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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1952)
Friday, No««mb«r 21, 1952 lllinoi« Vallay Naw* Pag« 6 Such has been the plight of at least two local stores—one which has post poned its grand opening due to a shortage of merchandise, and the oth er which planned a special event to show off a new line. Maybe the nation’s distributors pulled in their horns this fall in prep aration for another Democratic vic tory, Nov. 4. Illinois Valley News RICHARD C., JOAN PINKERTON PUBLISHERS AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Published at Cave Junction, Josephine County, Oregon Every Friday Morning SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Josephine County $5.60 3.00 1.76 Two Years One Year . Six Months Outside Josephine County Two Years............................................... $6.60 One Year ......................................... 3.60 Six Months ..................... ......... -.................. ■■ 2.00 Entered as second class matter June 1!, 1937, at the Post Office at Cave Junction, Oregon. MEMBER OF* OREGON NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSN. UNWARRANTED CONSERVATISM Somewhere along the 30-mile route between Cave Junction and Grants Pass there must remain a thick blanket of fog—or perhaps it’s a lack of highway signs—or maybe some other confusing factor. Whatever it is, Cave Junction merchants have suffered in past weeks as freight trucks failed to ar rive with important merchandise long overdue. (Enclosed with her renewal to her subscription to the NEWS this week. Mrs. Reuben Cook of Kerby, wrote the following comment on the recent election:) Dear Editor: That old man with the red, white and blue stripes won’t worry us "no more"—Ike will take care of him! Mrs. R. I. Cook WANTED- SCRAP IRON, METALS AND BATTERIES Short Steel......... ton $15 Mixed Cast Iron ton $15 Mixed Copper........ lb. 14c Heavy Red Brass , lb. 12c Heavy Yellow Brass lb. 9c i 1 lit Brass ........ lb. 6c BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Cliff Sparks is gone. But like all good men he left behind results of his labor which will remind Valley folk for years to come of his short stay here. Cliff was a pioneer—not in years, but in vocation. The successful plan ning and groundwork which led to an insured future for the Bank ot Illinois Valley was an accomplish ment of great importance to busi ness activity here. Then too, Cliff will be remember ed for his interest in Valley agricul ture, for he realized that on it the future of this area would one day depend. S. Clifford Sparks is gone, but his accomplishments will perpetuate the memory of his residence here. The Valley of Y esteryear 14 YEARS AGO November 2-1, 1938—The Rocky- dal« school was closed Wednesday on account of illness. E. D. Haines of Weatt, Calif., arrived yesterday to spend Thanks giving with Mrs. Susan Haines. How air d Beats», Harry Floyd and L. E. Athey attended the Shrine ceremonial in Grants Pass last Saturday. Mrs. Mary Christie of Klamath Falls left for her home last Sun day after visiting her niece Clara Hammer. LETTERSlotbeEDITOR ON IRRIGATION Editor, NEWS: I just received my Illinois Valley News in the mail and noted the two articles about the irrigation project. As I’ve said before, 1'11 support anything that will help the Valley to the limit, but if its the setup I’m certain it is, ninety per cent of the Valley places will be sold for unpaid water bills. . . . .... You pay on every foot of ground you own in an irrigation district, regardless of whether you use the water or not. . . . .... As for getting excited about the surveyors being on the scene, don’t get any high blood pressure worked up as I remember in 1909 they had surveyors survey the railroad from Grants Pass to Crescent City and held a railroad celebration at Kerby and where h the railroad? Paul Pfefferle Klamath Kails Capital Parade By Murray Wade EDUCATING PRISONERS Convicts in prison must be pre pared to return to society as most of them will come out to live in -.hat society again. Virgil T. O’Mal ley, warden at the Oregon State Penitentiary told a conference of teachers during a "workshop” ses sion in Salem this week. O’Malley said aptitude tests and vocational ability tests are given at the penitentiary. They help the prisoners to find a field in which to study. They they are enrolled in appropriate cuorses to teach them a vocation. He accentuated that education is far more powerful as an aid to society than punishment. —o — STATE BUDGET TO PRINTER 100 acres of land. Bids will be opened in Portland December 22 by the government’s General Serv ices administration. WHO HAS A NAME? What are the recently sanctioned dispensories of whiskey - by - the- drink going to be called? That may be up to the legisla ture which has the job of creating a law to guide the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. In selecting a name to distinguish the new shops from the present taverns the solons have a long list to chose from, in cluding phases of the mode and antiques. If that ancient scrivener Geof- ferey Chaucer were a member of the Oregon Legislature he would call the shop a “wyn bibbery”. Our pioneer grandfathers said “whis key saloon." To the gold rush miners all such were just “bars." The ultra-prohis and ulcer-pro- his would have them known as “grog-shopj,” “barrooms” or even “drinkeries"—how quickly that one would slip to “drunkeries.” In Nevada they say “lounge,” and we read of escapades where the o is silent. Oregon probably will follow Cal ifornia and call them “cocktail bars”, an Americanese, originating on U.S. Atlantic liners. .