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VOLUME XXXV
JACKSON GETS
FEDERALFUNDS
GOLD HILL, OREGON,
Final Beautification Reporta
Heard; Discuss Future Plans
THURSDAY ,
SEPTE1 MBER i, 1932
NUMBER 20
Gold Seekers Learn Secrets
REED HEARS Amateur
SCHOOL BELLS
of Mining a t Grants Pass School
MANY CASES
RINGM NDAY
A meet log of the Jarkon county
highway lM-uuliflcalipn committee
wus held at Medford Iasi Thursday
A unique vocational course is b e -1 testing of ores, um - of mortar and
rvening to make plans for future
ing offered this week at Grants Pass i IWteJ*. and reclaiming of metal.
activities. Jackson county recent
"Missouri” George has lived near
ly won Ihe Samuel H ill contest for
— a course in pros;»ecting und pan
Poatoffice Appropriations of beautification of the Pacific high Eight Persons Appear
Kerby since 1880, with the exception Supt. Thomason Announces
ning for gold. It is sponsored by
of time that he has been employed
way und a* this meeting plans for
Local
Court
on
Various
$170,000 to Be Spent
the state and federal boards of vo by mining companies that have sent
Tentative Schedules, E n
using the prize money Io Ihe best
cal ioaal education and “Missouri” him all over the United Slates to do
advantage
were
discussed.
Charge«
in County
trance Requirements
W. D. Gaoige, champion gold pan special mining work for them. He
The many suggestions o ffe n d on
t
o
r
of
the
world
is
conducting
the
w ill conduct his classes in a prac
to be fully investigated by u com
classes which began Monday after tical niannei, all but the first meet
A total of «170,000 of federul mittee api*ntntcd by C. L. McDonald,
H. E. Hall, driving a stage out
School lu lls for the first day of
noon, with 27 men enrolled.
ing b<ing held in the hills so that
funds w ill be spenl In Jackson county chairman. Mi tubers of Ihe o Portland was arrested by Stale
The objective of Ihe course is to the men may have experience under the 1932-1933 term w ill ring Mon
conimillee,
which
w
ill
meet
again
county In the near future In the con
Officer O'Hi len Wednesday o f last help men who have tried to pros actual working conditions. Bert day morning when teachers and pu
struct Ion r f a new poatoffice ut Sal unlay evening, are; Chairman—
week and appeared for (rial
in pect and p.m for gold to more suc Barnett of the Electric
Welding pils w ill observe Labor day by la
Miss
Jane
Snediror,
Medford;
Toney
Ashland und the improvement of
cessfully work th eir claims in Ihe Works and W. W. Morse of the vo
Ross
and
Mrs.
II.
E.
Illankrnburg,
Judge
Heeds
court
here
Tuesday
an
boring over their schedules and get
the present post office at Medford,
Grants Pass territory. No tuition is cational denartament of the Grants
accord inn
news dlapalche* early Gold H ill; Mrs. Wade Wallis, Hell- swering to u charge of failing to stop
ting
underway for Ihe new year’s
charged but everyone that attends Pass schools are cooperating in Ihe
thia week. Each project w ill coat view Grnnuc; A. T. I.alhrop, Cen at a crossing. He pleaded guilty und
work.
brings
their
own
pau,
small
pick,
work.
«85,000. Grants I'asa has received tral Point; Mrs. Hay Ward. Phoe received u sentence of five days in
A faculty meeting has been sched
shovel and quarts glass.
According to a news dispatch
word that th iy , too, w ill get a new nix, and Mrs. Effie Birdseye, Gold
jail which was suspended.
Twelve l< ssuns are given which Monday no more members w ill be uled for Sulurday afternoon at two
Hill.
poatoffice which w ill coat «150,000.
