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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORT) OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 12. 1941. .1, TO T Josephine Returns Totaled 456, Klamath County 3,186; Oregon 7,648,683 Washington, June 12 (.V) The number of individual In come tax returns filed for 1939 totaled 7,648,683, or 1,399,590 more than the 6,249,093 returns filed for 1938. These figures were made pub lic today by Guy T. Helvering, Internal revenue commissioner. In a bulletin showing the num ber of individual income tax re turns for 1939, filed through De cember 31, 1940, by states, coun ties, cities and towns having a population of 1,000 and over. Total returns filed for the states and territories included: Idaho 17,116: Oregon 67,034; Washington 127,259. Number of individual returns for Oregon in 1939 by counties: Baker 703; Benton 1,129; Clackamas 1999; Clatsop 1,697; Columbia 985; Coos 1,559; Crook 243; Curry 95; Deschutes 1,336: Douglas 718; Gilliam 208; Grant 302; Harney 368; Hood River 411; Jackson 1,582; Jefferson 96: Josephine 456; Klamath 3.186; Lake 370; Lane 2,726; Lincoln 77; Linn 766; Malheur 407; Marion 3,301; Morrow 170; Multnomah 34,819: Polk 492; Sherman 206; Tillamook 404; Umatilla 1,342; Union 812; Wal lowa 158; Wasco 782; Washing ton 1,100; Wheeler 139; Yamhill 674. LAND BANK LEASE To promote more stable ten ure of farm families that rent their farms, and to assist pro grams for soil conservation and better land use, the Federal Land Bank of Spokane will here after lease its farms generally for two to five-year periods, rather than for one-year terms, Warren Patterson, secretary treasurer of National Farm Loan associations in Jackson and Jose phine counties announced this week. "-StaB "The land bank is anxious to return all of Its property Jo pri vate ownership," Patterson said, "but pending sale, it is to the interest of the bank, the com munity and the man who eventu ally will buy the farm that the best possible care be taken of the land. "As long as we are trying to sell our properties, our longer leases still will contain a pro vision for cancellation in case of sale, but in such event, the lessee will be compensated as provided by the lease for work performed under its terms, and every effort will be made to find him an equally good farm where he can continue without interruption of his progress. More than 40 per cent of the milk produced in the United States is used for butter. your POTATO CHIP eHJOYMENT! itch pks canvims twa Nff araly mIW Maistara Praaf CUtaina I j ft. Opt ana n4 aa-fay 4ficiovt foldfft-krovm ftlva ftH Patata Chip. Tfca chips ia tfca atftar mI4 big ttty frttli 4 emp amtfl yo aaad them. Ktp Httt hn4f cwwmical pack? an ymt pantry tfcafraa. BLUE BELL POT ATMS Vacuum Packed In CAM! tWp tm rtjfct wt tt Hm cm. A)efvs freefe! AHesaa tranph aWlasesea) wifft Sttsfcs, st Cfcaa. Cnm4 far tam if if m4 peak trip. At paa IP cerf at flaeef aas.et. Mrs. Nelson Purcel, Rural Teacher Retiring After 24 Years Service; . First School Reached by Cable Br Maude Pool Mail Tribune Special Writer. Big Applegate. June 12 (Spl.) After 24 years of teaching In the rural schools of Jackson county, Mrs. Nelson Purcel this month beeins her retirement from those years of service in which she experienced riding to school on the river in a cable car to reach I was setting to be lust a visitor at my home, Mrs. Pur cel said In explaining that from now on she is going to enjoy complete home life in the mod ern house she and her husband are building on Yale creek, where they have resided for many years. Started in 1908 Mrs. Purcel began her teach ing career at Beaver creek in 1908, when the school building stood on the opposite side of the Applegate river from the pres ent site. Her family resided six miles up the river from the ranch now owned by Harry Barr, hence her horseback ride to school over the historic Mule Hill, where she often had to wait for the ore wagons from the Blue Ledge mine to pass. She remembers the jingle of their freight bells. As if these incidents were not enough to add spice to the business of school teaching, she tied up her horse, and was pulled across the Applegate river to the school house in a trolley, which carried pupils as well. The little car carried only four people at a time, Mrs. Purcel said. Pat Daily was county school superintendent at that time. The other schools which Mrs. Purcel has taught during the interven ing years were Colstein, Table Rock, Little Applegate, Watkins, and Ruch. Mrs. Purcel, who formerly was Ina Stoker, graduated from high school in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and from the Iowa state teachers' college. She also stud ied for a year under the auspices of the University of Chicago, and did practice teaching in Iowa before coming to Oregon in 1906. Ruch Last School For the last three years Mrs Purcel has taught the primary room at Ruch, where she ten dered her resignation in advance at the opening of the term last September. Recalling one inci dent which brought her particu lar pleasure in this school room Mrs. Purcel mentioned the an nual visits from Miles Cantrall, member of the county educa tional board. It seems that Mr. Cantrall, himself a teacher in Jackson county in the '90s, gave talks to the Ruch pupils and told amusing stories of early day slate cleanings and methods of collaring unruly youngsters. His present day visits to the school are looked forward to by the children, Mrs. Purcel