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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1944)
FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE frlday, August 18. 1944 ON THE HOME FRONT MEDF0RD5&TRIUNE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services Th. Mall rnbun. suggests tou clip and mail thii n.ws roundup to a relative 01 friend Id service. Data- Dear.. The valley Is beginning to lake on the familiar hurry and bustle of the fruit harvest sea son. Bartlctt orchards are full of pickers and loaded trucks hurry from orchards to packing Cm Of Top Quality Military Goods BUY NOW for OVERSEAS CHRISTMAS GIFTS Overseas gifts mutt ba mailed NEXT MONTH . . Hera it your opportunity to SHOP NOW for things tarvica man and women NEED and WANTI DRASTIC REDUCTIONS NECKTIE and HANDKERCHIEF SETS Q4 A Regular value to $1 65 $ m5if KHAKI NECKTIES Four In hand and CftA ready tied. Regular value to $ 1 .00 V w W KHAKI NECKTIES Four in hand. Resilient Q AA construction. Regular $1.50. Now WlaUv KHAKI COTTON SOCKS Ribbed and QEf. plain weave. Regular 40c. Now aCOtf SEWING KITS Tan leather bound. Snap Q- AP spring fastener. Regular $2.50. Now UlaafaV Other Kir at 50c - 75c SHOE SHINE KIT Contains can of Nugget Shoe Polish. Bristle dauber jP bristle polishing brush and polishing cloth. Spl. at Jaj(J FITTED KITS Khaki cloth QfQE QQ AZ and Imitation leather wlnVV VUiHv GARRISON BELTS Heavy leather. CI HA Regular $1.95. Now - tDlaUU LEATHER MONEY BELTS SI .85 MILITARY KIT BOOK Short Stories and cartoons. . Regular $1.00. Now VVU ARMY WRITING PORTFOLIO Now 95C SILVER MILITARY RINGS 01 Eft Values to $4.85. Now - OliVV MILITARY INSIGNIA PINS AA Values to 65c. Now UUv Larga Assortment of IDENTIFICATION BRACELETS for Men and Ladici Ladies Military Insignia Pins, Necklaces, Bracelets and Compacts BRASS MILITARY WHISTLES Regular $1.25 ..... ... 90c NICE SELECTION OF WALLETS with or without Military Insignia LEATHER PICTURE FRAMES WOOL and KHAKI CHEVRONS Mott all Ratings CANVAS TRAVELING BAGS Visit Our JEWELRY DEPARTMENT for Watches, Diamonds and Costume Jewelry For Men and Women. PEOPLES' LOAN CO 229Vi East Main St. Stat Liccnso P-137 waaaaiM plants. It Is reported that almost the entire Bartlctt crop will be packed, little of the fruit going to canneries. Nearly 700 Mexican nationals are in the district to aid with the work. This is considerably more than last year, but this fall little soldier help is available, the population at Camp White being currently at a low figure. About 2,000 people attended the open ing of the American Fruit com pany's new packing plant here last week-end and were impress ed with the building's size, con struction and Improvement!, A new large cold storage and pack ing plant has been constructed in Ashland by Earl T. Ncwbry and is ready for operation. Medfordites turned In 25,000 pounds of salvaged tin cans dur ing a drive last week and will now turn attention to the com ing waste paper drive which starts soon. Table Rock ranchers report that the fight against mosquitoes, said to be out in un usual numbers this summer, is making headway but that con trol efforts would be continued. Returning from a meeting in Seattle, Mayor C. A. Meeker re ports that Mcdford's 125-unit Victory Housing Center will not be dismantled until after the war or until the housing emerg ency is over. Many farewell parties are be ing given for the William A. Holloways and their daughters, since they are leaving this week end to live in Phoenix, Ariz. Also leaving is Leslie E. Grant, athletic coach and instructor at Medford high school last year, who is leaving to take up Boy Scout work in Bclllngham, Wash. Several Medford families are experiencing that happy event the return of sons and hus bands from overseas duty. Capt. Joseph J. Patton arrived home last week after 16 months in England. He flew two missions over France on D-Day and has flown 75 missions over enemy territory altogether, for which hes has been considerably decor ated. Also home is Pvt. Donald Poling after fighting and being wounded in Italy. After three months in hospitals in Italy and Africa, he was returned to this country. Sgt. Albert Razum has return ed to this country after more than two and a half years duty in the South Pacific and Dick Milestone, pharmacist's mate first class, is home after 18 months In the Solomons and New Hebrides during which he participated in two engage-1 ments. Sgt. Harold Kludt is I a . iiumu irom i-anama where he spent 25 months. Lt. Clyde Hollcnbeck return ed to this country by clipper last weeK ana after a few days at j the marine base In San Diego expects to be in Medford. A ma- j rlne pilot, the officer spent 10 ' months in the South Pacific. I A dispatch from a naval base I in England tells of the part Wen-1 dell M. Vaughn, seaman first ' class, played In the landing on j the Normandy bench. Vaughn was one of a crew whose duty It was to destroy enemy obsta cles and the dispatch describes how he swam ashore, with TNT strapped to his chest, and crawl ed up the dunes to his objective. Also in the news is M. Sgt. Morrill Stanley, who has been awarded the Legion of Merit for , his work In establishing com munications in the Persian Gulf area. The award was made at Camp Crowder, Mo., and follow ing the ceremony 3,000 troops passed In review before the ser geant. Sgt. Stanley returned to this country by plane Inst April after several months in Persia. Second Lt. Richard Wright has been awarded an Air Medal at a bomber station In England and First Lt. Louis N. Ivcn, Fly ing Fortress bombardier, also in Englnnd, has been awarded a second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal. Pvt. Glenn S. McKec is a member of a port company at an advanced Aleutian bnse which has been commended for the unit's outstanding work as cargo handlers. A special story from the South Pacific tells of the duties of Sgt. John C. Crock er who is stationed at a head quarters base and helps to look after the army's elaborate rec ords of each GI. When relatives of Earl Jones snw the movie "Gung Ho" re cently they recognized shots of the marine, now In Seattle at tending officer training school. From the Pacific area Myrlin H. Scott, coxswain, writes of meeting his twin brother, Mel vln, AOM 2c, the latter coming aboard the former's ship while lt was In Pearl Harbor. "Every, one thought It was me", the cox swain wrote. MnJ. Stephen Nye nnd Major Edwin R. I'urno are currently in the same vicinity in southwest England and able to see one another frequently and also from England comes word that Second Lt. Elirnbeth Vilm is now administrative as slstant to one of the military air advisers. Jack Denison w'rites that he is now in France with a field artillery unit. William E. rhlpps. with the Associated POISON OAK? Try a bottle et ZEMACOL I vmt mtit he aHll.flf-rt or huh nntne) i rhrfrtiill rrfniitlrrt llrt bullls to dJ at L31LtO 1IIKII 1. Press, Is en route to England as a war correspondent.. Mr. and Mrs. Heine Hertager of Prospect have received offi cial word of the death of their son, Victor, USMC, who died in the crash of a plane after it had bombed a Japanese transport in Rabaul harbor Jan. 17. Leo David Mlksche, commis sioned Aug. 4 when he graduat ed from the two-engine pilot's school at Pecos, was home brief ly on leave last week and then reported at Roswell, N.M. where h! will be trained as a B-17 pilot. Lt. David S. Williams soon will complete his combat train ing at Sioux City, where he has been assigned as co-pilot of a heavy bomber, and Morton W. LeRoy has been commissioned a flight officer at the Victorvlile field in California. Aviation Cadet Robert E. Brown recently completed the first phase of fight training at Orangeburg, S. C, Cadet Calvin D. Ott is at Majors Field, Tex., for basic and Cadet Herbert L. Edwards has reported at the Big Springs bombardier school in Texas. Pvt. Robert M. Meals has graduated from the armament school of Lowry Field in Denver and Second Lt. Stanley L. Win ter has been assigned to duty at the Walla Walla air field. Earl Moses Manley is taking pre fllght training at the San An tonio cadet center. Sgt. Loren Bowman has completed a com munications' course at Ft. Lei voir, Va. From the southwest Pacific Herbert Goldsmith writes that' he has been promoted to avi ation machinist's mate first class. Everett W. Cushman has been promoted to sergeant in the military police at Ft. Doug las, Utah. Home on leave this week Is Stanley D. Smith, flight engi ncer in the navy air corps from Key West, Fla.; Howard W. Fry, Jr., from Farragut, Ida.; Lt. Har old Grow, who reports next to Hobbs, N. M., for B-17 transition school, and Cpl. Donald M. Ivie, from Camp Van Dorn, Miss. Lt. and Mrs. Dale E. McMullin and infant son have left for Tampa, Fla., after a visit in Oregon and Cpl. Dee Parker has returned to Fresno where he is with the air service command after a fur lough at home. First Lt. Marjorle Kelly has returned to her station at Eglin Field, Fla., after a leave in Med ford and Cpl. Alfred B. Davis has been here from Walla Walla base. Cadet and Mrs. Neville Biden have a daughter born August 10 at Orlando, Fla. Cadet Biden Js now stationed at Ft. Lee, Va., for special training. WFA Mired in Eggs In Effort to Keep Prices Near Level Washington, Aug. 18. (U.R) Lt. Col. Ralph W. 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