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“The Sheet That’s in the Pink’’
Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, October 26, 1934
Volume 3
MARBLE CORNER
GRAND OPENING
SET WEDNESDAY
An Omaha train nearly ran over
a woman when it pinned her by
the dreaa ax a subtle warning to
nudists.
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Vesting almost dictatorial pow­
ers in President Roosevelt doesn't
seem so bad when we remember
most of thorn- powers were taken
from special interests who used
them for selfish gain.
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Invention is a paradox thut aim
pllfiea one problem and creates u
half dozen new ones.
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Today’s New la-ul critics, who
see ruin in every measure propose,'
by Roosevelt, are the ones who
a few months ago declared de­
valuation of our dollar would coin
pletely ruin the country.
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Then, Its», there are those Who
worry more aixiut "saving the
Constitution" than about saving
tl\e country.
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Americanism: liispluying a Blue
Eagle and hooting the Nazi Hwas-
tlka.
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Then there's the glutton who
wax spellbound from eating too
much alphabetical soup.
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Hot air will rise, but it's no
reasonable conclusion that its use
during a campaign will lift the
country out of anything.
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Hometimcs. when things seem to
be swell, it's only in the head
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Critics of the New Deal have
used aixiut every scare in their
bag of bugaboos except that old
one about grass growing in the
main streets
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Life, in some respects. Is much
like poison oak One never quite
catches up with scratching.
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Judge Earl Day Backs
Old Age Pensions As
State Legislator in *31
Old age pensions have become
one of the day's topics, and It is
interesting to recall, in connection
with the state's obligation to the
old folks, that one of the meas­
ure's strongest friends has been
Karl B Day, republican nominee
for rex-lection as county judge
It was back in 1931 when Day,
representative of Jackson county
tn the Oregon legislature, first pro­
posed a resolution that the gover­
nor appoint an interim committee
to draft a law and provide funds
for an old age pension When Day's
proposition wax defeated in the
making, the county Judge again
asked the state lawmakers to re­
consider an old age pension plan
which would not only promise re­
lief to worthy, but also provide
funds for payment of that relif
The present old age pension law
promises a fund to the aged, but
in no way provides money for pay­
ment
the pension. Like appro­
priating money that does not exist,
the present law has embarrassed
county courts over the entire state,
and has led many to misinterpret
county officials’ inability to pro­
vide sufficient pension as an un­
willingness to do so, or a desire to
thwart the law. Jackson county's
present county Judge, viewed in
the light of his past legislative rec­
ord, has been one of the pension
plan's strongest advocates.
Judge Day looks at old age pen­
sion as a necessity which should be
worked out on an insurance plan,
creating a fund into which able-
bodied workers should contribute
during their mature years, to pro­
vide for adversity and senility.
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Mr., Mrs. Wm. Ludwig
New 4-H Club Leaders
Miss Alice Malin, acting home
demonstration agent, organized a
4-H club at the Applegate school
Tuesday for children between the
ages of 9 and 13. Projects include
cixiklng and sewing for girls, and
camp cookery for the boys. Mr
and Mrs William Ludwig will
serve as leaders, the appointment
of the third leader awaiting action
of the young club workers. The
children will hold a meeting in a
short time for election of their of­
ficers. Miss Malin will visit the
Sterling school soon in the interest
of 4-H club work, which was car­
ried on successfully there last year.
Miss Malin spent Tuesday at the
Applegate school building demon­
strating to Extension unit mem­
bers the making of the "guide pat­
tern." A large group of women
devoted a profitable day to the
work. Mrs. J. R. Hoffman and
Mrs. A. N. Krouse expected to go
to Medford Wednesday to attend a
local leaders' meeting on "buyman­
ship.”
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Joe Dunne was at the receiving
end the other day of a Sam Brown
belt.—Weston Leader.
Special Entertainment and
Singing Waiters Blend
With Dinners at Newest
Southern Oregon Inn
"You can’t keep a good corner
down," aald Miss Sally Cole, recent
purchaser of the Murble Corner in
Jacksonville, "and next Wednes­
day night, Haloween, we are going
to formally open what we believe
will be a new thrill for diners-out
of southern Oregon."
Miss Cole's comment wax made
in asides ax she busied herself and
workmen with last stages of prep­
aration for the opi ning, which will
start at 7 o'clock in the evening,
October 31. The famous old tip
piers' landmark has stood on one
of thia city’s most rominent Inter­
sections for more than half a cen­
tury, and has become endeared in
minds of many old timers who
used to know intimately the de­
pendable rigidity of the old bai ■.
leaning rail and the cheery snap
of her swinging doors.
