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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1943
ON THE HOME FRONT
MDFORDTBIBUNE
News From Jackson County for
Men in the Armed Services
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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.
Inside the fish he found his bot
tle of green frogs.
dados tun (or Sunday Too Late
to ciaaally. $30 Satuidaj ajumooa
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ORANGE
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ALWAYS GARDEN FRESH
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POTATOES
unosv. 50-lb. bag 85c
YAMS and SWEETS
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CARROTS
LARGE BUNCHES 2 for 13c
TILLAMOOK
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CORN R25c
BEAllSS15c
TUIIAH,?33c
SOOP cs25c
SOAP 22c
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SPECIAL Ling Cod lb. 25c
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SPRING LAMB
Leg Roasts, 7 pt. lb. 39
Shoulder Roasts, 6 pU lb. 35t
Breast for baking or
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Colored Hen and Fryers, no points
HENS lb. 39
Ham and Veal Loaf, seasoned
ready for baking, 7 pts lb. 39
Nice Assortment of Quality Cheese
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