University of Oregon
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
Volume VII.
No. 23
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! Washington ;
.Weekly Letter¡
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By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
Price 5 Cents
('ave Junction. Oregon, Thursday, October 7, 1913
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Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
And Dorothy Lamour
In “Road to Morocco"
Coming next Saturday and Sun­
day to the Cave City theater is the
spectacular picture, “The Road To
Morocco,” with those inimitable
stars. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby,
with the lovely Dorothy Lamour
taking the feminine lead role.
“The Road To Morocco" has ev­
erything you would expect from
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, and
then they do some extra stunts
you have never seen them do be-
fore.
Can you imagine Bob and Bing
in a harem of beautiful girls try­
ing to decide which one they want
to make love to? Well, that’s on­
ly one little incident that causes
the boys all kinds of trouble. They
can get into more scrapes and get
out of them quicker than you can
imagine.
“The Road to Morocco" is one
of the really big pictures of the
year and local fans should be very
glad to get this picture in the val-
ley. It is an outstanding comedy
with the biggest stars in the pic-
ture bi.. mess, besides having a
grand supporting cast and hand­
somely set with beautiful scenery.1
Come early and get a good seat.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Ore­
gon, Washington, California and
Idaho members of Congress are
uniting in protest to the War Pro­
duction Board and the Manpower
Commission over the recent direc­
tive from Donald Nelson's office
declaiing that no new contracts for
war materials are to be awarded
on the Pacific Coast because of the
manpower shortage there. Figures
we have indicate the manpower
shortage is in spots and not uni­
versal. This order goes even deep­
er than just new contracts.
I
have talked lately with representa­
tives or several small manufactur­
ing concerns in Oregon who are
back here for renewal of con­
tracts. These men have been in­
formed that the order applies to
ALL contracts. As a result, sev­
eral concerns that have been in
business for many years will be
liquidated.
The plight of small
business all over the United States
is sad. The only difference be­
tween the troubles of Oregon small
business concerns and such busi­
nesses in other sections is that we
(.RANGE HARVEST
have Nelson’s manpower directive
as a sort of coup de grace. Our BALL OC TOBER 16
little business is going to be put
Harvest time is nearly over and
to death quickly rather than go
through the lingering death period the Grangers are going to cele-
being suffered by those in the brate again this year with a big
Harvest Ball, Saturday evening.
other states.
October 16th.
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This is an annual affair with
Last Saturday members of the the Grange and this year will be
House from Oregon and Washing­ one of the biggest and best dances
ton met in Homer Angell’s offi"o ever given, for all the farmers
to develop a plan and basis for have been prosperous during the
protest against the Nelson direc­ war time and they have worked
tive — and to ask exception at hard, and now want a chance to
least for the establishment of an celebrate.
alumina-from-clay plant in the
The dance will be held in the 11-
Northwest. A committee of three linois Valley Grange hall at
was named to confer with the War Bridgeview and the general public
Production Board and plead our is invited to attend. Good music
case. Yesterday I was requested to and good eats are features you
serve with a committee of Califor­ won't want to miss.
nia Congressmen which is also go­
o
ing to discuss the Pacific Coast
Mrs. I. W. Derrick visited Mr.
manpower directive and perhaps
make a formal protest to Nelson. and Mrs M. B. Rexford in Grants
Pacific Coast members of Con­ Pass the first of the week. The
gress are pretty much wrought up Rexfords, former residents of
over the situation as the above out­ Cave Junction, are leaving this
line of activities indicates. Fact week for Mapleton, Oregon, where
is, some of us suspect that the di­ Mrs. Rexford will remain indefi­
rective is actually not necessary nitely with her daughter.
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and that it is an indirect method
George
Martin
and daughter
of putting the brakes on western
industrial production.
The Pa­ Miss Janet left Monday morning
cific Coast is showing definite for Corvallis where Janet will
signs of becoming industry mind­ enter her first year at Oregon
ed. thereby threatening the former State. Mr. Martin will spend sev­
manufacturing dominance enjoyed eral days transacting business in
Portland and expects to return
by the Fast and Midwest.
home the end of the week.
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Nothing doing on the floor this
week. House: Cox resigned from
special FCC investigating commit­
tee—under fire. Senate: Wheeler
has been arguing for his bill to
prohibit the drafting of fathers
which is due to fail. Nothing much
in prospect for next week.
Meanwhile, the House Rules
Committee is sitting on the Ful-1
mer bill (counterpart of the Jenk­
ins bill drafted by the foot! study
committee), which would consoli­
date the conflicting and confusing
administration of food and place
it under one head in the depart­
ment of agriculture. The bill was
reported out favorably by the com-
Mi. and Mrs. Thos. J. Zumwalt
left last Saturday for Lomita, Cal.
where they will remain for a few­
days. From there Mr. Zumwalt
will join the Seabees and Mrs.
