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University uf 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 IX. No. 8 Cave Junction. Oregon. Thursday, June 21, 1945 TALL IN THE SADDLE’ Kerby Grade AT LOCAL THEATER ' Washington SATURDAY, SUNDAY ! Weekly Letter Elects Three New Directors I 1 By HARRIS ELLSWORTH OPA. The next problem to be faced by the House is the consid eration of the extension of the Price Control Act (OPA). The Senate has already acted on this legislation and incorporated in the bill both of the cost of production mendments—The Wherry amend ment prohibiting the setting of prices on farm products below the producers’ cost of production and a similar amendment authored by Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, ap plying to meat processing and oth er manufactured food products. I have attended some of the hearings held by the House Bank ing and Currency Committee on this legislation. The stories of the abusive legislation of the OPA act are enough to give the most hard ened supporter of Chester Bowles, the OPA Administrator, a severe «hill. As I have said before the Con gress faces an impossible situation with reference to the OPA prob lem. Price control is necessary. The Price Control Act is basically a good law. The difficulties, short ages and persecutions that have resulted stem from executive or ders and administrative practices. We can incorporate a few more «hecks and safeguards against such mal-administration, but we «annot write administrative de tails into the law. The troubles with OPA are troubles born in the < xecutive department of the gov ernment, and must finally be cor rected there. President Truman will surely soon be compelled to overhaul the functioning of his price control agency. • * * SUMMER HEAT. Washington has enjoyed an unusually cool and delightful spring. Until this week the weather has been very similar to the very best Oregon spring and summer climate, but the high temperature and high humidity combination is going full blast now. It is extremely unpleasant. Apparently most of the urgent business of Congress can be fin ished by the end of this month. It is anticipated that a recess will be declared shortly after July 1st until after Labor Day. I hope, therefore, to be able to spend half of July and all of August in Ore gon. • • • EISENHOWER VISIT. Prep arations are being rapidly com pleted here for the triumphal re turn of General Eisenhower. He and a number of other officers who are returning with him will be taken in a procession from the army headquarters offices in the Pentagon Building to the Capitol, where he will appear and speak at a joint session of Congress. This will be a great event here, and I suspect the pomp and cere mony of it will be enjoyed by (Continued on Page 12) ------------- V----- ‘------- ♦ COMING EVENTS ♦ At the Kerby grade school elec tion held last Monday evening from 7 to 9 p. m., three new direc tors were elected and the budget was passed by a vote of 0 for and 3 against. For a school election, this was a very good turnout. The three new directors were chosen all received a good ma jority of votes, but with no names having been filed, the voters did not know who to vote for and con sequently many received votes that they knew nothing about. The following list was voted: For chairman of the board of directors, 1 year term: Arthur Kellert M Walter Freeman 5 Marvin Cross......... 5 Mildred Norman 2 Dick Sowell Wm. J. McLean 2 ... 1 R. E. Nealy I For directors the highest num ber of votes was for three years and the next highest for two years: Marvin Cross 1'' Doyl Hamilton 13 Walter Freeman 8 Clarence Dougherty Dick Nealy Dick Sowell Arthur Kellert Di. A. N. Collman 1 George Martin Ben George John Smith - Art Drews Evans H. York \\ A. Hoskins Fred Kaufman A. E. Krieger «Mildred Norman 1 ( . Y. Arnold Olaf I.itrsi n 1 The election gives Arthur Kel lert the chairman for the one year term, and Marvin Cross and Doyl Hamilton, directors, for the three and two year terms. ------------- V-------------- KEN WELLS BRINGS HOM EHIS BRIDE Sgt. Esther Meade member of the WACS and Kenneth Wells T'/5 were married on February 17, in California, and were in the val ley the past week to surprise their many relatives and friends, and to get acquainted. They accompanied Mrs. John Ulrich and son, Johnny, of Holland to Klamath Falls last Thursday, to visit at the home of Ken’s father. George Wells, brothel, Jim. also to spend a day with his sister, Ha zel George. During their visit Keith Wells received a furlough and surprised his wife and two sons, who were also visiting in Klamath Falls. He has been work ing in the postoffice in San Fran cisco. Mr. and Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Ulrich came home Sunday and the Wells’ left again for Klamath Falls on Wednesday. Miss Elizabeth Mellow left with them and will return home before July 4th. ------------- V-------------- I - Thursday and Friday, June 21-22 pre school