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About The American. (Central Point, Or.) 1928-1936 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1936)
ft THURSDAY, APRIL ». l»Oti Th» AMERICAN. CENTRAL POINT, OKBOON PAGE THREE I My Experiences In CCC Life In many of the camps the menigested taxes on processing replacing Due to illness in the cast the oper-j terest thereon at the rate of eigat body of land described as Go w. re very well fed and very littl those invalidated when AAA was etta was not presented again, per cent p*'r annum rrom D t«m bei vernment Lots Eight ( * ) . Nine paid, together complaint was heard, but in some of held unconstitutional, would be only At an assembly Friday the follow- 22nd, 1932, until (9). Ten ( 1 0 ), and Eleven (11) them many times the food was very "temporary.” : ing boys received letters for basket- with the further sum of $30.44, to in Section 10, and Government gether with interest thereon at the I«ots Fifteen (15) and Sixteen poor in quality, short In quantity Economists und tax experts point ball: Ernest Lathrop, Richard Jew- rate of eight per cent per annum (16). in Section Eleven (11 ), in and rauk as to cooking. , that the taxes which the corpo- ett. Bill («rimes, Roger Lawrence, from July 9th, 1935, until paid, The question has been asked as In Township Thirty-six (36) The writer was in one Calif, camp rate profits 1 vy would replace have Kenneth Hood, Arthur Coplnger, w th costs and disbursetmnts taxed to why CCC comps were located in South of Range Two (2) West at Eight and 25-100 ($8.25) Dollars, Pink and Blue O'Connor. of the Willamette Meridan, the certain localities and in many cases repeatedly and found the boys j bten proved fertile sources of re- I and (he further sum of Two hun- grumbling and almost constantly venue and the possibilities are, whole of said government Lots th - question is still unanswered. I dred Fifty ($250.00) Dollurs, as at- containing 159.19 acres, and the talking strike because of poor eats therefore, that when the govern I torney's fees, which judgment was The expense of erecting some of Firs.» Du Pun! Kxhihit property hereby conveyed, con I ate several meals ther- and ment begins raising more money to these Camps extended well Into the DALLAS lexus boi the hist enrolled and docketed in the Clerk's taining thirty-nine and eighty- office of said Court In said County pay the prt«ent stupendous debt th" found they could have butler only time in mote than l(><> years oi ex thousands of dollars, and today I hundredth (39.80) acres, more istence, E I. Du Font de Nemours & | on the 3nd day of April, 1936. or less, together with all water am told several of them are vacant. for their breakfast, and at noon I repeale taxes will be revived. | NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Co will exhibit at a national exposi rights, all in Jackson County, The Washington Daily News hail I have in mind one that was loca have been compelled to eat boil d tion Featuring the marvels of mod THAT, pursuant to the terms of the Oregon. this to say on the "temporary” ern chemistry The $100.000 display said execution, I will on the 9th day potatoes with no butter, not even ted out up on a high, rocky and iso- Together with all and singu taxes: will be housed in the Hall of Varied of May, 1936, at 10.00 o'clock a. m . lattd bit of desert country and upon gravy of any sort, bread with not lar the tenements, heredita "Nor should we be lulled by the Industries when the Exposition opens at the front door of the Courthouse ments and appurtenances there inquiry of one of the officers as to even jam or fruit butter and beef June 6 in the City of Medford, in Jackson ‘ temporary.’ For tem- unto belonging or in anywise what that camp was there for and half cook d and so tough that 1 of- adjective County, Oregon, offer for sale and appertaining. ten asked, as did the cowpuncher rti porary taxes -tspecially those of the will sell a, public auction for cash what work project did they have in Texas Invites Nation Dated this 6th day of April, 1936. a Texan Hotel, “ for heavens sake J invisible, ‘ painless’ variety, as these DALLAS. Texas.—Half a million to the highest bidder, to satisfy ciew, he remarked with a shrug of SYD I. BROWN how old was she when she died.” 1 new processing levies would be— postcards will go into the mail dur said judgment, together with the Sheriff of Jackson County, Oregon the shoulders and a cynical smile, ing the week beginning Jan. 12, ad cost of this sale, subject to redemp As I stated before in many of the have a very bad habit of becoming By Howard Gault, "we have orders to build over 20 dressed to out-of-staters by Dallas tion as provided by law, all of the Deputy. miles of stone fence” and "some Camps the men were well f. <1 and I permanent. residents and inviting them here for right, title and interest that the S2— April 9, 16, 23. 