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ILLINOIS VALLEY Fjtms on Apples Shown tY HKLKM BOTTEL Cave Junction Films on apple growing in the Wenatchee valley were shown at the Bridge view Grange meeting Thursday night hjj Allen Eastgate of the Pacific Fruit Growers associa tion. The Medford man said the Il linois valley was comparable in climate and soil conditions to the Washington apple center, and added his company would take all top quality fruit raised here. Methods of packing and mark eting, as well as care of orchards were described in the color movies. Grige members voted unan imous opposition to House bill No. 61, .hich wuU rsquire farmers t hire unioa lar on all building ! valiwd at me than Sir. Jiggs Morris, Grene master, prided at tha meeting. Ha was released earlier this vwk follow ing an apperrlectomy t Jose phine Genural hospital. delegate to the State PTA con vention at Pendleton in April. Appointed by President Wesley Clark to head the auditing com mittee was Mrs. Walter Freeman, a Kerby teacher. Pros and cons of the segeration issue were argued by a high school debate team after the business meet ing. Members of the two teams, as introduced by Instructor Don Brown, were Linda Marshall and Norma Martin; Sandra Crouse and Shirley Mae Brown. Tables cWcoratad vith h 1 u and gold crepa paper flowers car ried out t h a Americn Legion colors at tha amual birthday dinner given fey ha- Auxiliary for Legionnaires and thai fant-tf-.es Vednwttay. Mrs. S. V. Cx, unit presi dent, introduced Comma nder Howard Yarbroifh erf Glenn Morri.a Post 7. Art Kellert William J. McLean has been appointed as a member of the board of directors of the Il linois Valley Chamber of Com merce to fill the unexpired term left vacant by Vivian Mc Casland. He has served as sec retary of the board for several years. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Mrs. L. J. Tythcott returned to the Rogue) Memorial hospital in Medford last Tuesday for further treatment. ipoki cm th importance of Ranger Station Illinois Valley 4-H Dairy club members are scheduled to be on a radio program over KUIN, April 6, at 9:45 a. m. At an administrative and re sources management train ing course at Wind River Wash., this week are District Ranger Ray Ellstrom and David Chamber lain, timber management as sistant, of the Illinois Valley Leftiori yfoit, especially te younr eteNJts o must sooa assume kraWrshre. Out--tovfm members present wer Wat ooWt asd his sister Verna EMley ce! Gold Hill, form er residents erf Uee valley. Over SO peopa? attoatatad the aotluck dinner. Mrs. Cecil Slack assisted Mrs. Cc viii table 'decora tions. O Mrs. jvt Bcvmai was elected praMfanl at the O'Brien PTA Vednueday night at a meet ing hfcld a tha school. Her of ficers artt ttrs. Id Michels, vice presidiaat and Mrs. Gordon Stephens, forretary-rreasurer. A sum $5 trom PTA funds was set arMs members to pay the remainaier aue on the school jungle fm installed last year. The PTA group voted to spon sor at intermediate Girl Scout troop, whose WadsM will e Mrs. Les B o m a n and Mrs.. Bob Breckenridfie. V a lunteering on the Scout committee were Mrs. John Campbell, John Grubb and Bob reckenrids. The charter will be presented at the April PTA meeting when a Brownie fly-up is planned. Entertainment was provided by Mrs. Michels. who sang sev eral medlies with guitar ac companiment, and by Mr. and Mrs. Lester llott, who showed color sluWs at their trailer trip to Mexico. Aileen Prather was named president of the Kerby PTA at Thursday's Meeting held at the school cafeteria. Other new of ficers are Ann Messenger, vice president, Marjorie Johnson, secretary and Flora Lewis, treas urer. Mrs. Prather was selected as The U. S. Forest Service course will include all major administrative procedures and will also give instruction on the safeguarding and management of resources. Cave Junction area volnteer firemen met for a drill Tuesday while O'Briea volunteers gather ed Wednesday at their fire house near the Waldo store. B ot h teams practiced using their equipment. During the O'Brien meeting, the boys got first hand experience when an alarm called them to a small fire in back .of the store, set to give them training in quick response. Judy Hansen and Roberta Martin gave a demonstration of sewing seams at the 4-H Stitch ers meeting Wednesday at the Robert Martin home. A skating party was planned the date for which is to be set later. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Martin. Ed Grosh and M. A. Sprague, who attended the N o r t h w est Christmas Tree association meet ing in Portland March 15, re ported on their trip at a meet ing of the Southern Oregon Christmas Tree association Mon day, March 25, at the American Legion hall. According to Elwin Bridges, who, with members of his jour- inalism class, conducted an un official survey at the high school last week, foreign lan guages in the curriculum, and most showed a preferance for Spanish. Because of the small enroll ment, no such courses are now available here.- PORTLAND J4S5PluTax , tuiaMt unsT COAST y (4l TUEM CAME THE WADf HUTTING HIS APvAlRS IN ORDER, He plumged intdthe fight. sps4g- HEdDlNG THE TIM Foil DRIVE .'(945-THE W4R over,he picked up the reims of BUSINESS, NEVtPOWEVEPLaOEHlsl(3 his uvio !CTIvmESl946-H4l(?MJNl : DANDRUFF D(?WE-TC.,TC. DIRECTOR OF SEMD-TUE- C4MPERS-H0ME FUMD-IN" WMlCM GUR-RE4T W0I2K THIS MAH WTTW- OUTGUILE.THIS HOBLEMAti P . : ' IZZZZII mr7fflw) needs hJo m Vast Project Creating New Interest in Spanish Area Badajoz (U.R) "Go west young man is the latest slogan in Spam where a vast irrigation project is making fertile thou sands of acres of land and giv ing new life and hope to a pop ulation that has lived for cen turies in the shadow of poverty. The Badjoz Plan, 20 per cent completed, is a $125,000,000 scheme to harness the waters of the Guadiana river as it flows through the bone-dry plains of southwestern Spain. The main storage dam, Cijara, already is 90 per cent completed, be available for birthday cele brations or other private parties. Visiting with her parents, Mr. and P"rs. Lyle Prairie, at O'Brien last week was Mrs. Russell Doran Jr., who brougth her three children, Mike, Pat and Teresa down from Eugen to see grand parents on both sides of the fam ily. Pat and Mike stayed two nights with Mr. anJ Mrs. Rus sell Doran Sr. on the Airport road before their father, a radio announcer at K U G K, Eugene, arrived Sunday to take the fam ily home. Two new members, Pat and Myra Kellog, were welcomed in to the Illinois Valley 4-H Live stock club Tuesday evening when members met at the Wes ley Nicholson home. Junior Leader Clark England displayed the Purina company trophy awarded him for win ning the grand championship on his steer at Josephine county fair last year. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Nicholson. The next meet ing is set for April 16 at the Nicholson home. At a state soil conservation committee meeting held recent ly in Salem, Clyde Broeffle of Cave Junction was named a soil conservation district supervisor to represent the Illinois Valley district. To take a clerical nrnrpdnma and typing course at Fort Mp- Clellan Ala. is Pvt. Charlotte Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Moore of Selma. Private Moore recently com pleted eight weeks of basic train ing at the Women's Army Corps Center, at Fort MrClollnr. 5h graduated in 1955 from Illinois vaney mgn school. The Josephine county band concert at Fruitdale will be held on Wednesday, March 27. and the high school PTA meeting is planned for Thursday, March 28. . The dates -vere printed for the wrong week in last Friday's column. Melody Lane Playhouse at O'Brien, closed since 1952, will be re-opened by owner Paul Schneider April 3. - Schneider plans to convert the hall into a teenagers' rendezv ous, where young folk and their parents are invited to dance, play billiards, pingpong and other games, or listen to the. jukebox. The playhouse will also Cave junction ham operators Les Bashman and Bob Steimer, together with Mrs. Basham, at tended a meeting of the county unit defense radio operators last Monday at the home of Homer Goff in Grants Pass. The next meeting will be at the Basham home in April. The calendar said it, and val ley ites must have believed it, even though thermometers dip ped into the low 30's At any rate, early spring leth argy put a period to three meet ings here last week and almost finished a fourth. Republican women were most ly elsewhere Thursday night, and world planners evidently made their 'great decision' one to stay home last Friday. Ever green PTA put off its election when only a fistful of members turned up, while O'Brien barely squeeked through with four over a quorum and half a cake go ing begging on the refreshment table. In the garden daffodils, cro cus and violets drooped in the frost, but new lawns showed green (with hardy weeds). In doors, the first ants mobilized, groggy flies half-heartedly bang ed against windowpanes, mos quitoes unlimbered, and the urge to put everthing (including meet ing) off until tomorrow was too great to fight. Spring, though chilly, has surely arrived. and the first 40.000 acres of ir