Gateway to The Oregon Caves
A LIVE WIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS
Volume IV.
No. 17
Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, August 29, 1940
Price 5 Cents
Miners Jamboree Official Program Faye Tycer Wins
Queen Contest
Committees Work
Produces Results
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31st
2 p. m.—Boy’s Bicycle Race
Age limit 10-16. 1st place $1.
Everything has been done that
several committees could think of,
and nothing remains now but to
let Father Time bring around Sat­
urday afternoon when activities
of the Fourth Annual Miners’ Jam­
boree will get under way.
Crowds from all parts of South­
ern Oregon and Northern Califor­
nia are expected to attend this
intersting celebration, which is be­
ing held this year under the aus­
pices of the American Legion posts
from Cave Junction and Happy
Camp, California.
Of course interest centers first
on the big Queens Ball Saturday
night at the American Legion hall.
The Queen and her princesses will
be crowned at the end of the first
show at 9 o’clock in the Cave City
theater, and will then be escorted
to the Legion hall where the grand
march will start the epening’s
terpsichoreaning activities with
Queen Faye and her escort leading
the march, with all her princesses
and loyal subjects.
Saturday afternoon there will
be much amusement for both
young and old in games and con­
tests, the winners of which will
receive good prizes.
Sunday afternoon more sports
and amusements and a game of
soft ball between Kerby and Cave
Junction. This game is going to
be a “dinger”. Kerby is getting
up a fast team and they have in­
timated that Cave Junction should
call an ambulance to take her ball
players home. Kerby plans to run
them nearly to distraction.
But of course this is Kerby’s
idea of their own little “blitz­
krieg,” but Cave Junction has
other ideas, but nevertheless, this
game is going to be something to
shout about, and all those who
love soft ball and good clean sport
should go to the ball grounds back
of the Kerby high school Sunday
afternoon and see some real sport.
W. J. McLean of Kerby is the
captain of the Kerby team and M.
C. Athey of the Cave Junction
team.
Athey thinks the teams
should be between the fats and
leans, stating that he and McLean
would make a team all by them­
selves. How Athey gets the idea
he is fat, we dont’ know.
Sunday evening the great fight
card is all set for fight fans, and
this has the earmarks of being one
of the highlights of the Jamboree.
The card is the best ever put to­
gether by Matchmaker Buck Smith,
and there will be something doing
from start to finish.
Monday, Labor Day, will be
ushered in with the big parade in
the morning at 11:00 o'clock. In
the afternoon^ more games and
contests. Some of the most inter­
esting will be a tug of war be­
tween the 40-Man Crew and pick­
ed heavyeights of the valley, and
the losers are going to get the sur­
prise of their lives. No more about
this, wait and see.
For the amusement of the boys,
there will be a greased pole with
a dollar bill on top and the one
who climbs the pole can have the
dollar bill.
Then there is going to be a
sweetly greased, nice little pig,
and the one who catches it can
have it. Our mistake, there are
going to be two greased pigs—
one for everybody and a small one
for the boys and girls. Better get
your overalls on for this.
In the evening there will be the
Miners’ dance. This is an annual
affair and always draws a big
crowd. Everyone who dances fin­
ishes up the Jamboree with hot
stepping and waltzing to sweet
music, and this year will be no ex­
ception.
Parking places will be provided
for automobiles and all the eating
places are preparing to take care
of the large crowds who will at­
tend.
GARDEN CLUB AT
ESTERLY MINE
The News
The Illinois Valley Garden rlub
held its monthly meeting at the To Enlarge
Esterly mine, Friday, August 23,
in the form of a garden party.
After the regular business meet­ Edition
ing a buffet luncheon and games
were enjoyed by the 31 members
present.
Prizes were awarded to the fol­
lowing winners of the flower ar­
rangement contest: Mixed bou­
quet of gladiolus in glass: 1st,
Mrs. George Thrasher; 2nd, Mrs.
Bud Hoskins. Mixed bouquet in
pottery container: 1st, Mrs. R.
Leonard; 2nd, Mrs. E. J. Wilber.
