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TllURNDAV, AUGUST IS. 1*42 Whaf It’s Worth CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN. CENItta., ,N»INT. OREGON PAGE THREE I : bathing suits in anticipation of six Sunday picnics scheduled. his enlistment. During freshmen week, preceding registration for fall term, member* of the Joint army, navy, marine and coast guard college »procurement committee will be on the campus to advise students on the various branches of service open to them and on the courses which they must take in order to qualify. Students will, however, be allow-ed to register in any school of their choice at the university. In this way they will be able to complete their education in any field they desire and take the courses required by the armed forces as electives. Eat plenty of By K. D. P. Grants Paas War Recreation Com mittee joined forces with Medford's Last Sunday night after coming j U 8 O Junior Hostesses to give 60 home. Ray Watkins, who had be.-n I • soldiers a refreshing day at the City- I with some army officers fishing, told Park for swimming, weiner roast, everybody ’ that he saw me fishing dancing, games, and lolling in the and did not have any luck while his , shade of the Oregon pines. Medford party were having some pretty toad ' Junior Hostesses provided weiners— luck on fishing. Well, what kind cf Grants Pass, salad and coffee. • luck could I have .Mriinst that spe At Ardencraig. beautiful estate of cial kind of fishing such as egg bait? Mr. and Mrs. E M C. Neill, sis You see just before I arrived at mv soldiers for the third Sunday enjoyed favorite riffle, Ray had hooked a big the hospitality of the Neill family. salmon (by mouth) and landed it A swi m in the Applegate Riv »r. He promptly slit the salmon up for ’ followed by tennis, badminton, a those fresh salmon eggs and had tour of the beautiful grounds, and Mrs. Clifford Lee arrived from those army officers f.shing with eggs lea rning about the various Neill Iowa Saturday to join her husband throwing some hobble«. Mr. Neill’s shop, where sou occasionally and who is working at Camp White. Mrs bunches of eggs in the riffle to Bill, is learning to be a stone cutter, Lee has a room In the Medford hotel Remember this. held attract the trout. the soldier»’ interest. Mrs. in Central Ray was also fishing with bait too. Marjorie Helm, eldest daughter, ex for they are extremely uncomfortable but hopes to find one and have no I ba< k rest whatever, Point for the short time her husband To hope to hook a steelhead or trout plained the art of etching and each They consist of an aluminum shelf will be at the Camp. They will then on a fly In a hole, that was being soldier left with an original signed by which lets down on either side of the go to Los Angeles for a visit before fished by egg fishermen and the uso the artist. (By Mildred Swain) Daughter Norma enter ship and which is "scooped" out at of feed eggs. Is a doomed project. regular spaces providing a seat for going to some other defense work. tained with selections on her harp In writing an account of Mrs. each passenger. A thin cushion Is . u--- after a delicious buffet supper. Parley's and my trip across .from provided for civilian passengers but! Prior to that night I 1 had several Finally the rugs were rolled up. I Liberia, West Africa to the United is definitely inadequate. We wadded good str.kes and got one 1 steelhead. cornmeal sprinkled on the piazza, States there are rome things which up life perserver* and placed them at (Continued from Page One) we have been requested by our at all that but I never got a strike and for the final hour the young Ur backs in an attempt to be more night. I think Ray should have taken people enjoyed dancing and singing. government to refrain from mention omfortable. After two hours such ing however I shall attempt to set the officers down below Gold Ray Besides Mr. and Mrs. Neill. Mr. and down some of the highlights of the fly ing we stopped to refuel and im What do you see in a tree—In a mediately after taking off found that great tree that lifts from the fern dam where the water is t roily and Mrs. Robert Helm. Norma and Ro trip which were of interest to us. one of our two motors had gon3 like a prayer? It Is a fir. you say. Firs: let me mention that our black leave those clear waters i above the bert Neill, the following Grants Pass dead We returned to our refueling i It is a spruce, It is a pine or a ce- Bybee Bridge to the fishermen who Junior Hostesses were present: Lucy- houseboys were broken hearted nt slop and made a safe landing. This dar. It is only a tree, after all. But our leaving them and begged us to crave real fly fishing. James, Betty Vehrs. Wanda Milledge, "carry we. carry we back to your was the town of Fortaleza, a beautiful the people of the Green I*and saw in city of about 175.000 population and such a tree the white home In the and soldiers Irving Coldatein. Chic