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tyftewty t* th Otcj** ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS THE Gets Buck Behind Home Funeral Services Held For Arthur G. Kaufman Funeral services were held yes terday. November 6, in Cave Junc tion Community church for Arthur G. Kaufman, 62, a Holland resi dent for the past’fifteen years, who died Monday in Josephine General hospital following . a stroke last week. Surviving him are his widow. Alviene, and a son, Fred, both at home;, two daughters, Edith Whitely of Cave Junction and Betty Lou Campbell of Grants Pass; his mother, Mrs. Anna Kauf- inan of Provolt; four brothers, Bert of DeWitt, Iowa; Leo and Lloyd of Grants Pass, Will of Maquoketa, Iowa; one sister. Florence Bentley of Provolt; and four grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were made by Hull and Hull Mortuary. Interment followed at Laurel cemetery. -------------- o Two Local Men Attend District Water Meeting Attempting to .find answers to puzzling city water problems Wat ermaster Art Drews and assistant. Herb Falkenhaym attended a five- community water-works operators’ conference in Grants Pass Wed nesday, Oct. 29. The conference included a GE film on water shortage and a tour of the Grants Pass filtration plant. Representatives in addition to the Cave Junction pair attended from Grants Pass, Medford, Cen tral Point and Ashland. Si Tibbs was one of the Valley hunters who conserved on gaso line and tires by doing his deer hunting in his back yard. After having been gone oniv about 40 minutes he returned with a fout- point buck Sunday, Oct. 19 shot about one-quarter mile from his Rockydale Rd. home. SMOGBOUND^“ Counting Board Stranded in Fog As if working all night wasn’t enough, the counting board for the Illinois Valley precinct had to get stranded in the fog at 4:39 a.m. Wednesday! The four women, Mrs. Muriel Collman, Mrs. Sue Martin, Mrs. Beulah Hamilton and Mrs. Alice Bowerman, were attempting t > get home from the Bridgeview grange poll when they decided the fog and lateness of the hour was just too much and pulled off the road by the Proctor ranch to wait for daylight. Ranger Harold Bowerman a- woke at 4:45 to discover his wife wasn’t home yet. He started toward Bridgeview, not able to tell where he was, but driving by milage shown on the speedometer. Locating the women near the Proctor ranch, he led the way in to town for the weary counters. --------------o Record Crowd Expected At O’Brien Celebration A record crowd is expected a the O’Brien Fun Night tonight (Friday). Clever hats made by the children from crepe paper, paper plates and cartons will create the carnival spirit. Pro ceeds from the balloon popping booth will go toward providing meat for the P T A membership drive banquet planned for Novem ber 20. Local businesses contributing prizes for the booths are: O’Brien Store, Waldo Store, Champions. Valley Hardware, Valley Variety, Cave City Parts and Supply, and Valley Drug. Grants Pass contributors are: B&B Grocery, Byrds, McGregors, Sprouse-Reitz, Sterns, Milleges Grocery, Manchels, Sil’s, Garvey’s. The Hub, Rogue River Hardware, Brownell’s, Owl, Bechtel’s, Mc Lain’s, Service Drugs, Wards, Golden Rule, Valley Hardware. | Manner’s, Glenn Utz, Hansen's, | and Smith's Variety. MORE DONATIONS RECElvto FOR IVHS FOOTBALL JERSEYS Eight more donations for the IVHS football team’s new jersseys came in during the past two weeks. Those donating were: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harper, Twin Pines; Mr. and Mrs. Karl Preston, O'Brien: Ted Kelt, Grants Pass; Mr. and Mrs. Steve Harper. Cave Junction; Illinois Valley Meats, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Frost, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Miller and- Mrs. Mrs. Wilmer Wheeler, all of Selma. Last week's 14-page election is sue of the NEWS proved the acid test for the publishers and staff, requiring a round-the-clock work ing session Thursday night to meet the Friday morning mails for Val ley subscribers. Out-of-Valley papers missed Fri day's mail, going out a day late from Cave Junction. The Oct. 31 NEWS contained probably the largest volume of ad vertising placed by advertising ag-. envies and out-of-town sources. With the bulk of advertising copy received late, it was not until mid night Thursday night after the press run was started that it was determined a 14-page edition was I necessary, thus the two-page, un numbered insert in the middle. Three big-hearted school teach ers bailed the publishers out of a tight spot, volunteering to fold papers early Friday morning at 6 o’clock, after learning the pap ers would not be ready to fold Thursday at midnight at originally expected. The trio was: Miss Hazel Peter son, Mrs. Virginia Hennes and Mrs. Gloria LeVan. Even after working straight through from 7:30 a.m. Thursday the publishers barely made the 8:30 deadline Friday morning for local delivery. The issue contained about 1100 column inches of ad vertising, mostly political, over twice the