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Southern O regon News Review Southern Oregon News Review A shland. Oregon 38 East Main S tre e t E ntered as second class m ail m atter in the post office at Ash, land, Oregon. F eb ru ary 15, 1935. u n d e r the act of Congress of M arch 3. 1879 ^TALENT TOPICS . . . Publishers MR and MRS. J LOGAN WHITE • 1C P illit T hursday. O ctober 13. l»40 Ashland. Oregon El i a r 1 1 n More Fire Prevention Weeks TALENT COUNCIL MET TUESDAY EVENING The Town C ouncil m et in reg u la r session T uesday evening. Oct. 4, w ith all of the council present. Chas S chuler was sw orn in to lak e the c h a ir left by W ayne Cow drey. Also John B u tler was sw orn in to tak e the place of M arshal Redmon, who tu rn ed in his resignation. The council voted to place an order for a n o th e r 50 w a te r m eters, hoping to soon have the entire tow n on a m eter basis This year’s observance of Fire Prevention Week ran from October 6th to the 15th. It will be tragic if the lessons learned during the week are immediately forgotten. Careless individual habits are responsible for all but a small minority of fires. Fire prevention must be practiced for 52 weeks of the year not just for one. During the first eight months of 1949. our fire waste totaled nearly $450.000.000. This marked a de cline as compared with the same period last year, but most of the drop was probably due to slightly lower commodity and construction costs. One fire recoid is the worst in the world, and it cannot adequately be measured in mere financial terms. It can be seen in the death and maiming and disfigurement of thousands upon thousands of human beings annually, many of them children—in the destruction of great forests and other invaluable natural resouces—in lost jobs, in piles of ashes that once were homes, in ruined factories. What makes this all the more disgraceful is that most fires can be so easily prevented. The major causes of fire are “little things —carelessness with matches and cigarettes, rundown stoves and heating systems, improperly stored paints and solvents and other such flammables, out-of-repair electrical equip ment, and so on down the list. A little thought, a little effort, could eliminate most of these hazards. If, as individuals, we make every week a fire prevention week, we will win the was against this great destroyer. (Too late for last week) The installation of the Lady Lions A uxiliary of T alent was held last Friday evening in the Elks lounge in A shland with "P o p ” Reed acting as m aster of C erem onies Mrs R ubia Kurat- D ISTU R B IN G S IG H T -R u s s la has virtually ringed 't ^ b i « jJ iJ p J d li of H illsboro. S tate President, p resented the C h a rte r to Mrs. launching bases, according to Allied and Gei man source«. I . , , . s,lown above. Russia'« w ith both fixed units and mobile V-2 launching equipment with X n i c w arheads. Chas. L akey, a fte r th e in sta lla t aewly-disclosed atomic know-how raised ooss.bllltles of missiles with atomic worn ion cerem ony conducted by Mrs P h ilip H arth of Roseburg, State P a rlia m e n ta ria n officer. T h e N ational figures for the first cent of death reduction and well Gold H ill A uxiliary was the sp seven m onths of 1949 place Ore- ahead of all o th er I aciflc onsoring group, and Mrs. E T gon second only to Idaho in per- Coast states DeVecchio, P resident; Mrs. Win R ockford and Mrs. J. L. G raff is, ««Mr« gave the candle-lighting cere mony. The ladies installed in of fice w ere Mrs. Chas. L akey, pr T raffic accidents claim ed 27 From where I s it... f y J o e Marsh es., Mrs. Ralph Reed, vice-pres. lives in Oregon last . '. i ac Mrs. L ester H am ilton. Lion T rain er, Mrs. V ern H endrickson. cording to all reports received Sec., and Mrs. Lee Johnson, to date, S ecreary of State Earl Treas. The follow ing m em bers T. N ew bry announced Friday. w ere present: Mrs. P. J. McAbee, /# The m onth’s fatalities bring Mrs. F. W G ilbreath. Mrs. Chas the toll so fa r this y ear to 219. S chuler, Mrs. John B urdell, Mrs a 33 percent drop from the 324 Loren Casbier, Mrs. Ernie Allen, deaths reported d u ring the same Was over at b.»c Sherman's drug how the majority felt; Curly waa Mrs. H arold S traus, Mrs. Ira period of 1948. store listening to the World Serie* hig enough not to insist on hia C ulver, Mrs. Ada Bouldin. The N ew bry term ed the death re on the radio. Curl) Lawson wan mailed even though be «Io» n il hap guest list included the following duction “ex trem ely g ratify in g ” ders in and says: “llow about a pen to be fond of baseball. F o rrest C. Losee, Dist. G overn in view of the y e a r's increase From where I sit, willingness to chocolate malted, I)oc?" or, and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. 