University of Oregon
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
V
A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
Volume VI.
No. 15
Here and
There From
Cave Junction. Oregon. Thursday. March 11, 1913
Kerby News Notes Chamber Is
of General Interest
BY ADAH JONES
Farm Help
Asking For
Available
Everywhere
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Prevatt j
moved from their living quarters)
in the old postoffice building to!
the Maple Court cabin last week)
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATH en‘^
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While only a few attended the
ERED FROM EVERYWHERE
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meeting of the chamber of com-
Doris Jones, student at the Eu­ >merce last Tuesday noon, a great
gene Vocational school, spent the deal of interest was manifest over
Ladies! When you see a run week-end with her parents, Mr. matters brought up for considera­
in your stocking take it seriously, i and Mrs. Ferd Jones. On Sunday| tion.
Think of the sock that damaged | a family reunion was held at the j
In the absence of President
silk or Nylon socks can give the 1 Jones home with Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, Dr. Brown acted as
Fritz Morrison and son, Fritz Lee, temporary chairman. Mrs. A. K.
Japs.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Nealy and Smith was a guest of the chamber
Sabotage activities against Ger­ children, James and Myrtice Marie; and asked that body to help her
man operations in France were re­ Doris, Dena and Wendall Jones and her husband to get a road that
ported recently in a Russian mid­ and the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd was useable from their ranch on
day communique recorded in Lon­ Jones, all present.
the west side highway. A culvert
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don by the Soviet radio.
over a very small stream is a very
Mrs. Win. McLean and sons, necessary item at once, as Mr.
Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, son of Frank and Mickey left last Thurs­ Smith cannot get his truck out on
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt day for Portland, where they will account of the culvert going out.
was wounded in action on the visit Mr. McLean and Rob Roy
A petition will be circulated to
Tunisian front. Roosevelt, a for­ who are working on defense jobs. ask the county court to make the
ward observer and liaison officer They returned Saturday evening entire west side highway a county
for an artillery unit and grand­ with Mr. McLean and Rob Roy road. At present it only is desig­
I son of the late Ex-President coming home to spend a few days. nated as far as the Runyan ranch
Roosevelt, was struck in the back They stopped at Oakland, Oregon, from the south end and the Don
either by a machine-gun bullet and brought Howard and Norman Morrison ranch on the north end
from a strafing plane or by a frag­ Wilson to Kerby for a few days of the road, leaving a strip only a
ment of anti-aircraft shell dur­ visit.
few miles long between that is
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ing a German Stuka and Messer­
not designated as a county road.
Eleanor Hatch had as guest The petition will ask the court to
schmitt raid on an American artil­
lery unit in a ravine near the over the week-end, her sister, Miss designate the entire length of the
plains leading to Kasserine pass. Wilma Hatch who is teaching at road a county road, so that it can
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Cottage Grove.
be made passable. The road in
Rock Island Arsenal officials, in
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the middle now is absolutely
checking work sheets, found Mrs.
Mrs. Dave White left last week blocked with fallen trees and
Sadie E. Kling, 59, had been work­ for Canton, Ohio, where she will washed out by swollen streams.
ing a 56-hour, seven-day week in­ meet her husband who is on fur­
A resolution was unanimously
stead of the authorized 48-hour, lough. Dave is in the navy and passed to ask the county court to
six-day schedule.
phoned his wife from Key West so designate the west side road as
of his furlough and to meet him a county road to help the Smith |
Mrs. Kling, mother of 18 child­ in Canton where they will visit family and also as a military ne­
ren, admitted that for weeks she relatives.
cessity. If the main highway was
had been working on her normal
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blocked, the west side road could
day off because her section was
Mr., and Mrs. Harold Trefethen be used in time of necessity.
behind on its production schedule of Alaska, are at the horAe of their
A resolution was also passed to
and she wanted it to catch up. She mother. Mrs. Millie Trefethen for ask the general in command of
hadn’t told anybody about those a few weeks visit. Harold who airports of the northwest, to do
4 extra days, she said, and did not went to Alaska two years ago to something with the Illinois Valley
expect to be paid for them.
work on defense bases, expects to Airport. Military authorities be­
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enter army service shortly. He lieve, that if the Japs invade this
Production of a powerful new and his bride have been married country, it will occur on the west
tank destroyer — a land cruiser but a few months and this is her coast near the border line of Cali­
which can cope with anything yet first meeting with Southern Ore­ fornia and Oregon, and the air­
thrown into battle by Germany— gon and relatives of her husband. port would be a soft setup for the
was announced Feb. 28 by Gen­
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Japs to land if nothing is done
eral Motors Corporation.
