Southern Oregon New» Review, Ashland, Oregon, Thursday, December 9, 1948
SOUTHERN
OREGON
NEWS R E V IE W
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Published every Thursday by
THE SISKIYOU PUBLISHING COMPANY
Ashland, Oregon
38 East Main Street
Carryl H. Wines and Wendell D. Lawrence, Publishers
WENDELL LAWRENCE. Editor
Entered as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash­
land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
HEADACHES
As January and the start of the new year approaches
a lot of people are beginning to catch up with the head­
ache which awaits them along about this time.
The worst headache in town belongs, however, not
to the guy who is trying to figure out where to get
money to pay his income tax, but to Tom Williams, the
incoming mayor.
Tom is finding that the problems of a mayor are
many and include everything from taxiing constitu­
ents about to criminal investigation.
Just what to do about the whole thing is his head­
ache. Our hunch is that as the mantle of althority
slips from his shoulders Mayor Thornton S. Wiley,
will begin smiling and will be able to step out again in
a light and airy fashion.
SNOW
With the potential of a hard winter at hand most
folks are shivering in their shirts, but a few hardy
souls are scarce able to contain themselves.
These hardy souls are the skiers. The do-or-die kind
of characters who whip off those snowy slopes, glide
around a turn, and as often as not end up upended in
the snow.
There’s a ski course and a ski tow within 15 miles of
Ashland. I t’s at the top of Siskiyou summit, and given
a hard winter (which the skiers dream about) it should
see lots of play this year.
It’s too bad that the road to the top of Ashland
mountain can’t be kept open during the winter, or that
some enterprising individual can’t be prevailed upon
to buy a couple snow cats in order to set up a ski run
on the summit of what was once Ashland Butte.
The skiers wouldn’t have to pray for hard winters
then, there is enough snow, and it is dry and powdery
enough, on top of Mt Ashland, to satisfy any skier.
But this winter, given cold and snow, there should
be all the skiing even the most ardent devotee needs,
on top of Siskiyou Summit at Sky Trail.
I*. Wiley Presents
Christmas Poem - •
Pliny A. WUcy, u poet, some
of whose works have appeared In
the News Review at Christm as
time during previous years, has
sent this bit of verse which we
are pressentlng to help open the
holiday season.
Mr. Wiley, whose home Is in
W itchita, Kansas, Is acquainted In
Ashland. *
Local zkuthor Has
Poem
In Anthology
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lUggs Crouch, Ashland
author, has been honored by hav-
ng one of h«>r p ^ m s „ppenr !n
the t> < > ,A Small Childs Book
of \ erse . which was compiled
and illustrated by Pelagic Doane,
New York artist.
Mrs. Crouch's poem ‘“A Story
In the Snow,* has been a pop­
ular one with compilers of an­
thologies and textbooks.
This
Come. Christmas Time
is the seventh tim e It has been
Come m atchless Christm as Time selected to be Included In such 1
again
book.
in th>
With thy transform ing power.
The poem "A Story
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To lift us from life's common
Snow" follows:.*
plain
This morning, as I walked t o 1
school
To w here Faith's m ountains tow
er.
Across the Huffy snow
I came upon a bunny’s tracks—
A jum ping, zigzag row.
Come blessed Christmas Time
He must have hurried very fust.
we pray.
For here and there I saw
And fill our troubled hearts
Along his jerky, winding trail
Upon this Incarnation Day
The print of Rover’s paw!
With Hope that Christ imparts.
I set my lunch pail on the snow
And stood there very still
Come hallowed Christm as Time
For only Rover's clumsy tracks
we plead,
Led down the little hill.
With benediction from above
And satisfy our soul's great need Then suddenly 1 thought I heard
With Christ's redeem ing Jove.
A rustling sound close by
I And there w ithin a grassy clump
Come Christm as Time, the Time
Shone Bunny's tw inkling eye!
Supreme,
Mrs. Crouch is presently work -1
Transcendent over all,
ing on a book of children's poems
When earth may see the heaven­ of her own. She has been w rit-
ly gleam
i ing verse and fiction for several
Of Jesus’ Star and hear His call years.
