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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Life in the
Valley
of Riches
By DAN MANCUSO,
Publisher
Generally speaking the week
between Christmas and New Year’s
is pretty quiet in the news gathering
world. People are out of town
celebrating the special holidays with
family and friends. In most cases the
paper is eight to 10 pages instead of
the normal 12 to 14. I feel like I am
cheating you and I don’t feel good
about it but it is what it is.
For the past seven years I have
put out a paper every week. I have
endured power outages, employee
issues, internet interruptions and
in the case of last year, 3.5 feet of
snow. I am tired and I need a break.
With this said, moving
forward we will not publish an
issue the first week of the year.
This probably won’t affect
most of you but I need to you plan
according..
I appreciate your cooperation
and understanding!
Happy Holidays!
Thank you for picking up this
weeks paper, enjoy! ~ djm
Today in History: by the Associated Press
On Dec. 13, 1937, the Chinese
city of Nanjing fell to Japanese forc-
es during the Sino-Japanese War;
what followed was a massacre of
war prisoners, soldiers and citizens.
(China maintains that up to 300,000
people were killed; Japanese nation-
alists say the death toll was far low-
er, and some maintain the massacre
never happened.)
On this date:
In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel
Tasman sighted present-day New
Zealand.
In 1769, Dartmouth College in
New Hampshire received its char-
ter.
In 1862, Union forces led
by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside
launched futile attacks against en-
trenched Confederate soldiers dur-
ing the Civil War Battle of Fred-
ericksburg; the soundly defeated
Northern troops withdrew two days
later.
In 1918, President Woodrow
Wilson arrived in France, becoming
the first chief executive to visit Eu-
rope while in office.
In 1928, George Gershwin’s
“An American in Paris” had its
premiere at Carnegie Hall in New
York.
In 1944, during World War II,
the light cruiser USS Nashville was
badly damaged in a Japanese kami-
kaze attack off Negros Island in the
Philippines that claimed 133 lives.
In 1962, the United States
launched Relay 1, a communica-
tions satellite which retransmitted
television, telephone and digital
signals.
In 1977, an Air Indiana Flight
216, a DC-3 carrying the University
of Evansville basketball team on a
flight to Nashville, crashed shortly
after takeoff, killing all 29 people
on board.
In 1981, authorities in Poland
imposed martial law in a crackdown
on the Solidarity labor movement.
(Martial law formally ended in
1983.)
In 1994, an American Eagle
commuter plane crashed short of
Raleigh-Durham International Air-
port in North Carolina, killing 15 of
the 20 people on board.
In 1996, the U.N. Security
Council chose Kofi Annan (KOH’-
fee AN’-nan) of Ghana to become
the world body’s seventh secretary-
general.
In 2003, Saddam Hussein was
captured by U.S. forces while hid-
ing in a hole under a farmhouse in
Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of
Tikrit.
Ten years ago: Democratic
presidential hopefuls meeting in
Johnston, Iowa, called for higher
taxes on the highest-paid Americans
and on big corporations in an unusu-
ally cordial debate. Rupert Murdoch
completed his $5 billion-plus deal
to acquire Dow Jones & Co., adding
The Wall Street Journal to his global
media conglomerate. Major League
Baseball’s Mitchell Report was re-
leased, identifying 85 names to dif-
fering degrees in connection with
the alleged use of performance-en-
hancing drugs.
Five years ago: U.N. Ambas-
sador Susan Rice withdrew from
consideration to replace outgoing
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton after running into opposi-
tion from Republicans over her ex-
planation of the September attack
on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi,
Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris
Stevens and three other Americans.
(Rice had said the attack stemmed
from a spontaneous protest over
an anti-Islamic video, an assertion
which later proved incorrect.)
One year ago: President-
elect Donald Trump announced his
choice of ExxonMobil CEO Rex
Tillerson to be U.S. secretary of
state. Louisville quarterback Lamar
Jackson was named The Associated
Press’ college football Player of the
Year. Actor Alan Thicke, best re-
membered as the beloved dad on the
ABC series “Growing Pains,” died
in Los Angeles at age 69. Lawrence
Colburn, a helicopter gunner during
the Vietnam War who helped end the
slaughter of hundreds of unarmed
Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops
at My Lai (mee ly), died in Canton,
Georgia, at age 67.
Obituaries
Oris Earl Richard-
son, 87, of Cave Junction,
died Nov. 29, 2017 at Asante
Three Rivers Medical Center.
Military honors will be at
11 a.m., Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 at
Eagle Point National Cemetery.
Illinois Valley Funeral Di-
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Reminder: There will be no issue published January 3, 2018
Save the date
Dec. 14
IVHS girls’ varsity basketball game at
Myrtle Point High School at 5:30 p.m.
IVHS boys’ varsity basketball game at
Myrtle Point High School at 7 p.m.
Dec. 15
Dec. 15
Celebrate the season and meet the staff
and board of Illinois Valley Safe House Alliance
at a Holiday Open House, Dec. 15 from 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m. The evening of fun includes cookies,
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Dec. 16
IVHS boys’ varsity wrestling tournament
at Grants Pass High School at 8 a.m.
IVHS boys’ varsity wrestling tournament
at Grants Pass High School at 9 a.m.
IVHS boys’ JV basketball game at home
vs. Days Creek High School at 4 p.m.
IVHS girls/ varsity basketball game at
home vs. Days Creek High School at 5:30 p.m.
IVHS boys’ varsity basketball game at
home vs. Days Creek High School at 7 p.m.
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refreshments, games and door prizes. Location:
103 S. Kerby Ave. at Lister St. in Cave Junc-
tion. Call 541-592-2515 for more information.
Continuing
Your public library has activities happen-
ing every week! New Storytime reader, Mela-
nie, has crafts and stories for kids of all ages
Saturdays at 12 noon. Families at Play baby-
parent group is for babies the first Wednesday
of the month from 1-2pm. Early literacy skills
are taught within a thirty-minute storytime of
songs, bounces, and reading, followed by a
half-hour of play and chat time. For more infor-
mation contact Roberta Lee at 541-592-4770.
IV Branch, Josephine Community Libraries,
209 W Palmer St, CJ
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*Illinois Valley Community Watch Meet-
ing every Monday from 5 - 6 p.m. at Wild River
Pizza, 249 Redwood Hwy. – Cave Junction. A
Public Safety Outreach Campaign effort with all
I.V. Neighborhood Watch Groups – representa-
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support for anyone wishing to start a neighbor-
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*The I.V. Senior Thrift Store: Join the
crew and make new friends. You don’t need to
be a senior citizen to volunteer at the store. Call
us at 541-592-6630. Open Monday – Saturday,
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
*The Sheriff’s Office Substation in Cave
Junction is now open on Mondays, Tues-
days, and Thursdays, 10 to 2. Volunteers are
still needed to staff additional days. Appli-
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*Cave Junction Patrol, LLC is looking for
volunteers. CJ Patrol is a private citizen volun-
teer organization dedicated to effectively ad-
dressing heretofore-unchecked property crime
in our city and neighborhoods. The primary
mission of CJ Patrol is to prevent, interrupt,
report and decrease property crime in the city
of Cave Junction. Call 541-592-9665 or visit
cjpatrol.org.
*Committee Meeting STATE OF JEFFER-
SON Josephine County 1st Thursday of each
month at 5:30 p.m. Black Forest Restaurant,
Grants Pass and 3rd Thursday of each month at
6 p.m., Wild River Pizza in Cave Junction.
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