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 VIII.
Cave Junction, Oregon. Thursday, November 9, 1944
No. 28
DOUBLE BILL AT
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SATURDAY. SUNDAY
Surprising
Results At
Election
The election Tuesday, as far as
the nation is concerned, everyone
knows all about it, but the county
vote for county offices will be in­
teresting to look over.
The big fight in the county was
the judge's race, between Judge
W. A. Johnson and Commissioner
Pete Fredrickson. The race was
so close that the final result had
to wait until the last precinct was
heard from. Final result was
Johnson 3519, Fredrickson 3402.
The next place of importance
was a great surprise to most peo­
ple. This race was between Dr.
W. A. Moser and L. W. Wipper-
man for state senator. Dr. Moser
showed surprising strength and
won the election, the vote being:
Moser 3670, Wipperman 3262.
Moser was on the Democratic tick­
et.
The county commissioners race
between Richard McElligott and
I.. M. Mitchell, was also a hotly
contested race, Mitchell finally
winning by the vote of Mitchell
3642, McElligott 3133. Mitchell
was a Republican.
The coroner’s place was won by
the incumbent, Virgil Hull, and W.
W. Balderree won the state rep­
resentative over Neal Mesman the
Democratic candidate.
Very little contest was made
over two offices, sheriff, which
was won easily by Loyd Lewis, the
count being, Lewis, Republican,
4936, Griffin 1900. County Clerk
Ben Coutant, Republican, was re­
turned to office with 5324. Weav­
er 1309.
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Annual AAA Elections to
Start Nov. 15 in Oregon
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Annual AAA elections will be
held in Oregon during the period
November 15-December 15, the
state AAA committee announced
this week. Dates for the elections
in each county will be determined
by the county committee.
Through these elections, points
out R. B. Tayler, state AAA chair­
man, farmers of Oregon have the
opportunity to exercise their an­
nual democratic responsibility to
provide leaders of their own choos­
ing for administration of agricul­
tural conservation and other AAA
programs.
Community committeemen and
delegates to the county convention
which will select county commit­
teemen for 1945 will be named at
the election meetings. Each far­
mer will be notified from the coun­
ty AAA office of the date, time
and place of his community elec-
tion.
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There will be a special meeting
of Marguerite Rebekah lodge of I
Kerby next Tuesday evening. Nov.
14th, honoring the State President
of the Rebekah Assembly. There
will also be initiation.
All members and visiting mem­
bers are cordially invited to at­
tend.
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COMING EVENTS j
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Saturday, Nov. 11—Armistice day.
Friday, November 24 — Garden
club at the home of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Holland, Bridgeview.
Saturday, November 25—Benefit
dance for Bruchler’s at the Deer
Creek Grange hall.
Thursday. Nov. 23—Thanksgiving
day.
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Community Church Missionary
group, third Thursday of the
month.
Eastern Star Chapter meets the
third Tuesday of each month.
Ladies' Auxiliary meet the first
and third Wednesday of each
month.
O'Brien Women’s club meet on
first Friday of each month.
Kerby P.-T. A meets the last
Thursday of each month, in
Kerby grade school.
“CHATTERBOX”
With Joe E. Brown and Judy
Canova. This picture is full of
fun and more fun. Joe is always
Joe E. Brown and never appears
in a bad picture. Judy Canova is
a mouthful of merriment in her
own right and the two together
give a performance that will amuse
and please everyone who sees the
picture.
“Chatterbox”
together with
“Song of Russia” gives an eve­
ning’s entertainment seldom equal­
led in Cave Junction. A double
feature with two prize pictures.
Get to the theater early and attend
the dance afterwards.
“MEET THE PEOPLE”
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
Life in a teeming shipyard with
the accent on music and comedy is
the subject of “Meet the People"
which comes to the Cave City the­
ater next Wednesday and Thurs­
day, starring Lucille Ball and Dick
Powell.
