University of Oregon
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
Illinois Valley News
A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
Volume X.
National
Forest Is
Now Closed
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Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, July 13,1914
No. 11
The Siskiyou National Forest
was closed in Oregon on July 12
to entry except by permit. The
closure was made effective by a
proclamation signed by Governor
Karl Snell.
The Bolan Lake road, Bolan
Lake, and the Happy Camp road
will be open this year as well as
the Oregon Caves and Redwood
highways. The roads are open to
travel only, and the area at Bo
lan Lake is limited to one quarter
of a mile from the lalee shore.
Recreational use of the forest
is limited to the main highways
and to Bolan Lake, the road to
the lake and the Happy Camp
road. Entrance permits are grant
ed to miners, prospectors, cattle
men and loggers. No entrance
permit is required of those living
within the National Forest except
when they wish to enter the timber
land off of their premises. Per
mits may be obtained locally at
the Redwood Ranger station and
the Store Gulch Guard station.
Campfire permits are required
of all users of the forest, except
at their homes, and must be se
cured if campfires are planned at
Bolan Lake.
The closure is required by the
vital necessity of preventing for
est fires. All available man power
must be kept on the highly essen
tial job of producing war goods,
and our natural resources of stand
ing timber must be protected.
Forest fires not only disrupt
the war effort but also destroy
power transmission and communi
cation lines, transportation sys
tems, and our homes.
The people of the Illinois Valley
have shown what can be done in
preventing forest files. Our slate
has been clean for the last two
seasons. Let’s add the third one
this summer.
Remember!
Prevent Forest
Fires! There is more danger than
ever now!
MILK CANS ARE
NOW RATION FREE
FIRST AC TUAL
INVASION FILMS
TO BE SHOWN
A great program awaits theater
goers this week. Manager Taylor
has “Bomber’s Moon“ and the first
showing of actual invasion films.
“Bombers Moon’’ is about a
Yank flyer who pilots an Amer
ican bomber over Germany, and a
young woman doctor serving in
the Red Cross Medical Corps.
These two are the central char^*
acters with George Montgomery
and Annabella starred in the lead
ing roles.
Leading a bomber mission over
Germany, George's plane is shot
down—but not before he has seen
his your.g brother brutally machine
guryied to death as he parachutes
to earth.
In a Nazi internment camp,
George meets Annabella, a cap
tured Red Army doctor who min
isters to the camp’s prisoners. Dur
ing an air raid the two manage
separate escapes—and meet out
side the prison. Joining forces,
they begin the dangerous journey
across Germany to Holland, from
where they hope to escape to Eng
land.
The climax of the film, in which
they both obtain their revenge
upon the enemy, is said to be one
of the most exciting that has ever
capped a motion picture.
INVASION FILMS
News of the Day, in an extra
length newsreel, presents the first
motion pictures of the greatest
military operation in history. The
Allied assault on Hitler s Fortress
Europe . . . The complete story of
D-Day.
Gliders, paratroops taking off
to spearhead the attack. The in
vasion flotilla underway. The ac
tual landings on the beaches of
Normandy under deadly enemy
fire.
Tanks, guns and soldiers on the
hard won beachheads. Nazi pris
oners rounded up as the Ameri
cans, British and Canadians bat
ter their way inland. The first
French towns liberated.
The complete newsreel story of
the dramatic struggle being fought
on French soil as the armies of the
United Nations make secure their
first foothold on the shores of
Western Europe.
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Building New Bridge
Across Smith River
Wedding In
Daily Bus
Schedule To Garden Unites
Grants Pass
Local Couple
Starting last Wednesday morn
ing, the Greyhound bus line start
ed operating a small bus daily be
tween Cave Junction and Grants
Pass. The bus will make seven
trips a week.
The company is starting out
with a 21 passenger bus, but Pub
lic Utility Com. George H. Flagg,
in a communication to The News
stated that the company would
have to have a 40 per cent load
each trip if the schedule is to be
maintained.
This will require
eight passengers daily. The bus
is on trial for a 30 day period.
Leaving Cave Junction at 8:30
a. m. the bus arrives in Grants
Pass at 9:30. It leaves Grants
Pass at 5 :20 arriving in Cave Junc
tion at 6:20 p. m. This gives
seven hours and 40 minutes time
to transact your business in the
county seat town.
If one has an emergency call
and only needs to be in Grants
Pass a very short time, you can
take the morning bus in and come
home on the Crescent City bus,
which would allow 30 minutes in
the city, the Crescent City bus
leaving at 10 a. m. arriving in Cave
Junction at 11. The fare between
Cave Junction and Grants Pass is
$1.09 one way and $2.01 round
trip; from Kerby the fare is >1.04
one way and $1.91 round trip.
