> a VZte P • 1 1 1S QK g ? < 4 * s / l « TI 0 N Highway Report States $71,225 Given To Ashland Highway Usera Help In M aintaining Street Ashland has received a total of $71,225.00 from the state of Oregon’s highway users during the five years, 1944 to 1949. The Oregon state highway comm is sion released the figures this week in a report th at indicated how much money highway users had contributed tow ard the con struction and m aintenance of the streets of the state's incorporated cities. The allocation of funds given to the cities is based upon popu lation. Durin the same period Medford r e c e iv e d $169,371.00 O ther com m unities in this area which received funds from the state's highway users included Phoenix, $8730.00 und T alent 7214.00. Highway users, during the years 1944 to 1949 inclusive, have contributed to the incorporated cities of Oregon a total of $8,617,- 293 for the construction and m ain tenance of their streets (which are not within the state highway system-. This does not include the sum of $250,000 w ithheld in each of the years 1948 and 1949 by direction of the 1947 legisla ture to be spent by the commis sion on city streets subjected to excessive wear due to unusually heavy industrial traffic, and to be advanced upon application made by the affected cities. Prior to 1944 city streets not on the state highway system were Improved out of revenues derived from direct city property taxes. The 1945 legislature d iver ted 5 percent of state highway in come to use on city streets. The 1937 session increased the take to 10 p e rc e n t During the period 1917 to 1947 inclusive the highway comm is sion has advanced for right of way, construction and m ainten ance of these city streets a total of $16,067,048, and now is being obligated under the m andate of these various legislative acts to the construction and m ainten ance of a continually lengthening mileage of city streets, and this In addition to that portion of the highway revenue under the 5 percent diversion o f the 1945 and the 10 percent diversion of the 1947 legislative sessions. These sums which have been diverted from state highway con struction by the legislative con- statute, in practical effect, a state subsidy proportionate to and In lieu of local property taxes for street im provem ent Then th ere’s the case of the Jail Docket which popped up this week down at the city hall. Seems as if someone, in the p re vious city adm inistration, ord er ed a jail docket from our esteem ed contem porary up the street. Price was $97.35, for a stock printed book. The bill was not presented, however, during the stir and fuss which Dr. Charles Haines, Councilmen Harold M er rill and Phil Stansbury were kicking up about the $87.50 which the city was being asked by the News Review, to pay for specially printed court dockets. And so, this month the bill q u iet ly m ade its appearance. Too late, Chief of Police Vern Sm ith says he didn’t order the book, doesn’t plan to use it, and w on’t accept it. The book is being returned. It should be. The old order chang- eth. Chief of Police Vern Sm ith and Municipal Judge L. Peers Wll- meth made a trip on their own time and In their own convey ance W ednesday night to Yreka California, to straighten out a gentlem an there who had been in Ashland W ednesday morning displaying his charm s to two lit tle girls, age five and six. As the com plaint was on a m isdem ean or charge it was Impossible to extradite the character. Thus the trip, and a lecture, and or ders to him to stay in his own back yard. A S H LA N D , JACKSON C O U N T Y , TH U R SD AY , |U I.Y 14 0 4 9 Mail Dispatch Time ( h a u te s Announced E. E. Vail, postmaster, an nounced this week that due to changes in truln schedules the following change« are in effect for closing time for dispatch of mails. First class and air mail for Medford and G rants Pa .s will close at 5:09 a.in. und 11:00 a.m. First class mail and special de livery parcels for Klam ath Falls will close at 10:30 a.m. All classes of mail tor Califor nia closes a t 4:00 p.m. All classes of mail for the northern and eastern states will close at 5:00 p.m. First class and special delivery for the south will close at 6:30. City und route delivery times will rem ain the same. Shuman To Speak At Vesper Services The Rev. George M. Shum an will be the speaker this coming Sunday at the Lithia Park Ves pers service. The services, trad i tionally a Sunday evening event during the summer, are sponsor ed by the Ashland M inisterial as sociation. The Vesper services begin at 6 00 p.m. at the Gwin S. Butler Memorial band shell. ——■ ■ - - o • —- —— Business Census Is Now Underway In Lithia City wholesale and Budget Approved By City Council An ordinance accepting the 1949-1950 city of Ashland oper ating budget will be filed by City attorney H arry Skerry this week with the Jackson county clerk. The budget calls for a tax levy of $65,222. The $1850.00 which was to go to the C ham ber of Commerce was cut from the final figure because it would have caused the budget to exceed the six per cent lim it ation. Members of the council, m eet ing in special session Tuesday, accepted the budget. Shakespeare Theme Lectures Continue .. .. Enumération Of Businesses Slated R etail, Business Tax Proposal Expected Io Create