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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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