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PA'GE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL" TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1941. CANTEEN FOR CORPS PLAN FOR Former Radio Building To Be Used Mrs. Leonard Carpenter To Supervise. The army'i old radio building at Medford municipal airport la belnj converted into a canteen for air corps officers and men. It Is expected that the canteen will be ready for operation in a week or so. Operation of the canteen will be an activity of the recreation committee of the Jackson Coun ty Council of Defense. The can teen will be under the direct supervision of Mrs. Leonard Car penter, chairman of the sub committee on soldiers and sail ors clubs. The canteen will have the Usual assortment of things to eat and drink and It is expected that It will be self-sustaining, aaid Mrs. Alfred S. V. Carpen ter, recreation committee chair man. In order to fit the canteen out properly to start with, how ever, the public may be invited to contribute an article or two, Mrs. Carpenter stated. The canteen will be for army and navy aviators making stops at the municipal airport and for the air corps men stationed at the airport, Mrs. Carpenter ex plained. She pointed out that army planes are making stops at the airport here In increasing numbers and that the officers and men have nothing to occupy them while they wait to have the planes serviced or for dark ness to fall to make practice night flights. Nor do they have any means of getting to town for a bite to eat or a stimulating cup of coffee, she emphasized. So, to fill a need already existing, the recreational com mittee made arrangements with the city to take over the old radio building. The building has been thoroughly cleaned and will be painted and otherwise refurnished. The city-owned res taurant supplies and equipment, used In the former airport cafe teria, will be installed. Addi tional space will be sought for lounging furniture and writing tables and stationery, Mrs. Car penter stated. There will also be a pay telephone in the canteen. Some one will be at the can teen daily, probably from noon to dark, but it will also be open at other hours, early or late, whenever planes are coming in, Mrs. Carpenter stated, adding that the committee will be in formed of expected arrivals. The precise manner of opera tion will be determined by ex perience, she related. Mrs. Carpenter said that the tuggestlon that the Idle radio building be used for this pur pose was made by Frank Hull, coordinator of the defense coun cil. She added that her com mittee had received only the most gratifying cooperation from J. C. Collins, chairman of the city council's airport commmit tee, Fred W. Scheffcl, city su perintendent, and others called upon for sanction and assistance In establishing the canteen. E Announcement was made yes terday of the purchase by Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Abbott, Tar xana, Calif., of the William 13. Whltwell property on Rogue river and Crater lake highway, Just below Casey state park. The property consists of nine acres and a modern private lodge. The new owners will take possession this week and will make the place their per manent home. They plan on making extensive improvements. The sale was mude by D. E. Millard, Shady Cove, and was said to be a cash transaction in the neiiihborhood of $3,500. Mr. and Mrs. Whitwcll, who built the lodge and have made it their home for the past four years, will take up residence in Ashland. Marine Amphibian Tanks Get Trial at Sea .. jm9 n 1 1 pu., k , ,..w!. pwr ,.?"t Far out In the Gulf of Mexico thtse seagoing Roebling amphibian tanks ware put through their paces by marines. Invented by Donald Roebling of Clearwater, Fla., and manufactured at Lake land. Fla.. the marines claim they can go anywhere a land tank can go and are easily handled in mud and water. Each tank can carry 40 men. With the fruit harvest here about completed and with other areas needing housing facilities, the farm security administration migrant labor camp south of town is beginning to take on a dismantling appearance. The big assembly tent that has provided a place for rec reation and entertainment will come down in the next few days. Many of the family tents will be taken to the potato areas of Klamath county during this week to provide housing at three camps that are filling rapidly, C. K. Collier, acting manager, said. Families remaining In the Medford camp are still finding employment, mainly in the har vesting of tomatoes and late pears. The tents occupied by these families will be left stand ing until the last possible mo ment to provide housing facili ties while the workers have employment, Mr. Collier stated. Last dance of the season was held in the assembly tent Friday night, CCC enrollccs and town folks being guests. WITH S.P. FREIGHT A Southern Pacific freight train had the freak experience early Friday night of backing