University of Oregon
Gateway to The Oregon Caves
Illinois Valley News
A Live Wire Nt'wsiu»;»er Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts
Volume IX
No. 11
Garden Club
Elects New
The June Garden club meeting
was held at the home of Mrs. E.
H. Messenger in Kerby, with Mrs.
Lucius Robinson and Mrs. Clay
Ramsey as assisting hostesses.
Decorations in the living room
were unusual plants brought from
the Coos bay region by Mrs. H.
O. Smith and Mrs. Gladys King,
who had recently returned from
that district where they were on
official business of the Federation
Plans were discussed for the an­
nual picnic which is to be held
Friday, July 27th, at Grayback
government camp. An invitation
has been extended the Grants
Pass Garden club to participate in
the event.
In the State bird essay contest
third prize was won by Mrs. Lida
Miller. Mrs. J. J. Villair won the
mrytlewood bowl donated by Mrs.
Clay Ramsey, Mrs. Elizabeth Hol­
land drawing the winning number
for the prize.
The' election of officers for the
ensuing year were as follows:
President, Mrs. C. G. Morris; vice
president, Mrs. Chris Wendt; sec­
retary-treasurer, Mrs. L. W. Mon­
roe. and historian, Mrs. B. L. Mil­
ler. The new officers will be in­
stalled at the next meting.
Mrs. Smith gave a short and
interesting review of the 1945
Rose annual and Garden Calendar
by Mrs. M. C. Athey was read
by Mrs. Wendt.
Delicious raspberry shortcake
and coffee were served by the
hostesses at the conclusion of the
meeting.
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CAVE JUNCTION COMMUNITY
CHURCH
Mrs. Ruby Nicholsen was in
charge of Sunday school after an
absence of several weeks. The
Feltogram has been discontinued
in the opening exercises and will
be used by Naomi Seat and Ger-
tifl^e Martin in the beginners and
primary classes.
Mary England is pianist while
Grace Iversen is visiting in Port-
land.
Visitors were Carlene Rust,
Richard Green of Grants Pass, Le­
land Hansen, George Pepperdine
and son, George, Jr., of Los An­
geles, Mrs. Drake and Irene Drake
and Bobby Welsh, and Roger
Frantz. Donald Hostetler, Willard
Krabill. Leonard Pauls. Ray Mast,
Jr., Elon Eash, all of the Range
Station, and Carolyn Rust of the
Junior class.
Last Friday a worker's meeting
and a special meeting Tuesday,
was held at Mrs. Nicholson’s home
for the purpose of planning a cen­
tralized worship service.
Next Sunday, July 15th, the
community sing will be held from
2 to 4 p. m.. and everyone is cor­
dially invited to take part in this
service.
Rev. Gray read Isiah 55 and his
text was from Romans 11:33. Two
quartet numbers were “Jesus Is
Mine” and “Love Divine” by Rog­
er Frantz, Ray Mast, Jr., Elon
Fash and Willard Krabill.
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Mr. and Mrs. George Thrasher
returned this week from several
days visit in Portland.
♦ COMING EVENTS ♦
Illinois Valley Garden club meets
the fourth Friday of each month.
Chamber of Commerce meets ev­
ery fourth Tuesday of the
month. Meeting place to be des­
ignated.
O'Brien Women's club meets on
the second Friday of each
month.
Ladies' Auxiliary meet the first
and third Wednesday of each
month.
Marguerite Rebekah Lodge No.
111 meets the second Wednes­
day of each month at I. 0. 0. F.
hall, Kerby.
I O. O. F. Lodge No. 55 meets
second and fourth Tuesdays of
each month. I. 0. O. F. hall,
Kerby.
Price Five Cents
Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, July 12, 1945
“SUNDAY DINNER
FOR A SOLDIER"
“Sunday Dinner for a Soldier”
is anything but a conventional
“movie”.
Timely, escapist and
earthly, this comedy drama, based
on Martha Cheaven’s recent Good
Housekeeping magazine story, pos­
sesses a novel setting in a pictur­
esque, tropical lagoon on the Flor­
ida gulf coast.
