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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1933)
Pat« 4 Th« Jacksonville Minar By Their Deeds Ye Shall Pronounced Dead, Comes Back to Life Know Them Say Employes A likeable fellow, young, hand rule—just an old holiday custom some, ambitious and with a degree > of the publisher, and employes of skill in one of ths mailer trades would be fortunate to get more yet Fate seems to have grimaced I than grocery orders. Picture, if you can, this crusader every time it looked his way tn I fighting for the common man and southern Oregon all the while hiding behind his Penniless, the future black, this young man haa a dltTI- gilded wing hungry, gaunt em cult problem to solve. A few weeks ployes with families at home shiv ering because there is not enough ago his automobile was sensed by a finance company, this fuel to keep them warin burning week he received notice that his old newspaper (part of that 5000 furniture was to be taken from circulation) to temper cold wintry him. and he has until tomorrow to blasts. "Nothing but an old hypocrite, pay his light bill. Rent for the modest house which he though! telling what's wrong with everyone wos going to become a hippy home else In the county and starving his for his family has been overdue own workmen—whom he charac several months and the pantry terizes as faithless employes—to shetf is bare of food. Little wonder do it But do his readers ever learn then that this victim has grown of that man’s practices? No!" Thus accustomed to a haggard, worried was one employe overheard to re expression and to him life has mark this v.-e» about his philan thropic »olf-pantsed Cadillac-driv become a burden. But as If that were not enough, ing boss who first promised to pay his wife, a young girl just at the "in full and with a bonus" those age when life should be a grand helpers who stuck with him until adventure, is in a meager way pre fruit came in. and when that prom paring for the overdue arrival of Ise faded, to further conjure pic tures of great wealth flowing In a new member in the family. from hfs Foots creek mine to ap A pitiful case, you say? pease their pitiful requests for the A victim of unemployment? William Lindsay of Los Angeles (right) has been pronounced dead Yes. pitiful enough—but not t a price of a loaf of bread. by physicians but Is very much alive. His heart stopped beating con» This of unemployment. T "A man should be Judged by his victim together with five oth- acts—and not by what he prints pletely as he walked on the street, and tests showed he had passed away young man. i ers in a like fix save for the ex about himself in his own newspa But a doctor Injected adrenalin Into the man’s heart as a last resort and pected arrival of Mr. Stork, make per” seems to be the philosophy half an hour later he was well on the way to recovery. up the > “back shop” of the Med- which has been driven home to the ford Dally News, that valley news Daily News employes, and to the paper which seeks elevation of the worried wives and mothers of fam poor and downtrodden above their ilies who sit at home during the On Men’» Polo Team FERRY’S GHOST SEEN slavery to Big Business and Taxes. 12 to 14 long hours every night The same newspaper publisher who while their husbands are sweating IN CONFERENCE HERE paints himself as a kindly, benevo in the News' backshop for a paltry lent martyr to Jackson county Is grocery order each week and an D. H Ferry and family re the employer who expects his help occasional $2 in cash—which invar turned Sunday morning from an iably has to be demanded time and —the men who actually produce extended visit in the Puget his paper—to live on a $5 grocery again before it is produced. Sound country and British Co There are those who will say the order weekly, if they’re fortunate lumbia. Mr. Ferry, who is man enough to get that much—and no printers are getting what they de ager of the Foots Creek gold serve for “ratting" on union em cash at all usually. dredging concern, was surprised However, that worldwide, admir ploy« 18 months ago and taking to learn upon his return that ho able Christmas spirit found its way jobs at half pay—and less. Yet. re had been "seen In |>olltlcal con gardless of the background sur into the confines of the Daily News ferences” here by a local news rounding the present mess, they December 25, and again on the eve paper scribe.—Mail Tribune. of a new year. Two weeks ago the are much to be pitied and doubt employes each received $2 in cash less, unless some honest business and the usual $5 grocery order save men intervene and force the Daily TRAGEDY STRIKES one. who was the surprised re News publisher to treat his own DOUBLE ON HOLIDAY cipient of 15—all in cash—and no workmen with more consideration, grocery order. All but one of the will become charges of the county. Another thought as to the dia Practically starved and depend employes have families, wives and bolical tricks that fate can play children, to be clothed and fed ent. not because they are indolent, I comes with the new» of tragedy from this slopover from L. A. shiftless or the victims of unem which struck two southern Oregon ployment, but simply because I Banks’ gasoline money. homes as they had prepared to New Year’s another bonus was Llewellyn A. Banks is not the hon make merry at Christmas time. received. Instead of the customary est man he paints himself to be At noon on Christmas day Lyal lone grocery