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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1933)
MINER BARGAIN days ARE ON 50c A YEAR 1 fHE J acksonville M iner Volume 2 77ie Editor Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, June 16, 1933 JUBILEE PLANS SHAPE RAPIDLY AS INTEREST UP Ranch Hand Killed At Team Runs Off 5c a Copy But You Really Oughta Subscribe Number 24 MINERS OFFER THRILL SUNDAY IN CLOSE GAME • - 1 AND ARE WE PROUD! To the Editor: My attention was called by the Southern Pacific to an ar- tide In your Issue of May 26th, entitled "Just Trains.' ” This is a beautifully written story and I would like very much to have a copy of this issue to keep, if you can spore one. HUBERT REYNOLDS Lord A Thomas, Advertising San Francisco, Calif. SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION SANS COMPETITION Tragedy stalked through a Jack sonville hay field early Monday morning when Wayne Gulley, em ploye on the Frank Bybee ranch here, when a team of horse* ho Upstate newspapers seem to wo* driving ran away, pinning him — think we put our foot In It when Financial Status District No. 1 we criticised them for butting into Much Construction to Be Done under a wagon wheel and crush Gold Hill Nine Takes Game 4-4 ing hla chest. The accident oc Juckson county affairs. The Eugene — Miners to Play Table for Annual Celebration Improved Despite Lean curred about 7 o’clock and Gulley News now comes forth to tell us idled In a Medford hospital about Rock Sunday Past Seaaon Plans Reveal u few things and whll« we'll ad 20 minute* later. mit the News scribe Is far more Cliff Coo|>er. another workman The annua) school board elec experienced than we are and made Flaying a brand of baxeball that Otte thing will be certain. tion, which In years past has been several good |M>lnts we shall try li-Hst. when Jacksonville stages its at the Bybee ranch, In u statement made the outcropping of "I-told- known to Hare Into vehement and to remember, wa still think he is second annual Gold Rush Jubilee to Frank Peri, county coroner. you-ao's” hide their derisive banter highly controversial politics, will off on some of hla calculations. August 19, and that Is that the Monday afternoon, told the story and root in real loyal fashion for be held for the Jacksonville school Ilia editorial la reproduced on page lumbering industry will have been of the runaway, revealing that it the home-town nine, the Jackson was a broken line which caused district. No. 1, next Monday night two under the heading. “Views of given no small Impetus, the horse* to break and run. Cooper ville Miners delivered the scare of at 7:30 p. m., announced Mrs. V. J. Other People." Flans already underway by the went into the field with Gulley ¡their lives to the fast Gold HUI Hope that the United States gov Beach, secretary. 'O.V team on the local diamond Sunday. Jacksonville Chamber of Com about 7 o'clock to load hay and One position on the board is to First of all. the News soys we Final score wa* 4-4, and the Miners ernment will aid in financing pur are the noisy exponent of personal merce executive committee will in feed the cows. They were ln the went down only after a brave strug chase of Jacksonville water bonds be filled. Roy Martin, who states clude the purchase, and use, of north field. Cooper pitching from journalism. Mebba ao But what th«« gle to tie the score—with the two has not entirely vanished, it was he is not interested in running for Newa, or any other upstate paper thousands of board feet of lumber, the ground, and had about 500 necessary runner* on second and discovered Wednesday, when Msy- reelection, will complete bls three- timbers and flooring in the several pounds of hay on the wagon when doesn’t seem to understand la that third with but one man out. A • or Wesley Hartman received an year term as one of the school other letter from Washington ex heads. The position of secretary, almoat all Jackaon county’s trou construction projects to be under the right line broke. The horses, double play flnlwhed the game. plaining requirements for obtain also, will be vacant, being a one- bles for the past thr««e years have taken. It was brought out Monday which had already showed sign* The Miners had played into a been of an extremely personal na night in a special meeting. An out of nervousness, broke into a wild veritable baneball jinx for several ing Reconstruction Finance corpor year elective office. Mrs. Beach, incumbent, plans to be a candidate ture and to get al tbe »cat of them door dancing pavilion, downtown run. They circled the field twice