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University of Oregon t9 th Otcftii Ctfrj ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS THE VOICE OF THE VALLEY VOL. XV Cave Junction, Oregon, Friday, August 1, 1952 No. 15 Single Copy Ten Cents Kangaroo Trials Promised Beardless 17 Men Arrive City Fathers Joined by Largest Crowd Offenders Out al Night During Jubilee To Aid Jumpers During Term to Study Water Ailments Parachutist, Female Ixig Birlers, High Climbing Star Events A second Warning was given to beardless Valley males this week by Jubijee General Chairman Ken Deaton who promised Kangaroi trials presided over by the Oregor Caveman for offenders caught af ter dark in Cave Junction during the three-day I,abor Day weekend celebration. Deaton suggested that all mer. instead compete for prizes in th* beard competition and save a $2 line levied by the Cavemen. Prizes will be awarded for the fuzziest reddest, blackest, fullest and small est two-piece specimens. Barber Glenn Perry has prom ised a free shave to winners at their convenience. A local parachute jumper of national fame, Bob Nolan, will provide some novelty entertain ment for Jubilee crowds by making a delayed parachute jump right into Cave Junction. Nolan won a national chute contest by jumping into a 50-foot circle, and promises a repeat performance Sunday. August 31. A female log birling team, the Hansen sisters of Silver Lake. Wash., will challenge all comers in a contest, another big attraction for the second day of the Jubilee. Advised Deaton, "All you pond monkeys take notice and be pre pared to tip these young ladies in the water—if you can. It might,” he added, “be a good idea, however, to bring your bathing suits as these girls can birl and roll a four-foot log end for end, upside down, or sideways. Ole Nassen will chairman one of the new attractions to be a part of the Jubilee this year—the high climbing contest. "This is considered one of the most spectacular phases of the logging industry,” Deaton says, “These boys are the high aerial artists of the deep forest and the highest paid men in the woods.” Red LXesutcher is busy trimming and dressing the tree south of the Legion hall for the debut of this different event. Local Guard Unit Sought Total of 20 Men Needed to Organize Eight Valley national guardsmen now drilling in Grants Pass are at tempting to organize a local plat oon to meet weekly in Cave Junc tion providing at least 12 interest ed recruits can be located. Lt. Otis H. Hussey would be the commanding officer of the new unit which would meet three Mon day evenings a month, the fourth in Grants Pass with C. Co. to which it would be attached. A Cave Junction building is be ing considered as a temporary armory, subject to approval by the state. Hussey expressed hope that permanent housing might be built here in the future if suf ficient interest is retained in the proposed unit. A full day wage for two hours of weekly drilling based on the regular army scale will be paid recruits who must be between the ages of 17 and 35. The guard furnishes all uniforms and equip ment. Interested applicants desiring additional information can contact one of the following: Hussey, phone 5111; George Blue at Sel ma Store; or Mel Rigdon, phone 7204. ------------- o-------------- Medical Center Auction Indefinitely Postponed The Illinois Valley Medical Cen ter auction originally scheduled for August 3 has been indefinitely postponed, the Medical Center ex ecutive board announced this week. Poor response to the plea for auction contributions, the heat wave, and too many other activities scheduled at the same time were the reasons given by the board for the postponement. The auction will be held in the future, the board said. ------------------n Injury Slops Play 7 Girls Compeie In 7th Sunday For Queen Title The race is on among seven Val ley lovelies to see who will lie crowned queen of the Illinois Vai ley Jubilee at the Coronation ball August 89. Mayor Fred Salvage introduced the girls at the IVY Theatre last Saturday night, July 26. Final entries among the con testants and sponsoring organiza tions include: Joyce Rae Jones, wife of Ray mond (Rocky) Jones, sponsored by the Illinois Valley Grange. Beverly Deal, daughter of Mi. and Mrs. Wm. Deal, Cave Junction, sponsored by the Valley Auto Club. Marion Starks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Starks, Kerby, spon sored by Rough and Ready Ram blers. Other contestants listed in last week's issue of the NEWS are: I JoAnn Taylor, sponsored by the Eagles. Joanie Eisan, sponsored by the Lions Club. The following cases were heard Pat Spalinger, sponsored by the in Justice of the Peace Chas. Hub VFW. bard's court last week. Lucille Pritchett, sponsored b.v Edward Maywood, overlength Local 3009 A. F. of L., Lumber load, $10 and $4.50 costs; Joseph ind Sawmill Workers. D. Van Daita, overlength load. $!