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FXGE TOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1943 ON THE HOME FRONT MDFORDTBIBUNE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mail Tribune suggests too clip ud mail this new. roundup it hUiIti or iiieoa la service. Dear.. Thls week the county hai been busy with the third war loan drive, a couple of fires have provided temporary excite ment in tne rural aisiricu ana the younger generation li pre- carlni to return to school next Monday. Auction sales are be ing used to promote Interest In the bond sales and at the first held last Saturday night in Medford Jens Jensen paid $3,700 In bonds for race horse and goat. Merchants, farmers and others donate articles for the auction. The goat had been donatej by Con Murphy and the horse by B. M. Thumler of Central rant. A pre-war tire and tube for a bicycle sold for fi.luu in bonds, and a ham for $1,500. This Sat urday night an auction is to be held In Central Point. Central Point was In the news again when the grocery ware house of Faber market burned early Tuesday morning. Dam age was estimated at nearly $6,800. Large stocks of canned vegetables, fruits and school supplies were destroyed. The second fire destroyed a barn and six tons of Iadlno hay Tues day night at the Jack Harper (arm on Cherry lane. All the city schools, Including the junior and senior high schools, are opening Monday and the larger rural schools, the smaller ones having opened previously. However, students employed In the harvest are being urged to remain at work (or week or two longer. This week nightly workouts for the Black Tornado football squad were started In preparation for the season's first game Sept. 24 with Yreka. Senior high school courses re being geared to the war effort and a number of new courses, designed especially for those going Into active service soon, will be offered. . Maybe its the uniform, but Medford girls seem to favor the WAVES and the SPARS. Latest recruits from Medford for the WAVES are Mary Wilson and Olive Austin, while Dorothy im nas enlisted In the SPARS Latest Medford man enlisted In the army medical corps is w. waiter E. Hoppe, dentist, who left yesterday to report to Barnes hospital at Vancouver, Wash. George Hall, officer in both the state and Medford Car penter's union, has enlisted In the Seabeea, and Byron H. Stod dard, who has been with the U. 8. engineers at Portland, has enlisted in the engineer's con itnictlon branch of the army. Charles Campbell of Jackson vllle has enlisted In the navy. From time to time relatives hear from prisoners in Japanese military prison camps. Pvt. Lome B. Cox' parents have heard from him twice within six weeks. He Is in a Philip pine Island prison. Also on the islands as a Japanese prisoner is First Lt. Co-don Benson, who went to high school here and later moved to Klamath Falls. The lieutenant wrote that he was well and uninjured. Rober E. Card, seaman first class in the Scabecs, has been looking with a longing fisher man's eye at the big salmon and halibut in the waters of the Aleutian Islands, so he wrote his parents for fishhooks. These were promptly dispatched, but evidently local sporting goods salesmen misjudged the size of the Alaskan fish, for Roger re ported that the hooks were too small and he still hadn't caught a fish. At the other end of the world is Richard ADDlegate. boatswain's mate, who is sta tioned with the navy on Trini dad, British island possession off the coast of Venezuela. Applegate says the climate is wonderful." A "scad" of promotions have been In the news this week. Richard Jewett, In North Af rica, is now a sergeant. Robert Morton was recently made a sergeant at Maiden air field in Missouri and Herbert Guenther was promoted to sergeant at Homestead, Fla. Walter H. Ferguson, stationed at the Pecos army air field in Texas has been promoted to corporal and Robert Monroe, somewhere In China," Is now i technical sergeant with an AA7 bombardier group. John Latourrette has been made a private first class and assigned to the AAF technical school at Sioux Falls, S. D., for training in radio. Another new sergeant Is Kenneth E. Simson stationed at Westover , Field, Mass., and iranx nogers, jr., has Just com menced the AAF primary flight training at Thunderbird