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Jacksonville,'Oregon, Friday, December 14, 1934
Number 50
APPLEGATE WILL SEEK RIVER DAM
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INSULL RELEASE Dr. Townsend’s Patent Medicine
CAUSES CAUSTIC Search for the Holy Grail leads men into some funny
I TOLD YOU SO!’ predicaments.
The Townsend old age pension plan is said to be that
I
1-oafing, as well as everything
else, is just around the corner.
•
Americanism: Coinpluqnng of
a lack of law and order and then
¡H'titionlng the governor to pardon
a convicted murderer.
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(With Apologies to Poets)
It's the doctor who takes stltchus
When a nudist tears his britches
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It causes one to wonder, too
how many candidates for Heaven
would be lost if every person ov< i
60 were to receive $200 a month
without turning a hand.
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The man who gets off on the
right foot seldom gets left.
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Suffix means little when it is
time to ¡my property, income or
sales taxes.
When it comes to nailing lies,
some K<>Hal|>M arc awful carpen-
ten
For Christmas we’re xcndlng
Clark Wood, at Weston, Oregon,
an extra supply of L'x for his type
case He's always giving 'em away
In his quips
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Then consider the case of tile
poor poison oak sufferer whose
scratching has advanced to the
pink fingernail stage.
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Smutty minds run In similar
gutters
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Many a girl has used cold cream
to help get a chap on her hands.
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Tax howlers always quiet down
when they become tax eaters.
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Repetition trains the mind many
things, and it has taught us to
turn off the radio when a crooner
surges his adenoids toward a mic
rophone.
•
And when radio's table turns,
maybe It will keep programs off
the turntable.
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Vision is what a boy has when
he looks at the wheels of little
sister's baby carriage with ideas
of his own.
A woman's intuition, too. ix that
uncanny something which causes
her to pull her skirt down when
she couldn't possibly have known
you were looking at her knees.
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Government should be in busi
ness only so long as it is govern
ment business.
Art (Hie) Powell of the Central
Point American wonders why The
Miner interested itxelf in Medford's
sewage disposal plant issue. After
all, Art. we've got to admit you're
right for once It is Central Point,
and not Jackxonvillc. that is down
stream from the Pear city.
With greens from the forests
gracing the interior, Jacksonville’s
famous Marble Comer is prepared
for the holiday season, according
to Sally Cole, manager. The Cor
ner has been bringing many out-
of-towners to this city for supper
dances, lunches and refreshments,
and many friendly groups are ex
pected during the season, particu
larly til] all Christmas presents
have been exchanged at the stores
and New Years resolutions have
been tried and found wanting.
In preparation for the season,
Miss Olive Gardner has been added
to staff at the Marble Comer and
a special invitation is being ex
tended to diners and after-theater
groups to enjoy Jacksonville's wel
come at the old landmark, which
has been refitted with an excellent
dance floor, booths, entertainment
and authentic bar and two (2) sets
of swinging doors The Marble
Comer is open until 1 a m. every
night.
Community Would Build
Applegate Miner Predicts short-cut to paradise which will end charity by creating
100-Foot High Dam
Outcome of Trial Weeks the greatest charity known to man—the giving of $200
a month to a person simply because he is 60 years old.
On Barr Ranch
Ago in Miner Story
To begin with, if the Townsend idea would work
Applegate will seek federal aid
By J.
