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.
No. 31
Washington
Weekly Letter
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
Cave Junction. Oregon, Thursday, November 30, 1944
ANDY HARDY IN
•BLONDE TROUBLE’’
SATURDAY, SUNDAY
If you're a Hardy Family fan,
and who isn’t? you’ll enjoy the new
film at the Cave City theater Sat­
urday and Sunday. It's “Andy
Hardy’s Blonde Trouble” and the
whole Hardy Family is up to its
usual funmaking.
Mickey Rooney, as the irrepres­
sible Andy, sets off to follow his
father’s footsteps at Wainwright
college and learns to his delight
that it is now co-ed. His troubles
begin on the train where he meets
Bonita Granville bound for Wain­
wright, the pretty Wilde twins,
only since the twins, in order not
to be separated, are pretending to
be one person, and keep Andy in
perpetual state of confusion.
Andy is attracted to Bonita im­
mediately, but it is soon obvious
that althought Bonita likes Andy
she is much more interested in Her­
bert Marshall. When they arrive
at school Andy tries to help the
twins out of their predicament and
only succeeds in getting himself
into trouble.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Back
in session again, the Congress is
proceeding with its work just as
if nothing had happened.
But
quite definitely, considerable hap­
pened on the seventh. It is no sec­
ret that Republican members felt
rather confident that the majority
of the House next term would be
Republican. At election time the
score stood 214 Democrats to 212
Republicans. The clerk of the
House says that, as of this morn­
ing (Saturday) the score for the
new Congress stands: Democrats
242, Republicans 190, Progressive
1, American-Labor 1, and one still
in doubt. I doubt that the score
is high enough on the New Deal
side to warrant calling the new
Congress a rubber-stamp Congress
but there is not the slightest doubt
that the Administration will have
majority enough in the House and
Senate to carry most controversial “MAN FROM FRISCO”
legislation.
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY
It is too soon to get any accurate
The mid-week program brings
idea as to the course of legislation the “Man From Frisco,” a power­
for the coming two-year term. My ful drama of ship building, how
guess is, however, that there will the yards started to build ships
be no serious controversy on leg­ after Pearl Harbor.
islation involving major foreign
Michael O’Shea and Anne Shir­
policy maters. The battles in the ley are the stars of the picture but
new Congress will occur mostly they have an excellent cast that
over proposals that would tend to cooperate all through the show.
take us toward a centralized so­
The story is dynamic, powerful
cialistic type of government.
and depicts a man of steel that
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speeds the work of a thousand men
If I make any personal comment and the heart-beat of a girl. The
at this point. I wish to express my new superintendent of a ship yard
thanks to the voters of the district is sent to build ships and his new
for the fine majority given me in methods don't jibe with the old
■the election. I hope that the serv­ workers and the townspeople and
ice rendered during these next trouble begins and lasts until the
two years will justify the faith first ship is launched.
“Man From Frisco" is a power­
placed in me. These are serious
times in the history of our Repub­ ful story. You’ll want to see how
lic, and I am well aware of the they build our Liberty ships and
responsibilities borne by every how they launch them.
member of Congress.
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Early this week the crop insur­ Postal Service
ance bill passed the House by an Asks Early Mailing
overwhelming majority (only 16
Public response to the post of­
negative votes). Last spring the
House rejected a crop insurance fice department’s “Shop Now! Mail
bill. There were several valid ob­ in November” campaign is good
jections to the previous proposal. but needs to be better, according
All of them were removed in the to Postmaster General Frank C.
new bill. Principal difficulty with Walker.
“It is not pleasing to us to have
the former proposal was that too
much of the risk was actually to ask the American people to
borne by the government — to the mail packages so far in advance of
extent that the plan cost many mil­ the delivery date. We do so only
lions of dollars from the public because it has to be done.
“Unprecedented shortages of
treasury. The bill recently passed
limits the government liability and man power and transportation fa­
practically places the plan on a cilities growing out of the war
compel early mailing. The postal
sound insurance basis.
