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The Most Thoroughly Read W eekly in Southern Oregon, VO LUM E X X X V Published in the Biggest L ittle Town in the State COLD HILL. ORE(X)N. THURSDAY, APRII. 6, 1933 NUMBER 52 ■ 'J , . WOULD OUST SCNERMERH’N D l’NCAN RECOMMENDS TEM PORARY SUSPENSION TX> GOV. MEIER * , T w o H u rt in Sunday Crash at Tolo Crossing Tw o Grants Pass people, llev. and Mrs. J. W. Hamun, were Injured in an automobile accident Sunday aft ernoon at the Tolo overhead cross ing neur Gold H ill. Rev. Hainan suffered a broken wrist nnd forearm nnd Mrs. Human received minor injuries to her head and one hand. Report of the accident filed Mon day was that the car in which Itev. and Mrs. Hamnn were pnxsengrrs. and which was driven by ltev. G. II. Redden of Bend. Oregon, at tempted to pass a cur driven In J. ('.. Havens of Grunts Pass, just as he started to make a left bund turn u, the intersection below the over head bridge. Havens' machine was not badly damaged, but the other car turned cnee and a half limes around, and turned over. Occupants of Haven's car were uninjured. RUSH FOREST CITY PLANS WORK PLANS BEER LAWS MEN IN FORESTS ON SOME ALLOW SALE H ERE UNDER F E D PROJECTS BY APRIL 15. ERAL LAW U N T IL ORDINANCE IS AIM IS DRAWN Temporary suspension of Gordon Plans Io put the forest recruits 1.. Schermerhorn from Ilia office of of tile forest conservation corps ut sherilf of Jackson county is rec- work in national forests by April 15 tinniended by Judge W. M. Itui - were druwn Monday ul a conference can In u report to Governur Meier o f regional chiefs of Ihc U. S. forest till» week. Dunean wax appointed service in Washington, I). C. by Ute governor some time u g o to Major It. Y. Stuart, head of the investigate charges of inefficiency ■erviee, directed the regionul forest made ugujimt Schermerhorn by ers Io prepare dute for presentation members of the county court, and later in the day showing the exact in a petition backed by thr Com projects thut may he started by thut mittee of IIM1. dale and the number of men needed Duncan rerommended that Srher- to execute each. merhorn be suspended for a period Many of the projects planned for not to exceed Ul) days, or until thr Ihc summer can not be started by |ieace officers of Jurkson county mid April because of mountain and Hie state of Oregon are able High School Baseball Team ! snows, the need for more time to "to co | n * properly with Ibis deplor Loses to Afhland S to 0 move equipment and to set up able situation.*' ramps. Listing the projects on It is reported that Governor Gold H ill high school opened its which work cun be immediately w ill not net on Duncan’s report un til hr hus conferred with Attorney baseball season lust Friday when I started was undertaken in order to the Beavers played the Ashland . prevent delay in putting President General I. II. Vun Winkle. Schermerhorn is charged with be high school on the Ashland dia- Roosevelt's forest conservation— un aid program into ing involved with the faction tliul I uiond. 'Hie score ul tbr end of Ihc employment has been charged with the ballot gume stood 5 to 0 in favor of the . i (feet quickly. The labor department hastened stealing, and in the hearing it was , Grizzlies. Gold H ill was lei down w ilh one j plans for setting up a system for alleged that he hud shown favorit ism in handling prisoners, unit that hit which came in the sixth inning registering applicants for J< bs. After hr had "otherwise obstructed en when Kell. caliber. singled to left recruiting Ihe men w ill be eneuinp- field, off Hoxie. | ed at army posts for the shortest forcement of criminal laws.” 'Hie game was a seven inning time needed for physical examina It is believed that the governor w ill appoint a successor during the affair, with Hardy and Hoxy w h iff tions and conditioning. Those attending Monduv's confer period of su*|>cnsion, after which ing seven. Bill Hammersly of Gold ence included these regional chiefs: Schermerhorn can be reinstated un H ill struck out twelve. The score. Even W. Kelley of Missoula, Mont.; less he is found guilty, or other R. H. E. Frank C. W. Pooler. Albuquerque, wise disqualified. H r would draw 6 5 3 New Mexico; S. B. Show. San Fran his regular snlary while suspended, Ashland (.old H ill 0 1 6 cisco; C. J. Buck, Portland. Oregon, under the Oregon law. Butteries Hardie and Hoxie. and Charles H. Flory, Juneau. Alas Other developments in the sher iff case this week were the w ith Fow ler and Gearhart, Hammersly ka. Representatives of forest exper drawal of his bonding company of and Kell. iment stations and inspectors who thr 915,000 in bonds which covered coordinate slate and federal forest his duties as tax collector. Previ Alvin Tollefson Becomes fire protection measures nnd other ously the bonding company which Number in State Prison projects under the Ciark-McNary helil thr 910,000 bond for fu lfill law also attended. ment of his duties us sheriff cancel ed its obligation. L. Alvin Tollefson, former cash Cases against those indicted for ier of thr closed State bunk of Cen Nature Rivala