Mias Cole'a entrance into the
business life of Jacksonville will
not be in a role of saloon-keeper,
however. She merely plana to make
cupltal of the antique bar, back-
liar and swingin' doors and gob-
oona reminiscent of an earlier pe­
riod of American hiatory. Her
newer Marble Corner will be tuned
more to the times, featuring Ital­
ian dinners, wines and beers, with
dancing, entertainment and a cozy
intimacy which only an authenti­
cally correct rendezvous tucked
uway in a small town could give.
The Marble Corner, with ita ex­
tensive improvements, la planned
to become one of those choice little
objectives for that insatiable
American desire to "go somewhere
for dinner." latte partiex, casual
passers-by and family dinner
groups will be catered to, pointed
out Miss Cole in giving a brief
reaume of her plans
Improvements to the building in­
clude more than a thousand dol-
lors worth of work. Mixa Cole Mon­
day sold her Medford business, the
Gnome Inn. to Elmer Adams, for-
mariy «4 JucksonvilF Mias Dale
had operated the inn for several
months, and is transferring all her
business interests to thia city. Res­
idential quarters in back of the
Marble Corner will be occupied
when completed.
Next Wednesday's formal open­
ing. due to limited space, will re­
quire advance appointments for
tables, said Mias Cole, who extend­
ed a particular invitation to local
folk to drop in any time and in­
spect the changed building.
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Press rumors have it that Mr.
< landhl is aixiut to retire. Well, he
won't have to change to a night­
shirt. Weston Leader.
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Money, it seems, prefers idleness
to a race with the tax collectors.
Weston Leader.
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Too much of this country's read­
ing matter is waste matter. Wes­
ton Leader.
House Rises in Rain
As Applegate Gift to
Recent Fire Victims
Working on the theory that "we
can build u house in the rain bat­
ter than Ben Moore can live in the
rain," Rosa Dickey, with a force
of Brush Murines, assisted by
neighbors, built a new one-room
house Hunday for Mr Moore and
his family who lost their home by
fire in August Lumber was ob­
tained through donations, and with
21 men to do the carpentering, the
new home wax nearly completed by
evening. Women of the neighbor­
hood furnished a picnic lunch at
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore wish to ex­
press their thanks through The
Miner to all who have aided them
since their loss.
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School Budget Meet
Set for Next Monday
Annual open meeting to pass on
the proposed budget, published
past two weeks in The Miner, will
be held Monday afternoon, October
29. at 4 o’clock. All qualified voters
of school district No. 1 will be
eligible to vote on the measure,
which will limit expenditures for
the coming fiscal year, and form
the basis for school tax levy in
this district.
Total estimated expenditures for
the year are set at 117.111, anti­
cipated receipts amounting to 17,-
400, leaving a difference of $9,711
to be raised by district tax Voting
will take place during the hour
from 4 to 5 o’clock next Monday
afternoon at the school building in
Jacksonville.
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Slants on the Folks
By M.K.P.
Miss Eleanor Maule hemmed two
dish towels Sunday afternoon with
stitches she describes as the kind
you wouldn't catch your toe in, the
while discussing a diamond ring.
A diary, vivid and emotional,
was burned on Applegate the 20th
and its pretty 17-year-old brunet
owner got scorched along with it.
Sunday pm. Jimmy Hunt ser­
iously contemplated reporting for
The Miner this week.
Fern Crump rode a mute Tues­
day.
Chas. Meyers (Meyers to you)
visited extensively early this week
and. among other things, discussed
how Jeff kicked him in the face
(Jeff is the mule) and the little
shoes he toddled in 20 years ago.
Jim Winningham wax in such a
rush to go after gas the first of
the week that he refused a cup of
coffee.
About the only benefit the rain
did was to keep Otis Buck from
doing the great pile of work his
mother had laid out for him on his
vacation.
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"Papa is the guy who gets stuck
for pin money," says The Jackson­
ville Miner. We see the point, but
tis better so than for papa to get
stuck for the drinks. Weston
Leader
In the old days hikers got foot­
sore; now they get thumb-sore.—
Weston Leader.
Number 43
CITY’S ELECTION H ere’s Introducer ASSAYS REVEAL
5 E E S FEW OUT; Horseless Carriage NEW OREBODY IS
WILL LACK FIRE
DEEP PRODUCER
Mayor Hartman, Council­
men Fick, Cantrail and
City Recorder, Treasurer
Up for Reelection Nov. 6
Pacific States’ No. 18-1
Winze Opens 7500 Tons
Good Milling Ore; Most
Encouraging Showing
Unless additional petitions are
circulated and signed today, Jack­
sonville's city election November
6 will be little more than a mere
formality, only aspirants so far
being incumbents. The chairs of
mayor, two councilmen, recorder
and treasurer are to be filled by
ballot.