Mrs. Lottie Woodcock returned about it.
The destroyer, one of three Tuesday from Ashland where she
Next Tuesday noon the chamber
newly designed models, is known visited her son and family, Mr. and will meet at the Cave City Coffee
as the M-10 and is being built on a Mrs. Wesley Woodcock.
Shop and all who are interested in
volume basis at the tank arsenal
the development of the valley are
of General Motors' Fishel Body
urged to attend.
Division.
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Curry county. Oregon, is now |
on a cash basis. At a meeting of I
the county court recently all the
bills were ordered paid in cash. I
County .Judge Boice said, so far
as the records revealed, it is the
first time in the History of the
county that it has been in this en-1
viable financial condition.
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Josephine county's Red Cross
fund is over the top and fully sub­
scribed.
Citizens of the county
know what the Red Cross is do­
ing and were glad and willing tot
do their part to help this wonder-j
ful organization.
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Cancellation of rationiong reg-’
Illations covering seed beans, peas
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| COMING EVENTS
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Wednesday, March 17 St. Pat­
rick’s day.
Tuesday, April 13—H. E. U. will
hold their meeting at the home
of Mrs. Haze’ Halm, at 10:30
a. m., sharp.
Tuesday. May 11—H. E. U. will'
meet at the home of Mrs. Mar-1
garet Monroe.
The Missionary Society meets the
second and fourth Thursday of
each month at the Community
church. Cave Junction.
H. E. U. meets every second Tues­
day of the month.
Lad ies Auxiliary meet the first
and third Wednesday of each
month.
Illinois Valley Chamber of Com­
merce meets every Tuesday
noon in Drews hotel cafe.
O’Brien Women's club meet on
first Friday of each month.
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Nixon Tells
Of Chrome
Mrs. Smith Guest
Speaker at Medford
Garden Club Meeting
Last Thursday afternoon Mrs.
Harry (). Smith, conservation
i chairman of the State Federation
of Garden clubs, was guest speak­
er at the Medford Garden ’ club,
Little hope for continued sale and gave an interesting and in­
of low grade chrome concentrates structive talk on flowering shrubs,
was extended to chrome operators soils and pruning. She also spoke
and at the same time news of ad­ briefly on Victory gardens. At­
ditional aid to operators of small tending with Mrs. Smith were Mrs.
or marginal copper mines was ex­ Sam Bunch. Mrs. II. S. Leonard
pressed this week bv Earl K. Nix­ Mrs. M. C. Athey and Mrs. Stan­
on, head of the state department ton Rowell of Grants Pass.
Mrs. I.. G. Gentner of Medford,
of the Geology and Minerals In­
dustries upon his return from president of the Siskiyou district,
Washington, D. C.. recently. Nixon discussed plans for the district
conferred with officials of WPB convention of the Oregon Federa­
and other government agencies in tion of Garden clubs, to be held
an effort to give the eastern men in Grants Pass on April 6th.
A profusion of early spring
a clearer understanding of prob­
flowers were displayed by Medford
lems faced by western miners.
Three main points were stressed members.
Immediately after the business
.<> Nixon by WPB on the chrome
situation. They were as follows: session tea was served from a lace
1. Market for chrome concen­ covered table, with a lovely ar­
trates may be quite tight, unless rangement of daffodils and tall
the concentrates approach 4* per yellow tapers in crystal candelab-
cent chromic oxide and have a 3 ras.
After the meeting Mrs. Smith
to 1 chrome iron ratio.
2. Priorities for materials for 1 and her son "Bit” Smith who had
chrome concentrators will be dif­ arrived during the afternoon via
plane from Seattle, and the en­
ficult to obtain.
3. There has been no official tire party motored to Talent where
confirmation of the extension of they enjoyed a short visit with
the guaranteed price to December Mrs. Agnes Smith and other rela­
31. 1944. If such an extension is tives.
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made, it is doubtfu' if the agree­
ment will include the purchases of
Last Thursday evening Mrs. R.
low iron ratio concentrates.
S. Leonard rushed her husband to
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the Josephine General hospital in
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Sherman Grants Pass, where he has been
made a trip to Grants Pass and seriously ill from a severe heart
Their son, Gordon, ar­
Rogue River • Thursday» on busi­ attack.
ness. Mrs. Sherman just returned rived by plane late last Sunday
from a visit to her daughter in night. Last reports are that Mr.
Bremerton. Wash.
, Leonard is gradually improving.
