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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1950)
1/ 0/ L*br,a>>. Letter From Washington By Hon. H a rri* Ellsw orth, Congressman. 4th D istrict There have been some rather disturbing reports concerning the way Federal appropriation bills are to be handled this year. Instead of the usual separate bill for each department, all ap propriations are to be lumped into one giant bill. Heretofore each bill has been prepared by a subcommittee which had con siderable authority of its own and was responsible for its bills on the floor. This year I under stand that while the various sec tions of the single b ill w ill be prepared by subcommittees, a single, hand-picked, super sub committee w ill •‘screen" the fin al draft before the b ill is allowed to go to the floor. The grim pra ctical politics of this develop ment w ill be to bring appropri ation bills under strict administ ration control Previously, many subcommittees of the House Ap propriations Committee were dominated by members who did not see eye-to-eye with the Presi dent and his inner circle, NEWS REV IEW ‘Ashland Voi. 16. No. 45 Horne of the Oregon Shake8(tearcan Fefltival” A S H L A N D . JA C K S O N C O U N T Y . O R EG O N . T H U R S D A Y . J A N U A R Y 19. 1950 Warmer Weather, Kain Bring Relief To This Area Iron Lung To Be Officially Presented To City Of Ashland As Junior Chamber Completes Project Started Last Fall Rising temperatures and ruin tliut started falling Tuesday morning brought relief to Sou thern Oregon following ten days of snow that has piled up to make travel conditions hazardo» us over most of the state. Rain fell all day Tuesday and most of the night causing gutters to overflow with the heavy run M* off of melting snow Ashluud schools, that hud been closed Monday afternoon because of travel conditions, were re-opened as usual Wed nesday morning and other act LAST PONY EXPRESS RIDER “ B ro n ch o " C h a rlie M ille r, ivities were getting hack to nor last o f the pony express rid e rs In the U. S fu -cin a to s Russell Add to the above the fact* mal Messer. 4. rig h t, unit F red F erro, 8. w ith tale o f ttie old West and that all House appropriation* The heuvy snow, reported to a look at his ow n m odel stagecoach. K ill* dropped In at h i* New hearing* are held behind clos reach a depth of eighteen Inches Y o rk h o m e to l a 'p th e ot.l f i , i i i i e r - m oi i ■ h ; 100th b irth d a y ed doors and floor debate on in some sections of the city, is — the fund* for each departm ent said to be the heaviest fall in w ill Likely be lim ite d to an recent years hour on each aide, it is p retty Tile City street department clear that the membership of had been working on a 24-hour the House, the newspaper* and basis in an attempt to keep gut the public, w ill not have a ters and storm sewers open. chance to find out much about Validity of sale of tlmberland what is in an appropriation Heavy snow fell all day Mon in or rieur the Ashland city K W IN TO B R IN G W E E K E N D b ill and why. day following a promising day watershed faced members of the B A S K E T B A L L G A M E S Many of us are going to put of clearing Sunday, the first i Ashlund City Council again this Radio station KW1N w ill up a fight against this “iron day in more than a week that week at their Tuesday night curtain" method of handling ap no snow fell In the urea Nearly meeting when it was brought out broadcast the Oregon-Washing a foot of new snow fell in the tliat there is a definite |>ossibili- ton basketbull game Friday propriations higher elevations of the city dur ty tliat the timberlands may be night starting ut approximately M inority leader of the House. ing Monduy's storm, causing a loented in the plot originally set 8 o'clock The Medford-Klum- Congressman Joe Martin, has near halt in all traffic and bring aside for watershed lands prior ath Falls game w ill follow at named me a member of the com ing business along Main street 1 to the draw *>: of the present about 9:30. i city charter The game between OSC and mittee he has appointed which to a standstill. Mayor Tom Williams lias un- Washington State on Saturday With nearly three hundred w ill draw up a statement of city i covered legal documents filed in night w ill be broadcast at ap- Republican objectives — sort of students absent from schools Monday. C ity Superi • the offices of tiie city recorder J proximatey 7:30 with the Ash a statement of Republican Party which, along with maps, point , land-—Eagle Point game to fol- ntendent Leland P. L in a and policy so far as Republican Mem to the possibility of such u set I low tha board of D istrict 5 called bers of the House are concerned up w ill) u proclamation drawn A similar committer* has been o il a ll classes for Tuesday. up during Gruver Cleveland's formed by