University of 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. 36
Cave .Junction. Oregon, Thursday, January 3, 1946
G.P. Attorneys
I. V. Chamber Local Residents Rescued
From Swollen Streams
To Meet
To Talk at
C. C. Chamber
The scheduled meeting of the
City Chamber of Commerce will
take place in the Cave City theatre
at 8 p. m., December 7. This meet­
ing is for the purpose of getting
the people together for a discus­
sion of incorporation only. Mr.
Miller and Mr. Chinnock, attorneys
of Grants Pass have been invited
to be the guest speakers and will
answer questions asked by citizens
of this district.
The problem of incorporation is
something that every one should
give every consideration and be
prepared to ask questions that
bears directly upon the issue. The
boundaries were plated in last
week’s issue of the Illinois Valley
News and it is the chamber’s wish
that every one living in that ter­
ritory or who holds property in
this area will avail themselves of
this opportunity and be at this
coming meeting. The two pressing
problems that are before the com
munity are sewage disposal and
water system and cannot be solved
except by" doing everything indi­
vidually as has been, or by incor­
porating and doing the job col­
lectively.
There is a point to which a com­
munity can take care of problems
such as this individually.
It has been the chamber’s de­
cision that something has to be
done in a systematic and busines
way to insure the safety of the
city for both health and future
progress.
The high water of the last few
days have proved the inefficency
of the present system of individ­
ual sewage disposal.
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Price Five Cent«
January 8
Last week Old Jupe opened the buckets and let the entire Pacifie
coast have plenty of rain. Oregon seemed to be his pet peve, for all
through the Willamete valley and southern Oregon, he gave the resi­
dents a ducking they will not forget for some time.
Interesting data was secured from the local ranger station with
the following rainfall for the past six years. The average in the valley
was 54.22. Here’s the dope:
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
January
15.35
5.27
13.26
7.67
5.07
February
3.62
6.27
6.48
4.55
2.76
March
3.28
3.46
2.50
3.39
4.77
April
5.10
4.08
3.77
3.03
4.Ì2
May
4.20
2.34
6.89
1.26
1.43
June
.85
1.76
.19
.54
1.12
July ..
............ 03
.11
.00
.30
.34
August
.00
.02
.02
.44
.22
September
. 8.33
.99
.05
.68
.04
October
4.17
.72
1.09
7.52
1.10
November
4.10
5.92
18.79
4.75
12.75
i « M
1 1 94
December
17.7,3
5.90
6.27
The Illinois Valley Chamber of
Commerce will meet Tuesday eve­
ning at 7:30 in The House of
Todelope Cafe for dinner and their
regular scheduled business meet­
ing.
This will be the first meeting
of the chamber with the new of-
ficers, and President Medcalf is
expecting a good turnout, Con-
siderable business is up for con­
sideration and members are re­
quested to be present.
Anyone interested in the devel­
opment of the valley is cordially
invited to attend the meeting and
TOTALS
52.03
58.96
65.18
47.69
39.12
62.94
become a member of the Valley December, 1945-—Morning 26th to evening 27th
2.83
....
Chamber of Commerce.
Evening 27th to evening 28th
4.26
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Evening 28th to evening 29th
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On December 27, the start m♦
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ILLINOIS VALLEY
the big rainfall, Gasquet received
RAMBLERS TEAM
4.9 inches of rain, while the val-
IS ORGANIZED
ley received only 2.83. On the
rHK NATIONAL EOlAOATIOS K>R I.XEAXTII E PARALYSIS. INC
28th, we received 4.26 inches and
A new basketball team has been on the 29th, .28.
organized in the valley with the
For millions of Americans. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who re­
Damage to the valley was con­
fused to accept defeat from infantile paralysis, symbolized the
name Illinois Valley Ramblers, sidered very light, but some dam­
One of the scheduled league
nation's fight against the Great Crippier organized and directed by
and will play a regular series of age to agriculture land was reg­ games will he played Friday night
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which the late
games between teams of southern istered, and some damage to house­ in the Kerby high school gym at
President founded. The above poster was prepared by the Nation­
Oregon and the local boys. The hold furniture.
al Foundation tor its 1946 March of Dimes, January 14-31.
