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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL 10. 1942. PAGE FIVE WALTER J. LOOKER, SENATE CANDIDATE CITES EXPERIENCE Walter J. Looker, Jackson county attorney, who has an nounced his candidacy for the Republican nomination (or state senator, cites widely varied ex perience and long and intimate knowledge of Jackson county afafirs among his qualifications. Mr. Looker received his early education in Sioux City, Iowa. He worked his way through col lege by shorthand reporting, in which he had specialized, and his skill '.n this art has been useful in many instances since, Among his activities after leaving college, Mr. Looker was chief clerk for the American Dutch Burn Balikpapan Oil To Thwart Japanese ft .r . , , j - - i I ' a i -IT v. 't "iY v Pi's it. IS SPRAGUE PLEA Portland, Ore., April 10 (Pi Evacuate the Japanese imme diately and "let us no longer indulge in false sentimentality about alien enemies," Gov, Charles A. Sprague of Oregon urged last night in a radio ad dress prompted by the fall of Bataan's defenses. "Get the Japanese away from the Pacific coast and get them away fast," he said, "else they may do us injury as they did in Pearl Harbor and the Philip pines." He urged they be put to work in the beet fields or at other farm labor. t2 WE it-ii .. t..j.- .. l . i AJa 11 This Is th first picture to reach th United States of how the valiant Dutch scorched th earth as Japanese invaders poured Into the Netherlands East Indies. Here millions in oil and oil installations go up in smoke at Balikpapan on the east coast of Borneo. Walter J. Looker Railway Express company; sec retary to the president of the Livestock National Bank of Sioux City, for three years; in a civil service position with the Interstate Commerce Commis sion at Washington, D. C, for eight years, traveling extensive ly for that bureau in lega! and accounting work. Enlisting in the navy during World war I, he came west a few years later, operating a dairy ranch and apple orchard In the Yakima valley until 1925, when he came to Medford. Mr. Looker was admitted to the Oregon bar in 1926 and was associated with A. E. Reames in the practice of law at Med ford tor eight year, from 1928 to 1936, also acting as court reporter from time to time. He ha hMti ccwrptarv-trpaeurpr nf the Rogue River Valley Traffic association since 1933 and was attorney for the Farmers and Fruitgrowers Bank of Medford, also serving as cashier of that institution following the death of Delroy Getchell. and until th bank's consolidation with the U. S. National chain. He is at present engaged in private law practice, in the same office which he established in 1937, also devoting considerable time to various community and business activities. A member of the Masonic fraternity since he was 21 years old, Mr. Looker is also a mem ber of Medford Post No. 15 of the American Legion, and is president of the Southern Ore gon Bar association. In 1940 he was elected secretary-treasurer of the Fruit Growers League of Jackson County. Concerning his platform. Mr. Looker states: "If elected, it will be my pur pose to continue to devote my time and efforts to the welfare of the people, community and state in which I live. The slogan which I have adopted. 'Service to my community, state and nation,' to me is not a group of idle words. "We are in a total war, and our first consideration mutt be winning that war; otherwise we will have no interests left to protect by a wise and judicial government. Taxation has always been a paramount issue in the minds of the people. Of all times in cur history we have never been faced with tax problems of such magnitude. "Anything that can be done to lighten the burden of local i government without detracting from its efficiency will be a contribution to the total war effort, and if selected by the people I shall try to be always alert to guard against expendi tures which cannot be justified on the grounds of need and efficiency." LIFE OF RANGER S From The Fox Holes of Bataan "Work of a Forest Ranger" was the title of a motion pic ture shown at Wednesday noon's luncheon-meeting of the Lions club in Hotel Medford by M. L. Tedrow, assistant fire ranger of the Rogue River national for est. The movie depicted many phases and duties in the life of a ranger, including the seas onal stocking o f mountain streams with trout for the bene fit of anglers, the feeding of young deer in snow-swept areas, reforestation, development of ski areas, pest control in the forests, weather observation, fire combatting and others. Tedrow told the club ttiat re sorts such as Lake o' Woods would be open to visitors this summer, with registration a re quirement, but that industrial areas, such as logging, would be closed to the public. Bill Stout, member of the Medford senior high school band, and candidate for the dis trict music championship, play ed a clarinet solo, accompanied by Miss Marion Burton. FOR MRS. JONES Private funeral services will be held in Medford for Mrs. Ivan H. Jones, 36, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Nye of Tal ent, who died at Houston, Texas last Wednesday after an extend ed illness. Burial will be in Siskiyou Memorial cemetary. Besides her parents, Mrs. Jones is survived by her hus band, a lj-months-old daughter, Marilyn Ruth; a sister, Ruth Nye of Portland and a brother, Capt. S. G. Nye of Ft. Warren, Wvo. Mrs. Jones was born in Da'ily City, N. D. in 1906. T A. Fox holes like these men occupy on the Baiaan peninsula aave wav beiore a vastly superior Jao anese horde after days of continuous assault, the war department said dispatches from the front indi cated. Duckinq shrapnel hare were (1-r) Captain S. W. Little, Sergeant John G. Graham, Lieuten ant P. W. Frutiger and Corporal R. L. Carter. (U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo). Return Showing 1 George Montgomery, who re cently made screen history op posite Ginger Rogers in "Roxie Hart," comes to the screen of the Roxy theatre for tonight and Saturday only in the title role of Zane Grey's "Last of the Duanes." Lynne Roberts plays opposite Montgomery. The art of drawing wai prac ticed at least 50,000 years ago. Shootin Stars in Rialto Thriller ji i ?i rr: r-j Two favorite Western heroes, Charles Starrett, and his pal, (Russell Hayden, are rarin' for The United States paid Spain 'action in "Riders of the Bad $20,000,000 for the Philippines. 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