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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, December 3, 2008
This might not be such a bright idea, to write about
the flashing lights, twinkling lights, the brilliant, glowing
and colorful lights of the Christmas season. Still, it’s
early times to pull the plug on the idea. See, I’ve been
wondering about the spirit of the season, why it’s said to
be “the most wonderful time of year.”
As a youngster, I looked forward to the Yuletide, but
mostly because of the gifts I knew I’d receive. Going to
Mass, especially the midnight celebration, was part of
my upbringing, and I can’t say that those times are not
memorable. That became especially true one early
morning when, during the stillness of the ceremony with
all heads bowed, I opened my mouth to yawn -- and a
bizarre hiccup emerged. It sounded like a dinosaur’s
hunting shriek.
Then there was the night I kept asking Mom where
Dad was. I had seen him headed next door with a large
box, and wanted to see what he was up to. Mom told
me sternly to not go next door “if I wanted to enjoy
Christmas.” Well, that’s all I wanted to know: Now I was
fairly certain that I was getting a bicycle because the
friendly guy next door was handy with tools and assem-
bling “stuff.” Dad was not. (And he passed it on to me).
With age comes some maturity (a bit, anyway, for
me). So the enjoyment now is giving gifts, especially to
our children and grandchildren.
And about those lights on Christmas trees and their
reflections on decorative bulbs, which are big in my
memory. Sometimes, my brother, Steve, and I would sit
in the living room with only the tree lights on, basking in
the colorful glow, while we wondered about the gifts un-
der the tree. Dad never wondered, as he had no qualms
about making holes in the bottoms of his gifts to see
what he was getting. Really, he did.
For Christians, the light of the world is Jesus, which
is why Christmas is celebrated. As I continue to get
older, something I cannot seem to avoid, the idea of His
light dispelling the darkness seems lots more appealing.
My continuing wish is that the spirit of sharing and
caring, which emerges during Christmas, whether one is
a Christian or not, will shine year-round. That way, we’d
have “the most wonderful time of the year” every day.
Whether we receive a bicycle or not.
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Hays, Hayes, Hay
From Larry Smith
Cave Junction
Something has been
buggin’ me a long time. Ac-
tually there is a long list of
things buggin’ me, but lately,
reading the Noose seems to
cause this little problem to
arise more frequently.
As you may or may not
know, I live on Hays Cutoff.
Actually I live in the house
built by Clyde Hays and his
parents, I believe, in 1911.
We had Jay Hays, his sister,
Evelyn Parmelee-Hays, and
her husband, Roy Parmelee,
(since deceased) over to the
house when we were renovat-
ing in 1993 to kinda’ “give
their blessing” to our effort.
We learned lots of neat
facts about the frontier days
of white folk in Illinois Val-
ley. We really respect the
efforts and care that the old-
timers put into establishing
“civilization” in this valley,
especially knowing that there
were adversities such as in-
clement weather, rough ter-
rain, irritated natives, irriga-
tion problems, lack of formal
services like health care, elec-
tricity, roads, communication
and so on.
So on to the point. We
have lived here since 1989,
and somewhere around ‘93,
our mail started to be
“Postally Corrected” as
“Hayes Cuttoff Rd.” At the
time I didn’t know it was a
result of Postal Correction, so
I argued with those having
our address in their mailing
data bases, but was told that
nothing could be done.
Hays Cutoff has a Stop
sign at each end; thus, it is
known as a “cutoff.” One
time some turkey took the
Stop sign from the north end
of Hays Cutoff, and when the
county replaced it, it read
“Hayes Cutoff.” Through real
estate connections I became
aware of a database,
CCLTech, which supplies info
on real estate such as tax re-
cords in Josephine County. It
also provides info about the
sheriff’s office, banks, etc. I
contacted the guy responsible
for dissemination of that info,
John Longbein, and he in-
formed me of the Postal Cor-
rection thing and that there
was nothing he could do.
When we started reading
Illinois Valley News in 1988
(before we moved here) I was
always glad to see that some-
one was paying attention to
the detail of keeping the name
of Hays Cutoff reported cor-
rectly. Why, even the names
of Hayes Hill and Fort Hay
always were spelled correctly.
Lately it seems as though
every time the Noose has to
enter the name of one of
those geographical sites, a
different version is used. I
suppose if readers can figure
out what is meant by the way
the name is presented pho-
netically, then that’s good
enough. But as I said, it’s
something that’s been bug-
gin’ me.
I will eventually get over
to the Schmidt House in GP
and get the historical society
involved; maybe it could pro-
duce something accurate that
you could print, or it might
even help you when deciding
if it’s Hayes Hill or Hays Hill
or Hay’s Hill, etc.
Opposing WOPR views
From Guenter Ambron &
Jill Talise
Cave Junction
We’re writing to encour-
age everyone concerned about
our economy and the forest-
harvesting practices of BLM
in Illinois Valley to consider
taking part in expressing their
views and understanding in
the matters of forestry and
business practices.
Our valley would be hit
the hardest with the 28,000
acres that BLM has put on the
shelf for harvesting until after
the Western Oregon Plan
Revision (WOPR) final re-
view. The Josephine County
Board of Commissioners has
endorsed the Southern Ore-
gon Resource Alliance
(SORA) proposal to litigate
and lobby for double the pro-
posed clear-cuts and thinning
in the neighboring forests
next to our properties, this
being approximately 35 mil-
lion board feet with the origi-
nal plan. WOPR would in-
crease that to approximately
500 percent, and if the maxi-
mum supported by our com-
missioners is levied, then we
could see figures in excess of
250 million board feet.
