CENTRAL POINT STAR
VOLUME TWO
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27. 192«
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Discussion Of
Plan To Return
Federal Lands
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New Rail Shortcut Links West With East
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NUMBER 10
LICENSE FEES WILL BE
REDUCED DURING NEXT YEAR
News Gleaned
From all Over
The Nation
Much curiosity as to the manner
in which automobile registration
will be handled the first of the year
due to the change in the registration
period is manifest among the mo
torists of Ihe slate, according to the
number of impjiries being made Io
the secretary of state, Hal E, Hoss.
With Oregon unique among the
states in establishing a split of the
Thv recent proposals made by
calendar year registrations always
President lioovei
Unit 31)2,000
The marriage of John Coolidge,
in force heretofore, an entirely new son of ex-President Coolidge and
Mjuaie miles of federal domain be
system bus had to be worked out Florence Trumbull, daughter of the
turned buck to the .slides bus be
by the secretary of state Io provide Governor of Connecticut were mar
come u subject of general discus
for the half year registration period ried Monday at Plainville, New
sion unit one with which readers
on anuary 1, 193«, and the full year York. They will reside in New
should familiarize themselves.
registration on July 1, of Ihe same
Haven, Connecticut.
Ttie following from the magazine,
year.
"rime," deals with the problem
.Miller Hugins, well known base
To obviate the necessity of issu
quite exhaustively mid will be
ball
magnate of the Yankees club
ing metal plates twice in Ihe six
found to be of interest:
month period, a method of issuance of New York is very ill at his home
I’be I'. S. owns one-fifth of the
of temporary license plates for Ihe and inanv of his friends are des
I'. S. Last week president Hoover
first six months of the year has been pairing for his life.
wus inclined to give half of this
Sharks have already flooded the
evolved.
A windshield sticker,
a*«) to persons who uppurenlly
rea«lily identified by special design, markets in eastern cities with coun
«lid not want it. His offer, in the
(Above) P lu t* and K lam ath
will supplant the customary distri terfeit world series tickets accord
name of conservation, bail strings Indiana ride the firs t Iron
bution of license plates on the first ing to dispatches.
to it.
of the year. The sticker will not
Horse on Southern P acific’s
The first skiff of snow to come to
file public domain once consisted new A ltu ra * K lam ath T ra n *,
mean that the old 1929 plates should the Crater Lake area, fell last Mon
of ail U. S. laud outside the 13 orig continental Cut-O ff, Jinking
he removed from the automobile, day morning according to informa
inal Sluies and Texas. Freu lund
for it will take the 1930 sticker, the tion received from the ranger sta
the Pacific N orthw est w ith
was the great natural resource upon the East. (U p p er rig h t) Capt.
1929 license plates and the official tion at (hat place.
whleh the new country was built. O. C. Applegate, Oregon pio
receipt of registration, which is
The Oregon State bar association
For generations it served as u prime neer and Modoc Indian W a r
carried in the driver’s compartment wilt meet i n.Medford this week end.
political issue. In IX.'Mi Henry Clay, veteran, who participated In
of the car, to serve as complete i- Several hundred members of the bar
then a F. S. Senator from Kentucky, the ceremonies at dedication
dentifleation of the vehicle.
I together with their families are ex
esanr« n u t
pointed with pride to “the prodig of new ra il line. /R ig h t) F irst
As usual on the first of the year, pected at the convention.
M|OfOWP
ious sum of one billion und eighty tra in crashes through papier-'
o’” - M ot - nf mofor vehicles will be
The .Me<lford Daily News report-
million acres” of public domain mache b a r r ' e r at Hacka-
uired to file applications for li that the ltoguc Valley pear crop will
about one-half the present size of more, C alifo rn ia, form ally
censes. but this year they will be
net over *5,000,1MM) this year. This
the II. S..) Prophetically he exclaim opening fo r passenger and
able to make remittances on a less is a sizeable nest egg for the valley
ed: "Long after we shall cease to be
freig h t service the 9&m de
scale than in the last few years, this fall and should go a long way
agitutrd by the tariff, the public
link between A ltu ras and
due to the new license fee law
toward creating a prosperous con
lands will remain a subject of deep
Rl.Vmath F a ll*.
which becomes effective January 1, j dition.
and enduring interest."
