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NEWS REVIEW
After throe month» of steady
toll the House of Repreaentat*
vc» 1» taking u ten <loy Easter
VoL 17. No. 8
recess The dully calendai of the
House Issued on the duy of ucl-
Journament for the recess list»,
under the heading, "Statu» of
Mujor Hill»." only one piece of
inujoi legislation a» having been
completed into luw thus far this
year That one hill was the ur
gent Deficiency Appropriation
Hill
This session has not been
The Ashland unit of the Jack-
productive of major legislati son county Republican Women
on but it has not lacked pro will meet on Saturday afternoon
duction along other lines. For ,»t I :to at tin- Llthlii lintel, at
example, the House has had which time several of the candi
132 roll calls (it takes 30 min dates for election will speak.
utes to call the roll.) Most of | There will be a discussion pcrl-
them were quorum calls. Last , oil following the talks and seve-
year it was not until the 21st i ral item» of business will be
of July that we had roll call taken up, including the election
j of a board of directors.
number 132.
Talk on the floor of both
The meeting is to be open to
Houses of Congress has been the public and all those mter-
quite ample thus far this ses ¡ested in the political scene, both
sion. also. The 96 Senators by local and national, are invited
long odds out talked the 435 to attend The new precinct bo
House Mombers. In fact, less undaries will be mapped out and
than one-fourth as many Sen
several of the issues which are
ators talked 30 percent more on the May ballot will be brou
pages into the Congressional ght up for study
Record than did the 435 mem
Officers who were elected at
bers of the House. The Sena tlie March meeting were Mrs
tors talked 2.607 pages (about Wm 11. McCullough, president,
4.040.850 words) the House Mrs Edwin Dunne, vice-presi
members 2.027 pages or some dent, Mrs Kenneth Perrine, sec
3.141.850 words.
retary-treasurer, these together
But in volume of bills there with (our directors will serve
has been plenty to talk about. for the ensuing year
Thus far this session 2.354
measures have been introduc
ed in Congress.
Dr. Polish To Conduct
Here 1» u quote that should be Evangelistic Meetings
put up on big billboards all ov
er the United State»: General
Dr. Cliarlea Poling, who pre-
Dwight Eisenhower say»: “Those I ached the sermon at the Grand
individuals seeking to centralize Canyon Easter sunrise service,
power in the Federal Govern will arrive in Ashland the first
ment are more dangerous to our j of next week to conduct a series
form of government than any of evangelistic meetings at the
foreign threat that can possibly Presbyterian church beginning
be arrayed against us."
Tuesday, April 18th Dr Poling
Tha giant appropriations is not only the brother of Dr
bill (431 pages), which I have Dan Poling but is famous in hi»
mentioned previously in these own right as both a powerful
letters, will not be acted upon preacher ai:d a poet He will
after the Easier recess of the close the week of services on
House. Earlier there was an at Sunday morning, April 23.
tempt on the part of the Chair
man of the Appropriations
Committee to get the bill act
ed upon before the recess. Re
publican members sought to
delay action for two reasons.
First, it was felt that majority
members of the House would
Tlie Southern Oregon College
be more inclined to vote for
reducing amendments after Summer Session, under the dir
visiting at home a while. Sec ection of Dr Ray Hawk, will fe
ondly. since the bill is so ature six worksh<<>s in elemen
large and the committee re tary education. The Summer
port so voluminous, some de Session opens June 19 and clos
lay was sought to give the es August 11,
These workshops will last 2
members on both sides of the
aisle a chance to get better weeks and each will carry three
informed on what is in the bill. quarter hours of credit.
It is fairly certain, however,
From June 19 to June 3U. Ed
that the appropriations bill 465, a workshop in Diagnostic
will be passed and sent io the and Remedial Instruction in
Senate before the end of this Reading and Literature, will be
month. Moanwhile the Senate offered From July 3 to July 16,
Appropriations Committee has two workshops: Ed 408L. Meth-
been holding hearings on the ds and Materials of the Langua
various chapters of the bill and ge Arts, and Ed 462, Special Ed
will be in position to report ucation in the Creative Arts (P.
its version of the bill In a E and Music), will be offered
fairly short time.