And Copper
Thru FSA
Josephine County farmers short
of critical year-round farm labor
are urged to take immediate steps
to place their order for workers
being recruited and transported to
Oregon by the Farm Security Ad­
ministration, if help cannot be se­
cured locally through the USES
and farm placement office, ex­
plains Eugene Hampton, acting
state farm labor specialist, and
Carroll S. Rycroft, county FSA
supervisor, 8 Lundburg building,
Grants Pass.
"See our farm placement office
first and if they can't fill your or­
der they will refer the request to
the FSA office for a transported
worker." Hampton said. “We will
help you make out an order, find
out what housing is available, type
of worker wanted and wage of- |
fered.
When the agreement is
signed and a $10 deposit made, the
request will immediately be for­
warded for filling:'’
If training other than that the
farmer will give is needed, special
instruction will be provided with­
out cost through local Smith-
Hughes instructors of the state de­
partment of vocational agriculture
in cooperation with the extension
service. Hampton explained. As it
takes from three to six weeks to
bring out a worker and many ord­
ers have already been placed,
farmers must act immediately to
insure filling of their requests.
“Most of the workers are re­
cruited in small farm and tenant
sections of southern states and
have farming experience,’’ said
Hampton. “Coos and Curry coun­
ty dairymen are generally well
pleased with the first group of 25
workers brought out from Arkan­
sas. If a satisfactory worker can.
not be provided in a reasonable
length of time, the farmer’s $10
deposit will be returned.”
Transportation of year-round
workers is part of the national de­
partment of agriculture ami War
Board program to help meet farm
labor shortages that threaten vital
war food production.
Both Mr. Hampton and Mr. Ry-
craft have been on the farms in
Coos and Curry counties where the
workers were placed ami the farm­
ers were well pleased with the in­
dustry and willingness of the
workers to assume their new jobs.
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JOHN S. DIETCHER
Price 5 Cents
KERBY HIGH
SCHOOL NEWS
The following students attained
the scholastic honor roll for the
first six-weeks of the second se­
mester which ended March 5:
Seniors—Jim Baldwin.
Sophomores — Allene Brewer.
Dora Hammer, Rosemary Sachse.
Freshmen—Ia>u Ann Maurer.
Jean George.
To be placed on this honor roll,
a student must have no grade be­
low a 2 and must have an average
of not less than 1.5.
Edwin (Bit) Smith, class of '41
visited school the first of this
week. Bit is awaiting his call to
navy aviation in which he enlisted
several weeks ago.
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Word has been received that
Bud McLean, class of '41, is about
to complete his basic training work
in army aviation at Camp Roberts.
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The finale in the interclass bas­
ketball tournament ended with
Seniors the victors over the Sopho­
mores by a score of 16 to 14. in
the game played Wednesday after­
noon.
CAPITAL
PARADE
BY MURRAY WADE
Manpower shortage and result­
ant higher wages shot a million
dollar hole in the budget direct­
or's estimation of 1943145 state
expenditures.
An increase of
$972,925 was approved by the joint
ways and means committee whose
general fund appropriation figures
totaled $21,924,320. This is $1,-
337,806.25 above the 1941-43 bud­
get which contained $2,34:1,831
for public welfare. The new bud­
get eliminates the general fund ap­
propriation for this item by allo­
cating $12,000,000 of unearned
liquor profits to take care of th?
state's end of this obligation. In
reality the legislature has appro­
priated $3,381,637 more from the
general fund for state activities
than was appropriated by the last
session. Largest item in the new
budget is $6,839,113.86 for high­
er education, a cool million up
over the appropriation of two
years ago. Second largest is the
state hospital appropriation of $2,-
106,447.
Next week the stage will be
placed in the gymnasium in prep­
aration for rehearsal of the Sen­ CEILING ON SOLONS
The cost of the laty legislature
ior class play "Don’t Be Bashful."
was more than $10 a minute for
the time it was convened in bus­
iness sessions.
Although it was
a long session as Oregon legisla­
tures go, members got $8 a day
for 50 days instead of $3 a day
for only 40 days, stenographers
and many of the attaches were
paid $6 a day instead of $5 a day
and the officers salaries were up­
ped, the total cost for the session
will not exceed that of the 1939
session according to a state ac­
While permits from the state countants semi-official estimate
forester or a regularly appointed made on the 57th day. The first
state fire warden must now be ob­ thing the legislature did was to
tained before burning of slash and set a ceiling of $200,000 on its ex­
debris is allowed. II. C. Obye, Sis­ penses. If, as estimated, the cost
kiyou forest supervisor, urges that is only $160,000 they will have
burning be done as soon as pos­ “saved” some $40,000.
