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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1950)
I »(*«**< T/yg AMiFjf/cAAf yiliftciA VqHeij 1teu>4 An Independent newspaper devoted to the development Illinois Valley and its surrounding districts. o f ~| Capital Parade ,»••••»•••••••••••••••••••************* **“*“**“,,,,***********************l*********<*************. I -d isease” year (the “ disease” year . ...» ¿ .i s n f <se- for poliomyelitis begins with the A com prehensive analysis ot s*- r- r • i ... 12th week of the calendar year, is lective service procedure relating * ’ . will „ . he .,,,.>ndin.F to men who attending col- coi- , 158 <*»*’ • com pared .. with 101 lege this year was released thisI cases for the corresponding period of the STATUS OF COLLEGE MEN Published every Thursday at Cave N A T IO N A L E D I TO R LA I Junction, Oregon, by the Illinois I a s T b c f o t / o )N \ alley Publishing Company. I * ' X-/ Entered as second-class matter June 11, 1937, at the Post Office " at Cave Junction, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. week by Col. Francis W. Mason of last ye a ‘- the Oregon division cl s.-<■ SUBSCRIPTION RATES lo Josephine County N E W S P A P tR .P U B L IS H E R S One Year ............................... $2.50 Six Months ............................ $1.25 Outaide Josephine County --A S S O C IA TIO N One Year ............................... $3011 cf _ _ __ J t E DWOQD EM PIRE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS Unit.J ■»»W O O D E M P IR E A S S O C IA T .» N RENASCENCE OF PROHIBITION Medical science has made huge strides in recent years, but the researchers have still not discovered the “busy-body” gland, oversecretion of which is undoubtedly to blame for fanaticism in otherwise sane human beings. What makes a milk-ehewer or a deep-breather or a graham- breader so positive that he and his small clique hold the key to salvation and that the world is out of step? What mysterious force drives him to impose his will, by force if possible, on the vast majority of more temperate thinking beings? The failure of prohibition in this country is there for all to see and it is not our intention to warm it over. However, what many of us do not realize is that the same band of zealots who foisted this ghastly joke on the American people is still determinedly drilling away, like a band of dedicated termites, in a piecemeal attempt to create the same situation all over again. No gain is too small to strive for; if they only succeed in making it difficult for a person to get a drink rather than impossible, it is hailed as a huge victory. They have made many a bootlegger happy by fostering restrictive state liquor laws and drying up counties across the country in a checkerboard pattern. Recently this movement reached the acme of asininity when two “temperance” organizations raised a rumpus in Washington over the fact that beer is occasionally made available to the boys fighting in Korea, logistics permitting—one can {»er day. One asks why the GI’s can’t have soda nop, fruit and vegetable juices or just plain, pure American water. The other says: “Surely, if beer can be supplied, wholesome fruit juices and soft drinks can he made available where the local water supply is unsafe.” These people brought no evidence to indicate that the GIs do not have soda pop and fruit juices, and it is our Ixd that these beverages are present in much larger quantities than beer. And during the hassle just past, a few million gallons of “plain, pure American water" were canned and shipped all over the world—came in very handy for shaving. Without actually putting it into those words, the organizations paint a picture of the cruel army shoving a can of beer at a poor (!1 who is weeping piteously for a few drops of water and telling him to drink it or else. “Both expressed concern over the chance of the young fighting men lun’orning alcoholics.” On one can of beer a day—when you get i t ; you boys who fought the last one know how that goes. To digress a bit, no one, not even a Carrie Nation, has accused the British Navy of not knowing its job; those boys do pretty well when thev have the tools for the task at hand, and they fight on half a pint of rum a day. The British sailors do not have to drink this rum—if they desire they can "stop their grog” and receive its equivalent in cash Most of them drink it. Getting luu-k to Oregon, the minders-of- othcr-people’s-business have fostered an initia tive measure which would prohibit the sale of any "advertised" alcoholic beverage. It will ap pear on the ballot and you will have an oppor tunity to vote on it. This is part of the heckling campaign; if they tried to vole total prohibition, the voters would wake up and vote it down with a thump, so they attempt to sneak in another liquor restriction in a state that is pretty thoroughly “regulated” as it is. The bill has wonderful possibilities; inas much as practically every national magazine ami out-of-state newspaper would carry liquor and beer advertising, it could pretty well dry the state up to everything hut mountain dew. Not that Oregon didn’t produce some pretty good moun tain dew in her time, and cheaper than the green front grocery too. The American Legion, at its recent State ______ NINTH COAST DEFENSE service. . . „ Regulations , provide that „ a -„ co. i. j A e prescribe fo r the organiza- I ege student . I , who n-. has • pommenccd com m enciu. tion of a coast defense unit of the . . . • new 'O regon national guard reserve work in an academic year befoie , , . i u . h s order . . to report ... r for ¡ n , induction i „ P t i o n * a s issued last week by G , overnor " has , been issued, i ma> t,»ve nave his nia in. in ! Douglas McKay. . The order e , pro- . . i i.. ..... pntiniz li vides for a naval arm of the , re duction postponed by piesenting a , ... .if u ; is satisfactorily „„fi faetnrilv serve, • which now has three m fan- certificate that , he . , . . coutsi f try > regim pursu ng a full-time college * ents and an air branch, Sf