Glen McKay, C. W. Gregory and cover staking out claims, panning admitted to the class of 27, but an o'clock according to Superintendent
The following report front the
Although many doubt that bids
stale chairman of the beautifica Myron Siurles of this district, who different types of quartz, rxaminu- other one w ill I k formed as soon as J. A. Thomason, and at this time
w ill be called for w ithin the next
of enough registrations have been tentative plans for the year’s work
tion program gives a resume of Ihe were alleged Io have been stealing G®«« of formations, location
th irty day« aa la report) d, those
work accomplished by the lending stock in the Chimnt y Hock dis tniqvral dt|>osits. di inonstration of made. Registrations are being taken w ill be drafted, und the high school
who have been in contact with the
cottnlies participating:
(riel, were tried last
Friday. pick anil shqAcl, sluice box work, at the Electric Welding and Machin faculty w ill perfect their schedule
IMtatal department do bellevp that
The Memory Gardens Highway Charges ugrinst Searles and G rig rocker work, tracing, sampling and ery coni puny office at 611 K street. which is Li-ing revised in order to
the work w ill be rushed lliroiigh
he handled by thrt*e teachers instead
Improvement association has unan ory were dismissed but McKay was
so that actual construction w ill be
if four as in the past.
imously
awarded Ihe following fined 850 on a charge of driving Board O. K .’s School Nurse;
Case Against Bates
underway within the
next
few
The tentative list of subjects to
prises to the organisations doing stock off ihe range.
months.
be taught in the Gold H ill high
RcjUth Get« Bus Contract
May
Be
Dismissed
A preliminary hearing in a burg
the best work during tin- season of
The app> oprlatlona here are part
school and the probable selection
lary case nt Ashland was heard by
1932:
of a S5.0tMI.(NN) program for con
Gobi H ill Schouj District No. 57
The Bates case which has been in the classes, as announced by Su
First, Jarkson county, «125.00— i Judge Heed Tuesday w hi n Virgil
struction or improvement of post-
Under the leadershln of the Medford Burnett »nil Leslie Wilson of that w ill have s school nurse who w ill one of Uie highlights of the political perintendent Thomason is as fo l
offices In 31 cities In the Pacific
make regular visits to the school propaganda concerning alleged in lows:
Gardi n club. Mrs. F. N. Cummings, city appeari d in his court.
Northwest. Oregon gets «020.(8)0
Freshmen’ English 1; world his
with justice ill county courts, w ill be a
president, and Mrs. Curtis Darby,
Both men were hound over to the each week, und cooperate
of this amount which is divided
secretary, a couni v organisation was grand jury, and Burnett who was leachirs, parents and pupils in car thing of the past if a stipulation tory; commercial arithmetic and ele
among eight cities, seven to get new
formed w ilh C. L. MacDonald us charged w ilh burglary not in a rying on health work in the com filed by Bates’ attorney last Friday mentary’ .science.
poatoffice buildlntfs. and Medford
Sophombies: English I I ; econom
chairman anil Mrs. Mabel Mack. dwelling was set at «2.500. Wilson’s munity, according to the decision is let stand. The stipulation pro
to have hers greatly improved. The
Home Demonstration agent, as sec bail was sit at «1,000, the charge of the school board at their regular vides that Rates, who recently sold ics; biology; geography and Ameri
funds have been appropriated as
meeting Monday evening. Miss Sybil his Foots Creek mining property, can history.
retary. This was a most thorough being receiving stolen goods.
follows: Eugene, «260,0(8); Hood
Juniors: America^ history; civics;
campaign. Every resident along Ihe
H. C. Messenger of the Foote W alker, county health nurse, w ill take up residence in Linn county.
River, «90,000; McMinnville, «85,000;
shorthand;
The document filed Saturday also first year typing and
Pacific highway
throughout
the Creek district waa arrested
for be in charge of the work.
Tillam ook, «85,000; Hillsboro. «80,-
and
English
I
I
I
.
asks
that
the
trial
of
Bates
on
an
Dr. Drummond, county health
county was given a written request driving without
a license, and
000. and Ashland. Grants Pass and
Seniors: English IV ; civics; sec
to Improve his premises. Everv mail pleaded guilty when arraigned In doctor, w ilh Mrs. Lewis Ulrich, sec indictment charging “threats to com
Medford aa listed above.
box was painted. Numerous organ the local court yesterday. His sent retary of the county health asso mit a felony” be postponed to the ond year typing and shorthand; ge
The protects have been launched
isations 'Were contacted aud en ience of five (lavs was »uaiwndad. ciation, attended tha meeting, and October term of court, and that the ometry. and American history.
aa part of the government’s relief
Faculty members are J. A. Thom
listed. All debris along the highway and hr was assessed «4.50. the eoats p reseated an outline of the work indictment be dismissed, “w ith the
program and It is contemplated that
ason, superintendent. Miss Albertina
was removi d. The sign committee of the trial.
done, pointing out that the cost approval of the court.”
thousands of men w ill receive
The original case against Bates Hankey and W ill M. Kidwell.
made a survey of the highway and
A case arising from conflicting of educating children who had to
work unde*- the plan.
