THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1945
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: JUSTICE OF THE PEACE TERMS
The news from Salem carries a modest story regarding a
bill seeking to amend Sec. 27-208 of the code to change the
term of justices of the peace from two years to six years. To
the general reader this might be a source of puzzlement, for
anyone whose memory runs from one election to another will
doubtless recall that for some time now we have been electing
our justices of the peace for six years at a stretch. Why then
the bill? , , , . .
The fact of the matter is that the law does give the justice
of the peace an elective term of two years. ears ago, how
ever, a decision (Webster vs. Boyer), held that justice's
court is a court, hence the justice of the peace is a judge.
Because judges were entitled to six year terms under an
other section of the code, justices of tne peace were entitled
to six years terms. They have been getting them ever since.
But the law making specific reference to tnem still provides
a two year tenure. .
The proposed amendment, then, has as its immediate pur
pose not the lengthening of the term of oftice but rather to
make the statute conform to the court's interpretation.
Once the measure is passed, it is indicated, another measure
would seek to specify that justices of the peace, like other
members of the judiciary, would be elected by non-partisan
ballot, instead of being required to ask party nomination and
later to try for election as party candidates on the general
ballot.
The change, it seems to us, would be a proper one.
WAR PRODUCTION NEEDS
Continuation of the protest of Klamath, and Lake county
courts against the proposed land exchange between The Shev-lin-Hixon
Company and the national forest is to be regretted,
especially in view of the suggestion by a war production board
ofhciul that the objection be withdrawn in order to facilitate
production of lumber needed for the war effort. Wood has
been of tremendous importance in prosecution of the war, a
fact that is especially well known in lumber manufacturing
communities. The product and the industry are justly rated
as of prime essentiality. .
- The courts' unwillingness to withdraw their protests is also
to be deplored since the reasons given in' support of their
stand had been shown to lack in validity. Whether their sug
gestions for solving the situation through the agency of the
state board of forestry will lead to the solution of the situa
tion remains to be seen.
There is still some cause for hope in the phrasing of the
report on the Klamath Falls meeting this week. In reference
. to the presentation by Huntington Taylor, the WPB repre
sentative, the news stated that the courts rejected, "tem
porarily at least." By intimation this might be taken as
pointing to the possibility of reconsideration if the courts'
S- negotiations with the state board of forestry prove fruitless.
Washington
Column
By Peter KiIhoii
.(NBA Huff CorreniMindent)
: Washington, D. C In a fight
over a poker game at Oran, Al
geria last July, United States
merchant seaman Albert F. Me
Leod Blabbed a shipmate to death.
Brought back to the United States,
KcLeod was tried before n mili
tary court martial at Norfolk, Va.,
found guilty and sentenced to
ten years ln Federal Reformatory
at Chllicolhe, Ohio. MoLeod Is
now being held in the Federal
Northeastern Penitentiary- at
Lewlsburg, Pa., however, from
which address he has filed an ap
peal on the grounds that he should
have been tried In civil courts.
There Is no use becoming senti
mental about this case or trying
to build up any great howl of
sympathy that an American citi
zen's civil liberties have been vio.
lated.
Seaman McLeod probably!;1"":"" ? Jefferson county, W
got no more than he deserved, in
fact, he probably got off pretty
light if the evidence was as pre
sented to the military tribunal.
But the McLeod case is typical of
a small number of similar Inci
dents which have arisen during
ho wnr nn.i it sni-vnu in m.ini ui.iand that the defendents, W. R.
the system of administering Jusi00! ,ugenc Cook and Helen
tice to civilians accused ot crimc:,k lle complete accounting
In theaters of war !,n Jefferson county for all rents,
Decision to try McLeod before ! lR!t"es ,,ml profits received by
a court martial was made after
due consultation between legal
lights of the Army Judge Advo
cate General's division, the Marl-
time Cam mission mid the Deimrt.
ment of Justice which would hl lcclslon lound that VV. It.
have had to conduct prosecution that time county judge,
If the case had been turned over had prevailed upon the county
to a civil court. Everv case notlc,n"'t lo execute a blank deed,
flnnllv riisnnsr.fi nf In The theater! hlch WUS later made out to Eu-
of war Is reviewed In this same "tno Co(,k' an ot w- R- Cook; I
way, and there is no Inter-depart-1 wh'rh deed Is now declared void
mental feud in determining whal'for the reason that it is held to be1
t0 do. Improper for a member of ihe
The McLeod case was given to ' county court to buy property of 1
the military because a court ,hc county d rectly or Indirectly
martial can bo conducted with do !01 to act as agent for any pur
positions from the witnesses, 1 ehase while acting as an agent
whereas trial in a civil court re- I(,r Jefferson county,
quires the witnesses to testily In' The property Involved con
person. If McLeod had been tried 1 sls,el1 oI tour lots in Madras for
before a civil court, it would haveim'r'y Pari of the J. E. Chestnut
been necessary to bring in witnes- i property.
ses by then scattered in ships all i i
over the high seas and hold them j BKAK EA TO S,. !
