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Illinois Valley News
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Volume II
No. 43
Jubilee May
Be Put In
Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, March 2, 1939
Student Activities
At Kerby High
Kerby Takes Perennial
Cave City
Mrs. Frank Beer of Grants Pass
is teaching economics and geo­
graphy at the high school this
week until Merl Farmer who is at
the University of Oregon doing
some work necessary for his cer­
At a meeting of the Miners’ tificate. Mr. Farmer expects to be
Last Tuesday evening there was
Jubilee committee last Monday, back in Kerby this coming week, a special program of sports of­
there was a fair attendance of the to resume his classroom duties.
fered th« people of the valley for
board, and much discussion was
the benefit of the Kerby high
indulged in, mostly regarding the
Kerby high school basket ball school basket ball team so they
Jubilee for this year.
team with Bob Schumacher as could go to Ashland in the sec­
A motion was made that we do manager and Principal F. W. tional battle to see who goes to
not have the Jubilee this year, but Jones left Wednesday afternoon play for the championship.
it was not seconded and did not for Ashland where they will par­
With last evening’s benefit,
come up for a vote. The question ticipate in the president's cup di­ Kerby was assured of their ex­
the board was concerned with is vision of the southern Oregon B penses to Ashland for the elimina­
whether the valley wants another League tournament held at the tions. Their first game was be
Jubilee and whether they will help Nunnal school. T'lose making the lieved to be Wednesday evening
support it with their interest and trip are: Don Hill. Bud Brooks. of this week. See notice of this
help when needed.
Ray Bergman, Les Henry, Ivan game in another column.
The first Jubilee found mgny Ili<beri:i8n, Ken Morrison Toni
The sport program of the eve­
willing hands to help, but last Walton with the aforementioned ning was varied and interesting.
year the burden fell on four or official.
To begin with there was a basket
five and it was too much for them
ball game between the sopho­
to sacrifice their business again
Dr. Johnson and nurse, Ruth mores and juniors of Kerby high
this year, and if there is not Ganiere of the County Health as­ school, which the sophs won 20 to
enough interest in the Jubilee to sociation came out to the Kerby 16. It was a good game and ex­
the extent that at least 12 or 15 high school Tuesday to check up citing.
men and women are willing to on the health of the basket ball
A good representation from Wil­
help take some of the responsibil­ team before they made the trip liams came over and played the
ity, the chances are that there will to take part in the tournament at Illinois Valley team at basket
not be another Jubilee, at least Ashland.
ball, but the valley boys were too
not this year.
much for the Williams boys, nev­
This is a very small community,
ertheless, they displayed fine spir­
and the Jubilee is for no other Coming Attractions at
it and excellent sportsmanship,
purpose than to help advertise and Cave City Theater
but they lost the game 38 to 15.
build up the entire valley. No one
Some of the Williams boys looked
gets a salary and every one of the ' Manager Fred Rout of the Cave mighty good, even in defeat.
board spent money out of their City theatre has booked “A Man
Then came the highlights of
own pocket to help put the show to Remember’’ for next Saturday the evening. Kerby and Cave City
on last year, and after it was over, and Sunday, March 4 and 5. Jim­ were scheduled to play a game of
not much praise, mostly criticism my Fidler in his review called this volley ball, but so few of the
and they are not willing to take picture a four bell picture and said players arrived for the game that
it again without more help.
it was one that everybody should a hurry-up call with the basket
The objectionable features of see.
ball players, who had just finished
last years show was discussed and
The story shows a benevolent ru­ their game, found several who
it was decided that there would ral doctor, un-appreciated and un­ were willing and anxious to play,
not be a gambling hall this year, paid by his penny-pinching flock so the Cave City six finally were
if we do have a Jubilee. This for more than twenty years, sud­ ready for the slaughter. The game
takes away most of the revenue denly emerges as the hero of the was supposed to be the best two
to pay the bills and other methods hour, is dramatically depicted in out of three, but Kerby was gen­
had to be found. This was accom­ "A Man to Remember,” new erous and before the play started
plished with the result that it is screen drama featuring Anne suggested that it be three out of
possible to put the show on and Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bow­ five. This was agreed on and when
come out even, but the board man and William Henry.
they had won the first three with
made it quite plain that they
Cast as the kindly, country prac­ scintillating victories, it was sug­
would not consider the proposition titioner, Edward Elis’ primary in­ gested that we keep on and play
unless the entire valley as a whole terest lies in the welfare of his the full five games They were so
showed more interest in its man­ little community rather than per­ short that none of the boys felt
agement.
sonal gain. His ability as a physi­ tired so five games were played
If you want the Jubilee again cian wins little respect, except and, if we are not mistaken, Cave
this year, and if you have any sug­ from impoverished farmers.
