Friday, August 10, 1934 The JACKSONVILLE MINER Page 2 The Jacksonville Miner Published Every Friday at JACKSONVILLE, OREGON OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF JACKSONVILLE Entered as second-class matter February 19. 1932, at the postoffice at Jacksonville, Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1879. LEONARD N. HALL Editor and Publisher MAUDE POOL............................ Applegate Editor PHONE JACKSONV1LIJC 141 Address All Communications to Box 138 Subscription Rates, in Advance: One Year...............$1.00 Six Months.-----------50c Dogs in the Dance Manger The county court wants Jacksonville to quit dancing at midnight. “Too much gadding around late at night by dancers, and other operators, who must close at twelve, are squawking because J’ville and Gold Hill can run until 2 a.m.” Jacksonville's city fathers, almost talked into voluntary closing by the county judge and commissioners, met Tuesday night to discuss the closing, following a conference with county of­ ficials last week, and decided to post­ pone any action another month. Gold Hill city officials turned down flatly the invitation to confer with the county court. It seems that pressure was brought to bear on the county court to effect a uni­ form closing hour throughout the coun­ ty, not by Jacksonville or Gold Hill citi­ zens, or Medford residents for that mat­ ter, but by operators of beer parlors, other dances and establishments which feel a drain from their business on Sat­ urday nights when the crowds leave for the two late spots to continue dancing for two hours more. When local officials met a week ago with county officials, there seemed to be an accumulation of beer dance hall owners, Medford and Eagle Point dance hall operators in the anteroom anxiously awaiting outcome of the county court’s conference with Jack­ sonville. There were several dogs in the manger, so to speak. First, it should be understood that Jackson county’s judge and commission­ ers have absolutely no jurisdiction over dancing hours in Jacksonville and Gold Hill. That is why they called in local of­ ficials, pointed out all the “favors” they have granted this city in the past, and attempted to extract a promise that dances here would be voluntarily closed. A threat was made that favors in the future may not be forthcoming unless we agreed to their terms, and it was added that, in case Jacksonville and Gold Hill refused to shut down, "we'll open all other dances till 2 o’clock, and then where’ll you be.” However, Oregon law also covers that, and the county court has no authority to open any of those dances past midnight. In the first place, it seems poor taste to The Miner for the county court to make demands from this city on the basis of past and future “favors.” The Jackson county court, after all, was elected by Jacksonvillians as well as by others, and has given residents here no more than they were entitled to. What "gifts” were accorded were paid for, of course, out of the tax roll which includes this section of the county. The only obligation this city and Gold Hill could possibly owe to the county court would be to conduct decent, clean dances. Beyond that, it is none of the county officials’ business what hour dances run in the two places. State law left that matter up to the various mu­ nicipalities, and County Judge Day and Commissioners Nealon and Billings are overstepping their authority in attempt­ ing to dictate to the towns. If Jackson­ ville and Gold Hill citizens decide they don’t want dances to run past midnight, that is one thing, but when the county Sam Chisholm. all of Jacksonville, were dinner , plegate is visiting Mlns Shirley ALLISON MOULTON. guests at the home at Mrs Ethel Cantrall of this city. court, egged on by a few jealously in­ Attorney for Administratrix. Jones of Mc