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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1934)
rc a Copy ■ 1 But You Really Should Subscribe Today T he J acksonville M iner “The Sheet That?» in the Pink” Volume 3 SPECIAL MEET OF COUNCIL HELD TO HIRE ENGINEER Those who have, in the past, taken the greatest liberties are the ones who now arc trying to define it for someone else. • Politics might be regarded as a calling, cH|M'clally after listening to the candidates calling each other everything they cun think of • We see by the Central Point American that Art (Hie) Powell has lot his fellow citizens persuade him to run for councilman. Art probably will quote, ns his greatest recommendation. this column's criticism of him What awful rights these dixir- knobs have. • It is quite noticeable, t«x>, that the "Weathervane” Oregonian has prettv thoroughly regimented it . news columns aguiiiMt regi menta* lion. e Uttle things arc the big things life some small people kid themselves. • Often, t«M>, sour grapes arc the fruits of defeat. e Success la comparative Think of the beaming fellow who always nUtnagea to whistle into a micro phone at every public broadcast. • Americanism: An entire nation in a furore over the Lindbergh baby kidnaper, and half the drug stores In the land decorating their windows with birth control weap ons. • It was "just a mistake" the other «lay when Turkish coastal batteries fired on two French ships, according to official expla nation Evidently an American de fense lawyer has been globe-trot ting. The hitch-hiker looking for a long ride these «lays Is being rather far-fetched. Another way to keep idle hands busy this winter would be to scn«l the unemploye«! out into a clump of Oregon's poison oak However, you couldn't exactly call that scratching for a living. • Papa is the guy who gets stuck for pin money. * What would do this country much goo«l now would be for more world scries whoopie and less world-serious worry. Simlll: As hard to get along with as an indigent who has been on the relief roll. f Several southern Oregon editors have taken sarcastic pokes at Ed itor Bob Ruhl of the Medford Mail Tribune because of his winning of the 1034 Pulitzer award, and we have been indirectly guilty of a like offense. Fellow editors should, however, be proud of the fact that a prominent member of the broth- erhcxxl brought such an unusual honor to Jackson county for, after all, we are known by the company we keep. • If advertising copy is an index of anything, it is enlightening to I note the dominance of tobacco and Sasoline display in the college ally. A pretty good indicaUon of Can didate for Governor Peter Zimmer man's communistic tendencies, points out the Newberg Scribe, is his opposition to the criminal syn dicalism law. Folks of this county will not soon forget how this Ore gon statute did much to rid Jack- son county of criminals, murderers and trouble-makers. Criminal syn dicalism laws, along with state po lice, have proven their worth be- yond any posHible shadow of a doubt to southern Oregonians — that is, to all who weren't sent to Salem for prolonged visits. -------- •------------ CONGRATULATIONS IN ORDER r 4 - -------- Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, October 12, 1934 Recent labor troubles have given America plenty of feud for thought. The power of the press was dem onstrated when Mr. and Mrs. A. Moore Hamilton of Medfor«! wished for a son and a husky young lad weighing six pounds arrived Tues day'morning at the Sacred Heart hospital. Mr. Hamilton is editor of the Medford News, while Mrs. the former Eva Nealon, was so ciety reporter on the Medford Mail Tribune. The youngster, according to Moore, as soon as he had his eyes good and open, sized things up anil remarked “I'm going to be a demo crat like you, Papa.” Hamilton is seeking a berth in the state legis lature this fall on the democratic ticket. The Miner, along with the Hamiltons' many friends, extend congratulations to the newcomer and his parents. ★ Further Step Taken in Try for Promised PWA Aid to Local Waterworks Problem; Reservoir Arid We Don’t Need the Money, But Try (J« With It Sometime! I ft's not that Th«* Miner Could ux< the money, or anything like that, but recent perusal of the pa|H*r's subscription list re- vealed that many readers* ac- counts are beginning to lag. In fact, mailing lists woulil give the casual scanner the impres sion papers are being sent to several lagging camps. If your address slip that lit tle yellow sticker atop your Miner should have a number reading (10-34) or lower, your subscription is due The figures designate the month and year your subscription is paid up to. If an - “s” should immediately follow your date, like this: (9-34s), your subscription Is still due, and our feelings won't be hurt at all if you drop in and b«M>st the expiration date whenever convenient, or