normal amount. Also putting in long hours on the issue were two staff assistants, Virginia DeMersseman and Bob Kgster. ------------- o-------------- 3 Cars Crash In Smog in Week Smog conditions were the cause of two nearby accidents within the past week causing slight injuries in both cases. Sunday, Nov. 2, Edward Shep hard of Cave Junction and Ozzie Ford of Orick, Cali*'., collided near Forest Lodge motel at 12:10 a.m. Both men were treated by Dr. A. N. Collman—Shephard for a brok en rib and bruises and Ford for bruises. A Canyonville man, Eugene Caver, cracked up his car near Elk Creek Halloween night at 9:30, suffering a gashed chin and cuts and bruises on the face. The three injured were hauled to Cave Junction for treatment from Dr. Collman by Valley Ambu lance Service. --------- n--------- Hovanskis Open Ixxlge For Dining, Dancing The former Elk Creek Lodg« has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hovanski of O’Brien and will be open for dining and free dancing daily, the Hovanski’s announced this week. Owners of Joe and Vera's gro cery at Elk Creek, the Hovanskis have redecorated the lodge and will give it a new name in the near future. A dance license was issued to them this week. The restaurant will open at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. The new proprietors will specialize in foreign dishes. Moving here from Los Angeles a year ago, the Hovanskis have four sons, one attending O’Brien Grade school and the other three at Kerby Grade school. ---------------- n — —- CLINES LUCKY WINNER Paul Glines this week identified himself as the gentleman who tied .for first place in Hometown Gro cery’s "Name the Grocery” con test. Glines name was illegible on his entry card. His entry, "Home town Grocery” won him a first place tie prize of $10 in groceries. Smokejumpers Slop Operations after 42 Fire Season Fire season activities for th< Siskiyou Aerial project ended Oct. 24 wi’h all aerial operations dis continued. Only foreman Clif Mar shall and squad leader Orville Looper remain during the winter months to repair and maintain equipment. The project serviced a total of 42 fires during the season, which is high but not the highest. There were 46 during 1951’s busy year. About 260 parachute pumps were made from the Cave Junction- baaed plane with no lost-time ac- VALLEY Single Copy Ten Cents Election Issue All City Incumbents Returned; Taxes NEWS Slaif Five Assistants Help Make Friday Mails IV Draws First Blood But Unable to Score in 2nd Half A scoring run on an Ashland fumble in the opening minutes of a football tilt in Ashland Friday gave the Cougars from Cave Junc tion hopes of a third win, but fail ure to score in the last half left it Ashland 38, IV 19. The next Cougar game is with the Grants Pass junior varsity team on the IV field at 2 p. m. Tickets are on sale at Caldwell’s. Friday’s opening score was on a fumble retrieved by Orlen Pickh and lateraled to Mel Barton who scampered for the goal line 50 yards away. After Ashland matched the Val ley boys with a touchdown of their own, a Campbell to Barton pass play set up the second Cougar scoring play, with Barton going over again. Campbell’s arm kept the home boys in the game also paving the way for the third and final Cougar touchdown on a pass to Joe Spal- inger right to the two yard line. Campbell pushed it over on a quarterback sneak, and then pro ceeded to boot the extra point for a 20-19 score in favor of Ashland at the half. The Ashland eleven picked up three more in the second half, with IV’s only touchdown play, a 10-yard run, being called back on an offside penalty. I-arry Maurer gave the Ashland rooters a scare in the third by running back the kickoff 50-yards, but the Cave Junction lads were unable to cap italize on the play. Starting for Illinois Valley high were Reinoehl and Barton, ends; Pickle and Blue, tackles; Bliss and Mellow, guards; Spencer, center; Campbell, quarterback; Watson und Plumlee, halfbacks; and Cook, fullback. Also seeing action were Dick, Cook, Spalinger, Kester, R. Smith, Hemingway, Krauss and J. Smith. Coach Stan Smith expected his whole squad to be ready for the Grants Pass contest, a lack of in juries failing to sideline players. — ------- o - — OF THE Cave Junction, Oregon, Friday, November 7, 1952 VOL. XV, NO. 29 Cougars Drop 38-19 Game To Ashland VOICE eidents for the entire season. Half of the fires jumped on re quired no ground reinforcement and all were caught quickly enough to be controlled within a few hour» In summing up the season's act ivities, Marsha^ noted a more ->uc- I cessful handling of retrieving e- j quipment paraAiuted down with ■ he aerial firefighters. The jump er« were able to backpack about ' 70 percent of their equipment;! the average weight running be- , tween 80 and 100 pounds per mtn | This icludes climbing gear and . adi.is. Valley Ignores Party Registration • • • ♦ Salvage Tops City Balloting With 2/3 Vote Mayor Fred Salvage received nearly a two-thirds vote for re-elec tion to the non-paying, top execu tive office of Cave Junction as he and incumbents Nettie Farlien and G. C. Tillery were given a vote of confidence for second terms Tuesday. The closest city race was for councilman with Walt Freeman pulling just six less votes than incumbent Tillery. Salvage handily bested former mayor Elwood Huss ey with a plurality of over thirty votes. Voting went as follows: FOR MAYOR Fred Salvage........................... 