the week is the one will follow a program which will Buzz Hamby was elected Leading school. Three potential sites in to sub-divide the acreage into ed 38 for and 1 against; Bell-
about the Phoenix shoemaker include softball, ringball, jump Knight; Delbert Jon^-s, Loyal clude the Newbry place on tht 10 acre plots and make them viow voted 60 for and 65 against.
which, however, can’t be printed ing rope, klckball, handcraft Knight; Gordon Miller, Lectur old highway, the Fish place on available for purchase at $3,000
According to Leland Linn, sup
here. . .
bean bag and other group games. ing Knight; Sid Reed, Secretary; the old highway, and the Robin per plot.
erintendent of schools, during the
Monday’s vote totaled 819, a coming year Bellview high school
Anil the difficulties between
Children in the 13 to 15 age I. R. Fridegar, Treasurer; Ed son place on Highway 99.
figure less than that registered students will have to receive
COACH O’NEIL and KEN MIL group will participate In softball, Spencer,, Tyler, and Ralph Mc
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Herbert on the Water Bond Election schooling elsewhere as present
LER concerning baseball for boys basketball, volleyball, archery, Cullough, Trustee.
have
returned from California (1,117) but mort than the 709 who facilities In Ashland will not per
have been ironed out. The Amer handball, social dancing and
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Among the Ashland dentists where they spent two weeks in voted on the same issue in July, mit the admittance of tuition
lean Legion Jr. Baseball league folk dancing.
San Francisco and visited Mrs. 1946.
is now In operation for boys 11
pupils. Linn said that the mem
The 15 to 18 age group will who plan to attend an all day Wesley V. Hoxie, Salinas.
to 18.
meeting
on
Modern
Dental
Prac
bers of the school board appre
have activities including soft- tices in Medford Friday are Dr.
ciated the fact that they receiv
ball, baseball, volleyball, archery,
Dudley, Taylor street
ed hearings in Bellview prior to
footbull, social dancing, and a Marcus Woods, Dr. Wm. Bracker, was H. ill E.
last
weekend.
and
Dr.
R.
L.
Burdic.
the election and wished to thank
teen age club.
the
people in Bellview who did
O’Neil pointed out that the
support the measure.
adults would not be forgotten in B A L L P L A Y E H S T U R N OUT
Talent, March 18—Talent citi
Sometime during the next
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hill will the program and that horse
zens went to vote Monday and week, Linn said, an architect
shoes,
a
reading
club,
group
sing
open their new steak house,
marked on the ballots unequivo would be called in to prepare
"Omar’s,” Friday, March 19, ac ing,, handcraft, ping pong, needle
cal approval of the proposed preliminary plans for a school
cording to Hill. The new cafe and work, and other activities speci
$30,000 plan for the development plant consistent with the build
designed for adults would
of
the town’s water system.
dining room is located at the la fically
ing needs and the monetary re
tersection of Highway 99 and be followed.
With 110 for and 3 against bids sources of the district.
Four
field
days,
including
the
Baseball season got under way this week with the first turn-out will soon be let out to engineers
Highway 66, and will feature
for the construction of a new
fine beef and charcoal broiled Fourth of July, will be held dur for practice of candidates for the Southern Oregon League.
ing the summer at which time
Meeting at Fuller Field on Wightman street Wednesday evening water reservoir and the drilling Historical Society
steaks.
.
prospective
players
began
practice
under
the
direction
of
team
The building Is constructed ol tournaments will take place and manager, Tony Kanclier, who will coach the players and select of wells to increase the water Elects Officers
in the various sports will
supply .
pumice blocks. The interior is prizes
Officers of the Southern Ore
the outstanding players.
be
given.’
knotty pine with antique replica
Kanclier
stated
this
week
that
he
is
particularly
interested
in
gon Historical Society were elect
The
American
Legion
Junior
lamps furnishing the lighting A
having ballplayers of all ages turn out feeling that perhaps there Bellview Unit
ed Wednesday evening, March 10,
dining room which will seat 30 League baseball will cooperate may be some outstanding players^-------------------------------------------
in the Medford Chamber of Com
with
the
program.