Warm Council Session A warm session is expected at the next m eeting of the city fathers of Ashland which will be held a t the city hall, Tuesday, July 19. Firew orks are expected to be set off concerning the proposal by E. Sheldon, councilman, that Ashland businesses be taxed to bring additional revenue to the city. The system of taxing business es has been proposed in order that a special election to perm it the city to exceed the 6 per cent lim itation need not be held.. Sheldon pointed out in his pro posal th at most cities operated with some type of business tax. service trade establishm ents in Ashland will be asked to report on their 1948 business operation* by one enum erator who began working In Ashland Monday July 11. En um eration of business establish ments in Medford. Ashland and rem aining areas in Jackson coun tv is part of the complete census of business being conducted this year by the United States bureau of census. The district office ser ving Jackson county is located in Eugene, with Olga A Freeman as district supervisor. Mrs. Freem an, who was in Ashland last week completing arrangem ents for the census, re ports that the calling on busi nesses has been completed in Lane and Linn counties Her of fice will have charge of the busi ness census in Josephine, Doug las, Coos and C urry counties as well. Dr. M argery Bailey, Stanford University, who is working with Angus Bowmer and the Oregon Shakespearean Festival associa tion this summer, will present th second of a series of lectures <m Shakespeare’s debatable char- a ters this Sunday a t 7:00 p.m. at Susan Holmes hall. This Sunday the lecture will be on the Dangerous Comedians, Polonius and the Nurse. The lec ture last Sunday was on Lovers and Fortune Hunters. During the period August 7-21 .1 series of readings in formal groups will be presented. There will also be during the August series a special perform ance of Tudor dance • directed by Miss Eller, with Elizabethan foiksongs by Miss Bailey. No charge is made for these lectures. Rotarians Set First Sine* 1940 Inform ation on sales volume, payrolls and employment, prin cipal m erchandise lines and oth er basic items concerning the country’s distributive sys t e r n will be collected for the first time in nearly a decade. The most re cent business census was taken in 1940, covering activities in 1939. The census reported retail sales of more than $42 billion and wholesale trade nf more than $55 billion. It has been estim ated th at com parable figures for 1948 will nearly treble the 1939 totals. The nation's first census of business was conducted in 1930 and covered operations in 1929. Its purpose was to provide a com plete statistical description of the distribution trades, prim arily for business men who needed such inform ation as a guide to m arket conditions. Many other uses soon supple m ented the census’ original func tion, it was stated. M erchants are said to have discovered that its authoritative count of establish m ents by kinds of business clas sifications and its inform ation on sales volumes, payrolls, employ m ent and other basic data aided them in understanding their own operations, inventory sales-ra- tios, sales per employe and sim i lar m easures of efficiency in their own establishm ents. It re portedly gave the men gauge for determ ining their own position in their individual fields; it lo cated each business group’s posi tion in the national structure. The original census law, pass ed in 1929, as well as the present law, requires all business estab lishm ents coming under the clas sification of retail, wholesale and service trades to file reports and imposes upon the census bureau the responsibility of guarding against publication of data in any form which would reveal operations of Individual estab- ments. All census employes are bound by an oath of secrecy and are subject to penal action if they violate their pledge. For Convention Rotarians this week made fin al preparations for the Rotary officers convention which is to be held Friday and Saturday. Visiting Rotarians are expected to begin arriving in Ashland e ar ly Friday morning w ith registra tion scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Bill Crock is handling registra tion. Jim Busch is in charge of the Rotary picnic. Gene E berhart is in charge cf banquet arrange ments. A. C. W oodward is hand ling entertainm ent, John Cotton, decorations, Phil Stansbury, re ception and Elmer Biegel, trans portation. Annual Picnic Of Pythians Sunday All m em bers of the Knights of Pythias and the DOKK and their fam ilies are Invited to the an nual P ythian picnic which will be held this coming Sunday in Lithia Park. John Riley P itten ger is in charge of local arrange ments. D inner will be served at 1:00 p.m. Guests are asked to bring their own picnic dinner baskets and service. Coffee & cream will be served by the comm ittee The picnic area is in the Upper Park. Utilities Engineer And Housewife Lock Bumpers on Curve Mrs. Mary Louise Dotson and Elmer Blegel tangled automobiles on G ranite street below the city reservoir Monday. The accident took place on the blind curve leading to the reservoir. Mrs. Dotson was driving a 1941 Plym outh and Biegel the city of A shland’s 1947 Chevrolet. Mrs. Dotson and her children were shaken