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CK.NTKAL IX)L\T AMERICAN
space, hog« are backing up on th-i
THE CENTRAL POINT
farms.
Thus the farmers’ life crows con
stantly in e< :»notnic adventure. ti ie
a life that calla for fortitude ar. J
Ke-eelabdshcd, September 13, 1936
patience.
Enter«d ag »Beend class matter at
We don’t know of our own know -
the post effice. Central Point, Ore ledge what the farmer la thinking.
gon, under the Act ef March 9, 1979
but hazard the guess that he is wish
Published weekly at Central Point. ing for a return of the good old timas
Jackson County, Oregon and devoted when he had mainly tne weather,
to the best interest« of the city and
crop pests, animal diseases and the
vicinity.
law of supply and demand to contend
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AMERICAN
South America As
Seen by Local Lady
ARTHUR EDWARD POWELL
Editor and Proprietor
EDITORIALS
ONLY THE WORTHY
REMAIN FREE
Mrs. Mildred Swain is writing io
ner mother, Mrs. E. K. Built, trom
bouth America, where she is with her
Husband, who Is employed by tho
government rubber research.
Continued trom last week
!
Louisiana weather. Everybody is In
good spirits and morale is high,
working to keen our minds off of
h'>mb but these thoughts still creep
In, wondering what you are doing,
how the Lil fellow Is and what Is
the new gossip, etc.
This w the most disinterestlng
place that 1 have ever dreamed or
imagined.
"Some of the men went out the
other day into the Jungle and
brought some limes, pineapples, ban
anas; they are still green but on
leaving them hang out for a few
days will ripen.. Hav« been too busy
to venture very far out and would
probably get lost If I did for the
country Is rugged with lots of high
mountains which have a cloud over
its summit most of the time. There
are several streams clear and cobi
running down to the coast or rather
beach.
(1‘ -
XT. ORJEAQN
Jan 1« is the announcement Of
Thomas Quast, manager.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Potter were New
Year dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Smith.
Mr and Mrs. Pearl Bonney have
moved to Bonny’s Grill, Mr. Jones
and Peggy are living in the Bonny
house.
Mr. and Mrs. Nolta and family left
for Orland. Calf Dec. 23. where they
will attend a big family reunion,
The three army fliers, who spent
several days In Medford, called on
Mr. and Mrs. Harry DuBuque. Earl
Barnes, who was in charge, knew
the DuBuques In Nebraska, when he
was stationed at Fort Robison.
Misses June and Janice Nealon.
anl Edith and Ruth Sage, all of
Table Rock, attended the holiday
party at the H. J. Fleischer home.
Legal Notice«
"We go along the beach for cans
of salmon, fruit Juices, corn. etc.
NOTICE OF FILING FINAL
that Is brought In with the tide; lota
ACCOUNT
of queer things can be found that IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
the tide brings in. I woull like fo
STATE OF OREGON FOR THE
COUNTY OF JACKSON
have a panoramic view of the ocean
bottom and see Just what secrets Old In the matter of the estate of Emil
R. Pech, deceased.
Man Neptune is hiding.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
“The cocanuts are plentiful but the undersigned Administrator hat
the rfieat and water from them are filed his final account In the above
rapidly becoming commonplace so entitled estate and that by order of
the County Court in and for Jackson
much that we aren’t even opening County. Oregon, a hearing upon the
them but keep a wary «ye open to same has been set for Monday, the
7th day of February, 1944 In the
dodge them as they fall.
county court room at the Courthouse
“Our routine here after
work in Medford, Jackson County, Oregon,
hours is to attend a show one nignt at the hour of 10 A. M. on said day.
All persons having objections to
and go to a small mobile Px for
sweets, and the next night play . aid Final Account are hereby noti
fied to present the same on or before
bridge.
-aid time to the above entitled court.
“The natives here are short, fairly
Date of this first publication of
well built, black and have red hair; this notice is the 30th day of Decem
the latter is not natural but I have ber 1943.