7:30 between Kerby high and
first game is scheduled for to­
Considerable excitement was Eagle Point.
night (Thursday) in Grants Pass. manifest, however, when several
This game will be one of the
The following merchants of the local people became marooned in games that count towards the
valley have contributed to a fund their homes with the high water championship of this league, and
for suits for the new team:
and had to be rescued. The first the local fans should turn out and
Here are some of the important
May 1 : Hitler declared dead by
Krieger’s, Martin’s Hardware, to be taken out was Mr. and Mrs. fill the gym to capacity and cheer
events which occured in 1945:
German radio.
Bill's Cafe, Model Grocery, Owl W. C. Burch, who had three or the players to victory.
January 9: MacArthur invade
May 8: V-E Day.
Cafe, Muir Court, Oregon Caves four feet of water around their
The boys have a very good team
Luzon Island in Philippines.
June 26: United Nations char- Lumber Company, Todelope Cafe,
this
year and much is expected
house, with Dinty Moore’s boat.
February 6: American troops | ter signed.
Hal & Lorraine’s Grocery and
from them, but they have always
At 11 o’clock Friday morning
capture Manila.
July 26: Labor party wins Bri- Evan’s Market.
done better when the gym is
Bill Granning and Pony Bumby
February 19: First landings I tish elections.
Those interested in joining the
packed with excited admirers who
made on Iowa Jima.
August 6: Atomic age begins. Ramblers, come out for practice. rescued Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Hun­ cheer them on.
gerford
from
their
home
across
March 7: American forces cross 1 First A-bomb drops on Hiroshima. See Jerry Medcalf or Curly Rob­
There will be a preliminary
the river from the Cave Park Mo­
the Rhine.
August 14: V-J Day.
game before the regular league
inson for further information. The
I>ocal Couple Married
April 1: Invasion of Okinawa
A ¡gust 15: Gas rationing ends. schedule of games will be an- tel. Mi’- and Mrs. Hungerford were game. The players go to Glendale
temporarily housed at the Cave
begins.
September 2: Japs sign formal nounced later.
By Judge Mathews
Saturday night for the next game.
Junction Motor Court. When the
April 12: President Roosevelt surrender aboard U. S. S. Mis­
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Better come early Friday night
boys came to their home, the water
souri.
Elwood K. Hussey, Jr., and Ada passes away at Warm Springs.
and
get your favorite seat.
was up over their front porch and
April 25: United Nations con­
November 20: War trial of top “Son of Lassie”, Filled
Sams were married last Thurs­
the current was very swift. They
With Thrills, Is Grand
day, December 27 in Grants Pass ference begins in San Francisco. Nazis begins at Nuremburg.
succeeded in getting the old couple Todelope Bears Bowl
April 28: Italian execute Mus­
by Judge Mathews. Mrs. Hussey
November 2.3: Virtually all ra­ Entertainment for All
in the boat with their two dogs Practice Game in G. P,
tioning ends.
formerly was from St. Paul, Minn., solini.
and started out, but the current
but has lived with her brother at
se-
Here’s “Son of Lassie,” the
forced them down stream and they
Last Friday night, when the
Kerby for the past few months,
quel you asked for . . . the blessed
got tangled up in a barbed wire water was high and part of the
and has been up until her marriage Demonstration Is
American Legion
Hollywood event you’ve been ex­
fence and had quite a time in get­ road flooded, two car loads of en­
employed at Bill’s Cafe. The Given by Hypnotist
pecting'
Legislative
Program
Set
ting them to shore.
thusiastic bowlers (they had to be
young couple are now living on
Everyone loved “Lassie Come
at Kerby High School
Bill and Poney dried their enthusiastic to go to Grants Pass
their ranch on the Illinois river
INDIANAUOLIS, Ind. — The Home” and everyone will rave of
which Mr. Hussey acquired from
national executive committee of Laddie, Lassie's beautiful pup. clothes in Dinty Moore’s parlor that night) traveled to the bowl­
Last Wednesday, December 12, The American Legion has desig- who inherits his mother’s looks but and started out with the boat and ing alley in Grants Pass and
his father some time ago.