88 Elwwod Hussey........... 56 FOR COUNCIL Nettie Farlien........................ 80 G. C. Tillery ................ 75 Walter Freeman................... 69 Blake Miller ...................... 46 Freeman received one write-in vote for mayor. The outcome o-f the city race was hs expected locally, the administra tion and its hackers having cam paigned fairly hard for a small town election through public meet ings and newspaper advertising. Mayor Fred Salvage directed the campaign himself explaining what was being done to cope with cer tain city problems, mainly water. Salvage contended in- both the meetings and through the adver tisements that poor planning by the former administration was respon sible for many present city head aches. ------------- o.............— HEU Changes Meeting To Next Tuesday Originally scheduled for Wednesday, November 12, the Illinois VaHey HEU regular monthly meeting has been chang ed to Tuesday, November 11 and will meet at 10:30 at Clara Bash am’s home on Caves Hiway. The meeting will feature a preliminary class for textile paint ing and the planning for next year’s program. Anyone interested is invited to attend this meeting. Persons are asked to bring pencil and paper. A list of needed materials will be furnished at the meeting as well as a demonstration on mak ing stencils. ------------- o-------------- ELK HUNTING Elk hunting near Unity, Ore., this week from the Valley were Les Tythcott, Larry Musil, Nat Woolley and Ray Evaus. --------------o------ - - - l-H Achievement Night Slated for November 21 The annual 4-H Achievement program for presentation of a- wards and pins will be held at the high school Friday, November 21 at 7:45. Approximately 20 boys and girls will take part in the program, dis playing their year’s work in 4-H to the public. First and third year groups in sewing will have their handiwork present, and the older girls will model the dresses they have made. Bob Murdock, county extension agent, and Barbara Watt, new as sistant to Miss Rispah Douglass, ex tension agent, will take part in the presentation of awards. Any boy or girl wishing to join a 4-H dub is asked to bring his or her parents to the program. Next year's clubs will be organized at that time. The public is invited to at tend the evening’s program. WEATHER The weathPr as reported by the Illinois Vallay ranger station for the period Oct. 27 to Nov 2 is a» follows. Hameilty Ten»p. Oct. High Low High Low Rain 45 None 66 3» 100 27 54 None 28 62 36 100 .25 58 61 40 100 29 74 None 30 55 42 1M 54 Nono M 43 too 31 The local project serviced seven 1 44 None 55 31 100 rational forests this year, three 2 61 None 47 33 100 in Oregon and four in California. Ave»age pack'ng distance faced by tired smokcj'.impers was six miles. A chief headache for the men backpacking their equipmen is rain, the parnch'ites being cap able ot roaking u,t about 20 pounds of water. The longest haul out of the woods for one crew was 4<1 miles which required the use of pack animals. • • • • els were honored with plurality of votes in one or two Valley pre cincts. City voters crossed over giv ing Luke M. Wyatt, commissioner candidate, Elwood Hussey for state representative and coroner Virgil Hull a majority vote. Waldo pre cinct likewise favored Wyatt and Hussey. Approximate voting percentages based on figures from the county Valley voters followed the na- ! clerk's office and voting for pres tional trend Tuesday, ignoring idential candidates in the six pre party line registration as each of cincts were: Althhouse, 90'< ; Cave the five predominantly Democrat Junction, 73c Illinois, 76'< ; Sel ic precincts went Republican for ma, 72' • ; Waldo, 7 4 ' ■ ; and Kerby, county, state and national offices. 80C . Waldo precinct voters tossed out Smog failed to dampen local enthusiasm as over seventy per the former open range conditions cent of voters in each Valley pre for stock in the O’Brien area with cinct turned out. Althouse, the on a 115-85 count. Unable to print complete returns ly Valley precinct which register ed predominantly Republican, for all precincts the NEWS offers showed an astounding ninety per complete voting in the Illinois pre- cint as typical of Valley voting: cent vote. President—Eisenhower (Rep.) Faced by such a massive array of referendums submitted on pet 251; Stevenson (Dem.) 165; Hall- ition, Valley voters evidently felt inan (Ind.) 3. a “No” vote was the safest, voting 4th district Congressman—Ells down such controversial bills as I worth (Rep.) 240; Swanson highway taxes and milk production 11 ii'in.) 148 and marketing act. Secretary of State—Newbry Only three Democratic candi (Rep.) 267; Green (Dem.) 137 State Treasure r—Unander dates on the county and state lev- (Rep.) 219; Lambert (Dem.) 159. Attorney General—M cCourt (Rep.) 199; Thornton (Dem.) 181. 