diversity of Oregon
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Illinois Valley News
A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
Volume VII.
No. 16
“JOURNEY EOR
MARGARET** COMES
THIS WEEK END
Ed Dailey
Passed Away
Sunday Morn
One of the oldest pioneers of the
Illinois Valley passed away last
Sunday morning, as
Edward
Dailey, who had just celebrated his
78th birthday the day before, died
at 9:30 a. m. in the Josephine Gen
eral hospital in Grants Pass.
Ed, as all his friends called him,
had been ailing for some time, and
was taken to the hospital last week
. by “Shorty” Phillips, and reports
from the hospital Friday were to
the effect that he was getting
along all right, but old age and in
firmity called him home Sunday
morning.
Edward Dailey was born on the
Illinois river at the old Rancheree
creek, now the creek is named af
ter his father, Dailey creek. Au
gust 14, 1865. When a very young
boy the family moved to their
ranch, now the Maurice Sauer
place, where Mr. and Mrs. Bud
There Ed was
Hoskins reside,
raised to a young man, and has
lived at or near Kerby all his life.
Mr. Dailey was a member of
Belt Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M ,
and was the oldest member of the
order when he died. He served as
Master of the Lodge two different
years, and was treasurer for 9
years, before that acted as secre
tary for a number of years. He
was also a charter member of
Western Star Chapter. O. E. S.,
and to our knowledge was the only
charter member of the chapter liv
ing.
He was buried Wednesday
morning at 11 o’clock in the Kerby
I. O. O. F. cemetery with full Ma I
sonic honors, Roy Wells acting as
Master of the ceremony.
Surviving him are T. J. Dailey,
brother, Roseville. Calif.; Mrs. Jes
sie M Warren, step-daughter. Sa
lem, Oregon; Mrs. G. Dimmick,
step-niece of Oroville, Calif., and
Arthur Hinkle, step-son, of Jack
sonville, Oregon.
Mrs. Jessie M. Warren, accom
panied by Mrs. Earnest Hinkle,
came to attend the funeral as did
Mrs. G. Dimmick, other relatives
could not be reached in time for
the funeral.
Like his father, who was a miner
in the early days of the county.
Edward followed in his footstep-
for a long time, but later turned
to farming. For the past several
years he has lived at his home in
Kerby.
Mr. Dailey was one of the old
pioneers of the county, and with
his passing goes a wealth of history
of olden times in this section that
he could have given to a historical
genius that would have made inter
esting reading to anyone who
would be interested.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ch Smith
drove to Grants Pass last Tues-
day to get Harry O. Smith Jr.
who arrived from his station in the
east. He will visit his parents for j
a few days before returning to his
duties.
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thirsty." Buy Bonds before too
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The Cave City theater presents
this week the highly rated picture
of “Journey for Margaret.” In
the way that “Mrs. Miniver" de
picted the effect of the war upon
the people of England, so does
"Journey for Margaret.” The same
understatement, the reserve, the
realism and the calmness, the di-
rectness of presentation and the
plainness of performance yield the
same effectiveness.
Robert Young surpasses himself
as an American correspondent sta
tioned in London during the bomb
ings, one of which injures his wife
(Laraine Day) in such wise as to
thwart impending motherhood. He
stays on after she returns to Amer
ica and interests himself in car
ing for children orphaned by the
bombers, two of whom attach
themselves to him emotionally. He
adopts them and brings them to
America. The manner of the do
ings of these things distinguishes
them far beyond the promise of
this synopsis.
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Road Work Underway
In Illinois Valley
Road work in the Illinois Valley
is under way at this time. Pete
Fredrickson, road commissioner,
said Wednesday. County roads are
being widened and graded in many
places.
As soon as creeks are at their
lowest, crews will start cleaning
out channels in preparation for
winter floods, Fredrickson said.
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Forest Men
Make Trip to
Happy Camp
Siskiyou National Forest Super
visor H. C. Obye, Redwood Forest
Ranger Harold Bowerman and
Fritz Grunow, of the local station,
drove over the Happy Camp road
last Monday to Happy ("amp where
they picked up Ranger Ernest Sut
cliffe of the Klamath National
Forest.
After which the party
drove over the Th >mpson creek
road to Tannen lake.
The men made a study of the
grazing conditions of the Thomp
son creek end and east fork of In
dian creek cattle allotments.
Road conditions, tl
phone maintenance i
spected.
Tannen
Mr. Obye hiked from
1
lake to Bolan lake ■ to make a
further study of the cattle range
and o inspect Bolan peak lookout
station. Later he was picked up
by the party who drove back
through Happy Camp and up to
Bolan lake, then returning to the.
