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Lt. Carpenter Tells Life of Army Nurse Near Norman Front An Interesting picture of the' life of an army nurse in France! is given in a recent letter writ-! ten by Second Lt. Mary Louise Carpenter, a niece of Alfred S. V. Carpenter, Topsldes, and Leonard Carpenter, Veritas orchards. Lt. Carpenter who has visited in Medford many times, went overseas first in May of 1941 with the Red Cross Harvard unit and later trans ferred to the army nurse corps. Describing her departure from England, the nurse worte, "As I remember, I arose in the morn ing of the day we left at 3:30 or so. We'd had so many 'dry' runs and had, spent so much time sit ting fully dressed in battle clothes on top of our luggage in front of our tent that I didn't think we'd be going that day, either. Fortunately, I had a good murder story to read during those times. It certainly was ex citing when we finally piled in to trucks. It was a warm day and we had the canvas sides rolled up, so we were much cheered by other truckloads of our soldiers. Even British wom en in the streets waved and cheered us as we went by which surprised me. We landed here just about 24 hours later and reached our hospital for supper." Likes Night Shift Explaining her work, Lt. Car penter wrote, "I rather like nights, especially when I can get a good sleep in the daytime, as I can when it s not rainy and I take my bed out under the ap ple tree. Sleeping in the tent with tie other four coming and going and various others stop ping in is a bit like sleeping in Grand Central station, as the saying goes. We keep busy all night; most of our patients are so sick they need lots of atten- Deafened? Whan you try the new Bel tone and experience the fine, clear tone you will judge this aid to be priced with the highest. See it TODAY1 Complete with custom made Ear Mold S55.00 Ask for Mr. S. C. Mitchell Mon. p. m. and All Day Tues. at MEDFORD HOTEL tion only one last night slept the whole night through like a normal person. Nursing usually isn't very sad here it's just the reverse; If there's one patient you don't need to worry about, he's the exception. "It was a great crisis one day when one of our patients was ordered up, because the hospital provides no sort of slippers and all the patients' clothing is turned in to Q. M. when they ar rive here.' Fortunately, this pa tient had small feet, for a man, so I lent him my bedroom slip pers. Of course, there are lots of minor injuries to soldiers, but other sorts of hospitals get them. Fox Holes Tried "A few nights some of us have slept in fox holes (they get them dug under their beds in the tent), but most of the noise we hear here is that of our own artillery. Occasionally a Jerry has come over, but they'd not bomb a hos pital by day and it would be only an accident if one dropped here at night, so I feel safe and much more comfortable in my bed." The writer described the unit's social life and in this connection wrote that she and a nurse com panion had visited an ordnance unit nearby twice, the second time "supposedly for steak, but civilian affairs division had moved into the nearby town and closed the black market where the little French boy was going to get the meat for the officers. I think the French boy, who is 16 but looks 12, had tonsillitis when the ordnance company ar rived, and they got an army doc tor to go to him, so he s been their middleman ever since." Lt. Carpenter then described how they entertained visitors one eve ning and "had a lot of fun pop ping corn and toasting marsh- mallows on a gasoline stove be longing to a nurse in the other platoon." Patient Recovers Later she wrote: "I had an othe night on duty and it made me quite happy as two of the pa tients who the night before had looked like certain for death were doing well. It was the third night I'd had one of them the first-night he got oxygen the whole time and, except for coughing spells during which I was sure he'd choke to death, he just lay breathing with dif ficulty and looking waxy. He was a chest wound. The second night he was better, but still didn't respond, although by morning he would drink water. So it seemed wonderful when this morning he really emerged into a reasoning being and a personality. I keep my fingers crossed about chest cases, though. "There's a fairly prosperous farmer family next to us of whom we see a bit (we live in their cow pasture and sometimes the cows feed here, also the geese and a couple of donkeys). The family came to our Fourth of July party. Bastille day we had a banquet, with veal (half dollar sized pieces) and flowers that they provided, to which they came and there were speeches and singing. It was a nice affair. One of our officers