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ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS
THE
VOL. XV
VOICE
OF THE
Cave Junction, Oregon, Friday, July 25, 1952
No. 14
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Owner Wm. Seaae and Mel Rigdon of local soil conservation office.
ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS PHOTO
From swamp to irrigated pas
ture—that in brief is what Wm.
Sease did on a small scale on his
place a mile and a half north of
Cave Junction this summer.
The above pictured reservoir fed
by the overflow from the Sease
drinking supply from a nearby-
spring will be used for open ditch
irrigation of five acres previous
ly nothing but swamp and now to
be used for pasture and hay. Sease
tiled and drained the iharshy tend
and only recently had it plowed
for seeding.*
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The handily-situated reservoir
was built on the hillside above the 1
five acres to be irrigated. With
technical aid and planning from
Cave Junction resident soil conser
vationists Burnett and Rigdon, the
75x170 foot oval reservoir was
dug out with a cat and an earthen
dam built on the lower side.
Sense’s miniature lake contains
8-feet of water, receiving about
11,000 gallons a day from a spring,
the same amount to be used daily
for irrigation purposes. About 28 i
Pioneer Firm
Management
Goes io 2 Men
Donkey Jockeys 4 Candidates
Perform Sunday Entered in
Queen Contest
A change in management of a
Cave Junction firm. Cave City-
Parts and Supplies, was completed
this week with Lee Jacobs and
kxwry Musil pueektrsing a» inter
est in this firm ow.wed by Art
IKrews since 1930.
. Although Drew^ has retained
partial ownership of the business,
its Management is now in the hand«
af JcMrobs and Musil. The sal« in-
• Iswhri th* entire busineM-maehlne
*l»ep, hardware and parte store—
hut not the buibding which is still
GVMi by Drews.
Lee Jaicobs will be ¡)9«isted by
Clarence McDaniels and Myo El
liott jn the full-time store duties.
M»*iJ. who will retain his position
m »U-round lineman and installa-
ti«m man with COTTO and
*er of the IVY Thmatre, will work
at the store Saturdays only for
the present.
Jacobs and Musil promise chan-
pas and additions in the stock and
layout of the hardware and auto
supply dwpawtmenjs. Jacobs hae
been a Cave City Parts and Sup-
plhm employee since July. 1950.
fh'ews, whe bowed out of the
Mtive manage-seent of the buai-
neeu Ibe originated in 1930, has no
smaMdiorte plans for the future
except to tube advamtafae of Ore-
pen’s 50-cent old-tinner's fishing
licenoB.
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Th» p^>eee»t bnihline wm ejected
monad a former afwtA»* building
l*k in 1930 by Drews, and has
hougud his business and machine
shop continuously since that time
except for a four-year war period
1941-45. Drews has been a Valley
resident since 1927. •The Dr^vs
plttg to continue their residence
in Cave Junction.
of Valley . . . '
Lloyd Cornett, Naval Air Corps,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cornett,
will arrive this week for a 30-day
leave. He will be married within
the rr^nth to Audrey Schultz of
Muskegon, Mich., who is presently
employed at the Eureka. Calif.,
telephone co. The wedding will
take place in Eureka. Lloyd has
been flying in Japan and Korea,
and will return to duty in the
Aleutian Islands.
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S Sgt. Jerry L. Buell and wife
and baby arrived for the 4th of
July. Son of Mr. and Mrs. I^eslie J.
Buell, Cave Junction, Sgt. Buell
has returned to McChord Air
Force base. Washington, and his
family will remain here until he
returns August 1.
days were required to first fill the
reservior.
Sease, a former Seattle boat
builder, and a Valley resident only
two years also has plans for mak
ing a shady picnic spot for tour
ists between the lake and 199.
Having appreciated such stopping
points along the road as a traveler
himself, Sease plans to furnish
his shady nook with two tables
and a drinking fountain. The fam
ily operates a three-unit motel on
the upper corner of his 30-acre
place.
The annual Valley event, donkey |
baseball, sponsored by the Lions
club hits Cave Junction Sunday
afternoon July 27 at 2 with an
4 More to Be on Hand
1VHS girls squ-ad opposing the
For Introduction at
boys in a mounted free-for-all on
the high school field.
At Theatre Saturday
Chairman Dick Pinkerton prom
ises the donkey baseball and donk
Four Valley lovelies were enter
ey polo will provide many hilarious ed this week in the race for Jub
moments for the usua'l good attend ilee Queen and together with four
ance for this affair.
more as yet unnamed contestants
Fenrale participants lined up by wilt be introduced at the IVY
Pat Wright include in addition to Theatre Saturday night.
