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ILLINOIS VALLEY NEWS
THE
VOL. XV, NO. 34
VOICE
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THE
VALLEY
Cave junction, Oregon, Friday, December 12, 1952
Professor, How Could You?
Single Copy Ten Cents
Weekend Winds Play Havoc with
Valley Phone System, Power Lines
City to Pay Off Portland Man
$2080 Bond Debt Named Manager
Jf Valley Bank
Power Restored As Late
As Tuesday Noon ; Some
Phone Lines Still Down
Saturday night's not-so-balmy
breezes left no doubts in the
\ alley that winter had set in, as
The City of Cave Junction wil'
«•leg reported to be around 60-
pay off water bonds number thre<
miles-per-haur raised havoc with
and four and all interest owed or
power and telephone lines, blowing
>ther bonds, sometime this mont*
E. Allen Tegarden
down timber and otherwise des­
by decision of the city counci
troying property.
Replaces Late
M uiday night. The total payment
V) tnsls which residents agree
will be $2,080.
S. Clifford Sparks
lid not quite reach the force of
The council also decided t<
those in 1951 blacked out the Val­
move the city headquarters to th-
A Portland m a n, E. Allen To ley Saturday night at about 8:30
> Id postoffice building owned b)
garden, was named manager of
Clem Arnold. The recorder's office he Bank of Illinois Valley Monday and although most of Cave Junc­
:s expected to be open for buai- o succeed the late Clifford Spark­ tion had power by 1 a.m. Sunday,
ness in its new quarters by Jan.l founder a n d first president who some Valley homes were without
power until Tuesday.
Arnold promised to have his build­ died Nov. 13.
ing redecorated by that time.
flower and telephone company
At the annual board of direct­ officials
Standing water left by the week
both reported nearly all
end rainstorm posed a problem or's meeting in January, one of damage w-as the result of trees
the
bank
directors
will
be
selected
blowing across lines or against
in Cave Junction this week. Mayoi
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Salvage and Councilmen Goff and ,o hold the official title of presi- poles.
; Sherier surveyed the most serious lent. Mrs. Clifford Sparks will re­
Nine Redwoods Telephone Co.
The junior da»» of Illinois Valley High »chool wil
Professor, How Could You?" Dec. 17. Here
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situations Tuesday deciding to in main cashier and will assist Mr. lines were knocked out Saturday
(l.-r.) Dick Master», Bill Smith and Mae Bowerman rehearse an act for the Wednesday night perform-
■ stall a culvert on Kerby Ave. and Tegarden in the loan department. night as were both Bell Telephone
•nee.
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Tegarden came to Cave Junc- ' o. toll lines to Grants Pass and
to gravel Kerby, Palmer, Shu­
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maker and Sawyer avenues a- .ion form the First National Bank Medford as well as other long
>f Portland’s home bank, where he distance lines owned by Bell.
Last 1952 NEWS Issue ! -oon as possible.
A special meeting was announc served as auditor in the auditing
Cail Morgan repoited all Red­
To Publish Dec. 23
ed hy the council for Monda) lepartment.
woods Telephone Co. service
night, December 22 to which the
Mrs. Tegarden and two-month should be restored by about Fri­
The NEWS is giving notice
planning commission has been in­ old daughter will remain in Port- day. Three Cave Junction lines
this week that its final issue thit
vited to discuss street and lighting land until housing is found in inti one in the Holland area were
month
dated December 26
problems. Since Monday night’s Cave Junction. Mr. Tegarden is »till down Wednesday evening. The
will actually be published Tues­
Stellar roles in the junior class
meeting Mayor Salvage was pre temporarily residing at the George weekend gales knocked the whole
day, Dec. 23 to allow the pub­
play at the high school next Wed­
sented a petition urging bettei Martin home.
lishers and employees to enjoy
Holland-Bridgeview-Takilma area’s
nesday Dec. 17 will be filled by
street lighting in Cave Junction.
The new manager started in the communications out.
the Christmas holiday.
