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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Thursday, June 15, 1944 ADMIRAL KING PRAISES WAVES IN V A S IO N ! C «A T° .BRITAIN •f» Friday and Saturday GIMMANY PA«I$ ^1« FRANC! " y s u TRY ■utooc ^PQRTUGA MEXICALI ROSE” PARACHUTE TROOPS SEE ACTION! GAS WON’T STOP THEM C U. S. .Irmy Signal Ctrft Philo) P U. S. Parachutists float earth plus ward from troop carrying planes as an effective men * of land ing behind enemy lines and dis rupting his communications. This scene was repeated many times as the invasion got under way. ANYWAY YOU $AY IT - IT S TISIIFICI afudoi Allied troops are equipped for gas attacks. The job of making gas masks wus speeded up by the use of gypsum cements, which have been used widely to make patterns and models for many vital war materials.______ AIGÍRIA INVASION MAP (SounJfhoto) Invasion moves as depicted on the map above were planned to isolate German troops in fortified zones according to forecasts by military experts. How close those forecasts came to being rig h t- is now indicated by the actual invasion. "otrnwGS _y» < n IN A M A Z IN G Ew T IC H W IC O L O II I High praise “f the work tiie W a v ».S given by A dm iral e i m s i J. Klug, C oiiuiiuidcrlli-C nlef of the U. S. Fleet and Chief of N a val O perations In a recent report to the S ecretary of the Navy, hua been reiterated by otf.ceia-tn- charge of th e naval atationa and activities lit Oregon, w h e r e I WAVES are now on duty, ac cording to a report Juat released by R ecruiting Specialist II W. C ialn of the Medford U. 8. Navy R ecruiting Station, which handles WAVE applications in thia uiea. lucieaa.ng efficiency in h an dling the N avy's m ass of busl- n rss in many p lu ses of lta o p era tions in Oregon la reported by these officeia-tn-charge, bearing out Adftnral King a report on the auccesa of the WAVE pro g ram m ilia review of the progress and expansion of the Navy since the beginning of the wur. W AV ko are on duty a t these naval activities in Oiegon: U. 8. Naval Air Station, Tillam ook; U. 8. Naval Station, Aalorla; U. 8. ' N aval Air Station. Aatoria; U. 8 Navy Hospital, K lam ath F ’lls, U. 8. Naval Air Station. K lam ath Falla; Supervisor of Shipbuilding ¡Office, P o rtla n d ; Office of Navul O ffic e r l*rocurement. WAVES E n listm ent Section, P ortland; Air W arning Service, P ortland, and Office of Industrial Relations, i ’ortland ' WAVES now handle more than 250 Navy jobs, form erly exclu sively the work of men. Thia wide range of jobs offers oppor tunity for many women with n e a r ly any civilian training experience lo r aptitude. Young women are i urged to find out about their opportunities In the W AVES at any U. 8. Navy R ecruiting S ta tion or at the WAVES E nlistm ent H eadquarters. 735 S. W. A lder S treet. Portland. Ashland USD Club Receives Donations- A, “GOING TO THE MAT’ IN EUROPE British sappers, above, are laving a piece of “portable high way” to permit safe passage for transports and tanks as they land on European shores. Bundles of steel landing mats are unloaded from ship to shore, to form highways to speed men, munitions and guns to the front line fighting. Landing fields are quickly com pleted this simple way, too. Steel mats, many of which are made by United States Gypsuni Company, are one of the innovations of this war. When the war ends this USG production w' ' ■<? returned tai lath, us«d widely with gypsum plaster to a fire-safety ■’tv to walls and ceilings. TRAVELING EXAM INER HERE | ALSO DISNEY CARTOON “ Bell Boy Donald” AMERICAN SABATEUR A Traveling E xam iner of O per ato rs and C hauffeurs is scheduled to arriv e in Ashland, Monday, June 19, 1944, and will be on duty a t the City H all between the hours of 9 a m . and 5 p.m., ac cording to a recent announcem ent released from the S ecretary of S ta te ’s office. All those w ishing perm its or li censes to drive cars a re asked to get in touch w ith the exam iner during these hours. W ILLIAM TAVENEK W illiam T avener was born in E ngland in 1865 and passed aw ay recently a t the home of his d au g h ter, Mrs. Doris L. Eisholz in bos Angeles. He w as a resident of Ashland for over forty years and left ju st a few m onths ago to live with his daughter in bos Angeles. Be sides his daughter, he is survived by one son, bt. Col. W illiam Geof- j frey Tavener, Cam p Cooks, Cali fornia. “WHEN YOU WANT A TREAT, COME TO EAT” at the Paramount News Wed & Thurs. JUNE 2 1 ---- JUNE 22 ÉIRÏSOff ¿¿PMBUIM LITHIA HOTEL COFFEE SHOP Open From 6:00 A. M.