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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1952)
(jltCtoflj tt th OtefV* Cl itet ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS THE VOL. XV VOICE OF THE Cave Junction, Oregon, Friday, August 15,1952 No. 17 Q-X LEVELING PROJECTS Log Birling Sisters Slop Here Sunday ‘Mossbacks’ to Pour Out of Hills for Jubilee Gold Panning A tour of over thirty Valley farmer» and bulinenmen view irrigation and leveling method» at the Q----X ranch la»t month. Ronnie Terrel (foreground) is handling the ditch irrigation with the aid of »iphon tube., —SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE PHOTO Over 30 farmers and Cave Junc tion businessmen viewed land lev eling undertaken by the Q—X Ranch, both last year and now un derway, on a two-hour tour spon sored by the Valley conservation district Wednesday morning, July 30. Resident soil conservationis' Loyd Burnett, ranch manager Tex Clifford and conservation engin- eei Bob Miller led the discussions and tours throughout the fields in different processes of work—pro viding graphic illustrations of the benefits of land leveling as shown by the Q—X fields before, during and after the actual leveling pro cess. At the time of the tour a 60 ft. land plane was putting the finish ing touches on a 68-acre field just leveled. Four cats with cans having a total hauling capacity of 48 yard5 and a turnapol with a nine-yard can had been working on the field since June 19. In preparation for open ditch irrigation Tex Clifford’s crew mov ed about 79,800 yards of dirt tak- off the humps and filling in the holes which had previously made contour irrigation impossible. In one place a four-foot cut was re quired while the heaviest fill was a 300-foot by 1,000-foot hole need ing a five-foot fill. The soil conservation service staked the project out so there would be a three-inch grade pei 100-feet. Borders run off the ditch in the middle of the 68-acre plot on a 45-degree angle in a herring bone pattern. The field just completed and viewed by those on the tour last month was the second in a three- field leveling project being under taken by L. A. Johnson’s Q—X ranch. The third is a 40-acre field north of the ranch house now in the process of leveling by the same crew and equipment, which will require moving about 32k000 yards of dirt. The first field undertaken wa« completed last year and is now un der cultivation and irrigation. About 137 acres in size, the level ing cost about $100 per acre which is expected to be the approximate cost of the two projects undertaker, this year. Equipment used by Clifford was hired from Tru-Mix Concrete Co. of Medford and Everett Robinson of Grants Pass. • o—......... - VALLEY - News of Valley . . . BOYS IN UNIFORM *z azzz z z zzzzzzzz z/v CZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ■w z zsr z z rz z z z z^z z v z -z zz z z - z - zz z zaa aazz a a Gerald D. Chappell, fireman ap prentice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Chappell of Cave Junction, returned to the United states August 8 aboard the air craft carrier USS Philippine Sea. The carrier has spent seven months in the Far East oper ating with units of the UN naval forces and was one of the four carriers whose planes hit the strat egic hydro-electric plants alone the Yalu River and throughout North Korea. The Philippine Sea is the first of the four carriers that made the strike to return to the states. Arriving Tuesday in San Fran cisco aboard the transport Gen. W. F. Hase was Pfc. Dwayne Wood, Route 1, Cave Junction. He is one of 60 Oregonians among the 2,227 Army men from the Korean fight ing who were aboard the ship. Return» to Montana Frankie Castleberry has return ed to her home in Broadus, Mont, after visiting for the past two months with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abner Castleberry in the Val ley. Donald Barnes Is New Principal Donald Barnes, former assistant superintendent and principal at Eagle Point was released from that position this week, allowing him to accept the principalship of Illinois Valley high school to replace Har old McAbee. Barnes had already been elected to the Cave Junction post last week but was awaiting an official release from the Eagle Point school board. Before serving four years at Eagle Point, Barnes taught two years at Bonanza high school, where he and former principal McAbee became personal friends. McAbee highly recommended Barnes for the IVHS position after submitting his own resignation last week. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes and two children, a three-year-old girl and 10-months-old boy, are expected to move to Cave Junction in the very near future in preparation for the new school' term which opens Wednesday, Sept. 3. ... o-------------- Game Biologist Speaks to Lions State game biologist Dave I.u- man spoke on the year-round activ ities of district game personnel and showed a game movie to the Illinois Valley Lions club at the Todelope Tuesday night. A ladies night and club visit with the Crescent City club will replace the next regular meeting, Tuesday, August 26. The Crescent City meeting starts at 7 p.m., Cave Junction time. Club guests in addition to Luman included Ken Deaton, Jubilee gen eral chairman, who urged the part icipation of club members in the beard growing contest and other •Jubilee activities. In addition to the movie shown with the aid of Harold Bowerman, Luman described game department activities in this area including game census, game damage claims and the planting of pheasants an I bther game birds and animals. Luman told of present efforts to preserve big game animals in 'he upper Umpqua region in which the California-Oregon Power Co. s building several power projects. Vast netw’orks of steep concrete ditches have previously claimed many animals who have fallen in and been unable to clamor out be fore drowning or dying of exhaus tion. Wild game ladders and sten5 nlaced at intervals, fencing and board walks across the ditches or leer trails have eliminated much r>f this menace, Luman «aid. H< also read to the Lions portions of •he new fall game regulations af fecting hunters in this area. —--------- —o— -■ Attended Shrine Picnic Valleyites at the Shrine picnic Sunday, August 10 were the Harry Floyds of Holland, Pete Rlues of Selma and the Goffs and Hubbard5 of Cave Junction. WEATHER Temp. Humidity Aug. High Low High Low Rain 100 86 4 61 23 None .5 98 23 None 58 94 50 6 94 88 12 None 7 93 55 84 24 None R 88 56 88 20 None 9 92 64 96 27 None 10 96 54 92 23 None For the week ending Aug. 10, 1952. (Weather information furnished by Illinois Valley Ranger Station.) Washington’s championship log birling sisters, Charlotte and Vir ginia Hansen, stopped on their way through Cave Junction Sunday to confirm their scheduled appear ance at the Illinois Valley Jubilee log birling contest, Sunday, August 31, at 2 p.m. On their way north after partic ipating in the Humboldt County fair at Ferndale, Calif., over the weekend, the two sisters emphasiz ed their muscular prowess by swift ly defeating Jubilee Chairman Ken Deaton in a short contest of arm power, called arm bending. Deaton says he’ll vouch for their ability after this brief demonstration. The girls will meet all comers, male and female, in the log birling competition at the Cabax pond. All the Valley “mossbacks” are expected to start pouring out of the surrounding hills for the gold panning, competition Ijtbor Day at 1 p.m., at the Legion Hall. Slim Hamrick, a veteran gold panner himself, will be in charge of this popular event in whie.h competitors will be panning for “10 colors”, with both time and accuracy to decide the cash prize winner. Cash prizes will also go to win ners of various classes in the ama teur contest and talent show sched uled for the Legion Hall, Sunday, August 31 at 7 p.m. Chairman Ted Hooey announces prizes for solo, musical, comical, instrumental and novelty acts. Terpsichorean artists are ex pected to attend the last scheduled event of the 1952 Jubilee in droves to participate in the Labor Day dance and waltzing contest at the Legion hall starting at 9 p.m., Mon day, Sept. 1. The Jubilee committee received word this week that Gen Thomas E. Rilea is unable to participate in the Labor Day parade as orig inally scheduled, having to send in his place a field grade officer of the national guard. -----------------o—...... - Police Court News. The following cases were heard in Justice of the Peace Chas. Hub bard’s court this last week: Johnson Truck line, overwidth, $5 and $4.50 costs; Orville Lee Stout, no operator’s license, $2.50 and $4,50 costs; Chester C. Holst, inadequate brakes, $5 and $4.50 costs; Lynn R. Stone, overload, $100 and $4.50 r Milton W. Phill ips, reckless driving, $10 an.i $4.50 costs. Everett W. Atkins, overload, $200 and $4.50; Chas. Lemmon, overload, $200 and $4.50; Oregon Caves Lumber Co., overload, $47 anil $4.50; Everett Skeeters, no transportation permit, $10 and $4.50; Francis Hawkins, overload, $84 and $4.50; Ray C. Leach, overload, $40 and $4.50. ■ o------ ■■■ — SUFFERS HEART ATTACK A Valley man, John Melburn, was administered oxygen by Valley Ambulance Service at his home Friday night after suffering a heart attack. Single Copy Ten Cents 2nd Sub-Division First Successful Rafi Trip Down Illinois Completed in 7 Days by Trio Submitted for City Approval Arnold Awarded Raft Spills 3-Man Crew Two Times Curfew Ordinance On Rugged Waters Ordered Drawn to New PO Building Cope with Juveniles A second proposed Valley sub division was presented the city council for approval by that body and by the newly-formed planning commission when the council met Monday night at the Legion Hall. Frank Gibbons is planning to sub-divide a tract on Redwood highway near the O’Brien Women’s club of about five acre* in size. The lots would be broken up into approximately one-half acre par cels. To speed up the process of approving sub-divisions near Cave Junction. Cap. White, county engi neer, was appointed by the council as city engineer to approve the proposals after council action. No action has been reported by the planning commission on the Castleberyy sub-division submitted a few weeks for a tract west of Cave Junction. Other council business Tuesday night included: 1. An analysis of city water of a sample taken by sanitation engineer Wm. Morton while in Cave Junction two weeks ago show ed the presence of only .41 parts of iron per million. An earlier test had shown over ten times a> much iron present. 