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PAGE EIGHT GIRL'S DAY CAMP Campers Should Register at 500 East Main Street or at Grounds on Bear Creek The Fourth Annual Glrli' Camp will open tomorrow and continue each Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday during the month of June under the sponsorship of the Medford Girl Scout council. The camp ii lo cated south of Medford on the Barnett road along Bear Creek behind the Fairgrounds. Camp ers should register at 500 East Main street but r"t",,ti?nf will be taken each day at the campsite. , Camping hours are from 10:30 a. m. until 3:30 p. m. and glrla are responsible for their own transportation. The camp Is open to all girls in the community between the ages of seven and whether she U a Girl Scout or not. Each camper brings her own lunch for noon and after the first day of camp, units may plan to cook their meals. A nickel fee is charged . day to pay for craft materials. Use Unit System The Day Camp li o.Pfr"tJd1.?' a unit system with girls of like ages carying on their independ ent program, through the enthre day with the exception of mor ning and evening ceremonies. Activities include arts and crafts, dramatics, singing, folk games, active games, out-door cookery, nature, photography. and others. Each group of girls plan their own activities under the supervision of volunteer adult counselors. The day camp staff ! com posed of Girl Scout leaders, council and committee members and volunteer workers. Women desiring to give this civilian defense service to young girls In the community are asked to participate. Mrs. Paul Janney is day camp chairman and will be at the campsite each day to greet newcomers and to assist In se curing counselors. She has worked with the city superinten dent in arranging the campsite, putting up the shelter and pre paring the tables and grounds. It Is hoped that newcomers from the trailer camps, outlying rural districts and neighboring towns will participate in the Day Camp program. In event of rain the first meeting to or ganize various units will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. in the Lincoln school gymnasium. Harvesting of the valley strawberry crop will get under way this week, Assistant Coun ty Assistant C. B. Cordy report ed today. It is estimated about 50 per cent of the crop, In patches located In cold areas, was damaged. In the higher and protected areas there was no damage. The earlier varie ties were picked a fortnight ago. Cordy said there would be no surplus of local straw berries. The Trail and Prospect dis trict strawberries will not be ready to pick for at least two weeks. Births HARRIS To Mr. and Mrs. J. F., Box 810, Medford, June 1, a boy, 8 lbs., at Osteopathic clinic. CASTNER To Mr. and Mrs. Wymond. 426 Benson St., May 31. girl, 6 lbs.. Community hos pital. NORRIS To Mr. and Mrs. V. A.. 18 Palm St., May 30, boy, 8 lbs., Community hospital. FROHNMAYER To Mr. and Mrs. Olio, Spring St., June 1, boy, 7 lbs.. Community hospital. ECHO PAPER OUITS Echo. On-., June 1. (AP) Tho Echo News, established as a weekly paper In 1913. suspended publication with its May 29 is sue. W. H. Crary, publisher, an nounced rising costs were : sponsible. Baccalaureate Services at School for Graduate Class Medford senior high held its 49th baccalaureate services for 1942 graduating seniors last night at 8 o'clock in the school audi torium. The Reverend Karl W. Brockhous acted as presiding minister and offered both the Invocation and the benediction. The sermon, the text of which was ' Challenging Christ," w delivered by the Reverend Wolford A. Dawes. Following the invocation, thei congregation sang "Faith of Our Fathers" for the opening hymn. after which there were two numbers by the senior high a cappella choir, "How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place" by Brahms and "Sunrise" by Taneyef. Both processional and recessional music were played by the high school orchestra under the di rection of Miss Helen Leach. Floral decorations for these services were arranged by mem bers of the junior class, under the supervision of class advisers, Mr. Russ Acheson and Miss Jac Kirtley. Large baskets of iris and Scotch broom flanked the stage and a trellis of red roses was placed near the entrance to the auditorium. Seniors who participated In the baccalaureate music includ ed: Dolly Age, Elmer Bashaw Ivan Cherry, Phyllis eleven, Meryl Dawes, Bette Lu Foulk, Harris Janes, Erma McKay Byrnadine McCulloch, Barbara Mee. Betty Myers, Rollln Mo Cormick Betty Werner, and Carrol White. IN FINAL STAGE The budget committee for Jackson county has completed its draft of the budget for the tax year commencing July 1, and will hold a session tomor row to put on the finishing touches to make the budget ready for publication. The public hearing on the budget will probably be held the last week in this month. The budget as it stands shows a minute increase over the past year. The committee disap proved the application of some county offices for an increase in salaries. The budget committee Is com posed of H. A. (Bert) Thierolf, chairman, Medford, Albert Boh- nert, Central Point, W. W. Rob inson, Ashland, and members of the county court. FEDERAL COURT OPENMLOSES Federal court was