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
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HAYDÍN
Bob Wilis
Dub TAYLOR
Adela MAHA
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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
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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.
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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. This is the time when
Make the sacrifice now—buy more
everything you do counts double. If we
than the extra $100 Bond your country
all get together and do all we can,
counts on you for—winning the war is
we’ll be over this hurdle and well on our
worth any sacrifice you make. Besides,
way to complete and crushing victory.
you aren’t giving, you’re
No question about the men
Wf BOUGHT FXTRA WM BONDS
lending to America! You'W get
in uniform—they’ll go “all
back every dollar you invest
out.” But can we count on you
in War Bonds, with interest.
to back them all the way?
An extra $100 War Bond
Your quota is where you work
now is the minimum for
—you’ve got to buy your War
everybody—can’t we count
Bonds and then buy more,
on you for more?
until every last loose cent
WAR IOAN
Thl< iticksr In yaur window meant you have bought 4th War Loan Mcurltlot.
itiAt BACK THE ATTACK!
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she knows is crowded,
the operator will say—
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