Into an automobile at the Fourth street crossing, and in turn be ing struck by another machine at the same crossing only a few minutes after the first mishap. Ponce reported that a ear be ing operated west on Fourth street by Claude Titus of 229 North Ivy street was struck as the freight train backed slowly across the crossing, the auto be ing dragged some 20 feet down the tracks before the train was stopped. Conductor L. E. Wadworth had hardly drawn a deep breath of relief that the damage wasn't serious before a car being driven east on Fourth street by L. O VanSlyke of B16 West Tenth street rammed squorcly into a box car as the train blocked the crossing. Police quoted Van- Milk producers, distributors ond producer-distributors adopt ed a resolution at a meeting in the county courthouse audi torium Friday night petitioning the state milk control board to hold another hearing here im mediately on the question of in creasing milk prices. Some time ago the Medford Milk Producer-Distributor as sociation requested an increase in prices and the board held a hearing on the subject. At the hearing testimony was given to show that milk production costs had risen in the past year, the general, all-around rise being 20 to 25 per cent. Subsequently the board issued a "proposed" order raising the retail price of milk a cent a quart and increasing the butter fat price to be paid producers from 58 to 67 cents a pound, effective October 1. Shortly afterward the board announced its determination not to promul gate the proposed order and the status quo was thus maintained. TINERANT HELD FOR BEER THEFT Walter B. Angell, 40, an Iter ant, picked the wrong time to allegedly attempt to steal a case of beer from a parked delivery truck. City police reported that while Rocer W. Fairehild, driver for a McDonald Candy company truck, was making a delivery to Ottos club on South Front street Saturday morning, Angell removed a case of beer from the parked truck and placed It in the rumble seat of his own auto mobile. A policeman driving a patrol car on South Front street saw the theft, placed Angell under arrest and lodged him in city Jail to await a Justice of the peace court hearing Monday. Slyke as explaining he didn't see the train. Neither driver was Injured, but the VanSlyke car was dam nged considerably, police said. A.F.L MEET WILL STRESS LOYALTY Seattle, Wash., Oct. 4. W) The craft battalions of Ameri can labor converged on Seattle today for Monday's opening of the 61st annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, a conclave which is ex pected to pledge AFL's loyalty in the defense emergency with out abrogating the right to strike. President William Green, dur ing department sessions late this week, struck what is expected to be the convention's cooperative defense keynote. He described the right to strike as "our big gun" and as serted: "We are willing to leave It behind the door temporarily, but we will never surrender it to anyone." The right to strike, he de clared, "is as fundamental as the right of a free press and free speech." The. racketeering topic is an other scheduled to reach the con vention floor. The executive council report Monday, Green said, "will deal strongly with racketeering" while insisting any such practice can be charg ed only to a small percentage of union members. FAST DRIVERS IN SCHOOL ZONE GET SEVERE PENALTY Seven violator! of the traffic laws were hailed Into city police, court the past few days of last week, two of them charged with reckless driving in school zones, and police said they would con tinue to deal severely with mot orists arrested for heedless driv ing, especially in school zones. Assessed $25 fine for reck less driving past St. Mary's aca demy on Eleventh street was Joe LeRoy Shultz, whose opera tor's license was suspended for 90 days. Lorenzo Gale Johnson posted $25 bail for reckless driv ing past the Medford senior high school. Police said he drove at 40 miles an hour, zig-zagged In and out of traffic and failed to give right-of-way to pedestrians on the crosswalk. John LeRoy Darland was fined $10 for violation of the basic traffic rule past St. Mary's aca demy and James Douglas Coddie was fined the same amount for violation of the basic rule on East Main street. Darland, pol ice said, traveled at an unlawful rate of speed in the St. Mary's school zone. Fined $5 for driving a car without an operator's license was James Osborn. Don Nichol son posted $5 bail on the same charge. George Lewis Cook was fined $5 for driving a car with Im proper license plates. V dent Roosevelt's forthcoming re commendations to congress. Mr. Roosevelt will confer with congressional leaders of both parties regarding neutrality amendments next Tuesday. There have been indications that he would suggest only that the present law be amended to per mit the arming of American merchant ships. But some con gressional leaders are urging him to recommend also elimination