University of Oregon
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
Valley News
in the Interets of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
Volume IV.
No. 37
Cave Junction. Oregon, Thursday, January 16, 1941
Price 5 Cents
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Finishing
Drainage
Project
Lyle Walthers, Superintendent
of the WPA office in Grants Pass
and the county court, Judge W. A.
Johnson, Pete Fredericksen and
Richard McElligott, were in the
city last Tuesday looking over the
Cave Junction drainage project to
see what has to be done to finish
the job.
Wednesday morning, several
men started cutting the ditch to
finish laying the drain pipe on the
highway on the Bert Watkins prop­
erty, and when this is finished the
drain along the highway will be
completed.
The work to be finished back of
the city proper on the south side
is what is worrying officials and
the towns people as well, for this
is the place where the big volume
of surface water comes from when
we have hard rains and runs all
over peoples property.
The local people gave more than
25 man days to help the project
along, and we were promised that
if we would do this that the pro­
ject would be finished. The coun­
ty court while here figured the
project out and it is believed that
they will put the road grader on
the back street and grade the
street and the WPA men will lower
some of the ditches that it will
take care of the work necessary
for the present, at least.
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STATE MINES YIELD
OVER 11 MILLIONS
Oregon’s production of
gold, Silver, copper and lead in
1940 was larger than in any year
since mining started in the state
in 1852 and the gold output set
an all time record in quantity and
value says the Grants Pass Cou­
rier.
The bureau of mines, in making
public a report compiled by its San
Francisco office, said the state's
total production was worth
$4,094,018 during last year. Gold
production totaled 112,700 fine
ounces, silver 178,000 fine ounces,
copper 180,000 pounds and lead
52,000 pounds.
The production in 1939 was
93,372 ounces of gold, 105,388
ounces of silver, 96,000 pounds of
copper and 30,000 pounds of lead,
all worth $3,359,950.
The gold produced in 1940 was
worth $3,944,500; silver $126,-
578, copper $20,340 and lead
$2,600.
The bureau said the major out­
puts were recorded for Baker,
Grant, Josephine and Jackson
counties. The copper and lead,
the report continued, were pro­
duced as by-products of concen­
trates smelted principally for gold.
At Portland, the state depart­
ment of geology and mineral in­
dustries reported that quicksilver
production added another $1,700,-
000 to the metallic production of
Oregon in 1940.
Production of non-metallic min­
erals last year totaled approxi­
mately $5,500,000, the department
continued. increasing Oregon’s
over-all figure to $11,294,018.
“LUCKY PARTNERS’’
SPARKLING COMEDY
SATURDAY-SUNDAY
Metal Course Fanners May
Receive Aid
Making their debut as a co-star­ Selected For
ring team, Ronald Colman and
Ginger Rogers participate i n a
For Homes
sparkling set of movie adventures Kerby High
in "Lucky Partners" which provide
an exhilarating lift for the soul
such as movie-goers haven’t ex­
perienced in a long while. “Lucky
Partners,’’ scheduled at the Cave
City theater Saturday and Sun­
day, January 18-19, comes as one
of the season's smartest and more
delightful laugh hits.
With its
settings in New York s Greenwich
Village, at a Niagara Falls hotel
and in a little upstate town, it
projects Ronald Colman in the role
of a mysterious Village artist and
Ginger Rogers as a book store
clerk who is engaged to a smug
and selfish dim-wit. A chance oc­
currence leads Ginger to consider
Colman a talisman of luck, and she
persuades him to join her in the
purchase of a sweepstakes ticket,
whose winnings she seeks in or­
der to marry.
Colmar recognizes in Girger’s
prospective husband a complacent,
arm-chair mate, and he makes an
odd stipulation—should they win.
Ginger accompany him on a strict­
ly platonic honeymoon before she
marries( for the fiance doesn’t be­
lieve in wasting money on honey­
moons!). And Colman even suc­
ceeds in gaining an agreement to
his rash proposal from the bride-
groom-to-be! The ticket draws a
horse, and through a pre-race sale
prudently engineered by the fi­
ance, Colman and Ginger acquire
$6,000 and embark on their pseu­
do-nuptial trip.
What happens thereafter, with
the blundering would-be groom
coming into the picture; Colman’s
arrest on a charge of stealing Miss
Rogers' car, and the ensuing trial
that discloses Colman’s real identi­
ty, make for an uproarious ending
to this distinctive piece of screen
entertainment.
T R Philbrick Sent
To China Flat Camp
Vern V. Church, Project Su­
perintendent of the China Flat
CCC Camp, Siskiyou National For­
est, will be transferred to the Zig-
Zag CCC Camp on the Mt. Hood
National Forest January 15, ac­
cording to Edward P. Cliff, Forest
Supervisor.
