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ILLINOIS VALLEY 35 Acre Park Planned By FRANK STRICKLAND Cave Junction Preliminary plans will be started here Mon day towards the construction of a recreation park at Cave Junc tion. Local businessmen and city officials are preparing to build one of the most unique public playgrounds in the state. The project, which will require approximately 35 acres of land, may be completed by July 1. The new park, yet unamed, will have many and varied recreation al and entertainment features for Illinois Valley people as well as tourists traveling in this sec tion of Oregon. Approximately one half of the park's area will be utilized to create a lake of six to ten feet in depth and containg five islands ranging in size from 200 by 100 feet to 1400 by 300 feet. According to tentative plans the islands will be pro fusely landscaped and three of them made accessible to the general public. It was also re vealed that the entire park will be designed, promoted and op erated by the people of the Ill inois Valley as a cooperative, non-profit, self '.iquidating proj ect. The exact location of the pro posed park has not, as yet, been divulged but it is understood to be near the town of Cave Junction where the lake basin may be filled and held to a fixed elevation by a diversion canal flowing from the east fork of the Illinois river. Among some of the recrea tional features proposed for the new park will be fishing, boat ing, swimming, picnicking, horseback riding, baseball, ten- ' nis and locally operated conces sions. The initial plans call for a 50 foot wide circular drive around the largest segment of water in the island-dotted lake and ample parking space will be provided. A strand or carnival area for special events such as holiday celebrations and the valley's an nual jubilee celebrations will be provided in the overall scheme. Estimated cost of the park in cluding engineering work, plans and specifications and the con struction contract, itself, is $10, 000. Land for the project site will, no doubt, be donated by the owners. It is expected that the money, at least part of it, will be se cured through an outright fed eral grant and the balance bor rowed from the government on 50-year low-interest basis. Con gress made such money available last year is expected to appropri ate the funds this month. Presi dent Eisenhower signed the bill, just before the congress adjourn ed, which made it law. Other southern Oregon cities and towns are also planning to take advantage of these grants and long-term loans. The com mittee who will be assinged to handle the Cave Junction proj ect will give every individual or organized group in the valley and equal opportunity to take an active part in creating what is being visualized as one of the most beautiful public parks in the northwest. By HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction A night course in basic farm welding will be offered at the Illinois Valley high school starting January 10. vocational agriculture instructor Ralph Burns announced. The 10 to 12 week session will be taught by Lowell Camp of Sel ma. with Burns as assistant. A fee cf $15 per member will be charged to furnish needed materials. 3oth arc and acete lene welding instruction is to be offered. The class will be limited to 18 members. Another course in basic ani mal nutrition is to be started later in January, Burns said. The vocational agriculture ad visory council met Wednesday night to plan details of the work, which will include a study of the sources and effects of food on specific species of farm animals. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith. owners of Rancho Park golf driving range and trailer court on the Caves highway, are in southern California until February. A New Years get-together for young people of the Cave Junc tion Community church was combined with a welcome-home party for Eugene Sams, at the Ernie Sams home on the Red wood highway Dec. 31. Guests included Norma. Car ole and Roberta Martin, Marie and Jeanetta Adams, Barbara Pritchr-tt, Iantha Rouse, George and Roger Martin and Mrs. Robert Martin, who assisted the hostess. Eugene Sams visited at his parents home over the holidays. He graduated from Illinois Val ley high school two years ago and is now employed at Portland. Future Farmers of America will hold their first meeting of the new year at the high school vocational agriculture building Monday night Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Burnett left Wednesday afternoon for Tacoma, Wash., where they were called by the death of Burnett's mother. The newly married Mr. and Mrs. Raymond (Rocky) Jones were feted at a surprise party and shower Thursday. Dec. 27 at their home near Cave Junc tion. Present were members of the Oregon Caves Bowmen club, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Reinoehl and Allan. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Holten, Donner and Jimmy. After refreshments of sand wiches, cake and cookies were served Reinoehl and Roberts entertained the group with selec tions on their guitars. The spacious sunken living room of the Arthur Cribb home in Kerby was the scene of a New Years open house Sunday. The Cribb's annual open house was preceded this year by a number of small dinner parties given throughout the week. A midnight smorgasboard celebrated the new year at the Carl Wieting home at Siskiyou Mountain camp. Guests were their son and daughter-in-law from Phoenix, Mr. and Mrs. Carl (Bud) Wieting. Mr. and Mrs. Leo DeMoss, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bottel, Carolyn DeMersseman, Jimmy Billi, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tuffs of Smith River. A watch night service on New Years eve was held by members of the Bridgeview Community church Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Culbertson of Cave Junction moved to Irv ington, Calif, last weekend. A lamp made of hoseshoes by Blacksmith Bill Murchinson of Grants Pass was given to Ethel Banta, past president of the Saddlebums at a recent Christ mas party. Mrs. Banta, though in her 70s is still an active horsewoman and spends much of her time on overnight pack trips in surrounding hills. All of Mr. and Mrs. William (Bud) Hoskins ten children and all but two of their grandchil dren were at the Hoskins home in Bridgeview for Christmas this year. Pelican Bay Bowman of Cres cent City was guest of the Ore gon Caves Bowmen last Friday, Dec. 21, at a dinner held in the drying room of the newly completed Southern Oregon Archery plant at Kerby. Musical entertainment sup plied by Lee Roberts and his guitar was followed by an even ing of dancing and archery "shop talk." Southern Oregon Archery ar row shaft factory was re-opened in December by Mr. and Mrs. Claude Reinoehl, less than four months after the disasterious fire which leveled the building and destroyed all its equipment late in August. At the Ken and Frank Hamil tons for Christmas were Ken's sister. Celeste Lough of Los Angeles and Maude Watkins of Cave Junction. Mr. and Mrs. William Baskin and their daughter Marilyn Baumgardner, of Four Corners, spent Christmas in Los Angeles where they attended a family reunion. The Les Henrys were in Cres cent City for Christmas, at the home of their daughter and fam ily, Mr. and Mrs. William Burke. Burke is the chief of police at the bay city. New name for Joy Dress Shop in Cave Junction will be "Hazel's Dress Shop," after the first of the year. Mrs. Les (Hazel) Henry announces the change to avoid mix up of names with the form er owner, Joy Kellert. Here with the Clement Y. Arnolds until the day before Christmas were Mr. and Mrs. Clement Arnold Jr. and their children Jan. Kim and Jill of Philometh, Ore. Arnold is a science teacher at Philometh high school. After weeks of wrestling pack ages and cards in their positions as postmaster and assistant at the Cave Junction post office, the Arnolds said they were quite happy to spend a quiet Christ mas at home with their younger son David. Entertaining at a family din ner on Christmas, the Harold Crowl's guests included Mrs. Crawl's father. M. F. Sheets of Medford. her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Don Elliott and JACKSONVILLE Garden Club Meeting Held BY MRS. C. S. HOSKINS Jacksonville Jacksonville Garden club held its last meeting of 1956 on Thursday, Dec. 27 at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Far ley on the Medford-Jacksonville highway. The meeting, with 15 mem bers and one guest present was held in the Farley's new rumpus room. A short business meeting was held and reports given with Mrs. R. T. Nichol presiding. An exchange of Christmas gifts was made and Christmas entertain ment and games provided. Mrs. Lee Wright won the door prize. Tea and Christmas cookies were served, with Mrs. Wilma Krebb as co-hostess. The next meeting will be held Jan. 24 at the regular meeting place in the Jacksonville Com munity hall at 1:30 p.m. It will be a birthday meeting for mem bers with tiirthdays in October, November, December and Jan uary. Mrs. Ruth Quigley spent the Christmas holiday with her son and family in Richmond, California. Christmas dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Alice Ranney were Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Ranney of Phoenix. Evening callers were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Berry of Ruch. Mrs. Grace McDaniels has sold her home at 300 Fifth street in Jacksonville and moved to 919 West 11th street, Medford. The Rev. and Mrs. W. D. Turn bull and children spent the holi day season in San Bernardino, Calif., guests of Rev. TurnbiUl's father. A family reunion was held before his brothers Bob and Wayne Turnbull returned to their missionary work in the Dominican Republic. Another brother John was also present at the family gathering. In the Rev. Turnbulls absence the Rev. Arthur