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PACE TEN T OFFICE E Will Facilitate Cantonment Road Problems And Study Traffic Needs. State highway department rep resentative! have been In con ference with the architect and constructing quartermaster'! of fice! In the armory regarding road approaches to the proposed army cantonment In the Ante lope-Beagle district and other phases of the highway setup required by the camp. To facilitate surveys and other road planning, the highway com' mission has established a dis trict office at state police head quarters on the North Pacific highway. It was understood that the group was considering city traffic problems that will be created by the proposed camp as well as the flow of traffic over roads and highways lead ing to the camp outside the town area. At a conference of high rank ing army officers In San Fran cisco Thursday nothing was said regarding any changes In the time schedule for construction of the proposed army canton ment, Myron Hunt of Hunt & Chambers, camp architects, said upon his return. Before Mr. Hunt left for the conference Wednesday it had been reported In usually well informed local circles that con struction might be started soon er than at first contemplated and while the architectural plans were still being drawn. Mr. Hunt said the conference pertained to the location of regi mental units and on the nature of motorized units. There was a general threshing out of vari ous details, he stated. There was no indication that an in crease In the size of the camp was being considered, he said. CapL Theron W. Bean, in charge of the constructing quar termaster's office here who ac companied Mr. Hunt to Sen Francisco, remained in the south to make a study at other can tonments, Mr. Hunt related. Capt. Bran was to be Joined by Harold I. Wood of Blackie & Wood, associated as engineer! with Hunt It Chambers, who left for San Francisco by plane Thursday evening, and the con structing quartermaster and the architect and engineer on the Eugene cantonment. CITY SUBSCRIBES A total of $1,242 41 was raised by solicitors of the Med ford committee of the United Service Organizations in the three-day campaign June 3 to 9, inclusive, Ralph Sweeney, trrasurer of the committee, said Saturday. The sum represented a substantial amount over and above the committee's quota of (1,000, and Mr. Sweeney stated that a few more dollars might be received when workers In the outlying districts make their report Monday. Jackson county's quota in the nation-wide campaign was $1. 900, the Ashland Committee hav ing raised $500. Mr. Sweeney said he was awaiting word from Oregon headquarters of the V. S. O. as to the disposition of the money, and what would be done with the sum over and above the county quota. A beefsteak nipper "chuck wagon style" will be given Wed nesday evening In Prescott Park, atop Roxy Ann. with the Sheriff's Mounted Posse playing host to the Ladies' Mounted Posse. The two posses will ride TRY OUR HERBS When Others Fail Fot quick and permanent relief el ailments eves el long standing. CHINA HERB CO. 135 C Mala St. Medford horseback to the park, leaving the fairground stables at 0:10 p. m. The supper will be served ai soon as the horses scale the mountain. In charge of the feed are Lieut. William Grenbemer, George Fields, Chet Leonard and Dr. Walt Hoppe. The posses are planning to accept the invitation to ride in the parade in Portland In July during the national convention of law enforcement officers. The organizations will travel in special Pullman horse cars used by the S. P. for conveying horses where the riders can travel with the animals. Sheriff Syd I. Brown Is well pleased with the personnel and especially fine horses turning out for posse drill In charge of S. M. Tuttle. Because of the many applications lor posse membership the number has been raised It was stated Sat urday. Nina Tuttle has been elected 2nd lieutenant and secretary of the ladles posse. AI 2 MEN MEET IRE Two men who lived within 39 miles of each other when they were boys back In Norway and whose paths crossed in a small French town when they were both fighting for Uncle Sam in the World war met for the first time Friday in the little shoe repair shop at 17 North Fir street. The men are Harald Kam- pctin, now of Portland and a missionary worker of the Apos tolic Faith church, and Sigurd M. Cleven of 1004 West 9th street, owner of the shoe repair shop. Mr. Kampetln, a guest at the home of the Rev. C. W. Frost of B01 North Central avenue, pastor of the Apostolic Faith church here, stepped Into the shoe shop Friday to have some work done. He and Mr. eleven began a casual conversation that soon revealed the unusual coin cidence of their meeting here. Mr. Kampetin, the conversation brought out, was born and reared near GJovik. Norway, and Mr. Cleven in Llllchainmer, the two places being only about 35 miles apart. In the World war Mr. Cleven was with the Rainbow division in a small town In France when the 91st division arrived in town and the men stopped for coffee before continuing their march. Mr. Kampetin wai in that 91st di vision. Mr. Kampetin Is well known here because of the series of lectures he gave on Norway In the Apostolic Faith church last February. He had been doing missionary work for 27 months in Norway, Sweden and Den mark during the early stages of the war and was in Norway when Germany invaded the country. After much difficulty he was able to get out and re turned to the United States, of which he is a citizen, last fall on the American Legion, the ship that brought back many Americans