Gateway to The Oregon Caves
Illinois Valley News
A LIVE WIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS
Volume II
Cave Junction Oregon. Thursday, June 16, 1938
No. 6
Jubilee
Queen To
Get Attention
It is getting time when we begin
to think who is going to be queen
of the Second Annual Miners' Jub­
ilee, which is not so far in the dis­
tance.
“After much discussion, said
Pre-ident Drews of the Jubilee,
“of tall blonds, short brunettes,
plump red heads, etc., etc., our
bewildered committee have decid­
ed to pass the ‘buck’ to you and
let you, the people, select our
queen for the coming Jubilee.
Therefore, in the same manner
as last year you may nominate and
vote for your favorite. Any girl be­
tween the ages of Id and 30 years
may be nominated. We expect that
every business place in the valley
will have the vote coupons. Nom­
inations and voting will begin July
1st, only two weeks away. Pick
your winner. We are going to have
a great time.”
Registration Bureau
Here Third in State
Registering cars of out of state
automobiles is not as heavy as this
time last year, but Cave City is
third highest in the state of all reg­
istering bureaus for the month of
May.
Ashland ...................................... 2,924
Grants Pass
880
Cave City
844
Portland
817
Brookings
714
The above are the largest reg­
istrations in the state. There are
56 places to register in the state.
The total for May in the state at
large was 10,906. The total from
January 1 to May 31 was 31,797.
This month the registration bur­
eau should be kept busy register­
ing cars as the traffic gets larger
from now on.
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Activities
In Mining
Platinum and the Platinum Group
of Metals
The first“ discovery of platinum
«was in two rivers flowing^from the
same ridge of hills in Columbia,
South America. The first litera­
ture on platinum was written in
1600 by Jules Scoliger and the
first large quantity of platinum
to be bought was taken to England
from Jamaica in the year 1735.
Since that year there has been a
growing demand for the metal.
The mother rocks of platinum
are basic igneous rocks, periodo-
tites, pyroxenite, and dunite. The
periodotites and pyroxenites are
dark grey to black heavy rocks
composed principally of black or
dark green iron-magnesian sili­
cates, pyroxine, augite and horn­
blend, olivine, plagioclase feld­
spar, chromite, ilmenite and mag­
netite. Dunites are composed prin­
cipally of olivine with some chrom­
Coming Attractions at
ite. A characteristic of these rocks
Cave City Theater
is their ateration into serpentine.
In searching for platinum, or the
“Successful stories make suc­ platinum group of metals, the
cessful motion pictures,’’ is a Hol­ first thing to look for is a country
lywood adage with the presenta­ rock which is of the above men­
tion of “Mannequin” at the Cave tioned formations, or /or streams
City theater, co-starring
Joan that have originated in such for­
Crawford and Spencer Tracy for mations. In most part, those grav­
the first time, next Saturday and els which do not contain chromite
Sunday, June 18 and 19.
do not have platinum.
Perfectly cast, Miss Crawford
Crude platinum, as is occurs in
and Tracy give splendid perform­ placer concentrates, is ordinarily
ances and form a new romantic a silvery white metal which could
team that audiences will want to be confused only with silver, or
see more of. The film also reveal­ possibly pieces of iron or steel. It
ed a leading man discovery in Alan can be distinguished from both
Curtis, who showed great promis«; these metals, as they are soluble
in a difficult role.
in dilute nitric acid; crude plat­
The story, replete with unusual inum can only be dissolved ¡n con­
and surprising situations, gives centrated aqua-regia (a mixture
Miss Crawford opportunity to dis­ < 1' three parts of hydrocloric acid
play her ability as an actress in a land on«1 part of nitric acid.)
part made for her as a shop girl,
In some deposits the gri.ins of
who 'tarts out in a tenement and platinum are coated with some sul­
winds up in a Aiultimillionaire’s phides or oxides and resemble
penthouse. She wears Adrian-de­ chromite, ilminite or magnetite.
signed gowns stunningly as a However it can be separated from
mannequin, and sings a n<*w song these by careful panning a- it is
hit, “Always and Always."
of much greater specific gravity
Wednesday. June 22. “Holly­ than any of them.
wood Hotel” with Dick Powell and
The commercial recovery of
Francis Langford and the support­ platinum, so far, has been limited
ing cast of talented radio artists to alluvial deposits. The metal has
who broadcast from the Hollywood been found in-situ in the Ural
Hotel weekly.
