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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Winding trails: by Al hobart
Thursday, May 26, 1966
Illinois Valley News
Weather & jury duty
As was once cannily observed
by my favorite poet, Robert Burns,
who actually wasn’t telling us
anything we didn’t already know,
“the best laid plans of mice and men
gang aft agley.” Which, translated,
of course means that for any one of
a number of reasons we sometimes
miss the boat. Being sidetracked
from a well-planned or luck-guided
course, as everybody knows can
be disastrous, deeply disappointing
or merely annoying. So far when
this has happened to me I guess my
reaction would have to be cataloged
as only annoyance. Annoyance I can
take without too much stress, but
that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
To recklessly quote another
ROGUE VALLEY
astute observer of the past, “for
want of a nail a horseshoe was lost;
for want of the shoe the horse was
lost; for want of the hay burner the
would-be rider was lost; for want
of the wbr the–”and on and on till
the whole campaign went down the
drain. Such thoughts as the above
parade across my mind as I sit here
in the old log cabin pouting, in a
pleasant sort of way, and wondering
what unseen power has been pulling
the wrong strings lately and why
– and watching through the window
the tumbling thunder clouds roll by
overhead.
Because of an ominous official
letter from Crescent City, a swell
trip to eastern Oregon was lost. Bill
wanted me to go with him for a long
boat trip down the Owyhee, where
he and his brother, Bob, go each
spring, to guide sporting and nature-
loving dudes down the famous river.
But the ominous certified letter said
nix, come on down to your county
seat and gird your galloping loins
for a stint of jury duty, and added
darkly “and herein fail not.” Noting
that the letter came from the sheriff’s
office, and having exhausted all the
shady schemes I could dredge up to
crawl out of my bounden civic duty,
I decided to fail not.
And so, grinding my dentures
and muttering something about
a police state that wouldn’t let a
fellow have any fun anymore, I
stuffed a clean shirt into my brief
case, slapped on my new toupee
and went fuming off toward Smith
River Canyon and the coast, Little
Toot spewing out an indignant blue
contrail, and leaving twin trails
of hydrophobic foam floating out
both windows, testifying to all
and sundry that we were allowing
ourselves, with what little grace
we could spare, to be torn from
our comfortable surroundings and
foregoing other delightful pleasures
in order that justice may be done
in smoothing out the bumps in our
turbulent society.
For two days I sat in the
courtroom while the picking and
choosing of the jury went on and
on. Then near the end of the second
day I was told I could go home. But
my time wasn’t wasted. I spent two
nights at the Van Deventer home
comfortably batching with Van, and
had a nice visit with his convalescing
frau, Ruby, in the hospital, pleasantly
discussing such mutually fascinating
topics as spring wild flowers, apple
pie, etc.
Back home at last and free
of other plans for the moment I
hurriedly prepared to make an
exploratory trip out toward the Little
Chetco to check on the possibility
of Perry and Ruth getting out
through the fast melting snow, which
is still deep in many places. For
non urgent medical reasons they
planned on coming out at the-earliest
opportunity.
Now the weather has decided
to take a hand in the conspiracy of
my immobilization. I had my alarm
set for three o’clock this morning
but heavy rain woke me in the night,
so I reached over, inactivated the
clock’s stinger and settled back
with a sigh of mingled relief and
disgust. The morning was clear but
by mid afternoon heavy showers and
thunder was with us again, and I can
think of a lot of things more pleasant
than wallowing through wet snow
and brush in a thunderstorm.
To wind up the report in the
manner of its beginning, I’ll quote
yet another old timer who wisely
reflected that “this too will pass.”
Pretty soon the storm threat will be
over; my friends will be well and
sound again, and if certain enticing
opportunities are lost for reasons
beyond our control, the same
opportunities will no doubt show up
again in the sweet by-and-by.
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GMO report
products of that food digestion. This too
This same report was misinterpreted
The International Agency for Re-
is probably detrimental to our well being. 541-956-7587. Sponsored
by much of the media and the coverage
search on Cancer (IARC) of The World
The safety of commonly used
stating the NAS found GMO food safe is
by The Josephine County
Health Organization (WHO) has recently a gross overstatement. This NAS report
herbicides and other pesticides has
Spay & Neuter Fund.
published clear information on the toxic- will be discussed in a later article...
been seriously questioned, over and
ity of glyphosate, the main ingredient in
Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide, Round
Up. It leaves no question that Round Up
is truly genotoxic, (poisons genes) caus-
ing damage to life everywhere. It ex-
plicitly states that glyphosate, the main
ingredient in Round up, PROBABLY
CAUSES CANCER IN HUMANS..
It is very interesting that last week’s
report on GMO foods by the National
Academies of Science (NAS) didn’t
point out this WHO finding as a sub-
stantial cause of concern. Glyphosate is
widely and extensively used in larger and
larger amounts on GMO crops. In fact,
some crops are called “Round up Ready”
It should be mentioned that Monsanto
gives huge sums of money to the NAS...