10L! J,n, , ,,. , ... I'nrtland, Ore. 'II'' The mount
The right of the military lo ad.;ot, hrm, ((ml .h,lllU,01.. of ,,m ,
minis er Jtmtlce In such a case is p,mnd Alaska bear was pivsented
well fixed by law and precedent. , ,nc caplain and crpw f ,ho s s
Navigation laws of the United Kodiak Victory when It was
States have bpen written with launchel at Oregon shipyard,
perhaps more detail than any Glenn Robinson of Kodiak, Alas
other statutes. The authority of ka, the guest speaker, presented
shipmasters to "log" their crew,t,e bear's head ln behalf of the
members, forfeiting their pay and j city for which the new ship was
administering other disciplinary named.
.nd Ortau. Holmaya b- lb. tend nulletin
Bun'1' r"r
, 1917. at the PostoMic. at Bund. Orcon
March a. Ibiv
HENKlf N. FO WLEB Assoeiata Editor
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or faUore to receive the paper regularli
'punishments, Is well fixed,
i In criminal cases in time of
war, the law gives to the Army
; and Navy jurisdiction over all
: men with or accompanying the
; armed forces into a theater of
ar.
j Army officers have asserted
this authority more than Navy
officers to keep order in supply
ports and on beachheads, where
merchant ships unload. At the
beginning of the war young
merchant shipmasters tended to
dump' nil their disciplinary prob
lems into me lap ot the Army
authorities, but that! has been
largely corrected. It is only when
they get a tough one, like the
McLeod murder case, that the
Army gels called In. And this
McLeod case may set a precedent.
Court Rules Deed
In Madras Void
Madias, January 19 (Special)
Ralph S. Hamilton, circuit Judge
of Jefferson, Crook and Deschutes
counties, has handed down a de
cision in the ease nf E. G. Weber.
"- Cook, Eugene Cook and Helen
Cook, his wife, dclemlenls; In
favor of the plaintiff decreeing
that the deed executed by the
county court conveying certain
lands to Eugene Cook and Helen
Cook, his wile, be declared void
them from Dcoeniler 4, 1940.
The case involved the sale of
some county-owned property
which was acquired by Jefferson
"'""ty through tax foreclosure
Killing a
CoByflahl. i. r. Pwftee b Co.. I44j
A GEORGIA TOWN IN 1807
VI
Industry in the southern states
at this period was almost wholly
agricultural. Factories did not ex
ist, but every town the size of
Augusta had many small work
shops where the proprietor was
assisted by a few workmen. They
made a variety of articles, incluJ
ing beaver hats, shoes, wagons,
harness, simple furniture and
small household articles. The
blacksmiths hammered out nails
and horseshoes, and some of them
made such farm implements as
hoes, rakes and plows. It was an
age of craftsmen instead of ma
chines; mass production was still
to come.
These skilled workers were not
I f hnn whira mnn A rmnrtn tfinrvt .
were many Negro slaves who had
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neen trained ln craftsmanship.
One of these Negro artisans, not
a i B n i . "a"csl"'
made grilled iron work of such
grace and beauty that gateways
made by him itill sell at fancy
prices.
The cotton mill era did not be
gin until the middle of the 19th
century.
i ne large smve piumauons pro-
duced nearly everything that was
M onneedthdemby Harvey ,
mi . i . . 1
Fnile' Vnirvlnw nWni itinn noaV
Augua. here
j-iHuaia, im.i -i- "J riavi.n, ,
tlf nr. tifr Imth vnuniT n. ni
also two whi.e' overseers with f. "Ty .