7th Dist. Senator—Brown (Rep) 231; Massie (Dem) 231. I8t.h Dist. Representative— Haynes (Rep) 272; Hussey (Deml In case you haven't looked out 170. County Commissioner---- Me side recently that thick blanket (Rep) 202; Wyatt of smoke is still hanging in the Courtney Valley during the early mornings (Dem) 178. Sheriff—Lewis (Rep) 287; Mc and evenings. Laughlin (Dem) 115. School buses were unable to County Clerk—Coutant (Rep) function Tuesday due to the great danger involved in stopping on 279; Ugstad (Dem) 112. County Assessor—Griffin (Repl foggy highways to load students. High school principal Donald 240; Price (Dem) 147. County Coroner—Hull (Dem) Barnes advised the busdrivers to 234; Hail (Rep) 144. operate at their own discretion Justice of the Peace—Hubbard, each morning. Tuesday the drivers all concurred In the riak involved, 27!«. REFERENDUMS as no busses arrived with students. Motor Carrier Highway Trans Students living in or near Cave Junction who walked or were portation Tax Act—318 Yes, 155; brought by parents were sent back No, 216. School District Reorganization home. As explained in last week's wea \ - 880 V.-, IM; 321 No, IM. Cigarette Stamp Tax Revenue ther story the smog is still a result mostly of heavy slash burning in Act—322 Yes, 118; 323 No. 253. the Valley and surrounding area. , Establishing Standard Time— Burning requires permits from 324 Yes, 282; 325 No, 101. Prohibiting Racing Betting— the Kerby Guard Station. 326 Yes, 116; 327 No, 241. ------------- o-------------- Liquor Sale by Glass—328 Yes, Treasure Hunt Meeting 230;329 No, 151. Milk Production Act—332 Yes, Monday at Manchel’s 171; 333 No, 203. Legislative Apportionment A- The first meeting of business men interested in holding a Trea mendmerrt—334 Yes, 172; 335 No, sure Hunt again this Christmas 139. Men receiving the greatest am season will be this coming Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Manchel’s Furni ount of write-in votes for Valley justice of the peace won by incum ture store. Harry Holmes, of Valley bent Chas. A. Hubbard wore: Wm. Variety and Apparel asks that Sense (temporary JP), 12; Larry any business interested in plann Cushing, 7 ; Al Zapf, 8; and George ing either a Treasure Hunt or Bonner, 9. These were the leaders Christmas program attend this and their amount of votes in all Valley precincts. initial meeting. 90% of Àlthouse Voters Lead Local Precincts Smog Continues; Schools Close Information on Proposed Valley Dam Obtained at Medford Meeting Tuesday Irrigation-consicious Valleyites returned from the fourtieth annual Oregon Reclamation Con gress held in Medford last week with the most up-to-date informa tion available on the proposed Valley irrigation dam and other R<»gue River projects contemplat esi by the bureau of reclamation for the near future. Cave Junction attorney Laurence A. Cushing represented the NEWS in tracking down infor mation of Valley interest at the Tuesday, Oct. 28 meeting. Of chief current interest locally is the presence of five surveyers which over a week ago began surveying three or four possible dam sites in the Valley. Although the Valley was sur veyed for the same purpose two or three years ago, the bureau of reclamation officials expressed little enthusiam for the sites proposed at that time. Following the local surveying which will end possibly by lato this week, geological soil testa will be taken at various site« and finally what reclamation people call a “feasibility report” will be submitted to the department of interior. From that department the report is submitted to con gress for approval or disapproval of needed appropriations for dam construction. One bureau official stated little would be accomplished by local pressure until the repoit reaches congress. At that time local interest through correspon dence with congressmen will have its effect. Valley property owners affect ed by a local project would be given a chance to vote on the proposed dam some time after the final report is submitted to con gress. A local group headed by Illinois Valley Soil Conservation District Chairman Ray Nickerson expects to interview Congressman Harris Ellsworth in Roseburg within the near future relative t» the proposed Valley dam. The state director of the bureau of reclamation, Lee McAllister of Salem, volunteered to make a trip to Cave Junction within a month if local farmers and businessmen interested in Valley irrigation would arrange a meeting. Probably another month will elapse before» bureau of reclama tion engineers will begin classify ing land and drilling for geolog ical tests of sites cosidered for irrigation use. One engineer stated a lack of summer floods in Valley streams is an ideal irrigation dam situation as a larger supply of water could be safely retained during those heavy irrigation months.