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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1941)
University of Oregon MINERS' JAMBOREE UG. 30-31, SEPT. 1 A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts Volume V. No. Iti Jamboree ‘That Night In Rio’ Is Romantic. Glamorous Committee The torrid tempo of the Samba, the enchanting melodies of Alice Faye, the suave love-making of Don Ameche, and the dancing of Carmen Miranda were all filmed i’l glorious Technicolor as they took place in “That Night In Rio”, which comes Saturday and Sunday to the Cave City theater. As the American-born wife of a wealthy Brazilian Baron, Alice Faye has an opportunity to wear many sophisticated ultra-modern gowns, which provide a spectacular background for her delightful sing ing. Don's role was one of the most difficult to film. His was the first dual Technicolor part -that of a Brazilian Baron and an American night club performer. Said to surpass the elegance of “Down Argentine Way,” which introduced glamorous Carmen Miranda to the American screen. "That Night in Rio” gives the ex otic Brazilian songstress an oppor tunity to emote throughout the full length of the film, and emote she does. The Samba, Brazil's national dance, is introduced to the Amer- ican motion picture public for the fir.-t time by Miss Miranda and a troupe of trained Samba dancer*. -------------- o--------------- Personnel We are on the last lap of prop tnation for the 1941 Miners’ jam- boree, and from all reports enm- ing from the officials in charge, never in the history of the cele- biation, has committee work been so successful and such cooperation from everybody and without exag gerating the least bit, this prom ises to be the greatest Jamboree ever held in the valley. You may want to know some thing about the business end of some feature of the celebration. Here are the committees. Go to the right committee chairman, and he will be very glad to give you any information within his power. But please keep in mind to make your business short and to the point for everyone of them are up to their necks with details that re quire ti lot of attention, an dwhile they all will be glad to give» coun sel or advice, they also would ap preciate* it if you would know exactly what you want to ask and get it off your chest as fast as possible, so they can go about their business. Here is the* com mittee chairmen: Queen's Contest—Fred Link hart. Parade-—Blake Miller. Amusements—O. W. Vogue. Mineral Exhibits—Cecil Slack. Dance—Bert Badden. General Chairman — George Hicks. There is something that you can do to help make the Jamboree the biggest ever, and it will be appre ciated if you will contact the com mittee chairman and tell him what you can do. Many of the miner*/i have some good specimens of ores j that will help the mineral exhibit. ■ You may have something interest-j ------------------------ O------------------------ LEGION PARTY FOR M?H, MARY WHITE Aunt Mary White was the guest of honor at a birthday picnic par ty at Greyback camp last Sunday. This was really a surprise, for she suspected nothing until “happy birthday, Aunt Mary,’’ was sung. \ dainty corsage was presented by Auxiliary President President Marie White. After r a bountiful feast of good things, the large birthday cake was cut by Aunt Mary and pass, I around. Commander Bert 1’iolilen then presented, on behalf i f the American Legion, a beauti ful pottery water set. There was a handkerchief shower from the Auxiliary as well as some ra'her packages imposing appearing which proved to contain good wishes, many guesses were made as to the donors. More than three large tables filled with gUe-t-. Legion I and and Auxiliary members friends of our Aunt Mary, who joined in wishing her many, many happy returns. n- COMING EVENTS t)..................... Price 5 Cents Cave Junction. Oregon. Thursday, August 21. 1911 19 Friday, August 22—Illinois Val ley Garden club at the home of M ■ A. E. Breech, Si-k.y Camp. August 30-31, Sept. 1—Miner’s Jamboree, Cave Junction. Monday, Sept. 1 — Labor Day. September 3 Wednesday — Open ing day of Josephine county fair. Tuesday, Sept. 2—Cave Junction Ladies' club will meet at the home of Mrs. C. Y. Arnold. Friday, Sep«. 