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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1949)
Ashland, Oregon flMritiern Oregon N ew s R eview Southern Oregon News Review Airland, Oregon Thursday. D ecem ber 15, 194» To Have and to Hold 38 Bast Main Street Bntercd as second-class mall matter in the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879 MR and MRS. J. LOGAN WHITE J Logan White • tf P ublishers Managing Editor El I ATI 0■ fin is 19641 Ix>okM Like A <»nod Year If the forecasters are right, 1950 will be quite a year. U. S. News & World Report has summed up the ooucensus. According to it. the people as a whole "will be better fed, better clothed, better housed, better sup plied with the goods and services they want. Jobs pro mise to be rather plentiful. Pay will be better than ever before. Taxes will not be higher. Prices are likely to be fairly stable." The figures are extremely impressive, even in an era when we are accustomed to talking glibly in terms of tens of billions. In 1950, our total spending — which includes everything spent by individuals, business and in both its residential and commercial branches, seems government — is expected to be nearly $267,000,000,- to be looking to 1950 with confidence. 000. That is $7,000,000,000 more than the estimated Some of the experts are convinced that economic figure for this year, and $5,000,000,000 over the 1948 troubles lie ahead of us — but few expect them in 1950 total. or soon thereafter. The biggest gain is expected in spending by in- dividuals. One reason for this is the $2,500,000,000 which veterans will receive in refunds on their govern November Big Mont li at Public Library ment life insurance. Payments will begin shortly after N ovem ber was a big m onth at books of the shelves and in use. the first of the year and will be completed in a relati the A shland P ublic L ibrary. N at books ff th e shelves and in use. c h ild ren ’s Bookw eek a l However, this circulation figure vely short time. It is believed that a very large part of w ional ays falls in N ovem ber, which the money will be spent in a hurry for consumer goods brings in m any of the school m eans the num ber of separate children. A n um ber of teachers, users and m aght not be an act of all kinds. w ere unable to bring their ual m oving of one-third of the Total individual earnings, the magazine goes on, who classes to enjoy the new books books, as one book may have are forecast at $216,500,000,000. Personal taxes and on display, requested the lib ra r gone out several times. The L i anticipated savings will account for about $34,000,000,- ian to visit th eir rqom s w ith sam b rary Board w ondered w hat w ould happen if all the books 000 of it. So, if the crystal ball is telling the truth, in ple A books. total of 180 new books w ere came back in a t the sam e tim e, dividuals will send $182,500,000,000 flowing through received, w hich included $75 and th a t is precisely w hat is w erth of ju v en ile books p u rch a s w orrying the libarians. as th ere the channels of trade and commerce. by C h ap ter A.C. of P.E O. is so little storage space. The Spending by government will increase by some T ed here w ere eighty-three new average circulation per day $2,400,000,000. Private investment, on tHe other hand, borrow ers reg istered during through th e m onth was 327 will probably be not much greater than this year, and N ovem ber, w hich m ade an a v - 1 books, of which 45% w ent to of seventy new borrow ers children substantially below the $45,000,000,000 figure which erage The stafl did research w ork p er m onth since the beginning was chalked up in 1948. of the new fiscal y e a r J u ly 1. on 118 reference questions d u r U. S. News also touches on the fields where most T here a lre ad y have been thirty- ing N ovem ber The lib ra ry has received gifts eight new reg istra tio n s in D ec of the money will be spent. On the basis of the fore em ber. M any of these new users of th e N ational G eographic casts, there will be a rise in sales of clothing and home express appreciation of th e a t m agazine w hich gave a com plete * furnishings. The nation’s food bill, on the other hand, tractiv e read in g room and the duplicate set fo r a period of n um ber of d esirable books a v a il fourteen and a h alf years. These Snay go down a bit, due to lower prices. The automobile able. have recently been bound into people think that sales will be as good or nearly as in The circu latio n of books to six-m onth volum es and a re a- the current boom year — a premise largely based on read ers was u n usually high also, vailable for loan for four to six N ovem ber. The to ta l circu la weeks. the fact that there are 20.000,000 cars of varying de for tion through schools an d the grees of antiquity now on the road which will ’'°?d to m ain lib ra ry was 7,847. O ut of S tationery Supplies a t the News Review be replaced before too long. The construction industry, a book shelf of aro u n d 20,000 STEVENSON ARTICLE IN NATIONAL MAGAZINE Ceramics Courses To Be Offered , Made ESPECIALLY For The O ctober issue of the Nati-1 oual Education Association Jon i rnal has an a rticle titled The School and C om m unity G et To geth er by Dr Elmo Stevenson, president of S outhern Oregon College lu tills a rticle the until or describes a cooperative ex perim ent w herein the college, its extension service the lay und school peoples of Coos and Cur- rey counties sought m eans of in suring closer and b e tte r school com m unity services Seven Sou thorn O regon College staff m em bers took part in the program The A rt D epartm ent will of fer a course in C eram ics and P ottery for the first tim e, du r ing w in ter q u a rte r Mr Irw in W hitaker, of the Art D epart nient, w ilt serve as instructor for the courses The courses, although d iffe r ent in nam e and num ber, will be basicly the sam e from the ceram ic view point in th a t the techniques taught are ttie same S tu d en ts a re all taught to mix clay, glaze and to use the Kiln A fter the first few weeks of technical in struction the s tu dent may specialize in pottery, sculpture, m odeling or other a rt phases. A student registered in P ottery may specialize in o th er fields Mr. W bituker states th a t C er am ics is the m ajor industry in the U S C eram ics em braces all fields of clay and enam el w ork 1 C eram ics is also the m ajor c r u f t 1 tau g h t in hospitals for tlierapeu 1 die work, in the reh ab ilitatio n ol' the ill The w ork is also incour . aged in pre-m edical and p re j d en tal stu d e n ts as it helps stu d en ts to visualize th e th re e di m ensional figures. A lab rato ry has been set up in the basem ent of M emorial C ourt in the place previously occuppied by the Chcm . Lab. A kiln is expected to be in operat on I y Ja n u a ry 1st. C lasses w ill be held in A-214. P o tte ry on Tuesdays, 7 and 8 p.m. and Clay M odeling, A 316. on T uesdays and T hursdays at 1 and 2 o'clock KIDDIES' CHEST COLDS In tell«»« coughs—»ching miisclat I T I i i w ' m h H|MM'inl C lulil m M iltl Mun- ' irru lv ininli' fur Uiihlh’s' ti'iu lrr ulln. 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