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FOURTEEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Mar. 8. 1945 Our Men and Women in the Nation's Service I SOLDIERS BATTLE I With the 5th Army, Italy Among southern Oregon sol dlers flehtina In Italy's Apen nines before the Po Valley with the 362nd Infantry Regiment are WOJG Clifton T. Clark, Route 4; WOJG Malcom B. Nicholson, 217 So. Front street and TSgt. William C. Broum- ley. 323 May street, all of Med ford; Sgt. William E. Short, Lake Creek; Pfc. John Rowden and Pfe. Terry E. Roberts, both of Murphy: Cpl. Charles A, White and Sgt. Lemeul E. Mil ler, both of Ashiand; Pfc. Gay lord O. Bailey, Grants Pass arid Sgt. Grant Montgomery, CWO Rex W. Danner and Pfc. Har old R. Lawrence, all of Jackson ville. The 362nd is part of the 01st "Powder River" division with the 5th army. Their regiment broke across the Sieve river in the strongly defended Gothic line and at tained the top of Mount Calvl, 2,225-foot-hlgh mountain in which the Germans had em' placed artillery in tunnels run ning 50 feet underground in rock. The outfit captured 400 Ger mans and killed and wounded many others within 11 days dur ing this part of the drive. The regiment advanced on the direct Florence-Bologna route, Highway 65, through bleak mountains whose peaks often were hidden in rain clouds and fought In rain, mud and icy winds. The regiment was activated t Camp White, Oregon, August 15, 1942 with a cadre from the 1st Cavalry division. The men trained extensively for a month at their first overseas station, Oran, Algeria, and joined the Bth army in Italy with other regiments of the 91st during last June. FO WILLIAM FREDERICK Keesler Field, Blloxl, Miss., Feb. 27 FO William H. Fred erick who recently received his commission and Army Air '!cns Say When ,illiam: Gem of the: Blends ll!tlIwrV'TjL!&H Forces wings, has been enrolled in the AAF Training Com' mand's B-24 Liberator co-pilot school at Keesler Field. He is the son of Mrs. Madge E. Fred erick, 809 Peach St., Medford, ure. The special training he will receive at Keesler Field will ex tend over a period of approxi mately five weeks. He will get more than 30 houre of flying training under the expert guid ance of seasoned Liberator pilots, and will spend BDDroxl. mately the same amount of time in technical and. ground course training, Sum fii ."2 H 5. 'ISi'Sm'm' jli Blended Whiskey, 6 proof, 65 grain neutrol spirits ftOOOIRHAM a WORT1 ITD. t ,v,' . terta, lllineis v X " LT. MARK MILLER Big Springs. Texas. 1st T.t Mark K. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miller of 917 Yaki. ma Place, Seattle, Wash., re cently arrived at the Big Spring Bombardier School and has Deen assigned to duty, Colonel naipn u, ttockwood, command ing officer, has announced. A former student of Oregon State College, ' the lieutenant was commissioned at Carlsbad, N. M., in February 1944 and has seen combat action as a bombardier in in the European ineaire. The Millers are former resi dents ot Medford, Ore. FAYETTE SHELLEDY An Eight Air Force Bomber station, England Fayette Shel lcdy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Shelledy, Canal Addition. Rich- mon, Calif.,1' has been promoted from corporal to sergeant, it was announced by Colonel H. H. Upham, commanding officer of this base. A waist gunner, Sgt. Shelledy is on the crew of a B-24 Liber ator operating from this base to strike the German war machine. Sgt. Shelledey's wife. Mrs. Martha Shelledy. lives at 27 Newtown St., Medford, Ore. He entered the army in December, SGT. R. H. ARCHER Declaring that he was "back in India on a water buffalo diet, with delicious dehydrated po tatoes for a chaser" Staff. Sgt. R. H. Archer of Medford re cently wrote to friends here Sgt. Archer had returned to India from China, where he said he gained 19 pounds which he was afraid he would lose. Sgt. Archer told of the Christmas celebration at his camp and commented on the ex treme inflationary exchange rates on money, stating that at one time one American dollar was worth 520 Chinese dollars. The sergeant's wife and daughter live with Mrs. Archer's mother, Mrs. Wm. Grenbemer, 23 Rose avenue, and a brother, naroia Arcner, resides on Spring street. BIBLE HISTORY TEACHING PLAN BE ' Miss Loda Noell who teaches Bible history in the grade schools of Grants Pass has been invited to put on a public demonstration of her methods here Friday eve ning at the Church of the Naza rene, Holly and First Streets. The program will begin at 7:30 p. m. Rev. Fred M. Weatherford, president of the Medford Minis terial Association stated today that the purpose of the demon stration is to acquaint the pub lic with tills type of work in public schools. He hopes that representatives from the various schools of Med ford will be present as well as representatives from the various churches of Medford and adja cent communities. The Rev. Edward Ashenbre- ner, pastor of the Methodist; church of Grants Pass, will be! present to explain the mechanics j of coordinating this new feature in the public school set up at Grants Pass. I All interested are Invited to j see the demonstration presented by Miss Noell. The Ministerial Association 1 Committee that has been work I Ing in the interest of develop- j ing the teaching of Bible history I in me nicdrord public schools includes Dr. Louis Kirby, Rev Harry Hansen and Rev. Milo Rocs. These men have -been working with Superintendent of ! City Schools, E. H. 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