5—O'Brien Women's club at the home of Mrs. Chris Wendt on Caves highway. September 11-14 — Pendleton Roundup. Every Tuesday—10 a. m. Gar-1 den talks over KL'IN. Regular Legion and Auxiliary , third meeting the first and ___ _______ Wednesday of every month. O’Brien Women’s Club Parlies at Balzke’s (By Pearl Barrett) > The O’Brien Women’s club en- joyed a very pleasant afternoon at the Waldo Motel home of Mrs. Robert Balzke on Friday, August 15 th. A very satisfactory meeting of bazaar committee chairmen was held in the forenoon. Twenty- three members attended the regu lar meeting, also five guests. Miss Millar, Mrs. Tozar, Mrs. Fraser, Mrs. Watkins and Mrs. Eddie Mar tin. The whole group listened atten tively to Mrs. Wilson’s review of Margaret Dana's book “Behind the Label”. This was given in a very interesting manner and gave us something to really thing about. Then followed reports of bazaar committee chairmen present who named their assistants. All are very appreciative of help offered and kindnesses showm. A great in terest in the coming bazaar is shown by the group. Already four quilts are in pros- pect for the booths, three of them baby quilts, one crocheted, one em- broidered and one plain challis. Also one full sized quilt is being made by one of the members, and when ready an old fashioned quilt ing bee will be held at the “Willa- iC ntinued nn Pape Five I ------------------------------- O ■ - Benjamin F. George Benjamin Franklin George passed away at his home in Med ford, Oregon, on August 15th at the age of 68 years, 7 months and 8 days. Ben was born in Canden county, Missouri, January 7, 1873, and came to Josephine county on June 10, 1880. and located at Waldo with his parents. His father worked in the placer mines until 1885 when the family moved to the George ranch near Kerby. He at tended the old school house in Kerby. He followed placer min ing for a number of years and worked in the forest service. In 1906 he married Miss Linnie Sowell who survives him. He was a member of Kerbyville Lodge No. 55, I. O. O. F., who were in charge of the funeral cere mony in the I. O. O. F. cemetery on Sunday, August 17th, at 2 p. m. Members of Rebekah lodge rendered appropriate music. Mr. George leaves to mourn his less, his widow. Linnie George of Medford, one brother. William D. George of Kerby and two sisters, Lucy M Bragdon of Portland and Mrs. Agness E. Mannion of Seat tle, other relatives and a host of friends. The Pearl & Son Funeral Home of'Medford were in charge of the remains. Queen Contest Ends Wednesday Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss Ql’EEN CANDIDATES Adelaide McCradv. Cave Junctoin Norma McCrady, Cave Junction Elva Messenger, Cave Junction Dorothy Green. Cave Junction Lois Taylor. Cave Junction Wanda Brown, O’Brien Pules of Contest Contest stars Monday, August because the contest ends next Wednesday night at the Queen’s 18. Contest ends Wednesday, Au- show, when the lucky girl will be gust 28 at 7:00 p. m. No devia- announced with her princesses. tion or no exception from this rule Then begins the grand rush to Any single girl whose residence * get ready for the Jamboree, is in the Illinois Valley is eligible i Dresses have to be made or ' selected and pictures taken and to enter. All decisions are left to the oh, my goodness, it seems there judgment of the committee and are hundreds of little petty details their word is final. to be ironed out before the big Tickets are worth 1000 votes. show starts Saturday night at the The candidate having the largest Queen's ball. number of votes will be declared The Queen will be crowned at elected queen of the 1941 Miners’ the theater between shows at 9 o'clock, and then proceed to the Jamboree. The next two highest will be her Queen's ball in the Legion hall. No wonder all the girls are lit princesses. When once entered in the race, erally "going to town" fighting for no candidate can withdraw and al the chance to be queen of the 1941 It’s a great low her votes to be placed to the Miners' Jamboree. honor and something handsome credit of another candidate. Whatever The committee will give any goes with the honor. candidate all necessary instruc that something is the committee tions. If there is anything you keeps a secret, for anticipation is want to know, ask the committee. often as sweet as the realization. It is part of the agreement be and never has a queen of her prin tween the candidates and the Min cesses been disappointed yet. Wednesday night at the Queen’s ers' Jamboree, that ALL candi dates will attend the Wednesday show, we suggest that you make. right show, August 27, and be the | it a point to be there early, as all guest of the Jamboree ami will ap ' seats will be taken early, for the pear on the stage when the winner icomn»ittee expects a full house to is announced. learn who has won, who will be queen? The show is a good one. Monday morning, Fred Link too, the “Doomed Caravan, with hart, chairman of the Queen con the famous “Hopalong Cassidy,” test for the Miners’ Jamboree for so you have a double incentive to 1941, started six hopeful girls out lx at the Cave City theater next to win this coveted honor. The Wednesday night. six girls above are your candidates Take another good look at the for queen and princesses for this names of the candidates. Maybe year’s celebration. all the girls