Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 17, 1943, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1943 PAGE FIVE San Francisco, Dec. IT. (U. Francis Carroll, district OPA director, today announced ' tightening of regulations govern ing surrender of gasoline coup ons upon the sale of automo biles as a step to curtain black market operations. - Under the new plan, effective Jan. 1, the seller of the car will be required to send or take any remaining coupons Issued for the vehicle to his War Price and Rationing board before the sale is completed, instead of within five days after the transfer. Closing time for Sunday Too Late to Claastly 6 so Saturday aiUrnooo plea&s remember WINE COUNCIL OF OMEOON Pa-4Ui An. eelUHns-FertleeS 4' $3 APPETIZER hW -WINES - The lnmriou faracVof r '"'k S jnr ctoicett appetizers sens 2f&f t Sherrj or Vermonta vl;1ffX best oflasls. :.;.,lf;s:.;i NOW! ORDER YOUR GIFT BOX OF BIG LUSCIOUS COMICE PEARS! We Have Saved Some For Local Orders-While They Last No gift Is more appropriate ... No gift will be more welcomed than a box of these delicious Rogue Valley Du Cornice . . . packed in beautiful gift boxes in Medford. They arrive in perfect condition for the holidays... a treat in good taste) Box 'W'-Senior De luxe Here's the most popular sift carton of Cornice Pears we've ever shipped. The beautiful gift carton contains ten pounds (from 12 to 18 delicious beauties). This is the site most people are ordering as gifts for their friends. Of course, most people prefer to eat them lust as they come from the box, but in every carton there is a special folder which tells many ways in which to prepare appetising desserts. .'. -. A Real Value! Price includes special exprees charges prepaid to any point In the United States. Box "C" Special S3.80 Half Boxes $4.50, Plus Express CRYSTAL SPRINGS PACKING CO. two Blocks ON THE HOME FRONT . MEDFORDv-TRIBUNE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services ' The Mail Tribune suggests you clip and mail this roundup to relative or friend In service. Dear- This week's news has been a combination of influenza and bad weather mixed up with Christmas parties and programs, pre-season basketball games and stories about men and women in service. . . A Christmas touch was given the landscape this week by a thick fog and freezing tempera tures which coated trees and shrubs with white frost and the roads and streets with ice, the latter resulting in many minor auto accident. The thermom eter fell to 22 a couple of nights .The influenza' epidemic is of mild proportions so far, but has resulted in small attendance at schools, disrupting of newspaper routes and reduction of business staffs. With the pressman and his assistant both ill, the Ash land Tiding was forced to cease publication for one day and then resumed with the loan of a pressman from the Tribune staff. With only one regular and but four lettermen In all from last year's basketball squad practice for the hoop season has started at Medford high. Coach ing now is Lies Grant, moved up from the Junior high school staff. Dale Niedermeyer is the sole regular out for practice and the other three lettermen are Bob Welsenburger, Harry Nord wick and Doug Plumley. The squad,. numbering 35, had been working out under direction of J. C Tucker and Chuck Clay. The conference season starts Jan. 7 and 8 with Roseburg com ing here for two games. Smaller schools of the county have been playing pre-season games for the past two weeks. . . Playing basketball, but not for Medford Hi, is Hob Deuel, Jr., who has been named as one of 19 cadets for the hoop team at Culver Military academy in In diana. Another former Medford High basketball player in the service news is Billy Piche, who writes from-England where he is stationed. Piche, specialist tint class in the navy, wrote last to say that he was helping to stage a show for the entertain ment of American servicemen in his area. ' Also from England comes word that Lt. Kenneth Ward of Gold Hill, Flying Fortress pilot, has been awarded an air model and three Oak Leaf clusters anJ tha Second Lt. Thomas Helman, p I Jt . t $2.65 SPATZ BROTHERS South Of Main On Fir Street Telephone 3072 Date- another Fortress pilot, has been slightly wounded while on a raid over Europe. Sgt. Victor Dallaire of the North Africa staff of Stars and Stripes remembered his Medford friends with novel Christmas cards showing a map of North Africa and the Mediterranean area. The sergeant wrote that he arrived in North Africa a year ago in November and had want ed to leave ever since. Word from Philip Bralnerd is to the effect that he has been made non-commissioned photo graphic officer in charge of the western signal corps center, Camp Kohler, Calif., and also of western signal corps college at Davis. Pvt. Jessie V. Ham aker has completed paratrooper training at Ft. Benning, Ga", and has been awarded his "wings and boots.". Cadet Harris B. Janes, ASTP student at Indiana university, was on the scholastic honor roll for last term; Second Lt. Aaron J." Ayres, Flying Fortress co pilot, temporarily stationed at V.'cndover Field In Utah and Aviation Cadet Del Cooley has completed pre-flight at Ellington Field and is now attending aerial gunnery school at King man, Ariz. Thomas Pittock has been promoted to staff sergeant at Wilmington,. Del., where he Is a radio operator, and Edward L Kyker has been promoted to technician 'fifth grade at Ft. Knox. Earl Jones, completing a' radio course in the ' marine school at San Diego, has been made a corporal. Cadet John Saulsberry ar rived this morning to spend a few days' leave. He received his aerial gunnery wings at Las Vegas Monday and upon leaving here will report to Victorville, Calif., to bombardier school. Lt. Nell Iven recently graduated from Victorville and was home afterwards on a brief leave Here this week is Lt. Curtis Barnes of the naval reserve, and his bride, the former Janet Eames of San Francisco. Lt. Barnes has been on duty in the South Pacific area and will now report in Miami, Fla., for spe cial training. Second