Residents living out of Cave.
Junction who have to drive their
cars here in order to take the bus,
can leave their car at the Cave
Junction Motor Court, the ter
minal of the bus line.
Following is the time schedule
for both busses:
Miss Anne Morris and Gordon
Raphael Leonard were married in
the presence of relatives and
members of families at an after
noon ceremony Wednesday, July
12th, in the beautiful garden of
the bride’s sister, Mrs. Harry O.
Smith on Caves highway, at 3:00
o’clock, the Rev. E. J. Aschenbren-
ner, pastor of the Grants Pass
Methodist church, officiating.
Through
3:35
4:00
4:12
4 :55
Local
8:30
8:35
8:47
9:30
Mrs. M. A. Porter of Roseburg,
sister of the bride, played the wed
ding marches, and sang "O Per
fect Love," accompanied by Miss
Alice Smith, preceding the cere
mony.
The bride is the daughter of
Mrs. C. G. Morris of Cave Junc
tion. She was graduated from
Willamette University, where she
was affiliated with Alpha Phi
Alpha sorority. For the past two
years she taught in the Harrisburg
high school. Mr. Leonard is the
son of Mrs. Jessie Leonard of Cave
Junction.
A small reception followed the
ceremony.
Cave J metion
Kerby
Selma
Grants Pass
1-H ROOTERS
CLUB ORGANIZED
A 4-H Pig club was organized
under the leadership of John Wil
liams last Monday, June 26th, with
the following members.
Alfreda Vahrenwald
John Smith
Margaret Smith
Jimmy Owen
Niel Freitas
Du war. Cross
Jimmy Mclrvin
Charlene Walton.
The club meets every second
Monday in the Bridgeview Grange
hall and anyone wishing to join
our club please contact Mr. Wil
liams or meet with us. The last
meeting was held Monday, July
10th. The next meeting will be
Monday, July 24th.
Charlene Walton.
A bridge over the north fork
of the Smith river is now under
construction, H. C. Obye, super
visor of Siskiyou National Forest,
announced recently.
The bridge will make it possible
for a direct route from O’Brien to
Smith River, California, connect
ing the old Wimer road and the
Lodavide road. This is the ap
proximate route known by the old-
timers as the McGrew road, Mr.
Obye said.
The construction will include
a Howe truss bridge with a span
of 137 '4 feet between the concrete
abutments, which were built by
the Forest Service two years ago,
and will be about 30 feet above the
water. The bridge will be of red
wood trusses with a Douglas fir Farmers Must Sign
Bud Hurlburt Reported
deck.
Up This Week
Married In Stockton
A large “cat” was taken to the
bridge today (Thursday) and creo-
Only this week remains for
Word was received last week an
soted lumber will be hauled in this
farmers to sign up for inspection
nouncing the marriage of Mrs.
week end. It is hoped to have the of Ladino clover fields that are
Beth Kester of Stockton and Bud
bridge completed this summer.
to be saved for seed, advises Jens
Hurlburt of Manteca, California,
F. Svinth, county agent. The
at a quiet wedding with a few in
Demonstration To Be
deadline is Saturday, July 15 at
timate friends present.
1:00 p. m., and farmers not hav
They will reside in Manteca Given On Frozen Foods
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ing already done so should sign
where the groom is employed. Mr.
Hurlburt is the son of the late
So many people of the valley up in the county agent’s office be
Mrs. Margaret Moore.
have requested information about fore the above date.
Inspection of fields will start
the freezing of foods for their '
lockers that Scott's Market has next week and will require approx
—BUY WAR BONDS— made ai rangements to have Miss imately two weeks to complete the
Ruth Crawford, home demonstra entire county.
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The total acreage for seed this
tion agent, show all the new meth
year is likely to be more than last
COMING EVENTS | ods of freezing foods.
If you have any problems she year due to the guaranteed pay
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will be glad to assist. It is up to ment of $1.50 per pound by the
Community Church Missionary everyone to prepare as much food Commodity Credit Corp,
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group, third Thursday of the as possible that is grown in the ■
many Victory garden in the val
month.
ley, said Mrs. Scott, so it is hoped O’Brien Women’s Club
H. E. U. meets every second Tues the ladies will avail themselves Meeting Postponed
day of the month.
of this opportunity to get first
Ladies' Auxiliary meet the first class information on the freezing
The meeting of tha O’Brien
and third Wednesday of each of food. This demonstration will Women’s club scheduled to be
be held Friday, July 21st in the held last Saturday, July Sth, was
month.