1930. Fees for both automobile and j
Chas. Lindberg has been busy the
trucks will be based on weights,
The federal government through
OWBOYS and Indians, pioneers of
past
week pioneering a new mail
passenger
and
freight
service
over
the
line, costing more than »5,000,000. with a new scale of fees making
the years hud doled out its doniuin
covered wagon daya and business 06-mlle Alturas-Klamath Falls line
route
from the United States to the
serves
to
link
Southern
Pacific’s
Cas
reductions of approximately 25
(o its citizens to homestead, to the men from all parts of the West Joined and open<«d California's last frontier
countries of South and Central Am
<»de and Overland Routes. Connec per cent all along the line.
railroads Io develop new territory, recently In a colorful celebration to rail transportation.
tion Is made at Alturas with the for
.lu prospectors to exploit. For the marking completion of the Southern
A change in the gas tax will be erica.
Indians, squaws and papooses of mer Nevada - California • Oregon Rail
The Lake County Examiner r-e
asking mid a promise to live there Pacific Company's new »9.000.000 the Klam ath and Piute Reservations road. acquired recently by the South effective also the first of the year,
cut-off f r o m t h e came to the celebration and witnessed
ports that the new Modoc cut-off
homesteaders could, anil still can, transcontinental
the
added
one
cent
per
gallon
bring
ern Pacific and standard-gauged at a
Paciric Northwest to the East.
a rrival of the Iron Horse of today,
ing ihe total gas tax to four cents will net a saving of 20 dollars per
get HU) acres, stockmen fill) acres. In
Contrasting the old Wpst and the Just as wild tribesmen of 60 years ago cost of approximately »4.000,000.
car to the sheep men who ship to
This completes the railroad com per gallon.
1902 when most o t the good farming new. t|ie dedicatory program at Hnck-
gntheied In nwe along the Central Pa pany s »88,000,000 construction pro
Portland and San Francisco,
land wus gone the U. S. begun re siuore. Modoc county, Calif., Septi
cific Railroad as transcontinental gram which brings Oregon and north
W. R. Gaylord of Medford and a
HOME POINTERS
claiming the desert by irrigation. ber 14. reached a thrilling climax travel chang'd from "tra il to rail."
prominent attorney of that city has
Tod |\ Slime fiUll.tMin persons eulli- when a giant locomotive crashed Cow-boys, loggers, ranchmen and vet ern California more than 200 miles
nearer the markets of the East and
v a te 3,200,0011 a c r e s of land reclaim- I through the scenic re product Ion of a eran Indian fighters also gave real
(From School of Home Economics, disappeared apparently leaving no
provides a shorter route between Cali
clues to his whereabouts. Every ef
ed
1 H2.00«.«00
1 mountain range. The breaking of the w< ¡ern atmosphere- to the festivities. fornia and Oregon over the Cascade
cd at a cost of 182,000,000.
Oregon State College)
barrier cl« nr.-d the way for regular
fort to locate the attorney seems
T' » new An -nc k’lm-o'i. ta.ii. ..i,
It
is
usually
more
economical,
as
U. S. land bus dwindled until now
in
vain.
well as safer, for a householder to
there remains only about 00«,(MM)
send
damaged
electrical
appliances
(Mill sq. mi. (U. S. square mileage:
. . .
¿
, r ’ III n A f f i i n u
to a repair shop than to attempt to ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
BUSINESS CONDITIONS OF
2.973.IMM)). Of this amount 209,000
STATE GAME DEPARTMENT
OF
PORT
CELEBRATION
NORTHWEST SEEM GOOD repair them at home, as the average
s«| mi. is in national forests, care
householder
does
not
usually
have
fully conserved. Oil and mineral
Indication of the ever-growing
The postponment of the opening
In order to secure an appropriate
The high level of business activ the proper material at hand with
reserves take up 02,004) sq mi. na number of women entering profes
of
deer hunting season will cut a
name
for
Medford’s
great
celebra
ity reached in the Twelfth Federal which to make the repairs, and a se
tional parks, 11.700 sq. ml. There sional or business life is shown
big hole in the annual receipts of
ill
tion
commemorating
Ihe
dedication
vere
electrical
shock
may
easily
be
Reserve
District
during
July
was
remain 302,000 sq. mi. of just pluin the greater number of women oh
the state game commission. Many
common land, unreserved and un taining notorial commissions each of .Medfonl’s new airport on July generally maintained during Aug reecived from an improperly insul
hunters who had long made pians
3rd.
4th,
and
5th,
193«,
the
commit-
ated
splice.
ust.
appropriated. Il is lit only for cat year from the office of the secretary
to hunt on the original opening date
lee in charge has decided to offer
tle-grazing for which it has been of slate, Hal E. Host.
