■niversity of Oregon
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
Volume VIII.
No. 48
Cave Junction. Oregon, Thursday, March 29, 1945
Washington I
By HARRIS ELLSWORTH
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TENSION ON THE FLOOR
Even favorable war news and un­
usually fine spring weather have
not had a soothing effect on the
general temper of the House.
There seems to be a tension, the
like of which I have not seen be­
fore in my time here. During the
past two weeks, heated clashes
have occurred on the Floor nearly
every day. Such verbal conflicts
are as often between two members
on the Democratic side of the aisle
as between members on opposite
sides of the aisle. This condition
has had no serious bearing on the
work of the House as yet, but in
my opinion, a brief recess should
be taken. It would be unfortunate
to have such extremely important
matters as the Bretton Woods
Agreement considered by a tired
and irritable Congress. The gen­
eral talk “on the Hill’’ is that leg­
islative business will be suspended
for a couple of weeks near Easter.
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FOOD STUDY. The Republi­
can Congressional Food Study
Committee, of which I am secre­
tary, has just about completed its
organization for this term of Con­
gress, and planning to dig deep­
ly into several immediately critical
food problems. During the 78th
Congress, this committee contri­
buted some valuable suggestions
regarding the handling of the na­
tion’s food problem. One out­
standing value of our work was
that we called attention in advance
to certain dangers with the result
that remedial steps were taken be­
fore crises developed. On? such
case was the poultry distribution
problem in the New England
«bates.
Data gathered by our
committee was also useful in
averting a more serious potato
famine than occurred. We also
called attention to the fact that,
while the live animal inventory of
the country was unusually large,
meat was short in the markets.
Slaughtering quotas were subse­
quently removed.
The studies of our food commit­
tee clearly pointed to one funda­
mental weakness in the national
handling of the food problem. This
weakness is the multiplicity of ag­
encies, departments and executives
having direct or indirect control
over food production, distribution
and transportation. For a year
National
Clothing
Collection
Girls League
To Hold
Mothers Tea
A rousing good meeting of the
Illinois Valley Chamber of Com­
merce was held last Tuesday eve­
ning in Bill’s Cafe, Cave Junction
and a record attendance respond­
ed to the call of the chamber.
The big issue of the evening was
the formation of either a fire dis­
trict or a water district. A fire
district is limited to fire protec­
tion. A water district can provide
water and fire equipment also. The
water district seemed the most ad­
visable, but there was some sug­
gestion that the fire district be
organized first, as it was thought
it would take a long time to get
the water district functioning.
M. C. Athey spoke before the
members stating what was in the
minds of the executive committee,
providing a water district for Ker­
by and Cave Junction.
Wm. McLean, secretary of the
chamber, also spoke for the forma­
tion of one or the other districts,
but he suggested that the fire dis­
trict could be put through first,
which would give us fire protec­
tion this summer. He pointed out
that the Forest Service would not
be able to help with fires this sum­
mer as in the past, because the fire
fighting equipment which has al­
ways been in the form of a re­
mount truck with hose and pump,
would not be available any more,
the service having moved the
«■quipment to another place.
This leaves the communities
without much fire fighting equip­
ment, the only piece being the
truck of the Cave Junction Vol­
unteer Fire department. This
truck has done a wonderful job,
and the Cave Junction department
will keep it going as best it can,
but it will be inadequate to meet
all demands this summer.
It was moved that a committee
be appointed to work on the’ prob-
“LOST—Woman’s left shoe, size
5H, black, oxford, round patch
on left side. AMPLE REWARD
for its return to No. 112 Alex­
ander street, Belgrade.”
The above advertisement ap­
peared in the leading newspaper of
Yugoslavia's capital.
In and between its lines lies a
grim and poignant story—a story
which applies not only to the Bel­
grade woman who offers “ample
reward” for the return of an old
and patched shoe, but to millions
upon millions of men. women and
children in the war-ravaged lands
of the world.