Senate Republicans School was resumed Wedne* administration and passed by an and another has been selected by day follow ing a promise of Act of Congress In 1897 better w eather and road con National Chairman Gabrielson C ity attorney H arry Skerry from the membership of the Nat dition*. Several school busses said that according to inform at ional Committee. A ll three did not make th e ir regular ion gained It is possible that a, trips Monday. groups w ill w o rk independently Chains were needed generally part of the land does include the On account of tha u n fav at first and each w ill prepare its own statement Later an ex tor traffic throughout the city watershed and that further In orable weather conditions now ecutive committee, made up of as the new snow piled up on vestigation w'U lx? necessary be prevailing, the m id-w inter ses fore a decision can be reached sion of the State Elks associat members from each of the three an already record fall. He said he expected to have this ion w ill not meat in Ashland Street Superintendent Albert Ixtdies, w ill combine the three statements into a single state Day has kept his street crews information and a recommendat a* scheduled. Sid Reed, secre- ment of Republican principals working on a 24-hour day basis ion ready for the Council at its tary of tha Ashland lodge 944. in an attempt to keep as many next meeting. BPOE. said that the two day and objectives. In event that a portion of wat session was m erely postponed streets cleared as possible Day M y thin kin g on this subject issued an appeal to all motorists ershed land lies in the urea cov u n til fu rth er notice. is that w hat we say must be Monduy to aid in the charing ered by the proposed sale it bold, it must be specific — by keeping parked cars from all w ill be necessary for a vote of proved uii option to Don Provo definite, end it must be stated night stands along the curbs. the people to make final approv for purchase of the building on in clean - cut, understandable He said it was essential to clear al of the transaction. Although it was pointed out Third street, originally purchas terms w ith no double-talk. gutters in event warmer tem ed for use as a fire station. The Can we do it? I think we can peratures or rain should cause ttiat construction of the new option w ill run for a thirty-duy and w ithout too much d iffic u l a heavy runoff from melting city reservoir dam lias changed period with Provo to pay $13,- to some extent the actual lo ty, at that. snow. OOUcash for the property should Nearly ull clubs and organi cation of the watershed, Skerry Within a very few weeks our zations, meeting early this week, said further investigation would lie decide to buy. George Sennatt received ap home here w ill be the center of canceled regular sessions in view be necessary before any steps plans & preparations for a wed of the storm Highways to the could be made lor final approval proval of the council to rent a one quarter section of the build ding. Our daughter Jane is to, south, which have been blocked if the sale. ing for storage space at a rate be married this spring — prob-, for several days were rapidly Island To Be Shortened of $10 per month with the stip ably in May. One result of all being reopened and train and Chief of Police Vern Smith ulation that he would relinqui this w ill be the loss of an ex bus schedules are expected to be read a letter to council men from sh the rental upon 4fl-hours noti tremely capable member of my back to normal this weekend R. H. Baldock, State Highway ce by the common council. office staff. Last fall I persuad engineer, approving shortening Discuss F ire Station ed Jane to resign an excellent of the north island on the Plaza position she had as private sec Mayor W illiams and Council by 25 feet and making Water retary to the Vice-President of man Elmer Sheldon discussed street a one way street. Water one of the large radio networks street has already been designat the new Grants Pass fire station and come to w ork in my office. ed as a one-way thoroughfare by which they visited last week and This made it .possible for me to told other members that the The Southern Oregon Histori recent council action. The state have her with me to handle my building was 77 feet wide by 100 office at home in Oregon, which cal Society w ill hold Open highway commission also ap feet long and was built at a proved plans for cutting a strip made a wonderful working set House on Sunday at 2 p.m., Feb cost of $52,000. They said that up. During the two months in ruary 12th at the old Jackson through the island at the south this figure also included a 4- end of Siskiyou Boulevard per ville court house which is in Oregon I made a total of 51 pub cell jail in the back of the build lic appearances and drove some the process of being converted mitting traffic leaving