2 g SUNDAY. JANUARY 27. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEPrOHP. OREGON .
Century -Old House in Jacksonville Is Being Restored
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IN 1902 This photograph shows how the that have transpired since this picture was
house appeared in 1902, when it was al- taken appear to be that the fence and the
ready about SO years old. Living in it at large tree in front have come down. Miss
that time was Agnes Love, a daughter of Hanley plans to put up another white picket
George Love, who was Miss Mary Hanley'g fence, however,
uncle. Two major changes in the 51 years i
IN 1963 This century-old house al the curator of the Jacksonville museum. Her
corner ot Third and C sis. in Jacksonville mother was born in the house, and her
is being restored by Miss Mary Hanley, grandfather once owned it.
By CLEVE TWITCHELL
Mail Tribune Staff Writer
Jacksonville - Miss Mary
Hanley, curator of the Jack
sonville museum, recently ac
quired and is now restoring a
century-old house here that
has considerable sentimental
and historical meaning for
her.
The house, at the southwest
corner of Third and C sts., was
once owned by Mis Hanley's
grandfather, John S. Love
and her mother, Mary Hans
Love, was born there.
Mis Hanley is having the
house restored, in hope of
making it as close as possible
to the home that it once was.
She plans to make it available
as a rental to someone who
would appreciate living in a
house with a history to it.
Some Modernisation
Some modernization is be
ing done. New interior walls
have been constructed, gas
heaters have been installed
and some new floors have
been put in, but where possi
ble the original structure has
been retained.
When the house was built,
the walls were constructed by
taking boards, prying sections
of them apart and then stick
ing plaster in the cracks.
These boards were then nailed
on to perpendicular logs, flat
tened on one side but with the
bark still on the rest of their
surfaces.
New interior walls have
been built over the old ones,
but at one location next to the
front door, a rectangular sec
tion of the old workmanship
has been left exposed, under
a plate of glass, so that one
can see how the walls were
originally constructed.
Much of the house is more
than 100 years old, although
two of the six rooms were
added on later and are appar
ently about 75 years old.
Ownership Changes Hands
Ownership of the house has
changed hands at least 17
times. Earliest known owner
was a Mr. Alexander, from
whom John S. Love, Miss
Hanley's grandfather, bought
it in 1857.
Mr. Love later was elected
a trustee of the city of Jack
sonville when the city was
first incorporated in 1860.
Daughter Lives In House
His wife was Anne Sophia
Haris Love, and they had
four children, all of them
born in the house, George,
Mary Harris, John and Mar
garet, who died as a baby in
Lumbermen's Lobbyists Demonstrate
How Not to Court Lady Lawmakers
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washlngon Bureau
Washington - (Special) - If
husky, broad-shouldered log
jters have a way with women,
the lumbermen's lobbyists
have just demonstrated how
not to court the Northwest's
lady lawmakers In Congress.
The National Lumber Man
ufacturers association this
week had an all-day confer
ence, highlighted by a good
will luncheon for senators and
congressmen.
The two Oregon ladies -Sen.
Maurlne Ncubcrgcr and
Hep. Edith Green - were rep
resented by their administra
tive assistants. Sen. Wayne
Morse and Reps. Walter Nor
bUd and Robert B. Duncan
were there. And scaled al
the head table was Rep. Julia
Butler Hunscn, (D-Wash.).
City Files Suit To
Obtain Easement
The Mcdford water com
mission filed suit in Jackson
county circuit court Friday,
seeking to obtain a water pipe
line casement through con
demnation, according to Wil
liam Mansfield, city attorney.
The casement is sought on
property owned by David B.
Lowry, Colver rd., and would
be used in connection with In
stallation of the proposed 24
inch south feeder main.
The property lies in the
vicinity ot Kngap Manufac
turing company, 20R0 South
Pacific highway. The con
demnation suit will bo tried
later In the year, Mansfield
aid.
Dales for trial have boon
srt for two condemnation
suits being brought by the
city of Mcdtord. Bolh Involve
the city's proposed westward
extension of Barnctt rd.
A suit against Charles Ghe
lardi. Central Point, and Bob
Reynolds, 1518 Oregon ave.,
is set for Feb. 21. Trial date
for a suit against Dr. George
N. Gllson, 813 Whitman ave.,
is scheduled for Feb. 28,
Mansfield said.
