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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1942)
Gateway to The Oregon Caves University of Oregon A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts Volume VI. No. Iti Farmers Can Kerby News Notes Tax Problem Simble of General Interest When Explained Now Insure 1943 Wheat The first indemnity payment for a loss of a 1942 wheat crop went to W. F. Willson of Murphy this week, according to Carl Stephens, county AAA chairman. Mr. Will- son will receive a check for ap proximately $87.00 on his loss, which is the market value on 93 bushels of wheat guaranteed him under his crop insurance contract. Drought and frost were the two factors responsible for the cut in yield. In quoting Mr. Willson, he said, “It's the best investment I ever made — no wheat farmer who raises wheat should be without crop insurance.” Application may now be made for insuring next year’s wheat crop under the new 3-year protec tion plan. By signing a single con tract, a farmer may protect his wheat crops for 1943, 1944, and 1945 with premiums payable in an nual installments at harvest time. C. H. Brooks, community com- mitee AAA members at Selma will sign up any farmers in Illinois Valley. The county AAA office will sign insurance contracts. All winter wheat should be signed up by Sept. 30. In 1941, Josephine county wheat farmers collected $2781.00 in in demnities. Disease, frost, and ex cess moisture took the biggest bite out of the crop, but losses were also paid for crop damages result ing from rodents, winter killing, and migratory birds. “The fact that growers collected for six causes of crop loss in 1941 demonstrates that federal crop in surance is a protection against all crop hazards,“ the AAA chairman commented. ------------- o-------------- Greyhound Bus Changes Time The time table of the Grey hound bus line has been changed a little at Cave Junction. The bus arrives 10 minutes earlier in the morning and leaves 10 minutes lat er in the afternoon. The local station is at the Cave Junction Motor Court. The new schedule is as follows. 12:00p. Lv Cres. City Ar 11 :30 a. 12:55 p. Lv Pat. Creek Lv 10:40 a. 1:30 p. Lv State Line Lv 10:05 a 1 :50 p. Ar C Junction Lv 9:40 a 2:00 p. Lv C Junction Ar 9:35 a. 2:55 p. Ar Gr Pass Lv 8 :45 a. Going north read down on left side. Going south read up on right side. Mr. and Mrs. Freeling Sawyer were in the county seat transact ing business last Monday. Pl......................................................... a COMING EVENTS [ a............................ tii Saturday, August 22- Benefit dance at Deer Creek grange hall. Friday. August 28 —Illinois Valley Garden club meeting at the home of Mrs. J. J. Villair, Red wood highway. Saturday, August 29—American Legion dance in Cave Junction. Monday, September 7 Labor day. 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. & A. M. meets fourth Saturday each month. Eastern Star meets second Tues day each month. Cave City Women's club meets every first Tuesday of each [ month 1 Price 5 Cents ('ave Junction. Oregon. Thursday. August 20. 1912 NEWLYWEDS ARE FETED AT KERBY Last week we published a story | concerning the tax millage of the Mr. and Mrs. Dave White, who I county and asked Commissioner were married July 31, spent most ' McElligott and Assessor Griffin to of the past week visiting at the give us some light on the subject, home of Mrs. White’s parents, Mr. ' which they both l\ame done. The and Mrs. Jim Hogue in Kerby anti following letters and tables should with Dave's parents, Mr. and Mrs. clear up all misunderstandings. A. A. Johnson, in Medford. While Mr. Griffin's letter: here the young people had a num August 18, 1942 ber of family gatherings in their Mr. M. C. Athey, honor, the largest being a recep Illinois Valley News tion, held at the Jim Hogue home Cave Junction, Oregon on Sunday evening. August 9. A Dear Mr. Athey: large table on the lawn was spread I have before me a copy of the for the buffet supper with a num August 13 issue of the Illinois Val ber of friends and relatives pres ley News in which there appears ent. Among them were: Mr. and an article containing reference to Mrs. Ed Burke, Mr. and Mrs. J. tax levies in your district for the H. Wittrock, Mr. and Mrs. Clay current fiscal year. Ramsey, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard It is apparent that some confu Atterburg. Mrs. Elizabeth Hodg sion exists as to the amount of son, Mrs. Dollie Duncan, Mrs. Lot this levy, and I am taking this op tie Woodcock, Mrs. Lydia Adams, portunity to clarify the matter in Mr. and Mrs. Dell Bigelow, Mrs. order that misunderstanding might Millie Trefethen, Mr. and Mrs. be erased to the greatest extent Hugh White, Mrs. Lillie White, Mrs. Lucy Seyferth, Mr. and Mrs. ! The total tax levy for each of Clem Sauer and sons Jack and the 41 school districts in Jose Larry, Mrs. Jack Wilson, and the phine County is, with