w««ek* past and it seemed that ation financial aid. _____ ___ __ to w speakers’ platform. i-------- ~— and on tbe second time around numerous After a consultation with City for _ reelection the post, she in- on«> MUST deal In personalities. LI LT LI---- — . -4- ! tlmntn/l loaf nlirhl J? hav® Attorney H. K. Hanna lx it was dX'tlmated last night, lounging benches, new fight arena Gulley tried to climb from the oVerT ’““r TaH _ _________ , ___ ______. ___ _______ _ __ , __ j V«*MS»»VM ■■■ —' ■ and baseball and rodeo bleachers wagon. He wa* caught ln tbe left it* sloppy Inning*. Sunday the aec- elded cIde(1 that that a a complete comp]ete statement statement Present members members of of the the school school Present We can ae«« no advantage or and corrals, saddling chutes and line and dragged under the wagon ond inning awarded the Gold Hill- of the jocaj w8(er its reve- board include Paul Godward. Zola Justified restraint—in dueling tn fencing of the rodeo grounds will wheel, which rolled over his chest, H fl VH rilDM WnFJD I itCuCr H oh H I nueg nnd and ovfUinuoa expenses, fn<vc«th£«r together with with Fick and and Rnv Roy Martin Martin with with Mm_ Mrs. generalities when It ts certain In require the lumber. j Gulley had been employed at the wavered momentarily. HI* support, purpose for which bonds were I Beach as secretary. The board has dividuals who have been stirring Details of the huge celebration Bybee ranch for the past three, however, was such that he regained would be made up and sent been able to reduce to a great ex up the mesa here. The News evi are working out rapidly, it was years *n<' was well known ln south confidence to confine opponents to I voted, to the bureau at the nation’s capi- tent all warrant indebtedness and dently can and |>oaalhly some years revealed, and Executive Committee ern Oregon He has a father und but one additional run. most of the to entirely retire al) bonded indebt tai. from now we may be able to grasp man Ray Wilson announced that three brothers at Creswell, who time permitting but three batters The drawback that looms, but edness. There are comparatively why. several of the concessions for the "«nt a mortician from that city to, to face him each Inning. which could be overcome, it is be- few outstanding warrants for Dis 'A'*- one big day have been let and <«»“’ charge of the body and re Hammersley for Go'd Hill, ace lieved. is that all such projects trict No. 1, it was pointed out, We are criticized for saying that that others who wish to contract. *urn north with it for funeral serv- hurler, held the locals down for the aided by the R. F. C. moneys must making the local school system the h<-hnvlor of the upstators for space should gel their applies- ic«" there. early part of the game, but weak- be self-liquidating. That is, they one of the most stable units in the "smell* of cheap politics and the tion In early as wide selection will The Frank Bybee ranch is lo ene<| in the eighth when Jackson- should pay off money loaned from county. City tax collections, includ jingle of money.” Perhaps that soon be gone Preference has been <'«ted a shor£distance west of the ville crowded in some bunched hits their own revenues and not sub- ing payment of delinquent taxes, mirht have been in poor taste, bnt glven to local concessionaires city limits. There will be no fur to begin creeping up on the early ject communities to taxation in or- have averaged about 80 per cent we still Insist It couldn’t have been where they have made application 'her lnv<iutigation of the death, k-ad. It was freely predicted that,'der to retire the bonds. The local for the past fiscal year, with the In any worse taste than some of hut a tendency to hesitate among Coroner Frank Perl announced had the two tying runs been scored, water system is self-liquidating in school district, which includes the insinuations hurled at Jackson ■ 'some may mean their disappoint- Monday, and no blatne was another inning would have given a sense that it not only supports somewhat greater territory, about county. Their attitude certainly placed. victory to the local:«, for they had itself but also turns in enough reve the same. smells of something and Eugene’ rnont. Wilson added. He has plat outidayed the Gold Hillers the last nue to the city to retire the voted As far as has been learned, there ted all available ground and is being a college town where cltl- half of the game. There were few bonds. A few minor changes may will be little active competition in ready to allocate space at any time. x«>n* are supposed to be well edu errors during