University of Oregon
Inter-County
•Organization
Meeting
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
Illinois
Í
ey News
A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
At the last meeting of the Il
linois Valley Chamber of Com Volume VI.
No. 1
Cave Junction. Oregon, Thursday, May 7. 1942
Price 5 CéMs
merce, reports were read and plans
finished for one of the greatest KERBY HIGH
Kerby News Notes Qo|¿ fanvon
meetings ever to be held in the val
ley in recent years, the inter SCHOOL NEWS
of General Interest _
vauyvu
county meeting of Coos, Jackson
and Josephine counties in Oregon
By Elva Metienyer
and Del Norte county in Califor
(By Ed Dailey)
nia. which will be held Friday,
Election of Student Body offid-
May 8th.
ers for next year was held Wed-
Mr. and Mrs. Art Kellert were
The purpose of this inter nesday morning. Results were:
in Grants Pass last Saturday.
county meeting is to organize a Bod Wendt, president; Donnis
live-wire group that will work for Sauer, vice president; Charlene
%
Mr. and Mrs. C. Anderton and
’the deve’opment of the natural re Miller, secretary-treasurer.
(Copied from Mining & Indust
School opened in September children of Klamath Falls visited
Last early Sunday morning, the
sources of the region, which is
rial News, San Francisco, Calif., with a student enrollment slightly the Phil Dessinger family over the people of the valley who were up
closely allied to each other. The
Mr. Day, an ey» specialist from Aug. 15, 1939.)
under that of the first day of the week end.
late, were startled with the new»
oiganization is expected to be a Salem, and Dr. Bain, from the
The president of a large na previous year. Gross enrollment
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that the Gold Canyon Pony Ranch
permanent one and hold annual State Departmer of Education tional bank in Chicago was under this year also fell below that of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wateras have hotel was a total loss, having
or semi-annual meetings for the held a clinic a» the high school criticism by the president of sev last year. This drop is charac moved to Olene, Klamath county,
burned to the ground about 1:00
discussion of the problems of the Wednesday mor.iing for the stu eral other banks because of his teristic of many high schools be where Jim will be employed for a. m.
region.
dents who showed symptoms of investments in mines. The man cause of the increased demand for the summer. Miss Mary Brady ac
William P. Greiner, the owner.
Dr. William A. Brown read sev eye and speech defects, There made the following reply to the high school age labor and the call companied them.
had just arrived from his home in
eral letters from men who were were 15 students who appeared to criticism:
to the armed services of the coun
California, and had built a good
enthusiastic over the meeting and show some symptoms of eye de-
Throughout the West ages ago, try.
Alton Duncan, Edward Sowell fire in the heating stove in the
it is expected that at least 40 peo fects and only four showed symp- almighty God built stronger vaults
The teaching force of the school and Harold Trefethen returned lobby of the hotel, and then placed
ple will be in attendance. The toms of speech defects. Besides in his granite banks than we have is as followss: Principal and in
last week from Portland where a lot of dry kindling and wood in
meeting will be called to order at these high school students, several in ours. He filled his vaults with structor in mathematics and sci they were employed on a govern
the fireplace for a fire in th»
10 a. m. and lunch will be served grade school students were tested gold, silver and copper. He gave
ence, Ferd W. Jones; English in ment job.
morning, and then retired. He was
at 12:30 p. m. in the building also.
the prospector knowledge and structor, Minnie G. Marcy; Home
very
tired, having driven all night
formerly occupied by Arnold’s gro
insight, and guided him on his Economics and Girls’ Physical Ed
Mrs. J. H. Wittroek and Jim and day from Los Angeles and was
cery and will be served by Mrs.
Harold James, a graduate of way to the door of the vaults he ucation, Laura Bailey; Commer Hill transacted business in Grants sound asleep, when, as we were
Marie Wilson of the Drews hotel Kerby high in 1941, is now at had built. The federal govern
cial and Shop, Earl W. House; So Pass on Tuesday.
told, a man by the name of Mil
cafe.
tending army air corps mechanics ment handed the prospector a title cial Science and Boys’ Physical Ed
ler of Kerby, kicked at the door
Before and after the lunch, a school in Idaho. He has been re patent to all therein. With drill, ucation, Lee Roy Hanson.
Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Adams spent and asked if anyone was in there.
program has been in the making ported doing excellent work al blast, pick and spade the prospec
The largest single physical im a few days at their home in Kerby He had quite a time awakening
which will call for much discus ready. His fellow students wish tor has broken the combination provement in the school this year planting a victory garden, They Mr. Greiner, but when awaken he
sion from those in attedance.
lock and entered. But for him was the addition to the gymnasium will return to their mine on Can- rushed through the lobby to the
him the best of luck.
