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. j .ill r e v K iv . iff- fr WAR COURSE CHANGES - The entire course of the Civil War changed on Sept. 22, 1862. On that date President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and the war that the North had been fighting for the preservation of the Union now be came a crusade for the abolition of slavery. , The Proclamation, a war measure pure and simple, blueprinted the doom of the Con federacy. From this date, the South was fighting a war for slavery and any hope LEGAL NOTICES ORDINANCE NO. 83.!, AN ORDINANCE providing for the construction of paving Hill rrefll Road from Black Oak Drive In 120 feet cast of the east line of the Country Club Park Sub division in the Ciiy of Med ford. Oregon, and for the assessment of the cost thereof on adjacent prop rrly; providing for a meeting of the Council lo consider protest BKfinst said improvement and pro viding lor the serving of the owners of adjacent property with notice thereof by the Recorder Treasurer. THE CITY OF MEDFORD DOTH ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That it is the inten tion of the Council to cause the construction of paving Hillcrest Road from Black Oak Drive to 120 fect cast of the east line of the Country Club Park Subdivision in Accordance with the adopted and identified plans and specifications on file in the of lice of the City Manager ol the City Hall, Med ford, Oregon, to which plans and spec ifications reference is hereby made for details and estimated costs thereof, and to assess upon each Jot. or part thereof, adjacent to and benefited by such improve ment its proportionate share of the cost of said improvement as pro vided hy the Charter of the City of Med ford. SECTION 2 The Council will meet in the Council Chambers at the City Hall on the 4th day of October. 19fi2. at 7:30 P.M.. at which time and place the owners of said adjacent property are here bv called upon to appear before said Council and show cause, if any. whv said improvement should not be constructed, and why said property should not be assessed lor the construction thereof. SECTION 3. That warrants, for the costs of the aforementioned improvement shall bear interest at four per cent 4rM per annum and shall constitute general obligations of the City of Mcdford, and said warrants shall be issued pursuant to and on the terms and condi tions set forth in. Oregon Revised Statutes 287.502 to 287 510 in clusive. SECTION 4. That the Recorder Treasurer is hereby directed to nerve notice hereof upon th prop rrtv owners aforesaid, by publish inc this ordinance once in a daily newspaper, printed, published and of general circulation in said City lit least ten HOi days before the date of said meeting, and by post ing five copies of this ordinance ,n five public and conspicuous places in said City for a period or 1rn (10i days prior to said meet ing PASSED by the Council and ficned by me in open session in authentication nf ils passage this 20th dav of September. 1962 JOHN W. SNIDER Mayor ATTEST. D F Huson Pccnrder-Treasurer APPROVED by me this 21st day of September, 10R2. JOHN W. SNIDER ' Mayor CORNER MEMBER BY dn-Jiikrntilwiial Crlfdmlun lI&J -k i? 't prompt? rr y-Jf &) ify " to M coll,. I Yi """'" J CP Officer Returns From Police School Central Point - Robert Lee Howe, recently appointed of ficer lo the Central Point po lice force, has returned from the State police academy at Camp Withycombe where he completed police training. He was graduated along with' a group of other officers, on Sept. 21. Training courses covered crime investigation, first aid, firearms, report writing and traffic enforcement. Instructors were from the federal bureau of investiga tion, Oregon state police, the League of Oregon Cities and bureau of municipal research. In Central Point, Officer Howe will handle extra cases and assignments, along with his regular duties as an offi cer of the city police, accord ing to Chief Edward J. Zan der. Jackson County Has 15 Census Divisions Jackson county has 15 cen sus divisions, according to the bureau of the census. The divisions include Ap plcgate, Butte Falls, Foots creek, Medford rural, Sams Valley, Central Point, Evans Valley, Green Springs, Jack sonville, Medford, Phoenix, Prospect, Shady Cove and Tal ent. Census county divisions are areas within counties which have relatively premancnt boundaries such as rivers, highways,, and county lines, it was explained. Over the years, census officials found in many states boundaries of election districts, townships, or other minor civil divisions changed frequently between censuses. WORDS u.t COHFOItT Qpcn to mc the gates of righteousness: Twillgointo them, ondl will praise the Lord. rSALM 118:19 