THE AMERICAN Lire merchants attract basin«-*» to the city by advertising. which is a basis fur price, quality and a square deal (or all. CENTRAL POINT, OREGON, VOLUME 4 MINING By 8. J’ville Now Has New Tabloid Newspaper o. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1932 PLAN ADVOCATED J----------- The Interpreter t entral Point is guing along. Picking up here and there. We have reason to feel proud of our people ami rlty. Boost for It. Reddy and Maxwell Say County Might Make Many Jobs Marriage Is On Decrease In This County GRANGE HEAD FAVORS TAX ON SALES 3URGDORF Animals in the News. We are in receipt of Volume 1, The number and variety of news Marriage was less popular in No. 1, of the Jacksonville Miner, items about animals— the dumb var Jackson county in 1931 than in which has Just been started by iety— is remarkable but the more 1930, according to vital statistic Leonard Hall, a printer and lino remarkably thing about them is their records. type operator, formerly of Med intense human interest. Of course, Total licenses issued in 1931 ford but who recently purchased a the 'human interest” feature of all was 572, compared with 613 in home in Jacksonville. animals news is the chief feature. By I I* M. SWEET 1930. In 1931, there were 41 The paper, while small in size, But for that, there would probobly Charles C. Hulet, state grange mas jljr, whom the gods seek | Prominent Mining Men Propose Scheme to County requiring parents' consent to se be little animal news printed. What ter and prospective candidate for the make mad. Call i is a very creditable one and full cure licenses, compared with 82 Court to Use County Land of local and historical news. The could have a greater human ap national house of representatives you desire, but in 1930. whole appearance of the little peal than the story of the return to from the first Oregon district, came For Placer Mining. to keep step with | Divorces also decreased during paper is good, both from a typo her home at Fort Monmouth, N. J.. modern nn^iii and methods what a the year, there being 96 diverces out flat footedly last night to en The county court this morning Dr. Reddy and Mr. Maxwell both graphical and a news standpoint. of "Florence Nightingale", the hom sad and sflenn reality it portrays granted in 1931 compared with dorse the two per cent sales tax on The American welcomes the gave consideration to a plan sub- said that the plan would furnish ing pigeon, from Mount Lookout, to the av^ap intelligence. It re all goods sold provided the tax pro 128 in 1930. mltted by I)r. J. F. Reddy and G. work for weeks, that it would make infant and Tenn.. a distance of 715 miles. The minds me it » brother teacher, pro -1 newest journalistic vides for an exemption on small For the first 10 months of the I. Maxwell, both experienced min- the workers independent of charity, distance Itself was a severe lest, feasor in a. iiigh*‘r school of learning I wishes Mr. Hall abundant success. homes. Hulet spoke on the tax before year there were 371 births re ing men, whereby between 300 and reduce the ranks of the jobless. Mr. and it was through a country strange back in tl4 Enpire st-ate( who in aj a meeting of citizens and the Med corded in the county. 5oo unemployed of this county Maxwell said that it had been dem- to her. But In addition to that, some perspeotlvs viewpoint of life, re- j ford Realty board in the basement would be given employment, placer onstrated by the operations now un- i one. either wantonly or hunting, rhot marked thgt I seemed that human of the Hotel Medford lust night. mining on county-owned land In der way by individuals that "at least the bird, breaking one of its wings. love and affetiou was giving way "Many may be opposed to the Jacksonville and adjacent territory, a living wage could be earned and I sales tax,” Hulet said, "but there I Crippled as she was thereby, she to a sordid lid almost beastly dollar The county court promised to view maybe more.” nevertheless covered the distance in mark upon te brow