Dramtic critcs mountains of Russia, in Africa and
praise this picture highly.
in two or three places in the Uni­
ted States; however mining it
from the hard rock has never prov-
COMING EVENTS j en successful.
There are six metals and two
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Q................................................................teJ ' combinations of metals, generally,
Friday, June 24—Illinois Valley in the platinum group; platinum,
Garden club, home of Mrs. E. J. palladium, iridium, osmium, rho­
dium and ruthenium are the met­
Wilber. Eelection of officers.
als; then there is osmiridium and
Fri.-Sat., Aug 5-6—Third An­ platiridium the two metallic com­
nual Gladiolus show. Grants binations. Also there are two min­
erals that concentrate in the sands
Pass.
carrying platinum; these are 'per-
Sept. 3-4-5—Illinois Valley Min­ rylite and cooperite which are
sulphurets ami arsenides of the
er's Jubilee at Cave Junction.
metal.
Two groups of metals exist in j
Monday, Sept. 5—Labor day.
the platinum group as far as
Monday-Sunday, Sept. 5-11—Ore­ weight is concerned. There is the 1
lighter group consisting of pallad- ;
gon state fair, Salem.
ium, ruthenium, and rhodium
Wed.-Sat., Sept. 14-17—Josephine who-e specific gravities run from
14 to 16 and the other group
County Fair.
I which runs from 20 to 23 specific
Tuesday, Nov. 8—General elec­ gravity
Some data concerning each of
tion.
the commercial
metals of this
Friday, Nov. 11—Armistice day. i group will be given at a later date. 1
The girl who is elected queen
this year is going to have a great
time. She is going to have an op­
portunity to make many trips and
it is not at all impossible that she
will accompany a delegation of
boosters from the Jubilee to the
San Francisco fair with all expen­
ses paid next year.
Besides the fair trip, other fea­
tures will be possible, 'Uch as the
county fair and visits to (¡»-ants
Pass and other near by cities.
Girls from all parts of the val­
ley will be entered this year, if
reports can be a guide to go by,
as there is much interest and com­
ment on who is going to be the
queen of the Miners’ Jubilee this
year.
Convention
To Be Held
At Corvallis
First Ocean
Going Boat
Next Sunday at Corvallis there
will be a convention starting at
10 a. m. for the Townsend Na­
tional Recovery Plan Inc., of Ore­
gon.
A letter from James Logan of
Portland, vice-president evxplains
the call for the convention and
all Townsendites who can
are
asked to attend.
July 9, 1938, will be a date
ringed with red in the history of
Pacific Northwest transportation.
On that day the first ocean ship
will move inland through two
mountain ranges for a distance of
200 miles from the Pacific ocean
to The Dalles. Indeed, it will be
an event of climax for the nation,
for it will be in dedication of the
Mid Columbia-Bonneville Seaway,
the longest river ship channel in
the Union of States.
Through arrangements of the
Port of The Dalles with the Mc­
Cormick Steamship company, the
S. S. Charles L. Wheeler will leave
Los Angeles harbor June 29, and
San Francisco July 2 with an al­
location of 1.500 tons of cargo to
be delivered at The Dalles at rates
identical with those applying to
Portland. When she discharges at
The Dalles the steamship will sail
for the California ports with car­
go bearing the same rate as apply­
ing from Portland to these Califor­
nia ports.
Every effort is being made by
the Port of The Dalles and the Mc­
Cormick line to get as large a
spread as possible of this cargo
space among Inland Empire ship­
pers, in order that the maximum
number of business institutions
may participate in writing this
chapter in national transportation
history.