The
Junior
is separate from the cafe which
in the ranks of the older boys
H oc
To Elect Officers
merce offices. Walter Levertte
League
ball
club
Is
for
boys
11
who feel that perhaps they are ' I l l l t tl v IlOl 1 S M ctb
has a counter with stools and a ito 18.
Election of officers will take was named president; Robert
series of booths.
A
Social
Evening
place at the next meeting of the Dodge, vice president; W. H.
I Day camps will be held by the too old to play.
Hill said that he planned to
Kanclier also said that he is
Members of United Choirs en- Bellview extension unit, April Jones, secretary: and Ralph Bill
Scouts during one week and
qater to parties and small clubs Girl
aimmg for a championship club joyed a social hour aftpr thejr 21. Members of the nominating ings, treasurer. Herb Grey, Amos
the
Campfire
girls
will
hold
their
and that he would accept reser , camp the first week In August this year and wants to get every- rehearsal ]ast Thursday night, committee include "S
Mrs.
Fred Voorhies, Miss Clara Hanley and
’ ’ rrea
vations.
Along the line of camps It thing In shape regarding equip- with the Methodist choir as hosts Engle Mrs. William Hays, and G. R. Carter were elected to the
Board of Directors.
Mrs Arthur Dankworth.
Dnnkuznrfh
was recommended by Dr. Elmo ment and plenty of practice be- At the close of the practice ses. Mrs.
Lawrence Pollard of the State
The subject to be discussed at
< hristian Scientists
sion they were ushered into the
: Stevenson that some camping fore the first conference game.
that meeting will be “Outdoor Historical Society of Portland
program
be
carried
out
during
The
team
will
be
named
at
a
f
Fellowship
room
of
the
church,
To Hear Denton
the summer for underprivileged meeting of the team’s committee where baskets of forsythias add- Cookery." It will also be a plant was the main speaker for Wed
Cecil F. Denton, C. S. New children.
exchange.
nesday evening. Plans were dis
Friday night in the Council ed a springlike touch.
York City, will deliver an ad-
—
— .
m e
I« » i
m
e e tin g
u
UN
cussed for using the Old court
At
the
last
meeting
of i the
Mrs. Jesse Vail, a member of Chamber of the City hall. Also at
Iress entitled: Christian Science; the Teen-Age club committee, re that meeting other details re The time was spent in becoming group held Wednesday, Mrs house building in Jacksonville
ir » t t r » r acquainted,
a r n n u in to ri
t v while
h iln
ir tin
coffee Fred Engle and Mrs. Y William
The Availability of Divine Law ported on the club requesting garding equipment, scchedule, better
for a suitable museum to house
and punn
punch
were
poured
by
Mrs.
at the Christian Science church, that a letter be written to the entry fee to league and the use ana
Hays,
gave
a
demonstration
of pioneer records, and other things
cft " ere p° ™
Mrs
Pioneer Avenue south, Tuesday superintendent and the school of baseball field will be discuss- 2 scar- ?-JO-rlie and -Mrs’ Homer ‘Clean as you Go.” The luncheon of that nature.
evening, March 23 at 8:00 p.m.
Bissell. Yellow candles and aca was given by Mrs. Albert Joy
board members of District 5 re ed.
The lecture Is sponsored by the questing that the club be permit
cia
in crystal holders were used and Mrs. Earnest Knoble. Games
The team already has the sup
First Church of Christ Scientist, ted to use the Junior high school port of 20 businesses which have to decorate the refreshment table. and a program were presented
Ashland. Denton is a member of gymnasium and kitchen. Other contributed toward buying suits Mrs. Lucille Mackay was chair by Mrs. Beldon Block and Mrs
the Board of Lectureship of the members of the Teen Age com and other businesses which have man of arrangements for this Mark True, members of the
Mother Church, The First Church mittee are Roland Parks, Mrs. donated for other equipment.
pleasant affair.
Homemaker’s entertainment com
of Christ Scientist In Boston, Henry Metz, and Mr. Vail.
mittee.