Eugene Thorndike,
been told It is from the use of lime
Administrator of the Es
:n their shampoo in order to elimi
tate . of Emil R. Pecb,
deceased.
nate parasites which commonly af
fect even people of the U.S. They 29—Dec. 30, 1943; Jan. 6, 13. 20, 1944
chew betel nut which stains their i
SUMMONS FOR PI BLICATION
teeth black, Tattooing is a favorite IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ornament of the skin; this is done STATE OF OREGON IN AND FOR
THE COUNTY OF JACKSON
by pecking coal duwt into the skin
with a needle, nail or a sharp «tick. GRACE H. ORR HARRISON, Plain
tiff,
Usually they tattoo their name on
vs. ‘
the arm with crude and gretesque Unknown Heirs of James T. French.
deceased; HENRY
FRENCH;
figures and cartoons, but haven't
JANE DOE FRENCH; Unknown
seen a popeye yet. Most of them
Heirs of Henry French, deceased;
have their ears pierced; the lobos
MARTHA FERTIG; JOHN DOE
are stretched to a fairly good size.
FERTIG; MARY LINVILLE;
E.
Most of them in this vlclnty are
H. UNVILLE; NORMAN GAGE;
Unknown Heirs of Mary F. Gage,
young. There are no women or ol.l
men here, who I understand have
been moved to the interior. This
i
Is probably the best.
We had a bit of excitment here
As the calendar heralds 1944, grim yesterday when a small street-urchin
prediction* of allied political and about 10 or 12 year« old rang our
military leaders rank foremoat in front gate bell. He came In with the
the minds of all people, Nineteen- maid and had in his hand my own
hundrvds-forty-four la the year »f eversharp pencil which he offered to
decision. It is the year of total war give tu me providing I would "tip''
und destruction, death and suffering. him a bit for his trouble In bringing
Il may well be the year of military It. 1 asked him where' he had found
victory—thunks to the courage of our it and he told the yarn that he had
fighting men and the American pro been at the Idea Cube (where tne
duction miracle.
office is—about three blocks from
in the our hoUHe) and that a boy had
production
Armament
United States has reached staggering brought the pencil there in an
In November, every attempt to sell I It to the Americanos,
proportions,
five minutes saw the birth of one Mr. Swain hud recognized the pencil
new complete plane.
The month s as belonging to me and hud seized
total w.ts 9,79», of which 1.000 were the boy und tuken him ott to jail
heavy bombers. More than 150,000 und had requested this small boy to
war planes have been built since the bring the pencil over to the house
sturl of hostilities.
und the Senhora woud pay him for
Nineteen millions tons of merchant his trouble. I culled Violet, who
ships were luunched in 1943, cupi -peak« English (my cook), told her
pared to 1,163,000 tos in 1941.
und Marie to keep the boy In the
Naval shipbuilding has outstrip house while I telephoned Joe. Joe
ped the imaginations of the Wild- knew nothing about it und suld hold
About a dozen air- the boy or call a cop from the park
ewt dreamers,
crifit carrier* were turned out In across the street from our house and
Warship tonnage get to the bottom of the situation.
November alone,
in 1941 was 2,132,000. Out of tho By the time 1 had finished at the
ashes ot Pearl Harbor It rose to 5,- phone the boy had edged his way to
OvO.uOO tons In 1943, a colossus bent the front door where his accomplice
on the destruction * of Japanese was waiting for his half of the
aggression and Nazi tyranny.
money. When I told Violet In English
Tanka, guns und supplies are being to «ull the policeman the boy recog
produced In unbelievable quantities, nized the word ' policeman’’ since In
Those things were made possible Portuguese it ie ’’policia’’ and both
uy the productive genius of free boys simply boiled. Violet screamed
enterprise. In the hands of 10,000,- tor the Police und she and the police
OuU American nien und their cum man started running after the boys.
punions in arms, they are America* You would have laughed to see this
answer tu the warped leaders of negro mummy running and yelling
(To be continued.)