health —Examiners for drivers and ( LINK’ ON JUNE 27 chauffeurs, at Legion hall. On June 27. Dr. S. B. Osgood Thursday, June 28—Kerby Rod St Gun Club meets at IOOF hah, will be in Cave Junction for the semi-monthly Health C linic. Kerby, 8 p. m. Mi's. Phipps of the County Friday, June 29—Illinois Valley Garden club, at home of Mrs. Health Department has advised that the pre-school age group Harry Messenger. Kerby. Chamber of Commerce meets ev from the Kerby district will be ery fourth Tuesday of the given special attention. Immuni month. Meeting place to be des zations, examinations and recom mendations for necessary treat ignated. I ndies’ Auxiliary meet the first ment or correctives will be given and third Wednesday of each free of charge. During July and August the month. County Health Department would O’Brien Women's club meets on the second Friday of each like to have pre-school age groups from other school districts for ex month. Marguerite Rebekah Lodge No. amination. The clinic’s main purpose is the Ill meets the second Wednes day of each month at I. 0. 0. F. prevention of diseases. Dr. Osgood ' and his staff are in Cave Junction hall. Kerby. the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of I. O. 0. F. Lodge No. 55 meets each month. The American Le second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, I. O. O. F. hall, gion Auxiliary room is donated for this purpose and the ladies of the Kerby. Belt Lodge, A. F. 4 A. M. meets Auxiliary assist Dr. Osgood and his staff. fourth Saturday each month. Ever since the days of the nick elodeon, there have been “unwrit ten laws” attached to the making of western pictures. The name of the man who thought them up is wrapt in mystery. He’s probably dead by now but his spirit, like that of John Brown’s, goes march ing on. RKO Radio has just made a western picture. “Tall in the Sad dle”, starring John Wayne ami Ella Raines. It’s stricty Grade A and comes to the Cave City the ater Saturday and Sunday nights. Hero John Wayne doesn’t make gooey speeches to his faithful horse. In fact, he hasn’t got a horse at all at the beginning of the picture. He has only a sad dle. When the picture gets undei way, it’s strapped on to a cayuse he’s never seen before. It prob ably becomes faithful in time, one hopes. Heroine Ella Raines is not a petticoated schoolmarm who tries to force good grammer into the hero's speech. She’s a two-gun, rip snortin’ hard-riding spit fire who considers herself the equal of any two men in the whole “go) durned” country, until she meets more than her match in Wayne. Hero Wayne does not tell Bad Man Douglas through tight lips, "I’ll lick you with my bare hands.’’ Instead, cleans up on Douglas with everything upon which he can lay his bare hands — chairs, bottles, Of course, there is plenty of hard riding in “Tall in the Sad dle” and with plenty of motive. Wednesday and Thursday Brings Double Feature Ancestral ghosts, vicious gor illas and a kidnaped girl, all con spire to make “Gildersleeve’s Ghost,” which runs Wednesday and Thurslay at the Cave City the ater in which Harold Peary is featured. Peary enacts the triple role of Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve and two of his long dead ancestors who materialize to put over a scheme to ensure his election as Police Chief of Summerfield. Involved in the scheme are a rascally professor and his assist ant who are experimenting to make man or beast invisible, their subjects being a kidnapped girl and a savage gorilla. How Gildersleeve, in his efforts to unmask the professor, is con sidered crazy, and how he finally emerges a hero, forms a well-knit comedy, guaranteeing laughs from start to finish. The other feature hits peaks of hiltarity in its account of a pair of trouble-haunted soldiers and their adventures with the Japs. “Rookies in Burma” co-stars Wal ly Brown and Alan Larney and supplies a wealth of laughter. The film proves itself one of the season’s fun hits as Private Miller and Strager leap from one hot situation into another. Ably supported by Erford Gage as a conscientious but despairing ser geant. Joan Barclay and Claire Carleton as a pair of stranded (Continuedim Page Seven) VALLEY BULB LAND IS SOLD Recently H. C. Leming, who owns quite a large number of acres of virgin bulb land, sold to Herb Payne of Brookings, approximate ly 23 acres of his holdings on Alt- house creek. This is sandy-loam soil, admir ably adapted to bulb raising. .Mr. Payne is one of the large bulb growers around Brookings. It is freely talked on the streets that soon several Brookings bulb grow ers wjll be looking for bulb land in the valley, as the bulbs here are reported as some of the best, and there is a ready market for all that are raised here. Mr. Leming still has his acre age of bulbs and has plenty left to keep enlarging his plantings. Several acres have already been plowed for the fall planting, and the ground will be in tip-top shape when fall comes. -------------- V--------------- Mrs. J. H. Dow