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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1944)
University of Oregon Gateway to The Oregon Caves III inois Valley News ____________ A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts Volume \ III. No. 16 “GUADALCANAL DIARY" COMING SATURDAY, SUNDAY General And Adjutant *1 Coming Here Brigadier-General Ralph P. Cowgill and Adjutant-General R. F. Olson, will be in Cave Junction Friday night to inspect Co. A, 18th battalion, Oregon State Guard, ac cording to a dispatch received by Capt. Ralph Baumberger the first of the week. Adj. General Olson has just been appointed to his post, having served overseas with the old Ore gon National Guard, now the fam ous 41st division, and at a recent meeting of the Oregon State Guard officers of the Portland area, the adjutant said: “It will be my goal to help make the Oregon State Guard as out standing an organization as was the 41st division, when it was one of the nation’s top ranking na tional guard outfits and one of the first to be called to federal service.” This will be a great night for the local company. Captain Baum berger has developed one of the best outfits in the state, and it has received very little notice from the officials because of the lack of ma terial available by the nation and state. What material was on hand went to the larger areas while the local company maintained its high rating in spite of all the difficul ties. Company A has shown a greater spirit of cooperation with the State Guard than most of the other com panies. Its attendance is one of the best in the state, and when the general and his staff sees what this company has done, at their own ex pense, we are io hope« that some recognition will be given Captain Baumberger and his company. It is not out of reason to expect that a state armory could be built in Cave Junction to house the lo cal company, which is becoming more important as the months go by. The state officers are urging that all companies maintain their strength and even go out and get «Continued on Pane Two! -----------------o---------------- . DeETTA SCOTT PASSES AT TWIN FALLS, IDAHO / Price Five Cents Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, August 17,1944 Word was received last week by George P. Scott of the death of his mother, Mrs. DeEtta Scott, Friday, August 11th, at Twin Falls, Idaho, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. L. Schumacher. Mrs. Scott was born in Missouri in 1866 and came to Washington with her parents in a covered wag on when seven years old. She married Edson H. Scott, who passed away in 1932. She made her home with her daughter. Mrs. Schumacher in Grants Pass later moving with them to Cave Junc tion and several years ago leaving for Idaho where they have since resided. Mrs. Scott was well known in the valley and during her life was active in church and missionary work. Survivors are two sons. George Scott of Cave Junction. Jesse Scott of Moscow, Idaho; two daughters, Mrs. C. L. Schumacher of Twin Falls and Mrs. Hazel Shoop of Vancouver, Washington. Funeral services were Tuesday at Twin Falls. COMING EVENTS ............ ...... ....... ........................ Friday, August 25—Illinois Val ley Garden club, at the home of Mrs. J. J. Villair. Monday, Sept. 4—Labor 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 fourth Friday of each month. Belt Lodge, A. F. 4 A. M. meets fourth Saturday each month. Guadalcanal, a name virtually unknown in America two years ago, but today as familiar as Kal amazoo, Walla Walla and Brook lyn, is destined to rank in Marine history with The Shores of Trip oli and The Halls of Montezuma— for it was there that America first tasted victory and the Japs first swallowed defeat. The dramatic story of this first offensive against the Nips comes to the screen of Cave City the ater Saturday and Sunday. Wisecracking to the crack of snipers’ bullets, literally thumbing their noses at desperate odds, the Marines—as played by Lloyd No lan, William Bendix, Richard Con te and Anthony Quinn, with Pres [ ton Foster as the chaplain. Father Donnelly—crash through in pulse pounding fashion in the most thrillingly human story to come out of the Pacific. i “CRY HAVOC” WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 24 A realistic and gripping drama dealing with the heroic behavior of thirteen women who remained on Bataan during General MacArth ur’s delaying withdrawal to aid the wounded soldiers shows at the Cave City theater next Wednesday and Thursday. The film “Cry Havoc” is based on the successful stage play of the same name and stars Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern and Joan Biondell. During the evacuation of Bataan the gallant Americans and Fili pinos are under constant Jap bom bardment. Even the hospital is fair game for Jap bombs. Sup plies of food and munitions are scarce. The hospital is so under staffed with nurses that Dr. Fay Bainter sends her lone nurse's aid, Marsha Hunt, to town to ask for volunteers. " Marsha returns with nine girls, all from different walks of