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
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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.
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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.
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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
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♦ 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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—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,
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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.