U- o ' o. Library.
DOING THE
TOWN
4'
G R t elo
PUBLISHER
HOD K E A T IN G this week be
came the ow ner of the form er
D a ve n h ill orchard, 75 acres of
apples und penis The dcul was
made w ith the N ew hry Orchards
form er owners of the property
and K E A T IN G now' owns th t
largest single apple block In the
county . . .
MR and MHS. DON Mac-
WHIRTER doing a trem endous
Soutltesui, ôïoÿost
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N E W S R E V IE W
ASUI AND, JACKSON COUNTY,
THURSDAY, JANUARY
20,
I949
March of Dirnt-
Benefit Ball Game
SOC, Tuesday night
VOLUME i j, NUMBER 46
MAYOR’S ATTORNEYS REQUEST REVISION
School Building
Set For February
job on the March of Dimes cam
paign
OWEN G R AG G , chairm an of
the Lions Inaugural ball co m m it
tee, being disheartened about the
W01 k on the three school pro
dropping of the ball.
Too bad,
jects
in Ashland will probably
they got away w ith It In Wash
ington hut couldn't q u ite make it begin sometime in February ac
here.
State Tax Agrnt
To Be In Ashland
In order to assist taxpayers in
prepaiing their state Income tax
returns a state income tax agent
will be in Ashland at the city
ball from 9 00 a m. to 4:00 p.m.,
W ednesday, March 23.
The agent will also be avail
able to people from Ashland, T ai
nt and Phoenix during the time
he is in Medford. He will be at
the court house there from Mar.
15 to April 15.
Claim That Complaint Filed by
Council Is Not Correctly Prepared
MISS GALLATIN HERE
Miss
Frances
L. Gallatin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
Gallatin arrived January 19th, to
n Lombard and H arry Skerry, Ashland attorneys, representing
Visit with her parents at their ,
Mayor Tom Williams who is the defendant in the declaratory judg
home on 148 Central avenue in m ent action brought by the m em bers of the city council, this week
Ashland. Miss G allatin is Regis filed their answ er to the council’s complaint. They requested that
tration Officer in the Veterans , the com plaint as filed be revised as the m ajority of the nine points
adm inistration ln San Francisco. in the original com plaint were not properly stated. Their motion was
She will re th m to her work in to strike out certain portions of the com plaint and to make the re
San Francisco Thesday, Jan. 25. m ainder more definite and certain.
Judge H H. Hanna will hold a hearing on these motions in the
near future. Acting city attorney William Briggs and the council
can file an amended complaint
cording to a spokesman for the
school district. The bid for the
project has been aw arded to the
Donald M. D iake company of
Portland, their bid being $621,-
500
that the original com plaint is
University of Oregon, Eugene,
D. W. Moen, Medford, is the
adequate and does not need re
Jan 18 — According to a survey Southern Oregon representative
vision. They can then request ¿1
complied by two university fac
hearing on the m atter.
for the Drake company. They are
A
busy
program
was
planned
ulty members. Oregon's five
The m ayor’s attorneys point
'
by
the
American
Legion
A
uxil
(Courtesy “The Siskiyou’’)
southw estern counties will e x presently doing the remodeling
out in their motions tn at they
iary
at
their
regular
meeting,
at
perience the largest population on the New berry building In
The SOC quintet m aintained a ( feel that the city council’s com
William McGee, J. C. Osborne < Pioneer hall, W inburn Way, on
gain In the state during the next Medford and recently completed
two win and two loss standing plaint was not properly pi epar-
' Monday evening.
Ed
Singm
aster,
O.
W.
Green,
and
12 years.
building the new J. C. Penney Nelson Damon attended the meet- I Mrs. A rthur S. Taylor, essay in conference play last S aturday ed and th at it should be icseated
The estim ate was prepared by building in Medford.
ing of the Southern Oregon De- I ' contest chalrn an, is busy on night by beating Hum boldt 54-50 j correctly before a final hearing
Dr. E. H. Moore, head of the so
The low bid of the Drake com velopm ent association which was plans for the national Auxiliary thereby avenging a 52-41 loss to is made.
ciology departm ent, and John F. pany will assure the schools of
The first issue taken by the
held Tuesday night at the Dar- | sponsored contest a n l will soon the Hum boldt team Friday night.
Staehle, teaching fellow in edu having every m ajor specification denelles, Gold Hill.
Friday night’s game was one of m ayor’s attorneys is that the
contact the schools, presenting
cation, for the
Pacific Coast Including
a
gym -auditorium .
Tw enty men were present the rules ar.d list of prize* to the the wildest contests that the SOC council’s com plaint contains sev-
Board of Interdepartm ental Rela Plans are to have the buildings from Ashland, G rants Pass, M ed-' I students. Local winners wiU '"im- team has participated in all sea- eral causes of action which are
tions which gathers data on the completed by the opening of ford. Rogue River and Gold Hill. pete In the tte te contest State son and frequently control of not separately stated. Lombard
three west coast states. The su r school next fall.