country, Missie”. America, or "Merr- —0— built somewhat on the Spanish I have no objections to those ago; Louis Shanfeld. Chicago; Willie ga" as they call it. is nothing short architecture design with lovely shops valley, the school where their child ren should learn the precepts of li of lieaven in their estimation. We officers fishing in the, river, even if Huffman, KansasCity; Donald Hoff. berty, the mills and the factories that alb wed them to come to the airport and theatres there. (To be continued) they use eggs but I CERTAINLY Ohio: Joseph Hyland. Ohio; and Fred to see us off so they dressed in their give them work, the cities the forests OBJECT to the fact that Ray is Grenell. Kansas City. had built and were building; the vj>m ■ best and piled in the back of the half merre - of - the ton Ford Pickup and accompanied that *------- went - to -* the - ports showing them the method of using Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown enter world, In such a tree they saw th<- Us to the airport. We were to have feed eggs to cutch trout. BECAUSE tained six soldiers at their Butte pledge that their streams should not taken off at 10:30 P.M. on June 21st. once they learn the method, mark Rogue Camp. shrivel nor their farms turn to waste- Mr. Brown reported however there was some difficulty in my word, the river will be cluttered this morning that never had they starting two of the motors on our land, nor their cattle be lean and four-motor Stratoliner and we did starveling. They saw the trout leap up with slitted salmon and every hole met a nicer grou p of boys. He not depart until midnight, In the from the Jade swirl of the eddy, the systemtically fished all because one fur.her stated that ” UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu- deer poised on the gravel bar. They meantime scores of cars had gather- man thought it is a smart trick to use fun. If not more, than the boys.” ed and all our friends were there to gene, Aug. 13.—The Unlverflity of saw the green forest as a haven and feed eggs. Griffin Creek Grange offered bid us farewell. Farewells are hard Oregon has received a <|U<>la of 626 refuge, and themselves well content enough at their beat but when saying —o— all th s in a tree. And Itecause they hospitality to twelve soldiers and even students to be enlisted In the army saw this each was a warden of the Well, that’s off my mind. The tw-enty others were sent by truck to them in Africa I think they are more difficult for they are so very enlisted reserve corps for the 1*42-13 forest lest folly or mallee should sei other day I am in receipt of a letter Jackson Hot Springs. Two trucks, final. Girls and their husbands from school year, it was announced here the flame loose, and bring to naught Eng- from Stanley Jones who is in the carrying 50 soldiers left the U 8 C> Singapore, Estonia. Denmark, Thursday by Col. C. L. Sampson, that which they saw In the tree. army down in California who said for Ashland for the fifth Sunday i land. Holland and all parts of the For flame, though a good servant, world whom you have come to re head of R. O. T. C. at the university. is a cruel master—and were tho something that all of you should outing. Yesterday’s program was' gard as brothers and sisters in your Advices from the ninth coips area flame to possess their forests little listen to: "I hope the folks in Central under the direction of the Fortnight two years stay out there, and whom, headquarters at Fort Douglas, Utah, would be l«-ft of tin» past or the pro Point will give the soldiers at Camp ly and the Rotary Clubs, 1 »esidi'N by the fartherest .stretch of your Ima state that enlistments shall be as gination. you cannot hope to ever see While cordial treatment ¿because they swimming In the Twin Plunges, again, add to the seriousness of "far.1- follows: Freshmen, 210; sophomores, are in a tough spot by reason of dancing was enjoyed under the stars. 150; juniors, 140; and seniors, 12C. well”. being hundreds of miles away from Ahoyt 300 soldiers and civilians We talked with friends unfl waited A total of 68 upperclassmen have their homes." enjoyed Sunday outings planned I for our plane to be made ready. Our already been enlisted under the ads black boys patiently waited in the through the U S O military and back of the car for jujt a small slgr. vanced R. O. T. C. training, leaving 1 hope the folks down south will groups. civilian of recognition. Finally the "All a balance of 558 to be enlisted nt the treat Stanley good and we hope to do Eleven soldiers enjoyed home ho -- aboard" sounded and we were ready opening of fall term. Use Eaton's Fine Letter Papera the same here for who knows, one of to go. 1 turned and simply raised ore pitality over the week end. Besides the army reserve program, On Sale at f'nger and my four boys—In the or those boys here may be from the students will also be enlisted in the der of their rank — jumped to the place where Stanley