The Queen contest starts with
herself: Arlene Pickle, Charlotte
Moore, Barbara Farmer, Joanie the beginning of ticket selling
Eisan, Carol Burr, Lola Campbell, today (Friday) and will wind up
Noima Robinson, Phyllis Dick, Jo with the coronation and ball, Sat
Ana Taylor-, Joo-olle Bang»,. >»vb<., urday night. August 30. Each tick
et sold in behalf of a candidate
ara Bell and Lucille Pritchett.
’Upholding the male athletic pro gives her 100 votes, the purchaser
wass as announced by Bob Vaughn also receiving admission stubs to
are: Joe Mellow, Bud Kaufman, the ball and Labor Day Dance.
The contestants and sponsor
Arnold Mellow, Jack Yand.ll, Wai
ing
organizations to date:
ter Farmer, Orrin Wallace, Charter
Joanie Eisan, daughter of Mr.
Marchant, Richard Bliss, Ralph In
and Mrs. J.D? Eisan of .Kerby, sen
gle and Rob Allen.
ior at IVHS, sponsored by the
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Lions.
JoAnn Taylor, daughter of Mr.
ind Mrs. I.. W. Lightsey of Selma.
IVHS senior, sponsored by the
Eagles.
Lucille Pritchett, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Pritchett of
Kerby, IVHS seniqr, sponsored by
A dispute involving the sale of the L.S »’. —A.F. of L. local.
he Town and Country Motel wa-
Pat Spalinger. daughter of Mrs.
argued for four days in a trail be Verna Saunders of Cave Junction..
fore Circuit Judge O. J. Milliard in IVHS senior, sponsored by the
Grants Pass and was ended Satur VFW.
dab', with briefs ordered submitted.
According to Jubilee General
James T. and Odell Slavos insti Chaiiyian Ken Deaton four addi
tuted the proceedings with Charles tional Valley organizations have
T. and Margaret M. Diamond, th'- promised to have contestants on
defendents. The disputed sale ,,-a- hand at the introductory ceremon
to have involved an exchange of ies at the theatre Saturday night.
some McMinnville property owned They are the Garden club, Valley-
Auto club. Deer Creek Grange and
by Slavos for the motel.
As escrow holder of the legal Bridgeview Grange.
Starting Monday Legionaire
papers involved ilf the exchang«-
of property, the Bank of Illinois Jack Loveday will solicit merchan
Valley was also named a defend dise donations from Valley mer
ant. The bank has filed an inter chants to fill the hope chest of
pleader suit, which is a request the. candidate eventually chosen
for the coflrt upon consideration queen.
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of the <j-ise to give the baric in
structions as to the disposition of
the papers held by it.
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Disputed Mo lei
Sale in Court
Cave Junction-Glendak*
Game Ends in Fracas
The second time of a double
header between Cave Junction and
Glendale ended in a free-for-all a-
mong players and fans leaving
doubt as to who now leads the
Rogue Valley Baseball leagu«-.
Grants Pass or Cave Junction.
The fracas began when Bob
Smith playing short stop for Cave
Junction wes eliminated from the i
game which was the cue for the
free-for-all. Manager M a r b a .
Campbell then called his team off
the field.
The first game was won by Cave
Junction 6-1. At the first half of
the fourth in the second contest
Glendale was leading 7-4.
Valley Aulo Club
Elects Officers
At the first formal meeting of
the newly-organized Valley Auto
club officers were chosen with
Gene Madden elected to preside
over the group for its first year.
Other officers elected wire Don
Campbell, vice president; secre
tary-treasurer, Duane Nealy; road
captain. Rusty Marshall.
Club members have already be
gun preparing property donated
for club use off Cave Highway by
Dick Nealy for a track, and will
also make use of a building owned
by Nealy for a clubhouse.
Club initiation dues were set
at $10 in addition to monthly dues
of $2. Police Chief Wm. Deal is
club supervisor.
Single Copy Ten Cents
City May Take Beard Growing, Parade Entry Plans,
Missing Records Queen Coniest Slari Jubilee Activity
Case to Court
Well-Known Parade
Special Waler
Entries to Help.
Attorney’s letters
Make It Biggest Yet
Bring No Replies
Meeting
Monday
From Former Recorder
SWAMP TO IRRIGATED LAND
Drews Sells Portion
Of 22-Year Business
To Jacobs and Musil
VALLEY
Still seeking information on the
possible location of missing city
records the city council Monday
night gave the green light to city
attorney Wm. Carlson of Grants
Pass to take the matter into court
if necessary.
A registered letter, return rec
eipt requested, recently written
Mrs. Isabelle H. Small by Carlson
requesting the city daily cash jour
nal, court index file, police bail
records, meter' receipt books and
water bond records of the last bond
issue of $20,000, returned “un
claimed."
