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TEW MEDFORD MAIL THIBUNV Wednesday, July 5, 1944 IE F. KILLED IN ACTION IN ANZIO SECTION The adjutant general has ad vised the parents of Archie Frank Fanger, Mr. and Mrs. F. Fanger, Jr., of Jacksonville Star Route, Box 57, that their son was killed In action on Anzio beach head May 27. Further details are not yet known. On entering the army last Aug ust, Fanger was sent to Ft. Riley, Kas., for basic training, then to Ft. Meade, Md., in Januay of this year. From there he went overseas, arriving in Africa In March. Fanger was on the Anzio beachhead about March 17, and was in the offensive In Italy prior to the fail of Rome. The young man was wounded slightly April 21 and received the Purple Heart Medal at that time. Born near Wolsey, S. D., on August 25, 1019, Fanger attend ed school there, graduating from high school at Huron, S. D.. with the class of '39. The family moved to Mcdford that year, where the boy worked two years before entering Oregon Slate college In 1939. He received his bachelor of science degree In me chanical engineering in 1943. Elected associate member of Sig ma XI In his senior year, Fan ger also received two awards for one of his technical papers, "one a war bond given by the Society of Automotive Engineers and the other a cash prize from the So ciety of Mechanical Engineers. A member of the Methodist church, Fanger took an active part In the young peoples' or ganization In Medford and Cor- vallis. Besides his parents, the soldier Is survived by four brothers. Staff Sgt. Franklin, a radio op erator in a B-24 bomber, has participated in 28 missions from his airbasc in Italy, and Carle ton is now at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois. The third brother, Clifford, is at tending University of Oregon medical school at Portland, and Richard is at home with his par ents. Douahboys Silence Last CherKoura Resistance" MONEY TO LOAN On JEWELRY, CAMERAS and MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS. See our un-radoem-d Jewelry savings. PEO PLE'S LOAN CO. 229V4 E. Main Street State license P 137. Chalker's Motel b Lodge OFFICERS' CLUB (Oirirrn A Civilian) Din lltnrr KrrrrilimrnU Clotrd Mondavi Krrrvatlnna ThuiMli; Private r.rtlra Onlj. No Tut. No Cover Chart, Phone Gold lllll 44 Daily Weather Report Forpcast Medford and vicinity: Pair ton lent and Thursdny. Warmer Thursday. Oregon: Pair ton lent. Cooler east portion tonight. Thursday fair, warni- er aouinweet portion. i.orai if at a Temperature a year aeo today: Highest, 89; lowest, 61. i otai mommy precipitation, 0 Inches. Deficiency for the month, .08 Inch. Total precipitation alnce Septem ber 1, 1043, 15.76 Inches. Deficiency lor me sermon, .oh men. Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yes terday, 41; 4:30 a. m. today, 66. Tomorrow Sunrise 6:41 a. m., sunset 8:49 p. m. Past 34 hours: High Low Prec. Boise 84 ftft Boston 78 60 v F,' i ' ; ft v V L 6- ;'Qff jrr-v urn At m rt s s i -? t SIX CLEAR DAYS (Acme Kndio-Telephoto) American doughboys search wreckage of this cnertjourgj home to locate snipers as street fighting continue dnita aurrender nf German commanders Photo by Bert Brandt NEA-Acme photographer for War Plo- tur PooL radioed from LODdon. ChtrnKO Denver Eureka Havre .03 83 ZERO CLUB Out of bounds, civilian only Delicious chicken and' steak dinners. 7:00 p, m., 3 a m except Sunday. Phone day time 5300; niKht 9101. Lob Angeles ... Mcdforil . New York Omahii . Phoenix Portland Reno Roneburg Salt Lake San Ftanclaco . Seattle Spokane . Washington, Yakima D. C. 6 - 80 ..100 80 84 . 75 . 03 . SO - 85 . 82 . 88 . go 60 84 60 89 73 S4 43 fil 68 52 55 40 66 61 GATES IS AT BEAVER STATE WEATHER Northern California Fair to day, tonight and Thursday, but fog along coast; high fogs coastal valleys mornings. Scattered thunderstorms northern Sierras today, cooler Interior today. ALUS-CHALMERS TRACTORS - LOGGING and ROAD BUILDING MACHINERY FARM TRACTORS-HARVESTERS All Kindt of FARM MACHINERY and IMPLEMENTS "Carco", Isaacson, Baker, Gar Wood and other Makes of ROAD AND LOGGING MACHINERY A large stock of GENUINE PARTS for all ALUS-CHALMERS Machine EXPERIENCED MECHANICS McCOY MACHINERY COMPANY 111 No. Fir Phone 3415 Medford Jackson county's delegates to the eighth annual Beaver Boys State held each year under the auspices of the American Legion on the campus of Oregon State college, returned home Sunday night, sessions having closed Sunday afternoon. Closing ad dress was given by Dean