Redwood ranger station in Cave I
Junction.
Conditions generally were found
satisfactory, hut the fire hazard is
high, and all the forests are dry
and until rain comes, the forest of
ficials are crossing all their fing
ers and toes, hoping that no fires
occur.
The East fork cattle range on
the Siskiyou National Forest was
found to be in good condition, and
will accommodate about 85 head
of cattle this summer.
Illinois Valley Garden club meets
the first Wednesday of each
VALLE? THRESHER
month.
Aircraft Demonstration school STARTS TO WORK
Mondays and Thursday, Red-
wood Ranger Station Crew
House, 8 p. m.
This week Freeling and Clar-
H. E. U. meets every second Tues- ence Sawyer and Harry O. Smith
started their threshing machine
day of the month.
and
expect to keep busy threshing
The Missionary Society meets the
second and fourth Thursday of grain. When the grain is finished,
each month at the Community the machine will go t<> work on La.
dino clover seed. The boys expect
church. Cave Junction.
to be busy for the next two months, f
Illinois Valley . Chamber of Com
Crop conditions are exception-1
merce meets every Tuesday ally good in the valley this year |
noon the Cave City Coffee Shop.
and crop« generally are bulging J
O’Brien Women'« club meet on and the yield will be far above the
first Friday of each month.
average. Practically no rust this
Ladies Auxiliary meet the first year to cut down the grain yield,
and third Wednesday of each which will also contribute to a
month.
j bumper crop.
Kerby News Notes Happy Camp
of Cenerai Interest
Fewer Fires
Employes
In Siskiyou
Asked To
Forest Area
Do More
Frank Winters of Millville, Cal.,
visited at the home of his sister
and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Del Bigelow.
None of the 18 fires reported in
Siskiyou national forest this year
have been man-set. Kermit W.
I.instedt. assistant forest super
visor, said Tuesday as he urged cit
izens to redouble their vigilance in
keeping Oregon green. Only two
acres have been burned in the 18
fires.
Sixteen of the 18 fires reported
so far occurred in July and all
were set bv lightning. Based on
averages for the past five years
Siskiyou forest can normally ex-,
pect 72 fires before the end of the i
year but by extreme care, this fig
ure can be cut, Linstedt stated.
Sixteen of Siskiyou forest fires
have been under one-quarter o£
an acre and the remaining two,
less than 10 acres. None have
burned beyond 10 a. m. of the day
following report of the fire. In
fact in the whole region, only five I
acres out of 397 have been out of
control longer than the morning
following discovery.
Siskiyou national forest is one
of the 19 included in this region
of Oregon and Washington for
ests. According to the summary
monthly fire report released July
31. by the forest service, 301 fires
have been set by lightning this
year so far, compared to 257 in
1942.
Smokers were responsible for
the next highest number of fires
33, compared to 31 last season.
Railroads came third with 13 this
year, seven last.
Lumbering,
campfires, debris burning and mis
cellaneous accounted for others.
Only four files in the entire re
gion have been of incendiary or
igin this season; none for similar
period last year.
A total of 8,242 acres have been
burned this season in the national
forests of Oregon and Washington
compared to 1.884 acres last year
at this time. A 6,587 acre fire in
the Umatilla forest during July ac
counted for the jump over last
year’s figures.
Every concern in Oregon will be
asked to cooperate in bringing its
employee personnel to fuller par
ticipation in the payroll deduction
program before the Third War
Loan gets under way Sept. 9. ac
cording to E. C. Sammons, state
chairman of the war finance com
mittee.
Need for all employes and em
ployers to understand the “figure-
it out yourself” program of the
war finance committee and its
connection with the major effort
to win the war is stressed by Mr.
Sammons.
The “Figure it out yourself”
plan is as simple as it sounds. It
is merely this: You compute your
family income by the month, total
your monthly expenses, and at“
range for the difference to be put
in war bonds through the payroll
savings plan.
“These are not idle proposals,”
says Sammons. “They are as vital
to final success as any part of the
war program. Our boys at the
front, those in convoys on the high
seas, those in maneuvers preparing
to go, are all concerned with one
question: ’What can I do to help?’
The ‘Figure it out yourself' pro
gram is the ordinary citizen’s an
swer to this same question. Loyal
Americans are acting now.”
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Mrs. Martin Sachse and daugh
ter Rosemary, returned last week
from San Francisco, where they
visited Mr. Sachse and Heide, who
are both employed in the bay city.