life and with divergent tastes. They report to Smitty, played by Margaret Sullavan, an Army nurse for duty. o- Dairymen Sign Up For Coop At the meeting held Wednesday evening in the Bridgeview Grange hall nearly 50 farmers interested attended. During this meeting and in ad vance of it, 550 cows were signed on the conditional contract. This meeting was a very im portant one for the valley dairy men, and for this reason The News desires to give a complete detailed account of it. but on account of the lack of time this is impossible this week. However, next week we will give the story of what hap- fened in detail. o- Local Chamber May Change Plans _____ At the meeting of the Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce held last Monday in Clara's Bungalow coffee shop, the idea was brought . out to have the first meeting of the month devoted to business and the second meeting to be turned over to a program committee to furnish a good, constructive pro gram. Nothing definite was vot ed, it being left to the next meet ing to determine the outcome. Kenneth Denman, state game commissioner will attend the nert meeting of the chamber and he is anxious to hear any suggestions from the people of the valley as to how to improve fish and wild life conditions in southern Oregon. The tourist business in normal times is one of the finest assets we have. The more attractive and the more we improve our facilities to give the tourists a real vacation, the higher the income will be de rived from this important and growing business. (Continued on Psg» TSwe«) Hospital Association Organized Last Friday afternoon, the board of directors of the old Blue Cross hospital plan met in the county court house and organized their own Josephine County Rural Health Protection association, di vorcing themselves entirely from the Blue Cross organization. At the meeting of the board, with Judge Johnson and Commis sioners Robinson and Fredrickson and W. E. Moore, manager of the Josephine County hospital, all the details were worked out whereby a local association would be the answer to hundreds of families and individuals who want hospital pro tection for themselves and their families. The result of the meet ing was the immediate adoption of a new set of by-laws and it was voted to incorporate the associa tion as a non-profit organization for the protection of county resi dents. Earl Reinhart, chairman of the board of directors, is president of the new association with Mildred Norman, vice president; Josephine Powers, secretary-treasrer and the following board members: Victor Boehl, M. C. Athey. Estella Man full, and Mrs. Sara Wertz, form erly with the Farm Security asso ciation and Bart McVeigh, FSA county supervisor helped with the new organization and in the future will give it every assistance in their power. The newly-formed association is the outgrowth of a year’s experi ence with prepaid hospital care un der the Blue Cross organization with which the local association is no longer affiliated. The new organization is offering pre-paid hospital care to rural fam ilies of Josephine county and to other groups that express a desire to affiliate. One of the distince advantages of the new plan is the fact that one does not have to be a farmer to be able to join. Any one the board accepts in the rural communities, which comprises all of the Illinois valley, will be eli gible to membership and have the hospital protection for their entire family. The association hopes to enroll 300 families in the near future, and anyone in the valley who wants to know more about the hos pital plan, can get all the informa tion from the county FSA office or from any member of the board. M. C. Athey, of The News, will be glad to explain the advantages of the plan to anyone who will call at the News office, and will help them make application for membership The association’s office is Room 8, Lundberg building, Grants Pass. -------------- o-------------- Round Table Discussion At Garden Club Members of the Illinois Valleyy Garden Club will meet Friday, Au gust 25, at the home of Mrs. J. J. Villair. Programs for the year will be distributed. An interesting program is plan- ned for the afternoon with a round table discussion on vegetable var ieties, with Mrs. Gladys King, chairman. Victory garden display will be in charge of Mrs. Chris Wendt. It is requested that all bring their displays. Members will respond to roll call by naming their native state flower. Concluding the program an iris and perennial poppy plant sale will be held. Those having flowers, shrubs, weed or vegetable they are not familiar with, bring it to this meeting and learn its worth in the garden. -------------- o ■ Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hili and their daughter, Mrs. Roberta Moore of Holland were in Grants Pass last Sunday to attend the Shriner’s pic nic. About two hundred took part in thia annual affair. Kerby News Notes of General Interest — BY ADAH JONES NEWS FROM OUR BOYS IN SERVICE JIM BALDWIN WRITES HOME Hunter Leggitt, Maneuver Area July 31, 1944 Dear Mom and All: I