mail us a few dimes. Of course, as we mentioned before, we don’t need the mon ey; we merely want to keep the books'straight. (Well, it’s a WHITE He, nohow ) Too, if you should feel your expiration date is Incorrect, we will be glad to straighten that out for you as well. The date on your paper is our record of your payments. Meeting in special session Wed nesday night, Jacksonville city councilmen voted to hire D T. Mc Donough, Medford, as city engi neer for drawing of plans and in stallation of new pipeline and water development work in com pliance with PWA regulations gov erning such projects Bonds cov ering an estimated 510.000 of work were voted three years ago, but tumbling markets blocked their sal«* until PWA offered to finance such improvement, recently pass ing on thia city's application for that figure, with an additional 53000 government grant. According to City Attorney H K. Hanna, who lx handling legal end of securing the money, pres ent status of the loan and grant loaves Jacksonville awaiting ar rival of a contract from Washing ton, which is to be signed and re turned to PWA heads City offi cials will then await further in struction of PWA before proceed ing to purchase and Install pipe line. There is some doubt, it has Workers, Not Goblins, b«*cn said, ax to whether state en gineer will approve the 53000 sum Wreak Mischief to Old needed to tunnel through a natural rock dyke in the upper watershed Marble Corner Edifice to tap a theoretical underground It may be nearing Halloween, flow. It wax thought that if a shaft, sunk 19 feet three years ago and it may have been in anticipa on this contact, could be pushed tion of habits of pranksters at farther into the ground sufficient ■inch a time with naive local out water might be uncovered to re door equipment, but workmen move all doubt as to plausibility said it was in preparation for new of opening the drift to intersect fangled plumbing fixtures from the city that caused the removal of a water flows. mine-hole cupola behind To date, according to Hanna, not I backyard the Marble Corner which has. for one cent of PWA money has ac these many years, served so faith tually entered Oregon for approved projects. Almost endless red tape, fully and completely. Father of Miss Sally Cole, re detail and data-gathering have slowed down completion of qualifi cent purchaser of the famous cor cation not only for Jacksonville, ner, arrived here from Portland but ulao for other communities. It Tues«lay to take charge of remod Is thought by some, particularly eling the comer, which will include one Medford banker, that next few erection of living quarters at the — as kitchen and toilets weeks will see the release of some ■ rear, as« well of tills PWA money in the state, | Preparations have been completed and that by the time snow files for the laying of new floor in the approved projects will be under building proper, while basement of the structure has been cleaned out way. The city council met laut Satur- and foundation strengthened. "The Marble Comer most cer «lay evening for a called session but wax unable to take any action, tainly will not become a repetition calling this week's meeting, at of other well-known ‘beer parlors’ which Mayor Wesley Hartman and of the county,” pointed out Miss Councilmen E. S. Severance, Jim Cole this week when commenting Cantrall and Paul Godward were 00 her opening Halloween night. present. McDonough's bid of 5100 "Italian dinners and licensed bev for drawing plans, and 5150 for erages, including beerB and wines, superintending Installation and will be served in the most ap- tunneling, wax by far the lowest proved atmosphere. We are pre- bid opened at the Wednesday night paring a dance floor for those who enjoy such variation to their din- meeting. ners out and I believe the new, ----------- •------------ Marble Comer will be a credit to Liberty is defined by most men Jacksonville," Miss Cole explained. as the liberty to define it to BUit --------- •------------ their own notions. Weston leader One can fancy Brother Hall's If and when Upton Sinclair ends irritation when he wrote this for poverty in California, a lot of us his Jacksonville* Miner: "Oregon’s Oregon country editors may move hills may be beautiful, but their our shops across the line.—Wes poison oak is where the rub comes.—Weston Leader. ton Leader. S’MATTER POP THREE SEATS TO BE FILLED WITH CITY DADS NOV. 6 Mayor and 2 Councilmen Complete 2-Year Terms January 1; Replacement Timber Is Scant So Far Number 41 A Lucid Explanation By J. C. REYNOLDS Young Miss Columbia, blythe and gay. Fell ill upon a luckless day And feebly for relief did pray; And s«x.>n a swarm of quack ma rauders Made haste to doctor her disorders. 