Church will be replaced nt Chi­
na Flat by J. R. Philbrick who
has served as chief of the special
40-man fire suppression crew at
the Redwood Ranger Station, Cave
Junction, during the past year.
Mr. Church is a veteran of the
CCC organization, Laving worked
cs Project Superintendent of the
Ch'na Flat and Rand CCC Camps
on the Siskiyou Forest, and on the
Wallowa Forest, beginning with
the inception of the CCC program
in 1933. Prior to that time he
worked as a logging superintend­
ent for a lumber company i n
northeastern Oregon.
J. R. Philbrick is a technically
trained forester who graduated
from the school of forestry at Ore­
gon State college in 1934. He
was employed as Junior Forester
in the Steamboat CCC Camp on
the Umpqua National Forest from
1934 to 1940 when he assumed
charge of the special 40-man fire
crew on the Siskiyou.
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ARMY OFFICERS VISIT
COMING EVENTS
Wednesday, January 22—Sewing
club and Auxiliary and Garden
club. Pot luck dinner.
Friday, January 24—Illinois Val­
ley Garden club at the home of
Mrs. Geo. W. Martin on Caves
highway.
Thursday. January 30—President
Roosevelt’s birthday and
“March of Dimes’’.
O’Brien Woman’s club meets first
and third Friday. 2 p. m.
Cave City Women’s elub meets
every first Tuesday of each
month
Regular Legion and Auxiliary
meeting the first and third
Wednesday of every month,
Illinois Valley Juvenile Grange
meets first and third Saturdays
of each month at 2 p. m.
Two army officers, nephews of
Perley E. Lewis, visited their uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Perley E.
Lewis, of the Lonesome Pine,
O'Btien, before leaving for their
new stations.
First Lieutenant
Perley M. Lewis is ordered to An­
chorage, Alaska, as civil engineer
in construction work for the war
department. He is traveling with
his wife and four children, and was
formerly stationed in Philadelphia,
Penny in the quartermaster’s de-
nartment. Charles A. Lewis, a
ma for in the armv. ha« been or­
dered to the Hawaiian Islands as
civil engineer in the war depart­
ment construction work. He will
sail from San Francisco as soon
as a transport is readv. Accom­
panying him are his wife and four
children.
They formerly made
their home in Phoenix, Ariz.,
where Major Lewis was in general
contracting work for 12 years.
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Farm families planning to build
new homes will find considerable
help in materials now available at
any county agent's office, some of
which have been especially adapt­
ed to Oregon conditions, says Her­
bert R. Sinnard, experiment sta­
tion architect at Oregon State col­
lege.
A U. S. D. A. publication No.
319, entitled "Plans of Farm
Building for Western States," is
one recent plan book available.
These plans have been developed
jointly by state experiment sta­
tion architects and engineers of
the Uinted States department of
agriculture. Various Oregon bul­
letins are also available on de­
tailed suggestions for the rural
home with special emphasis o n
kitchen planning.
After building plans have been
talked over and decided upon, ac­
tual working drawings of the plans
shown in the U.S.D.A. publication
may be obtained through the agri­
cultural engineering department at
Oregon State college for a nom­
inal charge.
These blueprints
show enough detail to be used in
actual construction.
Designs suited to the western re­
Birthday Dinner Given gion have been carefully worked
out for house of different sizes,
For Brother and Sister
says Sinnard. Regardless of the
Lee Sowell and his twin sister, size of a farm house its cost, it
Mrs. Lula Muse, celebrated their is best to build the type suited to
50th birthday anniversary last the local climate and adapted to
Sunday, January 12th, with a neighborhood practice, he adds.
large number of relatives and Conditions in Oregon vary greatly,
guests enjoying the sumptuous as some sections are hilly, others
dinner given in their honor, at are flat, and in some parts of the
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee state Insulation is needed while in
others it is less important. Because
Sowell.
Present were: Mr. and Mrs. Tom of regional building customs and
Hervey; Mr. and Mrs. Keith Wells; 1 designs, usually based on sound ex­
and sons, Tom and Don; Mr. and perience, it is well to consult
Mrs. Jim Wells; Mr. and Mrs. Ir­ someone with experience in the lo­
vin Johnson; Gracie Sowell; Law­ cality before building, Sinnard be­
rence Sowell; C. A. Hervey; Fred lieves.
The plan books available at the
Hervey; Joe Sowell; George Wells
Mrs. Lula Muse and Mr. and Mrs. county agents' office include many
structures besides houses. There
Lee Sowell.
During the afternoon Mrs. Lee are layouts for general purpose
Sowell gave selections on the Ha­ and livestock barns, different
waiian Tremala and Lee Sowell kinds of shelters for dairy cattle,
and Tom Hervey playing the violin horses, sheep, and hogs, as well as
Dians for equipment and poultry
and piano.
