university of Oregon
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valiev and Surrounding Districts
Volume VI.
No. 7
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Chamber
Enjoyed
Luncheon
La-: Tue-day the Illinois Valley
Chamber of Commerce held its
weekly luncheon in the Ladies
Auxiliary luneh room and was fed
by the local canteen unit and the
members enjoyed the noon menu
immensely. Acting President Dr.
William A. Brown gave the ladies
a splendid compliment and all the
members joined in with a big hand.
Dr. Brown stated that the com
munication sent General DeWitt
asking for an extension of fire
permit season, was referred back
to the chamber to be sent to the
state fire marshal at Salem. This
communication was immediately
sent to the proper place.
A. C. Hamrick restated for the
benefit of those who did not hear
h:m last week, the possibility of a
"ehydration plant and planing null
for the valley. Mr. Hamrick told of
the possibilities of such a plant,
stating that 25 per cent of the
heavy loads that were going to
Grants Pass now, could be elimin
ated, this percentage would be the
waste and moist content of the
lumber that now has to be hauled
out of the valley. As a conservation
measure this would add 25 per cent
to the tires, 25 per cent saving on
gas, and the dry lumber would
ease up the strain on the pavement
of the highway. His remarks were
listened to intently and the pos
sibilities of such an industry were
enthusiastically received.
A resolution was passed and or
dered sent to the proper author
ities in Washington asking for sup
port for thia kind of an industry
Ka a saving of time, money, and an
enlarged production of war neces
sities, in this case lumber that Un
cle Sam needs.
The chamber asked Art Drews to
represent it at the price control
minting to be held V Portland
June 19th.
A resolution endorsing the rub
ber salvaging was unanimously
passed and the valley residents
were urged to collect all rubber
and bring it to some service sta
tion.
Blake Miller announced that the
local Legion post would hold an
old fashioned Fourth of July cel
ebration, and the chamber passed a
resolution endorsing the Legion's
plan and asked all to attend.
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To Patrons of Rural
Route. Cave Junction
Your carrier, Mr. Nat Woolley
will pick up any donations of
scrap rubber tied in bundles or
wrapped.
Pl'»'......... •»••••
Price 5 Cents
Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, June IS, 1912
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COMING EVENTS
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Saturday, June 20—Card party.
Auxiliary room, prizes and re
freshments.
Sunday, June 21—Father's day.
Friday, June 26—Illinois Valley
Garden club meeting at the
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Election of officers. Members
are to bring individual flower
displays.
O'Brien Women's club meet on the
first and third Friday of each
month.
Every second Tuesday H. E. U.
meeting.
Mrs. Lena Payne
chairman.
Every Third Friday — Holland
School Improvement club meet
ing.
Every Tuesday—10 a. m. Gar
den talks over KUIN.
Ladies' Auxiliary meet the first
and third Wednesday of each
month.
Belt Lodge, A. F. 4 A. M. meets
fourth Saturday each month.
Eastern Star meets second Tues-
, 'lay each m mth.
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Ctty Women’s club meets
every first Tuesday of each;
month
1
Kerby News Notes
of General Interest
(By Ed Dailey)
Mrs. Clara Magill returned home
from her visit in Los Angeles last
Wednesday and reported a very
good trip.
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Martin Sachse is helping in the
haying on the Pomeroy ranch this
week.
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J. M. Finch had visiting him
during the past week, his nephew
George E. Fredson and son of Los
Angeles.
Frank Floyd visited in Medford
last Sunday, and reported a very
heavy rain shower in Jackson
county.
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Roy Wells and Mrs. Millie Tre-
fethen made a trip to Grants Pass
with their grandson Dean Wells
last Sunday where he was to take
the train for Billings, Montana
where he was to join his mother.
George Bour left for Klamath
Falls last Tuesday via bus and will
visit relatives and friends in that
city for several weeks.
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Mrs. Maude Brown and daugh
ter Alice visited at the Ed Burke
home last Sunday. Mrs. Brown is
employed at the Gene Brown
chrome camp.
