BOX HOLDER
Sec. 562—P. L. À R
SAMPLE COPY
A LIVE WIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS
Volume I
w
r
No. 2
Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, May 20, 1937
Price 5 Cents
Pupils Of
Forest Service Governor Will Pass Graduating
Chamber
High School
Activities At Through Valley at Exercises
To Discuss
Graduate
Local Station 2:45 p. m. Tuesday Monday
Name Change
About 300 people viewed a
stage all banked with green fol
iage and beautiful flowers at the
Kerby Union high school on Mon
day, May 18th. On the platform
sat the 11 seniors. They were,
Alice Hogue, Frances Allen, Mar
telle Maurer, Cleo Haberman,
Ardys Ramsey, Ray Fro-t, Ccrdon
Leonard, Norman Wilson, Jim
Brooks, Harry Smith and F'hil
Sawyer.
The invocation was given by the
Rev. C. G. Morris. Following
that was a song by >ome of the
high school girls, namely Dorothy
Gibson, Maxine Patrick, Audrey
Wilber, Grace Thrasher and Lor
etta McCracken.
A very interesting commence
ment address wa- given by James
T. Chinnock of Grants Pass. Mr.
Perry presented diplomas to the
above mentioned seniors. Schol
arship awards were given to Alice
Hogue and Frances Allen whose
four years average was so close
it was impossible to determine who
should be valedictorian and salut-
atorian. Harry Smith was within
one-tenth of a point of their av
erages
The five high school girl-, en-
tentained with another beautiful
song, “Night in June.” Claudia
Buck played the accompaniment.
Coach Dan Jones presented the
following boys with their letters
for basketball, Bob Schumacher,
Karl Theuerkauf, Bud Brooks,
Chet Martin, Norman Wilson, Raj-
Frost and Marvin Prentice. Jack
Henderson who has moved, who
was one of our best players also
earned his letter. Those receiving
letters for track were. Ray Berg
mann and Jim Brooks.
Mr. Perry, the principal, gave
a farewell speech after which came
the recessional by Don Hill.
The seniors received many gifts
and beautiful flowers along wit'i
the best wishes of their friends of
the Illinois va'ley.
Ray Burdick returned to the
Redwood Ranger station May 17
to assume the position of Protec
tive Assistant. This will be Bur
dick's second sea-on at the station
where he is in charge of the of
fice and acts as fire dispatcher.
During the winter month- Bur
dick has been employed at the
Supervisor’s office in Grants Pass.
Mrs. Burdick will return to Cave
Junction as soon as quarters are
available.
NEARLY 300 AUTOS WILL PASS THROUGH
THE VALLEY WITH GOV ERNOR M ARTIN
ON WAY SOUTH FOR DEDIC ATION
Governor Martin’s good-will caravan to the San
Francisco Golden Gate bridge dedication, with ap
proximately 300 automobiles, will pass through the
Illinois valley Tuesday, May 25th, about 3 p. in., on
their way south to attend the big bridge dedication.
Governor Martin and his party from the north,
Renger and Mrs. Nelson of the will be the guests of the Grants Pass Chamber of
Redwood Ranger station -pent Commerce at a big noon luncheon given in his honor
Sunday visiting Ranger and Mrs. in the Redwoods hotel, and the Cavemen and Cave
Lowden at the Gasquet Ranger
women will act as hosts and guide the party during
station near Crescent City.
their stay in Grants Pass.
From central, northern and eastern Oregon, the
Road and trail maintenance has [
started on the Page creek district caravan will join the northern contingent and leave
of the Siskiyou National Forest.
Grants Pass at 2 p. m., going over the Redwoods high
Art Cribb, Marvin Ramsey and
Jimmie Miller have just complet way to Eureka where the entire party will stop for
ed the maintenance of trails in dinner and a reception will be tendered the governor
the Canyon creek area and are and party in the evening.
now working trails in the Suckei
The Cave City Chamber of Commerce has asked
creek area.
the
governor to stop for a few minutes as they pass
Hugh White of Kerby, was dis. |
patched with four men to maintain through and this will undoubtedly be done, but it
the trails in the Baldface area. will only be a moment as the party has a hard sched
This crew will go over the Mc ule to make in getting to Eureka for dinner. The
Grew way and make it passable
local Chamber will, in all probability, have a commit
to pack stock. The McGrew way
tee to greet the governor and his caravan as they pass
is a trail that was once the old
McGrew road, first wagon road j through and make as big a fuss as possible, for we do
between the Illinois valley and the not get a chance to see the governor very often.
coast.