City got one point in the last
gestions, please send a postal card
Hounded by creditors, and game, and they never won enough
or write a letter and mail it to turning his back on bigger oppor­ to make it a “love” set, if that is
Art Drews, president, Cave Junc­ tunities in order to send his son what they call it.
tion, Oregon. If you don’t want through medical school, Ellis’ life
Anyway it was great sport for
the Jubilee, it will help the board is a humble one indeed, the only the players, but we imagine a lit­
if you would so designate and let ray of sunshine filtering through tle tiresome for the spectators.
them know.
his existence being his affection However, it demonstrated one
This is serious business, and if for his pretty ward and his ambi­ thing. When Grants Pass Cham­
the citizens of the valley do. or tion for his son.
ber of Commerce team comes out
do not want the Jubilee this year,
A community crisis in which an to play the Illinois Valley Cham­
it will be or not be according to epidemic of infantile paralysis is ber of Commerce, they are going
your interest in the matter by let­ ready to swoop down on the town to get quite a shock when they go
ting the board know. Don’t delay, is his opportunity for unwittingly up against the Illinois Valley play­
send your card or letter immed­ achieving the fame he so rightly ers. There is to be a series of
iately.
deserves. His drastic measures to three games between the cham­
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avert the plague bring the citizens bers, the first game in Kerby, and
to his door—and the reward he the next in Grants Pass, and the
The American Legion are hav­
never sought.
third to be decided on later.
ing one of their well liked overall
Also ‘‘March of Time” and
The local chamber beat the G.
and apron dances, next Saturday,
Micky Mouse.”
P. chamber so badly at softball
March 4. Prizes will be given the
For Wednesday and Thursday, they have been itching to get re­
lucky couples. Come early as the
March 8 and 9 “Pecks Bad Boy venge, so the volley ball arrange­
first prize will be given at 11
With the Circus.’ Manager Rout ments. Watch for future an­
o'clock.
says
a circus doe- not come to a nouncement of this classic.
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town the size of Cave Junction, so
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George Maiden of Holland went
you come to the circus. This pic­
to Coquille last Saturday, and re­
ture is acclaimed by Hollywood Testimony Taken For
turned Monday evening.
critics as one of the more hilarious
Broadcasting Station
mirth outbursts eminating from
Miss Copley and Mrs. A. W. Ste­
the film studios thia year.
W. B. Smullin of radio station
wart and daughter Carol, of Hol­
Tommy Kelly, who played the
KIEM, Eureka, California, and
land, spent Wednesday shopping
top role in “Adventures of Tom
John G. Bauriedel, graduate of
in Grants Pass.
Sawyer," is starred as Bill Peck
Stanford university, specializing
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in communication engineering,
on the comical activities of this
passed through Cave Junction last
Í COMING EVENTS j beloved light of literature.
Thursday evening on their way
Also a Disney “Micky Mouse”
home after attending the testi­
cartoon.
mony of witnesses before E. L.
Monday’s—Every 2nd and 4th,
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Galbraith, sitting as commissioner
Girl Scouts meet at Kerby Li­
at the court house last week.
FLASH
brary building.
The testimony was taken for
Every Monday—Boy Scouts meet
the Southen Oregon Broadcasting
in Legion hall. Cave Junction. |
Kerby won over Sams company, A. E. Voorhies, presi­
Ralph Huber, Scout Master.
Valley in their first tour­ dent, and the testimony will be
Monday, March 6—Special busi nament contest by a 17 to sent to Federal Communications
ness meeting to come before I.
10 score Wednesday night Commission. Washington, D. C.
V. Chamber, 8 p. m. All mem­
commission will hold its hear­
at Ashland. Thursday af­ The
bers requested to be present.
ing some time in March.
Monday, March 6—Following the ternoon, today, they w’on
A
broadcasting station at
Chamber meeting. Miners’ Ju­ from Ophir, 26 to 10. They Grants Pass will enable people liv­
bilee members meeting. Elec play Brookings Friday a. ing in the Illinois Valley to receive
tion of officers. Important.
during the day with
m. and if they win that broadcasts
Saturday, March 11 — Minstrel I
ease. As it is now, only a very
show at Deer Creek Grange game they will play in the few can get any station until eve­
semi finals Friday eve.
ning.
hall.