are your friends, and After two days work, the com you will want to help them all, and I mittee rushed to the printer and maybe one of them is a personal said print some more tickets— friend, whom you would like to these girls have taken all we have help. The queen contest is part and want more. Not any particu of the Jamboree, and it is quite lar one, but all of them have made a necessary part, so you are not such wonderful progress in the only helping the candidate herself, first few days that the race is go you really are putting your shoul ing to be one of the most hotly der behind the wheel of success for contested of any that the Jamboree the Jamboree itself. Don’t wait until the last min or Jubilee has ever put on. Readers of the News, pick your ute. Start helping now. Any as choice from the above list and then sistance given any of the girls will help her all you can. The tickets b»* greatly appreciated by the girls are only 10c and they have a pos and you can rest assured that the sibility of something handsome, committee will also appreciate it. We've started something. Let’s i and they count the candidate who sells the tickets 1000 votes for ev see it through to a grand, glorious ery ticket. Just a few tickets can success. Make the girls who will make a great difference in the* be queen, proud of your efforts. This celebration is a community standing of any contestant. There will be no published re- affair and the Illinois Valley is the port of how the candidates stand, community. Caves ( hatean Personnel Gets High Compliment Mr. and Mrs. George Hicks of the Texaco Service station want to go on record as stating that the personnel of the Oregon Caves Chateau deserves much more credit than they are receiving for their hospitality and courtesy to visitors at the Caves. Recenly the Hicks' went up for the evening program. During the entertainment Mrs. Hicks gave George her purse containing some thing like a hundred dollars in currency. One of the children wanted something and the purse was disturbed, and when leaving George supposed Mrs. Hicks had the purse and she supposed George had it. Next morning at home, Mr*. Hicks asked George for the purse and he replied that she had it. It was immediately discovered that the purse had been lost at the Caves and Mrs. Hicks excitedly called the Caves and reported the news. You can ell realize her amaze ment when she was informed that the purse had been turned in by Kerby News Notes Miners Say of General Interest Minerals I (By Ed Dailey) Mrs. Clara Magill, Mrs. Martin Sachse and lra Brown made a busines trip to Grants Pass on I Tuesday. — —o— Dave Bour is regaining his With 11 interested miners and health gradually and able to be business men from the Illinois val up and around. ley attending the meeting held by —o— Senator Rufus Holman, member George Fetterley of Portland of the senate sub-committee on visited his sister, Mrs. Jess Barnett | st rategic and critical minerals for and family last week. [ defense purposes, the valley was fairly well represented and several Mr. and Mrs. Jake Houck of of them were put on the witness Klamath Falls visited in the valley stand to give testimony concerning last Sunday. the production, availability and amount of rategic minerals in Harry Elroy brought his family this section. home last Saturday from the hop Pictured most prominently at yard and took them back Sunday the hearing in the Redwoods hotel evening where they will continue conference room was the need of to pick hops during the picking assurance given by the government season. •bat adequate prices would be paid — o— to cover the cost of extracting Jim and Alice Hogue went to chromite and other strategic min Poker Flat to look after their cat- erals which so far have cost more tie. to produce from domestic supplies than to import from abroad. Mr. and Mrs. Boe Tucker of Albert Burch of Medford, state Klamath Falls were visiting Mrs. geology board member who was in Tucker's parent, Phil Dessinger charge of the World war surveys and family last week-end. suggested that the government —o— should establish a base price for lo Earl Osborn, social science cal chromite of $50 a ton for 45 teacher and athletic coach in the per cent chromite delivered at rail Kerby high school, has sent the head. school board his resignation to be Eugene Brown, O’Brien chromite effective at once. Mr. Osborn is producer, reported he had deliv to report for army training the ered 1,000 tons of chromite to first of September. Rustless Iron and Steel corpora tion at pre-emergency prices, mak Woodrow Nealy transacted busi ing a slight profit. Even though ness in Grants Pass last week and prices have practically doubled, his returned home driving a new V-8 profit is less, he testified, because car. of the difficulty