MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORT) OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 12. 1941.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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