Gateway to The Oregon Caves
Illinois Valley News
A LIVE WIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS
Volume III, No. 20
Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, September 21, 1939
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Pacific
Keiby News Notes
of General Interest
Highway
Improvement
Pacific highway distance be­
tween Wolf Creek and Pleasant
Valley will be shortened by two
and one-quarter miles to 14 miles,
if present plans are carried out
in construction, Location Engin­
eer A. A. Kirkwood said Tuesday,
reporting that the proposed line
for the new highway has now been
staked out from a half-mile north­
east of Wolf Creek to a mile south
of Pleasant Valley.
Part of this reduction in mile­
age will be due to a three and one-
half mile stretch “straight as a
die” extending from the southern
foot of Sexton mountain to be­
yond Pleasant Valley The sec­
tion will closely parallel the pre­
sent highway on a line about one-
quarter mile east of it.
The Mackin gulch route, which
would have taken the highway far
to the west of Sexton mountain
has been rejected in favor of a
route that will roughly follow the
old highway across the mountain,
but in a straighter line and with
all of the sharper curves remov­
ed. A deep cut about 2,000 feet
long through the mountain will
make this shortening possible.
It is planned for the new high­
way to take leave of Sexton moun­
tain more than half a mile west
of the Mt. Sexton service station
at which it departs from the peak
at present.
The staked right-of-way begins
a half mile south of Wolf Creek
runs slightly south of the old
highway, crossing it between 400
and 500 feet south of Wolf Creek
Tavern.
The proposed route then re­
verses its course from a south­
easterly direction and roughly fol­
lows the old highway the entire
distance to Grave Creek, but on a
much straightur course. The trav­
eling distance between Grave
Creek and the head of Mackin
gulch will be lessened by 4,000
feet. The highway will approach
Grave Creek on the west bank of
Salmon creek.
There will be ne turns on the
new highway of more than 10 de­
grees curvature, Mr. Kirkwood
said. The present road has curves
of 48, 52, 57 and 58 degrees in
crossing the two passes.
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DANCE SATURDAY
AT LEGION HALL
Wm. McLean and son Bud left
Wednesday for Pistol River for a
hunting trip. Faye McLean will
have charge of the Kerby post­
office during Mr. McLean’s ab­
sence.
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Claudia Buck left Sunday for
Ashland where she will enter
Southern Oregon College of Edu­
cation for her second year.
A clipping from a San Fran­
cisco paper received by Mrs. Millie
Trefethen stated that announce­
ments were out for the wedding
of Albert Louis Boch of Rich­
mond, California, and Georgia
Wells of Grants Pass. Mrs. Tre­
fethen states that the couple uere
married September 2nd.
Mrs.
Boch is a daughter of Mrs. Tre-
fethen and a native of the valley.
Wm. Mackey of Crescent City
passed away recently. In the ear­
ly days he was a prominent resi­
dent of the valley and all the old
timers will remember him.
He
was buried in Crescent City.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Webb > of
San Diego, are living in one • of
the cabins at Maple Court. The
Webbs, recently married, expect
to make this their home for the
winter. Mr. Webb has mining in­
terests on Fiddler's Gulch west of
Kerby.
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Mr. and Mrs. James Engle of
Los Angeles and formerly of In­
diana, spent last week at the
Maple Court while looking for a
location in some part of South­
ern Oregon.
Wm. Bigelow is reshingling the
porch on his store. Clyde Pievatt
is helping with the work.
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Regular Legion Auxiliary meet­
ings, 1st and 3rd Wednesday of
each month.
Auxiliary sewing days. 2nd and
4th
Wednesdays of every
month. All day meeting. Pot­
luck at noon.
Everyone wel-
come.
Sept. 20 to 23—Del Norte Coun­
ty fair, Crescent City,
Wednesday. Sept. 27—Auxiliary
card party in Auxiliary meeting
room, 8 p. m.
Friday Sept. 29 — Young Demo­
cratic meeting, at Kieth's Auto
camp.
Friday, September 29 — Illinois
Valley Garden Club at the home
of Mrs. Harry O. Smith. Meet­
ing scheduled for this week is
postponed on .account of sick­
ness.
Friday, September 29,—Booster
program by the Illinois Valley
Grange at Grange hall. Bridge
view. Public invited.
Saturday, Oct 7—Harvest Home
dance at Illinois Valley Grange
Hall, Bridgeview.
