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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1941)
University of 6-- Gateway to The Oregon Caves III inois Valley News A Live \\ ire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts Volume V. No. 13 ('a\e Junction, Oregon. Thursday. July 31,1941 Dedication Official Program Plans Are Completed Illinois Valley Airport Dedication Nothing remains to be done for | the dedication of the Siskiyou Na- ' tional Forest Illinois Valley Air port, but to wait for Saturday and Sunday to come and then start to join in the festivities and have a good time with all your friends and neighbors. Conservatively speaking, it is expected that 2000 people will at tend the dedication and this num ber will tax the accommodations of the valley to the utmost. The show Saturday night with the dance afterwards, starts the ceremonies, and the show has one of the best features of the year to present and the dance promises to be one of the largest ever held in the Legion hall. \\ ith these two events off Sat urday, Sunday will see the real dedication and one of the most unique parades, the Cavalcade of Transportation ever given in this neck of the woods. Forest Supervisor Edward P. Cliff will be master of ceremonies at the dedication and will act as toast master at the banquet in the evening at the Oregon Caves Chateau, when all the distinguished guests will be dined and after-din ner speeches heard. At the airport, there will be a large truck with seats, which will act as tht speakers platform with a loud speaker, through the cour tesy of the Daily Courier, to am plify the sound to everyone. This will be near the center of tht field. The parade» will start from the lower end of the field and pass in review before the speakers stand. After the parade * a flag raising ceremony will be given, after which the introduction of prominent guests and speakers will take place. The Illinois Valley Garden club, whose membership is composed of | ladies throughout the valley, agreed to serve the lemonade which the committee will provide for all free of charge. The members of the club will take turns at the table serving ice cold lemonade. Major James Frankland, assist ant regional forester Portland, will give the dedication address, after which airplanes will give demon strations of dropping supplies to supposed fire crews, but they will le dropped on the air field so the people can see what happens when the Forest Service sends food and ■i plies to men fighting forest fires in primit ve areas where transportation is a problem. The ceremonies are going to be very interesting and will not last too long. Tell your friends to be on hand promptly at 2 o’clock and see a great celebration. Saturday and Sunday, August 2 and 3 Saturday. August 2— Airport Dedication Show “Virginia”, Cave City Theater. 7 and 9 p. m. Airport Dedication Dante, American Legion Hall, Cave Junction. Ì Sunday, August 3— 2:00 p. in.—Grand Parade. Cavalcade of Transportation. 2:10 p m.—Flag Raising Ceremony, Kerby Post American Legion. Star Spangled Banner—Grants Pass Municipal Band. I 2:30 p. m.—Introduction of Distinguished Guests; Forest Supervisor Edward P. Cliff. Master of Ceremonies. 2:45 p. m.—Dedication Address. Major James Frankland. Assistant Regional Forester. 3:00 p. in.—Airplane demonstrations and flights. Illinois Valley Airport from the Sky --------------o-------------- KRAUSS BROS BUY EOREST TIMBER T) e sale of 500,000 board feet < f » » liow and sugar nine to Kr auss Broil < i = of Selma was announced ’his week by District Ranger Har p'd R. Bowerman. The ale. o-e of a few under w.-.y i’l this district, was made in the So’iaw creek area of the Page creek district of the Siskiyou Na- tional Forest. j I i 1 I I * COM INC. EVENTS ...................................... .. .................. t Friday and Saturday, August 1-2 —Sixth Annual "Glad” show, a Grants Pass. I Saturday and Sunday, August 2-1 | —Airport dedication. Cave Junc tion. Saturday and Sunday, Aug’i’t »-10 - Lincoln County Regatta in I ihsvils lake, Astoria. Everj Tuesday—10 a. m. Gar- I den talks over KL'IN. Saturday and Sunday, August 2-3 | Airport dedicat on on Roughd , and Ready. Saturday Avgust 2 — Airport ' Dance, Legion hail. Regular I.egion and Auxiliary meeting the first and third j Wednesday of every month. Picture taken and engraving by the Giant.« Paas Daily Courier and Courteously loaned to The News Price 5 Cents Local Ranger Dedication Station Center Dance To Be Of Interest Social Affair The big Airport Dedication Redwood Ranger Station located in Cave Junction will be the “cen dance will be one of the social ter of supply'1 for the new airport events of the season, if all the being dedicated here next Satur plans arranged for this dedication day and Sunday with the coopera event go as they are planned, and tion of civic leaders and the for there is no reason for a slip-up at est service of the department of this stage of events. The dance agriculture. will start after the first show, Sat The Redwood stock remount sta urday night. August 2nd. tion, located at the local ranger The American Legion dance station, services the Rogue, Ump committee are handling all the de qua and Siskiyou national forests tails of the dance, which is proof as well as all of Region Six (Ore that it will be a dance that all will gon and Washington) when the want to attend. Commander Bert emergency demands. Horses and Hadden put on tie committee men mules over two score in number who have had plenty of experience are handled by the remount pack