From July 19 to July 30,
I cannot make the long tup workshops in Ed 408D, Drama
to Oregon for the Easter recess for Elementary Teachers; and
but I am going with members PE 337. Camp and Club Leader
of my committee, the Committee ship. will be offered.
on Interstate and Foreign Com
A fee for enrolling in each
merce, to look over the equip workshop wil be $21.00. Stude
ment and operation of the In nts enrolling for the regular
land Waterways Corporation, a Summer Session may take one
government - owned transportat or more of these workshops as
ion line operating on the Mis part of their regular class load
sissippi. There is a bill before at no extra charge. For further
our committee calling for the information concerning these
authorization of an additional workshops, contact Mrs. Mabel
$10,000,000 for this operation Winston, Registrar, at Southern
and we want to see why the Gov Oregon College,
ernment should invest that much
money in a strictly business en
terprise.
Comedy To Be Featured
College Workshops
At Summer Session
For S.O.C. Mothers In May
Y Crafts Classes
Resume Thursday
Appropriate to the occasion
will be the spring quarter pro
duction of the S.O.C. drama de
partment for the Mothers' Day
week-end May 10, 11 and 12,
when the play “I Rem^mb-r Ma
ma” will be presented The two
act comedy went into rehearsal
the first of the week.
The Y M C A. Adult group in
Crafts will meet for its regular
weekly sessions starting on
Thursday afternoon, April 13th
at 2:00 p.m The evening session
of the group will be held Thurs
day evening at 7:30 o’clock. JACKSONVILLE MAN ADDED
These meetings Thursday mark TO DAIRY HERD WORKERS
the start of a series of eight
Joseph Chabat. of Jackson
weeks meetings for the group
with the Spring series closing on ! ville,has been added to the staff
Thursday, June 1st. The "Y" of the Jackson county dairy
Craft group is open without ; herd improvement association,
charge to all men and women in j Chabat and Hollis Hopper, who
the community interested in | has been working for more than
a year, will provide production
crafts.
j records on milk and butterfat
' or cost records on feed for co
S C R IP T E R S T O P O R T L A N D
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Scripter operating in this county.
The additional p e r s o n n e l
and three children, Mrs Alma
Beach and Mrs. Hugh McKeever makes possible tlie testing of
drove to Portland for Easter double the number of herds test
with relatives. The first of the ed previously One dairyman,
week Mr. Scripter attended a milking thirty cows, who recent
school of instruction for furnace ly put his herd on test, reports
installation put on by the Mar saving $85.00 a month on feed
shall-Wells Company for their cost at an outlay of $9.00 for
the service.
dealers.
April 18 Deadline
To Register For
May 19 Election
“Ashland—Home of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival”
ASHLAND. JACKSON COUNT Y. OREGON. THURSDAY APRIL 13. 1950
Single Copy Sc
Ashland Golf Course To Get Play
Republican Women
To Hear (Candidate
At Open Meeting
i
>twî
Senior High School Students
Guests of S. 0 . C. This Week-end
Shakespeare» Birthday
To Be Observed With
Screening Of Hamlet
California Pair
Accept Council
Lease Offer
On April 23rd Ashland will
observe William Shakespeare s
birthday with ceremonies ap
Bellview Extension
propriate to the day. John Cot
Merle M Russell and Elbert
ton, president of the Festival As
To Hold All Day Meeting
sociation. has announced that a C. Williams, greens keeper and
Bellview H o m e Extension
reception will be given followed golf pro of a Los Angeles coun
Visiting seniors will register by a first showing of ‘‘Hamlet" try club have accepted terms of
unit will meet on Wednesday,
April 19 at 10:30 at the Grange in Churchill Hall on the campus at the Varsity Theatre. Radio a lease recently submitted by
hall. Miss Eula Wiritermote, from 7 to 9 Friday evening, and station KWIN will present a spe- the Ashland City Council where
County Home Extension agent there will be an informal gather - cial program from the theatre by the California men will take
will demonstrate and discuss the ing at Susanne Homes Hall ad with interviews during the i over operation of the Ashland
subject of "Improved Home a dance from 10 to 12. Visiting afternoon, and the theatre man golf course, it was announced
T he
A ssem bly
of
God
Lighting.” There will be a plant seniors will be admitted free o ager, Roy iSullivan, has arrang yesterday by Ben Lombard, at
church announces a series of
exchange and a cover-dish lun the Chez Paree dance sponsored ed for a student matinee perfor torney for the California pair.
e v a n g lis tic
m eetings
b e g in cheon at noon
by the Theatre Guild.
