Introductory Comment: Innovational procedure immediately subsequent to the preliminary application of the survey coverage in the approach to the crime situation throughout the entire county, especially in the instance of the city of Medford and that of the city of Ashland, became of immediate consequence since it was disclosed that the corrupt collusive ramifications of the illicit gambling combinations, and that of kindred criminal factors of commercialized prostitution, illicit sale of narcotics, particularly marijuana, and the obvious stimulus mediums of official collusion and graft, influenced by the well-established corrupt political spoils system, were so extensive and varied, and indeed deeply entrenched through long years of unmolested operations, embracing elements of the presumed respectable citizenry of the community, business and professional, that the usual conventional procedure was utterly impossible in the application.
    To the continuant fact: Particularly so, since the electorate of a determined law-abiding citizenry delivered a crushing defeat to the predecessor District Attorney, thus the consternation of the criminal combinations, and especially so since the incumbent District Attorney assumed the duties of his office the stimulus aspects as to the criminal element are very apprehensively in evidence, and they are wondering what the next accomplishment of the District Attorney will be.

    The paramount stimulus mediums within the city of Medford responsible for illicit criminal ramifications embracing within the category of crime, infractions of the law, in the toleration of gambling devices, card rooms and card tables (usually located in unlawful and disreputable establishments) such as cocktail bars, taverns, billiard parlors and pool rooms, nightclubs, private social clubs and that of kindred establishments, too numerous to mention herein, and also elements of commercialized prostitution, and that of related criminal aspects of pimping for and in procuring harlots for patrons' sexual gratification, channeled through factors of the underworld, such as taxicab drivers, bartenders, hotel bellboys, hotel clerks, call houses and various other underworld sources, are definitely traceable to the toleration by elements of the municipal administration.
    To the continuant fact: Stimulus of this deplorable, injudicious policy of municipal administrative toleration of certain vice and crime conditions mentioned here, there remains the criminal stimulus factors of definite strong indications of the illicit traffic in the sale of narcotics, which is inevitable and indeed lucrative in the field of toleration of factors of vice and crime.
    It is well to evaluate this fact that the paramount stimulus factor to that of vice and crime in any community embracing incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county, particularly that of criminal combinations and aspects of organized crime and concerted criminal ramifications, is that of collusive, corrupt and grafting public officials, and most especially where the flagrancy of the situation is pronounced, as in the instances of the policy of toleration of vice and crime.
    To the continuant fact: Also where divisions of police of any municipality, or that of the Sheriff's office or District Attorney of any county or political subdivision of the state, are legally concerned, and the policy of toleration of vice and crime obtains, it is invariably certain that official collusion, corruption and graft are indeed in concrete evidence.
    There can be no compromise with crime where honest and sincere public officials command the field of crime prevention and law enforcement.

    Introductory Comment: In the approach to the analysis of the Division of Police in the city of Medford, it became very necessary to resort to innovational procedure and that of commanding top secret coordination of effort and intense cooperation of elements of the law-abiding citizenry of the community, and almost immediately subsequent to the actual confidential contact with the division it became obvious that mediums of pronounced apprehension of the personnel and that of definite aspects of chaos were in evidence.
    A. Chief Executive Officer, Division of Police: The chief executive officer of the division [Clatous McCredie] is disclosed as in no proper scientific policing sense qualified as an effective administrative officer, or that of an efficient and judicious disciplinarian, and most certainly not a commander of men, and does not reflect the slightest latent qualifications whereby he can be properly developed as a first-class scientifically trained commander of the division. [Compare Jeffreys' criticism with Beall's praise in his 1951 survey of the Medford Police Department.]
    To the continuant fact: He is not qualified in the very necessary scientific sense to accomplish the reorganization of the Division of Police, and in fact his status in quo, as indicated in the personal scientific analysis, discloses his qualifications as an ordinary police officer who could command the assignment as captain, lieutenant or sergeant of the average small Division of Police, but in no judicious effective policing sense as that of chief executive officer.
    The intelligence quotient of this officer is indicated as highly deficient, and it is quite probable he could not conform to the standard Civil Service examination, as required in the instance of all scientifically directed divisions of police.
    The deficiencies in the intelligence quotient of the chief executive officer of the division is most obviously stimulus of the imbroglio status in quo that now obtains therein, and no doubt contributory, particularly to the unfortunate death of one Lester W. Hurley, age sixty-two, a veteran of World War One and a member of Camp White, who was permitted to lie unattended in the city jail for approximately forty-one hours.
    To the continuant fact: It is indicated the chief executive of the division is indeed psychologically indolent, reflects no essential mediums of policing propensity nor that of initiatory administrative ability.
    This very obvious indication is reflected in the disclosures of the very comprehensive survey report of Sergeant William P. Beall, expert consultant of the Berkeley, California Division of Police, as rendered to the Municipal Council of Medford as of August 1951, in that the chief executive officer of the Division of Police failed utterly in numerous instances to judiciously evaluate the necessary import of the respective Beall recommendations, due most obviously to his policing administrative inability and that of his quite probably inherent autonomous egocentric conception of his administrative ability.
    To the continuant fact: Responsibility, in aspects of the failure in the implementation of the recommendations in question, is of probable tracing to the Municipal Council of the period of the issuance of the Beall survey report as of August 1951, particularly so in the instance of the failure of the Police Commission of the municipality of Medford to follow through on the implementation of the recommendation by the chief executive officer of the Division of Police. [Medford has never had a police commission. At the time the Medford city council had a police committee, which had no administrative authority over the police department.]
    B. Public Relations, Confidence and Respect, Chief Executive Officer, Division of Police: The analytical recapitulation of all aspects of public opinion mediums of research channeled confidential information of certain of the citizenry (privileged communication) and factual information, cultivated from within the Division of Police, discloses the chief executive officer does not command the proper confidence and respect of the law-abiding citizenry, and as reflected in the disclosures of the cross-sectional poll of public opinion of the survey application, he is regarded as responsible to quite some extent for the present vice and crime conditions that currently obtain in the city of Medford, and that he is not properly qualified to command the Division of Police, and his moral turpitude becomes questionable and general public relations not good, and he should be removed from office.
    C. Personnel Respect and Confidence, Chief Executive Officer, Division of Police: It is disclosed that the chief executive officer of the Division of Police does not command the confidence and respect of the majority of his subordinate commanding officers and complement personnel, and that aspects of insubordination are indicated as in evidence.
    The personnel morale of the division is disclosed as of an unusually low ratio percent of thirty-eight, which as a matter of consistent fact it should register an approximate ratio percent of ninety, in strict conformity with scientifically established mediums of efficiency and systematization in that of effective crime prevention and law enforcement.
    Stimulus mediums of incentive personnel application necessary to that of efficient community policing in the protection of life and property was indeed disclosed as practically nonexistent.
    To the continuant fact: Mediums of inservice training, vitally essential in maintaining the personnel of the division in a consistent functional state of policing efficiency and systematization, are disclosed as not properly in evidence, consistent with modern, scientific, effective policing procedure.
