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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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and fountain girl.
LUCILLE PRITCHETT
This is the second experience as
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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.