the afternoon, with be necessary by city ordinance to the race for the school board va Harold Reed, sub-committeeman rated, we thought that was putting three for the locals and two being fully qualify and further steps cancy and it may be that Martin In charge of the rodeo, with the It In the most charitable way. charged against Gold Fill. ______ _ _ Mayor may be prevailed upon to run for hinge on _ present dickering aid of Fred Combest, was present Hess. Hunsaker. Hall and Ward Hartman said, the election again. Indeed, there at the meeting and traced plans We are Informed, as if a sur Sale of enough water bonds to may not even be a race unless in- The first lookout post to open led the batting for the Miners, with for the display of horseflesh and prise, that prosecution of perjury two hits each. Ward getting a two- install cast iron ____ pipe ____ between the terest increases in the few remaln- __ ____ __ _____ In the Banks trial is up to I.ane ( horsemanship. All preliminary de for duty this season was Tallowbox base clout which launched the bat two reservoirs would greatly in- fng days before the election, tails relative to chutes, nheda, with Dean Saltmarsh returning for ting spree. Hill for Gold Hill star crease stability and quality of the county We beg the News' pardon The election, which generally is grandstands, fences and arrange We thought Jackson county had the summer’s vigil Tuesday after red with three hits, while Hittie local water supply and probably quite brief, will be held in a room ment already have been worked felt justified in taking some inter and an assemblage of expert noon. Following the custom of last and Kell each earned two. Box would increase revenues during of the high schol building prompt est in seeing that justice was nd- out 1 riders, together with an equally summer of having a substitute to scores, which show how evenly drier months.______________________ly at 7:30 p. tn., with Chairman ministered at the trial After all. ------------- •------------- Martin presiding. Imposing array of wild mounts, take charge of the telephone in matched the teams were, follow: you know. It was Jackson county Jacksonville was assured. which suffered, and still suffers, case the lookout might be needed AB R H Those present at the meeting in- at the hands of Hanke and hl* co in fire fighting. Mr. Saltmarsh was Hal), rf .......... 5 0 2 tendance in the primary and in- horta of liars and stealers. We're eluded the Chamber of Commerce ,r termediate classes at the Beaver Ros*, c ............... ........... 5 0 0 accompanied to Tallowbox by bls sorry we forgot ourselves and sug- president. Oscar I<ewls, Ray wll- They may be used to wedding creek Sunday school has resulted .......... 3 0 0 Reinking, ss . gested that those who attempted *ot>. Punk Dunnlngton. Bob Metz- uncle, Ed Saltmarsh, who will re 1 picks and shovels over in Jack- from the use of attendance cards He**, p ................ .......... 4 0 2 to make a fnrre of the Lane county Ker, Harold Reed, Jim Guin. Mayor main with him. sonville all week long in their during the last quarter. Ties re- With extensive work on tele i Coffman, If ...... .......... 4 0 0 court proceedings should be pun- Wesley Hartman and I^onard Hearch for gold, but when Saturday suited in both classes. Albert An- 1 2 Ished For the information of the Hall, Lawla. Wilson, Hartman and phone lines scheduled for this sea Hun*aker. lb .... .......... 4 1 1 night comes along they’re busy at dersen and Marcene McKee of the Lu*k, 3b .......... 4 son. telephone manitenance work News, however, we'd like to say Hall are members of the jubilee something else again. Through ef- primary class having a record of Dorothy, 2b ...... ........... 3 1 1 Monday - - under . the , aupervia- „ that Ian* county ofHrlgta WERE rxwvHv» com mH re. aa ta John R. I began ......... 3 1 2 forts of the Jacksonville Chamber attendance for 14 Sundays, and James Carrol of Medford, Ward, cf consulted about prosecuting per- Knight, who was not present It *°n ! of Commerce there also is golden 1 ’ Maurice Byrne and Frances Port very ovldant throughout th* who bft* e*Kht of the C. C. C. boys jury, nnd that It took no lean a Totals ...........35 4 10 melody in them thar hills over the of the npper class winning with a personage than Governor Meier to meeting that these JacksonvHllans. ln h*8 employ. The men began work ! week-ends, and instruments are total of 15 Sundays. New cards and Hill together with the entire citizenry, ! a l ranger station and expected Gold get action. are going to work hard and long to rePa*r the line through Beaver AB R H E ¡picked from 9 till 2 a. m. to shovel seals will be used again next quar ........... 