    Interjection: It is judicious at this time to understand that the embracing of the Division of the Police of the municipality of Medford, and such other divisions of the respective incorporated areas of the county, becomes of paramount importance to the survey application, in that the line of demarcation between the Division of Police and that of criminal identifications cannot be eliminated, especially where it is obviously indicated that vice and crime is officially tolerated, and indeed stimulus of official collusion, corruption and theft.
    To the continuant fact: Complete coverage of the Division of Police does not obtain as in this instance, except to the extent where it is obviously indicated official collusion and graft within the Division of Police, and in other official categories within the municipal government is in evidence, and such mediums of vice and crime are protected or tolerated in strict violation of state laws within the official jurisdiction of the District Attorney.
    For further edification, if such a confidential Crime and Efficiency Survey were being conducted under the official authority of the City of Medford, then the survey application would become essentially pertinent of greater comprehensive coverage.
    D. Personnel Division of Police, Municipality of Medford, Miscellaneous Aspects and Ramifications.
    1. The educational background, and that of the intelligence quotient, of the personnel of the division discloses an unusually low ratio percent of forty-four, entirely inconsistent to stimulus aspects of that of inservice training and required scientific policing procedure.
    2. The personnel complement is inadequate to that of effective and efficient community policing and that of crime prevention and effective law enforcement.
    3. The field observations of the survey application and as otherwise channeled through confidential sources, disclose the personnel of the Division of Police, with a ratio percent of seventy-nine, as indeed psychologically and physically indolent, and the public relations are not good, and they do not command proper public respect and confidence of the citizenry.
    To the continuant fact. The personnel public decorum is very bad, and to a very large extent, their personal appearance is slovenly and reflects no proper policing dignity.
    It should not be construed that the Division of Police does not have a few properly qualified and honest personnel; quite to the contrary, there is a very small minority who should command every possible consideration and confidence.
    4. Police brutality, rolling (theft from person) of that of intoxicated individuals, consorting with commercialized prostitutes and known criminal characters, acceptance of gratuities such as meals from cafes, drinks of liquor etc. from cocktail bars, and numerous character of gifts too numerous to mention herein, were disclosed through strictly reputable citizenry sources in definite confidence and privileged communication.
    5. The analytical recapitulation of the entire personnel of the Division of Police of the City of Medford fails utterly to disclose any individual of the personnel scientifically qualified by the reason of training and experience and that of educational background with a developed and established technique as that of an efficient and effective administrative officer, strict disciplinarian and judicious commander of men, and particularly possessed of the science of modern policing, organizational ability, who could assume command of the division and accomplish the reorganization of same in probable contemplation of the retirement of the incumbent chief executive officer.
    6. The motorized and beat foot patrol system of the Division of Police is disclosed as utterly inadequate and perfunctory in the mediums of adequate and efficient community coverage and in the frequency of same, and is definitely not conducive to efficient and effective crime prevention and law enforcement.
    7. No consistent pay plan of compensation, commensurable [sic] with the rapidly increasing cost of subsistence to the divisional personnel, was disclosed as in proper evidence, thus such failure to maintain an equitable pay plan has long since been scientifically established in the procedure of effective policing and that of crime prevention and indeed in consistent law enforcement as a definite stimulus factor to personnel collusion and graft.
    8. It is also disclosed that the Division of Police of the municipal government is at this current period, and has been for approximately the past fifteen years, practically an autonomous unit under the stewardship of the present chief executive officer, with little or no effective supervision in the instance of the Municipal Council or specifically that of the Police Committee. Such supervision is fundamentally of paramount importance in maintaining honest and efficient procedure within the Division of Police and of further consequence in prevention of official collusion and graft.
    To the continuant fact: It was authentically and confidentially disclosed during the course of the survey application that the vice and crime factors, and that of the element of the corrupt, collusive, political spoils system of the community, are particularly anxious that the status in quo of the Division of Police be not disturbed.
    9. The analytical recapitulation of the survey coverage discloses the city of Medford as the crime center of the county, stimulus of the fact that Medford is the center of population of the county and that of tolerated aspects of illicit gambling and elements of kindred vice and crime, and specifically to the failure of the Division of Police to effectively enforce the law.
    To the continuant fact: While Medford is the crime center of the county, no definite major concerted effort of gangsterism, or that of hoodlum ramifications, is indicated as in evidence, except that late in the survey coverage unconfirmed information was disclosed through confidential channeled sources of the citizenry that illicit syndicated gambling interests, especially that of factors interested in gambling devices such as that of slot machines, pinball machines and kindred devices, emanating from out-of-state factors channeled through Portland and Klamath Falls, Oregon, were moving in to control gambling in Jackson County.

    Introductory Comment: Initially in the approach to the illicit ramifications of the narcotic traffic it is judicious that you comprehend the fact that the illicit traffic in narcotics is that of "big business," and indeed very lucrative financially for the insignificant peddler of the skid row to that of the international smuggler and major operators of the great centers of population of the United States, and the annual expenditure embraces millions of dollars.
    It commands the patronage of the scum of human degeneracy to that of the ostentatious wealthy and that of the quiet dignity of the tycoon of our society, and even into the student ranks of our schools, colleges and universities and to the shocking truth it embraces teenage youth, little suspected as addicted to the use of narcotics.
    The illicit ramifications are invariably disclosed as very extensive and varied, deeply entrenched, murderously dangerous, and not infrequently commanding social prestige into the elite atmosphere of the respectability of society.
    With rare exceptions, the illicit traffic in narcotics commands the lucrative business of distribution through the mediums of official collusion and graft in the areas of operation and usually embraces law enforcement officers and that of elected public officials in many categories, especially within the ranks of municipal, county and state governments, for the necessary official protection of the nefarious traffic.
    The illicit narcotic traffic is not only "big business," but is nationwide in the ramifications and indeed politically powerful in many instances and in localities of its lucrative flagrancy, especially in areas of tolerated vice and crime it is indeed judicious to assume the official collusion of protected graft does definitely obtain.
    This should not be construed that every law enforcement officer, or that of elected municipal, county or state official, is of questionable integrity and are grafting for extended illicit protection, as in this instance and otherwise; quite to the contrary, there are many honest ones, usually in the majority, and in my long experience of over forty years I am indeed convinced that there are thousands of law enforcement officers, and that of elected public officials, who do not have their price and definitely cannot be bribed nor coerced in the failure of their official prerogatives in the enforcement of the law.
    During the course of the survey application it officially was disclosed to me personally that repeated mediums of coercion were resorted to in an endeavor to accomplish the toleration of certain infractions of the state law in the city of Medford, Ashland and elsewhere throughout Jackson County, all of which utterly failed.
Illicit Ramifications, City of Medford, City of Ashland and Jackson County:
    1. The illicit sale of narcotics in the city of Medford is strongly indicated as quite pronounced, deeply entrenched and very extensive and varied in ramifications, with strong potentials of official protection and graft.
    The city of Medford is indicated as the principal distribution center for the entire Jackson County and contiguous areas, with that of possible supply mediums from Klamath Falls, Oregon and that of Vancouver, Canada.
