DUFF APPOINTED
HEAD OF SALVAGE
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Appointment of Robert A.
Duff, manager of the Medford
city war 'department, as chair
man of the Jackson . County
Salvage committee, succeeding
Wayne H. Jamison who recently
resigned due ., to pressure of
business duties, was announced
Monday by Frank Hull, coordi
nator of the County Defense
Council.
Mr. Duff is immediately as
suming his new duties as volun
teer head of salvage' in this
county, Coordinator Hull as
serted and plans now are be
ing made for the formulation of
a county central salvage com
mittee to cooperate with and as
sist schools, industry and civic
organizations of the county in
the intensified salvage of waste
paper, tin cans and all other ma
terials which may be called for
now or in the future to aid the
war effort.
Committee Named
Other members of the county
central committee include E. H.
Hedrick, Medford city school
superintendent; C, R. Bowman,
county school superintendent;
G. M. Greene, Ashland city salv
age chairman; Herb Grey and
Coordinator Hull. Additional
appointments for both the city
and county and expected to be
announced shortly, Mr. Duff
said.
In accepting Mr. Jamison's
resignation Mr. Hull was joined
by Roderick Finney, executive
secretary of the State Salvage
committee, Portland, in express
ing appreciation for the great
tuiiuuiH ui time ana eiiori me
retihing chairman devoted to
the salvage program during the
past months and for the many
tons of waste paper and tin cans
which patriotic citizens of Jack
son county had made available
for essential war use during his
tenure of office.
Visiting Medford Friday and
Saturday to confer with salvage
and school officials concerning
further salvage plans, Finney
pointed, out that both waste pap
per and tin cans remain critical
war needs and that all citizens
who play their patriotic part in
the salvage, collection and ship
.. ment of these materials are
making highly important con
tributions to the. war effort.
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; In spite - of war dangers,
American fishing boats last year
brought in 4,000,000,000 pounds
of food, including 150 species of
fish, oysters and other seafoods.
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OF WAC SERVICE
Major Bernard P. Cody, com
manding officer of 'the Oregon
WAC recruiting district, an
nounced today that Lt. Betty
Herring' and SSgt. Evelyn Dett
mer, Women's army corps repre
sentatives, will be in Medford
on Dec. 20 and 21 to interview
any women interested in the
corps. They will make their
headquarters at the Army" re
cruiting office, room 1, Post Of
fice building.
"At the present time the
greatest need for women in the
WACs is serving with the Med
ical department of the army,"
said Major Cody. "With the in
creasing fury with which our
men are fighting, casualties are
becoming greater and greater.
Army doctors and nurses must
have help in a myriad of ways
in order to cope with the extra
demands now being placed upon
their skills." .
Lt. Herring has Just returned
from the east where she has at
tended a conference concerning
the Medical department's needs
and the opportunities it is now
ages of 20 and 49. Women inter
ested in this or any other branch
of the service in the WACs may
contact Lt. Aida Ingraham,
WAC recruiting officer of 'the
Medford area, for an appoint-
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TO BATTLE LINE
Men in the 399th Infantry
Regiment of the 100th Division,
including Pfc. Robert F. Kyle,
Jr., son of Mrs. and Mrs. R. F.
Kyle, 600 S. Oakdale Ave., and
Pvt. David M. Cox, Star Route,
Ashland, set some kind of rec
ord for the speed with which
it said goodbye to the East
River and hello to the Rhine,
according to a release from their
field headquarters.
Some of the men in the regi
ment marched down Fifth Ave
nue in New York City to help
inaugurate the 5th War Bond
Drive, and they were in action
on the U. S. 7th Army front in
Eastern France when they read
about the results- of the same
drive.
Arriving in France on Oct. 20,
the men, commanded by Col.
Andrew W. Tychson of Mad
donsfleld, N. J., spent several
days assembling their equip
ment and regaining their land
legs.
Then came the order to move
up; and for three days and
nights the regiment rolled to
ward the front. The men dis
mounted from their vehicles one
night and the next morning
they were in the lines. They had
relieved veteran regiment
that had seen service in Sicily,
Italy, Anzio and Southern
France and they took over
sector that was one of the tough
est along the entire front.
The sector, then in the Foret
de Ste. Barbe, was densely.
wooded and mountainous, with
an almost jungle-like under
growth impeding progress. But
the 399th fought its way against
a fanatic enemy, against count
less land mines and booby traps,
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difficulties that favored well
entrenched enemy.
While the French army drove
to Strasbourg in enveloping
movements fom the north and
south, the 399th helped
the Nazis backward toward tne
Rhine, and soon won a repute
tion for being an experienced,
hard-driving relentless fighting
unit
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