Burbank and the ballot theft are being held in tral Point, reported to the warden Grow» Oak Lim b on F ir Tree circuit court as quickly ns |>ossible. of thr stute prison nt Salem last F r i The case of Stale of Oregon vs. 1.. A. Banks anil Edith It. Banks for day, and was “dressed in” on that — Shndes of Lulher Burbank. the murder of Officer Geo. Prescott date, to serve a two years and six A natural phenomenon worthy of who went to the Banks home to ar months sentence, for perpetration of the attention of Ripley’s Believe It rest Banks on the ballot charge. a bank robbery hoax, on May 1(1 or Not cartoons has been found on Is set for April 10. Il s thought his last. Word to this effect was receiv- Blackwell hill recently a dispatch attorneys may plead insanity, but 1 ed today by county authorities from from Medford Tuesday of this week it is understood that hr prefers to the prison superintendent. states. Tollefson went alone to the ■•Big maintain that he was '‘defending A tree with a trunk nbout four , House’*. His committment papers his home.” feel high has a horizontal branch of I were forwarded to the prison offic- Affidavits of prejudice have been oak. while the trunk of the tree filed by Judge Fehl, W alter J. Jones I ials and were wailing when he ascending above the branch is fir. urrivrd. It was at his own request of Bogue River. Henrietta B. Martin The Medford Chamber of Commerce and her father. C. H. Brown against he was allowed to go without guard plans to send a photograph of the Judge W. M. Duncan. Frh l nnd to the penitentiary. Many men who unusual tree to Ripley’s New York Jones are allegedly involved in the huve fallen from grace hnve been offices. ballot theft and Mrs. Martin nnd her allowed the same right, when their lather are held on a disorderly con crimes were not those of violence, Legion W ill Aid in duct charge in connection with the or involving flouting the public good. He also desired to evade the horsewhipping of Editor Leonard Camp Entertainm ent H all, as well as other charges grow dramntirs and publicity, that hts ing out of the county political row. committment would occasion, if the Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Virgil Edington of Gold H ill, who usual routine wus followed. Tollefson, in accordance w ilh April 1 Entertainment for hun is charged with aiding in the bal lot theft pleaded not guilty Inst prison rules w ill he confined in Ihc dreds of Oregon and Washington “ fish cell’ for ten days, w ilh other high school boys attending the an week. new prisoners. There he w ill nual Citizens’ M ilitary camp here lenrn the prison routine and rules. this summer is to be provided in I.O.O.F. LODGE NEWS At the end of this period he w ill be part by American Legion posts in Our meeting Tuesday evening wus assigned to the clerical department the Iwo states, it was announced to a hurried affair ns part of the mem of Ihe prison— his civil life pursuit. day by camp authorities under di Under Oregon law. and as a first rection of Brigadier-General Stan bers went to Medford and part lo offender, Tollefson w ill be amend ley H. Ford. Bogue River lo visit. The offer of co-operation has The committee on the nnniversary able to parole after he has served celebration reports that it w ill be half his sentence, with time off for been extended by E. J. Rruggcr, held in Ashland, April 27. Gold Hill good behavior. This w ill be in ten chairman of the Oregon Legion's nnd Medford w ill furnish cake and months, from Ihe dale of his prison nntional defense committee, and Carl Mosier, state adjutant; nnd the salad. Jacksonville . and Central entry. Tollefson is married, nnd n form- plan calls for one entertainment Point, pies nnd salad. Ashlnnd w ill take care of the arrangements. iner University of Oregon student, program each of the four weeks of There w ill he another meeting of where he was a tennis star. As the eamp, wilh each of the four committees in Medford next Tues cashier of the Central Point bank, nights* schedules being under the day evening to finish plans of en he reporled shortly after noon on direction of one group of Lrgion May 10 Inst, that n lone unmasked posts. The Barracks commander ex tertainments. The visitors lo Bogue River lodge bandit, entered the hank, nnd nt Ihe pressed himself ns much pleased point of a revolver held him up and with this arrangement, which has reporled a good lime. robbed the bank. State police im not been undertaken previously. Toney Ross, Secy. mediately beeuine suspicious, nnd SCOUTE PLAN H IK E Ihe next day, Tollefson admitted the T E N N IS COURT BEING B U ILT ON SCHOOL GROUNDS hoax to cover his own defalca The Boy Scouts continued their tions. AB the money was recovered, Through labor nnd funds made most of It hidden in n coffee pot nt tenderfoot tests nt their meeting Tuesday evening. The seel Ion of the available under Ihc new plan of Ihe Tollefson's home. lest this week had to do w ilh the relief work, a crew of men a r: RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL flag. Next week the tests w ill be working l'is week consiureting a Boland