Mayor W. E. Moore of Grants
our notes of issue would be as the of new dressing rooms for both yon creek later.
outerdoor and singed his hair
Pass will be the chairman of the
The Mother’s Tea held May 1st stump-tailed currency of 1857. But boys and girls. New heating units
while doing it.
meeting and will be introduced by proved quite successful. The for him this government would be were placed in the gymnasium to
Amos Borling has been kept
Dick Sowell, state fire warden
Dr. Brown who will turn the meet Girls’ league sincerely hope that bankrupt.
supplant the older units which busy the past week replenishing rushed his fire truck to the scene
ing over to him after it has been each mother enjoyed being there
Mines will be producing millions were burned out because of a de his wood shed.
and saved all the nearby houses. A
called to order and the purpose as much as they enjoyed having of gold, silver and copper in that fect in the electric wiring. The
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few other resident» of Kerby helped
stated.
At the fire meeting last Mon at the fire.
them. The league wishes them all future day when national banks student body and the school board
A. C. Hamrick was chosen chair a very happy Mother's day.
are unknown.
cooperated on a 50-50 basis in the day night it was agreed that a
The hotel was erected a few
A mine contains a crop already purchase of a 16 mm. film sound trailer rig with engine and pump years ago by Wiliam P. Greiner of
man of the luncheon and this af
fair will be in his hands, assisted
A softball game was played Fri raised, harvested and on deposit projector.
This purchase was be built, with the pump to be Riverside, Calif., as a separate unit
by anyone he can get, we hope, day afternoon on the Kerby high for you to check against at your made just in time since a few driven by the engine and the rig of the pony ranch, which was in
and we also hope he will get school field between the Jerome pleasure.
weeks later it would have been to be hauled by a car using the tended to provide a residence for
plenty of assistance. If necessary Prairie boys and the Freshman
The wealth gathered from the practically impossible to acquire a hose from the old fire truck.
adolescent boys who had lost fath
he can call for volunteers from boys. The score was in favor of the mines immortalized Solomon.
projector of that quality. Next
ers or mothers through death or di
Mining has made the U. S. the year should see a well planned
any of the club members.
The sugar rationing board re- vorce.
Freshmen 25-12.
richest country in the world.
“Slim" also gave a very inter
program for the use of the pro ported good progress in the reg
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Mr. Greiner had expected to
Mining is an industry as neces jector as an aid to classroom work. istration and it was hoped the peo open the hotel on May 1 but due
esting talk on new industries in
Allene Brewer, freshman in
the valley, and he sighted the pos- Kerby high school won the first sary to the welfare of the com A new electric refrigerator was ple of the valley would not wait to excess work at his Shrine home
. ibilities of a wood pulp mill that prize of $10.00 in the essay con munity as the raising of crops.
added to the equipment in the until the last minute to sign up for Boys and Girls at Riverside,
Show me a country without Home Economics room, several old for their sugar quotas.
'could he made a decided success test .sponsored by Ernest Rhoads
late. He arrived at the ranch
line, using bull pine for its ma on the subject “Why Oregon Must mines and I will show you a peo typewriters were exchanged for
Saturday after driving all night
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Beam and Mrs. Friday from Southern California.
terial and with a sustaining yield Protect Its Forests” The contest ple sunk in degradation and pov new machines for the typing class
program the ground can be cut was countywide. A Grants Pass erty; and poverty makes cowards es, and $100 worth of new books, Seen« Payne of Crescent City, ac Mr. and Mrs. F. I). Stone who re
over every five years and produce student, Dick Stanton, sophomore, of nations as well as individuals. non-fiction, was purchased for the companied by Mrs. Dollie Duncan side on the property urged him to
Mining is the second industry in library. Without cost the library and Mrs. Elizabeth Hodgdon of spend the night at their home but
enough wood pulp to keep a mill received the second prize of $5.
the
U. S.
busy.
was enriched by about 150 volumes Kerby motored to Medford last Greiner was anxious to get the
Mining
has
transformed
more
of
fiction books. These were do Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ash hotel aired and warmed.