study to his local hoard. Maj Gen. Thom as E. R ile. Such a postponem ent will ho in sta te a d ju ta n t general, said ,t . would provide a naval reserve arm effect until the end of . n euri n. on coast and Columbia and academic year, in June, 1951, or W illam ette rivers to be made up until the student leaves college or of yachtsm en, fisherm en and other fails to do satisfactory work prior small boat owners designated as thereto. the Ninth coast defense. Platoons Tem porary regulations gave lo will be a t coast and river points as cal hoards permission to place c e r far east as U m atilla and south to tain students in class 2-A. As soon Salem. as schools begin enrollm ent this fall this deferm ent will no longer H A IR S T Y L IS T S be given tlie men and the pro The Oregon H air Fashion annual cedure already explained will he in council was welcomed to the capi- ' effect. On th eir enrollm ent in college tol Sunday by Budget D irector the men will he re-classified to 1-A H arry Dorman (sans chapeau) and will receive their armed forces representing G overnor Douglas physical exam ination. This will en McKay. D uring the m eeting, 18 girls able them to know immediately w hether they qualify for »service. from sta te institutions were given They will then he ordered to report perm anents and hair styles by ten for induction in the regular m an of the top hair stylists in Oregon. ner hut the induction will be post President C hristine L arsen said poned until the end of the school approxim ately 150 hair stylists year if requested by the student. from all over Oregon attended. G raduated students whose cur Among the guests was the national ricula include part-tim e assistant- chairm an, Don Johnson. ships in teaching or research are to be considered as full-time NEW CROP OF LAWYERS Cerem onies ad m itting 129 suc students. cessful law students to the sta te bar were held in the state suprem e ! $ 3 0 0 0 W A G E M E D IA N court cham bers Monday morning. More than half of O regon’s The announcem ent th at 129 out of workers who are covered by the 189 students had passed the tests state unem ploym ent commission given in July was made last week. earned $250 a month during the This year only 68 per cent of those last year. The top w ar year, 194 1, taking the tests passed, while last saw only 34.4 per cent reach the year 76 per cent passed. $3000 class. Median earnings of all covered B A N K S C H IE F IN B O S T O N w orkers jum ped to $1569 in 1949 O regon’s superintendent of as com pared with $1367 in 1948. hanks, A. A. Rogers, left last F ri A total of 240,000 regular workers day for Boston, Mass., to atten d are included in the covered rolls. the annual m eeting of the associa- I tion of supervisors of sta te banks. P O L IO IN C R E A S IN G J Rogers, previously president of Tw enty-five new cases of polio the association, is now chairm an of myelitis were reported to the state the executive comm ittee. The con hoard of health last week. The vention was scheduled to open cum ulative total for the current W ednesday, Septem ber 20. Editor J. C. Abernathy By M URRAY WADE K id d in g Hirn s e l f Convention in Grants Pass, concluded a resolu tion regarding this measure as follows: “Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Ameri can Legion, Department of Oregon . .. that Initi ative Bill No. 317, being a bill to prohibit sale in Oregon of liquor that is promotively advertised, and to be voted on by the electorate of Oregon on November 7, 1950, should be overwhelmingly re jected by the people of Oregon for the reason that said bill is a hypocritical piece of legislation which, if passed, would return Oregon to the law less, immoral and cynical evils of prohibition and submit our people to a suppression of free speech and free press, tending to break down the strength and moral fiber of democratic gov ernment.” a THE EDITOR’S DOGHOUSE Two or three people have mentioned that something seemed a trifle out of adjustment in our front-page date line last week—two or three hundred, that is. This is just another example of the sad fact that people love to find fault, because the date lines have been correct several times lately (a good 50 per cent, anyhow) and nobody mentioned it at all. We must admit however, that aside from prodding the editor's ribs with a stiff thumb, most people were merely curious to know how such a mistake can occur; the mechanics ot the thing. How can we get up into October when everyone else still thinks it’s September? Well, it’s like this: Instead of sticking each type in, one letter at a time as in days of yore, it has become the custom to cast a whole line at a time (»n one slug—this saves time and magnifies errors in equal proportions. Date lines are cast up two months in advance and piled in the rack; each week the printer picks the top date line slug out of the rack and throws it in the form—some weeks, that is. Other weeks we forget and run last week’s over again. Last week somebody turned the pile over, and the last one came up first. That is dirty pool in anybody’s league. Why don’t we read the slug; why don’t we catch the first few copies off the press9 For the seme reason that people run out of gas with a gauge as big as an 8-day dock staring them in th face; in other words, nolo contendere. This thing is a real challenge, but we’ll lick it ■just give us a few more weeks before you start setting your calendars by our date lines. HAMBURGER HAVEN Buy ’Em By the Sack H ave a 'b u rg er or a hot dog w hile at the fo otb all game thi» Satu rd ay. A D J O IN IN G IL L IN O IS V A L L E Y H IG H S C H O O L ÜJ I a„ BANK OF ILLINOIS VALLEY “O ur Bank" JUST D IP IT ...D R Y A P P LY IT ! P»» MCMBfR F tO tA A L M S IH V I S Y X T th t-- Sensational new m ethod fo r tilin g sm all oreas w ithout m u s s . . . w ith o u t fuss. Now you to n buy the Kwik Tile Handy Pack— the am o unt you need — as you need it. Easy to apply . . . eoch durable Kw ik Tile has a backing of fa cto ry -a p p lie d cem ent. 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