Europe ad Japan who have challen- to "Stop, Thier’ with the policeman
ged our freedom.
right on her heels. By that time
G I POEM
But We have no cauno to rejoice about thirty Brazilians, big and little, I am sitting on my G I bed
Tutt* of thousands of our men must were at our front gate Mil talking at With my G I hat upon my head.
die in 1944 to meet the challenge of once they were bo excited. Well, My G I hat, my G I shoes,
Pie dictators. Urival year-end speech- they never got the boys anyway but All is free, nothing to lose.
niuk.ng and editorial phrase-making upon investigation I discovered that G I razor, G I comb.
are out of place. The people were the boys had been in our house early G I wish that I were home.
told when the war started that they yesterday morning when the maid They've issued me everything I need.
would have to make sacrifices. They had opened the front windows (they Paper to write on, books to read.
were told that thia was total war. open to the floor with only a railing My belt, my shoes, my G I tie.
And, yet other than thotse who have waist high to keep out Intruder) to It was all free, nothing to buy.
given their men, no one has so i far air the house.
When she returned They issue food that makes me grow
made an lota of rea
It la to her working quarters she could And G 1 wish I was on a furlough
not In the card*
not hear anyone in the main part of I eat my food from a G I plate
to continue.
tho house because of the distance. And buy my needs at a G I rate.
Sometime In the not-too-distant The > boy had merely come through It's G I this and G I that.
future we, at home, are going to find an open window, taken the pencil G I haircut and G I hat.
out what total war means, even from the radio where I always keep Everything is G I issue.
though we ever feel the Impact of It to J«t down radio programs and. But G I. gosh how much I miss you.
bomba on our cities.
upon his departure through the main
A pretty good inficatlon of how we door, which is locked from the inside, SPI NDS HOLIDAYS AT HOME
are going to find out can be aeen in he ha nd encountered Violet Just arrlv-
I’fe. Paul Pence, who has been
the gusts of bitter controversy sweep- Ing to work. She asked him what stationed in Iceland, spent the holl-
inf through the land over ««trikes, he wanted and he quickly asked If a days with his parents, Mr. and M rs.
taxes, subsidies and Inflation. They Mr. So and So (American) lived here, Minnus Pence of Central PolnL Pfc.
are the prelude to the storm, When when t«vld ’’No" he left supposedly to returned to Long Beach, Cal., where
it hits in full fury, the tests of our look for this American. For any he will be stationed In the future
love of freedom will be upon us.
Brazilian to come to any American's with an air corps unit.
No person in this nation dan ever liou-e and ask where gome American
shut from his mind the awful vision lives is not unusual so she thought
Hal Jewett left this morning for
of the last days of 1943 In which, little about It. We have missed Farragut ^ifter a short visit with his
1,000 marines lay dead on the many things und I have accused the parents and friends.
beaches of one little South Pacific maids an«l they always know nothing
eland, Those men died for the right about it so poMdbly this ie the explan » ♦
to be free. .We at home have yet to ation. We have especially missed
I
prove worthy of the freedom for Joe's cartons of cigarettes for whe l :
« i
which they died.
he brings them home from the office .«
;« I
»
he lays them on the table. If I don't «
Till I’ARMI RS •INDEPENDENCE’
put them away for hint they are al
8onie time ago we ceased to envy ways gone the next morplng when
School board buy band instruments
the “Independent lot" of tho Ameri we come down stairs. The American*
Mr. Myers was instructed to buy two
can farmer Though he was still his are allowed so many package« of
alto horns and watch for good buy in
own boss, and If times got too hard cigarettes p«'r week down here so ie
a ba rat one.
could still as a rule draw upon hl* ha.s been smoking a pipe a lot be
Miss Mae Phipp of Medford ad- |
industry and his land for his own cause his cigs turn up missing,
Miss Mae Phipps of Medford ad- |
food, the uncertainties of his econo
(To be continued)
d risssed I the P.T. Ass’n, apeakin«
mic life presented by the vararles of
Mr. 1 Fred Farra of San Francisco I
the weather, crop peats,
arrived home for a short visit with
diseases, and market flu«
hl* mother. Mrs. Clara Farra.
caused us to realise that »
Mrs Alta Kelly 1« hostess to the
muit be more reeolute than
P.T A. excutlve board Tuesday after- I
capable ot being And these
noon.