This would obliterate any
remaining integrity of our
BLM public land. After the
land is cut it will not yield
any real possible revenue for
80 to 100 years. Thus, as
Roger Brandt indicated, the
land would no longer be sub-
ject to supporting any other
usage for the community and
our economy other than the
logging industry.
Jill and I expressed our
concerns before the county
commissioners; and video
coverage can be found at
co.josephine.or.us. Following
is an excerpt of the proposal
we submitted to our commis-
sioners in behalf of expand-
ing the vision of our future
and allowing residents in our
valley to participate.
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A Vision For Our Future
Economy and Our Forests
“There is a rising con-
cern that parts of the SORA
Let me mail your Christmas cards.
Need labels & envelopes printed,
data prepared for mailing?
Cave Junction
Wednesday, Dec. 3
Cloudy
High--53 Low--23
Thursday, Dec. 4
Sunshine
High--50 Low--24
Friday, Dec. 5
Sun hidden by clouds
High--44 Low--26
Saturday, Dec. 6
Cloudy
High--51 Low--31
Sunday, Dec. 7
Clouds, some rain
High--49 Low--33
Monday, Dec. 8
Rain
High--46 Low--41
Tuesday, Dec. 9
Rainy
High--47 Low--31
Call: Ellie’s Data Base
592-3054 or 287-0660
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures, and rainfall,
recorded in O’Brien by
Cheryl & Harry Johnson:
*Fri., Nov. 21 47 37 .00
*Sat., Nov. 22 51 39 .09
*Sun., Nov. 23 46 33 .00
*Mon., Nov. 24 43 34 .00
*Tue., Nov. 25 48 37 .00
*Wed., Nov. 26 45 40 .00
*Thu., Nov. 27 44 39 .00
Following are the high-and-
low temperatures, and rainfall,
recorded in Cave Junction at
Illinois River Farm:
*Fri., Nov. 21 48 34 .41
*Sat., Nov. 22 48 37 .09
*Sun., Nov. 23 48 33 .29
*Mon., Nov. 24 41 35 .01
*Tue., Nov. 25 47 38 .02
*Wed., Nov. 26 46 40 .00
*Thu., Nov. 27 43 39 .09
plan (the BLM’s Western
Oregon Plan Revision)
merely implies but the further
application of the Bush ad-
ministration’s failed eco-
nomic policies and economic
short-sightedness and that it
primarily supports a small
group of industries with little
or no consideration to com-
munity values, health or long-
range economic viability.
We (citizens of I.V.)
would like the board to con-
sider assembling a summit
and a series of workshops to
gather the facts and input
from all relevant science and
studies that would provide the
county with pertinent infor-
mation from which it can
assess a sound perspective on
economics and can work to-
wards a comprehensive land
use strategy and policies in
conjunction with state and
federal support.
The Media Center &
First Steps Group together
with BCC (Board of County
Commissioners), Josephine
County Chamber of Com-
merce and the I.V. Chamber
and other forest research enti-
ties and Southern Oregon
University can work collabo-
ratively in providing the most
comprehensive research pos-
sible. This should also in-
clude a cross-section of land
owners, developers and real-
estate people.
If you want to build trust
with the people of this county
and Illinois Valley then you
will do more than just con-
sider this plan or one like it.”
‘Spiritual Human’ advice
From Raymond Ronald
Karczewski©
I am going to make this
as simple as possible, for
there is nothing that I need to
explain since deep within
each of us, we already under-
stand what we need to know
to live a life of freedom, of
sovereignty.
But most have been con-
ditioned through a sustained,
lifetime campaign of mind
control to doubt themselves.
All that one need do to regain
freedom in their own life is
remove the miasma of confu-
sion arising from the lifelong
program of authoritative
mind-control conditioning.
A Christ is the master of
his own mind. He therefore
stands alone in a world of
mass confusion. He navigates
through a complex world
with utmost simplicity
through Divine Awareness.
All have that capacity, but
they have traded it for seduc-
tive, hollow promises.
A slave, victim of his
own mind in his co-
dependent state, clings to
herd-like group-think, or-
dered and directed, much to
their ignorance through re-
mote suggestion. For 13
years, I have addressed this
issue on the Internet. Those
capable of plodding through a
mountain of evidence show-
ing the spiritual sovereignty
of the mass of Christs suffer-
ing from amnesia can visit
www.arkenterprises.com. It
stands as proof of personal
sovereignty that is the spiri-
tual estate of every living,
breathing, flesh-and-blood,
sentient, natural man and
woman.
The fast track to under-
standing who you are, and
your spiritual capacities, can
be found in Journey Beyond
Thought: Breaking the Bonds
of the Conditioned Mind. It is
the book that leads to simplic-
ity in a complex life.
I have oft written of the
spiritual solution to the New
World Order that lies in the
personal action of boycott,
boycott, boycott. It comes
from individual action, not
group organization. Group
thought is Satanic thought.
Divine awareness is the
property of the simple, hon-
est, man or woman acting in
the eternal moment of now
through their direct percep-
tion of truth. Its power lies
beyond the Satanic realm of
intellectual thought, and
therefore is not subject to, and
immune from, limited power
of Satanic intellectual attack.
This is my contribution.
Whether anyone accepts it or
not is their business, not
mine.
I.V. Chamber of Commerce
Annual
Public
Auction
Beer & Wine Tasting courtesy
Wild River Brewing & Pizza Co.
Foris Vineyards, and Bridgeview
Winery
Friday, December 5
Wine & Beer tasting begins at 6 p.m.
Auction begins at 7
Wild River in Cave Junction
Free Admission
No Obligation to Bid
Clerking - Anna’s Attic
Auctioneer - Jim Frick