opened here at 10 a. m. today and immedi ately adjourned to 10 a. m., July 7 by Paul Hanlin. U. S. deputy marshal, on a court order from Judge James Alger Fee. Hanlin explained that this was the procedure when there were no cases to be tried and the court was to remain in official session with the same Jury panel. ORDER BLANK FOR DEFENSE SAVINGS STAMPS GIVE THIS ORDER TO MAIL TRIBUNE NEWSPAPER BOY. I would Ilk to hare 10t IVfwwa Sartnn Stamp Men week sntU further aotlee. MEDFORD MAIL s The 37 members of the senior high drum corps have clever new uniforms as the result of an all out effort by the school sewing classes during the past seven weeks. The classes, under the direction of Mrs. Alexander Mc Donald, clothing supervisor, com pleted the uniforms with a mini mum of time and money and a maximum of success, according to those who saw the girls wear them for the first time in the Decoration Day parade. The outfits are of red faille with black trim and black but tons and military in cut. For the three twirlers, Jo Ann Humph ries, Virginia Hawley and Bar bara McGrew, they are red satin with the same black trim, and for the majorette, Opal Barnhart, there is a snappy white satin with red trim. Everything from selection of material to the final press was completed during the regular sewing class period, Mrs. McDon ald said, "and I really believe," she added, "that the girls who produced them were Just as thrilled over them as the corps members who will wear them." BY JOB SEEKERS Close to 500 residents of Jack son county and transients ans wered the sheriff's office call last Friday, for 20 men to do guard duty, presumably In connection with the guarding of equipment, Deputy Sheriff William Gren bemer reported today. Applications started Friday af ternoon late, and were still com ing in this morning. Up to noon today 40 applications had been received. Some of the applica tions were filed by telephone at 3 o'clock in the morning. The sheriff's office said some appli cations were received from work ers now employed at the canton ment. The rush of applications came from all sections of the county, from the summit of the Siskiyou to Union Creek, and a few from Grants Pass ind Josephine county. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. GUARD TRAINING L IN FOREST CAMP 65 Forest Service Guards Given Intensive Instruc tion in Duties at Carberry The Rogue River National Forest's annual guard training school opened today at Carberry camp, with 65 guards in attend ance. Maurice L. Tedrow, fire assistant for the forest, is in charge. Forest officers and pro tective assistants are acting as instructors in the school which will close Thursday. i Because the war has brought greater needs for fire protection, training in this year's school will be more intense than ever before, it was announced. Im mediately following the school a one-day session will be held at each of the district headquarters on the forest so that district rangers may give special in structions to their respective groups of guards. Ten new guard positions have been authorized for various points in the forest and three suppression crews of 10 men each will be organized during June, each crew to be stationed in areas of high fire hazard and equipped to take immediate sup pression action. Enrollees at CCC Camp South Fork will also be given special training for fire work. In recognition of the serious problems connected with fire control this year, Harry P. Gay lor, assistant forest supervisor at Grand Mesa National Park, Col orado, has been detailed to assist in fire protection in the Rogue River National Forest. Gaylor will contact guards at their sta tions during the summer months for follow-up training, will in spect Industrial operations for compliance with fire laws, and assist in the establishment of new lookout and fire guard sta tions. He Is one of several men being sent to the western for ests from other regions to assist in this work. ON 133 IN MONTH The city jail housed 133 law violators during the mouth of May as compared to IS for May, 1941. The May figure was 22 over the total for April when 111 were held in jail compared to 20 for April, 1941. May, 1942, is an eight and one-third per cent increase over May, 1941. Homer Reed was fined $10 in the city police court this morn ing on a charge of being drunk I in a public place. Forfeiting $10 They're Making LIBERTY BELLS Out of DOOR BELLS OREGON, MONDAY, JTTNE 1, 1942. bail were Clayton Height, and Leon L. McChesney on a similar charge. Francis P. Murrey paid a fine of $10 for violation of a basic n le and D. Higgenbotham was fined $5 for driving an auto mobile without an operator's li- VOTERSlEAGUE SERVICE PLANS TOLD AT MEET The new "war-time service" program of the League of Wo men Voters was outlined at a meeting of officers of the Jack son county branch Saturday af ternoon. As explained by Mrs. Leonard Carpenter and Mrs. F. G. Hughes, delegates to the na tional and state convention of the league, the new program is being carried on as a means ot disseminating information about current governmental activities to the general public. National league leaders state that since ordinary government al activities tend to be neglected in time of national stress, such