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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1943 PAGE THREE Washington Letter Analysis and Comment HARRIS ELLSWORTH Congressman, Fourth Oregon District Medford's bright all weather continues, which Is probably a lucky thing, for walking is be coming more and more the order of the day. This week the OPA reduced the value of gasoline coupons from, four to three gal lons each. After , more than a year of censorship restrictions on that ucmular aublect. the weather! announcement was made this week that the restrictions were lifted. Weather forecasting and other weather- information can now be carried in the paper daily.- ' . ' 1 . Harvest of fruit and tomatoes Is being completed this week. Due to the ideal weather, the tomato crop is larger than ex pected.' Tonight's the night of the "big" game between Medforcl and Klamath Falls, and in next Friday's Home Front column you 11 get the result and some ox the details. Right now, it looks like the two teams are fairly evenly-matched, with a slight advantage to Klamath, undefeat ed In four games. Last Saturday the Black Tor nado traveled to Eureka, Calif., and came home with a 6 to 6 tie. Doug Plumley scored tho Medford touchdown. The locals were held for downs on Eureka's three-inch line just be fore the game ended. Medford has now won two, tied one and lost none. i Members ' of the ' Medford American Legion have already started plans for the annual cel ebration of Armistice Day and are also participating in a series of district conferences stressing "America Alert," a program drafted at the last national con vention of the legion. Leo Kelly, Prospect youth, missed a date with the army physicians Tuesday. Young Kel ly went hunting over the week end and lost himself in the Herschberger area. Searchers located him Tuesday afternoon, but not on time for him to carry out the orders of the draft board. Another Prospect man. Chester wucox, lost from an other party in the same vicinity, found his way home unaided by following the Rogue River. Medford airmen have an edge on the news this week. Cpl. Robert Fletcher is one of 1S6 charter members of the . "I Bombed Japan club," a Washing ton news story reports. Cpl. Fletcher came home last montr. after several, months on the Aleutians and is now training B-17 gunners at Las Vegas, Nev. As a turret gunner on a Fortress Cpl. Fletcher participated in 63 different raids while in the north. He has been awarded the army Air Medal and Oak Leaf Clusters. , . A second airman In the news this week is Lt. Richard Davis, whose wife received an account of his participation in a raid on Wewak on New Guinea last month. The Mitchel bomber which the lieutenant was pilot ing had one motor shot away and was otherwise disabled but after the co-pilot had thrown overboard everything that could be torn loose, Lt. Davis nursed the crippled craft home. The day Mrs. Davis received the ar ticle telling of the raid, she had just returned home from the hospital with her infant daugh ter, born October 4. A dispatch Wednesday from a oomber base In England told of a Flying Fortress,. "Ohio Air Force" returning from a raid over Germany with a record bag of 12 Nazi planes downed din ing an air battle lasting an hour and a half. Co-pilot of the plane was Second Lt. Thomas Helman, who visited in Medford a couple of months ago before going over seas. Describing a 12-day grueling jungle campaign in New Guinea in which Staff Sgt. Hubert Santo of Medford played an important part is a. story in- this week's issue of Yank. The battle pre ceded the capture of Munda air field on New Georgia and the article tells how Sgt. Santo had to act in the dual role of ammo carrier and platoon leader, his outfit having lost Its lieutenant. Sgt. Santo's parents had three letters from their son last week The sergeant's brother, Albert, is stationed in Hawaii as a chief storekeeper. Sgt. John Eads was wounded in action in the southwest Pa cific area September 25, accord ing to a wire from the war de partment. Extent of his injuries is not disclose.' Bill Bowerman, who Is attend ing the officers advanced course at Ft. Benning, has found that his fame as a football player for the University of Oregon severe.' years ago has followed him into the army, a recent dispatch from Ft. Benning telling how Bower man's companions recalled some of his games. The ex-player and coach is now an infantry cap lain. Another football player in the news this week is Curt Hop kins, who has started bombar dier pre-flight training at Santa Ana. Curt's training was de layed a month while he was in 'lie hospital with pneumonti. He went to Santa Ana from La Grande, where he took his army collegiate training. Among navy men home on leave this week are Ensign George Tucker of the merchant marine, Lt. H. D. Byington, offi cer of a navy supply ship, and Ensign C. H. Paske, Jr., navy pilot. ' Ensign Tucker's ship carried supplies in the Mediterranean sea for many months and Lt. Byington is home on "surviv or s" leave, his ship having been bombed and badly damaged by the Japanese in the southern Pacific area. Ensign Paske is home for'ths first time in more than a year. The ensign's piane was shot down last summer and he and his crew spent a week on a mall Pacific island. Ensign Paske, who has been in the navy five years, was decorated by the navy as the result of the inci dent. Grant Bean, discharged from the army because of age and now in the enlisted reserve, vis ited Medford a few days ago and described his experiences during the Aleutian campaign. Bean, who spent 13 months in the Aleutians in the transporta- ion corps, described the Alas kan weather as terrible. Also home this week Is Lt. Jerome Boshears, pilot of a Fly ing Fortress, who is being trans ferred from Hebbs, N. M., to Salt Lake City. Pvt. H. Jule Harper is here from Camp Rob erts to visit relatives and Cpl. D. Hollenbeck is home from Wilmington, N. C, where he is stationed with the air corps. Pvt. Floyd Donald Yarnell Is enrolled in the marine corps pre-officer course at Gustavus Adolphys college at the Univer rity of Washington under the navy V-12 prcgram, has been recommended for midshipmen's school. Lt. John B. Harr is now sta tioned at Geiger Field in Spo kane and John C. Rector has been graduated from the naval diesel school on the campus of Iowa State college and given the lating of fireman first class. Franklin Hal Gebhard, radio man third class, has graduated from radio school at the Univer- jsity of Wisconsin and is now at i ' ' ' - ; Wood mutmrict hr H. MeCormlck tlut oil fainting bjr Jim Clupto . ' Lidsy Wlk parous Finis Telscfi Port Blakely, Wash. Tommle Burdett, stationed in Hawaii, has been promoted to aviation met alsmith first clss. His brothel, Charles Robert, baker first class. 13 also stationed in Hawaii. Pfc. Lou L. Martin has been rent overseas and is now "some where in India." Also overseas is Staff Sgt. Robert J. Buckles. Large numbers of men con tinue to go Into the service from Medford and other points in the valley. Among those leaving this week for army serv '.re was Oliver Gustafson, and Eugene Orr and Harold Head were among those leaving fcr training with the Seabees. John McCabe has left for training with the coast guard. Savella May Davidson has enlisted in the WAVES. Her brother, Lt. Thomas P. Davidson, is stationed at Mountain Home, Ida. Recent weddings announced were those of Colleen Friend to Maurice Imhausen and Nellie Nipper to Frank Douglas. 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