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
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Entered as second class matter June 1!, 1937,
at the Post Office at Cave Junction, Oregon.
MEMBER OF*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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