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Two new Red Cross sewing units have been formed in the last two weeks in Jackson coun ty, making 14 units working on kit bags for soldiers going over seas and hospital .garments 'for convalescent and wounded men. June 16, women in the Lake Creek district met at the village hall at the request of Mrs. J. R. Tyrrell, a member of the Red Cross board. Mrs. Belle Schenck, chairman of production, and Mrs. Fred Rankin, executive sec retary, talked to the group about the need for further production and a unit was formed to meet once a month and to sew in be tween times at-their own homes. Mrs. Mable Brown was ap: pointed in charge of materials and Mrs. Tyrrell In charge of records for the unit and plans were made for opening a Red Cross headquarters for the dis trict. About 15 women attended the original meeting. June 30 the Home Economics unit of the Applegate Grange met at the home of Mrs. Aber crombie to consider sewing for Red Cross. Mrs. Schenck demon strated cutting and planning ma terials, and Mrs. Rankin spoke of general Red Cross needs.. The group voted to form the Applegate Red Cross sewing unit to meet once a month. The chair man is Mrs. Herbert Elmore and the secretary, Mrs. Clarence El more. The cutting committee will be Mrs. Lester Hill and Glenn Best. Mrs. Helen Davis of the Jackson County Red Cross board made arrangements for the meeting, interested the wom en and arranged for the speak ers. . The production department, with headquarters in the county courthouse, shipped five cartons containing 240 filled kit bags to an embarkation point in Cali fornia last week. Livestock Portland, Ore., June 22 (TJP) Livestock: , Cattle, 200: calves, 60. Market eteady. Common to medium grass steers. 9.S0i 13.00: cutter to common heifers, 7.00fl 10.00: canner and cut ter cows, 5.003 6.50; medium beef cowa held above (9.00: bulls not mov ing: common to medium grades quot ed $7.50.3 8.50; good to choice veal ers largely $15.00. Hogs, 600. Holdover. 500. Supply ex cessive. Few sales steady. Some good to choice 190-220 lbs., 13.75; few light lights, 10.60: good to choice 170 lbs., H3.00; good sows, 8.00i$ 8.50, few 9.00; feeder pies sharply higher; sizable lots choice spring lambs salable 13.30i 13.65; common to medium shorn lambs. 6S.0Oi 10.50; good ewes. 3.5040O! common down to M00. South Ssn Francisco. June 22 (UP I ( USDA) Livestock : Cattle, 60. Lanrely she stock, toad lots steers and heifers absent. Cowe j NEVA 0$y g i-tK' s Vx. 1 N. Covers in one coat! 1 Gallon of this easy-to-use, economical wall finish does the average room IT'S WASHABLE! JUST THIN WITH WATER Yon rioa't need special thinners. 1 gallon of Speed-Easy concen trated paste plus ordimrytao water makes up to l'4 gallons of ready co-use paiotl r 1 i jr'j--.,4 DRIES IN 60 MINUTES Within an hour you hue a smooth, flat, oil-type wall finish of endurioa; beauty. Makes possible l.dajr paint ing no inconvenient delays. for walls and ceilings, orer wall, psoer, wall boaid, cement, brick, eta & fully steady, few packages 1160-Tb. cows, 10.00J10 50; young quoted 12 00$ 12.50: common range. 9.00f) 9.50; cows, S6.50a 9.00; most dairy bred cutters, $7.50; canners. $5,009 6.00; few csnner bulls, $7.50 i.i 8.60. Calves, 25. Active, fully steady. Few packages good to choice 200-lb. veal ers, $14.00; old head medium. $11.60 a 12.60. Hogs. 800. Oenerallv steady. Few loads good to choice 180-270-lb. bar rows and gilts, $15.00; load good 600 lb. sows, $9.76 strong. Sheep, 1150. Lambs active, strong. Long deck good north coast wooled 79-lb. lambs. $14.26. Psst three days bulk yearlings, 10.50,s 13.00: medium to choice, good- clearance; shorn ewes quoted $2.003 5.00. Chicago. June 22 (UP) (WFA) Livestock: Hogs. 12,000. Fully steady. Oood and choice 180-330 lbs.. $11 5. 13.75; 300-550-lb. sows. $10.65 10.90. Ap proximated 10.000 hogs unsold. Cattle. 4000; calves, 800. General trade extremely dull. Average steer and yearling market 25c lower with numerous Instances 60c down. Veal ers, $16.00 down' top fed steers, $17.15. Sheep, 1000. Scattered sales native spring lambs 15 to 25c lower, but not enough to make a market. Sizable lot good and choice native springers, 916.60, with bucks discounted. Portland Produce Portland, June 22 (UP) Whole sale market prices; Cherries Northwest Blngs, !9s20c. Watermelons California, 6 '.i g 7c. Cabbage Round, $2.75 2.85. Cauliflower No. 1, local, $1,758 2.00; No. 2. $1.00-crate. Corn Golden Bantam, $4.25. Onions Green. 75rn80c. Spinach Local, 75 (ft 80c. Tomatoes California Coachella, $325. Chicago Wheat Chicago. June 22 (UP1 Wheat: Open High Low Close July ..$l.554 $1.57i $1.55, $1.57!4 Sept. ...1.653,; J.67, 1.55'i 1.57 Doc 1.67V, ' 1.68S, 1.564 1.581,4 May .... 1.68 1.60'i 1.58, 1.601s . S. F. DAIRY PRICES San Francisco, June 22 (U.R) Dairy market: . . Butter: 93 score 43, 92 score 421-2, 90 score 42'i, 89 score 41?.. Cheese: Wholesale prices, loaf Z7.9, triplets Z7.Z. Eggs: Large grade A 36-37: medium grade A -30-311$; small grade A 21-23',i; large grade B 29-30. Wall Street . New York, June 22 (U.R) Strength in railroad shares to day featured a quiet and irregu lar stock market session. Stocks experienced consider able realizing in the morning SUGAR STAMPS GOOD INDEFINITELY DU PONT flSM fVnisih PAINT OVER WALLPAPER One coat is enough io most cases, err a orer old and dinjrf walls. Cut cost, time lod work in haul $4.85 JL Gallon Make. Hi Gallon 95 c Makes Hi Quarts after a firm opening which was stimulated by the U. S. fleet's victory over the Japanese. When rails finally took the lead, the industrials in many instances came back from their lows, al though there was less willing ness to reach for stocks on the belief a reaction was overdue. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. & Tel 159si Anaconda Z634 Chrysler 24 'j Curtiss Wright ... 5s General Electric 38?i General Motors . ......... 64 'i Montgomery Ward ...... 47'i Penn. R. R , . 29'a Phillips Petroleum 43' 4 J. C. Penney 101 s Radio Ill b Southern Pacific 31s Standard Oil of California 3854 Texas Gulf Sulphur 353i Transamerica 101 a United Aircrafts 28 '2 U. S. Rubber 52 U. S. Steel 57 Vaughan Funeral Friday Afternoon Services for Eli R. Vaughan, who passed away at his home, 115 McAndrews Road, Tuesday, will be held in the Conger Morris Chapel, 2 p. m. Friday, with the Elder G. A. Thompson officiating. Interment will be in Central Point cemetery. He was born in Monroe coun ty, Kentucky, January. 4, 1858, and had lived in Medford for the past five years. He is sur vived by a daughter, Mrs. Lillie Helms, Medford and two sons, Earl Vaughan, Reedsport, and Hubert Vaughan, Arkansas. There are also six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. THE LARGEST SELLING FLOUR IN THE NORTHWEST FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS! That's the record of FISHER'S BLEND FLOUK ... a thr3 of a century service to Northwest homemakers! It is a quality flour . . . dependable for all types of Home baking. Some flours make good bread . . . others, flaky pastry . . . still others, delicious cakes. With FISHER'S BLEND FLOUR, you can bake equally good bread, cake, and pastry! The reason: it is a blended flour . . . milled from a blend of choice wheats. Scientific control assures uniformity In FISHER'S BLEND. Regular laboratory analysis and actual baking tests keep the blend unvarying in formula. That's why this tested flour gives the same fine baking results time after time! FISHER'S BLEND helps make up for wartime nutritive shortages . . . helps fight "hidden hungers" . . . because it con tains meat-supplementing protein and is enriched with B-vtta-mins and iron. Use FISHER'S BLEND in making Cottage Cheese Ravioli (recipe above) and other delicious main dishes. "Remember, BLEND means Blendedr BACK THE ATTACK BUY MORE THAN BEFORE IN THE FIFTH WAR LOAN Yank Troops Close -3 M ;. N . ft I tuSnkMif -zzl (Acme) TeUphoto) . American assault forces, closing In for the kill, drive to within 3H miles of Cherbourg at pact that threatens to engult the vital port within per haps 48 hours. Capture of Bricquebeo opened way for closest approach to port while other forces sweep ahead seizing Monte bo urg In Valognea aector- All-Time Record In Building Ship Boston, June 22 (U.R) A new all-time shipbuilding record was established today when a 150 foot prefabricated landing craft was launched at the George Lawley and Son Corp.'s Nepon set yard just seven hours and one minute after construction of it was begun. , WEATHER Northern California Fair to day, tonight and Friday except cloudy along coast; scattered thunder showers Sierras today; warmer interior. $ mod for Cakes and Pastries as for Bread A In on CherDourg Boy Found Hanged in School Closet Sacramento, Cal., June 22 (U.R) Nine-year-old Elmer Charles Kline was dead today, apparent ly the victim of strangulation in a grammar school clothes closet where he had been sent for talking in class. Miss Josephine Gordon, teach er at the Dormer school here, told police she found the boy with a jump rope looped around his neck and the other loop around a hook in the closet 15 minutes after she sent him there as a punishment for talking. Truck Operators To File Requests with Medford ODT After July 1 southern Oregon and northern California com mercial motor vehicle operators should file their applications for trucks with ODT's highway transport department district of fice at Medford, the Office of Defense Transportation an nounced today, ODT said that beginning July 1, all field work incidental to rationing of new commercial vehicles will be processed by the ODT instead of the Bureau of Motor Carriers of the Interstate Commerce Commission which has transferred this activity to the ODT. Applicants for new com mercial vehicles living in Coos, Curry, Douglas, Harney, Jack son, Josephine, Klamath and Schilling Cllwaz. rvS p1-3-Sc k e 6 v a r u u rnj j,h,ii,ni I CKt-j Coffee t small ,, b - . -rvn logo 2 """""'' wfNht Thursday. June 22, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Lake counties in Oregon and in Modoc, Siskiyou and Del Norte counties in California should file their applications with the high way transport district office in Medford. BIRTHS CRUDER To Mr. and Mrs. Don, 257 Beatty, June 21, girl, eight pounds, at Sacred Heart. MILWAUKEE PLAN OKEH Chicago, June 2 (U.R) Fed eral Judge Michael Igoe today approved the modified plan of reorganization of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad, and ruled that the railroad would not have to re pay a $9,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp., loan immediate ly. tTse Mall Tribune Want Ada. Kr.'.?: "eMy. am . c..7,::i "" v, hour .1., 7 oboul 3 I . Saul ! ful ;.. "" nln. Br... . row . 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