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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1933)
‘Freedom of the Press Is Myth* Says Editor Fehl in Salem Volume 2 T he J acksonville M iner Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, August 25, 1933 I LOCAL SCHOOLS TO OPEN WEEK LATE THIS YEAR The truth shall set you free." an Biblical quotation, evidently, was Interpreted by Alinee Hempie Monday, Sept. 11, Will See McPherson Hutton u» referring to Resumption Scholastics tho bond» on temper and restraint in Jacksonville when »he wu» Introduced um a "showman." The bell atop Jacksonville’s red But speaking of marital mia- »< iioolhouse will |ieal out its sum- lions, we are reminded of un oc- mom to schoolchildren to resume currence down In Texas. It seems their quest for education Monday, that a Houston couple of newly- Heptember It. announced tho local weds embraced one another on the school board thiw week. main stem while being driven The opening date lias been set home. A imllceman arrested them a week later than umiiu I. but alii and said ‘‘tell It to tho judge.” They grade» will Immediately take up did and the judge road tho riot act work on the first day. said the I to the flatfoot and advised the Just- hoard All hut high school stud married husband ho could kiss his ents should come prepared to »tuy' wife anywhere ho wanted to. That all day and plunge into their work: Is Toxas freedom on Monday following l.ubor day. According to county regulations, The NBA blue eagle muy turn i all children must be at least six out to be a real sotting hen soon years old by November 15 thia year if Johnson's throats of hnving It 1 to lie eligible for entry. Book» to I ant down on slackers are nindo grade students will bo furnished as usual. good. Faculty for the grades will in Th« Hank* Feh II. a Dl«>u-Jonc» clude Mr. and Mr». Ray Hunsaker, I ballot stealer» have turned to deep Mrs. Mary Norvell and Mrs. Daisy dramatics, we hoar. Their first pro- l<ewls. with Principal Coe. Joe Nee uctlon, It I h rumored, will bo "Lil and Miss Fenwick in the upper le Hvu Cross with Lice!" ' clasaes. Another faculty member -x-c | for the high school may be added And HpcnklnK of the reformers this Thursday, when the school : who went to Salem to check up board meets to arrange final de- j on the governor’ll prison practices, tails of school opening and to open , we suppose tho warden started bids for student transportation. them shoveling ho« fuel, thinking It Is proposed tliat the Jackson they should he taught right off ville district run two bus lines this that ballots really aren't the proper year, one to Griffin and Poor Man’s I stoke for u furnace. tteek, the other to Ruch and Ap-' piegate The more remote sections I Funny, Isn’t It. how a counrty is will be served for high school stud reformed the moment the reform- onts only, with a Forest creek pick ers ienvcT up at the highway, if the proposal ! is carried out. Blds were to be And If Jackson county hadn't opened at 3 p. m Thursday. John been on a big political drunk. ah>- Heckert operated the one line used would have had a simple hanging last year and will be among bld- Instend of a hangover now. ; dors this week, he said. Jacksonville's schools, first in Hpeaklng of such things, we | southern Oregon, have withstood would like to say our sympathies the decline of years, attempts to were with some of the old settlers consolidate them with Medford in who came to Jacksonville last Bat stitutions, courthouse removal, bank urday for tile Gold Rush Jubilee failure» and other disturbances and recreation of the old town when still enjoy, nevertheless, one of the she was queen of southern Oregon. highest ratings in the state. Effi Youngster», scarcely past the safe ciency of the red brick schoolhouse ty-pinned diaper age, were all over which stunds atop one of the city’s the place trying to act drunk lie- knolls has become traditional and cause they had found a < oi k to many of Oregon’s foremost men gnaw on. and women received their early education at the institution. Coming here to live again the Two weeks from next Monday glamorous, carefree days of their School I Mstrict No. 1 will resume youth, we imagine they were rude- Its grinding out of knowledge and ly Interrupted by realisation that education. Youngsters of the neigh the younger generation today lacks borhood say they ’’can hardly watt the restraint, modesty and deceit —till next vacation." --------- •--------- of former years. But