Crescent
Stay Out
City Fair
Of Wai?
Impressive
In the past three weeks we have
all read and discussed the new
Work! War and wondered what
role America will play on this
ghastly stage. The following ar­
ticle, prepared especially by Mor­
gan M. Beatty, AP Feature Ser­
vice Writer, and appearing in the
Humbolt Times of Eureka, Cali­
fornia, is to us one of the best re­
views of the situation.
Washington—If history is any
guage, there are three big bar­
riers to American neutrality in
another great war. Hera they are
straight from experts who them­
selves profess no bias:
1. Our very efforts to main­
tain neutrality dragged us into
the World War and the war of
1812, our only two struggles with
European nations since 1776.
2. The profits of trade in war­
time are important to American
capital, especially when 10,000,-
000 of our citizens are unemploy­
ed, and it’s not natural to aban­
don our stake in world trade at
a time when the financial going
is best.
3. Americans wear their hearts
on their sleeves, and will find it
difficult, as they have in the re­
cent past, to stand by unmoved
when modern bombers rain death
on old-world cities.
From the early days of the re­
public we have stood upon the
principle of the freedom of the
seas, and tried to maintain a tra­
ditional air of neutrality. It’s a
good trick, if you can do it, but
we haven’t always been able to
do it.
Looking for Profit*
Lumber is on the school
grounds at the grade school to
build a garage for the school bus
Phil Dessinger and Hollis Ander­
ton started work on the building
Tuesday.
Members of the Nolaettes, 4-H
Room Improvement club of the
high school, who exhibited at the
Josephine County Fair were for­
tunate with ribbons. Phyllis Jones
won a blue ribbon and the scholar­
ship to summer school; Myrtice
Jones won a red ribbon and Mil­
dred Norman a blue ribbon.
Mr. and. Mrs. George Phillips
of Clinton, Illinois, were guests
last week of their cousins Amos
and Cecil Slack and Mrs. Harry
Mills. While here the visitors were
taken to the Oregon Caves, Red­
woods and the coast as well as
other places of interest, From
here they went to California to
visit relatives.
Under complete new manage­
ment, the regular dances at the
American Legion hall will be re­
summer this coming Saturday,
September 23.
A new orchestra will make its
J. M, Finch, who has spent the
appearance at this dance and summer on Canyon creek mining,
many new features are scheduled is at his home in Kerby for the
for the start of the season.
winter.
| COMING EVENTS |
Price 5 Cents
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Mr. and Mrs. Bert Adams who
have a mine on Canyon Creek are
spending a few days in Kerby,
Mrs. Adams had received a letter
from her sister, Mrs. Lottie
Woodcock, who is in Olympia,
stating that her daughter, Mrs.
Ethel Duffy is critically ill and
has been removed to a hospital.
Mrs. Duffy spent her early life
at Kerby and has many friends in
the valley.
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FIRST DEER OF
SEASON BROUGHT
IN BY DICK SOWELI
Take the war of 1812 against
the British—in which we really
were taking sides with Napolean
and France against the rest of
Europe.
Long before that war started,
our President, Thomas Jefferson,
had developed some pretty forth­
right ideas about European wars.
When the British and the French
started fighting, he wrote to his
old friend, Alexander Donald:
“Since the war is decreed by
fate, W’e have only to pray that
the soldiers eat a great deak”
That was one way of saying
that he hoped American trade
would profit from Europe's bad
fortune. And he, with the tra­
ditionally neutral European states
insisted on the rights of neutrals
to carry on their ocean-bome bus­
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iness.
Here’s the way modern-day
Phillip C. Jessup, Columbia Uni­
verity's expert on international
law, views that situation:
“Theoretically, the neutrals’
position was that they should be
let alone ... to continue their
normal commerce. Practically,
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FLASH
c. H. Brooks, return-
ing from the Crescent
City fair, today gave us
the information that the
Deer Creek and Illinois
Valley Granges, repre­
senting the exhibit for
Josephine County, won
first prize for county ex­
hibits outside of Del Nor­
te County.
Mr. Brooks and Mr. F.
L. Sawyer and a commit­
tee from both Granges
were in attendance at the
fair and arranged the
winning exhibits.
Wednesday the Del Norte
County fair at Crescent City op­
ened its gates to the public with
one of the best exhibits seen on
the fair grounds for years.