The Senate now has the flood service has given 50,000 experi­
control bill (H. R. 4485) under enced employes to the armed forc­
consideration. The Senate Com­ es and 300,000 railroad workers
merce Committee, before it re­ have gone to war.
“We urge everyone to buy now,
ported the bill to the Senate floor,
inserted an amendment (known as mail at once, and mark gifts ‘Do
the Bailey amendment) which Not Open Until Christmas’.”
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would restrict the authority of the 1
secretary of the interior to build I
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Movies To Be Shown
At Grange Meeting
Grange members are invited to
attend the regular meeting of the
Illinois Valley Grange on Thurs­
day, December 7th, when Harold
Thursday, Dec. 7 — Remember Bowerman of the Redwood Ranger
Station will show moving pictures.
Pearl Harbor.
Friday, Dec. 15—Garden Club Remember the date and plan to at­
Charity Tea and Christmas par- i tend this meeting.
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ty, Mrs. Harry Floyd. Holland.
Friday, Dec. 15—O’Brien Wom­ LEGION DANCE
en’s club Christmas party and
SATURDAY NIGHT
gift exchange at the home of
Mrs. Earl Boyd.
The American Legion will give
Community Church Missionary a dance Saturday night. December
group, third Thursday of the 2nd in their hall at Cave Junc­
month.
tion. The Ladies Auxiliary will
Eastern Star Chapter meets the have a booth at the dance where
third Tuesday of each month.
one may buy War Bonds if they
Ladies' Auxiliary meet the first | desire.
Midnight luncheon will be served
and third Wednesday of each
by the ladies and you will enjoy
month.
O’Brien Women’s club meet on the evening.
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first Friday of each month.
NOTICE
Kerby P.-T. A meet« the last
Thursday of each month, in
Belt Lodge No. 18. A. F. 4 A. M.
Kerby grade school.
will hold a special communication
COMING EVENTS
Saturday evening. December 9, at
Marguerite Rebekah Lodge No. the Masonic hall in Keihy. The
Ill meets the second Wednes­ M. M. Degree will be conferred.
day of each month at I. O. O. F. Visiting brethren welcome.
hall, Kerby.
LEW HAMMER. W. M
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I. 0. O. F. Lodge No. 55 meets
Harry Messenger has been con­
second and fourth Tuesdays of
each month. I. O. O. F. hall. fined to his home with a severe
case of lumbago.
Kerby.
COMING EVENTS
IOOF'S
Bulb Raising
Met Jointly
In Valley To
Tuesday
Be Explained
Tuesday evening Kerby and
Grants Pass Odd Fellows met in
joint session in the Masonic hall at
Kerby, with the Grants Pass lodge
giving the degree work for a class
of eight candidates.
After the lodge had adjourned
all retired to the dining room
where the Kerby Rebekah mem­
bers served a delicious dinner. Ta­
bles were attractively decorated
for the occasion, a farm scene be­
ing carried out very effectively.
Mrs. Mabel Ramsey, district
president of Marguerite lodge, raf­
fled off a pair of myrtlewood book
ends wthich netted the sum of
$19.50. The sum will be sent to
the I. O. O. F. in Portland as a
contribution towards purchasing a
station wagon for the home. Luke
Lilly of Grants Pass drew the lucky
number and carried home the beau­
tiful book ends made and donated
by Mrs. Ramsey.
The joint meeting was one of
the biggest gatherings in the val­
ley for a long time and all pres­
ent declared it was a grand suc­
cess.
A meeting has been scheduled
for all persons interested in grow­
ing Easter lilies in the Illinois val­
ley district, Tuesday, December
5th at the Bridgeview grange hall
starting at 8:00 p. m., as announc­
ed by Jens F. Svinth, county agri­
cultural agent.
