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MEETS SATURDAY TO STUDY EXAMS The Intermediate Teachers council of Jackson county will meet Saturday at 10:30 a. m. in the courthouse auditorium. A discussion of the coming ex aminations will be held with Mrs. Gladys Sloan of Phoenix school leading the discussion. Last meeting of the council, held October 28, was highlighted by an interesting discussion of present text books. Various members of the group expressed their opinions as to the type of texts needed. County Super intendent C. R. Bowman was on band to hear ' the Ideas pre sented. Officers of the Jackson County Intermediate Teachers council for this year are: Presi dent, Mrs. Virginia Luman, Lone Pine school; vice-president, Mrs. June Aftring, Eagle Point school, and secretary, Miss Flora Stokoe of Talent school. The program planning com mittee is made up of Mrs. Van Valzah, chairman, of Oak Grove school; Miss Grace Renzema, of Phoenix school, and Mrs. Hazel Chase of Eagle Point school. All intermediate teachers in Jackson county are urged by the council to attend Saturday's meeting. ARMY OSES CLIMATIC TEST Lawrence, Mass. U.R) Tests of army wearing apparel and equipment, now in progress at the Climatic Research Labora tory here, are conducted in tem peratures ranging all the way from 70 degrees below zero to 135 above. It M I'M 1 1 Vim I M M I tTT. 1 Friday and Saturday SPECIALS Marshmallow Golden Cake Heavenly yellow layers so fresh and tender they melt in your mouth. Topped with a de licious fluffy marshmallow icing . . 591 ea. Also Christmas Stollen COFFEE CAKE ' Ideal for chilly mornings. Filled with mixed fruits and topped with sliced walnuts. (Delicious when heated) For Old English Fruit Cakes. The ideal Christmas gift . . . and be sure to have enough for your own enjoyment. Prizes Offered Grangers BOY DIES WAITING FOR FATHER FROM PACIFIC Indianapolis, Dec. 7 CU.R) Little, five-year-old Kenneth Knight couldn't wait for either his daddy to come home from the South Pacific or Santa Claus, who has promised an early visit to give the child, HI with an In curable pancreatic malady, last happy Christmas. Kenneth died last night while waiting for his father, radar in structor 2c Kenneth E. Knight, who is believed to be en route home. "Hurry home, daddy, before Thunder. Dee. 7. 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FXVI Santa Claus gets here," the child pleaded in a trans-Pacific tele phone conversation with his father Sunday. DRIVE ENLISTS HORSE Maryvllle, Mo. (U.PJ A long- gone era returned to t rural area near Maryvllle during the war fund drive. When muddy roads made automobile travel Impractical, Jewell Blrkhob) toured the district on horseback to solicit funds. ' Granges of Oregon have accepted responsibility for raising the state's entire rural quota of nearly $13,000,000 in War Bonds during the Sixth War Loan drive. They are now compet ing for these prises which will be awarded Granges having the highest per capita average of War Bond purchases and sales be tween now and December 31. To the winning Grange, east of the Cascades, will go a registered Aberdeen-Angus bull, up per left, donated by the-Pacific Coast Aberdeen-Angus associa tion. For Granges west of the Cascades, a registered Jersey bull of the type shown at the right is offered by the Oregon Jersey Cattle club. The registered Duroe Jersey sow, lower left, from E. C. Sammons. state chairman of the Oregon War Finance committee, will be given as second prise east of the mountains. Pacific Wool Growers association is giving a registered Rom mney ram, lower right, as second prise for western Oregon Granges. LUMBER TRUCK IS A lumber truck owned and operated by Ted Medley, Cen tral Point, was burned early Tuesday . morning when it left the highway at Hayes hill on the Redwood highway and roll ed over four times. A trailer at tached to the truck was upside down and had started to burn as Clarence Daugherty, Selma. brought the driver, to Grants Pass. Medley was apparently un hurt except for a few scratches on his face. Medley said he had Just pur chased the truck to haul lumber between Crescent City and Med ford. It had taken him a year to get priority for the truck pur chase, he said. V Klamath Marines In Need Of Gear For Sport, Games Portland, Ore., Dec. 7 U.E) Got an old bat around your place? If so. the marines at the Klam ath Falls barracks would like to use It. In fact, the marines at that rehabilitation center are in need of all sorts of sports equipment soft balls, football gear, ice skates, snowshoes, skis and ski noles, - sleds, toboggans and hockey equipment. Sponsor of a campaign to ac quire this equipment for vet erans of the war in the Pacific, the Marine Corps league has ap pealed to the public to donate sporting goods. PROPKILL8 SOLDIER Chico, Calif., Dec. 7 U.R SSgt. Charles Tetro, air corps mechanic at the Hayward, Calif., army air field base was instant ly killed late yesterday when he walked into the propellor of a plane preparing to take off, headquarters at the Chico army air base announced today. the ri :hsMk WTO SSENGER MILE The universal unit of traveler transporta tion is the passenger mile. Last year Great Northern trains rolled up the astronomical total of 1 billion 108 million passenger miles equivalent to transporting one person that distance. And, patronage in 1944 likely will eclipse last year's record! Many things make possible Great North ern 's history-making volume of passenger miles: maintenance of roadbed, bridges and signals . . . hundreds of locomotives and cars ... thousands of men in hundreds of jobs along the line, in yards, shops and terminals. All are co-ordinated to make Great North ern passenger service dependable 'and passenger miles comfortable and safe. C L. BISCHOFF, Trav. Pass'r Agt. 530 American Bank BIHg., BEacon 7273 Portland 5, Oregon rufia,. EMPIRE BUILDER GOING TO THE 81JN MT j ARK J Between PORTLAND I TACOMA i SEATTLE i SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS s ST. PAUL s CHICAGO Lt. Aaron Ayres , Among Veterans Taking Training Randolf Field, Tex. First Lieutenant Aaron J.-Ayres, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Aaron Ayres, of Jacksonville, Ore,, is among scores of combat veter ans of a combined 5,000 battle missions now attending Central Instructors' School at Randolph Field, Texas. At the conclusion of the in tensive four weeks' course at the AAF Training Command War College of the Air the "pi lots will become flight Instruc tors at various AAF training stations. Bomber and fighter pilots who flew in every global war theatre, from Kweilln. China, to New Guinea in the Pacific and from Normandy to Ploesti on the European front) are among the CIS instructor - trainees. Virtually every member of the combat group has won the Air Medal and 21 of them have been awarded the Purple Heart. There are 50 holders of the Dis tinguished Flying Cross among the men who soon will be dis pensing their battle-won knowl edge to AAF cadets. : Lt. Ayres is a veteran of 30 missions over Europe in B-17s. FRANCE TO TAKE OVER MORE OF RESOURCES Paris. Dec. 7 (UP) Th re cent government order national. izing privately-owned coal mines m nonneastern t rance will be followed shortly by similar ac tion with resnect to a number of the nation's other resources, Including the steel and automo bile industries, lt was learned today. Faced with an increasingly critical economic situation Clein Charles De Gaulle's provisional government was understood to be planning to take over control or ail ine neavy industries that form the backbone of the French industrial system. One thousand workers from British Honduras, most of them experienced "axmen," will be brought into the United States by the war manpower commis sion to meet the serious labor shortage in the logging and lum bering industries. .u OP- A r- sM r yTTTTfU New Cream Deodorant Safely helps Stop Perspiration 1, Does not irritite tkin. Doe not rot dxessw or roen'i shin. 2. Prevent ander-trm odor Helps itop perspiration uitlj, 3 A pure, white, tntiseptic, stain less sft mshing aearo. 4. 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