The United National Clothing
Collection takes place during the
month of April, and we are asked
to give our outcast clothing to
help clothe the people of the war-
torn countries.
The national committee are ask­
ing Americans to give clothing that
is serviceable- for wear for all mem­
bers of the family. If it is a little
torn it can be mended. If you
have any clothing you wish to give
away, see that it gets to one of the
following collection depots in the
valley and it will be- taken care
of. The Pierce Auto Freight will
pick it up at the receiving places
and take the bundles to Grants
Pass, where the committee will
take care of it.
Leave your bundles of clothing
at the following places:
In Selma—Hundley’s store.
In Kerby—Evan's & Parker's
Market, (formerly Youngblood’s).
Hal Moore’s Grocery, formerly
Johnson’s Miners’ Grocery).
In Holland — Harry Floyd’s
store.
In Takilma—Baird’s store.
In O’Brien — Inman's grocery
and the Waldo Motel.
In Cave Junction—Model Gro­
cery and Scott's Market.
The Girls League of the Kerby
Union high school are giving the
annual tea for Mothers on April
6th at the high school auditorium
ti Jury, Millie Thomas. Dora Ham-
appointed today by the President
Dora Hammer and the Secretary
Mary Lou Hill.
Each class will have a table from
which refreshments will be served.
Class committees in charge of ta­
ble decorations, serving and ar­
rangements are:
Seniors—Rosemary Sachse, Dot-
ti Jury, Millie Thames, Dora Har­
mer. Juniors—Lou Ann Maurer,
chairman, Dolores Lockhart, Car-
malita Krauss, Mary Lou Hill.
Sophomores — Sylvia Wilson, Lou­
ise Mansfield. Sharley Kiever, Lois
Brewotd. Freshmen — Mary Lou
Hammer, Shirley Clark, Flora
James, Priscilla Davis.
A program of music is being
planned by Dotti Jury and Louise
Mansfield. Invitations to the tea
will be out soon and are being de­
signed and written by Sylvia Wil­
son, Priscilla Davis, Pearl Mar­
chant, Grace Iverson, Barbara Mc-
Irvin.
Decorations will be in the rain­
bow motif and corsages will be
presented to the Mothers. On the
corsage committee is Allene Brew­
er, Rosemary Sachse, Alfreda Vah-
renwald and Evelyn Haye'S.
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High School Committee
Faculty Has Appointed
Been Chosen To Get Data
Although it is early to think of
school for next year, the high
school staff has been selected.
There will be two additional
teachers for next year, above the
regular staff. One will be a full
time music teacher, who will han­
dle all music for both the high
school and the grade school. The
other is an Industrial Arts instruc­
tor who will teach mechanical
drawing, manual training and ag­
riculture. Both of these depart­
ments are new to Kerby high
school, and capable teachers have
been secured.
The new teachers elected and
the teachers returning are:
Jerry Medcalf, principal, Athlet­
ics and boys P. E.
Sara Wertz, Home Economics,
History and girls P. E.
Esther Pickett, English and Pub­
lic Speaking.
Mrs. T. Darrell Foster, Commer­
cial.
Mr. T. Darrell Foster, Math, and
Science.
L. J. Jameson, Music.
Hiram C. Smith, Industrial Arts.
Mr. Medcalf has been elected
as superintendent for both the
grade and high school. Both schools
will be under his supervision. All
the teachers for the Kerby grade
scho<^ have not yet been secured.
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Del Norte Bulb
Growers Discuss
Marketing Plans
(From Crescent City Triplicate)
Marketing of bulbs produced by
growers in this area appeared to
be the chief concern of members
of the Del Norte Bulb Growers as­
sociation as demonstrated by dis­
cussions at their meeting held at
the Fort Dick Grange hall last
Monday night. The importance’ of
marketing local bulbs under uni­
form packing was stressed by sev­
eral speakers with the result that
a motion was passed instructing
the association’s executive commit­
tee to arrange for suitable- facili­
ties in Crescent City, including a
packing hou.fe and experienced
(Continued on Page Eight)
crew to insure standard packing
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and shipping.