life is like 1 .... that The old folks go on spanking ’ ' Uhe kids, while the young bloods In turn go on shocking the older ones. Human Interest, that ono qual The point wo have attempted toj ity for which al) journalists, authors, artists and cartoonists stress In publicity for the gold ruah strive, haw been captured In C. was the basic history and romance M. Payne's famous "H’Matter of old Jackaonvllle. Hundred» of people camo here to hnak In roinfn-j Pop" comic strip. And The Min er has captured Payne’s comic lacence of day« when they too strip as a regular feature, be- romped the atreeta, the nearby ginning this Issue. hills and waded Jackson creek with all tho robust enthusiasm of kids We are so proud of the car We Imagine It hurt them to see so toons we have placed them at many youngsters nowadays over the bottom of page one that all looking the hlatorlc splendor. the may see. Des'prit Ambrose, Pop, scenic beauty and the thrilling ro-1 Willyam and Pop's Little Man. mance of an earlier day. all will be found cavorting in their humorous, true-to-life ant But those young men and women ics across Miner pages every who wore so carefree, so festive, week. on Jubilee day Saturday will reach If you readers enjoy "S’Matter the age when they, too. will look Pop” and let us know it, you with dimming eyes at the anticH can rest assured this feature of their children's children and sink will be permanent. We believe in reverie among memories of their it is one of the cleverest news youth. paper strips obtalnbale and for that reason have added Pop and We are quite confident that the, his “fambly.’’ J world Is not degenerating. True, It Is changing more rapidly than we ever have known, but taken by and j large, people are just about what they always have been. Little I glimpses here and there have told us that our seniors, too. got into J. Verne Shangle, famous as The mischief and deviltry when full of I Miner's staff photographer, spent youthful vinegar just like tho kids most of Jubilee day in this city tak do today. ing pictures of the many features and huge crowds. Shots of the But Grandpa today can point out ¡Miner baseball teain. Gold Hill's with wrinkled finger tne thing» of nine, downtown scenes, characters which he »peak» when referring to and activities were taken, some tlie younger generation. while two dozen exposures in all. Grandson can only accuse Grandpa Prints of the pictures will lie di»-, of his past. That, we believe, 1» played within a few days by the why the argument »tick» that the photographer, who Is preparing the next generation always is "going work for publicity purposes in fu to the dogs,” ture celebrations to be held here. Miner Adds Feature Staff Photographer Takes Jubilee Scenes Like the homeguard who la so It was all up with Machado when impressed with hi» native scenery (Continued on page two) he took to the air.—Weston Leader. I S’MATTER POP— One Thing At A Time Passing the Buck. ♦. Passing the buck may be just an old American custom, but when lives are in volved, it is about time blame was placed where it justly belongs. Last Saturday night a half dozen or more cars went off the road at dangerous Bybee turn on the? Jacksonville-Medford pike. One man was killed, four other persons were injured. Quite naturally, a great howl went up about “mixing gasoline and booze” and demon rum was given full credit for the en tire mess. But we believe demon rum is one of the secondary matters to be considered. The entire highway, save the fatal corner at Bybee ranch, is high speed. A motorist can spin along at a fairly good clip in com parative safety. All turns can be rounded at high speed. But Bybee corner, blind, abrupt, unmarked, is a trap that catches all —sober and drunk alike. The unitiated motorist on the five-mile stretch can skim along and glide around generous turns all the way—until he reaches treacherous Bybee- corner No warning signs, no red reflectors tell him that here is a turn different from the rest. No guard rail hints of the drop to the bed of Jackson creek on the outside of the curve. Picture the trap—for no less has it come to be in this modern day of speed and safe roads—on any busy night, with a steady stream of traffic in both directions. Blind ing lights, no warning signs, nothing but premonition to tell the outsider what dan gers lie in wait for him. Is it little wonder that, of the thousands of cars driving to Jacksonville Saturday that six of this num ber should fall prey to the difficult turn? Breath that is being wasted yowling at “drunken drivers” and recklessness should be turned toward something constructive that will tend to minimize the hazards at Bybee turn. It is significant that, with all the alleged inebriation, there were no acci dents on OTHER turns, which are less dan gerous! The county court and the state highway department would do well to either spend a few dollars effectively marking the turn, or straightening it out and forever remov ing the menace—which has cost motorists more than one life and thousands of dollars in repairs. 