caught by the war in the Scandinavian countries. HARRISON INFANT RITES ON SATURDAY MORNING Michael Jnmes Harrison, In fant son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Harrison, Central Point, passed away at a local hospiul late Friday afternoon. Private services were held at the grave side in Siskiyou Memorial park Saturday morning with the Rev. R. W. Coleman officiating. Ar rangementa were in care of Con ger funeral parlors. Glass W sell glass, reglaze four nroken windows reason ably Trowbridge Cabinet Works We Mlave Not YETT Had An Advance In Price ROGUE MEDFORD MAIL PUNS UNDERWAY; TRACT ACCEPTED R. L. Bradshaw, superinten dent of civilian conservation corps motor repair division 9 with headquarters in Salem, is expected to come here in a few days to make tentative plans for the establishment of a cen tral repair depot at the old air port Just south of town, Med ford district headquarters said yesterday. Karl L. Janouch, supervisor of Rogue River national forest, yesterday received a telegram from his regional office In Port land that the government had accepted title to the necessary land and that construction might now proceed. Acceptance of title to the 7.9 ares of land set aside for the central repair depot cleared the way for actual es tablishment of the shop. Construction, however, prob ably will not start until about August 1, CCC headquarters here said. The depot, it was added, is to be ready for use by November 1. Some equip ment for the depot has already been acquired, headquarters said. Construction will be done un der division 5 and it was under stood bids would be handled under the Salem office. The central deput will require erection of five buildings cost ing an estimated $75,000 to $80,. 000. In addition to the repair shop, the CCC will maintain a school for the training of about 40 enrollees in' automotive me chanics, a separate building to be erected for the school. ALBERTA FINDLEY PASSES IN LOS A. Word has been received by friends here of the death of Al berta Moffatt Findley, wife of Royce Findley, of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Findley passed away after a brief illness at the Ce dars of Labanon hospital, Los Angeles, Wednesday evening. June 4th. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Moffatt. former Medford residents, now of Bremerton, Wash.: sister of Bruce Moffatt, Medford, lieuten ant in the national guard, and Eugene Moffatt, Los Angeles ar chitect, and daughter-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. William Swartz, 121 Gcr.essee street. Mrs. Swartz left Tuesday for Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Mof fatt and the two brothers were there when she passed away. Mrs. Findley, who was well known here, where she attended school, made her home in Los Angeles since her marriage. Mr. Findley is associated with Para mount Studios in Hollywood. Servires were held Saturday at Wee Kirk o' the Heather with Interment in Forest Lawn cem etery in Los Angeles. Usual quarterly movement of CCC enrollees back to home areas for discharge or reassign ment will start in the Medford district today with departure of a train at 5:40 p. m. for Bir mingham, Ala. Boarding the train here will be 153 enrollees from these camps: Wimcr 2. South Fork 29. Prescott 105. Gasquet 7. Oregon Caves 3, Applegate 3. and Williams Creek 4. At Red ON RIVER CHEVROLET TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ding, Cal 179 other enrollees of Medford district camps will board the train. A train leaving Marshfield Tuesday will take 404 and an other train leaving Redding on the same day will take 335 Medford district enrollees back to the fourth corps area for discharge or reassignment. Other trains are scheduled to follow in the next week or so. On the question of replace ment! for the Medford district camps, headquarters here had no information. Nor wai any definite information available regarding the probable number of camp! to be maintained in this district in the next quarter. TOURIST TRAVEL MEET THURSDAY First of series of educa tional meetings on southern Oregon tourist travel will be held by the Junior committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in council cham bers on the top floor of city hall at 7:30 p. m. next Thurs day. P. G. Humphreys, chair man, will preside. Intent of the committee Is to make preparations so that trav elers coming here can get the most out of their stay in south ern Oregon. To be of greatest service, those who cater to trav elers must be informed of all the southern Oregon attractions that tourists like to see and all the activities they like to in dulge in, Humphreys said. First meeting will be for em ployes of service stations, eat ing establishments and hotels In the southern Oregon area. The committee already had made contact with executives of oil companies regarding attendance of their employes and personal contact with the employes themselves is to be made prior to the meeting, Humphreys stated. At Thursday'! meeting Rob ert H. Shaw, committee mem ber, will give a talk on the gen eral program of catering to tourists. An outline of the rec reational facilities of southern Oregon will be given by Frank Hull, chamber of commerce manager. In his talk Hull will utilize a large map showing fishing lakes and streams, camp grounds, outstanding scenic spots and other features of southern Oregon. The map was prepared by the Junior commit tee. TO NAVAL DUTY Vernon A. Woods of 843 West Second street, i a city fireman for the past two years, will leave here by train Tuesday night to re-enter the U. S. navy at