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F0UH MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Not. 8, 1S44 Oil THE HOME FRONT Medford-52&Tribune News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mali Tribune suggests jrou clip and mail this news roundup to relative or trtena in service. Dato Doar- After a month of beautiful October weather, the fall rains atarted In time to somewhat dampen the Hallowe'en enthus iasm of the younger generation. Pranksters here mostly didn't do anything worse than soap a few windows, but one group drove to Ashland and fell into trouble with the law for throw- Smooth, Satin FMth 11 KITCHEN STEP STOOD An Exceptional Value at $5-39 Just pull 'up the teat ... and tap upl Handiest stool you r ewnadl Hardwood, white enameled. FIRESTONE STORES 314 80. RWertld Phone 4757 LOW WEEKLY RATES CTiATER HOTEL Acrott from Craterian Theatre Phone 4174 SINGLE $4.50 to $6 OOUBLE $7.50 to $17 New 8 1 n n o s 1 Inner Spring Mattrenrs. Fret Showers CUan Rnomal lng eggs at pedestrians. Electioneering is going into the home stretch this week with interest at fever pitch for the presidential campaign. Judge J. B. Coleman has predicted a 75 per cent vote if the weather Is good and a 65 per cent vote if it rains. Many absentee ballots have already been returned to the county clerk. Two or three unseasonable forest fires ha"e been reported on the Rogue river district re cently, one in the Applegate dis trict, one on Dutch creek and one in the Klamath district. Joanna W'y a 1 1 has been se lected "Miss Jackson County" and will go to Portland in the near future to enter the contest for "Miss Oregon." The contest is being conducted in connec tion with war bond sales. 'Junior Red Cross youngsters have been busy in recent weeks making recreation articles for hospitals and covalescent cen ters and the last shipment con tained 1248 of these articles. From the mailbag this week came a letter written by Pfc. Frederick E. Kruggel, Jr., who wrote to thank a friend for some jerkey. Kruggel declared that after eating the jerkey he packed a machlr.egun up an Italian mountain like It was a toy. Around on the other side of the world, Frank W. Hull wrote to say that he was now a "Shell back" a "Dragon Back" and had been promoted to yeoman first class. His brother, Sgt. Dan Hull, Is now In France. On the week's casualty list are Lt. Donald Peart, B-29 pilot, listed as missing over Austria; Lt. Don Younger, killed in France on September 29, and Cpl. BUI Thorndike, slightly wounded October 15 In G e r- many. Lt. Chester L. Robertson has been awarded a commendation ribbon for flight operations in the South Pacific and Ma) Floyd H. Hart has been awarded the bronse star, The major's star was awarded for "select lng,. planning and constructing camp sites at Tarawa and Mak- in atolls for the 41st bombard ment group." Several men with the 12th AAF In Italy have been in the news. S. Sgt. Robert James Car ney, who holds an air medal and one oak leaf cluster, recently flew with his group on the his toric 550th combat mission. S, Sgt. Kenneth M. Barnes, with 12th AAF Thunderbolt unit was given a presidential unit clta tion. Cpl. John D. Harris, also with the 12th, is a member of a unit which recently set a record for bombing accuracy during attacks made in support of the allied drive ' in northern Italy. wkhigh energy NAtfSS 7 ,00d klds like to eat! Z J .yt J "ue P,a, tn'P jpLsSf ji th most popular lunch) I -suss P"1 food' The)' ,d' r I jOrtw, sIb, because they are fresh and, I ffB. ' ra delicious. They add energy 8 tBfc. J5cA because potatoes are high I "mft''el energy food. They have; I a thai grand potato flavor I CEkItI "They Are SABINIZED'' 1 ffcj3'88l he new modern method "-Cnr Hftg. . . that means ."fj, William T. Sheets, with the 15th AAF as a photographer, has been promoted to technical sergeant.. Steven S. Senkavlch, doing surveying for an engi-! neer'a unit at a south Factllc base, has also been promoted and is now a staff sergeant. Bert J. Marshall is now cor poral in the marine corps and serving in the south Pacific. Among those newly arrived In England are Lt. John Sauls berry and Lt. Delbert Cooley. bombardiers; Orvllle Burnette and Charles W. Klrkpatrlck, the latter with the American Red Cross. Burnette's brother, Laur ence, is now a naval petty of ficer and another brother, How ard, who has been in New Gui nea for 20 months, recently was in Australia on furlough. Ma, Lyle Wilcox Is now with the 8th AAF attached to Gen. Patton's 3d army in France and IT 1,1 Ca..ab In 4U Da. urevci.o, ... ... -uuu, . 