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Gateway to The Oregon Caves Illinois Valley News A LIVE WIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OE THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS Volume I Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, March 21, 1938 No. 46 I ■ News Items From Kerby High School Specialists Of FSA Tell Of Plans { At a meeting of farmers and others interested at the Grange hall last Tuesday night, several men of the Farmers Security Ad ministration, all specialists in their field, met and told a very discouraging attendance of the plans they had been working on for months and which are now ready for action. It was a very miserable night, and the speakers did not blame anyone for staying home. One of the speakers mentioned the fact that they spoke before more than a hundred people at Merlin the night before, and they had hoped for more here, but also said they could not blame the folks for not coming in such weather. F. L. Sawyer called the meet ing to order and turned it over to John Dougall, chairman of the County Planning board. In turn Mr. Dougall immediately intro duced the first speaker, J. C. Moore, state planning board spec ialist. Mr. Moore said the people must be deeply interested in their plan or they would not come out on a night like this. He explained some of the objectives and study of Josephine county, that it was necessary for cooperation be tween all individuals and the coun ty, state and nation. A compre hensive program that all can work together on. He wanted to tell of all the boards and agencies that have coop'-rated in helping them determii e the feasibility of the different projects. He mentioned the State Planning board, County Planning board, County Court, U. S. Forest Service, U. S. Exper imental Forest Service, U. S. Army Engineers, U. S. Geological Survey, Works Progress Adminis tration, Farm Security associa tion and the State Engineers of fice. Mr. Moore mentioned that some of the miners were cooperating with the farmers to help them get more water, citing one instance where two farmers were now re ceiving several acre feet of water from a mine, using this as an il lustration that by all cooperating together projects can be brought into profitable operation. J. Winter Smith, specialist on water conservation gave his lis teners a word picture of the op portunities that lie before them. (Continued on rape Three) 8>.......................................................... ‘3 COMING EVENTS | (3............... ¿1 Every Tuesday noon — Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce meets. Thursday. March 24 — P.-T. A. Card Party at I. O. O. F. hall in Kerby. Friday, March 25—Operator’s ex amination for drivers license at Cave City. Friday, March 25—Annual Gar den Daffodil Tea instead of March 18, at the home of Effie M. Smith. Friday, April 1—All Fool’s Day. Sunday, April 3—Barbecue, pro gram and handicraft exhibit at CCC camp, in the afternoon. Wednesday, April 6—Army Day. Sunday, April 10—Palm Sunday, i — Saturday, April 16—Deer Creek and Illinois Valley Granges will hold Fun Night. Friday, April Sunday, April Sunday, May Sunday, May 1 The high school party last Fri day night, March 18, was a grand success. An enjoyable time was spent dancing and playing ping- pong. Refreshments of hot choc olate and pie were served later in the evening. Mr. Colvill of the National For- set Service came to the school Tuesday and presented a very in teresting talk on soil conservation and other topics of interest which was included in the program of the National Forest Service. The senior class is now work ing diligently on the senior play entitled, “Crashing Society.” The stage has been erected in the gym in order to make practice more complete. -------------- o Activities In Mining Pointing out that Oregon, by reason of having important man ganese deposits, stands to gain greatly with creation of a domes tic manganese industry, Earl K. Nixon, director of the State De partment of Geology and Mineral Industries) today urged all pro gressive civic groups and busi ness leaders of the state to sup port actively the efforts being made to that end in Washington. “Of prime interest to this state are actions now before both houses of the national congress ’’ he said, “for they virtually hold the fate of the potentially vast domestic industry of producing manganese, the indispensable ele ment in making sound steel. A bill by Senator John E. Miller of Arkansas provides for acquisition of a million-ton stockpile, domes tically mined, of this No. 1 stra tegic mineral. The concurrent resolution of Senator James E. Murray of Montana, and Congressman Francis H. Case of South Dakota in the house call up on the Secretary of State to ex clude manganese in proposed new tariff treaties and to remove it from the schedule of commodities in the Barzil reciprocal trade pact of 1935.” Nixon explained that, in a re cent hearing before a sub-com