few excep hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hogue. tions, made up of 4 separate lev Mr. and Mrs. White left Thurs ies. Each of these levies is de day evening from Medford for termined independently of the Norfolk, Va., where Dave will take others before being turned over deisel engineering. He has had a to the Assessor to be included in two weeks’ leave from the navy the total. These 4 levies are as where he has been on a destroyer follows: for over a year and took part in The county general levy, which the battle of Midway and has had is determined by the County Court other exciting experiences. and its appointed budget commit Mr. and Mrs. Clem Sauer and sons and Mrs. Jack Wilson were among those who went to Camp White for the opening events staged on Saturday. Mrs. Wilson, who has spent the past two weeks with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hogue, will remain at her home in Medford. —o— Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sachse have as guests this week, Mr. Sachse's brother, Richard, of San Francisco. —o— Several men from Kerby and Cave Junction left Friday for Portland for their final physical exam before induction into the army. Among those from Kerby were Bob Lackey, Les Henry, Bill Madden and also Jimmie Hines and Nat Woolley of Cave Junction. —o— Mr. and Mrs. Emil Dopyera and son Emil Jr., returned Friday from a short vacation spent at Dia mond lake and other places of in terest. —o— Friends of Mrs. Bertha Prevatt, who is in a Portland hospital, will be glad to learn she is recovering from th«- second and last op ‘ration on her legs for the purpose of straightening them. Mrs. Prevatt has been unable to walk for the past year, presumably from an at tack of infantile paralysis, which she suffered while living in Flor ida. In a letter to her aunt, Mrs. Dell Bigelow, she states that now both legs are straight and that she hopes to be back with her family in a few weeks. tee members; The general county road levy, which is determined by the same body; The special school levy, which is a matter for the voters of each school district to decide; and Year 19 io 1941- 1942 (6 months) 1942-3 Due to the revision of tax levy ing and payment dates by the 1941 legislature the 1942 levy (6 mo.) was for a half year county tax and one-half year road tax (from January 1, 1942 to July 1, 1942) while the Union High School and 'elementary school levies were for a full fiscal year as previously (July 1, 1941 to July 1, 1942). The tax resulting from this com bination was all collectable in the first 6 months of 1942, hence the designation “6 monthrs tax". The above arrangement was brought about in order to place all budgeting bodies on the same fiscal year basis, July 1 to July 1. Heretofore, the school districts have operated on this basis but other budgeting bodies have used the calendar year. Thia caused an overlap in budgeting processes as well as the distribution of tax rev enue and resulted in a lack of uni formity generally which needed correction. You will see by the above that a taxpayer paying taxes for th<- first 6 months of 1942 did not pay his normal one-half year’s tax, but only a half year's county general and county road tax while paying Louie Bidache Is Honored at Birthday ______ County General 19.2 18.1 2.4 4.6 BUMBY HOME Take Betty Grable's blonde loveliness. Vie Mature's appeal. Jack Oakie’s inimitable brand of humor and set them in Technicolor against a background of South Sea romance and heaps of tip-top mu sic, and you have the kind of grand screen entertainment to be found in 20th Century-Fox’s “Song of the Islands", which opens at the Cave City theater Saturday and Sunday. The plot tells the story of Vic's arrival on a Polynesian isle to run his father's cattle ranch with the as-irtance of Jack Oakie. Betty’s father, played by Thomas Mitchell, has been feuding with Vic’s fath er, George Barbier, for years over the right to use Mitchell’s proper ty for the shipment of cattle. Mit chell refuses to have the island “spoiled” by so-called modern im- proveme nts. You’ll roar at Jack Oakie’s an tics with sundry love-sick maidens, and for eye-filling entertainment there's nothing like Betty Grable and her cohorts doing their Hula dances under the tropical moon. Vie Mature again proves himself heaven’s gift to the matinee idol trade by turning in a great roman tic performance. The tunes, written by Mack Gordon and Harry Owens, have what it takes for your hit parade, and their interpretation by Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiian* will have plenty of movie-goers longing for the grass skirt. The high school levy. In the Illinois Valley the high school tax goes for Union High School No. 1. In all other districts of the county, except those main taining their own high schools, there is a general county high school levy. Each of these two last mentioned tax districts has its own