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ON THE HOME FRONT MEDFORDt&vTRIBUNE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services Tht Mali Trlbun suggests you clip and mail this news roundup to a relativa or friend is service. Dear- Summer has come to the val ley, according to the calendar, and according ' t tn nativeaits 1 ' 'i ime, too. Up to the :ist f Jun", official start of sui.-mer, June temperature's had a 'raged about five egre - 'iw nor i.ial, with abnormal cloudiness and better than average rainfall. The past week was unusually cold and rainy, but it is now clearing and warmer weather is promised. Some damage is re ported to hay down and to small fruits, but grains and other crops are thought to have bene fitted from the rainy weather. Bond salesmen are hard at work on the Fifth War Loan drive and tonight a special show is planned at the Craterian, with a' stage play featuring Camp White soldiers and WACs, as PARK VIEW CONVALESCENT HOME 1S3 Granite. Ashland, Oregon PHONE 7091 Equipped to care for bed patients Registered Nurse in Charge PARTS and SERVICE for all Makes of WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett Phone 2419 HOME AND AUTO SUPPLIES FIRESTONE 8 FOOT EXTENSION CORD For Lamps, Fans, Etc. 39c FIRESTONE New Synthetic Rubber GARDEN HOSE so ft. S5.45 Trt-otfcn Rom Spraj 1.49 Fungicide, Insecticide and plant stimulant. Can be used on all flowers. FIRESTONE Tennis Balls 3 FOR S-J.59 FIRESTONE 32 Pc. Dinner ware Sets $5-29 Step Ladder Kitchen Stools $2.98 FIRESTONE OUTSIDE WHITE PAINT $2-49 Gallon PAR STOEES 221 West Main Street Ph. 3113 Across From Copeo Date, well as a technicolor picture. In spue ot the cold and rain, many o: the young fry, and their elders as well, took in the circus which played a two-day showing early this week. Lions club members presented a petition asking for a special tax levy for a public swimming pool here at the council meeting this week and a special election will be held soon on the matter. A pool costing about $60,000 is proposed. Fire broke out in Val entine's cafe this week, starting from a refrigerator motor, and smoked up the interior consider ably. Crater Lake Park staff has moved to headquarters for the season and roads are open, but little travel to the park is antici pated due to gasoline rationing. Oregon's first high-grade, low cost agricultural limestone plant is being constructed near Rogue River. Leland Brophy has purchased the old Jackson County Bank building, at the corner of Main street and Central Rev. Francis W. Black, pastor of ejerea neart Uatholic church here for the past 21 years, has b-.-en appointed pastor of the Church o.f the Immaculate Heart in r rtland. This week's news included many stories o men wounded in action. trom Italy reports came o the wounding of Pvt. Law rence W. Anderson, Lt. Bob FIRESTONE STERNO COOK STOVE 49 FIRESTONE CLOTHES BASKET SJ.69 Porch Mall Bx large size for all types of nail. Black enameled. Weather-resistant. FIRESTONE Ping Pong Sets FIRESTONE Folding Canvas Chairs SI .09 Week-End Traveling Bag SJ9.95 DELUXE Hammond, Pfc. Bob Dallalre and Lt. Warlow C. Purdin and Sgt. Warren Fitchner has been wounded during action on Biak Island in the South Pacific. This was -the second time for Dallalre, who already holds the P-rple Heart. Cyl. Gifford Ham merling, previously announced wounded during an air raid over Corsica, has also been awarded a Purple Heart. The navy has officially listed Homer Allen (Stub) Myers, coxswain, as dead. Th young man was de clared missing in action as of Me. 30, 1943, when the launch which he was aboar-i was lost in t'..e Alaskan area. First Lt. Lnwrc ce Schade has been awarded an Air Medal f r meritorious achievement during, an aerial fligM north west of New Ireland in Febru- ry and Capt. Robert Crews, with the Eighth AAF, has Wn awarded a second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal. Both r.re bomber pil .3. Cpl. John O. Davies is a membc. of a P-47 Thunderbolt group recently commended by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle for "extraordinary heroism in rescuing a bombard ment wing." " A story from England tells of the work of Cpl. E. M. Madden as member of a fieU" mobile re pair unit of the AAF and from another English field comes word of the promotion of First Lt. Kenneth C. Edwards to air group leader. S. Sgt. Robert J. Buckles, with the Ninth AAF in England as a gunner, has been awarded the Air Medal and three Oak Leaf Clusters for meritorious- achievement. S. Sgt. Bob Pierce, attached to a service squadron in China, re cently sent the Mai'. Tribune a $50 Chinese banknote as a sou- jvenir from that country with a . letter saying he still liked to call . Medford his home town. Marine Cpl. Glen W. Jewett has been commended by railroad officials for aiding in putting out a fire which started on a railroad bridge at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif., where he has been stationed for the past 15 months. Honor graduates of the navy's school for primary flight in structors at the air station, New Orleans, included Lt. Donald E. Herried, marine corps aviator and the officer will now train primary flight students at the Glenview, 111., air station. Sec ond Lt. Charles F. Hampson graduated June 11 from the -"AF Liason training school at Pittsburg Kan., and received his wings. Mvin L. Wimer has com pleted basic flying at Gardner field and has been sent to an advanced school. Lt. Robert Hayes, infantry officer, has ar rived in England for overseas