Miss Ball plays a famed Broad­
way actress who meets riveter Dick
Powell on a bond-selling appear­
ance at the shipyards. She learns
he has written a play which she is
willing to produce on Broadway.
Dick agrees, but when the play is
in production he learns that the
message of his musical has been
changed and withdraws the play.
Lucille follows him back to the
shipyards to get the play back and
stays to become a worker for a
while and really “meet the people”
in it.
Frozen-faced Virginia O’Brien
delivers a number especially de­
signed for her deadpan style of
singing and veteran comic Bert
Lahr keeps things moving as a re­
tired seaman working in the yards.
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The Kerby library now han a
new lot of books received from the
library in Grants Pass and the resi­
dents are urged to take advantage
of the opportunity to read these
books.
They contain stories, both for
grown-ups and children. The li­
brary is located back of the grade
school. They are open Tuesday
and Friday from 2 to 4 p. m.
Plans Are
Re-elects
Progressing
C. G. Sawyer
Victor Boehl, president of the
Rogue Valley Dairy Cooperative
association, announced last week
that organizing of the association
is progressing steadily with over
95 per cent of the farmers signed
up in one district in which an in­
tensive canvass has been made.
Frank Walker and Boehl visited
the Illinois Valley Grange Thurs­
day, Nov. 2, and made arrange­
ments for an organization meeting
to be held there Tuesday, Nov.
14, at 8:30 p. m. Farmers in that
district are enthusiastic about the
prospect of having a farmer-owned
dairy processing and marketing es­
tablishment, Boehl reported today.
At the meeting of the Illinois
Valley Grange at Bridgeview last
Thursday evening, the Grange held
their annual election of officers.
A very good attendance of mem­
bers were on hand and three bal­
lots had to be taken to elect the
master. Clarence Sawyer was re­
elected on the third ballot.
Following is the list of officers
for the ensuing year:
Master—C. G. Sawyer.
Overseer—Arthur Kellert.
Lecturer—Lena Payne.
Steward—Frank Mellow.
Chaplin—F. L. Sawyer
Treasurer—May Sawyer.
Gate Keeper—Chris Wendt.
Ceres—Evelyn Hays.
Pomona—Emily Kellert.
Flora—Irene George.
Executive Committee
John
Dow. Ruth Wendt and George
Wells.
Mr. Sawyer, Lena Payne, Frank
Mellow', James Payne, F. L. Saw­
yer, May Sawyer and Isabel Mel­
low were all reelected.
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NOTICE TO DAIRYMEN
The meeting above referred to
will be held in the Illinois Valley
Grange hall at Bridgeview, Tues-
day, November 14th at 8 :30 p. m.
Don’t forget this date and tell your
neighbor if he is interested in
dairying.
The meeting to be held at the
Bridgeview Grange hall is for the
purpose of explaining what has
been done in the organization of
the Rogue Valley Dairy Coopera-1
tive association, also to sign up
the dairy farmers in the Illinois
Valley district for membership in
the association.
Local dairymen who are asso-
ciated with the movement hope
that every farmer who has cows
and sells milk, will attend this
meeting and hear first hand what
the association has to offer them.
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Takes Life
At Junction
Last Monday afternoon about
2:50 a bad accident occurred at
the intersection of the Caves high­
way and Redwoods highway in
Cave Junction, when a car driven
by Rennie Cockerham, 26, of Cave
Junction, came head-on into a
truck given by Edgar Gates as Ed­
gar was turning the corner to go
up the Caves highway.
Bennie
was going north on the Redwood
highway.
The truck driven by Gates was
following a truck driven by Guy
Dick. He was about 150 feet be­
hind Dick, and Gates apparently
did not see the car coming up the
hill, and it is believed Cockerham
did not see Gates, for he did not
apply his brakes and he did not
slow up, according to witnesses
who saw the accident. Cockerham
was coming very fast up the hill.
