Southern Oregon News Review, Ashhnd. Oregon, I liuruhy. tX tobei 14, 194*
Lucille Brabham and Henne
Jarvis, Ashland students win» Bi«‘
in the first year at Southern Ore
gun college, »vuied above 00 in
Members of the Bellview Home
and tlii'Ti forces the whole thing the Freshm en English exaniin
B y V e r n e A th e n a »
Norm an P. Grubb, noted Eng
extension until will meet October
atlon given to all entering stud
••They don't m ake 'em like they down the barrel.
lish Missionary leader and w riter 20 at the home of Mrs. Ray
Then one cocks the hammer, ents.
used
to.”
T
hat's
almost
a
by
will
speak
in
Ashland
Friday,
Fam e of the Ashland Shakes
Sharp, 401 Beach street. The pro
no small task In Itself, since the
pearian Festival, a phase of SOC Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. He will be ject will be "G arm ent Finishing." word these days, and it applies hum mer spring (wen- it placed
life many students are unfam iliar heard at the Assembly of God Project leaders are Mrs. Sharp especially to the hobby of Mr. in a bear trap) would severely
with, has spread to all parts of church according to the Rev. O. and Mrs. George Baughman. The V e in Decker, of 303 Avery street. maim. If not kill, the unw ary one
the world.
Articles concerning W. Klingsheim m inister of the group will work on zippers and Mr Decker’s hobby Is collecting who placed his nether limbs in
g u n s A big man himself, he runs
the authentic productions which church.
bound button holes
jeopardy.
are participated in by both stu
Members who wish to learn to big guns, and some of them
G rubb is a leader In the W orld
All right, so now we have It
dents and townspeople during the wide Evangelization c r u s a d e the new m ethod of making bound must have been very aw e-inspir
cocked, or half-cocked a, least
ing
Indeed,
in
action.
summ er months, appeared in the
button holes and placem ent of
The oldest gun in his collec Now we pry open the flash pan,
New York Times, the Philadel which has grown from thirty-five zippers are asked to bring one
and sprinkle in a little fine-
phia Register, T heatre Ai ts, Bill to over four hundred full time half yard of scrap m aterial, tion. and about the biggest, is
grained prim ing powder
Now
workers
in
sixteen
areas
on
five
the
1820
Pomeroy
flintlock
rifle.
board, and the Pacific Parade,
scissors, needle, thread, ruler, and
you
are
almost
ready
to
fir«'
the
Sunday supplem ent of the Ore continents. Last month he was thimble. Members who have port Tins choice bit of arm am ent,
thing.
headline
speaker
for
the
deeper
gon Journal.
able sewing machines are asked when viewed from the business
1 suy "you" advisedly. 1 per
The eighth season of Shapes- life conference of San Diego to bring them.
end. resembles nothing so much
sonally
would not touch the
tpeare was witnessed by a larger Youth for C h rist
Hostesses are Mrs. William H a m as an abandoned mine shaft It cocked and loaded weapon with
num ber of people than any pre
den. Mrs. Ray Sharp and Mrs. will easily accommodate the a v
vious season and brought letters
Ray Sharp. Emil Kroeger, Linn Stanley Church A lunch will be erage thum b il have an average a ten-foot pole. Then one m an
of acclaim from people of such Smith. John Shaw, and Jake served for a small fee to pay ex thumb, and tried it,) and It handles the ham m er hack to full
cock and aims.
diversified regions as Moosejaw
penses. Newcomers to the com shoots by the old by-guess-and-
J have no idea how one goes
Saskatchewan, and New York L ahr left Tuesday for Eastern m unity are invited.
by the-grace of clean living p rin about aiming It. I could scarcely
Oregon
and
deer
hunting.
City.
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ciple.
lift the thing, much lesa point it
Mrs. Mabel Winston, Dean of
One pours roughly a handful In any given direction with any
Women at Southern Oregon Col of black powder down the m uz accuracy. Hut any rate, we con
lege, will attend the conference zle, places a greased chunk of slder the piece aimed Then yoi
I 'v e r y
of deans of women of colleges
pull the trigger.
and high schools which will be cloth about two inches square
The bear-trap spring slams the
over
the
end
of
the
inuzzlb.
held at Neskowin, Oregon on
places an egg-sized bullet on that, I h ammer, a small vise with a
Oct. «. 9, and 10.
m oney
slab of flint clamped In Its jaws,
forw ard, the flint scrapes brisk
ly across the flash-pun cover and
lifts it, and the resulting spark
fall Into the priming powder.
The flash that results Isn't it
Not by any means. This 1? mere
the prelim inary.
T h h flash
m erely touches off the main
charge In the barrel through a
small touch-hole.
Then, with only slightly less
noise and fuss than the Bikini
A-bomb explosion, the chunk of
lead is hurled from the barrel,
trailed closely by the '»leased
patch which took the place of
the grooved rifling In the barrels
of that day. Now you pick your
self up. Or better yet, you have
someone else pick you up, pref
erablv on a stretcher.
Now while this operation seems
cumbersome, and takes a gieat
deal of tim e to explain, Mr.
Decker Informs me that the oper
atlon Is consM erably speeded up
when one :s facing rapidly ap
proaching Indian, complete with
w ar-paint and scalping knife, at
a range of about ten feet. In fact
Phone
7011
Helman and Van Ness
Mr. Decker says, the speed with
which one could load, aim and
fire, in such circumstances, was
almost uni e l:t \ able.
I don t
know why. 1 believe him
A also believe him when he
says he has fired this gun. Mr.
Decker tips the scales at si ght
One of a foriti of advertisements discussing a topic of vital public intere,!.
ly over three hundred pounds,
and his heighlh i.nd g ir th are e-
normous.