Gifts were presented to the hon­ houses. Other plans may be ob­
ored guests and received many tained for roadside stands, milk
houses, smoke houses, community
lovely and useful gifts.
halls, cabins, and many others.
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The metal working course of
the National Defense Vocational
project has been selected as the
one to be sponsored by the Kerby
Union High School. This was de­
cided at a joint meeting of the
high school board and the Advisory
council held last Saturday night.
If the application for the course
is accepted by the State Board for
Vocational Education, the class
should be in session before Feb. 1.
The course chosen will provide
instruction in the handling and
working with both hot and cold
metal. The purpose is not to make
specialists in any narrow field of
metal work, but to give broad el­
ementary instruction which will
be of value to the members of the
class in work about their homes or
in helping them to get work as
helners.
The advisory council selected to
work with the school board in pro­
moting the Defense Program con-
Brooks, representing agriculture;
sists of George Wells and Clarence
Jack Villair, rearesenting employ­
ers; and Amos Slack, representing
labor.
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Miners Out Just
In Time From Mine
Quite a thrilling experience was
had this week when Art Drews and
two miners, whose names we did
not learn, left the Big Boy mine
on Diamond creek and started to
Cave Junction.
A generous snow fall put 16
inches of snow on Bain flat and
the men had to shovel th<^ 16
inches of snow out of their way so
they could drive out. It had been
snowing four days and was still
going stronge when the men came
out.
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Senator Wipperman On
Important Committees
Senate committee assignments
announced today include:
Louis Wipperman, Josephine—
mining (chairman), assessment
and taxation, railroads and utili­
ties, roads and highways, elections
and privileges.
George W. Dunn, Jackson—Ir­
rigation (chairman), ways and
means, mining, game, banking, as­
sessment and taxation.
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Social Evening At the
John W. Smith Home
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith
entertained a group of their
friends at their home on Caves
highway last Saturday evening,
contract bridge forming the di­
version of the evening.
Delicious refreshment« followed
a pleasant evening of cards.
High score and prizes were won
by Mrs. Raphael Leonard and
George Thrasher.
KERBY HIGH
SCHOOL NEWS
(By Jeanne Villair)
The first baketball home open­
er game of the season will be
played this coming Friday night
in the High School gym. A change
has been made in the schedule
this year. The B squad game will
begin at seven o’clock and the A
squad game at eight o’clock. The
High School hopes that there will
be a good attendance at games
this year because a little support
gives the team added confidence.
The game Friday night is with
Gold Hill and another league game
will be played Saturday night with
Rogue River at the High School
The basketball team wen t o
Phoenix last Friday night to play
the first league game of the sea­
son and the first team came back
with a victory, having beaten
Phoenix 18 to 21. The second
team lost by a small margin, the
score was 16 to 12.
The result of the girls volley
ball game with Grants Pass was
a close game, with a score of 24
to 29 in favor of Grants Pass.
The girls team will play a volley
ball game with Rogue River be­
fore the basketball game Saturday
night.
The whole student body enjoyed
the typing demonstration given by
Miss Louise English and Ralph
Walker of the Benhke-Walker
Business College.
Miss English
and Mr. Walker spent an hour
with the typing class after the
demonstration, giving them advice-
and answering their questions.
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New Serial
Starts This
Week In News
One of the most absorbing stor­
ies of modern times, starts this
week in The News. It is entitled,
“Attack On America.” It de­
picts what «could happen to us,
though it is a novel and has no
war connections whatsoever.
Twenty army officers vouch for
the fallacies of the story, as far
as it would have any connection
with war propaganda, but it is a
thrilling story of what could hap­
pen, maybe, if your imagination
is strong enough.
The story shows how European
soldiers could pour upon us
through Mexico into Texas . . .
Another force lands in California
. . . The Panama canal is dam­
aged , . . The Pacific coast falls
into enemy hands. Then America,
the sleeping giant, wakes up, just
in time.
Read the story starting this
week in the Illinois Valley News.
Read every installment until the
finish. If you do not get The
News, subscribe now and get every
installment of this most absorbing
story.
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PACIFIC FIRST,
REDWOOD THIRD ON
SOUTH TRAVEL
The Pacific highway,
The
By the end of this week all of Dalles-California and the Redwood
the mid-semester exams will be highway were the three leading
over with and the students can re­ highways in that order for tourists
turn to normal once more.
entering California from the north
during 1940, the traffic summary
Professor Jones attended a from the California state agricul­
meeting of the Jackson County tural border stations show.