Mixed bouquet in glass container:
1st, Mrs. J. M. Smock; 2nd, Mrs.
Earl Boyd. Arrangement of zin­
nias: 1st, Mrs. H. R. Floyd; 2nd,
Mrs. Hoskins.
Arrangement of
marigolds, 1st, Mrs. Harry Floyd;
2nd, Mrs. R. Baumberger. Ar­
rangement of petunias, 1st, Mrs.
George Thrasher; 2nd, Mrs. B.
Hoskins.
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Clay Massie and Des Byrne
made a business trip to Grants
Pass Wednesday.
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Saturday to Monday, inclusive—
August 31, Sept. 1-2—Miners’
Jamboree, Cave Junction.
Monday, September 2—Labor day.
Monday to Sunday. Sept. 2 to 8—
State Fair at Salem.
Wednesday to Saturday, Septem­
ber 11 to 14 inclusive—Pendle­
ton Round-Up.
O'Brien Woman’s club meets first
and third Friday, 2 p. m.
Illinois Valley Juvenile Grange
meets first and third Saturdays
of each month at 2 p. m.
Regular Legion and Auxiliary
meeting the first and third
Wednesday of every month.
The management of the Illinois
Valley News believing in the fu­
ture of the “Richest Valley in the
World,” the Illinois valley, will
start next week issuing an eight
page paper every week. This even
in the face of a possible reduction
of population as our boys and men
are called to training camps by
Uncle Sam.
We have long wanted to enlarge
The News, but conditions beyond
our control seemed to put a dam­
per on this idea. Now, however,
the Athey Brothers have deliber­
ately taken the bit in their teeth
and are going to produce one of
the best country weekly papers in
the state for their readers in the
Illinois valley, for they are entitled
to the best.
The new, enlarged paper will
contain a full page of comic strips.
All the family enjoy these comics
and this will add interest to the
paper. Many of the nation's lead­
ing columnists will appear weekly
in the new paper and one of the
best western continued stories will
start next week.
There will also be agricultural
subjects, household hints and fash­
ions, all edited by some of the best
known authorities of the nation.
One of the best commentators on
world affairs will appear weekly,
and a letter from Washington, D.
C., will also be a weekly event.
All of these interesting articles
will help make the Illinois Valley
News an outstanding weekly, and
it is the desire of the publishers
to make it attractive to the valley
readers.
2:15 p. m.—Girls’ Bicycle Race
Age limit None. 1st place $1.
2nd place 50c.
2nd place 50c.
2:30 p. m.—Three I-egged Race, Kiddies.
Age limit 7-12.
1st place $1. 2nd place 50c.
3 p. m.—Beer Drinking Contest.
Age limit 21-101. 1st place i/2 gallon beer.
First 6 entries Free, others 15c fee.
3:15 p. m.—Women’s Bucksaw Contest.
Age limit 9-90. 1st place $1. 2nd place 50c.
3:45 p. m.—Boys’ Pillow Fight.
Age limit 14-18. 1st place $1.
2nd place 50c.
4:15 p. m.—Greased Pig Contest for Children.
Age limit 6-16. 1st place One Pig.
6:45 p. m—Women’s Nail Driving Contest
Age limit 9-90. 1st place $1. 2nd place 50c.
9:00 p. m.—Coronation of Queen and Queen’s ball.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
11 a. m.—Men’s Ix>g Bucking Contest.
No age limit. 1st place $5.00. 2nd $2.50.
Furnish your own tools.
1:45 p. m.—Greased Pig Contest.
Free For All.
2:15 p. m.—Softball Game.
9 p. m.—30 Rounds of Boxing, legion Hall.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
11 a. m.—Parade.
Before we start in with thia
story, the American Legion Jam­
boree committee and the chairman
of the queen contest, Fred Link­
hart, want to thank all the contest­
ants for their loyal battle to be­
come Queen of the Miners’ Jam­
boree. It was a glorious contest,
and the entire committee is only
sorry that every one of the lovely
girls in the contest could not win.