2. The city street oiling program was announced as completed at a total ©ost of $634.26, lower than originally estimated. 3. Cave Junction churches were granted a special year-round mini mum water rate of $1.50 a month. 4. A city curfew ordinance was ordered written to be approved at a later date to cope with late- roaming Valley youth. Justice of the Peace Hubbard told the council of a case this week involving two 16-year-old boys charged with dis order’- conduct and use of obscene language in public. The boys were reportedly roaming the streets as late as 5 a.m. The case was turned over to the county juvenille court. 5. Rev. Paul Kroon and Art Drews requested that no carnival events be placed near enough the Community church during the Jub ilee to interfere with church ser vices Sunday, August 31. 6. Herb Falkenhayn was given the job of installing 10 water met ers at $2 an hour. All councilmen, the mayor, and recorder, with the exception of Larry Goff, were present. Cave Junction In Second Place Cave Junction dropped out of first place in the . Rogue Valley Baseball league Friday night in Grants Pass when they completed two and a half innings of a game started with Glendale July 20. Before the July 20 contest was stopped by a brawl, Glendale was leading 7 to 3 which was widened to 9 to 3 Friday night. Grants Pass is now leading the league. Cave Junction has completed her schedule with ten wins and twr* losses. Construction to Be Completed in 90 Days Official word of the awarding of a lease for the new Cave Junc- tio Postoffice building to Post master Clem Arnold was receive« this week. Although rumors of the award have been circulating for over a week, Arnold received definite word just Monday in a letter from Assistant Postmaster General Wal ter Myers. The lease calls for a 25 by 50- foot fireproof building on the mt adjoining the present postoffice site occupied by the building of Ira Hall, accountant. The contract requires that the building be com pleted within 90 days of August 6, 1952. With financial arrangements for the construction of the building complete. Postmaster Arnold has yet to consult a contractor. He ex pects to build either brick or pum ice stone block, with asbestos shingles. The new building will have over three times as much floor space as the present one, also owned by Arnold, which measures only 15 by 24 feet for the space occupied by the post office. Although new equipment and fixtures are expect ed for the new building, no official mention of the outfitting or num ber of mail boxes has been given Arnold. Ira Hall plans to move his small building onto a site next to the bank, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rausch, on or before August 23. A log house presently on the same lot will be tom down. Hall has plans for adding a consulting room to the rear of the building aftei the move. -------------- o-------------- 3 Bears Bagged By Q-X Hunters JUBILEE QUEEN CANDIDATES JOYCE RAE JONES LOSE EQUIPMENT The first spill turned the raft over, spilling their supplies into the Illinois. Two of the boys swam after sleeping bags and other e- quipment which floated, while the third controlled the raft. A .22 rifle, 15-pounds of potatoes, shirts, the raft rudder, and pot.s and pans were not recovered. The narrowness of the gorge through the river rapids tipped tho raft a second time over onto Sav age, pinning him against a rock and requiring the other two to cut the strings on the bottom of the raft and to remove their packs before being able to free him and right the craft. Three short, hazardous portions of the river proved unnavigable for even a raft, and the boys were forced to portage around them. A falls, a log across the river, and about 200 yards of rapids were three stretches which were not at tempted in Die trio’s bid for recog nition as Illinois River navigators. After several hair raising ex periences along the Illinois and spending some chilly and hungry nights after being dunked and los ing provisions, Agnes was reached Saturday at 2 p.m. The Agnes to Gold Beach stretch of the Rogue proved to be like riding in a bath tub after the previously untamed Two Q—X ranch ctalwarts. Illinois was mastered. Early Elmore and Tex Clifford, ABUNDANCE OF WILD LIFE made their bid for recognition as An abundance of wild life was big game hunters Tuesday by reported along these uninhabited taking 10 minutes out from lunch stretches of back country as the to bag a mamma bear and two cubs three floated Imtween deep cany near the ranch Elmore was returning to the on walls during the daylight hours, the depth of the gorges cutting off ranch for lunch when he spied a the light early in the day. An other bear cub just a half-mile from wise miserable night was averted the ranch house. After treeing the youngster and leaving the dog when a hot meal was provided at to keep it there, Elmore beat it one stop near Indigo Creek at the Briggs ranch. back to the ranch where he picked The boys were also impressed up a gun and Tex. Returning to the tree they found with the greeting of the rangers instead of old dog Tip, who had stationed at Agnes who aided in retreated, another cub and mamma keeping the boys in touch with bear, both of whom scampered their parents back in the Valley. up the tree. All three were shot, Upon reaching Gold Beach, the the