of the existing prohibition aga'nst sendinj American mer chantmen Into belligerent xrts or presently-designated combat zones. Sen. McNary was listed as op Dosina anv chance. Sen. Hoi- I man warn nnnvn MhViIa SOVIET UPHOLDS ED TO LAW CHANGES (By the Associated Press) Washington, Oct. 4. A poll indicated today that the senate would approve some modifica tion of the neutrality law but that any proposed change would meet substantial opposition. At the same time a large group of senators was uncom mitted, having adopted a wait-and-see attitude pending Presi- Moscow, Oct. 4. (IP) The of ficial Russian press spokesman, Vice Commissar of Foreign Af fairs S. A. Lozovsky, told corre spondents today that the Soviet state considers religion a pri vate matter for its citizens and regards it unnecessary to in terfere. He linked the declaration with the recent statement on the sub ject by President Roosevelt. The Soviet constitution guar antees religious freedom, the spokesman said, but "assumes that freedom of religion will not be utilized for the over throw of the prevailing regime." LESS NEWSPRINT White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Oct. 4. m With national defense requiring 30 per cent of the paper pr iduction, Norbert A. McKenna, OPM official, said to day that newspapers and other paper users in the United States would have 21 1 4 million tons of paper in the next year to do "the job which previously only the profligate use on 25V4 mil lion tons could accomplish." McKenna. chief of the pulp, paper, printing and publishing branch of the office of produc tion management spoke before the Printers National associa tion. Washington, Oct. 4. (VP) Selective service officials said today the national Induction quota for December probably would rvproximate 18,000 se lectees, about one-third the nor mal monthly number, because of the Christmas holidays. Inductions virtually will be suspended in the latter part of the month, said Major Ernest M. Gulligan, public relations officer, in order not to remove registrants from their homes in the holiday season. The December quota Is not indicative of any contemplated reduction in enrollment for the land forces, he emphasized, and a proportionate larger number of youths may be inducted in January. Inductions have been averag ing about 60,000 a month. If Yugoslav guerrillas, BBC said, captured 650 German soldiers. Including at least 40 officers, and then sent a note to the German general threatening to execute them if the shooting of Yugo slav hostages continued. BONUS RECOMMENDED Q Washington, Oct 4. ( The defense mediation board, acting in a dispute between AFL seamen unions and ship owners, recommended tonight an Increase from $60 to $80 in the monthly bonus paid sailors for trips Into hazardous waters. CAPTURED NAZIS New York, Oct. 4. VP) Yugoslavs are showing the Ger mans that the execution of host ages can be two-sided, the Brit ish radio said today in a broad cast heard by CBS. EAT- out tonight Hotel Lithia ASHLAND, OREGON Invites You To Dine In Their Coffee Shop Delicious Foods Reasonable Prices Why not drive over and try It u L f V mm L Of course you'll send a . . . ALLMARK BIRTHDAY CARD It's the gracious way to ex press your congratulations and good wishes. J SWEM'S GIFT SHOP' Closing tlm rut CliulMed Adt m. Too Late to Clautfy 12:30 p Di Mill Trltuu want J. INVESTMENTS made by October 10 will earn dividends as of October 1. FirstFederal Savings at Loan Assn. of Medford 27 North Holly An Imtltutlnn Drrtlrstrd To Those tvho Save .llllllllllllllllllllliilliltilllllllllllllllll TJte Ull TTIbur vant ads. jWikV-- . ':- .13 1 rQigiii Fancy Bartlett Pears FOR CANNING We have in Medford Ice fc Storage several hundred small boxes of excellent quality Bartlett pears. These boxes weigh between 23 and 25 pounds net. or about half the site of a regular standard wrapped and packed box. They are all large siies. Ideal for can ning. These pears have been washed, graded and siied exactly the same as poars going Into our stand ard boxes that we ship to the eastern markets. For thoie who would like a tew pears for canning purpotai we would recommend their purchasing one or more of theae small boxes, priced at $1.00 Box al Medford Ice & Storage Co. Each pear should be In suitable condition to can. not like the loose pears you buy in field lugs, or culls. Bartletts In this type of package are very limited here In the district and lust a tip to those who like fruit during the winter months canned Bartletts, as well es canned peaches and other soft fruits, will be quite expensive later, end for economy's sake you should can a few Bartletts and save some money. For Further Particulars Dial 4171 AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS, Inc. or the GENTLEMAN A gentleman can wear old clothes Inexpensive clothes but never clothes that aren't Im maculate! Let us keep your shirts gleaming. 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