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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Not to be too catty, but we’ve become quite familiar with
the Jellicle Ball, as described in part by T.S. Eliott:
Jellicle Cats are black and white,
Jellicle Cats are rather small;
Jellicle Cats are merry and bright,
And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul.
Jellicle Cats are white and black,
Jellicle Cats are of moderate size;
Jellicle Cats jump like a jumping-jack,
Jellicle Cats have moonlit eyes.
One path to our familiarity involves Charlie, the personifi-
cation of a Jellicle feline, who showed up at our front door one
Halloween night. He waltzed in and made himself at home.
He said, without saying it, “I’m here. I’m in charge. Live with it.”
But he kept wanting outside, and became an expert at slip-
ping out when we least expected it. We were extremely fearful
that he’d meet his Maker, as we live on a busy street.
Our Carlsbad granddaughters love him as much as we,
and so several months back we somewhat reluctantly trans-
ferred his care to them. He’s able to go in and out, as they live
on a quiet cul-de-sac with lots of undeveloped areas around.
Charlie has thrived in San Diego County. However, our
daughter, Vicki, has experienced some of the same situations
we encountered. Here are some of her comments:
“I have had to use museum wax on anything taller than 4
inches so that Charlie can't knock items off their shelves or
perches. He makes himself at home at my neighbor Donna’s
house anytime it suits him. She leaves her back slider open
so her cats can come and go, and Charlie thinks it’s for him.
“One day she was in her backyard doing gardening and
glanced at an upstairs window and there was Charlie, hang-
ing out in her bedroom looking down at her. She has caught
him in her kitties’ bed and eating their food too, while her cats
are home!
“He loves going outside. He has brought us countless
lizards, several mice and even a bird but keeps winding up on
our roof; I have to pop the screen from an upstairs window to
get him in. Charlie also considers himself ‘Guardian of the
House.’ A friend came by while we were all away, and was
attempting to leave a surprise for the girls. Charlie promptly
attacked.
“His internal clock is set to wake up around 4 a.m., so he
comes in our bedroom, and meows and bangs our bathroom
cabinet doors until we wake up. One of us has to catch him,
take him downstairs and put him in the garage until 6:30 when
we get up.”
Vicki also related that the same neighbor got a trip to an
ER ‘sort of’ because of the black-and-white creature, who for-
merly called Cave Junction his home. Apparently, Charlie was
in the woman’s somewhat disorganized garage. She was
dressed for going out, possibly wearing high heels, and
wanted to remove the creepingly clever critter from her envi-
rons. Unfortunately, while trying to scat the cat, she fell and
suffered two punctures on one shin. Ow!
So our buddy, who is growing up Down South, continues
his Jellicle ways. Meanwhile, we have acquired another Jelli-
cle, and little Jellirabbit exhibits most of the same behavior as
his elder cousin. We call him Jellirabbit because he has a pink
nose and long ears.
We have experiences with three other Jellicles. Sally was
Vicki’s longtime kitty cat, but she’s now in Meow Paradise.
Actually, we were stunned to find, by looking at a photo, that
Jellirabbit looks exactly like her. Then there was Trick or
Treat, another black-and-white wonder, who showed up at our
home in Poway, Calif. one Halloween night. Oct. 31 seems to
be a favorite time for Jellicles?
And there was Skippy, who was the I.V. News shop cat
for a few years way back when we first got here in the late
‘80s. He was a cool cat, who liked to climb into a box of
“popcorn” packing material and sink slowly to the bottom for a
nap. He was brought to us by two women after the previous
shop cat went away. Unfortunately for Skippy, he used up all
nine lives during an encounter with a chip truck across the
street from our office.
So some of the feline line has left, but the living link is not
leaving. And now, it’s time for my catnap.
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County fund solution:
Sell unneeded property
From Fred Krauss
Selma
Josephine County is
strapped for cash to operate
the sheriff’s office.
