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erti Oregon Newa Review Ashland, Oregon Thursday. Southern Oregon News Review AAJnnd. Oregon D ecem ber 29, 1949 Industrial Growth Along S.P. Lines Cited By Mercier Ready for the Plunge 38 East Main Street or uuthurlzod fur purchase 4,- 209 mun*, nt a loini cost of $54,- 590,000.” Pat Foods and Farm Supplies W hile in d u strial developm ent week foi non operating ampin-1 and population grow th co n tin u yes. which becam e effective I ed at a rapid pace in 1940 in the S eptem ber 1. alone added m a r j Highway 99, Phoenix territo ry served by S o uthern P a l> $4.890,000 m four m o n th s 1 Paint - rertillaera cific, the railro ad encountered Weed Killer» MR. and MRS J. LOGAN WHITE to the com pany's 194!» wage bill, Publishers various offsetting conditions J. Logan White ..... ....... ..... Managing Editor T here was a national leveling and on an annual basis will cost off of railroad rev en u e from the nearly $14.000.000 In the face of high costs, postw ar high of 1948, in line Southern Pacific has continued w ith the decline in general bust • ll El ness, but traffic rem ained far aggressively its program to cut h im IA T I9 I above the pre w ar level At the expenses by increasing its effici sam e time, the rising cost of pro ency through g rea ter mechoni- viding rail service, p artly met zation, Mr. M ercier said. “ At YOUR OLD STOVE by increases au th o rized in the same tim e we a re continuing TAKEN IN TRADE ft eight rates, reached a new to invest large sum s in service An Efficient Leader im provem ents peak. In 1949 we have received or These observations highlight a We’re side-stepping any attempts to pass out the year-end review of S o u th ern Pa ordered 105 additional diesel l<> usual New \ ear s Resolutions this year, knowing full cific activities, released today by com otives at a cost of $65.500. P resident A. T M ercier of the 000 During the past year we well that before the year is a day old they’ll be for railroad. He pointed out that the have received 8.123 new freight gotten anyway. 890 Oak St. Tel. 3331 population gain since 1940 in the ta r s and have under delivery eight w estern and southw estern The space this year, we believ’e, can be used much states served by S o uthern Paci better in complimenting Ray Fletcher, secretary of fie is 34 per cent, com pared with only nine and one-half per cent the Ashland Y .M.C.A., on the fine job he and the board m the o th er 40 states of directors are doing in creating good wholesome fun B ut against this gain in the dnd progressive projects for Ashland youngsters up at population density and tra f fic potential of its te rrito ry S ou the Y. thern Pacific experienced costly developm ents in addition to the There are probably few, if any, places in the country nationw ide drop-off in business. where more plans are made in consideration of youth Mr. M ercier said. These included entertainment than here at the Ashland Y.M.C.A. tie-ups of connecting lines din ing the unusually severe w eath This week is a full week for Ray, with something er early this year, a short supply of freight cars in recent m onths doing every day. Tuesday it was free movies for all “Y” V I as w estbound loadings from east members with a Gra-Y swimming party scheduled for A utom obile ow ners of Oregon ber: had availed them selves of ern ind u strial centers took a Thursday at Medford. sta rte d picking up the W hite the o p p o rtu n ity .” B etter luck sharp drop, and the increasing com petition of highw ay c a rrie rs (t Friday the G ra-\ will hold a slumber party at the Man s B urden of road improve- was had at a trip to the Tw elve R ate increases gran ted this May the New Y ear bring to you and yo u rs ent right pronto a fte r the gaso- Mile House “ in which 10 auto y e a r w ere less than sufficient Y , with another free show for all members coming m PROSPERITY___ line buggies first m ade th eir m obiles took p a rt.” to balance the increase in labor ; up Friday afternoon at 2:30. m ore o r less e rra tic appearance By th a t tim e there w ere 242 costs, he continued The 40-hour | GOOD HEALTH___ to the horrified reaction of Old autm obile ow ners in P o rtlan d GOOD LUCK___ In addition to these programs Fletcher and his di Dobbin and the very frequent and confidence was expressed direct tax money: — the grand rectors are holding holiday tournaments in “Eight dam age to the One Hoss Shay. th a t all of them could be g a th e r papa of w hat has grow n into early autom obile ow ners, ed into the organization. Seem Ball” for junior high school boys and another for grade all The 