Friday, April 1, 1938
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Southern Oregon Miner
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Leonard N. Hall
Published Every Friday
at 167 East Main Street
ASHLAND, OREGON
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GRIFFIN CHALLENGES
To the Editor:
SUBSCRIPTION
I read the letter in The Miner
Entered as second-class
RATES
matter February 15.
written by F. J Newman, district
(In Advance)
attorney, in which he attempts to
1935. at the postoffice at
explain the whys and wherefore»
Ashland. Oregon, under
ONE YEAR
$1 51
by which it came to j»as» that a
the act of March 3. 1879
SIX MONTHS
80c
grand jury found a true Dill
( Mailed Anywhere in the
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against three of a quartet who
United State«)
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beat up and ’’rolled” a man near
Aahland lant full and left hlin
lying In a ditch, and returned a
SET YOU FREE"
“THE TRUTH WILL
not true bill against the fourth
after all had confessed
It would be appreciated very
ELSE WHY SUCH A CONTRAST?
much if the district attorney could
tell the people how a stunt like
Recently The Miner carried several editorials criti
that could be pulled off right in
cal of results being gained by the Jackson county dis
front of hla eye» and be gotten
away with
trict attorney's office, and last week a reply to them
Now. the leant that anyone can
•luck and ,1111
was published.
»ay is that there wax something
Went up the hill;
In fairness to District Attorney Frank Newman,
mysterious about the whole pro
the weekly washday < Imre;
ceeding and, to my way of think
They had to bring some
we refrained from editorial comment other than to
ing, the uffalr should be Investi
water down
suggest that his letter was a most convincing piece
gated and If there wax any funny
And then go Ixu-k fur more,
buxine»» going on. exposed so the
lint Jiwk fell down
of work.
people may know where the blame
And broke hla crown!
This newspaper finds it neither pleasant nor per
Hex If it In. ax Newman xayx. the
A win.Inlay accident;
fault of jurors land they violated
sonally gratifying to complain about the outcome of
It whudowa every home In
their oath») let them be puninhed
town
erratic prosecutions of lawbreakers and alleged law
according to law.
With laundry burdens
1 have talked with a number of i
breakers by Newman’s office. Neither does it find the
bent.
citizen« regarding this affair and ,
A wiser plan
casting of reflections a desirable chore when at least
they al) seem to be of the same '
And safer than
opinion which I hold
one member of the district attorney’s office has been
Another without doubt
I can’t see that the letter which ‘
la, ’’('all the Aahlaiul
a good personal friend who has. unsolicited, performed here in Oregon. But. strictly speaking, it is the rail Newman
wrote to The Miner hax
■ .sundry In
appreciated favors for the writer.
helped
the
matter
any,
only
to
I
To get your laundry out.**
road's own business how it prints its timetables, anti convince people that they are right
But the fact remains that the "batting average” of what size depots it shall build as well as whether it in their opinion as it certainly !
Keep Your Home Not
Jackson county's prosecution has taken a surprising will continue through trains or not.
wa» too coar»e a xtunt to fool any- |
Only Clean But Also
one of Intelligence
and alarming drop since the first of last year. Average
Railroads,
like
daily
newspapers,
are
in
business
Safe With Our
certainly is a fine thing that
percentage of convictions in cases tried by the prev I to make money, and we have yet to hear the Southern we It have
one newspaper In Jackson I
Service«
ious district attorney—who held his office for eight Pacific complain to the Band Master of Fort George county with an editor who has the j
A
I?-Pound
Bundle for
sand to come out and expose and
years—was well over 90 per cent while convictions about the way he runs his newspaper.
condemn such xlight-of-hand per- j
Only
18
Cents
now are limited to occasional instances and to defend
us this one turned out
Which makes the railroad an exception in Ashland. formances
Ise Our Damp Wash
to be
ants who enter pleas of guilty. Today convictions in
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Arc the people of Jackson coun- i
contested cases are the exception and not the rule
ty going to xtand around like a
NOTE TO LETTER WRITERS!
bunch of dumb brutes waiting for i
in Jackson county!
Although The Miner is glad to publish letters from
butcher knife, afraid to open >
There can be no question as to the proper intentions readers on any topic of public interest, it does not the
their mouths in condemnation of I
liare-faced performances for
and honesty of District Attorney Frank Newman. But accept unsigned communications for printing or con- such
fear that they will be jerked up j
31 Water Street
there most certainly is cause for comment in the gjde^tion
and jailed for expressing their I Phone 165
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For
the
Ideal
wash way,
opinion
’
Well,
I
have
this
to
say
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results being turned out by his office. The cases al-|
If the person who this week lodged a written com for myself if any of those jurors i Just call, That's
All."
ready described in previous issues are but two of a plaint about inconvenience of applying for an old age or anyone else concerned with the
number of outcomes that are very surprising and pension will sign his (or her) name to the note we affair think for a minute that 1 |
am afraid to talk they have an
unsatisfactory to those interested in justice.
guess coming, becau«,- fl .
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IN YOU* PRESENT I.IFE
shall be glad to print it as an expression of one tax other
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In placing the blame onto grand juries and trial payer’s opinion.