After the crash, Cockerham was
picked up and brought into thè
Cave Junction Motor Court office
and passed away about 30 minutes
after the accident. Dr. Collman
did everything possible to help the
boy. but he was beyond help.
Bennie Cockerham is survived
by a sister, Lucy Leona Cockerham
of Kerby, and another sister at
Fort Bragg, Calif., and his mother,
who lives in Louisiana. Hull &
Hull Funeral home is in charge
of the arrangements and the fun­
eral date will he announced later.
A surprise double birthday party
was held last Saturday evening in
Clara's Bungalow Coffee Shop at
Kerby.
Mrs. Clay Ramsey gave a pi-
nochle party to celebrate Mrs.
Clara Magill’s birthday, and un­
known to Mrs. Ramsey, Mrs. Ma­
gill had planned a party for her,
as her birthday was on Sunday.
Both ladies were greatly sur­
prised. but all the guests had a
very pleasant evening playing pi­
nochle and enjoyed the tw0 birth­
day cakes. Mrs. Ramsey baked
one for Mi’s. Magill and Mrs. Ma­
gill had one for Mrs. Ramsey.
Those present were, Mr. and
Mrs. Clay Ramsey, Mrs. Freda
Messenger, Mr. and Mrs. Blake
Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Art Kellert.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Fessler, Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Ingalls, Miss Elva
Messenger, Mrs. Irene MeCasland,
George Kellert and Mrs. Magill.
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NEW BOOKS AT
KERBY LIBRARY
I. V. Grange
Bad Accident
DOUBLE BIRTHDAY
PARTY AT KERBY
REBEKAHS TO HONOR
STATE PRESIDENT
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Coming Saturday and Sunday
for an Armistice Day attraction, is
a double feature that will have the­
ater fans groggy with excitement.
Two very fine pictures will be on
the screen. “Song of Russia” with
Robert Taylor, Lieut. Taylor, U. S.
N. now, but he made “Song of
Russia.”
This picture gives Taylor a new
setting, that of a musician, and to
our surprise it is nothing new for
him, for he is a natural musician
and as a boy 10 years old he was
taking lessons. In “Song of Rus­
sia" Taylor acts as a symphony di­
rector and give a great show. He
goes to Russia as a director and
there meets Nadya Stepanov (Su­ i
san Peters) and the two fall in love
and when Germany invades Rus­
sia the real trials begin for this
couple.
It is an intriguing story full of
excitement and great love. One
of the really big pictures of the
year. The other double feature
story is
Dairy Co-op
CORONER’S INQUEST
A coroner's inquest was he d in
Cave Junction today on the acci­
dent last Monday. The verdict of
the jury was “An unavoidable ac-
cident.”
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Houston Sells Ranch
To Ix>s Angeles Men
R. M. Houston sold his 76 acre
ranch across the river from Cave
Junction, to Messrs. Ward & Rob-
inson of Los Angeles, The deal
was completed the first of this
week, but an option was secured
last fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Houston will re-
main on the place until the first of
March, when the new owners will
take possession. The Houstons ex­
pect to remain in the valley.
AAA Sulphur Benefits
To Be I a * ss in 1945
Now is the time to apply soil
sulphur to Ladino clover, alfalfa,
vetches and other legumes to in­
sure better harvests in 1945, ad­
vises Jens F. Svinth, county agri­
cultural agent. Most of the soil
in this area is deficient in sul­
phur, a plant food which legumes
must have, and now that we have
some good rains, soil conditions are
ideal for its application, Svinth
said.
Soil sulphur has the following
advantages over other forms of
commercial fertilizers that carry
sulphur.
It gives results at a
smaller “per acre cost"; requires
less labor to apply; takes less ship­
ping space and because it becomes
available more slowly, it gives a
steady supply of sulphur to the
plants throughout the growing
season.