IF YOU'RE HARD TO PLEASE
S H A K E S P E A R E W IL L
BE O F F E R E D A T SOC
Science Church To
Presen I Led ure
Angus Bowmcr, Associate P ro ­
feasor of English ut Southern
Oregon College and Manager of
the Shakespeare Festival Assn
will continue to offer a night
course in S h u k cp eu re during
officials said that undoubtedly t ,1(. C()injn u w inter qu arter begin
there are many people who would
J anuary 4 a, the college.
b. Interested in - _____
_ an e ^ x x ­ -i^ h e course will carry three ere
hearing
planation of this religion.
They
will be welcome at this lecture. .lit hours and will be offered
The lecturer, who will speak | Tuesday evenings front seven to
next Sunday afternoon, Charles 10 o'clock The plays known as
V. Winn, C.S.B., of Pasadena, the histories" will be studied.
California, is a member of the
Uo,,rd oi Lectureship of The of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
M other Church, the First Church Massachusetts.
A free lecture on Christian
Science will be given In th.
church edifice South
Pion, ei
Avenue, on Sunday afternoon
December 12 ,at 3 pm . Church
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HINDSIGHT
Some day, in the not too far distant future, the citi­
zens of Ashland, the city which exists without a trade
area, will wake up discovering that a city can’t exist
without a trade area.
It’s the old story of a man pulling himself up by his
bootstraps. To date it hasn’t been done.
There is a trade area available to Ashland. It’s the
Talent-Wagner Creek community. By opening the
doors of the local stores to those people, by taking an
interest in their problems and by working with them
Ashland can increase the number of people in its im­
mediate trade area and also its size.
It is important in a city such as Ashland which is
not supported by industry that it be supported by a
surrounding farm community. That farm community
totals some 3000 people. The people of Ashland total
something like 8000. Talk about the tail wagging the
dog.
However, there’s another three or four thousand in
the Talent, Wagner and Anderson creek areas.
There’s a potential market which is waiting devel­
opment. It is up to Ashland people to help develop it.
Some day in the not too far distant future that re­
gion will be developed, by some other community, and
then those of us here in Ashland will sit around and
say, “to bad, isn’t it, it might have been.”
AIRLINES
Bonanza Airlines has applied for a permit to fly
from Las Vegas to Medford.
The line will take in the cities of Lakeview, Klamath
Falls, Susanville, Alturas, and other North Central
California points. It’s about time that this feeder line
were established for this particular region.
The transportation problem from the Rogue River
valley north or south isn’t so bad, but the transporta­
tion problem from his region eastward is a rugged one.
Air transportation will help solve this problem. The
sooner Bonanza begins its flights eastward from the
Rogue River valley the better it will be for every resi­
dent of the area.
WHAT IS NORMALCY?
On every hand we hear the cry, when are things go­
ing to return to normal?
Just what is normal?
That’s a problem no one has ever been able to solve
to our satisfaction.
Seems, however that normalcy is something border­
ing on a 30 hour week with a pay scale of something
like $2.50 per hour, and the price of eggs is 15c per
dozen, while a new car costs around $750.00.
It’s a great state this normalcy. Only it doesn’t seem
to me that it can add up to what its cracked up to be.
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Yes Sir,
Uiscmnia's Contagious!
When Rud Swanson had trouble
sleeping nights, and tried to git
over it by turning up (lie radio full
blast, he started an epidemic of
insomnia all down the block.’
Folks finally dropped a hint to
Bud that he close the windows or
turn the radio a little lower. Bud
did — and that was the quickest
cure for other folks’ insomnia I’ve
ever heard of!
Not that any of us object to the
radio, or swing bands, or anything
else that helps another person re­
lax of an evening. (Myself, I like
a glass of beer with a bit of cheese
before I go to bed. I can’t sp< ak
for you.)
From where I sit, good neighbor­
liness means nothing more than
simply respecting the other per­
son’s tastes and rights — without
forcing your own tastes or opinions
down his throat. And that goes for
Bud's radio, my glass of beer, oi
whatever temperate pleasure you
happen to enjoy.
Copyright, 1948, United States Orrwers Foundation
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