1 rue, there was some drinking in the old town on Jubilee night. There was bound to be extremes where more than 10,000 peo ple gathered. But that is no excuse for Jack- son county and the state highway depart ment insisting on leaving open manholes for them to fall into. Saturday night’s tribute paid to poor en gineering, indifferent attitude toward marking a public hazard was too much to pay for an entire highway if it could be avoided. The dead man was shown to have been cold sober at the time of his accident. He was a high-speed driver on a wagon road —and there was no sign to tell him of his error. Bybee corner should either be straight ened or effectively marked and protected with guard rail. One word, and one word alone explains why this has not already been done—negligence! But You Really Oughts Subscribe J Number 34 Rodeo Rider Rid Roughly by Riled Mule Steamboat Old Jacksonville staged a hilar- 1 lous rodeo over the week-end, but It already haa been out-rodeoed so far that the old town will have I^e 'M from Annlegate and Wildcat Bill from Yreka both to deal with next August. It seem* that Ranger Port and some of his staff missed the old town's wild-west exhibition and de cided to have a rodeo of their own Monday forenoon, with the result that Bill Knutzen, star rider of the Gold Rush Jubilee, was consider- ably Injured, humiliated and step ped on with little effort on the part of Steamboat, a ferocious wild mule. Steamboat, the forest ranger’s prized possession and not to be con fused with the common govern ment mules with which he never associates, landed Bill on a rock pretty shortly, causing a severe gash In the rider’s forehead. Not content with this for a finish, the mule stepped on Bill’s back with both front feet. After the excite ment had calmed Charley Knutzen attempted to conquer Steam twat, meeting with no success and less Injuries than those of his brother Bill. Both men were given first aid treatment and it is believed that the injuries of the first rider did not consist of more than a wrench ed back and neck and a possible broken rib or two. Ranger Port says that he ex- nects to stage a similar rodeo every now and then which will be free to the world. He also assures pros pective riders that his mules will i be shod hereafter to prevent their feet slipping when the animals choose to step on a victim. ------------- •------------- JUBILEE DRAWS THOUSANDS FOR ONE DAY FETE Estimate Crowd More Than 10,000 Throughout Day and Nite Show The biggest party ever staged by on»- of Oregon’s oldest commun ities. the Gold Rush Jubilee, played to more than 12.000 persons last Saturday. From nearly every angle ft was highly successful and great er crowds than anticipated visited the old town and watched her un wind for one brief day. Getting away to an early start at 10 a. m., the program went off with out a hitch throughout the day, with dozens of races and contests featuring afternoon attractions. The historic parade at 5:30. however, was somewhat of a disappointment, visitors said. A baseball game tn morning hours was declared the best exhibition ever seen in south ern Oregon this season between the local Miners and Gold Hill, the lat- ter winning 2-1. Difficulty was experienced at the wrestling arena when darkness overtook preparation there. Dances and other late evening features got away according to schedule, with crowds staying till late Sunday morning. Highlights of the day were cen tered around races and contests and the rodeo, which attracted nearly 2000 persons alone. Pastime most indulged in throughout the day was eating, however, and every lunch stand, restaurant and dining room In Jacksonville sold bare to the walls by mid-evening. Many old- timers. from near and far, thronged streets during afternoon and night to reminisce with friends and rel atives while the youngsters frolick ed about various entertainments and vied for prizes of spending money. There