<■' and $4.50; Ole P. Hellekson, over MEET PAT SPALINGER length load, $10 and $4.50; Ever ett Skeeters, overwidth load, $ln and $4.50; Mildred Hanseth, operator’s license, $2.50 and $4.50. Ronald St Cyr, no operator's lic (This ia the first in a series of ense. $1 and $4.50; Alice M. Blan thumbnail sketches of the sever chard, po operator’s license, $1 and young women chosen as candidate* $4.50; Anne L. Messenger, no op for the Illinois Valley Jubiler erator’s license, $2.50 and $4.50; Queen Contest. The remaining can Ana Dahlgren, no operator's lic lidatea are asked to contact the ense, $1 and $4.50. for per»onal interview« to Municipal court happenings in NEWS in the next two isauea.) appear cluded: (all for basic rule) PAT SPALINGER Samuel Donner, $12.50; Thos. A Groom, $10; Ernest Lewington The attractive blonde girl, with $10; Herman W. Cockrell, $12. oert, turned-up nose and greenish- blue eyes who takes your money n return for a movie ticket at ’.he local theatre every night but Friday is Pat Spalinger, the VFW’s Temp. Humi dity candidate for Jubilee queen. July High Low High Low Rain Princess Pat, daughter of Mrs. 21 20 None 90 90 57 22 18 None Verna Saunders, Cave Junction, 92 52 92 23 31 None was initiated into the realm of 50 94 82 24 16 None royalty last fall as junior princess 91 98 44 25 100 53 91 11 None for IVHS Homecoming festivities. The 5’ 514” miss will be vice- 26 26 Non»- 92 50 88 27 56 21 None president of her senior class when 102 86 school starta this September. Be For the week of July 21 to 28. (Weather information fumiahed cause there was no teacher for the by Illinois Valley Ranger Station.) proposed art class last year, Pat wa.. unable to go ahead in her Because of a shortage of playei.s Central Point was forced to forfeit the remainder of a game Sunday on Rambler’s field when the con test was called in the seventh due to the injury of their catcher with Cave Junction leading 5 to 0. The Eagles-sponsored squad re tained second place in the Rogue Valley Baseball league with the Sunday victory, their ninth. Louie Maurer, regularly an out fielder or first baseman, pitched a three-hitter to shut out the Central Point squad. Cave Junction's reg ular pitcher, Wayne Saffer, played in the outfield, scoring the first run in the third inning. The disputed Cave Junction- Glendale game of July 19 will b> replayed in Grants Pass Wednes day night. August 6 at 8, by ac tion of league officials. -------------- o Police Court News All But 5 Jumpers Out on Lightning Fires With all but five smokejumpers and a squad leader having been jumped into small lightning fires in northern California and Oregon, the Siskiyou Aerial project based in Cave Junction was reinforced with a crew of 17 flown in from Missoula. Mont., Wednesday. Hot, dry weather has caused acute lightning conditions in the Klamath, Shasta and Rogue River national forests within the past few days starting over ten small fires. Two to three jumpers have been flown into each fire, most of which are in remote areas. None have exceeded one-fourth a mile in area. Although the size of the fires have been kept small by speedy ac tion of parachuted firefighters, the backpacking of equipment has been a major chore for the jumpers having been as far as 15 miles. The flying in of Montana re placements was a piWcautionary measure against possible lightning storms in the Siskiyou forest which were feared might strike Wednes day or Thursday. As of Wednesday the local smokejumpers had eleven men in Klamath forest, six in Shasta and Wednesday noon two were flown into the Rogue River national for est. The project has a total of 25 jumpers, 2 squadleaders and ¿he foreman, Cliff Marshall. -------------- o-------------- Temperature Hits 100 Degrees Twice Yesterday’s rainfall broke a month-long dry spell in the Valley postponing any chance of