Several cars will join the caravan from Illinois
Another trail crew under the
valley
and if anyone can go, they should do so, as the
foremanship of Paul Shippy is
advertising
possibilities for the .valley will be greatly
working the East fork of the Il
enhanced on this trip.
linois river area.
Road maintenance under the
supervision of Mr. Cameron of
the Fore-t Supervisor'- staff in
Grants Pass was started last week.
The Illinois river road to Oak
Flat is now being maintained. The
crew will next be moved to the
Old Oregon mountain road where
they will work to the top of Ore
gon mountain. The Forest Ser
vice bridge crew, also under Cam
eron's supervision, has just com
pleted a new bridge over Whiskey
creek on the old Oregon mountain
road.
Following is the program of the
caravan from the time it arrives
in Grants Pass until it reaches
San Francisco:
May
25,
12
Noon—Governor
Martin’- party, about 20 cars, will
arrive in Grants Pass.
Remain
until 2 o'clock. Luncheon for tht
governor'- party at the Redwoods
hotel 12 noon sharp.
this main caravan. Lead the car
avan over the Redwoods highway
through the Illinois valley to Cres
cent City and Eureka.
6:30 p. m.— Dinner, at Eureka
Inn. It is estimated there will
be 400 cars in the entire party,
including the caravan from Ore
gon coa-t.
9:00 p. m.—Eureka gives Gov
ernor Martin and the Oregon del
egation a reception ball.
m.—The main caravan
from central, northern, and east
Wednesday, May 26, 7:30 <1. m.
ern Oregon, including Kiamath
-Leave Eureka and arrive San
Falls, Medford, Ashland, etc., will
Francisco at 5:00 p. m.
arrive at Grants Pass. (Estimat
At San Rafael the entire party
Fire -eason as prescribed by ed 300 cars).
will be entertained and luncheon
the Oregon Fire laws opened on
The governor’s party will join served for the caravan.
May 15. It is now unlawful to
have any open fire in this area
| without first obtaining a burning
Hen and ( at Fight
permit. Such permits are issued LEGION AUXILIARY
at the Redwood Ranger station PLANS POPPY DANCE Over Kittens Brood
for the Illinois valley and that
Social meeting of the American
With the formal sanction re area within the Siskiyou National
If Mr. Ripley wants something
ceived from Washington, prelim forest. The fire laws also require Legion Auxiliary was well attend new and strange he should vi-it
inary work was begun the first a permit from the State Forester ed. A short business meeting was the Log Cabin Lunch at Kerby.
of the week on a new tunnel in to operate any kind of a gas or held.. Reports were received on
Clara Magill, proprietress of the
the Oregon Caves, it was an steam engine within or near any the cost of a kitchen and meeting Log Cabin, set a hen and thought
nounced by David H Canfield, forest or bru-h covered area. The room for the Auxiliary, and it no more about it. The same day
administrator of the national mon Forest Ranger at Cave Junction was decided to proceed with the her cat became the mother of kit
tens. Somehow the hen saw those
will be glad to help any operator present plan- for building.
ument.
Members are to meet next Sat little kitten- and decided she
The new tunnel will extend a in the Illinois valley to fill in their
urday at the cemetery for clean would rather raise them than sit
deadend spur until it connects' applications for such permits.
up work on Veteran’- graves in on a nest and hatch out her own
M. M. NELSON,
with the main passage, thus mak
District Ranger. preparation for Memorial Day. brood.
ing it possible to guide additional
Initiation of new members it
--------------o--------------
The hen after reasoning the
parties through the caves, Mr. ■
planned for next meeting night, thing over, deliberately got off
Canfield explained. As it is now ’
Loral Residents Are
June 2. Al) members and pros her nest and walking over to the
visitors must wait until parties in
Back from Seattle
pective members are urged to at mamma cat engaged the feline in
the spur return.
tend for a good time is promised. battle for the po-session of the
The new tunnel will be con
Mr. and Mr-. Frank Hatley and
Plans for the poppy dance, to kittens.
structed by CCC men
Two and
Mrs.