duty. ! Pvt. Darrell L. Monctth has been sent to Kesler Field, Minn., ; where he is convalescent from j an attack of rheumatic fever. Lt. Donald Monteith, his brother, 1 recently completed officer's training at Ft. Bennlng and is ! now at Camp Blandlng, Fla. Kenneth Patton has been pro I moted to captain at Dyersburg, I Tenn., and Cpl. James Robert I Clark is now an instructor of flexib'- gu.ir-ry at Mountain 1 Home, Ida. Lt. John M. Saulsberry, re cently instructing at Victorville. Calif., is home on leave and re ports next week at Lincoln, Neb. Completing a course in the marine field telephone school at San o. Marine Pfc. James Lynch is soon to be assigned to a combat unit. Home this week are R. B. and Weldon Webber, the former an army student at Yale university and the latter a navy V-5 stu ent at Carroll college In Mon tana. Bob Holmes, attending navy school at Boulder, Colo., is expected home today on leave. Lt. Bob Iven, recently as- gne- to overseas duty, was 'ot e briefly, leaving ea." this week for Colorado Springs. . Pfc. George Hotkins is home on a. 21-day leave after 34 months in the Aleutian islands j and will then report to Lenin- wood, Mo. Weddings of the week Include : that of Ludclla Luper to Cpl. 1 John Court; Marcia Stanley to ' " ' KennC" of Vr :ouvcr, Wash.; Phyllis Lorraine Cloven t T. Sgt. Clifford Rohlf of Du luth, Minn., and Cecil Taylor to I Lt. Ha-old Danenhower. The Courts will live in Walla Walla, here the corporal wil be sta tioned at the air base and the Rohfs are in California. I Graduating last week from ; Oregon State college were Mary ' F. Mathes and Dorothy Gaddis i Werner. Army and navy Induction fig ures continue to be high, with groups of 30 and 40 men report ing from time to time for gen eral or limited service. Among those going into service this week was Arlon Skinner, 1944 i graduate, who enlisted in the 1 AAF -serve and is no at Ore- HARDIE SPRAY RIGS NIAGARA DUSTERS O Sjles ' O Genuine Parts Dependable Service ' McCOY MACHINERY COMPANY 111 North Fir Phone 3415 Medford Complaint Against S. P. Co. Recites Obligations Under Early-Day Grant Of Lands A copy of the government's complaint in the civil action against the Southern Pacific company, seeking restoration of passenger train service between Roseville, Calif., and Port land, Ore., has been furnished the Mail Tribune by Rep. Harris Ellsworth. Congressman Ellsworth expects the action will come to early trial. The complaint follows: In the District Court of the United States for . the District of Oregon: ' COMPLAINT The United States of America, by its attorneys, acting under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States brings this civil action against the defendant and complains as follows: ' This complaint Is fined and the jurisdiction of this court is invoked to obtain relief against the defendant because of its vio lations, as hereinafter alleged, of the Act of Congress of July 25, (14 Stat. 239), entitled "An Act Granting Lands to Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and a Telegraph Line from the Central Pacific Railroad in Cal ifornia to Portland in Oregon." A copy of said Act marked Ex hibit A is attached to this Com plaint. The violations of said Act of Congress have occurred and are occurring, in part, as more fully hereinafter described, within the District of Oregon. The defend ant, a corporation, transacts and does business in said District. The Act of Congress (14 Stat. 239), 1 among other things, au thorized and empowered the "California and Oregon Railroad Company," organized under an act of the state of California and such company organized under the state of Oregon as the legis lature of Oregon should there after designate to lay out, lo cate, construct, finish and main tain a railroad and telegraph line between the city of Port land, Oregon, and the Central Pacific Railroad in California In the following manner: The said California and Ore- gon Railroad to construct that' part of said railroad and tele graph line within the state of California beginning at a point to be selected by said company on the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sacramento Valley In the state of California and running then northerly through the Sac ramento and Shasta Valleys to the northern boundary of the state of California, and the said Oregon Company to construct that part of the said railroad and the telegraph line within the state of Oregon beginning at the city of Portland, Oregon, and running thence southerly through the Willamette, Ump qua and Rogue River Valleys to the southern boundary of Ore gon where the same shall con nect with the part to be made by the California and Oregon Rail road Company. Said Act granted to said com panies, their successors and as signs, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said rail road and telegraph line, and to secure the safe and speedy trans portation of the mails, troops, munitions of war and public stores over the line of said rail road, every alterate section of public land, not mineral, to the amount of 20 alternate sections per mile (ten on each side) of said railroad line. Provision was made for cases when any of such lands was found to have been otherwise disposed of by granting other lands to said railroads. Said grant was made not only to induct and aid the construction of said railroad but to have said railroad serve the Willamette. Umpqua and Rogue River Valleys in Oregon and the Sacramento and Shasta Val leys in California. Said companies were granted the right of