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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. ft Sunday, Aug. 30, 1959 AJ Project Would Help People in Service Jackson county men and women in the armed forces will not have to "vote in the dark" next year, according to Mrs. Thomas Rutter, voters service chairman of the Med ford League of Women Vot ers. In cooperation with the Na tional League and the depart ment of defense, the Medford League is undertaking a proj ect to help service men and women in casting an informed absentee ballot in the -I960 primary and general elections. Local and state leagues will make available, upon request, nonpartisan information on candidates and ballot issues. Families and friends may ask to have league material sent to men and women in the service, and service people may write directly to local leagues for ballot Informa tion. Addresses of state leagues will be placed on bulletin boards at military establish ments, Mrs. Rutter explained. Through the department of defense, the project has been announced to over 1,300 serv ice newspapers. In 1958 there were 26,600 Oregonians in the armed forces, she added. About 35 per cent of service people cast an absentee bal lot. MICKEY MUST PAY Lcs Angeles UPD A judge Wednesday ordered Mickey Cohen to pay $4,000 damages to a waiter he attacked last year in a Hollywood night club. Superior Court Judge Joseph I. Call set the amount after a long hearing of a $50, 000 civil damage suit filed by Arthur Black, SO. Teachers in 35 of the states participate in state controlled pension plans. Fbxibb Poriic HOUSEWARES UEGETADLE Dill Fbxibb Posffc HOUSEWARES CRY ECGKCSIT. f CLOTHES DXTEX f CH THESE FEATURES 30 Rims A On pc np am On pc pot Self Adjusting ONLY ii jj onlyJ $I4.88 h r9: $19.95 1 "L fjfiltSi SPECIAL 0 $g88 PLENTY OF FREE PARKING! SPECIALISTS IN 245 South Central at 10th - vkiv r p y y m tj ft o o BLACK BART SIGN This sign, erection where Black Bart, famous bandit of 1880s, of which was through the efforts of Gordon robbed the stagecoach to Yreka. Jacobs, marks the site near Hornbrook , Gordon Jacobs, Groceryman for More Than 50 Years, to Retire By KATHERINE CHAPMAN Hornbrook-Come Sept. 1, a career in the grocery busi ness spanning well over half a century will end when A roomy, sturdy, storage bin that won't break, rust chip or corrode. Cleans easily. Fruits and vegetables are read- B accessible. SUCK EMI Use singly or in multiple units to meet your storage space. ipecJolfy iesigned feet lock units solidly each 2 for only $4.98 3 for only $7.50 V0LLRATH stainless steel mixing bowls REGULAR $6.95 3 piece sat Multi-oj bewlt YOU'LL USE IT EVERY DAY! COSCff WHITE UTILITY TABLE REGULAR $11.95 QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICES! HOMIWARES f Phon SP 2-5201' w flC,,E 3r " HARDWARE rttr i jjL I $079 f SPECIAL $488 BLACK i"v:EKA I Gordon Jacobs hands over the I keys of his store to the new owner, Dan Haight, of Little Shasta. One of 10 children of pio neer parents, Jehu and Tabi tha Jacobs, he was born in Hornbrook June 30, 1878, in a house on the lot where the L. C. WaLsh home now stands. The walnut trees in the Walshes front yard, a land mark in the community, were planted by his parents about 75 years ago. Jacobs' first job was as a flour miller with the Mt. Shasta Milling company in Little Shasta. The mill there burned down, and the com pany moved to Montague, where it still operates. Jacobs continued to work for the company a while longer He left there, and ran a mill in San Diego county, and after that, was with the J. E. Niles Flour mill in Modoc county. Returns to Hornbrook At the turn of the century he returned to Hornbrook and went to work for Tom Jones delivering groceries in a one-horse delivery wagon, and twice a week taking the team and buckboard down the Klamath river, and to the Jillson and Mattern gold mines up Rocky Gulch. In 1904, the T. Jones com pany was incorporated, and Jacobs became its manager in 1905, a position he held until 1930, when he bought out D. C. Earhart's hardware store, and added a grocery line. From the spring of 1933 to the fall of 1952, Jacobs served five full terms as a member at the Siskiyou county board of supervisors, and for eight years was chairman of the board. For three of his five terms, he was reelected to the board without an "opponent against him. Needs of Neighbors Always in tune with the needs of his neighbors, Jacobs was instrumental in bringing about many improvements in the county particularly in the area of road - maintenance. Among his accomplishments along this line, was the re aligning and straightening of the Horn brook - Montague road. Another of his achieve ments has been a member of the board of the Henley Hornbrook cemetery associa tion. To a great extent through his efforts, the his toric old cemetery, once weed infested and overgrown with tangled brush, has been con verted from the eye-sore it was to one of the most beau tiful small cemeteries in this part of the country. An intensely interested stu dent of California history, Jacobs as a member of the Siskiyou County Historical society, had erected in the cemetery several years ago a granite marker engraved with a carving of a covered - ace. here UTSr-l wagon and six-horse team, and "Dedicated to Those Pio neers Killed by the Indians in the Winter 1853-54. . Erects Sign He "also made and erected a sign marking the spot where the famous early-day bandit, Black Bart, robbed the stage to Yreka on Aug. 31, 1881. The sign is on the old Anderson grade road through the Shasta canyon to Yreka, at Jail Gulch. The gulch was so named because it was at that