The meeting was well attended
Workers Turn in
by growers from all parts of the
Red Cross Donations
county with E. J. Williams, presi­
dent of the association presiding.
The volunteer workers in the Reports of the joint meeting with
valley did a remarkable job with the southern Curry county club
the Red Cross drive, and the valley were given by Mrs. Ted Short and
residents did themselves proud Secretary Ed Farmer.
with their donations.
Members of the association ap­
While the entire total has not peared satisfied with bulb prices
yet been determined, we are over as announced for this coming Fall
the one thousand mark, and this is by H. T. James, prominent grower
a mighty good showing for us.
of Harbor, as follows: Sixes 50c
Following are the names of each; sevens 65c each; eights 70c
solicitors and amounts as far a» each; nines 75c each; and 80c each
we have them:
for tens. The standard price for
I.aquc Youngblood,
bulblets is to be $10.00 per pound
Kerby
$ 170 00 for proven stock.
Mrs. Mellow and Mrs.
The next meeting of the group
Dow. Cave- highway
17 ’,.00 1 will take place on Monday eve­
Harry Floyd. Holland
174.98 i i ning, April 16th at the Fort Dick
Mrs. Villair and helpers,
Grange hall at which time it is
Cave Junction
578.00 expected the executive committee
Cave City Theater
83.00 will bring in a report on the mar­
Clarence Sawyer.
keting problem.
Caves highway
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Grayce Hudron, Bridge­
O
’
Brien
Ladies
Ready for
view
70.00
Parade of Easter Aprons
Mrs. Anna Stiwalt,
O'Brien
69 oo
Plans are all completed by ladies
Total
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Selma and Takilma are yet to of the O'Brien club for their apron
and food sale to be held at Tem­
hear from.
ple's, Saturday, March 31st, ac­
(ejeeitim• >(•••••>••••• te«I»«»
cording to Mrs. Earl Boyd, chair­
man of the working committee.
COMING EVENTS
The ladies have been diligently
working for weeks making attrac­
tive aprons of prints and plain ma­
Friday, March 30—Garden Club terials, ruffled, appliqued, with
and Daffodil Tea, at home of
and without pockets, kitchen cov­
Mrs. H. O. Smith. Caves high­
erall and dainty tea ones.
way.
Also for that Easter breakfast
Friday, March 30—Kerby Rod 4 anl dinner, they will have on sale
Gun club, I. O. O. F. halll. 8:30 fresh eggs, cream butter, delicious
p. m.
cakes, pies, cookies and cottage
Saturday. March 31—Stockman's cheese. The sale starts at 11 a.
meeting, Bridgeview Grange m.. so get there promptly and effi­
hall.
cient sales ladies will be on hand to
give service with a .smile.
Sunday, April 1—Easter.
Price Five Cents
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Youngblood’s Market
Granges Ownership
Another large transaction took
place last week, when Laque and
Juanita Youngblood sold their
market in Kerby to Roy C. Evans
and John Parker, recently from
Los Angeles.
The new owners took possession
this week and cordially invite the
residents of the valley to call at
this popular grocery and get ac­
quainted with the new owners.
Their intention is to carry on this
business in the same high class
manner that the former owners
did. and when conditions permit
additional improvements will be
added to the store.
Mr. and Mrs. Youngblood have
made many friends in the valley
who will be sorry to see them
leave. They have no immediate
plans for the future, however, and
may be in Kerby for some time.
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Whiteheads Sell Cafe to
Selma Residents
Last Monday Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Whitehead sold the Owl Cafe to
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson of Sel­
ma, the new owners taking posses­
sion that day.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead have
owned the Owl for the past six
years, and have made hundreds of
friends in the valley. They will
move to Holland as soon as pos­
sible to their new home which they
have purchased from Mrs. Vivian
Grimmett, of Somerton, Arizona.