—10:00 P. M. CLOSED MONDAYS Let us worry about your bridge luncheons and dinner parties. Merchant Lunches — Meals — Short Orders BATTLESHIPS BLAST INVASION COASTAL AREAS (O/fitial U. S Navj Photo) The above Naval photo shows an American warship b'asting enemy shore installations, part of the "softening up” process that preceded the invasion. large this year. The Texas crop is expected to exceed 1,160,000 hundred-pound sacks, com pared The supply of boys from 14 to w ith 889,000 sacks la st year. The Idea of serving onions to 17 years old w anting full-tim e work on Oregon farm s this sum w het th e ap p etite / o r less flav o r m er is considerably “h ig h er than ful foods is encouraged by n u tri th e present dem and from fa rm tionists. ers, rep o rts J. R. Beck, sta te farm labor supervisor for th e O. S. C. Extension Service. M any m ore boys actu ally have applied for the special farm tra in ing sh o rt course sponsored a t O. S. C. by the S ta te F arm Labor Office than can be placed on the basis of present requests from farm ers, Beck says. The second Of these brief farm train in g pe riods is in session th is week a t Corvallis. “M ost of these boys a re eith er rig h t off of farm s o r have had «orne farm experience,” Beck says. “T he train in g they get a t O. S. C. is n o t complete, of course, but they are given helpful pointers in tra c to r driving, d airy work, chores and general farm work. They should be quite a help to a fa rm er h ard pressed for some one to w ork around th e place.” R equests for these boys m ay be m ade through the C ounty F arm Labor E m ploym ent Office o r d i re ctly to R ussel M. Adams, as sista n t s ta te farm labor su p er visor a t Corvallis. Boys for Full-Time Farm Work Plentiful Cookies Mrs. E verett McGee and Mrs. Jac k Young. C hristian Church; Mrs. Doris Simpson, Arm y Wives; Miss Florence A l len. Mrs. Clyde Smith, Mrs. W. D. Jackson and Mrs. Minna O lden burg, P resbyterian Church. Magazines — Mrs. F ran k Culp and Mrs. Fred Tracy. M owers Mrs. Elm er Riley, Mrs. Don Is Jacks, Mrs. B ert F ree man and Miss B erna H aight. Arm y B uttons — Sgt. R alph Christensen. ----------- -o------------- Mr. and Mrs. H arry Chipm an returned Monday from a vacation trip to Sacram ento, Oakland, and San Francisco. Miss R uth F rom an of R oseburg Is visiting her paren ts this week. NIONS ABUNDANT, HENCE IM PA IG N TO EAT MORE PLUS ADDED FEATURE SALE Continuous Shows SUNDAY HOUSE DRESSES WERE NOW 99C $1.98 $2.49 »1.98 *2-»» * 3-»8 ☆ Onions are being pushed novv itionally as a food expected to s in unusual abundance in the ,rly sum m er, according to an inouncem ent by th e W ar Food dm inistration received by the , S. C. Extension Service. Both e Texas and C alifornia crops of irly ty p e onions are unusually ☆ T h e y are grateful for everything the telephone operators are doing to get them a Long Distance line to home. They will thank you, too, if you leave the Long Distance wires from seven to ten for the service men. ☆ • “ Buy W ar Bonds” • (H fl/ 5 10 250051 STORE R w . S M IT H srbftt Building - L A N D 4, O REG O N ie enroll me in the “Mr. Smith a « u/,ekino»nn" el uh. Send me a That is the best time many o f them have to call. Buy War Bonds for Victory Neme „ A ddreee C ity---------- - ■ ■ ■ — — ------------------------------ ---------- THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH C O M P A N Y *7.«0e..........