Mae Bowerman and Dick Masters,
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tanking business as cashier of the
News and advertising for this
Lines missed by numerous full-
as a hot-tempered college student
Marsing State Bank, Marsing, Ida. ng trees remained operating by
Christmas
Greeting
issue
should
und an intellectual young history
after serving three and one-half btttery Saturday night.
be submitted no later than Sat­
professor, respectively.
years in the navy during World
urday evening, Dec. 20. The ab­
Among the many roofs and
"Professor, How Could You?”, a
War II.
solute news deadline is Monday
buildings
damaged by winds or
three-act comedy, will be presented
From Marsing he was' caller! 'alien trees was the I.aVcrn Sauer
noon, Dec. 22.
at 8 p.m. in the Illinois Valley
out of the naval reserve for 15 barn, an old Valley landmark.
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high school gym, rather than in
Friday’s Game There,
months active duty in the Korean The bain was destroyed.
Kerby
Grade
school
students
the Kerby auditorium where past
theatre. After his Korean service
will
get
into
the
spirit
of
Christ
­
Gas ami kerosene lanterns and
Home Game Saturday:
plays have been produced, Robert
Tegaiden went to work for the stoves came into vogue Monday
mas
Friday
l>ec.
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when
they
dec
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Farrand, director of the play, an­
Coach Names Starters
orate the school tree and bring First National Bank of Portland. and Tuesday with Selma power
nounced.
cans of food for less fortunate He waa born and raised in Idaho, not bung restored until nearly
The IV Cougar’.« basketball sen-
The plot evolves when the unat­
efttended tWe
tA« University of 10 p.m. Monday and at O’Brien
classmates at' a school program in and (Attended
tached (and uninterestedl profes cne off-eiclly get« underway thi.
Idaho.
the auditorium at 1:15.
not until around noon Tuesday.
sor is told the coveted position as week in the first two scheduled
0
A group of 270 carolers will
K small section of homes on the
clashes,
both
of
them
with
Ash
dean of the history department is
Lions to Sponsor
perform at the program in spec­
northwest
corner of Cave Junction
his—if he will marry. Uproarious land high school Friday there and
ially prepared yuletide costume-
was also powerless until about
Group for Bovs 11 Up just
situations arise in the race to eith­ at the IV gym Saturday night. The
completed by mothers of the
Tuesday noon. For further details
er marry him or get him married. junior varsity game will start al
participants in grades one through
>f regional storm damage see the
An
Explorer
Scout
group
spon-
The play has been in rehearsal 6:45, the varsity squads meeting
four.
O'Brien column, and also the Ker­
at
8:15.
sored
by
the
Illinois
Valley
Lions
for only four or five weeks, Far­
Students are busy preparing
by and Holland columns.
Halftime activities Saturday club is being organized in the hundreds of ornaments to be used
rand said, but will be “ready” by
COPCO’« Grats Pass manager
night
will
include
the
presentation
Valley.
Wednesday. A sneak preview will
in the trimming of the tree which
Mr». Helen Bottel
Win. Moyer reported about 30
be given students Tuesday Dec. 16 of the shotgun or mixmaster and
bred McMullin. Jr., field scout will be done at the program under (Leave New» at O'Brien Store) men worked over the weekend anil
steam iron, and the drawing of executive of the Crater Lake Area the direction of Mrs. Katherim
at 2 p.m.
th»> first part of the week restor­
O’BRIEN—Dateline Tuesday ing juice to cohl and hungry Vai-
Cast of characters includes: Mae $200 worth of bonds sold to fin­ council, met with the Lions club Erickson.
"White Gifts’’ in the form of No electricity out here for three leyites. Frank Boardman, COPCO
Bowerman as Vickie Randolph; ance the football field lights.
I uesday night at the regular Lions
According to coach Wes Peters
Dick Masters, as Keats Perry;
meeting and outlined the Explor­ canned food will be the individual lays. We’re bathless, hungry, and superintendent of the Granta Pass
Mary Taylor, Grandma Perry; Don the Cougar hoop squad remains an ers’ program and the responsibili­ gifts brought by students which cold, being dependent on powei district, personally directed repair
Warren, Grandpa Perry; Christine unknown quantity until the week­ ties of a sponsoring organization. will be prepared into baskets to for almost all our comforts. A operations in the Valley Saturday
falling limb knocked our husband night and Sunday.