July 9, will be the day of jubil-
ization for all the Inland Empire
of Oregon, Washington and Ida­
ho, with the celebration extending
from Vancouver, Wash., to The
Dalles, Ore., both historic cities.
The S. S. Charles L. Wheeler,
with Captain Arthur H. Riggs,
master of the Oregon Steamboat
Men's association and veteran
member of the Columbia River Pi­
lot's association, on the bridge,
will leave Vancouver July 9 at 3
a. m. A naval escort will be fur­
nished by the Coast Guard Cutter
Onondaga, Commander Higbee,
and U. S. S. Eagle, Commander
Sass. The army will be represent­
ed by the Corps of Engineer boats,
Robert Gray and Feather.
The first center of celebration
will be at Bonneville dam, where
the marine cortage .will arrive at
9:30 a. m. and initiate activities
of a program, which will be broad­
cast over a coast-to-coast radio
network. Ot 10:30, the merchant,
naval and army craft, followed by
an argosy of river boats and bar­
ges will move toward The Dalles,
arriving at 3 p. m. At 4, a par­
ade will be held. This will be fol­
lowed by a ceremony, the program
of which will be broadcast.
High national and Oregon
Washington and Idaho officials
will participate in the ceremonies.
At Bonneville a plaque commem­
orating opening of the ship 1««<4
and inland seaway will be dedica­
ted. J. D. Ross power administra­
tor will start operation of one of
the huge generators which will
supply lights along the first trans­
mission line built to Cascade locks.
In anticipation of the greatest
motor traffic in the history of
either of the transcontinental high­
way link' the Columbia river and
north Bank highways state po­
lice are busy setting in motion
plans to handle the movement of
the thousands who are expected to
line every vantage point of the
scenic gorge as they watch ships
steam their way upstream on a
seaway that threads its way beside
the precipitous chasms of a major
mountain range.
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The letter follows
Dear Mr. Athey :
We have called for a conven­
tion of Townsendites to meet in
Corvallis, at 10 a. m. on June 19th.
Some little official business con­
nected with the organization will
be put over by the voting dele­
gates, perhaps in the morning ses­
sion, after which the meeting will
be merged into a mass convention
composed of as many Townsend
plan representatives as it is possi­
ble to assemble in which every one
present will have a voice in the de­
liberations to follow.
At a meeting of the executive
board of the Oregon corporation,
held in Corvallis, June 3rd attend­
ed by all of the board except two,
and attended also by Mr. Moore,
Mr. Wade and M. C. Martin, the
three late Dist. Mgr’s. the matter
of a suitable state pension was
thoroughly gone into and some 4
or five initiative measures, now
in the offing, were considered and
discussed and the board passed a
resolution favoring such bills as
embody the principles of the Town­
send plan.
It was deciiled that the best way
to unite all three districts in a
state-wide drive to secure a suita­
ble state pension, was through a
mass convention, such as mention­
ed above. I am sure you will join
forces with us in this all important
job of taking care of our Oregon
folks, both young and old, while
the national plan is pending, by
passing a decent state pension,
through the initiative, you know we
can, if we all pull together, and
just got to do it, that’s all.
Again, let me urge you to come
to the convention and bring as
many Townsenders as pssible with
you, for this is our chance to do
some real effective work for Ore­
gon, let’s not muff the chance. We
can put over a decent pension mea­
sure if we can pull together, just
once. If we can get enough of our
old leaders out and show some
old time pep. I'm sure we can go
places. Meet us at Corvallis, June
19th.
Very truly yours,
JAS. LOGAN.
Surprise Party Given
For Phil Snort Tuesday
A group of friends surprised
Lew Webb (Phil Snort) last Tues­
day evening at the State Line Ren­
dezvous. Dancing was enjoyed by
those who like to trip the light
fantastic and all congraulated
fantastic and all congratulated
A mix up on dates accounted for
several not getting to the party.
Those pre-ent were: Mr. and Mrs.