measuring the is no doubt of its merits if used a demonstration and take whatever Monty of latml I to exempt homes up to value of 23 days, a great achievement, when value of huian life, reputation and ( steps were necessary. | Maxwell said there was sufficient Í *1500. The tax condition of the it is considered that she had to walk character, ’he priceless blessings The plan is substantially as fol -1 placer land to care for all who d e -1 I country, as it is now. Is becoming a great deal of the way, on account for whom nithers lay a life in the; l°ws: ¡sired to work and that after first, 1 serious. Some play of relief for the of her injury. balance to eget, becomes only aj There is gold bearing land in the instructions, “ there was no great j • • • property owner must be worked out, worthless eittel in this struggle No deflnte action has been taken , „ . I k . «k .... . , vlcinty of Jacksonvllo. Ofi five trick— that anybody could letrn," and this plan seems to me to be A very different sort of story is of the max's anent .. the minority by the county court relative to the in11l in , h... 1 . , , , , 10,8 ln that city, men are now placer for several Jacksonville residents By OLI\ K « L l l l o E D sound. ^W hen things have gone so far that from Minneapolis, concerning classes. proposed elimination from the 1932 , imHirai r.t ih . i«un f ooi\ c i . netting from $3 to $12 per heve been operating on a small scale; The picturesque negro sexton, that tax revolutions are threatened. "V ic” a spaniel This dog took a Just noWi the midst of th.t wild j he anticInited taVdelinanlncv d3y’ by U *® ° f pk‘k “ " d sh° Vcl and i0,1 town lots- alld averaging more Sam, was not there to ring and wtien people are losing their hundred-foot drop off a cliff, landed nmiíniKUU sorrow, sadness sudness and cover the the anticipated anticipated tax tax delinquency delinquency j..rock#r... harrangue [f sorrow, and cover than the average worker's wage these the bell of the M. E. church, in i homes because of the taxes, we must in a tree and came through without extreme pcfu ty and suffering, those for the coming year. County Judge Expense Small days. | Jacksonville Sunday afternoon, b u t¡put the taxes on the sources most a scratch. The "human interest” in in officially ntrol are in the very ^P^crow said recently that the matter um.M . The cou,lty to furnish $125 for The county court viewed the plan nevertheless the same bell was rung abie to bear the burden.” this lies in the probability that had act of sellti bread from the starv- would be threshed out as soon as pos- the purchase o f l „ mber to make favorably, and felt that it was a «*ain at 2:28 o'clock at special re-! a man or woman experienced such Ing souls .«al untl honor and de- Rlble a,ld the f' nal f i s i ó n would be ..rockerS(.. and incidental minor ex- humanitarian plan, besides furnish- nueat of some of the residents of HULET FIRM, a fall, it would have meant a tra tense. T w j n . lions of humans ‘ 111 " dlPd the order for the levy penses. ing much needed employment on a the Httle community and as of old.' Hulet wa8 firm In the opinion gedy. But dogs are always lucky. crying for ca d .ire met with the ° e budget. T() provide -intelligent direction” wholesale scale. people hurried from their homes to that shelter value Is not a thing • • • declarado It list »here can be no The county court spent Wednesday for lhe unemployed in their mining. Dr. Reddy and Mr Maxwell join those from Medford. Ashland t,lat should be taxed. He believed Mankind's greatest friend through dole f r y . mothers, cry on! Weap discussing the proposal with Ben and to give them the proceeds of thought that plenty of expert ad- gathering in and around the little **lat the $1500 exemption on the all the past was the horse. He was tears of Meow if you Please, but Harder. W H. Gore. Earl H. F eh l,; their pans. vice on placer mining would be historic building for half an hour. sn>all home owner would stimulate the greatest individual motive pow the insatl.i lu ' of