Bring in
Your Scrap Fourth of July
Rubber Now Celebration
The nation’s sudden drive for all
the scrap rubber has produced an
amazing quantity of rubber that
can be reclaimed. Millions and
millions of pounds of scrap rub
ber has already been dumped in
strategic points where it will be
transported to the rubber mills
for production of reclaimed rub
ber for the nation’s defense.
All residents of the palley are
urged to bring in their old tires,
and scrap rubber of any kind, rub
ber boots, rubber gloves, anything
that has rubber in it. Take your
rubber scrap to any service sta
tion and they will pay you one cent
per pound for all this scrap. If
you do not want to keep the money
you can donate it to the USO or
Red Cross, or any war time organ
ization and it will be gladly re
ceived.
The big idea is to bring all your
rubber as soon as you can. It is
not necessary that you make a
special trip, but the next time you
are in any locality where there is
a service station, take your scrap
rubber to them and they will buy
it. They do not make anything
out of the transaction. On the con
trary, it will give them a lot of
headaches, but they are willing to
do their part for this will give the
nation more rubber.
You are helping the nation when
you bring in your old rubber, and
also helping yourself.
Under the auspices of the Am
erican Legion, Glenn Morrison
Post, an old fashioned Fourth of
July celebration will be held in
Cave Junction for the entire valley
and all neighbors of adjoining ter
ritory.
The celebration will be held all
day Saturday, Julv 4th, and in the
evening a grand ball will be held
in the Legion hall to climax the
day.
While wartime priorities have
forced all the modern methods
of celebrating out of reach, the
local post is going ahead with the
idea of an old fashioned celebra
tion that will interest young and
old. No fireworks will be permit
ted, this means firecrackers and all
the rest.
A big parade with all the organi
zations and industries in the val
ley in the line of march with flouts
or marching formations will fea
ture the day. Games and races for
all ages and many sports, and a
lot of concessions will fill out a
(lay full of fun for both young and
old.
Tables will be spread for a huge
picnic lunch, so arrange to bring
your lunch and spend the day with
your neighbors. Watch next week's
paper for another report about the
celebration, and if the committee
can make final arrangements, the
full program will be given.
Mr. and Mrs. Clay Ramsey have
visiting them for a short time, their
daughter Alma Benedict.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Elroy and
son of Eugene are spending their
vacation with Mr. Elroy’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Elroy. Tues
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BLESSED EVENT
day they made a business trip to
BORN
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To Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Grants Pass, later enjoying the Glenn Morrison Post
Baird,
Takilma, at Josephine
scenery of the beautiful parks.
To Hold Election
General hospital on Friday, June
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12, at 7:38 p. m., a girl, weigh
For those who are on time at the
ing
seven pounds, four ounces.
Kerby Sunday School 9:45 each
At the meeting of Glenn Mor
Sunday morning a real treat is in
store. Mrs. Wm. Brown who has rison Post, American Legion, held BORN—To Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Nealy, June 16th, a seven pound
lived in many foreign lands has Wednesday evening, it was an-
nine ounce baby boy. Mother
collected a number of souvenirs noumcd that the annual election
and baby doing nicely.
which may be common to those ol' < fficers wju I i I be held Wednes
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people but are very strange to day right, Julv 1st.
Mrs. Robert Boyce accompan
All members r.f the po't arc
Americans, last Sunday the mate'
meeting '• ii» ied by Mrs. J. II. Earley motored
cup from South America held at urged to attend i
will
also
be
the
last
mee in r ol to Tennant, California, Tuesday to
tention, just an ordinary gourd but
the
Post
h«>i
’
<
re
the
big
F >urt ■ visit Mrs. C. B. Caster and Mr.
beautifully carved and polished
«fl Boyce. They returned home Wed
and the “sipper” made of brass of July celebration and last
nesday.
ute
details
will
be
threshed
out.
made the complete tea drinking
set. This tea cup was passed around
to each member of the family in
the morning. More water and tea
Editor’s Note—The following letter was
leaves added to keep up the
strength, the tea leaves, we learn-
handed to us to publish, which we do, in the
<1. were ordinary alfalfa, but some-1
interest of fair play, without editorial com
times selling for high price in our
ment :
country. Next Sunday Mrs. Brown
will show a Chinese sword in its
sharkskin sheath.