point that the jail stood at the time the con vict crew was building the Anderson grade road. A 32nd degree "Mason, he regards as a highlight of his life the presentation in 1955 of his 50 year membership pin by Howard lodge No. 37 in Yreka. Jacobs plans the construc tion of a small office build ing adjacent to the store, where he will continue his insurance business in which he has been for more than 50 years. Bank Debits Show Increase in Area Eugene - July bank debits for the Jackson, Curry and Josephine county area totaled $95,776,637, which was 19.6 per cent above the figure for the same period last year. Bank debits, which are re garded as good indicators of current business activity, are collected each month by the bureau of business research here. They represent the dol lar value of checks drawn against the. deposit accounts of individuals and business firms. For the state as a whole, total July debits were $2, 078,390,456, an increase of 15 per cent over the same month last year. Committee Plans Meeting in City Members of the Oregon Oil Information committee, which is composed of representa tives from all major oil com panies marketing in the northwest, will meet with the Medford committee at the Rogue Valley Country club to discuss plans for the cele bration of the oil industry's centennial year. The state committee repre sentatives will be headed by E. B. Connell, a member of the state executive board. The oil industry plans to mark its hundredth year with a month long celebration in October. Prince Edward Island na tional park has four main beaches. ... WHEREVER GOOD FOOD IS SOLD... Snider 9s Quality DAIRY FOODS Allstate Office i Open at Sears Allstate Insurance com pany's sales-service operations in the Medford area are head quartered in the new Sears' Roebuck and company store at 501 East Jackson st., ac cording to Regional Manager Charles E. Colbert. Colbert, who heads All state's regional office for Ore gon and Idaho, noted that the location of the old office on South Central ave. was estab lished about' four years ago with Soug Hinesly as agent. Two more agents were added since it opened. They are John Frantz and Bernie Sears. Allstate, a Sears wholly owned subsidiary, has more than 5 million policies in force and is now the country's larg est capital stock insurer, Col bert said. Beginning as an automobile insurance company in 1931, it has added residential fire insurance, theft, and personal liability. It entered the life insurance field in 1947 and recently added accident and sickness insurance and all-risk coverages on boats and boat ing equipment, Colbert noted. One-half the lace produced in the U. S. comes from Rhode Island. Kitchen Show-Offs Turn a set of plain towels into gay show-offs with color ful, easy-to-embroider motifs. Appetite-teasing treats for towels or dinette cloth smart gifts for bride or host ess. Pattern 7449: transfer 6 motifs 6x8 inches; color schemes. Send Thirty-five cents (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern' for lst-class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P. O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. Our 1959 ALICE BROOKS Needlecraft Catalogue has many lovely designs to order: crocheting, knitting, embroid ery, quilts, dolls, weaving. A special gift, in the catalog to keep a child happily occupied a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. - iimiBinsiiiiiiiiiiiii .A Tribute To . I Our Newsboys! The eager-faced lad who stands on the corner in all kinds of weather selling newspapers is, in every sens, of the word, an American busi nessman. He is a self starter. He is up bright and early and on the job late at night. Nobody backs him with capital or confidence. He sup plies .11 of this himself . . . and banks solely on his own alertness and salesmanship. Your newsboy may deliver your newspaper to your door. If so, he is even a more astute business .man, for he not only throws his papers at count less front porches, but doubles back regularly to make collections. Yes, the newsboy is an American institution. Keep up the good work, youngster. We're all behind you! Medford Pharmacy 101 North Central, Corner 6th Ph. SP 2-6253 Week Days: 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Open Sundays & Holidays 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. We Salute Our Town! NEW BUILDING - Mitchell Brothers Truck Lines, Medford, recently moved their ope rations to this new building at 2790 Crater Lake highway, which will afford them much greater space than their former loca tion at 1017 North Central ave., according to Resident Manager Ellis Chartier. The new building houses shop facilities, . drivers' Training of Foremen, Fire Crews Pays Off, Agencies Say The training of fire fore men and other fire crews by mill and logging operators paid big dividends on the Ashland fire, according to state and federal agencies who reported to the timber committee of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association re cently. Carrol Brown, supervisor of Rogue River National for est, commented on the com plete cooperation between state, federal and private crews in effecting control of the blaze which for a time threatened the city of Ash land. Brown noted that his or ganization would stage a critique of the fire later this week in order to iron out any operational problems which may have occurred. He said that federal crews were presently cruising the timber in the burned area prior to making the timber available for salvage sales. At the same time, a soil sur vey is being conducted in order to work out details of the type of ground cover or