Svinth pointed out that the AAA
payment for sulphur application I
should not be overlooked by those
signed up in the program
The
payment rate for 1944 which is in
effect until the former makes his
report of performance, is 2c per
pound. The payment after that
date, and for the year 1945, will
in all likelihood be lc per focnd,
thus, a substantial saving may be
had if sulphur is applied as soon
as possible.
The supply of sulphur appear«
ample for the needs and every acre I
of legume crop will benefit from
the application of from 50 to 60
pounds of sulphur now, Svinth re-
marked.
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Cow Testing Assoc
Set Up in County
Considerable interest is being
expressed by dairymen of Jose­
phine county in the formation of a
cow testing association, accord­
ing to Jens S. Svinth, county agri­
cultural agent. A letter express­
ing the purpose and procedure of
such an association has been sent
out to practically every dairyman
in the county as well as enclosing
a return card on which the dairy­
man could express his interests.
Many of these cards have already
been received and many more are
yet to come, Svinth states.
Briefly the procedure in the
testing would be for each herd
signed up to be tested once each
month for total milk and butterfat
produced .for the month.
The
tester would also calculate the
amount and cost of feed consumed
per cow to assist in getting a true
picture of how profitable each cow
has been to the owner.
It is hoped to have approximate­
ly 900 to 1000 cws signed up in
order to maintain the full-time ser­
vices of a competent tester. Charg­
es tor testing will have to be de­
veloped after knowing the number
of herds and average number of
cowes to be tested.
BUY WAR BONDS
Price Five Cents
NEWS FROM OUR
BOYS IN SERVICE
Frank N. Halm
Receives Air Medal
AN EIGHTH AIRFORCE
BOMBER STATION. England —
First Lieut. Frank N Halm, 22-
year-old pilot of an Eighth Air
Force B-17 Flying Fortress, has
been presented the Air Medal for
“meritorious achievement” during
bombing attacks on Nazi military
and industrial targets and in slip­
port of Allied ground forces. The 1
award was presented by Colonel j
Charles B. Dougher of Fresno, !
Calif., base commending officer.
Lieut. Halm is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. E. Halm of Cave Junc­
tion. Ore. Before enlisting in the
Army Air Forces he was a dis­
patcher with North American Avi­
ation at Inglewood, Calif.
Woodrow Nealy F 2 c stationed
at Amphibious Training Base in
Little Creek. Virginia, for the past
three months will be transferred
in the very near future to Charles­
ton, S. C., for further training.
Mrs. Nealy, the former Miss Jones
and family has moved to Gold Hill,
Oregon, to be with her parents,
Mr. anj Mrs. Ferd W. Jones.
ENSIGN ALBERT SCHNEIDER
AT HOME ON VISIT
Ensign Albert H. Schneider, U.
S. N. R., arrived home Saturday
to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H.'J. Schneider of Cave Junction,
until he reports for duty on No­
vember 8.
Ensign Schneider was commis­
sioned an ensign at ceremonies
held October 26, in the cathedral
of St. John the Divine in New York
upon completion of Midshipman’s
school at Columbia University,
New York.
Graduated in 1942 from Perris
Union high school, Calif., he at­
tended Redlands university before
being sent by the navy to Colum­
bia last July.
He was a member of 1,350 men,
twentieth class to be graduated
from U. S. N. R. Midshipman’s
school in New York.
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School Play
To Be Given
All American Family, three-act
comedy given by students from the
entire student body of Kerby high
school, will be presented on No­
vember 17. The play will begin
at 8:15 p. m.
The play is under the direction
of Mrs. Wertz and assisting her
are the following: Stage manager,
Bill Mansfield; assistant stage
manager, Wesley Baird; prompt­
ers, Beverly Dick. Priscilla Davis,
and Peggy Monroe; program, Do­
lores Lockhart; publicity, Priscilla
Davis and Eileen Schneider; tick­
ets, Mary Lou Hill and Jerry Bu­
ell; ushers, Betty Lou Kaufman
and Dick Payne.