Dunean, Valerie Whitman; Rob­ end tests with Ashland. Peters
Explorers are Scouts of 14 years be given less privileged students.
erta England, “Tootsie" Bean; Ko scrimmaged the Cougars with and older and the program is de­ Parents anil residents have been loop-legged, and a falling tret
Soggy blankets of rain accom­
•arely missed our house- -it smash­ panied the winds with over two
Krauss, “Butcher Boy" Bean; I Grants Pass Friday and has con­ signed to keep the interest of the invited to Friday’s festivities.
tinued
concentrating
on
Mlditional
ed
the
coffee shop sign across inches reported for Sunday, Dec. 3
Joan Yandell, Priscilla Marley;
older boys by means of segregating SPECIAL PRACTICE SESSION
he street. Shingles blew off our making a total of nine inches of
Bill Smith, John Appleby; and scrimmaging in preparation foi them from their juniors.
the Ashland games.
An extra practice session foi i oof like feathers, and the drip-
Joe Spalinger, “Boggins”.
Named on a special Lions com the Community Chorus group has drip of water into atrategically- rainfall in the Valley for the week
In
two
previous
years
Illinois
ending Dec. 7.
Ron Terrel is stage manager.
Valley lost all four games played mittee to select a leader, help been called for Sunday night, Dec. arranged buckets is fine accom­
In the snow department the
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organize
and
to
work
with
the
paniment
to
the
hiss
of
Coleman
with Ashland which has played but
14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Earl Spencei
Illinois Valley Rangel Station re­
leader
were:
Guy
Stem,
Laurence
one game this year—a 47-43 loss
home On Caves lliway just past th» lanterns. Pieces of the Bank <>i mits 12 inches of snow at the nine
Snows and Poor Market
America sign near the Inspection mile post of the old Oregon Mtn.
at the hands of Willamette high Cushing, Abner Castleberry and Proctor residence.
Orville Meredith.
Slow Logging Industry
school.
The regular Monday night prac­ Station were last seen going north road, and 74 inches at Ramsey
Also at the Tuesday night Lions tice wil! be held as usual. T’ne east at about 75 miles per hour,
Possible starters named by Pe­
Mine on the Althou.se Creek. These
Snow and rain in the hills has ters are Orlen Pickle at center. meeting Abner Castleberry wa- •group will sing for the Illinois while the big roller-bearing tables
igures are unusually high for so
slowed down logging activity al­ Bob Jones and Mel Barton at named by President Hal Moore Jr., Valley Grange Christmas program in the Station isles followed, wit' •arly in the season, commented
though some outfits working low­ forward, and Warren Cook and as program chaidman. Dave Wilson next Thursday, and agin for the our husband hanging on to one in
Ranger Bowerman.
will serve on the program com­ public over the weekend, exact a losing tug-of-war against the
er down were reportedly still op­ Ron Terrel, guards.
Local forests suffered heavily
mittee.
erating this week.
Cougar student fans were g'iven
time to be announced next week. wind. Smog, frozen water pipes, form blow-down, but not quite as
wind storms! As of this week severely as in the 1951 "Big Blow”
A combination of poor lumber a basketball briefing Wed nesda\
we’ve (temporarily) stopped be­ according to Bowerman.
market and the need for main­ in a regular I V H S assembly.
ing boosters for the great north­
tenance and repair is expected to Coach Peters and his 10-man
west. But we’ll recover our en­
shut down some Valley mills this squad instructed students on rule»
week. Cabax Mill will close down spectator courtesy to officials and
thusiasm with the advent of the
tempodarily for repair and a pond players and various types of bas­
power company’s repair crew.
cleaning today (Friday). S II 4 W ketball strategy. Principal Doi.
The sudden death of Mrs. Lou­
was also reportedly to be among Barnes spoke briefly on student
ise Gatzga, mother of Mrs. Russell
The most recent information I in charge of irrigation studies in Bechtel of Siskiyou Mountain
those taking a breather and Rough spectator courtesy to other spec-
ivailable on the proposed Illinois | the Rogue River Area said that Camp brought sadness and shock
and Ready Mill will close for the tators.
Valley Irrigation project was I investigative phases for this yeai to the Bechtel home last Monday.
Christmas holidays, starting about
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The Illinois Valley Lions club
riven the new« this week in a' would be in the fields of geology,
the 20th.
Mrs. Gatzka had been visiting her
Bids
Called
Soon
For
eleas» from Lee McAllister, area f engineering, and land classifica- daughter and son-in-law when she will sponsor a kids’ movie Wednes­
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day afternoon, Dec. 24, to be
danning engineer for the bureau | tion. A diamond drill will soon be
Ft. Vannoy Furnace
CORRECTION
was stricken with a heart attack shown at the Ivy Theatre.