Mr. Hamrick stated that five CAVE JUNCTION
poor men into millionaires and nated by the educational depart by Fulk, former resident of Cave
mills were now in production in COMMUNITY CLUB
Greiner’s supposition was that
raised them to positions of honor ment of the local CCC camp when Junction.
the southern states doing the same
sparks from the chimney settled
and trust than any other business. the camp was closed.
o
thing, and the cheapest investment
down into the fireplace which was
The Cave Junction Community
Mining has scored less than 35
With every girl in school a
of all the mills ran into a million club met last Tuesday afternoon at
stacked with wood and ignited the
and a half dollars, so one can see the home of Mrs. Eleanor Hicks, per cent of failures against 95 per member, the Girls’ League, be O’BRIEN WOMEN’S
fire wood nearby. The walls of
what an industry like that would Mrs. Lucile Arnold, assistant host cent of failures shown in general sides engaging in minor activities, CLUB MEETING
the lobby were of knotty pine, and
presented to the public a very in
do *or the valley, and these mills ess. A dessert luncheon was served U. S. merchandising businesses.
had been oiled, so providing fuel
Without the product of the
The O’Brien Women’s club met
are all making good.
and enjoyed by quite a few mem mines you would have neither a teresting and varied program ear at the home of Miss Ruby Hos- for the flames.
ly in the school year. Proceeds
Greiner estimated his loss at be
His talk was gr-atly appreciated bers and guests.
frying pan, a spoon, a hat pin or from this affair were used to pur ford in O'Brien last Friday, May tween 125,000 and $30,000 which
and showed some deep study along
At the business meeting, it was a monetary circulating medium.
chase supplies for the school first 1st. Everyone came with a May was partially covered by insur
these lines. Such an enterprise fot unanimously voted to donate $7.00
Eliminate the miner and you set aid kit and to finance the Moth basket very colorful and filled with ance. The hotel was two years old.
the valley can be had, if the peo to the local fire department, where
civilization back to the dark ages. ers’ Tea. The Tea was held on flowers, and some filled with can-
It had 30 rooms each with a bath,
ple wanted it, but it would take it is hoped it may prove of serv
Outside the elements of great May first and was jointly spon dy to be exchanged with names
a large dining room and its owa
on dei able enterprise and push ice to the community. We feel
personal profit which will accrue sored by the league and the Home drawn at a previous meeting.
refrigeration unit. The dormitor
to get it.
that our volunteer fire department to us as bankers who are able to
A paper on famous American
The meeting adjourned and all is entitled to a great deal of credit supply the money to open great Economics classes. About 70 women was read by Mrs. Frazier ies built four years ago as a sum
the talk was centered around the for the fine work it has done in the mines it behooves us to foster an mothers were the appreciated and for Mrs. Julia Williams. The con mer camp for children were un
touched.
big meeting to be held Friday, past—and greatly deserves all the industry upon which the prosper appreciative guests on this occa
tract was given by Mrs. Ella Pat
sion.
The
Tea
was
in
charge
of
May Sth. the inter-county event support the community can give it. ity of not alone our depositors but
league president, Loraine Willi rick on the life of Madame Chiang Spring Flower Show Postponed
that we hope will make history.
The ladies are also glad to an the nation depends.
ford, and her committees working Kai-Shek. Mrs. Maude Watkins
nounce that the library will soon
The Garden Committee of the
under the guidance of Mrs. Marcy gave a reading “Appreciation of
have a new home, in the Fixit shop
Smith
River Women’s club, have
Baby."
CLUB GIVES FIVE
and Miss Bailey.
decided
not to hold their Annual
COMING EVENTS = in Caves Junction, where Mrs. DEPARTMENT .$7.00
At the next meeting all mem
Something new to Kerby high, a
| Eels will be glad to see that books
Spring
Flower
Show which waa to
bers
must
answer
roll
call
with
a
smoker, as a means of providing
a................. ............... —-••••••-« may be available to the public at
have been held next Sunday, May
memory
of
mother.
A
silver
tea
funds
to
add
supplies
and
equip
The Cave Junction Women’s
Thur-day, May 7—Canteen school any time the shop is open. We
will be the highlight of this meet 10th, on account of so many other
starts at 10:30 a. m., Legion feel sure this change will bv great, club gave a donation to the Cave ment to the boys’ physical educa
ing to be at the home of Mrs. duties which the women have tak
hall. Cave Junction. Ladies in ly appreciated. Watch this paper Junction Volunteer Fire depart tion department was successfully
Nellie
Wilber, May 13th. A Moth en over in line with National De
put
on
the
boys
last
fall.
The
terested urged to attend.
for announcement of date of ment that was greatly appreciated American Legion generously don er’s day program is planned.
fense.