local forest closure. The thermometer took a beating twice last week with te<p;>eraturea of 100 or more degrees recorded twice by the ranger station. Northern California loggers have voluntarily shut down tempor arily at the request of the Six Rivers National forest. Several Val ley logging outfits have been af fected by the California closure. The humidity reached as low as 11 percent Friday, July 25, with the temperature hitting a sizzling 102 degrees Sunday. ------------- o 5,600,00(1 Feet Offered In Two Timber Sales A total of about 5,600,000 board feet of timber are up for sale by’ the forest service in two separate sales announced in advertisements in this week’s NEWS. The Lucky Strike sale No. two containing an estimated 5,000,000 board feet will be sold August 26. This timber is located immediately below the Bill Sowell sale on Page Mtn. A tour and explanation of sale terms will be conducted by the forest service at 10 a.m., Mon day. August 11. A 600,000 board feet salvait' sale is scheduled August 11 foi beetle kill and blowndown timber in and near the Bill Sowell sale a'id Southern Oregon Plywood Co. sale, the tour for this sale will start at 10 a.m Tuesday, August 5 from the Illinois Valley Ranger Station. Cabax Mills was sold 300,000 board feet on the Little Elder by the forest service July 28. Logging will be done by Clint Trefethen. ------------- o-------------- Sanitation Engineer Donates Time to Give Technical Advice, Facts City fathers took a back seat to listen for a change as the biggest group of townspeople to attend a council meeting during the pres ent city administration partici pated hi a discussion of the prob lems currently facing the city’s deficiboperating water* detri ment. In addition to interested citizens, Wm. Morton, sanitation engineer in Washington and Oregon offered technical advice and facts relating 'Cat' on Rocks Ignites Fire Sparks created by a cat skidding on rocks ignited a forest fire on a ridge about two miles north of White Lumber Co. of Selma, Mon day afternoon. Ralph Kaiser was logging the area when the fire was discovered at about 1.30 p.m. The state fire patrol and volunteer crews and equipment had the blaze under control by 4 p.nt., confining it within about a two-acre area. In addition to the Kaiser crew and equipment, Ernie Krauss fur nished a cat and crew, the state forest patrol had two tankers and a crew at the scene; S.H. & W. fur nished a water wagun; and a Loyd and Messinger cat "walked” up the hill for use at the fire. Joe Noble, fire coordinator of the Illinois Val ley Protective Assn., also assisted. ------------- o-------------- Services Held for Drowning Victim Graveside services were held at the Laurel cemetery near Kerby Wednesday for Linda Sue Jerome, 17-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Jerome of Holland. The youngster drowned in an irrigation ditch near the Jerome home at about 10 a. m. Sunday. At tempts to resuscitate the child by Valley Ambulance Service and Dr. A. N. Collman failed after the body had been discovered by her father. Besides her parents, the child is survived by four sisters, I^iura, Barbara, Beverly and Carol; two b’-others, Donald and Ronald. Rev. George Gray officiated at the services arranged by Hull and Hull mortuary. -------------- o . - - ■ - Deer Wrecks Antenna; Bear Seen at I^ookout A deer with an eye for mischief olayed a dirty trick on two forest ervice men, wrecking their radio antenna while the unsuspecting nen were gone from their camp up >n Sucker Creek this week. John Shallenberger and Orlen Pickle were temporarily put out of touch with the outside world as a result of the deer’s prank while they were out on trail main* tenance work. Although he had no fires to re- port another forest service man. the Tennessee Mtt^. lookout, did report seeing a black momma bear and her two brown cubs walk with in 75 feet of the lookout tower JOB PRINTING—Call th. NEWS. Monday Bight. AND JOANN TAYLOR JUBILEE QUEEN CANDIDATES WEATHER 'avorite field, and is looking for- vard to studying art this year, with in eye toward further schooling n commercial design if, as she nuts it, “I’m any good in art at all." A cheerleader when she was a ■ ophomore. Pat added several ex tra curricular activities to her list last year, including the office of ’reasurer of the junior class, sports editor for the Cougar’s Echo, and chairman of decorutions for the Junior-Senior Prom. With all these ■nterests -he still found time to be cashier at the theatre < during the school year as well as i during the summer months. Swimming tops her list as her favorite sport. - o - JOANN TAYLOR JoAnn Taylor, soft-spoken, Dix ie-accented little waitress at Mild red’s Cafe is the Eagles* candidate for Jubilee queen. JoAnn. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lightsey of Selma, has had ample training for the contest a- head for she helped Jonelle Benge win in last year’s queen contest. Princess JoAnn is an attract ive 17-year old with dark brown hair worn in a shoulder length bob. She stands a petite 5’Mi” tall and weighs 104 pounds. She has two dimples that flash disarmingly when she smiles—which is often. Bom in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, <he moved here two years ago from Sheridan, Arkansas. She has an cider brother and a younger sister at home. JoAnn will be a senior at IVHS this year where she has been an honor student the last two years. She has worked the last two sum mers at Mildred s Cafe in Kerby. Active in extra-curricular activ ités at school, JoAnn was cheer leader for the student body, vice president of the junior class, vice president of GAA and advertising manager of the Cougar’s Echo. Her favorite activities are swimming and dancing in that order to specific water problems facing the city. Morton ia helping his father during haying in Takilma. Of the many suggestions and bita of advice offered by Morton and others was the principal rec ommendation that water rates be upped, and that meters be installed as quickly as financially possible for all unmetered services. Several citizens concurred in th* belief that the volume of water now allowed for the minimum rate of $3 was too high. The council was also advised to complete their meter program with the conject ure that revenue would increase : : 3 i : I i Summer Sidelights : t ; : : f X : ON . . IVHS STUDENTS Q «„.„„.„■„W.l 1 By V irginia D*M»ru*m*n The high school girls won over the high school boys in the Donkey Baseball game Sunday on the foot ball field with the final score of 3-2. Because of the hot weather the game was cut short and a second game played that evening. —e— A bridal shower was given for Mrs. Jimmy Quinn at the home of Mrs. Marie White Saturday even- ing, July 26. Mrs. Quinn is the former Sharon Verstegen. —o—— Ethelene Benn of Myrtle Creek, Ore., is a house guest of Lucille Pritchett's until the 9th of August. Treva Lee Allen returned home Friday, July 25, after spending two weeks over on the coast with her aunt. ’ —o— Joanie Eisan, Kerby, is now ushering at the IVY Theatre. --- 0--- Melvin Barton and his parents are moving from Takilma to Cave Junction. and the amount of water con- sumed to decrease. Recorder Hub- bard estimated a third of the serv- ices, including many businesses using more than a normal amount of water, still pay by the flat rate. LOW REVENUE IS WORRY Mayor Fred Salvage led off the discussion stating confidence in the quality and quantity of the water supply, adding that a lack of revenue to operate the detri ment and to meet bond payments and interest was the city’s chief worry. The three alternatives facing the city as Salvage saw it briefly were: annex more homes, levy ad ditional millage or let the bonding company take over. The present as sessment for the water department nets the city $3180 a year which was designed to retire outstanding water bonds. The bonds start maturing at a greater rate within a couple of years making additional revenue necessary. The department's pres ent revenue in addition to that received from taxes is about $6300 a year which has been insufficient in past years to cover maintenance anil necessary small expansions and additions to the system. The de- partment showed a $355 deficit last year. Engineer Morton urged citizens to remember that taxes supporting the city government must of nec essity retain a favorable compar ison with those going for local school purposes. The school millage was 59.2 compart'd to 23.6 for the city last year. CITY ASSESSMENT LOW Because of the unusually low assessment figure of $247,000 giv en property within the city limits, a sizable assessment is necessary to increase revenue appreciably, Morton pointed out. For instance, a 4-mill levy to aid the depart