Hornbrook on the Pacific high­
Superintendents Association t o
discuss basketball league problems way showed the largest car regis­
tration during the year: 96,737.
last Monday night.
Doris on The Dalles-California reg­
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istered 86,592, and the Redwood
highway station 53,264. Cars en­
CALIFORNIANS BUY
tering Oregon through the re­
HOME IN VALLEY
maining stations as follows: Smith
River Oregon coast highway, 50,-
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dow of 602; Alturas, 11,581 and Tulelake,
Berkeley, California, recently pur­ 11,053,
chased the A. E. Anderson home
Total out-of-state cars entering
on the Caves highway and have California via Oregon during the
moved into their new heme.
year over all its highways was
Mr. Dow is a retired newspaper 1,106,641.
man with many years experience
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in big dailies in the country and
a few weeks ago was retired and
will now make their future home AMERICAN LEGION
DIST. CONFERENCE
in the valley.
Mr. and Mrs. Dow are uncle and
Kerby Rod & Gun
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aunt of John Ulrich, and it was
American
Legion
District Con­
Club Meeting Jan. 23
through Mr. and Mrs. Ulrich's en­
thusiasm that they have settled ference.
The next general meeting of the in this valley.
WHERE
Kerby Rod & Gun club Inc., will
Grants Pass, Oregon.
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be held Thursday evening Jan. 23,
WHEN
1941 at the I. O. O. F. hall in Volley Ball Practice
Wednesday, January 22 at 2:00
Kerby. An enjoyable evening of
p. m.
entertainment is promised by the Starts At Kerby Hi
The afternoon will be spent en­
committee Faye Tycer and Vir­
Many of the more mature men tirely on business matters.
ginia Thrasher. Motion pictures
At
from the Oregon Stte Game Com­ of the valley are taking advan­ 6:30 p. m. there will be a ban-
mission will be shown and every tage of the exercise they can gain qqet at the Del Rogue hotel for
one is invited to see these interest­ by playing volley ball at Kerby Legionnaires and Auxiliary mem­
ing films. Plans for further stock­ high school gym every Monday bers. Following the banquet there
ing of the lakes 3nd streams in evening, starting at 7 p. m.
will be a talk by Department Com­
Anyone interested in this sport mander, Alfred P. Kelly and
this county will be discussed.
Thousands of trout have been will receive a warm welcome. Be Auxiliary President Laura Goode
planted in this territory through sure to wear tennis shoes if you at the Rivoli theater. The com­
the efforts of the Gun club and want to play.
mander urges every American cit­
It is hoped that some kind of izen to attend thia speaking as you
through the- cooperation of the
Oregon State Game Commission a league might be formed and reg­ will hear something worth while.
and the U. S. Forest Service. Come ular games scheduled Monday
After the program there will be
out and help the good cause along. evenings.
a dance at the Legion hall over
the Safeway store No. 2 on Sixth
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street, Granta Pasa.
FARMERS MEETING TO BE
Albert T. Crosby
Milt Akerill, Commander.
HELD NEXT THURSDAY
Josephine County Cooperators:
Dear Friends:
If you are looking for new
crops to grow, if you think you
are not now getting the best use
of irrigation water, or if you have
questions concerning the use of
fertilizers, you should attend a
farmers meeting to be held in the
Courthouse in Grants Pass Thurs­
day, January 23 at 9:30 a. m.
E. R. Jackman, Oregon State
iollege farm crop specialist and
Arthur S. King, soils specialist
will conduct a discussion on these
subjects, with moving pictures to
illustrate certain practices.
O. K. Beals,
County Agent.,
Albert T. Crosby, 77 years old,
died last Friday at 1:45 a. m. at
Josephine General Hospital in
Grants Pass, where he was taken
about two weeks before. He was
born November 3, 1863, at Par-
kershead, Maine, and has lived in
Cave Junction for the past several
years making his home with Mr.
and Mrs. J. M Hout at Camp Ho­
quiam.
Mr. Crosby is survived by two
sons, Herbert Crosby and Preston
L. Crosby, a brother, William A.
Crosby and a sister, Martha Curtis
of Fairfield, Maine.
Graveside services were held
last week at the Granite Hill cem­
etery with L. B Hall Funeral
Home in charge.
Complete Training
Course for Scouts
Last Monday evening Ralph Hu­
ber, Earl Grey, Knute Lindgren
and Ashton Foerst, completed a
Scouters training course held ev­
ery second week at Granta Pasa.
The training program was under
the direction of Mr. K. Wells,
Scout Executive.
Troop 28 of the Illinois Valley
is now preparing for a Court of
Honor and Parents night to be
held Feb. 12, at the Legion hall.
Scoutmaster Ralph Huber extends
a cordial invitation to the people
of the valley to attend this event.