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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1944)
FIRE PRECAUTION AIM OF ENGINEERS FOR CAMP WHITE Fire Breaks Prepared Around Entire Reservation; Roads Prepared for Fighters-' Camp White Fighting a war and fighting mosquitoes aren't the only things on the minds of men here on the Post. Members of the Post Engi neer Branch have busied them selves during the past six weeks with fighting fires and the possibility of fires in the 43,000 acres of land in the mil itary reservation here. Under the direction of Capt. Virgil M. Lancaster, Post En gineer, fire breaks have been prepared around the entire boundary of the reservation and the interior has been gridded with fire breaks. Any fire within the reserva tion can now be confined in an area of 10 acres or less. Fire Breaks Made Fire breaks have been tied Into the existing road system to utilize the road system as part of the fire-break grid. Roads leading into canyons at straegic points are being bulldozed out to allow fire equipment to ap proach as close as possible to the base of the ridges, Capt. Lancaster said. Burning out of grass within the Camp area has been com pleted with the exception of a few isolated areas. This burning is done to pro tect the Post from fire spread ing throughout the Camp areas as well as to prevent fires from originating by careless smok ers. Caution Required Capt. Lancaster pointed out that this area is beginning to Wn "henever you hear our boys have struck again in France ... in Italy, Burma, New Guinea ... on the seas what's the first thing you think about? The wounded! Ol ona thing you want to feci sure that for the wounded Uncle Sam has plenty of hos pitals . . . plenty of doctors . . . plenty of nurses . . . plenty of hospital cooks and dieticians and attendants. You realize, perhaps, that the nearer Uncle Sam comes to that ideal, the less in personnel and equipment remains for ci vilian hospitals. But you say: "'The boys are welcome to my share I'll do without." However, your appendix may not agree. An appendix has no sense of history no feeling of responsibility. Science has yet to find a patriotic germ. An accident, going somewhere to happen, is uninfluenced by the highest motives. Every doy hundreds of ci vilians are struck down people who only yesterday were both willing and happy to stay out of a hospital. An appendix de mands a surgery immediately. A germ requires laboratory detection. An. accident makes emergency treatment impera tive. Somehow, the hospitals keep on managing to care for these people. Around the clock! Every day! With never a break, a rest, or a vacation! With never, in fact, so much as an hour oil! True, their people don't have much time any more for frills. But they do get those appen dices out, those germs under control, those injuries bound up. They keep the patients rest ing comfortable. All we con say is "Bravo!" But we can say it good and loud "BRAVO!" r" J? Vl '.I "' 1 Soldier Guests Give Ginger Jeep Ride 111 v Hi I ".XT" vv 1 w X , When Ginger Rogers enter tained a large group of soldiers and Wacs recently at her Rogue river ranch near here she was guest of honor on a jeep ride. With plenty of GI company, the glamorous star is shown above. At the wheel is Sgt. Eshpeter. In the rear seat are left to right, Cpl. Stanley Gardner of WPRC and Pfc. John M. Quiroz, a WPRC casual. Willing hands assist Ginger out of the jeep (left). Sgt. Esh peter, in sun tans, and Pfc. Mar Rivere, WPRC casual, have the honors. (Photos by Pfc. Robert L. Lanctot, engraving courtesy Camp White Grenade.) enter the active fire season, and all personnel traveling about the Camp proper or in the reser vation are cautioned not to dis card any lighted material, in cluding matches, cigarette butts or pipe heels. Such a fire, if started, could cause thousands of dollars of damage, and as the Camp strength is at low point, ade quate personnel for suppression of forest fires would be most difficult to obtain, he stated. The State Forestry Service has been co-operating by locat ing fires from their lookouts throughout the area, and the Fire Department and Post En gineers have available fire fighting equipment. Fires are reported by dialing 17. When the space in this paper usually taken up by my column has something else in it, take it for granted I've had to devote my time to hunting an apartment instead of writing. And I might as well admit here and now that I'm about to become a casualty to the battle for a home. I can stand the emotional wear and tear of hearing several dozen "No vacancies" hurled at me per day, but the pedal wear