30. shall endeavor to give some of tin "The so-called luxury or nuisance the Texas Centennial opening June 6. defendants in said suit, A. L. Sea- telephone lines.” better side in my next article. taxes were put on the books in 1932 | brooke and Ethel Rose Seabrooke, I do not know what the stone husband and wife, and Regional Ag for a ‘temporary period' of only two j A CITIZEN fence was for as very few heads of MEDFORD VETERINARY ricultural Credit Corporation, a cor ytars. Secretary of the Treasury stock roamed that desert country, poration, had on the 22nd day of Ogden Mills asked for them ‘to ba -1 and it surely was not to stop snow September 1930. or now have in and lance the budget.' Uu, the budge, \<»TICE TO CREDITORS to the following described property, from drifting as a snow drift in 15 years experience In large and was still not balanced in 1934, so the j NoMe# ht.reby glven tbgt t bave situated in the County of Jackson. small animal practice. that country would do absolutely no nuisance tax s were extended for j been appointed by the County Court State of Oregon, to-wit: 225 N Riverside Phone 300 barm as there were very few settlers The West half of the East DR. J. W . WATERS one year more. And in 1935 they of Jackson County, Oregon, Admlni- to be found there, and could not be As is always the way with catch- were extended for two years more. strator with the Will annexed, of half of that certain tract or for defensive purposes as nearly all phrases, the "breathing spell" that estate of Mary E. Grim, deceased, And in 1937 we'll probably hear a the and have qualified. All persons hav- the Indians in that country had been was to help business and industry request for further extension.” iug claims against said estate are dead for many years. speed recovery is getting a new in- hereby notified to present them, Another camp was erected in a terpretation in Washington, A rubber industry strike in Akron with proper vouchers and duly veri place in the mountains so close to a It Is that bills which they oppose widened the split in organized labor fied to me at my office in Room 409 mountain side that during fall. win- are to be rushed through before busi- The American Federation of Labor of the Medford Center Building, in Medford, Oregon, within Six months ter and spring the sun scarcely nessmcqi can catch a breath. To ¡1- sent $2,000 to help the strikers, from the date of this Notice. Dated shone upon the buildings and illustrate what they have in mind. The United Mine Workers’ Industrial and first published this 20th day of found while In that camp that every \ the Industrialists point to procedure 1 union organization dispatched five March. 1936. HARRY C. SKYRMAN, one was complaining about the adopted by he Senate Interstate Com-1 organizers to the Ohio city. The Administrator with the Will annexed dampness and chilly air both outside merce Commite on the Wheeler- a .F. of L.s idea was to win support and inside the buildings. A few rods Rayburn bill empowering the Fed- for its method of organizing workers 18— March 20, 27, April 3, 10. away was some open country which j r a 1 Trade Commission to study th" |,y trades and crafts. The others NOTICE OK SHERIFF'S SALE would have made a fine camp site, personal affairs of any businessman wanted to stimulate interest In or- BY VIRTUE of an execution In but I was told that the farmer who for any purpose. ganizatinn by industries. All of owned the good site asked a pretty' That bill was introduced weeks which, labor observers say, created foreclosure duly issued out of and under the seal of the Circuit Court fair price for his land or the use of :,K°- opponents generally were mor hard feelings and made it of the State of Oregon, in and for it, and our government being so poor | encouraged to believe that it would doubly difficult for the striking etn- the County of Jackson, to me direct but anxious to help the needy, could nowhere. Then, suddi nly, tin plo.ve s and their employer to get ed and dated on the 6th day of April, 1936, in a certain suit therein, not pay the sum asked, consequently j committee ordered hearings, together. m wherein Mark Skinner, Superinten the poor site was used. Surprised, individual businessmen dent of Banks of ,he State of Ore If ones curiosity leads him to look no °PPor,unity to prepare them- gon, as Plaint ff, recovered judg over one of these camps just drive ,,elvP8 lor testimony against the bill, ment against A. L. Seabrooke and I out to Camp Prescott at the base of (’ on8P,l uen,|y. wh" n the hearings Roberta Pankey and Dorothea Ethel Rose Seabrooke, husband and « rrv w Medford's wonderful rock pile ' WPre fal,pd‘ few °P P °n en ts were Hedgpeth hiked to Jacksonville Sun wife, the defendants, for the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred ($2,-1 (Park) Roxy Ann. ready. The hearings on the bill. day afternoon. 