Hans Park, brother of Mrs. Sachse
is a guest at her home from Los
Angeles for a short time.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dell Bigelow have
purchased the Maple Court and
will start making improvements of
the grounds and buidings very
shortly. They bought the court
from Mrs. James Kanaly of Grave
Creek.
Moving Picture at
Deer ( reek (¡range
Harold Boweiman, ranger of the
Redwood Ranger station, who is
showing several reels of pictures
at the Illinois Valley Grange to
night. will take the same pictures
and run them at Deer Creek
grange hall this coming Saturday
night.
These pictures are very inter-
inter
esting and should be seen by al)
the residents of the val’ey. If you
did not see them at the Bridgeview
hall Thursday night, you should go
to Deer Creek Saturday and nee
them.
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Deer Killed on
Redwood Highway
Johnny Clarke of the Farmers
Market. Grants Pass, picked up a
deer on Rough and Ready flats
this week, that had been hit by a
truck or car. and was left by the
side of the road.
Clarke picked the deer up and
brought it to the Redwood Ranger
I
station, where it was dressed and
put in cold storage and turned
over to Officer Joe Madras of the
state policu.
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Mike Wells Now
In the Marines
Mike Vernon Well«, 20, became
a marine corps private at Portland
last Monday when he was inducted
for the armed services. He is the
»on of Roy Wells, Box 203 Route
1, Cave Junction. He leaves for
trainir.g on August 30.
Private Well« is a former Kerby
high school student
Last year
he was employed as a crane oper
ator with the naval operating base
at Honolulu, T. H.
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Mi-sea Margaret and Ann Mor
ris were shopping in Medford last
Tuesday.
Observation
Post News
7.
We are still hearing many re-
percussions from Aircraft Warn
ing Service Week, and it seems
that one of th«* outstanding events
of the week was the picnic held in
Clackamas codnty by the Oregon
City Kiwanis club to honor the
members of the Ground Observer
Corps who had 500 or more hours
of service, A number of pictures
were taken at this picnic and one
picture in particular created a
great deal of comment. Most of
you have no doubt heard of the
famous Sgt. Sheehan, Sector Ser
geant for one of the Portland area
districts, and the picture in ques
tion showed the sergeant seated
after filling his plate. The fact
that Sgt. Sheehan was leaving the
following day on his furlough may
have accounted for it, but one look
at his plate in the picture would
make on think that there was no
food left in Kansas. The Sunflow
er State is Sgt. Sheehan’s home.
Sgt. George Selles, one of the
Eugene Area Sector Sergeants
practically ran a one man chau-
tauqua during A WS week. He
gathered together several films
about the Ground Observer Corps,
and held open meetings on the
streets in a number of towns. One
of these films Sgt. Selles had to
narrate himself for ten minutes,
o he has become eligible to be a
barker at a carnival or tent show
when the war is over.
Sgt. Rawson in the Roseburg
urea covered the waterfronts down
around Cx>os county there so that
the observers at all of his posts
were recognized for their efforts
over the past months for the fine
work they have been doing for the
Aircraft Warning Service. Several
fine cooperative pages saluting all
of the observers in Coos county
were run in the Marshfield paper.’.
The Fairview Post has 89 ob
servers, ten of whom have their
"(00-I.our awards, and more than
17 have earned their 100-hour arm
bands. The post nominated Jack
Cardwell as their outstanding ob
server for his continuous punctu
ality ever since the post began
Jack serves from midnight to 6
a. m. and has only been absent
once, and then his wife Freida,
who also has her 500-hour award
served in his place. The success
of the Fairview Post is due to the
willingness of its observers and
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BY ADAH JONES
Boys leaving the valley for
physical examinations for induc
tion into the armed service last
Friday were Jay Hays, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Hays. Rob Roy Mc
Lean, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
McLean; Luther Sherier. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sherier; Mike
Wells and Walter Goldsby.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chandler
who have been living in a house
near Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hassler,
left last week for the coast where
Mr. Chandler expects to have em
ployment.
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Mrs. Herbert Marchant and
daughter Pearl, Mrs. Harry Elroy
and daughter Ethel and Grace
Baird left Sunday for hop yards
near Grants Pass, where they ex
pect to remain during the hop har.
vest.
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A number of books have been
brought to the Kerby library from
the public library in Grants Pass
recently and placed on the shelves
for borrowers. They range from
picture books for the small child
ren and graded books, stories and
even career books for grade school
and high school ages. Grown-ups
who care to read can satisfy a
variety of interests not only in the
books from Grants Pass but Ker
by library has some new books and
many- of the old favorites. The li
brary is open on Tuesday and Fri
day evenings from 7 to 9 p. m.