Frank P. McWhorter, plant
pathologist, Oregon State college,
who has followed the bulb industry
in Oregon, will be present to die-
cuss this subject. He will also
show pictures of bulb raising in
various parts of the state, in order
to bring out the problems connect­
ed with bulb raising.
A great deal of interest has been
developed in the Illinois Valley in
this industry, states Svinth, and
for that reason felt a meeting of
all interested parties should be
held in order to get first 'hand in­
formation.
This meeting will be held in con­
nection with the AAA Community
election meeting scheduled for the
same time.
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Charity Tea
Christinas
Party Plans
At the Garden club meeting held
last Friday afternoon at tfhe home
of Mrs. Elizabeth Holland c*
Bridgeview, members exhibited
several interesting miniature gar­
den arrangements which later will
be sent with holiday decorations to
the hospital wards at Camp White
in Medford. Mrs. M. C. Athey
brought several varieties of chrys­
anthemums still found blooming in
her garden.
Mrs. Sam Bunch was pro tern
secretary, in the absence of Mrs.
Chris Wendt, who is still ’’¡siting
relatives in California.
On the “Garden Calendar” Mrs.
Frank Mellow gave timely sugges­
tions to be done now in cleaning
up the garden debris and lawn con­
ditioning. This eases up spring
work and discourages destructive
pests.
Mrs. C. G. Hockett, now residing
in Grants Pass, was unable to be
present so an interesting paper was
prepared and read by Mrs. Miller
on “Native Flora” of the New Eng­
land States.”
The Christmas meeting and
Charity Tea will be held Frilay,
December 15th at the home if
Mrs. Harry R. Floyd of Holland,
with Mrs. J. M. Smock, Mrs. Rob­
ert Walton and Mrs. Raymond
Baldwin assisting hostesses. Mem­
bers are requested to bring as
many holiday decorations as they
can make, which will be used for
the party and later to be taken to
Camp White. The feature and
highlight on the afternoon's pro­
gram will be the usual Christmas
tree and gift exchange among
members and guests. The musical
program will be in charge of Mrs.
C. G. Morris. Proceeds from the
Charity Tea will be sent as usual
to “Boys’ Town” and visitors will
be cordially welcomed.
It was also decided by the club
to hold a bazaar and white ele­
phant sale in the near future and
a committee was appointed to work
out plans and find a suitable place
to hold it.
Further announce­
ments will be published in the
News on completion of these de­
tails.
After adjournment of the meet­
ing Mrs. Holland and her co-host-
esse«. Mr«. Joe Hudron and Mrs.
J. E. Lewis served refreshments
of moulded salads, sandwiches,
dainty cakes and coffee.
Mrs.
Clyde Hays assisted in the absence
of Mrs. Joe Houck who now lives in
Grants Pass and was unable to
make the trip.
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—BUY WAR BONDS—
AAA MEETING
AAA committeemen to adminis­
ter next year’s AAA farm program
in Josephine county will be select­
ed at community election meet­
ings to be held December 4 to
7, Raymonth Lathrop, chairman of
the Josephine County Committee,
announled Monday.
The meetings have been sched­
uled in each community and for
the Illinois Valley district this
meeting will be held in the Bridge­
view Grange hall, December 5th at
8:00 p. m.
Lathrop reminded that all farm­
er» who participated in any phase
of the 1944 program are eligible
to attend and vote. He pointed
out a large attendance at the meet­
ings will assure that the commit­
teemen selected represent the
choice of all farmers in the com­
munity and urged all eligible farm­
ers to exercise their democratic
responsibility of helping to choose
their own farm leaders.
In addition to naming committee
men to run their farm program for
this coming year, farmers attend­
ing will consider methods of using
AAA practice payments to get the
best results in meeting agricul­
tural problems of each community.
Booked for discussion are prospec­
tive 1945 provisions for practices,
such as weed control, drainage and
pasture improvement.
Other program features for the
meeting include presentation of
the latest information on 1945 pro­
duction goals and discussion of
support prices and other prospects
and problems for the year ahead.