the hospi ing, a modern kitchen, a recre 4,000 miles. M y dictation w a s , into a museum. The date is of tal to make a left turn without ation room and all furniture. usually done late at night and on . double significance in that it continuing south to the end of Sundays. It was great to have a I not only commenmorates L in the island where a u-turn is The Bellview Project Seth Bullis, district manager “ built-in” secretary But now coln’s birthday but is the near necessary for northbound traf Jane is leaving the office in Feb- j est Sunday to O r p i n ’s birth fic. No right turns from the of the California Oregon Power Boulevard at this point w ill be company, said that, since their ruary and w ill start getting day, February 14th. previous meeting had been post It is expected that the build allowed. ready for the big event. The state highway commission poned, he had proceeded no fu r ing program w ill be far enough along by this date so that there also approved installation of pe ther in regards to purchase of may be public inspection of the destrian traffic lights at the new the Bellview electric lines by work accomplished. As tl>e mus Briscoe school and at Iowa and the City of Ashland. It was ag eum is of more than county wide Siskiyou Boulevard. Cost of the reed that the Council and rep interest and has been given installations would approximate resentatives of the company much publicity throughout the $1480.00. Tiie Council approved would meet on Thursday night, state, it is hoped that there w ill the installation but at the pres Feb. 2, to further discuss the be a large attendance at the ent time no funds are available matter of purchase. for immediate proceedure with In a discussion on the possibi February Open House. the project. lities of a new hospital for Ash The Rogue River Rabbit M ar The Police Chief also read a land, Dr. Elmo Stevenson, chair keting Association w ill hold its C H A IN L E T T E R S A G A IN ^ Adding to its other woes, Ash letter from Governor Douglas man of the citizens’ Interim com regular meeting on Monday ev ening Jan. 23 at 7:30 at the Med land has been attacked by a rash McKay commending the depart mittee, said that the State would ford Court House. A report w ill of chain letters recently. The ment for its interest in the traf be glad to purchase the prop erty now being used for the hos e given on the progress of the latest form does not demand fic safety program. The highway commission said pital but advised that he believ new processing plant now under money however, but threatens construction in Talent. In spite dire calamity and misfortune that plans are underway for con ed it would be a poor policy for of the inclement weather several within four days to any recipient structing a third lane on high the city*to sell the property until members have been working who dares break the chain but way 00 on Billings hill to the enough money was available to each day to complete the build great financial success immedi viaduct at the north Ashland build a new hospital. Approximately $300,000 wou- ing Refrigeration unit w ill be ately to all who follow direct city limits. The third lane would installed by the first of next ions. As proof of their Utopian be used for southbound slow j Id be needed for construction of traffic to eliminate ; a new hospital, of which one week and butchering w ill prob claims, various now deceased moving ably begin within a few days U.S. A rm y generals are cited much of the hazard created on third could be obtained from as examples, one being the late the h ill at the present time. federal funds. The city must thereafter W. B. McCullough expects to General George Patton, whose Work on the project is expected raise the additional $200,000 un less means can be devised to go to San Francisco on Thurs wealth could scarcely have been to start early this spring. ; procure more thr> one third day to negotiate for the m arket materially affected by a dozen Give Option On B uilding “voodoo” chain letters. The council unnmimously ap- from federal funds. ing and trucking. 7 > & Timber Question Again Looms Before Council: North Island To Be Shortened State Elks Meet Postponed Public Invited To Open House Rabbit Raisers Make Progress On New Plant Singla Copy 5c C o in c id in g w ith tin- M a rch o f D im es d riv e w ill be the o ffic ia l p re s e n ta tio n o f the new " Iro n lu n g " to tiie c ity o f A s h la n d The p ro je c t was o r i g i i r i l l ) in s tig a te d by tiie J u n io r C ha m b e r o f Com m ciee and im m e d ia te ly became o f general c iv ic in te re s t w ith m any o rg a u iz a tio n s and in d iv i d ua ls w o rk in g lo w u rd (he fu n d ra is in g . Last week tiie fin a l a- n io u n t o f n e a rly $2300 was co m p le t e « and on n e x t M onduy ev e n in g at a 7 30 d in n e r a t the E lk c lu