the demons of R- M Wilson, expert accountant, To use county machinery, now available on call and that they No teams were tied ________________ in the lot be- ! tr« de. especially In the products that er on earth He turned the wheels war and ■ ings must be sa- Sheriff Ralph Jennings, and others, idle, in the operations, the county to would submit their proposition to the hl"d the building as In the past. Oregon produces, and feeling that it of industry, he enabled man to pierce tlated at How strange There are several legal angles to furnish shovols and picks when Medford chamber of commerce and but autos were parked in all nearby was in line wi,h his Pulley to pro- unknorn regions; his speed furnish , this cycle • uatio al, fickle progress the plan, and the attorney-general needed, and until food the ¡other civic organizations.- Medford streets and as the pioneers gath- *ect a,ld advance the interests of to last ed the greatest amusement; he help seems to ; li m deviated from will probably be asked for an opinion iirst clean-up. ered, they talked of the little church ; Oregon,he said that he would "go Mail Tribune. ed win battles and be became one its equilile i very "catty” 0,1 the feasibility and legality of the ----------------- --------- as they had known it when Jack- down the line for the tax as proposed of the great figures in art, for a I French ms i man years ago was move, sonville was a busy mining town. by the Medford realty board.” and man on horseback is today among frankly rsmded that the United Death Calls It was set forth by Messrs. Gore, M . W . A . Hold As the last notes of the bell died that he believed the grangers of the most striking bits of statuary. Slates ha« illi, ; for defense but Harder and Fehl, that the elimlna- away. Scout Bobby Sherwood raised the state would also support the Installation of Henry Bates It is a welcome piece of news then, not one cn oi l«ute. How about tlon of the delinquency anticipation his bugle and the clear notes of the measure that tells us that the motor has not It today'1 Let us see. The old i,em would actuate delinquent tax- Officers for Year A t Medford liatlonal bugle call brought every A resoIution was passel, as the yet rendered the animal extinct; that world seer to 1 ave gone into com- payers to make payments and in- ¡close of the meeting, endorsing the one to attention. notwithsunding the tremendous in plete rev «. LL'.en, dear mothers. < rease taxpaying in general. The ldan 88 proposed- The resolution em- The Modern Woodmen and Royal! Henry Bates, 40, for the past 35 CHILDREN *q|xo roads the motor has made in the for the p it- blessings of your county court reiterated its previous The school children o f ‘ ja ck son -, bod,ed the tax as 11 haa «'ready field that was once almost entirely own fleet in! M od are sooner oi stand, that it was In fuvor of a re- Neighbors held a joint installation jeurs a resident of Medford, died been explained, but added that the the horse's, that proud and beloved 1 later goir tvi te it in fathoms ol <luction wherever possible, if it did of officers for the ensuing year under j suddenly at his home at 23 South . ^ e r l c a ” and M rs"'LewU^UUkh owner, living in the home, should animal is increasing in number. Sec ¡blood; '¡nits or tribute, not a not come in conflict with sound busi the direction of Mrs. ltoy Kelly, Cer- Newton street at 8:30 o'clock last vice regent ot (jratcr Lake chapter 8,80 be a voter of ,he slate 10 retary Dinsmore of the Wholesale cent for cense. nesH and seriously affect the future emonial Marshall and Mrs. Stella even,n*- Heath was attributed to an Jed in tbe salute to lhe f)aK ’ enable him to be tax free. Saddlery association, reports that The "installment plan” of taxpay Fox, Installing Officer. The follow abscess on hi. hip that has been Mrg A. E. Stratton, chapter chap-[ COLEMAN TALKS Billion i d..; ! rs have been there are 5,131,000 mules, a highly q neat I.' I u bothering him for many weeks. iHin ,v „ „ < u i.r-u .iy r/tLHM. ing was broached. Accountant B. M. nations as a ing were inducted into office: ' 8 ve ,he " af,ht»8ton I rayer County Assessor J. B. Coleman was useful animal but one which may be ward fo’ ;■ u ■ Wilson had his doubts about It, on t unholy carnage One of the most loved of Med- which is used by all D. A. R. chap- j RUervieweJ on tire measure, and Mrs. Etta Lacy, marshall; Mrs. said to be wholly lacking in esthetic in hi stoi . 