Here, on a weatherbeaten house­
boat moored on a palm-dotted
strand lives a family of five. Im­
provised, but spiritually rich, they
range from a well-meaning, but
fumbling white-whiskered grand-
father to a piping-voiced grand-
child of seven years.
In explaining how this picture
came about, the drector said he
believes firmly that there is a
burning need and a ripe demand
for pictures which, like “The Sul
livans” and “Sunday Dinner for
a Soldier” say plainly, though
cheerfully and truthfully, “This
is how America ives, this is how
America thinks, this IS -America.”
Wednesday and Thursday Bring«
“Snowwhite and Seven Dwarf»' »»
The ever-popular “Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs”, the color­
ful, technicolor full length feature
cartoon by Disney, perhaps his
most famous. comes to the Cave
City theater Wednesday and
Thursday.
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We are told of a place that is
paved with good intentions and yet
continually swept by fire. Many
bare hills here in Oregon are con­
stant reminders that we should
be safe by being sure that the last
spark is out before we leave any
fire. Keep Oregon Green.
Bachelor Sewing Club
Meeting At Selma
Futuie Rosy Fed. Housing
For Redwood
Empire Told
(From G. P. Courier)
"We can’t be too optimistic
about the future of the Redwood
Empire if all nine member coun­
ties of the association work to­
gether and present a united front
as they have in the past,” George
C. Hoberg, president of the Red­
wood Empire association, told al­
most 100 Josephine county resi­
dents who were at the Chamber of
Commerce luncheon meeting held
last Monday in the Redwood hotel
dining room.
Here for the day to discuss the
organization and talk over plans
for the future, Mr. Hoberg and
Miss Valerie Kuhn, manager; Miss
Alice Taylor, assistant, and Rich­
ard Fleisher, real estate unit chair­
man of the association. The speak­
ers were introduced by W. E. New
combe, vice-president of the asso­
ciation for this county.
Mr. Hoberg told of the fine
work done by C. H. Demaray, past
president, who attended every
meeting of his term of two years
at his own expense. He compli-
mented the past president for the
effort he had given in “selling”
the Redwood Empire as well as
Josephine county, its only Oregon
member.
The association is a non-profit
group, he said, whose purpose is
to sell to the tourist trade of the
w’orld the excellent vacation pos­
sibilities of this area. We can hold
our own as long as the nine mem­
ber counties stick together.
Mis» Kuhn Outlines Policy
M iss Kuhn, in the outstanding
talk of the day, explained that the
association’s leaders had come be­
fore Josephine county residents to
tell them of the working of the
nine-county unit and to find out
just what Josephine county’s prob­
lems are and what the county
wished from the organidation. She
outlined briefly the early history
of the organization, showing how
it had come about when the coun­
ties involved found that they could
get nowhere alone. Each, in its
demands, was a competitor of
every other, with the result that
other areas presenting a united
front were accomplishing what this
area wanted.
The manager explained briefly
the organization of the associa­
A fool and his money are soon tion’s executive board, made up
parted. The forests of Oregon of the president, a vice-president
represent many millions of dollars from each of the nine counties,
to the Oregon taxpayer, Don't be and all past presidents of the as­
foolish, Use extreme caution with sociation. Each county selects
its own directors, who in turn elect
fire. Keep Oregon Green.
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the vice-presidents to represent
the county. The board serves en­
CARD OF THANKS
tirely w’ithout remuneration. Miss
Kuhn pointed out.
We wish to express our heart­
She told of what the past work
felt thanks to neighbors and of the association had been before
friends for their many kindnesses the war, and how, when World
during
~ our recent bereavement, r War
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began,
the association
was
the loss of our beloved husband. | face(] with a new problem, Con­
father and brother, James E. I tinuing with only a skeleton crew,
Lewis, and for the beautiful floral ' the staff went into the USO’s, the
offerings, especially to the mill I Red Cross centers, the officers'
and wood crew for their floral of­ clubs, and the GI's strongholds to
fering. and to the Masonic body sell the men and women on coming
who conducted the services.
through the empire on their way
KATE D. LEWIS.
to and from furloughs and leaves
GRAYCE HUDRON.
and to interest them in the possi-
BLANCH CORY.
bilities of the area for postwar
EILEEN WOODCOCK.
travel.