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county who have the same opinion 11
juries who violate the obligation of preponderant evi
Mre
However, it is not fair to a newspaper or to the that I have: that for pure unadul- il
dence and “go soft,” Newman was partly correct. The reading public for writers to hide behind anonymity. terated ciiKsednexs and evasion of I
facts and disregard of truth and 11
STEVEN R.
district attorney cannot be expected to do the whole If there is good reason, the name of any letter writer evidence
of guilt this takes the I
cake
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thing alone while big-hearted jurors weepingly spring will be withheld on request.
I have never known anything I
the traps which the law has set to catch wrongdoers.,
Persons who camouflage their identity with un like It to happen before and I wax I
Juries are picked, supposedly, for the judgment of signed sheets of paper do not instill confidence or born and raised here and am now I
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84 years of age
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guilt or innocence of their fellow men—not for grant- i indicate responsibility.
JOHN B GRIFFIN
METKOFOIJTAN IJFE
ing of mercy or expressions of sympathy, which right
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ly is the sentencing judge’s job if mercy is caller for. j
crossing which is obstructed from TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION
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view, or which is not visible for
SET FOR C. W. BYRD FARM •
And every time a taxpayer sits impaneled to free an
a distance of 400 feet in each di
accused defendant when evidence shows him guilty, I
rection As a matter of fact, re
Of interest to many valley
FO* DMVEM I
spect for your own skin will dic •farmers will be a tractor tire dem
he is throwing away his own tax money as well as
tate that you approach ali rail- onstration
Monday
afternoon.
contributing to the success of crime.
road crossings with greatest cau April 4, at the C. W Byrd farm
tion. since one out of eight per in the Bellview district.
Even so, all the blame cannot be shouldered onto
By EARL SNELL
sons involved in Oregon automo
Two types of tires will be used
Secretary
of
State
the people who compose our timorous grand juries and
bile-train collisions in 1936 was to determine the slippage, clean
the boss would
ing and traction
those who warm the jury box seat cushions. For we HOW MANY PERSONS MAY killed
BE CARRIED IN THE DRIVER’S
BUILD A FIQST CLASS
had grand juries and trial juries during the previous SEAT
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BEHIND THE
SCENES WITH
MOTHER GOOSE
ASHLAND
LAUNDRY CO.
SCHUERMAN
FACTS
IHIT im T eils 'E m ®
district attorney’s term of office, and his results were
almost 100 per cent effective while now defendants
who admit their guilt escape conviction.
It is because of this great contrast in effective-
ness that The Miner has blamed the incumbent prose-
cutor, and surely everyone can’t suddenly have got-
ten out of step but the district attorney!
There can be no denying that Jackson county tax-
payers, who expect results for dollars spent for prose-
cution, are paying for something that isn’t being de-
livered!
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HEN HOUSE IF HE
KNEW IN DOLLARS
AND CENTS WHAT
THE LUMBER WOULD
Oregon law limits the number of
persons who may be carried in the
driver’s compartment to three per
, sons over 12 years of age. While
i there is no set limit on the num
1 ber of children who may sit with
the driver, the law very clearly
states that the driver must not be
’
crowded. Even if there is no one
i in the seat except the driver, his
movements
must be hampered by
J
luggage or other type of load.
DOES THE LAW REQUIRE
ME TO STOP BEFORE DRIVING
ACROSS A RAILROAD TRACK’
YOU CATCH FLIES WITH HONEY, GEORGE!
It is surprising how far people will look for an You are required to stop only
when there is a visible, positive
explanation that is right under their nose.
signal clearly warning of the ap
Early this week our sage contemporary, the Daily oroach of a train. If, after stop
thus, you see that you can
Twiddlings, editorially complained that Ashland is not ping
?ross in safety, you may drive on.
being given enough prominence in railroad timetables. If your engine is cold or if you are
in handling a car,
In the General’s same issue was an article which inexperienced
the wisest course in such a case
went into great detail to relate how passengers suf is to stop and wait for the train
to pass, because you may find
fered “shock and minor injuries” and great inconven yourself
a difficult spot if you
ience when the train on which they were riding struck kill your in engine
while your auto
is still on the track.
two automobiles. The incident took place down in mobile
are required to slow down
California and was of no consequence to Ashland peo to' You
15 miles per hour or less when
ple, yet the article pointed out that passengers were approaching a railroad grade
“detoured through Reno.”
Strictly speaking, the incident was news, even up Woman Is Injured
In Overturned Auto
you may be assured that each
individual need and requirement
is satisfied when we are called to
conduct the LAST RITES of your
loved ones.
To merit your continued confidence
is our aim.
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We Never Close—Phone 82
When the 1936 sedan piloted by
Los Angeles Filipino overturned
the new Siskiyou highway in
Bellview early Wednesday morn
ing a white woman giving her
name as Mrs Mary Tabelin, wife
of one of the three Filipinos in
the car, was cut and bruised about
the head and was taken to the
Community hospital for treatment.
Neither the woman’s young daugh
ter nor any of the men were hurt
beyond minor bruises
The car left the road, apparent
ly, when the driven fell asleep,
plunging down a bank and over
turning into a ditch of water near
the Southern Pacific tracks. Bad
ly smashed, the vehicle was towed
here for repairs.
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ICE CUBES SURVIVE FIRE
Perfectly formed ice cubes were found in Norge refrigerators,
twenty-four hours after fire completely destroyed the London
showrooms of Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd., Middlesex,
England. Interiors were spotlessly white, and imitation food
stuffs of wax remained intact.
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