Thompson returned to completed when the boys tie the tennis court on ihe school grounds. A double court is planned and it his home on Blackwell H ill Sunday various Seout knots. A hike Is plan is being laid nut on ground adjoin after an operation for nppendieltis ned for Ihe near future which the ing the gvmnnsium, formerly used at the Sacred Heart hospital about boys have shown a great in.erest three weeks ago, In, ar a parking space. Steps to regulate the sale of beer in Gold H ill were taken by the city council ul their regular meeting Monday evening. The ordinance cannot be pui into effect at once due lo legal procedure which must I n * complied w iili, ami until then. Ihe counril agreed Ihul local deal ers cun handle beer subject to Iheir upprovul under the federal law e f fective April 7. Attorney Gus Newbury of Med ford was chosen to draw up the o r dinance in legal form. The measure w ill provide: licenses of 920 must he paid by dealers selling draught beer, or for consumption on the premises. Ten dollars w ill be the license fee for dealers sellingonly in the package or original container and not con sumed on premises. Licenses are payable semi-an nually. Other provisions which w ill be incorporated into the ordinance are that beer shall not lie sold to any one under 21 years of age. (The federal law sets the age limit at 18 years.) Nothing stronger than 3.2% beer ran he sold, and the sale is prohibited in dance halls in the city. The ordinance w ill further pro vide that no blinds shall be placed so that the view into th r place of business selling beer shall be ob structed. An underground tank is bring in stalled at Omer’s Auto park this week and other filling station equip ment w ill soon be in place for the convenience of tourists who stop nt the park and other patrons. Story of Purple Snow Here Reprinted in Pennsylvania News of the purple colored snow which was found in the H. E. W har ton yard in-G old H ill in January, and which received much publicity in papers of this section, has pene trated as far east as Pennsylvania, according to a dispatch in the Grants Pass Courier this week That office received a clipping from Carrolltown, Pennsylvania dated March 29, in which the item about the unusual snow here was carried. General Repair, Second- Hand Store Opened Here MINING CLASS WORKING HERE A new store is being opened this week in Gobi H ill by W. W. Tranah of Chicago, who lias been here for ; some time visiting Clarence Cook, and who likes Ihe country so well F IF T E E N MEN GET F IE L D WORK that he has decided to stay. Mr. Tranah w ill conduct a sec IN OLD COLVIG GULCH ON ond-band exchange, and w ill do C. E. GRAY RANCH radio, electrical and furniture re-1 pair work. His shop w ill be located in the building formerly occupied by the Davis shoe repair shop. Field work for one of Ihe gold Mr. Trunah has had considerable mining classes sponsored by the experience in Ihe East and is an Southern Oregon Mining association expert on radios, having been in Ihe and the stale vocational education radio manufacturing business in 1 department is being obtained on the Chicago. He wus also w ilh the East C. E. Gray ranch near this city, man Kodak company in that city where a rrew of ten to fifteen men lo r many years. are employed. Mr. Tranah states that he is The men are working under the equipped to give this community an direction of J. V. Neff, an exper unusually high type of service in ienced miner, and are placering in his lines, and inviles Ihe people to what is known as Ihe old Colvig come in and get acquainted. gulch. All but two of the men are novices at mining, but they are tak- j ing hold of the work with remark Steps Trken to Organize able enthusiasm. Town Baseball Team Beginning the work last Friday, they have already cleared a good The first steps to organize a town spare along the creek that runs baseball team were taken Wednes through the gulch, and the first of day night when ihirleen interested the week constructed a fifty-foot players met in Ihe barber shop to J sluice box, after diverting the w a l draw up plans for the coming sea le r w ith a small dam. The ground is considered as son. Dan McCarter, who was manager reasonably rich placer ground and of Inst year’s team was re-elected as it has never been worked by the to fill that post nnd Seth Coy was many transient miners because it has been deeded property for many chosen secretary-treasurer. It was suggested by one of the years, the group hopes to make a members that the Commercial club good showing with their project. A test pan Wednesday morning be invited to sponsor the team this season. Plans were also made to yielded fifteen cents in fine gold. The mining association has taken hold a smoker soon in order to raise the right to work the property un needed funds. Those who attended the first til July 3 of this year, and w ill use meeting are: Woodie Shaver, Logan it for field work for many of the Gardner, Clarence Kell, Clyde Kell, men who desire to learn the art of Lester Foley, Marvin Emory, Delos placering gold. Mr, Gray has also given the men