Zumwalt will join the Marines Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Eckett have rented
the Zumwalt home for the dura­
tion.
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Aviation Cadet Frank Halm, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Halm. ha>
just completed his basic training
at the Merced Army Air Field. Ca­
det Halm was employed by the
North American Aviation. Inc., be­
fore his acceptance as an aviation
cadet.
For advanced instruction
he will go to Yuma, Arizona.
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(Contlnued on Page Four)
Mr Charles Lewis, (laughter of
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Mrs. Clara Magill of the Lob Cabin
Cafe in Kerby, arrived from Los
COMING EVENTS
Angeb s via Greyhound Wednesday
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Tuesday. Oct. 12—Columbus Day. other relatives and friends in the
valley and Grant“ Pass before re­
Saturday, Oct. 31 — Hallowe'en.
turning to her home the last of the
Thursday, Nov. 11—Armistice.
Thursday. Nov. 25—Thanksgiving month.
Illinois Valley Garden club meets
BLESSED EVENTS
the first Wednesday of each
BORN
—
To Mr. and Mrs. John
month.
Spinas of Selma. Thursday. Sep­
Aircraft Demonstration school
tember 30th. at 4:20 p. m., at
Mondays and Thursday, Red­
wood Ranger Station Crew
the Josephine General Hospital
House, 8 p. m.
in Grants Pass, a baby boy
H. E. U. meets every second Tues­
weighing six pounds. 15 ounces.
day of the month.
O'Brien Women’s club meet on BORN—To Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
first Friday of each month.
Slack of Kerby. Monday, Oc-
Ladies' Auxiliary meet the first
tober 4. at the Josephine Gen­
and third Wednesday of each.
eral hospital in Grants Pass, a
baby girl named Sandra Lynn.
month.
Sewing
Machine
Clinics
U. S. Navy
Expansion
Impressive
During October and November,
Th< phenomenal expansion of
a number of Sewing Machine clin­ United States navy ship building is
ics will be held in connection with unequalled in history. No naval
Home Extension Units throughout construction program of compar­
the county, says Ruth E. Craw- able size and speed has ever been
foid, home demonstration agent,| accomplished by any other nation,
to help you start that fall sewing | This ability to build is one of the
with your sewing machine in good foundation stones of American
working condition there are two military strategy and a basic ad­
new bulletins just off the press.
vantage which the American navy
One “Sewing Machines, Clean­ holds over fleets of all other na­
ing and Adjusting" is Farmers' tions. il underlies amphibious at-
Bulletin No. 1944 from the United tacks. It protects supply routes,
States Department of Agriculture. Most important, it makes feasible
It is so recently off the press that a strategy of attack.
quantities for distribution have
Over 15.000 New Ships
not yet reached your county Ex­
In the 36 months between July
tension office. These should ar­
1, 1940, and July 1, 1943. the
rive soon, however.
navy completed 15,376 new ships |
The other one, "Your Sewing
of all typ’s. This fleet—standing I
Machine. Its Care and Adjust­
apart from the U. S. navy in ex­
ment" is Oregon State College Ex­
tension Bulletin No. 624 and may istence on July 1. 1940—would be
be obtained from the Home Dem­ one of the largest naval forces in
onstration Agent's office. The lat­ the world. It comprises:
.">33 c imbatant vessels aggregat-
ter is a four page bulletin dealing
chiefly with the cleaning, while, ing 1,117,054 displacement tons
'sting more than three bil­
the United States Department of | and
lion
dollars.
Agriculture bulletin is 24 pages
1,274 mine craft and patrol
and covers all phases of cleaning 1
craft
of 199.755 tons costing 820
and adjusting.
million
doll rs.
Women who bring their sewing
15] auxil aries and 654 yard
machines
to
the
clinics
for
clean
­
I
ing and adjustment are also ad­ and district craft.
12,964 landing craft aggregat­
vised to bring:
1. An old toolh brush or small ing 61(1,781 tons and costing more
than one billion dollars.
paint brush.
2. Some wing feathers from
chickens or turkeys.
3. A large and a small screw
driver.
4. A stiletto, orange wood stick '
wire hairpin or toothpicks.
5. An oil can from which to
squirt oii into the machine ipint
or quart iize).
6. A pie tin.
:
i. Old cloths.
8. Several old newspapers.
9. Two small dishes in which to
soak machine parts.
10. An apron or smock.
11. A spool of thread—size 50
preferred.
12. Scraps of goods.
13. Instruction book that came
with machine if it can possibly be
found.
Landing Craft Completion«
Although the largest tonnage
increases are in the combatant
subdivision of the program, the
steepest rate of in roase has been
in landing craft. Li the first six
months of 1942, completions inov-
I'd up to 10.000 tons or 50 per
cent more than the total of t'.e
preceding year and r half.
