I-HE COLD HILL MEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST io, 19JJ
... 111
in 1939.
Of the 1933 cut, Washington pro
duced 2,260.892,000 feet and Oregon,
1 boo.'.>34,000 feet. Douglas fir con
Established 1897
stituted 73 per cent, ponderosa pine,
Published by Mac’s Printing Co.
12 per cent, and western hemlock
R. E. BLANKENBURG, Editor and Business Manager 5 per cent of the production. Mult
nomah County reported the largest
LOIS BLANKENBURG, Associate Editor
cut in Oregon, or 329,042,000 feet,
and Pierce county the largest in
An Independent Newspaper Published in the Interests of Washington, or 333,104,000 feet. In
1929 both these counties rettorted a
Gold Hill Oregon and Vicinity
cut of over 900,1X10,000 teet
Only 634 mills of the 1,240 on re
PU BLISH ED EVERY THURSDAY
cord reported ns operating at some
Entered at the Postoffice at Gold Hill, Oregon, for transmission through time during the year.
the wails as second-elass matter
THE QOLD HILL NEWS
Sahscriution 02.00 a year in advance.
MR. RANKS WRITES A BOOK
Advertising rates on application.
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100,000 C.C.G. Boys In
Northwest Forests Are
Making Good Record
Oregon Boast« 45,000
Hoover Goes Fishing
Children In High School
In Rogue River
Oregon has a high school popuiu-
tiou ol approximately 4a,000 attend
ing the 272 standard high school-, of
the »tute, reports Superintendent of
Public Instruction C. A. Howard, ul
Salem.
Nineteen schools with more than
•>00 students each, including those of
Portland, enroll uearly hall the to
tal. 21,220. Students utteuding 12
high schools of between 300 uud 500
number 4270; 20 schools of 100 to
300 enrill 4059; 32 union nigh
schools 9333, and 133 high schools
of less than a hundred 5421.
Lane tins 24 standard high
schools, most of any county of the
stale. Douglas is second with 18.
while Jackson, Linn, Multnomah
ami I matilla have 12 each.
Dlher counties are: Bilker, 8;
Benton, 7; Clackamas, 8; Clatsop.
0; Columbia, 6; Coos, II; Crook, 1;
Curry, 5; Deschutes, 4; Gilliam, 4;
Grant, 7; Hurney, 2; Hood River,
4; Jefferson, 2; Josephine, 6; Klam
ath, 8; Lake, 3; Lincoln, 9; Mal
heur, 3; Marion, 11; Morrow, 8;
Polk, 10; Sherman, 5; Tillamook,
6; I'uion, 6; Wallowa, 5; Wasco, 7;
Washington, 8; Wheeler, 2, mid
Yamhill, 10.
Jackson county has one high
school with 830 attendance, one
with 320, one with 115, unit .line
aggregating 442.
More than 109,000 stump-and-
Llewellyn A. Banks, convicted of
shovel soldiers from civilian life
murder in the second degree and
have been in the army now foi
FROM OUR FILES
awaiting sentence in Lane county
for more than three months. They
have beeu snatched from ’he
prison, has written a book. This
26 Years Ago
streets of cities and the poolhalls
was better employment than brood
of small towns, soft and discourag
ing darkly. It lifted the mind of
From the Gold Hill News
ed. Many of them hud never known
the prisoner out of the ab>ss. and
of August 9, 1907.
the meaning of hurd work.
though in all liklihood the volume
This 100,000 has been marooned
is not a contribution to letters its
Messrs. Walker and Elmherst. of in the far forests, the deserts end
preparation was important to the
.the new automobile garage at Med the mountains of the unpampered
well-being of the author. And to
ford were in town Monday. They northwest. They have been worked
his credit it should be said that the
made the run from Medford to Gold like mature men at every sort of
book does not treat of his own
Hill in 43 minutes. The machine they strenuous labor. They have endur
troubles.
used was a Ford four cylinder run ed isolation and slender fellowship,
Yet the obsession which drove about.
immune from all amusement out
Banks the editor to murder, until
that they furnish themselves.
he becomes Banks the criminal, is
The shower of the past two days
Cun they take it? Or are they
evident in the brief review of this is not apt to produce any great troting home to mummu and ways UTILITIES COME UNDER CODE
work that thus far has been afford shortage of crop in Oregon.
of greater ease? Remember that
ed us. From his cell, as he did in
The full cooperation of the gas
there is- nothing to prevent their
the sunlight when he was free.
leaving, most everybody has been and electric utility industry in the
Attorney
Jaseph
Hammersley
left
Banks believes he perceives the
asking this question. A definite an President’s Emergency Reemploy
world to be decadent and doomed. tor Portland last night where he swer comes this week from the ment Progrgm was promised to
w
ill
hold
a
conference
with
Gover
The messianic delusion persists,
CCC head-quarters at Vancouver National Recovery Administrator
we may safely assume. And how nor Chamberlain regarding the fish barracks and from General Malin Hugh S. Johnson by a committee
question
of
Rogue
River.
the author reconciles his own cis-
Craig, commander of the 9th corps consisting of George B. Cortelyou,
regard for authority and order,
area,
embracing Oregon. Washing president of Edison Electric In
Chicken thieves have been operat
which culminated in the worst of
ton, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Calif stitute, Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman
ing
in
Gold
Hill
this
week
and
a
crimes, with his opinion that he
ornia, Nevada and way points. of the Special Code rommittrr of
alone knows what is amiss with number of complaints have been Down to the last of July only 263 the institution, and Herman Russell,
made.