    2. The indicative aspects of the overall ramifications, as disclosed in the analytical recapitulation, as pertained specifically to this particular subject, discloses the channeled sources of sale contact as so varied and of such deep entrenchment, political influence and that of strong potentials of official protection, that the accomplishment in corrective application and the apprehension of the principal malefactors engaged in the traffic will essentially require the concerted effort under the authority of the federal government, not only of the office of the District Attorney of Jackson County, but that of the state of Oregon.
    This is particularly necessary, since the Office of District [Attorney] is not adequately staffed, especially in the instance of a permanent criminal investigator, nor does the office at this time command adequate funds and regardless in the ultimate analysis the indicated status in quo of the situation would require federal action and in the initial processes necessary to the ultimate accomplishment it will require probable months of careful scientific investigation and that of effective cultivation and undercover application.
    In the instance of the survey application, the immediate cultivative processes (except on rare occasions) never extends beyond the initially intended preliminary determination of the approximate status in quo of vice and crime ramifications and that of aspects of efficiency and systematization.

    1. The commercialized prostitution situation in the city of Medford and elsewhere throughout Jackson County, while not in the true category of flagrancy, remains obviously quite pronounced, and the city of Medford is the center of commercialized prostitution, such as it is, and the status in quo of the situation discloses mediums of toleration and that of obvious suggestion of official collusion, corruption and graft, and actually presents no policing problem in so long as the Division of Police of the City of Medford continues in the failure to honestly enforce the law.
    To the continuant fact: The ramifications of commercialized prostitution, particularly as to the city of Medford, can indeed be reduced to the infinitesimal degree within forty-eight hours, if the Division of Police of the City of Medford makes an honest effort to correct the situation.
    This same procedure will apply to all incorporated areas of the county, and likewise to the Sheriff's Department.
    Scientific Disclosures, Commercialized Prostitution: No so-called segregated vice district was disclosed as in evidence.
    Taxicab drivers were confidentially disclosed as pimping and procurement of call and after-hours prostitutes. The procedure was disclosed as the usual conventional contract, that the patron would make a direct contact with the driver, who in turn would pick up the harlot and her patron and convey them to a motel, rooming house, hotel or elsewhere. The financial arrangements were unable to be determined; however, the taxicab driver or pimp usually increase the patron's fare by that of fifty percent and also commands a cut from the harlot and the operator of the assignation house that may be resorted to.
    It was further confidentially disclosed that the harlot's charge in this area is usually five dollars, depending as to the class of patron, prostitute and the assignation house.
    To the continuant fact: Bartenders, hotel bellboys and that of hotel clerks and a few procurement anonymous individuals, known to resort to the questionable Holland Hotel, Grand Hotel and the various dives of the Skid Row on Front Street, are known to have specific addresses and telephone numbers of call and after-hours prostitutes.
    The prostitute designated as the "call harlot" is reported as increasing in this area, especially since the advent of cocktail bars, and it is this character who are within the professional category as prostitutes, and the several as confidentially reported operating within the city of Medford are indicated as controlled from Klamath Falls.
    Numerous after-hours prostitutes are known to be employed as waitresses and cocktail bar girls and are making their contacts with patrons in the establishments of their employment, particularly in the interiors of cocktail bars.
    The survey coverage embraced every cocktail bar, beer tavern and kindred establishment serving intoxicating beverages throughout Jackson County, and especially in the incorporated areas, particularly the cities of Medford, Ashland, Central Point and elsewhere, with a remote possibility of two or three being overlooked. Such establishments [are] named specifically elsewhere in this document.
    In the majority of the instances the anonymous female bar patron presumably to the legitimate male patron was indicated as just another female patron, but in fact the cultivative process of the survey coverage disclosed such persons as that of professional bar shills, employed by the management of the establishment as that of stimulus mediums of increased bar drinks. It was also determined in a number of instances that these shills were operating on a basis of percentage of drinks per patron purchased, inclusive of meals. It was also observed in a number of instances where the shill's patron had become well intoxicated she would steal his change from drink purchases off the bar. It was also observed on occasion that the bartender would shortchange patrons in advanced stages of intoxication.
    To the continuant fact: Further cultivation as to these shills disclosed approximately ninety percent were commercialized prostitutes and could be dated for sexual gratification after closing hours, usually in nearby motels.
    In the immediate Medford vicinity, the "Y Night Club, North Pacific Highway," is disclosed as the most flagrant in the illicit vice aspects indicated herein. Within the "five-point coverage of this establishment," it was disclosed as a definite rendezvous for homosexual degenerates and commercialized prostitutes other than [those] connected with the establishment, and indicated narcotic addicts and peddlers and pimps.
    The so-called "Skid Row," on Front Street, properly embraced generally from Fourth Street to Eighth Street, and most specifically from Main Street to that of Eighth Street, is the most vicious and damnable area of vice and corruption and that of illicit gambling, sale of narcotics, commercialized prostitution and that of revolting drunken debauch, sexual perversion and also of stimulus aspects of official collusion and graft in the entire southern Oregon section. Its very toleration under obvious official protection is most certainly the shame of Medford and an insult to the decent and law[-abiding] citizenry of the community.
    To the continuant fact: Every cocktail bar, tavern or beer parlor within the Skid Row area has its quota of commercialized prostitutes of the very lowest scum of the backwash of human degeneracy, as well as its pimps, narcotic addicts and peddlers, homosexual degenerates, drunken bums, ex-convicts, disreputable and criminal characters, and is the haven of harlots of the raw silent night, carriers of syphilis and kindred venereal infections, who resort to the various upstairs brothels suitably named as respectable establishments.
    This Skid Row area of the city of Medford is known well to the habituants of the criminal world throughout the entire Pacific Coast and is the mecca of attraction of the white slave and narcotic traffic and that of kindred vice and crime factors.
    If I may digress slightly, please hear this: When vice and crime, inclusive of commercialized prostitution, is permitted to flourish or is tolerated through surreptitiously channeled arrangement, as is indicated in the city of Medford, it is indeed a safe conclusion that official collusion and graft obtains that may embrace high officials of the municipal government, county government and that of the Sheriff or District Attorney; this is not to be construed as an implication.
    To the continuant fact: As of August 1951, scientific and comprehensive survey of the Division of Police was conducted by Sergeant William P. Beall, Jr., of the Division of Police of the City of Berkeley, California at the instance of the Municipal Council of Medford.
    The scientific analytical recapitulative digest of the entire Beall survey document disclosed qualified scientific recommendations for the complete reorganization of the Division of Police, but during the intervening two years, inclusive of the deplorable incident in which one Lester W. Hurley, age sixty-two years, a World War veteran of World War One and a member of Camp White, who became deceased as of July 14th, 1953 after being confined in the Medford city jail over the weekend as of July 11th and July 12th, 1953, without the necessary medical attention; no definite follow-through in the implementation of the recommendations of the Beall survey document, major in nature, except in a few minor instances obtains, although the recommendations as indicated were reported as having been unanimously adopted by the City Council.
    However, after the intervening two years, suddenly the unfortunate Hurley death commands the public attention of the law-abiding citizenry, and at the instance of an honest and fearless newspaper (the Medford Mail Tribune) commendable of the respect and confidence of the citizenry and that of good government, directs the public focalization of the cognizable facts on the municipal administration and that of the Division of Police and most specifically the chief executive officer of the division, and indeed justly so, and immediately subsequent thereof the Mayor and members of the City Council rush with a great play to the king's balcony in an obvious endeavor to cover their administrative failure of two years and that of their inefficiency and perfunctory stewardship of the municipal government, particularly so in the instance of the Division of Police, and especially so as to the utterly unqualified chief executive officer of the Division of Police.