mittee of the Senate Military Af fairs committee in Washington, it was brought out that: (1) the pro posed million-ton stockpile, if produced from domestic ores, would mean 68 « 000,000 man- hours of employment and a $24,- 000,000 payroll for production alone, to say nothing of attendant freight, equipment sales, and other economic gains; (2) the trade pact with Brazil, cutting the tariff virtually in half and apply ing to other important foreign sources, has had the effect of bringing domestic production to a standstill, and (3) there are suf ficient manganese ores in this country for all peace time or war time purposes although we now produce less than 7 per cent of the national consumption of man ganese. Oregon's principal manganese deposits are in Jackson, Coos, Cur ry, Josephine, and Grant counties. "The building of a manganese stockpile, vitally necessary for na tional defeii/e, doing it by devel opment of domestic deposits rath er than by merely buying it from foreign sources—and the restora tion of fair tariff protection would bring great benefits to Oregon,” Mr. Nixon said. _________ 0________ _ Petition To Help Put Measure On Ballot W. T. Miller For Congress Labor Policy Of Grange Published W. T. Miller, Grants Pass at torney, today made formal an nouncement of his intention to seek the office of representative in congress from the First Con gressional district of Oregon. The action followed the request of a number of leading Josephine coun ty democrats urging his candi dacy. In his announcement Mr. Miller stressed the need for rep resentation in the southern part of the first district. Mr. Miller served as district at torney of Josephine county for 20 years and was elected to the state legislature in 1932 serving in the regular and two special sessions. His formal statement follows: I have been urged by a number of my friends to become a candi date for the nomination for the office of representative in con gress from the First Congressional district. Those who have asked me to run have not only contrib uted their moral support, but have made a financial sacrifice in an amount necessary to cause my name to be placed on the official nominating ballot in the primar ies to be held May 20th. After full consideration of their request and of a long-felt need of a rep resentative from this district who could represent the people of this part of the state in our national legislature, I have decided to file my declaration of candidacy for the nomination on the democratic ticket. --------------o------------- From the Grange Bulletin Inasmuch as there is being cir culated many statements pertain ing to the policy of the Labor Re lations committee and its actions, it is deemed advisable and proper that a statement of policy of this committee be definitely set forth « this policy being based upon the actions of the State Grange in the past. It must be understood in arriv ing at the policies as affecting agriculture, that growing, market ing, shipping, packing, harvesting, seeding and other operation^ are ¡n many instances so widely spread that this policy may have to be expanded as occasion may require. However, at all times with the definite purpose of protecting the inherent right of agriculture in the field of operation, the following definite policy has been adopted by this committee and at no time have we had any labor group un willing to accept the principles herein set forth. 1— The of right hit market farmer the produce at to any hour or any place without in terference. 2— The right hi« own farmer to the of the transport of commodity farm, either by him any member of hit fam- « ily, or a farm employe with self “The Firefly” With Jeanette McDonald out interference. 3— The ^row, any of right of family pick, his the or pack, crops by without to farmer harvest his own products the thereof being labeled unfair. of 4— The right slaughter any the farmer to meats for the market with the assistance of his neighbors or family with out being branded as unfair. 5— The right of the poultry pro ducers to market their own poultry and slaughter and pre pare the same for market, with the assistance of his neighbors, on their own interference or farms without fear of being classified as unfair. We have, and shall, in the fu ture, unyieldingly oppose any action to compel farmers and their families to become affiliated with any labor organization in or der to keep from being hampered in any of the above-mentioned operations as we did in the tur key controversy. Morton Tompkins, ('hairman, Dayton, Oregon. W. A. Johnson, Grants Pass. Luther Davis, Kent Labor Relations Board, Oregon State Grange. --------------o- Conservation Association Committeemen Meet The community committeemen of the Conservation association of Josephine county met in Grants Pass last Tuesday in the office of the county agent. The main purpose of the meet ing was to familiarize the com mitteemen of the changes in the conservation program, due