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Bedford Tribune IICTION D MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 30. 1963 PAGES 1 to 8 C8 aT 1 m i ! I f STILL WORKS This old manual machine speed electric successors, now in use, have in the tax department of the Jackson county made it possible for lour employees to carry .i sheriff's offices, still operates, Mrs. Marjorie on the ever increasing load of work in the Brooks recently demonstrated. But its high tax division. Mrs. Brooks Resigns Chief Tax Deputy i Rv FVA HAMILTON i Mail Tribune Staff Writer Automation must be the answer to a situation which has continued for over 38 years in the tax department of . the Jackson county sheriff's office, from which Mrs. Mar jorie Brooks is retiring, ef fective July 1. There were four employees In the department when Mrs. Brooks, Phoenix High school graduate, went to work in the old courthouse at Jackson ville. There are still four em ployees today in the depart ment where Mrs. Brooks has been chief tax deputy since 1936. But there has been a "tre mendous"' change in the vol ume of business hndlcd and in the equipment :ii,n which the employees turn out the work. Mrs. Brooks emphasized this as she displayed some of the manual machines, pre served but relegated to the back room. How four employees have managed to care for the tax business of Jackson county, which has multiplied (no one was prepared to say how many times) with the passing of the years, is a natural ques tion to ask. The answer is to some extent an obvious one in this machine ace. Next Question Obvious But the next question is ob vious, too. Why can't other de partments install machines which will accomplish this same result? This question wasn t an swered by the woman, who says she is going to go home (where she doesn't have a cal culator or a typewriter) and just enjoy life with her fam ily for a while, her husband. Ira Brooks, 1180 Spring st., Medford; her daughter, Mrs. Norman Vance and children, Medford; and her son, Ger ald Brooks, and children of Mt. Shasta. The Jackson county govern ment has actually made three moves since Mrs. Brooks start ed working for the tax depart ment in 1925. Through election in 1926, the county seat was changed f.om Jacksonville to Medford. The new courthouse was to be Medford's present city hall at the corner of North Central ave. and Fiftn st. But the building was not ready for the county's occupancy on the scheduled date so the Medford Armory was seat of govern ment until the fall of 1927 when the move was made to the city hall. Land Acquired In 1931, land was acquired for the present county court house. The old Washington school, which occupied the corner of West Main st. and Oakdale ave., was razed, and the courthouse construction began with J. G. Link, archi tect, and H. L. Hoffman, con tractor. Official dedication of the new building was held Sept. 1, 1932. C. B. Lamkin of Ash land was then county judge. The planning had started un der the leadership of County Judge Alex Sparrow, whose name also appeared on the programs with those of Coun ty Commissioners Victor Bur sell and John Barneburg. Judge Sparrow lost his life in a fall while inspecting build ings in Klamath county. Thinking back to the Jack sonville courthouse, Mrs. Brooks recalled the D'Autre- Hearing Set on Proposed District The Jackson county court Friday set a public hearing on proposed formation of the West Side Water district in the Medford area for 2 pm. Aug. 7 in the county court room. County Judge Earl M. Mil ler noted that petitions with 128 signatures were submitted to the county court May 17. The county elections depart ment verified that 103 signa tures were those of legal property owners and 109 of registered voters. State law requires such petitions must bear signatures of 25 per cent of the leizal voters of the area or 100 signatures. A water district to Insure pure drinking water for the West Side area was deemed necessary following discov ery by the Jackson county public health department that a number of wells in the Westwood subdivision were polluted by septic tanks. It was decided during sub sequent public meeting. of area residents to form the district so the district's board of directors could seek fed eral funds for an engineer ing study for a possible wa ter system for the area. After the public hearing, any person affected may ask to b excluded or included, according to Ervln Hogan, Medford lawyer and commit tee member for the proposed West Side district. The pro posed district would include 400 homes and possibly one farm. mont trial, last history-making event in the pioneer court room. It is more clearly re membered, of course, by mem bers of the criminal division of the sheriff's- department, she commented, but other em ployees did slip into the trial whenever the opportunity oc curred. Aware of Unfolding Everyone connected with county government in those days was aware of the un folding of the drama growing out of the train robbery and death-dealing explosion in the Siskiyou tunnel, to which the D'Autremont brothers event ually confessed. The theft of ballots cast in the 1932 election caused the greatest excitement during Mrs. Brooks' years in the pres ent courthouse, she said. Again, the criminal division of the sheriff's office was more aware than the tax depart ment of the robbery, the ar rests and the trials which fol lowed, all closely interwoven with the tragic shooting of Constable George Prcscott, Mrs. Brooks' division has al ways been "strictly tax mind ed." Have Open House Friday afternoon the per sonnel of the sheriff's depart ment entertained with an open house in the tax depart ment, honoring Mrs. Brooks from 3 to 5 p.m. All court house employees were invited. 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