40 of them , sta rte d the m ove ingly. too, the 242 buzz wagons O regon's b e tte r than $350 mil school boys. A snooker tournament is open to all ages. m ent to put the new look on the (some of them w ere Stanley lion highw ay system since the Scripter & McKeever of the sta te highw ay H N o rth Alain Other tournaments include table tennis for both roads rig h t a fte r they organized S team ers and Locomobiles) had creation Ashland the P o rtla n d A utom obile Club com m enced to c lu tte r up traffic, comm ission in 1917 junior high and grade school boys. on A pril 19, 1905. They w ere an j fo r or. May 2, 1906, the m inutes group, equipped w ith note the appointm ent of a com During the past months the Y programs have called earnest long linen dusters, gauntled m ittee "to see the city council for craft classes and other constructive projects. gloves, goggles and an insatible i to try to secure an 8 m ile an desire to go places. O ne of those h o u r speed lim it inside the fire It is not to be interpreted that Fletcher is being given places was th e C lairm ont T avern ‘•nuts and 15 m iles outside of all the credit for the fine showing made by the local or dow n the w est side of the Wil them w ithin the city bo u n d ar ette at L innton. The road had ies.” ganization. Ih e board of directors and individuals have lam the ad v an tag e of c o n n e c tin g ' Such is the history of the pre- contributed to no little extent in planning and carrying w ith sm oother city streets ru n sta tu to ry papa of the road users ning past th e Lew is & C lark Ex gasoline tax, the initial point of out the program. position grounds, was level, not the v irtu a l retirem en t of county However, to carry out any successful program calls too bum py but all fired dusty governm ents from road const the good old sum m er tim e ruction and m aintenance with for an efficient leader. For this leadership we heartily in when it was nicest to go honking commend Ray Fletcher. along. The Club m em bers ea rly dis covered th a t w hile th e ir goggles ' m ight keep th e dust out of th eir Just “Pikers” Compared To Harry eyes it w ould n ot keep it out of th e ir noses o r th e ir th ro a ts so j If anyone wonders why the cost of the Federal tn ey decided to do som ething a- government is just about the most critical domestic bout it. They took up a collect-1 the subscription footing up issue we face, a tabulation recently printed by Reader’s ion. to $2,205 and on or about A pril Digest will make the reason clear. It simply shows the 1906, spent $1.655 (that rep res amounts of money spent by each of the Presidents from enting a ll of th e subscriptions in) in oiling a portion of the beginning of the nation up to September 30, 1949. paid the L innton road. This was th e culm ination of In the early days, Federal spending amounted to efforts reach in g from a m em DON’T DELAY ! peanuts compared with modern standards. Washington orial Day autom obile race m eet at th e Irv in g tra c k M ay 30, 1905 and Adams each spent a little more than $34,000,000. which n etted $244 10 tow ard the CHECK UP today on Lincoln had a war on his hands, yet his budgets totaled oil fund. only $3,252,000,000. Thereafter, expenses went down It is noted in the re p o rt of your Fire Insurance, Dependable, low-cost electric service must always be available for again. McKinley, for instance, spent just over $2,000,- Lew is Russell, ch airm an of the Don’t wait until you the homes, businesses and industries of this rapidly growing region. Road Race and M eet C om m ittee have a loss to learn that 000,000. th a t the oiling h ad been “done your protection is not t the request of 85 p e rc e n t of This is why Copco is rushing to completion its ,$50,090,000 building adequate..... that some The first really big budget came with the first a the su b scrib ers.” He a d d s , thing has been over program. world war and the Wilson Administration — nearly T here was a loud ro a r p rin c i $47,000,000,000. Again expenses dropped, with Cool p ally from th e people w ho did looked.....that your pol subscribe and those who pro icy does not fit because The N orth Umpqua project, 8 new hydro-electric plants, will develop idge and Hoover together spending around $34 000 - not mised but did not m aterialize ” 000,000. ’ It also was arg u ed a t the m eet of an addition to vour 145,000 kilowatts by the end of 1953. This is larger than our entire property or a new mort ing th a t th e “ St. Jo h n s B oule pre-war electric power production! It is designed to meet the con Then came the depression, President Roosevelt vard on the east ban k of