Those taking part in the play
are: Dottie Jurv, Evelyn Hayes,
Ernie Hamilton. Bill Hill, Rebecca
Freeman, Dolores Lockhart, Shar-
1c; Keiver, laurence Tabor, Syl­
via Wilson, Eileen Schneider, and
George Kellert.
Thia play is ar. excellent exam­
ple of an American family with
their ups and downs, full of the
dry humor of America -.hould
prove entertainment to he remem­
bered.
H EU TO MEET
NEXT TUESDAY
The HEU’s will hold their next
meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 14th at
the home of Mrs. Sam Bunch At
Bridgeview. Ail ladies of the val­
ley are cordially invited to these
meetings. The home demonstra­
tion agent will be present and for
this occasion the making of Christ­
mas gifts will be the feature of the
afternoon. Ladies plan to attend
and learn something about the
making of your holiday gift«. Don’t
forget the date, next Tuesday, No­
vember 14.
6th Wai Loan
Drive Starts
November 20
One of the • most important
things for we Americans to do
right now, is to see that the 6th
War Loan drive goes over with
such a majority over the quota that
all our enemies will be green with
envy. It is our job, and we must
do it quickly.
The valley’s quota is $100,000
and this is not going to be an
easy job for the workers in the
valley, but the committee below
is going to do their best, and we
believe they will be successful,
in going over the top for the val­
ley. The county’s quota is 1700,-
000.00.
Don McGregor, chairman of the
county in this drive, was in the val­
ley today with Roy K Hackett
and Mrs. W. E. Moore, secretary
of the county organization, to
make arrangements for the com­
mittee to handle the valley drive.
The following executive commit­
tee will organize valley workers to
tee will ogranze valley workers to
make a complete canvass of every
home in the valley, for it will take
a lot of hard work to reach our
quota.
The full executive committee is
as follows:
Walter Freeman, president of
the Illinois Valley Chamber of
Commerce, chairman; Nat Wool-
ley. commander of the American
Legion; Mrs. Elwood Hussey, sec­
retary of the Ladies Auxiliary;
Mrs. J. J. Villair, M. C. Athey. A.
J. Drews and George Thrasher.
Lew Hammer will take care of
Selma, and Harry Floyd will han­
dle Holland.
The drive starts November 20th
and will continue until December
16th
The committee asks every resi­
dent to help and assist the work­
ers who will call on you. They
are giving of their time and rend-
< ring this service without a cent
of renumeration, and they should
all be given »very courtesy pos­
sible.
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Benefit Dance for
Bruchler Family
There will be a benefit dance at
the Deer Creek Grange hall on
Saturday, November 25th for
Johnny Bruchler and family with
many in the valley who will want
to attend to help make this affair
a big event.
Johnny Buehler had the misfor­
tune while working at the Frost
mill at Selma to have his hand
seriously injured which necessi­
tated an amputation later. The
family has resided at Selma for
several years and are well known
throughout the valley. They re­
cently moved to Grants Pass for
the winter.
There will be a lunch served at
midnight by the ladies. Good mu­
sic is assured, so remember the
date and plan to attend the dance
on Saturday, November 25th, Deer
Creek Grange hall.
Deadline Set on Wheat
Loans Under AAA Plan
Oregon farmers have until De­
cember 31 to take out COC wheat
loans through their county office
of the Agricultural Adjustment
agency, the state committee re­
minded producers this week.
This year’s loan program in­
cludes an added feature through
the offer of the War Food Admin­
istration to purchase from pro­
ducers any 1944 wheat that re­
mains under loan on May 1, 1945,
at a bushel price equal to the loan
rate plus 15 cents, leas carrying
charges. This parity purchase of­
fer is in line with Congressional
committments.
The county AAA office will be
glad to assist producers in figur­
ing out what the parky offer
means on their wheat. The carry­
ing charge adjustments include the
unpaid amount of the note, stor­
age allowances and 3 per cent in­
terest.
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Ruy your Defense Stamps today.