REYNOLDS
in construcUon of a storage dam
Some weeks ago in u little «1ÍM- half as satisfactorily as its backers claim, it is a won
sertatlon on crime I said "We are der that all the wit, all the intelligence, all the philoso
on the Applegate river, according
not going to believe anything se phy and all the learning of man for thousands of years
to action taken by a group of 35
rious is going to hapjM*n to Insull
residents in a special meeting held
until we see it Some clever lawyer should have overlooked a permanent cure for unem
at Ruch Wednesday night. The
will find a comma missing, or a
dam, which would provide storage
semi-colon misplaced that will kill ployment, poverty and crime so simple the ordinary
for normal water supply for the
man in the street today can extoll its certain benefits.
the indictment against him, etc."
district’s 17,000 acres already un
1 didn't quite hit the bull's eye
der irrigation, would be built on
Backers of the $200-a-month scheme quote statistics
when I made that assertion. It
the Barr ranch, formerly known as
you have read the news you will by the hour to show how easy, how plausible and how
the P. F. Swayne place, near Wat
see It was a little six-lettered word fool-proof their idea is. They work themselves into a
kins.
that happened not to be in the
Miles Cantrall, prominent Apple
right place. And so the jury de religious frenzy with numbers and totals and percent
gate rancher, presided at the meet
cided he could not be guilty and ages. But it is a characteristic of human beings that
ing. first of a series planned to for
turned him loose The administra
mulate and promote plans for the
CCC
Life
Is
Rough
tion of justice in the United States they can spellbind and statistic themselves into almost
undertaking. Cantrail appointed a
has become so rotten that even an any frame of mind or belief.
of Edwin Taylor, chair
Road Fraught With committee
old hill-billy like me. way out in
man, P. M. Rowden and Frank C.
In
the
first
place,
The
Miner
doesn
’
t
believe
it
is
’
the mountains of Oregon, can us
to investigate method of
Detours and Mumps Preston
ually figure out In advance what necessary to flounder in a morass of figures and sta
procedure for perfection of an or
will hapjien when one of the big
ganization to push the idea and
An important segment of Frank next meeting was set for Wednes
crooks Is caught and has to stand tistics to decide intelligently whether or not this coun
lin Roosevelt's Civilian Conserva- day night, December 19. at Apple
trial
try
60 years Uon
/ can J, pay
J $200 a month to
w every old person w
corpg win
feeling a iutle gate hall. W N. Carl acted as
On the other hand, small crooks
like Dillinger, Harvey Halley, Pret of age. Totals such as the pension plan involve are too mumpsy for the next 25 days or secretary for the embryonic group.
ty Boy Floyd and Nelson, who ride staggering for the ordinary person to comprehend or I
S Lester Smith, from the county
the outlaw trail, soon come to
analyze.
But
ordinary
sense
—
if
it
is
used
—
will
guide
tion
that
he
planned
to
have
the surveyor's office, made a report on
grief and in their case one can
proposed dam site and stated
mumps
after
his
recent
visit
to
his the
truthfully say "Crime does not the thinking person toward a level-headed, sane con-
that
barrier between 90 and 100
, home in Roseburg. Mr. Waldo, feet a high
pay.”
impound suffi
elusion
ds
no
forest
of
figures
ever
can.
member of the CCC force at Star cient water would
A fewxdays ago they slammed
for existing water
Ranger
station,
became
ill
a
few
17 bullets into Nelson and he had
In the first place, every backer of the Townsend «lays ago and was removed to the rights, while an additional 10 feet
to take the count, though in his
woula provide water for the eight
whole life he hadn't stolen one- plan is a person who can see more money coming into isolation ward at Camp Applegate. to 10.000 acres not under irrigation
thousandth part as much money as his pocket than the idea will cost him. The old folks ‘ With the exception of three or four and would supply a highline ditch
Brush Marines who tussled with extending to Missouri Flat coun
Insull and his clique got away
with.- So 1 say the best way Is to relish the dream of $200 a month with nothing to do the mumps in their younger days, try.
go straight even if you don't make but spend it; the professional man sees thousands of the crew at Star is quarantined
At present but few water users
' and seems to be withstanding the have
so much money. Then you can
enough moisture for summer
dollars
rolling
in
on
accounts
years
overdue;
the
mer-
*
ordeaTa'dmirabiy.