and tear is more than I can take and write. Not that I write with my feet, but blisters on my heels make an echo in my heart. And there's nothing like a blister echo to upset one's thinking. In Seattle, no two home pros pects ever come on the same side of the city the same day. I've just about decided there's a law cov ering this: or perhaps it's an OPA regulation; it smells more like an OPA product than a reg ular law. These prospects are never ad vertised. But somewhere, some how, the report gets started that sometime In November there's to be a vacancy out on North 9th street: or maybe it's 130th street south The word spreads like wildfire and the trek starts. Conductors know the siens and portents and it is my belief that they send secret word to some house-hunting friend of their own, for on arriving at 96th street north (or 130th street south) the card on the door will say, "November vacancy filled." Or maybe it will be. "No anart ment to let until August 1, '56 " So the runner In my last pair of stockings and the'skin off my shin, let alone the blisters on my heels, have all been for nothing. But the next day brings a re port of a cabin at Alki Point. The homeless horde starts for Alkl Point on the first car out. with O'ive Barber well in the lead. Not that anyone hns given her this advantage out of respect for her gray hair, but they've PARTS and SERVICE for all Makes o! WASHERS and REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett Phone 2419 Olive aCI Barber's MtM Observations . 'C ' . ? ' I s t ,.1 s . ; 1 Early August By J. Hugh Pruett Astronomer, General Extension Division, University of Oregon Although the evening sky of early .August holds four bright planets, yet it promises less in the way of a display of these other worlds than it did a month ago. By ten o'clock or shortly thereafter all will have set or will be so near the horizon that there will be little satisfac tion in their observation. Jupiter will set an hour after i sunset and a little south of west. Where horizons are not hidden by buildings or natural obstruc tions and when the air is very clear, this bright planet may be spotted low in the sky during the first part of the month. Mars, not far from Jupiter, will set a little later but can hardly be noticed. Venus, is nearer the sun than either Jupiter or Mars so for some time will not be seen as an "evening star." However, in the early autumn Venus will become a splendid twilight object. Mer cury will appear farthest east learned to respect her barging ability. The Big City has taught me to barge with force, finesse and finality. Also, Nature, with forward looking favoritism, gave me a barging presence, you might say. After this boot camp training in Seattle. I could stop a longhorn stampede In nothing flat and never fire a pistol. But this town is going to have one less home hunter beginning tomorrow. My fert wore off some time ago and walking on my hands has cramped my barg ing style. Yesterdav. three peo ple beat me to the "No vacancy" sign in Renton. San Francisco's Italian colo ny reenacts Columbus' disco-cry of America every year on Octo ber 12. Pcpil-Cola Company, Franchistd fiottltri Pepsi-Cola Sky Review of the sun on August 10, but will not be in a favorable posi tion for very satisfactory obser vation. On that date Mercury will be to the left of and some what higher than Jupiter. The eastern dawn claims only Saturn. This ringed planet, now moderately bright, rises about three hours before the sun and far north of due cast. Visible tonight at around 10 o'clock, bright yellow Cnpella is almost due north and on the horizon. Before midnight this star can be clearly seen higher and farther east. Since it is be low the north star, its apparent motion is eastward. Very high in the east. Peneb shines at the head of the North ern Cross. A much brighter star. Vega in the Harp of Orpheus, gleams almost in the zenith. Somewhat west of due south, splendid Antarcs flashes red. Low toward the southwest white Spica is twinkling, while high in the western sky, orange Arc turus glitters nt the lower end of the starry Kite. REVIVED FRENCH NAVY READY TO FIGHT AGAIN Cherbourg, July 29. (U.R) The revived French navy has reached a strength of 300.000 tons caqul to its size in 1927 and is ready to fight in Pacific as well as European waters. Louis Jacquinot. French navy secretary, said today. Jacquinot came to Cherbourg for his first official visit to his homeland since he escaped in May, 1943. He said the French navy totals 50,000 men, all vol unteers, and he hoped to base forces in France as soon as pos sible. An excess of carbon dioxide In