Jim Whitehead will devote his
time to a new saw mill which he is
interested in near Holland with
Gordon Leonard. They expect to
have the mill in operation in the
near future.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson will con­
tinue to run the Owl Cafe along
the same high standard which it
has been operated in the past, and
they invite- the residents of the
valley to call and get acquiinted.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead want
to sincerely thank their many
friends for their loyal patronage
in the past and hope they will con­
tinue this patronage to the new
owners.
POMONA GRANGE
MEETS SATURDAY
On Saturday evening at 8 -o’clock
March 31st at the Redwood Grange
hall, Josephine County Pomona
Grange will hold its second regu­
lar meeting for this year. Reports
and discussion on subjects of in­
terest to all are expected, includ­
ing reports from all the Granges
in the county on the current Red
Cross drive, progress of the Rogue
Valley Dairy Co-operative, and the
Japanese problem.
Included in the program, pre­
pared by Marion Brooks, Pomona
Lecturer, will be- a dialogue by the
Rogue River Valley Grange Juv­
eniles, and a film presented by
County Agricultural Agent Jens
Svinth. Refreshments will be ice
cream, cake- and coffee. Ladies
of the Grange will bring the cake.
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WHAT THE LEGION
AUXILIARY IS DOING
At last social night the birthday
of the American Legion was cele­
brated. The County Veteran’s
Council met with the Legionnaires
and among the guests were Hugh
Gould, county service officer; Al
Drolette, president of the Veter­
an’s council; Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Coutant. Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson; Mr. and Mrs.
Hanson; Mr. and Mrs. Wood;
Messrs. Feris, Garrett, Moss and
Fredrickson. An appropriately dec­
orated birthday cake was displayed
before cutting, it being too large
for the table. Greetings were read
from Aunt Mary and Uncle Homer
White who also enclosed a five- dol­
lar bill for the Legion treasury.
Mrs. Taylor, Auxiliary president,
told of a planned gift which would
materialize later.
We were pleased to see so many
of our friends at the card party.
Another will be held in two weeks.
Cave City Theater Has
Double Attraction for
Saturday and Sunday
That hilariously funny screen
comedy “Johnny Doesn’t Live Here
Any More” comes to the theater
Saturday and Sunday with Simone
Simon and co-stars, William Terry
and Janies Ellison. Jerry Maren,
a midget, not more than three feet
tall, appears as a tiny, elfin grem­
lin, invisible to the characters but
always happily and busily engaged
in promoting laugh-jyovoking sit­
uations and mixups, all because the
artkss Miss Simon spills salt in a
railway car. The fun is nothing
less than riotous, and in the end
the story comes to the finish in
a startling climax. Foran evening
of fun and laughter, see this pic­
ture by all means.
Ma n From Music Mountain
The second feature is “Man
from Music Mountain” Roy Rog­
ers, with assistance from Bob No­
lan and “The Sons of the Pioneers”
lifts this picture well above the
category of average Western fare.
Roy is cast in the role of a cow­
boy gone radio entertainer, who
returns to the home town with his
program cronies, to entertain in
the City Hall. But before they
can get half way through their
program which is being broadcast,
an awakened feud between cattle­
men and sheepmen sweeps away
his audience.
The plot carries Roy and a ranch
owner through the troubled waters
of misunderstanding as Ruth Terry
has cause to suspect Roy of spy­
ing for the cattlemen. Needless
to say, it is all a plot against Roy
rigged up by the villains. All is
ironed out and Rogers captures the
villain, Marsh, who ends up in the
hoosegow, and Roy ends up back
on the platform crooning to the
town’s audience and radio’s mil­
lions.
Wednesday and Thursday
t Coming Wednesday and Thurs­
day is the romantic feature, "Night
of Adventure,” with Tom Conway
and Jean Brooks.