w
‘
LIlsuinu
‘
ne
Lne
sleep well of nights. But If you arc -
time needs and storage of winter
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determined to be crooked, don't chant sees money being spent almost with abandon
ninoft for dry months is looked
A sequel to the football season upon
tackle the raw stuff like the above ment. A swell idea, because Dr. Townsend has all the
as a needed and very bene
came early this week in the follow ficial improvement for the entire
mentioned public enemies and be
hunted down and bumped off in questions answered so that everyone will take in more ing important dispatch to news Applegate valley, second only to
your prime. Get In with the big money than he will have to pay out under the plan. paper headquarters:
Rogue river valley in extent and
boys who do their robbing by law
Red (Mange) Carpenter is a
and grab off the coin by millions
from the poor suckers who dance
to their music. Then (in this coun
try. at least) you will be just as
safe us if you were in God's vest
pocket and probably will be called
a public benefactor. Don't believe
what I say. Just read the ¡tapers.
A fellow who has unbounded
confidence in the integrity of the
law said to me, recently, "It is
conclusive thut Insull could not
have been guilty of all the things
he was accused of because the law
has proved him innocent and
turned him loose." I replied, "Mis
ter, if Insull wax innocent as you
say, what In hell did, he skip the
country for? And why did he fight
extradition so fiercely? Innocent
people don't have to skip the coun
try. nor do they fight extradition
(Continued on page two)
if they find they are wanted on them and returns would be made
some charge. There was over one promptly.
Folks in my vicinity fell all over
hundred million dollars vanished
about the time Insull flew the themselves to get to the post office
coop. If he and his clique didn't to buy money orders to send to
the concern that paid the big in
get it, who did?"
I think it was in 1904 I came terest. I didn't like the looks of it
and wouldn't fall for it. I was
pretty near being skinned out of a strongly of the opinion that there
couple of hundred dollars. It makes was a colored gentlemen concealed
me laugh even now to think how a in the woodpile somewhere.
In the town close to where I was
guy who watches his comers as
I do almost fell for that skin game. living at the time was a little
A get-rich-quick outfit in Saint postmistress who was a very good
LouiJ began advertising for invest friend of mine and she sent them
ors. Claimed they had reliable ad $200 and presently began to poke
vance Information on all the horse fun at me for not having spunk
races and could never lose They enough to try my luck along with
would pay 10 per cent interest I the rest of them. I told that, in
each month on all money loaned |
(Continued on page four)
S’MATTER POP
By C. M. Payne
•Amro»' Will Be Excused
Moore Hamilton's Medford News
now is published twice a week,
which almost puts it on a par with
this paper. The Miner has a regu
lar publication day of Friday, and
the day It is published.
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Rowden-Gester Wed
Grants Pass Monday
George Rowden, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. M. Rowden of Ruch, and
Miss Glennewelr Gcster of Rocky
Point, Klamath county, were unit
ed In marriage at Grants Pass
Monday, December 10. Following
the ceremony, the couple departed
for the north on their honeymoon.
The newlyweds will return this
week to make their home on Mr.
Rowden's ranch on the Applegate,
which adjoins his father’s proper
ty Mr. Rowden, who will begin
work immediately on his new
home, has summer employment
with the forest service in the
Crater lake region.
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The prohibitionists were un-
horsed but are still uncowed.—
Weston i Leader.
great football player. He is triple
threat man—trip, fumble and
stumble.
• • • •
Courageously squelching provok
ing little thoughts of what Port
land folks might think, several
Star station boys have joined in
the acUvity of community organi
zations in amateur dramatics. Hav
ing made their debut, in a social
sense as well as dramatic, at Bea
ver Creek this season with their
burlesque on radio broadcasting,
the quartet was requested to ap
pear before the Jackson County
Recreation club when it convened
for its annual Christmas party at
Medford last night. In preparation
for the event the actors assembled
boudoir slippers .spectacles, cans,
night caps, crutches, telephone di
rectories, candles, music stands,
bathrobes, night gowns, collars,
vests and other requisites located
in a farming district
Wayne (Red) Carpenter, lead
ing man, having promised a future
engagement with the mumps, has
relinquished his role to Stanley
Raimer, telephone operator. Others
in the cast include Charles A. My
ers, James Hunt and Herbert Pen
nings.