order—which is not and is, in fact and practice, a men Hards of Big Applegate received infallible and sometimes fails to ace to all laboring classes. a telegram telling of the death that Truly, there HAS been a mis-1 materialize—two dollars made a bow to each employe, it was made carriage of justice in Jackson i Miss Katherine McCutcheon, n day of his brother, William, at clear that this was not to be the county! coed at Michigan State university Minerial. Wash., as a result of a accident. Mr. Hards left for has won a place on the men s i », i , car Washington Monday to attend the things rather fast and furious in team at the college and who «Hi funeral. He expected his slater. these days of Democracy? play In all Intercollegiate gun-» Della Snlerzek. of the local sani ♦ ♦ ♦ scheduled fur the teum. tarium. to accompany him on the OR OUR PARANOIAC’S PRAYER trip. The peculiar coincidence is noted of the death of Mr. and Mrs. Now I lay me down to sleep, Lyal Hards' small son at holiday I pray the Lord my Lies to keep contested Judge Fehl's right to ad- time a year ago. j journ the court, and the two held With No Apologies to If I should die before I wake. A wide circle of friends were sad court for the balance of the af- I hope I’ll go where I can HATE. THE MEDFORD DAILY NUTS dened with the death of Lester temoon. ♦ ♦ ♦ (Or NERTZ to You) True to Banksonlan style, Judge Holmes of Medford a few days Well, here’s where I sign off Christmas, which resulted again, after quoting our mad friend Fehl presented his message to the before commissioners by writing them a from Infection following extrac The MIS-Leading Newspaper of All as follows: "I guess this will make 'em sit j letter instead of facing them, and tion of a tooth Mrs. Holmes, form Southern Oregon | the typewriter upon which the let erly Ingrid Johnson, resided with up and take notice.” ters were written had the same, her parents In this city before her ♦ ♦ ♦ (Note—There is a similar kind of small unusual type upon which the marriage, and attended the local Yours till Yosemite Falls, paper having a larger circulation; | letters of L. A. Banks are written. high school Interment took place guess what it is!) ONE OF HIS VICTIMS. A comparison of the letter with the In the Jacksonville cemetery last letters signed by Banks showed the Monday. Well, Mr. Editor. I thought my i i type, although unusual, to be iden- "Once and for All” in your last V-OTTllC x^OUI*t ■ tical. The ’’fine Italian hand” of issue would be all that anyone1 County Budget Into in Midst of Chaos ' which Editor Banks has so often could stand, even your little friends written while editorializing on Llewle; but since like the users of Hands of Assessor Medford’s ''gang'' was, to all ap- Castoria. they cry for more. I’ll I (Continued from page one) the pearances, thereby changed to speak right out with a few more at least until such time as an in- The Jackson county budget, dis truths, even if it hurts. ventory of the equipment owned by “iron hand,” of which he also has cussed last Friday at a public hear the spoken. It is believed that ♦ ♦ ♦ the county was made. Commission ing, was this week turned over to I phoned a fellow victim this af ers Neaion and Billings were of thousands of Jackson county voters , County Assessor Coleman for ex who voted for Judge Fehl in spite ternoon and asked if the Daily | the opinion, however, that the ma-1 tension on the tax roll». There were News had appeared today. He re , chtnery would be just as sate un- j of Editor Banks' support will be few minor changes and the much plied in the affirmative, explaining der Rosebury’s care as under interested to know who the county discussed item of $3000 for ex- that the worn-out $45,000 worth of j Ward’s and that no political plums judge really is. --- ------ --- ------- machinery had broken down again ' would be handed out until after the , and delayed the printing by sev- attorney general has passed on the \ LILLARD PROMISES TO I eral hours. I said, ‘.Well, I didn’t legality of Nealon’s appointment. BRING GRAPPLERS HERE receive my copy, and my first thought was that no NEWS was The true status of the county good news.’” I court disturbance dawned on the \ Mack Lillard, southern Oregon’s ♦ ♦ + I close followers of the situation boxing promoter, alter spending Friday and Saturday I notice there’s been quite a RUN | Wednesday when County Judge several weeks In Portland battling TOM MIX In on the Banks of West Main street ! Earl Fehl. after apparently reach flu and wrestling match crowds, the past week. Fore! (and maybe ing a harmonious state with his “The TEXAS BAD MAN” Foreclosure.) two commissioners, Ralph Billing» has decided to bring some of the Sunday and Monday ♦ ♦ ♦ and Emmett Nealon during the northwest’s premiere bone benders hours, returned after morning to this section within the next ; “ RED HEADED WOMAN” POEM OF THE DAY lunch in a frenzy, refused tO Hit ; month for the edification and en ! with JEAN HARLOW with the court, and wound up the Oh the moonlight^ bright to Not Recommended for Children afternoon by swearing out bench tertalnment of southern Oregon night along the Willamette, fans. former warrants for the arrest of From the Banks there comes Lillard, who will be remembered I Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday County Judge C. B. Lamkin, and the smell of new mown Hate, in this city for bis contribution to “HEAVEN ON EARTH” Through the ’Sylum bars the former Commissioner Victor