was little disorder in the town itself, with no arrests being renorted within Jacksonville city limits. For its density, the crowd was termed “well behaved" by lo Car Plunges Off Highway Into cal authorities. Financially, according to present Second Vehicle; Two figures, the jubilee was not so much Others Injured of a success, the chamber of com merce going more or less into red Gold Rush Jubilee festivities in ink—some $600 worth. Every con Jacksonville Saturday were marred cession under the sponsorship of by the accidental death of Harold the jubilee committee turned clear Runnels, 31, Klamath Falls, at an profit over to Treasurer Chitwood early hour Sunday when the auto but the rodeo, which sunk the mobile he was driving failed to treasury. Costing more than a negotiate Bybee turn, a mile from thousand dollars, the rodeo took this city on the Medford highway, tn less than $300 gate receipts. Part and sideswiped another car which of this expense is borne in grand had been overturned at that point. stands. which cost more than $300, Both vehicles were off the pave and which represent a permanent ment when the impact caused the investment. A special finance committee com death of Runnels, serious injuries to two more passengers and threw posed of Ray Coleman. Paul God a third through a window and onto ward and Clinton A. Smith has been auditing various accounts and the highway. Runnels, who has a brother liv going over bills and may find dis ing near this city, had offered Miss crepancies which will lessen in Pauline McNeill, Preston and Rog-i debtedness of the chamber. It is to er Card a ride to Medford and, ac 1. I meet with the chamber tonight to cording to Roger Card’s story, ap-1 c*ve a final accounting, and it la proached dangerous Bybee turn at| houKht indebtedness may be re- an excessive rate of speed. No 'duced by one-half, in trie President rrcWIurlll member of the party had been - vuattturi Chambpr ui of V-UIIJ Commerce Oscar Lewis was in charge of rodeo drinking, young Card said. Card, who with his brother lives ind parade, while John Knight wax in Jacksonville, told the story as over program, Wesley Hartman U. follows: "I was riding in the front S. hotel activities exclusive of the seat with Runnels and noted his dance (replaced by Slim Mero due rapid approach to Bybee corner. to illness), Ray Wilson concessions Just as I- was about to warn him and I-eonard Hall, publicity and ad to slow down we hit the turn, left vertising. Punk Dunnington han the highway and sideswiped anoth dled the U. S. hotel dance, which er vehicle laying on its side in the netted more than $200 clear. George ditch. 1 was thrown clear of the Wendt the Jacksonville Gold Dig machine, onto the highway, and ger band, the Taylor brothers the when 1 crawled to the car I saw gambling den and Jimmy Gwin and the other three occupants lying In Theron Applebaker the old-time sa gathering (tools of blood. They were loon. Other commitees and helpers still breathing, but appeared to be- also aided in staging the jubilee, second annual affair of its type dead.” Runnels died about an hour later! here. Joe B. Wetterer. chamber of while Miss McNeill suffered a se commerce secretary, was secretary vere laceration of the forehead, also for all executive committee ac crushed chest and both arms were: tivities. This week, while committeemen broken. Preston Card, who was ac companying Miss McNeill in the and others who aided in the work back seat of the car, suffered lacer-: of entertaining throngs are rubbing ations and broken ribs while Roger aching muscles and are resting, the Card, younger brother, escaped un finance committee is busy accu injured save for minor scratches mulating headaches and straighten ing out the tangled financial af •and bruises. Six cars left the highway at By-| fairs of the jubilee. The old town bee corner during the night, re-' proper has, with a sigh of relief, suiting in a broken back by Jack returned to the even tenure of Its Burns, Medford, and a broken wa^8' shoulder by Noah Lenderman, also of Medford. at the Perl Funeral home. Inter Miss McNeill is recovering at the ment was in Siskiyou Memorial Sacred Heart hospital in Medford, park, Medford. as is Burns. Preston Card was dis Miss McNeill is well known in charged Monday following the ac this city and resides on the Jack cident while funeral services were sonville-Medford highway about a held for Harold Runnels Thursday mile from the latter city. DEATH AT BYBEE TURN MARS GOLD RUSH JUBILEE