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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1944)
ON THE HOME FRONT MEDFORDviTRIBUNE i News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services Tht Mail Tribune suggests you clip and mail this news roundup to a relative or iiiend in service. Date- Dear- Election Interest Is beginning to boil locally, with candidates, rallies and parades in the news this week. Both Edgar Smith and Wayne Morse, Democratic and Republican candidates for the senate, were in the city this week and have made many speeches. County Clerk George Carter suffered from writer's cramp after having spent a cou ple of days initialing nearly 1500 ballots for servicemen overseas. Deer season opened Sunday and luck seems to be fair with some reporting large numbers of deer, even on the lower lev els. Medford's football prospects look bright. After defeating Weed in the opening game 42 to 6, the Tigers took on Marsh field last week and whitewashed them 33 to 0. The Marshfield team was accompanied by Lean ard Mayfield, now superintend ent, of schools there. Tonight the Tigers are in Eureka for their third game. The annual football Jamboree for B school six-man teams will be held tonight, with Central Point, Gold Hill, Prospect, Jack sonville, Eagle Point, Talent and Rogue River participating. The Tribune's well known sports writer, Bill Hulen, has left Jackson county for the larger field of the Associated Press and has gone to Portland where he will write sports and other news for the news serv ice. With the addition of a new flight both north and south, Medford now has five flights a day each way furnished by the United Air Lines. The new flight is expected to absorb at least part of the overflow busi ness which the line has been unable to handle in recent months. Important on the lodge calen dar this week Is celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Elks lodge. Out of the more than 40 citizens who formed the lodge, T. E Daniels, E. C. Gaddis, John J. Wilkinson, P. A. Hussey and Grover C. Corum remain active members. Either Medford sen-icemen are really "something to write home about" or the public re- GUYER'S MARKET U. S. AND FEDERAL GRADED MEATS Fancy 4-H Club Beef Black Angus, fattened and raised by Gerald Ousterhout (Little Butte) ON SALE NOW! LEG OF LAMB, lb. 39c SHOULDER LAMB, lb. 33c BREAST LAMB lb. 15c RABBITS SIZE Lb. 49C Fancy Fryers Hent FINE SELECTION OF FISH Fresh oysters, shrimp, salmon, ling cod, halibut, ''"ot red snapper, salt mackeral, salt herring, rod. boned smoked herring, kippered salmon HOT TAMALES, Fresh Each 15e PIGGLY WIGGLY So. Riverside at 13th & South Central nation's officers- are- exception ally industrious, judging from the quantities of news which poured into the Tribune this week, A special story from the 1 South Pacific was about Marine Sgt. Larry Wagner, composer of "Whistler's Mother-in-Law" and other hit tunes, who kept a . transport load of men enter tained for an entire ocean voy age. Mrs. Wagner is in Medford , with her parents for the dura tion. Another special story fea- i tured Lt. Robert Wilcox and told how he and other members ! of a B-26 crew were shot down ! off the coast of Italy, escaped from their plane, were later res cued from the water and when a general check-up was made, Wilcox was found to be still wearing an old hat which he had donned before taking off. The officer has been home re cently on leave. Expected home soon is Sgt. Robert A. Stewart, veteran of 25 months of service, including the Italian and southern France invasions and duty in the Asi atic theater. The sergeant wears many campaign ribbons and stars, an air medal and a good conduct medal. T. Sgt. Wayne Fairchild has left after a visit here. He has seen 19 months overseas duty in various sec tipns of the Mediterranean thea ter and holds the soldier's med al . and several other decora tions. Pfc. Ralph D. McGonagle, with the Fifth army in Italy, has been awarded the combat infantryman badge and Sgt. Walter Bish, wounded on Biak Island, has received the Purple Heart. ' Charles Kruger has been pro moted to staff sergeant at an AAF Fortress base in Italy and previously was awarded an air medal. An air medal has also been won by Second Lt. Frank Rogers, Flying Fortress co-pilot stationed in England and T. Sgt. Elmer L. Ogborn now wears an air medal, oak leaf cluster, and battle stars for the north African, Sicilian, Italian and French campaigns. Second Lt. Clyde Chamber Iain, transport commander, re cently left on another assign ment, this time to a south Pa cific destination, and Second Lt. Gerold A. Fitzgerald has been made ammunition officer for a battalion of the 37th Di vision. He has been In Hawaii and Guadalcanal for 16 months. A story from the 13th AAF tells of the part Capt. Thomas H. Shearin had in the campaign against Yap island, once one of the strongest Jap bases guard ing the Philippines. From Ire land comes word of the meeting of First Lt. Donald R. Grigsby ,and Second Lt. Jack M. Bishop, the latter of Ashland. Lt. Grigs by is a veteran of 30 missions and is now a bombardier In structor while Lt. Bishop had just arrived. Pfc. Glen Watson and Pvt. Jack Watson have written their mother about a chance meeting in France. Pfc. Watson was wounded during the Normandy invasion and was awarded the Purple Heart. Sgt. Eloy Cor dova recently "wrote relatives here to give details of recent activities of the 361st regiment of the 91st division, now In Italy. . Home this week Is Lt. (jgl Henry Fisher who participated as officer on an LST boat, in the invasion landings In Sicily, Italy and France, and who has been selected for advanced training. The lieutenant has been overseas for more than a . year. Another navy man home is Kenneth M. Thurson, phar- 1 man;.!1, mita aM,4 1 ...U has been in Hawaii for nine