Petitions placing names of May­
or Wesley Hartman, Councilmen
Peter Fick and Jim Cantrail, City
Recorder Ray Coleman and Treas­
urer Charlie Chitwood were filed
this week, with no other local citi­
zens apparently relishing an op­
portunity to become city dads.
Mayor and councilmen will be
elected for two-year terms, while
treasurer and recorder hold office
for 12-month periods. The marshal
and watermaster holds an appoint­
ive office, settled first meeting of
the year by a vote of council.
There has been little activity or
interest manifest in the local po­
litical possibilities, and Jackson­
ville folk will center their atten­
tion on county and state issues
This city's civic matters generally
are quite well ordered and obscure,
but have been known on occasion
to burst forth with all the fiery
wrath and vengeance of a real
campaign, with tricks, mud and
all the trimmings.
Today, Friday, marks the last
official chance for any aspirant to
office to qualify for having his
name appear on the city ballot.
The field, of course, will be open
for occasional "write-in" variations
but no such free-lance voting is
anticipated to any extent this year.
The candidates, with no oppo­
sition, are laying three-to-one bets
they take the field.
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Officials of Pacific States Mines
for the past few days have been
wearing cheerful smiles and slap­
ping one another on the back as
assays recently completed told
them gold values carry to greater
depth at their Opp property. Tun­
neling at the 130-foot level in
winze No. 1 in No. 18 has pro­
ceeded for 150 feet through good
milling ore and values are expected
to hold up for another 100 to 200
feet, Judging from surface indica­
tions, stated Superintendent H. B.
Mitchell yesterday.
With some of the stopes to sur­
This well-known resident of face having been worked out by
Jacksonville (shown above) intro­ previous operation at Opp mine in
duced the first automobiles into years past, future production of
southern Oregon, then hooted as the mine—on any large scale is
"horseless carriages.” He also has said to be dependent on whether
the distinction of establishing the ore chutes carry values to depth
first garage this side of Portland and a string of assays encountered
for the newfangled contraptions, through 150 feet of five-foot ledge
setting up his shop in the city of have proven the No. 1 chute to
downward to the 130-foot
Medford near the turn of the cen­ carry
level, which opens 7500 tons of
tury.
This Jacksonvillian first spon­ good milling ore now, with expec­
sored and worked for the Crater tations of another block of ap-
Lake highway and himself plowed ■ proximately the same dimension
out high centers which made roads to be proven on completion of the
to the famous national park pass­ winze drift. High spots in assay
scattered through the
able for motor traffic—such as it readings,
tunnel, read from west to east as
was in those days nearly three follows:
$26.60, $12.25, $8.40.
decades ago. It was in 1908, too,
$10 50, $13.30 and $37.10.
that he hewed and hauled timbers $29.40,
enriched zones will enable
for the bridge at Union Creek These
miners to break quartz averaging
which he built, the first structure good
milling ore. Rock that will
making it possible for horseless
at $7 a ton is considered
carriages—one and two-lungers of break
unusually good mill run, and all
that day—to proceed toward the assays
taken from five-foot
park, and in that same year he cuts in were
the face, it was explained.
was the first person to drive an
At present capacity, the orebody
automobile to rim of the lake.
uncovered east of the
Although The Miner is not pub­ already
will supply mill for about a
lishing the famous character’s winze
First few feet of drift from
name this week, most old-timers year
will recognize him from the pic­ the 130-foot level, however, uncov­
ture, which was taken by an Ore­ ered nothing but low-grade ore,
gonian reporter in the same year, the chute of profitable values hav­
carried eastward, a natural
following another of his pioneer­ ing
tendency in the mine. Workmen
ing stunts in southern Oregon, have
been busy clearing debris for
which will be detailed later.
No. 2 winze west of the first
This Jacksonvillian sold the first a
in No. 18. and sinking is ex­
petrol-propelled vehicles to arrive shaft
pected to start within a few weeks
in this part of the state, and intro­ on
chute which is expected to
duced the miracles of putt-putting yield a an
even richer orebody, said
gasoline burners to a skeptical Mr. Mitchell.