This latest letter and one sent
regular mail which was not return
ed were addressed to route four,
box 586, Grants Pass, the address
given by Mrs. Small in an open let
ter written to Mayor Salvage June
17 and published in the NEWS
June 20.
Recorder Hubbard started cor
responding with Mi's. Small rela
tive to the records in question as
early as March, 1951, after having
ttken office in February of that
year. Those letters were not re
turned.
Additional correspondence sent
registered mail this spring was re
turned stamped "unclaimed.”
No word explaining the possible
location of the records has been
received from the former recorder
other than the published letter of
June 20, in which she labeled as
“scurrilous and libelous” the inti
mation she possessed them. Mrs.
Small furnished in her open letter
a list of records she claimed to
have given Hubbard which listed
some of the five sets of records
said by Hubbard to be missing.
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Missionaries to
Meet Here 31st
A Missionary Convention will
be held at the Cave Junction Com
munity church July 31, August 1
and 3.
Speakers at the services will in
clude: Rev. and Mrs. Eldon John
son, of Bolivia, S.A.; Mr. and
Mrs. George Brown of South Af-
’ i fc’a, Miss Mildred Sawyer of India
and Mrs. Richa'-d E'kstedt of Ar
uba, Netherlands West Indies.
The first service will be heJd
Thursday July 31 at 7:45 p.m.
featuring colored pictures together
with misaionary tidings from one
of the fields.
The Ladies Mission-ary groups
from several of the neighboring
churches togther with the local
group will meet at the Rev. Geo.
Gray’s home for an outdoor after
noon servnce Friday, August 1 at
2:30 p.m. followed by a potluck
picnic supper.
The Friday evening service will
be at 7:45 with special music by
the Johnson* family anil also color
ed slides from one of the field rep
resented.
The missionaries will be partic
ipating in all the- services on Sun
day with a special rally at 2:45
p.m. The missionaries will be dres
sed in native costumes of the lands
they are working in, and a display
of curios will be on hand. The
closing service will be held at 7:15
in the evening.
Public is invited to attend.
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Townspeople are urged in a
letter to the editor this week by
Mayor Fred Salvage to attend a
public meeting with the city coun
cil Monday night at 8 at which time
city water problems will be il
luminated.
Salvage urged people footing th«
city water bill to help in the plan
ning of this department for th<
future, and learn why it is now
operating at a deficit and why
additional tax levies will be requir
ed in but a few years to retire
staggering bond Issues.
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Cavemen Take
Toll of 2 Prey
Eleven Oregon Cavemen invader’
the Valley Sunday morning tak
ing their toll of two more men
added to their roll of members ol
the clan.
Partaking of the raw dinosaui
meat and »tiger blood were Lloyi
Johnson, owner of the Q—X
ranch and president of Nationa
Motor Bearing Co., and a Sar
Francisco friend, Alec Lathan, who
runs a manufacturing plant in th«
Bay City. Johnson resides in Red
wood City, Calif.,
The eleven-man clan was led by
Chief Big Horn George Hall ami
Chief Eagle Eye, both of Grant
Pass, who accosted their prey al
the ranch at about 10:30 Sunday
morning. Johnson was charged by
the skin-clad ones with invading
and residing in the Caveman do
main for a number of years without
becoming an honorable Caveman
himself.
Caveman Loyd Burn“tt and Dor.
Rosenberg of Cave Junction as
sisted with the ritual with twr
other Valley clan members in at
tendance—Tex Clifford and Early
Elmore.
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Joanie Eisan io
Be Lions Entry
Today’s opening of the queen
contest officially begins the Jub
ilee season and the activity ami
preparations leading to the events
at the annual Illinois Valley Juoi-
lee starting at 1 p.m. August 30.
W ith a wide range of top-notch
and professional entertainment
scheduled for the three-day show
from all over the state, Ken Deat
on, general chairman, this week
urged Valley males to begin beards
for the beard contest planned to
add a frontier flavor to the fest
ivities.
Prizes will be awarded to stubble
¡«serving of recognition in such
'lasses as the reddest, fuzziest,
ullest, blackest and smallest. To
pialify a beard must be in two
•arts, above and below the lips.
Another Jubilee activity requir
ing immediate planning by Valley
organizations and individuals is the
paradtj, expected by Deaton and
parade chairman Arthur Kellert
to be the largest in the history
of the Jubilee.
The parade, feature attraction
on Labor Day, will begin at 10 a.m.
and will travel the length of Cave
Junction's Main Street twice.
Prizes and ribbons will be award
ed in the following classes: organ
izational floats, novel and artistic
floats and mounted riders. Kids
entries to receive prizes will be
decorated bikes, wagons, tricycles
and kids floats. Marching groups
will be judged on precision and
neatness.
Gen. Thomas E. Rilea of the
National Guard has consented to
lead the parade and will be the
city s guest during his stay here.