With so much focus on the carcino-
genicity of herbicides another important
consideration is often lost. Round Up is
an herbicide, it kills plants. The bacte-
rial micro-organisms in your intestines
(friendly flora) are so much like plants.
that they have been considered part of
the plant kingdom...
One of our most important biological
process is the transformation of food into
usable nutrition. The microorganisms in
our intestinal tract do much of this for us.
Herbicides (plant killers) damage or kill
these microorganisms (friendly flora),
leaving us unable to properly digest our
food into proper nutrition. This leaves
us without necessary nutrients. Distorted
food digestion leaves us with distorted
Public Notice
AMENDEDTRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF
SALE. Reference is made to that certain Trust
Deed made by Trenia L. Lansdown, fka Trenia
L. Ingersoll, as Grantor, to Ticor Title Insurance
Company, as Trustee, in favor of Gene T. Flory,
Trustee of the Jacqueline M. and Gene T. Flory
Family Trust, recorded on August 8, 2007, in
the Official Records of Josephine County,
Oregon, as Document Number 2007-015523,
covering the following described real property
situated in said county and state, to wit: Lot 1,
Block B, FROST TRACTS SUBDIVISION,
Josephine County, Oregon. Property Address:
2000 Lake Shore Drive, Selma, OR 97538.
Both the Beneficiary and the Trustee have
elected to sell the real property to satisfy the
obligations secured by the Trust Deed and a
Notice of Default has been recorded in the
Official Records of Josephine County, Oregon,
as Document Number 2016-001340, pursuant to
Oregon Revised Statutes 86.735(3). The default
for which the foreclosure is made is Grantor’s
failure to pay when due the following sums:
Monthly payment in the amount of $735.00
for the Month of November 2015 and each
month thereafter, together with unpaid interest
accruing at a rate of 8.5% per annum on the
principal balance of $82,225.10 from October
14, 2015, together with accrued property taxes
in the amount of $2,048.81, together with all
legal fees, costs, and expenses incurred herein
by reason of said default; and any further sums
advanced by the Beneficiary for the protection
of the above described real property and its
interest therein. By reason of said default,
the Beneficiary has declared all sums owing
on the obligation secured by the trust deed
immediately due and payable, said sums being
the following to wit: Principal $82,225.10;
unpaid interest calculated through January 5,
2016 of $1,479.14; unpaid property taxes in the
amount of $2,048.81, plus all legal fees, costs,
and expenses incurred herein by reason of said
default; and any further sums advanced by the
Beneficiary for the protection of the above
described real property and its interests therein.
WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the
undersigned Successor Trustee will on June 17,
2016 at the hour of 10:30 am, in accord with the
standard of time established by ORS 187.110,
at the following place: the main front entrance
of the Josephine County Courthouse, 500 NW
6th Street, in the City of Grants Pass, County of
Jackson, State of Oregon, sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the
described real property which the grantor had or
had power to convey at the time of the execution
by grantor of the Trust Deed, together with any
interest which the grantor or grantor’s successors
in interest acquired after the execution of the
trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations
thereby secured and the costs and expenses
of sale, including a reasonable charge by the
Trustee. Notice is further given that any person
named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time
that is not later than five days before the date
last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure
proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed
reinstated by payment to the Beneficiary of the
entire amount then due (other than such portion
of the principal as would not then be due had
no default occurred) and by curing any other
default complained of herein that is capable
of being cured by tendering the performance
required under the obligation or Trust Deed, and
in addition to paying said sums or tendering the
performance necessary to cure the default by
paying all costs and expenses actually incurred
in enforcing the obligation and trust deed,
together with the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees
not exceeding the amounts provided by ORS
86.753. As of the date of this notice, the amount
necessary to cure the default is $7,979.95. This
sum includes costs, fees and accrued interest.
Interest continues to accrue at a per diem rate of
$19.148. In construing this notice, the singular
includes the plural, the word “grantor” includes
any successor in interest to the grantor as well
as any other person owing an obligation that the
Trust Deed secures, and the words “Trustee”
and “Beneficiary” includes their respective
successors in interest, if any. Without limiting
the trustee’s disclaimer of representations or
warranties, Oregon law requires the trustee
to state in this notice that some residential
property sold at a trustee’s sale may have been
used in manufacturing methamphetamines, the
chemical components of which are known to
be toxic. Prospective purchasers of residential
property should be aware of this potential
danger before deciding to place a bid for this
property at the trustee’s sale. Publish: 5/4, 5/11,
5/18, 5/25, 2016 in the Illinois Valley News
over again, yet these questions raised
by science, have been eclipsed by the
economic power of the pesticide produc-
ers and users. There is so much evidence
pointing to potential or probably serious
harm being done, to us and the envi-
ronment in which we live, that caution
should be applied. The safety of not only
pesticides but of all artificial chemical
additives should be proven before they
are unleashed and then widely dispersed
into the only place we have to live. An
under-tested insecticide which is being
allowed to seriously contribute to what
some very credible scientists are calling
the most foreboding problem of all those
we face will figure prominently in an
upcoming article.
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