The
group
is
preparing
for
its
Chief Crumpton of the Navy
Businesses contributing are:
Massachusetts. The public is cor The Recreation committee will w
Mrs. Block and Mrs. Stanley Recruiting Service will speak to
tu .. Eberhart’s
t,u c i n d i i s Sporting
--p o r u n g Goods
o o o a s annual
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— -- - to be given at the
Jean
dially invited.
meet again Monday at the Public Store, East Side Meat Market Mehtodist church Easter evening Church
vnurch were elected t to the Chamber of Commerce members
library.
Erwin
Insurance
Avencv
v
.n
«
,’
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Spring
Festival committee
Tuesday noon, March 23, in the
Erwin Insurance Agency, Valley
Dr. and Mrs William Blacker
Hostesses
for
the
next
meeting
Lithia
hotel. Chief Crumpton
Refrigeration,
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Selby
v-mrvmivi
Chevrolet
i
Mrs
Eloise
Mackie
returned
entertained Dr. and Mrs. George
and Mrs. Don H. Sprague Co., Clyde N. Caton, Fir Milling Tuesday from Sacramento where will be Mrs.
~ Felix Johnson and will also show naval pictures on
K. Goodrich at dinner Saturday of Mr.
Lake View spent the week end and Planing Co, Steak House, she attended the wedding of Miss M,rs.
Mrs. Rosco
Members who
who the “Atomic Bomb.”
, osco Owen. Members
evening.
at the home of her mother, Mrs. Carter Produce,
Jim Busch, John Cotton, Phil
Produce. Palace Cafe,
Cafe Barbara Jean Corfee to Martin
M a r tin i s . 0 send clothing or food to
Cad Ellis, 922 Siskiyou boule Provost’s, Jordan Electric, Ash- John Lemske. Mrs. Lemske is the England are requested to bring Stansbury, Elmo Stevenson, Don
vard.
their contribution to the April O’Bleness, and A. W. Woodward,
land Realty Board, Magnolia daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred meeting.
the newly elected board of direc
Lumber Corp, MaNair Bros, Lith Corfee. During her stay in Sacra-
Mr .and Mrs. Walt Bosshard ia Motors, Federated Store, New- mento Mrs. Mackie was the
tors of the Chamber of Com
Mrs. Llewellyn Jones. High merce, will meet sometime next
spent Sunday afternoon calling bry Orchards, Standard Cleaners, house guest of Clair and Leberta
way No. 66, is ill in a Portland week to elect new officers of the
L
T/l__
on friends.
King.
and Knox H Shoe
Repair.
hospital.
Chamber. Dr. W. W. Weller, who
has served as president of the
NO MORE PINK ELEPHANTS
Chamber for the past two years,
announced at the Tuesday lunch
eon that he would not be a can
didate for reelection this year.
Ted Schopf, basketball coach
The first meeting of the Alco to one thing—to carry the mes Guam, Australia, Honolulu, Lon- them, instead of them hitting of Southern Oregon college, gave
holies Anonymous Group No. 1, sage to alcoholics still suffering. don, Glasgow, Dublin and Med- bottom.
a resume of the trip completed
Tubby The Tuba
which will serve Ashland, Phoe
by the SOC basketball squad to
"Nobody
Invented
AA.
It
grew.
| "How can a person steer a the Kansas City, Missouri tourn
12” record performed by
nix, Talent, Medford, and the (Actually, It grew out of a busi ford-
“AA is an accurate cross-sec- friend or a member of the family ament. Schopf stated that the
"Miracle Man” Danny : Rogue valley area, was held last ness trip Bill took to Akron,
Kaye.
Saturday night, at the Holland Ohio, In 1935, where he and a tion of all America. Because al- to AA? Well, we as AA’s are Missouri hospitality and steaks
Hotel in Medford. Regular meet doctor afflicted with the malady coholism lays a heavier stigma careful not to do any foreselling were tops.
The Nutcracker Suite
ings will be held at 8:00 p.m. of alcoholism worked out the upon a woman, it was four years of the thing—we don’t walk up
Dr. Arthur Taylor of Southern
before the first woman came in. to a drunk and say, ‘You’re s Oregon college was appointed by
Performed for the kiddies
each Wednesday and Saturday.
program of recovery.)