American Legion hall.
postponed until Friday, August
O’Brien Women’s club meet on
4th.
first Friday of each month.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sanders made'
The place will be announced
Illinois V’alley Garden club meets a business trip to Grants Pass the in a later issue of The News, so
the fourth Friday of each month first of the week.
watch for the announcement.
The rationing of milk cans to
farmers and dairymen has been
discontinued, according to Ray
mond Lathrop, County AAA chair
man. This means that farmers
and dairymen may purchase milk
cans without restrictions from ;
their regular supplier.
If wholesalers of milk cans have
insufficient supplies to meet the
demand, they may appeal to the
War Food Administration for a
release of cans from the manu
facturer. These appeals should be
sent to the county agent’s office,
who in turn will send it to the
State AAA committee for their
recommendation.
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The bride was lovely in a bouf
fant skirted white organza gown
with a short train, with a finger
tip veil falling from a tint flow
ered cap, and carried a pink and
white shower bouquet of roses and
bouvardia.
Miss Margaret Morris of Bend,
was her sister’s only attendant.
Her dress was rose colored em
bossed organdy, and she carried a
nosegay of pink and white sweet
peas. John Williams was best
man.
Through
11:00
10:55
10:43
10:00
Local
6:20
6:15
6:03
5 :20
U. S. ARMY PILOTS
LEARN FULL PANEL’
INSTRUMENT FLYING
Price Five Cents
STATE GUARD TO
BE KEPT UP
Chamber of
The war department is inter
ested in maintaining the Oregon
state guard on a high plane of ef
ficiency, and that desire also is
shared by the state military de- '
partment and by Governor Earl
Snell, state guard officers were
told Friday night at the Portland
armory in their'first official meet- I
ing with the new state acting ad- |
jutant general, Lt. Col. Raymond !
F. Olson.
Governor Snell is very desirous
of maintaining a high state of ef
ficiency, said Col. Olson, a veteran
of many years of service in the
army and Oregon national guard,
who returned to the United States
in February of 1943 after service !
in the southwest Pacific with the
41st division.
“It will be my goal to help main- |
tain the state guard as an out
standing military organization,
coparable to the distinction en
joyed by Oregon national guard
units of the 41st division, when it
ranked among the top outfits of
the nation,” he said, after being
introduced to the guard officers
by Brig. Gen. Ralph P. Cowgill,
commanding general of the state
guard.
Proof that the war department
is vitally interested in the state
guard is found in the fact that fed
eral allotment of arms, ammuni
tion and equipment has been in
creased, said Maj. B. G. Groth,
army instructor to the state guards
of Oregon and Washington.
“The state guard today and in
the future is going to be a lot
more important than it ever was
in the past. Keep your units
filled up. Keep up your recruit- l
ing,” said Maj. Groth.
Commerce
Discussions
Last Monday evening at Clara’s
Bungalow Coffee shop, the Illin
ois Valley Chamber of Commerce
held an interesting meeting which
brought out a lot of constructive
thinking and probably some fu
ture action.
Notice from Commissioner Geo.
H. Flagg stated that the Grey
hound bus line had been authorized
to start a new schedule for Cave
Junction and towns north.
M. C. Athey was appointed a
committee of one to see what has
happened to the Happy Camp road
situation. This road came in for
considerable discussion, and the
chamber and the entire valley res
idents would like to see a better
road to Happy Camp.
Post war activities were also
discussed at length. Through all
these talks some favorable action
may get good results. A motion
was made to ask the American
Legion post to appoint a commit
tee to work with a like committee
from the chamber on post war ac
tivities.
W m. McLean has brought up
several times the suggestion that
an executive committee go over
the business of the chamber before
meeting time and take some suit
able action and bring this to the
membership. This would save con
siderable time in discussing plans
that are eventually tabled, and
leave the short time the members
have to take care of constructive
matters. Further study is going
to be made on this subject.
Another Contribution
Next meeting of the chamber
Left for Fire Truck
will be Monday, July 24th. If
Mrs. Paul Newlands left today you are interested in the develop
(Thursday) for her home in'Bend, ment of the valley, you are cor
Oregon, after spending several dially invited to attend.
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days visiting relatives and friends
in the valley and looking after her
RED ( ROSS UNIT
property in Cave Junction.
Before leaving Mrs. Newlands FOLD 1001 DRESSINGS
graciously left $10.00 at The News
Eleven ladies attended the Red
office which again increases the
fire department’s truck fund. We Cross Surgical Dressing unit last
thank Mrs. Newlands for her fine Tuesday at the Redwood Ranger
station crew house, and folded
gesture.
1,001 dressings.