to the new farm bill recently passed by congress. After learning of the changes and believing that many more farmers could adopt social build ing practices and receive benefit payments, the committee reopen ed the signing of work sheets to farmers not now in the program, until March 31st. It is not necessary for farm ers who have already signed up to sign again. This is for farmers who have NOT signed the work sheets, giving them until March 31st to do so. Farmers who desire to take ad vantage of this program can sign up any day by calling at the of fice of the county agent, O. K. Beais at Grants Pass. o ..... Saturday and Sunday Manager Jones of the Cave City theater gives his patrons “The Firefly,” with Jeanette MacDonald, Amer ica’s singing sweetheart. This show is two and a half hours long, and on account of this Manager Jones can only run one complete show. The short subjects will be shown first and the feature will start at 7:30 and will only be shown once. This will be the rule for both Saturday and Sunday nights, so prepare to get into the theater by 7:30 and you will see a complete show. The shorts will be run again after the feature. “The Firefly” is a mammoth production that surpasses any thing ever attempted on stage or screen. It is full of love songs that will fill your heart with ecs- tsy. A giant spectacle that will live as long as pictures are shown. Wednesday, March 30, comes another great picture, “Thrill of a Lifetime,’’ with Ben Blue, Ele- anore Whitney and Betty Grable. Coming soon is the great contro versial film, “Gold Is Where You Find It,” and we suggest that you see this picture. As far as the j picture itself is concerned, the movie magazines say it is a three- star picture, meaning extra goo«!, but we want you to see it ami then judge what manner of propaganda exists in its story. This picture broke all house records in Grants Pass recently. There is now being circulated a petition trt get the Citizen’s Re tirement Annuity bill on the ballot at the November general election. | This bill calls for a 2 per cent I transaction tax (not a sales tax) to pay pro rata to annuitants 65 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hein and Dr. | years of age or over. If you want such a bill passed, see Dr. E. E. and Mrs. A N. Collman returned home last Friday after having Brooks and get the facts. spent several days in Portland visiting relatives and friends. Look out for pedestrians. Support the Fire Department. Plans are being formulated by a number of enthusiasts of soft 19—Good Friday. ball to organize a league that would include in its circuit Selma, 17—Easter Sunday., Kerby, Cave City, O'Brien and Takilma and Holland. If you are 1—May Day. interested in such a league get in touch with Postmaster McLean 8—Mother’s Day. at Kerby and let him know. Monday, May 30—Memorial Day. i Manganese Attracting Attention In comparing the production records and the values of the var ious commodities of world mar kets it is noteworthy that irreg- gardless of the economic unrest of the year a greater tonnage of metalic and non-metalic minerals were removed from the earth than ever before in history. To sum marize those we are mostly inter ested in locally, the following fig ures will give some idea of the increase in production. The gold production of the United States for 1936 was 3,769,- 645 ounces, and of 1937, 4,088,- 500 ounces. The silver produc tion for the same periods was: 62,842,000 ounces, as against 70,500,000. Platinum for 1936 was 356,000 (world production). Platinum figures for 1937 are un available because the Russian production is not as yet arrived at; from market trends it is as sumed that there has been a great er amount mined than in the pre ceding year. The largest present source of platinum is from the nickel refineries at Sudbury, On tario. Platinum is a bi-product from that plant. Also a large output from a new district (Good news Bay, Alaska) has helped to raise the output. A government financed dredge being in opera tion there. It has produced 40,000 i ounces of platinum the past year. The price of platinum has fluct uated somewhat the past year opening in January with the high for the year of $68 per ounce. Around February first the price began to drop until the present low of $36 for the period was reached. Palladium has held steady at $24 while iridium rose to $138 in February 1937 and dropped down later to $90. Nickel has held steady at 35 Public Invited To cents per pound while the demand CCC Open House for it has increased in 12 months some 24 per cent over the preced The fifth anniversary of the ing year. Civilian Conservation Corps will Chrome ore is quoted at $24 to be observed Sunday, April 3, by $26 per long ton, Atlantic ports, Camp Oregon Caves of the CCC ore running 48 to 50 percent by a full day program on Sunday, grade. April 3, to which the public is in Copper is quoted at .09775 with vited by Lieutenant Joseph W. stock piles far in excess