water run through lead pipes may result in load poisoning In users of the water. Long hland City. N. 1'. Bottling Company of Mtdford MENINGITIS IS FOUGHT BY NEW SULFA TREATMENT Army Doctors Discover Ef fective Method of Com batting Dreaded Disease. Baltimore, Md., (U.R) Army doctors faced with possibility of meningococcal meningitis epi demics now have a new, simple completely effective method of combatting the disease mass administration of sulfadiazine tablets as a result of experi ments conducted by an Army medical officer and a Johns Hopkins University epidemiolo gist. Dr. John J. Phair, associate professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health here, is the civilian half of the two-man Army commis sion that has spent three years seeking means to combat men ingitis. His- Army counterpart is Maj. E. B. Schoenbach, New York City. They evolved the sulfadiazine tablet technique for meningitis through experiments with a group of 100 soldiers at Fort Meade, Md., working against a disease that during World War I caused between 30 and 40 per cent fatalities in some 5,000 cases. Standard Dose Anxious to determine how the meningitis organism starts in a community and how to stop it. Dr. Phair and Maj. Schoenbach tested the 100 sol diers over a 68-day period. They found that at any given time during the 68 days the meningitis germ was present in four out of every 10 of the soldiers. Over the entire period. 92 per cent of the men carried the germ at some time. Aware that sulfadiazine had been used successfully for sev eral years to treat meningitis. Dr. Phair and Maj. Schoenbach worked with experimental doses until they found that two germs a total of four tablets de stroyed the germ in every case. Aid to Army Eoctort Dr. Phair pointed out that this knowledge would greatly simplify problems of Army doc tors handling large groups of men. The use of sulfadiazine now does not require the tre mendous job of singling out one or two persons in a camp of sev eral thousand men, or among a group of soldiers on a troop ship, for example. Instead, he said, doctors can simply administer four tablets of sulfadiazine to each member of the group with assurance that any potential epidemic will thereby be fully checked. The current rate of fatalities from meningitis is only about three or four per cent of those who become ill with the disease, approximately one-tenth of what it was during the first world war. Dr. Phair's two man commis sion on meningitis was created in June, 1941, and was assigned to investigate measures of con trol as the disease appeared In army camps during the winters of 1942 and 1043. The stocky, sandy-haired Johns Hopkins doctor, formerly a Rockefeller Foundation scien tist, pleasantly declined any credit for a "discovery," point ing out that sulfadiazine had been used for treatment of men ingitis long before he and Maj. Schoenbach began their experi ments. He said the Army-civilian combination on the two-man meningitis commission made an Ideal team. "It works perfectly," he said. "Maj. Schoenbach can get what we want in his capacity as an officer, and on occasions where a civilian fits in better, I have my chance to get results. Be tween the two of us, we usually can accomplish whatever we set out to do." RITES FOR BLAST DEAD Port Chicago, Cal., July 31. (U.R) Religious and military memorial services were held here yesterday for 322 service men and civilians killed in the July 17 explosion disaster. QUICK RELIEF for Blondes Bother Playing this week at the Cra tcrian is Mickey Rooney in "An- j dy Hardy's Blonde Trouble," with Lewis Stonei Ray Holden J Sara Haden, Bonlta Granville and Herbert Marshall. CHINESE RELIEF Chungking, July 31. (U.R) Chinese relief forces have bat tered their way deeper into Japa nese lines surrounding Heng yang, wresting five strong points from the enemy to the east of the city, as Allied airmen raked the blazing buttle area with gun fire in close support of ground units. The Japanese lashed back In 10 furious counterattacks and intense fighting raged on all sides of the beleaguered Hunan province city. The isolated Chinese garrison within the walls continues to hold Isse, today's communique said. Eighty-eight miles to the1 northeast, Pingsiang fell to Japanese assault forces for the second time in the current cam paign, the war bulletin reported. In the area of Lciyang, 40 miles below Hcngyang and southernmost point reached by the Japanese in their drive to split China from north to south. Chinese troops have completed mopping up operations, accord ing to the communique. LIVING COSTS UP Washington, July 3 1 . (U.R) The cost