rigated land in the valleys below are giving eight to 10 times their previous yield. A dam for irri gation control, Montijo, is fin ished and in use, and two other dams are being constructed. When completed in 1965, 250, 000 acres will be under irriga tion, divided into neat 10-acre blocks, each supporting a farmer and his family. Complementary to the big in crease in agricultural yield, fac tories are springing up to can the excess tomatoes, spin the cotton and treat the tobacco. New Towns Sixteen new towns have been created to house the hundreds of new farmers and their families, and another 19 are planned. The men of Badajoz see no limit to the possibilities of their province now that it is getting life-giving water. Juan Florez y Ama, engineer suprevising the Cimara dam project, pointed out that when the engineers were building the dam they inundated a cemetery. Then pointing to the temporary village where 3,000 dam workers and their wives live, he said: "Over there a new baby is born every four days." The Badajoz planners want to insure that the province never returns to the dark days of de pression when 30,000 families suffered the effects of unemploy ment and sheep roamed over I large tracts of land owned by a few wealthy men. Largest of the 50 Spanish prov inces, Badajoz has perennially had one of the lowest per capita outputs of agriculture and in dustry. Over the years the men of Badajoz drifted away to other lands and other parts of Spain to look for work. Now the tide has turned. Girls Get Jobs There is now a shortage of manpower in the province, ac- i cording to Manuel Martin Lobo, a member of the Badajoz Plan Secretriat. More than 15.000 men are em ployed on the dam building proj ects. At Orellana, one of the four Guadiana darns, a big Span ish construction company is try ing to push through in four years a job which the contract gives them five years to com plete. Men work there late into the night under huge arc lights. Thousands of others are em ployed building the canals which take the water out to the farms. More than 3,000 miles of arti ficial waterways have to be con structed, of which about 600 miles are down and functioning. Month by month, as more land is levelled, and watered, the num ber of settlers increases, and some 1,500 are now working their own farms. Many are em ploying agricultural laborers to help them. Other hundreds are working in the factories built to handle the local produce on the spot. Young girls, who traditionally have gone into service as maids in the houses of the "senores" are being snapped up by the manufacturers, and the servant problem in the district is acute. English Woman Waits Birth of Quadruplets Pegwood, England (U.R) Mrs. Margaret J. Hoan, 29-year- Wedneiday, March 27. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Herb Grey Named To OSMA Director Portland Herb Grey, 42 South Barneburg rd., Medford, and Mail Tribune advertising manager, was elected a director of the Oregon State Motor as- sociation at a recent meeting I here. 1 The motor association passed a resolution calling tor manaa- . tory jail sentences for drivers convicted of driving while their driver's license was under sus pension or revocation. Resolutions urging driver training programs in high schools and retention of the state's constitutional amendment against diversion of highway revenues also were passed. The AAA motor club pointed out that 9,000 Oregon drivers lost their licenses through sus pension or revocation in 1956 and that 12.7 per cent of these drivers were convicted of driv ing after their licenses had been suspended. Officers and other directors were elected for 1957 at the meeting. Aircraft Commander Killed in Kite Mishap Charleston, S.C. (U.R) Capt. Arthur W. Elliott, 34, aircraft commander with the 1608th Air Transport Wing, was electro cuted Tuesday while flying an elaborate kite he got in South America for neighborhood chil dren. Elliott, father of four chil dren, was killed instantly when the kite string of nylon covered wire became entangled in a high tension line. FOX BOUNTIES Syracuse, N.Y. U.R) Onon- ftaaa pnnntv naiA 74A in fny old mother of three children, en-1 bounties in 1956 in its fight to ters a maternity home today to I eliminate rabies. A total of 732 ei've birth to Quadruplets. foxes were killed by bounty Mrs. Hogan, who is only five feet tall, went to a hospital for x-rays last week expecting twins. Doctors told her after examin ing the plates "it will be quads." hunters. The county pays $5 for each adult and $3 for each pup. 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