Price Five Cents
NEWS FROM OUR
BOYS AND GIRIS
IN THE SERVICE
Lee Hassler is home on short
leave visiting relatives in the val­
ley.
Gay Kenneth Smith, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gay K. Smith, recently
inspector at the Borg-Warner cor­
poration of Bellwood, Illinois, was
awarded the silver wings of a pilot
and appointed a second lieutenant
in the army of the United States,
Air Corps, at graduation exercises
Nov. 20th. at the AAF Pilot school
(advanced single engine), Spence
Field. Moultrie, Georgia.
Cadet Nurse Helen Schneider re­
ported back for duty last Sunday
after a short visit with, her par­
ents. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Schneider
on Caves highway. She was one
of the 50 girls chosen out of about
300 that applied for Cadet Nurse
training at the Highland hospital
in Oakland, California.
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Standard Oil Truck
Causes Excitement
Last Wednesday morning when
H. P. Bears.« got into his Stand­
ard Oil truck to start it, the en­
gine caught on fire and it looked
for a few moments like the whole
Standard plant might go up in
smoke.
Quick thinking and fire extin­
guishers saved the situation and
nothing more than burned wiring
cords and some blackened spots on
the front of the truck was caused
by the fire.
The truck was parked inside t>he
Standard Oil warehouse, and if the
truck fire had gotten out of con­
trol. the entire warehouse would
have been burned and this might
have exploded the tanks and the
town would have had a real scare.
Ken Hamilton of the Standard
Service station had a good scare
also. He had just finished getting
shaved when he saw the fire truck
go by, and rushed out to help,
when he looked down the street
and saw quite a few cars in front
of his station, his first thoughts
were that his place was on fire.
Ken didn’t lose any time getting
home.
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HOLLAND SCHOOL
IMPROVEMENT CLUB
MET LAST FRIDAY
Members of the Holland School
Improvement club met last Friday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Lena Owen on the Holland road.
After business matters were dis­
posed of the ladies spent a very
enjoyable Social afternoon. Two
visitors, Mrs. Thelma Maurer of
Holland, and Mrs. Ray Deskeill of
Renton, Wash., were present.
At the close of the afternoon
POULTRY INDUSTRY luncheon was served by the host­
ess and Mrs. Agnes Mclrvin.
TO BE CURTAILED
The Christmas meeting will be
The poultry industry needs tn held at the home of Mrs. Al vine
move at once toward voluntarily Kaufman with co-hostess, Mrs.
curtailing production to avoid Martell Lewis.
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government control if possible, in
Mrs.
Ronald Tycer of Kerby un­
the opinion of leaders of the in­
dustry heard at the recent meet­ derwent an operation last Tuesday
ing of the Oregon Baby Chick as­ at the Josephine General hospital.
She is reported as improving.
sociation, held in Salem.
Afttr hearing Homer I. Hunting­
ton, manager of the national poul­
try and egg board and Clyde C. Ed­
monds of Salt Lake City, president
of the Associated Poultry Indust­
ries the association urged by reso­
lution that the government price
support on eggs be lowered from
90 to 80 per cent of parity to avoid
continued expansion. If govern­
ment price support is continued,
eggs ought to be purchased on U.
S. grades rather than case count,
the association held.
HEALTH CLINIC
At the clinic held Nov. 22 three
adult medical patients were seen,
two school child examinations were
made, one tuberculin test and four
immunizations for whooping cough
given. The next clinic will be held
on Dec. 13th.
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GEN. SOMERVILLE SAYS
“The difficult things we do at
once; the impossible takes a little
longer.”
To the People
of this Community
GI Joe in his Pacific foxhole—
maybe he is your brother, hus­
band. sweetheart or friend—is
listening in on you today.