    Thus remain the stimulus factors to the tolerated mediums of vice and crime in the city of Medford.
    To the further continuity of that of specific disclosures, commercialized prostitution is disclosed as practically nil in other sections of Jackson County, except for that of cocktail bar harlot solicitation, especially so since the aspects of supply and demand are centered within the city of Medford and most particularly to the fact that the city of Medford is the distribution center for the illicit procurement of commercialized prostitutes from Klamath Falls, Portland and San Francisco.

    Relative Comment: The scientific analytical recapitulation of the gambling situation as to that of gambling devices, embracing slot machines, pinball machines, dice machines, card machines, punchboards and kindred devices, controlled by the local illicit gambling syndicate, with ramifications extensive throughout Jackson County and extending to Klamath Falls, Yreka, California, Eugene, Oregon and that of Salem and Portland, discloses the local unlawful flagrancy, obviously under official protection, in Jackson County for the past fifteen years, and not until the election of the incumbent District Attorney did the situation change, and then only to the extent of removing slot machines, to storage in the majority of instances, with the gambling syndicate's conviction that the District Attorney will eventually through social and otherwise concerted cultivation tolerate clandestine and unlawful cooperation of slot machines and that of kindred devices. However, in a number of isolated instances, operators of questionable establishments who heretofore operated slot machines and other gambling devices for many years are of the definite opinion that in so long as the incumbent District Attorney remains in office there will be no lucrative abound [sic] of slot machines and that of other gambling devices or other forms of gambling tolerated. I am likewise of the same opinion.
    To the continuant fact: The disclosures established the fact that the illicit and clandestine operation of slot machines in particular flagrantly were in operation throughout that of all Jackson County in the numerous establishments as herein indicated, and in approximately ninety percent of the five-point check of cultivation of such resorts the slot machines were stored in rear rooms and in the homes of the proprietors; the majority were stored in local storage warehouses, while otherwise, with few exceptions, the major private clubs continued to operate in strict defiance of the law and the edict of the District Attorney.
Gambling Devices, Slot Machines, Pinball Machines and Kindred Devices, Licensed by Federal Government:
    Relative Comment: The following listed establishments are licensed by the federal government to engage in the operation of gambling or gambling devices, and by so doing are in the illicit violation of the gambling laws of the state of Oregon.
    The list is specifically mastheaded as "Jackson County Federal Tax on Gaming Devices," and was provided by the District Attorney on my request, and is effective inclusive to October 16, 1951. Current request indicated the additional list, bringing the list up to date for the years of 1952 and 1953 would be provided as of August 1, 1953 to the District Attorney by the proper authoritative source, I believe by the Attorney General of the state of Oregon.
    To the continuant fact: It is of specific significance in the overall evaluation of the gambling device racket to note that the federal licensed gambling establishments, as indicated herein, are consistently in evidence throughout Jackson County, and I am at this time unofficially cognizant that the complete up-to-date list of that of the federal tax on gaming devices will not only embrace the listings as herein indicated, but will reveal new licensed establishments operating throughout the county. All federal taxed gaming devices establishments, as well as all other such establishments operating gambling devices, received extensive survey coverage to determine the approximate true status in quo, and in fact many other establishments that registered lawful and legitimate enterprise.
Gambling Device Establishments, Federal Tax Listings, Alphabetized Arrangement:
    American Legion Club, Post Number Fifteen. Federal gaming tax. 414 Main Street, Medford, Oregon. Reported as operating slot machines and pinball machines and a stud poker game. Confirmation not possible.
    At-Last-A-Lunch, Trail, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Pinball machines. Owners: Leo E. and Gladys Tuttle.
    Ashland Recreational Center, 30 South First Street, Ashland, Oregon. No listing federal gaming tax. Minors gambling on pinball machines. Bowling alleys.
    Brown's Billiard Parlor, 18 North Front Street. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Reported same in storage. Gambling on pinball machines. Owners: Bert L. Cook and Mark A. Goldy. Resorted to by criminal characters, pimps, narcotic peddlers and addicts, particularly marijuana. Investigative leads: cultivate through taxicab drivers.
    Bud and Lucille Cafe, 1182 Court Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Pinball machines operating. Owners: M. E. and Lucille Fisher.
    Bohemian Club, 347 East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence, but is confidentially reported that two machines are stored in rear room. Gambling on pinball machines is very flagrant. This establishment is one of the most vicious and unlawfully operated dives in all of Jackson County, and is indeed operating under official collusion and graft.
    It is resorted to by loggers, truck drivers and a very low moral element of the laboring class, male and female, also by commercialized prostitutes, homosexual degenerates, pimps, narcotic addicts and peddlers, and has been the scene of numerous brawls, and usually on Friday and Saturday nights the entire atmosphere soon develops into a voluptuous stimulus of sexual inclination and drunken bedlam of Billingsgate profanity, quite audible far into the street.
    To the continuant fact: As of Tuesday, July 21st, 1953, at approximately 9:15 p.m. the survey contact suddenly interrupted in the men's lavatory, located to the rear left in the establishment, an act of homosexual penis-mouth copulation by two obviously intoxicated male patrons, an unusual act under the circumstances, but indeed typical of the revolting character of the place.
    Further, it is strongly indicated that this establishment is bootlegging illicit liquor over the bar by the drink. Investigated lead: Proper authoritative procedure by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission could accomplish the legal closing of this establishment without great difficulty. Owner: William H. Hampton, Oregon Hotel, 68½ East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon.
    Barkley's Tavern, Phoenix, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence, but did have two in operation before the new District Attorney was elected. This establishment is bootlegging illicit liquor, and the gambling on pinball machines is quite pronounced. Commercialized prostitutes resort to this establishment, especially on Friday and Saturday night. Strong indications of illicit sale of marijuana. Owner: J. P. Hartsook.
    Bohemian Club Beer Parlor, number 10 South Fir Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machine in evidence. Indications that two machines were in operation before the election of new District Attorney. Gambling of pinball machines in evidence. Definitely bootlegging illicit liquor. Owner: A. K. Morse.
    Brown's Cafe, 101 East Main Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Owner: A. C. Leighton.
    Bridge Cafe and Tavern, Box 263, Rogue River, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence, but one slot machine is reported as in storage and on occasions is operated hidden from view in the tavern. This establishment is resorted to by a very rough element, and is suspected of bootlegging illicit liquor to patrons personally known to the management. Owner: F. Kiser and Ula L. Owsley.
     Barbecue Grill, 201 West Main Street, Medford, Oregon. No federal gaming tax in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines.
    Cook's Reception, 66 East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Strong indications of bootlegging. Owners: Earnest G. and Kathleen Childreth and Gerald L. and Marie Bishop.
    Crater Cafe, 309 North Riverside Avenue, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Owners: H. D. and Inez Cusick.
