Southern Oregon New» Review, Ashland, Oregon, Thursday, July 14, 1949
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Published every Thursday by
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Ashland, Oregon
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Carryl H Wines and Wendell D. Lawrence, Publishers
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. And you can m:.ke a daytime station
call from coast to coast for only $2.50, plus tax.
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