The state National Guard band
will be among the more colorful
parade entries as will the 40 et 8
locomotive.
One- of the events expected to
attract more than its share of inter
est is the Sportsmen Pilots of Ore
gon, a state group comprised of
500 pilots who will stage an air
circus Sunday, August 31. A large
armada of all types of aircraft is
expected at the Cave Junction air-
nort.
A combined Jubilee committee
composed of all Tommittee chair
men and various Valley club heads
will meet every Wednesday night
from now until the Jubilee at 7 in
he Legion Hall to map plans for
the celebration.
Committees announced by Deat
on are as follows:
Dug-Out— Tex Clifford.
Queen Contest—Chas. Hubbard.
High Climbing, Billing—Ole Na-
ssen.
Parade Marshall—Art Kellert
Master of Ceremonies—Slim
Hamrick.
Log Bucking, Chopping—Joel
Brown.
Air Circus—Loyd Burnett, El
wood Hussey, Early Elmore.
Truck Driving Contest—Johnny
Cozad.
Amateur Show—Ted Hooey.
Publicity—Ken Deaton, Dick
Pinkerton.
Clowns —Butch Hollingshead,
Earl Spencer.
Figure Skating—Glen Perry,
'Slim Hamrick.
Car Dealers, Exhibits and Floats
—Art Kellert.
Farmers Exhibits, Floats—Early
Elmore and local Grange«.
Magazine Coverage—Slim Ham
rick.
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.Plans for the Jubilee were made
by the Illinois Valley Lions club
Tuesday .night with the Lions
queen candidate, Joanie Eisan, the
guest of the club at its meeting at
the Todelope at 8 p.m.
Joanie, the daughter of Lion and
Mrs. J. D. Eisan of Kerby, was
announced as the Lions entry into
the annual que’en contest to get
underway today (Friday.) Joani«
will be a senior at IVHS next fall.
Hal Hemingway was appointed
by President Hal Moore to head th>
committee in charge of planning
and constructing a Lion float to
enter in the Jubilee parade. Lions
were asked by Moore to also be
considering the type of concession
to operate on the Legion ground-
during the three-day Labor Day
celebration.
The donkey baseball game com
mittee composed of Dick Pinkel
ton, Hal Hemingway, Jim Akins,
Doug Handby, Kern Drown, Le-
Tythcott and Guy Stem were re
minded to be on hand at the IVHS
field at 1 :30 for the donkey ball
session. A 50-cent fine was prom
ised by President Moore to those HUBBARDS HANDLE
Lions failing to be among the OBSERVATION DUTIES
Sunday spectators.
Chas. Hubbard and wife, Peggy,
were among Ground Observer
Corps skywatchers who successful
ly aided in tracking a flight of six
B-36’« from California to Tacoma
Washington, recently.
Hubbard is the Cave Junction
supervisor and has singlehandedly
nicians and farmers will be present carried out the duties of the local
to lead discussions in the follow observation post, making two re
ing related subjects: staking good ports daily, keeping track of air
system, topographic survey, level craft between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m
ing map of field showing cuts and
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fills and direction of irrigation,
JOB PRINTING—Call th. NEWS.
width of borders, length of water
run.
Time and amount of irrigation
for diferent crops, spial method of
border irrigation, border ga’e
Temp.
Humidity
method of irrigation, sodded wat July Hi(h Low High Low Rain
erways for disposal of waste wat
w E A THE R
er, alternate row method of pas
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ture and hay seeding and other 14
16 Nope
100
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seeding techniques, summer ap 15
88
13 Notte
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plication of fertilizer and results 16
13 None
80
54
96
of airplane tests of fertilizer ap 17
20 None
84
53
96
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plication.
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19 None
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A large group of farmers inter 19
20 None
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ested in irigation problems are ex 20
For week ending July 20, 1952.
pected by the soil conservation
board of superviaors for this Wed (Weather information furnished
I by Illinois Valley Ranger Station.)
nesday morning field trip.
Q-X to Be Scene of Pasture Leveling,
Irrigation Field Trip Wednesday, 30th
Pasture leveling and irrigation
methods practiced at the Q—X
Ranch will be viewed by Valley
farmers and soil conservation dist
rict members at a field meeting
Wednesday morning, July 30, Ray
Nickerson, chairman of the dist
rict board of supervisors announc
ed this week.
Those interested in learning
more of irrigation systems and
modern methods of water appli
cation are to meet at the legion
Hall at 9 a. m. where cars will be
pooled for the short jaunt over to
the ranch near Kerby.
Tex Clifford will conduct the
group through ranch fields being
staked for leveling later thia sum
mer and those leveled and sealed
last year, now bearing stands of
hay and pasture.
Soil conservation district tech-
WEATHER