In the I.ist half of 1942. more
an 20 t in s the total for »he pre­
ceding six months was completed.
Speed has not been achieved by
in extravagant expenditure of la­
bor. Substantial reduction in man
hours has been made in many
yards.
as
Production of
w ell as ships, has shown great I
gains. Between January 1. 1942
anil July 1, 1943, it quadrupled.
Between July 1. 1940, and July
1, 1943, the navy completed 15,-
567 planes of all types,
Their
combined airframe weight is al-
most 64 million pounds.
To replace the navy planes lost
at Midway would have required
half a year at the 1940 rate of pro­
duction. By June. 1942, when the
battle was fought, the losses could
have been made up in two weeks.
Now they could be restored in less
than four days.
Kerby News Notes
of General Interest
BY ADAH JONES
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Prevatt and
children left early Saturday morn­
ing for Klamath Falls where Mrs.
Prevatt will visit relatives and
Clyde will go hunting.
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Mr. and Mrs. Farlien and son
Danny and daughter Barbetta left
last Friday for Lakeview where
they visited friends and spend r
few days hunting.
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Mrs. Herbert Marchant left last
Friday for Drummond, Oklahoma,
where she accompanied the body
of her grandmother. Mrs. Nancy
Wright who passed away Sept. 30
at her home near Grants Pass.
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Les Henry. Jr., arrived home
last Friday after three years in
the Navy in Pacific waters. On
Sunday I.es Henry, Sr., and son
Les left for Bremerton where they
will spend the week visiting their
daughters and sisters, Mrs. Joe
Shiro and Margaret Henry. Les
Jr., is a graduate of Kerby high
year '39.
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Another Kerby high graduate
who is on furlough leave from the
navy aviation base at Alameda,
Cal., is Ken Morrison, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Don Morrison. Ken has
recently come to the west c ast
from an air training base in New
York. He is a graduate of class
1940 and spent two years at Ore­
gon state college.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fessler spent
Sunday at Roseburg where they
went to visit Mrs. Fessler’s mother
and also meet their daughter Ce­
cil Faye who came down from
Portland.
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Mis. Clarence Wallace and baby
Barbetta Diane, came home from
Josephine county hospital last Sat­
urday.
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Mis. Jim Hill and son Norman
left Monday for Mill City where
Mrs. Hill has been called by the
serious illness of her mother, Mrs.
Alpha Horner.
Garden Club Members
Enjoy Talk On Mums
A. W. S. Posts
To Go On An
Alert Basis
1. At 6:00 p. m., 16 October
1943, the Aircraft Warning Serv­
ice will discontinue its twenty-
four hour duty schedule and go on
an alert basis.
2 The Aircraft Warning Serv-
cc is definitely NOT being aban­
doned.
3. The War Department has
figured the calculated risk of re­
lieving civilian volunteers from
working long shifts as compared
to the chances of sustained enemy
surprise attack by air and believes
that volunteers can now be put on
an elect status.
History of AWS
The Aircraft Warning Service
was first established in the Port­
land Air Region in October of
19-11 on a maneuver basis. When
Pearl Harbor was attacked on De-
i tuber 7, 1941. the majority of
the observation posts weie in < p-
eration and all Filtei Centers and
Information Centers were running
smoothly immediately after the
Jap attack. Since that time, over
150,000 volunteers have constant­
ly served this country faithfully
(electing, reporting, and plotting
the movement of aircraft in the
skies.
Volunteer«
1. The volunteer Aircraft
Warning Service is composed of
two units:
a. The Ground Observer Corps,
whose duty is the detection and re­
porting of aircraft. These observ­
ers provide coverage for the en­
tire Pacific Coast.
b. The Aircraft Warning Corps
which is composed of volunteers
who work in the Filter and In­
formation Centers and plot and
process information received from
Gi ound Observers.
2. The volunteers have been re-
ponsible for helping to operate
the very successful warning net­
work on this coast to protect
against surprise enemy air attack.
Without this service it would have
been necessary to use military per­
sonnel to man observation posts
and Filter Centers.
The type of personnel is very
much the same on all posts. z\ll
volunteers h a v e demonstrated
then desire to assist the armed
forces in the protection of their
country. Many volunteers of this
vast civilian army have relatives
or dear friends in the service.
The Illinois Valley Garden club
met Wednesday afternoon at the
DEADLY BOTULINUS
home of Mrs. F. E. Halm with
Maynard Murdock, Mrs. James
IDENTIFIED: HOME
Payne and Mrs. Chris Wendt as
( ANNEES ADVISED
assisting hostesses.
