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VOLUME 2
CENTRAL
P O IN T,
JACKSON,
COUNTY,
OREGON,
FRID AY .
N O V E M B E R 19, 1926
N U M B E R 31
Two Arrested for
SERVICE MAN
NEW RAILROAD If These Things
GOOD ROADS
Come to Pass
COMING HERE Series of Burglaries MEAN PROCRESS
WILL BENEFIT
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C ounty May W a k e Up to Be Clad in
Pajamas o f Prosperity.
NEW ROAD WOULD MAKE CEN
T R A L P O IN T P R O M IN E N T C IT Y .
Suburb o f Medford
C rescent
City
O b je ctiv e
Point
For
N ew R. R. Line to T ouch M e d
fo r d and Grants Pass.
Everybody believes the “ Hill lines”
will build a railroad from Klamath
Falls to Crescent City. Coming over
the hills forty miles from Klamath
the Medford logging road could be
taken over at Butte Falls, making a
small boom at that mountain tswn.
Thence the road would follow the
present grade to a depot site between
Medford and Central Point.
The present looging road would
have to swing north to avoid the mill
and head for Grants Pass— hence
Central Point will, many believe, be
the rail road center for the new road.
Medford does not object to this
program, as the two cities are prac
tically one now.
More trackage space is available
at Central Point and the town is the
central point o f the entire valley.
Grants Pass will receive much busi
ness from the new railroad.
From Grants Pans the route goes
over the Redwood highway, or adja
cent, to Crescent City.
It behoves all o f southern Oregon
to back Crescent City in her de
mands for an appropriation o f at
least $600,000 from congress as the
first cost to their deep harbor im
provements.
The port o f Crescent
city will, ere many years, be one of
the prominent water shipping poinu
o f the west coast and, should you
care to dream, Central Point will be
part o f the largest city in southern
Oregon.
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It is up to some organized effort
from Central Point to busy Itself in
trying to secure ice plants, storage
plants, creameries, drying plants,
fruit cannery, clay products plants,
etc. And it is surely up to Medford
to assist in this, as the growth o f
Central Point helps Medford, and to
reverse, “ As Medford grows, so does
Central Point.”
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H O L I D A Y T R A V E L RE-
P O R T E D T O BE H E A V I E R
Railroad travel during the forth
coming holidays will be unusually
heavy this season judking from pres
ent indications, accordingto an an
nouncement today by F. S. McGinnis
passenger traffic manager for the
Southern Pacific company.
McGinnis also announced that
special reductions in round trip fares
between practically all points on the
company’s lines will be put into e f
fect for Thanksgiving, Christmas.
New Years, and Washingtons birth
day.
The Thanksgiving day rates will be
in effect from November 23 to 25;
Christmas fares, December 23 to 25;
New Years rates, December 30 to
January 1 and Washington birthday
fares, Fehrurary 18 to 22.
The reduced fares are expected to
greatly stimulate travel over the holi
days, McGinnis stated.
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A R M I S T I C E BOY
WESTERN
From Myrtle Creek Mail
South Douglas county may wake
up some o f these mornings to find
herself clad in the pink pajamas of
prosperity.
There are timber deals pending in
this part o f the ounty, which, if
consumated, may start the forest pro
ducts out to the world markets, which
in turn will bring back an inflow of
gold in volume beyond our ability
to comprehend.
We may be located in what will
prove to be one o f the richest miner
al belts in the United States. Assay
after assay o f ore from various
south Douglas county mines show
high values in gold, silver and other
precious metals. At last a man has
come forward who alleegs that he is
able to extract the values from these
ores, and he is so confident o f it
that a $25,000 reduction plant is go
ing in at Canyonville, to be in op
eration by the first of January of
the coming year. It will have a daily
capacity o f fifty tons o f ore. If he
can deliver the goods, just try to
imagine the impetus to mining de
velopment such a plant will have,
putting out fifty tons o f ore carry
ing values as high as $600 per ton in
platinum, gold, silver and other
precious metals.
South Douglas county was the site
o f one o f our first oil wells. At a
depth o f some 1600 feet a flow' o f
oil was struck in a well at Myrtle
Creek. Well,— something went wrong
and the drilling stopped.
The rock
formation indicates oil beneath this
section. At Leeper Dome, near
Sutherlin, a well is going down that
gives promise o f oil in paying quanti
ties. Should it prove to be a producer
just watch the oil promotors rush
out into south Douglas to begin dril
ling.
If there proves to be oil at
Leeper Dome it will likely be found
here also.
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W A R D E C L A R E D BY O F F IC E R S
UPON S L O T M A C H I N E S
Jackson county residents with
gamblers’ blood in their veins, who
enjoy playing punch boards and slot
machines, are going to be disappoin
ted after December 1.