C. Phillips of Salem, Ore., conducted services at the Jacksonville Assembly of A TOUGH ONE Bassett, Neb. (U.R) Harvey W. Miller, in charge of water fowl investigations for the Ne braska Game Commission, re cently took a mallard he tagged on Oct. 10, 1948. Miller said the mallard would be about nine years old. His comment: "Better boil." three boys, Douglas, Robert and Gregory, also of Medford, the Crowl's two grandchildren and their father. Kay, Carl and Charles of Cave Junction. On December 26 Mr. and Mrs. Crowl celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary with a din ner to which Mr. and Mrs. Blake Miller were invited. God church. Phillips also held revival services in Phoenix this week. Out of town guests over New Years holiday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David O'Connor were Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Misener and baby daughter Yvonne Marie, and Misener's mother, Mrs. Thelma Misener, of Ana heim, Calif. At a New Year's family din ner gathering at the O'Connor guests were Mr. and Mrs. Hill man Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Heinzer. of Central Point. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morgan of Grants Pass. The Miseners plan to return home this Saturday, after visit ing friends and relatives in this vacinity. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hewlett and daughter Holly visited at the home of Hewlett's Aunt and Un cle Mr. and Mrs. Austin Low over the New Year's holiday, in Troutdale, Ore. While there they were an unexpected addition to a family gathering at the home of a cousin Harold Lewis. Hew lett met many of his relatives whom he had not seen for years. Lyod Whitney of Jacksonville has established the Whitney Real Estate Agency in Medford at 218 East Fourth street. Sunday. January 8, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE . Shirley Baysinger of Jackson and Joe Dolan of Medford. Cards were played and refreshments served. Mr. and Mrs. Ruby Baysing er, former Jacksonville residents, now of Sacramento, Calif., were last weekend visitors in this area. Christmas day guests at the -home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Curl were his mother, Mrs. Sarah Curl of Grants Pass and Mrs. Curl's brother, Jake Curl of Gold Hill. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Berntson announced the birth of a baby daughter on December 29. The baby has been named Rebecca Lynn. New Years day the Berntson family held a dinner at the H. A. Berntson home in Jacksonville. Eddie Berntson is in Kelsey ville, Calif., at the home of Dr. Patmont, a family friend. He ex pects to be there quite a while and assist the doctor in his work. if any items of news cojne to your attention, or mail them to ' P.O. Box 38, Jacksonville. In. this way this column can be made more interesting and bet ter service to the community". Carl Hoskins and nephew Pat Hubbard accompanied by the family s two Labradors 'Jet' and 'Panther', took an end of the sea son duck hunting jaunt Dec. 30. The pups throughly enjoyed an icy dip in the Klamath river and a final 'fetching" of the ducks for this year. Residents in the Jacksonville area are asked to phone 9-8209 Reader's Digest Special! for New Subscribers! 8 Months for $1.00 CALL Mrs. Blanche Powell 2-4127 Mrs. Lulu Saulsberry spent the Christmas holidays at the home of her son John Saulsber ry in Berkeley, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Omar Culy and Mrs. C. W. Culy returned this week from a Christmas vacation spent in Mora Bay, Calif. They visited at the home of Culy's sister and family Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pease. While there they en joyed temperatures of 82 de grees and came home wearing California sun tans. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Allard of Darwin, Calif., spent the Christmas holiday in the valley visiting friends and relatives in Jacksonville and Medford. Mrs. Allard is the former Pat Marks of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Watts and Mrs. R. T. Darting of Central Point were Christmas dinner guests at the Archie Rock home. Guests at the Carl Hoskins home New Year's eve were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lamb of Mag nolia lane, Medford. New Years guests at the John R. Hamaker home were Mr. and Mrs. Milton James and children. A New Year's eve watch par ty was held at the home of Mrs. Velma Moon. Guests attending were Mr. and Mrs. Daniel King of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Dale McCay of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baysinger and Miss Ability . . . Not Disability Counts! HE (HOSE TO BE A PREACHER V 5 i ' , All American Wheel Chair Basket Ball Player ( -fc Winner of Many Sport Trophies Member of the California "FLYING WHEELS," Winners of the 1955 , National Championship. Not only an Athlete. . . But a Christian Rev. 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