Plans were made to press the winners will, then have a chance the game was out of the officials and Skerry, neither of whom are
vey will be- used for state and
The plans for the George A organizational campaign and to ' to compete in the national es hands. Aided by the scoring o f : acceptable to the council as city
national governm ent directives.
Keith Wade, SOC led 27 to 21 at attorney, go on to point out that
get the association whipped into say contest.
The five counties which will Briscoe school, which is to re shape. Osborne will begin the
The sewing club vzi'.i meat v/ith halftim e but were unable to there is a question as to 14 points
place Washington, calls for 12
Douglas,
Jackson. Josephine,
of law in the original com plaint,
m em bership drive in G rants Pass Mrs. Bert Freem an, 112 Nutley m aintain their lead.
(’00s and Curry, due largely to classrooms, a gym -auditorium , of- j in the near future.
street, next Monday for an ail i Keith Wade dum ped 25 points
The m ayor and his attorneys
five,
nurse’s
room,
library,
cafe-
,
the region’s large tim ber re erves
through the hoop S aturday night point out th at p art of paragraph
Next meeting will be held on day meeting.
teria,
kitchen
and
separate
rest
and excellent recreational facil
Mrs. M. E. Ransdell, legislative to help the R a id e rs cause and to 5 in the original com plaint which
rooms for the prim ary and in ter Thursday. February 17, at the
ities.
Cave shop in G rants Pass. It chairm an, presented a reading, bung his total for the two n ights, read: “duly passed” Is a conclu-
m
ediate
grades.
However, the 13 rounta a in east
Six classrooms are to be con- { will be an evening dinner m eet “Know Your Legislators,’’ and to 39 points.
sion of law. Paragraph 5 in the
ern Oregon wll also see an In-
urged all women to attend the
original com plaint has to do with
structed
at the W alker Avenue ing.
1 reuse in population with the
opening of Camp White, as there
site.
In
addition
to
these
class
the m ayor’s adjournm ent in one
completion of McN..rv dan..
Ben Lombard returned from will be a great need for philan
m inute and 40 seconds of the F ri
According to the t.vo Univer- rooms there will be the gym-1 Salem Tuesday w here he had thropic work when that hospital
day
council meeting.
auditorium
,
cafeteria
kitchen,
slty of Oregon teac hors, the num
been on legal business.
is opened.
Lom bard and Skerry also
ber of 1940-4 1 .ib g iin t . to leave and facilities sim ilar to the ones
Hostesses were A lberta Leo
point out that a portion of para-
the state w*ll be determ ined by at the Briscoe school. The L in
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Marsh of nard and Evelyn Kreisman.
gidph 4 in the original com
W
ith
the
request
that
the
books
coln
addition
Is
to
have
three
a decrease i i the general level
Duluth, Minnesota, are visiting
of the city of Ashland be audited plaint is wrongly worded. The
of price«. Th \v sey that when classrooms and the gym -auditor Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Cullen. On
Miss Dorothy Morris was ski by a state auditor okayed by paragraph had to do w ith the
The Sunday the Marshs and the C ul
prices are tow few people d is ium and cafeteria kitchen.
ing
Sunday at Sky Trail on the both the m ayor and the council suspension of William Briggs and
Brisabe school will lx» faced with lens took a drive to Union creek.
pose of their pioperty.
Siskiyous.
brick, the Lincoln school will
A shland’s governing body settled Clarence Williams.
down Tuesday night and got to
P aragraph seven of the original
match the present building and
work on city business.
com plaint which concerns the re
the W alker Avenue school is to
be reinforced concrete.
The Tuesday night meeting, instatem ent of Briggs and Wil-
and -------
Skerry,
im m aterial
and
All buildings are to be one
attended by 150 citizens, was ----
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«•>-«
Trucking operations In Jack-
„
Clsto Parks has returned from bama is in Ashland on business. quiet and orderly and spontan- ham s is, according to Lom bard
son county may be curtailed if story and m odern and clean-cut
e. c a business ----
and e pleasure
to He is connected with the South eous applause m arked the end of opiniated and should be struck
—«••••nr trip
U ip 10
the bad w eather continues to in appearance. Lighting is de-
signed
to
meet
the
latest
codes
i>acramento.
Mrs.
Mayme
Ward-
the meeting when Mayor Wil- out of the complaint. Paragraphs
ern Pacific Railroad.
m in the roads according to an
for
adequacy.
en
stayed
with
Mrs.
Parks,
who
liams
thanked the audience for
an d ^2 of the com plaint are
A
rthur
S
t
Mars,
Yaki
m
a.
order of the Jackson county
The rooms are to be finished "I 1 1 at ber bome> during Parks W ashington, owner of the Cas their attendance and attentive- also> according to the two attor-
court.
