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 4 W,S P j P Í R I A T I 0 I $t.oo PI R YEAR 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 ---- -«> ........= «•>-« 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