Floyd Hayes returned home be held on May 29 were discussed.
Taken by surprise the cat was
possibly three -hifts will be util
ized to complete the passage be- 1 la-t Saturday from a weeks visit I At the conclusion of the busine-s bested and driven away from her
Immediately the new
fore the CCC camp is moved for j in Seattle. Mrs. Hatley and Mrs. meeting the ladies were joined b” little ones
Hayes, sisters, were visiting their the Legionnaires and the remain mother gathered the kittens un
the summer to Crater lake about
father Ernest Hale and all report der of the evening given over to der her wing- and proceeded to
June 15, Mr. Canfield -tated.
having had a very enjoyable visit, fun and refre-hments.
keep them there.
--------------o--------------
regardless of the fact that it
Mrs. Magill takes the hen away
--------------o-------------
rained every day while they were
occasionaly and the mother cat
Representative from
gone.
immediately rushes over to her
Howard-Cooper Corp.
Mr. and Mr-. Hatley are pro Ixjyd Lewis Starts
kittens who proceed to nurse.
prietors of the Owl Cafe and New Truck on Route
Ix>oks Over Valley
The thing that worries Mrs Ma. I
brought back new ideas for the
gill is what to call the kittens
Loyd Lewi- of the Illinois Val
C. H. Pairan, Jr., sales represen- Owl which they hope to put in
when grown Will they be Rhode
tativr of the Howard-Cooper cor operation in the near future
ley Meat company, this week Island Red- or Persian Plymouth
poration of Portland, was in Cave
o
started his meat truck, which hat Rocks?
Mr. and Mrs. Blake L. Miller
Junction Wednesday looking af
------------- o-------------
just had installed a new refrig
ter the interests of his company. are moving into the Tuft home at
Mrs A J. Drews has been ill
Howard-Cooper company carry Kerby. Mr. Miller is in charge of eration box, covering the entire
for several days, but is fast im
a complete line of mining equip the COPCO lines in the Illinois valley.
Charlie Ham is the obliging op- j proving now.
ment as well as road manhinery, valley. He says in ca-e of trouble
.....o
and the company is apparently in to get in touch with him and he erator of the truck and will be
No olive was ever more fasci
terested in the development of the ' will do his very best to make re- i on the route Mondays, Wednes
rating to «at ’han a dill pickle.
day and Fridays.
mining activities in this section
pairs at once.
------------- o- ■ •
■ -
New Tunnel
Started In
Oregon Caves
2:00 p.
A new venture in graduating
exercise- has been arranged fo\
the grade schools of thi- district.
Heretofore all schools have held
their own individual commence
ment exercises, but this year
Payne, Holland, Selma, White,
O’Brien, Spence, Takilma, Waldo
and Kerby will all join togethei
and hold district graduating exer
cises, with the above named
schools participating.
The exercise- will be held Mon
day, May 24th at 8 p. m. in the.
high school gym at Kerby. Joint
Sth grade graduation exercises
will be held with the above named
-chools.
A graduating class of about 40
student- are expected from com
bined schools. Payne will hav*
one; Holland four; Selma five;
White six; O’Brien five; Spence
two; Takilma one; Waldo two ami
Kerby 14.
The Legion is planning to make
an award to the boy or girl in this
group of school- who places high
est in the test prepared and given
by the Legion. The test will covet;
approximately 100 point- in the
subjects of civics, history, arith
metic, current events, English and
spelling
The public is urged to attend
the graduating exercises and the
several -chool boards and Prill
cipal Laws of the Kerby school
who is in charge of the exerci-es
urge all interested in the publiq
school system to attend the grad,
uatiiig exercises.
Following is the list of grad
uates :
SELMA—Richard E. Hull, Betty
Jean Bergman, Mildred I.. Nor
man, Dellis Marie Wilson, and
Wilma Ruth Pope.
PAYNE—Vivian Irene Pullen.
HOI LAND—Wilna A
Maurer,
Henry Mellow, Lyal K. W
Johnson, and George A. Bald
win.
WHITE—Edwin Clifford Smith,
Robert Gordon Smith Vera Vi
ola St. John, Donald A. Beard,
Laurence Dale Ander-on, and
Edith A. Ro.siter.