The grad? school faculty remains
all Inactive signs were removed.
claims on a quartz location in the repeat grades due to ill health, was heard in Judge H. D. Reed's
Roadwork w ill also aid unem
Serond: Lane County, «75.00— Birdseye creek district was heard would more than cover the appro court in Gold K ill last w inter and the same as last year, the teachers
ployment In Jackson county thia
arrangements were made for Bates being. Miss Alice Harper, first grade;
Here again the Eugene Garden club, Wednesday afternoon. Complaint priation necessary for the work.
year with the Siskiyou project be
to
go to Washington to live. Later, Mrs. Minnie Sargent and Mrs. Made
Mrs. E. B. Parks, president, took Ihe was brought by C. M. W arren and
The contract for driving the
ing surveyed for straightening In
lend and various local committers A. W. Love that Geo. I. Taylor was Birdseye creek bus which has been however, a grand ju ry hearing of leine Pendleton, second, third and
the near future. According Io the
werp organised. The leaders in In trespassing on their r.uartz claim awarded to E. V. King, was signed the case vas requested, as it was fourth grades; Miss Mabel Moore,
state highway
commission
road
dividual improvement of Ihelr own nnd had unlaw fully removed ore at this meeting, Mr. King to receive alleged he had not received a fa ir fifth and sixth; Mrs. Marjorie Pena,
w ork w ill be done only where
properly who planted shrubs and from the mine. Mr. Taylor slated «40 a month and furnish bis own trial, and that he had been “forced seventh, and Mrs. Maude Robinson,
neede, rather than allocating funds
eighth.
flowers and used pninl judiciously that hr thought the mine abandon bus.
to leave the county.”
according to counties. Under the
Mrs. Minnie Guy and Mr. R. A.
were Mr. Hoy Woodruff, nursery ed and that he had filed on the
A budg-t committee was ap
plan, however, workmen w ill be
Botts also 1 eturn as music supervis
man, Cabin City Auto camps, Mr. claim and was proving up on it.
pointed, consisting of Chas. Gray, Rich Gold S trike Made In
drawn from the entire state, using
ors, Mrs. Guy having charge of the
Ed Holman of Nu-Way Cleaners, He agreed to leave peaceably, how
Silas Fleming and Merritt M erri
a list of unemployed prepared by
Shades’ Old Eureka M ine glee clubs in both grade and high
Gold Star Auto camp, and the Log ever, when Mr. Warren and Mr. man and members of the board who
individual counties. Chairman I t a
school departments, and Mr. Botts
Cabin Auto camp.
Love showed «heir receipts
for w ill meet S ytem b er 15 to plan the
Grants Paas C o ari*r: A strike of conducting the orchestra.
lic M. Scott warns that the high
Third: City of Oawego, »50.00 — assessment work they had done school budget the coming year.
way work con care for only about
high grade gold ore, carrying free
Mr. Thomason announces that
A strong committee under the lead nnd proved their rights to the prop
6 per cent ot the unemployed and
Bids for the Sardine-Galls creek gold values in hard quartz, was children entering the first grade
ership of Mr. George N. Angell made erty. The o-lginnl complaint also In
counties must not rr ly too much
made in the old Eureka mine Thurs must be six by the first of Decem
the most improvement along the volved Eva Hoiles and Julia Rucker, bus route were read, and tabled up-
on these funds for the relief of
ht a special meeting Wednesday eve day according to W . S. Klocken- ber. However, if the grade is not
mile stretch of Ihe Pacific highway as their names appeared on the fil
thier needy, but must establish local
teger, mining engineer, and Dave crowded, children who are near this
of any local organisations. The a t ing notice, but charges were dis ning. At that time the board hired
organisations.