MODIFYING LAWS
Dublin - urn - Ireland is
modifying its capital punish
ment laws to abolish the
rlrath penalty for certain
types of homicides, Minister
of Justice Charles Haughry
announced. He told Parlia
ment he experts to disclose
details of the chances soon.
Every guest was presented
a blue-covered booklet out
lining the legislative goals
of the lumber industry, as
seen by the NLMA. It began
on a familiar note - the dis
tressing economic impact on
the domestic lumber industry
of Increased lumber imports
from Canada. But it didn't
end there.
This year the lumbermen
indicated they won't be satis
fied to slick with the immedi
ate problems of the lumber
industry as such. They want
to curb the power of labor
unions by banning secondary
boycotts and making unions
subject to anti-trust laws.
They also discussed the sala
ries of womenfolk.
What especially antagoniz
ed the lady lawmakers, how
ever, were the NLMA cracks
about one of their pet pro
posals - a law requiring equal
pay for women. Sen. Ncubcrg
cr and Rep. Green both serve
on President Kennedy's Com
mission on the Status of Wom
en, one of whose concerns is
equalizing pay for women.
Mrs. Green successfully led
the fight for such legislation
in the House in the last Con-
Oregon Supreme
Court Decisions
Salem -IM- A $17,000 judg
ment awarded by Lane Coun
ty Judge Roland K. Rodman
lias been upheld by the Ore
gon Supreme Court.
Stuart G. Barrett. 77. Eu
gene, was killed when struck
by a car driven by Cornelia
W. Mishlcr as she was driving
out of her driveway.
The award was made to
Edith Barrett Durkoop, ad
ministratrix of Barrett's es
tate. The defendant denied negli
gence, and there were no wit
nesses to the accident. Physi
cal evidence on Barrett's
clothing and on the undercar
riage of the auto indicated the
car passed over Barrett.
The supreme court said that
direct evidence is not required
to prove a fact, but it may be
established by circumstantial
evidence, and In this ease the
Jury could find that the de
fendant's car passed over the
deceased.
The court said "that in the
use of an automobile lookout
to the rear while backing is
as necessary in the reasonably
careful use of a motor vehicle
as a lookout when proceeding
forward."
Two Rulings Affirmed
The high court reversed
and remanded two decisions,
reversed another, and af
firmed two more lower court
rulings.
.'. Judgment of involuntary
nonsuit against Calvin J. Pal
mer following an auto cra.h
in Eugene was reversed and
remanded for a new trial.
Judgment against Palmer was
handed down by Lane County
Circuit Judge William S. Fort.
Also reversed and remand
ed was a decision by Baker
County Circuit Judge Lyle R.
Wolff involving a posl-convic-tion
action by Ray Cloran.
Cloran had been indicted and
convicted in Baker county of
perjury, and was given a life
sentence as a habitual crim
inal. The post-conviction ac
tion contested the sentence.
The high court action reaf
firmed the sentence.
Judgement Reverted
Reversed was a $23,086
Judgment for Carl G. Norman,
injured while working for
the Cunningham Sheep com
pany. The award was made
by Umatilla County Circuit
Judge William W. Wells. The
high court opinion by Justice
Alfred F. Goodwin ruled the
company was not negligent.
Justices Arno II. Denccke,
Kenneth J. O'Connell and
Gordon Sloan dissented.
An appeal from the court of
Linn County Judge Fred Me
Henry was affirmed. The ac
tion Involved a suit to set
aside a sale of real estate be
cause of a divorce action rul
ing. Kenneth G. Thompson
disagreed with a $15,000 set
tlement offered by his for
mer spouse. The high court
upheld the settlement.
Also affirmed was an order
of Lane County Circuit Court
Judge Edward Lcavy denying
Dunnic Ray Gardner's motion
(or dismissal of a burglary In
dictment. Gardner alleged an
unreasonable delay in bung
ing him to trial.
gress, and Congrcsswoman
Hansen was a militant ally.
