Gateway to The Oregon Caves
Illinois Valley News
A LIVE WIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS
Volume I
No. 15
Cave Junction. Oregon, Thursday, March 17, 1938
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Dance and
Program at
Grange Hall
News Items From
Kerby High School
Film Presents OH In a
Misleading
Corner With
Propaganda Phil Snort
On the honor roll for the last
six weeks appear the following
names:
I SENIORS;
Juanita Squire
Faye McLean
One of the most enjoyable
This newspaper, published in
evenings for entertainment was JUNIORS:
the center of the oldest and most
Myrtice Jones
held last Saturday night in the
extensive gold mining section of
Phyllis Jones
Illinois Valley Grange hall when
I the west, wants to register its
Grace Thrasher
the Grange presented an old Pion
disapproval of the propaernda
eer Dance and program.
Norma Tycer
contained i i the recent motion
Audrey Wilbur
Preceding the dance the pro
picture. “Gold Is Where You Find
gram given by Grange Lecturer,
Delbert Hill
It.” It would seem that the cre
Mrs. Addie Martin, was greatly FRESHMEN:
ators and promotora of motion
William McLean
enjoyed and many artistic and
pictures have now set out to sell
William Hensley
novel numbers was presented.
the people the sentiments of the
Those taking part in the pro
Bernice Allen
producers themselves in favoring
gram were:
Barbara Hensley
one industry and disgracing and
“An Old Fashioned Song,” by
Harold James
damaging another.
Vivia Johnson and Verlie Bab
Those who attended grades en
The picture purports to depict
cock.
titling them to honorable men an early day incident of tailings
Reading, “The First Settler’s tion are:
from some placer gold mine flow-
Story,” by Roy Wells.
Ray Bergman
ing down a California valley and
Bud Brooks
Song, “On the Banks of the
supposedly,
inundating
wheat
Atkins,” by Jack Fetterly.
Wanda Burch
farms. It shows water wells filled
Piano duet, Marjorie and Joyce
Pauline Roinson
with mining tails; it sets forth
Breech.
Vera St. John
such unreasonable situations as
Reading. “Tale of the Early
Faye Tycer
families still living in shacks and
Days,” by George Wells.
Now that basketball season is hovels until the flow of tailings
Tap dance, in costume, by Janet over, the boys are devoting their becomes of such quantity and
Martin.
athletic periods to baseball when force as to crush the buildings and
Song, “My Little Old Ford,” ever the weather permits. The kill women and children; it de
with guitar accompaniment by girls, too, have been playing base picts mining men as greedy, sel-,
ball.
Elmer Massey.
fish, murderous, lawless men who
The school board is anxious to stop at nothing—and who look up
Reading, “Popping Corn,” by
Mrs. J. Wilber.
get the athletic field cleared and on ruining damage to his fellow
Song, “One Fleeting Hour ” by ready for use as soon as possible. man, and the rule of right and
George Martin assisted by Mrs. Due to adverse weather conditions wrong, as a mere comical fable;
Verlie Babcock at the piano.
however, they have been able to it shows them to be men who are
Reading, “How Sochery Set the accomplish little.
not only willing, but ravenous for
Ohl Blue Hen,” by Noble Parker
Tuesday, Marchl5, the girls of the murder and butchery of hu
of the Deer Creek Grange.
the home economics department man beings in order that their
Several Deer Creek Grangers entertained the members of the mad dive for gold may be perpet
attended the program and dance. Chamber of Commerce with a din- uated and promoted; as men who
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ner.
sneer at law and order and author
The students are looking for- ity and who trample the courts
Cave City Theater ward to an enjoyable time Fri- under their feet into the very
day evening when there will be slime and slickens of their own
Attractions at the Cave City a school party. The boys are to greedy activities.
City theater Saturday and Sun pay for the entertainment and the
It depicts the mining engineer
day are varied and entertaining. girls are to furnish the refresh
as a traitor to his profession—a
ments.
Privilege
to
attend
the
“Love and Hisses” with Walter
man who is willing to destroy his
Winchell and Ben Bernie and the party is also extended to alumni
employer's
costly creations, when
winsome Simone Simon playing who are willing to pay a small fee.
ever he elects to desert to the
o
the leading roles. This combina
enemy; and the contempt of the
tion always smacks of something KERBY TEACHER LOST IN
contemptible—it shows an Amer
GRANTS
PASS
HI
BUILDING
out of the ordinary and this pic
Miss June Dahlgren attended ican girl who betrays the man she
ture has it.
loves in order to return to a dis
Wednesday, March 23 comes the basketball tournament for the
avowed principle.
Josephine
county
championship
in
"Ebb Tide." Thrills, adventure,
The entire picture, from start
romance all together in the first Grants Pass high school recently.
