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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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ELK HUNTING
Elk hunting near Unity, Ore.,
this week from the Valley were
Les Tythcott, Larry Musil, Nat
Woolley and Ray Evaus.
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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.
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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.
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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.