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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1944)
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Thursday, January 20, 1944 V arsity V NOW PLAYING! Edna Best’s “Swiss Family Robinson” with Freddie Bartholomew and Thomas Mitchell and The Comedy Riot “Good Fellows” with Helen Walker and Cecil Calloway Friday and Saturday “FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO” with Franchot Tone AND Eric Von Stroheim Sun. Mon. Tues. ‘PACIFIC TRAMP’ ARRIVES HOME LeGrande Student Wins State Contest “BOMB BERLIN" BALI. AT ASHLAND I SO To tho People Soldieis ami Ail Curp.t IE < celebrated the unulvcrsary oi the first Amcr.cun bombing muislon sent o\ci Germany, January 26. 1943, Saturday evening, January 15, lit Hie Ash. illd USO The 63rd General Hospital Orchestra provided music. A large scale map of the world news of thu week showing among ether lll'WK was the Russo-German fronts displayed on the wall A party celebrating the third birthday of the National USO will be held at the Ashland centei early in February. Speaking of coming USO pro gram plans for the coming year, Mrs Jewell Ixxskhart, assistant director, stated that some of th« same activities would be tin ued. such us the skating ties, waffle suppers, Situtil r night dances, Vesper si rv. which were so popular last sum mer when offered outside in park, will begin Sunday within doors from ft to 6 o’clock tor Bayonne Glenn will charge issixted by Jhe .Minlxtert il Association of Ashland At earliest spring-wcuther divs, i sports will begin tennis, and outside badminton of this Community A well-documented explanation of the subject. "Why I Would THINK IT OVIR Row about doing a little cold (The Sgt. Edward Herbert re Like to Join the WAC's and Re turkey thinking after you lay ! t’erred to here is the son of Mr place a Battle Casualty," won foi aside thu newspaper tonight? 14-year-old Joan Rabdau of Le- You’ve got a good job The and Mrs. Stanley Herbert of chances are there is someone Stockton, Calif., graduates of Gl Hide High Sclio.’l uist place iti F else In i OUI Oregon State College. Sgt. Her I the state-wide WAC essay con family, i '■ i hap«, two or bert is a nephew of Mrs. R N test. it was announced by Maj. three, work Chaney and Mrs Ralph Billings B. P. Cody, commanding office! ing. Your of the Oregon Recruiting and In of Ashland ) son or your District First place brother — The Pacific Tramp came home duction may be away on a piece of baling wire and a award was a $100 War Bond, do at wur. song. The song was "Who Threw nated by Ray Ish of Medford This war The following were the words must end the Drawers in Mrs. Murphy's sometime Your whole family, of the winning essay submitted Chowder.” your neighbors, are praying it The Tramp, a big bomber, re by Miss Rabdau: ends soon and those dgnting boys "The stronger our attacking of yours will come home safely. turned from the Seventh AAF's But will you he readv for forces are at the front, the soon last raid on Tarawa just before whatever happens when | i-ace er the war will he won A WAC landing troops from a tusk force comes’ Will you have some thing laid awav We're all boil were scheduled to go ashore His adds strength to our Army as ing there’ll be jobs aplenty, jobs rudder controls were shot away, surely as any soldier by taking which mean making something a gas line was severed, the hy over Army jobs on the home front for somebody's happiness and and sending soldiers to reinforci not for somebody's sorrow draulic controls were out of ac That's where your War Bonds tion and the bomb bay doors were our attacking forces on the fight come into the picture Sure. ing front. Americans own billions of do! jammed. But the old boy lum "The WACs ’ many duties In lars of War Bonds now. und be bered in through a moonlit sky clude such meticulous jobs as par- ! fore this 4lh War Loan ends and came to a perfect landing, they will have put awav billions more. But how about von’ Col. C. F. Hegy of Hartford. achute and radio maintenance You're the one that counts The Wis., piloted the Tramp in over routine jobs as secretarial work; . bigger the pile of War Bonds Tarawa at a little more than 1000 exciting jobs as driving ambu- ' vou have when peace comes, the lances on the war front. The bigger chance you'll have to slip feet to enable his gunners to strafe right into the post war v gun positions as well as to per WAC's are vital to victory be you're dreaming about tonight hind the lines and on the war mit Capt. Oliver R Franklin of So "Let'« 4/f Back the Attack.” front. The WAC’s train women Honolulu, bombardier, to send his THE EDITOR. for special jobs too; this train bombs exactly on the target. ing prepares them for a career "We had just started our run later on and gives them valuable' I . s. CIVIL SERVICE and Franklin had gotten three experience in home