ment's faltering finances would bring but an additional $988. The council, mayor and recorder were uninformed as to the original intention of the city at the time the system was financed, lacking records showing how money was spent and the maturity dates of a large block of bonds. The system was financed with two bond issues, the first, $35,060, the second, $20,000— the latter to have includes! funsis for future maintenance and expansion, which was spent before the advent of the present administration. Only check ktubs remain to check the history of these expenditures, Recorder Hubbard said. The DeMolay boys had a swini- ming party down at Seat’s dam a week ago Wednesday evening. —o— Charles Floyd has joined the Marines and is at present stationed in San Diego, Calif., in boot camp. BELIEVES INTEREST HIGH Mayor Salvage expressed the be Mae Bowerman und Treva Lee lief that the bonds coulsi have been Allen accompanied Mae’s father. obtained at a much lower rate than Ranger Harold Bowerman to Sour 6 percent which carried an added Dough Flats to spend the day discount of 2 percent, in addition. The discount is subtracted from Tuesday. ‘he base figure given the city but nterest is paid on the full amount. Falling Tree Top Salvage stated that his studies Injures Ralph Sowell have convinced him that the aver age interest for municifKil bonds A falling tree top seriously in- lay closer to three percent. jured Ralph Sowell Saturday morn Recurring surges of red water ing and he wasn’t found in the held their usual share of the lime woods until two hours later by hi-- light in the Monday night version wife. of a New England town hall meet- Sowell was brought into Cave ng. Former watermaster Al Thay Junction by Valley Ambulance Ser er was backed up by Morton in the vice for treatment of two fracture- belief that the "discolored" water below the knee on his right leg, in was not caused by deposits of mud jured back and internal injuries. in the tanks but by an over-abund He was taken to a Medford bos ance of iron in the supply. pital Saturday afternoon where Minor changes in the layout of he underwent surgery that even the reservoirs and the addition of ing. a chrmimal similar to “Calgon” Mr. and Mrs. Sowell operate h were recommended by engineer logging and mill firm in the Valley Morton, based on the sketchy in ------------- o------------- formation provided at the meeting, SURVEY CREW PULLED to overcome iron surplus. OUT OF VALLEY The Bureau of Public Roads of PRIVATE SYSTEMS COSTLY Rough on-the-spot figures were fice and crew which supervised and engineered the new road con orovided by Morton in an attempt struction on Hayes Hill removed it- to prove the economic benefits of office and crew Tuesday which paying only $36 yearly for a de- had been located in an Illinois oendable supply of city water com- Valley Ranger Station crew house oared to the private water system The surveying ami engineering expenditures. The $36 figure was crew varied between four and compared by Morton to an esti twelve men during its stay in Cave mated $500 pump investment, six percent interest, $1.50 electric Junction. power and about $10 maintenance — n —- cost for a total expense of about Celebrates 65th Birthday Mr. and Mrs. Al Ostermeler of $53 a year, which provides no Grants Pass and M:. and Mi- E L replacement fund to accomodate Caryer of Cave Junction célébrât the rate of depreciation. Salvage wound up the evening’s ed Mr. Caryer’s 65th birthday by going to Patrick's Creek for dinner discussion thanking those present for their time, including Mr. Mor and traveling along the coast. ton, whose time was donated at this * session. Morton will he remember ed as the engineer who prepared the preliminary survey for th« proposed sewerage system request ed by the past administration. A reminder of the coming city election Nov. 4 was given by Sal Donald Rauber, Lieut, (j.g.) is vage. He recommended that im visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. mediate thought be given in the Frank Rauber of the Cave Park selection of candidates who have Motel for a week. He has just re from Aug. 4 to Oct. 4 to file for turned from his third trip to Korea the two expiring councilmanic pos aboard the aircraft carrier, U S S. itions in addition to that of mayor, Valley Forge. which is but a two-year term. News of Valley . . . BOYS IN UNIFORM