seeding needed to protect the burned over area against erosion. Not. Problems Curtis Nesheim, southwest Oregon district warden Ore gon state department of for stry, in a brief report to the committee noted some of the problems involved in com bating the Ashland fire, which assumed project pro portions in bringing fire overhead to the blaze in or der to arrive fresh and ready to assume command. In reviewing the situation during the fire, Nesheim brought out the fact that ra dio contact between fire over head and crews was a prime factor in any fire, and addi tional work on radio gear would be accomplished in or der to effect better commu nications on future fires. Nesheim reported that a critique of the operation by the state agencies involved following the fire has aided their organization in ironing out some of the operational difficulties which occurred in the early stages of the fire fighting. Staggering Arrivals Doyle Stockton, state fire iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiaiiuiiaiDiiiiiiin 1 patrol, who served as fire boss in the early stages of the fire, noted that a system of staggering the arrival of fire crews on the scene at half hour intervals would facili tate processing and placing them on the fire line faster. Stockton stated that the fire crowned the evening of the first day, and due to the size and speed of the blaze, control was extremely diffi cult. He cited the fact that, at one point, the fire trav eled three quarters of a mile in sixty seconds. . Dale Prentice, manager of the Tree Farm association, pointed out that members of the local lumber industry stand ready to back up the public agencies with thous ands of dollars worth of fire fighting equipment. Equipment Available He reported that present equipment available for in stant use includes: more than 200 crawler tractors each rep resenting about $45,000 in vestment, some 70 water tank trucks, 160 portable pumps and enough hand fire tools to equip nearly a thous and men. Parker v V Leon's Tots-to-Teens 105 E. quarters and air conditioned offices. Truck scales that are accurate to the pound were installed by the firm to insure more efficient operation, Chartier said. Improved teletype service has been added by the trucking com pany, which also has offices in Portland, Seattle, Crescent City, Redding and San Francisco. Coupled with the mobile radio equipment and the base stations of the Roxy and Sex ton radio networks, jt pre sents a tremendous invest ment for fire control in the forested areas of southern Oregon, he noted. A question -and answer session followed the formal presentation of reports by state and federal agencies to the timber committee. This prompted numerous sugges tions and recommendations from both private industries and state and federal agen cies for bettering communica tions during the fire opera tions. The private industry radio networks came in for praise by both public agencies. Bet ter identification signs for roads, trails and equipment was pointed out as another method of insuring faster and more accurate reporting of operations, and facilitate the movement of trained, fresh crews to the right spot at the right time. ' - The orientation of fire foremen and crews immedi ately upon their arrival at the fire camp was pointed out spice chest corduroys for the subteen Robert Bart designs for glen of michigan coordinated twix-miss sportswear with the traditional American Look in washable corduroy by Hockmeyer... rac coon collared skooter coat, slim jims, jumper, paisley print no-iron cotton shirt, slim skirt, bermudas (not shown) ...the shirt in redgreen persian paisley the corduroy in nutmeg brown or . pepper red. twix miss sizes 6-14. Woods' Main Eight Influenza Cases Reported Eight cases of influenza were reported to the Jackson county health department last week. Dr. C. I. Drummond, public health physician, re ported. Three cases were re ported in Central Point and Shady Cove and two in Jack sonville. Medford reported two cases of German measles, three cas es of tuberculosis, and one each of measles, strep throat, and gonorrhea. Ashland reported two cases of measles and one each of chicken pox and trench mouth and Central Point reported one case of chicken pox. Of the 23 cases of communicable diseases reported Camp White ana rnoenix each reported one case of measles. as another necessity both from the standpoint of mo rale and more effective use of the fire crews following their assignment. This point brought out the need' for fast er service on reproduction of maps of the fire zone in quantities large enough for distribution to all overhead and fire foremen. State and federal aeencies reported that steps were be ing taken to assure a fast sup ply of maps in sufficient quantity on all fires of a proj ect size. Dick Swan, Ross Lumber company, chairman of the timber committee, compli- Imented state and federal agencies for their efficient 'work in controlling the Ash Jland fire and pointed to the need for a continuing ex change of ideas between pub lic agencies and private in dustry for more complete co operation among the groups involved. Open Monday Until 9 star performers '616" TEEOTEAR High notes for Falls a classic straight skirt of fine worsted wool tweed, nickel-buckled and self fabric full belt with matching weskit. 'Neath it, she wears a deceptive ly smart automatic wash 'n wear pima cotton shirt, with convertible fashion collar. Colors galore. Sized, and priced especially for the"616"teen-er, "Ballantrae" Skirt Sizes 6-16. $9.98 "Glasgow" Weskit Sizes 6-1 6. $5.98 "Galaxy Top" Sizes 6-16. $3.98 Parker Woods' LEON'S 21 N. Central Ave. k V