management bombs away and all guns were . SEEKS CHIEF CLERK Under such training, a woman ac blazing at positions on the Application tor the position of quires poise, assurance and alert ground. Col. Hegy told this cor Chief Clerk for the Office of ness. And those are the reasons respondent. "when heavy machine why I would like to join the Price Administration In the States gun fire came up at us. Our WAC's and replace a battle cas of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and bomb bay was open and the bul- ' ualty to help directly in an Al Washington are being sought by lets poured through the opening, lied victory and to prepare my the United States Civil Commis cutting our rudder controls, se- ' sion. self for a career.” vering a gas line and causing The salary for this position is other damage. with safety wire Everyone was $1600 to $2600 a year, pins over “I realized we were hit and or half blinded with gas The crew time compensation. dered all guns to cease firing be worked in relays for two and one- There is no written teat and cause of danger of our catching i half hours, standing on the nine- | no maximum age limit fire. I started to turn around, inch catwalk, holding on to each Complete information and forms found my rudder controls were other, and without parachutes for applying mty be obtained from gone, and had to use the engines “We kept singing. 'Who Put first or second class Post Offices to maneuver us away from the the Drawers in Mrs Murphy's Applications will be accepted un island and out of range of their Chowder.’ And boy, how we did til the needs of the service have guns.” sing. We figured maybe it was been met. ---------- 'o— The Pacific Tramp was lucky our last song and we gave it at that. There was no fighter everything we had. T H Simpson Is back at work opposition. Col. Hegy’ managed “At last all was shipshape as part time after an attack of the to get the bomber back on the possible and Col. Hegy gingerly flu. homeward course. tested the controls. They worked! Mrs. Don Spencer is ill with the Sgt. Edward Herbert, engineer They came in The wheels touched and top turret gunner, said gas the ground and they rolled Then flu. was spurting out in Franklin's Col. Hegy jammed on the brakes Mark Balfour of the U. S Navy face and all over the plane. The The Pacific Tramp stopped, right broken rudder cables were spliced side up.” is visiting home folks DAIRYMEN SET FEB AS EI'GEXE MEETING _ __ ______ I LITHI n E N T E II T A I N M E N I Phone 7.1111 HAYDÍN Bob Wilis Dub TAYLOR Adela MAHA AND HOW 010 LOVE MtU IHl CHAlUMCf OF SUSPICION It VIES Dates for th«' fifteenth umilili meeting of the Oregon Dairyman's association have been set for Feb 10 amt 11 at Eugene, according t« Preaident Oscar Haag of Reed ville While the details of gram have not yet b«*en one of th«' visiting speakers wll be J. C Nlabett, executive secre tary of the American Jersey Cat tie club .says Roger Morse O.8.C., secretary of tb<- A (trmsndy, general p;-, ger agent of the Southern P.i< Co., of Portland and Hotter! Holl mes of Medfrod, district pas senger and freight agent of th« Southern Pucific, were callers at the Miner office Tuesday Mr. and Mrs Arthur Cooper of Keno were Attillami visitóte Sunday Mr. and Mrs I Vllliam Worth- ington are ill at their home on lot u rei St WEDS. & Tin 1RS. BARGAIN NIGHTS Matinee Saturday ( ontinuous Sunday Mr. James Yeo, Who has been Gordon Gilmore. nge<l 7. son of seriously HI, Is showing definite Mi and Mrs Robert Gilmore, for improvement mer Ashland, reoldentx. it scrioui- ly ill in a Portland hospital lie VV H Mapes wax taken to the underwent an operation Monday Community Hospital Saturday followng an illness of bronchi-ii with a fractured arm pneumonia for three weeks lie is a nephew of Alice Pa tt reson? Mrs Jennie E Hammond, aged Hix paternal grandparents, the 03. passed away Wednesday. An Gilmores, live in Ashland too. obituary will appear next week « fcatiataps I 1 art of her job ia to let you know when there’s a run of Long Distance traffic and peo ple are waiting for con nection with the point you’re calling. Continuous Shows SATURDAY and SUNDAY WILLIAM H. MANNEY Funeral services were held Tues day for William H. Manney, 64 His death occurred Friday at the Hearin Mill on Tolman Creek, where he was crushed to death by a pile of falling logs. Rev. James H. Edgar officiated at the service, and interment was In Mountain View Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, two brothers, and three sisters. -------------o Lt. Earl D. Nutter, who is sta tioned at Camp Berkeley, Texas, left Saturday after visiting in Ashland. T his is what we’ve been working for you have is fighting. Tough? Of course, it’s tough—unless it is a sacrifice you’re all along. This is the year to hit and simply not doing your share! hurt the enemy. 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