Ash Can
Prospector
Five Straight Opines
Alrealy we are reading in the
daily papers about these first
signs of spring. Now it seems
to me that this spring sign busi­
ness is kind of a local affair.
The peopple who live in the cit­
ies depend on the first far robin
or the first nodding violet to tel)
them when spring approaches. Or
the ground hog seeing his shadow
or not on ground hog day. Then
it seems there are hens in some
parts of the Rogue river valley
that signal the approach of spring
by increasing the size of their
eggs.
But just the same we who live
out here, back of beyond, meaning
out back of the Applegate coun­
try, and beyond Hayes hill on the
Redwood highway, where you
drift gently down into the Illinois
valley the richest valley in the
world, we read of their signs with
a certain amount of skepticism.
We sort of suspect that their fat
robin may be a little too full of
“Vite” or the three “V’s” or some­
thing. Or that he may have caught
a few- too many early worms down
south where he was wintering, and
started north a bit too early.
Again we read where in the
middle west the ground hog saw
his shadow for a few minutes on
ground hog day, and so forcast six
more weeks of winteg. Here it
snowed steadily all day on Feb.
2nd,
and no self respecting
ground hog would more than
have stuck his head out of his
hole, let alone coming far enough
out U» aee his shadow.
The hens in this “richest valley
in the world" lay big eggs all win­
ter. If they didn’t we would
mighty soon cut their heads off
and put them in the soup pot,
along with a good sized helping of
noodles. So as a s’gn of spring
we can’t take much stock in that.
But we out here, back of be­
yond, we also have our unfail­
ing signs of spring. They occur
about the same time of the year,
each year, and they aie signs that
never fail.
One of the first of these signs
is when you see one of these old
prospectors, griziled and unshav­
en through the long
winter
months, taking his old pack bouid
down from the wall and anxiously
begin looking it over to see if he
might have carelessly put it away
for the winter months with a strap
that needed mending, or if some
sly pack rat might have made
away with a leather string, for a
change of winter diet, when he
wasn’t watching, and it must
needs be replaced.
The hob nailed boots next come
in for their share of inspection.
A nail is missing, here or there,
and must be replaced at once, even
though the old prospector knows
full well deep in his heart that
he won’t be needing those boots
for two months yet at least.
Eyes that have long since
grown too dim to see the printed
page unaided, but can still detect
the finest speck of gold in a gold
pan, begin to take on a far away,
mysterious look, as though seeing
deep into things not given to
younger eyes to see.
A lull comes, gradually in the
hum of mining tales that have
gone the rounds of the heating
stove for the last four months: of
pockets garnered from the hidden
folds of nature's skirts in the
years gone by; of sudden riches,
long since spent, which this or that
one struck when he was down to
his last pot of beans.
Then you see him for several
days casting flirtatious glances at
his gold pan resting in Its proper
place behind the stove, to protect
it from any stray bit of moisture
that might cause a pit to occur on
its smooth polished surface.
And when finally a few days lat­
er, the urge having grown too
strong to be resisted any longer,
you see him cast a disgusted look
out of the cabin window at a few
patches of snow still lying in shel-
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Kerby News Notes
of General Interest
Mrs. Mabel Ramsey has been
ill at Powers, Ore., where she
has been visiting her husband
who is in charge of some of the
C. C. C. work.
New Mining
BUI Is
Proposed
Pete Peterso.^ left early this
Wednesday’s Grants Pass Cour­
week for Portland, on business. ier, under an Associated Press
Despatch, prints the following:
Herb Tycer returned last Fri­
Josephine and Curry county
day from Eureka, Calif., where legislators agreed tentatively to­
he has been working, to visit his day on a compromise bill which
family.
sponsors said would help solve the
dispute between Rogue river min­
Malcolm Vougt spent Wednes­ ers and fishermen.
day in Kerby from his mine on
The new bills, which will prob­
the Illinois river.
ably will be introduced late today
bearing the names of Rep. Roy E.
Mr and Mrs. Bert Badden at­ Carter, Gold Beach and Senator
tended to some business in George Chaney, Coquille, would
Grants Pass on Wednesday.
provide for a coordination board
to prevent miners from interfer­
Mrs. Millie Trefethen has been ing with fishermen from April 15
on the sick list, but is improving to November 1. Miners who have
gradually.
settling pools or who dig less than
five yards a day would not be sub­
A special meeting of the P. T. ject to regulation.
A. of the Kerby grade school is
Members of the board would be
called for Friday, March 3rd by the state engineer and the chair­
order of the president
men of the stat® mining board
and the state game commission.
