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» University of Oregon tt the Otefc* örM ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS THE VOL. XV, NO. 31 VOICE OF THE VALLEY Single Copy Ten Cents Cave Junction. Oregon, Friday, November 21, 1952 Only Charcoal Business in Oregon Now Cougars Edged Oui in Last Game 21-20; Barion, Pickle Selected As All-Siars Producing in Valley on Dick George Rd. Final Gun Finds Additional Kilns Expected to Employ 50-100 Men Here ♦ ♦ * * ♦ ♦ • A charcoal-producing kiln locat ed just off the Dick George Road, the only such kiln in the state of Oregon, has produced two experi mental batches and is expected by its owner, E. W. Morris, to be the start of a business which will em ploy 50-100 men here in the Valley within 12 months. Elated over his first results. Morris plans the construction of more kilns throughout the Valley which will be expected to collec tively produce about three tons of charcoal daily. Morris’s trial kiln will produce about 1600-pounds weekly. With unlimited sources of waste hardwood at his disposal, Morris has already been assured of a ready market both in small quan tities within Josephine County and in quantity amounts in San Fran- ■ cisco. PROMPTED BY WASTE The great wastes of the local logging industry started Mr. and M rs. Morris on the charcoal ven ture, their first experience with the production of this jxipular fuel and food. Morris first contacted Ranger Harold Bowerman relative to an industry whcih would make use of forest wastes three years ago. Bowerman referred him to the state department of forestry which furnished necessary information. Morris completed his first kiln on his place just off the Dick George Rd. after putting aside savings from his selective logging business. Additional aid has been given him by resident soil conservationists. NEXT AT BROEFFLE’S The next kiln is planned on th<- Clyde Broeffle place where Morris has been promised oak and mad- rona free for cleaning it up. Prob ably two men will be employed to care for the kiln and on the side to make fence and hop poles,anoth er of his many sideline ventures. In addition to such offers of hard wood, his selective logging busi ness will net him a steady supply of wood for the kilns. The production of a batch of charcoal is a lengthy process, tak ing from seven days from the time the kiln is loaded until it has cooled sufficiently for removal of the finished product. A 6‘x6‘xl6‘ concrete block cub- High School Field to Get Final Topsoil The Illinois Valley high school football field will receive its final loads of topsoil this weekend be fore planting next spring, principal Donald Barnes said this week. With weather permitting, coach es Wes Peters and Stan Smith will truck the dirt in from the Illinois Valley Dairy farm. The Dairy also is furnishing a truck and loader for the weekend. Technical assistance on the pro per crown for the field and in the selection of fertilizer and seed is being given by Mel Rigdon of the local soil conservation office. --------------o Girl Scout Fund Drive Starts in Valley Nov. 24 A goal of $400 has been set by solicitors for the Nov. 24-25 drive for funds for the Girls Scouts in the Illinois Valley area. Adult scout committeemen will undertake the soliciting for the three local groups of Brownies. Intermediates and Seniors. Ruth and Jack Wilson gave the dirve its sendoff with the first check. Budget needs for the scout* cov er the expense of,the directors, and the various standing committ ees. Former Resident, M alter Boney, Dies Nov. 19 Long-time former resident of the Valley. A. Walter Donev. died in St. Anthony's hospital. Pend leton, Ore., Wednesday evening. Nov. 19. Mr. and Mrs. Doney had moved to Hermiston, Ore., recently. He had been ill with virus pneu monia. Further details were no' obtainable at press time. This is the exeprimental charcoal kiln built by E W. (Jiggs) Morris on his place just qff the Dick George Road. —SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE PHOTO a a ♦ * icle. a charcoal kiln is loaded full with two cords of seasoned, foui- foot lengths of wood through a 40 by 72-inch opening. After this door is sealed with mortar, a fire is built in a fire box at the opposite end which creates a draft and pro vide* a chimney for the burning to be done inside. 