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Gateway to The Oregon Caves III inois Valley News _________ ALIVEWIR^ NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ILLINOIS VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS Volume IV. No. 19 Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, September lit 1940 Editor Of News Taken Kerby News Notes of General Interest I Price 5 Cents n----- - —-------------------------------------------- --------- -------- New Brick Plant Starts Snell Asks Registration Guards to Hold Deer Season Bal1 Opens 20th I Students of the Kerby high school will be offered the oppor Saturday night, September 14th, tunity of learning to drive an au- Company “C” of the Oregon Na i tomobile in a modern safety driv- tional Guard will give a farewell ; ing school when a seven-weeks Honking of geese as they wing military ball at the fair grounds, A new industry for the valley Mr. M. C. Athey course will be started there Sep “Let’s do away with an out-of-1 . to help provide a company fund their way through Oregon, mark I tember 19th, under the auspices of started operations last Monday date iaw and advertise to the world Cave Junction, Oregon for the boys when they start their ing the beginning of the south Earl Snell, secretary of state, it when Frank Macfarlane, of Grants that Oregon is a state that has Dear Mr. Athey: years work next Monday, to help ern migration of these birds, has Mr. Pass, started his brick plant oper no border-line requirements to After reading your editorial was announced this week. train the nation's new army of cit served to bring sportsmen to the hamper the flow of tourist travel," izen soldiers the government will realization that the annual hunting which appeared in the Courier, I Snell sponsors these schools as a ating on top of Hays hill. This plant is one of the most proposes Earl Snell, secretary of in-lpart of his state-wide traffic saf- season is near at hand. am convinced you are not 1 call shortly for service. modern, and can produce 15,000 state, in advocating the repeal of In just about a week, Septem formed on the topic of which you ety program. Captain John R. White wants brick a day when working at full the nonresident motor vehicle reg write. The request to the County 10 more recruits for Company “C” ber 20, the deer season opens. Court offered to produce evidence School registration was well up capacity. Mr. Macfarlane has sev istration law. before they leave for Fort Lewis, Shortly thereafter, on September “The day has long passed when and would like to have them from 29, the antelope sason is on and of inefficiency and extravagance to expectations on the beginning eral claims of brick clay at the of the County Engineer’s office, day, Monday. Grade school teach the location of the plant and the it is necessary to have such a law the Illinois valley. This is the n November 1, the elk season, of which we are told by the County ers have an equal division of pup brick is of superior quality. Mon because of the variance in license quota set out for this section to both for bull and cow elk, will Court Mr. Brown has full charge. ils with 20 registered in the 7th day the plant was working at full fees betwen states”, continues Mr. fill the company to full strength. be officially open. A new regulation is in effect Now, as to your expressing the and 8th grades under Principal speed and was only stopped a few Snell, “and the nuisance feature Any youth who wants to enlist public’s opinion, I am not at all Ashton Foerst. Mrs. Martha Hol time to make some needed adjust of the present law in requiring vis- |, should see Captain White in Grants blacktail deer — reduction in the bag limit to one deer. There will itors to stop and register brings Pass. sure you do that. I have talked land with the 4th, 5th and 6th ments. Tile and other building mater severe criticism of the state from to a good many taxpayers from grades has the largest number, 22 Dance tickets are for sale from be no doe season this year and your section of the country who lively intermediates. Mrs. Lola ial will eventually be manufac those who cross our boundaries and any of the local boys in the com the bag limit on mule deer con but the first stock far offsets any possible advantage do not agree, with you and think Petersen with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd tured, pany. Five boys from the valley tinues at one deer. The season ex was brick. Last week enough brick resulting from the act.” tends from September 20 to Octo you overestimate your influence in grades, has 21 promising young are now members and they will was made to construct a dry kiln In urging the repeal of the law, leave on the 16th for their years ber 25, both dates inclusive. the valley. It would seem to me sters enrolled. Decision of the Game commis that a person who expresses him The high school registration is and last Monday the plant was Mr. Snell states that his conclus service. The boys are, Elwood working on an order for brick for sion to throw open a number of ions