Lew Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Buck
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Wy­
man, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Cook, Mr.
and Mrs Marvin Abrams, J W
Carl, Guilford Cook, Chuck Mel­
ton, Arnold Junghans, Charles Mc­
Anally, Edward Fay, Tom McCar­
ter, David Alexander, Frank Schis-
ka, Ted Athey, Ed Scherffins,
Herb Owen and Bob Schneider.
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Open House Tuesday
State Line Rendezvous
W. J. Carl and V. L. Wyman
of the State Line Rendezvous an­
nounce they will hold open house
next Tue-day night, when they
will have moved everything into
the large building. There will be
booths for those who care to eat
and all wil be under one roof.
There wil be barbecued meats and
the trimmings, music and all that
goes to help the guests have
a
good time.
To The Dalles
TALL GRAIN GROWN
ON DRYLAND HERE
• The first of the week Goorge
H Shade brought into The News
office a sample of grains grown
on his place on non-irrigated soil.
It consisted of wheat, barley and
oats and was over seven feet tall.
The samples are on display at the ■
Chamber of Commerce building in
Cave Junction.
Price 5 Cents
OFF IN THE CORNER
WITH PHIL SNORT
Dear Ed:
Didja ever hear of a city call­
ed Todelope, or some name or
other what sound' that-a-way? Ya j
didn't, heh? neider did 1. I comes
denied near ’giftin' sued fer not
knowin’ it, fer they tells me it's
the greatest slander in the world
not to know about Todelope. They
tells me what makes Todelope
famous is it's the only city in the
world that is longer crossways
than 'tiz lengthways. Todelope
joins onto Cave City on the north
and onto Kerby on the south and
everything east ami west. Tode-
lope's chief industry is making
faces at Kerby and thumbing it's
nose at Cave City. 'Nuther thing
what makes Todelope important is
it's where you turn off to git into
the woods light smart quick They
is one draw brick to Todelope and
the folks there are kickin' like tar­
nation thunder about it: they has
to go thru Cave City and Cave
Junction to git to Hussey’s Rougli-
md-Ready to fish.
Jack Hout is mayor, chief of
police, judge and constable. They
hain't got no jails, poor houses
nor poor farms, no chamber of
converse or Tuesday forum lunch;
no theater, church or school. They
don’t want any school cause if
they learned something they’d al­
ways have it to fergit; and they
gits plenty amusement a leadin'
what Phil Snort writes fer The Il­
linois Valley News. Yeah, they
been takin' The News a leetle mite
over a year and they tells me a
few more doses and they'll be cur­
ed—beg
pardon,
Mornay, I
meant they’d keep on takin’ it
so's to stay cured.
You know I believe I’m gonto
learn to love Todelope. They's a
lot more 1 could write about Tode­
lope and I’m gonto do it as soon
as I find out what it is. What wor­
ries me most is to think how as
every time I think of Todelope 1
gotten 'top and pity Medford.
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Oregon City Publisher
V isits News Office
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Brodie, who
hail just returned from the Ore­
gon Caves, which they had not seen
for nearly 10 years passed through
the city today, Thursday, and stop­
ped long enough to pay a friendly
fraternal visit in The New* office.
Mr. Brodie is the publisher of
the Daily Oregon City Enterprise,
and was formerly United States
Ambassador to Siam and Finland,
but is now back in Oregon City
at th«« head of th«« Enterprise.
Mr. Brodie said he was indeed
surprised to see such a lively, grow­
ing city as we have here, anti was
impressed with the growth of the
valley.
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('(’(’ Boys Soon to
Ixuive for Crater Lake
An advance cadre of 15 men
left Camp Oregon Caves Monday
/■ i the Crete) Lake National Park
where they ar«« engaged this week
in th«« reconditioning of Camp An­
nie Springs, preparatory to the
movement of the company to that
location next week. With the ex­
ception of 25 men who will be left
in the camp her«« for the summer
under Foreman John A. Ulrich,
the rest of the men Win go to Cra­
ter Lake. Som«« equipment has al­
ready been move«! and mor«« is be­
ing sent each day. The company,
which is under the command of
Lieut. »Joseph W. Scobey expects
to return to th«« local camp next
fall.
