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
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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.
POST-WAR EQUALITY
Pittsburgh, Oct. 15 (U.B
Post-war . equality of nations
regardless of their size and
wealth, and a peace based on
a "world-wide system of liberty
under law" were urged by Dr.
Carlos Martins, Brazilian am
bassador to the United States,
in an address at the annual
Founder's day exercises at Car
negie institute last night.
BLUE BALE COMPLETED
New York, Oct. 15 (U.PJ
Sale of the Blue Network, Inc.,
to the American Broadcasting
System for $8,000,000 was com
pleted yesterday with the trans
fer of 1,000 shares of stock, the
entire capitalization, by the
Radio Corporation of America
Scooters are used to transport
production executives about the
87-acre Willow Run bomber
plant. '
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Restyling Repairing
Cleaning ' ' Gluing
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PUREX
1 Gal. 29c
Golden Mix Pancake Flour (toy bean) .-. .pkg. 210
V-8 Juice .large 46-oz. can 290
Nucoa . . .... . . 2 lbs. for 53c
Porters Ms-rsroni. . . ; .". .2 pkgs. for 250
Del Monte Tomato Sauce 4 for 250
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Ritz Crackers. large size 230
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Sunkist Oranges, 200 size doz. 43c
Sunkist Lemons, 360 size. . . . .r..doz. 29c