PERL FUMERAL HOME SIXTH AND OAKDALE Spacious Parking Lot INVITATION cfDcfiendalU SunuaLDucciort ft Vt of intervention by England and France on the side of the Confederacy was gone. The North now had a moral issue to which emotions could be whipped to heights never before achieved. This picture is a copy of an engraving by J. W. Watts, executed in 1864, titled "Reading the Emancipation Procla mation." The engraving, from the Library of Congress, reflects the emotions of the times. (UPI). Feed Grain Stocks May Reach Lowest Level Since 1958 Washington-IUPD- The Agri- culture department predicts that feed grain stocks may be cut next fall to the lowest level since 1958. If this forecast is correct, it will mean a cut of 27 per cent in feed grain surpluses in the two years of the gov ernment's emergency feed grain acreage reduction pro gram. In the fall of 1961, at the end of the marketing season in which the 1960 crop was used, the carryover surplus amounted to nearly 85 mil lion tons. This fall, the sur plus is down to an estimated 73 million tons. Selling 1962 Crop During the coming 12 months, farmers and mer chants will be using and sell ing the 1962 feed grain crop. The Agriculture department estimates that production will be 10 lo 12 million tons be low the total demand. This means more grain will be pulled out of the surplus stockpile. By next fall, the surplus may be down to about 62 million tons, a two year cut of 23 million Ions, or about 27 per cent. The surplus figure forecast for next fall is the lowest since the fall of 1958. At that time, the stock was 59 mil lion tons. The Agriculture depart ment also said in a feed situ ation report that feed grain prices this fall and winter should be close to the levels of one year ago. Chrysler To Cut Some Model Prices Detroit - IDPIl - Chrysler Corp., making the industry's first announcement on 1963 car prices, said today it will cut some Chrysler models by as much as $134. But other Chrysler and Im perial models will cost as much as $128 more because previously optional equipment like power windows and buck et scats have been made standard for 1963. Other firms will release their price lists in the next few days. There will be no big across - the - board hike for the fifth straight year, it was learned. Today's announcement, from C. E. Briggs, Chrysler Plymouth Division general manager, dealt only with Chrysler and Imperial models. Briggs said the price cuts are designed to give the divi sion "an additional competi tive advantage." In effect, he added, "we have still held the price line" on the models which cost more because op tions have been factored into the basic price. How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly In Place Do your fle tth nnornd m twrriM by ilipplni. dropping or wob bling when you tut, Uuzh or talk Juit iprlnkle I ilttl PAfaTEETH on vour plate. Thu alkaline inon-acldl pnwoyr holds fatae teeth more firmly and more comfortably No gummy, goney.paaty taate or leellng.Doea not our Cherks "pla'f nd-ir" identure hrth. Oet FABTT.ETH today at drug rountera everywhere. .MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Emancipation Proclamation By MERTON T. AKERS UPl correspondent The whole course of the civil ar c.,nKea ui. oe-. i, remaincd for Ralph Wal 22, 1862. ' 'do Emerson to pronounce the President Lincoln signed : benediction: the EmanciDation Proclama- "Great is the virtue of the lion that day and the war that the North had waged for preservation of the Union now became also i crusade for the abolition of slavery. Few realized it then but the proclamation blueprinted the doom of the Confederacy. The Confederates were lagged from the day on as fighting to preserve slavery. Hopes for intervention by Great Britain and France to break the slow strangling blockade dimmed. The proc lamation gave the North a moral issue on which emo tions could be whipped to a height impossible on the ab stract and legalistic question of whether a state had the right to secede from the Union. . The proclamation was war measure, pure and sim ple. Actually President Lincoln's signature struck no shackle from any slave anywhere. , Key Paragraph The key paragraph in it read: That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free: the executive govern ment of the United States, including the military and na val authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, will do no act, or acts, to repress such persons, or any of them. in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." Slaves in the border states and in Confederate territory held by the Union remained slaves. Slaves held Inside the Confederate lines also-techni-cally freed by the proclama tion - remained in bondage because the North could not enforce its orders there. Secretary of State William H. Seward summed It up by saying that it emancipated slaves where it could not reach them and left them in bondage where it could have set them free. The proclamation had three immediate effects: 1. Every advance of Union armies Into the South after Jan. 1, 1863, mean that the slaves in that area were liber ated, giving every advance the aspect of a crusade. 