up and bruised by the accident. ti w* • Ô te y o s i NEWS REVIEW $ 5 .0 0 PER YEAR ■ Lions Are Planning Onoortunity Sale Formerly U m Southern Or*qo* Minor S3.C3 jMjr y«*< Volume 16, Number 19 Services Here For Naval Air Cadet Virgil G illette, son of Mrs. E K. Edsell, Portland, and grand son of John Riley P ittenger was killed the forepart of this week In an airplane accident at the Naval Air Base at Pensacola, Florida. Gillette, who was to have grad uated from the Navy flight school this year, had received his elem entary education in Ashland. The body is being returned to Ashland w here services will be held at 10 30 a.m. Monday, July 18 a t the Litw iller funeral p ar lors. Plans for the annual Ashland Lions club opportunity sale are presently being m ade by the co- chairmen of the comm ittee for the sale, Frank O’Neal and Rol and Parks. According to Bob Snider, p re sident of the Lions club, the sale will be held in the City hall some time w ithin the next three weeks. At the sale, which is in the form of a rumm age sale, buyers will be given an opportunity every half hour to buy a new a rt icle of m erchandise at half price. This is one of the m ain features of the annual affair. Funds from the sale are used Kiwanis Club Meets by the Lions to assist in com m unity projects. Funds from last Lions in Annual C lassis year's sale were used for scho larships, and assisting various Softball fans of Ashland will school teams in traveling and see two stellar team s in action meeting expenses. Friday night a t W alter Phillips field when the Roaring Lions of Lithia Springs m eet B ert M iller’s “Keewanees.” The Kiwanis club, which was Medford, Ju ly 14 — According sparked by five Jr. C ham ber of to a statem ent issued today by Commerce players during its last A. 6. Cummings, president, The game, which was w ith the Jr. California Oregon Pow er Co. Cham ber of Commerce, is ex has approved w’age increases ef pected to have a slight edge on fective July 1, 1949 aggregating the Lions as advance reports approxim ately $184,000 on an a n from the Lion’s club indicates nual basis. This adjustm ent, that every m em ber of the organ which represents this com pany’s ization plans -to get in the game. fourth general wage increase Bob Snider, president of the since the w ar’s end, is applicable Lions club, pointed out, however, to both union and non-union reg th at the Lions are all rested up ular employees, and results in and rarin ’ to go whereas the K i average increases of about five wanis club is tired out from the and three quarters per cent. Jaycee game and should be easy to take. Softball Epic To Take Place Friday Evening COPCO Raises Wages For Fourth Time DeBoer Announces Model Plane Meet A record breaking num ber of entries, estim ated to exceed 250, are expected to participate in the state wide model plane con test to be held on Saturday and Sunday, Ju ly 16 and 17 at Eu gene. This will very likely break the m ark set last year, according to W alter DeBoer of Lithia Mo tors, Ashland Plym outh dealer, and a m em ber of the Plym outh Dealers of Oregon who are spend soring the annual contest. Spotlighted on S aturday’s pro gram will be speed and stunt events scheduled to take place on the U niversity of Oregon cam pus and using the Webfoot base ball field. The following day will see free flight models performing a t the Eugene airport. Aw ards will be m ade following events on each day. Contest plans for this 1949 state m eet will offer prizes in cluding three scholarships to any Oregon college or university to be offered to winners from 14 to 18 years of age. In addition to the schoarships, there will be presented four all- expense paid trips to Detroit, Michigan. There, winners in all the state m eets will compete in the August 22-29 Plym outh Third International Model Plane Con test for $8750 in prizes. Contestants in the age group nine to 26 years may win the trips while additional awards will be presented to winning m odelers in all age groups. Church Council To Study DP Question Mrs. A rth u r Peters was ap pointed program chairm an and Mrs. Jam es Madison, pubicity chairm an at a m eeting of the A d visory Board of the Council of Church Women, held last week a t the Church of Christ. The Council is composed of delegates from six m em ber churches. At the last m eeting Dr. K enneth Campbell, who is on a furlough from China, spoke on the help which could be given displaced persons by the churches. Dr. Campbell, who is from the P resbyterian board of foreign missions, is presently working w ith the general assembly for resettlem ent of displaced persons. Dr. Cam pbell stated that there was a need for assurance for pro- testants, and told of the fact that the governm ent had requested that the churches help with the displaced people. O ther events at the m eeting included a report by Mrs. M ar tin B arnett on juvenile delin quency. The next m eeting will be held the second Friday in October. GETS BOB CAT THURSDAY Siskiyou Sum mit, July 13— “Red’’ K issinger got a bob cat Thursday evening while driving down the road. Seeing the cat’s eyes, Kissinger stopped his jeep and using a 32 calibre pistol fir ed. The anim al weighed 30 lbs. Kilty Band To Appear In Salem Ashland Am erican Legion Post No. 14’s K ilty band, complete w