Mr. Hussey, Jr. was recently an interested and attentive audi­ ' nated the following major legisla not her brains, until—but see it went to Kerby about noon and played three practice games with
discharged from the army after ence composed of students of the tive program for 1946:
for yourself in gloriously breath­ found two other boats there help­ the crack team of the big city, Carl
serving five and one-half years Kerby high school and grammar
1. The problems of rehabilita taking Technicolor at the Cave ing get marooned folks from their Hammer’s champions, who go to
homes.
Portland in the state tournament.
in the service. He left with the school, attended an educational tion, hospitalization and service to City theatre.
The local boys won one game
National Guard and was in the 5th and informative exhibition of hyp­ the returning veterans, particu­
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Ted
Farrell
and
Donald Crisp and Nigel Bruce,
and 6th antitank division of the notism. During the exhibition the larly those suffering from dis­ the latter the Duke of Rudiing family were taken out at Kerby, out of the three, which was con­
infintry.
hypnotist, Mr. Valleau, showed ability or sickness.
and the former “the best dog man and Mr. and Mrs. Ira S. Hall, and sidered exceptional, considering
2. The problems of economic in Yorkshire,” repeat the roles Chappy Chapman and his dog. these were their first games.
how hypnotism is accomplished by
Todelope Bears are sponsored
the voice and by creating mental re-establishment of veterans and they cretaed in the beloved pre­ Several other families, whose
HEALTH CLINIC
weariness, instead of by the use their reintegration into community decessor to “Son of Lassie.” Then names we could not learn, were by “Mert” Ingham, of the House
of Todelope Cafe, and the team
The next session ot the county of the eyes as is commonly be­ life, with particular stress on em­ it was Roddy McDowall as the boy also taken out by rescuers.
ployment
and
housing.
Joe; now it’s Peter Lawford,
health clinic will be held in the lieved.
Those who helped with the res­ expects to enter league play when
.3.
A
sound
military
defense
pro
­
American Legion hall Wednesday,
grown
up
and
a
member
of
the
cue, were William J. McLean, the new schedule is formulated.
Out of the 10 students who vol-
The local bowlers were: Bud
January 9 from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. untered to be subjects, Mr. Val­ gram in which universal military R. A. F. as an aerial photographer. Fred Linkhart and George Tre-
Baker,
Curly Robinson, Mornay
training
of
the
youth
of
this
re
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Pretty June Lockhart takes over fethen, all of Kerby, and several
leau succeeded in partially hyno-
Athey and “Mert” Ingham. For
public
shall
be
a
basic
part.
the
role
of
Elizabeth
Taylor
as
others
whose
names
were
not
tising two of them. According to
the fith man Jim Weber of Grants
Each year the committee sifts Priscilla, granddaughter of the available.
♦ COMING EVENTS ♦
Mr. Valleau this was a good aver­
Pass substituted. The boys are
all
national
convention
resolutions
Duke,
who
is
in
love
with
Joe.
The community salutes all those going to do some practicing and
Thursday, January 10 — Legion age. Mr. Valleau also showed how
There are, too, little Billy who helped in the rescue squads
an order given during the hypnotic which call for action by Congress
Auxiliary Sewing Day.
expect to bring some nice pub­
trance will be obeyed when the and designates those to which The Severn as a Norwegian youngster for the noble and humitarian work
Marguerite Rebekah Lodge No.
licity to the valley in the bowling
American
Legion
will
give
major
who
finds
the
wounded
I^addie
they accomplished.
Ill meets the second and fourth subject is in a normal state of i mphasis. It becomes the* responsi­
world.
after Joe and the dog are shot
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Wednesday of each month at mind and a suggestion of the bility then of the national legisla­
There will be another practice
down
during
their
air
mission
order is given. He demonstrated
I. O. O. F. Hall, Kerby.
set
for the boys Friday, January
Disaster
Relief
Discussed
this by returning a subject back tive* committee and National Legis­ over that occupied country; Leon
11.
