Medford-related news items from 1935. Also see descriptions of Medford and Jackson County for this year.


    Four Building Permits Issued--Building permits issued within the past week include one to remodel the residence belonging to Wesley Coffeen, 320 Mary Street, at a cost of $250, one to demolish a residence belonging to J. W. Fine, 306 South Fir, at a cost of $50, another to rearrange the cabins at the Phipps auto park on North Riverside, at a cost of $150, and one for alterations at 102 North Central, for Dr. Lee, at a cost of $500.
"Locals," Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1935, page 12


    WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.--(AP)--Examination of a bomb received in the mail yesterday at the office of Senator Huey P. Long disclosed today a piece of paper used in constructing the instrument bore a strange message.
    War Department interpreters informed Long's office the message contained Greek, Yiddish and Turkish words, and was translated as follows:
    "Quit stalling around and send Moor Ar. In my opinion now is the time to strike. Send Ar here instead of Portland. Less danger suspicion. (Signed) MIFN."
    The package was postmarked Medford, Ore., and contained a portion of the Medford Mail Tribune, dated February 3.
    Investigators said they did not believe the note was directed to Senator Long because had the bomb exploded the paper probably would have been destroyed.
    The piece of paper on which the note was written was wrapped about four "dead" matches, and investigators said they believed this was to serve as a coil in conducting a spark.
    A small bottle, which was broken when the bomb was received, was examined by Agriculture Department chemists who said they were unable to determine what it had contained but were satisfied it was not nitroglycerin.
    The bomb was returned to the Post Office Department, where inspectors sought to learn the identity of the sender.
    Senator Long, who was in New York when the bomb arrived, was expected at the capital today.
    The February 3rd issue of the Mail Tribune contains a lead story under Baton Rouge, La., date line stating that "Huey P. Long today postponed indefinitely his 'murder plot' inquiry after hearing a witness testify as high as $20,000 had been offered for Long's head."
    Medford post office officials were unable to throw any light whatever upon the package which, according to Washington, D.C., investigators, bore a Medford, Ore., postmark. It is expected that postal special agents will make an investigation here, but what clues, if any they may have upon which to work, are undivulged.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 19, 1935, page 1


    While the hard-working country editors of Jackson County wear their fingers to the first nick, along comes Fate and bestows choice attention on a daily paper, the Medford Mail Tribune.
    Far be it from us to complain, but it does seem that a few rewards might be saved for threadbare, homely virtue--with which every weekly paper's press fountain fairly oozes. But no, plaudits of the world had to be directed toward an ordinary, habit-forming, six-days-a-week publication in yon city by the pear tree.
    It was not enough for Bob Ruhl's sheet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize medal. No! a 72-point no! Just when it seemed as though we village vagabonds might be able to rope in another subscriber, news emanates from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that Huey Long has received a bomb with a copy of the Medford Mail Tribune wrapped around its infernal mechanism.
    The injustice, the ignominy of it all. When a brother editor a scant 13 miles away falls into such fame, what hope has a little typewriter-punching, ink-smearing nonentity of ever getting anywhere surrounded by such competition? Completely crushing and overwhelming, that's what it is!
    Ah, Fame--that furtive, glittering, intangible something which eats moth-like holes in pants of poor printers only to fly away, well-fed, to flick its star-dust across the brow of Chosen Ones. Indeed, we of the weekly fold are in the depths as we go about the tedious task of printing newspapers doomed to start fires and wrap garbage.
    Philosophy, hasten with thy soothe.
Southern Oregon Miner, Ashland, February 22, 1935, page 4  The fountain on a printing press is the reservoir from which rollers transport ink.

Medford Pear Harvest.

To Celebrate Pear Week.

Fruit Harvest Concluded in Rogue River Valley.