of major goods and services in the budgets of city families went up .02 per cent be tween mid-May and mid-June, the labor department's cost of living report revealed today. "4 OTHER INSTRUCTORS RIDE with me. ! ivik (A milri i djy, including pti stngcr pick-up Hut I'm not worrying t(xut tiiif car luting chrough the wir. I've driven Fordi ever lince I u I kid tod I know how well thejr itand up." "Sure lad I've gotaFORD!''ia SUlS-J The millions of Ford cars that prffKSYl- M vj V' if - -served iheir owners so well dur- f 'V,f llSe"- under rationed driving. Now f V ln?1Syrii:- erto cars are especially fff" J.fy ptA-qflgjVY prid fr ,he long, reliable j ',,vJy, ,i j c O "COT TO BE ON TIME it the airfield 24 mileage that was built into them. I a j' j?, .6,. a milej out of town. Mr 1939 Ford h They stand up and so will the j T- f ... 't;;Hik j plener of tr. comfort .nd rKd look,. Fordj wi fo) Victory. t H 4 ."I 7?7fj Andit ituyonmund tiro! I wouMn t ' - -, .- J : I '('if tide it for inf cir iti age I've leen!" t' IS"' lf'it iSc i&5w IhzjM MJ&s 4jj CRATER LAKE MOTORS Your Ford Dealer -Sixth and Ivy Sis. - Ph. 2297 GENUINE FORD FACTORY PARTS O COMPLETE SERVICE FOR FORD - BUILT AND OTHER CARS Monday, July SI, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRJBUNE TrTRE COL GEN. ZEITZLER INVOLVED IN PLOT T London, July 31. (U.R) Fur ther weakening of the German military machine was seen to day as evidence mounted that Col. Gen. Kurt Zeitzler, former chief of the army's general staff, was involved in the plot against Adolf Hitler's life, and Ankara reported that at least 4,000 sus pected officers had escaped from Germany. The extent of the conspiracy was apparent in reports that not only Zeitzler, but other high of ficials were involved, including Col. Gen. Fritz Fromm, dis missed commander of the Ger man home army, and Count Helldorf, notorious Gestapo chief of Potsdam and henchman of Herman Goering. Weakness Will Grow As Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler kills off, or forces into hiding, men of the officers corps and as others become secretly disaffected, the weakness of the military structure will increase. Hitler has enough loyal, profes sional generals to direct grand strategy, but obtaining men to lead troops in the field may be come a serious problem in com ing weeks. Private reports reaching An kara said that since the abortive attempt on Hitler's life and the beginning of Himmler's purge, at least 4,000 officers have dis guised themselves as ordinary soldiers and, with faked travel ing orders, escaped in small groups or individually into Bul garia, Slovakia, and Bohemia. NEGROES CITED Supreme Headquarters, AEF, July 31 (U.R) Negro troops of an anti-aircraft balloon division and a quartermaster truck corps have received official commen dation from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for meritorious ser vice since the invasion of France an advanced post dispatch re vealed today. In the Middle Ages there was a rule that if a man had lived in a free city for a year and a day he could no longer be claimed by a lord as his serf. "BEFORE THE WAR I tnrd to hunt md fiih a Int. 1 drove this Ford over trull t mountain gnat would ihf twij from. I've driven it hard, but given it Ford Pro tective Service rettilarlv . Itt reliability and economy ate pncrieii to me now." NEWS NOTES In addition to tho Qrat Ford ponfi, fhtre or 16 tilth ford lottoriti, itafftrtd through Michigan. Known at W log faduttrhi, thy mpov oca fhui fo'ow the- ford idea of "on Mart Uu JO.Ofit.BOt hit, Hirtiry m ZOOT-SUITERS AND SAILORS IN CLASH Vancouver, B. C, July 31 (U.R) City, military and; nayal police patrolled downtown streets today following a large scale grudge riot late last night involving zoot-suiters and mer chant seamen. Citizens took part In the fra cas and over 1,000 persons wer slugging it out on a downtown street corner when police ar rived. Clubs and batons wer brought Into play before th rioting was quelled. Some par ticipants suffered minor in juries. The street battle climaxed a week-end feud that began when a merchant seaman was assault ed by a zoot-suiter in a down town cafe. Earlier Sunday, soma 200 zooters and seamen clashed briefly but quick intervention by police squads prevented a serious outbreak. The zoot-suit element wai composed of a mixture of high school students, among whom the drape-shape costumes . are widely popular, and members of young hoodlum gangs, a num ber of whom were believed to be draft evaders. FOR LEFT-OVER i DISHES worfctn, many being formtn who foot on fh toil and ont In indvitry.' UkiIi cm-in 4 foidtucki-iiii lui litJt JSP