Co. A. O. S. G., meets every Fri­ into a hypnotic trance by count­ lative Director John Thomas Tay Ames, the father of “Meet Me in by Amreican Legion
Anyone who is interested in
day night.
lor to carry out the program St. Louis,” as a fisherman who
ing to 10.
bowling
should see “ Mert” In-
through
the*
introduction
of
bills
Belt Lodge, A. F. & A. M. meets
At the regular meeting of Post
comes to Joe’s aid; Nils Asther,
Mr. Valleau under the jurisdic­
gham.
and their enactment.
No.
70,
Wednesday
evening,
Jan
­
fourth Saturday each month.
who
makes
a
grand
comeback
as
tion of the National Assemblies
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Olva, the giant Viking, and Rob­ uary 2, the need of a disaster re­
Eastern Star Chapter meets the Association, has made a successful
Attend the
ert Lewis, as the “superman” who lief committee was discussed and
third Tuesday of each month.
tour of many of the schools in the No 1916 Calendar?
it
was
found
that
a
number
of
the
learns
to
his
sorrow
that
Laddie
Basketball Game
Don’t Worry, Use 1961
H. E. U. meets every second Tues­ northwest.
comrades acted in that capacity
is a real son of lassie.
day of the month.
Laddie follows his daring young during the recent high waters to
These are the days when new
Illinois Valley P.-T. A. meets the EASTERN STARS TO
master
through many perils: evacuate people from flooded
calendars are “bustin’ out all
last Thursday of each month.
parachuting into danger, leaping homes. While this is the first time
INSTALL SATURDAY over”.
The Women’s Missionary Society
into a foaming fjord, chancing a in history of the post that there
They come in all sorts of de­
of the Selma Baptist church
Western Star Chapter, No. 61, signs, colors and sizes, adorned by hazardous glacer trail—and they has been a very urgent need of
meet every third Thursday of O. E. S., will hold a special meet­
pictures of placid lakes, shady all mean excitement that spells such a committee it is probable
the month in the new unit at ing. Saturday, January 5, for the
j lanes, pretty girls, smiling babie- real movie entertainment for the that such a committee will be or­
the church.
ganized to take care future prob­
entire family.
purpose of installing the newly ( —or what have you?
lems.
American Legion Post No. 70 elected officers.
But if you don’t get a 1946 cal­
WEDNESDAY
and
THURSDAY
meets the first and third Wed­
Two new members, Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. John Ulrich, worthy mat­ endar there’s no need to worry.
Detective and mystery stories, Shellenbarger joined the post.
nesdays of the month.
ron elect, accompanied by her All you have to do is to look up
Veterans of Foreign Wars meet mother-in-law, Mrs. George Ul­ the calendar for 1901. Believe it both in written and picture form, They are both veterans of War II
rich, arrived from Klamath Falls or not, you will find it identical have always intrigued the average and when asked by the commander
the 2nd and 4th Mondays.
American and there is no doubt for any remarks Mrs. Shellen­
Ladies Auxiliary V. F. W., meet this week, and the former called to 1946.
that the “who-dun-it” will continue barger expressed surprise that
the meeting to install the officers.
At
the
end
of
1946,
if
you
put
2nd and 4th Mondays.
A complete list of officers of the that calendar away in the moth to be popular for a long time to any veteran should have to he
Ladies' Auxiliary meet th« first Eastern Star as installed, will be
balls it will also be exactly right come. Once in a while we find a asked to join the American Legion.
and third Wednesday of each published next week.
We of the Legion say don’t
to use in 1957, 1963, 1974, 1985 mystery story with a really unique
month.
angle such as that in “The Man wait for someone to ask you to
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and 1991.
Don’t forget that a train trav­
I. O. 0. F. Lodge No. 55 meets
How come? Search us. Just in Halfmoon Street” which plays , oin. You can join at any time.
Kerby High School
second and fourth Tuesdays of els on a fixed path and cannot looks like Father Time repeats next Wednesday and Thursday at It is your legion just as much as
each month, I. O. O. F. hall, 1 swerve.
it
is
ours.
j
himself every now and then.
Friday Night
(Continued on Page Four)
It did not conquer him
Important Events in 1945
Basketball Tüt
Friday Night