of pres Scobey, commander. ent manufacturing demands. The program will begin at 10 a. In the past years the citizens of | m. with open house and inspec our valley have cashed in on our tion of camp and work projects mineral wealth from the angle of until 2 p. m. An outdoor old- gold, and during the war period, fashioned southern barbecue din copper and ihrome came in to cre ner will be served at 2, followed ate payrolls for the time. We will by athletic events until 5 p. m. endeavor in this column to point Lieutenant Scobey, Harry J. out from time to time, some of the Ticknor, project superintendent, possibilities that have been over 1 and A. L. Mallery, educational ad looked here in the past and that viser, joined in issuing the invi- may, in the future, prove well > tation. worthy of our time and effort. ■ — - "" 0..... . * 1 — o Soft Ball League In the Offing for Valley Price 5 Cents ■ 1 ■ A New Name lor The News — But Ouch. We have been called many things in our career, but leave it to a minister to give us the last straw. He addressed The News as, “The Illinois Valley SQUEK.” O. K., Rev. Young, we’ll “squek” your message, and we hope our “squawk” will be heard all over the valley for your benefit. Rev. Young's message follows: “ILLINOIS VALLEY SQUEK, Cave City, Oregon. To the Editor, Dear Sir: Herewith I am inclosing an an nouncement. I am informed that your paper has a fine circulation in the Illinois Valley. I am try ing to reach these people. Will you kindly [aiblish this announce ment in your paper this week. Thank you THE LUTHERAN MISSION Harry H. Young, Parlor Services will be conducted in (Continued on page Two) Water For All Valley FSA Specialists Say Val ley is a Natural for Development Illinois Valley merce Chmber Hear« of Com Intelligent Explanation Last Tuesday the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce held their regular weekly luncheon with a very large attendance, exceeding ly large considering the weather. President Drews called the meeting to order and asked El wood Hussey to introduce the vis itors, The following acknowledged introductions: Roscoe E. Bell, land classification specialist with the Farm Security Administration. J. Winter Smith, water utilization specialist with the same organiza tion. J. C. Moore, state land planning specialist, same organiza tion. John Dougall, chairman of the Josephine County Planning Board. L. L. Colvill, assistant superintendent of the Siskiyou National Forest. After the introductions, Mr. Hussey asked Mr. Dougall to in troduce the speakers and an nounce their subjects. Mr. Doug all said he was indeed glad to have had the opportunity to attend this meeting and hoped that much good would come from the work now being done by all the gentlemen who were there. He first intro duced J. C. Moore, who told of the different agencies at work on many classifications of land and water conservation who were all working for a better understand ing of land and water utilization. He explained the necessity of a coordinated plan with the entire county, stating that Illinois Valley alone could not go very far, but by the entire county in a unit co operating together great possibil ities lie before us. Mr. Dougall then introduced Roscoe E. Bell who told of the study they had made of the coun ty as a whole on the better utili zation of land and water. Point ing out that great possibilities lie in the settlement of the county and particularly Illinois Valley. In the county 600 new settlers could be located on lands that would and could be made a prof itable farming venture. The aver age acreage held by a farmer at the present is too small, he said. The acreage at present is about six acres to a farm, a general average over the county, when 20 acres should constitute a farm. With 20 acres a farmer can prof itably work his land under the new set-up of the Farm Security Administration. Continuing Mr. Bell said utiliza tion of the resources of the val ley depends on how much water can be supplied to the land. It should be a matter of rigid policy to see that farmers are placed on good land with water available. When settlers are place«! on the lands available, it may be neces sary to establish more schools, and other community necessities may develop, most of which would be advantageous to the life of the settlers. J. Winter Smith was next intro duced. Mr. Smith is a water spec ialist and has made a deep study of the water situation in the Il linois Valley. His findings show that the valley has a most gener ous supply of water that rightly used could irrigate 7000 addition al acres of farm land that could be worked profitably. There are now approximately 4000 acres of land under irrigation. A map brought by the men shows an area containing 15,000 acres that can be irrigated, 7000 profitably, together with the 4000 now under irrigation, the rest is not suited to profitable farfhink. He estr- mates thaP there are now 900,000 * (Continued on }'**• Three)