Now, In New York, for instance, drunk.’ We suggest that you let President Weller to head the
(with apologies to Tchai
The meetings are presently
kovsky) by Spike Jones.
"It’s a synthetic gadget—one we get the Park avenue stumble- a doctor get hold of your problem Tourist Host school for the sec
held for alcoholics only but an
open meeting will be held in the part medicine, one part religion, bum on one hand and the Belle- drinker. He can insinuate the ond year.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
future according to sponsors of one part experience. It’s a com vue lush on the other. Ten per idea that alcoholism is a disease
With musical score by
bination of group therapy and in cent of the United States mem- —that he’s a sick man and why
the group.
Victor Young. Told by
dividual therapy.
bership are women, 30 per cent n°t take a look at AA? So he Soroptimists Give
Bill, who Is a former New
Ingrid Bergman.
"In 1939, four years after it In Manhatten, while in San Fran- reads some AA literature and ex- $100 For Recreation
York stock broker, is a co-found
began,
A A had only 100 members, clsco you have an all--woman’s claims, ‘Why, that’s me!’
Members of the . Soroptimist
Die Children’s Hour
er of Alcoholics Anonymous.
| “AA works because its phili- club voted $100 to aid the sum
two
years
later it had 2000. A group.
and other favorite poems
Thirteen years ago he stopped
“Age makes no difference. In sophy restores an alcoholic to mer recreational program at their
drinking, when he was on the census last August showed 48,- New
by Henry Wadswor t h
York there’s a 16-year-old sanity—gives him the danger Wednesday noon meeting. This
000,
and
today
the
estimate
is
verge of death from acute alco
Longfellow. With music
girl
AA;
she began drinking at signal when he’s tempted to take amount will go toward the fund
above
60,000.
holism. Today he is touring the
by Victor Young. Read
13.
In
Los
Angeles they have a i a drink.”
"Why this phenomenal grow
for supplies and equipment.
by Donald Crisp.
country visiting Alcoholics Anon
20-30
AA
group. A few have
Bill cuddled an unllghted ciga-
th?
For
one
thing,
the
publicity
Shirley Weitzel and Charles
ymous groups. To him and to the
men like him 60,000 hopeless that AA got—that people suffer come in at 70 or so, but usually rette in his hand and pondered it Eliason entertained the members
ing from this ailment can get they’re around 50. An active al- all a moment. Then he added with declamatory sele ct I o n s
drunks owe their recovery.
coholic seldom sees 70.
j "AA is the court of last resort
He answered the questions con well. And, then, AA’s wide en “We used to get only the worst, Eor us, it’s a matter of life and which they had given previously
dorsement
by
the
medical
pro
in high school declamation con
cerning Alcoholics anonymous.
strapped-down type. But that’s death.”
tests.
What is AA, how did It begin, fession.
gradually changed till now we’re
Fourteen years .ago—in his
Mrs. Grace Andrews attended
what makes it click?
"Today
g r o up s getting
270 East Main Phone 8011
........ » v we
g 1 u ha
u p v s e
potentials—if
they
Lost
Week
End
days,
before
the
.....•
—,,
mvj
get
—
—
, uciure
me
the
club for the first time since
___ __ it. .i
< kl.ak
.
It’s a group of recovered alco-1 throughout America, in Canada, _______________
any symptoms, even though mild, birth of AA—Bill’s doctors had August. Marjorie Newton an SO
holies and It addresses itseU only s°uth America, Alaska, Iceland, the bottom comes up and hits given him a year to live.
| C student waa a <uest.
City Council To
Grant $1200 For
Recreation Plans
School Election Passes While
Consolidation For Airport Goes By The Boards
Talent and Phoenix
Talent Voters OK
Plan For Water
Omar’s Will Open
Friday, March 19
First Practice At Fuller Field As
Baseball Season Gets Under Way
Chief Crumpton
To Be Speaker
Classics
t i
a
and
Childrens
Records
76
Alcoholics Anonymous Group Is Formed to Serve Valley
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