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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1944)
University of Oregon Gateway to The Oregon Caves III inois Valley News A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interest« of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts Volume V III. Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, June 22, 1944 No. 8 Washington Weekly Lettei By HARRIS ELLSWORTH WASHINGTON, D. C. — This week the House finished its more than seven days of discussion of the Price Control Bill (OPA). A few amendments were put in on the Floor of the House, but most of those offered on the Floor were rejected. The bill is now in con ference. The Conference Com mittee made up of both Senators and Representatives will doubtless make a report early next week, and the bill will probably be passed and go to the President. There has been some rumor to the effect that the President might veto the bill, because of some of the provisions. However, in view of the fact that no great sweeping changes were made, it seems to me he should find it acceptable. The debate on the bill represent ed an outpouring of the grievances of our 140,000,000 people against what has apparently been poor ad ministration of a fairly good law. The recitation of the troubles fol lowed a general pattern. Regula tions forced manufacturers out of business with low price ceilings, but permitted new manufacturing in the same line to begin business and sell their products at much higher prices. This resulted in scarcity of goods and ultimately in much higher prices to the consum er for many items. One typical example was the pancake flour situation which de veloped about a year ago. Many producers of non-branded pancake flour in packages were forced to quit busines when denied a lc in crease in price from 67 to 7c per package. Whereupon some new firms went into the business of producing pancake flour of the same kind and in the same size packages, but they were permitted to sell at ceiling prices as high as I 18c per package. Numerous small retail stores were forced out of business be cause the prices they were com pelled to pay for merchandise were higher than retail ceiling price line, but new stores appeared next door or across the street, selling similar merchandise at higher pric es The new stores, of course, were permitted ceiling prices in line with their current merchandise cost prices. In my own district. I have known several instances of tons of farm produce being left unharvested for the reason that OPA delayed too long in telling the processors what the ceiling price on the canned, bottled, or preserved product would 'be. Since the processors did not know what they could sell their pack for, they were afraid to buy the produce from the growers. These are but a few examples. There were hundreds recited on the Floor. Out of sheer desperation, many Members of Congress sought to remedy administrative abuses by attempting to write administrative detail into the law. The Members proposed the hundred or more amendments because there seemed to be no other way of getting re lief for the people The original Price Control Law gave the peo ple no appeal from OPA to the courts. It was recognized, how ever, by a majority of the members of the House that it is impossible (Continued on Page Four) (e)»»»»«»«••»«••»«*•«••<«••»••«••»•••• alii»,»«••«»••«■•••••»•••••••• Jj •: i i COMING EVENTS I ............ -............................ Is) Tuesday, July 4 — Independence day. Community Church Missionary group, third Thursday of the month. H. E. U. meets every second Tues day of the month. Ladies' Auxiliary meet the first and third Wednesday of each month. O'Brien Women’s club meet on first Friday of each month. Illinois Valley Garden club meets the first Wednesday of each month. ROBERT (BOB) HILL ON SALVAGE POST At the meeting of the County Civilian Defense Corps last Tues day evening in Grants Pass, W. C. (Pete) Allen was named the new salvage chairman of the county, and “Bob” Hill of Holland was named chairman of the same com mittee for the valley. Paper is now the urgent need for the salvage committee, and all are asked to gather up all the newspapers and magazines • and wrapping paper available and then let the chairman or let The News office know where it is and it will be picked up. In the past this same thing has been told the valley residents and then they have gathered up a lot of paper and no one would pick it up, but if you cannot bring it in to the American Legion hall, it will be picked up soon, so start to gathering the paper—for the government needs a lot of it. ------------ o------------ I. V. CHAMBER TO MEET MONDAY The regular meeting of the Il linois Valley Chamber of Com merce will be held Monday, June 26th, instead of Tuesday. Mem bers will please make a note of this and be on hand Monday