months. Bennie Longwill has complet ed officer candidate school in Australia and was commissioned a second lieutenant in an in fantry unit. Pvt. Albert R. Rob erts writes that he recently ar rived in India-, and Paul Chest nut, FC2c, has written his par ents to describe the part which the crew of his ship had 4n the French coast landings. Martin B. Webb, stationed in Hawaii, has been promoted to corporal. Pvt. Wilferd J. Vakoc has been declared missing in action since Sept. 2 in France and Lt. Kenneth Lucas has been de clared a prisoner of war of the Germans, having first been re ported missing in action Aug. 24. Thomas Harold Gorety, AOM3, was named honor man of his squadron when he grad uated from the naval air gun ner's school at Miami. He is now taking further training as tor pedoman on a Gruman Aven ger. Aviation Cadets Vincent C. C'aflin and Dale C. Erickson are both at Garden City air field in Kansas for basic flight training. Cadet Calflin is a re turned veteran, having served overseas as an engineer-gunner on a B-25. Ensign Joe Beach, recently commissioned at Corpus Christi At Holly Today a Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan are again co-starred In "Chips Off The Old Block", with Ann Blyth, opening today at the Holly for a two-day en gagement. The companion fea ture is "Guns of the Pecos". and now a PBM pilot, Is home visiting his parents. His broth er, Robert Beach, is also home, having just completed basic training in the navy at Farra gut. Lt. Donald R. Marshall has been transferred from Carlsbad to Hobbs, N. M. James E. Walker, SK2c, is temporarily at Norfolk, Va., and expects to go overseas soon. He has trans ferred from the Seabees to the regular navy. Lt. Donald R. Horner, pilot of a carrier-based fighter plane, is confined in a hospital In Nor folk but expects to be discharg ed soon and to be home for a time. Dale E. Hoskins and Wil liam N. Snyder have both grad uated from the naval radio school at Indianapolis and re ceived their ratings of radioman third class, while Wallace E. Johnson graduated from elec trician's school at Purdue uni versity. Others home now or in recent days are Jack Waybrant, Gil Tumy, Hob Deuel, Herb Merri man and James Bobbett, all of whom arc stationed at Farragut naval training station; T. Sgt. George Edwards from King man, Ariz., and Cpl. H. J. Har per, who reported to Augusta, Ga. Pvt. R. L. Harper has been (Ordered to port of embarfca- tlon. -.rths announced are a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. George L Ray, (Bettymae Col lins), Columbus, O.; daughter to Sgt. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Belknap, (Geraldine Bunch); dauehter to T. Set. and Mrs. .K. A. Brown, (Audrey Craig) of ! Sarasot, Fla.; son to Cpl. and Mrs. Glen W. Jewett, (Byrna d 1 n e McCulloch), Oceanside, Calif.; and a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Langley, (Marlon Matheny) at Pomona, Calif. Ann Luman was married re cently to Gordon Corum of Eu gene and Luella Arnold to Adam Richter, the latter a ma chinist's mate in tht navy and recently returned from 17 months in the South Pacific. rrldar. October 8, 1844 MEDFORD MAIL THin..- . .. G. PASS SOLDIER he has been awarded an expert infantry badge for satisfactory! work against the enemy. Pvt. Zahnow, who is stationed somewhere in the southwest Pa cific theater of war, has been overseas for the past six months and In the service since May 1943. Prior to entering1 In the army he was employed by Med ford Corporation and Western Union. He is with an Infantry anti-tank unit. According to Col. T. C. Ger ber. Army Ordnance director of safety, accident statistics prove) that a woman worker is far safer In a powder plant than she Is in her own home. Grants Pace, Oct. 6 T'Sgt. Charles E. Ostrom was killed in action In Germany on Sept. 20, accordlna to word recevled here by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.l E. Ostrom and his wife. Amy Gilmore Ostrom of Murphy. T Sgt. Ostrom, who went over seas in April of this year, was serving with the Third army un der General George S. Patton, when he was killed. T'Sgt. Ostrom, who was born In Grants Pass on March 23, 1910, attended the local schools and was a graduate of Grants Pass high school. On June 30. 1941, he was married to Miss Amy Gilmore, daughter of Mr.! and Mrs. T. E. Gilmore of Mur- phy. Private Zahnow ! Accorded Honor As Infantryman Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Zahnow of Hillcrest road, route 4, have received word from their son, Pvt. Theodore H. Zahnow that Girl Scout Office Also Functioning As Service Bureau A service bureau has been set up in the local Girl Scout orfice. : 500 East Main street, where community organizations may call for Girl Scout assistance, and where the girls themselves can call for opportunities to ren der community service. Records of "hours of service" are on file in the office, and when a Girl Scout completes 50 hours of service she is entitled to wear the National Service pin. The bureau operated mainly or senior scouts, but girls of all ages have certain Jobs planned for their age level abilities. Community groups now being served by the Girl Scouts are Wing Inn, U.S.O.; the Red Cross, and Jackson County Health as sociation. Financial support de pends on Medford Community Chest and War Fund. Oae Mall Tribune Want Ada. GOES TO WORK M . In a lunch box . . . i NS makes every morsel P? V r mors) delicious I THI PfRFECl Esji&kZ " (iMirSr DRtSSINQ jgy C MONTGOMERY WARD RIVERSIDE FIRST QUALITY TIRES . . . MORE SAFE MILES! -w. r S . 4 i- T f, Pi 9 Plus Federal Tax 85 .00-16 Size A CHEC Tube 2.95 - Plus Fed. Tax ALL TIRES ARE NOT ALIKE! The rubber in alt brands of passenger tirea is the SAME GRS Government Synthetic. But all tires are nof made alike nor will they wear equally well. 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