The county has 30,000
acres of land which was
repossessed for nonpayment
of taxes in the 1930s. It now
has a forestry department
with 10 1/2 employees and a
budget of $1.6 million.
My recommendation is
for Josephine County to do
as Jackson County did, and
sell all the land not needed
for parks and other county
activities. I estimate that the
timber on 30,000 acres
would be worth approxi-
mately $30 million. If we
sold that land we could also
put it back on the tax rolls
and generate tax income.
Why should Josephine
County be in the land busi-
ness? The $30 million, if
just put in the bank, would
make $2 million to $2 1/2
million a year in interest.
This money would be well-
used for the sheriff’s office
to bring it out of financial
stress and to help run our
jail and sheriff’s office more
proficiently.
Bush should obey laws
or be convicted by them
From Bill Pfohl
Kerby
Torture should not be
tolerated in our form of gov-
ernment. This will allow
them to do this to us.
It does not matter where
on Earth this government
does this torture. It should
not be tolerated. If the presi-
dent knowingly allows this
torturous act he should be
convicted to the full extent
of our real established laws.
We convicted the Japanese
and Germans for this same
torture technique in a time
of a very real world war.
It seems that if you con-
vict others for using this
torturous sword then you
should be convicted by
these same twin-edge sword
standards that our country
has established to be wrong.
Convict this president and
any president in the future
who thumbs his or her nose
at our established laws of
our lands.
I think that when we
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Cave Junction
Wednesday, Nov. 7
Still sunny, cold at
night
High--68 Low--28
Thursday, Nov. 8
Increasing clouds,
chance of rain late
High--64 Low--34
Friday, Nov. 9
Clouds; evening
showers likely
High--64 Low--34
Saturday, Nov. 10
Rainy and rainier
High--58 Low--34
Sunday, Nov. 11
Clouds, rain; then
possible snow
High--51 Low--30
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Monday, Nov. 12
Afternoon rain
High--55 Low--41
One year in Josephine County - $22.80
One year in Jackson and Douglas counties - $26.40
One year in all other Oregon counties and out-of-state - $36
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Tuesday, Nov. 13
Cold with rain
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High--45 Low--31
convicted these World War
II torturers they received 10
years and more in political
prisons for this same act that
our president is now doing
on a continuing basis. This
makes him a self-made ter-
rorist in his own twisted
right and will let the next
presidents think that they
can get away with this
wrong.
This president does
these torturous acts on for-
eign soil to try to cover his
tracks. This act of torture is
called water boarding,
which does most likely
drown the victim at times by
our president’s rubber stamp
with the CIA these days.
President Kennedy once
stated on TV that he was
going to take apart the CIA,
and I think he died soon
after as a result.
This is why great presi-
dents like Presidents Wash-
ington, Jefferson and Madi-
son stated that the people of
the population should al-
ways be allowed to own
guns, in the case that our
government gets totally out
of control. Of course, these
days it would not be a fair
fight, but at least they made
it known that we should
never be complacent to a
very big wrong like this one
in our present government.
If we are to progress in
this world we must try to
stop behavior like this in
every nation including ours.
We should shine the light of
honor and truth to the world
as we have done in the past.
A change is needed from
within this illegal heart of
our government. They must
do away with torture and
murder and the CIA doing
these things in our name. I
must confess I made a very
big mistake when I voted for
this now very mediocre
why-not-let-the-CIA-run-
the-government president.
People should write
their representatives about
this.
War with Iran said
pushed by president
From Crystal Griffin
Cave Junction
De’ja Vu: The drum-
beat by this administration is
increasing on the issue of
going to war with Iran. Here
are a few facts:
We are fighting the war
in Iraq, Iran on one side and
Afghanistan on the other, on
borrowed money. Iran has a
population of some 63 mil-
lion people. Iran is a modern
country. It is likely we
would sink their ships and
that they would sink our
ships.
The chances of Iran
striking America on our
homeland may be more
plausible. Iran was helping
the United States fight the
Taliban in Afghanistan. Iran
is at least five years away
from a nuclear weapon.