The following letter was handed
stances ot his existence were norm.il
News- O -Grams—When.
Where. 1
In
by
Mr*.
Martha
Booth,
written
by
ones.
Now war has added to hl*
What are resumed by Archie Parker (
hazards the painful factors of labor a boy from her home town and
after an extende«) vacation.
and machinery shortages, and un published in the home town paper,
F ret graders start newspaper— J
familiar andunpredlctable price con We think it will be of Interwst to our
wh!< •h Is printed on Blackboard an l i
trols accompanied by admonition to readers.
the news furnished by the pupils, i
produce more as a patriotic duty to
This newspaper will be printed in I
Major Friedman Sisco of the me«l-
hts country.
The American every week.
Of late price controls were causing
«1 corps stationed In the Southwest ,
his beet cattle to back up on the farm
iclflc sen«L* this vtvd description of
end consume the feed that was
ountry an«l people In the Is
t The letter» written Oct. 24
needed for dairy cattle. The condi
Nlney seven per cent of hank de
tion has been tardily mitigated, per
posits will be Insured, starting to
haps alleviated. by n reduction In
morrow for the first time In Amerl-
retail point values on beef to en
ice II
The rain« «an history
Deposits up to IJSno
courage the householder to sat more
*F ,h* nights cod but the days are will be Insured against loss.
beef. Now. due tu a variety of now
it whether it rains or not. Steamy
The Central Point cheese factory
circumstances hitherto named In this
but I like It better her» than the will open for business Wednes«lay
I
• ♦ * « » » »
FIVE YEARS AGO ;
*
THIS WEEK
«•s«**»»»»**»*»***»*»»**** 81
Major Sisco Sends
Interesting Description
of Disinteresting Place
TEN YEARS AGO
I
Rialto
MATS. & EVES. DAILY
ENDS SAT. NITE!
“The City That
Stopped Hitler”
( A Russian Documentary)
—Plus-
Bill Elliott—Gabby Hayes
“Calling Wild
Bill Elliott”
f ticcst of the defendants herein, or
deceased: and. also, all other
son. and parties unknown eläimin«, iny of them: and each and all of the
any right, title, estate Hen or «h- defendants herein, and each and all
terest in the real estate described In persons claiming or to claim by,
through or under them, or any of
the complaint herein
them, be forever enjoined, restrained
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEI END and barred from asserting, attempt
ANTS AND TO EACH AND ALL ing to establish or claiming any
THEREOF:
«- atf right, title, estate, ljen or Interest in
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE or to said property, or any portion
OF OREGON: You, and each or thereof, and that plaintiff's title to
you. are hereby required to appear said premises be forever quieted and
and answer the complaint filed again -ot at rest, and such further anti
st you in the above entitled suit on other relief as may be Just and equit
or before the last day of four weeks able in the premises.
from the date of the firs’ publication
This summons Is published by or
of this summons, «aid, period of four der of the Honorable H. K. HANNA.
weeks being the time prescribed for Judge of the above entitled court,
publication hereof, and if you fail so made and entered in said court and
to appear and answer said complaint, cause on the 29th day of December,
for want thereof the plaintiff will ap 1943, prescribing that this summons
ply to the court for the relief de be served by publication thereof once
manded in her complaint. ‘o-wlt: each week for four consecutive
That a decree be entered adjudi weeks in the Central Point American,
cating any and all right, title, estate, a weekly newspaper published I at
lien or claim which you. or any of Central Point, Jackson County, Ore-
i
you, have or claim to have in. to or gon. December 30th, 1943 Is the
upon the real property situated in date of the first publication of this
the City of Medford. Jackson County. summons.
State of Oregon, described as follows,
F. P. FARRELL,
to-wlt:
Attorney for Plaintiff,
The West Half of the North
306 Fluhrer Building,
west Quarter and the NorthweM
Medford, Oregon.