This year’s fair is better and
bigger than ever and the prize
money is larger than ever, mak-
ing competition keen for every
purse and prize, The displays all
over the county show deep inter-
est in the agricultural and horti­
culture fields.
The Illinois Valley is well rep­
resented this year with a splen­
did exhibit sponsored by the Deer
Creek and Illinois Valley Grang­
es, anil their exhibit is one of the
best outside of the county of Del
Norte. F. L. Sawyer is in charge
of the exhibit.
Friday and Saturday are the
two big days this week end, and
many people from the valley are
going over to attend.
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SHINGLE COMPANY
ERECTS NEW SHED
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Remember the little blonde
bombshell who played the role of
the little Dutch girl in "The Buc­
caneer”—lovely Franciska Gaal?
She’s coming to town again —
with Bing Crosby — in her ’ sec­
ond American offering, "Paris
Honeymoon,” which opens Sat­
urday at the Cave City Theatre.
The gorgeous blonde who is
described as "a combination of
Helen Hayes, the early Mary
Pickford and Clara Bow,” comes
to the screen as "Manya”, fair­
est flower of the mythical princi­
pality of "Pushtainick,” famed
for its roses and beauteous maid­
ens. “Pustalnick” is the place
where Bing, as an American.mil­
lionaire, has to choose between
Many and a gay divorcee, Shirley
Ross, to whom he has already
plighted his troth. And it’s a role
which fits her like a glove. It
calls for verve, vivacity, vigor and
vitriol, because, you see, Manya
is a spitfire peasant girl who
knows when she is in love and
does something about it, in the
manner of her Pustalnickian for-
bears, a rough and hardy race of
mountaineers.
Which is right in Miss Gaal's
line! Born the thirteenth and
youngest child of an aristocratic
Budapest family, she was expect­
ed to lead the sheltered life of her
class. But she shocked her family
by announcing on her thirteenth
(a lucky number for her) birth­
day that she was going to be an
actress. She went to dramatic
school and, through a lucky break,
got the lead role in “The Stupid
Man,’’ which made her the toast
of Budapest.
She went into pictures and ap­
peared in such roles as “Kiki.”
Her first role was in the "Buc­
caneer" where, in spite of such
actors as Fredric March, Akim
Tamiroff, and Margot Grahame,
she managed to shine and impress
American audiences with her por­
trayal of the Dutch girl, Gretch-
ent”
Then came “Paris Honeymoon,’’
which called for a spitfire to play
opposite Bing Crosby in a cast
which includes Akim Tamiroff,
Shirley Ross, Edw. Everett Hor­
ton and many others. And in spite
of the fact that Hollywood is lit-
terally littered with luminaries,
M iss Gaal was chosen for the role
—giving America another oppor­
tunity to feast its eyes upon her!
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The Illinois Valley Shingle
company is erecting a new shed
for their machinery and products
manufactured.
This company, recently started
by Amos and Cecil Slack, is just
north of Kerby and has been run­
ning steadily since the start, man­
ufacturing redwood shingles but
now are using sugar pine bolts.
Nolin Noble of Selma, has been
working at the mill this week while
Cecil Slack has been employed at
the Fulks mill at Bridgeview.
Woodrow Nealy and Ken Morrison
are furnishing shingle bolts at
Kerby grade school Parent
present.
Teacher Association held a spe­
cial meeting Monday evening.
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Few were present because of lack
Burwell O'Kelly of Rogue Riv­ of time to notify members. Mrs.
er was in Cave Junction Wednes­ Clem Sauer, newly elected presi­
day looking the valley over with dent was in charge of the meet­
the view of locating here. Mr. O'­ ing with Mrs. Lola Peterson sec­
Kelly is a butcher.
retary,
Mrs. Peterson read a
brief review of the last meeting
and picnic held last spring.
As this meeting was called to
find the immediate needs of the
school for supplies that the asso­
ciation might help provide. The
teachers were asked to state the
needs. Mr. Foerst, principal, told
of the lack of hammers, nails,
lumber and a few little things the
shop would need. It was voted
to give 110 for the purchase of
supplies.
Shop work has been
made possible for the grade school
boys through the efforts of the
P. T. A.
Kerby P.T.A
Meet Monday
Autumn Arrives; Here’s the Route
RAINBOW GARDENS
CHANGES NAME
Dick Sowell scooped all of the
boys this year when he drove
through Cave Junction with a 225
pound 10-point mule deer.