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May 10—Sunday, Mother's day. change. At present it is still at this week.
Fire Chief Martin was the re ated the use of the Legion hall in
Tu> > lay, May 12—HEU meeting the auxiliary room and is open cipient of a check for 17.00 which Cave Junction for this event. The
WHAT THE LEGION
at the home of Mrs. Ferd Jones, only on Saturday afternoons.
program was well received by a MICK1E SAYS—
the
ladies
had
in
their
treasury,
AUXILIARY IS DOING
The next and last meeting for
Kerby.
and they thought it would do more record crowd. Lee Roy Hanson, /----------------------------------- >
this
spring,
will
be
held
at
the
>'B1 • n Women’s club meet on the
Vt/MFA/ WES AV WE DO
good in helping the fire depart coach, directed the boys in this
The prize poppy posters are now
'
d third Friday of each home of Mrs. William Miller on the ment than staying in the club project.
in
Portland on display and will
'¿JOB
PRIMTIMGr",
VJE
Takilma road and all members are
month.
Barbara Byrne won the Lincoln
compete
with entries from the en
urged to be present, so that all treasury.
DOVTMEAU /KA'jQf"
Every second Tuesday H. E. U. plans may be completed for our
Chief Martin, on behalf of the Essay contest, sponsored by the
tire state for possible national
TO THRU OUT OUR
meeting. Mrs. Lena Payne annual picnic in July.
entire fire department, wants to Past Presidents club of the Grants
award.
Pass organization of the Daugh
chairman.
warmly
thank
the
ladies
for
their
Amy Hussey gave a very in
ARTISTIC
PRlUTIUO.
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help, as it comes in very handy at ters of Union Veterans, and the
teresting report on the conference
Every Third Friday — Holland
T-OR /rfs a pleasure !
honor of having her name en
this time.
meeting which was held in Med
School Improvement club meet COUNTY CANTEEN
graved
on
the
Lincoln
Trophy.
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RAVE ROU TRIED OUR
MEET POSTPONED
ford. April « and attended by sev
ing.
Several students in the Ameri \
PRlUTIUS LA TEL V?
eral members from here. Next
Public Library in the Auxiliary
can History class wrote in the Pan-
On account of a misunderstand WHERE TO VOTE AT
important business is the annual
rooms will be open on Saturday
American essay contest. Essays
Poppy dance, Saturday, May 23.
afternoon only from 2:30 to ing, the meeting of the County MAY PRIMARIES
contributed by Barbara Byrne and
Canteen, which was supposed to
Nominations are now being madn
4:30 p. m.
be held Thursday, May 7th, has
Polling places for the Illinois Jim Baldwin were judged best and
for officers for the coming year.
Every Tuesday—10 a. m. Gar
been postponed until Thursday, valley precincts were selected last were sent to enter the state com
Election will be held at the first
den talks over KUIN.
May 14th, in the American Le Tuesday by the county court for petition.
meeting in June.
Ladies' Auxiliary meet the firat gion hall at 10 a. m.
In a Josephine County high
the May 15 primaries. The fol
The Boy Scouts were agreeably
and third Wednesday of each
This is the first meeting for lowing place, have been designat school essay contest, sponsored by
surprised Tuesday night by a sur
month.
a civic minded citizen of Grants
Cave Junction, and all the ladies ed :
prise birthday party given for
Belt Lodge, A. F. 4 A. M meets are expected to bring a bag lunch.
ALTHOUSE — Holland hotel Pass, on the subject “Why Ore
George and Harry Kellert by Mrs.
gon Must Protect Its Forests," Al
fourth Saturday each month.
Miss Crawford expects to have 25 i annex.
A.t Kellert, Mrs. Bert Badden and
Eastern Star meets second Tues ladies take this course, and all
CAVE CITY — American Leg- lene Brewer, Kerby high fresh
Mrs. Clay Ramsey. There were
man student won the first prize,
day each month.
ladies who are interested are urged ion hall.
three cakes with Jello dessert. The
$10 cash.
I
City Womm'i club meets to attend.
KERBY — Odd Fellows hall.
boys and Scoutmaster Jim Reed,
Volleyball still claims the major
every first Tuesday of each
SELMA — Bert Hogue store.
agreed that they would weleoma
Buy your Defense Stamps today.
month
WALDO — O'Brien school.
more parties of s like natures
(Continuad on Tara Fira)
A Bankers
Opinion
Of Mining
Resume Of
Keiby High
School
I
Pony Ranch
Hotel Burns