Portland. He will continue from Portland to Bremerton, Wash., where he expects to be assigned to the Biscayne, a sea plane tender. Woods has served six years in the navy, from 1930 to 1935, and will re-enter at the rating he had at the time of his dis charge, second class machinist's mate. His wife and two children, Larry and Barbara Joyce, will remain here for the summer. His successor in the fire depart ment will be appointed by the city council from a list of eli gible to be submitted by the city civil service commission. Lake Survey Underway Lakeview, June 7 if) Army engineers recently surveyed the Fort Rock district in northern Lake county for a possible bombing field. An area approx imately 30 miles square would be required. OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE CLIPPINGS TELL OF DEATH OF EX T Received here yesterday were two clippings from a Fresno, Cal., newspaper describing the tragedy on May 31 that took the lives of six persons, one of them Kenneth Miller, 26, former Tal ent resident, when a 30-foot fishing boat capsized in Morro Bay. The clippings were sent by Faye Miller, also a former resident of Talent and Ken neth's sister, who was saved in the accident Eleven persona, all of them related, were in the boat when it capsized. Claude Miller, Jr.', 13, who swam a mile and a half to safety, said that he saw his uncle, Kenneth, apparently con fused, swimming out to sea after the boat overturned. In a min ute a large wave hid him from sight and "no one ever saw him again." Faye Miller, 18, who clung to the wreckage until rescued, suffered severe bruises and ex posure, the newspaper reports stated. Mrs. Iola Miller, mother of Kenneth and Faye, went with the party from Fresno to Morro Bay, but did not go on the bay in the boat. Mrs. Miller also is a former resident of Talent. Faye Miller, accompanying the newspaper clippings with a letter, said that Kenneth's body had not yet been recovered. T Three Medford business men have taken an option to buy one acre of ground at the south east corner of the Four Corners intersection northeast of the city, and it is their intention to complete the purchase and i 7t ttvTI? 1 aWF.-V-'HI Mill liiims.!. JJ 1 II SAUCEPAN COOKER Magic speed) Cooks peas In 1 mlnuttt As paragus in 1 minute! Cabbage and carrots in 21 i minutes! (Cuts your fuel costs ' j to ' j!) Retains all vitamins, food flavors and color! Being small, it's as easy to use, ta handle and clean, as any of your ordi nary saucepans ! One easy turn of the cover locks it steam-tight! Corns into Wards, and see it in action I J-qwoel 8, 1941. develop the property for a busi ness enterprise yet to be decided upon, according to George w. Field, one of the prospective buyers. The other two. Mr. Field said, were Maurice Spatz and Bruce Bauer. Option on the property was obtained from Oscar Wolfe, owner, Mr. Field stated. On the land is a large frame building constructed by Mr. Wolfe last summer, and not yet entirely completed on the interior. This structure, Mr. Field said, would be completed by the pros pective new owners. STATE DIRECTOR OF AID SOCIETY SPEAKS TUESDAY Mrs. I'yrtle C. Dalzlel, state director of the Boys and Girls Aid society of Oregon, will ad dress members of the Jackson County Boys and Girls Aid so ciety committee at a meeting to be held Tuesday at 9:13 p. m. at "Topsides." home of Mrs. A. S. V. Carpenter, chairman of the Jackson county committee. The county committee Is be ing organized to participate in a statewide campaign for funds to supplement the Portland com munity chest allotment of $16, 000 which is used to assist Ore gon children through the Boys and Girls Aid society. Mrs. Car penter reported that 22 children from this county are aided by the society's work. Members of the Jackson coun ty committee include Dr. C. H. Paske, Dr. O. J. Halboth, Dr. Charles W. Lemery, Dr. C. I. Drummond, Earl Miller, F. A. Freeburger, Royal Clare. Jack Nail, Don Newbury. Merritt Hittle, John McCrary, Miss Louise Bashford, Mrs. Glenn Fabrick, Miss Florence Weiser, Miss Helen Parish, Mrs. Gain Robinson, Mrs. Dom Provost, Mrs. Elwood Hedburg. Mrs. Ar thur Cannon, Mrs. W. H. Fluhrer and the chairman, Mrs. Car penter. 1 WARDS NEW MAGIC PLAN FHA HOMES ROSS LANE AREA Six to eight homes under FHA financing are to be erected soon In the Channing Sweet Acres, J. C. Barnes subdivision on Ross Lane, Mr. Barnes said yesterday. Leave Granted Lebanon, June 7 (JPh The school board has granted a year's leave to Jack Woodard, Lebanon High school coach, or OH SAVINGS INVESTED BY JUNE TENTH Your first dividend will be paid on July first, figured from June first; dividends will be paid each six months thereafter on July first and January first. Your account Is INSURED by an agency of the Federal Government, Jackson County Federal savings & loan association 126 East Main Wards magic spai MMSBM COOKEft cover, (No i Js lT taSy tUrn ead of hours ' k ,n ""nutes in-TWO-THlRDsrReU"mgyourf bin Vitam.'r,. t. nn I:. "1"' l0. cents on . SEAL Site! Lewis June 11 Spiritual EvangelisT Mrs. J. DM Keys will be In your city for a few days only. Mrs. Kra Keya Is a spirit ualist. It la an ab aoluta fact that ha la tha one who told Mra. Harding before tha presl ienfs election that tha would be tha first lady of tha land. Oet Mra. Keys' advtoe while you har the op Xrtunlty. Coma and eee her today. 8h is now io cated at the Orand hotel, room Not, aui. noun v a. m. to a:au p. m. "-quart Size! and trive, , " 7"a dered to Fort for army duty. ' a 1- f Earn I Dividends J 1 yu spend I umrnmssm worn NINTH AND BARTLETT 1 117 SOUTH CENTRAL TELEPHONE 3930