THELMA MAURER,
The San Francisco conference
ELIZABETH HOLLAND.
was a “prize thrown in the laps of
MARY F. HIATT,
the association,” for it brought
EVA WETHERBEE.
more than 3000 top flight newspa
JOHN M. LEWIS.
per men and women of the world
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into the city where the headquar­
A penny saved is a penny ters of the association is located.
earned, but dollars are lost in for­ The publicity director of the as­
ests burned.
It may be your sociation was a member of the
neighbor’s property but every Mayor’s committee to take charge
tree lost by fire is money out of of the members of the press, Miss
Protect payrolls. Kuhn said.
your pocket.
Keep Oregon Green.
The manager stated that in 1940
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the last year of normal tourist
business, $50,893,000 came to the
HEALTH CLINIC
Immunizations were given at counties of the Redwood Empire
the clinic on .Wednesday for two association in the form of tourist
whooping coughs; one diphtheria; trade. She urged the same spirit
one smallpox vaccination; five of cooperation in the future that
medical patients treated; one con­ there has been in the past.
“It is the duty of the Redwood
ference and one Schick test. The
next clinic will be on Wednesday,, , Empire association to bring the
July 25th when various immuni-1 tourists in the member counties,
rations will be given.
[«nd it is the duty of the chamber
The Boy’s Bachelor Sewing club
held their third meeting Wednes­
day, July 11th in Mrs. Norman’s
residence, Selma.
The following boys were en­
rolled: Dick Kelley, Jim Kelley,
Grant Cochran, Jim Hows, Doug­
las Plumlee, Victor Doughertv,
Frank Jones, Jimmy Radcliff, Don­
ald Warren and Henry Jones.
The project they are working
on now is either a carpenter ap­
ron or a camp cookery apron. They
meet every Wednesday afternoon.
Last Friday they held a joint pic­
nic with the girls sewing club a'.
Mrs. Norman’s picnic ground.
JIM KELLEY,
4-H Club News Reporter
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Next Monday, July 18th, Mr.
Maxwell of the Federal Housing
Agency, will be in the valley to
determine if there is a need for a
housing project that will allow the
construction of several modern
houses by private individuals.
All lumber men who are inter­
ested in getting homes for their
employes to live in and others, are
requested to attend a luncheon at
Clara’s Bungalow Cafe, Wednes­
day noon and let Mr. Maxwell
know what they would like.
The house shortage in the val­
ley is very acute and we are try­
ing to have this situation rem­
edied. The Illinois Valley Cham­
ber of Commerce has been instru­
ments in getting this work done
If anyone wishes to attend this
luncheon, it is necessary that tick
ets be purchased by Tuesday, so
the lunch can be prepared. Tick­
ets can be had from Wm. J. Mc­
Lean, Kerby, Hal Moore, Kerby
and M. C. Athey, Cave Junction.
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AUTO JUMPS ROAD
NEAR WONDER
An auto wreck that miraculously
spared the lives of the occupants
happened last Sunday morning
just south of Wonder, as the young
folks were returning from a dance
in Grants Pass.
The auto was owned and driven
by “Bud" Smith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Smith, who is here on
leave from the navy and his com­
panions were Mrs. Claude Tucker,
Miss Aileen Schneider and Lyle
None were hurt very
Fretias.
badly, Francis Badden was fol-
lowing behind the Smith car,
helped them out and took them to
the hospital in Grants Pass, All
returned to their homes Monday.
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TRAVEL IS HEAVY
AT CRATER LAKE
Travel to Crater Lake National
Park on July 4th was the heaviest
since the beginning of the war.