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Ice Plant Running at
Full Capacity Now
The Illinois Valley Ice company
owned by Phil Sawyer, has start­
ed the summer season and is now
running full capacity to .fulfill or­
ders night and day.
Phil can now supply the entire
valley with all their ice needs. Just
phone on the Holland exchange*
and place your order ahead. Dur­
ing the summer months he will
take orders up to 10 a. m. Sunday.
No deliveries will be mad«* on Sun­
day, so order your ice needs be­
fore then.
District
Improvement
Company
A meeting of the Cave City
District Improvement company,
Inc., a corporation formed to sup­
ply domestic water, held a meeting
last Monday evening in the Art
Drews residence to transact busi­
ness. Th«« incorporators elected
th«« following officers:
Elwood Hussey, president of the
board of directors; Art Drews,
secretary; C. Y. Arnold, treasurer;
Minnie Cosson, William H. Darger
and Flyod Fagnant, directors.
Corporation papers have been
received from the secretary of
state and the county clerk and
now the corporation is ready to go
ahead with the operations of drill­
ing a well and they will make ap­
plication to th«« Emergency Fi­
nance Corporation for a loan to
complete the well.
It is hoped to have the well
started within 10 days. Present
plans are to drill the well near
Caves avenue behind the Drews
garage. The corporation hopes to
have water before the dry season
gets too far advanced.
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ELECTIONS AT 44
SCHOOLS MONDAY
The annual school meetings for
election of school directors, adop­
tion of budgets, and other business
will be held in the 44 school dis­
tricts of Josephine county on June
20, the third Monday of June, as
according to state law.
All grade school districts in the
county are of the third-class with
the exception of Grants Pass,
which is first class, and will each
elect one director and a school
clerk for a three-year term'. Ker­
by Union high school district will
elect one director for a five-year
term, and will vote on its propos­
al 1038 30 budget, of $9,800.
Those qualified as taxpayers will
also vote by secret ballot on the
question of issuing $5,000 worth
of negotiable interest bearing
warrants which would b«« used in
adding rooms and equipment to
the present building.
The cal) for the Kerby High
school is Monday, June 27 at 2
p. m. The grade school however, is
neit Monday, June 20 at 2 p. m.
All parents and taxpayers are
requested to attend their district
meeting and to take an interest in
school affairs.
Departing CCC Boys
Party at Ritz Tavern
Among thos«« who helped spon­
sor a party at the Ritz Tavern,
Monday evening, honoring a group
of CCC boys were Adelaide and
Norma McGrady, Lucy and Eileen
Whitehead. Nell Hayden, Evelyn
Boyd, Faye McLean, Myrtic«* and
Doris Jones, Virginia Thrasher,
Alice and Dorothy Hogue, Bertha
Houck, Edda Burke, Winnifred
Hassler, Bud McLean, Harry Mes­
senger, Roy Branham, Jack Wil­
son, George Mellow, J. Lenardo,
Cliff Phillips,
Lonnie
Dixon,
George Koller, Shorty Phillips, Nat
Wooley, Vivian Taylor, Mrs. Iren««
Mct'asland, Milt Akerill, Mrs. Art
Kellert, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mar­
tindale, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hogue,
William McLean, Mrs. im White-
head, Mabel Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs.
Clem Sauer, George Peterson,
Maurice Sauer and Mrs.
P«dlie
Duncan.
Over twenty of the honoreti
guests were present, th«« first part
of the evening was spent dancing
and playing various games, at
midnight the group adjourned to
the Odd Fellows hall dining room,
where they partook of refresh­
ments. More dancing and games
followed at th«« Ritz. All pronounc­
es! it a most enjoyable party. The
CCC boys of Grayback camp are
leaving for Crater Lake camp and
will be greatly missed.
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Lieut. Marsh, Medford district
dentist is stationed at Oregon Caves
camp this week.