After the games were over, she to finish, is just as unreasonable
South Sea picture ever filmed in
color. Three men and a woman evidently became slightly con and overdrawn. It seeks to leave
caught in the ebb tide of hope, of fused and while waiting for her the impression that mining as an
happiness, of pride itself, strug escort who had participated in industry, and the millions of min
gling, fighting, working out their one of the games, our teacher got ing people, as a group, is the in
carnation of everything that is
own salvation in a tangled, soul in the wrong hallway.
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bad,
dangerous, lustful and law
Her escort came out and after
stirring drama.
waiting about 30 minutes, be- less—denizens of an industrial
ra........................................................ *3 came alarmed and a searching underworld; that these mining
will destroy you root and
COMING EVENTS [ party was organized and the lost bandits
was found just before the school branch; that they will ru.i you
out with terrorism, destroy your
was locked up for the night.
business, wipe out your capital,
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Every Tuesday noon — Illinois
destroy your homes or kill you
Valley Chamber of Commerce Josephine County Bull
and your wives and children if
meets.
Wins Recognition
necessary, and, with their loaded
arm,, defy the orders of all
Thursday, March 17 — St. Pat
A Josephine county Guernsey
courts. The miner, they would
rick’s Day.
bull, Pioneer Victor’s Standard
dramatize as the prince of all bad
116092, bred by the Leonard
citizens—whereas the farmer is
Monday March 21—Spring.
Estate company of Grants Pass
shown as the terrestial Godhead,
and owned by J. C. Calhoun of
of
everything that is good, law-
Thursday. March 24 — P.-T. A. Grants Pass, has just won nation
abiding and gracious.
Card Party at I. O. O. F. hall al recognition.
We have no quarrel with the
in Kerby.
This bull, having five daugh
farmer he is the tiller of the soil,
ters which had made creditable of
Friday, March 25—Operator’s ex ficial records, has been entered the noblest of occupations, but at
amination for drivers license at in the Advanced Register of the the same time we can say nothing
but good of the miner. Indeed it
Cave City.
American Guernsey Cattle club.
is a well established fact that
“Pioneer Victor’s Standard”
Friday, March 25—Annual Gar will be known hereafter as an Ad mining men, as a whole, are a fine,
intelligent wholesome, hospitable
den Daffodil Tea instead of vanced
Register
sire.
Only
March 18, at the home of Effie Guernseys which meet high pro industrious and peaceful group of
people, and withal the fountain
M. Smith.
duction requirements are eligible
source of our monetary system.
for entry.
These picture producers seek to
Friday, April 1—All Fool’s Day.
climax their debacle with propa
CANDIDATES FOR
ganda for a great agricultural and
Sunday, April 3—Barbecue, pro- ,
horticultural future of Califor
gram and handicraft exhibit at ■ COUNTY OFFICES
nia—not a world, not the United
County
Judge
—
CCC camp, in the afternoon.
States—but just California. And
John L. Dougall, republican.
yet
California is known the world
A. L. French, republican.
Wednesday, April 6—Army Day.
around
as the greatest and richest
Stephen L. Jewell, democrat.
mineral producing section in the
W. A. Johnson, republican.
Sunday, April 10—Palm Sunday
western hemisphere. Hundreds of
W. C. Lucore, democrat.
millions of dollars worth of raw
Grant
W
Matthews,
republican.
Saturday, April 16—Deer Creek |
gold have been produced from
and Illinois Valley Granges will Comminioner—
Howard T. Edson, republican. California gold mines, and the 1
hold Fun Night.
mining industry is still among the
Richard McElligott, democrat.
first in that state. Mining, as an ¡
H. S. Morgan, democrat
Friday, April 19—Good Friday.
industry, was first and foremost ■
H. N. Parker, republican.
in the west, and it was GOLD, not >
C. B. Pritchett, democrat
Sunday, April 17—Easter Sunday.
oranges, that lured the thousands
Sheriff—
of hardy pioneers to "cross the
A. Donley Barnes, republican.
Sunday, May 1—May Day.
plains” and institute the develop
Clarence Coon, democrat.
ment of this new country. The
State Representative—
Sunday, May 8— Mother's Day.
farmer
followed into the new
Elwood Hussey, democrat
Monday, May 30—Memorial Day.
W. H. Miller, democrat.
(Continued on r«i« Three!
I*rice 5 Cents
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Phil Sawyer Attends
Northwest Convention
Phil Sawyer, accompanied by
his mother, Mrs. F. L. Sawyer,
left last Sunday for Corvallis
where Phil attended the North
west
Refrigeration convention
held in that city Monday and
Tuesday.