2. Word of the proclamation filtered into the farthest cor ner of the Confederacy by word of mouth or by slaves eavesdropping on their mast ers' talks. Escapes mounted until Union commanders were hard put to feed and shelter the refugees. 3. The proclamation put the United States on record as committed to the abolition of slavery in the eyes of the world. In all national honor there could be no turning back now. The effect on British opin ion was even better than Lin coln had hoped. Turning Point The London Morning Star aid the proclamation was 'the turning point in the his tory of the American Com- monwealth-an act only sec ond ... to the Declaration of Independence." Before there had been a solid segment of pro-Confederacy opinion in England, es pecially among the ruling classes. Now the British gov ernment could not have inter vened in the war even if it had wished. Napoleon III of France was itching to intervene and pick up some territory In Mexico and Central America but was too weak to do so without Britain. Some northern reaction to the proclamation was less fa vorable than ' Lincoln had hoped for. Six days after it was issued Lincoln wrote to Vice President Hannibal Hamlin: ". . , It is six days old, and while commendation in news papers and by distinguished individuals is all that a vain man could wish, the stocks have declined, and troops come forward more slowly than ever. This, looked sober ly in the face, is not very sat isfactory." Abolitionists and anti-slavery men hailed the procla mation. Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, wrote: "God bless Abraham Lin coln." The Springfield. Mass.. Re publican, called the turn on Lincoln's timing. "The President's action Is timely - neither too soon nor too late." Timing was all-important. Issuance too soon might have driven the border mates Into the Confederacy. Issuance too late might have permitted the Radical Republicans to 1 force his hand with congres sional action. Benediction Pronounced I Proclamation," he wrote. "It works while men are sleep ing, when the army goes into winter quarters, when gener als are treacherous or imbe cile." Maj. Gen. George B. Mc Clellan, whose scratch vic tory at the battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) had given Lin coln the peg to hang his proc lamation on, wrote lo a mer chant friend, William H. As pinwall of New York, asking what Aspinwall thought about the proclamation "in augurating servile war, eman cipating the slaves, and at one stroke of a pen changing our free institutions into a despotism ..." Aspinwall, a Democratic politician as well as a mer chant, advisd McClcllan to accept the proclamation "like a soldier." New York Demo crats had been looking over McClcllan as a possible presi dential candidate in 1864 to run against Lincoln. The proclamation posed for President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy an insoluble question. The only possible answer to Lincoln which would nail down the spreading idea that the Confederacy was fighting to maintain slavery, would have been a counter procla-mation-that by Jan. 1, 1863 there would be no slaves in the South to free. Another de nial, piled on top of the many would convince no one. if At f-' H - ' .. , fji '$4 vl . 7 :" ? ' ' , x :. v ''''''' ' " ' .-' ' But Davis' hands were tied. To emancipate the slaves I would have claimed for the j Confederate government what it said it was fighting against - the right to control property, reserved to the states by the theory of state sovereignty. Counler Measure A month after Lincoln's proclamation Davis called on Southern governors to pre pare counter measures such as extension of the ue of slaves on defenses and to per form as many army tasks as possible short of fighting. The Confederate Congress later passed a law that would have called for execution of captured white officers of Negro troops. ' Lincoln promised retalia tion and nothing ever was done about it. Nor did the servile war. so confidently predicted by the Confederates, come to pass. - 1 Termites cannot digest the wood they consume. This is done by tiny one-celled ani mals which live inside the in sect. 100 Financing WHITNEY OLDS 415 S. Riverside ?lgl service and iM fl 1 repair work! 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