evening instead of Tuesday at Clara's Bun galow Coffee Shop in Kerby. At the last meeting the chamber decided to meet Monday nights in stead of Tuesday. In the future the organization will meet every 2nd and 4th Monday evenings for 7:30 dinner. ------------ o------------ MASONIC LODGE TO MEET "Lassie Come Home" Jamboree Friday In Grants Pass Of all the shows that have come to the Cave City theater for a long time, “Lassie Come Home," is by far the best picture that has been n the picture house, at least that is what we think. “Lassie Come Home" is taken from one of the best lesser books, and the picture follows the bool all through. Those of you who have read the book will be delight ed with the picture Roddy McDowall and “Lassie” are the stars of the picture and if you ever saw a dog that you could love “Lassie" is that dog. There comes a time when the boy’s parents are offered a huge sum for the dog, and times are hard and they are forced to sell “Lassie”. But the famous dog won't stay put and comes home. Finally the rich man who bought her, takes her to Scotland, a thou sand miles away, and how the dog gets back home to the lad she loves is one of the most thrilling stories ever told. Of course everything turns out "hunky-dory” in the end, but it takes a lot of thrrlls and spills to get there. You can't help lov ing “Lassie” and this great pic ture. If you want a seat for this one, better get there early. Two shows Saturday night. If you can’t make the first one, be sure and see the second show. -------------- o-------------- The big show of the year under the auspices of the Izaak Walton league, will be held Friday eve ning in the high school auditorium, Grants Pass, when the "Mystery Spectacle and Magical Jamboree" featuring “Mystic" Hughes and Betty, assisted by Roberta Moore, will be presented. There will be a special matinee for those who do not care to go in for the evening’s performance. The matinee, will start at 2:00 p. m. and the evening show at 8:00 p. m., Friday, June 23. Hon. Joe Wharton, mayor of Grants Pass, will give an address of welcome to start the show, and then—hold on—the mystic feat ures will come fast and furious. Keep your eye on the man—you might see how it is done. “Mystic" Hughes and Betty are now retired, but they were feat ures on many of the best vaude ville circuits in the country and have appeared in many big shows throughout the United States, and they have both appeared in mov ing pictures. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes liked Josephine county so well that they purchased a lovely home just outside of Grants Pass, and are now making their home among us. Hundreds of valley folks saw them while they appeared at the American Legion hall recently for Co. A of the Oregon State Guard but what they saw was just a starter to the program that will be given Friday night. --------------o------ . Belt Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M. Freezing Demonstration will meet Saturday, June 24th in Dated For Next Week the Kerby Masonic temple at 8:30 p. m. Members are urged to at Miss Ruth E. Crawford, Home tend and all visiting brethren are Demonstration Agent, announces cordially invited. from her office in Grants Pass LEW HAMMER. W. M. that a freezing demonstration for ------------ o the benefit of the valley ladies and vicinity will be held at the F. L. OFF IN A CORNER Sawyer ice plant next Friday, June WITH PHIL SNORT 30, at 1:30 p. m. The new methods of preparing Dear Ed: Thanks for your kind foods for the freezer locker are words. Coming from you, I be important. The proper preparation lieve they were sincere. We will of vegetables such as greens, peas, just skip the matter of errors for etc., by blanching either in boiling we all make plenty of them. They water or steam, the dry sugar pack are very human. for fruits, as well as the syrup A few days ago I called at the pack; proper containers to prevent Elwood Hussey home. I wanted to dehydration, a d management of see Elwood, Jr., who was home on the cold storage locker all will be a vacation from the army. His demonstrated Everyone in the mother told me that he wanted to community is invited to attend. get into the woods because it had --------------o been about two years since he saw Farewell Party At them, so he had gone back into the low-lying hills east of his home. I Baird Home Sunday was very sorry that I missed see Miss Grace Baird entertained ing him, vet I was mighty glad that opportunity gave him the chance 20 guests at the Baird residence to re-enter the woods he had on the Redwood highway Sun known and loved since early child day evening when they gathered hood. I have thought much about for a farewell party honoring her Elwood’s visit to those woods, his brother Clarence who left this home visit, the good time he is week for Ft. Lewis where he was having among the young