Carl Routh as driver at a salary of Turner of Grants Pass, who were age requirement may be admitted if
tention of motorists is called Io this missed against them when
Mrs.
showing samples of the ore in they pass the intelligence test given
locality. We believe this is not only Hodes appeared and proved that «40 a month. Applications received
GRANTS PASS MEMBERS
at the county courthouse next Mon
a mailer of beautification, but one they were not occupying the claim, carried bids ranging from «30 to Grants Pass Friday afternoon.
The mice is owned by Henrv and day. Tuesday and Wednesday.
«50, w ith several at «40. Mr. Routh
A TTE N D REBEKAH LODGE of good business.
and had no interest in It.
was chosen after due consideration John Shade and is located on Sol
The Memory Gardens Commillee
of all applicants. He w ill drive the dier creek reached by a six-mile
At the regular meeting of tho regrets lhat more counties and or
Edward McDonald
Cor
T
u
rn
*
Over
on
Black-
new bus purchased by the board trail starting at Six Mile creek on
Amdlhyst Rebekah lodge Wedns- ganisations did not compete.
It
the
lower
Illinois
river
road
two
recently.
Funeral Saturday
w ell H ill Saturday Eve
day evening, August 31, the regular appreciates that the times have not
Other minor matters concerning miles above the Anderson ranch.
business was attended to and plans been favorable, although it is aston
It is leased for sale purposes by R.
for the annual convention discussed. ishing that os much has been done
Funeral services for Edward Mc
Three Grunts Pass people, Charles repairs to the school building were
The convention w ill be held at with little cash outlay. Great Im H illis, Kathleen Galvin and T erry discussed and planned, and bills L. Burdir, who sent Klockentepei in Donald, former resident of Sams
to the mine Thursday. >•)•! the lat Valley, were conducted at the Sams
Grants Pass November 10 and mem provement has been made. Thous Galvin, all received minor injuries were read and allowed.
Follow ing Mondays meeting, an ter s I h j I the gold val us lie had Valley cemetery Saturday w ith Rev,
bers of the Grants Pass lodge in ands of trees have been planted. The in an automobile accident, occur
E. J. Dodson of the Baptist church
cluding Mrs Ashmun, Mrs. Gilmore, Interest which has been aroused is ring Saturday night on Blackwell inform al reception for Superintend in the city Friday.
Described by Mr. Klockenleger, in Grants Pass officiating. The re
Miss Smith and Miss Ashmun were growing. The greatest credit must hill, east of Gold H ill. None of the ent J. A .Thomason was held, a com
here to discuss It w ith the local be given to the roadside eommltlee Injuries were of a serious nature, mittee of Indies serving punch and the three-foot vein of high-grade mains were taken to Sams Valley
cake. About fifty people were pres gold must be extensive, as its car from Weed, where the deceased
lodge.
of Ihe Oregon Federation of Garden however.
ries its values strongly through a passed away.
clubs and especially Io Its chair
Hillis was driving, it was said, ent.
50-foot
tunnel already driven, ex
Daughters of Mr. McDonald re
PRE-SCHOOL C L IN IC H ELD
man, Mrs. Jessie Honeyman of Eu but the cause was unknown. The car
ploring the vein. The old Eureka siding in San Francisco, Tennant
gene. She has given and w ill con was not badly damaged, one fender Odd Fellows Confer D e
was once owned by a large com and Richmond, California, were
Eight children who w ill enter Ihe tinue to give all her time to this being bent and Ihe windshield brok
gree at Grants Pass Sat. pany, he said, but has not been present at the funeral, as w ell as a
first grade this year attended the work. She hns written thousands of en.
worked for many years and re brother from Stayton, California, a
health clinic for pre school children letters, iHspntehed thousands of c ir
Twenty-one members of Gold H ill verted to Hie Shades who recently sister from Coburn, California, and
held nt the school house Wednesday culars and is interesting Innumer
EARL PAN KEY TO HOSPITAL
lodge No. 129. I. O. O. F. visited made their strike in a new loca a brother W. L. McDonald of Grants
afternoon. The children were1 given able organirntions and individuals in
Golden
Rule lodge No. 78 in Grants tion. Henrv Shade was a watchman Pass.