mamma bear weighing 250 swimming trunk-clird trio, sun pounds with the cubs going at burned and bruised, but otherwise 50 and 60 pounds. The meat of uninjured, was greeted by Mr. and all three animals was frozen, ac Mrs. Elmer Bliss of Kerby anil Albert Mincer of Brookings. cording to hunter Tex. The boys were back in the Valley -------------- o-------------- Monday, with Walter and Jesse To Portland For Graduate Study Dr. A. N. Collman will spend planning to enter the navy and the next week or ten days in Port Richard preparing for his new school term ns an IVHS junior. land in graduate study. MEET JOYCE RAE JONES, LUCILLE PRITCHETT, MARION STARKS Any afternoon you drive along ’he Rockydale road and pass a mall, new house under construc- ion, you’re likely to see a good looking brunette adraddle the top. nutting on roofing. She will be loyce Rae Jones, the Illinois Val- ’ey Grange candidate for Jubilee Queen. This 5 ft. 7 in. 16-year old with the long brown hair and hazel eyes s helping her husband, Raymond Jones, build their new home in her pare time. Like all young couples building a new home they had to compromise on details, she gets her way in the kitchen, he gets his n the garage! She works from 6 til 2 p. m. at the Dew Drop Inn as waitress, also. A native Oregonian, Princess Joyce moved to the Valley two ears ago and attended IVHS until last fall, when she married “Rocky.” A whiz at acrobatics. Joyce has given tumbling exhibitions since she was in the fifth g-ade. Joyce sings soprano in the Com munity chorus and is taking a cor respondence course in art. She now plans to add another act-! Still in one piece but minus equipment lost one of two times their raft overturned, are the three Valley teen-agers who defied the assumption that the Illinois River was unnavigable by making the Kerby to Gold Beach 90-mile trip in seven days. The trio, Walter Farmer, Rich ard Bliss and Jesse Savage, reached Gold Beach Sunday morning at 11 after seven strenuous days on their six-man rubber air force raft after Don Gibbs had driven them to the river for launching at 6:30 a.m. Monday. As expected, the rapids between Deadmans bar and Colliers bar a- bout halfway down the Illinois to Agnes provided several thrills with which pie adventuresome trio could have done without. vity to her long list—the archerj swimming high on her list of “fav lub of which her husband is al orites” and she enjoys most sports. ready a member. This summer Lucille is working it the Y-Not Drive-in as a waitress n------------- and fountain girl. LUCILLE PRITCHETT This is the second experience as ■ o - - a princess for slim, blonde Lucille MARION STARKS Pritchett, the candidate sponsored “I like anything to do with by Local 3009 A.F. of L., Lumbei horses,” s; vs pretty Marion Starks, and Sawmill Workers, for she member of the Rough and Ready reigned as Carnival princess at Ramblers, and their choice for queen candidate. IVHS last fall. Five foot, six inches, with blue Brown-haired Princess Marion eyes and long blonde hair, Lucille has participated in gymkhanas in w-ill be treasurer of the senior Sanata Barbara, Calif., and ridden class this year, as well as basket in parades in Great Falls, Mont. Five foot five and a half inches ball sportshead for GAA. Last year she was business manager of the tall, slight of build with blue eyes framed with dark lashes, Marion Cougar’s Echo. Friendly, always smiling, Prin was a freshman at Kerby high cess Lucille and her parents, the school, but spent the rest of her O. R. Pritchetts of Kerby, have school years in Montana. Her par lived in the Valley only a year, ents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Starks coming here from Sutherlin. Orig of Kerby have lived here 11 years. Swimming rates almost as high inally from Oklahoma, she has liv as riding horseback with Marion, ed most of her life in Oregon. After she graduates, Ixicille but dancing has the inside edge. plans to attend a beautician’s "It’s my favorite fission,” she school in Eugene and hopes to says. This summer and last summer, have her own beauty shop in a Marion has worked at the Kerbv -mall town some day. Like many of the other candi guard station, “feeding the boys.” dates, Lucille rates dancing and Officially she is cook’s helper Legion Announces Six Post Awards Six awards presented Glenn Morrison Post, American Legion at the July 30 state convention in Klamath Falls were announced this week by post Commander Tom White. The awards were in recognition of the post’s activities under the leadership of past commander Ken Deaton during 1951-52. The six awards were as follows: Certificate of Appreciation for being the outstanding post in the district four in ritualistic activity. Certificate of Appreciation for having reached the national quota on membership, which was 14 per cent over the department quota. Certificate of Distinguished Ser vice for membership equalling or .surpassing assigned quota. Certificate of Appreciation cit ation for having fulfilled the mem bership pledge made at the thirty- third Seaside convention. Certificate of Post Appreciation for post achievement in the promo tion of citizenship through the ■spoOisorship of two Boy Scout troops in Cave Junction. Annual Child Welfare Citation, both on the local and national scale.