received your letter today of July 26. Was sure glad to get it. No, Aunt Clara hadn’t written about being sick. Is she all right now? Does Eva think another treatment would help her. I’m glad the youngberries are doing good. Perhaps there will be enough for a berry pie when I get there. There is rumor going around today that furloughs may be can celled. I don’t much think so, there are too many of these rum ors. Yesterday we had platoon tests on Howitzers. We had been prac ticing with a picked gun crew and then the last thing they put us on another chief of section’s gun. When we got on his gun he said “Baldwin. I want you as gunner and changed the rest of the crew around. Didn't do too bad. Won’t know the results. We had been practicing almost two weeks and I hadn’t been gunner hardly any. Last night I had guard from 10 to 12. I sat in the middle of post and watched both ways. The moon was out good and bright. This morning we fired 100 rounds of 30 cal. and 50 rounds of 50 cal. machine gun ammunition Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hogue had as at the radio controled plane. Right guests last week Mrs. Hogue’s sis after that we went through the ter, Mrs. Martha Kaning and AGF physical endurance test. The granddaughter, Betty Rhett of first thing was push ups 31 of Seattle. They were on their way them, then a 300 yard run in 48 to Los Angeles where Miss Rhett sec.; 10 burpees in 20 sec.; carry expects to attend art school, hav a guy 75 yards on your back in 18 ing received a scholarship. sec.; 75 yards crawl and creep in —o— 25 sec. You go through as fast Dave Bour has been on the sick as you can and then put on full list the past few days and is being pack and take a four mile speed cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Clay march. The first platoon average was 44 minutes. The best aver Ramsey at the Ramsey home. —o— age in two days of testing. 1 was Mrs. Phil Dessinger and grand surely tired the first two miles daughter, Carol Dessinger, are but began to get rest the last two. spending a few days visiting Mrs. I The first part is plenty tough if Dessinger’s son at Eureka. you put everything you got into it. This afternoon we had mainten Martin Sachse arrived Sunday ance of equipment. Three P-38s to spend a weeks vacation with came over and sprayed a smoke to his wife and daughter. Mr. Sachse I Continued on pace Two) is employed in the Marin ship yards near San Francisco. His ---------------- O picture appeared on the current years calendar where he is pic tured with a huge ship’s propeller which is his job to fit to the frac tion of an inch. Mr. and Mrs. James Hogue and daughter Mrs. Dorothy White were hosts Sunday evening at a surprise lawn party honoring Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Jones and family who are leaving Friday to make their home in Gold Hill, where Mr. Jones will be school principal. A number of friends and neighbors gathered for a social hour and a bountiful buffet luncheon with plenty of ice cream. A gift of four lovely bath towels was pre sented, also a bar of good, strong soap, which was thought appropri ate for Ferd to wash the dirt off after spending the summer climb ing the hills after gooseberry bushes. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Prevatt and family; Mrs. Helen Ulrich and son John nie, Mr and Mrs. Clem Sauer and sons Larry and Jack. Mrs. Lottie Woodcock, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mc Lean with Mickey and Kathleen, Mr. and Mrs. Dell Bigelow, Mrs. Dollie Duncan, Mrs. Elizabeth Hodgdon, Fred Seyferth, Rose mary Sachse, Dena Jones, Wendall Jones, Mrs. Phyllis Nealy and family. Mrs. Lillie White, Mr. and Mrs. Laque Youngblood and Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Jones. Kerby Gets o-------------- P. Chamber Presents New Idea G. The Grants Pass and Josephine County Chamber of Commerce has come through with a novel plan that every man from Josephine county in Uncle Sam’s fighting forces will be very glad to receive. It is a letter which will be is sued frequently and sent to all the boys from this county, those men and women whose addresses are on file at the chamber office. The letter does not propose to take the place of letters from home. Don’t get the idea that this letter will tell all the little details of your home life and what is go ing on in the community. It will only give a slight glimpse of men and women the boys and girls in the service know or have heard about, and what they are doing. It will be a welcome contribu tion from home to those in the service and on another page you will find a boxed ad, and if you will fill in the name of your friend or relative and send to the Grants Pass and Josephine Chamber of Commerce, Grants Pass, they will do the rest. When an address is changed, please send in the new and correct address, so the G. P. chamber can keep the letter going so these men in the service can receive it. Please send the address at once. Its Own Fire Scare Wednesday afternoon just after 5 o'clock, George Thrasher saw a small grass fire on the lot of the CABAX