250-300 DEGREE HEAT The sealed-in wood is ignited with pitch sticks through a three- inch square opening on either side of the kiln. These firing ports are closed after nearly two hours which brings the inside tempera ture up to 250 to 300 degrees, suf ficient for starting the coaling process. Burning is controlled by the op ening and closing of 1-inch square air inlets on the four cornel's. About 36 to 40 hours are nec essary to completely turn the wood into its lighter form of chascoal An additional five days ase requir ed for cooling. KILN COST $500 The kiln used for the two ex perimental batches, of which Mor ris is rightly quite proud, was built at a cost of about $500 including’ his labor. County retail outlets for this Valley-produced charcoal include * * * * Illinois Valley Hardware in Cave Junction and Rogue River Hard ware and Tardy’s Feed and Seed in Grants Pass. Previous supplies were usually shipped into the county from Mex ico. Camas in central Washington has the nearest kiln. Charcoal brings from about $50 to $60 a ton for quantity sales to distant markets and up to about $180 a ton in small quantities in local markets. Softwood charcoal brings an inferior price and is in lesser demand. USES OF CHARCOAL Charcoal has a host of uses— some of the major ones being for uses as fuel in stoves, sports burn ers and barbeques, a* well as for fertilizer and in poultry ant stock feed. Mr. and Mrs. Morris came to the Valley from Nevada about six years ago. They have two sons, one about to be released from the Navy and the other on his way for duty in the army in Korea. Morris worked in mills, mines, the woods and at the refrigeration business before starting his selec tive logging business which is his main interet. He recently purchas ed a second cat as the most recent addition to his logging enterprise. City Water Department Requires Two Special Meetings in Past Week Future water department ex pansion occupied the time of th« city council and water official last week when they met Friday night and again Sunday informal ly- Friday Watermaster Art Drew- was authorized to crib up the city pump to raise it above the high water level of the Illinois River to avoid the flooding problem of two years ago. Raising the pump will be a temp orary measure as the council is still in favor of moving the pump to the Cave Junction side of the rivet obtaining the future supply from either the river or a well on this, side. A letter from sanitation eng ineer Wm. Morton discussed at the meeting favored the latter course. The council decided to use a different method of tapping watei mains in the future for more pe> manent installation. A ‘saddle’ will be clamped on before the pipe is bored, strengthening the connec tion. Mayor Salvage. Councilman Sherier anil Watermaster Drew met with the Ira Halls Sunday I ernoon to make recommendation « for the water installation planned by the Halls for the house they now have under construction. As a result of the meeting, the Halls decided to make use of city water which they will pipe through two-inch pipe 600 to 700 feet from the intersection of the city pipe line and the Old Stage Road. Mayor Fred Salvage announced this week that Josephine Count;, has agreed to pay $10 a month as | the portion of the rent of th-1 Legion hall used as an office by Valley JP. Wm. Sease. ■ ■ —o ■■ - —" ON DISPLAY Home from Vacation A shotgun to be given away by Miss Cecily Hawk, daughter of the IVHS student body can be seen on display at Caldwell's ' alley Mrs. A. N. Collman, arrived home Sunday after a stay in Los Angeles. Sporting Goods. 4-H Clubs Present Work Tonight Between 20 and 25 youngsters will be receiving awards for theii year’s work in tonight’s (Friday) 4-H Achievement Program at the high school at 7:45. The public is invited. Bob Murdock, county extension agent, and Barbara Watt, assistant to Extension Agent Rispah Doug lass, will both be on hand for pre sentation of the awards and pins to members qf about ten Valley clubs. A Home Extension unit will furnish cake and sandwiches as part of the evening’s refreshments. 