He knows you
ha’ e a date with
a V.ctory Volun­
teer. a neighbor
with a War Bond
order in his or
her hand. The
two of you may
talk it over at
your
work
bench, in your
office or in your
home. Will GI
Joe Pick up
phrases like "I can't afford it,”
"Why do they have to have more
money?" "We ll lick Japan with
one hand tied behind uur back"?
GI Joe counts on you to have
enough sense and knowledge of
the facts about the Pacific war
to back him ut> in his foxhole.
The extra 1100 War Bond you buy
today is a War Bond with the
most power It gives GI Joe the
support he must nave at the time
when he needs it most. It tells
Tokyo you're in the fight to the
finish.
THE EDITOR
Bond Show
Proves Big
Success
It was very discouraging for the
committee who was in charge of
the War Bond Show at the Amer­
ican Legion hall last Tuesday eve­
ning, to learn at a late hour that
the date was conflicting with one
of the largest Odd Fellow meet­
ings of the year, and a large num­
ber of valley people who woujd
have attended the Bond Show had
already made arrangements to at­
tend the I. O. O. F. meeting.
Nevertheless, a fair sized crowd
was in the hall and they were
treated to an exceptionally good
show and had a lot of fun bidding
for the number of free prizes of­
fered for sale. The show netted
almost $4,000 worth of bonds to
go to tdie credit of the valley on
their quota.
Walter Freeman, president of
the Illinois Valley Chamber of
Commerce called the meeting to
order and turned it over to Don
McGregor who told those present
the necessity of buying bonds. He
then introduced Eddie Nunn, who
was the master of ceremonies for
the evening, and Eddie did a
splendid job of it.
He first introduced Cloy Rife
who brought out a former resident
of the valley and who is now one
of Grants Pass juvenile song birds,
and she was given a rousing hand
for her two songs which were
greotly appreciated by the audi­
ence and («specially so because all
knew her as the little girl who used
to go to school at Kerby. Sharon
Currier sang herself right into tihe
hearts of all who heard her. She
is the daughter of Mrs. Al Currier
who now resides in Grants Paas.
Al Currier was a former member
of the state highway department
of Cave Junction. Mr. Rife ac­
companied (her on the piano.
Eddie Nunn then introduced A.
C. Edwards who Bang a cowboy
song that the audience was delight­
ed with and then gave several
imitations of animat«. Mrs. Brunk-
er accompanied him on the piano.
Then the star of the evening was
presented, “Mystic” Jack Hughes
and his charming wife, who enter­
tained the folks with slight of hand
performances and the audience
was highly pleased with his show.
This is the third time Mr. and Mrs.
Hughes have packed up their
equipment and brought it to the
valley to entertain our people.
They are professional performers
who used to be on the vaudeville
circuit all over the nation, who
have retired and now have a lovely
home near Grants Pass, and they
never get tired helping with a
worthy cause. The crowd gave
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes a great re­
ception.
Then Mr. Nunn started the auc­
tion. Many valuable items were
on the table to go to the highest
bidder for War Bonds, and through
this means nearly $4,000 worth of
bonds were sold at the show. The
following business houses gener­
ously donated articles for the auc­
tion :
Mrs. Art Kellert, Kerby; Wm.
McLean,
Kerby; Youngblood’s
Market, Kerby; Cave City Thea­
ter; Jack Hout, Camp Hoquiam;
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LADIES AUXILIARY
TO HOLD WAR BOND
DRIVE DECEMBER 2
Saturday, December 2nd, has
been named the day the Ladies
Auxiliary of the American Legion
all over the nation, will do their
stuff in selling War Bonds for
the 6th Ioan.
Many members of the local Aux­
iliary have held their bond pur­
chasing until Saturday to help
swell the total of their organiza­
tion, and they will call on others
as well.
If you have not purchased your
bonds, help the ladies, they will ap­
preciate it and you will be getting
your bonds just the same.
At the dance Saturday night, the
ladies will have a booth where
bonds may be purchased during
the dance, so go prepared to buy a
bond as well as enjoy the dance.