told us that the youngest son of the farmers, when the Germans were here, had to go to the near est town three days a week to work. A German general was in the second story of one of the buildings and when he watched, they had to work, but otherwise they loafed. So it took them three weeks to dig a very little ditch. The French around here had given up hope that the Al lies would come, but on D-day, when they awoke to the noise of the great bombardment, they knew we had come and the boy decided he needn't go to work for the Germans that day. "Mail certainly means more in this kind of existence than it ever did before more even than in England, as it's the only warm, human thing reaching in to us from the outside the real world." In closing, the nurse asked for copies of certain books and for some popcorn. THE GRANGE Talent Grange At the last regular meeting o' Talent Grange, August 3, a good crowd was in attendance. Tne program included an article read by Mrs. W. W. Robison regard ing the shortage of alfalfa and clover seed. Another article, read by C. E. Berg, told of plans un der way for disposal of surplus foodstuff at close of the war. H. E. C. will meet Tuesday. August 8, for a picnic dinner at the home of Mrs. T. J. Bell in Talent. Mr. and Mrs. Vic Stew art, Mr and Mrs. W. W. Robi son and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd La cey were named to serve on the refreshment committee for next meeting, August 17. There are 75,513 4-H clubs in the United States, with an ac tive membership of 1,700,000. ilUNILIIYOURfUS Do You Hate HOT FLASHES? If you Buffer from hot flashes, feel weak, nervous, a bit blue Bt times ell due to the functional "middle age" period peculiar to women try Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com pound to relievo such symptoms. Made especially for women it helps nature! Follow label directions. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S compound iti lii r k-trt ' The men behind the grease guns are doing an essential job on the home front keeping old cars rolling, helping get war workers to their vital tasks speeding all essential business along the road to victory. It takes a lot of ingenuity and elbow grease to run a service station, these days. Besides work ing "out front" checking tires, pumping gas, fixing this and patching that these busy opera tors have to watch the inside, the "business end" of their stations. Fortunately, those who use National Cash Registers have more time to give to customers' needs. Nationals protect their money, furnish daily records of all transactions enable them to quickly see their profits, losses by depart ments. And at the same time, Nationals auto matically provide the information needed under rationing, taxes, other government reports. Customers, too, appreciate National's accurate, printed receipts which furnish correct, depend able records of their automobile expenses. it VI (gill StrWitf fft Nation by Saving Time. Thii is on of many mechanized systems built by National to speed record keeping, protect money and vt vital man-hours for business, indus try government and public Used National Caih Registers era available. National Accounting-Bookkeeping Machines can b obtained through priorities. Qfattonal C$H MQtTtR ACCOUNTIHa-BOOKKCtPINO MUCHIHtt w'ii nut ifo'i it w tor "umttinf ' aetfvcf'oa cf ptutiw mtrvmiritt ed efftt wot mwf.rl.1. The National Cash Register Company 16 SOUTH FIR ST., MEDFORD. TELEPHONE 2015 GOLD ILL WAVE WILL BE TRAINED To prepare her to release a trained man for service at an advance base or a fighting ship, Miss Laurene Katherine Kell, hospital apprentice second class, in the WAVES, has been selected for advance training in the U. S. navy hospital corps at the U. S. navy medical center, Btthseda, Md., Herbert W. Crain, recruiter- in-charge of the Medford U. S. navy recruiting substation which has charge of WAVES Hpplica tions here, announced yesterday. Miss Kell Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kell, Gold Hill, Ore. She is a graduate of Gold Hill high school. On completion of basic train ing and indoctrination at the na val training school for WAVES, New York city, Miss Kell was chosen for specialized instruc tion in the hospital corps When she completes this course she will be assigned to the U S. na val hospital, where she will re ceive further specialized train ing while serving as a hospital corpsman or pharmacist's mate. Experience as a stenographer with the West Coast Wholesale Drug company, Seattle, prior to her enlistment in the WAVES was a determining factor in her selection for the special training. Miss Kell is the fourth mem ber of her family to join the armed forces. One brother, Leon ard Kell. private first class, is