    Coffee Pot Drive Inn, 1132 North Riverside Avenue, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Owners: J. W. McDuffie and Joe W. McDuffie, Jr.
    Corner Club, The, First and Pine Street, Central Point, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence, but confidentially disclosed that until the new District Attorney was elected, three slot machines were in concealed operation. Gambling on pinball machines is quite pronounced, especially during the weekend. Bootlegging is in definite evidence. This establishment is resorted to by disreputable individuals, criminal characters [and] commercialized prostitutes, and usually on Friday and Saturday nights the atmosphere is that of vulgar drunken debauch and has been the scene of a number of brawls. Owners: Paul W. Hopkins and Richard F. Arndt.
    Chungking Inn, 28 North Front Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines found in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. This establishment is resorted to habitually by known opium and narcotic addicts and small narcotic peddlers. It is further strongly indicated as a major narcotic distribution source with that of San Francisco, Klamath Falls and Portland illicit connections. Also it is obviously conducted as Chinese lottery with extensive runner ramifications, embracing all of southern Oregon.
    To the continuant fact: From all disclosures and indications, this establishment has for many years operated under official collusive protection and graft.
    It is further resorted to by known commercialized prostitutes, pimps and procurers, and that of female sexual perverts. Owners: Wallace Wong and Jack Fong.
    Investigative leads: It will require months of careful planning and investigation through scientifically directed undercover and stool pigeon implementation by that of honest detective application to obtain the evidence.
    The principals of this establishment are very sagacious and resourceful and no doubt protected through many illicit attorney and corrupt political ramifications locally.
    Dutch Guss Cafe, Highway Ninety-Nine, Route One Box 55, Ashland, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Reported he has two slot machines stored in a room of his place. Gambling on pinball machine. Disclosed confidentially that a stud poker and blackjack game is operating in blacked-out room to the right of the main entrance as you enter. On the door of the room in question is a small sign, reading "Keep Out," and it is through this door that the field observations of the survey application have detected on five occasions during the after dark hours patrons entering and leaving the room. This room is entirely blacked out as to the outside windows, and no light is to be seen except only when the door is briefly opened. Owners: Clifford C. and Virginia G. Myers.
    This establishment is strongly suspected of bootlegging illicit liquor and is resorted to by disreputable characters, especially women of questionable character.
    Dardanelles Dinner House and Cocktail Lounge, Old Stage Road ¼ of a mile south of Gold Hill. No slot machine or pinball machine in evidence. Small cocktail lounge to right of main dining room. Indications: possible bootlegging illicit liquor, otherwise orderly and respectable.
    Elks Club Number 944, 255 East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. Variously reported that sixteen slot machines and several pinball machines are in daily operation in flagrant violation of the law, and that the management has stated that they do not intend to conform to the requirements of the law, nor that of any order of the District Attorney.
    Confirmation of the exact number of slot machines and pinball machines operating was not possible, due to the non-member status of the survey contact; however, the authenticity of the fact is fully established through channeled confidential cultivated membership of the club.
    Elks Club, 202 North Central Avenue, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. Reported nine slot machines and five pinball machines daily in operation without any fear of the law enforcement agencies or the District Attorney. Confirmation of the number of gambling devices was not feasible, but the cultivative processes of the survey application as to contact with numerous members strongly indicated that such gambling devices are operating in defiance of the law.
    Eagles Hall, 217 West Main Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. This local organization is reported as having four slot machines and three pinball machines in operation. Cultivation of members information channeled through confidential, privileged communication sources appears to confirm the information as factual.
    Fourth Wheel Bar, 31 South Front Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence, but was operating four concealed slot machines before the election of District Attorney Nunley. Slot machines were stored in local warehouse; unable to follow through to location. Pinball machine gambling is flagrant, also from time to time stud poker games and other illicit games are nightly in evidence.
    This establishment is resorted to by known professional gamblers and shills and likewise has numerous cappers inveigling unsuspecting individuals into the games, and [they] are invariably swindled of their money. Particularly, the cappers make contact with many mill workers, loggers and truckers, especially on their paydays. Survey contact observation of the games on numerous occasions discloses that the usual procedure is to endeavor to induce the patron player to have a few drinks of liquor, which almost invariably is in evidence, and ultimately becomes in just the right stage of intoxication to be easily swindled. Bootlegging is in evidence.
    To the continuant fact: This establishment is resorted to by commercialized prostitutes, who resort to solicitation at the bar and are obviously operating in collusion with the management as a drink sale stimulus medium, with the usual cutback percent for the harlot.
    Further: This establishment is a definite rendezvous for the nauseous scum of humanity, homosexual degenerates, male and female, and that of criminal characters, ex-convicts, pimps and procurers, and especially known narcotic addicts and peddlers.
    Disreputable resorts such as this are never tolerated and permitted to operate in any community, unless there is a definite official payoff of graft for the usual operating protection. Owner: Joseph Curtis Barnes not only operates the Fourth Wheel Bar, but is engaged in the real estate business with an office in the same establishment, and it is indicated that he is not a member of the Medford Realty Board.
    Investigative leads: The initial approach in this instance should be with respect to the illicit sale of narcotics and that of white slavery. It will require several months of careful scientific detective procedure and that of mediums of very judicious cultivation.
    Four Corners Corral, 5011 Crater Lake Highway, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines, every indication of bootlegging whiskey. Owner: James Collins Hayes.
    Gold Nugget Tavern, North Pacific Highway, Gold Hill, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence, but was confidentially informed two slot machines were operated in concealed section of the tavern. Flagrant gambling on pinball machines resorted to by commercialized prostitutes and disreputable characters. Indication [of] sale of marijuana. Owner: Fairman and Doris W. Connell. Definitely bootlegging illicit whiskey.
    Gold Hill Hotel and Tavern, across tracks from North Pacific Highway, Gold Hill, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. One secretly concealed slot machine is operated in the rear partitioned room of the barroom. The slot machine usually is concealed under the counter of the extension of the bar proper and is placed on the top of bar to known patrons, while otherwise if a stranger enters the front door the slot machine is quickly concealed.
    Gambling on pinball machines is very flagrant. This establishment is indeed a vicious bootlegging resort, and the patrons are generally of a very low moral order, and on Saturday nights usually commercialized prostitutes of the very lowest in the category of sexual perversion frequent the place, along with disreputable characters, narcotic addicts and pimps. It is strongly indicated that the management is resorting to the illicit sale of narcotics.
    The entire atmosphere of the place, especially on Saturday nights, soon develops into a vexatious, revolting bedlam of drunken debauch, with salacious aspects that soon disclosed the upper hotel rooms were obviously being resorted to for the purpose of sexual relations. Owners: William and Evelyn Trow, Box 545, Gold Hill, Oregon.
    Greyhound Tavern, 101 East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon. No federal gaming tax in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Definitely bootlegging illicit liquor. Strongly suspected [of] selling liquor to youths in their late teens.
    This establishment is resorted to by a very low class of patrons, and that of known narcotic addicts and youths in their late teens. The proprietor is definitely indicated as a narcotic addict and a possible homosexual degenerate.