4-H clubs for the coming year wil be organized at the meeting, and any boy or girl wishing to join a club is asked to bring his ni her parents to the program. - - -o............... Freshmen Give Sock-Hop For Student Body "Sock-Hop” will be the them« for tomorrow (Saturday) night's freshman class party for the stu dent body at Illinois Valley high school. The “sock-hop” will be dancing in socks to music provided by’ rec ords, from 7:30 to 11:30. Light refreshments will be provided. Vern I^arson, freshman sponsor, and Stan Smith will attend the hop. ■ - ■ o ■ - ■ Board Meal, Today Regular meeting of the advis ory board and supervisors of Illi nois Valley Soil Conservation dis trict will be thia afternoon (Fri day) at 1:30 in the Legion hall. Cougars on Del Norte 2-Ya rd Line Friday A shortage on seconds cheated lVHS’s footlsall squad from notch ing a victory for their last game of the season as the clock ran out in the fourth quarter while the local eleven was on Del Norte’s two-yard line, the game ending 21-20. On the bright side of the local football picture was the naming of end Mel Barton and tackle Or len Pickle this week to the J-D-J ' league all-star team. The mythical i team Was chosen by J-D-J coaches, the list compiled by the Medford Mail Tribune. Barton tied for second in the amount of place votes, receiving 10. Bob King of Crater was high with 12. Warren Cook and Stan Campbell. Cougar backs, were nam I ed on the second all-star team. After Friday night’s game, end Mel Barton’s sticky fingers had won him first place scoring honors after trotting over the goal line for ten touchdowns, which with two extra points, gave him a total of 62 for the season. The Cougars kept pace with the Crescent City squad Friday night but failure to make one extra point cheated them of a tie. It time had allowed but one more play possibly another six points would have been added to the IVHS side of the score with the ball on the two-yard-line at the final gun. Watren Cook romped for a 60- yard run on the game's second play and the first IVHS score. The familiar Campbell-to-Barton pasing combination acounted for the second TD in the second quart er. • A 30-yard pass to Reinoehl in the second half followed by a Camphell-to-Barton heave for the the extra point ended Cougar scor ing for the game and for the 1952 season. IV ended the season with two wins .-.itd three losses for league games. In non-lengue games their only win was one over the Grants Pass JV’s and two games in the loss column. --------------0-------------- Treasure Huni Plans Completed Monday Is Deadline For Merchants to Enter Watch That News Deadline Next Week! With Thanksgiving falling on Thursday, the usual publication day of the NEWS, it will instead be printed Wednesday in order to get the papers into the Friday mail as usual. News and adverti-sing dead lines will advance one day, wi th no news being accepted after Tuesday noon. Correspondent* and others with news for the Nov. 28 issue are urged to sub mit it by Mondav evening if possible to insure its publicatiou. ■------------------ O ■ ■ - ----------------- ILLINOIS VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL NEW.S Large Group Enjoys Skating Party Smog forced the p •stponement of the November 5 skating party sponsored by the juniors to Mon day, November 17. Ninety ticket; were sold for the affair and tw > busses were used to transport skaters to the rink. In the future, skating parties will be held the first Wednesday I I of every month. S. Clifford Sparks Funeral Monday Funeral services were held at the Cave Junction Community church Monday at 1 1 a.m. for S. Clifford Sparks, president of the Bank of Illinois Valley, who died following a short illness Nov. 13. Mr. Sparks had been a Valley resident since 1950 when he was called from Medford where h«1 war engaged in the real estate and in- business, to organize the Lucille Pritchett Crowned I surance local bank and become its first president. 1952 Football Queen His successor has n >t yet been Adding the extra touch of a obtained by the bank’s board of kiss, Captain Orlen Pickle crown directors. ed Lucille Pritchett as Football Mr. Sparks was born in Camp Queen for 1952 at the Homecom Cook, S. D. Dec. 16, 1898, and ing Dance last Friday night. attended high school in Baker, Virginia De.Mersseman was cho Mont, lie continued his education sen as Senior princess while Treva ut Hamlin university and at the Lee Allen was Junior princess. University of Southern California where he studied law. A veteran of World War I, Juniors Select Play Sparks has been engaged primarily To Be Given in December in the Imnking business in the west, being a former employee "Professor, How Could You?" of the First National Bank of Port has been chosen as the Junior land and cashier of the Bank of Play, which will be presented De Sweet Home, lie had formerly cember 16. It is a comedy in thre been engaged in the banking busi ads by Anne Coulter Martels. Tb<- ness in Montana anil California. cast includes Ma«1 Bowerman, Dick Surviving are his widow, Martha Masters, Christine Duncan, Bill E. Sparks of here; bis father, Hor Smith, Mary Taylor, Don Warren. ace W. Sparks, Absarkee, Mont.; Joan Yandell, Ko Krauss, Roberta