America has more nu-
clear weapons than any
country in the world. Read
about Hiroshima to under-
stand a nuclear scenario.
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures, and rainfall,
recorded in O’Brien
by Cheryl & Harry Johnson.
*Fri., Oct. 26 62 - 39
*Sat., Oct. 27 62 - 34
*Sun., Oct. 28 62 - 36 0.20
*Mon., Oct. 29 65 - 41 0.05
*Tue., Oct. 30 59 - 50
*Wed., Oct. 31 60 - 46
*Thurs., Nov. 1 60 - 39
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures, and rainfall,
recorded in Cave Junction at
Natural Designs Farm.
*Fri., Oct. 26 62 - 39
*Sat., Oct. 27 68 - 30
*Sun., Oct. 28 68 - 35 0.01
*Mon., Oct. 29 68 - 39 0.16
*Tue., Oct. 30 58 - 50 0.02
*Wed., Oct. 31 61 - 44
*Thurs., Nov. 1 62 - 36
Likes Toler approach
to timber situation
From Jill (Birmingham)
Talise
Kerby
I’m a property owner
adjoining BLM land. I sup-
port Dave Toler’s position
on a diverse solution to our
county’s economic crisis.
It is my experience that
Dave is highly dedicated to
the needs of our community,
putting aside any personal
opinions. He has good lead-
ership and problem solving
skills.
I feel that his “middle-
of-the-road” position best
reflects the concerns of most
of the people I have come in
contact with in Josephine
County. He is not catering to
either the “take-it-all” or
“leave-it-all” mentality.
Relying solely on huge
increases in logging our
heritage forests is a non-
sustainable, Band-Aid solu-
tion that will ultimately
leave us back at “square
one” soon, with ravaged
public forests and a divided
community.
There are great ex-
penses involved in logging,
fat profits for a few big
companies, lots of money
leaving the area, with only a
small trickle-down of funds
for our local communities.
There are other options
besides huge timber cuts or
extreme property taxation.
For example, a sales tax on
goods. It would have a di-
rect route into the county
coffers, a diverse populous
supporting its public infra-
structure and would not af-
fect basic needs such as
food or housing.
We should all work
together to solve our finan-
cial problems in a diverse
and sustainable way. Let’s
provide some real security
and an intact environment
for our children and their
children to come.
I feel that the people of
our county will support their
communities with reason-
able, “middle-of-the-road,”
long-term solutions.
BLM’s WOPR
gets her dander up
From Elaine Wood
Selma
Commissioner Jim Raf-
fenburg says that the
“environmentalist industry”
is to blame for Josephine
County poverty.
Realtor Jim Frick ap-
pears to be more interested
in his own pocketbook than
tourism dollars for our com-
munity. BLM’s Tim Reu-
wsaat says that we’ll run out
of timber in three years if
they don’t cut old-growth.
The voters say “No” to
libraries or police and fire
protection. Common sense
is apparently nowhere to be
found. And it definitely isn’t
in BLM’s Western Oregon
Plan Revision (WOPR),
BLM’s bid to change regu-
lations, continue dangerous
county dependence on tim-
ber, bring back clear-cutting
to public lands and further
bloat egregious corporate
welfare.
Even if some forested
areas (tree farms) are left
standing, BLM’s WOPR
proposes 13 new areas for
exploitation by all-terrain
vehicles, dirt bikes and four-
wheel-drive vehicles,
thereby further degrading
forest health, water and air
quality while shamelessly
instituting noise pollution
near homes.
What do people do
now; having bought their
homes believing that BLM
land bordering theirs was a
good thing, protecting prop-
erty values and quiet soli-
tude?
WOPR, a 10-pound,
three-volume, 1,600+ page
paper monster, is padded
with ignorant conclusions
using inadequate and bad
science designed to replace
the Northwest Forest Plan
(NFP). The public is given
120 days to substantively
comment. WOPR is de-
signed to overwhelm the
public.
Get a copy now from
BLM. Read the fine print
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