thorough exnminntlons by County thi} work of improving Ihe appear
Earl Pankey was taken to the
Mr. McDonald had many friends
Health Nurse Sybil Wnlker who was ance of Ihe slate highways. It was Sacred Heart hospital in Medford Pass Saturday, August 27 and con in the old mine for 10 years. Many
assisted by local nurse chairman Ihe desire of Mr. H ill when he gave Tuesday evening Io receive treat ferred Ihe first degree on three can of the tunnels in the old workings in Gold H ill and Sams Valley, who
Mrs. C. W. Martin, assistant nurse our orgnnlzrtlon «1.000, besides fi ment for a cut on his knee which didates of Klamath lodge of Cres have fallen in, but the new strike were saddened by his passing.
was made in a different portion of
chairman Mrs. O. C. Palmer, and nancing the pamphlet, “Ornamental threatened blood poisoning.
Mr. cent City. The second degree was
BALL TEAM LOSES TO H IL T
Miss Nellie Jacobs.
Trees” (which can be secured from Pnnkey cut a deep gash on his knee also conferred on these candidates, the mine property, Klockenteger
Children attending the clinic were the Oregon Slate College) that this last week while cutting wood, barely this work being put on by the Gol said Fridnv.
Four men are now employed at
In the last game of the season
the Norton twins, Wayne and Fran money should be used Io Ihe best missing the knee cap, and when the den rule lodge.
After lodge a splendid supper was the mine, Klockenteger said. He has the Gold H ill baseball team lost to
ces, the Smith twins, Gladys Rnd advantage in improving the Pacific wound did not heal as readily as
H arry, Mary Jane Harris, Edith highway. We sen! «250 Io a Wash it should the trip to the hospital served and everyone reported a been in Josephine county since last H ilt by a score of 13 to 9. The game
fall, coming here from Pllares de was played on the local diamond
Ham, Kenneth Cook and Joe n o t ington committee headed by Mrs. It. was considered advisable to prevent splendid time.
The regular meeting of the local Nacozari, state of Sonora, old Mexi Sunday. K?1I pitched for Gold H ill,
D. M errill of Senltle. Bank Interest serious infection.
ion
lodge Tuesday night of this week co, where he was for tw o years Coy and Gardner exchanging be
on the fund has been used for pub
,L . C. Burt and Tom Carrico, min licity expenses. The bnlance of the Peter Kerr, vice-president, Mr. Aug consisted of a short business ses w ith the Phelps-Dodge Corporation hind the bat. Jones hurled for the
Northern Californians. A fa ir sized
ing men from Oregon City stopped fund, amounting to nearly «500, is ust Berg, treasurer with Dr. Ralph sion— *or as Secretary Toney Ross as an engineer.
Crowd witnessed the contest.
A
here a short time Wednesday. The nwarded to Mrs. Honeyman’s road Fenlon and General Marlin, comprise says “I t ’s early Io bed and early Io
ATTEND DEDICATION
home run, hit by Marvin Emory,
men were trying Io locale Ihe prop- j side eommltlee which w ill carry on the board. The late Mr. Hugh Hume rise these days when everybody is
Several local people attended the was a feature of the game, the ball
erty worked by the Oregon G o ld . this work. It is the desire of our was also an active director of the working.”
Members are asked to note the dediration ceremonies for the beau sailing high over the H ilt center-
H ill Mining company prior to 1907, J committee that the organisation re Menyory Gardens Highway commit
Mr. Hurt having been a stockholder > ceiving these funds w ill offer more tee. We shall be glad io receive sug change in the time of the meeting, tiful new Jackson county courthouse fielder and striking the highway
in the company. From here the prises and secure further interest in gestions for future work as w ell as beginning next week, when the at Medford today. Others plan to near the dance pavilion.
meeting starts at 7:30. The date of go to Medford this evening to visit
men went to Crescent City where Rnd Improvement of the state high donations for further work.
E xtra copies of the News on sale
Wells Gilbert, Secretary, the smoker w ill be announced the new building which w ill be
they are looking at mining prop- ways.
at Jim's Confectionery, each week.
open for inspection all evening.
Mr, John Edwards, president, Mr.
Portland, Oregon. shortly,
»rty,