Dick was over in the Bly coun­
try and got his deer early Wed­
nesday morning and immediately
started home. He came through
town about 5 p. m. Wednesday af­
ternoon.
Mrs. Ed. Lind received word
that her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Long,
had passed away at Deadwood, S.
Dakota. Mrs. Long was a resi­
dent of the valley for a good many
years
FRANCISKA GAAL
CAST OPPOSITE
BING CROSBY
Autumn arrive* officially here and throughout
the northern hemi­
sphere on September S3. bringing what astronomers call Ibe “autumnal
equinox" when the sun crosses from north to south across the equator.
In the above chart, which shows the various “leanings" of the earth with
regard to the sun at the start of each season, the earth Is shown to be
something like a great movable floor In space. The sun is near the
center of this floor and the earth moves around the outer edge of ft.
On account of the confusion
of names similar to the Rainbow
Gardens, Mrs. Gladys M. King
has decided to change the name
of the Gardens to Lone Mountain
Valley Resort, a high class resort
of pleasure and quiet seclusion
from the hub-bub of the city.
Mrs. King and P. R. Snyder
have built one of the finest re­
sorts in southern Oregon and next
year hope to have it completely
finished for a pleasure resort un­
equalled to any in Oregon.
High School
Students
Elect Officers
This week has been a busy one
at the high school in Kerby. What
with freshman week initiations,
and elections of officers for the
different classes the high school
pupils have been going through
rather a strenuous week of it.
Friday evening you will see
the final initiation party, when
the student body will partici­
pate.
Class election results were as
follows:
Senior Class—
President............ Ray Bergman
V-President
Ivan Haberman
Sec.-Treas.
.........Ruth Watts
Member Student Council ....
Dollie Branham
Junior Class—
President ................ Faye Tracer
V-President
Robert Smith
Sec.-Treas
Wilno Maurer
Member Student Council ....
Betty Bergman
Sophomore Class—
President .... Harry Schultz
V-President
Lloyd Morrison
Sec.-Treas. .........Harry Wilder
Member Student Council .. .
.......................... Lyle Frietas
Freshman Class—
President ................ Paula Fox
V-President
Jack Sowell
Sec.-Treas.
Elva Messenger
................................ Bob Wendt
Student Council Members—
Ken Morrison, Jeanne Villair,
Dollie Branham, Betty Berg­
mann, Lyle Freitas, Bob Wendt
Student Body Elective Officers—
President ....
Ken Morrison
Sec.Trean
Jeanne Villair
Girls’ League and the Boys’
Athletic Association have not yet
elected their officers.
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WHAT THE LEGION
AUXILIARY IS DOING
Fourteen legion and auxiliary
members attended the joint in­
stallation of Grants Pass, Med­
ford, Ashland and Kerby officers
held at Medford. Installation was
held in the K. P. hall which was
packed. Harold Prestel of Grants
Pass very ably acted as master of
ceremonies.
Addresses of the evening were
given by Dept. Commander Neil
Allen and Dept. President, Mrs.
William Horsfall. Both gave in­
spiring talks -tressing among oth­
er things membership Mrs. Hors­
fall said membership in the Amer­
ican Legion Auxiliary is some­
thing to be exceptionally proud
of as it can’t be bought nor ac­
quired by any means, except ser­
vice in the World War of a fath­
er, brother or husband.
At the regular Auxiliary meet­
ing Wendesday reports Were
heard from various committee
chairmen. Membership! Chairman
Sharlet Slack asked that due* be
in as soon as possible. Hospital
Chairman Emily Kellert reported
12 balls of carpet rags and one
and one-half pounds of silk sent
to the Roseburg hospital. Library
Chairman Irene Morrison report­
ed the library is being painted
and has a new window and book
chute. Also asked for |1.50 for
mending supplies, which was giv­
en her. Also granted was Legion
and Auxiliary publication shelf.
A motion to not serve dance sup­
pers for an indefinite period was
carried.
A card party was planned to be
held in the meeting room.
Irene Morrison was appointed
library chairman for the coming
year; Sharlet Slack is to keep the
Girl Scout chairmanship until
January 1st and Pearl Martindale
volunteered as cradle roll chair­
man. The meeting was adjourned
to sing two songs in observance
of National Music week, Ijater
refreshments were served in the
kitchen
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Sam Stinebaugh of the Stine-
baugh Oil company of Granta
Pass was in the valley Wednesday
looking after the interest* of his
company.