is. ground and lined up—one-two-three- army air corps and the marine and —o— four- and timidly stretched out their naval reserves. The number of en- Ponder that over, Lots of our hantit in the hopes that possibly the listments under each of* these pro- local boys are all over oU the coast I wh'te missie would shake hands. It Medford grams is unllmltel and it is expected is customary that the white missio are probably ut different camps and never actually touches a i black boy that evory qualified student will be being treated decently by the people out there but who could resist these signed up at the opening of the school there and we all should do the same. Funeral services were held Monday pathetic figures, I shook hands w’th year for officer training in one of Of course we will for have not we got them and told them they must “take at ten a.m. from the Perl fune: al good care of Massa". This made the branches of the armed forces. a club started and probably will do home for Emma McKee Martin, Kev. them f<s»l very necessary in th dr ■ It is the policy of the government much to please the strangers at Camp small way but they wept openly under these reserve enlistment pro Carlos Brown officiating. (Successor to l»r. ,!. J. Emmen*) White. 204 Me<lfor<| llldg Many friends were present and when I left and I sincerely wished grams to allow students to continue 1 could have brought them along. Practice limited to eye, ear, nose, beautiful flowers covered and sur their college education until gradua Finally at midnight. June 21 Mt. and throat and fitting of glass»*. rounded the casket. «nd tion. Releases will he granted by we left the "dark continent” Dint 2120 lien. Dial 8109 Emma McKee Martin, 75. passed headed for the open sea. Our plane local selective service boards but if Medford, Oregon was very comfortable, having up- away at a local nursing home Friday any student withdraws from the holstered seats and also bunks re- Trapshooters from Tule Lake, afternoon after a year's illness, Sho sembllng long davenports. We slept university he will immediately be Klamath Falls, Los Angeles, Grants was born at Logtown, old mining possibly three hours before dawn but called to service under the terms of dorlmeieius w .<■< Pass, and Rogue River and officers town in ^he Applegate area, March the night over the Atlantic breathtaking In its beauty and we and enlisted men front Canrp White 27, 1867, the daughter of John and felt that sleep could wait. There W IS shot at 2200 targets at the Medford Mary McKee, early pioneers of Jack» a full moon turning the night into Gun club practice shoot at the Snowy son county. ♦ day (I always felt the moon in Africa She was united in marriage to being .so near the equator was twice ♦ Butte Corners gro>unds last Sunday. ♦ One of the largest crowds of shooting Albert Coffman. now deceased in as large as here) and the tiny tufts ♦♦ Fresh and Luscious enthusiasts of the season attended th» Jacksonville in 1889. Three sons an I of cotton clouds floated miles below us About 4:00 a.m. shortly before >. I one daughter were born to the union. shoot. « dawn I witnessed the most beautiful ♦ * Outstanding scores were . 99 out of Andrew Coffman of Alla-rt, Canada, spectacle I have ever had the privi ♦ Lunar Rainbow. 100 by Jantzer, giving him a continu- Wilbert Coffman who lost his life lege <>t seeing—a » Medford ous score of 199 out of the last 200 during the first World war, Robert We re id of them in books but sel dom sge them It started from no ♦. targets shot at. J. J. Steiger of Coffman of Butte Fails, Ore., and ♦ ♦ where, made a graceful curve across Klamath Falls and West of Tul-a Mrs. Ella Wooden of Klamath Falls. the sky and ended in a fleecy cloud. ♦♦ ♦ Lake each had 98 out of a possible Ore. Beautiful beyond compare. Both Moderi A Old-Time ♦ * We crossed, the Atlantic from Ll- Emma Coffman 100. Mendenhall, runner-up overall was united in ♦ Always a Good Crowd Equator, and reached our first stop, « champion of the Pacific Coast cham ■ marriage to Thomas H. Fredenbu.g and a Good Time beria, five degrees north of th* ♦ K USTOM-.M A DE pionship shoot at Salem two weeks July 29, 1900. at Butte Falls. Ore. Natal, Brazil, S.A., Just eleven and a ♦ ago, turned in a 50 straight, while j One daughter was born-to this union. half hfurs later or S»:00 a m. Brazil : Jim Ross led the Central Point shoot- 1 Mrs. Lulu Case of Woodland, Calif. time. We were now several degree“ ♦. * ers with 49x50. Adams was high Emma Fredenburg was united in south of the Equator however this is ♦ ♦ Gentlemen SI. 10. Ine. in* overall in the handicap with 47x50 marriage to Oliver Martin. Nov. 5. the shortest distance between the ♦ ♦ two continents. We stayed in Natal with Jim Ross second with 46x50. 1920, at Klamath Falls, Ore. They for two days at the Grande Hotel i «*•»••*•**•**«•«*«««•*.