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.
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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.
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