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Ranger Lee Port and Charles A.
Myers made a business trip to
Hutton guard station the first of
the week, where the latter is said
to have crawled under the house.
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Mr. Herbert Pennings (otherwise
Slim) has been promoted to the
temporary position as "boss” at
the Ranger station in the absence
of Archie West, who is taking his
vacation, according to authorita
tive information.
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A group of little boys were un
able to withhold youthful yearn
ings for access to a heaping pan of
doughnuts and consequently an of
ficial communication to The Miner
early this week was interrupted
before completion.
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Townies Take High
Hoopsters in Race
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Huey Long seems to have the
faculty of blowing away without
drying up. Weston Leader.
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The time is said to be coming
when bankers will have to solicit
loans They will find us more ob
liging than they have been to us.—
Weston Leader.
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Every dollar someone gets with
out earning it someone else must
earn.—Weston Leader.
1 MARBLE CORNER IX SET
FOR YULE SEASON HERE
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Jacksonville's town basketball
team added another victory to
their winning beginning this fall
by downing the high school quint
18-19 at the local gym Wednesday
night in a close, interesting game.
Roger Card led the townies’ scor
ing with seven points while Byron
Backes equalled the record for the
high bnsketeers. The squads lined
up as follows:
Jacksonville town team: Ray
Ward 6, Roger Card 7, Wayne
Combest, Don Dorothy 2, Bud
Reinking 4, Ray Hunsaker. High
school quint: Flitcroft, Backes 7,
Bud Mitchell 3, Russell Ayres 3,
Joe Nee 2.
fertility. The idea has been de
veloping in minds of several resi
dents of the section for some time,
and this week's meeting marked
the first definite step toward real
ization of the project, which would
cost in the neighborhood of $200.-
000, total required to construct the
100-foot high Emigrant creek dam.
Applegate's community leaders
feel that present governmental set
up which looks toward develop
ment of natural resources and
water control is favorable to the
project, which has much merit to
recommend it. Interested residents
and landowners of Applegate val
ley are urged to be present at next
Wednesday night’s meeting, at
which time the organization will
take on more definite shape.
SAVOLDITOBE
HERESATURDAY
Jumping Joe Savoldi, famous
wrestler who packs stars in his
feet, will meet a boy after his
own heart Saturday night in Pete
Belcastro, belligerent Italian from
Sacramento. It was Pete who
turned off the lights for the Red
Demon last Thursday night, there
by winning the right to get roped
in with the treacherous Jumping
Joe.
For once in his life Medford f.tns
cheered Belcastro’s unorthodox
ring tactics a week ago when he
met the well-hated Red Demon,
who had slugged his way over a
half dozen favorites here. Belcas
tro succeeded in catapulting the
Demon from the ring with his fly
ing dropkick, which rendered the
masked meanie blotto for the count
and the match. Although odds fa
vor Jumping Joe to get in the
most dropkicks—both love to kick
up their heels—Belcastro is re
spected as a tough Italian himself
and may surprise the great and
only. Much interest attends the
match, set for Saturday night this
week at the Medford armory, and
another sell-out boxoffice event is
expected.
As curtain-raiser for Saturday
night’s event, Bonny Muir, tower
ing Australian favorite, will meet
the Red Demon, successor to this
match possibly meeting Savoldi
the following week.
Opening bell will be heard at
8:30 and cash customers are ad
vised to secure reservations at ear
liest possible moment. There will
be a slight increase in low admis
sion rates this Saturday. Promoter
Mack Lillard explained, for Sa-
voldi's appearance.
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If interested, better buy your
supply of that new drug for pro
longing life before the GOP hears
of it— Weston Leader.