Bur- Jubilee attractions, has been Med with Lew Ayres sell. licorice lights are gleaming, gaudy sensationalism ford’s most successful promoter The On the Banks of the Willam and promises to introduce such Friday and Saturday smacked of L. A. Banks, as the ette, far away. HOOT GIBSON in rule of the county affairs flopped characters to the mat ring as Wild cat Pete, Rob Roy, Sneeze Achlu, suddenly from that of a so-called “ A MAN’S LAND (Ed. Note: Banks not far enough "gang” to a dictator. Both friends Thor Jensen and other lighter away to suit us.) grapplers, as well as several of the Continuous Saturday Æ Sunday and opponents of Judge Fehl who ♦ ♦ ♦ feel he will perform the duties of neavy-weight strong men. The Daily Nertz says Wilkin, the court intelligently if left alone Kin he? Or caint he? It remains were shaking their heads yester to be seen. day, convinced he was to be denied ♦ ♦ + even that chance. Definition of the . _________ Millenium: Contest over the legality of the "The dawn of a new day when even Nealon appointment was the bone the hicks who live in the sticks up of contention during the morning the cricks and never read anything session, when Fehl contested Neal but the Daily Nertz, will no longer on’» right to serve. It was sug need a Lie Detector to open their gested by one of the commission eyes and see through the insidious ers that Judge Fehl and Commis bunk they have swallowed whole sioner Billings sit as the court, in the years of their Lord, L. 1».. with Commissioner Nealon sitting HOT DINNER SANDWICHES 1929 to '32 inclusive.” in but not voting, until such time as the attorney general’s opinion ♦ ♦ ♦ Llewle’s misguided supjxjrters was secured, but Judge Fehl re say he’s one man in a thousand. fused the compromise. Ail three Well, the way foreclosures are members then moved into the in Headquarters for coming thick and fast these days, ner chamber of the court, where he won’t be the one in 1000 West they got on amiably until noon. THE JACKSONVILLE MINER After noon, however, Judge Fohl Main much longer. returned with a new shot of high ♦ ♦ + Perhaps the reason our contem life and the fireworks started. Judge Fehl presented the two porary worked so hard against the construction of a sewage disposal commissioners with a resolution, plant for Medford, was because he stating that "whereas the appoint feared if sewage disposal was func ment of Commissioner Nealon was tioning, there would be nothing left Illegal, and whereas he was not Sandwiches, Fountain Drinks, Candy, Cigars, News for him to think or print. (Can a bona-fide officer of the county, therefore the county court should you smell that one, Buddy?) Barber Shop and Pool Hall in Connection he adjourned until such time as * ♦ * the opinion was handed down. ” On Court-Contemp- I see where your SOUND HORN FOR CURB SERVICE tuous-Contem porary has created the resolution was a space for the signature of Judge Fehl, and a the offices of Czar of the Public PHONE 162 Utility Commission and Czar of S'tace for Commissioner Billings’ Foots Crerdt. Aint that Russian signature. Billings and Nealon then Once and for All Never Again r NEW JAILOR ALLOWS PAIR PLAYGROUND What promised to bo the first jail break In Jackson county III years was prevented Tuesday morning by the peculiar con struction of th«> county jail when two Inmates, Alvin Mlles and Roy McCulley got out of the the jail mill onto the roof of the court house. Thom being no way of getting down off the roof, they wore captured and tiiken back. Details of the near break were slow In leaking out. as the now jailer, John Glonn, had not be come acquainted with the In tricacles of the many doors and locks. He now knows which ones to keep well locked, how ever, and no more prisoners will be taking their sunbaths on the roof. penses relative to sale of county land hns been eliminated. More than hulf next year's bur den of taxation in southern Oregon will be In the form of school levies, district, county and state. County Assessor Coleman now estimates that the levy for districts fnilil,- high school districts will be be tween 11 and 12 mlllr., state ami county, and between 16 and 17 mills outside high school districts. These estimates nre based upon the forecast that the state tax will be around 8 ” mill». Four-sevenths of the millage In Jackson county, according to the assessor, will be devoted to the school fund and the remaining three-sevenths to nil other county government activities. The school lew Is mnndiitorv under state law. and It Is Incum bent upon the budget committee to make the levy. The W. II Gore tax committee of 1931, and the Med ford chamber of commerce commit tee this year, sought to find a way to lower the $10 per pupil levy. After weeks of wrestling and fig urlng both bodies were unable to find any escape. RED HEADED WOMAN’ WILL BURN ’EM UP AT ROXY "Red Headed Woman." the Kath arlne Brush story which recently created a sensation as n novel, now appears In screen version at the Itoxy theater Sunday and Monday lean Harlow has the title role while others in the cast Include Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams, t'na Merkel. Henry Stephenson and May Robson. Edward G Hoblnaon, who tuk«a th« lend In "Silver Hollar” show I iik at the Fox Cratertan today and tomorrow In one of the year"» outstandIna pictures denllna with the early day» of Denver, Colo., which enjoyed a almllar rush a« that here In *52. 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