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Southern Oregon New» Review, Ashland, Oregon, Thursday, July 14, 1949 SOUTHERN OREGON he NEWS REVIEW Myrtle ( reek Does Down Refort» Lithians JT D 15 A WHIZ IN THE OFFICE WHEN IT COMES 70 Published every Thursday by THE SISKIYOU PUBLISHING COMPANY Ashland, Oregon 38 East Main Street Carryl H Wines and Wendell D. Lawrence, Publishers A WENDELL LAWRENCE, Editor Entered as second-class mail m atter in the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 15. 1935. under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. HARMONY ★ ★ ★ . .. There was harmony and peace, and light and love for lo, these many years in the little foothill city ol Ashland, and the city fathers met, and spoke briefly, and departed. Came a new day, and the thunder roared, and th< lightning flashed, and the city fathers, lo. stayed up & J T CROSSING A SUSY STREET ~ all night, every night, to keep the wheels of progress , turning. WITH ONLY HI5 LIFE AT And harmony and peace departed, and light and love HIS MINP 15 A RICH, spread wings and flew. ripe B lank — And there were audits, recalls, elections, catcalls, names called, and action. And lo, a new day dawned, and travelling salesmer ceased speaking of Ashland as a lighted cemetery. _ * * * LEVELING OFF . . . Prices seem to be leveling off. When the cost of haircuts drops to six bits we’ll know the danger of in- , flation has passed. Then we’ll level off what’s left of our wavy locks. * * * MIKE ELLIOTT . . . Marion, “Mike” Elliott, sheriff of Multnomah county seems to be headed into a storm. It’s high tim e.; The man is a professed liar. In the performance of I his duties he has been, to say the least, completely ob-j livious of what his duties might or might not be. a perpetual inventory system, and mechanized book The Young Republicans this week began recall pro keeping are but a few of the major improveme ceedings. It’s too bad the Democrats who elected El which are needed. liott didn’t bring proceedings. They must be every bit It shouldn't take long to get the city’s business off as sick of him as the Republicans, sicker probably. The it’s back and onto it’s feet. And . . . it shouldn’t take Democrats should be the ones to set their own house long. in order. It’s a tough business, this recall. A lot of politicians ww». .oa ' we should be able to pay for our in Ashland can testify to this fact Letterfrom Washington own official phone conversations. In the case of Mike Elliott, however, we think it’s W hat happened was th at a bill By H a rris E llsw o rth absolutely necessary. No more than two weeks should was brought to the floor and ★ ★ ★ THE HIGH COST OF PROMOTION . . . Membership dues in the Ashland Chamber of Commerce are lagging some $835.00 behind. This makes it a bit hard on the Chamber of Commerce as it seems that Uncle Sam won’t put stamps and postage on the cuff, nor will a lot of other agencies and indiv- uals with whom the Chamber does business permit a credit type of operation. Prompt payment of dues to the Chamber of Com merce is only good business, yet the guy who knocks the Chamber the loudes't and who claims that he is getting the least from its activities is usually the char acter who either doesn’t belong, or who is behind in his dues. ★ ★ ★ be needed to com plete the m ajor passed one dull afternoon when items of legislative w ork neces most of the m em bers were in sary before adjournm ent. The comm ittee or attending to office Senate should act on the A tlantic treaty, Congress should finish the appropriation bills, several of which have not vet had Senate action,, and then we should ad journ. I suppose, however, the Adm in istration and adm inistration lead ers in Congress will insist on keeping the session going several weeks more hoping th a t some thing m ight be done to prop up the sad record of this 81st Con gress. If they do it will be a fu tile and costly effort. In its first six m onths this Congress has passed only two laws which could be considered of outstanding im portance. One was the bill to give the president powers for reorganization of the BUSINESS CENSUS . . . It’s only good business to cooperate with the business census enumerator who will be in Ashland the next few weeks. Some of the questions which Uncle ¡ S S a X * * “ Sam is asking this year may seem to be a bit personal, The previous (80th) congress but they’re all for the best. Retail sales throughout I dld, an amazing am ount of good the nation are expected to be near the 150 billion mark m th e se ' teítere ^ t V time, "i and wholesale trade is expected to come up to a figure said it every time I could during close to 165 billion. i the cam paign last fall. Unfor- Proper information concerning business in Ashland: X * : ,^ U?h" nal n" Pm ": will also help the city fathers and planners get down hgning the 80th congress. Now on the * factual to brass tacks in charting the future of this commun- “ we “ have a chance, ~ ...... record, to com pare the job we ity. did in the first six m onths with w hat our defam ers have done in WATER AND LIGHT ^STATEMENTS the same period. The New York Times, an editorial printed on John Riley Pittenger says he doesn’t agree with the Ju ly 6th, in gives the best sum m ary state auditors concerning the mailing out of state I have seen, as follows: ments to utility patrons. John says, “it’s just going "That Eightieth, in fact, now looks like som ething of a cham to mean hiring another girl, getting a stamp licker, pion. By this tim e In 1947, and and buying the stamps from Uncle Sam in order to a t the end of its own first six tell me and the fellow next door that I owe the city m onths of work, it had adopted the G reek-Turkish aid program ; so much for light and water, when all the time I knew ratified peace treaties w ith Italy it anyhow.” and the Axis satellites: approv John went on to say that he hadn’t missed paying ed a constitutional am endm ent lim iting the Presidency to