are based on studies of costs self through his paper would at up to last years first day, how Hussey, Mike Wells, J hnny Diet and administration and on reports cher, George Yarbrough and Ken game reserves for deer hunting least inform himself on the mat ever, there were 110 enr lied by Grants Pass construction. When the plant is all set to coming to him from visitors who has made new deer hunting ters concerning which he writes. the end of the year. The fresh neth Bell. grounds that will accommodate If you will read the October man class is somemhat under the go, they will employ about eight resent the necessity of stopping many sportsmen, Last year the American Magazine,, you should 34 who numbered in the 8th grade men for a shift, and if orders are in all kinds of weather to register SISKIYOU FOREST commision opened Ochoco, Myrtle be intelligent enough to realize graduation classes of the valley. pressing, it will be easy for Mr. their cars as they enter Oregon. Park and Canyon Creek in Grant then that the Taxpayers League A few families have moved away Macfarlane to work two shifts. Such complaints, in many cases, TO CHECK DEER county and these three reserves has just started to function and and lack of transportation keeps Two shifts would give the plant an have been bitter and have earned The United States Forest Serv- will again be open this year, In that no editor(?) can stop or slow some out of school. Class organi easy production of 25,000 brick a Oregon an unfavorable and unen down the movement that is sweep zation and getting acquainted has day, and if the plant can be kept viable reputation among out-of- . ice has announced that deer killed addition, the following game ref busy at this speed, about 15 men state residents. on the Siskiyou National Forest uges are also open to deer hunt ing across this country. Your crit occupied much time this week. would be given employment. How In addition to these factors, Mr. this fall will be checked, weighed ing: Mule Deer, in southern Klam icism of the Taxpayers League if Shorthand, which has not been expressed as a personal opinion is offered the past two years, is ever, Mr. Macfarlane does not ex Snell points out that “it is appar and measured for the purpose of ath and Lake counties; Steen well received, but I contend you proving popular with 15 students pect to keep the plant busy until ent that more and more tourists i obtaining data which will be used Mountain, in southeast Harney are not the voice of public opin registered for the course. Mr. next year, when his product will are ignoring the requirements of ' in the management of the deer county; Mt. Emily, on boundary of Umatilla and Union counties be well known by that time and the law and hurrying through the herd. House is instructor. ion. the quality will be known for what state with the hope that they will Checking stations will be estab and that part of the Warner game Respectfully submitted, refuge lying outside of the Heart C. C. COLEMAN. Miss Mae Morrison, high school we believe it is, the best brick on not be stopped. We invite tourist lished at the Redwood, Rand, Pow- Mountain Antelope Reserve in the coast. res, Agness and Gold Beach Ran travel and want visitors to spend Editor’s Note — Thanks Mr. English instructor is making her --------- o--------- as much time as possible in the ger Stations and at the Grants southeast Lake counties. home for the school year with Coleman for your letter and I am In Canyon Creek, only bow and state. But we defeat this program Pass Forest Service Warehouse. quite sure you are sincere in your Mrs. Maud Bigelow. Miss Mor HAPPY CAMP MEN arrow hunting will be permitted wh*n we re All sportsmen who hunt in the beliefs and your endeavor to make rison arrived here Friday from her LIKED JAMBOREE quirement that prompts visitors Siskiyou National Forest are re from the opening of the deer sea the Taxpayers League what it home in Salem. to avoid our state or scurry from quested to cooperate by checking son until October 3. should be. Personally I was sorry • Earl Osborn, high school social The following letter came from border to border to escape the their kills in at one of these sta- O- to see your name attached to a science instructor has taken a cab Happy Camp and is surely appreci annoyance of registering their • tions. Checking is not compulsory, document that expressly called for in at Maple Court. Mr. Osborn is ated for the fine sentiment ex cars. but will be conducted entirely on 40 LITTLE MOTHERS from Hillsboro. the dismissal of anyone, for-we are pressed : a cooperative basis. “ This year the gasoline tax re Earl House, instructor in shop all little children trying to get While the committee handling ceipts are the highest in the his Forest officials state that the COMES WEDNESDAY and typing has taken a cabin at along in this world, and it is not the mineral exhibit for the Legion tory of the state, yet the nonres weight and antler development of good cricket to ask for the dis Maple Court again this year. Mr. did all they p ssibly could in the