—o— Unemployment Claims (’an Be Filed Locally To enable residents of the Illi nois Valley area to file claims for unemployment insurance, an offi cial from the State Unemployment Compensation commission resumed weekly visits to Cave Junction last Thursday. Business will be conducted in the Auxiliary quarters of the American Legion hall between 9: 30 and 11a.m. every Thursday. . ——o ----- —— The biennial state budget for 1953-54 has been scaled down to $210,000,000 and turned over to the state printer by Harry Dorman, director of the department of fi- nanc. Publication schedule calls for delivery December 22. In addition to these figures the state board of higher education will ask the legislature to sanction | Lumber Co. Purchased z a $9,000,900 building progi am. CAPITAL SHORTS The state board of control will D. C. Adams and his sons, D. At this time every two years L. Adams and Francis Adams present an institutional building program for the next two years conscientious legislators band to have recently purchased the Elk gether planning to shorten the Creek Lumber co. from George totalling $6,77|,OOO. lengthening legislative sessions— Alcorn. It will be known as the they’re at it again. . . The annual Adams Lumber Co. from now on. A MILLION A MONTH convention of the Oregon Republi The new owners* are from Salem, Death benefit payments of life ait Club wil be held in Portland Ore. insurance to Oregon families to taled $1 1,495,500 in the first ten months of this year. The number of policies becom ing claims in the first nine months of 1952 showed an increase of over 4 per cent compared with the same period in 1951. The tremendous increase in life insurance ownership since World War II is reflected in current pay ments. Life insurance ownership Granny Robinson put on quite a please—this is my own coat!” in Oregon has increased 80 per show the other night at the annual From where I sit, what almost cent in the past seven years. happened to Granny was good for White Elephant auction held at a laugh, but sometimes when peo the Women’s Club. BIG BUSINESS ON THE BLOCK ple “get carried away” with their Towards the end of the evening, own talk it’s not so funny. I prefer she had the ladies battling for Bids have been called for a a glass of temperate beer while $5,000,000 war-time plant in Sa anything she put up. “What am I listening to my favorite radio pro bid for this woman ’ s lovely black lem. gram— you may like soda pop — The plant was built in 1942 as a coat here—good as new? Who’ll or cider. I suggest we hold on to pilot plant in extraction of alumina i say ten dollars?” she asked. from clay to stockpile the wai Granny held the coat up, and our personal opinions — and be effort. The present product is ac commenced describing the coat’s lieve in them — but take a good tivated manganese dioxide for use lining, sleeves, buttons — really close look at them before we try to in the manufacture of dry cell “selling hard.” Then, suddenly, “sell” them to our neighbor! batteries. The monthly capacity of she took a close look and blurted the plant is 100 tons of manganese and 400 tons of ammonium sul out “Land sakes, no more bidding phate. Copyright, W52, United Stales Breuers bdundation The property offered include- From where I sit *2^ Joe Marsh. Going ... Going ... Almost Gone Miss Janet Martin attended the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity Aluminum............ lb. 4c November 19, 1942—Miss Imo dance in Corvallis last weekend re Radiators, clean lb. 11c gene St. John who now makes her turning home Sunday. in Lakeview visited her Batteries............ each $1 home sister, Mrs. Walter Doney and Mr. and Mrs. Hurry Messenger other friends in the valley. received word that their son Ralph YOUR FRIENDLY Messenger was married last Satur Art Kellert represented the Mid- day, to Miss Anne Lewis of way Island Post of the American Seattle. 4 Miles South of Cave Junction Legion and Blake Miller and Ed Miller represented Glenn Morri- on Highway son Post in the Armistice I >ay I Parade in Grants Pass. 10 YEARS AGO Who really owns Standard? • Ashland Junk Co. Nov. 28-29. Dr. E. E. Boring, state president announced this week. . . Paul Patterson, Hillsboro, state senate president, is working again this week as acting governor of Oregon. It took rulings by Atty. Gen. Geo. Neuner and David O’ Hara, state elections director, to hold him on the job when other officers argued that the new law, I relating to terms of office of legis- I lators, disqualified him . . • . Peery Buren, attache of corpora- : tions commissioners office, told conference of Ag Co-ops in Port- ' land last week that “before a co-op ! association cAn law'fully sell notes, bonds, etc., it must register with the corporation commissioner and gain permission otherwise they are personally liable. - ------------ o-------------- • / s READY MIX CEMENT Phone 4401 CAVE JUNCTION That old bogeyman — the Tycoon of Big Business — seems still to linger in th«« minds of some |M*ople. Whether or not this was ever a true picture, it is certainly false today. Standard Oil Company of California, for instance, is widely held, independent. It has its own management and shareholders. It is not connected with any of the Standard companies in the East. 4 X The actual owners of Standard Oil Company of California now number 115.942—which is 17.(MM) more than just two years ago. 'They include 283 universities and other edu< 'ation.il institutions: 2.¡6 churches and religious organizations; 1825 small and large businesses; 159 hospitals and other med ical groups; 10.876 employees of th«« Company. and 102.56.1 other individual citizens, few of whom could lie called rich. The great number of our shareholders are people like your own friends and neighbors_ yourself, perhaps —mechanics, clerks, farmers, white-collar men. widows, men and women who have retired. <i In another sense, of course, the “owners" of the Company are our customers, who. in effect, control it and receive its benefits You control Standard by your choice of brands. You benefit by the quality and economy of the products we sell. The only way we can look after the inter ests of our shareholders is by making sure that Standard serves vou well. STANDARD Oil COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA «A m J t* , M Utt*/ ‘