their families. Six of the Negro 1J1S a yoar- . . , ' i
women spent all their time In the Th , , nlantations were few
s!nmTnco.,TnhShnnH: IS'" Is 'compared m the
ywy i" uy uie.n i-iuuung. in ;
Z a L HPn wfih ! f!"',ns- ml cultivated them with
wn kni Jtui i 1 1 ,Xlihc ht,'P "t their families. These
wore In the winter time. During . ???.unn Th
the summer they went barefoot 1 i"ha"h.y Plantation
All the round univiintoH fnrnl i owncra had crowded the small
Une'of VncKNegr cabms'as' fan;Var 'nH
m.ifin in u,i ,.i..r,i,.n.,.i ..i.. ' the land near the rivers and
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Uesldes cotton, as t no chief
crop, the plantation also pro
duced tobacco, corn, sugar,
peaenes anil a variety of vege-1
tables. The cotton crop occupied '
&hJlv cuK e,u? , jSr PvT,y1;;'Ckfn -hltes
nose of nroviiUnc m .lisse, Pfor ' celved no wa8es at all. . As a re-
the NegroeT on Mh? nWce and suM thl'y wor? eventually pulled
KbM.&'!to'f NpK';,s economic
no eou nmrnl nt Kaii-view f.ri
making sugar, but the molasses
was produced by boiling the cane
juice.
It was generally believed at
that time, by plantation owners
and overseers, that a Negro farm
hand in the course of a day's
labor would accomplish about
two-thirds as much as a white
man put to the same task. This
generalization was open to many
exceptions, for there were gretl
differences In the energy, intelli
gence, and willingness of the No
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Dr. Grant Skinner
OENTIST
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Evenings by Appointment
Otltcs Phout it
Roa. rhotis 8l W
Lot of Birds Wiih One Stone
WAY OUR PEOPLE
LIVED
fMmibulid
groes. .
The plantation overseers were
always white men. As a class
they were coarse, illiterate and
entirely lacking in the courtly
graces. They were slave drivers,
but this does not mean that they
were all cruel, or that they mis
treated the Negroes in
ar.- T,h?,Itte" a"L'fC??iter engages W. P. Crawford and
of the slavery era show that , n) w" ,0 the sidewaiks
many plantation owners would ! with a mow sidewalks
not permit their Negroes to bei Aa t)fere are 400 pupils absent
c.rUni' iri?aaw-Jn a"y circunV from Bend schools owing to the
nf l fLnH tv, aJ'cM weather, many schools are
On the other hand, there are; closed throughout' the county.
records of sadistic slave owners j Mercury ln th clty descends t0 20
r- V" " i;:ibelow zero
their people to work under the
lash and half-starved .them, but
owners of slaves who treated
thorn .l-unllt. nnfmltorl hnlf
overseers to do it, were almost
. .
invariably
ostracized by their
neighbors,
Overseers
were never consld-
ered 'gentlemen; within the old-
,, .Th. v,t
time southern meaning of that
term. Their pay was astonishing
ly low in view of the great re
sponsibility placed on their shoul
ders. Eight hundred dollars a
year was looked upon as high
" " H -J muuiru iui ciii uvnacui. -l
sl(1s hp h ri hi! hmme rant fruo
mst of his faSd&to.
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",e "-"- " var
nn vnratj onnil ntrnrcnnr flirt
" ' & T i
of poor farmers who owned no
....... Thnv llv,.fl rm iholr smnii
creeks,
The noor cotton Growers
lived chiefly among the semi-
barren hills hence the name I
"hillbilly" and endeavored to
make a living from soil which '
i ,. ,""u,l,,u"- lul P10"1""'
".. " " mut.i.Miuio1a.i. m.i,.is "in--
nidation of labor in the minds of i cat townsite schemes in the com
the upper classes. Gentlemen dld'munity, alleging that fake adver
not plow or hoe for a living, hutltising 4s being resorted to.
made others work for them, soi The A. M. Drake residence prop
in the course of time men who'erty, known as Block 4, is bought
worked with their hands on land by the Hunter Realty company for
or in shops or factories became! $30,000.
the objects ot a social contempt, I A large gray wolf, headquarter
for they were doing what slaves j cd about 20 miles above Prineville
were forced to do. on the Crooked river. Is reported
This was the most deplorable! slaughtering a large number of
result of the southern slave civil!
zation, and it was not lived down
for many years.
Next: Tour Young Men in the
Gold Rush.
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GETS IN MY HAIR '
SOME DAY I'M GONNA
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Bend's Yesterdays
FIFTEEN TEAKS AGO
(f rom The Bulletin Files)
- (Jan. 20, 1930) ' .