The position of agriculture did
of
September 15 will be unable to
a
prize
of
$25
for
Ihe
name
which,
A little care in handling will
used so hard Ihut in a score of
In the Iasi four years the number in Hie opinion of the Committee, not change materially during the lengthen the life of the electrical ap go into the mountains when the
years it has deteriorated 50 per cent.
month. Harvesting has proceeded
of women applying fot commissions
In nnother 20 years it will become has more than doubled, and al the most aptly suggests the position rapidly under favorable weather pliance cord. When not in use it is season is opened. Consequently
which Medford will hold in the av
coiled loosely and placed in such a they will not purchase licenses.
worthless.
Before Ihnt happens
present lime women receive IS per iation world after the completion conditions, and relatively satisfac position that it wilt not be jammed Many sportsmen from other states
President Hoover wants Io turn it
cent of the total number qf com of Ils new Port, and the scope of tory prices are being received by between heavy objects or subjected who annually hunt deer in Oregon
to the slates in which il lies.
growers for most farm products. A
missions issued by the office. In the llu celebration.
will not do so this season, as the
shortage of rainfall during the past to sharp bands. It is also better
Three hundred thousand square nine months, ending June 30, 1929,
forest fires have changed their
The following fates will govern
to
disconnect
the
attachment
by
spring and summer has harmed the
miles is a lot of land.
It 1297 notarial commissions were the contest.
plans. They will not buy licenses,
grasping
the
plug
and
pulling
District’s livestock ranges and lias
is six limes the size of New York signed, of which 230 were for wom
1. Any person may submit one accelerated marketing of catite and smoothly than by a jerk on the cord. and the game commission, which
stale. It is bigger limn Texas, Chile en and 1001 went Io men.
depends upon the sale of licenses
or
more names for the consideration sheep.
or Turkey. Il is almost half the size
for ihe continuation of its work of
Evidence of the increasing inter of die judges.
Vacuum
cleaners
may
sometimes
of Mexico. Il comprises 190,000,000
Retail sates in August exceeded
propagation
and protection, suffers.
est in Ihe professions is given also
be used io clean open coil electric
2. I lie name for the celebration
acres, enouglit for President Hoover
Those sportsmen who prefer the
in a recent opinion handed down should not contain more than five those of July by a slightly smaller al devices that have become choked
Io give one acre Io every man, wo
amount than usual, while wholesale
hunting of pheasants are getting
by I. H. VanWinkle, attorney gener words.
with crumbs or charred food.
man und child in the U. S. and still
trade
increased more than season
their scatter guns in readiness for
al, following an inquiry that had
have enough left Io do a whole
3. Alt names must be printed on ally during the month. Sales at
been made by Ihe secretary of slate,
The electric vacuum cleaner needs the opening of the season on Oc
sale real estate business. If It were
plain paper, wit tithe name and ad both wholesale and retail were
relating Io Ihe right ot n woman to
frequent
cleaning. Unless the dust tober 15. On that «tate the hunting
worth $100 per acre—which il is
dress of ttie contestant submitting above the levels of August. 1928.
of Chinese and native pheasants,
use her maiden name in obtaining it
il plainly written on the back Cnrloadings on the District’s rail bag is emptied regularly the air so«»ty or blue grouse and ruffled
mil—its sale would wipe out the na notarial grant.
passages
become
blocked
and
the
thereof.
tional debt. Il lies in Hi "public
roads increased during August but
Under Ihe attorney general’s op
cleaner does not work properly. The grouse wilt be pennissable. A bag
land" states throughout the west.
4. All persons wishing to enter were fewer in number than a year
inion,
married
women
have
Ihe
brush too requires cleaning to re limit of not more than four of any
Nevada heads the list, with the IL S.
Ihe contest must submit their en ago. The volume of waterborne move the hair and threads which of these birds may be taken in one
privilege
of
using
their
former
owning 75 per cent of its surface
tries to Ihe Publicity committee, at trade passing to and from this Dis
day, and there is a limit of eight
territory. Utah is next with 47 per names if they desire, allhough it is Ihe office of the Medford Chamber trict through the Panama Canal in become wound around the brush
birdsf or any seven consecutive
recommended
that
il
is
heller
prac
and
twisted
around
the
bearing,
cent U. S. ownership and Wyoming
of Commerce not later than 12 noon, creased. largely as a result of in thus putting an extra toad on the days. Not more than one female
tice
that
Ihe
married
name
he
used
third with 27 per cent.
creased easthound shipments of re motor and cutting down its efficien Chinese pheasant may be killed in
Io avoid confusion. Nothing in the Thursday, October l«th. 1929. in or
Recently Hie governors of eleven
fined petroleum products.
der1
Id
receive
consideration.