ident registration is considerably dear provide a good index to the In “The story of Forty Little House, who has spent part of his missal of anyone from a job when short time they had, yet we be- below last year which indicates vigor and quality of the herd. It Mothers’’ which comes to the Cave summer vacation in Portland made there is a possibility of keeping lieve it was the Happy Camp ex- that many tourists are avoiding is possible through an analysis of City screen Wednesday and Thurs an interesting trip to his old home the one concerned at work har hibit brought by Mr. Regan anl the registration requirements. weight and antler measurements day next week with Eddie Cantor, in Ohio early this summer and re moniously. Had the league tried Mr. Hahn that really made the ex- to determine whether or not there the Clown Prince of Gags, who “ In my opinion, repeal of this turned by way of Detroit in order 1 to do this they never would have hibit a credit to the Jamboree, and law would be a distinct advantage is a deficiency in the diet of the discards his mantle of hokum to to drive a new car home. heard a “squack” out of me. the mineral committe as well as to the fine tournist promotion animals or if other factors are emerge as a real human being in one of the most entertaining pic Now regarding your letter — the general committee greatly ap work advanced by our state high favorable. At a meeting Sunday evening at preciate the cooperation of these Perhaps you have talked to a few The Forest Service hopes tures of the year. way c mmission, the motor associa The story is of a timid professor who believe the league was justi the Kerby church it was decided by gentlemen in bringing the fine ex- tion, chambers of commerce, and through this checking to obtain in fied in presenting the document ■ the group present that a commit hibit of minerals displayed at the other organizations devoted to the formation which will provide a who, after saving a distraught in question, to the county court. tee should be appointed to investi Jamboree. The letter: development of this important in comparison of the quality of the mother from suicide, inadvertent I do not doubt this. But if you gate the condition of the church deer in this section with those in ly inherits her abandoned baby. dustry. Happy Camp, Cal. will come with me through the val building especially the roof and “These little nuisance require- other parts of the state. It is also When he gets a job in a girls’ Sept. 4, 1940. ley I will show you two to your foundation. It was voted to ap ments do mtich to color the vicw- hoped to determine the size and school he takes the baby along and Illinoise Valley News, point Jim Hogue, Lucius Robinson one that does not approve of the point of the visitor. Let’s throw value of the annual deer crop on attempts to hide it in his apart Cave Junction, and George Horn as a committee ment. But Cantor runs into a re leagues action. open our borders, advertise it far the Siskiyou Forest. Oregon. bellion when the students attempt And please let me correct you— and to report their findings to the EDWARD P. CLIFF, and wide, and all join in a pro to have him fired because he is As regards myself as editor (?) of Rev. C. G. Morris, who is in charge Gentlemen;— Forest Supervisor. gram to make the coming year the After spending three enjoyable not as handsome as his predeces The News. Never have I ever of Methodist churches in this dis biggest tourist year Oregon has ------------- o days with the people of Cave Junc sor. given the slightest hint that I or trict. ever known.” The foundation on the south tion, we returned to Happy Camp, A highlight of the picture is the the paper was a molder of public Government Experts In -o- side is several inches lower than fully knowing that we had attend appearance of Judith Anderson, opinion. The editorial was my Oregon On Strategic celebrated Broadway stage star, as own personal opinion, and from the north side and the roof on the ed a Jamboree, and also knowing GREEN PURCHASES that your committees had produced Mineral Studies Madam Granville, head of the the many compliments received north side may have to be entirely MASSIE INTEREST school. Miss Anderson acquits her about the article, I do not believe reshingled. However, the com results. Mr. Regan and myself felt full IN MODEL GROCERY Dr. D. F. Hewett, administra self as if she had been in pictures I was far wrong. However, for the mittees findings have not yet been repaid by the attendance which we tive geologist of the United States all of her life. sake of argument, I sincerely hope reported. The church was built A business transaction of much Geological Survey; Charles F. Rita Johnson plays the unfor I am wrong, and hope the league 35 years ago for a store building had at our mineral exhibit from the Klamath River district. and was later made into a church importance occurred this week Jackson, chief engineer of the tunate mother and delivers a fine drowns the bitter taste its peti I would be pleased to have you when O. W. Green purchased