two his water and light bill since he had been in Ashland, term s; created the Hoover Com which is quite a little spell, and that he didn’t think mission on reorganization of the he’d miss in the future, statement to that effect or not G overnm ent; passed the Taft- We don t know but what John has something there. H artley Act and the portal-to- portal pay law; and enacted a Man is a creature of habit and most folks in Ashland new tax law. Yes, this was a Re are in the habit, by now, of paying their light and publican congress, facing the dif water bill promptly. Maybe statements would be just ficulty of cooperating successful ly with a Dem oratic president.’” an additional expense. The good old days when W est THE CITY AUDIT * * * ern m em bers of the House of Representatives could make a . . . If the city audit failed to find a nigger in the prom pt reply by telegraph to u r woodpile, which some were expecting, and others were gent inquiries or requests from hoping, it did at least bring out the fact that the City constituents ended Ju ly 1—u n less we pay most of the telegraph of Ashland, which is big business, had been operated bill out of our own pockets. For like Bill Perkins’ country store. m erly all telegram s sent by Mem Bill never did know for sure where anything was bers on official business were paid for out of the legislative how much it was worth, or just why he had it in stock appropriation. was no lim The audit, recently completed by the state, can be it except that There messages be con invaluable to the citizens of Ashland, if the city ad fined to official business. It seem ministrators get together and see that the recommen ed like a reasonable arrangem ent to me. We alw ays had to pay for dations made by the auditors are put into effect A our own telephone calls and that central purchasing agent, a central accounting office was fair enough since with m ail ing and telegraphing worn. i him Dili provint » U I m i IK distance telephone calls as well as telegram s—hut lim ited the to tai am ount to $500 per year. The In the Fred Homes day base result, so far as Pacific Coast ball garni* held last Sunday at m em bers are concerned, was to lim it our telegram s to three or Fuller Field the Ashland Llth- four per week and th at’s a ll’ ians walloped the pants practi Our telegrams, due to the dis cally off a weak hitting Myrtle tance, average about $3 each. «•reek club. Final score was 12 The governm ent will save I |O 0 no money by this arrangem ent 1 Ted Schopf, Southern Oregon Few eastern members w ere us college mentor. led the Ashland ing $500 worth of telegram s per year—but having the privilege of big guns as he hit four times in telephoning now, they will cer four times at bat. Ashland, by virtue of the win tainly use the full amount The scheme was merely a redistribu is now in a tie with Roseburg for tion of the communications cost the league lead. with nearby members gaining and members from a distance ta reported that the House of Rep king it on the chin. The irony of resentatives had with "open th e whole thing reached a climax handed generosity" voted itself whvii ........• Time Magazine m„iii«.iiiv « with m i u its s i u an i i uuuiuonni lor telephone additional »»o» $5U() for usual sarcasm toward Congness* calls. furnished B U S IN E S S D IR E C T O R Y Mirror Barber Shop w C K K IN N IM . f l o p and ROOMING HOUSE We Shave and Rest You 143 Fourth street Phone 4411 ■hoe B a - B n lld lo r - B o b b e r B e e la iiooper’N Radiator Service Attention Builders Oak Street Garage Pritchard s Grocery * M>- A ahtanii Mac’s Shoe Shop Skilled Workmunshlp Clogged Radiators Boiled Out Free Estimates Phone 6942 and Repaired New Interior Tile Contractor Cores installed. 10 years experience 135 Morse Ph 485' AND Arc and Machine cation - ITO O ak MACHINE SHOP Acetylene Welding Work - Metal Fabri General Auto a n ti Truck Repair. a t. phr"- <’«• Chiropractic .. Health Clinic 308 N. Main Phone 4371 Ashland Q ro c e rle a ‘ »pen u n lit 1 Unx 619A. I'o rilv v » H trrt't P a in tin g - V a p e r U a n r tn ff C o n tra c t o r by t h . b o o r H u g e e iitlu iia and 1:» |liu a tr a f r e r Tcxr.rln« T ele p h o n e 2 3 (1 4 - M to ft p m Radio Repairs Flower Shop T- Inphoi, 38 Y e a :« E ip e rle o c e ONB I' iV StinVIf'E T h e Ilea C oat« b e a r at THE MART »70 I M a in A sh lan d POINTERS FOR LONG DISTANCE CALLERS How you can save money on your cross-country calls — and help us give you s till fas te r service 2 . W han youploce your call, you can save time all around if you give the information to your long distance operator this way: First, the name o f town you’re calling...then, the number if you know it, or the address. (Good idea to keep a list o f the out-of-town numbers you call most frequently.) Next, if it’s a person call, give the name of ________ ___ o f the one you want to talk ____ with.The operator will then ask your name and number 1. Even b e fo r e yo u call, you can start getting the most for your money It’s a good idea to make a list o f the things you want to talk about. A few handy notes can help make sure you won't think of soinethingyou really wanted to say—aueryouhang up. Experienced long dis tance users keep paper and pencil at the tele phone and make notes while they’re talk ing, too. 3. W hen you complete your caH, be sure to hang up promptly — and properly I f you re member to use these pointers every time you call long distance, you’ll be certain o f getting the most from your call for the least money W ith really efficient use o f the telephone you can pack as many words into a three-minute ------------- :------- conversation as you can in a letter— and you’ll get an answer to your questions right away. 4 . Wise use of »ho telephone — either local or long distance— helps you get the greatest value from it. And service is constantly grow ing more valuable. A local call is still just a few pennies. 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