people, inducted into the army. Games with many of them former school were played and concluding the mates. And, too, I have poured evening’s enjoyment dainty re out much thought of our other Il freshments were served. linois Valley boys who are “over there” and what they would give to have a few days home as El wood is having. Not many of our boys will get home on “leave of absence" and some, as we to well know, will nev er see home and friends again, but there is not one in the serv ice, anywhere, but can see their home, see their parents, friends, schoolmates, even the trees and shrubs of their homeland. Of I course they cannot see with their eyes, but they see just as plainly with their minds, as al) this I have spoken of, is photographed there and no living time can erase it. I’ll bet that Elwood saw all this when he was in the islands of the Pacific. Ask him. I know that I can look back on my boyhood days and can see things, as they were then, just as plainly as I did in the old days among them. I can see the faces of old friends, even the smiles that lit up those same faces. All the foregoing is true, but how much better it is to get the old body back among those friends, where one can shake their hands, enjoy a close contact with them, see the woods and hills, and be fully happy in home environ ment. PHIL. To the People of this Community There will be a feeling of shame in this community if we And our- mark when comes to an end July 8 We will not permit that to hap pen here, especially if we look around in our homes and our place» of employ ment and see the shadows of relatives and friends who today are in the midst of bloody battle for vs. We cannot emphasize too strongly that regardless of the size of the oversubscription of our community quota, the Fifth War Loan will be a flat failure for you if you do not exceed any thing you have done in the past in War Bond buying. In this invasion hourourflghting men have a right to demand that you make your record contribu tion to the success of a war loan. The slogan Hark the Attach— Buy Mor« Than Hrforc, is not merely a catch phrase, tt ex presses the cold facts about In vasion. Unless we make the su preme effort to do everything humanly possible either at our work benches or in our homes with our sweaÀ our blood and our dollars we hand over r.te »hare of the burden to our fighting men. THE EDITOR Price Five Cents Kerby News Notes of General Interest BY ADAH JONES Few voters appeared at the an nual meeting of Kerby grade school district Monday afternoon. Mrs. Harry Messinger was elected I clerk to replace Mrs. Anna Witt- rock who has held the position for i several years and did not wish to | serve again. Laque Youngblood was elected junior member of the board, other board members are Bud Hoskins and Art Kellert. Bond Drive Not Going Too Hot Josephine county's bond drive is not doing as well as Chairman W. Stewart Orr would like to see. The county will eventually make its quota all right, but it will take the entire month the way bends are selling now. The valley has not yet been con Mrs. Herbert Marchant accom tacted from the solicitors, but they panied by her daughter Pearl and will soon get to you, and all of us niece Florence Swanson left Tues . should make an effort to buy as day for Portland. They expect to many bonds as we can, especially visit relatives and the girls to re ' “E” bonds, those are the ones main in Portland and find employ ' everyone can buy. ment. We are not going to paint a pic ------------ o------------ ture that would make you buy all | the bonds in the market—but there NEWS FROM OUR | is one thing we would like to im BOYS IN SERVICE press on all of our readers—That is, the war IS NOT over and those who believe it is practically over England, May 23 are just kidding themselves. We have a long, hard row to go before Dear Sunny and Buck: * we can fold up and call it quits. I received your letter and was AND this won’t be the last bond sure glad to hear from you. I drive. The war will last a long am just fine and glad you are the time yet and there will have to be same. I have been having quite other bond drives to get the money a time learning to count English to carry on. If you don't buy them money, but I’m getting used to it your own boys will suffer for the now. necessities that will make them I went up town today and went successful. in a hair dressing salon, that’s a BUY BONDS BUY MORE barber shop and got a hair cut for THAN BEFORE. AND KEEP i a shilling, a shilling is 12 cents. I ’EM until after the war and then was planning on going to London do the many things that you have tomorrow night but I guess I can't wanted to do—fix up the home or make it. Some of the guys have barn, or buy a new car, or buy a been there and they say it’s quite place of your own. BUY BONDS a place. so you will have the money to We are not allowed to write