There was a total of 375 cars and
1787 visitors.
The day was ideal and the re­
flections on the lake were beauti­
ful. Many visitors were newcom­
ers to Oregon. The road around
the rim and out the north entrance
is not yet cleared of snow, which
is 30 feet deep in drifts. It will
probably be open in a week.
Prospective visitors are remind­
ed that there are no lodging, meals
or gasoline service available in the
park.
The road from Diamond lake
from Crater lake rim will be op­
ened to traffic today, Park Sup­
erintendent E, P. I^vitt has re­
ported.
The last snow drifts have been
removed, he said, and predicted
that the entire rim road circling
the lake would be opened by July
19th.
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Homer Hance, son of Jack
Hance, spent last week end visit-
ing his father. He is superintend
ent of the Pacific Olive company
at Visalia, Calif.
of commerce to hold the tourist’s
interests,” Miss Kuhn said in clos­
ing her talk.
C. H. Demaray, who held the
presidency of the association for
four years just before Mr. Hoberg
was given a standing ovation by
the visitors and by the Josephine
county members. He spoke brief­
ly of the Redwood Empire asso­
ciation’s being the "finest group
of people one could hope to work
with.”
The Grants Pass chamber pres­
ident, spoke briefly at the close
of the program to express his
thanks to Mr. Hoberg and staff
members for their trip to this
county.
Local residents who attended
the luncheon were, Wm. J. Mc­
Lean, Jerry Medcalf, M. C. Athey,
Jack Hance, Elwood Hussey and
Sam Miller.
LAST DAY TO
FILE FOR CLOVER
SEED IS SATURDAY
I.adino clover seed growers have
just this week in which to sign up
for field inspection if they plan
to certify any clover seed this
season, advises Jens F. Svinth.
county agricultural agent. Satur­
day at noon, July 14th, is the last
day applications may be submit­
ted to the county agent’s office.
Field inspection is the first
step in the certification program
and is necessary in order to deter­
mine the presence of white clover
which is objectionable for top
quality grade of seed. Seed of
I-adino and white clover are iden­
tical in color, size and shape,
which makes it all the more diffi­
cult to separate. The percentage
of white clover found in the field
determines to some extent the
grade of seed, although purity and
germination tests must also be
considered in establishing the final
grade.
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Class 2 Slaughterers
May Increase Quota
Any class 2 slaughterer who de­
sires to kill more lambs than his
present quota allows, may now se­
cure additional quota upon appli­
cation to the OPA district office
in Portland. The ony prerequisite
is that such slaughterers be regis­
tered with OPA as required by
OPA control order No. 1.
This action has been taken to
permit increased kill of lambs
during the western Oregon lamb
marketing period, say agricultural
leaders who have been urging re­
lief from the congested lamb sit­
uation in western Oregon.
It is suggested that slaughterers
limit their kill to available and
known outlets to prevent pile up
of meat. If lambs back up in pro­
ducers’ hands, OPA is expected to
take further action to relieve the
situation.
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VETERANS TO GET
FIRST ('HANCE AT
FARM MACHINERY
Veterans from this war return­
ing to agriculture to purchase or
operate a farm, are entitled to
special consideration in obtaining
new farm machinery under a
“preference certificate” plan an­
nounced by R. B. Taylor, chairman
of the state AAA committee.
AAA has been assigned respon
sibility for issuing preference cer­
tificates to veterans who are un­
able to obtain needed farm equip­
ment otherwise, Taylor said. Cer­
tificates take precedence over all
orders which dealers may have on
file except those carrying a WPB
priority rating for military use.
Under another arrangement
veterans are to have preference in
obtainng surplus war equipment
that they can use in reestablishing
themselves in the farming busi­
ness.
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Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Sherman and
son of Los Angeles, arrived re­
cently to visit the former’s par­
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Sher­
man for a few weeks.
Mrs. Susan Roettger of Los An­
geles arrived in Cave Junction to­
day (Thursday) to visit her daugh­
ter, Mrs. George J. Logan for sev­
eral weeks.