'Fan I MfiUoo nf ennuf . fnlln In
Rev. Noil J. Barnes of the Bap
tist church, announces he plans
to leave Bend and go to Marsh
field. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO
(l'rum The Bulletin Kles)
(Jan. ZU, -IHilUI-
1 Noting that 200 head of cattle
have bSm stolen from Central
Oregon ranges during the past
year. Forest Sunervisor N. G.
Jacobson summons about 200 cat-
tlemen to meet with him and plan
to combat rustling.
In a ninth grade essay contest,
Nedra Toomey and Gerald Hicks
win the first and second prizes.
me snevnn-Mixon company
shows a gain of $377,266
-i ii o .
ihe snevlm-Hixon Company
"vtri i;;io.
City officials study plans to pre
vent the spread of smallpox in
Bend after physicians report more
than 50 oases in the city. -
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Orom The liullettn Files;
(Jan. 20; 1915)
Declaring an emergency, the
city council orders all dogs in
13iivi(1 mii-S'rtarl on1 (hrautun n
shoot any unmuzzled dog found
at large.
Rep. Vernon A. Forbes of Bend,
in tne state legislature, opens
fight against efforts of Alma D.
Katz to collect $20,000 from the
Tumalo irrigation project. . .
New machinery is installed in
the Bend flour mill.
Several residents of Redmond
and Terrebonne stake out claims
' ? "' "'
inthe Terrebonne district.
TV I'TVEYEARS AGO
1 Jan. 20, 1910)
t- "'
The Bend Commercial cub
yearling caltle.
Deputy Sheriff John Combs of
Prineville and Miss Effie Dobbs
wed.
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Stlidetmts. I Think
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WHERE
Legislature Ends
2nd Quiet Week
Salem, Ore., Jan. 20 (tPi Mem
bers of the Oregon legislature
today were in adjournment until
Monday, having completed a sec
ond relatively quiet week of the
1945 session.
Only a few controversial meas
ures have been dropped into the
hopper so far, and only one has
come on to the floor. It is the
proposal to Investigate the Ore
gon liquor control commission
purchase of two distilleries in
1943 in connection with the1 Wash
ington commission. .
The measure passed the house
quietly and unanimously yester
day after a stormy time in the
senate, where opposition followed
the party line.
Politics Feared
Although proposals have been
heard from Olympia, Wash., that
the Oregon investigating com
mittee of five legislators join with
a similar group from Washing
ton, there has been no public dis
cussion of that possibility, with
several legislators feeling that
such a project would become in
volved in partisan politics, and
not be the "fair and impartial"
Investigation asked by Gov. Earl
Snell. . .
A hearing will be conducted on
Wednesday and Thursday of next
week over the controversial "big
truck" bill, which would maintain
the present load-weight limita
tios on trucks in the state.
Niskanen Back
From Legislature
Much controversial legislation
win snoruy be introduced in the
state legislature, Rep. William
Niskanen predicted here todav
while in Bend for the weekend.
The legislator said that the ses
sion was slow in getting under
way, Dut mat ne expected it to
gain momentum when the. solons
assemble again on Monday. Ren.
iNisKanan, wno was accompanied
to return to Salem tomorrow.
Niskanen is chairman of the
important game committee, and
is also a member of the irrigation,
iorestry, administration and re
organization, and banking and
corporations committees.
Sergeant Miller
Finishes School
A veteran of 27 months in the
Pacific, Marine Sergeant Irvin A.
Miller, whose wife, Mrs. Evelyn
Miller lives at 338 Hill street, was
k , ,, ln'
'a n'rLscho1 bat aIio2 ,at, ?m.P
Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif , He is
i now n&dy for assignment to duty
recently, graduated from the in-
as an instructor.
Miller has served at Guadal
canal, Tulagi, Tarawa, Saipan and
Tinian. He holds two presidential ;
unit citations. Miller enlisted In
October, 1940.
HER GIFT DELAYED 27 YEARS
Ithaca, N. Y. P Miss Inez .1. 1
Kisselburgh, Albany, made a gift
to the alumni fund of Cornell uni-!
versity through a bank draft in 1
June 1917, but for some reason
the check did not reach the uni-:
versity. As a result of a recent ;
legal notice in an Albany news-,
paper listing the credit to Cornell, :
the check was sent to the alumni !
fund at the university arriving
in the same man as Miss Kissel-
burgh's 1944 gift to the fund.
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When you do make that trip choose Trailways
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