O'BRIEN Lillian Delores key
nolds, Russel) Standish, Helen
Hearing, Alberta Jewell and
Myrtle Delore- Kretsinger.
SPENCE—George B Allen and
Harold L. James.
TAKILMA—George Henry Eg-
gers.
KERBY—Frances Jeanne Villair,
Phyllis M Beaulieu, Faye Ty
cer, Dorothy A. Hogue, Wini
fred
Hassler,
Lloyd
Schu
macher, Gerould Morrison, Wil.
liam McLean, Charlotte L. Bad-
den, Pauline Blanche Robin-on,
McLean Lawrence Jacobs, Jr.,
ami Adelaide B McGrady.
WALDO—Anita Marifae Sloat
and Gladys Ruth Goldsby.
—--------- o-------------
Elk (’reek laodge
Nearing Completion
E. L. Oppie, proprietor of the
Elk Creek Lodge ami service sta
tion on Elk creek, about 12 mile-
from Cave City, is nearing com
pletion of one of the finest log
cabin lodges on the Redwoods
highway. The lodge proper will
be a very large building with a
dining room that will accommo
date 40 or 50 people at one time,
and has a huge fire place that
gives cheer and comfort to the
weary traveler.
In another part of the lodge
will be a grocery store and behind
thi- will be the kitchen. Between
the grocery and dining room. Mr.
Oppie is building a buffet for
the dispensation of all kinds of
soft drinks. One of the features
of the lodge will be the “curh
service" which he plans to put
into operation for all cu-turners
who desire this kind of service.
The lodge will be completed thia
summer in time for the tourist
At a meeting of the board of
directors of the Cave City Cham
ber of Commerce held last Mon
day evening, several matters of
importance were discussed but the
principal topic was the proposed
change of the name of the Cham
ber.
It has been suggested that the
“Illinois Valley Chamber of Com
merce’’ would be more appropriate
for the organization than the Cave
City Chamber of Commerce, and
most of the board thought enough
of the suggestion to pa-s a resolu
tion endorsing the name change
and asked that the matter be
brought to the membership at
large for their consideration at
the next regular meeting, Wed
nesday evening. May 26.
“Illinois Valley Chamber of
Commerce would have a tendency
to broaden the activities of the
Chamber and take in the entire
valley and would not limit its
work to Cave City a- the present
name suggests.
Arguments pro and con were
presented for and against the
changing of the name, but in the
final analysis, it was the unan
imous opinion that the matter
should be brought to the attention
of the entire membership for con
sideration.
Members of the board present
wure, A J. Drews, Elwood Hus
sey, C. Y. Arnold and W J Mc
Clean. The next regular meeting
of the Chamber will be Wtdnes-
day. May 26th in the new Chamber
of Commerce building. All mem
bers are earnestly requested to
attend and President Brooks re
quests any one interested in the
activities of the Chamber to at
tend the meeting.
From France
To Oregon Is
A Long Way
L. E. Athey of the Illinois Val
ley New- was one of the most sur
prised men in the valley when he
heard his name spoken by an ap
parent stranger.
On looking up and acknowledg
ing that he wa- the said L. E.
Athey the stranger asked where
the corn cob pipe and bass drum
were. Then Athey knew he was
talking to one of his erst while
buddies from France but for the
life of him could not think of his
name.
Finally the stranger gave his
name. He was none other than
E. B Pearsall, who lives a couple
of miles out of Cave City and he
had received a copy of the News
He decided that the L. E. Athey
mentioned therein was the same
one he had soldiered with in the
20th Engineers at the Eclorin
camp in France so he and the
Mrs. drove into town to find out
Needless to -ay both men were
delighted ’o see each other again
and while Athey did not have the
corn cob pipe in his mouth as us
ual he assured Pear-all he did
still have the bass drum and would
bring it down to Cave City in the
near future. Both men promised
to meet again soon and go over
the stirring days -pent in France
in 1918
--------------o-------------
Tom Palmer, truck driver for
the Medford Crescent City Truck
line, who was injured while load,
ing equipment for the News two
weeks ago in Crescent City, was
in Cave Junction Sunday visiting
old friends. Tom is fast improv
ing and he hopes to be back on the
truck in two or three weeks