the gage. Call us now. tinuing yearly increase in demand for electric service. and the New Deal. During his first eight years in of riv e r should be oiled “ This wouJd( give us,” it was pointed fice Mr. Roosevelt’s administration cost some $67 500 - out, Along with this power plant program is the rebuilding and expansion circle d riv e of the city 000,000. The grand total for all the Presidents through down one side of the beautiful of our all-important transmission and distribution lines. For power 1940 was $179,620,000,000. And that total, it must be W illam ette, across th e St. Johns lines as well as generating equipment must constantly he expanded rry and back th e o th er side ” BILLINGS AGENCY remembered, covers more than 150 years of our history. fe It was also urged “to tak e action to handle the tremendous increase in load Copco has had through- (Since July 1883) about the road to G overnm ent DEPENDABLE Reader’s Digest leaves out the extraordinary ex Cam p and Mt. Hood.” T he m in out its system. penditures of the World War II years _ 1941-45 It utes note th a t th e C lub “had NSURANCE COUNSELORS Comer Main and Oak Ih e first of the 8 new plants of the North Umpqua project, Toketee, then lists President Truman’s spending from the 1946 m ade a ru n ” to C lairm o n t T av Ashland Hotel Building ern w here “a luncheon was se r fiscal year to the end of September, 1949. It adds up to ved g ratis but only a few mem- is now in operation and meets today’s needs for electric power. Slide Phone 8781 ■nU-red as second-class mail matter in the post office at Ash land, Oregon, February 15, 1935, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879 Phoenix Feed & Seed SPARK OIL STOVES W(little Transfer & Enel Co. Funds For Oregon’s First Oiled Road Came From Early Auto Owners Pockets Marshal 1-Wells Store for a fast-g ro w in g , prosperous area! S. C. Jones & Sons over $191,000,000,000 — nearly $12,000,000,000 more than all his 32 predecessors spent except for the 1941- 1945 period. Here is a very revealing picture of the way the nation has gone. It is true that conditions have changed over the years. But it is also true that the government has expanded in every direction to a point far greater than most of us realize. Mr. Truman is now a symbol of that expansion, but he is not the major cause. Pressure groups of every kind have grown infinitely more adept and powerful, and officeholders of both parties have fallen into line. The results are our huge budgets, with recurring Federal deficits in spite of these budgets. A noteworthy development is the concern over our fiscal affairs which is being expressed by people who are not conservatives. Speaking of taxes and deficits Dorothy Thompson says, “This appalling discrepancy between what is spent and what is raised occur« when the national income is near the highest in history! It is an absolutely reckless example of the spirit of ‘after us the deluge.” A great deal more pressure to cut the cost of government may be expected in the future than in the past. Creek and Soda Springs plants, now under construction, and the A lte rt aement From where Í s i t ... J o e M a rsh remainder of the North Umpqua project plus our new power lines, sub-stations, transformers, etc., is your assurance and our assuranc. of an increasing supply of dependable, low-cost electric service foi the years ahead. Copco is proud.it builds and grows with this prosperous area. & ionic For The Missus The missus came marching in with a new hat yesterday. She was as happy as a circus poster. I ve learned oot thing about the From where I sit, different peo- hats she buys. A hat is a tonic to |de are always going to respond to her. If «he’s feeling blue, nothing different things in different ways. gives her a lift like a new hat. So let’s keep a friendly under Now, I could trade in my old grey standing of what other folks get fedora without raising my blood out of a new hat, an old clarinet, pressure a notch. Rut I ’ll admit a chocolate soda or a temperate that more than once I ’ve bought a glass of sparkling beer or ale now new briar pipe I didn’t need—just and then. because life was getting a little bit monotonous. O N E o r A M E R IC A 'S B U S ! N E S S -M A N AC, E D E L E C T R IC C O M P A N IE S i ■ a t i n ■I - MORE f • Z m u (1at inn i n a » ■ ■ a a i 1 ■ a i a a ilia ■ a a a all ■ a a l ■ l a \ f o t With Ruck Howell it’., something else again. When Hue! is feeling f n n v rie h t. THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY low, he gets over it by blowing on a broken-down clarinet he hasn't mastered in twenty years. POWtR io ro I