b S h erm an H a d le y w ill tu rn o v e r th e new life saving m achine to tiie c ity . T he lu n g w ill be a v a ila b le h o w e v e r hi case o f any Jackson c o u n ty em ergency p o lio case It is o f the la te s t c o n s tru c tio n w ith a p la s tic dom e and is one o f b u t th re e in the state, the nearest being in Eugene Harry McNair Gets Fire Chief Appointment Harry McNair, present Ash land assistant Fire Chief, was appointed as Fire Chief by May or Tom Williams at Tuesday night's council meeting The ap pointment was unamimously con firmed by council members. McNair has been acting fire chief since the resignation of Clint Baughman becume effect ive Jan. 3. Baughman, who ser ved 27 years with the Ashland department, retired on that date. Mayor Williams also re-ap- pmnted Harry Skerry as City Attorney, Frank Davis as ce metery superintendent, and L. P. Wilmeth as Municipal Judge. Ali three apppointments were confirmed *>y council action Councilman Fred Homes was again named .Chairman of the Council. five cents tor adults und ten cents for students. The Scouts 'o f Troop 112 under G iff Chui- lund w ill take charge of the ushering and the placing of the chairs, which the II.S. Whittle Company have offered to tran sport from the high school for the occasion. Tiie following week an “A ll Student" benefit skate w ill be held on Thursday evening the 26th at the Ashland Skateway, witii Al Haynes cooperating in the plans for special feature numbers !t w ill be Dad’s night at the Interest is being aroused a- Briscoe P.T.A. this Thursday mong both old and young in night at the Briscoe School when several contests, one of which is the Dads present the production the same state m ilk bottle com Life With Mother on the Bris petition at the bank which pro coe Gymnasium stage. A large group of Dads have ved most successful two years ago Each state is represented by been in rehearsal during the past a gay pennant marked bottle in two weeks and the production Tiie March of Dimes campai to which the contributors donate promises to be one of the funni gn offically opened Inst Monday according to their native states est and most satirical presented in the teetli of a blinding snow The public schools ifhve an in some time. storm, when the Ashland chair nounced a poster contest with a Life With Mother w ill feature men, M r and Mrs Don McWhir- first and second prize offered in the Dads Symphony Orchestra, ter delivered minuture "iron each of the schools and honorab Chorus and vocal soloist. The lungs" to every business house. le mention and a downtown dis play itself presents a series of But as Mrs MacW hirter rem ark play of the best entries. The scenes showing mother at PTA, ed "Infantile paralysis is no res local theatres are cooperating in at bridge club, buying a new pecter of weather or of circum giving the winners free tickets hat, handling domestic problems stances. Never has tiie need been Judges in the poster contest are and many other scenes. Gorman so great. A fter four consecutive to be three S.O.C. students. I Bond as the winsome little moth- epidemic years the funds for the The college group of Alpha ! er appears in the opening scene polie fight have been nearly de Sigma Alpha under the leader From then on the play resemb pleted.” ship of Gordon Quade w ill pro- les an Olsen and Johnson Mad- This year's drive has the gen ! vide speakers for every service , cap erous backing of every organi d u n in Ashland during the It is feared that the Dads on zation. all of the schools and the March of Dimes drive. their one night to entertain may townspeople. The program, as Members of the Women’s Civ- place Mother at her worst and announced by the committee t ic Club and the Junior Civic it is feared that reprisals may hcadsuarters at the City Hall un 1 Club w ill be in charge of the come from the mothers and der the chairmanship of Mrs. I "iron lung” and "hot pack” ma- wives, who w ill see themselves Dorothy Mills, w ill begin on F ri ! chine on display at the City at their worst. day evening January 20 with a i Hull and w ill handle all down Featured in the cast for the March of Dimes variety show at town donations and inquiries. production arc: Clarence W il tiie Lincoln school. The troupe is 1 The two Ashland Study clubs liams. Ralph Leach, Dr. Harvey made up of local Jackson county under the chairmanship of Mrs Woods, Walt Bosshard, Roland talent under the direction of Zoe Gwen Thomas are conducting Parks, Chester Squire. Elmer Peters of Ashland and promises the "m ilk bottle" contest at the Ayers, Dr. E. G. Everett, Wayne to be a laugh riot, w ell worth bank. Among the many others Hurd. A rt Phillips, Jim Person, the admission price of twenty- who have given of their time are Foss Kramer, Leighton Schell, Mrs W illiam Snider and Mrs Herb Lewis, Verne Stuart, For Jim Busch who