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TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. June 22, 1944 . I, i " in ' . ... . . ; "' ' i m.' ' ' POST OFFICE AT I BE Postmaster Abbott Notified Advance Effective July 1 Population Grows Central Point, June 22 C. W, Abbott, Central Point postmas ter, has received word from the posloffice department that his of fice Is to be advanced to second class on July 1. The advance ment is due partly to establish ment of Camp White, but mainly to the Increase of population be cause of new mills and other local activities. The first postofflce here was established around 1873. It was located about a half mile east of the present site. Central Point consisted of one store and the ''1 h V it." I M 1 ' C. W. Abbott postofflce. The first postmaster was Hunt Magruder. In 1887 Central Point was moved to the present location. Martha Card well succeeded Magruder In the postofflce and since then Sam Moore, Guy Tex, Tom Pankey and Mr. Abbott have served. For many years the office was a dis . tributing point for 17 different communities. In 1941 the postofflce was moved from Its old location to the present quarters In the Odd Fellows building. The present location Is one of the most Ideal quarters for a postofflce this size in southern Oregon. Postmaster Abbott was ap pointed In May, 1943, and Is one of the youngest postmasters In tliis part of the. state. He was 29 at the time he was appointed. The Central Point postofflce has one of the largest rural routes In Oregon, covering eighty-eight and seven-tenths miles. J. E. Vincent Is the carrier. Brig, Gen. Pratt Killed in France London, June 22 (U.R) The first high-ranking American In vasion casualty was disclosed to day In a supreme headquarters announcement that Brig. Gen. Don F. Pratt, 51, Brookfield, Mo., had been killed In the first day's operations while leading a unit of an airborne division Into France. Pratt, a pioneer In airborne tactics In civilian life before the last war, died In the wreckage of a glider which crashed into a tree when his formation landed northwest of Carcntaln. Reports from the front said the general was burled in France. Cm Mall Tribune Wnt Ads. Ike Jf Tl , f .1 unl-,"..! ttom """" I vlTTTD New Cream Deodorant Safely belpt Stop Perspiration la Don not rot 3rwn or mm'i him. Docs not innate skin. 2. No waiting to drr.Ctn be ukJ right aitet aiiaving. 3 Prevenit underarra odoft Help! nop pctspirition taielft 4a A pure, white, tntiieptiCi Mamies vaniilung errant. Ba Awattted ApproTAl Seal of American Immure of Launder ing harmless to dbttc. Use , AI I(W 1W ARRID THI UtOIST SILUNO DIODOIANT First Lt. Worlow C. Purdln of Medford, pilot of a B-24 Lib- erator bomber stationed In Italy with the U. S. 15th Air Force, was wounded in action over Austria on May 29, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Purdin of 335 West Holly street, have been notified by the war department. Lt. Purdin, participating in his 47th mission, was injured In the leg and Jaw when a 20-mm. shell exploded in the pilot's compartment. His wounds were reported to be not serious. The flier is a graduate of Medford high school and later attended the Southern Oregon College of Education In Ash land. He was a member of the Medford National Guard and was appointed an aviation cadet Immediately after Pearl Harbor. Lt. Donald Grigsby Completes Thirty German Missions According to a letter received from Lt. Donald R. Grigsby, the 20-year-old flier has completed 30 missions over Germany as bombardier of a B-24 Liberator bomber. Lt. Grigsby Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Grigsby of the Veritas Orchard, Rt. 4, Medford. He graduated from Ashland high in 1941 and enlisted in the army air corps June 19, 1942. Completing a course in aerial photography at Denver, Colo., he then became a cadet and gradu ated as a bombardier August 5, 1943, at Midland, Tex., at which time he was commissioned a sec ond lieutenant. He was sent to March Field, Calif., after being assigned to an air crew at Gowen Field, Ida., for advanced training. Lt. Grigs by arrived in England the latter I part of December and has since been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Lt. Grigsby's squadron commander was Capt. ! Jimmy Stewart, formerly of the movies. Jealous Husband Wounds Two and ' Kills Wife, Self Los Angeles, June 22 (U.R) In a dramatic race with pursuing police, a jealous husband or phaned his two sons yesterday, critically wounded his mother- in-law, put a bullet In the man he suspected of keeping company with his wife and then took his own life. As a panting officer despaired of catching the husband and grabbed a telenhono to worn ! Mrs. Thomas Westrlck. 3D. he ' heard the shot which killed her. 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