The younger readers are especially
invited on Friday of this week as
a small gift is promised to the reg
ular customers. Mrs. Ferd Jone
will be in charge of the library un
til school starts, when the time will
be changed to afternoon hours.
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Mrs. Jesse Warren, and Mrs.
Ernest Henkle of Salem and Mrs.
Elnora Dimmick of Oroville, Cal.
left Wednesday after coming to
Kerby to attend funeral services of
Ed Dailey. Mrs. Warren is a step
daughter, and Mrs. Dimmick a
step-niece of Mr. Dailey'. All were
guests of Mrs. Dollie Duncan dur
ing their stay in Kerby.
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Miss Paula Fox with her mother
have been guests at the home of
Mrs. Fox's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Lackey Sr., and others of
the Lackey family the last few
days, leaving for their home in
California on Wednesday. Coming
with them to Kerby was Betty
Lackey who has spent the past few
weeks with relatives in Southern
California.
WALDO MOTEL
AT O’BRIEN SOLD
LAST WEEK
Last week end, a real estate
transaction was consummated
whereby Mi. and Mrs. M. Demar-
ast, of Yakima, Wash., purchased
the entire holdings of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Balzke, owners of the Wai.
do Motel at O'Brien.
The new owners took immediate
possession and are now operating
the motel and store. Mr and Mrs.
Balzke are now domiciled at the
Lone Mt. Valley resort, and will
make this their future home for
some time to come.
The transaction included the
grocery store, the gasoline pumps
and all the cabins belonging to the
property.
May Get New
Electric
New activity in the mining in
dustry and development of gov
ernment building, together with a
natural increase in population, has
raised this sleepy, picturesque vil
lage into a beehive of activity in
the past few months.
Many problems which heretofore
never presented themselves for
consideration me now in the fore
front, with Chamber of Commerce
backing.
One of the most frequently dis
cussed and most needed is the ex
tension of adequate electric power
facilities to Happy Camp and vi
cinity.
California Oregon Power Com
pany representatives recently dis
cussed this matter with M. A.
Crabtree, engineer in charge of
the government housing project
which is nearing completion.
As a result a new survey is be
ing made to determine actual
power requirements. The housing
project, according to Mr. Crabtree
is designed for a fifty thousand
kilowatt hour requirement.
Other actual and potential con
sumers already on the spot include
the following: Six store buildings,
3 garages, barber shop, bake shop,
5 rooming houses, 2 hotels, motion
picture house, ice plant, 2 schools,
2 churches. 6 cabins and hotel at
the camp grounds. .’1 apartment
houses. Forest Service station with
12 buildings, large dance hall. 2
dairies, oil distribution plant, be
tween 175 and 200 large and small
houses, post office, miscellaneous
buildings, warehouses, etc.
This new survey has brought to
light some interesting facts.
While the local population, scat
tered as it is, is hard to count,
merchants estimate• there are be
tween 1,500 and 2,000 persons who
shop and trade in Happy Camp.
Post office figures show over 800
people get their mail in Happy
Camp, and this does not include the
many others served by rural de
livery. With these figures includ
ing only the heads of families it is
reasonable to assume that Happy
Camp and vicinity embraces a
population of several thousand
persons.
(Continued on l’a<e Three)
(H I TO LEGION
STATE CONVENTION
Les Henry, commander of the
American Legion Post No. 70. ac
companied by Elwood Hussey, Mrs.
Mildred Taylor, president of the
Ladies Auxiliary, and Mrs. Millie
Trefethen. and Mis. Marie White,
left Tuesday morning in Elwood
Hussey’s automobile for Baker,
Oregon where the state conven-
tion of the American Legion will
he held Thursday. Friday and Sat-
urday.
The Ladies Auxiliary meets the
same dates. Those leaving were
all delegate« t<> the convention ex
cept Mrs. White who was taking
the trip as an alternate delegate.
Principal speakers will be Gov
ernor Earl Snell and Roane War
ing, of Memphis, Tenn., national
commander.
A joint memorial service will
be held Friday.
The party expects to return
home Sunday night.
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WHAT THE LEGION
AUXILIARY IS DOING
A group of Auxiliary and Le*
gion members surprised Mr«. Mary
E. White at her home in Takilnu*
last Sunday afternoon, the occa
sion being to celebrate her birth
day which had occurred on th«
previous day. A long table was
laid, the center piece being a beau
tiful cake inscribed “Happy Birth
day, Aunt Mary”. A gift, a hand*
some purse, was laid at Aunt
Mary’g place.
Later the group
enjoyed looking over old picture’
and hearing of old times. It w ’
a pleasant afternoon and all w e
sorry when the time came foi re
turning home.