Besides the Pomeroy, Mr.
Decker has some 18 other rifles
on the gun rack In his living
room. They represent every m il
itary rifle that the governm ent
of the United States has used
since 1820. There are cap and
NATIONS
ball rlf'es, breech-loading rifles,
lever action, bolt action, m on
key action, tip up, tlop-dowo, in
fact about evee>y type of action
that one can imagine to make a
Yaw» wrl«l will bt If»«
lorgat tot admiring ayat
gun operate
wh«n yaw waar an fie-
He
has
been
actively
collecting
If the bottle purchaser by-passes the club and
gaal naw Orwan , . .
Tha Knox Law w u rushed through the state
for about two years now, though
fa mo vt fat inspired de
does all his drinking in his car — that s worn!
he
has
been
a
gun-bug
most
of
legislature in 1933, under public pressure to
sign and awaliry work-
his life. He is also an ardent col-
Come to think about it, maybe the original
bring Oregon in line with repeal of prohibition.
lectoi of Indian relics and handi
idea of taking the bottle home wasn’t so hot
work, and historical Americana.
The original framers of the act were very
He has a large play-room behind
either.
much sold on the idea of confining drinking
the house, in which he stores
Well, what are we going to do about it?
sucn things as war-clubs, baskets,
to tbe borne.
arrow and spear heads, bow s.1
In this country when the majority of the
Indian blahkets, m ortal’s and pes
The thought was to require the customer to
people don’t like a situation they vote to
tles, all together about !»000
buy a bottle in a state liquor store and lake it
pieces, of Indian artifacts.
change it.
borne. I t seemed like a good idea, at the time.
••I’ve been collecting this stuff
Don’t you think it’s time to bring Oregon’s
for years,’’ says Mr. Decker, ‘ and
The actual result, of course, has been to en
1 get a whale of a bang out of it.
Knox Law up-to-date?
courage drinking in can.
Too little care has been taken
The ballot measure called the Oregon Liquor
of our western historical m ater
in « ,» a d of being able to stop in somewhere
ial, and every bit of it that is
Dispensing Licensing Act (314 X Yes) will make
broken or throw n away h gone
and buy it by-the-glass, the driver of the car is in
it possible to buy liquor by-the-gloss, as well at
for good. It is too bad that there
possession o f a full bottle of liquor.
by-lhe-bottle under definite licensing regulations
is no rpuseum in Ashland to p re
serve these things th at are part
controlled by the state.
Perhaps he does not feel that he can go to
of our heritage.”
the trouble and expense of taking his bottle to
Impartial studies and the experience of other
Mr. Decker invites anyone in
terested In gun?, collectors or
a club, checking it in — in some cases paying
states prove that liquor consumption actually
otherwise, to see his collection
decline! when the public is given the choice of
a bottle-checking charge or * cover charge —
of guns, and he passes alrtng the
word that his collection is by no
only to buy bit own liquor bach, a glass at a time.
purchasing either hy-the-glast or by-the-bottle.
means completed. He is still in
The Oregon Liquor Dispensing Licensing Act
terested In acquiring more weap
I f he iloet stop in at a dub, he has the balance
ons
lor his Interesting, if lethal,
(314 X Yes) is definitely democratic. The law
o f his bottle to reclaim, when he leaves. Few
collection.
states plainly that, in granting dispensing licenses,
can resist the temptation to take another nip or
consideration must be given to "all members of
two out of the bottle after getting in the car.
Wido Recognition
Given Festival
British Missionary
Will Speak Here
Bvw. Home Extension
Unit Meets Get. 20
The love life of the lesser auk
Mack’s Market
The Bi.up.est Little
Stoic* in 'Town
Friendly Service
nt no extra cost
purchase
guaranteed or
your
refunded
ASHLAND CABINET WORKS
DOORS — WINDOWS
We guarantee that you’ll he dry if you
have a new roof
( omplete ( andy
department
We guarantee that you will be warm if
you insulate.
PLATE GLASS
KITCHEN CABINETS
We serve a double
dip, 24 oz. .Jumbo
Walkout Milk Shake
And we know that you’ll be happy when
the dark w inter days come if you make
your house gay with new wallpaper and
paint.
Open 8-9:30 p.m.
7 days a week
Venetian Blinds and weatherstripping
will help too.
Phil Stansbury
Ekerson Paiut and Roof Store
174 N. Main St.
The store where
Ma spends Pa’s
money
Ashland
GIMEN
If You Don’t Want Bottles in Cars
LEGALIZE LIQUOR BY THE GLASS!
TbatibaeU
the public.”
VOTE 314 X YES
Liquor Dispensing Licensing Act
£
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W A TC H T H IS SPACE for aH ilional adverliiem inti in this teries. A ddreii
um m enli or inggettioni to Knox Lew Improvement Committee, 609 Dekum
Building. Deen L. Ireland, Chairman. Oregon Stale Federation «/
or>
J. T. Marr, Exeeulive Secretary-Treasurer, 506 Labor Temple, Portland, Ore.
Aggies Smashed
in Conference Tilt •
From The Siskiyou
SOC smashed the Cal Aggies
• Saturday, October 10, In a free
for all score scram ble that end
ed in a 49 to 20 victory for the
Raiders.
Q uarterback
Jandreau
laid
down an aerial barrage that net
ted three touchdowns In the first
quarter, giving the Red Raiders
a lead that was held for the re
m ainder of the game.
C. E. Taylor, Joe Burroughs,
Don Matteson and Earl Matteson
were deer hunting In Eastern
Oregon lust week.
K en’s J ew elry