the spend after the war is over. Then names of towns we go to except is when you will need it. When London. the solicitors come by, make their NEW 4-H CLUB I got a letter from Howard just job easy. Buy what you can and before we left Washington but I give them a cheery word to help TO MEET MONDAY 1 haven’t heard from George for a them on their job, for it is not an The valley’s new 4-H club under long time. Well I will have to I easy job, and they are doing it the leadership of John C. Wil close now so write again soon. I gratis, just to help out. Your Friend, liams, will hold their first meet ------------ o------------ DON DONEY. ing Monday evening, June 26 at FIRE FUND HELPED the Illinois Valley Grange hall at Bridgeview at 8 p. m. WITH (’ONTRIBUT’NS Dear Sunny and Buck: All those interested in joining I thot maybe I had better let you The newest additions to the fire are invited to come in and the parents of youngsters are also in know I am still kicking around and truck fund was a check for $5.00 vited Officers will be elected and feel pretty good now. I’ve been from the Ladies of the American a charter drawn for the new club here about three weeks now. It is Legion Auxiliary. This contribu really nice and they take excellent tion, like all others is greatly ap at this meeting. care of us It has been nearly five preciated, but it was hardly ex Plan to attend and be a charter member of this new club. You weeks since I received my last mail pected from the good ladies, as have a mighty fine leader and so I haven’t had much news from they have very little money in any of the folks. should go places. their treasury, but it comes greatly I sure lost weight the first three appreciated. Also a check from o-------------- weeks after I was hurt, nearly 40 the Fleishman Lumber Co. for Mrs Blanche Cory who hav been pounds I guess. I’m up and $10 was received today. visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. around now. It sure feels good af We have failed to hear from out J. E. Lewis of Bridgeview and oth ter three weeks on my back. Well of town residents who own prop er relatives for the past week, left Sunny I will write again soon. erty in Cave Junction, and they Tuesday for her home in Redding, Bye for now. should remember that they want Calif. Mrs. Joe Hudron took her GEORGE YARBROUGH. their property protected in case of as far as Grants Pass and was ac fire, and the best method to do companied home by Mrs. Martin ------------- o-------------- this is to see that the fire truck is Maurer and Mrs. Lee Lewis who in the pink of condition. WANTED were in Grants Pass shopping. We also want to thank Associ -------------- o-------------- ated agency, Grants Pass, through Mr. and Mrs. George Allen of Women to fold Surgical Dres W. F. IJarger, for the donation of Bridgeview arrived home after sings for the Red Cross at the a new pump for the engine. If this spending the past year in Southern California where both were em Crew House, Redwood Ranger sta pump will work on our engine, and ployed. A family reunion was held tion, Every Tuesday afternoon at those who know see no reason why it should not, it will give the fire at their home last week with their | 1:00 p. m. --------------o-------------- truck much added force to the children and families Mr. and Mrs. Bud Allen and family of “It’s a frame-up,” said the pic streams of water. The pump is Klamath Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Gene ture hanger in the art gallery. “I’m practically new and it will be a Tompkins and family of Millbrae, changing over to Fluhrer’s En great asset to the truck's effi ciency. Calif. riched Bread today." Chief George Martin and the entire volunteer department warm ly thank all those who have made it possible to put our truck in good fighting condition We still need help, but we are out of the woods The U. S. Treasury and with a little more work, the truck will be in the pink. « * 90M9S OVtn dMFR/C4 * * The Fifth American War Loan Drive, open to all for voluntary Bond buying, begin« June 12th, with full con fidence of the Treasury in our Democracy, and of our people in its Treaiury. Back the Attack! Buy Mora Than Before WHAT THE LEGION AUXILIARY IS DOING In Holland, Nazis are starting a fifth forced loan while “locking aft er" Dutch finances. Banks failing to sub scribe will be forced to accent a double quota at a lower interest rate. Next meeting night, July 5, election of officers will be held. All members take notice as no written notices will be sent. Flags were placed on graves of 30 veterans before Decoration day, I flags having already been placed by others. If there are veteran graves in the local cemetery which are not so decorated the Unit would appreciate having this brought to their at’ention, giving the name of the veteran nnd loca tion of grave. The Unit contributed $5 to the Fire Department.