mill property and noti fied O. L. Waterman, superintend ent. of the fire. Mr. Waterman took a look and immediately tele phoned for the Forest Service and the State Forest service fire trucks and crews. Just one minute and a half af ter the call, Dick Sowell and bis crew with the state fire truck was on the job and five minutes later the Forest Service truck and crew arrived, and they all came in the nick of time for the fire had passed the innocent stage and was now a raging grass fire heading straight for the old Ed Burke barn, now owned by Mel Stark. Before the fire equipment could get into action the barn caught on fire and in a jiffy was a mass of flames. Several piles of white pine lumber, just cut, also caught on fire, but they were quickly put out and little damage was done to three piles of lumber. Had the lumber been dry, it would have been destroyed. A high wind carried the flames away from the mill, city and other buildings, but the residents of Kerby had a scare they will not forget. A little over an acre of ■ o — ground was burned over besides GUILFORD W COOKE I the barn, which was empty. The Word was received late this af entire crew of the lumber com ternoon, (Thursday) that Guil pany besides the smoke junipers ford W. Cooke of O'Brien, passed and fire crew a*, the Redwood away in the Grants Pass General Ranger station and the state fire hospital about 2 o’clock in the af crew were all warmly compliment ed and thanked by Mr. Waterman ternoon. No details were available, but for their excellent cooperation. Thia incident may stir Kerby The News learned that graveside funeral services will be held Sun residents up to the point of com day afternoon, August 20th at the pleting their fire district. They really should get it settled. I. O. O. F. cemetery. Renfro Sawmill Destroyed About 2 o’clock Saturday morn ing, the residents of Cave Junction were startled with the Redwood Ranger station siren giving two loud signals that something was wrong, and on looking at the sky the populace saw that the Renfro mill was a mass of flames. The mill was completely destroyed. One of the first eye witnesses was Howard Bearss, Standard Oil distributor for the valley, who lives across the street from the Stand ard Oil company’s warehouse and in direct view of the mill. How ard’s dog came to his bed and gave one of the most peculiar yelps, and Howard was awakened at once, and he saw a small flame coming from the mill near the boiler. He quickly dressed and as he crossed the road it seemed to him like an explosion occurred along the en tire length of the green chain and the entire structure burst into flames and by that time the entire mill was ablaze. About the same time Howard was awakened, Mr. and Mrs. Bowerman’s daughter trudged up stairs to their bedroom and said she thought the mill was on fire. Mr. Bowerman gave one look and half dressed gave the siren signal above mentioned. He then or dered the entire personnel of the Redwood Ranger station and its equipment into action. The smoke jumpers laid a hose from the station pump to the mill and had water on the flames in a short, time, but it was a hopeless task to put the fire out as it was entirely in flames by the time water was turned on. When the alarm was sounded George Morey, Mr. Bowerman's assistant, started the pumps going, and by the time the hose was laid, he had water coming through. All of this was done in remarkably short time. But the only thing the boys could do was to save adjoining property, which was an easy job considering there was no wind. It was indeed fortunate that there was no wind for the fire could have gotten out (Continued from Page Two) ---------------- O----------------- LEGION DELEGATES MAKE REPORT Delegates from Glen Morrison Post No. 70 American Legion re ported at the post Wednesday evening on their trip to the state convention at Portland. All spoke words of praise for the work accomplished and report ed that the members seemed to take everything very serious, es pecially the work to be done by the Legion after the war. They decided to give a V-Day dance with Co. A, Oregon State Guard co-partners upon the night Germany surrenders. Members of the Legion and Co. A members will have tickets to sell within a day or so. All members of Post No. 70 are expected to be on hand next Sun day to help repair the roof. -------------- o WHAT THE LEGION AUXILIARY IS DOING Four new members paid dues Wednesday night, Bernice Fessler, Inez Walsh, Barbara Walsh and Nellie Shellabarger. Very interesting reports on the convention were made by Mildred Taylor and Emily Kellert. After the meeting a party in honor of Aunt Mary White's birthday was held. Sandwiches, ice cream and cake were served. A gift from the unit of a wool cas ual jacket was presented. A show er of hankies was given Harriet Baumberger whose birthday oc curs on the same day. Following this guests of the Post were introduced. Judge Johnson said a few words on post war plan ning and Mr. Lee, who was in the valley on the matter of establish ing a cooperative creamery spoke briefly on that subject.