    As of Friday evening, August 21st, 1953, at approximately 8:45 p.m., five youths in their late teens were observed gambling on the pinball machines, and from time to time would request change from the management, and most obviously the management was fully cognizant of the fact that they were gambling. No "over-the-counter payoff" by the management in this instance was observed, but it is confidentially disclosed that the usual procedure in this place is that of management direct payoff to the winning patron. Only two pinball machines were located in the place, and no slot machines were disclosed as in evidence. It is confidentially reported, however, that prior to the election of the honorable Walter D. Nunley as that of District Attorney, three slot machines were in operation in the very large room to the left rear of the establishment.
    To the continuant fact: As of August 21, 1953, at approximately 9:15 p.m., the survey contact entered the large room in the northeast section of the Greyhound Tavern, and three illicit stud poker games were in full play with all tables fully occupied, and inclusive of loitering patrons waiting for a seat at the tables there were twenty-three individuals in the room. It was observed that each gaming table had one or more professional gamblers and shills sitting in on the game. Further, it was observed on two occasions drinks that obviously were intoxicating beverages were served by the management.
    During any period of time that the games are in operation the management maintains a lookout who usually may be observed standing in the front door entrance, either within or out on the sidewalk. This precautionary measure is obviously not of any fear of the local police or the Sheriff's Department, but rather that of the Office of District Attorney or the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, and quite possibly that of the federal authorities. It is quite obvious that this disreputable establishment operates under collusive official protection.
    Green's Confectionery, 100 West Main Street, Medford, Oregon. No federal gaming tax in evidence. This establishment is resorted to by high school and college students, as well as teenage girls and boys, and on three occasions youths in their late teens, as of July 11th, 1953, at 7:25 p.m. and August 7th and on August 26th, 1953 were observed gambling on pinball machines, but no indications that a direct payoff was made by the management. However, the payoff to winning patrons is usually made by the management by a prearranged plan in a clandestine manner after the patron has ceased to play the machine. On occasion patrons will gamble among themselves, and quite often usually teenage youths will play the machines for amusement only, but they almost invariably demand the payoff from the management if they command a winning number.
    To the continuant fact: This establishment is resorted to by commercialized prostitutes, pimps and procurers, especially procurers of young girls in their late teens, for the white slave traffic. Concrete intelligence is in evidence to the District Attorney as to local procurer attempts, cultivating through after-hours prostitutes, to induce young girls to enter the atmosphere of commercialized prostitution.
    In one recent instance [omission] the intelligence of the District Attorney, it was disclosed that a waitress employed in a major Medford hotel dining room was endeavoring to induce a seventeen-year-old girl to enter the call girl prostitution racket, and the waitress in question was immediately placed under the survey surveillance intelligence, and in due season was disclosed as resorting to Green's Confectionery for her contacts. With very rare exceptions, female procurers are front cultivative contact mediums for the professional male procurer and not infrequently are the lawful wife of the procurer.
    An attractive, vivacious girl in her late teens, if she can be placed in an ostentatious brothel, commanding one hundred dollars for an act of fornication or assigned to a swanky call girl prostitution racket, the procurer commands usually from two thousand to five thousand dollars for his victim.
    To the continuant fact: Green's Confectionery is also indicated as a rendezvous for narcotic addicts and peddlers, particularly that of marijuana, and likewise as a probable distribution medium of narcotics and that of probable bootlegging. Reported owners, unconfirmed, are J. T. Dallaire and J. J. Patton.
    Investigative leads: Development of concrete evidence and successful prosecution will require weeks of careful scientific planning and cultivation, and in the accomplishment you will not be able to effectively command the necessary close coordination and that of cooperation of the local law enforcement agencies.
    Hi-Way, The, 12 North Riverside Avenue, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Definitely bootlegging illicit whiskey.
    Jackson Hotel, Palomino Room Cocktail Lounge, 108 East Eighth Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines in the lounge and the lobby of the hotel. Strong indications of bootlegging. Resorted to by commercialized after-hours harlots and pimps.
    Jacksonville Club, Third and California streets, Jacksonville, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Reported confidentially that before the incumbent District Attorney was elected that two slot machines were in concealed operation at all times during the business hours. Gambling on pinball machines is in evidence nightly. No commercialized prostitutes were disclosed in the place at any time during the course of the survey application. Owners: C. P. McBeth and Heber E. Bowser. Definitely bootlegging illicit whiskey.
    Log Cabin Tavern, 41 North Main Street, Ashland, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Flagrant gambling on four pinball machines. Definitely bootlegging illicit whiskey. Resorted to by commercialized prostitutes, who were indicated as employed by the management as stimulus mediums of over-the-bar drinks. Owner: Eugene Seitz.
    Lulu's Cafe and Tavern, California Street, Jacksonville, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Flagrant gambling on pinball machines. Indicated bootlegging illicit whiskey. Resorted to by after-hours harlots, especially on Friday and Saturday night.
    Maid Rite Sandwich Shop, 145 South Central Avenue, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. Gambling pinball machine.
    Medford Hotel, Cocktail Lounge, 406 West Main Street, Medford, Oregon. No federal gaming tax indicated. No slot machines in evidence. Two pinball machines, nightly gambling on same. Indications of bootlegging illicit whiskey. Resorted to by after-hours prostitutes, with indications of female bar shills operating on a percent cut [of] patron drinks.
    Mon Desir Dining Inn, Central Point, Oregon. No federal gaming tax in evidence. No slot machines in evidence, but was reported before the new District Attorney Nunley was elected that five slot machines were in nightly operation in rear room off the cocktail bar; was not feasible to determine if said slot machines were stored in rear room. No pinball machines were disclosed as in operation. Slot machines were reported as removed by the slot machine gambling syndicate.
    The owner of this establishment stated that he did have a number of slot machines operating until Nunley was elected, but removed them immediately when Nunley ordered all gambling devices removed, and that he does not intend to have any character of gambling devices operating in his establishment in the future, since he has a very lucrative cocktail lounge and dining room business and intends to keep it so and abide by the provisions of the law to the letter and maintain his establishment in a respectable manner, that he commands the business of the respectable citizenry of the county and does not want the business of the riffraff.
    The five-point check cultivation processes of the survey application disclosed no bootlegging and that of disreputable characters or the toleration of cocktail bar prostitutes, pimps, sex degenerates, narcotic addicts and peddlers, and under the present day conception is classified as respectable. No sale of liquor to juveniles was at any time indicated, and the atmosphere was at all times during the course of the survey application disclosed as entirely orderly and dignified.
    Mill Cafe, 357 Pacific Highway, Central Point, Oregon. No federal gaming tax in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines.
    North Riverside Cafe, 1701 North Riverside Drive, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Owners: H. J. and Ruth S. Straus and H. H. and Vera Walter.
    Rogue Valley Country Club, Hillcrest Road, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. It was reliably disclosed that previous to the election of District Attorney Nunley that for a number of years slot machines were operated in this club in the room designated as the slot machine gambling room with the inscription on the door "For Members Only," which operation was in strict violation of the state gambling law, likewise a very pretentious bingo game was operated, usually every Thursday night.
    These two illicit gambling mediums, as reported, netted the club approximately thirty-nine thousand dollars annually, with an approximate comparable computation received by the slot machine and otherwise gambling controlling combinations of the community, which obviously channeled the probable official graft to the immediate recipient sources.