This is the annual convention
of the refrigeration group and is
composed of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho members. Phil is the
owner of the Illinois Valley Ice
& Cold Storage company and ex
pects to gain considerable infor
mation on up-to-date refrigera
tion ideas and was very glad to
have an opportunity to attend as
large a convention so near home.
Mrs. Sawyer visited relatives
and friends while in Corvallis,
They returned home last Wednes-
day.
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Dear Ed:
Here we go fer some heavy
litterchur, what is gonto tell a
lotter critters that your Uncle
Phil Snort haint no ordinary writ
er of friction, as some folks tries
to ipake out. If I have sed it
once I have a dozen times, and
I'll say it again, that Phil Snort
won’t lie. Of course I can lie if
I wants to, but I’m too derned
proud to do it.
Tother day Cass Wymore comes
to my place and calls me every
thing that 1 possibly could be. and
sez that me and Hussey wuz the
derndest liars in the Burlington Register Books of the
club; he sed that they want noif^.. flöSl’ April 2(1
fish in 90 milds of Rough-and-
Ready crick; he sed that he went
Every citizen has the right to
up and down that air crick and vote. And every citizen should
all over the Rough-and-Ready take the trouble to vote. It is
hills, with a water-elm club, and your duty as a citizen to register
not a blamed fish did he see. I and then when election time comes
ast him if he went on top of the go to the polls and vote your
ridges or did he go up the valleys, choice.
and he tells me that he done went
Citizens of the Illinois Valley
up and down every derned valley can register at Johnny Wittrock's
in the Rough-and-Ready hills. I at Kerby; The News office in Cave
tells him that wuz where he made City or at the county clerk's of
his mistake; that he’d orter went fice in the court house at Grants
along the ridges and side hills, Pass. It does not cost anything
and the higher he climes the big- to register.
ger and‘juicer the fish. Well
A large numer of people in the
Cass throws a cuppie of fits, valley are not registered. Every
foamed 'round fer a spell and one should register and do it be
finally cools down when I ex fore April 20th when registering
plains that the reason he didn’t voters for the May primaries will
see no fish wuz that mebby they close.
comes outen their holes, sees their
o
shadder and goes back in fer a
nuther six weeks. Cass sed that Surprise Party Given
mebby that wuz so, and that he
For Ken Robinson
wuz gonto go back, in a cuppie
weeks and try his luck over.
A surprise party was given Ken
I jest been gittin’ 14 kinds of Robinson last Friday evening by
four-year-old thunder acuse I left the Young People’s Christian En
out pizen-oak when I wuz a tollin’ deavor society, celebrating Ken’s
The News all about the kinds of 19th birthday, at the home of Mr.
oak what the Illinois Valley has and Mrs. Lucius Robinson in Ker-
got. Pizen-oak is the most essen- by. Games were played and later
tial oak in the world. Goats live refreshments were served.
and thrive on it. and they haint
Those present were, Miss Mae
no flies, flees or ticks can live on Bonham, Karl Theuerkauf, Bob
goats. If we are to raise goats Schumacher, Ortis Smith, Myrtice
then our pizen-oak will be the and Phyllis Jones, Dorothy Mc
greatest asset we got. Pizen-oak Lean, Doris Jones, Grace Thrash
is like politics: if you keep it in er. Alma Grey, Pauline Robinson
side of you it won't hurt you any; and Bob Smith.
but if it gets outside it’s gonto
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ruin you.
I sees in your paper that Nat leegion Auxiliary
Woolley had a letter foller him Sponsoring Contest
all the way to Los Angeles and
The American Legion Auxiliary
back—where ever that is. Must
of been a dunnin’ letter to of fol- is sponsoring a poppy poster con
lered him like that—or, mebby, test. Fourteen schools were asked
one from Suzanne of Kerbyville. to enter and 10 teachers respond
Well the dern letters can foller ed with 68 pupils entering.
Three prizes of $1.00 each will
liim if they wants to; I’ll be
hanged if I will. I tried to foller be given for the best poster en
him, onct, but it wuz a ruinin’ me tered in each of three classes. The
some
one will
socially, financially and physical Legion hopes
make an entry for the department
ly, so I hadder quit.
Tother day I goes over to Van prize of $5.00. Outside judges
ner Johnson’s place to git some will select the best posters and
hay. and I surely done ’joyed my award the prizes.
self, for, you see, it has been over
a quarter century since I wuz Credit Association
there. I haint been over there Planned for Valley
since Jeff Wimer sold out. It's
kinder off my beat. Vanner is
A subsidiary of the Grants
quite a home guy and if I hadder Pass Creditors’ association is be
ranch like hisn I’d stay at home ing talked of for the Illinois Val
too, and wouldn't hafter go gad- ley.