11 if. dole goes on. Too " ,e grounds ** would increase the ford's sportsmen and business men, ters. Mrg. B. G. Harding with a few saId Ulat he beIleved lt to be sound Alta Kelly, vice oracle; Mrs. Myrtle qualities and possessing little if any ; poor to fi needy and succor o o u n ty bookkeeping, result in con- Patterson, flag bearer; Mrs. Opal Mr. Bates has been a leader in civ- well chosen remarks drew aside the The assesor's office, he said, could "human interest,” except for hu our dyli k must have his fus,on in tax receipts, and other dif- Haley, Modesty; Mrs. Charlctt Mc ic affairs and development for many red. white and blue curtain reveal-. handle the exemptions with little morists. The mule is a work animal, pound 0 Four billions of fit:ullie8- He held there were good Call, Endurance; Mrs. Bertha Bur- years. Everyone knew him as just ing the beautiful 15 by 20 Inch trouble, and that he believed the idea pure and simple, and how he can dollari 1« price, compared features to the plan, however. sell, Recorder; Mrs. Adena Benson, Henry, and he l$as qccupied the bronze tablet, which reads: Meth- to be sound. County Judge Ale* work! He should be given credit County Assessor J. B. Coleman said (Alinued on page 4) D-ont chair in the Bates Barber ¡odist Episcopal church. Jacksonville. J Sparrow also spoke endorsing the for that If nothing else. the elimination of the $24,000 would Outer Sentinel; Miss Geraldine Fox, shop on West Main street. He was Ore. Dedicated first Sunday ln Jan- plan, and said that something wa. Musician. • • • mean a seven-tenths of a mill re ^ t . considered among the best in his nary, 1885. First church built In needed to relieve the tax situation There is a veritable paradise for Liquof und duction in the county levy. nelt r e g S m l t n j T r l “ ''rofe8*“ on' tbe ' ’«Hey. a. lt nCw stands E. M. White, pres- animals in the Lehigh* mountains Judge Sparrow would give no fore Shows Increase \11S Sa, .h Vincent* P a « Oracle 1 Tw° Weeks “ B° MrS’ Thom as' Then I°llowed the insignia of the (dent of the Medford Realty board, near Allentown, Pa. There kittens cast as to probable date of certifi- ‘ ' ’ ’ Rates, mother of Henry, was buried D A- K- and th® Inscription, "This presided at the meetlne J C Barnes and German shepherd dogs romp to- fund ■ cation and filing of an order for levy. Jackscfeounty's iieneral 1« H . Medford The d e.lh « 1 - « N M t o n , UH. J h . g*ther; baby chicks are fearless in was enrki $3310.22 recently by Mail Tribune. Mrs St’ ll V ; C „ „ L US M * OM**’ oi Henry 80 close to that of hls ter- Da"Kh,er8 o f the American Re- plained some of the technical part. the presence of cats; puppies and the lraIV of the balance of the Mrs. Stella Fox. Courage; Mrs. Olive mother bag 8tunned the Bate, fam. volution 1932.” of the u)an kids frolic together, and all live in prohibit^« n,i th- dop license "unds Oanadian War beUe' I e e ^ anV h l n c ! i w : m u ' “y unmercifully' William Bates, TELLS STORY. The resolution, as passed by the the utmost peace. This auimal par lid, .1 regular end H i* » * li ri Ri .i* a u |P aD<1 SS brother of Henry, collapsed when he Mrs. AUc® Hanley, vice president meeting with but three dissenting adise is the Gerlach stock farm and of thefmr formality- provided >i s in iar son, ece\er. heard of the death last night, and ° f the Southern Oregon Pioneer as- votes. Is as follows: V e t e r a n l^ ie S it began about seven years ago with there Is|y money left. All money- iss o a cey and Mrs. Roy undpr a doctor's care. Henry is sofiation wag then introduced and A t His Home Be it resolved: That it is the sense one