related, and one of his pleasures is to hear them read. ,! ft J ' :1 :.:-J , y Q mi l&r II I 'Once Yon Ride on Rojal Masters YonTI Never Buy Any Other Tire tnct tua no nan. no hnVti are aprlied th teres coauanou rib break Dp ioto tilted, sharp-adgecj tread Mocks bite through the Sim Of water. dt and oil to control skid, mop ytw qutcker, stmshttx. TWTV CCT TTMPtPEP RUMfft near fev proed with secret cotDpoBJ so f r rt greater resistance to heat, even gaore mileage iha. Tempered Pbhr treads can be rtr4 to Mart 4mki the aoevstud wtat. Chet RIVERSIDE AT SIXTH horseback and being towed across the school grounds. Mrs. Purcel wished to express her thanks to the Ruch-Sterling communities for the admirable set of dishes with which she was presented at the close of school. She will be succeeded next year by Mrs. Orin Cook of Missouri Flat. Norman Can-others, who taught the upper room at Ruch last term, will teach at Beagle next year. His successor has not been selected. Washington, June 12. OF) The office of production manage ment announced that military aircraft manufacturers delivered 1,334 airplanes during May. It did not disclose the types of planes nor how many went to the United States army and navy and how many to Great Britain. Comparable final figures for April showed 1.389 deliveries, the OPM said, although its orig inal announcement last month had shown 1,427 deliveries. Of ficials did not say why the final check showed such reduction in April totals The decline for May was at - tributed to the Memorial day holiday week-end by some of- ficials. Seattle, June 12. (IP) The customs office disclosed today that agents had boarded the Jap anese vessel Koel Maru at Aber deen and seized eight pounds of mercury, which they charged was about to be exported in vio lation of the export control act. The agents arrested the ship's quartermaster, whose name was not disclosed. - Mercury vital to national de fense because of Its use in air plane and other instruments cannot be shipped out of the country unless the state depart ment Issues a special license and the Japanese arrested did not have such a license, they said. He was taken to Tacoma. Clewing time lor Too Late to claa Uj Ads Is 1:30 p. m. my rum Kowom. ovtsUa tares oo a curva mar cam tWW tha BormaJ load, terrific atraia a tht cord body. iftty Brmdtnt saturates cords ia lam to resist btowoats frosa strata, speed, beat. nT mt mcrrm ton. tv nbs it "railroad -track" sta bility a smoother, flowing rid wnowpt (two biH or maabs I tec. on ia the grooves fright Hiamiaaga lohncatibt cnad. Qei Leonard s Super Service ALL GENERAL PETROLEUM REDUCTION PLANT FIRST NEED HERE, MITCHELLAVERS Miner-Writer Says Invest ment of Private Capital Is Requisite of Success Br Russell Mitchell Jacksonville, Ore. With all due respects for ev erybody's opinion about what is needed to help miners of south ern Oregon, it seems to me that investment of private capital is a prime requisite for success and prosperity. We are looking too much to the government for the capital Investments neces sary for a great Industry. We need more men who depend up on themselves and who are wil ling to bet on the future of an industry. Southern Oregon needs a re duction plant, to be sure, one near enough to furnish a mark et for low grade gold ores. No one knows how much $10 to $14 ore could be opened up here but we lack the market for it. With smelter rates at $5 up per ton and rail rates the same and trucking rates to the rails, ore cannot be handled for much less than $20 per ton. The opinion held by so many miners that ore has to run $80 or better is er roneous. There are few pros pects that any single lode in southern Oregon will yield enough $10 ore to support a large milling plant, but such a plant could be supplied from the 1 numerous small veins found here. A plant, to be successful should be privately owned In or- der to secure the careful man agement not ordinarily found in government-owned institutions We should not expect our pros perity to come at the expense of the other taxpayers of the nation, because we ourselves have all the requisites for pros perity, except perhaps the will and courage to have it. Example Given Here Is an example of what can be done on low grade ore: last year the Golden Cycle at Colorado Springs milled over one-half million tons of ore. The ore from the company's mines averaged a few cents over $9 a ton. All foreign ore averaged a little over $13. Most of that came from mines near enough that the railroad rates were eliminated, trucking rates be ing the only transportation costs. The miners in Boulder county have to ship ore that will go $17, or better. In order to raise it to this value, many devices are resorted to. They are about as far away from the mill as we are from a smelter and their costs are about the same as ours would be. Our production from Is Tkm flat Kay IB PHONE 4271 STATIONS small lode mines Is only a small fraction of what they produce. Obviously no small mill can expect to operate on $10 ore unless it has at hand a suffic ient supply that will concen trate to a fairly high-grade ship ping ore. A large plant, with all the devices for catching gold, can operate with a comfortbale profit on $9 or $10 ore, provid ed the supply is not too costly to obtain. Many mills over the nation and over the world prove this statement. One has only to study the great mining opera tions of the world to realize that their success does not depend up on high grade ore. We have much high grade