The
Oregon statutes compels a woman
cy. Hard objects, if drawn into the seven consecutive days. There is
western states pud at Salt Lake City.
prize
will
be
awarded
as
soon
there
Industrial
production was at higher cleaner, may easily penetrate the no open season for these birds in
Io assume her husband’s name upon
To them President Hoover sent As
as Hi«' judges reach their final levels during August. 1929, than in dust bag and destroy its usefulness. Lincoln, Tillamook, Clatsop and
marriage or prevents her from us after
(revision.
sistant Secretary of (he Interior
Curry counties.
either July, 1929. or August. 1928,
Joseph M. Dixon with a 2,000 word ing her hnptismnl name in,Ihe trans
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and
this
sustained
activity
was
re
<
>
.
One
cash
prize
of
Twenty-five
action of husin.ss affairs, accord
The rain which the sportsmen
message containing a proposal that
flected
in
a
generally
improved
em
FOOTBALL
GAME
TO
BE
dollars
(MB)
will
l»e
awarded
to
ing to Ihe opinion.
have been praying for almost ma
these 302,00 sq. mi. he turned back,
The winner of ttie contest.
ployment situation. Petroleum out terialized Wednesday night when
BROADCAST SATURDAY
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free, Io states in which they lay.
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put in August exceeded the July rec a light shower his the valley. The
While Ihe heel-cattle outleok re
The president proposed the appoint
Poultry paralysis is so far an in ord, and lumber production, as is
A second broadcast from KOAC,
ment of another commission (his mains good for iH'odueers who are curable disease, Ihe cause of which customary during this month, in clouds left however before the Hie Oregon State College radio sta
much
wanted
rain
nmounted
to
ninth) to investigate the matter. already in
is uoni.i.wii,
unknown, says me
the uregon
Oregon c.x-
Ex creased substantially.
, ■ Ihe . hq&iness on a , wcll-
. . «s
very much. Whether it was enough tion, will be on the air Saturday,
But there were important reserva orgnnlze I basis, with ample f e d >n perin.ental station. Where the dis-
September 28, with a ptay-by-play
There
was
little
fundamental
to raise the ban is not certain.
tions in the Hoover offer: The sight Oregon producers starting V11S<> js presen, |h(> s,n„on up
account of the California Aggie_-
’ change in the hanking situation
stales would gel only the surface new b eds or ,nm ,,s.ngly m-.s««» i(| silni,..„ion Jn re„ri
Oregon State game.
«luring
August
and
Ihe
first
half
of
ord. Security loans of those banks
, preven,a, ive
rights" Io this land, the U. S. retain b ed s may well libir In mlrii .hat
As the game begins at 2:00 o’clock
September, changes in member, have also been higher this year
• . , l l n . Slock is lug.) in pr co and
,
fac,
ing the all-profitable mineral rights.
the
broadcast will start at 1:45
jn (hjs conneclion are hank and Reserve Bank credit in I than at any previous lime and dur when Wallace Kadderty, an exper
Forest reserves, power siles, nation- feed in many localities llm ted , , ,
or brooding on concrete
„ » or wire, and use being largely seasonal in nature. I ing eariv September they were not ienced sport announcer of this sta
parks el al. were to be held, as now, « vs Inc economics
,, 1« v l . o i l e i \ « « n department*
,
k i'o tf/x iv
u o n o io z k
,
Since April of this year member j far below the record level reached
H
ie
Oregon
Extension
service,
by the U. S.
tion, will give a preliminary de
removing Ihe fowls immediately af banks loans for commercial pur- i
Declared President Hoover in his
ter the brooding period to lund not poses have been higher than in any j in mid-summer. Increases in bills scription of events, including line
discounted and in holdings of pur
Miller Hugginf New York Yank previously used for poultry, and un-
preceding similar period. They ex chased acceptances at the Reserve ups. KOAC broadcasts on a fre
ees manager dled In New York city. on which no poultry droppings have
panded seasonally during the past Bank have accompanied expansion quency of 550 kilocycles, giving it
one of the highest wave lengths or
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He had been 1)1 for «orne tinte-
been distributed,
month to JJje highest figure of rcc-1
C
v is w w e
in loan» of member {tanks.
the d |q .