    The cultivative processes and the direct membership contact within the actual club structure and otherwise within the community through the survey application revealed the fact that the majority of the reputable membership were indeed opposed to the club being established as a gambling casino. At this current period the club has been reestablished as [a] lawful and legitimate establishment, except in the instance of the coterie of influential minority proponents of the slot machine gambling racket, who are contemplating the possible control of the Office of District Attorney in the distant future.
    Ninety and Nine Tavern, 1258 South Riverside Avenue, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence, gambling flagrant on pinball machines, resorted to by after-hours prostitutes, pimps, homosexual degenerates, male and female, and that of known narcotic addicts, and is bootlegging illicit whiskey. Is strongly suspected of the sale of marijuana, and has been the scene of a number of drunken brawls as of this year. Owners: Lucille M. and O. P. Prewitt.
    Owl Club, 32 North Front Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Heavy gambling on slot machines and otherwise. Bootlegging illicit whiskey and is resorted to by pimps and procurers and has a number of bar prostitutes, obviously working the bar drinks for unsuspecting patrons. This establishment appears to have a number of street cappers who resort to the technique of contacting Camp White veterans on their paydays and inveigling them into various mediums of intoxication and ultimately fleecing them of their money.
    This is indeed a most vicious and damnable situation, and its toleration is the iniquitous shame of the city of Medford. Corrective application obviously cannot become an accomplished fact until such time as the legislative and administrative branches of the municipal government are completely revamped and the Division of Police is purged of collusive ramifications and reestablished as a scientific policing organization of the municipal government.
    This likewise is applicable to the Sheriff's Division in the sense that the Office of District Attorney must essentially command the honest, concerted cooperation not only of the Sheriff's Division but that as in this instance the Division of Police of the municipality of Medford, and the Division of State Police, which at this current period most certainly cannot be anticipated, particularly as to the Division of Police of the municipality of Medford.
    If I may reiterate, while the District Attorney is legally empowered in the enforcement of the law, to at all times resort to mediums of policing procedure within his immediate jurisdiction and direction, where it is deemed pertinently expedient and feasible in the immediate and ultimate accomplishment, the fact remains in the primary sense he is not legally expected to police the incorporated and that of the unincorporated areas of the county; however, not infrequently, due to the failure of collusive grafting and politically corrupt law enforcement agencies, such as sheriff's departments and those of divisions of police of the municipalities and kindred agencies, it becomes of paramount importance that on occasion he is impelled to resort to direct policing procedure, such as is vitally necessary at this time in Jackson County, and most especially in the incorporated communities, and indeed the municipality of Medford.
    To the continuant fact: O. E. Pastime Club, 368 Second Street, Gold Hill, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines. Bootlegging illicit whiskey. Resorted to by after-hours prostitutes. Owner: Elay Ray Davis.
    Omar's Steak and Chicken House and Cocktail Lounge, 1380 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, Oregon. No gambling devices of any character. No bootlegging of illicit liquor and no minors permitted in the cocktail lounge, and no resorting thereto by known prostitutes in any illicit category, and no homosexual or otherwise sexual degenerates were at any time observed as resorting to the cocktail bar, nor any narcotic addicts or peddlers were disclosed in the establishment.
    This establishment was at all times disclosed as unusually orderly, and no sale of liquor to individuals obviously in a definite state of intoxication was observed. The survey application check embraced a fourteen-point check at different hours and on different nights.
    Special Attention: The establishments as indicated herein were disclosed as unlawful resorts, embracing definite aspects of that of gambling on pinball machines and otherwise in the instance of illicit card games, bootlegging illicit whiskey, rendezvous for commercialized and after-hours prostitutes, pimps, homosexual and otherwise sexual degenerates, criminal characters, ex-convicts, cappers and shills, narcotic addicts and peddlers and procurers of harlots.
    Owl Club, 38 North Front Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines. Owner: Max Kulbe. See "Special Attention," [above].
    Otto's Club, 39 South [Front] Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines. Owner: Merle Guches. See "Special Attention," [above].
    The Pastime Club, 22 North Front Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines. Owners: Frank and Helen Mosse. See "Special Attention," [above].
    Pine Cone Inn, 17 South Front Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines. Owner: Pine Cone Inn Inc. See "Special Attention," [above].

    Whistle Stop, 226 North Front Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines. Gambling on pinball machine. Owner: Betty O'Brian Bourn.
    Talent Club, 114 Old Pacific Highway, Talent, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines. Gambling on pinball machines. Indications of bootlegging. Owners: John R. Burdell and Charles L. Schuler.
    Sportsman Tavern, south side Main Street, Gold Hill, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines.
    Pioneer Club, 205 Pine Street, Central Point, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines. Gambling on pinball machines. Definite indications of bootlegging illicit whiskey. Resorted to by commercialized prostitutes and marijuana peddlers. Reported as the scene of several brawls. Owner: Ed. Colpitts.
    Shack Cafe, 318 East Main Street, Medford, Oregon. Definitely bootlegging. Recently reopened under new management from Grants Pass, Oregon. Resorted to by after-hours prostitutes and that of homosexual degenerates, male and female. Definite indications of the illicit sale of narcotics. Known pimps and procurers of girls for houses of prostitution.
    Valley Billiard Parlor, Central Point, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machines.
    Union Club, 126 West Main Street, Medford, Oregon. Federal gaming tax. No slot machines in evidence. Strongly suspected of bootlegging. Resorted to by criminal characters and after-hours prostitutes.
    Tabu Dinner House and Cocktail Bar, 305 South Riverside Avenue, Medford, Oregon. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machine. Definite indications of bootlegging illicit whiskey. Resorted to by after-hours prostitutes. Reported waitresses are after-hours prostitutes. Numerous known pimps are resorting to this establishment as a rendezvous, likewise narcotic addicts. Strong indications that the sale of heroin and marijuana is in evidence in this place. Investigative lead: It will require weeks of careful cultivation of the management, as they are very suspicious and not dumb. The conventional procedure of stool-pigeon approach will utterly fail. The approach should be indeed quite pretentious with a few dinner parties, reflecting money, followed by the gradual process of friendly cultivation of the hostess and substantial gratuities for the waitresses and particularly the bartender. The application will be quite expensive, but if the procedure is expert and scientific it should be quite a success and not an abortive dream.
    Ted's Place, Pool Room, California Street, Jacksonville, Oregon. No slot machines in evidence. Gambling on pinball machine concealed from public view in rear of place behind partition immediately facing the front door as you enter the establishment. Definitely bootlegging and strongly suspected of the direct sale of heroin and marijuana. Known narcotic addicts are reported as habitually resorting to this establishment.
    Kim's Restaurant (Chinese), 2321 South Pacific Highway, Medford, Oregon. No slot machines in evidence. No pinball machines in evidence. Strongly suspected of the sale of opium and heroin. Indications this establishment is connected with the ramifications of the Chinese lottery syndicate, and that lottery runners are operating out from the Kim establishment.