was transacting business in Grants Pass on Tues day. Special Election Friday Referred to the people at the last legislature two measures will be on the ballot for the general voting public to mark. The two measures are the Tax Levy for state buildings and the, cigaret tax for school purposes. Besides these two measures, in Josephine county there will be the County School Law, which is some times referred to as the County School Unit system. Also you must vote on whether you would like to have Grants Pass school district go with the rest of the county in the new school law. The first measure — the tax levy for state buildings — we hope the general public will understand this measure. It should pass with a hundred percent vote, for the tax levy the bill calls for, will never be collected. The state al ready has the money in the bank to build with but the people MUST vote the tax in order to use the monej’ that has already been col lected. There will be no addi tional tax collected. The state institutions are in ur gent need of reconstruction. Some of the buildings where the insane and penitentiary people are hous ed, are a disgrace to any state. We have the money on hand to do the job. All that is holding up the parade is to have the people vote the tax so it can be used. The cigaret measure—let’s skip it. You take your choice. ------------- V-------------- High School Thurs., June 28 The Kerby Union high school. District U-l, will hold their annual election for one director and to vote the budget, next Thursday, June 28th, at the high school building in Kerby. Petitions have been circulated and there will be two names on the ballot for the new director to be elected. Charles Baird of Ta kilma and Ben George, residence on the Dick George road, are the two named. Besides the election of the di rector, the budget must be voted. Th«><e interested in school matters should make it a date and vote the budget. The polls will be open from 2 p. m. until 7 p. m. Don’t get these hours confused with the grade school voting hours. ------------- V------------- New (’old Storage Lockers for Valley W. E. Craning and George Bon ner, two men recently discharged from the armed forces, will short ly finish constructing a new cold storage locker plant for the Il linois valley. The new venture is located in the old Woodbury building, just north of Walt Free man’s new garage, and the lockers will be completed about August 1st. Mr. Craning was a former pri vate in the infantry, machine gun ner. and served in Alaska. Mr. Bonner is a retired Navy com mander, having served in World War I and the present war. Both men are new comers to the valley, but Craning is a former Grants Pass citizen. The new lockers, Mr. Craning said, will be the very latest that money can provide, with a Harris Clear Frozen Air device, which eliminates any odor from foods and also eliminates any danger of asphyxiation from ammonia or other gases commonly used in re frigeration. The owners will give many free services to users of the lockers, among them a curing out room, a power saw and cutting room, a wrapping room, a smoke house, brine barrels and assistance in preparation of fruits and vege tables and various foods. Price Five Cents Garden Club to Elect New Officers On Friday, June 29, the Illinois Valley Garden club will hold their election of new officers for the year and members are requested to make an effort to attend this meeting which will be held at the home of Mrs. Harry Messenger in Kerby. The election, which ordin arily would have been held this Friday, was postponed on account of the school election coming on the same date, and some of the members had to serve on the elec tion board. Mrs. Sam Bunch will give a res ume of the 1945 Rose Annual, and Garden Calendar by Mrs. M. C. Athey. Folwer arrangements will be displayed by Mi's. Chris Wendt, Mrs. Bert Watkins and Mrs. Rob ert Walton. ------------- V-------------- HEAT WAVE HITS SOUTHERN OREGON The last few days the thermom eter has climbed up to 100 degrees and the warm atmosphere has made things grow like nobody’s business. While the days are hot, the eve nings are cool, and no one suffers from the heat in this delightful climate. We have been asking our selves if summer would ever come. It looks like she has arrived and with a vengeance. ------------- V-------------- BANK DEPOSITORS CAN BUY BONDS Savings depositors of the First National Bank of Portland have been given an added incentive to make additional purchases of War Bonds before the end of the cur rent Seventh War Loan drive ac cording to an announcement by R. K, Hackett, manager of the Grants Pass Branch. “Depositors of our bank who withdraw funds from their savings accounts between now and the 30th of June for the purchase of War Bonds will be paid full in terest on their deposits through the end of June, even though the money is withdrawn before that time, which is the normal interest payment date,” stated Manager