“Night of Adventure” is just
what the name implies. Adven­
ture, spelled with capital letters is
what this picture puts out. You’ll
be thrilled and pleased with the
rapid fire action that comes next
Wednesday and Thursday.
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Health Clinic
At the Health CMnic last Wed­
nesday
9 diphtheria immunizations
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were given; two vaccinations for
DANCE SATURDAY
smallpox; five medical treatments
The American Legion will give and one school child examined.
a dance Saturday, March 31st, in The next clinic will be on Wednes­
the Legion hall. Indies Auxiliary day, April 11th.
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will serve midnight lunch. Come
early and enjoy yourself.
-BUY WAR BONDS—
News from Our
Boys and Girls
In the Service
The Philippines
Feb. 28, 1945
Dear Folks: It has been so long
since I have written that you prob­
ably wonder what has become of
me. As you can see, I have really
been getting around. Boy, this
place sure is an improvement over
New Guinea. I don’t suppose there
is an awful lot I can tell you about
only I am right at the place that
I wanted to come to and I have
seen some of the war first hand.
We are on the outskirts of a city
and will probably move into town
as soon as a suitable building for
our shop and quarters can be
found.
Here, you can really see the
damage of war and it is pretty
bad. Even so this is easily the
most colorful and interesting place
I have been in so far. It is a place
of contrasts between old and new.
The streets are crowded with army
vehicles, some nice shiny civilian
cars, little horse drawn carts
(some of the carts are very fancy
and the horses are all small ponies)
big two wheel carts drawn by wa­
ter buffalo, and people carrying
bundles on their head. Of course,
there is quite an American look
to the signs and billboards, and
the products advertised on them.
It looks as though we are going
to have an awful big job of refrig­
eration work but it’s sure- going to
be interesting, and for once I am
getting into a base right at the
start of things insead of after
everything is finished. Laundry
is no problem here. The Filipino
women do it for us and they really
do a fine job. In fact, I don't see
how they get the stuff so clean.
You give it to them one day and
they have it back the next day, all
dry and folded. I turned some
in yesterday. One shirt and a pair
of pants had tears in them. When
she brought them back today the
torn places were patched and look­
ed nice too.
Well it is time to turn mail in
so I had better quit. Love to
Grandma.
Love, PHIL.
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The- Philippines
March 10, 1945
Dear Folks: I guess it is about
time for me to be writing. That is
I'll write if the candle holds out.
There is just enough breeze
through here that candle light is
not very dependable. We- are liv­
ing in a big modem building in
town but we have no electricity. It
is a big school building we are liv­
ing in. I am having a hard time
writing this. There is a big ar­
gument going on about how the
different races started from Adam
and Eve. One of the boys got a
Bible out and they are trying to
settle it. I doubt if they will
though. I don’t think that has
ever been completely explained.
They say I can tell you the plac­
es that I have been to or been
stationed in just so I don't give any
dates or organizations. You will
probably need a map to look these
up. In New Guinea I have been
at Milne Bay, Oro Bay, Finschaf-
en, Hollandia, and I have landed
at Port Moresby, but I was only
tlhere for about two hours. Then
I have been at Biak and Leyte.
That is all in the past. I can’t
say where I am now.
We worked today tearing down
some blowers in a wrecked cold
storage plant. It was in an area
where there is still an occasional
sniper. There were plenty of dark
rooms in the building, so you can
bet we were pretty cautious and
we had our rifles right handy.
Everything was O. K. though.
There had been fish stored there
and it was all spoiled. I tell you
(Continued on Paco Four)
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Kerby Rod & Gun
Club to Meet Friday
A very important meeting of the
Kerby Rod 4 Gun club will be held
Friday evening at 8 p. m. in the
I. O. O. F. hall in Kerby.
Two reels of interesting and in­
structive pictures will be shown
from the Oregon State Game Com­
mission and an additional reel in
technicolor, made bv Clark Gable
which everyone should see.