Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR 97523 October 23, 2002
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Tuesday, Oct. 15
*7:28 a.m. Medical assist
with (all with American Medi-
cal Response ambulance): 300
block Dick George Road.
Wednesday, Oct. 16
*3:06 a.m. Medical assist:
400 block Addison Lane.
*3:59 a.m.: Medical as-
sist: 24500 block Redwood
Hwy.
*10:29 a.m. Public assist:
8600 block Takilma Road.
*12:52 p.m. Smoke inves-
tigation: Waldo Road/Takilma
Road.
*2:10 p.m. Smoke investi-
gation: Reeves Creek Road/
Lakeshore Drive.
*2:41 p.m. Smoke investi-
gation: Cascade Drive/Ken
Rose Lane.
*6:52 p.m. Structure fire:
100 block N. Redwood Hwy.
Thursday, Oct. 17
*5:17 p.m. Public assist:
700 block Robinson Road.
*8:26 p.m. Grass fire:
14500 block Takilma Road.
Friday, Oct. 18
*1:14 p.m. Motor vehicle
accident: 300 block W. Lister
Street.
*6:45 .m. Medical assist:
E. River Street/Old Stage
Road.
Saturday, Oct. 19
*1:31 a.m. Medical assist:
18100 block Redwood Hwy.
*4:05 p.m. Medical assist:
27400 block Redwood Hwy.
Sunday, Oct. 20
*11:48 p.m. Medical as-
sist: 18200 Redwood Hwy.
*8:57 p.m. Medical assist:
17000 block Redwood Hwy.
Downtown plan
on council list
for Monday
The Cave Junction City
Council will meet at 7:30 p.m.
on Monday, Oct. 28 in city
hall, 222 W. Lister St.
The agenda will include
minutes from the previous
meeting, and an update on the
city's downtown revitalization
project. Specifically, council-
ors will discuss where to put
the new benches, trash recep-
tacles and planters they plan
to order.
They also will continue
discussion on what types of
trees will be planted where in
Downtown CJ.
I tell you and you
forget. I show you and
you remember. I
involve you and you
understand.
- Eric Butterworth -
THE BAND, MAN! - Always providing spirited music for various Illinois Valley High School
sporting events and other activities, the Cougar Band, led by T. Lund is a welcome addition.
This photo was taken on Saturday, Oct. 19 when the band played at the IVHS vs. Phoenix foot-
ball game. Watch the ‘Noose’ for information about the annual winter concert.
Riddle wants focus on commissioners
doing their jobs as county managers
A believer in community
involvement, a balanced econ-
omy and steady leadership,
Josephine County Commis-
sioner hopeful Jim Riddle met
with approximately 20 people
for a question-and-answer fo-
rum on Friday, Oct. 11 at
Wild River Brewing & Pizza
Co. in Cave Junction.
Riddle has lived in Rogue
Valley for 15 years with his
wife, Kelli, and four children,
with family there since the
late 1950s.
His parents founded AWS
Doors, Windows and Cabinets
in Grants Pass, where Riddle
is employed.
Riddle is no stranger to
politics, as he was elected to
the Grants Pass City Council
in 1996 to 2001.
“When the candidates
started fighting for the com-
missioners race I felt I was
right for the job,” said Riddle.
“I decided to throw my hat in
the ring.”
During the forum, most
questions radiated around
what needs to be done to help
Illinois Valley get out of its
depressed state. Another ques-
tion asked Riddle what he
thought he should do to help
build a consensus with the
other commissioners.
“I have met with 16 to 18
department heads and the
common concern among them
is the budget,” he said. “In
2006 we may lose the O&C
Please don’t litter.
money, and we need to figure
out a way to help replace
those funds.
“Timber was big business
that sustained the valley. But
that’s gone now. We went
through a process where mills
were shutting down which
resulted in a lot of displaced
workers,” said Riddle. “The
days of 55 mills in the valley
are gone; there will not even
be 15.
“What we need to do,” he
said, “is to figure out how to
entice people to establish busi-
nesses here. A perfect sce-
nario would be a business
similar to DCS (delinquent
loans) in Grants Pass.
Shel Anderson asked Rid-
dle how he felt about poor
people and what could be
done to help people living in
poverty levels in the valley,
pointing out that he had never
been poor.