as the present war, the new pro gram was felt to be essential. Locally the program will be handled by a committee headed by Mrs. Justin Smith. In addition to the convention reports, the new study programs of the state and national leagues were read and discussed and plans were made for re-organization of the board and summer activities of the league. Consid- ation is being given to replacing the former departmental study groups with the activities of the new war-time service program. Weekend at Coast Dr. and Mfc. B. R. Elliott of this city spent Saturday and Sunday at Crescent City. CITY TO USE TAYLOR PLANE Hollywood, Calr (U.R) Tho Los Angeles Board of Supervis ors has "adopted" the trim mon oplane of actor Robert Taylor for use during the emergency. The Most Sensational Event of the Season I TOPF The Big Feature ot Penney' Spectacular Nation-Wide Shirt Week! Jutt arrived! Brand new selections of pot terns today's hits as well as scores you haven't even seen yell Stripes, figures and checks on light or dark grounds every one a beauty! All In smooth weave broadcloth, Sanforized for lasting excellence of fill The Nucraft collars stay fresh all day! Here's the greatest savings possible on the newest things In fashion! FrtrU Shriakti Wffl Not Inni 1 . JAP MIDGET ATTEMPT (Continued from Pmge One) Harbor, ran Into thundering shellfire and depth charges in the Australian harbors Sunday night and three of them probably were destroyed. Old Steamer Lost This may have been the entire force, which apparently stole irto Sydney from a mothers'iip lying off southeastern Australia. The Japanese succeeded in sink ing an old steamer used as a ferry. The allied air forces based on Australian soil started large fires and wrecked ' docks and air dromes at enemy lodgements in Timor, northeastern New Guinea and the Solomon islands. General MacArthur's headquarters re ported. Just before dawn yesterday Japanese establishments at Lae, New Guinea, were bombed so suddenly that only one fighter got off to oppose the raiders. On Saturday night the allies struck at the Koepang airdrome on Dutch Timor and the harbor at Dili, capital of the Portuguese half of that Japanese-held island. On Friday night the allies made a 2,000-mile roundtrip to Tulagi in the Solomon islands, setting at the Japanese seaplane base there fires which could be seen for 80 miles. Tanamoga and Gaavutu, also in the Solomons, were raided on the same night. In China, Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-Shek's fighters were en gaged in a wide-flung diversion ary action in Anhwei province, in an effort to offset a Japanese offensive which had overrun Kinhwa, capital of neighboring Chekiang province, and nearby Lanchi. Tide With Japs The Chinese were able to re capture certain points behind the Jbillo M$k W M . ASA Japanese Chekiang line, but the tide of battle was still generally with the enemy. In Anhwei, however, regulars and guerrillas struck the foe at several places extending from the neighborhood of Nanking to more than 175 miles inland and up the Yangtze river. The Japanese reported an air raid on an airfield near Kun ming, southwestern China, in which, they said, 10 planes were destroyed, including five of the P-40 type used by the America:. Flying Tigers. The Japanese announced they had opened still another front against Chungking's forces with an offensive in K.vangtung pro vince where the Japanese have a long-established base in Can ton, on the south China coast. Domei, Japanese news agency, said that "a steady, northward drive" was in progress against "tens of thousands" of Chinese troops some 50 miles northeast of Canton. CALENDAR Monday 8:00 p. m.-Rogue Valley Mix ed chorus social meeting Kyle's Restaurant, Central Point. Tuesday 1:00 p. m. Women's Associa tion of First Presbyterian church, at church. Bring own service and sugar. 1:30 p. m. Lady Elks, Elks Temple. 2:30-3:30 p. m. Annual Pre School Party, Roosevelt school. 8:00 p. m. Past Commander's club of the D. A. V. auviliary, home Mrs. O. W. DeJarnett, 618 West Jackson boulevard. NOTICE Hear C. R. Worshem Where Church of Christ, 1056 Court St. You are invited to Gosoel Services each evening until Wednesday night. June 3rd. inclusive. Look in each issue for eveninq subject. Tune in on KMED Tuesday after noon at 4:4J. Subject for tonight "Whosoever Is Born cf God Doth Not Commit Sin." C. R. Worshem Evangelist from Enid, Okla. JH 9 Wm LOCAL JAPANESE . LEAVE FOR CAMP" Thirty eight Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japa nese ancestry left the Oregon state unemployment office short ly after 1 p. m. today for Tule Lake Japanese reception center where they will remain for the duration of the war. Friends were present to witness their departure. The Tule Lake center Is per manent for the duration, hous ing also Japanese who have been at the Portland assembly center and those who registered last week at other western Ore gon control centers. The buses in which the local group Jour neyed to Tule Lake were under military guard. CLASS PRESENT Scappoose, Ore., June 1 (AP)' The 1942 eighth grade class '.f the Scappoose schools has bought its present for the class ot 1952 a $25 war savings bond. 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