way through the public lands for the construc tion of said railroad and tele graph line and the right, power and authority were given to said companies to take from the pub lic lands adjacent to the line of said road earth, stone, timber, water and other materials for the construction thereof. Said right of way was granted to the extent of 100 feet In width on each side of said railroad where it should pass over the public lands, Incluiring all necessary grounds for stations, buildings, workshops, depots, machine shops, switches, side tracks, turn tables, water stations, or any other structures required In the construction and opera tion of said road. Said grants were made upon the condition that the said com panies should keep said railroad and telegraph In repair and use, should at all times trans- gon State col'--e for training In aeronautical engineering. port the mails upon snld rail roads, and transport dispatches by said telegraph line for the government of the United States when required to do so by any Department thereof, and said railroad should be and remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United States, free of all toll or other charges' upon the transportation of the property or troops of the United States. Said companies were re quired to operate and use the portion or parts of said railroad and telegraph hereinbefore de scribed for all purposes of transportation, travel and com munication, so far as the gov ernment and public are con cerned, as one connected and continuous line. It was provided that Con- I gress may at any time, having due regard lor tne rignts ot saia railroad companies, add to, al ter, amend or repeal said Act. Pursuant 'to the said Act of Congress said railroad was com pleted in about 1887 by railroad companies which were prede cessors of defendant in the own ership of said railroad. That part of the railroad in Oregon was completed by the Oregon and California Railroad Com pany, and under said Act there inured to said Oregon and Cali fornia Railroad Company, through grants by the United States, lands in the state of Ore gon aggregating approximately 3,182,000 acres. By Act of Congress of April 10, 1869 (16 Stat. 47) it was pro- vided that the lands granted the said railroad companies by the Act-of July 25, 1866 (14 Stat. 239), should be sold by said rail road companies to actual set tlers in quantities not greater than U section to one purchaser and for a price not exceeding $2.50 per acre. Thereafter, under Act of Con gress of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218), there were revested in the United States all unsold por tions of the lands so granted by the Unjted States and inuring to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and unsold on July 1, 1913, aggregating ap proximately 2,360,000 acres, but not including the right of way to the extent of 100 feet of width on each side of the rail road, and all lands in acual use on December 9, 1915, for de pos, side tracks, wood yards, and standing grounds. The Ore gon and California Railroad Company received for such lands the full value thereof, to wit, $2.50 per acre secured to the original grantees under the aforesaid Acts of Congress. Plaintiff says that from 1887 to about 1927 the defendant op erated the part of said railroad in the state of Oregon by virtue of leases granted it by the said Oregon and California Railroad Company; that In about 1927, bue effective as of January 1, 1926, defendant, upon opproval first had by the Interstate Com merce Commission (124 l.C.C. 614) purchased said railroad from the Oregon and California Railroad Companies, succeeded to all its rights, duties and ob ligations, and since said time has operated, and does now op erate, said railroad as owner thereof. Plaintiff says that from the time of completion of said rail road In about the year 1887 to about the year 1938 said rail road was operated by defendant by furnishing, among other serv ices, through passenger service from Roseville, California, on the Central Pacific Railroad, now the Southern Pacific Rail road, in the Sacramento Valley northerly through the Sacra mento Valley and the Shasta Valley to the northern bound ary of California, and from that For Bigger, Better Birds TRIANGLE DEVELOPING FEEDS AT YOUR DEALERS In Pallet or Mesh form MILLING CO. 6J N. Tillamook St. PORTLAND. ORIOON I XFEED I TRIANGLE ISf, IKvtiommO j point northerly through the Rogue, Umpqua and Willamette River Valleys to Portland, Ore gon. Said railroads In the state of Oregon extended through, and now extends through, the counties of Jackson,- Josephine, Douglas, Lane, Linn, Marion, Clackamas, and Multnomah, and among other cities through which it extended and to which it furnished such service and through which it now extends, are Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass, and Roseburg, all situated, from south to north in the or der named, between Dunsmuir, California, on the south, and Eugene, Oregon, on the north. This line so operated by defend ant from Black Butte, Califor nia, to Eugene, Oregon, was and is known as the Siskiyou line, and sometimes hereinafter will be referred to as such. . Plaintiff says the defendant operatesjhe only railroad in the Rogue River and Umpqua River Valleys. Plaintiff says that the Rogue River and Umpqua River Val leys are regions of great fer tility of soil and high produc tivity of timber, fruit and other BIG FAMILY PACK mm lv1IDiU pr 288 TABLETS F '-rsX' . aw . 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