Lt. Boyd Bellamy completed his bombardier-navigator training at Kirtland Field, N. M., and has left for Tampa, Fla., after a short leave here. Pvt. Mark Boyden, ASTP stu- r Decentralizes FDA nr Buell F. Maben (above), new ly appointed western regional director of the Food Distribu tion Administration, in move to further decentralise the agency's activities, bas an nounced opening of new field offices In Eugene. Pendleton and Portland under the direc tion of Cecil R. Tullay, Oregon state supervisor. dent at the University of Cali fornia, was home last week and Lt. F. C. Ayres came home for a short visit before reporting to Camp Steward, Ga. Sgt. George (Dick) Roberts was home for two wsek and then reported to Avon Park, Fla., for advanced training as a B-26 gunner. . Robert Lee Akins, MM 2c, who has been on sea duty in South American waters, was home recently. Akins and his three brothers are all in the navy. Frederick Arthur, AMM 2c, is stationed In Rhode Island; Richard Dale, AMM 2c, it at Norman, Okla., and Vernon Rhea, R 2c, is at Brooklyn, N.Y. Home from Farragut this week are Robert Delaine Johnson, Bob Jones, and Verne Wayne Duna gan, S 2c, and Gaylord Lee Loop, petty officer in the Sea bees, has returned to CamD Parks in California after a visit here. Roland Pope, coxswain in the Seabees, came up from Ft. Hueneme, Calif., for a visit with his family and Charles Lawton Dwighl, Sk 3c, is home from Camp Endicott, R. I. Lt. Com. W. G. Bishop left this morning from Hunters Point, near San Francisco where he is on the staff of the naval dispensary, after two days at home on business. - Second Lt. Betty Vilra has been transferred to the Air WAC and is with a recruiting team now in Minnesota. Pt Vilm had been stationed at Lowry Field, Denver, before her transfer. Pvt. LaMurle Witt has finished basic WAC training at Ft. Des Moines and is awaiting orders. Pvt. Witt's husband, Sgt Richard Witt, is in New Guinea with the army air corps and her brother, Cpl. Alfred M. Beck, is an AAF mechanics' instructor at Yuma, Ariz. Several weddings have been in the news. Lt. James Henry USr'R, was married early this month in California to Lorraine Evelyn Ude of Long Island; Jane Moffi'.t and Lt. Frank A. Prime were married here Dec. 8, anil will live here for the present; Cleo Williams and Cpl. Donald Bornofska were married Dec. 8 and Relnita Goldsmith was mar ried Nov. 29 to Lt. Charles Welch. The latter couple will also live in Medford. Janet Hurd of Eagle Point is now Mrs. Phillip E. Thompson. Her hus band, Capt. Thompson is sta tioned at Camp White. Martha Gearthart of Ashland was mar ried to Onnls Grieve of Prospect in a ceremony at the Oakland Naval hospital, where the groom is stationed. Pvt. Lewis R. Setchell has taken as his bride Evelyn Gilmore of San Fer nando, Calif. Ed Kirtley has taken leave of absence from the high school to join the staff of Fluhrer's bak ery. Also joining Fluhrer's staff Is Charles B. Warner, former Scout evecutive for this area. The Community Chest drive continues here and it was an nounced this week that Granges of the county had contributed $1,703.30 to the drive. This Is all to go into the National War Fund division of the chest drive. Three thousand pounds of usable clothing were collected during the recent discarded clothing drive - and will be shipped abroad for the relief of people in the war areas. Because of the shortage ol liquor, forms of bootlegging are springing up and this week a San Francisco man was arrested here and charged with illegal possession of 69 cases of whis key. The man claimed they were a present for a brother-in-law In Seattle. Another odd story in the week's news arose ot of the application of a Med ford woman for ration board Beware Coughs fron cotnmM colds That Hang On Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the teat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, end aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, In-, flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you i bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it ntlckly allays the cough or you art jq have your money back. CREOMULSION for Caught, Oust Colds, Ironcbltit permission to buy pair of rub ber boots for a soldier in Italy The application stated the mud and snow in Italy were bad and the soldier In urgent need ot the boots. LIEUT. ROOSEVELT. JR. DISCLAIMS HEROISM Charleston, S. C, Dec. 17 U.R) Lt. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., today disclaimed any credit for saving the life of Coxswain Nunzio Camarrata in the Sici lian campaign, declaring he only performed his duty. Roosevelt got the Purple Heart as result of the action, and was credited by Camarrata with saving the sailor's life. The president's son was in the Mediterranean eight months and saw "plenty of action." The Oregon State Tuberculo sis Hospital, located southeast of Salem, was opened In 1910 with 50 beds and has been gradually increased to its present capacity of 320 beds. 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Drlscoll said that de facto prohibition has come because of TWEED CREAM BOUQUET ox of 100 for Mailing. 2 excesses brought en by "300 per cent demand for 100 per cent supply." "In a war period we can't af ford breakdowns in respect for law," he said, "but that is what wa have. There is a steady Increase in highjacking, boot legging and fake-labeling. We know that when legal liquor is scarce something else will be found to take its place. That is what is happening today." - Revenue Main Interest He declared that "all the en forcement agencies seem to be interested in is revenue." "They don't seem to care what happens to the liquor after they have siphoned off the taxes," he said. "How it Is handled after that, or what ill effects its handling may have on so ciety, are things that apparently don't concern them." Sen. Homer Ferguson, R-, Mich., asked if the pressure for illegal sales of liquor was In creasing. "Yes," Drlscoll replied, "and FOR S FIZZ-0 f VwgfL5- SHAVE 2 is y;A. 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