but a large central milling plant need not depend upon it for profit. Where there is much high grade, there must of necessity be much more low grade. Our ultimate prosperity will depend on our ability to work this low grade ore. Not a Promoter A great many men have writ ten to me about chromium, man ganese, aluminum, magnesium, etc. I am not a promoter. I do not have anything for sale and am not in the market for any thing. These other minerals, if found in sufficient form and quantity, should not be over looked but it is my humble opinion that the miners of south ern Oregon should concentrate on getting a reduction plant es tablished for their gold ores. Personally I see little hope for these other metals in our part of the state, but we do have gold gold in sufficient quan tities to support a large reduc tion plant gold enough to em ploy a great number of men continuously, for gold has a sure, steady market. SALEM LACKS COIN FOR PORT-PROJECT Washington, June 12. (-P) Donald H. Connolly, adminis trator of civil aeronautics, told Senator McNary in a letter the CAA could not spend airport funds to remove obstructions at the Salem, Ore., airport. McNary had called Connolly's attention to the situation Salem faced as the result of CAA de mand that it acquire additional land for its airport and remove obstructions around it. The senator said it had been reported to him that what had started out as a $10,000 pro gram for improvement of the air. port by the city now appeared to be approaching a maximum cost of $25,000, which was more than the city had in its airport fund. The CAA demanded that certain buildings and trees be removed and the senator urged me laa do part of the work. IF. (AC itfs J Front And Fourth Streets 91 BOY SCOUTS FOR LAKE CAMP Ninety-one scouts are regis tered for one or more weeks at the Boy Scout camp at Lake o' the Woods, according to Ken neth Wells, Scout executive for this area. The first group of Scouts will go to camp July 6. A period for ramp leaders only will precede the first period for boys. The periods from July 13 to July 27 are better than half filled at this date according to Mr. Wells, and additional reser vations are coming In daily. Last Saturday and Sunday a large crew of volunteers under direction of Frank Rogers, camp committee chairman, built a 16 foot addition to the camp kitch en. The section complete with windows and doors was made on the spot and went up In the record time of five hours. Six new tent frames for wall tents will be built during the coming week to relieve congestion In the camp cabins. Five new boats have been acquired for the use of this year's camping groups. The camp, which is operated by the Crater Lake area boy scout council will be in use al most the entire summer. June 23 to 30 It will be used by the Southern Oregon Church confer ence, July 1 to August 3 by the Boy Scouts, August 10 to 21 by the Medford Girl Scouts, and August 24 to 31 by the Ashland Campfire Girls. Go Up Cleveland, Ohio (U.R) Local officials are tackling the smoke problem from a new angle . the air. Safety Director Elliott Ness recently made a tour over the city with 14 other officials to check on violations of antl smoke ordinances. New SvfssMMtaip Paal j Perfect far mmmm' Vauffa. C "3LtnT J I Acras at Gardaas fVTO Attracrffa Paras Iwrapaan Plaaj ffmMmh WHfa fat Daacriprfr , jjFT Attention - Growers Of And VBTTSEI SHU We Have Just Installed the Latest Type . And Separating Equipment So FINICKY SHOPPERS TO FIND FEWER STYLES IN DEFENSE OUTPUT PLAN Washington, June 12 Consumers would have fewer choices of styles and colors of merchandise under a program advanced today at the office of production management as one means of Increasing defense pro duction. Donald M. Nelson, defense purchases director, said today that the program had been ap proved by President Roosevelt and would be put Into effect within weeks. Nelson told a press conference It would work this way: Blankets, for example, are now manufactured in about 27 colors. Manufacturers might be requested to limit the number to seven. The average radio manufac turer now making 20 to 25 dif ferent styles and sizes might be requested to cut the number to 10. Nelson said the simplified pro gram probably would be applied first to radios and hand tools. many hardware items, and ducks BLENDED WHISKEY Cilvert "Sp cial":90 Proof-72!i Grain Neutral Spirits. Calvot Distillers Corp,N.Y.G OWa have Just Installed the very newest type Draper equip ment for cleaning Sugar Beat Seed and separating Vetch from other grains. This equipment, operated by experienced members of our staff, assures clean, thorough and speedy cleaning. Won't you coma In and see this machine In operation Complete Cleaning Service Our equipment for cleaning seed and grain la now the MOST COMPLETE and MODERN In OREGONI Special equipment for various types oi cleaning and separation!. Up-to-the-minute facilities for grinding grain and mixing feeds, tool S and other cotton New Livestock Center Los Angeles (P) Livestock not oranges led the list of products which brought $305, 000.000 to farmers of southern California in 1940. It was the most lucrative year since 1937. 5 o'Clock Fatigue a Try a glau of GOLDEN CL'ERN w HEY MILK. v'a alto hlchly rt nmmrnd It ai an excellent Nlfht Cap. Produced and OKtrlbutM by ont of tht Northwest's Finest Dairies, Wing's Cloverhill Medford's Premium Grade X Whola Raw Milk and Cream Dial 4809 For Early Morning Delivery. ""T'I.I5 O Phone 37S6 and twills goods.
