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ILLINOIS VALLEY VFW Projects Br HELEN BOTTEL Cave Junction Hospital chairman Isabel Mellow report ed on plans for the coming year at the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary meeting last Thursday The local unit is asked to put on a variety show at Camp White in April. The ladies will also bake cookies for the annual Hal loween party and provide prizes for the various contests Guests at the VFW meeting Thursday included the district commander, the district adjutant and the commander of the Grants Pass post. Refreshments were served by the ladies after the two business meetings Elwood Hussey has sold his property on Lister street and the old locker plant lot adjoining it on Main street in Cave Junction to Mr. and Mrs. Clark Combest, owners of the Todelope cafe. Although no definite plans have been revealed for the lots, Combest says he will tear down the locker plant as soon as pos sible. Jack pine and other timber will be cut on Eight Dollar mountain to make way for con tinued nickel exploration, ac cording to Bureau of Land Man agement men who were in the valley last Wednesday. About a !ozen sites have been chosen, where the nickel corpo ration shovels will remove ma terials to be put through the test plant. Some of the timber to be cut will be used by the mine company. Several nickel explorations are under way near Brookings and Crescent City, by Rare Met als Corporation of Salt Lake City, and Union Carbide of Re no. Work has already started in the Red Flat, Pine Flats and Myers Flat areas, and is sched uled to start soon on Gasquet mountain. Engineers are also looking over property on Mt Emily, across the line in Oregon, according to the Crescent City Triplicate. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Gage have just returned from a five- day trip up the Oregon coast They visited many points of in terest, and brought back some ea shells to add to Mrs. Gage's fine collection. A number of col or photos were taken along the way. Home from a three-weeks' trip to Montana and other northern states, where they visited rela tives and friends and spent some time at Yellowstone National park, are Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Wooddy of Wooddy's Farm and Garden. The Wooddy's homesteaded in Carter, Mont, in 1919. Accompanying them on the trip was their daughter Jerry of Look for this symbol of safety where you save ... 19 million Americans all over the country have put more than $37 bHlion into savings accounts at Insured Savings and Loan Associations which display the above emblem as we do. They have a wonderful sense of security and satisfaction in watching their savings grow swiftly and safely . . . safely, because their accounts are insured up to $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, an agency of the U. S. Government. 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A fire near the Gorden Ste phens home about two miles south of O'Brien was quelled by O'Brien volunteer firemen Sat urday afternoon, August 17, just before it reached the pump house and wood shed. Children playing with match es may have caused the blaze, firemen said. Mrs. Gilbert Clayton's broth er and family, Mr. and Mrs. Viv D. Brown, their three daughters, Karen, Bonny and Cryea, and a grandson, Michael Brown, were guests at Woodland Echoes last week. Brown, who owns a 50-unit motel in Springerville, Ariz., was in the valley looking over pros pects for an extensive cattle ranch here. The Pomona Grange will meet at the Bridgeview Grange hall Saturday night, at 8. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Cross en tertained his seventh and eighth grade boys' Sunday school class on an overnight campout last Friday at Grayback park. Grilled hamburgers and roast ing ears were on the menu for the evening meal. Mrs. Thelma Leibensburger and son, Don, of Hawthorne, Calif., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Clayton at Woodland Echoes Motel this week. Donald is an accountant In Los Angeles. At the Rev. George Gray home for a week were their grand children, Bob and Loren Gray and a friend, Joe Evans, all of Walnut Creek, Calif. The three left Wednesday. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Cross last week were Cross's uncle and aunt, Ferd Brooks and Mrs. Hanna Gates, of Colton, Calif. On Tuesday, the day she had planned to leave for home, Mrs. Hubert Love fell on the base ment stairs at the residence of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Al Benedict, at Hemet, Calif. Mrs. Love's broken wrist has changed her plans, and she will return to O'Brien later. She and the 10th of the month earn 3 PER FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy R. F. Kyle, President her husband were at Hemet most of the summer. Mr Love came home several weeks ago. Mr. and Mrs. Harold England of San Diego moved into their recently-purchased home in the Rockydale district Tuesday, Au gust 20. Former owners, Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Morse left Tuesday to make their home in San Luis Obispo county, Calif. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spitz last weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mann of Portland. Mrs. Sam Bunch entertained about a dozen members of the Rogue River Hobby club at luncheon Tuesday at her home in Holland. The next meeting of the Illi nois Valley Mineral Hobbies club is planned for September 3 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hilliard and their daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Milligan returned recently from Weiser, Ida., where they had been called by the death of Mrs. Hilliard's sister, Mrs. Ethel Stamper. Funeral services were held at Council, Ida. Aug. 15. Mrs. Stamber, 54, was stricken with a heart attack Aug. 10 at her home in Montana. She and her husband had spent some time in the valley two years ago. Young people of the Cave Junction Community church held their annual picnic at Ore gon Caves Tuesday, August 27. Meeting at the church at 6:30 p.m., they motored to the Caves where they held a wiener roast and stayed for the nightly fire side program. Mrs. Robert Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Gross provid ed transportation. Mrs. Robert Kingsbury's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Antone Fos sen from Bend, were guests at the Kingsbury home in Kerby last weekend. The Women's Society of Chris tian Service of Immanuel Meth odist church has postponed its September meeting to Monday, Sept. 16. Mrs. Al Boucher will be In charge of the program, while Mrs. Alfred Campbell and Mrs. Ole Nassen are to serve as co- hostesses. Mrs. Vern Larson will conduct the worship services. A rummage sale is planned by the WSCS for Sept. 13 and 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Methodist church in Cave Junc tion. Mrs. Robert Kingsbury is general chairman while Mrs. Lee Blacklidge has charge of posters and advertising. All kinds of clothing as well as miscellaneous household items and k n i c k knacks will be offered for sale. Mrs. Ruth Dougherty's daugh ter and family, Mrs. and Mrs. C. M. Lawson and sons, Billy and mm MIMBf SAVINGS AND LOAN FOUNDATION dividends as of the first ANNUM 4H New Dental Building Being Completed Here A new dental arts building is now in final stages of construc tion at Portland ave. and East Main st. Dr. H. H. Bresee, owner, will locate his offices In the new building with Dr. Virgil Mohr and the Anderson Dental Lab. Open house for the building is scheduled in three or four weeks according to Dr. Mohr. A new feature in the building will be '"piped hi-fi" music in the waiting room. Air condition ing will be installed to cover all offices in the structure. Outside finish of the building will be Palos Verde stone, red wood and stucco. The 40 by 60 foot building will cost about 520,000 when completed and have a parking lot next door. Jacksonville, N.C. API Wildlife protectors solved one mystery, got another. They ex plained the "sea monster" spot ted by fishermen in the New River. It was a dead, half-ton bottle-nosed whale. Now, they vant to know how it got there. Dicky, from Berkeley, Calif., ar rived for a surprise visit early last week. At a short meeting of the Cave Junction city council Monday night, a request for a street light at the south corner of the high school on Junction ave. was read. The matter was tabled until further study could be made. Councilmen directed the city re corder Paul Glines to purchase a first aid kit for the city police car, and check prices for a new and larger fire extinguisher to replace the one now being used. "" gg j ; -'"EPTr"' -w w, NEW DENTAL BUILDING A new dental office building, located at Portland and East Main sts., has been completed recently. Dr. Hatchet Examined Chicago (IP) Laboratory tech nicians Saturday began an anal ysis of a series of "significant" clues, including a razor-sharp hatchet, in the butcher murder of 15-year-old Judith Mae Ander son. While funeral services were conducted for the slain teen ager Friday, the police depart ment indicated three new dis coveries might constitute a "big break" in the mystery which triggered the greatest manhunt in Chicago history. Skin divers emerged from the waters near Montrose Harbor, where Ji dith Mae's dissected body was found crammed in two steel drums, holding aloft a city directory with the name "Judith Mae" written in it. We're proud COME IN AND LEARN THE FIRST-HAND FACTS ABOUT AMERICA'S NEWEST, MOST REMARKABLE CAR. THERE'S A LOT WE CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THE EDSEL RIGHT NOW. We can assure you that there's never been a car like the Edsel. . Behind it lie all of the resources of Ford Motor Company, all of the experience, all of the engineering skill. 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Chief of Detectives Patrick Deeley said stains on the rusty hatchet blade "could be blood stains." Police also investigated dis covery of a black cardigan sweat er several blocks away from the Montrose Harbor. to be your Edsel Dealer" HUGH COLEMAN Coleman-Edsel Sales, Inc. 6th and Fir Hols 6th and Fir, Medford H. H. Bresee, owner, reports that the building will house two dental offices and a dental lab. Teen-Age Girl Another avenue of investiga tion was opened yesterday when the owner of an apartment build ing less than a mile from Mont rose Harbor admitted he had burned a pair of men's trousers with stains which may have been caused by blood. Ralph Newton, 57, told police he found the trousers in a trash chute "soak ed with liquid that had dried and turned a rusty brown color. Eight tenants of Newton's building told police they heard gunshots the night of Aug. 19, three days after Judith Mae dis appeared. 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