5 1 3 0 ¡out some rhythmic dance music, ter. ’’Perhaps when the fog lifts up to make thia year's Gold Rush cele-jCH-ek to Dutchman’s peak and Hill. 3b 5 1 2 0 report customers. out of Jackson county he will seeibration one of the moat unique und Wagner butte. Later portions of the Hittie. rf The first city to ever arise in • Lyal Hartman and a friend from more clearly," fa the concludingI successful in the history of western Bn* that are located away from the T. Kell. 2b .......... ............ 4 0 2 J the southern Oregon wilderness. Jacksonville were motoring on 5 0 1 clinch to the jiewa' argument. No (cities. A spirit seldom seen even in r°ad will be rebuilt to follow the Force, c .............. doubt. But we still feel that we of much larger communities has been roa<l to facilitate future mainte- Emery. If .......... 5 1 1 0 Jacksonville also has been the first Beaver creek Sunday, traveling the Coy. ns * ‘ and nance work. 5 1 1 q to furnish week-end dances to new forest service road as far as Jackson connty cleared away th«1 displayed by the city dadi — the __ ____ _______ - -11 Among new additions to forest Shover. lb 4 0 0 j hoofers of bygone days. The habit Chapel springs near Silver Fork. fog — some months ago. but that . it — I* _______ mothers—of old town and It Lane county and other northern Is a foregone conclusion that Jack service equipment for the summer Foley, cf ........... 4 1 1 q has stayed with the old landmark They viewed a good portion of the ..... 3 1 1 0 and today every Saturday night summer's snow supply, and made sections that are wandering blindly sonville's celebration will be most might be mentioned two mules Hammersley. p .... _ sees festive crowds gather for their calculations on how to catch a big through the fog as concerns Banks unique and different. brought here recently from Silver Totals ........... .... ...........40 4 12 2 round of fun and frolic. This week- buck this October. and his activities. They still think it was decided that committee lake' end will be no exception, accord of him up there as a benevolent heads of the chamber would meet' Summary: Two-base hiti ìi u ln* to the chamber of commerce • Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knutzen millionaire who loat his all in all henceforth In weekly *essfons on and Force. T ■■■»■!m. with w > m > ■ - mu « mu- w Hases on balls Off dance committee, special of Albany are spending some time in Jackson county and that we Monday nights. Next Monday eve Hess 5. Hammersley 3. Struck out s,c already panned for the evening. I visiting relatives on Applegate. merely were scrambling to grabbing the regular Chamber of Com —By Hess 7, Hamersley 9. _______________ his last remaining crumbs and lib-1 metre meeting will be held in con- Score by innings: erty as the champion of the peonle junction. Word was received here ¿ as k8?.nv.,1,e........... ooo oio on-4 was crushed by some terrible gang The Jacksonville Miner, mindful Gold Hill ___ _____ 050 000 100— 6 8 8 * z-aa at x iui gang, that the tbe Yreka Gold Rush celebra- That may bo a bit acrid, bnt we tlon. born in that city late last of general conditions and the fact Last Sunday was the first time *♦***♦♦♦♦ have heard that view expressed in summer as an outgrowth of the that the time has arrived when this season that Manager Beach Niorkt Onto Flftv Year Now Ravaale Eugene quite frequently. tremendous success enjoyed by many readers will be wanting to played his original nine men 8 J' » wwxvu i\c Cal Jacksonville, would be held 8e|>- renew their subscriptions, this throughout the entire game. Hees Tn some cities the street lights anyway, the bell serves as a city As a matter of fact, due to there tember 8, 9 and 10 this year, three week is announcing a seven-day showed remarkable ability to pitch bargain rate. himself out of bad spots and sev- are blinked, in others a siren is wide call for firemen and invita NOT being any fog surrounding i weeks after the local jubilee. Beginnlng today and continuing era) times forced Gold Hillers to sounded. But in good old Jackson tion to others to run to the fire. Banks here at this time, we all ------------- •------------- through next Saturday, June 23. die on base. The Miners displayed, ville, that venerable old landmark And don’t ever think the violent know him for the rogue and high Complete poems went for 10 to of a day when men were men and ringing of the bell at a late hour financier he was If the News could 30 cents each at a sidewalk sale in readers will be able to subscribe for the first time this year, necee- the Indians respected their aim, a isn’t interpreted as a front row understand how Banks got his first jGreenwich village. A rhyme for a for half the annual rate—Just 50 sary self confidence and teamwork resonant bell announces the sleepy ducat to a first class free fire. balance tn n Medford bank, or how dime is nearly free verse.