“I think there are rich peo-
ple that are darn lucky and
then there are poor people
who are not motivated enough
to pull themselves out of the
poverty they are in,” he said,
“and if growing up in an
apartment with your sister
and mother in El Monte, Calif.
is luxurious, then yes I was
rich,” said Riddle.
“The county cannot pro-
vide all things for all people;
we can assist in programs
such as providing a building
to run ‘Meals on Wheels’ or
provide seed money or match-
ing funds for grants. The
county should not be a vehicle
to subsidize everyone in the
poverty level,” said Riddle.
Riddle believes that it’s
time to let the commissioners
get back to what they were
elected to do.
“We need an operations
officer, an in-house informa-
tion gatherer if you will,” he
said. “The commissioners
spend a lot of their time doing
things that a professional man-
ager should be doing.”
Another suggestion by
Riddle is that Rogue Commu-
nity College and Illinois Val-
ley might team together and
possibly hire a professional
grant writer.
“There is grant money out
there, you just have to know
how to get it,” he said. “The
down-side is that a lot of them
are designated for new pro-
jects so a new service would
have to be created to get the
funding,” said Riddle.
“The number one export
in Oregon right now is com-
puters and computer software.
Maybe that’s the way to go,”
he said.
“We need to work on
things that are positive in the
county, not just the Grants
Pass area. We need to
strengthen our outlying areas,”
said Riddle. “This community
needs some positive win-win
things to happen,” he said.
Humans are good at grouping objects, words and even
ideas into categories. Doesn’t every household have a silver-
ware holder to keep the spoons, forks and knives in separate
compartments?
There are good reasons why we do this, but some people
seem more fanatical about it than others. Should I hang
shirts in the closet in order of color, or by fabric type, or
even by intended use, such as church shirts, casual shirts or
grubbies? Should I hang the church shirts next to the suit
coats, or should the trousers go next to the suit coats?
Some people think that biologists are a little too fanati-
cal about classification with phyla, orders and species names
to keep similar organisms together. Even astronomers get
some static over whether a newly discovered object in space
should be a planet or put in a different category. Stars,
which produce their own light, are not planets that reflect
sunlight. But even stars are subdivided into smaller groups.
Classification of stars is based on two main properties:
brightness and color. The brightness -- or magnitude -- of a
star is determined by its size, distance from Earth, its age,
and the chemicals it contains. The color of a star, according
to present theories, is primarily determined by its tempera-
ture, with red being the coolest and blue-white the hottest.
Our Sun is considered a medium-size, medium-
temperature (yellow) star. It is the brightest star because it is
so close to Earth. Astronomers can mathematically calculate
what the brightness of stars would be if they were all at the
same distance from Earth. This is then called the absolute
magnitude of a star.
In this comparison the Sun would be quite dim, and
some of the fainter stars would have low magnitudes. The
lower the magnitude, the brighter the star, with some stars
having negative magnitudes because they would be so
bright. Astronomers are not always logical.
In 1906 a Danish astronomer, Ejnar Hertzsprung, made
a graph with the absolute magnitude of stars on the vertical
axis, and temperature (color) on the horizontal axis. After
plotting most of the known stars he found that the majority
would be located on a diagonal zone through the graph.
Most red stars are dim; yellow are brighter. The white
stars are brighter still, and the blue-white stars are at the top-
left corner of the graph as the brightest. This zone was
called the “Main Sequence” stars. This idea later was sup-
ported by the work of an American astronomer, Henry N.
Russell, in 1913. He and Hertzspring, then working to-
gether, corrected their graph to produce what today is called
the H-R Diagram, using their last initials.
Today the H-R Diagram is an essential part of most as-
tronomy text books and is well known by all astronomy stu-
dents. The diagram is used by astronomers to determine ap-
proximate distance of stars, as well as temperature estimates
of newly discovered stars. Some stars, such as red giants
and white dwarfs, are not on the main sequence zone in the
diagram. This had led to much speculation about the way
stars are formed; how long they will last; and how they will
behave at the end of their existence.
Hertzsprung, born on Oct. 8, 1873 in Copenhagen, Den-
mark, made many other important discoveries in astronomy.
Calculating distances using astrophotography was another
of his important contributions. And Russell, born on Oct.
25, 1877 in New York state, became director of the Prince-
ton University Observatory and developed principles of
atomic physics into theories of star evolution.
These two men created a star classification system
widely used by astronomers of today.
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