Mrs. C. E. Johnson, Mrs. Grace
The bill would substitute for
Goodmanson and Charlie Dodd senate bill 385, providing for ap­
spent Wednesday in Grants Pass. pointment of a coordination board
by the governor, and house bill
J. H. Blackman and family 242, which would prevent min­
from Montana have rented Pete ing operations from May 1 to No­
Peterson’s house. Mr. Blackman is vember 1.
foreman of the drillers on the
Carter said he would withdraw
Pomeroy ranch.
house bill 242 if the new bill con­
tains provisions to which he
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mellow agreed.
and family spent the week end at
Representative W. H. Miller of
Crescent City, visiting relatives Josephine county, said he did not
and friends. Their son Arnold re­ favor any of the bills but would
turned home with them, after go along with the other members.
spending the past three months
“This is a matter for the courts
with relatives.
to decide," Miller said, “and the
legislature shouldn't have any­
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ham of thing to do with it. The people
Crescent City, spent Tuesday at by passing the stream pollution
the Frank Mellow home. Mr. Ham bill last November, set up all the
is far mmachinery salesman for necessary machinery.”
Hobbs Wall and Co., of Crescent
Senator L. W. Wipperman of
City, and was in the valley get­ Josephine county, said the new
ting acquainted with the farmers. measure would go a long way to­
Mr Ham and Mr. Mellow are old ward settling the proverbial quar­
friends having been near neigh rel.
bors for 18 years.
The objective of the bill is to
prevent lawsuits and to keep the
Garden Club To Award river as clear in Curry county as
in Josephine county. It doesn't do
Prizes at Fall Show
anything drastic nor is it the in­
The Illinois Valley Garden club tent to disrupt mining conditions.
met last Friday afternoon at the All the bill provides is that minem
home of Mrs. C. L. Schumacher and fishermen both may make a
in Kerby with assisting hostesses, living.
The bill would contain penal­
Mrs. De Etta Scott and Mrs. Edna
ties for miners who violate orders
Hoskins.
Following discussion of the pos­ of the board, but the board would
sibility of sponsoring a junior gar­ not have power to fore® miners to
den club it was decided to give have settling* pools.
prizes for best boquet of flow­
ers grown by a boy or girl of the WHAT THE LEGION
grade school at the fall flowers AUXILIARY IS DOING
show, also for the best collection
of named woods and the best bird
At the regular meeting last
house. Special prizes will be Wednesday, March 1 vice-presi­
awarded for the best essays by dent Sharlet Slack presided in the
high school and grade pupils on absence of President Irene Stall­
wild plant conservation,
the cup. The Girl Scout chairman re­
length of the essays not to exceed ported six new members.
500 words.
The girls are now working on
On Friday, March 31, the club picture covers for hospitals. Their
will hold an all day meeting at the play is postponed on account of
home of Mrs C. C. Babcock and sickness.
Mrs. Brandt, landscape specialist
Next month is community ser­
from the extension service of Cor­ vice month in the auxiliary and
vallis college will be present for Joy Badden was appointed to as­
consultation.
sist Mrs Miller in the work plan­
ned.
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Letters of congratulation were
read from department officers for
I). A. R. MEMBERS
reaching our quota.
ENTERTAINED IN
The next sewing meeting will be
GRANTS f _____________
PASS
held at the home of Mrs. Blake
Miller at Kerby on March 8.
In Grants Pass last Tuesday, at
A letter from Mrs. Fritz Krauss
the home of Mrs. G. A. Johnson, was read inviting the auxiliary to
who was the organizing regent of
meet at her home. The attendance
Rogue River chapter D. A. R., en­ prize was won by Mrs. Coovert.
tertained members of the organi­
After the meeting the men of
zation at a luncheon in observance
the Legion joined the ladies for a
of the chapters fifth anniversary.
round table discussion on National
The table and rooms were at­
defense. L. E. Athey as speaker of
tractively decorated with spring
the evening gave a very interest­
flowers. A cake bearing five can­
ing and instructive talk.
dles added to the party and was
Art Kellert then called on al)
cut by Mrs. E. J Schumacher, the
present to speak on the question
present regent.
and some very good points were
Mrs. Florence Hallock sang,
brought out by the speakers. The
“God Bless America" with encore
meeting closed and the ladies serv­
and Mrs. Johnson accompanied at
ed coffee and cookies which all en­
the piano.
joyed.
Mrs. Harry Floyd and Mrs. John
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Ulrieh also attended the meeting.
Dr. A. N. Collman was attend­
After the business meeting the ing to medical business in Grants
afternoon was spent in sewing.
Pass last Monday.