30,000 GAL. FLOW WATER TO EASE LOCAL DRYNESS Inch Holes Develop Flow Sufficient to Tide Over Till Fall Rains; Tests Prove Value Watershed Some said perchance there might be hope If she would only quit the dope, And with that evil sought to cope Jacksonville’s municipal politics, By pestering her with droll pre There may have been a flood at scriptions from all present indications, will Johnstown in years gone by, but it be about as active ax a lazy man Of various and wierd descriptions. would be hard to convince Jack with sleeping sickness November sonville residents of that fact. Lo 0, when voters will be faced with And others sleuthing round for cal folk have joined with the large clues, the task of replacing seats of three reservoir waterdogs in a clamor city fathers whose terms expire I-aid all her sickness onto booze for rain, and have watched with And recommended that she use«! January 1. Mayor Wesley Hart moist eyes and dry tongues the man. Councilmen Ed Severance The remedies of their creation search for water by several local To hasten her revivication. and Peter Fick are the retiring chamber of commerce members civic pillars completing hitches, and fire company laddies as they Some would-be "docs ” of saintly while annual offices of recorder pressed drill steel into the un kin and treasurer, held by Ray Cole known crevices of watershed boul man and C. C. Chitw«xxi respec Declared she must be purged of sin ders to develop an even 30,000 gal tively, will be open for voters to And raised a most infernal din. lon water flow every 24 hours Vociferously insinuating refill. from a half-dozen inch holes, some The city balloting November 6, Her virtue was evaporating. of them extentling into sandstone to be held in connection with the to a depth of 18 feet, making min- general election, appears to be a Still other quacks expressed re- j iature artesian wells. grets more or less indifferent affair, un Financed by fire company and less a scarcely lukewarm political About the harm in cigarets— pot gets to simmering in the three And gave recipes and uttered chamber of commerce funds, Ther threats on Applebaker, Bob Finney and short weeks separating now and Dan’l (Boone) Shuss spent first vote-casting time. Mayor Hartman Entirely useless and provkoing, in a statement to The Miner last Asserting she must cease her few days of this week drilling holes smoking. near springs and blowing out punc night expressed no desire to run tures made three years ago, when again in the coming election, while Ed Severance did not choose to Meanwhile Miss C's own private a former shortage left the city corps without domestic water. run when asked this week. No Present flow, which is being statement had been gained from Of hired physicians on the floor Fick, but there seems to be a lack Of congress chewed the rag and carried to upper intake through swore the recently constructed flume, is of ambition in any quarter for sufficient to supply each resident citizens to become municipal mar Concerning each new proposition Advanced to better her condition. of Jacksonville with 40 gallons of tyrs Jacksonvillians are seasonally water daily, barring leaks in wood- modest, at this time, about their office-holding qualities, and there And thus In turn each pseudo doc en pipe both sides of the small tor reservoir, which have never been doubtless will have to be some persuasion used to prevent ballot- Has slammed her character and completely barred. As it is, the knocked her, emergency flow probably will tide eers from facing blank pieces of Or, with harsh remedies has the city over with enough water paper for the city election. shocked her for business houses and fire pro Councilman Paul Godward, tection. elected last year, and Councilman Till now it's plain to observation She's bedfast from complete pros Jim Cantrail, reelected last year, There has been some agitation tration. will be hold-over city fathers. Task to sink shaft where drill holes of guiding affairs of Jacksonville, are producing water in an effort an incorporated city, is a payless But while they spill their idle chat to further increase present flow, ter and often thankless job. while another wing of water-mind And shoot their punk prescriptions ed citizens would have a shaft at her, sunk in bottom of former workings We briefly will explain the matter: which would carry the hole to a Street Work Here She's duped and doped by politi point approximately identical with cians Expected Few Days tunnel planned to be financed by Who n.asquerade as skilled phy PWA money. A subsoipaion fund sicians. Work on Jacksonville's streets, alternately hoped for and de-1 spaired of for two years, still has George Porter Will its habit of looming likely during Seek Mayoralty in the next few days. Jack Thrasher, county employe living here, is Medford Nov. 6th working a large scarifying and grading unit on Jacksonville hill Although all is quiet on the local cutting a new road, and expects political horizon, Medford's mayor to be through there the end of this