—Weston cents for a full year, mailed any- and a more optimistic outlook is hour for all youngsters. Firemen sometimes have to fight where In the United States. No six- reen for future encounters, many fruitgrowers he fleeced of i Leader. Almost a small-town tradition, to find room on their own truck on month subscriptions will be ac Next Sunday the Miners, intent their past several years’ earning*. . e---------- - _ . will ___ on victory for a change, jour- curfew has been rung faithfully their way to the conflagration. or could hear the story of his em- A professor asserts that men’s cepted at the reduced rate. Back in the old days, along about Already papers are sent to such ney to Sams Valley to play the and long here on the edge of a gold ployes. both newspaper and ranch, garments should be of rainbow col- 1855 when the city hall first was laden mountain range and promptly far-away places aa Honolulu, New Table Rock aggregation, which has who still hold the sack for months ora — which would make it easier ..v.u .... ......... ur*------WlllCtl WUUIU II1UH« 11 HKKier „ , ,,-------------- . . .. . . -------------- ----------------— —----- . , . . and years of salary, possibly the ■ to determine whose hue.—Weston York C,ty> New Hampshire. Ala been moving in the same league at 9 o clock each evening Marshal built as a store, which soon burned _ ... hamia or nlanee because “mice chewed bama anH and nth other places and and it 4a is nlrrdxia circles aa as fhci the Innol-. locals. Tho.A There V.™« has .Km Jim T.tttnll Littell Vflnka yanks the the Inner long rnOA rope down (Continued on page two) . leader. ex|>ected there will be others as a been little dope received here as which spells an end to the day for matches,’’ or so the insurance com result of this special semi annual to the prowess of the flatrock tribe i juveniles. During summer months pany was told, there was no com bargain rate who will send the pa- but the Miners are on their toes i curfew is at 9; in winter 8 o’clock, munity bell. (Don’t misunderstand per regularly to former residents and expect to repeat their crack marks the time when children must us—there were plenty of belles, ac of Jacksonville. Nearly 50 such sub- performance of last Sunday. Game i be off the streets. Just an old Jack cording to later vital statistics.) scriptlons now are on The Miner will be called for 2 p. m„ with sonville custom and one under But along early 1n the 1900s the lists. | players meeting at Coleman’s hard- which many men and women of first bell was swung above the hall. It proved to be made of inferior Subscrlptions will be accepted ware store here Sunday about 12:30 , coastwide fame were raised. The Mickey Mouse forest fire on expenses and to allow concentra either by Maude Pool on the Ap- noon. materials, however, and the clap For at least 30 years past, ac Applegate Tuesday did not throw tion on special problems of each piegate-, the Nugget confectionery ------------- •------------- cording to the then Mayor Emil per fairly went through the side to forth a volume of smoke, so Ap district. In Jacksonville, or you may send However, our legal tender money ’ Britt, the present city hall bell has infpersonate the famous Liberty plegate's fire chasers came within N. C. White instructed in detec them direct to The Miner at box , may not be as tender as it is legal. tolled the vanishing hour for young bell. Frank Zell still displays the several feet of locating the fire. tion work, scouting, timekeeping, 138. I—Weston (Ore.) Leader. sters. Made of genuine bell metal, old relic with Rs digaonal crack. Jess Townsend winning highest and straw bossing. Ranger Port it has faithfully and without fail The present equipment, made of honor with his calculations locat and Albert Young taught elemen- ure sent kiddies scampering for sterner stuff, was then purchased ing the fire 12 feet from its exact tary compass work, experienced cover for all this time—three dec in San Francisco. designation. Nevertheless, Ranger and inexperienced map reading and Meanwhile, life and habits pro ades or more. Lee Port said that the men did fire problems. Other phases of fire ceed along on an orderly, comfort