On that date, peace officers o f the
county will arrest owners o f such de
vices, in accordance with state law,
according to notices being sent out
by Sheriff Ralph G. Jennings and
District Attorney N. C. Chaney.
Because of numerous complaints
that small children are being permit
ted to operate the devices in some
stores and resorts, it was decided to
enforce the state law which bars all
such gambling outfits.
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RED CROSS W E E K
You have probably been approach
ed by Red Cross membership solicit
ors this week. If you have so far
failed to meet any o f them, it is not
too late to join. Take a dollar mem
bership, a five or twenty-five. The
Red Cross is international in scope,
but neglects no part o f the world.
Did you know that last year Centra!
Point needy citisens received four
times as much money for aid from
the Red Cross than all the member
ships o f the entire city amounted.
Leave your dollar with Mr. Faber
or Rev. Johnson, if you fail to meet
the solicitors.
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O hio P eople C om e
S. F. Hathaway ha.« sold his pretty
Bom. on Thursday, November 11,
ranch
home, to Mr. Blankenship re
Armistice Day, to Mr. and Mrs.
cent
arrival
from Ohio. The place
Floyd Ross, a baby boy.
contains about 21 acres, with orchard
Wa knew it wcmld rain someday. alfalfa and good buildings.
AD VER TISIN G
EX
P E R T T O BE H E R E
Goes to
California
M. Lewi*, N oted Advertising S pecial
ist to Spend W e e k With Central
Point A m e rica n Friends.
Mr. M. Lewis, a Western Adver
tising expert, a newspaper editor and
small city builder, wjll soon come to
Central Point, to help with his udvice
in getting out a better paper for the
community. While here, Mr. Lewis
will visit the business houses and ex
plain how and why advertising pays.
Mr. Lewis is not a solicitor, but is
working through and sponsored by
the Oregon State Editorial Associa
tion. We expect his visit to be profit
able to the business man, the paper
and the buying public and readers of
the community. We expect him in
the very near future and will ar
range* for him to meet as many of
our advertisers as possible.
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T H E FUN O F B E H E A D I N G
A
C H INAM AN
Alvin Miles, 17, and Samuel
Helms, 16, were nriested last Friday
by Marshal Cummings following the
robbery o f various stores and shops.
The Ross & Ross confectionery, W.
C. Leever hardware store and the
Root second-hand store have recent
ly been entered and some o f the
stolen property was found <m the
boys and in hiding places, as con
fessed by them.
Miles has served time in the re
form school, it is reported.
The starting o f a career o f crime
by youths o f school age is deplor
able and to be regretted. It doesn’t
pay, and the guilty may be sure that
in time the world will find them
out.
It is reported that others may
have been in on the plan o f robber
ies with the two that were arrested.
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C H RISTM A S M IST LE T O E —
T H E K ISS IN G C USTO M
Since the Christian era, mistletoe
was dedicated to Christmas time.
With it went the custom o f kissing
under the white-berried plant, prob
ably a survival o f the saturnaliu of
pagan rites.
But the Christian elders decided
that when the churches were deco
rated with mistletoe, there was too
muh kissing going on during the ser
vices nnd too many requests for tho
wedding service.
So they abolished mistletoe and
hung uo in its stead holly, to signify
the dark monotony and many thorns
o f matrimony. But the mistletoe
stayed in the homes at Christmas,
and so did the kissing custom.
It is bad luck for. a maiden to
stand under the mistletoe and not be
kissed. It means that she will not be
married that year.
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J A C K S O N C O U N T Y BOASTS
OF T H E M
All - Y e a r - Round
Famed P a cific Highways Run
North and South
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T hrou g h County.
A county c a n ' largely be judged
by its roads. Good roads stand for
progress, enterprise nnd prosperity,
and Jackson County has them. We
take as much pride in our roads as
we do in our cliate, schools and
citizenship.
The great paved Pacific Highway
runs completely through the county
from north to south for a distance o f
about sixty miles. Practically every
tourist who comes out to the coast
travels over this famed thoroughfare.
It passes through our finest scenery,
Next in importance is the highway
running from Central Point to the
Crater Luke Purk line, a distance o f
69 miles. This entire stretch o f high
way has been macudumized or is un
der contract. A large percentage o f
tourists leave the Pacific Highway
in Central Point and make the run
over this fine highwuy. It passes
through some f our best timber
country.
University o f Oregon, Eugene, Or.
Nov. IS.— (Special.)— The Chinese
are the cruelest and most heartless
o f peoples and have no pity for any
one, not even members o f their own
There is a splendid new graded
race, believes Lieut. George Herbert,
and hard-surfaced highway, just com
formerly o f Baker, assistant profes
pleted, between Ashlund nnd Klamath
sor o f military science at the univer
Falls. This opens up a new market
sity, after witnessing a Chinese exe
for the interchange o f products be
cution.