„ ,
neys, reduntant, evidence, and
cade Tent and Awning Co. there ness.
This order will not go into ef in soft tone light reflecting pas- d ’^ nce’ . . .
tel
shades.
Harmonizing
colors
,i
and
Mrs
Bill
Finch
accom-
is
in
A
shland
on
business.
The
audit
of
the
books
will
n°t fact.
fect unless necessary, members
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Phillips of take place sometim e in the near
That portion of paragraph 14
of the court stated However, in wlll be in the asphalt floor cov- £*' 'u , by J.at^ Conners and his
«•ring
Hot
and
cold
water
is
to
friends
’in
A^hi
are
^ndt
i
n
g
Yuba
City,
Calif,
are
vacationing
future.
Mayor
Williams
is
pres-
j
of
the council’s com plaint is also
order to save the roads, It may be
Ashland. The group in Ashland for the winter. They ently in Salem w here he will considered as im m aterial, redun-
necessary to limit weight loads. be supplied to each room. The
fr° m Shlnook' Mon- state th at the climate this w in confer with state officials con- tan t, and is really evidence, not
Two counties n N orthern Oregon chalk board is to be the new
ter has been about the same as cerning the auditing.
Llte-sight
which
reflects
more
t
*
6**
nt ‘*« hbors
j a fact. This concerens the ad-
have already reduced
weight h«h. than the ,„d J “
£ £
Ve" “ " Mr. in Yuba City.
The gasoline bid was aw arded Jourm nent of the Friday night
loads to four tons on county
Ivan Reed of Mapleton, a visit to S tandard Oil on the basis of meeting. by the mayor.
Para-
w ardrobe lockers are to he in
roads.
Mrs. Penwell, Mr. and Mrs or a t the home of Orton Genung their low bid of 21.3 cents for graph 16 of the com plaint is also
stalled in each classroom and
Vern Shroy, of Medford and their
This week m arks the end of each youngster will have a c u U,n c’e' M B Shroy of Alaska on Iowa Street, rem arked that regular and 22.8 cents for ethyl considered in the same light. This
his father, Bert Reed, also, of on a 15,000 gallon purchase.
paragraph concerns the council’s
the first sem ester so there will bicle in which to store his things
visited friends in Ashland F ri Mapleton, worked on the Boule
The proposal by the m ayor to S atu rday m eeting at which tim e
he no school Friday. A Pep rally Well planned built-ins and bul day evening.
vard sixty years ago. Bert, who
wil be held Thursday, January letin boards are to be construct
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Huffman of was unable to make the trip to set up a m achine shop to handle Briggs and W illiams were re-in
city repair work was handed to stated by the council.
20 for the game Friday when the I
The rlagsroom» Highwood. Montana arrived
in Ashland w ith his son, asked him a com m ittee headed by John
Grizzlies take on the G rants Pass are light and airy and are fitted Ashland
Lom bard and S keiry go on to
Friday to spend the to find out if it still carried the Daugherty. The com m ittee will say tbat the various portioiis of
Cavemen. Frank O’Neil athletic to the functional type of m od winter.
name of “Boulevard”, as it did
coach, will have his boys present ern education.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Henneke in those days. The first thing m ake an investigation to deter- th.e com plaint which have to do
a tum bling exhibition at the half.
have returned from a three Ivan noticed on arriving here mine w hat savings would be w*th tbe statem ent made by the
weeks vacation at their form er was that it is now called Siski m ade by following such a pro m ayor th at the council “m ust
learn the hard w ay,” th at mem-
home in Colusa, California. Hen you Boulevard, and will so report cedure.
Discussion
of
the
proposal
by
bers of tbe council have been
neke reported that two feet of to his father. The elder Reed re
the
m
ayor
that
the
office
of
city
threatened
w ith boycott, and that
snow in the Sacram ento ' ’alley called that at the time the Boule
prevented him from visiting his vard came into being he worked engineer be abolished and that tbe m eetings of Jan u ary 4th and
Alpha Chapter No. 1, O. E. S. farm, near Colussa.
for the sum of three dollars a Elm er Biegel, present city en- ^an u arV 7th were disorderly, are
Mrs. George Miller and daugh- day and th at included his team gineer, be m ade head of «he light a11 only statem ents of opinion
held its first stated meeting on
have returned from of horses. It seems amazing to departm ent, took up much of the and not facts and therefore have
Tuesday evening, January 18th, J?r»
their
holiday
vacation in Port the present generation that he council's time. The fact that the no bearin£ on the facts of the
with Dolly Stevens, W orthy Ma
tron, presiding, assisted by Pat land.
could live on such a wage, much city needs a centralized purchas- rn atter
How To Stop Worrying,
Tbe council indicated in their
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Roderick of less feed a team of horses, but, ing agent and a system of con-
Dunn, W orthy Patron.