A marriage license was issued
Monday, July 9th in the county
clerk’s office at Grants Pass, to
George Alton Duncan of Kerby,
and Mabelle S. Jenkins of Wen­
atchee, Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corey of
Redding, Calif., and Mrs. Mary
Hiatt of Santa Rosa, left for their
respective homes, having been
called here by the recent death of
James Lewis of Bridgeview. Also
here for the funeral were Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Houck of Ashland and
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reynolds of
Grants Pass.
News from Our
Boys and Girls
In the Service
Irvin Leming of Bakersfield
Navy Air Ground crews spent his
furlough last week with his father,
H. C. I.eming.
Jack Sowell is home on leave
from the Pacific and is visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G.
Sowell of Kerby.
Wesley Vahrenwald returned
from Walla Walla. Wash., where
he spent several days with his
brother, Dale, who is confined in
the Veterans hospital in that city.
Dale was wounded last March
while on active duty somewhere in
Germany.
Ma
Danny Farlien Missing
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Farlien of
Cave Junction, have received word
that their son, Danny, is missing in
action. He was with the 383rd
Infantry, Co. B, 96th division.
Danny graduated from the Ker­
by high school in last year’s class
of 1944, and he entered the army
after school was out. He trained
at Camp Roberts, Calif., and left
for the war the first of this year.
Danny was one of the most
likeable boys in the valley, and his
hundreds of friends are hoping
that he comes out all right. Mr.
and Mrs. Farlien have the sym­
pathy of the entire valley and
are praying he will show up after
Okinawa is cleaned up.
M.1
Excerpt from a letter received
by friends in the valley from Mr.
and Mrs. Werner Huber in San
Francisco, about their son Ralph,
which will be of interest to our
readers is as follows:
“I saw Carl Theuerkauf's letter
in the News, so you know Ralph
got hurt by shell fire on Min­
danao. But altho it wasn’t ser­
ious enough to cripple his foot, it
was not as slight as Carl wrote
about. Ralph’s foot wasn't only
bruised but his toes were cut up
some and he spent quite a while
in the hospital and was awarded
the Purple Heart. He wrote us
that it took a number of days by
sea and land to get to a mainland
hospital and I feel quite sure the
army would not send a man that
far for bruises only.
However, he was more than
lucky at that. His wounds healed
up nicely and he rejoined his com­
bat unit and was put back in his
old job as platoon runner. He
wrote us that he had been given
a .80 caliber carbine instead of
the heavier garand he used to
carry as he also packs a small
radio and telephone. He is in his
5th campaign and has been in
many tight spots he says. It also
was his outfit that took back Cor-
regidor with the paratroopers and
I enclose a front page picture of
Ralph taken by a “Yank” photog­
rapher from there. It was rather
a shock for us to realize that this
tough looking front line soldier
was our Ralph and he says that
the picture almost scared himself,
but that after being shaved and
cleaned up he really doesn’t look
that bad, and neither did he tell
the photographer that he cams
from San Mateo, but as he was
reading a scrap of a San Mateo
paper which had blown into his
foxhole, the man just wrote ho
came from there.
Ralph’s unit was awarded a
Presidential citation for their ac­
tion on Leyte and a second ono
Corregidor. He also has the Com­
bat Infantryman’s badge. But all
we hope and pray is, that his luck
will hold out and he will get homo
whole and sane, some day.”
Editor’s Note: Photograph mail­
ed us of Pfc. Ralph Huber, Com­
pany A, 34th Infantry, making
front page copy, can be seen at
The News office this week beforo
being returned to Mr. and Mrs.
Huber as they want to keep it, it
being the only one they could ob­
tain.
When you are out in the wide
open spaces, treat your campfire
Corporal James E. Baldwin, son
as you would a child. It craves
of Mr. and Mr*. R. T. Baldwin,
attention and left to it* own de­
who i* in training at Fort Sill, Ok-
vice* may become destructive.
Keep Oregon Green.
(Conttnued on Pa*» Two»