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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.
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Politics might be regarded as a
calling, cH|M'clally after listening
to the candidates calling each
other everything they cun think of
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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.
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It is quite noticeable, t«x>, that
the "Weathervane” Oregonian has
prettv thoroughly regimented it .
news columns aguiiiMt regi menta*
lion.
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Uttle things arc the big things
life some small people kid
themselves.
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Often, t«M>, sour grapes arc the
fruits of defeat.
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Success la comparative Think of
the beaming fellow who always
nUtnagea to whistle into a micro
phone at every public broadcast.
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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.
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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.
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Papa is the guy who gets stuck
for pin money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CONGRATULATIONS IN ORDER
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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,
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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
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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
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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!
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and Fruitgrowers
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