U. G. contest THE GRANGE Gold Hill Grange Gold Hill H.E.C. held a cover ed dish dinner and quilting party June 28. Guests were Ethel Ed ington and Lillian Campbell. Letters from Jimmie Martin and Sister Roark were read. A poem was read by Sister Lance, who resigned as vice-chairman and was elected secretary. H.E.C. will, sponsor the lec ture program at Grange July 6. Sister Howes reported on a meeting June 24 when Mrs. Wait of Medford spoke on canning for school lunches. Mary Shaw won first prize for soft cookies in the State Grange in Grants Pass, and But six days In the June just past were recorded as "clear" by the weather bureau, according to the monthly summary, while seven were recorded as partly cloudy and 17 as completely cloudy. Of the latter, eight were consecutive, from the 14 to the 21, and during tha time nearly an Inch of rail fell. During the month 1.51 inches of rain fell, while normal for the month is .73 inch. Mean temperature for the month, 62.8, is among the lowest ever recorded for June, accord ing to the weather bureau sum mary. An identical mean was recorded for 1941 and a mean of 62 for 1943. However, a sur vey of the charts since the rec ords were started in 1911 shows that the mean temperature for June often is in the high sixties and a few times was more than 70 degrees. High temperature for the month just past was 94 degrees on June 28. Don CruiKshanH Again Operating Typewriter Shop Don Cruikshank, who for many years operated the Don Cruikshank Typewriters In the Holly Bldg., Is opening a new shop under the same name at S. 28 Central avenue, across the street from the Craterian theatre. Mr. Curikshank has been in Spokane, Wash., for two years in charge of office machine re pairs at the Spokane Air Service Command and has returned to Medford to make his home. Associated with Mr. Cruik shank will be Alan Jewett who was formerly with him and for the past two years has been with the Medford Office Equip ment company. Don Cruikshank Typewriters is installing the modern equipment for the repair and servicing of all makes of typewriters and adding machines and other office machines. Cloalng time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 5:30 Saturday afternoon Please remember. DOBBS NAMED Frcderirlt Okla. (U.R) Glenn Dobbs, former all-America foot ball player at Tulsa university, has been chosen corps chief with the rank of colonel at Miami Beach, Fla., where he Is in of ficer candidate school. He will soon receive a second lieutenant's commission. ORDER PICK UP OF T Warrants charging Allen H. King. 23, Ashland, and Jack H. Jones, 16, Eagle Point, with con tempt of court, were issued to day by Justice of the Peace W, P. Tucker, following their fail, ure to pay $10 fines and costs Imposed for reckless driving last week. Both were released to pro cure money for payments and failed to keep the promises. King was arrested in this city last week by Deputy Sheriff Wil. liam Grenbemer following an extended chase in which King ignored stop signs and red lights, and drove recklessly. Jones was arrested on the Crater Lake highway by state police after he had ignored a dozen siren warnings to pull to the side of the road and had at tained a speed of 75 miles per hour between the Antelope bridge and Camp White, in the face of heavy traffic. The arrest ing officer in his report states Jones was trying to outrun the state police car. Closing time for Classified ads 9 a. m. Too Late to Classify, 12:30 p. m. ARE ADVOCATED G. I. BILL Dubach of the college. Best citizen awards were pre sented to several delegates dur ing the closing ceremonies. Among those receiving an award was Philip Gates of Medford, who was presented one of the junior counselors' awards given for leadership Delegates from this county were accompanied by Col. W. H Paine, American Legion member who heads the Medford commit tee planning the Boys State at tendance. Col. Paine stated today that in spite of war-time difficul tics, the weeklong program was well planned and was success fully carried out, 3 SHIPS LAUNCHED Kearny, N. J., July 5 (U.R) Three ships were launched In holiday ceremonies by the Fed- erad Shipbuilding and Dry Dork Co., yesterday, Including the 2,200-ton super destroyer U.S.S. Boric, named for the late Sec retary of the Navy Adolph Ed ward Borie. In the Port Newark yards, the destroyer escorts Cross and Hanna went down the ways. Gov. Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas Issued a proclamation designating June 4 of this year "Shut-in Day." The Gover nor asked persons of the state to call upon the sick and handi capped in a display of friend ship and nclghborliness. Due Mall Tribune Want Ada. Bertha Potter placed fifth in the soft candy division. Josephina Loeffler and Carrie Puhl were r6membered by their Flora Friends, and Lillie Mac Kay donated a prize which was won by a new member, Sadie Frlnk. A "round robin" letter was written to Everett Rosecran, in the service. Sisters Gertrude Rosecran and Nellie Pugh are to serve at the Grange meeting July 6. Camp White Dance Schedule Thursday Special party at Station Hos pltal. Hostesses meet at River side USO at 8:45 for transporta tion. n Friday Informal dance at Service Club No. 2, with SCU band playing. Hostesses meet at Riverside USO at 8 p. m. for transportation. THIEF KICKS ITeLF Indianapolis, Ind., July 5 (U.R) Somewhere in this city today a thief was kicking himself for overlooking $50,000 in gems hid den in a secret compartment of a purse he had stolen and aban doned in a telephone booth after looting it of $10 in cash. The purse was found by Mrs. Martha E. Smith, a telephone company employe, and was turned over to its owner, Mrs. Marguerite Jackson white. Washington, July 5 (U.R) Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, vet erans administrator, announced today that he had recommended $f 0,000,000 in riew hospital pro jects in 20 states to provide 16,000 more beds for veterans under the newly-enacted "G bill of rights." Hines said the program call3 for three types of fireproof hos pitals and would make available a total of 121,000 beds of all types. These would Include 5,000 ad ditional beds for neuropsychia trie patients, 3,000 for tubercu losis patients and 8,000 for gen eral medical and surgical pa tients. The program has been submit ted to the federal board of hos pitalization, which passes on the hospitals and selects the sites, Hines said. Final approval of the sites rests with the president. The veterans administration included hospital recommenda tions in eastern Montana or west ern North Dakota, Colorado and California. , OFFICER'S WIFE Have a "Coke" How are things gom'? erf S&Mfaitei, :J-i&d &"0&,ir. ...or being friendly in Newfoundland There"! an Americtn wjr to make new found friends in Newfoundland. It's the cheery invitation llan 0 uCoi"tn old U. S. custom that Is reaching round the world. It tays Lift rrn-reminds Yanks of home. Because Coc-Cola stands for Ibt ptmi that rrtibtt,-bt become 1 symbol of our friendly home-ways. So Coca-Cola belongs in your home, too . . . ice-cold and ready in the refrigerator. Get a suppl today. OltllO UNDtl AUIHOIITT Of IHI COCA-COIA COMPANY It Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Medford H "Coke-sCocvCola It'i natural for popular namea to acquire ftiemlly abbrevia tions That'a hr you hear Coca-Cola called "Coke". Armonk, N. Y., July 5 (U.R) Police reported today that the pretty wife of a navy lieutenant in service overseas, killed her two small children last nieht bv iceaing tnem nitric acid and then attempted to commit suicide. Mrs. Rcnee Gul Hatch, 31, blonde wife of Lt. Aldis Hatch, U. S. N., was reported in serious condition in Northern Westches ter hospital, Mt. Kisco. Police said she fed acid to Georgette, 3, and Aldis, 16 months, then took some of the poison herself. When the poison raiiea to react on her immediate ly she Jumped 15 feet to the ground from an jippcr porch of her home. The children were found dead In their cribs on the second floor or the large colonial house In which Mrs. Hatch and another navy wife and their children lived. Neighbors said Lt. Hatch was stationed In London. BING'CHERRY HARVEST UNDER WfY IN VALLEY Harvesting of the Bing cherry crop of the valley is now under way. The crop Is light, accord ing to Assistant County Agent C. B. Cordy. Royal Ann cherries have started to ripen and while larger than the Bing crop, the total will also be light. Black Re publicans are also on the market. They are a small and non commercial crop. Raspberries are appearing In local stores. The strawberry crop has passed its peak. COTTON GOODS HELD UP Washington,' July 5 (U.R) MaJ. Gen. C. L. Corbln, acting army quartermaster general, has expressed concern because cot ton textile manufacturers, In anticipation of higher prices, ap pear to be withholding from sale cotton goods needed by the army. See Humphrey NOW! Humphrey Sails More Humphrey Buys More CASH FOR USED CARS 33 So. 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