And Start Living
trol
was
given
by
several
mem-
complaint
th at actions of the ma-
Eagle
Point
visited
friends
in
as
Ivan
rem
arked,
‘I
was
there”
Approxim ately seventy five
By Dale Carnegie
Herb H enrdick of Baker, Ore- bers of the council as bc-ng the yor bad resulted in “‘great d etri
members and visiting members Ashland, Saturday.
reason for a city supeiintendent. m ent to tbe city- and th at the
O. J. Elliott, retired stockman th ,11, was
were present for the evening. A l
Ashland on business,
from Baker is spending the win Thursday. He was accompanied The proposal was tem porarily resultant publicity had effected
pha
C
hapter’s
own
distinguished
The Big Fisherm an
member, Adelaide Clary, was ter at his home on Iowa Street. by Forest Burlew of Gold Hill. shelved until fu rth er facts could the credit of the city. Lom bard
By Lloyd C. Douglas
and Skerry request an explana
Luc J e rre tt of Castle Rock, be obtained.
escorted to the East and given a Elliot was a dinner guest of Mr.
tion of those rem arks.
hearty welcome. She is the grand and Mrs. Louis Olsen, Sunday W ashmgton Is visiting friends In
evening.
Additional
guests
of
the
Ashland.
He
has
spent
the
year
Representative of the Grand J u r
Sometime Again
isdiction
of Missouri. It was de Olsens were, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. visiting friends and relatives at
By George Hall
cided to join with the Masons in Hazelwood and Mr. and Mrs. M. Seattle, Baker, Castle Rock and
(George is a form er Ash
other N orthw est cities.
a party sometime In the early E. Ransdell.
land boy)
, Mrs. H. K. Plasp and Mrs.
W ilbur Simmons spent the
part of February.
Muriel Kram er, the new pres Kleina of Coquille, Oregon are week end at his home in Auburn,
W ashington. He was accom pan
ident of Alpha Chapter, announc visiting friends in Ashland.
Sketches of the Sixties
Theodore Kish and Allen Beck ied to Ashland by his brother,
ed the first regular m eeting of
Bret H art a n d Mark
Alpha club for Tuesday a fte r niotored to Cave Junction Sun Howard, who hopes to locate in
Twain
noon. January 25th. Dessert will day and returned Monday. They this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil P arker and
be served prom ptly at 1:30, to be were accompanied b y Kish's
mother. Mrs. Ella J. Bloomquist. family returned Saturday from
followed by a short business
Kish has his invention the Middletown, Lake County, Cali
The White Tower
meeting. Then cards and other
Wheeled
Crutches in the process
By Jam es Ramsey Ull
entertainm ent will follow.
All of being m anufactured in Santa fornia, w here they spent the holi
man
Star members are also members Rosa but would start additional days with relatives. Roberta P a r
of Alpha club and are urged to work here if he finds a suitable ker, rem ained in M iddletown at
the home of her brother-in-law
be present.
foundry w here he can proceed and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
A benefit card party for Jo b ’s w ith work on them.
W ashington. Two other daught
Daughters was announced by
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Applewhite ers of the P arkers Mrs. Paul
their guardian, G eraldine Yates «accompanied their son. Sergeant Riper and Mrs. Lila Williams and
for Friday evening, January 21. W arren Applewhite to San F ra n heh small daughter. Lola Lee.
Members of the American Legion Auxiliary who recently packed
Refreshm ents were served in cisco w here W arren will take a accompanied them to Ashland a series of child welfare boxes for the Roseburg hospital are shown
270 East Main Phone 8011
the dining room with Olive Bur- plane to New York, and sail, where they will visit for a time. “hove. They include, from left to righl. seated, Blanche Taylor,
dic as chairm an, assisted by Cal soon, for G erm any for his new P arker reported that a thirty w" w K M>e9er«,EVj lyin
<chiid welfare chairman), Margaret
Wolfe, Neva Wood. Lottie Ransdell, Kathleen Silver, and Cecia Ber-
lie Briscoe, Lydia McCall, and assignm ent to duty.
Inch snowfall prolonged their runghousen. who Is president of the organisation. Standing are Ruth
Ruth Wagner.
Ewell Cochran, Mobile, Ala visit in Lake County.
Cushing, Blanche Wood. Ruth Jordan and Mary Lahr.
Growth Predicted
For This Region
Soda Organizers
Hold Meeting
Essay Contest
To Be Offered
Raiders Tie With
,h y c,n
Humboldt In Series
State Will Audit
Books of City
Truvkiiiff Operations
May Be Curtailed
What They're
Reading
Ramblin' With Ransey
Eastern Star Has
First 1949 Meeting
M ART
K.neIman
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