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
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Publishers
MR and MRS. J LOGAN WHITE
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T hursday. O ctober 13. l»40
Ashland. Oregon
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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
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manufacturer and supplier, bought over 20 mil
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you. And your telephone still does its jobs for
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built the business . . . who own telephone stock
. . . live in the West. In return for the use of their
money, a few pennies of each telephone dollar go
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Western prosperity. It would probably be hard to
find anyone who does not in some way benefit
from the money we spend.
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