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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943 PAGE FIVE DUTCH REPLACED BY AMERICANS AS By Henry P. Mclfulty United Press Correspondent J o h a n n e sburg U.R) Al though South Africa li the home of the glamorous diamond-mining Industry, there is only a small diamond cutting industry in the country. Thus far, no at tempt has been made seriously to Invade the rich diamond cut ting field practically monopoliz ed before the war by the DutAi in Amsterdam. Since the fall of Holland, America has taken over a large share of the diamond cutting in dustry, and Brazil and Palestine also have become centers for it. South Africa, however, has only between 250 and 300 men em ployed in shaping the Jewels; about one-tenth of the number employed in the United States or Brazil. According to Mr. J. Kleinman, a leading Johannesburg diamond merchant and cutter, the cutting industry in South Africa could easily provide employment for 300 discharged soldiers, but the apprenticeship laws prohibit the You can serve your nation better if you can hear . You can do YOUR part in the war effort with the aid of S0H0T0KE Nowl A FREE audlometrte chart demonstration of Sonotone Hearing Aids. SAM METE Office open Saturdays. Room 10. Jackson County Bank Bldg. Phone 6194 or write for an interview In your own nome wiinoui ocngauon. employment of newcomers to the industry. Present government regulations allow only one ap prentice for every five men em plpyed. Kleinman pointed out, while at the same time a con siderable number of polishing machines cannot be worked to day due to a shortage of labor. Many diamond cutters have Joined the armed forces. South African diamond mer chants see in the government rules restricting the training of new diamond cutters the loss to South Africa of part of a profit able trade. While the Union ex ports the bulk of uncut gem diamonds, other nations benefit by cutting them. The merchants argue that the establishment of a large diamond cutting Industry in the country would not only create employment, but mater ially Increase the value of South African diamond exports. The United States are the main purchasers of South Afri can gem diamonds. ARKY BUYS LAttD Ukiah, Cal., Jan. 8 U.R Arky Vaughn, Brooklyn Dodg ers shortstop, has purchased an additional 1,100 acres of range land for his Potter Valley cattle ranch, it was disclosed today. Uu Mall Tribune Want Ada. 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John Salo, ' rifleman in the 91st, "goalie" for the USO Bambers played "Mr. Zero" for the last two periods only score he allowed was in the first in Tuesday eve's hockey match with the Clippers from the Pow der River medico's.. Pfc. Harold Blackman, who calls Sheboygan, Wis., home, I thinking it would be Just ducky j to spend more of his time at the ! "ranch" without the fatherly su-: pervision of Sergeant Zimco. Pfc. Hubert Smith from IX special troops asking "what in the world is a 'strawberry moon' 1 and Just exactly where can one get under it." j In the "loop the loop" league ' games It has been Jimmie , O'Rourke, recently of Santa Clara, Calif., that shows some return to the old college try. Sergeant Red Randolph, ar tilleryman from Tennessee, will check back in after a very super duper Christmas furlough. Sergeant Robedeaux, an Okla homa Osage, a medical soldier man in the 91st Infantry Divi sion, talking of a possible year's assignment to recruiting duty in Washington, D. C. LESS THAN FEARED Salem, Ore, Jan. 8 (U.R) Highway damage from the re cent Willamette valley flood was lighter than had been expected, Chief Engineer R. H. Baldock reported today after accompany ing Highway Commission Chair man Henry F. Cabell on a tour of the area. ' Baldock said estimates of dam age totaleabout $63,000. All of the flood damage will have been repaired by the end of next week he predicted. The Marion-Polk bridge be tween Salem and West Salem, which was damaged to the ex tent of about $15,000 when a nearby skating pavilion broke loose from its foundations and was swept against the west ap proach of the span, will be re opened to pedestrians today and to vehicles Monday or Tues day, Baldock said. PLENTY OF JIVE Camp Blanding, Fla. (U.P) If one should hear a bit of "hot Jive" emanating from a soldiers barracks here and if it sounded pretty . good one might guess that some of the solid-senders of the big time had gotten together. 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