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Friday, August 13, 1937
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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first eliminate those who commit Huch acts. Splitting
hairs in the courtroom and looking in books to see
what to do with gunmen is entirely beside the |x>int.
Nobody ever went to law to get rid of a rattle
snake!
LIFE’S BYWAYS!
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Southern Oregon Miner
Published Every Friday at 107 East Maia Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
Entered as second-class matter February 15, 1945. at the postoffice
at Ashland. Oregon, under the act of March 3. 1679
.... Editor and Publisher
LEONARD N. HALL
............. Assistant Editor
JANE PRIME HALL
Oregon's Traffic Toll
A Meric« of Weekly Article« on
the riolilem of Highway Safety
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•RUMOR HAS IT THAT
According to current rumor, soon the self-styled
“Judge” Earl Fehl will return to Jackson county all
set to collect "back pay” and send a couple dozen po
litical enemies up to the penitentiary for putting him
there.
The Southern Oregon Miner, which figured prom
inently in the famous "Jackson county war" and the
resulting conviction of opposing ringleaders, sincerely
is hopeful that Fehl plans nothing of the kind. How
ever, there seems to be some substance to the report
that already the former Pacific Record-Herald editor
has procured a press with which to give multiple
issuance to his bitter ideas.
Perhaps, if the man does come back to southern
Orc-gon to start more trouble, we residents of Jackson
county will be given an opportunity to see the mettle
of which our new district attorney is made.
Anybody, after an attorney general's ruling and
definite action by state courts, can order out pin-ball
machines, but it takes a man—and a good one—to face
the kind of music that Earl Fehl has become famous
for and then silence it for the public good.
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SWALLOWED BY THEIR OWN OUT-HOLES!
Apparently, pin-ball machines are going to crawl
into their own out-holes, and then pull the holes in
after ’em. Leastwise, notice of intention to confiscate
said nickel-gathering devices is being sent out by the
Jackson county sheriff's office.
Well, no doubt tongues are wagging about the
banishment like a busted ball payoff motor dribbling
tive-cent pieces all over the place, for there are those
who will say the petty-gambling devices are a scourge
to honest existence while others will insist just as
vehemently that the machines simply have increased
the velocity with which minted buffalo get about.
It is certain the machines are not as bad as they
have been painted, nor as innocent as defenders claim.
The devices are guilty of garnering nickels with the
appetite of a cement mixer and paying out at pre
determined ratios of generosity, yet they do furnish
a certain amusement value and—it might be pointed
out here—have no attachments to force players to
insert coins.
You can take ’em (if you’re lucky) or leave ’em.
But their most vexatious trait is their canny trickery
of human nature. They combine natural optimism,
stubbornness and the allure of chance into a habit
that is hard for some to break, once they’ve mixed
the ingredients into a pin-ball complex, and now the
D-A intends to stop all that.
While operators in Ashland have paid considerable
sums of money into city coffers in the form of license
fees, have used revenue from pin-balls in legitimate
channels of trade and, in some cases, have out-holed
their ledgers back into the black, they have been
fairiy reasonable about keeping too-juvenile players
away from the contraptions and it has been the cus
tomers themselves, more than anyone else, who have
popularized the games.
But perhaps there will be few actual tears shed
on part of the general public when the tables make
their final fade-out—save for the operators, of course,
who now will have to rack their brains for another
business-prodder for languid tills.
Many of us, who have been wont to spend a lot
of time in front of coin chutes pleading with Lady
Luck to be a lady, probably will miss our favorite
sport for a while, but we can spend the extra time
wondering how come we always have nickels in our
jeans again.
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1)0 YOU THINK it Is necessary
that mm human life lie sacri
ficed to modem traffic every day
In the state of Oregon? That
thousands must be Injured and
millions of dollars In property
damage suffered as a ¡»art of the
price we must pay for the en
joyment and convenience afforded
us by the use of motor vehicles?
Are you willing to pay your part
of th!« tremendous toll 7
If not, what are you doing to
change present conditions? No
one can be sure of being exempt
from the penalties of reckle«« or
careless driving. Its toll will even
tually be felt by you, your family
and your friends No group 1« too :
small, no family circle and it« con- j
tacts so few in number that It can |
feel secure
Deaths on Oregon highways {
showed an increase of more than
IN per cent in 1930 as compared I
with the previous year The num
ber of fatalities for this year
again is raised. Can thia continue
or will an awakened
criminals as against public welfare and this week, in indefinitely
public conscience put an end to a
condition that has become Intol
Portland, occurred another of the many shootings erable
?
which substantiate such a view.
You usk what can be done? The
A young thug, 27, held up and looted a service I answer is. manifest an active in
An aroused public senti
station of $22 and later shot and seriously wounded terest.
ment will get results Discuss the
the station operator as the latter attempted to cap problem with your educators, your
¡xillce officers and your courts
ture his assailant. The bandit then tried to shoot a Call
It to the attention of your
motorist whose car he commandeered, but the gun legislators, that they may act if
Remember that educa
misfired, and while being pursued by a motorcycle necessary.
tion, enforcement and engineering
officer attempted to shoot him as well, but his gun must go hand tn hand in the ulti
mate solution of this terrible and
broke when he stumbled over a curb.
perplexing problem.
Pretty dangerous antics for the law-abiding public Every community In Oregon is
Interested in bringing sbout bet
and peace office to face. Particularly in light of the ter
driving conditions on our
fact that the gun-toting bandit "twice had served streets and highways, and It is
my hope that active work will go
sentences in Oregon state penitentiary for burglary.” forward
In each of them in the
Men of such character should not be allowed to very near future. Do your part to
help eliminate Oregon's traffic
move about in society. They have forfeited any human deaths.
rights by disregarding the property and life rights
of others and should be disposed of accordingly.
There probably will be much weighty consideration
and debate given during trial of this criminal who
may have killed one and who tried to shoot two others.
He undoubtedly will have learned defense counsel
pleading a lot of bosh in his behalf, when the man
has no defense.
To eliminate murder and armed banditry we must
AND courteous fairness to
everyone regardless of
class or creed, with a refined
service of simplicity and com
pleteness, at a price within
the means of »11.
CITY AMBULANCE SERVICE
STOCK & LITWILLER
FUNERAL HOME
We Never Close—-Phone 62
THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHURCH
Congregational
Church school, 0:45 a. m, Mrs
Glen Prescott. au|>erintendent.
Morning worship, 11 o'clock
Sermon: "What Religion Mean« to
Me."
Young People's meeting and
union church service with the
Presbyterian church, the Rev D
K. Nourse preaching
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Ward McReynolds, examiner of
operators and chauffeurs, will be
at the city hall between the hours
of 11 a. m. and 5 p. m. Friday,
August 20. Persons wishing per
mits to drive automobiles should
get in touch with him at that time.
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• Mrs H. L. DeArmond, her
daughter Lovette and Marjorie
Stratton returned recently from
Portland where they have spent
several days. Miss Stratton has
resumed her work at the Lithla
Beauty shop.
• Mr. and Mrs W. G Sander and
children visited Sunday in Medford
with Mr and Mrs. L. W North
land.
• Earl Nutter left Monday morn
ing for a week’s stay in Salem,
where he will visit his family.
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THEY NEVER SEEM TO QUIT!
Recently these columns condemned lax penal sys
tems that permit parole and pardon of dangerous
• Emil riel left Saturday eve
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intends to atuy a fortnight in an
attempt to benefit ilia heultli Mrs.
Piel 1« in chaigc of the I’lrl Im
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