500.00) Dollars, together with in j co . ¡which would give the Trade Com- Joyce, Harry and Warren Young, A stupendous blunder if I am any . , . . _ , . „ ,, „ . , mission what some Congressmen I-nwrence Martin and Margaret Ty- judge of blunders. Ground so sticky 1 . (See Answer Next Week) , . „ term unprecedented snooping pow- rell climbed Table Rock Sunday. one can scarcely apperate two feet ' , ers,” lasted just one day. Janice N alon motored to Ashland at once under his own power when; .... . A. You don’t need a lead pencil to figure out that tt pays to get the ... . I Significant, too, was the fact wet weather sets in. Water supply . , best when the best costs no more— - , . , . that Trade Commission officials who Sunday. so inadequate at one time that the Hazel Stager spent Sunday at her , , , . , .proposed the bill werp heard in se men were ordered to bathe in turns •home in " Eagle Point. . ..... <Tet session. The few opponents «'f and as little as possible. Any cattle . ... , Libby Hamilton spent the week- . ,, , . . i the measure who did have time to will enjoy one of our or sheep man living around thés» | testify could not. therefore, answer i ei'd at her home at Table Rock. SPECIAL DECORATED hills could tell more about the wa- the arguments of the proponents. | Erma Richardson spent the week- CAKES ter supply in such places t ha n a More and more Washington is work- | «‘«d visiting Jean Hermanson in Each additional pound 4r For Easter whole pack if so called Army Kngln- , lng gecretly and j a p i n g the people Medford, While there she attended Every ph-cc sw«*et and clean— ready to Iron eers With Bunnies and •«•-»m knowing what is going on. 'he Junior High School Operetta en- Answer from last week As stated In Morris’ "Human Anatomy” No fuel convenient and this writer | Everything -------------- tltld “ The Purple Pigeon.” was in the barracks repeatedly and' tests have proven that there Is no real relation beween brain size A representative of one industrial I Nelda Ayers motored to Ashland and brain quality. found the men many of them going ¡group has put into words what many Sunday evening. to bed immediately after eating sup Work has begun on the Senior iwho are not politicians feel to be per to keep warm. Scarcely enough the present situation. John C. Gall, I’ iay. "Hot Copy” . wood in the camp for operating the associate counsel of the National kitchen. Many of the meals in this 80 NORTH RIVERSIDE AVE. PHONE IOO Association of Manufacturers, made j camp were utterly unfit to be eaten “CERTIFIED SANITATION— GUARD V O W HEALTH” an address urging businessmen to by human beings. withhold Judgment on the new tax ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I Here is just one example. For hill until it was in final form be — breakfast we had scrambled eggs cause it held promise of both good (some of them quite ancient) with and evil. ♦ Everything in Cabinet Work ♦ bacon cut into pieces about one half "Whatever may be the facts as to ! i inch square and dumped into the Established in I »08 a temporary ‘ breathing spell’ in B 5 scrambled eggs and cooked the little | | other fields,” he said, “ we now face it could cook while the eggs were a permanent ‘ grieving spell’ in the cooking. The bacon was about as [field of taxation.” near raw as It could be. He then pointed out that In ad We had some oatmeal cereal that dition to any burdens which might was cooked almost as well as the ba accrue under the new tax plan, em con, some bread and butter (it was ployers were having to prepare for ancient too, some times) and some the new $2,400.000,000 to $2,800,- stuff they called coffee. 000,000 annual levy which they mus« At another time this writer went j pay under the new social security out onto a job to work with several i act. groups of the men and owing to con dition of road to summit of the Much talk is being heard around mountain we were ordered to walk 'the Capitol about the fact that the to work, which I understand is new tax on corporate profits not dis strictly against government orders, tributed as dividends was put for a distance of about 3^4 miles. At ward as a substitute for other exist noon for lunch we were given a very ing but objectionable levies. At the liberal supply of meat and jam sand same time it was said that the sug- wiches, a small orange and a small apple. The officer In charge of the ( mess supplies gave orders that the ; I’htsielan and Surgeon men be fed less next day as that was 21« 3 led ford Bldg. too expensive. Next day the sand wiches were cut down one less, also Medford, Ore. one less on the fruit. Coffee, such as Specialize In it was, furnished drink, also ice cold water. Legal Notices W a s h in g to n S n a p Shots HOSPITAL tA e ^JTcutA / > ♦ j High School Notes A L€AD” P6AJCIL D06S K OT AJIA'M I t / . . : YOUR FAMILY « > OUR DAMP WASH SERVICE 52c for a 13-lb. bundle Medford Domestic Laundry »TROWBRIDGE: * Cabinet Works $ KITE; G SEASON Dr. B. C. Wilson HaveYnir Boy Render Tea & Coffee Co. QUALITY COFFEE EXPERT W ATCH and JEWELRY Repairing Ek^PLA- FOR AUTO LOANS Roasted Fre*h Daily Reasonable Prices £4 N. Ilartlett Medforil Next door to Peerless Market SEE COMMERCIAL FINANCE CORPORATION Medford, Oregon Dr. C. W. Lemery Brill Metal Works At Depression Prices Id So. Central Ave. Medford C. Earl Bradfish (Successor to Dr. 4. J. Emmen«) All Natural Methods Dr. H. P. Coleman Chiropractic and I'hyslotherapy Oregon License 3 « 4 California License :t020 Special Attention to Blood P r e s sure. Stomach and Bowels. Consultation and Examination FREE Phone »«5 In Medford Since 103« I »O 4 Medford Bldg. » rar tice limited to eye, car, nose, and throat and fitting of glasses. Tei. IMI? Res. 1018 G EN E RAL SH EET M ETAL FU R N A C E S « H EA TIN G l o o E. Wh St. Tell Him To Fly his Kite Away From Electric Wires.. And Not to Use Wire as a Kite String EFU IN ANY fMfHOiMCY CA1L Medford Phone 4 IS The California Oregon Power Company L aw n m ow ers S h a rp en ed Tennis Racquets Restrung. S IM S B R O T H E R S . 23 N. Fir St Medford, Oregon