alty race is just about settled three week, when he will be available weeks before election, with the an for street work in Jacksonville nouncement by George Porter, in with county <?quipment. cumbent, that he will be available Popular subscription already has for that office for another term. assured enough funds to work Porter has been acting as mayor South Oregon street from Cali for the pear city since the resig fornia to above the Lester Walton nation of E. M. Wilson, and has place, residents of the thorough spent six years as councilman, as fare paying gas. oil and salary ex well as some time as a member of pense of one man for the opera the city planning commission. tion of county equipment, which The Medford lumberman, who is will be loaned free. Residents of favorably known throughout the other streets who desire scarifying state, came to the west when a lad and grading will have to follow a 10 years old. He completed grade like course in pledging expense and high school in Medford, money, it was pointed out. worked at odd jobs and entered the business world as a young up start at the tender age of 16 years, with a high school diploma and a stick of wood clutched in his hand. He has been faithful to the piece of wood ever since, although at times his sheepskin has been for gotten. Porter went to work for the old Iowa Lumber and Box company when Edgar Hafer was the big boss so many years ago George blushes at the reference to time. When the company was sold to the Big Pines Lumber company young Porter continued wood- minded and worried about board feet for H. A. Thierolf, Wes Green and the late Bert Anderson. Later Thierolf purchased the company himself, which he still heads, and in 1925 George started sticking Porter-owned slivers in his fingers as owner-manager of the newly created Porter Lumber company, which firm he still heads. As mayor of Medford, George Porter has met with almost uni versal favor. A successful business man—he to date has survived the depression, which is quite a lot for a lumberman, he says- Porter un derstands management, finance and community needs. Starting as a youngster without a dime (but that good old diploma and stick) the mayor climbed his way up through hard work to where today he is regarded as one of his city’s leaders. Porter spent enough time on lower rungs of the ladder, too, to thoroughly understand view point and problems of the layman who toils by the day. Porter has “been there.” One of George Porter's old-fash ioned habits still sticks with him— that of "early to bed, early to rise,” etc. He is the constant con cern of his employes by being first on the job day in and day out. If George Porter is reelected to his office as mayor next month, Medford will be assured of another four years of successful and sane administration. Porter has no isms or pet peeves to warp his leader ship and is decidedly easy to meet and a genial fellow to all comers. I ------ •--- :— By C. M. Payne was started yesterday with a 55 check from Mrs. J. M. Williams toward sinking a shaft near pres ent springs, which is estimated will cost about 575. A like sum. or slightly more, would sink original "contact” shaft to a depth of 45 feet where drill holes also have been productive of much water. With the large reservoir an open bowl centered by a small patch of mud and a wading pool that would dissapoint a pig. Jacksonville's water situation is likely to reach some sort of a climax in next two weeks, and either or both of the development shafts may be sunk by then. County equipment includ ing compressor, pipe, pump and drill steel are at the disposal of the city, County Engineer Paul B. Rynning said some time ago, to aid in the local effort to tap under ground water which is certain to lay in extensive granite formations forming the upper watershed. Local Youth Killed at Stockton Sunday Francis M. Marks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mark of Jackson ville, met death in an automobile accident Sunday morning near Stockton, Calif. Mr. Marks was 21 years of age and had been in the southern state about four years where he was engaged in the in stallation of heating plants. Brief information regarding the accident revealed that while pass ing a truck the car in which Marks was riding met another car head- on, killing three persons and ser iously injuring the fourth. Mr. Mark is survived by his parents and one sister. Mrs. Nella Olmsted of Lemoor, Calif. He was making his home with his aunt, Mrs. Claude Barton, at Fresno, who accompanied the remains to Medford, arriving Tuesday. Funeral arrangements were held at Conger parlors Wednesday, with interment in Jacksonville ceme tery. BETTER TIMES! BANKS ARE LENDING MONEY IS MOVING TIMES ARE IMPROVING. BE OF GOOD CHEER, WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO BETTER TIMES! Farmers and Fruitgrowers Bank (Deposits Insured)