school board which operates independently of all other tax levying bodies. You will see by the foregoing that the total levy which a tax payer is called upon to pay, is a combination of the findings of var ious budget fixing bodies acting in dependently of each other. The current county general levy is 4.6 mills and the current general road levy is 1.5 mills. A combination of these two is 6.1 mills or the total levy over which the county budget committee has control. If you will add to this figure the elementary school levy for School District No. 3, which is 12 mills and the levy of 13.8 mills for Union High School District No. 1, you have a total levy in School District No. 3 for the year 1942- 43 of 31.9 mills or the figure re ported by Mr. Selander on his re cent visit to Cave Junction. In adjoining school districts the total may be different due to vari ations in the amount of special elementary school tax levied by each district. ------------- o-------------- In order to properly compare this year’s levy with those of past years, it is necessary to compare STANDARD OIL CO. each item with the corresponding PRESENTS PICTURES item in preceding levies in order to get a clear picture. Fidlowing is Last Wednesday evening, the a table which makes this compari Standard Oil Company of Califor son : nia, gave over 100 residents of the valley a real treat when they pre School County High sented several reels of pictures, Road No. 1 No. 3 Total among them one showing what to IS. 4 11.9 45.4 2.2 do in case of an injury; how to 17.6 1.5 11.9 49.1 bandage a wound; how to stop 5. 42.2 15.4 19.4 bleeding, etc. 12. 31.9 13.8 1.5 Manager Paul Sauve of the a full year’s school tax as here Standard Oil Co., Grants Pass, tofore, except in a shortened pay with an expert picture operator ment period. This arrangement brought a carload of reels out, or has brought the county budget it seemed like it, for they gave a period into line with that of the program that was varied and ex school districts, and places them ceeding! v interesting to all who upon the same fiscal year basis were fortunate enough to be there. Howard Bearss, local Standard beginning July 1st of each year. The preceding explanation Oil manager, with the assistance of should be borne in mind when Mrs. Beulah Hamilton, of th«* Cave comparing the levy for the 1942 Junction Motor Court and also (6 months) tax with those for oth manager of the Red Cross Casu alty Stations in the valley, spread er years. I sincerely hope that the above the news to as many of the Red might be of some benefit and help Cross workers and others as they to clarify to some extent the con could, and succeeded in having a fusion attending discussion of this very representative audience see year’s tax levy. Please be assured the pictures. But they know the that no criticism is intended and hall would have been full if the that my only purpose in writing news could have been given out at this time is to try to explain the earlier. George Hicks, local commander true picture concerning the cur rent tax levy in your district. of the County Civilian Defense Please consider this office at warmly thanked Mr. Sauve anil his your service in regard to any fur company for bringing out the pic ther questions or information tures and showing them to the val which might arise in connection ley residents. Mrs. Hamilton also with this matter. thanked them and gave a few With best personal regards, I words to the Red Cross workers. remain, Yours truly, NAT WOOLLEY GIVES MERLE E. GRIFFIN, Josephine County Assessor. MEN GOOD ADVIC E (Continued on Pag« Two) Last Tuesday evening, Mrs. | BURNS DOWN Marie Wilson, of the Drews Hotel Cafe, was hostess to a very en Mr. and Mrs William Bumby’s joyable birthday dinner, honoring: home burned to the ground last I.. E. Bidache on his 71st birthday. Friday afternoon. Mrs. Bumby Those present and enjoying the was the only one at home at the dinner were: Mr. and Mrs. W. F. time. She had had a fire in the Darger, Mi. and Mrs. E. Y. Tay kitchen stove and then was string lor, Dr. A. N. Collman, L. E. (Ted) ing beans sitting on the front Athey, Jack Cody, Samuel Smith, porch, when she heard something and Mrs. Marie Wilson, the host and went to look and the kitchen ess. was all ablaze. She took a few Mr. Bidacho was given many ap things out of the house and blist propriate birthday presents and ered her feet and arms in trying birthday earns. to get more household goods out, -------------- o - — but was practically unable to save Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Lewarton of anything. Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Mr. Bumby and their son Rob Woolley of Chico, Calif., were vis-1 ert had left for Grants Pass, where iting at the home of Nat Woolley Robert was called to take his phys over the week end. Mrs. Lewarton is a sister and Mr. Woolley a ical examination for the army, and brother of Nat. ( the fire started after they left "SONG OF ISLANDS” IS GRAND MUSICAL HIT and Mrs. Bumby was left alone. Dick Sowell and the State For est fire truck were notified and they went to the fire, which was on the Waldo road about 3 miles from O’Brien. By the time the truck arrived the house was be yond saving. Robert had a Chev rolet truck near the house and it was a miracle that it did not burn, as the tires were scorched and the seat covers inside were scorched, but the truck did not burn, but the body was pretty well black ened up. The state fire truck put out the grass fire that started after the house burned down. Mr. and Mrs Bumby are staying on the Earney Reynolds place, while Robert s working on his > hrome mine. A new home will be built as soon as possible. We believe something of a dis tinct record, or rather let us say, favor, ha< be< n given to Nat Wool- ley of Cave Junction. Nat served in World Wai No. 1, and has been called in the present war, and has passed the physical examination and leaves shortly for Camp Lew is. W e believe Nat is the first World War No. 1 veteran to be called in the draft from Josephine county. He gives the following advice to the men of the valley. To all Men Subject to the Draft: I strongly advise you to join local Co. A of the Oregon State Guard in Cave Junction, as you will get the ba-ic training in a nice way that will be very valuable to you when you get into the army. This training you receive in the Oregon State Guard is the same as the regular army, except that it is not so rigorous, but the funda mental drilling tactics are the same, ami with this training you W. A. Johnson Talks At Tues. Lunch — Last Tuesday the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce had as its guest. Judge W. A. Johnson. The county judge gave the members present a word picture of facts concerning the new tax problem of the county, and those present were greatly pleased and enlightened on the tax question. Round table discussions, which the chamber is now becoming fam ous for, took in a multitude of sub jects, among which was the fact that there was being constructed a telephone line from O’Brien to the Quarantine Station at the state line by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. This will give quick telephone connection with the sta tion from the valley. Formerly telephone connection with the po lice at the state line station had t > go around by Eureka and back up to Crescent City and then on a not too good a line to the Quar antine Station. It is hoped and was expressed at the meeting that a good line can be constructed from Crescent City to the Quaran tine Station. Also the question was discussed that there is a great need of an other line to the valley. The pres ent line is now crowded with too many telephones, and in case of in emergency, accurate informa- ti m and speedy information would have some difficulty in getting through, even though everyone is supposed to get off the line in emergencies. “Rubbernecking” on telephone lines in the valley is get ting to be somewhat of a habit. An invitation will be sent to General Gearhart a id General Ott of the 91st division at Medford, to be guests of the local chamber at some meeting in the future. C. H. Demaray, president of the Redwood Empire association, was instructed to act for the I. V. Chamber of Commerce at a meet ing to be held in Crescent City to day. Two resolutions were passed as follows: z\sking the Jamboree committee to allow the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce to develop the minerals exhibit and demonstrations of such nature as possible to obtain. Also: Asking the Siskiyou Min erals association to hold a big in tersectional mining meeting, un der their auspices, at the Miners’ Jamboree on Labor Day, Septem ber 7th in Cave Junction. The members discussed matters until nearly 1 :30 p. m. and these meetings are getting more popu lar every week. Next week at the Drews hotel cafe at 1:15 p. m. All are invited to attend these meet ings. --------------o-------------- LIGHTNING ( AUSES 5 FIRES ON PAGE MT. The small thunderstorm that passed over this section Wednes day, caused five forest fires by lightning on Page mountain. The ten-man crew at the Red wood Ranger station responded immediately and today (Thurs day) all of them were under con trol. The crew left Thursday af ternoon for another out-cropping of a small fire on Page mountain, but this may or may not be a fire. The crew with Ranger Bower man did yeomen work with the fires, especially as the precipitation was very light. No rain in Cavo Junction at all, but other parts of the valley had some, and at Won der, it is reported a small cloud burst hit this section. will be far advanced of the man who has not received it. When you are called in the draft, you will be very glad you had the State Guard training. Sincerely, NAT L. WOOLLEY. Buy your Defense Stamps today.