hog. Since then it has grown left in jhr Kelly were appointed (by authority funds continues over , , . survived by hls wife. Lenia Bate., ,#M >'• w she hail gone to the hills of this meeting that homes, both slowly and naturally and every new into theflowjng year in the same e mer can reporter> p re.. rep-( t hr## _ brothers. William. Jim and ,or ,he native evergreens and red dwellings In the city and farm unit., ._ __ ______ Mr. and Mrs. James B. Wfttkins|p‘ ___ ___ arrival has been welcomed by the fund, t * deducted from the a- of this city received a sad message j (««‘•ntaUws. The appointment and by two sisters. Mrs berries and wove them into a when occupied by the owners, shall BT___ , , , (Clarence, -------------------- "old settlers" and made to feel at mount M: ti 1 when The levy Is last Friday from their daughter. be 1 a 1 ,H 11 xt re* 11 ar Charles Gay and Mrs. C. A. | wreath, a fitting trihnte from the be exempted from all state, county home. Tnade- f Mrs. Nora Steele, Hamilton City, meeting. Hamlin. His father. Thomas Bates. pvpflastlng hills which surround the and school taxes up to the assessed • • • Two jpand dollar, is kept <n California, informing them that her D . . , «l»« Rtrea. All are residents of Med- !lis*orlc town of Jacksonville and in v«lue of $15v0. provided such borne. Things that are heard and said: — each o j . fUIU|s to g|art lhe husband. Raymond Steele, had just Keller Oorps Holds ford !lf‘ name of the Pioneer Assocla- are occupied by voting citizen, of Eagb-s are never fat. . . . Ostriches year w»Hf>lf nf ih,» money col- Pns8e<l aw»y after 8 short f11"*'88, Henry was a member of the local Uon s:ie Pl«ced the wreath beneath the state. Installation and hiss when attacked or are angry leoted i * liibltinn violations will dea,'t resulting from heart failure I». , q . Elks lodge, and prominent In sports. the tablet. Mrs. J. o . Grey, regent RECOMMENDS TAX. . . . . Ravens always eat the eyes Dinner Saturday especially the Medford Gun Club ot Crater Lake Chapter then told go to t*< te until the state fund Mr- steele waa born ,n San Kran' Be ft further resolved, that of their prey first. . . . There are amount! $so,„0„ > aftPr which it cisco Sept. 25, 1891. - ■1 —- Having lived here since childhood, tb* itRTcst of the chapter in general sales tax of 2 per cent or 70,000 pedigreed silver foxes in Can will all In'.i ih(. connty coffer. He was marrie.l to Miss Nora The W. R C. installation dinner his friends are legion, and his pass markinK historic spots in the Rogue such amount as is found neoesaary, ada . . . A dog in Seaside, Ore., The mi* in the fund Is used to "'*U h > 8 June 5, 1928 at San Fran was served at the Grange hall Sat- Ing will be mourned by thousands Rlver V* n*y and her ple*»ure In be levied on all commodltlea sold ha* the mumps . . Twelve Eskimo pay stuoi.e,. ns. a record of the r,80°- California and for the past urday, January 2 and a large num- With his death Jackson county and 1 r’ ''**n in® ,b *s tabl®t at retaj| t0 ultimate consumers, to d a- can haul half* a ton on a sledge amountniid out being available f‘lW n“ >nfh8 they have made their ber of members and their families Medford lose, one of it. staunchest Rpv. A. G. Bennett, pastor of the offset and compensate for the tax for eight hours a day. . . . Mother to the fir home at Hamilton City. Mrs. Steele enjoyed the delirious chicken dinner supporters, as Henry had grown up M K church In Medford, respond- exemption on home, bear* object to the human scent on Of ¿n: <■' turned Into the ,8 ,hp t>a»iRhter of M.. and Mrs served by the ladies of that order. and prospered here, and was proud acOPP, ln* fbe tablet in the name Be It further r««*oIved, that a their cubs after human beings have prohibit! 111 J. the sheriff ¡ynd Jamp8 Watkins of Central Point, Following the dinner officers for of the country that had treated him ° f the M E church of Oregon. copy of the above resolution be sent fondled them. If possible, the moth the di*t at» He then Invited every one to en to Julius Meier, governor c ' the > ney have absolute a"d 8>8t«L of Mr!'