Walker, Merrit Hittle. W ilm er Bai ley, Dick McKay, Seth Coy, Bill permission to sink test holes in his field below the irrigation ditch Hammersly and Dan McCarter. which is thought to be the old river channel, and where the bedrock 57 M en on Ashland- should yield rich deposits of gold. The work of the association is Talent Road W o rk being done w ith the hope that evrey idle man in Jackson county w ill be W ork on the 1.6 miles of new put to work profitably working the highway construction north of Ash known placer deposits in the coun land is steadily progressing. Fifty- ty. It is an established fact, men in seven men are being employed at charge state, that there is plenty of present, although a lew more w ill be this ground that is rich enough to required when paving i$ begun. yield a living, if the men have a About one-third of the excavation reasonable knowledge of how to work has been completed and early work it. i this week the huge shovel was The men. ns a group, seem to be moved to the Billings property for very much interested in their les excavation at that point. sons, and are glad of the opportun One shovel, eight trucks, and one ity to be able to do something lug caterpillar tractor are being which w ill enable them to become used for the work. self-supporting. Many of them have Piling for the north bridge, that received aid from the county this nearer Talent, has been driven, and winter, and'are now anxious to get the driving of piling for the south out and work for their supplies. bridge was begun today. Seymour Washburn and E. C. Hall are contractors on the high Extension Hom e Council Formed by Oregon W om en way and bridge work. Music Teachers and Bus D river R e-H ired License Plates for 1933 A re Orange and Black The music department of Gold H ill schools w ill remain the same as in previous years, the directors decid ed at a special meeting Inst F r i day when they retained Mrs. Minnie Guy and B. A. Botts as instructors. Both are part time employees, Mrs. Guy leaching glee club nnd other voenl work, while Mr. Bolls is or chestra instructor. It had previously been recom mended that a full time teacher who would live in Gold H ill should be employed. Contracts for other members of the faculty were signed, nnd Clin ton Wnlker was retained as bus driver, taking a cut in salary from 9195 to 9110. The new automobile license plates for issuance July for the half year w ill be orange and balck. it was an nounced at Salem thi weesk. These licenses w ill be for July 1 to Janu ary 1 and w ill cost 95. Succeeding years, the licenses w ill 95 for the full year. The state board of control has placed an order for 250,000 pairs of plates w ilh Irwin-Hodson, Portland, the firm which has manufactured- plates for the state the past few years. The new plates w ill cost less than 8 cents a pair, which is less lhan in other years. Only one other bd was reecived. OREGON ORATORS “SPID” MERRIMEAN RUSHED TO A state home economics extension council for Oregon was organized at the third annual conference for the study of home interests held at Oregon State college early in April. The purpose of the council, which includes representatives from every county maintaining extension w ork in home economics, is to encourage adult eduaction in this field. Heading the list of state officers is Miss Alice Hanley of Jackson county as honorary president. Miss Hanley, sister of the noted "B ill” Hanley of Burns, has been active in county home economics extension activities since 1918. Other officers are Mrs. Ralph Laird, Lane county, president; Mrs. Vern Livesay, De schutes, and Mrs. Alice Lindsay, Josephine, vice-presidents; Mrs. G. W. Thiessen, Clackamas, secretary; Mrs. O. H. Schwerdtman, Multno mah, treasurer, and Mrs. A. M. Winn, Columbia, recorder. BEST ON COAST HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY HOSPITAL AFTER HEMORRHAGE Eugene, Ore.— David G. Wilson, Portland, won the Pacific Coast championship trophy and a cash prize of 925 nt the annual extempore speaking contest held on the Univer sity of Oregon campus during the conference of the Pacific Coast For ensic League recently. John Ham il ton, Oregon State College, won sec ond. Mr. nnd Mrs. M. B. Merriman and Mrs. Geo. Hammersly w ill lestve lonight for Portland where Mr. Merriman w ill enter the Veterans’ hospital. Mr. Merriman, who has been in poor health for some time, suffered a severe hemorrhage this morning. He was recently ap pointed on Ihe loenl relief commit tee as legion representative and had Support your home-town paper.— gone to the office of Bertha Coy to assist in the work, when he became Tell them “I saw your ad in the Gold H ill News.” kick. Kenneth W ard entertained a group of friends at a party on his twelfth birthday A pril 3. Games were played and refreshments ser ved. The guests were Eva Romell, Eileen Shorb, Slyvia Croft, Vernice Martin, Mildred Smith, Roberta Mul lin, Marjorie Cameron, Dale Clem ent, Billy Betts, Donald Dungey, La- vern W alker, Buster Mullin, Ken neth Cardin, Paul Hatton, Frank W nlklin, Jack Martin and Mrs. Marjorie Pena. ____
