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EY GAL'S PREFERENCE TO STAYJDN JOBS Want to Continue Working But.Those Last Hired are First Fired. By Genevieve Scott United Press Correspondent Detroit (U.R) Rosle the Riv eter probably will change her glacks Involuntarily for a post war housedress unless unprece dented peacetime production Is achieved In the automotive in dustry. Interviews with high-ranking officials of leading automobile companies and wit'i labor repre sentatives showed one thing clearly that the woman war worker, the lowest In seniority rating, will be the first to feel the blow of large contract can cellations. Cutbacks already approximat ing $2,000,000 have caused a drop of three per cent in wo men's aptomotive employment since January, 1944, according to figures of the automobile council for war production. At! the present time, 27 per cent, or DOT Service foreman, $300.00 guarantee, and two mechanics $250.00 per guarantee. Permanent positions. Ford ex perienced preferred. Bird hunter' paradise. Let us hear from you. Write BALSIGER'S, INC. P. O. Box 192, Tulelake, Calif. ' I WEAK WARDS FAMOUS T O FOR Til AT Brown ploln to. A- - " 7 iC-fr??. oxford., ;rr.ct 7,"'? . ' il3 JW k Brawn groin whs tip, JZ ' ' f " 1 jf If you wont a ifJ?' $ ' jtr rugged sport shoe jf" '"" "" ' Igf Quality shoos for the if .. i Ufytyttf&f ntiro family In Wards ti.-i :.2SJr CompleU Shos Department A f IVI 200,000 of the workers, arc wo men, compared to 7 per cent in pre-war automotive production. A survey by United Automc- Diie workers (CIO), showed 85 per cent of the women answered yes to the Question: "If a Job is available, will you continue to work outside your nome after the war? Similar queries by the Thomp son Products Co. and Bendix Aviation Corp. showed affirma tive replies from 84 per cent and 64 per cent of the women re spectively. Lest Hired, Flrts Fired Top representatives of labor and management say that under provisions of union contracts, women workers, the lp.test hird, are placed at the bottom of sen iority lists. Consequently, they are the first fired when produc tion falls or contracts are can celled. Officials of Ford, Packard, General Motors, and Bendix pointed out that many of the women will return to their homes, having accepted war work as a wartime duty. Others will join returning veteran hus bands and many are expected to leave when the $53.66 average weekly wage is lowered by abolishment of overtime. But the women who had not worked before the young girl on her first job and the women without children are expected to remain. Some maintained they liked factory work, did not find it physically hard and found it more interesting than pre - war feminine occupations. 11 FREE AND EASY FEELING Yes itr, Real free and easy comfort, good for plenty of servicel Why? Because they're made to Wards better quality stand ards! Handsome tool Custom, wing tip or plain toe . . all at one (aw price . . and that counts a lot with mel ontgomery Ward 117 South Central. Phone 3930 L"'W P. "I JPl r 1 1 1 iRC- x sS'3 iAf -a t soft 'rt'-i !.. i,.-.: - i 2 Ely ,, . . .... iuu rauiopnoio, received in new ...mu bnuv,wit. oiucu ytuttujiuuu captures in noiiuna, presuinauiy at Arnneun. drawn "If we are going to reach a high national income, there must be more women employes," said Ernest Breech, president of Bendix Aviation. "Women have become accustomed to making high incomes and it is hard for them to quit and go back home. , it's a laudible embition to keep ; as many women employed as possible." i Essential In Radio Breech said he would not ex j pect women to be kept on heavy labor jobs, but that they would prove essential in the radio di i vision of the company, a small nrp-war division, whirh he sain will become a vital part of the , organization. I Plans of General Motors, asiwomen Wl11 be back in the tac- summarized bv C. E. Wilson, i president, would provide main tenance of employment of 400,- MONJGOMERY WARD plus shoe ration stamp la Sallsi suit rne to a T'l Block custom toft for drest and 4m)) Captured British ParacKutisTs York from StocKftoIm Fressens Blld Agencv, shows, according to original with pain. Is supported by lus comrades. 000, compared to th 284.000 figure before Pearl Harbor. Ten per cent of the pre-war employes were women while the corpora tion now employes 135,000 wo men workers or 30 per cent of the total. Ford and Packard shoed a percentage of women employes of 34 and 28 per cent respective-; i.. 