In addition to the
public. Today he makes his home lower development,
workmen have
in Jacksonville as a quiet, happy been kept busy breaking
pioneer looking back on many ore in stopes above No. 18. milling
years of championing an infant
Water continues to be a problem
business which now has become
Pacific States’ property near
one of the nation’s leading indus­ at
here, and flow recently developed
tries.
winze partially subsided when
( Editor's Note—Although credit in
continued
work di­
for the above accomplishments verted the development
flow. Three-shift opera­
was given to a prominent Medford tion of mill
is planned whenever
businessman a few months ago by
water is available, stated
a Medford daily paper, the local sufficient
Both mine and mill are
resident pictured above has shown officials.
being operated two shifts seven
credentials from the national park days
a week at present.
service, from the late Will G. Steel
Kamerman, an associate of
and from Washington, D. C., which H. J. G. J. Myers
of the Northwest
remove any shadow of a doubt as Brokers, affiliated
Pacific
to who actually drove the first car States, visited the with
Jacksonville
to the rim of Crater Lake, and property late last week
while en­
who erected the first bridge at route from Boise to San Francisco,
Union Creek which permitted the and expressed great satisfaction
passage of motor vehicles. There
progress at the mine. John C.
will be more about this interesting with
an official of the com­
Jacksonville man and the thrilling Stanton,
pany. also spent a few days in
story of his pioneering with the Jacksonville
a week ago inspecting
automobile next week. The stories
property. Stanton and Robert
will be based only on verified, ac­ the
E. Strahorn, well-known western
credited fact. And as for his iden­ capitalist,
head the Pacific States
tity, that pan. sans handlebar mus­
Mines, Inc., which has been devel­
tache, should be instantly recog­ oping
the former Opp property
nizable to anv old-timer, as well originally
opened up by C. C. Beek­
as to all Jacksonville folk.)
man. famous local banker of early
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Halloween Party
Wilson Operator Card
Room Next Postoffice
Ray Wilson, proprietor of the
Nugget confecUonery, early this
week opened a card room between
the postoffice and the Basket groc­
ery. under the personal manage­
ment of Ed Rhoten.
New tables were built, the room
renovized and Wilson took his
place as the business baron of the
southeast corner of California and
Oregon streets, his activities ex­
tending now from gas and oils,
down through a menu of dinner,
short orders and soft drinks, beer,
candy, light groceries and drug
sundries, a Western Union substa­
tion and a pool room and barber
shop, with a darned good peanut
roaster to-boot.
The official opening the card
room and the'room of Harold Reed
this week would indicate that the
male population of the city is set­
tling down to winter's indoor ac­
tivity with zest and enthusiasm.
S’MATTERPOP.............................. ByC. M. Payne
Planned for Ruch Reed Opens New Card
Room in Old Neuber
The public is invited to be pres­
ent at the Ruch school house Wed­ Saloon Building Here
nesday evening, October 31. when
the school will sponsor a Hal­
loween social. Following a snappy
program, many unique features of
entertainment will be ready in the
form of a five-cent carnival, which
will include a fortune-telling booth,
two fish ponds, an apple bobbing
arrangement, and a white elephant
booth. An attractive quilt, made by
the ladies' sewing club of the dis­
trict, and now on display at the
Sunny Side service station, will be
raffled during the evening. A five-
cent lunch consisting of pie and
coffee also will be served.
Beaver Creek school is prepar­
ing for a program and pie social
to be given Saturday evening, No­
vember 3. Fortune telling and
numerous games will be added at­
tractions. The program will begin
at 7:30. and everybody is welcome.
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ROOF BLAZE SENDS FIRE
LADDIES ON RI N TUESDAY
A roof fire, starting near the
chimney, at the George Storm resi­
dence Tuesday afternoon brought
out the local volunteer fire com-
nanv in full force and resulted in
slight damage to the structure.
Flames apparently had started in
attic of the one-story dwelling and
were just getting underway when
an alarm brought the truck and
volunteers. It was the second roof
fire of the past month, other run
having been made to the Lee Good­
man home.
Harold Reed, formerly operator
of the card room in the Marble
Corner, Wednesday opened doors
of the old Bum Neuber saloon
building as a card room. Owned
by James Littell, the building had
been occupied in recent years by
the Wicked Waffle inn.
In addition to games, Reed will
handle beverages, soft drinks, to­
baccos and candies. Tables and
chairs from the Marble Comer
were moved to the new location,
which will continue as the rendez­
vous of disciples of chip-rattling
and table-slapping pastime.
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Snow’ Plows Clear
Exit for Lookouts
The old phrase that "we’ll stay
until snow flies” proved more than
just a saying for lookouts this
year with the general storm bring­
ing snow to all of the mountain
peaks during the week-end. which
resulted in clearing the hills of all
lookouts and guards for the year.
A bulldozer was necessary in re­
moving the five and six-foot snow
drifts from the Silver Fork road
in order to moxe Alex Schichtl
from his post on Dutchman's peak.
Fir Glades guard station reported
between six and eight inches of
snow. Lookouts, guards and other
employes, totaling about 18 men,
are being released from duty this
week.
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