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THE GOLD HILL NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 30. 1933 Gold Mining Course To Start April 1 Election to Be Held July 21 to Decide Many State Issues University of Oregon, Eugene, March 28—Pratical aid for those ■who feel the urge to seek out the SALEM. March 25,—The consti gold in the hills of Oregon will be tutional convention in Oregon to given to all who care to register (or vote upon the repeal of the 18th a short sourse for miners, to be amendment to the federal constitu conducted by the Oregon Mining tion known as prohibition amend Congress and the general extension ment will be held in the House of division of the Oregon System of Representatives at Salem some lime Higher Education April 1 to June 3, during the month of August. it was announced today by R. M. This was definitely determined Betts, Eugene, president of the here today when it was learned the congress. canvass voles cast at the July 21 Cold exists in many sections of special election would he completed Oregon, and many persons not now before August 1. and that the act employed may be able to learn states the governor shall call the enough to earn money prospecting convention within 30 days after the and mining, it is declared. At the canvass of the votes. same time experienced miners may A total of 110 delegates will be be able to pick up additional know ledge through the course. A corps of elected at the special election, all experts, including geologists and candidates to announce their prefer mining engineers from the College ence on the ballot. To date only two and the University and pratical candidates for delegates have filed, miners of the state, has volunteered while a third was considering filing. to act as teaching staff and the The two, both wet. already filed course will be free. Registration are Howard Waddell of Roseburg may be made at the Eugene Cham and Hugh 11. Earle of Eugene. While the election of delegates to ber of Commerce by letter or by the constitutional convention is one appearing in person any time be , of the major proposals before the fore the course starts. Following is a list of the in ; electorate July 21. there will be at structors for the course: Dr. Warren least seven other proposals with D. Smith, geologist. University of ! the possibility of two more meas Oregon: R. M. Betts, Eugene, a suc ures to be placed upon the ballot. Among the ('efinite measures will cessful miner; Dr. E. T. Hodge, pro be a popular vote upon the two per fessor of geology at Oregon State College: John Thompson. State Col cent general sales lax passed by lege of Washington; J. H. Batch- ihe legislature and referred to the ellor, professor of mining engine people. An intensive campaign for ering. Oregon State College: and a favorable verdict upon this rev- W. L, Skinner and E. E. Morrison, i nue raising act will be carried on by legislative leaders end the Eugene. Miners. state administration, it was an nounced. MANY STNDENTS A referendum on the oleomar EARN OWN WAY garine tax might also appear on Eugene. Ore.—Students at the the ballot if com plied petitions University of Oregon earn half of bearing 16.667 names can be se the funds they spend for their edu cured by June 8. Preliminary pe cation, according to figures taken titions for a referendum on Ihe lax from their registration cards. More was Tiled with the secretary of than a fourth are entirely self-sup state last night. The legislative act porting. while three fourths cam a calls for a four cent a pound tax on substantial portion of the costs of butter substitutes and provides li cense fees for dealers and whole their education. salers. A 10 cent lax was defeated on a referendum vole at Ihe general SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS election in November, last year. Attorney-General 1. H. Van Win kle said today he expected lo have an opinion on whether or not ini tiative petitions may be included on the ballot under the senate hill call for the next 5 ing the special election. The title of months of the act includes initiatives, but the body of the measure has no refer ence to it. The opinion was re The quested by the secretary of state. Should the attorney general hold Atlantic Monthly that the initiatives may be voted upon, the electorate will pass upon Make the most of your another prohibition issue—the re reading hours. Enjoy the peal of the liquor amendments to wit, the wisdom, the com the stale constitution. Completed panionship, the charm that petitions in excess of 10,000 names have made the Atlantic, for more than Ihe required 26,666 were I seventy-five years, Ameri filed with the secretary of state ca’s most quoted and most Monday providing for this vote. No cherished magazine. other initiatives will be possible on ihe ballot, since completed petitions had to be filed by March 21. SEND 81.00 Four proposals to amend the (mentioning this ad) state constitution will appear on the ballot. One would restrict veterans’ to Send $1 The Atlantic Monthly, 8 Arlingtno St., Boston 9 ?