Lombard said the two men had
mance of “Hamlet" on Monday,
I
•
ning last M o n d a y . T h e speaker
already deposited the original
April
24th.
Saturday’s program will con-
is the w e ll k n o w n evangelist.
$3500 required by the lease in
1 sist of breakfast in Susanne
R ev. John F. H a u c k who has
the Ashland Branch of the First
' Homes Hall and a discussion of
been conducting s im ila r ser
National Bank and had indicat
vocational fields by SOC stu
vices th ro u g h o u t
the
state.
ed that they would come here
dents and faculty. Individual
In s p irin g music and sermons
in the next few days to begin
conferences with the students
together
w ith
h ealin g
and
work of conditioning the course
i
will
be
arranged.
A
tour
of
the
p ra y e r have b ro u g h t out larg e
in an effort to make play pos
Dr Elmo Stevenson, chairman campus and the Lincoln Labor
crowds d u rin g the firs t few
A Certificate of appreciation sible this summer.
of the program committee for atory School will be folowed by was presented to V, D Bert Mil
nights.
Under the terms of the lease
the Ashland Chamber of Com a barbecue luncheon at 12:30.
ler by Kiwanis Lt. Governor, the city of Ashland agrees to
merce, said Tuesday noon that
In the afternoon dramatic Russell Kurtz at the noon meet furnish pipe sufficient to carry
plans are being completed for ! productions in the auditorium ing of the Ashland Kiwanis water for irrigation of the cour
making the first Chamber meet and athletic exhibitions will be j Club Monday. On behalf of Ki se and other tools, now stored
wanis International, the district and previously used in caring
ing of each month an open meet- ■ the entertainment. There will be Lieutenant - Governor presented for the greens and fairways.
' a reception at President Steven-
' ing with the second meeting of I son’s home
the award to Miller for his out Cost of the pipe is estimated at
Today an excited group of 42 each month to be open for panel
standing work as president of between $3500 and $4000 The
girl» accompanied by 15 adults discussions of pertinent questi
Housing for visiting seniors the Ashland Kiwanis Club dur lessees will install the lines.
are leaving for a three day con o n s facing the Chamber
will be provided at Susanne ing 1949.
The lessees also agree to in
ference at Coquille The local
I
Homes
Hall and tlie Men’s
Mr. Kurtz paid an official vest $5000 within the next two
Stevenson
said
that
it
is
plan-
Jobs Daughters will take an im
Dorm. Any high school senior visit to the club and addressed years to put the course in shape
portant part in tlie various ses :ned to make a survey of the interested in attending can ob the group briefly. Noting the and an additional $5000 in the
sions, as will Mrs. Martha El- area in an effort to provide more tain information from his high Kiwanis International report, he next five years.
hart, the retiring Grand Guard year around employment.
school principal and by writing stated that the actual cash re
The lease calls for the lessees
John Cotton, president of the to Southern Oregon College.
ian, and Miss Shirley Damon,
serves per member were high to pay regular rates for drink
Oregon Shakespearean Festival
Queen of Bethel 22
er in the Northwest districts ing water and for TID water
The opening event takes place association, discussed plans of Girl Scouts In All-Out
than in the rest of the nation. used in irrigating the course.
the
group
for
the
Festival
this
Thursday evening with the ban
Members were urged to attend The city has been requested to
Cookie
Sale
Campaign
quet at tiie Coquille Community summer and said that plans are
the annual spring conference at supply granite for a driveway
House, which wil) be presided underway for an opening day
Bend and the District Conventi into the course.
Because
the
Community
Chest
over by Grand Guardian, Mar parade and said it is hoped that
The lease calls for the lessees
on in Spokane in August. Kiwa
tha Elhart of Ashland and As some stores will provide false failed to meet its quota, the nis clubs throughout the nation • to pay to the city of Ashland
fronts
publicizing
Shakespear
I Girl Scouts are short of funds are confronted by the challenge the sum of $1.00 per year in
sociate Grand Guardian, LeRoy
Farmer of Portland. At the ban ean times during the Festival and are having to make an ad of 1950, Mr. Kurtz pointed out. rental for the first ten years
ditional effort to build up their He urged better inter-club re with a ten-year renewal clause
quet the drawing will be held period in August
for the state Honor Queen and
Dick Herndobler urged that treasury. With the annual cook lations and emphasized the Ki calling for $600 per year for the
her officer», with the ball fol the Chamber sponsor a “Clean ie sale week half over, an SOS wanis theme for 1950: “Aggres next ten years, along with 10
lowing to be in their honor.