The
guilty
parties
had
better
humanity, does not appear. These
men out of the 100,000 in the Oth chairman of the Special (’ode com
zealots that deal in confused and look out as the next losses that oc corps area have gone A. W. O. L. mittee of the American Gas assoc
ypithetica generalities, assailing cur in this line will result in the Most of them have been homesick. iation.
things as they af? on the theory ! arrest of certain parties.
In view of the fact that the util-
Some couldn't endure the isolation.
that whatever is, is wrong, do not
Others wouldn’t work. A few were i'ies are service industries in con
Nolan
Hammersly
is
getting
to
be
regard themselves as under least
afflicted with wanderlust. But tinuous operation day and night,
obligation to be logical. For illegic the center of attraction in the acci only one-fourth of 1 per cent of
some niodifientioi s of the P, esl-
to them is logic of the first water, dent line in Gold Hill. Last week he the total walked home—a fine tri ilent’s
Heeniployment ngreei.ienl
was
mixed
up
in
the
runaway
of
W.
lucent, irrefutable. Thus Banks in
were discussed and the committee
bute
to
the
fine
quality
of
the
men
A. Carter’s horse, and fortunately
Lis book, as in his sad life.
themselves and to the quulity of was requested hv General Johnson
The book is called “Weighed in escaped injury, and on Sunday or the company commanders.
| Io bring in their code as soon as
tha Balance," meaning of course this week, he was the victim of an
In the Vancouver barracks ares possible in order tha! tin- provision«
other
accident
in
which
he
did
not
that our civilization has been
definite figures arc not available covering those spec1, it «n .di'ions
weighed and found wanting. Poor escape so fortunately. He was play hut the estimate is only 20 actually may I ; • uhstituted fo? the provis
fatuous scribbler. There is much mg in a tree near his home and in “deserting” their camps. Deserting ions. in the standard agreement,
amiss with the world, and a deal some way lost his footing, and fell has no military meaning here, since thereby, entitling the members of
that might easily be Tighter, but it to the ground, a distance of about the men are not under any sort o» the industries to receive the Blue
wasn’t the world that was weighed 25 feet, cutting a long gash in the military discipline other than tnnl Eagle, upon execution of the modi
and found wanting. It was the zeal back of his head, in which Dr. they impose upon themselves. The fied agreement.
ot who, without sufficient intelli Chisholm was compelled to take total needed to bring the compan
General Johnson st ded his satis
gence, or the requisite information, two stitches.
ies in this area up to their full faction with Ihp expressed desire of
convinced himself that he was a
these industries Io coopeialo one
Citizens of Southern Oregon are strength this month was slightly hundred per rent in the movement
man with a mission, and drummed
more
than
60,
but
most
of
this
up a following of unwisdom, and becoming more wraught up over number received honorable dis to increase mass purchasing power
pursued his conceit to an end bitter the fishing conditions in Josephine charges for any of several reasons. i nd spread employment.
as gall and wormwood. Words ;ounty, daily. The people of Gold
From the evidence, it must be
were the undoing of Llewellyn A. Hill are planning a meeting be concluded thal “they can take 11,”
SEE
Banks. The orotund, ponderous tween themselves and Governor these tough timber troopers.
EADS TRANSFER Ä STORAGE
Chamberlain if the condition is not
sound of them.—Oregonian.
COMPANY
changed. This affair gets more In
Natural
Bridge
Now
ig
The finest support you can give teresting every day and before it is
Fruit Hauling
Located in Crater Park
your Home Town paper is to say. ‘‘I over there will be certainly some
saw your ad in the Gold Hill News.” thing doing.
' Phone 315
Medford, Ore.
Crater Lake National Park, Orc.,
Aug. 8, (Special)—A natural bridge
Oregon and W ashington
W. G. BISHOP, M. D.
or arch has been located within the
Physician and Surgeon
1932 Lumber Cut Nearly park, adding to the many attractions
Four Billion Feet greeting visitors. The arch is lo I At Becker’s Drug Store—Mon.,
Wed., Fridays, 5 to 7 p. m. I
cated on the slopes of Annie creek
I Medford office: Jackson County I
and
The lumber production of Oregon canyon near the summit of the
Rank Building
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and Washington in 1932 amounted canyon wall.
Although not easily accessible, it
to 3,867,826,000 feet according to the
can
be reached from the south en
preliminary report of a recently
“A Service Station for
I completed canvass of the industry trance highway after some climbing.
by the Pacific Northwest Forest Ex The arch, the result of centuries ol
the Farmer”
periment
Station, Portland Oregon. erosion, is approximately 20 fict
409-411 “G” St.
T h is was 41 per cent below the 1931 long and 15 feet high, and is being
Grants Pass, Ore.
j production, 58 per cent below that given careful study to clarify its
geological significance.
S J .of 1930, and 68 per cent below that
Ancient History
Star Seed
Grocery Co.
•
Ex-President Herbert C. Hoover
went fishing Monduy morning ul
the Frunk D. Madison lodge on
Rogue river, bu, he was unable to
land any flail, a telephone conver
sation witli Mr. Madison ul noon re
vealed.
Mr. Madison, Sail
Francisco
sportsman who fishes (lie Itogm
every year, said that Mr. Iloovri
who is traveling alone, by motor,
was an overnight guest at his plan
mid plans to return south to his
home at Palo Alto Monduy after
noon.
The ex-presideut was out fishing
when Mr. Madison was called. Mr.
Hoover’s presence in the valley hail
been kepi a secret.—Muil Tribune.
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Lucy Mee. Treasurer.
GOLD HILL CHAPTER W. R. C.
Meets Twice a month on the 2nd
and 4th Wednesdays nt their Club
rooms in the City Hall.
Rose Gay, President.
Edith Bryan, secretary.
Madge Dorman, Treasurer.
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