Lieut. Herbert, who spent
tween the two counties, it being an
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three years in China, was transfer
all-year-round road.
P E O P L E W I L L SEE IT.
red to the local R. S. T. C. this fall.
Various county roads, connecting
It is an amusing thing to the news
In describing the execution, Lieut.
the outlying territory with the cities,
writers on a newspaper when they
Herbert said that four Chinamen,
are kept in good conddition, and give
representing themselves as members hear somebody suggest that they us an excellent system o f trunk roads
o f the military forces, tried to steal would like to have an item or an ad over which our producers can readily
vertisement in the paper where “ peo
a cart. They were' sentenced to
market their products.
ple will see it.” The news writers
punishment the next morning.
Good ns our roads are,constructive
know that people see every item and
“ The men were paraded in carts on
every ad. People see a “ 3” when it plans for the future are being made.
which was a placard announcing that
should be a “ 5” and they see every It is proposed to pave the Crater
they were atrocious criminals who
misspelled name, every wrong initial, I^ike Highway to the park line; also
would be executed at ten o ’clock in1
and every omission o f news they ex to pave the Ashland-Klamath Fall.
the morning. Showing absolutely no
pect to see. "W here people will see Highway. A movement is likewise
emotion, the convicted men acted as
it?” There is no place you can put under foot to connect our system o f
if the whole affair was a mere joke,
anything in the newspaper that peo roads with the Redwood Highway.
Lieut. Herbert said.
The most important proposed road
ple will not see it.
A fter the parade, they were taken
is down the Rogue River to the paci
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to the execution stand in the center C U S T O M O R E M IL L IS P R O
fic Coast, thus supplying a direct
o f the city. They were forced to
J E C T E D T O BE B U IL T SOON outlet for our products to the sea
kneel and the executione” drew a
board. This would develope Southern
knife, which was two feet long and
With preliminary operations un Oregon to a degree beyond predic
about four inches wide and very derway, Medford can look forward tion. It would also andd another won
heavy snd sharp. Without hesitation, to the building o f a custom ore mill derful scenic loop for the tourists.
he severed the heads o f the criminals in the near future for the benefit
One of the j o ; i o f living in Jack-
More than 20,000 perosns witnessed o f the numerous mines located in son county is the opportunities we
the execution, and great cheers arose southern Oregon.
The company, have for making automobile trips in
at each stroke o f the knife. Through comprised o f local men, plans to in every direction. No mater which way
some clever manipulation o f the ex corporate at $150,000.
you go, you constantly pass through
ecutioner, the head o f the last vic-
Ore fro mlocal mines, according changing scenery that supplies sur
time was tossed several feet in the to present plans will be treated at prise after surprise. The mountains,
air, Herbert said.
a rate ranging from $2.50 a ton and forests, gorges, canyons, valleys and
Various systems o f ore treat- j streams make up a panorama o f
The cheers aroused by this feat up.
could be compared with applause that ment will be used and will include which the eye never tires.
greets Babe Ruth when he hits a three major ideas— cyanide plant,
Bank Examiner* Visit
homer, acocrding to Lieut. Herbert. concentrating table and mill reduc
ing.
The
Central
Point State Bank re
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Interested in the venture are A. ceived a visit from the State Bank
Just O n * Solem n T hought.
L. Hill o f Medford; E. E. Carter of Examiners, Herbert F. Clark and M.
When the Thanksgiving feast is Medford; A. W. Peterson o f Gold Starbuck, this week. The business
spread, and gay friends gather; II ill ; Walter B. Robinson o f Med day with these State officials was
when you’re joyously thankful for ford; J. W. Opp o f Jacksonville; L. also a pleasant day, and very good
another year o f health and plenty, 1« Smith o f Gold Hill; Gene Childers recommendation was made the bank;
and even as, on the day after, you o f Medford, and C. C. Clark.
that they had the best credit filings
refuse Ihe second offering o f the
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o f any bank in the state o f Oregon,
Turkey remain*, give a thought to
Loses Both Legs
in fact, one o f the gentlemen declar
the year coming and send in the
Leonard Penda*, 110, o f Houma, ed that he wished Mr. Issacaon could
subscription price for a year o f The La,, fell beneath the wheels o f a 1 visit the State Banks to lecture and
Central Point American.
Southern Pacific freight car at ! instruct them along his methods.
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Springfield, Or., an dboth leg* were Central Point people and those o f
Business is good, let us help you cut o ff, one just above the ankle and Jackson county are justly proud o f
get your share. Ads here are read.
the other near the knee.
thia institution.
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