and his sister, Eula Goe, South England and Joe Spalinger. Gate, Calif. It will be directed by Mr. Robert Rev. Paul Kroon conducted the Far rand. Masonic funeral services which —o— were under the direction of Hull European Travels Retold and Hull Mortuary. Music was furnished by Mrs. A. N. (’oilman By P.E. Teacher and George Marthi. Burial follow ed at Laurel cemetery. In an assembly Thursday, Nov. Honorary pallbearers announced 13, Miss Hazel Peterson related for the funeral were: Gene Thorn the first part of her European trip dike; assistant manager. First Nat which she made last summer. This ional Bank, Medford; Allen Terry, talk, illust-ated with color slides, manager, United States National included the part from New York Medford; R >)>ert Nielson, manag to England, Belgium anil the Scan- er, U.S. National Grants Pass; danav'an countries. Slides taken Charles Newland, manager, First at the Olympic Games in Helsinki National, Giants Pass Robert Har Finland, and other countries which ris, assistant manager, U. S. Na she visited will be shown at a tional, Grants Pass; Charles Pack future date. er, assistant manager, First Na —o—• tional, Grants Pass. Final arrangements for the an nual Valley Treasure Hunt were made by Cave Junction merchants meeting together at Manchel’* Monday night. Frequent appearances on Cave Junction street* by Santa will once again occupy the spotlight of this Christmas feature. Participating merchants will be announced in next week’s NEWS and the rules of the hunt, which are similar to those last year, will be available at local stores in the form of handbills. Monday, Nov. 24, was set as the deadline for local merchants to enter the contest which will begin Dec. 1. At Monday's meeting Vivian White of Trehearne's was appoint ed treasurer of the hunt. Mer chants can sign up and obtain Lettermen Initiated tickets from Mrs. White before Into I.V. Club Monday. The boys who have earned let Jim Champion of Champion’s Variety will handle the dkawing ters during the baseball and track of tickets the three days of the seasons last year and football sea actual hunt, Dec. 22, 23, and 21. son this year were initiated into the I.V. Club Wednesday evening -------------- o with full honors. This initiation Nickerson Elected Prexy must be endured before those earning letters are admitted to Of Conservation Group the Letterman's Club. Boys being initiated include: Illinois Soil Conservation Dist Earl Reinoehl, Jim Smith, Rudy rict Chairman Ray Nickerson was electe«i to the office of president Smith, Jim Hemmingway, Nathan of the Oregon Association of Soil Harper, Larry Maurer, Gary Ty- Conservation districts which met cer, Don Warren, Al Laborde, Jim Scott, David Arnold, Bob Wade, Nov. 13 and 14 in Baker. Nickerson as vice-president pre Joe SpaJinger, George Bell and sided over the 1952 convention in Ray James. n the absence of the president who was unable to attend due to an injury. The 1953 convention will be in Bend. Weather as compiled by the Ill o-------------- inois Valley Weather Station f-> the weather Nov. 10 through 16 is as follows: Humidity Temp. The following cases were heard Nov. High Low Hi*h Low Rain in Justice Court during the last 10 83 .21 - 1 47 36 week: 22 81 85 44 38 11 R. B. Slagle, Selma, over 12 .20 84 48 40 87 width load, $10 and cost*; Keith 13 1.18 86 84 37 41 D. Huffman, Grants Pas*, no op 14 1.07 46 86 51 31 •r*tor*s license, $2.50 and costs; 15 50 None 86 48 31 Allen Reynolds, Cave Junction, in 16 70 None 86 46 33 sufficient binders, $10 and eosts. WEATHER Police Court News S. CLIFFORD SPARKS Grants Pass Daily Courier Photo «i * * * Shoe Store Grand Opening Nov. 29 After a shortage in the available supply of sh >es has delayed for several weeks the grand opening of Deal's Shoe Store, that event has definitely been set for Satur day, Nov. 29. Two shipments of shoes and house slippers are expected by the middle of next week which will bring th<> local store’s stock up to a point expected weeks ago, by the owners, Betty and Bill Deal. Watch for next week's adver tisement on the special opening event at which a free pair of shoes will be given away, refreshments servied and treats given to the kid dies. --------------o ■ ■ ■ — - Belt Lod*« Tomorrow There will be a stated meeting of Belt Lodge No. 18, A. F. and A. M. at 8 p.m., Saturday Nov. 22 in the Masonic Temple in Kerby. The annual election of officers will be held at thia tim«- and the E.A. degree will be exemplified. All members are urged to at tend and visiting brethern are in vited.