1 in m otor vehicle registrations respect the other people’a feelings “Sorry, Curly,” snys Doc, "can't A. T. H untington, K lam ath Falls and traffic volum e and pointed is important in a Democracy. If make you a limited for u while past state P resident, M rs Nel out th a t it rep resen ts a saving lie M otchenbacker, of R o seburg., of 105 lives. Fifty-tw o persons yet.” “What’s the idea?" Curly we’re tolerant of ft person’s like also a p ast S tate P resident, Mrs. died in S eptem ber accidents last asks. “ Well,” says Doc, “most of for baseball or a glass of temper- atc 1 . we’ve c 'me a long way on E arle A Bow m an of Hillsboro. year. the folks want to hear the gam S tate Sec. of the Aux . M r and j Early dark n ess and storm y unil the mixer makes too much the right road . . . the road to a Mrs. L eonard Goosey. M r and w e a th er in the m onths ahead noise." Curly thinks a moment better America, that Is! Mrs. E dw ard Lilly. Mr. and Mrs. may offset the gains the secre and says, “Okay with me, Doc P e r s o n s — N o t T h in g s K arl F eurhelm , and Mi. and ta ry w arned. Records for p rev i I’ll take a chocolate soda!” Mrs. H arold S a lte r of Rogue ous y ears indicate an upsurge A new study of the Tennessee Valley Authority River. This shows how tolerant folk* P hoenix w as represented in fatalities involving pedestri. has been written by Dean Russell of the Foundation by Mr. and Mrs. M H. Fisher, ns can be expected, most of them can be. Doc showed hl* reaped for for Economic Education. It is devoted to an examinat Dr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Hoey, Mr. taking place in th e heavy traffic Cnpynghi. htt'i. UmirJ Stales Hrcucrt tuuii ¡¡on M rs G. G. S k in n e r Mr. and of th e early evening rush hours. ion of the loss of individual freedom that the TV A idea and Mrs. R. G. Snider. M r and Jrtrs makes inevitable. In one section, Mr. Russell makes H. J. K inisey and Mrs L areell this striking observation: “In the final analysis, this A ger of A shland. Mrs. L- B. H ardin, Mr. and study concerns persons, and not things. When we Mrs. K enneth W uner, Mr. and speak of the socialization of the electric industry, we Mrs. R obert H. Gibson cam e are, of course, referring to persons. Electricity doesn t from G ran ts Pass. Mr. and Mrs ay W. A nderson. M r and Mrs care who or what produces it . . . Under a controlled G Don B urelson cam e from Cen economy it is persons—not things—who are told by tra l Point. The Illinois Yalley government what they must or must not do. This co Lions fu rn ish ed the e n te rta in ent, and Mr. and Mrs H erb ercion of individual citizens *is the vital matter. And m Drews, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. in the long run the individual consumers of electricity W hitesell, and Mr. and Mrs. have just as much at stake in this matter as do the Chas. A. H ubbard cam e over from Cave Ju n ctio n A nd Mr. private producers of electricity. and Mrs. Jo h n K elly cam e in Much of the debate over TVA and all other auth from Cam p W hite, bringing w ith orities which are now being proposed deals with such them M ike Tanzell, the adopted of th e T alent A uxiliary matters as power rates, taxation, subsidization, and v an eteran d N orm an F elder, the adopt so on. These questions are of great importance. But ed v eteran of Gold Hili. Traffic Deaths Below Last Year But Curly "Knows What The Score Is! 6 f a Ote the issue of individual freedom goes far beyond all of them, and is infinitely bigger than all of them. Sociali zation of any industry or enterprise is just one form of dictatorship. It means domination by government of the instruments of production—including the labor force. And the fact that, as in the TVA areas, the mailed fist is usually concealed by the velvet glove doesn’t change the principle one whit. We cannot have individual freedom without free enterprise—nor can we have free enterprise without individual freedom. Th two go together like the fingers on a hand. And the TVA idea is and always must be the enemy of both of them. D river's L incense Exam iner Com ing Here Oct. 17 A d riv ers license exam iner w ill be on d uty in A shland at th e C ity H all on M onday, Oct. 17, betw een th e hours of 9 a.m. an d 4 p.m., according to an a n nouncem ent from the S ecretary of S ta te ’s office. T hese tolkx m ean huxinexx for the W est Pacific Telephone peoole receive pay adding up to $19,000.000 a month Telephone paychecks also come to you M e a n w h ile th e H e a d a c h e G e ts W o r s e DON’T DELAY ! CHECK UP today on your Fire Insurance, Don’t wait until you Dave a loss to learn that your protection is not adequate..... that some thing has been over looked.....that your pol icy does not fit because of an addition to your property or a new mort gage. Call us now. S. C. 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