A member of the Grants
din’ 'round lookin' fer hay. If Pass organization wants the opin
we only had ranches scattered ion of the merchants of the val
along the Redwood highway like ley, whether they would like to
Vanner’s, or Bob Walton’s, or have an association or be identi-
Louis Mauer’s or Jim Lewis', or fied with the Grants Pass organ-
George and Roy Wells', or Ed ization.
Tycer's, or the George ranch, or—
Any merchant interested in the
Thunder! what’s the use? If we proposal should contact some one
had a lotter ranches like they got of the officers of the Illinois Val-
over on the Althouse and Sucker ley Chamber of Commerce and
crick scattered along the Redwood state his views.
highway,
where
it
traverses
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Rough-and-Ready flats, tourists ALMA MARTIN S BIRTHDAY
wouldn’t think we al) belonged to
Mrs. Alma Martin was surprised
the Burlington liars club when with a sumptuous birthday cake
they read our broadcast propa made by Mrs. Ida Hickman of
ganda. By all means finish that Camp U-Rest last Wednesday.
O’Brien - Takilma - Holland-Caves Later in the day a number of
road; put up signs with arrows friends called and cake and cof
pointing the way and reading: fee were served to help celebrate
Agricultural Section of the Illin- the occasion.
ois Valley.
Yours,
A birthday dinner was celebrat
Phil Snort. ed today by Kenneth Carson on
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his (?) birthday. A delicious cake
Mrs. L. C. Hussey was transact with all the trimmings was enjoy
ing business in Grants Pass today. ed by several friends.
High School
Class Feeds
Chamber
The Illinois Valley Commercial
club held one of its very best
meetings of the year when they
were guests of the Kerby High
School Economic class last Tues
day. The girls did themselves
proud and the high praises they
received for the splendid lunch
prepared was testimony that there
are a lot of pretty girls who are
good cooks in the Kerby high
school.
President Drews called the
meeting to order after all enjoyed
the luncheon and asked Elwood
Hussey to introduce the guests.
The following were presented to
the club members: G. E. Mitchell,
superintendent of the Siskiyou
National Forest; M. M. Nelson,
ranger at the Redwoods Ranger
station ; Lieutenant Scobey of the
Oregon Caves CCC camp; A. L.
Mallery, vocational advisor at the
camp and Mr. Tichenor, also
of the CCC camp.
M. C. Athey was called on and
thanked the high school class for
the splendid lunch served and told
of some of the activities of the
Chamber.
Mr. Mitchel), principal speaker
of the day, gave his listeners a
word picture of some of our nat
ural resources citing examples of
the Indian who had all the nat
ural resources of the nation and
did not abuse them, but used them
to the advantage of the inhab
itants. But the white men came
and plowed up the natural grass
es and chopped down the timber,
leaving much of the natural re
sources of the nation reduced,
in some cases as the middle west
dust bowl, to almost destruction.
He pointed out that politicians
were put in places where trained
executives should have been se
cured to preserve and restore the
resources given us. Wild life of
every description used to be plen
tiful, but the destruction of game
and fish of the advanced generu
tion has compelled rigid laws to
restore our wild life and has fin
ally caused trained men to be
placed in positions of importance
where our natural resources, to
some degree, could be restored.
Speaking of the timber, Mr.
Mitchell said Oregon has one-
fourth of all the virgin timber
left in the nation • and the forest
service is now working on plans
so that a natural, normal supply
could be utilized every year. He
told of the pulp industry which is
now using waste material that
used to be destroyed. The nation
uses 25,000,000 pounds of paper
every year. A cord of pulp wood
will make a ton of paper, and this
material is finding a ready mar
ket in places accessible, and in
dicates the methods being used to
conserve the timber.
While Mr. Mitchell was too
modest so to state, we all know
that the conservation methods
now being put into force is the
result of the forest service and
the principals it is putting to work
to build up the nations supply,
rather than diminish it.
A most interesting and educa
tional talk. It was too bad that
the weather kept the hall from
being packed to hear this fine ad
dress by one of the leading land
conservation specialist in the
west.
Lieutenant Scobey was called
on and he told of the 5th anniver
sary of the organization of the
CCG organization, and the boys
at Camp Oregon Caves are going
to put on an event celebrating
the occasion and invited all those
present to be on hand Sunday
April 3rd.
The lieutenant said
all his boys were from the south
where they know how to barbecue
a beef and this is going to be one
of the features. He also told of
the activities of Vocational Ad
visor A. L. Mallery and an ex
hibit of the handiwork of the boys
would be on display. He said the
celebration would give them an
opportunity to show their appre-
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