Mrs. J. M. Smock gave an in­
The first case of botulinus spoil­
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structive and interesting talk on
age in h 'ine canned vegetables to
the culture and varieties of
be positively identified in Oregon
Vegetables Fit for
“mums."
Members brought dis­
for several years has been found
plays of mums and other fall flow­ A Kiiitf Raised Here
in some canned asparagus sent to i
ers.
Mrs. Sam Bunch gave as her
the Oregon State college by a
Mrs. Ida Wing brought in a
subject, "The Garden Calendar.”
homemaker, in northern Umatilla
Spanish onion to The News office
A
social
hour
was
enjoyed
fol
­
county, reports Prof. Simmons
Ordnance Production Gain*
lowing the program when the host­ yesterday that would do credit to
Several jars of the spoiled as-
Giant strides in naval ordnance esses served dainty refreshments.
any display at any state fair in the
paragus thrown out killed all the
production have been necessary al­
nation.
farm chickens by eating it, but so. New navy fighter planes fire
A sweet Spanish onion that
fortunately no member of the • in one minute five times the
would serve over 50 hamburgers
IL
E.
U.
TO
HOLD
family tasted the product.
| weight of projectiles that their
and then have some left for a stew
With the marked increase in 1940 predecessors filed. A mod- ALL DAY MEETING
was this onion, the largest we have
home vegetable canning this year,
o n battleship’s anti-aircraft fire­
ever
seen, and it was grown in the
The H. E. U. will meet next
utmost care is being urged to avoid
power is 100 times what it was
Illinois Valley on Mrs. Wing's
Tuesday, October
12th, at the
danger from spoilage. The stand­ three years ago.
ranch.
home of Mrs. James Payne when
ard recommendation is that no non
To meet these demands more
From the Earl Boyd and E. J.
Miss Ruth Crawford will conduct
acid canned product, such as veg­
han 2,500 million dollars of naval
Wilber s Victory garden came some
a sewing machine clinic which
etables or meat, which shows the
guns and mounts, ammunition, tor­
oxheart tomatoes that would take
“lightest indication of spoilage pedoes, mines, depth charges, should be of interest, to all owners
all the blue ribbon prizes.
should ever even be tasted before bombs, and fire control devices of sewing machines.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilber and Mrs.
Miss Crawford urges every one
having been thoroughly boiled af­
lave been produced since July,
Boy(] were in our office yesterday
to
bring
their
sewing
machine
ter opening. Boiling kills the
1940. Rate of production has in­
head and timely advice on keeping and brought in a box of these ox­
poison even though not the spores creased 24-fold.
heart tomatoes, and they certainly
it in first cla-s running order will
looked like small red pumpkins.
World'« Bigifett Surface Fleet
be given. The meeting will start
At the end of three years the at 10:30 a. m., with a potluck Thirty-one of these tomatoes
BURNING TRASH
weighed 30 pounds, and that
I nited States has the mightiest luncheon served at noon.
ain
’t hay.
MUST HAVE PERMIT surface fleet in world history.
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Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Derrick
Against the 1.076 vessels of three
raised some novel potatoes in their
We can all burn our trash piles years ago the navy now has 14,- ROBERT SELVESTER
garden this year. They were a
now, but R. G. Sowell, state fire 072. Their combined tonnage is MARRIES SALEM GIRL
very dark red potato and the
warden says we must have a per­ almost 5 million tons against 1,-
Pvt. Robert Selvester, son of name is not known, but they taste
875,000 tons for the fleet of mid-
mit to do so.
Mrs. Ted Womack of Kerby, was just like ordinary spuds and are
It was published some time ago 1940.
Despite losses. the new fleet has home on furlough recently. Mrs. excellent for making salads or
that burning trash piles was per-
missable, but there were strings 613 war ships compared with 383 Womack later accompanied him to garnishing.
Too bad we can’t take this won­
on it. Now the only string at- three years ago. Their tonnage— Salem where he was married Sep­
tached is the necessrty of getting I 2 217,982 tons—exceeds that of tember 11th to Miss Myrtle Cla- derful produce we have raised in
a permit which Mr. Sowell will the 1940 fighting ships of 70 per son. Mrs Womack also visited old the valley this year to a county
friends while there. Pvt. Selves­ fair. After the war, most of us
cent.
provide for the asking.
The United States also has the ter left for his air base at Doug­ wi.' quit the Victory garden work
o
most powerful naval air*force in las, Arizona while his wife re­ and all of these wonderful vege­
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Creviston, the world. Where there were 1,- mained at the home of her parents, tables will be forgotten.
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of O'Brien, were week-end visit­ 744 naval planes three years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clason.
Buy your Defense Stamps today,
ors in Eureka with Mr. Crevision’s on July 31, 1943, there were 18,-
and support your country.
Subscribe for The News.
nephew.
269—a 10-fold net increase.
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