in the Fifth army in Italy; another brother, Ernest Kell, is a ser geant in the AAF in England and a third brother, Clarence Kell, is a sergeant in the medical corps at Fort Benning. Ga Salt LaJte Lion Named President Of Organization Chicago, 111., Aug. 7 D. A.1 Skeen of Salt Lake City. Utah, j was elected president of the In- i ternational Association of Lions Clubs at the closing session of the twenty-eighth international j annual meeting this week. The association, which added 368 new i clubs and had a net increase of 28,000 members during the year ended June 30, now has a total of 4500 clubs and 180.000 mem bers in fourteen countries. Skeen is a member of the Utah State Bar, the American due appreciation the service i men ana the war workers." Monday, August 7. 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE ZOOT SUITER SOUGHT St. Louis, Aug. 7. tU.R) Police today searched for an un identified n'egro "zoot suiter" who beat to death a white man tentatively identified as Charles N. Case, 41, Salinas, Cal., on a public service streetcar last night. rVs'' TV It t s S" raruMiiwrfrirf ii rtrfifftfrifviTiftiril nirirfviiitni- 0. A. SKEEN Bar association and the Com mercial Law League of Amer ica. In accepting the presidency, Skeen said, "Greater today than ever, is our opportunity for serv ice. We have seen in a short space of time our very right to serve our fellow man chal lenged. Community life in the world has felt most the impact of this cruel orgy of death and destruction. "Basically our community life must go on We as Lions have before us, under world condi tions, the great opportunity yes, responsibility to heal the wounds and remove the scars of war impact on our respective communities and to make the communities better and life there such that opportunities will attract and bring back with oiive :s3-i Barber's Observations From hotel life In a city of almost a million population to a logging camp 24 miles from the nearest postoffice. Such is the change I've made in the last few days. Strangely, this change was not made because I dis liked city life. I love feeling myself a part of the hurrying throng; loved knowing I had a real and interesting role jn that life. Too, I found to my sur prised delight that city people are as kindly, as courteous and as warmly human as are coun try people. But Destiny, lt Is said, shapes our ends rough-hew them how we will. So it must have been that Destiny, seeing my pleasure In paths so foreign to those on which she had established me, feared I might be permanently affected. So to offset my pleas ure in the crowds and my new job, 1 was never allowed to find an apartment adequate to my needs. And always homesick ness stood ready to engulf me ill idle moments, in the still watches of the night. I would like to think it was authority over me in my new the tender hearts of those in work which caused them to re lease me frtm my given word, with the vague promise that maybe they could arrange for me to do the job from the home town. Yet I'm afraid vthoir hearts were cowardly rather than tender, and that they wish ed only to get rid of me before I cast my weeping self on their assorted shoulders. I'm no April shower, when I burst into tears. In rural vernacular, I do not weep, I bawl. At the first word of consent, I went into high gear, headed not for Hillside, but my hus band's logging camp. And If this column is to be, as it al ways has been, an accounting of life as I live it from day to day, then for the next two months there will be little of either city or the country motif in it. Instead, sometimes it will be about the protesting roar of the litle creek as it hurdles boul ders and rocky ledges on its way to the river. Or of the even louder roar of donkeys and whine of cables. A few months ago I watched a donkey doctor at work on a cat. He asked me to hand him a ratchet from a nearby tool box. What I handed him, it seemed, was not ratchet. By the way, what is a ratchet? CHARMED LIFE Guam, July 28. (U.P.) Maj. Robert P. Felker (2034 Ashland Ave.), St. Paul, whose marines captured the former marine bar racks near Orote airstrip here, escnped unharmed today when a Japanese shell hit a tree trunk under which ho was standing with 11 other marines, nine of whom were killed or wounded by shrapnel. Vsn Mall Tribune Want Adj. Telephone numbers are th property of the telephone com pany, an Ohio court ruling states. AS IOW AS SK a pint Sun to b pur YOU mal III In 2 mlnutM, mix LONDONDERRY, tugar and voporottd milk, or any crtam thai will wMp.WMp, Utm, Ihal'j oil No cooking, no ro-wliipplng. Smooth, no Ico cryitoli. (Uio milk or iklm milk for dliclous froxon douortx.) 