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Workera will be welcomed and
Mrs. M. J. Porter left for her
home in Roseburg after visiting it is hoped more ladies will attend
relatives in the valley for several next Tuesday as there is a large
days. She was here to attend the supply of dressings to be folded.
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wedding of her sister, Mrs. Gor
HOME
ON FURLOUGH
don Leonard, nee Anne Morris.
Miss Margaret Morris accompanied
Pfc Wayne Shamp, son of Mr.
her as far as Grants Pass.
and Mrs. Dale Shamp, of Idlewild,
California, arrived home on a
their check rides.
The lowest short furlough from his station at
grade made by any of the cadets Camp Hood, Texas. laast Sunday
with 10 hours of full panel instruc he observed his 20th birthday and
tion was higher than the highest a picnic and swimming party was
grade made by any of the others. held in his honor at the home of
After further investigations of Mrs. Leia Cooke and family of
the full panel system, the Army O’Brien, which was a most en
Air Forces Instrctuors’ School for joyable event for those attend
instrument pilots was set up at ing. Other guests were Mrs. Geo.
Bryan, Texas, more than a year Logan and son Skipper of Cave
ago, to train flying instrument in Junction and Miss Wanda Brown
structors for the United States of O'Brien.
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Army Air Forces.
The United States Army pilot
must fly in all kinds of weather.
And, as the airlines had well dem
onstrated before the war, to fly in
all kinds of weather, the pilot must
depend on instruments.
United States Army pilots in
flying school were formerly taught
what was known as the “1-2-3 sys
tem” of instrument flying. Only
three instruments were ^sed the
' turn indicator, the ball bank indi
cator and the airspeed indicator.
But combat airplanes became
much faster and more maneuver
able. The “1-2-3 system" wasn’t
enough for the Flying Fortresses,
the Liberator or the Thunderbolt.
The Army needed instrument fly
ing training that would enable pil
ots to make the "milk run” to Ra-
baul, to cross the treacherous Eng
lish channel or to go through the Thirty Million Miles
LEGION AND AUXILIARY
tricky atmosphere over Attu—re
During its first year, the school TO INSTALL OFFICERS
gardless of the weather.
piled up a flight record of 195,000 !
Veteran Flyer Develop! Training
Wednesday, July 19th the Am
engine hours, the equivalent of 30
A lieutenant colonel, Joseph B. million miles of flying, with only erican Legion and Ladies Auxil
Except for iary will install their new officers
Duckworth, with more than 13,000 one fatal accident.
that
fatality,
no
instructor
or stu for the new year. All members of
hours of Hying time, most of it
piled up during 10 years with a dent suffered a single injury, in both organizations are requested
commercial airline, set out to im spite of the fact that students and to attend the meetings.
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prove instrument flying instruc instructors at Bryan field do most
tion in the army. As director of of their flying “under the hood.”
Mrs. Ellsworth Cooke left the
The best time-saver in teaching first of the week via Greyhound
training at the twin-engine ad
vanced school at Columbus, Miss., instrument flying is the “Link” for Butte, Montana, to get ready
Colonel Duckworth requested that trainer, a device that simulates for shipment household and per
he be allowed to try to develop a many of the conditions of actual sonal effects ami dispose of their
better method of instrument flying flying. The “Link” trainer, how property before returning to the
ever, is only part of the program. valley where they will remain per
training.
Finally, with the aid of other Class lectrues cover every techni manently. Mr. Cooke is with his
flying officers. Colonel Duckworth cal phase of study and a complete mother, Mrs. Leia Cooke at
developed a full-panel system of flying program with each student O'Brien and is now employed by
instrument flying that satisfied having 24 hours in the air is in the Barton Lumber company.
him.
He requested the Flying cluded.
The course for instructors re
Oscar Larsen and family of Lan
Training Command to select eight
cadets who had had their full quota quires six weeks, and nearly 400 caster, California, left last week
of instrument flying under the “1- students can undergo training at for their home after visiting at the
2-3 system” from advanced flying one time. Already more than 4,- | home of Olaf C. Larsen and fam
schools, while he would choose 8 000 instructors have gone through ily. Mr. I-arsen will return to the
cadets from Columbus who had the course, and many of them valley to work in the lumber mills
had only 10 hours of training un have written how their instrument if his draft board will release him.
der the full-panel system.
Im flying instruction has enabled them Mrs. Berniece Chris’ensen and
partial test pilots who knew noth to carry out their missions and children, Carol and Neu. of Long
ing of the training of any of the come back alive where otherwise 1 Beach, arrived Monday and o' n
cadets were to check and grade they might have become additional ' to spend several weeks vi« ti g b»r
father, O. (’. Larsen and f rn !y.
them. The 16 cadets were given victims of Old Man Weather.