handled the ad rest Campbell, Cecil Harris, and dressing and mailing of all of Gorman Bond. the envelopes sent out for the The play w ill start at approx campaign. imately 8:00 with a pot luck The climax of the March of dinner preceedig the entertain Dimes events w ill come on Jan ment. uary 28 when the annual B irth day Ball w ill be held at the The office of the Ashlund F.lks with an outstanding orches Chamber of Commerce has been tra providing the music for dan named as an official center for cing. renewing drivers' licenses, it As there is keen interest and was stated this week by B ill Mc sympathy being expressed by On Monday evening. January Gee, secretary of the Chamber everyone it is expected that the 23 at the Junior High Gym the Only renewals may be taken 1950 campaign w ill be the most annual game of Donkey Basket at the local office, McGee said. successful one ever conducted. ball w ill be played between the He stated that the plan had been The need is greater and the re Ashland Men Teachers and the arranged as an added function sults of the donations have been Ashland Businessmen. and service of the local office. seen in the area during the re This game has been played cent polio epidemic. for the last three years with Thames Williamson the business men winnig two and the teachers winning one. Visits Ashland On previous games the crowds Thames Williamson, w riter of who jammed the gym witnessed fiction and photoplays, is in Ash some of the strangest comedy land this week investigating pos ever presented here. Dignified sibilities of locating in Southern teachers and merchants found Nearly 1600 automobile lic Oregon, according to inform at themselves helpless against the ense plates were ordered thro ion released by the Ashland balking and bucking mules Just ugh the Ashland office of the Chamber of Commerce. when a player is about to shoot Chamber of Commerce, it was Two of Williamson’s books, the donkeys get other ideas and ■‘Hunky" and “The Woodscolt,” announced this week by Bill Mc no shot results. Gee, secretary of the Chamber. have been selected by the Book The teachers squad w ill be McGee said the total fees of the Month club in New York selected from the following men: paid in to the state for the plates City. The w riter recently sold A l Simpson, Elmo Stevenson one of his stories to RKO pic amounted to almost $20,000. and Ted Schopf of Soce; Roland The local office for register tures and another of his plays, Parks, Frank O’Neeil, Ken Sch ing was set up early in Decem "Brimstone,” played at the V ar illing, Mel Johnson and Glen sity theatre in Ashland about ber and w ill continue to operate | Crisp of the high school: John as a license register center. the middle of last month. M ille r of Walker School: Paul Retter of Bellview; Ray Hawk, C H IR O P R A T IC P H Y S IC IA N S : Dave Barker and Mr. Peters of H O L D R E G U L A R M E E T IN G The Southern Oregon Society Lincoln; Joe Fader, Bud Silver. of Chiropratic Physicians held Charles Jandreau and Vilas Mit- their monthly meeting Monday tag of Junior High; Chester night at Grants Pan. Members Squire. Dick Leigh and Art Phil were present from Ashland and lips of Briscoe. These men w ill Medford. Supper at the Cottage be attired in an unusual garb cafe was followed by a business and w ill tackle the business session at the home of Dr. Wood- men clad in cowboy outfits Ten real live donkeys are row Campbell of Grants Pass. The next meeting is slated to be used. They are housebroken and are clad in rubber shoes that do held in Ashland in February. not damage the floor. This year the price has been reduced to COLLEGE CLUB 50c for Adults and Soce stu LUNCHEON ULANNED The postponed luncheon of dents, with the kids-getting in the College Women’s Club of for 25c. A ll proceeds go into the Rogue River Valley w ill be the student body fund to get held next Saturday Jan. 21, in new equipment for the school stage and auditorium. Medford at the Jackson Hotel at 1 o’clock in the Pioneer room. ASHLAND MOTORIST Hal Bishop w ill speak on the INJURED IN MEDFORD subject of “A rt in the Home” When his car skidded into a The Rev. Roger W. Blanchard and w ill explain his pioneer parked car and then hit a tree took up on January 2, his new murals in the hotel dining room. on South Central Ave. in Med work a* executive in charge of Mrs. A rth u r Peters of Ashland ford last Saturday night, Thom College Work at national head is president of the College Wom as Irving of Ashland suffered quarters of the Episcopal en’s Cub. Reservations may be eye and facial lacerations which made by calling Mrs. Frank hospitalized him at the Sacred Chnrch in New York. Davis, Ashand 7010. Heart hospital. Dad’s Night Features Briscoe PTA Meeting Drivers* License Renewals Office Set I p Here Donkey Basketball Coming to Ashland License Plate Sales Here 1600