Hackett. “It is the sincere desire of the First National Bank to do every thing in its power to assist Ore gon to maintain its leadership in War Bond buying. We hope our depositors who have idle money in savings accounts will put that money to work for their country by buying War Bonds during the current drive. This allowance of full interest on their deposits thru June 30 should encourage many to invest their funds in War Bonds, declared Mr. Hackett in making this announcement. War Bond application blanks should be presented to savings window tellers upon withdrawal of funds so that full credit for in terest earned may be credited to savings accounts by the hirst Na tional, according to the announce ment. -------------- V-------------- Shrine Ceremonial Has Largest Class Last Saturday afternoon and evening, Hillah Temple of the Mys tic Shrine held a ceremonial at the county fair grounds when the largest class ever to be taken in by Hillah wax initiated. There were 110 in the class and they were from all parts of southern Oregon. Every Shriner from the valley was in attendance, and they all re ported a very entertaining meet ing. Charlie Johnson was a mem ber of the class. During the cere monies, Shrine clubs presented Sam Baker, member of the board for the Shriner’s Crippled Child ren’s hospital in Portland, wax presented with checks amounting to over $17,000.00. Valley Shriners who attended were: Bob Hill, Harry Floyd, How ard Bearss, K, C. Hamilton, George Martin, Dr. A. N. Collman, I«ew Hammer, Art Kellert and M. C. Athey. -------------- V-------------- —BUY WAR BONDS— Lester Wilcox Explains the Unit System Last Tuesday eveWing, I.ester A. Wilcox, legal advisor of the State Board of Education, made the trip from Salem at the request of the Illinois Valley Chamber of Com merce, to explain to the people of the valley what the proposed county school law was all about. To the everlasting shame of th«' valley people who should be inter ested in their schools and know what this new law would do, only seven people from the valley at tended the meeting. Mrs. Mar garet Stanton county school sup erintendent brought Mr. Wilcox out. Instead of making a speech. Mi. Wilcox just had a round table dis cussion on the county unit system. He asked if there were any ques tions anyone wanted to ask, and Mr. Athey, of The News, said there was just one question that was uppermost in his mind he would like to have answered. “If the proper management was obtained, would the county school unit system functon to the best interests of the county school sys tem to the majority of school children?” To this question, Mr. Wilcox answered, “Definitely yes.” Then he went on to say that that has been all the trouble where the county system has been tried anil had some difficulty—the man agement was not up to par. That was not his exact words but the meaning is the same. With proper supervision, the county unit sys tem is a step forward. Where the county unit system is well super vised, it has proven a great asset to the county school system. Many questions were asked by others, and very satisfactory an swers were given. The meeting was very educational. Those there listened to many ideas that will prove very helpful in school mat ters. Mr. McLean asked this ques tion: “Why, if the school system is such an improvement, have not more counties tried to put it in force?” He said that this ques tion is one of the most usually asked. Mr. Wilcox said in answer that the county school unit is a new venture .and people are reticent in stepping out into new ideas not knowing what it will lead to. If properly administered, the unit system is an advancement. GOLD MINING TO RESUME The War Production Board re cently announced that it would permit the resumption of gold min ing on July 1st. The action per mits reopening of gold operations which have been shut down since October, 1942, when WPB issued its famed “Order L.208" to con serve supplies and machinery for the more urgently needed war met als, copper, lead and zinc. A state geologist predicted to day that War Production Board permission to resume gold mining July 1 would not have much af fect in Oregon. Fay W. Libbey, director of the State Department of Geology anil Mineral Industries, said lode mine-« require new materials not avail able. Some dredging companies however, may resume operations, he said. He predicted that the new rul« would create less than 200 jobs in the mining counties of Baker, Grant, Josephine and Jackson. He estimated less than $1,000,000 of gold would be produced during this year, with full-scale operations re sumed in 1946, -------------- V-------------- - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETS NEXT TUESDAY The Illinois Valley Chamber >f Commerce will meet next Tuesday and cards will be mailed out stat ing where it will be held. Several important subjects are up f >r d <- cushion so members and other« in terested in civic problems arc in vited to attend.