Miss Faye Tycer came in ahead
Cave Junctions promotor and of a list of five girls at the cloae
matchmaker, Buck Smith, has fin- j of the contest Wednesday night at
ally arranged one of the best fight the Cave City theater. Following
cards ever given in Southern Ore­ is the official standing at the fin-
gon, for the big celebration, on ish:
Faye Tycer
902,000
September 1st.
825,000
Grants Pass fight fans have Alberta Hatley
188,000
been after Buck Smith to match Marian Mc Briet y
156,000
Frankie Hyde and Claude Tucker, Mary Regan
102,000
two of the best boys in the south­ Moyrnah Titus
The two girls from Happy Camp,
ern part of the state. Frankie has
only lost one match, and he was Miss Regan and Miss Titus, made
sick when this happened, coming the trip from Happy Camp to Cave
back next week to knockout the Junction to be on hand when the
boy who beat him the previous last vote was counted to appear
week. Claude has never lost a on the stage with the other girla,
fight,
Both boys are welter and the committee especially want
weights, fast and full of action, to thank these girls and the chap­
and anything can happen, for this eron who accompanied them on the
main event will be 10 rounds. trip.
It was a great contest and a list
Grants Pass and Crescent City
fight fans are expected to fill the of gracious contestants. Miss Ty­
house to capacity, for there is a cer will have the two top girls as
her princesses, Miss Hatley and
Miss McBriety, and they will at­
tend all royal functions with their
queen during the Jamboree.
Miss Tycer, or rather Queen
Faye, will be crowned “Queen of
the Miners’ Jamboree” at the
Cave City theater Saturday night,
immediately after the first show
and will then proceed to the Leg­
ion hall where the Queen Ball will
get under way about 9:30 p. m.
Boxing Card
Best Ever
Arranged
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1:00 p. m.—World’s Championship Gold Panning.
Limit 6 entries and we must have at least four
or there will be no contest. 1st place $10.00,
2nd place $5.00
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
SAT. AND SUN. NITES
1:45 p. m —Balloon Blowing Contest.
Age limit 5-8. 1st place $.25. All contestants
win an ice cream cone.
2 p. m.—Girls’ Wiener Eating Contest.
Age limit 7-70. 1st place $1.00. 2nd place $.50.
2:15 p. m.—Boys’ Pie Eating Contest.
No age limit. 1st place $1.00. 2nd place 50c.
2:30 p. m.—10-Man Crew Tug-O’War.
3:00 p. m.—Mule Packing Demonstration.
U. S. Forest Service.
9 p. m.—Dance.
SPECIAL SHOW
MONDAY NIGHT
SOFT BALL PLAYERS
WANTED FOR TEAMS
Labor Day, Monday September
2, the Cave City Theatre will run
a special action program for the
Miners Jamboree and all the other
merrymakers.
The Three Mes-
quiteers, who have been very pop­
ular in Cave Junction, will be fea­
tured in ‘Rocky Mountain Rang­
ers” the locale of which is laid in
the Texas Panhandle. The Mes-
quiteers match their wits against
a group of bandits and murderers
who are terrorizing this part of
the country. One of the Mesquit-
eers, Robert Livingston, poses as
a notoriou outlaw and works him­
self into the gang’s confidence.
In good time and with the assist­
ance of Raymond Hatton and Ro­
naldo, he corrals the whole mob
and hands them over to the Texas
Rangers. The story is excitingly
told with emphasis on the action
sequences.
On the same program is an out­
standing group of short subjects,
including “Women in Hiding" one
of the popular Crime-doesn’t-Pay
series, a hilarious Edgar Kennedy
comedy, and a new Pathe News.
This program will be shown one
day only—Monday.
The soft ball game between
Kerby and Cave Junction next
Sunday afternoon is getting hot.
Manager Athey of the Cave Junc­
tion team is worrying about play­
ers. All those who play soft ball
and want to play Sunday, please
get in touch with him at the News
office. There will be a practile
game this week end.