«•* At the skeet traps Brown was higli lived at Malin for nine years. Central which is a lovely modern structure gun with a 49x50 and a 25 straight. Point for seven years and in Medford and enjoyed seeing our first shops 2.30 E. Main St. Medford The miss and out was won by Jantz -r district six years. Mrs. Martin was and markets in two years In the city cf Natal. We stared In wide eyed with Jim Ross and Clarence Eads a Gold Star Mother, and a member PERL amazement at everything and In turn dividing second money. of Women's Auxiliary of D. A. V. an»! were stared at by the native populus Funeral W. W. 8he is also survived by one which Is Portugese. On the third day at 3:00 p m »'• sister, Mrs. Mary Higginbotham of Eatohtlshed In your communit) 2A years Central Point, and two brothers. left on our next hop. this time In a two motor DC-3 Transport Plan- Dial 2673 42H W. 6th St I SOS O S ’s bring big response Amos McKee of Applegate, Ore., and ! designed to carry troops, Of course Medford Oregon John McKie of Central Point. Or" I the plane had been completely strip- whether it’s call for inexpensive ped of all unnecessary weight and it living quarters for soldiers' wives, Ocean Caught Canning Salmon and was simply the hull of the ship with recreation facilities for colored Bol the ribs of the ship In plain view Tuna. HOLLY’S FISH MARKET dlers, coak hangers and reading we sat on what Is termed "bucket 125 East 6th St.. Medford. seats’ ’ and they are correctly named material for Camp White, the resi- J BREADS Buy it at your grocer's Hemeward Journey From West Africa MUSINGS Quota of 626 Students To Be Enlisted in Army Reserve Corps Write Cheerfully! Write Often! Funeral Services Held For Emma Martin SWEM’S Dr. C. W. Lemery Local Shooters Made High Scores Sunday : WALKER’S : DANCE : DREAMLAND Every Saturday Night HONEY-MADE BREAD Model Bakery KARL’S SHOES Shoes ’S Home U. S. O. NEWS dents of southern Oregon always respond, Hundreds of message slips listing a variety of donations, from bathing trunks to Victory cookie* and Ori-gnn fruits, are recorded eac-i | morning by U S O Volunteers. Al though U 8 O does not solicit fund» once the campaign is closed, aoir.el checks are still coming in for spec" I \ things. Some donalon* are practical such as an offer of four cats for Camp White. At least 10.000 ooat hanger* were contributed during th week. (Coat hangers becom< tr »-■ sures when soldiers arrive in caim- i without any. All week, in and out ■( the Director s office, file soldie;.«; leaving laundry, shoes for repair, | calling for coat h.ngers, or measuring! Wanted Pickers Pears and Apples WHITMAN ORCHARD Co TAYLOR ROtl» Long job—good wages—free transportation It is the patriotic duty of everyone not ready employed to help with the fruit harvest. See Willard Whitman BOX 21» I. <7 \TR\f. POIST sent, alike dear to the people of the Green Land, and little remain for tho future. In that red breath which brought the trees tojearth and bedded them tn ash. which left their snag* to silver • n the sun. which killed the seedling and the seed, and drank the streams to emptiness and stilled the birds, the long tomorrows, too. would be the blackened embers of their yesterdays. And little enough of hap piness and laughter, of labor or ease, would then be left for any tomorrow to possess. It would be something like—they reflected—that time when our first parents were driven east ward In exile from the lost garden. ♦ ♦ ♦ Once upon a time there was a country pleasing In every aspect, but mostly because the land was green as a turf In heaven—so very green that it was called the Green I,and—an»l this because heaven had blessed the land with many trees, in grove* and forests. The people of the Green I.and, knowing this, and knowing, too, that their many blessings issued from the forest, In such proportion that to lose these were Indeed to be lost, resolved that they should keep the forests always and fend away the tlame. How wise they were in that fortunate courftry. yet of what simpli city was their wisdom. Each of them all was warden of the foreft, and sworn to keep the living trees from flame. Who then was warden of their happiness and their well-being? Who then. In burn? The green and living trees, the grave, tall trees that had their pledge. These were the wardens of the people's happiness, in the Green Land. AIR-CONDITIONEI) Rip Ito STVRTS FRIDAY MG I ST II Tlic return of Two Great shows Gary Cooper—Jean Arthur “Mr. Deeds Goes To Town” STARTS Tl EsDAY, Al G. IS Gary Cooper “Lives Of A ___ Bengal Lancer” HOLLY Gene Autry “Call of The Canyon” —Pius- alight Lieutenant’ Lew Ayers- l*arulne Day “Fingers At The Window” --- Plus---- Ricardo Cortez “Rubber Racketeers” STARTS WC!).-4 DAYS Victor McLnglen. June Havoc and Edmond O'Brlen Power Town" —Plus- Jane Wlthers In Mad Martindales’ C. L. Perkins DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY Nuecessor to Dr. E. D. Elwood Evening by Appointment D'nl 3HHI Medford 135 s. Central PASTIME ROLLER RINK FRIDAY, SUNDAY SUNDAY AFTERNOON Medford Armory