Cave Junction, Oregon.
Children s Day will be observed i
June 5, 1942.
on this Sunday, June 21; songs and
To the Editor:
a short play also recitations will
make up the program.
SOUR GRAPES
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By now the Editor of the Illinois Valley
Mr. and Mrs. Earl K. Nixon and
children visited at the Esterly
News, Mr. M. C. Athey, knows that the
mine last week-end and Mrs. Nixon
“
grapes” he did not plant, namely: the Cave
and children remained for a few
Junction
Post Office, are sour.
days while Mr. Nixon made a trip
I write this to refute the implied state
over to Happy Camp and other
California places.
ment that he made in his paper, that there
M1CK1E SAYS—
Wf
JEST LOVE TO
NA VE FOLKS BRING IN
MENS'WHEN IT IS
MENS, AN'BEFORE
IT BECOMES SO OLE
was anything underhanded or crooked
about the appointment of C. Y. Arnold as
Post Master. I doubt if any committee,
Democratic or Republican, ever handled a
recommendation for Post Master in a fairer
or more impartial manner than was given
the recommendation for the Post Office at
Cave Junction, and I think every member
of the committee will verify this statement.
I do not think there was anyone outside the
committee that had anything to do with the
recommendation of the committee unless it
was M. C. Athey, himself.
Personally. I think it is a good thing for
the Valley and the Illinois Valley News that
the paper is no longer associated with the
Post Office. I recall that once upon a time
the Illinois Valley News was an interesting
p; per which endeavored to promote good
will and build a bigger and better commun
ity, but of late it has deteriorated until it is
almost as interesting as last years mail or
der catalog.
ELWOOD HUSSEY.
8 Cars of Chrome
Ore Shipped
Under the enlarged Metals Re
serve set-up for the purchase of
chrome ore, the ore is beginning
to move out of Grants Pass, ac
cording to F. I. Bristol, president
of the Siskiyou Minerals associa
tion which took an active part in
laying plans for the program.
At least eight carloads of
chrome ore were shipped from here
on the Southern Pacific last week
under contract with the Metal Re
serve company, totalling between
$16,000 and $20,000 in value.
With the advent of better
weather in the high mountains, this
figure is expected to climb to an
all-time high for ore shipped from
this city.
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Local Boys in
Navy Write Home
Old Time
Resident
Passed Away
,
Frank C. Stiwalt. 69, died Friday
morning at 5:20 o’clock at his
home in O’Brien. He is the father
of Mrs. Eugene Brown of O'Brien.
He was born at PrescotJ, Iowa,
on March 12, 1873, and has lived
in O’Brien for the past 55 years.
He leaves his wife. Anna ; a daugh
ter, Mrs. Brown: a brother. George
Stiwalt, in Kansas; and a sister,
Mrs. Frances Barrett, Cave Junc
tion. Funeral arrangements are in
charge of Hull and Hull funeral
home.
The funeral was held last Sun
day at 1 o’clock in the I.O.O.F.
hall in Kerby and interment was
made in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.
Rev. Ed Wright officiating.
Funeral arrangements were in
charge of Hull 4 Hull Funeral
home. Grants Pass.
A letter from the Navy depart
ment to Harry Floyd at Holland
states that George W. Maiden s
a prisoner of war and is interned
at Shanghai, China. George was
working on Wake Island when the
island was taken by the Japs.
The letter states: “It is hoped GARDEN CLUB TO
that the anxiety of parents, friends i MEET JUNE 26th
and relatives of these men will be
The Illinois Valley Garden club
greatly relieved by the knowledge
that thev have finally been ac , will meet Friday afternoon, June
counted for, and are receiving ; 26 at the home of Mrs. E. J. Wil-
reasonable treatment, even though : her on the west side highway.