Obye Urges
Burning
Of Slash
sible, since it is anticipated that
army orders prohibiting all burn­
ing may be forthcoming at any
time.
Usually permits for burning are
not required at this time of year,
it was pointed out.
However, a
proclamation made on Feb. 27 by
Governor Earl Snell states that
"the unregulated use of fire in the
burning of slash or debris within
that part of Oregon west of the
summit of the Cascade mountains
is unlawful, and shall be subject
to the following regulations: No
burning without first securing a
written permit from the state for­
ester or regularly appointed state
fire warden; provided, however,
that no permit shall be required
for the burning of debris in small
quantities not within one-eighth
of one mile from forest land and
outside of the dimout zone as des­
ignated by public proclamation by
the headquarters of the Western
Defense Command of the Fourth
Army of the United States.”
Attention of the public was also
called to the recent approval by
the President of the United States
of a federal law which provides
that for the duration of the war,
"willful injury or destruction" of
timber of forest products by in­
cendiarism or trespass is a federal
offense punishable by a fine of
not more than $10,000 or impris­
onment for not piore than 30 years
or both.
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John Samuel Dietcher, aged 88
years, passed away at the home of
his son, Frank H. Dietcher, last
Sunday, March 7th, at 7 a. m.
Mr. Dietcher was born February
22, 1885, in Chicago, Illinois, and
for the past four years made his
home in Cave Junction with his
son, Frank.
lie js survived by his son, Frank
H. of Cave Junction, two sisters,
Mrs. Al Hartka of Los Angeles
and Mrs. William Thiez of San )
Bernardino, six grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wed­
nesday afternoon in Kerby at the
I. () .(). F. cemetery in charge of
Hull & Hull, funeral directors.
Mr. Dietcher was a Mason, hav­
ing been a member of Providence
Lodge No. 711 of Chicago for 55
years.
Mr. Dietcher was a contractor More Valley Boys
most of his active life and also a Called In Draft
hardware merchant, but the last
Five more valley boys will leave
few years of his life had been this week for induction in the army
spent in Cave Junction.
through the draft. The boys are
scheduled to leave on different
days and to different post» for
ST. PATRICK’S BALL training. The following will ans­
AT GRANGE HALL
wer the call:
Stan Waterman.
Saturday, March 20th, the Illi­
George Baldwin.
nois Valley Grange will give a St.
I-eRoy Campbell.
Patrick’s dance in the Bridgeview ,
Tom Walton.
George Williams.
Grange hall.
The ladies of the Grange will
Alvin Williams.
give another one of their famous
R. E. White made a trip to
midnight suppers, and those who
attend will find that the evening Grants Pass where he visited his
will be enjoyable with the accent mother, Mrs. 8. E. White, who
on the Irish for this particular, has been confined in a nursing
home since last November.
night.
QUICK WORK
It took less than 20 minutes for
the senate and the house to ap­
propriate $12,000,000 for old uge
pensions.
CALL YOUR LIMIT
Lum and Abner should be hap­
py now. The limited partnership
act will soon become a law in
Oregon as it has been in several
states for many years. Each part­
ner of a partnership will be able
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Company A To
Hold Maneuvers
Company A Oregon State Guard
will hold spring maneuvers next
Sunday, the weather permitting.
Place—Stony Point. Time 1 p. m.
All officers and men who can
go on the bivouac, Saturday night
will assemble at the Legion halt
at 8 p. m. with full pack includ­
ing blankets, frying pan, knife,
fork and spoon and one day’s ra­
tions.
Also an axe, shovel and
gun, but no live ammunition.
All officers and enlisted men
who volunteered to go on the
maneuvers Sunday, will assemble
at the Legion hall promptly at 1
o’clock p. m. Sunday, with pack
as stated above, but only rations
for Sunday afternoon, if you want
eats.
Every enlisted man who has of­
fered his truck as transportation,
meaning those who previously list,
ed his truck with the company
clerk, will bring his truck on Sun­
day to transport men from Legion
hall to point of maneuvers
All men are to bring two cups
of flour.
If you have a 12-gauge shot
gun or a .32 revolver, center-fire,
or a .22 rifle, bring it in place of
your larger caliber gun, as we
have blank ammunition for such
guns.
If it should rain hard on Satur­
day, there will be no Saturday
night bivouac, but all men will
then assemble at the Legion hall
Sunday afternoon at I p. m. for
regular drill.