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.
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of which was through the efforts of Gordon robbed the stagecoach to Yreka.
Jacobs, marks the site near Hornbrook ,
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BLACK
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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
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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.
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Allstate Office
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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
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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. -
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.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
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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
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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
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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.
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