Field. Glendale, Ariz. Navy promotions have been given to Joe Rush, now a ma chinist's mate second class at an eastern base, Richard Nelson, who has been made a pharma cists mate first class at Fear) Harbor, and to Herbert But- cliffe, now a fireman first class. Sutcliffe recently graduated from the school for dieselmen at University of Missouri. Stan A. McKinney was re cently commissioned a second lieutenant after finishing offi cers school in Australia, and Gale T. Graham was given his second lieutenant's bars at Ft. Benning, Ga. The list of' men home on fur loughs and leaves this week is unusually large. Ensign Bur ton Daugherty is here after a tour of sea duty In the Pacific and Charles McLallen. Jr., a radar operator on duty in the south Pacific in recent months, is also home. Noma K. Porter arrived home Thursday from Camp Endlcott, R. I., where he nas Been taking Seabee training. Climaxing a year's duty in the north Atlantic area, Douglas Finch, electrician's mate, first class. Is here on a month s leave. Also home from the Pacific area Is Ralph A. Ingle, machinist's mate second class, who has been In the navy since 1941. Pfc. Galen Knox has returned to the air base at Harvard, Neb., after a furlough here, his first since going into the army last October. Sgt. Thomas Pit- lock, radio operator with the ferry command, flew out from Wilmington. Del., for a short visit with his folks in the Apple gate and brought with him his trips abroad. CpL George Davis, engineer with a paratroop company, visited here briefly this week and First LL Harold E. Sander was up from Long Beacn lor a weeK. L.I. Sander is also in the ferry division of the air transport command and had recently returned from a trip to Australia. Both of the lieutenant's brothers are also in the ferrying division, Aubrey being an assistant flight com mander at Dorr Field, Arcadia, Fla., and Cyril recently entering the service with a technical di vision at Amarillo Field, Tex. Staff Sgt. Kenneth Raymond has been here from Tracy, uaiir. y:c. waiter Lee Dye was up from Camp Haan and J, Boyce Kellogg, petty officer first class in the navy, was home from Bremerton, Wash., where he is in the postal service of the navy. Among the many Medford boys in Texas is Aviation Cadet Harold (Jerry) Sleight, who is taking pre-flight training at San Antonio. Jack L. Paxton, whose promotion to first lieutenant was recently announced, is now a member of the adjutant gen eral's department and is on duty as a company commander at the army administration school, Huntsville, Tex. Roy A. Reed has completed submarine school training at New London, Conn., and is to be assigned to active duty soon. Pvt. Robert A. Brewer, at At lantic. City with the AAF. re cently qualified as a marksman with the rifle and Staff Sgt, has just been assigned to -the army air base at Kearney. Neb. Pvt. Rodney A. Witham has been assigned to the ordnance replacement center at the Aber deen Proving Ground in Mary land. Recently reporting to the AAF at Carlstrom Field, Fla., was Aviation Cadet Robert Brown and Pvt. Leonard S. Lyons is to be trained as a paratrooper at Ft Benning, Ga. His brother. John, is in England with the quartermaster's corps, having been there since August 1. Pvt. Howard F. Llnd 1s now station ed at Boise, Ida., and Aubrey M. Wisdom is at the AAF train ing center at K earns, Utah. Time was when a sergeant couldn't possibly have married another sergeant, but times have changed. Staff Sgt Chas. Lawrence's new bride is Staff Sgt Ruth Caroline Vogel, Sgt. Charles Lawrence recently came back to the states after more than two years in Alaska with the army and has been accepted for aviation cadet training at Miami Beach. His bride is a mess sergeant for a WAC con tingent at Daytona Beach, Fla. Another bride is Ida Marie Jones, now the wife of Lt Ray mond St. John. The St. Jonns are also in Miami, Fla. Betty Lue Reich and Petty Officer Robert Youcc were married re cently In Reno and Elizabeth Terry was married to Sgt James C Wilson of the marine corps September 6. I FISH FETCHES BAIT Rldgeway, S. C U.R Charlie Moore of Ridgeway, S. Cr while fishing accidentally knocked small bottle of green-frog bait Into the river. Next day he hooked an eight-pound bass. 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