>f
reclamation
in
Salem.
in
operation
in
the
Sucker
Creek
Saturday evening and was rushed
The NEWS last week unin-
Although the main feature was
Bids will be called soon for th<
Although this latest release con- I irea for foundation exploration of
to Josephine General hospital, not known this week, the show
tentionally inserted the name of selling of Ft. Vannoy school fui
ains no new startling develop- i a potential dam site. Preliminary
with Dr. Charles Versteeg in at- will be an hour and one-half mat­
"Mrs. Carlson" in place of Mrs. nace and radiators, according t
nents it is printed in full below water supply studies indicate a
endance.
Isabelle Small who is defendant L. C. Mofitt, County Superintend
inee starting at 2 p.m. and will
ue to natural interest in the pr<>- water resource more than ample
in a writ of mandamus suit now ent. as a result of action taken a
Mr. and Mrs. Bechtel left Tues­ include n couple of cartoons.
ect on the part of Valley resi- to supply projectlands from stor­
in the preliminary stages in cir- the Dec. 8 meeting of the count) lents. It rpad:
Also announced this week is the
age on this tributary of the Illi- day for the funeral which will be
cuit court. Mrs. Small was the school board.
“Bureau of Reclamation invest- ni-os River. If found feasible, the held at Mrs. Gatzka’s home in usual Friday and Saturday after­
only woman who should have been
noon appearances of Santa on Cave
It was also decided to send th< gations in the lllin ds Valley dur- torage site would become a part Washington.
ment io ned in the story.
seventh and eighth grades of th<
Mrs. .Marie Archer, whose hus- Junction’s streets.
ng this year will bring into I of the project plan. »
Sunny Valley school to Wolf Creel focus a plan for irrigation of
Engineering field surveys will band, Dan Archer, teaches at
which will add 20 students to th» some 22,600 acres. Of this acreage. be made to consider the most Kert»y, has been elected secretary be on hand to deliver Christmas
Wolf Creek school and necessi­ >,400 would be provided supple­ practicable plan for a canal and >f the Theatre Guild at Southern stockings to each child.
The first “Kids’ Night” at
Th e weather as reported by the tate hiring another teacher to ac mental supplies and 17,200 would I distribution system. During th» Oregon College of Education at
cone in as new lands requiring pring months, a field land clftssi- Ashland. Mrs. Archer is completing O’Brien school went over with a
Illinois Valley Range- Station for commodate the increase.
The Ft. Vannoy school recenti) i full water supply.
t fication will be made of lands in * teacher’» training course at the bang last Friday when John Grubb
the period Dec. 1 through 7 is as
had
a new heating system install­
The general outline of these | the area to determine potentiali­ college.
folio nvs :
I showed sound movies to a capacity
ed. The furnace now for sale is a 'dans were formulated «nrte years ties and capabilities of the soils
The O’Brien Home Economics crowd of children and adults. Af­
Temp
Humidity
wood-burning, steam furnace.
ago and included in the unpublish­ and to delineate the project area. unit Christmas party will be held ter the show, the Shamrock club
Dec.
High Low High Low Rain
Installation of flush toilets in ed Rogue River Basin Project
There have been numerous ex­ at Mrs. Gordon Steven’s home on took over and squade dancing end­
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need for many studies which must gations in order that a plan for
The O’Brien school PTA’s Chris- defrosted the refrigerator, frozen
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be included in a new investiga­ utilization of water for irrigation mas program will Itegin at 1 p.m. a large supply of meat and veg­
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Whether
you're
buying
or
sell
­
tion.
may be concluded as rapidly as Dec. 23 with songs and plays by etables, and are expecting over-
Total Rainfall 9.00
ing, NEWS want ads work for you.
Mr. Lee McAllister. Engineer jmsaible
the children, and Santa Claus will ! night guests?
Juniors Present Hilarious Comedy,
"Professor, How Could You?", 17th
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2 Games with
Ashland Start
IV Hoop Season
Kerby Christmas
Program Friday
Explorer Scouts
To Organize Here1
O'Brien Storm
Toll Described
Latest on Irrigation Project Received
By NEWS from Reclamaiion Engineer
WEATHER
Lions io Sponsor
Kid's Show, 24th