'Women will be at the bottom of the seniority list and the re turning veteran at the top," a Ford spokesman said, "If there is a turn to all-out production, to maintain a high national in- come, there will be a great shortage of labor when industry drives to meet the demand. Then lory. R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO pres ident, predicted a lay-off period j for women immediately follow ing the war. I "But if the capacity produc-! tion is maintained as soon as. normal output is resumed," he declared, "there will be jobs for all. We must have maximum utilization of our nation's mach inery, labor power and natural resources. Management ennnot forget the lob women have done In this war and there won't be I any seniority trouble If there is plenty of work. "After the last war, women went into the office. After WorM I War II, they will plant, to stay." go into the GIFTS FOR BOYS Burrillville, R. I. (U.R) This town of 8,000 persons Is plan ning a very practical welcome celebration for its veterans of the present war. The town is planning to raise at least $52.000 1 to make gifts to its 900 boys in;Sgt. ORborn was employed the service. Une ol the recent the Crater Lake Motor money-raising events- was nlpany and he has served white elephant sale to which !seas for 18 months. He citizens contributed everything from rabbits to oil paii.tings Die Mall Tribune Want Ads. Blue csgsrrjaEBafe Goose g 1 xzszzz-,- MaUL( m nami i jr J h i itrMf t nftm m -jmhrniH nam Mew WKSESm TRACTOR -TRAILER SPRAYER TIME Is Right SPRAY SEASON Will Scon Be Here IMMEDIATE DELIVERY Can Be Made From Our Floor SEV ERAL Sizes To Choose From If You HURRY! HI-PRESSU FRIEND INSURE your fruit! AMERICAN 213 So. Fir Street ( Arma Rndto-rclephota) Soldier In center, his tact Med ford Brothers Meet By Chance in Overseas Service Two Medford boys, sons of Mrs. Edith Watson, 71814 West Main street met while in France recently and had a two hour uisi, BPPnrit,a t " by their mother in a letter. They were Pvt. Jack Watson and his brother Pfc. Glen Watson. Pfc. Watson, who was award ed the Purple Heart mednl aft er being wounded during the invasion nf th KiirntMion rrnln. , anri hnri h , h, company from a hospital In England. Seeing a military policeman with a shoulder patch of his brother's outfit he inquired as to their whereabouts and the brothers were soon re united for a short visit. Pvt. Watson had been over seas about a year and prior to entering the army was a logger. His brother has been overseas only two months. Talent Sergeant Wins Battle Star Talent, Oct. 5 TSgt. Elmer I. Oyborn has been awarded an- other campaign battle star ac- cording to information received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Ogborn of Talent. The fergennt already wears an Air Medal and Oak Le.if cluster won in the North African, Sici lian and Italian campaigns. He is now in France and is with the headquarters squadron of a transport command. Prior to his enlistment in the air corps in January of 1941 by com- over is a high graduate school. of the Talent Use Mall Tribune WAnt Ada URE Spraying with Z""''' is the SURE way to V o. FRUIT GROWERS, Inc. Medford, Oregon LIFE IN PACIFIC IN ROTARY TALK Interesting hlgh-Ughts of life In the South Pacific combat area were told the Medford Rotary club Tuesday by Major R. L. Burdlc of Ashland, recently re turned from three years of army service. Speaking at the Hotel Medford, Major Burdlc describ ed the exciting early days of the war when his first assignment was on Kauai Island of the Ha waiian group. The island people firmly believed that the Japs would come after the Pearl Har bor attack but soon settled down to normal living with the reas surance of American troops gar risoned there. Swimming, fishing, lobster diving and hunting pheasant and wild boar somewhat relieved the monotony of army life on Kauai, Burdic said. Major Burdlc's next post was on Guadalcanal after It had been conquered from the Japanese. Mosqultos In the Solomon island area were more dangerous than the Japs, and accounted for the bulk of American casualties, the speaker said. Various tropical diseases, with which American troops contended in the earlier phases of the Solomon campaign, were described. The few Japanese prisoners taken In the South Seas opera tions were treated with full con sideration. Major Burdlc was especially Impressed with the stocism of these prisoners when being treated for wounds. In concluding hla address, Burdlc described the topography and climate of the South Sea is lands and gave a verbal picture of the