Up Week" program and said i is being broadcast to would-be sive Citizenship - Safeguard of percent of the net in excess of
During Friday and Saturday that he believed businessmen buyers. Out of each box sold, Freedom.”
$8000 and 20 percent of the net
there will be business sessions and residents could do much the Scout troop gets five cents,
in excess of $10,000.
The
speaker
sounded
a
note
well interspersed with various toward encouraging additional which is used for its own parti
of
alarm
by
stating
that
there
sorts of entertainment, lunch tourist trade by making Ash cular project, as for example,
eons, buffet suppers, a beach land a more beautiful town the overseas friendship bags are approximately 750 various
The rest of the profits go to groups in the United States who
party and sight-seeing trips. Fri through such a program.
are seeking to overthrow our
day evening will be given over
O t h e r members discussed ward the Scout expenses and the
to a special Bethel meeting pre ways in which the Chamber camp at Low Echo. A house to government. He noted that we
sided over by Shirley Damon, could be of better service to 1 house campaign is being con must continue to support and
with all the offices filled by the businessmen and in so doing ducted in an effort to make the preserve the church, home and
Routine business was the main
Queens of the state. While Sat would encourage better turn 1950 “Cookie Week" a financial school, and combat subversive item in last nights meeting of
activities. Although the district the Ashland School Board. All
success.
urday afternoon the competitive outs at Chamber meetings.
Lt. Governor expressed the hope members were present to take
drills will be held A team of 24
that he would be able to visit care of the business of the
girls from the Ashland Bethel
the club again in the near fut month. It was decided to call
will present an addenda honor
ure, he noted that his visit for bids on the installation of
ing Mrs. Elhart, whose term of
would be the only official visit the »prinking system at the Bri
office closes when she installs
tc be made this year.
the new officers.
scoe School. The work on the
President Ed Barnett announ system at the Walker school has
SALEM, (Special) — Reduct ssifications where hazards havd ced that Bert Terry and Fritz been practically completed. The
Can You Vote In May?
ions
in employer contribution generally been high, the redu Koester had been appointed to new walk on the Laurel Street
Register By April 18
rates have been announced by ctions have been accomplished the board of directors, succeed j side of the Briscoe School was
It has been branded a dis the State Industrial Accident because of earned experience ing Morris Bradley and Col. finished last week and much of
grace by the leaders of both Commission, effective July 1, ratings within the respective in Ben Waterbury. Club members i the leveling has been done.
Democrats and Republicans that 1950. These reductions will ap dustries which prove that acci welcomed vice-president Ed. Plans have been completed for
in the one nation in the world ply in 277 industrial and trade dents can be prevented through Stevens back. Mr. Stevens has the budget election on Tuesday
been ill for several months and April 25 at the City Hall.
supposed to exemplify the pri- classifications of Oregon busi accident prevention programs.
The largest dollar savings has undergone operations in Los
Preliminary inspection of ap
velege of democratic franchise, ness. Only 78 classifications did
more than 20 per cent of the eli not qualify for base rate redu will be reflected in the classifi Angeles. Walt Bosshard report plications for the football coach
gible voters are as yet unregist ctions, but rates in some of these cations of General Farming, Ma ed that the boy’s boxing club is ing position at the High School
ered. With less than a week left classifications are already so chine Shops, Logging, Sawmil operating once again and stated was made. It was pointed out
before the lists are closed on low further reductions are vir ling, Pulp & Paper Manufacture, that another exhibition will be that the new coach will have to
Printing & Publishing, Road and held in the near future. Guests , be a math major as he will have
April 18 an effort is being made tually impossible.
Reductions
result
from
the
ex
Street
Construction, Residence present at the meeting were Dr. a regular load to teach in this
to register every possible voter.
Ignorance of the requirements cellent co-operation of labor and Erection, Building Erec t i o n, Elmo N. Stevenson, Pastor Paul field.
keep some from registration management in reducing acci Plumbing and Sheet Metal Harms of the Grace Lutheran
Maintenance men used last
while pure laziness robs others of dents by establishing and main Work, Transfer and Trucking, Church, John Myers, Mr Leid- week to give the buildings a
eigh,
and
Ray
Frizbee.
their constitutional right to par taining effective safety pro and Garages & Service Stations.
good "spring house cleaning."
grams, both preventive and edu
While practically every por
ticipate in government
tion of the state's economy will
You are eligible to register if cational.