ith all Scottish trappings and including Hollis Hill, tram poline artist will be a featured a ttra c tion at the State A m erican Le gion convention to be held in Salem beginning Friday, August 5th. A call for bands, drum corps and other m usical or m arching organizations to perform at the state A m erican Legion conven tion w ent out from Salem Le gion headquarters this week. Legion com m itteem en extend ed an open invitation to any such organization to participate in the three-day conclave’s G rand P a rade, scheduled for Salem on F ri day, August 5. Interested groups are requested to contact the con vention commission, post office box 13, Salem. LaG rande’s defending cham pions will be on hand for the drum and bugle corps com peti tion. Among units expected to contend is the Clatskanie post corps, which in pre-w ar days was a junior unit of 38 teen-age sons of Legionnaires. Now World War II veterans and full-fledged Le gionnaires in their own right, 34 of the original m em bers will take the field. Chiropractors Hold A Picnic Meeting The regular m onthly m eeting of the Southern Oregon Society of Chiropractic physicians was held in Ashland Monday evening a t the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Terrill, on Beach street. Tables w ere arrangged on the lawn, and a picnic supper was enjoyed by the group comprised of doctors and th eir families, from G rants Pass, M edford and Ashland. Dr. Terrill, new ly elected P re sident of the group, m ade com m ittee appointm ents, and ground work was laid for activities of the society for the e n d in g year. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Jester, ac companied by Dr. and Mrs. E. P, Borden spent Tuesday w ith Mr. and Mrs. Je ste r’s daughter and family on their ranch near Mt. McLaughlin. Carl Moline, Oregon City, vis ited Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Borden Tuesday evening. Six Hundred At Appreciation Day Ceremonies Here To Take Place In Plaza N ext Week Six hundred interested partici pants attended the first weekly Appreciation day m eeting which was held W ednesday afternoon at the corner of Main and G resh am. Five names were called be fore the Treasure chest of $30.00 was aw arded to an Ashland shopper who had participated in the Appreciation day. Walt Hamby was m aster of ceremonies and was assisted by three ladies and a girl who were selected from the crowd. Bill McGee, secretary of the Cham ber of Commerce helped make a r rangem ents for the aw arding of the treasure chest. According to Winston Marks, chairm an of the A ppreciation day committee, the next A ppre ciation day m eeting will be held in the Plaza, next W ednesday a t 2:30 p.m. Marks also expressed the com m ittee’s appreciation of the as sistance given in the progrem by F lu h rer’s bakery, which furnish ed a sound truck, by Ashland cabinet works, which supplied a pickup used Wednesday, and by the m anager of the local th eatre’s Je rry Coveil, who furnished the ticket drum. Council Seeking Legal Advice On Attorney’s Fees The League of Oregon cities this week informed city recorder J. B. A ustin th a t they were not prepared to offer a legal decision concerning the validity of the $1000.00 bill for services render ed the city of Ashland by local attorneys, H arry Skerry and Ben Lombard. The bill was presented by the two attorneys after they bad be-jn retained by M ayor Tom W illiams and tne City of Ashland in a judgm ent suit last w inter brought by the Common Council of the City of Ashland to determ ine le gality of an ordinance which would have prevented the m ay or’s suspending city employees. The council was represented by form er city attorney W illiam Briggs, who has also presented a bill for $10i 0 00. Concerning th e Lom bard-Sker ry oill, the city recorder has been requested by the present m ayor and council to contact Virgil Langtry, Portland attorney, for a ruling on the case. The League of Oregon cities representative, Deane Seeger, in refusing to give an opinion, s ta t ed: “in the opinion of the offi cials of the league this m atter is strictly a local dispute and we are not In a position to offer le gal advice. Such m atters m ust be left to the discretion of the local governing bedy on the basis of facts and the counsel of eompn ten t legal advice.” ------------o---------— Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Borden and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wines, and son, Bill, were guests a t a picnic dinner a t the home of Mrs. Sadie S tratton and Mrs. M arjorie B ar ker, W ednesday evening. Ashland Lions To Help Jacksonville During Jubilee Planning to Operate A Novelty Booth M embers of the Ashland Lions club under the direction of H erb Huston, Bill Yates, and Ken P ea body are planning to set up a novelty booth a t the A nnual Gold Rush Jublilee celebration which will be held in Jackson ville August sixth and seventh. The Lions club of Jacksonville is sponsoring the jublilee and other Lions clubs in the Rogue River valley are assisting. The Ashland club, according to Lioij president Bob Snider is con sidering entering a queen In the queen contest which is one of the features of the jublilee. The w inner of the queen contest will receive a $300.00 w ardrobe w hile the runner-up will get $50.00 in gold.