Members are to bring individual
they do experience some inconven
garden displays.
iences and hardships."
PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN
A newspaper article recently re
ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Perley
Lewis of Lonesome Pine, O’Brien,
states that their nephew, Perley
Lewis, who has visited here, was
promoted to Captain. The article
says: “Achieving a capacity in just
20 months s no small feat, but t
is what might be expected of Per
ley Lewis who has been known for
getting jobs done ahead of time
ever since he got his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in engineer
ing from the University of Colo
rado."
OK ON MIDWAY
z\ card from Mr. and Mrs. C.
L. Schumacher of Twin Falls, Ida
ho, says that their son Boh went
through t he Midway battle all
OK. Bob has been on Midway for
a month now. The card was sent
to Mr. and Mrs. George Scott.
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Ration Stamp No. I
Good June 1 I to 27
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 —
Holders of war ration books have
from June 1 4 to midnight, June 27,
to use stamp No. 4 in connection
with the purchase of one pound of
sugar, it was reiterated by the Of
fice of Price Administration here.
Stamp No. 3 was valid from
May 31 to June 13. Stamps No. 1
and 2 were used in preceding pe
riods.
The remaining 24 stamps in the
book may he used for other com
modities if the necessity for ra
tioning of other supplies arises.
WHAT THE LEGION
AUXILIARY IS DOING
Reports for the year were com
pleted and sent to the head de
partment. The Unit is proud of
the amount of work accomplished
during the year just ended.
Marie White, retiring president,
expressed her gratitude to every
member for the wonderful coop
eration which enabled her to carry
out the projects she paiticularly
wished to complete.
Lida Miller and Marie Wilson
were elected delegates to the con
vention and Mary White and Em
ily Kellert as alternates. Buddy
Rinearson having moved away,
Lillian Smith wa- (dected second
vice-president in her place.
The flags are to be placed on
the veteran - graves this coming
Sunday as they did not arrive for
Memorial Day.
After the meeting the Post
joined the Unit for a pleasant so
cial hour.
Two Gun Gal
Featured in Next
Theatre Offering
Like most of America's color
ful and fascinating figures. Belle
Starr has taken her place on the
silver screen.
Belle was a beautiful bandit
queen, a “petticoat terror,” a Jesse
James in skirts- and she was one
of the most amazing and romantic
women in American history.
The film, “Belle Starr," which
has been produced in Technicolor
with Randolph Scott and Gene
Tierney in top featured roles,
comes to the Cave City Theatre on
Saturday and Sunday.
It has been said that Belle was
also a Confederate spy, but then1
is considerable doubt as to that.
In fact, the record is a little con-
fused and there are blank periods
in her life which history has not
yet filled in.
But her exploits have become
legendary through Missouri. She
had not onlv daring, but wit and
charm as well. She was the un
disputed ruler of her band and
she could draw and shoot with the
best of them, not excluding such
redoubtable figures as Jesse
James, whom she knew.
However, she was not a killer.
Legend and fact both have it that
she never fired a shot when a
smile would do the trick, and she
achieved a great deal more through
the use of feminine wiles than she
did with a gun.
"Belle Starr” was born in 18 16
and the film story opens in her
home in Carthage, Missouri, at
the close of the Civil War and in
corporates her most amazing ad
ventures. Legend says that she
became an outlaw after the Yan
kees had killed her brother Ed, to
whom she was deeply attached.
The picture also concentrates on
her romance with and marriage to
the dashing guerilla leader Sam
Starr, whose band she joined. Scott
has his most romantic role to date
as Starr.
While Irving Cummings was di
recting the principal company in
Hollywood, Otto Brower took n
second troupe, including 25 photo
graphers and technicians and sev
eral actors, to Missouri, where • x
weeks were spent filming the trails
and haunts of Belle Starr and
photographing exteriors and back
grounds for the film. They spent
most of their time in and around
Noel and Pineville, Missouri, where
“Jesse James" was filmed.