■ '. Dr. I. H. Gove VALLEY CLEANERS 611 1-2 East H St. Grants Pass, Ore. Opposite P. O. Phone 260 Suits cleaned and pressed 81.06 Hals tleaned and blocked 81.00 Plain dresses cleaned and press ed 81.00 DEPENDABLE ÓENTISTRY 235 East Main Phone 872-J MEDFORD. OREGON bonuses and loans. Bonus payments would be eliminated and loans would terminate after 1938 under the proposed constitutional amend ment as called for in a legislative resolution. Another would authorise the legislature lo modify the grand jury system, and provide for pros ecution of crimes by district attor ney's information us an alternative to iudictmnt by Ihe grand jury. The third would require a two- thirds vote for issuance of bonds by municipal cor|g»rations ami civil subdivisions. The fourth would pro vide for Ihe adoption by counties of Ihe manager form of government. Other proposals lo appear included question of issuing and selling 8100,- 000 of general obligation bonds a- gainsl the state for hydroelectric power development as pruvided in senate bill 144: and the election of three members of I lie new stale power commission, all candidates to be voted upon In the state at large. Of the 116 delegates to be named to the stale constitulinnal conven tion. based upon population, Mult nomah county would elect 34. Josephine county 2 and Jackson county 4. Campnign Lauchcd to Aid State Unemployed In Raising Vegetables A greater campaign, compel «¡illy directed, far subsis’ance gardens throughout Oregon by which unem ployed may produce much of their necessary fecal by their own ef forts is underway Ibis season through the cooperation of Ihe re lief council of the state with the Oregon State college extension ser vice. A state subsistanee garden com mittee has been appointed by Paul V. Maris, director of agricultural extension and secretary of the re lief council, and it has just issued 10,(MM) copies of a new leaflet which contains planting plans and other information for guiding Ihe inexper- !enced gardener in producing a score or more different vegetables on a plot 60 by 100 feet. Each county agent in the 28 counties maintaining them is pre pared to give local assistance and advice in adapting the recommenda tions contained in this new leaflet to the particular conditions prevail ing in each county. While Iree seed and free fertili zer in some instances, are being provided under the terms of money granted by the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation, strict rules have been issued lo prevent the abuse of this privilege through issuing seed to other thun duly registered un employed persons. “R. F. C. funds arc made avail able for seeds and fertilizers with the expectation that local agencies, public and private, will cooperate in such matters as making suitable garden tracts, tools and equipment available, and providing irrigation j water when possible,” says Direc- . tor Maris. ‘‘Only persons ‘willing I and able’ to grow gardens are en couraged to do so. As unemployed | persons receiving relief are nol ' able to purchase adequate quantities ' of vegetables, subsistanee gardens ■ will not compete to any consider- i able extent with farmers and truck gardeners who have produced for i sale.” Grants Pass Business Directory The business and professional people of Grants Pass listed in this directory are glad to serve the people of tlm territory in any way possible. They firmly believe thal whenever possible your home town merchant should b< patronized, but they offer their services in addition to those you can receive at home, and invite ycu to consult them when in Grants Pass. -----------------------------■* ♦ ---------------------------------------------- ♦ I , , I l Fine Watch & Jewelry Repairing I FREE ENLARGEMENTS Heady for you when promised * Prices Most Reasonable 8x10 inen size with each 85.00 worth of kodak work on films BUHN’S JEWELRY STORE Grants Pass, Oregon MUSIC AND PHOTO HOUSE We Buy Old Gold Grants Paas, Oregon We Appreciate Your Business SLOVER’S NATIONAL DRUG STORE J. A. Slovcr, Prop. Grarfts Pass, Oregon ROGUE RIVER HARDWARE CO. Sherwin Williams Paints McCorntick-Deering Farm Implements Housewares—General Hardware 204 South Sixth St.