These reductions in employer benefit from the new employer's
you will be 21 by election day,
and if you have lived one year contributions to the Industrial contribution rate schedule, the
in the state and ninety days in Accident Fund will result in es basic industries of general farm
the county. You must re-regist timated savings of approximat ing and lumbering in its various
Sixty persons died in Oregon
er if you iiave moved since your ely one million dolars per year i phases will experience the great
The Y M C A. Square Dance
last registration or will have to employers insured by tile est savings because of the larger traffic accidents during the first
moved by election day, if you State Industrial Accident Com payrolls in these two industries. three months of this year. Sec group will resume activities fol
Because of the "safety know retary of State Earl T Newbry lowing the Easter recess on Fri
have changed your name or if mission.
The law provides that the how" now becoming evident in has reported.
day and Saturday evenings.
you have failed to vote in both
Industrial
Commission high hazard Oregon logging in
March accidents claimed 26 April 14 and 15. Both sessions
the primary and general electi State
shall adjust employer contribu dustry, an estimated annual net lives, worst single month of the of the group will be held in the
ons of 1948.
Social Hall of the “Y” building
In Ashland the registrar of tions in keeping with good in premium reduction of some year to date.
The first-quarter death t o l l starting at 8:00 p.m and closing
voters is located in the Burns surance practice when their ex $213,000 will result on payrolls
perience justifies such reducti which have aggregated more marks a 17 percent increase ov at 11:45 o’clock Mr. Sam Con
office next to the Post-office.
ons.
than $45,000,000 for the year er the number of lives lost dur nor will direct the activities for
The new employer contributi 1948-1949. General farming will ing the same period last year, the Friday night group while
LICENSE EXAMINER
on rate schedules mark the 4th participate in an estimated net Newbry said, and constitutes a Mr. Ed Nelson will be in charge
COMING HERE MONDAY
A drivers license examiner reduction in State Industrial Ac reduction of $45,623 on an over sharp set- back to the state's of the group meeting on Satur
day nights.
will be on duty in Ashland Mon cident Insurance premium rates all payroll of slightly over $20,- traffic fatality record.
The s e c r e t a r y said last
day, April 17, at the City Hall since 1943. During the same per 000,000 Both residence erection
between the hours of 9 a.m. iod the various legislatures have and building erection have also month’s accidents reflect the re RECORD CROWD ENJOYS
and 4 p.m., according to an an increased workmen’s benfit pay earned substantial rate reducti turn of warmer weather a n d I.O.O.F. TURKEY DINNER
i consequent increases in speed
nouncement received from the ments under the Act four times. ons.
The turkey dinner at the Od
While the increase in compens
Under the experience rating and volume of highway travel. Fellows’ Hall last Saturda
Secretary of State’s office.
Persons wishing licenses or ation for workmen is in keep provision of the Oregon Law all All but six fatalities occurred night set an all time record fr
permits to drive are asked to ing with the increase in the cost employers under the Act can on rural roads a n d highways. attendance when more than tw
get in touch with the examiner of living, the downward trend qualify for from 10% to 50% Worst accident of the m o n t h hundred guests enjoyed one «
well ahead of the scheduled in employer contribution rates reduction from the base rates was a head-on automobile-truck the famous home-cooked meal
closing time in order to assure is more startling by comparis established after one calendar collision west of Pendleton in Following the dinner many sta;
year of favorable accident ex Umatilla county, which killed ed for the evening of danciri
completion of their application on.
five persons.
In all of the enumerated cla- perience.
and cards.
with a minimum of delay.
e
Senior Visitation Weekend at
Southern Oregon College will be
April 14 and 15. Approximately
150 high school seniors are ex
pected to visit the campus
Chamber Plans
Future Programs •
Bert Miller Given
Kiwanis Award
3 Day Conclave
For Jobs Daughters
School Board
Takes No Vacation
Sharp Contribution Rate Cuts Set By
State Industrial Accident Commission
Sixty Killed In
Oreg on Traffic
Two Square Dance
Groups At YMCA