1. .t A I 1 I 1 cuic, wrucs iiiab no lias uecii promoted to junior grade lieu tenant, Cpl. DeLoss Gilbert is home after spending 30 months in Ha waii and various south Pacific Islands and T. Sgt. Franklin Fanger has gone to Santa Moni ca for reassignment after a fur lough here. Fanger recently re turned after serving in Italy with the 15th AAF. Floyd C. Kinsey, veteran of 14 months' duty In the south Pacific with the navy, is now a naval R. O. T. C. student at the University of California after a leave spent here. Also home from the south Pacific is Leslie H. Snyder, S 2c where he participated in six major operations during 26 months of duty. Here at home Stuart T. Whar ton and Robert Lee Scott both were recently commissioned at Ft. Benning, Joe Miller Beach was commissioned an ensign at Corpus Christl and Paul L. Cor wln was promoted to first lieu tenant at San Francisco where he is on duty with the transpor tation corps. Sgt. Dick Roberts, back in this country after AAF duty in England, Is now at Ard- more, Okla. Capt. Dwight Flndley, Med-! ford physician, has been assign ed to overseas duty and Wallace G. Iverson is now a first lieu tenant serving at Will Rogers field In Oklahoma. Marine Pvt. Calvin J. Kohn was recently graduated from the infantry school at Camp Pendleton in California and Florence Run- nlon of the Wac has been award ed the motor vehicle drivers' badge. Pfc. Philip Henselman re cently completed another army mural, this one for the main service club at Camp Ellis in Illinois. Several weddings have been announced in the last few days. Included were the wedding of Helen M. Lawrence to Ens. Wallace R. Ludwig; Elizabeth Icken of New York to Doris Raymond Bellows, U. S. N.; Christine Huntley of Corning, Cal., to Edwin Hodgkins of Med- ford: Lu Etta Chase of Friend, Neb., to TSgt. Leo. M. Wagrier; Mable Azevedo to Cpl. Duane Rutherford; Marjorle Squires of Hanford, Cel., .to Pvt. Dwight Moore of Prospect; Nellie Rae Tucker of Klamath Falls to Lee Arlet Hickson of Eagle Point; Ann Bernlce Peck of Columbus, O., to Lt. Thomas A. Helman. Dick Alford and Lawrence Wilson have gone back to their navy V-12 studies at Carroll col lege In Montana after leave at home, and Jerry McDougau, V-12 student at Colorado col lege. Is also home. Seaman Jack Cate has been here to visit friends and Seaman Elmer Bashaw was home to see his par ents. Pvt. Rollin Rosenberger Is here from Camp Edison, N. J.; Pvt. Donald E. Fredenberg from Camp Wolters in Texas and Aviation Cadet Kenneth H. Jones Is here on leave from ad' vanced navigation school at El lington field, Tex. Second Lt. Cloyd Porter Is home for a time and then goes to Roswell, N. M., to start pilot's training on B-17s. Pvt. Tom Reames Is home and Dar- ral Payant, signalman third class, has returned from duty In the south Pacific. Cpl. L. S. Neff Is home briefly from the army air field at Ephrata, Wash., and reports next in Seattle. Lt. L. K. Morris has returned to Camp Rucker, Ala., after leave here. Keith and Thomas Estes, both In the navy, were called home by the illness of their fa ther, Thomas coming from the Panama canal zone. A third son, John Estes. Is overseas. S Sat. Alvin L. Tllton ha been home from Camp Berk eley, Tex., and Pvt. Harlow Car penter is here from Corvallls where he is with an ASTRP unit. I-.--. ----- k :t mi "- smwi 40 PER CENT OF MEDICS NOW IN ARMED FORCES Chicago, Nov. 3 U.R) Paul V. McNutt, war manpower com mission chairman, writing in the Journal of the American Medi cal association, said today that 40 per cent of the nation's phy sicians now are serving with the armed forces and the veterans' administration. Although recruitment of civil ian physicians for the army has stopped, McNutt said, the navy MCUf unUK COD Ol n Although not the familiar homeland, these shelters give Yugoslav nBW numw rwn W'nlotees opportunity to slop ind rat nd plan their future. United Yugoslav Relief, member agency of the National War Fund, supports programs of medical aid, food, clothing and personal services to rehabilitate them. . Last, but not least, comes word of the newest arrivals. A son was born October 27 to Staff Sgt, and Mrs. John Snider at Camp Carson, Colo.; a daughter was born October 29 to Lt. and Mrs. R. E. Watson at Oakland, Cal.; a daughter to Sgt. and Mrs. John F. O'Hara, October 23, at the Camp White hospital; a daughter to Pfc. and Mrs. Charles R. Turner, October 26, at Camp White. GERMAN P.O.W. KILLED ATTEMPTING ESCAPE Camp Carson, Colo., Nov. 3 (U.R) Authorities at Camp Car son announced that a German prisoner of war was killed by a guard today when he attempted to escape from a branch prison camp at Fort Morgan, Colo. The German was Identified as Obergefreiter Karl Haefner. ou mall Trlbuna Want Aaa. CASUALTIES NEAR Washington, Nov. 3 U.R) Casualties in the U. S. armed forces in world war II ap proached the half -million mark today. 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