of securing labor and priorities which tie up his Mrs. Ella Mead of Clara’s Bun truck repairs and other operations. galow Coffee Shop went to Med The witnesses attacked supposi ford to meet her granddaughter, tion that deposits are small, de Joyce Powell of Los Angeles, who claring that extent of chromite in flew north via plane, and will spend [practice is hard to tell. Sherman the summer with relatives near Smith and James Remsen, produc Grants Pass. ers, told of the nature of chro —o— mite occurrence, that it cannot be County Treasurer Lincoln Sav definitely blocked out, and is found age, accompanied by Mrs. Savage in lumps or kidneys rather than in and his sister, Mrs. Anna Parker, continuous veins. spent Sunday with Clara Magill They said that estimates of re and Ella Mead. putable engineers therefore gener —o— ally run low because they include Mr. and Mrs. George Thrnshet only the ore blocked out. After and family of Murphy visited in ‘hat ore is removed, they testified, Kerby Sunday. it is common to discover new bod ies of the chromite uncovered by Lavern Lackey left for Oakland, removal of the old. California, where he will have em Witnes.se testified that deposits ployment in the ship yard. n e inaccessible, requiring difficult mountain roads, laborious extrac- Mrs. Clay Ramsey went to Pow tiun, and expensive processing. ers to bring Clay home who was They asked federal buyers to come on the sick list. At this writing 'rito the field since few or none of he is improving nicely. the producers can afford to go to —o--- Washington. They asked guaran Mr. and Mrs. George Davis of tees of purchase, recalling that at Medford visited Ed Dailey last tl,e close of the World war the Monday evening, He was here to market for expensively produced attend the funeral of Benjamin domestic chromite collapsed. F. George. Assisting Holman in the hearing were George Malone, representing Iaist Wednesday evening mem the war department, Earl K. Nixon, bers of Marguerite Rebekah lodge state mining department director, surprised Mrs. Clara Magill with and a chamber of commerce com a gift shower at her new cafe in mittee headed by F. I. Bristol, Kerby. Many useful and beautiful silica producer. gifts were received by her and she An important witness was Jo wishes to extend her thanks for seph Schulein, OSC research asso- these lovely tokens Refreshments were later served by Mrs. < lay (Continued on paffe five) -------------- O-------------- Ramsey and M jjh . H. O. Smith. -------------- o-------------- one of the attendants and was safe at the Chateau office. When she was hmded the purse nothing was missing. Naturally she wanted to reward the boy or girl who found it, but the Caves management said that was not at all necessary and refused to divulge the name of the finder and refused the profferred Some Lima Bean reward. All of which just goes to show that there still are a lot of Plant In Valley honest people in the world and the Clyde Runyan, who has a fine Oregon Caves must have a lot of ranch on th«« west side highway, that kind of young men and women I brought to the News office the root on theit staff. of a lima bean plant that this year o produced all kinds of beans. The peculiar part of the plant is Arm\ Trucks Stop that it was not supposed to bear Street Paving this year, as they had a bountiful supply last year, and Clyde had On account of the heavy traffic cut down the bushes thinking that ot army trucks through Cave Junc was the end of the lima beans. This year th«« plants came up i tion this week, the state highway paving crew did not start the again and had as much a yield as i finishing touches to the street in last year. C'yde think« the plants i must be crazy, for it is definitely Cave Junction. Arrangements are now made to an annual plant. start oiling and rolling the street Hot-dogs, pink lemonade and Saturday, and the crew hopes to hamburgers will be features of ’ finish the job in jig time. many stands on the Jamboree ------- o---------------- grounds. Send The News to a friend. Are Here WHAT THE LEGION AUXILIARY IS DOING < Jamboree plans were the main topic of discussion at the Wednes day meeting at which President Marie White presided. Letters were read from the New Department and District Officers asking that our membership drive get under way. The fourth dis- trict is very proud to have another Department President from the ranks and especially to have Polly Maclnturff in that office. So let us get our dues in and be over the top as soon as possible, Quite a number are already paid up. Marie White, Amy Hussey, Homer T. White and Elwood Hus sey attended the annual steak din ner and installation of the Klamath Falls post last Tuesday night. Needless to say they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