- " a lt e r Bergman the new year were Installed by Mrs. so well. er bear proceeds at one upon discov eontrol.fi*«. ______ _ ________ ____ being the only of Medford. Mrs. Steele, hls wife. Catharine Merritt Mrs Emma Glea Kuneral arrangements are to be ter the church and as the little _____ State of Oregon, the State <om- ering the scent to give the cub u ones w t f: building filled to Its utmost capacity mission of Oregon, and li»-given sue warrants against 1* his only survivor Raymond was son was installed as president: Mrs. conductPd by tbe conger Funeral mud-bath. It. I member of the Canadian forces Eva Smith as senior *'cr Mrs. Iva _______ pariorg Friday _________ afternoon at 2 pm . h" ‘ “ d ,ht‘ ot "Blessed ¡to the pres«. • s • Do* k will be reduced from during the World War. spending Copinger as Junior vice; guard. Glp- under auilp|ceg of the Christian Aci- Tie Whlch Binds.” j (Signed, E M White, chairman Stories of pet atlmais saving lives $3 and# Rev. Bennett then ' » $15U and$l. nc- most of his time in the front line sy Richmond, secretary; Dora Jones. pnr, churrh, „ thp f.h, pp| Me4ofrd “ *" introduced Rev.I are common but here Is one that is curding . ^¡•lon of the county trenches F. L. Belknap of Medford, who had' treasurer; Etta Purheyplle. conduct- lodfe of K,kl| w,n follduf.t a little bit out of the ordinary. This court tf spent hi* boyhood days In Jackson- the building, the doors were locked paid into this At one time he was a member of or; Rose Hermnnson, patriotic in- „ the M«dford mmiI,„ ie llln dog was just a pup but it saved the fund gn> ville, and had known Rev. Royal and the little churrh was left alone } 'or sheep killed by the Elks Club of Porterville, Calif- structor; Candenoe Pankey. press ___________________ life of the baby in Its master's home •h«^p 1 and others who were pastors of the with It* own memories of a long <>g*. and the county ernla. correspondent; Mattie Smith, nssist- The pup was taking one of Ita pop- court k -iii, e , be f „ nd had Th«> funeral service in charge of ant conductor. Mary Richardson. col-| A large number of Central Point church during those early days. For ago past But never again will it be ala, nape when the baby fell through more m< >t this year than was the Perl Funeral Home was conduct- or bearers; 1— Lillie Maple; 2— Odd Fellows and Rebekahs journey- 20 minut«>a he spoke in a very in forgotten tor that bronze tablet will the railing of the second story of needed! ; ;,oense price could ed at lhe graveside In the Central Ethel Southwell; 3— Wava Cum- ed to Jacksonville Monday night to *er««sting manner of those men and **11 its story to all who pass along the house H landed squarely upon be »:< f . and many will ask questions about ed After March 1. Point Cemetiry Sunday at 2:20 p. m mines. attend joint Installation of Jackson the early days of the rhureh the sleeping pup. much to the latter's howevdl < ROM D »11.E h o| T. " <h< irch bull! in 1*5 3-4 with . n«e* win bc doubt- I.everend !>. E. Millard officiating. The chaplain, Mattie Parker, and ville Lodge No. 16 and Ruth Rebekah astonishment. But the baby’s H'e rd Rev. 8. H Jones, pastor of the miners' gold, won at the •tamb^P'jjf^ ___________ —-------- ;he fourth color bearer, Clara Farra. Lodge No. 4. A large crowd from » *s saved and the pifp was unin transferred $2068 61 Mr and Mrs. Tom Raimey of Up- and the pianist. Lulu Strohmeler. all parti of the county were in at- Presbyterian chnrch of Jacksonville table* during the spring of 's | later- jared. « m% PtohibiUon fund and per Rogue River were trading In were unable to attend *o will be in- tendance and a very enj yabie even- pro Bounced the benediction and the Jark*onville wa* one of lC sunned on Page 2) m u li« th* dog license fund, town Tuesday. sudi- nce reluctantly and slowly left towns in the northwest^. stalled at the next regular meeting, ing waa spent by all. Court Holds Up Action On Budget 4 , Tablet Put on Old Church By D. A . R.