the mining division, United States performance. tion has caused, and goes ahead building. People interested in the thriving Kerby Sunday School feel send me eight or ten copies of interest of Clay Massie in the Mod Bureau of Mines, both of Wash ■> (Continued on Page Five) that their school cannot be held in your next issue, in which you de el Grocery store in Cave Junction. ington, D. C., and E. D. Gardner, scribed your celebration. ... .................................................. ".................... S the building during the rainy sea Messrs. Green and Massie engineer of the United States • T Again thanking your committee bought the store from C. L. Schu Bureau of Mines, Tucson, Arizona, O’Brien Women View son unless something is done. I COMING EVENTS I Lloyd and Gerould Morrison for a good time, I am, macher and Paul Hein nearly two branch, called briefly recently at Novel Bottle Display Yours very truly, have entered Grants Pass high years ago and have been operating the office of the State Department SP A. C. HAHN. is a senior and will The O’Brien women’s club met it under the name of the Model of Geology and Mineral Industries. Friday, September 13 at 8 p. m. school. Gerry -------------- o grandmother Mrs. These technicians have been in at the home of Mrs. Nellie Wilber stay with his Grocery. the Kerby Rod & Gun club will Adah Morrison. Lloyd* is a junior. TOTAL CROPS TO Mr. Massie desires to express his specting strategic minerals work at their “Big Pine Homestead’’ re meet in the office of Fred Link appreciation to the valley residents of the two federal agencies in var cently with 20 members and guests hart BE AVERAGE WITH for their splendid patronage, and ious parts of the country and have present. Kerby Sunday School is plan Sunday—September 22 — Wiscon WHEAT YIELD UP Mrs. George C. Arnold of the sincerely wishes Mr. and Mrs. O. just come down from the Olympic ning a rally day service for Sunday sin picnic, Riverside Park, W. Green every success in the area of Washington where some “Shauna Wauna’’ camp and Mrs. September 22. Last years rally Grants Pass. All Badgers in Improvement in wheat and some store and hopes the people will exploration for manganese has Strong a visitor here from Cali vited. Potluck dinner at 1 p m. day attendance was 91. The chil dren and their teachers are plan other early crops nearly offset a continue to give them the same been in progress. They left imme fornia were guests. Sunday, to Thursday, September A card was read by Mrs. Wilber ning to have even more this year. decline in a few late crops dur loyal support extended to the Mod diately for Grants Pass for con 18-22—Del Norte County fair, ference with Dr. Francis G. Wells, from Mrs. Dora Brown, also a let ing July so that the general crop el in the past. Crescent City. geologist of the U. S. Geological ter from Mrs. Fred Galeno. In production prospect early in Aug —...... o- Mrs. Lola Petersen spent last Survey, who has been carrying out her letter Mrs. Galeno stated how ust was that the total in the United Ralph H. Mitchell, of Portland, Wednesday to Saturday, Septem week at Roseburg as a guest of her field work the past three summers much she missed our beautiful val States will be about average, ac secretary to the public utilities ber 11 to 14 inclusive—Pendle- 1 sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. cording to the monthly report on commissioner and Joseph L. Ken in the Grants Pass and Medford ley. ton Round-Up. Smith. On Tuesday Mrs. Peter the agricultural situation just re nedy, chief accountant of the com district. At the moment Wells An interesting review on “I Ran O'Brien Woman’s club meets first sen and her sister attended the leased by the O. S. C. agricultural missioner, accompanied by their and his field parties are complet Away to Sea at Fifty” by Mary and third Friday, 2 p. m. State Fair at Salem. extension service. Considering wifes were valley visitors the first ing the geologic mapping of the Sheridan was given by Helen Hear Illinois Valley Juvenile Grange stocks carried over, supplies of of the week. They made a trip Kerby Quadrangle with particular ing. meets first and third Saturdays ' Jack Dodd, son of Mrs. Ralph most crops will be ample, the re through the Caves Tuesday morn attention being given to chromite Later all guests enjoyed view Phillips left last week for Los An areas. Recently they were work ing the collection of bottles of Mrs. of each month at 2 p. m. port states. ing paid their respects to M. C. geles where he will enter an aero Wheat crop prospects improved Athey at the News office and left ing on the sampling of alluvial Wilber, which are nicely displayed Regular Legion and Auxiliary | nautical school. during July and the production es- for Portland in the late after chromite deposits in the Marsh- in a cottage especially constructed meeting the first and third ■ for them. Wednesday of every month. • noon. (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on P««e Four) (Continued on Pete Five) To Task Operations 'Law Repeal Of September