Likewise, Manager McLean of
Kerby should have a few play­
ers in the Kerby district. See Mac
and get in the game.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Mallery and
daughter spent last Saturday in
the valley looking after business
matters. Mr. Mallery is with the
CCC camp now stationed at Crater
Lake.
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Residents Are Asked
To Help With Parade
The Miners’ Jamboree parade
committee is asking all the valley
residents to help out with novel
ideas for the parade Monday morn­
ing.
Anyone who has an idea that
they believe would be interesting
to spectators should get in touch
with Jim Franklin, Bert Badden
or George Hicks and tell them all
about their entry.
Miners who can march in the
parade with their packs, animals
of any kind and unusual charac­
ters would be interesting. Get your
ideas working and then get them
in place for the parade Monday
morning. This is your Jamboree.
Get in and help it out.
. ..—
Claude
Tucker
great deal of interest in this match.
The American Legion hall will
be arranged to seat some 400 fight
fans, and the small boys will not
be allowed to occupy the first four
rows around the arena. The fights
will start at 9:00 p. m. after the
first show at the theater. There
will be six four round events be­
sides the main event, and these
are all worth the price of admis­
sion.
Smith, on account of the popu­
lar demand, has been trying to get
Hyde and Tucker together for six
months, and could only manage the
event on account of the large at­
tendance guaranteed by the Jam­
boree. The purse for these two
boys did not justify bringing them
together on the regular fight
cards, so the fight fans of South­
ern Oregon and Northern Califor­
nia, are in for a big treat Sunday
night at Cave Junction, in the
American Legion Hall.
A heavy weight bout of much in­
terest in the semi-finals is four
rounds between Howard Yar­
brough of Cave Junction and Guy
Brooks of the Caves CCC camp.
Bobby Stanfield of Cave Junction
and Johnny Roderquez of Happy
Camp will be interest for four
rounds. Cover Gates of Birming­
ham. Alabama and Elwood Hussey
of Cave Junction will make anoth­
er ¡litersting four round bout.
There will also be a curtain raiser
of three rounds between two clev­
er youngsters.
All in all, it’s the best card ever
gotten together in this part of
the state and should attract fight
fans from all sections.
After two years of work by
some two hundred artists and the
expenditure of more money than it
is good taste to mention, “Gulli­
ver’s Travels,” Max Fleischer’s
full-length animated cartoon in
Technicolor reaches the screen I
Scheduled for Saturday and Sun­
day at the Cave City Theatre,
“Gulliver’ is the first picture of
this kind to be produced sinee Walt
Disneys’ “Snow White” of two
seasons ago and the first ever to
issue from Paramount studios.
The picture opens with Gulli­
ver's shipwreck on the shores of
“Lilliput,” a fantastic wonderland
"somewhere in the South Seas”
where the tallest inhabitant mea­
sures up to a man’s boot and the
highest building could be hidden
behind a barrel. In spite of their
size, the “Lilliputians” tie up the
immense visitor while sleeping
and he awakes to find himself
their prisoner.
“Gulliver’s” adventures crowd
thick and fast when, after super­
human effort, the “Lilliputians”
drag him to their capital city on
a flat car. At first regarded as a
menace, "Gulliver” turns into a
national hero through his amazing
feats of strength and soon becomes
chief aide to “King Little,” the
ruler of the bantam kingdom.
The controversy hinges upon
the question of what song shall bo
played at the wedding of “Prince
David” of “Blefuscu” to “Prin­
cess Glory of "Lilliput."
BEAVERS PLANTED
IN BIGLOW LAKE
Visitors at the Oregon Caves
may now climb the mountain on
beyond the caverns and see Ore­
gon Beavers planted in Bigelow
lake by the state game commis­
sion and the Siskiyou Forest Ser­
vice.
Nineteen ilve-trapped animals
were brought by truck last Wed­
nesday from the Prineville area in
Central Oregon by Bill Brown of
the game commission staff. Ten
beavers were planted in Biglow
lake and eight at Fn.nz Meadow in
Curry county. Harold Bowerman,
ranger of the Redwood Ranger
station accompanied the truck on
the trip.