interesting natives who inhabit them. George Buchanan, represent ing the Toastmastcrs club, spoke briefly of the alms and objec tives of the Medford community chest and national war fund. U. S. Girls Smoke Pipes Say Japs By United Press Listeners to Japan broadcast wer told Wednes day "thr i a shortage of cigarettes" in th Unltd States and that "some Ameri can women hav alraady taken up pip smoking." Th broadcast was recorded by th Federal Communica tions commission from a broadcast directed to Europe by th Japanesa Dome! news agency. Cloatng time for Sunday Too UiU to CIkmK; 6 SO Saturday afternoon Pleasa remember. MONEY TO LOAN! On JEWELRY. CAMERAS and MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS. Used and unr deamed Jewelry at great av'ngi . PEOPLES LOAN GO. 22914 E. Main Street Stat Licens P 137 t . . , j . Phone 5214 Thursday. October !, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Medford Couple Get "Inside" Tip War Will Come To End On Oct. 26 If the war ends on the 26th of this month, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wilson of 7 Chestnut street will have "something to talk ; about for a long time to come, for when the Wilsons were re cently in Seattle, a very inter esting episode climaxed with the prediction that the war would be over Oct. 28. The Wilsons, with a friend, were in a Seattle depot about to buy tickets for Everett, Wash. The friend asked for her ticket and was considerably startled when a strange Chinese gentle man offered to purchase it for her, remarking that she had no money. After a search proved this to be true, the Chinese stranger further Informed the woman that her purse was home on her dressing table. "If you are able to determine such a thing as this, tell me when the war will end", the Seattle woman inquired, and the Ralph McGonagle Awarded Infantry Combat Insignia With the Fifth Amy, Italy Private First Class RUph D. Mc-1 Gonagle, whose home is on i Route 2, Medford, Ore., has j been cited by his regiment of the 88th Infantry Division and 1 I awarded the Combat Infantry-1 ! man Badge for actual participa- i tion in combat with the enemy ; i on the Fifth Army front in j Italy. Pfc. McGonagle is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McGonagle of route Z, Box 46. His wife re sides with her parents, Mr. and j Mrs. Paul Sparks, Ross Lane, j Other relatives in Medford in clude his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William McGonagle, Howard avenue, ( Mali lTlouna Want Ada r " y I f ly I'M the guy who looked ot you from a U.S.O. poster some time ago. I'm the guy for whom you and millions of others gave and gave so generously. I'd like to tell you what was done with your money. The money you gave Inst year helped give the boys the tonic of entertainment ... a personal appearance by Jack Bonny In Africa ... by Oary Cooper in the South Seas . . . and by lovely women stars in remote places where just the sight of a feminine face is enough to make up for weeks and months of loneliness and isolation. Your dollars made possible the U.S.O.-ln addition to many other great services at home and abroad-3,000 U.S.O. clubs and U.S.O. Camp Shows. The job is bigger this year . . . much bigger. Won't you be bigger than ever this year, too, and give generously?- Give Generously to the MEDFORD Community Chest and National War Fund They Support the U.S.O. Published As a Public Service by Snider Dairy & Produce Co. Home of Fine Dairy Products Chinaman replied, "the war will end Oct. 26." Since the friend's money was found on the dressing table, the Wilsons now are anxiously waiting for the 26th to arrive. WOMEOQ's Are You Embarrassed By HOT FLASHES? If you, like so many women, between the ages of 38 and 62 suffer from, hot flushes, nervous tension, irri tability, aro a bit blue at times all due to tho functional middle age period peculiar to women try Lydla E. Plnltliam's Vegetable Compound to relieve surh symptoms. For almost a century thousands upon thousands of women rich and poor alike have reported remark able benefits. Many wiso women take Plnkham's Compound resiilnrly to help build up resistance against such annoying distress. Lydla Plnkham's Compound Tterps nafure. It also has what Doctors call a stomachic tonic effect. Follow label directions. Wortli trying! LYDIA E. PINXHAM'S Wi TRACTOilS O Future orders are now being taken for models 60 - 70 80 tractors. We have several coming if you need a tractor ORDER NOW! AMERICAN FRUITGROWERS, Ens. 213 So. Fir. Phone 5214 h . :.. .- Jt I" id,, ,1