in putting on dances and they are ers. They are Frank Sowell, Mar exerting themselves to make this vin Prentice and Hugh White, re their crowning effort. mount packys. Mrs. Rgbcock's five piece or Fire fighting by trained suppres chestra will play, and this popular sion crews experienced its birth orchestra has been doing some and a two-day trial period at the good practicing to give the pat local station in 1939 and 1940 rons the best music they have ever when the 40-man crew was started given in the valley. This means here. The local station was picked considerable and will add greatly out of all the ranger stations in to the enjoyment of the dance. region six for this special training Many dancers from Grants Pass experimentation. and other sections are expected to This outfit of picked men, attend, and the valley folks will be housed in a special camp on the out in full force which means the Illinois river, was a mobile unit attendance will be the largest of trained in fire fighting and was the season. on call for the entire 20 forests in --------------o------------- Region Six. The two-year 40-man experiment in training of a fire suppression “army’’ proved to be such a success that this year sup pression crews of different sizes have been spread throughout the entire area. A 10-man crew is housed at Redwood ranger sta tion this year. Most of the trim appearance of the airport is que to (he efforts of the 10-man crew under the direc tion of Cecil Owen, foreman. This Through the willingness of Man week they have lined the airport ager Roberts of the Cave City the with lime, filled up chuck holes, ater, the show Saturday night, will raised a flag, built a wind sock, help balance the budget for the hauled off loose rock packed the dedication committee and help pay field down, built cattleguards and some of the expenses of this im generally repaired the mile-long portant enterprise. Those of you runway. who attend this stellar picture Sat The physical plant of the Red urday night will be helping the wood station is one of the best committee finance the airport ded in the Siskiyou national forest. ication. Headquarters for the Page creek The picture runs two nights of district which hires the second larg •ourse, Saturday and Sunday, and est amount of men of any othe’ f you do not get a chance to see valley organization is a trim red t Saturday, be sure to go Sun- wood lined office building housing lay, for it is considered one of office space for the district ran the season's best. Here is a press ger and the protective assistant release that tells the story: with complete equipment foi Once in a long while a picture quickly finding fires. comes along so completely satis A radio room and a roomy base- fying that one feels like getting ment are also included in the R »<1- XP and cheering. We’re referring wood office. A fire equipment •o “Virginia," done in technicolor, warehouse, a service gas station, ind it is not to be facetious to say residences of the t rotective assist that it is one of the brightest feath ant, disrict ranger, admin strative ers in the cap of the current mo guard and a spacious crew house, tion picture season. all attractively done in Redwood, Presenting Madeleine Carroll are other buildings of the Red and Fred MacMurray as a starring wood station. team for the third time, Para The buildings of the Redwood mount has brought them to us in remount station include the laige tn original story of modern Vir barn to take care of all remount ginia. It tells of a woman who stock. The 40-man headquarters -hooses a life of reality on her on the river now housing the 10- plantation, with its genuineness man outfit includes various build and homespun realities and unsel ings and tent space adequate for fish consideration for other peo- living needs. <(' ntlnued on Page Five) The headquarters of the Page --------------o creew district was moved to Cave Junction in 1933 from the Page creek ranger a'ation after the WHAT THE LEGION completion of the station here in AUXILIARY IS DOING that year. The Page creek sta tion is now unoccupied. Delegates to Eugene report a Tht Store Gulch guard station, very successful convention. The the Cedar guard station and the change to cooler weather was very Elk Valley guard station are other much appreciated. Those attend key buildings in the Page Creek ing from here were Aunt Mary district. White, Marie White, Amy and El Lookout houses on the Page wood Hussey. Department cita creek district are located at tions were won by both Unit and Chetco Peak, Bald Mountain, Ten Post. nessee Mountain, Kerby Peak, The annual Legion and Auxil Lake Mountain, Bolan Peak, San iary picnic turned out to be an ger Peak and Waldo Hill. indoor one, as the day was show — o—■ ery. But everyone seemed to en Mrs. Roy C. Dundas of Berkeley, joy themselves, tables and chairs stopped for a short visit in the val are not to be sneered at. Two ley last Mondry. Mrs. Dundas was soldier boys who were on their on her way to Texas to visit rela way from San Francisco to Fort tives and friends while Mr. Dun Lewis were asked to be our guests. das remaine I in California to look Of our own folks there were 25 after their property interests. Mr adults and IS children. and Mrs. Dundas were former res After a bountiful lunch an ex idents of Cave Junction and for a ecutive board meeting was called number of years owned and oper by President Marie White and ated the Pine Cone Inn on the plana were completed for August Redwoods highway. 2 and 3, airport dedication. "Virginia" Dedication Show Sat.