—Phone 88 Grast« Paaa, Oregon LUKES SECOND HAND STORE | ^ S t o r y of- EDNA MAY OLIVER h/lÇchardDix. (2 H F make.» you think o f aoinelwdy’» s u n t. she ha» that '^ "s u n ly " look. M aybe U'» Leeau-»»h< « a s bornia Btwtvn. that the w ay to have a home life and an acting job loo. la to route to Hollyw ood She came, she was Men. she con There's romething about being t-orn In Boston that you never quite g it over . . . and being a iteeendant o f John Quincy Adam» ia. even for Boston. an added attribute of quered. Fan» started laughing «1 her first In “C racked Nut»,'' and increased their giggler at her antlce In “ C im arron." "Laugh and get Rich," “ Fanny Foley Ite ra e lf," Lad lee o f the that “ aunty” look. You m ight not think to ask her. but »he prefer» Ihe polka to the w a ll» and dance» a mean gavotte, a» well. She’» afraid of he‘n r alone in the dark, never walk» under itep ladders and would no more think o f whistling in a drvss- tng room thun picking her teeth in public. Jury’ and H old 'Em Jail." She llkee cello solo* . . . the acting o f George Arlia« and old fashioned besn »oup. She favor» pa»UI «hide» in her clvthco and » ill take a third helping o f spaghetti If urged. She enjoys the books of Romaine Holland , , . m odern W le a it and elevator boy» who can tap dance. In answering a questionnaire about herself ehe said »he could «peak Germ an and Ita lian , ate aeparague with her T h at lust superstition i.i but one of the hundred» you col lect in the th e a tre . . and she ha» known the theatre for year« . ftr»t as a musical comedy actrcaa... in dramatic play» like Owen Pavia’ "Ic e Bound,' and then in farce* like ‘T h e C radle Snatchers” As “ Patty Ann Haw kes” »he bowed Mr. Ziegfleld'» "Show Boat ' fo r three years ami then decided »he'd trouped long enough to rate a home o f her o w n . . . She was tired o f tin bath tube in tank towns . . . and bad coffee on Pull man ju m p . Now any actor or actress w ill tell you Ancient History FROM OUR FILES 26 Years Ago From the Gold Hill Newa of March 29. 1907 Riley Hammersly was down from Sardine creek yesterday. He reports a good supply of water and much activity among the placer miners of that section. IL It. Nye was in front the Black Channel mine on Foots Creek, Mon day. Mr. Nye reports a good betid of water since the late storms. 11c says they expect to make a record- breaking clean-up litis spring. The Southern Pacific blockade, for passenger traffic To San Fran cisco, was broken by the arrival of the first passenger train late Wed nesday night. fingvm and couldn't play football I She's five feet »even l ichee ta ll, weighs 140 pounds w ith out her »relies on and has a»h blond« hair and grey blue e y e . She looks very much tike somebody'» Aunt . . . yes , sir. H's Aunt E m ily o f the H a rtfo rd branch o f papa's Which remind I us. we've got to w rite V iw le M How are a ll y o u folks? tlie Millionaire, While Horse anil agent, from J. A. Crtnandy. Passen other pro|a-rties which are being ger Traffic Manager, Portland. The booklet is uttrartively print developed. ed in four rotors and contains large Great developments are contem photographs and brief descriptions plated in making and exploiting of Ihe stale’s many scenic splen Crater Lake a* an ideal summer re dors. It carries an invitation for sort. Thousands of tourists will be visitor» to spend Iheir vacations In drawn to the spot to feust their ryes Oregon and explains how new pri on Ihe unrivilled scenery and drink vileges of diverse routings make it l>ossible lo include Oregon on • in the pure mountain air. trip lo any part of the Pacific Coast. The booklet will he given wide S. P. Print« Booket distribution throughout the east, To Advertise Oregon middle-west and south by Southern Paeifie agents and tourist and tra As part of it campaign to attract vel bureaus. tourists and settlers to Oregon Ihe Lei us print jour let tar bauds— Southern Pacific Company has just brought off the press an elaborate 16-pugr booklet, ‘‘Oregon Out doors,” according to information HOME HOM OWNED reeeiveil by O. C. Purkeypile, local R oxy J. W. Copeland Yards CEMENT : LUMBER : DOORS BUILDING MATERIAL OF ALL KINDS 4th and G Streets Grants Pan» S. W. McClendon lias purchased the Lake Creek saw mill anti timber holdings of Childers anti Sons, also the timber holdings of Dr. Braden, I 1 -■ Ralph Dean and other tracts com MACK’S SEED & FEED STORE prising several hundred acres. This 314 So. 6th Grants Pans limber is located in the Willow GILL BROS. SEEDS Springs district. — Exclusively — Red Star Fertilizer Milo P. Ward lefl last night for Sperry Poultry and Dairy Feeds the cast on business connected with T w o W a y s o f L o o k in g ' A t A d v e r tis in g ' — FIRST, considering it from the standpoint of expenditure, the cost of carefully-planned Advertising is trivial compared to the PROFITAPiLE results its produces. Second, no business can long survive unless it maintains a contact with the prospective buyer. That contact MUST be Advertising in one form or another And what is the best form? There is no better medium for making your wares or serv ices known in this community, Mr. Tradesman, than the: Advertising Columns of Pay Cash and Save the Difference T h e G o l d H il l N e w s Grants Pass, Oregon—Ph. 228J 75 Per Cent of the Families in This Community Read It! DEPENDABLE MERCHANDISE nt the lowest ibices consistent with quality. 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