There are many grown men, able schedule with the aid of the well in their fire detection, con work taught Included law enforce some successful, others less so, town marshal, who saunters up to sidering that the fire was a small ment, public contact, care of small who have trembled as they heard the hall each evening to announce red board well hidden behind a log. tools and equipment, sanitation and the clear tones of the bell rever curfew time and then glances about Locating the Mickey Mouse fire care of quarters, and telephone berating from the nearby hills and to see that the tones have been was one of the many phases of maintenance. ' realized they were due at home lest properly respected by the younger work taken up at the local forest Tuesday Mr. White accompanied i the big man with the shiny star generation before he responds to service training school held at the j grab them and escort them to their its lulling sound himself. Star Ranger station Monday, Tues a group of men to Tallowbox, bed by one ear. Two generations day and Wednesday, which was in where they studied various types In other words, curfew will con have been sent to their beauty tinue to ring tonight just as it has charge of Norman C. White of of lookout work Including scouting, sleep through the aid of the bell for years and kids will continue Medford, assistant supervisor in fire detection, care and use of the and doubtless when the last cur- to scamper homeward in obedience charge of fire patrol. The school, fire finder and filling out reports. few is sounded for them they will to its orders, for Jacksonville, The session was completed Wed attended by 15 men who will be be buried here where they can for- thank God, is still a 9 o’clock town employed in connection with fire nesday noon, with the forenoon be ever listen to the clear, soothing —which accounts for its inherent prevention on Applegate this sum ing devoted to numerous minor de tones of the village institution. mer, Is the first of four district tails and questions from the stud livability and its crop of famous schools to be held this month and ents. Men attending besides in Of course the city hall bell serves and near-famous people reared supplants the annual school usual structors were Walter Stephenson, another purpose. It is mounted di from her soil. ly held at Union Creek. The aec- Dean Saltmarsh, John Byrne, Jess Tones of the bell always bring rectly over the fire hall and when ond school was scheduled to open Townsend. Jim Winningham, Ijeon- some residence, barn or grass-cov back pungent memories to wander Thursday on Elk Creek for the ard Andrews, Hugh Combest, Mel ered yard bursts into flame the ers returning to the old landmark Rogue River district. Another will vin Rowden, W. H. McDaniel, Ce volunteer smoke eaters rush to the and many is the heart taken back be held at Owen Oregon camp No, ci) Jelllson, Alex Schichtl, Ervin hall, give the ropes a few lusty to younger, more carefree days as 2 at Butte Falls and a joint school Ijewis, loanee Offenbacher and jerks and are on their way to the they doze in the evening twilight for Dead Indian and Fort Klamath Clarence Buck. The men occupied listening to the echoing tones of scene of trouble. will be held at I^ake o’ the Woods. the new bunkhouse at the ranger Few of the fire department mem the Jacksonville curfew. It is one The new method of conducting dis station and meals were prepared bers having telephones and no one of the few remaining throwbacks trict schools was arranged to cut by Mrs. Alice Hedburg. having particular time to call them cherished from a frontier day. Speaking __________________ / City Still Dickering With RFC for Sale of Water Bonds Tallowbox Lookout Is First to Open She’s A Nugget, Boys! e A Say Dancers in City ln at. Miner Bargain Days Here for One Week Curfew Shall Ring Tonight, Just As it Has for Ranger Students Vie for Honors in Locating ¥¥¥*¥¥♦¥¥ ‘Mickey Mouse’ Fire at Star Forestry School in Dick Applegate’s travelog from Chi cago last week he made some comments on the world fair and told how one could call San Francisco for nothing by letting 75 people with ear phones listen in. Dick must not have been around very much, because that happens on Applegate every time you call anybody, there being 19 receivers to the square mile. Then he told how sound waves were scrambled to make a conversa tion sound like someone eating soup. That’s nothing. Every time you go to the phone the ironing and cleaning and chicken hatch ing from three lines at once all sounds like soup unless you’re an experienced eaves dropper.