    J. N. Cafe (Chinese), 229 South Front Street, Medford, Oregon. No slot machines in evidence or pinball machines. Definite indications of the sale of narcotics, especially in the instance of female addicts. Obviously connected with the Chinese lottery syndicate. Investigative leads: No ordinary stool-pigeon or undercover operator application will enable the development of concrete evidence, nor will the Office of District Attorney be enabled to accomplish the apprehension independently, especially since the status in quo of the office at this time will not judiciously warrant the modus operandi, particularly so since the local law enforcement agencies of the county and those of the municipalities cannot be considered as veracious; therefore, it will become necessary to enlist the cooperation of the federal and state authorities, and up to a point the State Police.
    Valentine's Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, Number 3, South Riverside Avenue, Medford, Oregon. No slot machines and no gambling. Indications of the sale of illicit whiskey (drinks over the bar). Resorted to by after-hours prostitutes and pimps and homosexual degenerates. It has been repeatedly observed during the course of the survey application that the so-called high-class after-hours prostitutes and the well-dressed and refined-appearing homosexual degenerates invariably resort to the more pretentious establishments, and the same individuals are frequently observed in the various establishments in this particular category, especially Valentine's. Birds of fine feathers (male and female) are usually disclosed in the same atmosphere. Homosexual degenerates and otherwise sexual perverts are to be found in all professions and social positions in life, and indeed as inconceivable as it may suggest, the after-hours and commercialized harlots not infrequently are disclosed in the same atmosphere of life.

    Rogue River Ballroom, one mile south on Pacific Highway, near fairgrounds, Medford, Oregon. The survey coverage discloses the conditions as follows: It is definitely stimulus of juvenile delinquency, embracing aspects of teenage (male and female) intoxication, sexual copulation, teenage girls with adult men as well as acts of perversion in sexual embrace. These acts usually were disclosed as in parked in automobiles, while not infrequently were observed in position on the ground beside automobiles as well as in standing positions and otherwise too numerous to mention.
    Frequent observation disclosed drunken sexual debauch in automobiles, as to teenage individuals, as well as adults, and in a number of instances where teenage girls and boys were disclosed, the unmistakable aroma of the smoke of the narcotic marijuana was indeed in evidence, and on one occasion the audible conversation in an automobile disclosed that the occupants were out of reefers (cigarettes) of marijuana and were pooling their money to purchase reefers, which was accomplished within minutes since one of the occupants left the automobile and quickly returned and remarked, "Here! Divide them."
    In the cheap cafe immediately connected with the main ballroom there are a number of booths for patrons [which] are usually occupied by teenage girls and boys on the dance nights of the week. These girls were determined in age from approximately fourteen to seventeen years, and in the majority of instances were between fourteen and fifteen years of age and usually resorted to the ballroom unaccompanied by a male escort and expected to be contacted by a dance partner during the course of the evening; however, late in the survey application confidential information disclosed that the majority of these teenage girls were without doubt employed by the ballroom management secretly as that of dance partners, regardless of the age of the male dance partner, adult or otherwise.
    In the ultimate analysis of this situation, it was disclosed that approximately sixty-five percent ratio of the female dancers are teenage and otherwise in the instance of the male dancers the approximate percent ratio is forty-nine as to the male teenage dancers. I cannot evaluate a greater contributory factor to that of juvenile delinquency and that of mediums of vice and crime than the licentious and nauseous atmosphere of this establishment.
    At no time during the course of the survey application was it disclosed that the ballroom or cafe management were guilty of bootlegging intoxicating liquor in the establishment, but the flagrancy of the bootlegging on the outside was definitely disclosed as pronounced and vicious, since it was obvious teenage girls and boys could obtain intoxicating liquor from bootleggers in parked automobiles, and the ratio of intoxicated individuals, usually after the midnight hours, teenage and adults was indeed noticeable in evidence.
    To the continuant fact: As of September 7th, 1953, 9:15 p.m. (the dance usually starts at 10:00 p.m.), a bootlegger in a new automobile (number confidentially to the District Attorney) with two very attractive teenage girls in the front seat, was detected filling what appeared to be pint legitimate whiskey bottles from a larger bottle. The girls in question were observed at 10:20 entering the ballroom, and the inside survey contact disclosed that they were making contact with teenage girls and boys, as well as a few adults; they appeared to be well known to the ticket taker at the entrance and numerous patrons and employees of the establishment. The modus operandi was obviously selling liquor by the drink in the ladies' lounge or elsewhere in places of concealment, and outside during intermissions.
    To the continuant fact: The Rogue Valley Ballroom commands no official regulations or supervision of the public morals, and is indeed a definite stimulus of vice and crime and that of juvenile drunken and sexual debauch, as well as to that of adults and teenage brawls, the illicit sale of narcotics & whiskey, and is potentially contributory to traffic hazards, automobile fatalities and accidents.
    It is a menace to the public health and morals and that of the community welfare and good. It is indeed an obvious firetrap, and in the instance of a conflagration or sudden catastrophe the loss of life could well be appalling. The structural physical condition of the building is indeed a public hazard to life, and the entire structure should be immediately condemned not only for this reason, but for the facts as otherwise herein disclosed; it should at least be permanently closed to the public.
    The Te Pee Dance Hall, 2604 Merriman Road. This dance hall is embraced within the same contributory factor to juvenile delinquency, and that as a stimulus medium of vice and crime and the potentialities of traffic hazards and that of automobile accidents and fatalities, and most particularly as to teenage intoxication and sexual debauch and the illicit sale of narcotics and bootlegging, with the particular exception that the flagrancy ratio percent in the scientific analytical recapitulation is disclosed as approximately fifty-nine percent less than in the instance of the Rogue Valley Ballroom.
    The Dreamland Ballroom, 417 East Main Street, Medford, Oregon discloses a ratio percent of eighty-seven less in its contributory aspects to that of juvenile delinquency, vice and crime, the potentialities of traffic hazards, automobile accidents and fatalities, teenage intoxication and sexual debauch, the illicit sale of narcotics and that of bootlegging, than in the instance of the Rogue Valley Ballroom. This fact is stimulus of the downtown location and mediums of automobile parking and motorized speed movement and policing application, also to the further fact the supervision and regulations by the management are more exacting and less inclined to the unlawful, and the patrons are of better moral quality, while in the instance of the Rogue Valley Ballroom commands the patrons of lower moral standards and greater inclinations to vice and crime.

   
*The original document is typed on 8½x14-inch paper with liberal use of the red ribbon. Without exception, every single adjective and noun is capitalized (though verbs are scrupulously left uncapitalized); commas and semicolons are sprinkled liberally and randomly throughout. In this transcription I've retained the peculiar vocabulary and syntax of the original, but occasionally changed the plurality of nouns and verbs so they agree. I've edited orthography and punctuation with abandon, in an attempt to make Jeffreys' tortured English accessible to the reader.
    Photocopies of this document, the original of which is in the Jackson County District Attorney's office, have been given to the Southern Oregon Historical Society, the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society and the Jackson County Library System.
    Side note: I've Googled some of Jeffreys' favorite phrases, such as "to the continuant fact," "stimulus mediums," "commercialized prostitutes," "cultivative processes." These are all either otherwise unknown or extremely rare in English-language communication.

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