Under the heading "federal
wage fixing," the NLMA
booklet stated:
"It is now proposed to re
quire every employer to pay
female employees the same
salary as male employees pro
vided they perform equal
work. If adopted, the propos
al will give the federal gov
ernment increased power to
interfere in personnel prac
tices and procedures ot man
agement." "The proposal is not likely
to be opposed by cither party
officially because of the high
percentage of women voters.
Nevertheless, the basic defect
in the proposal is that it is
merely a slogan and not the
answer to the problem. The
result of such a law would
be government wage fixing
and federal intervention in
personnel procedures and
practices."
This slap at their favorite
legislation, in the view of
the liberal Democratic ladies,
is typical of conservative,
male businessmen. And they
don't like it.
Against Extending Law
NLMA came out, obliquely,
against extending the $1.25 an
hour minimum wage law to
cover employees of hotels,
motels, restaurants and laun
dries on grounds that "artifi
cial hiking of wages will in
evitably result in inflation"
and is also likely to cause
"additional unemployment."
Broadening the mini m u m
wage law is a favorite Demo
cratic goal.
During the past year, North
west members of Congress
were united In trying to as
sist the distressed elements
of the lumber Industry. Only
minor partisanship was dis
played as members of both
parties sought practical means
of reducing objectionable con
ditions. One reason was that
the lumbermen narrowed
their sights to measures di
rectly bearing on their indus
try. They have started 1983 by
arousing partisan instincts on
Capitol Hill with their attack
on issues which some legisla
tors think arc unrelated to
the lumber industry as such.
This approach is expected by
some veteran observers to
weaken their prospects of bi
partisan cooperation from
members of Congress and the
Kennedy administration for
further attempts to alleviate
lumber industry distress.
OLP WALL The interior walls of the old house In Jack
sonville were originally constructed in the manner pictured
above. Flat boards were taken and sections of them were
pried apart and nailed up, after which plaster was stuck
into the cracks.
a smallpox epidemic. Mary
Haris Love was Miss Hanley's
mother.
A daughter of the George
Love family, Agnes, lived in
the house about the turn of
the century. She now lives in
Portland, Miss Hanley said,
but can recall that part of her
life. The family used to eat
supper in the basement during
the summer, because it wa3
cool down there on hot days.
Agnes' mother had 100 rose
bushes around the house, and
her father had a fine garden
and treasured old flowers.
There was a white picket
fence around the house in
those days, Miss Hanley point
ed out. The fence subsequent
ly either was taken down or
fell apart, but she plans to
put up another one soon.
Kiwanians Sell Kapers Advertising
Kiwanls club teams had
sold more than $3,000 worth
of program advertising, bet
ter than 50 per cent of the
$6,000 goal, when reports
were made last week by Jim
Obenour, chairman of pro
gram advertising for the 1963
Kiwanis Kapers.
For selling the most adver
tising, Dick Lamont was
charged with the responsibil
ity of wearing a wig at every
Kiwanis meeting until rea
pers' time, Feb. 27.
"We are going over the
top," Chairman Obenour stat
ed, "with over 400 prospects
to be heard from."
The 1963 Kapers, the 15th
annual, will be staged in Med
ford High school auditorium
Feb. 27 and 28 and March
1 and 2.
Pivotal Members
Noted by Barton
Salem -IUPH- House Speaker
Clarence Barton said Wednes
day that Reps. Sidney Leikcn
(D-Roseburg) and Edward F.
Ridderbusch (D - Tillamook)
are the pivotal members of
their committees.
Leikcn is one of nine mem
bers of the House Labor and
Industries Committee. Ridder
busch is one of nine members
of the House Education Committee.
INVENTIONS WANTED
Do you have a product that falls in the household and gift
furnishing field? Let us sell it nationally for you. Patenting
problems are not our cup of tea. We are only interested in a
finished product, that we can sell through national advertising
and mail order." If you do not have the resources to manu
facture your own product, perhaps we can get you a fabricator
together. We are especially interested in wood products, per
taining to household uses. We do not need or require exclusives.
Phone 773-1045 for Appointment.
Alt funds raised by uie
Kapers each year go to the
boys' and girls' worl- of the
Medford Kiwanis club with
special emphasis placed on
the maintenance and opera
tion of the Kiwanis boy and
girls dental clinic at Rogue
Valley hospital. -
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