Quarter of the Southwest Quart
91—Dec. 30, 1943; Jan. 6. J3, 20, 1944
er of Section 5, Township 35
South, Range 1 West of the
Willamette Meridian, in Jackson
County, Oregon;
and declaring any and all such claims
to be null and void and decreeing
that said plaintiff is the owner in fee
By J. K. LAS8ER, C.P.A.
simple of said premises, and the
This
new 1944 edition answers
whole thereof, free and clear of any
all your questions. The most
and all right, title, estate, lien or iu-
widely used tax guide in Am
erica.
Your Income Tax
$1
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OPEN
—Plus—
Tex Ritter—Russell Hayden in
“Marshal of
Gunsmoke”
Hl Y BONDS « MORE BONUS
HEEP WIN THE WAR
HOELY
MATS. SAT. A SUN. ONEY
CONTINI (M S SHOWS SAT. A
SUNDAY’ STARTING 1:45 pm
Ends Sntnrdsy Nite!
Lulubelle, Scotty and
Vera Vague In
“Swing Your
Partner”.
REPAIR WORK
Medford
ON
Your Car
Hardware
SEE SHORTY AT
AND
Shorty’s Garage
Houseware
LOCATED ON NORTH 7tli 8T.,
CENTRAI. POINT
DULIEN’S
(FORMERLY HANSEN’S)
35 N
Bartlett
Medford
Medford Concrete
Construction Co
SAND, GRAVEL, CEMENT
Dr. C. W. Lemery
(Sncceaaor to Dr. .1. .1. Em mens)
204 Medford Bldg.
Practice limited to eve. ear, nose,
and throat and fitting of glass««..
Dial 2420
Res. Dial 3100
Medford. Oregon
SEPTIC TANKS
Sewer Pipe & Irrigation Pipe
Phone 2169
N. Riverside
Medford
Make
Your Headquarters when In Medford.
RICHFIELD HI-O4TTANE — 1.8. TIRES & BATTERIE«
ELECTRIC SERVICE and
CARBURETOR SERVICE
JIM MOORE
Super Service
—Plus---
Al Pearce—Dale Evans in
“Footlight
Glamour”
FAR THAT
SUNDAYS
100 W. Main
“You’re A Lucky
Fellow Mr. Smith”
STARTS WED—4 DAYS
Penny Singleton and
Arthur Lake
Medford
Fountain Service
SUN—MON—TUB
Allan Jones—Evelyn Ankers in
“Here Comes
Elmer”
SWEM’3
MEDFORD’S POPI LAR
FORMERLY' < HET LEONARD
Rivenirti at Sixth
Medford
Dial 427M
T
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Custom Built
Quality Upholstering and Restyling
RECOVERING THEATRE SEATS. STOOLS. DAVENPORTS. OTTO
MANS. HASSOCKS.
WE SPECIALIZE ON ANTIQUE AND
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TAKE ADVANT \GE OF OUR 27 5 I AUS I .NPERI4 NCE. GUARAN
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OREGON. PHONE 5H2.
If Your Roof Leaks—
YOU CAN RE-IKKIF WITHOUT PRIORITY’ AS LONG AS OUM
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EKERSON ROOF & PAINT STORE
Phene 3341
m
south Bartlett
Medford
Pins
William Boyd—Andy Clyde
“Hoppy Serve«
A Writ”
SUN—MON
Spencer Tracy and
Katharine Hepburn
“Keeper of
The Flame”
NO RESTRICTIONS ON
BICYCLE TIRES
Guaranteed Tube«
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"More The
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. — Pine—
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Ne peds er protectors . . . No shocks or burns . . . No heal, maehlnce
electricity . . Waves «tarts nt the scalp . . . Wave« all ba ir per-
freti/
. . Including blenched. <Yy«««l. flue. gray, and Kihti ew't hair.
EXCLUSIVE WITH BOWM IN'S BEAUTY 8ALON
Machia« and ■lachinelees permanent« and all type of te>«alr war*
BOWMAN’S BEAUTY SALON
837 S. Central
Medford
Make appointments early.
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