3i pkg. LONDONDERRY mak 4 plnlt, any flovor. Aik your grocor for LONDON DERRY. II ho doei not carry It, und Hi SI. 00 for 7 packagoi and 20 famous recipox, poitpald. LONDONDIBBV 833 Howard 5t,l, San Pranclico 3. Calif. FREE THIS WEEK ONLY! FLOWER PLANTS FOR FALL SETTING IF YOU'LL INCLOSE 25 CENTS TO COVER POSTAGE AND HANDLING To advertise our new stock of lovely ornamental flowers and shrubs for Fall planting we will send free three of our choicest perennials to decorate your yard. 1 Belladonna Delphinium. A beautiful shade of sky blue, flowering in Juno and July and usually again in the Fall. 1 Rose Dawn. Two to three feet. Rare new variety de veloped at our nursery. Silver pink flowers on long graceful stems. Very handy. 1 Anlhemis Kelway Hardy Marguerite. Two feet. A free flowering perennial with beautifully cut foliage and yellow daisy shaped flowers borne during entire growing seaiun. Especially valuable for cutting for bouquets. In order that you may see what strong, well-rooted flowers and shrubs we will have for Fall planting, we will send you these three bright colored ornamentals if you order this week. These are ready for shipment immediately. Inclose 25 cents to cover postage and handling and send your request to: CLARK GAP.KR WESTERN OFFICE 729 American Bldg. Seattle 4, Wash. BACK THE ATTACKI BUY WAR BONDSI a&ew$ :tfwqgf yf m tig' Wmh ifif I h":y ' oMianxiimin - nftffitiiir'ii'i'f" - --1 'iinr iini11 niOTiiiMMul Ian hnmii nrrf in ''-f if J I JjMJritS JrwJt'f' " ' utMtimm I The Blut Streak, a B-24 Liberator, was one of the greatest bombers that erer climbed into the skf. She flew 1 10 misiions . . , 300,000 miles i i over German?, Italy, Rotimani'a, Greece, Austria, Africa. Sicily. Her air combat crewi sank a Nazi freighter off Crete . . . blew up a tanker at CanJia . . . sent a destroyer to the bottom of Suda Day. They shot down 2 3 German and Italian fighters... dropped halfa-millton pounds of bombs . .. won the Distinguished Unit Badge and countless individual decora tions for gallantry In action. Yet In all her battles la enemy skies, not a man in any of her crews waa erer wounded ! Ask her pilot, Ma. Ralph P. Thompson, of Columbus, O,, how she managed to roll up such a record, and he'll tell you: "Because there were no 'individual stars on her crew. We flew her and fought her as a team.,, gunners, navigator, bombar dier, and pilot, all working togetheno win, HAnd that's the thing any young fellow who wants to win his wings in the AAF should keep uppermost in his mind . t "You're on a team in the AAF . . . from your first day of training until you get up there in action. And it's a team that's never been stopped . . . that never will be stopped . ; ; the 'greatest team in the world'!" Today, the AAF Is writing history. Liberators and Fortresses are blacking out the skies over Germany. Japan is already beginning to feel the awful power of the Superfortress. Swarms of heavy bombers, medium bombers, light bomb ers and fighters are spearheading the at tack on every front. PLY AND FIGHT WITH THE Todaymore than ever before thert't 4 place or you on this great AAV team. If you are 17 ... if you want action, ad venture . . the finest, most thorough training any flying man ever had . . . an opportunity to make a career Jn aviation after the war ; i Then go to your nearest AAF Examining Board and see if you can qualify for the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve . . with an opportunity to win your wings as gun ner, navigator, bom bardier or pilot in the AAF i i i the "greatest team la the world!" MEN vs&p Of 17... too cin get ready now for your place or the "great fit team in the world" the AAF. do to your nearest AAF Examining Hoard . . . lee if you can qualify far llie Air Corps nliited Re serve. If you qualify, you will receive this insignia . . . hut will not he called for training until you are 18 or over. When called, you will be given further tuts to determine the type of training you will receive. If von are trained ai a gunner or technician gunner, you will go into actual combat as a non-commissioned otficer. If your aptitudes are outstandinIy high, you will be trarned as a bombardier. nivigaiornr pilot, and upon auccrssful com pletion of training, will be graduated as a rugni umctr or Second Lieutenant. For pre-aviition tramtng, tee your local Civil Air Patrol officers. Also see your Hitch School principal or adviser about recommended courses tn the Air Service Diviiion of the High School Victory Corps. Ak about the opportunities for college training through the Army Specialised Training Reserve Program. V. 9. ARMY RECRUITINO SRRVICB For more Information contact nearest AAf fixainimn Hoard, till n. . tMfwnni .wenue, Portland i) Oregon ?""""T"7 rwlnf-vmailfinflft vaval A.v.iMonTritr- GREATEST TEAM IN THE W0PU0
