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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1945)
On The Home Front MEDFORDvttfTBIBUNE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mall Tribune suggest! you clip and mill this news roundup to a relative or friend in service. Data.. Dear. This week has been a blustery, rear March week, with snow in the hills and rain in the valley. Fruit buds are somewhat retard ed, but Roy J. Rogers has ar rived in the valley to prepare for the annual frost forecast work. School children are engaged in another drive, this time for tin cans and as usual are prom ised a half-holiday if quotas are met. Crater Lake Motors has an nounced that a new building will be erected at the southeast corner of Main and Fir streets whenever priorities can be se cured, Clarence Winetrout, act ing for his son. Art, the latter being in the Philippine area with the navy. A hearing was held this week on the aoplication of the Rogue Valley Transit company to offer I j COFFEC MM ether MONARCH Feeds-all lust as Coed 1 EASTER CARDS FOR EVERY ONE Thousands to select from friendly, formal, humor ous or sentimental. Price 5c'to $li00. SWEM'S GIFTS intermediate service, on a new route between Medford and Ash land over the old road through Talent and State Game Commis sioner .Kenneth Denman stated in an interview that all Oregon and northern California are united in opposition to the sug gested diversion of the Klamath river and lake waters into a pro posed gigantic power and irri gation reclamation project. Medford Black Tornado found little trouble in turning back Prineville, district 3 champions, to win their ticket to the state basketball tournament at Salem, being played this week-end. Medford defeated Vernonia Thursday night in first-round play. Finals are slated for Satur day night with Washington of Portland, and Medford listed as probable championship contend ers, i Rogue River lost out in their bid for a tourney berth when they were beaten Saturday night by Arlington, 28 to 22. Mr. and Mrs. Emilia M. Gianni (Margaret Bowman), recently married, and have gone to San Francisco where the groom will be stationed. The groom served on the U. S. S. Louisville since 1940. TSgt. Herbert Howard was recently married to June Ellen Preston at Fairbanks, Alaska, and Freida Moorhead and Frank ' L. Hale of Eagle Point were married, last week Frank is in the air corps re serve. Anne Carter has left for Pensacola, Fla., where she will be married to David W. Brain- erd of Grants Pass, naval photog raphcr. Other engagements are those of Bonnie banger to cpi, Leon Hansen of Poulsbo, Wash., and Vernon Tye to Lt. Austin Murray. Ann Drysdale left this week for Wave training in New York) Wilda Bedingfield is now on duty with the Wac at Shcppard field in Texas, Pfc. Charlotte Hohlweg is a photographic tech' niclan at Roswell field and Edna R. Livingston, Slc, completed training at Palm' Beach and has reported for duty in Seattle. Second U. Richard W. Hewitt has been awarded the air medal at an AAF station in England,) while Howard W, McNamara, marine sergeant, recently was given a letter of commendation for his work as a communica tions man during the Saipan and Tinian campaigns. He is also a Kiska veteran. SSgt. Douglas E. North's unit in the Philippines has been commended for action on Luzon and Pfc. Louis J. Straus, with the B6th division in the Philippines, has been award ed a bronze star for heroic ac tion on Leyte. Flight Officer Merton LeRoy is in a .rest home in England after service as a B-17 navigator. Ho recently bailed out when his plane was shot down over Belgium. His brother, , Lt. Maiden LeRoy, fighter pilot, has reported for duty at a Pacific base. A heavy casualty list was re ported this week. Reported dead are 2d Lt. Harry M. Beasley, killed in action in England last July; Pfc. William M. Branson, who died in France Feb. 6; TSgt. Lambert Barker, Ash land, who died Feb. 26 in France and Pfc. George M. Davis, Jr., killed in the Asiatic theater. Listed as wounded in action in the European theater are Pfc. Donald W. Milhoan, Pvt. James Pixler, Staff Set. Wayne White, Pfc. Charles E. Clark, Jr. Sgt. Robert J Lilly, Ashland, Dale Hibbs, Applcgate, and Sgt Myron Meehan. Pixler, White and Meehan are still hospital ized and Clark has been assigned to limited duty in England. He THIS REMINDS ME "It's the Water" OLYMPIA, like the beers of Munich and Burton-on-Trent, is famous for quality... and largely for the same reason . . . "It's the Water". 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High School News By student atpvrtcri Blaxto GammU Joan floppe The high school debate team, consisting of Bill Hedrick, Bill Moffat, Bob Boyer, and Jerry Iro, left March IS, for the State Forensic Tournament in Salem, in which nine schools will par ticipate. The Medford team will enter in oratory, debate, serious interpretation, and extemporan eous speeches. The team will be accompanied by Miss Barbara Compton, speech instructor. To continue the reading' of .he A.S.B. constitution, the Student Council met third period Mon day. Members voted to add base ball to the major sports in the constitution. They also decided to charge the clubs for the elec trical equipment used at dances or parties. At the meeting wore: John Bullock, Maxlne McKin rtey, Elaine Walker, Marjory Johnson, Nancy Swem, Lorraine Persgard, Jerry Liebman, David Dow, Elmer Kyle, Chuck Jones, Larry Hayes, Jack Holmes, Keith Newton. Bob Watson, Bill Pat ton, and John Wright. Among the recent functions of the Homemaking I classes, a tea given on February 20 was out standing. To it were invited the MHS faculty, teachers and home making students from Junior high, schoolboard members, and the girls' mothers. Decorations for the tea had a spring motif. Bright daffodils were the centerpiece and col ored pottery was used. The tea was well attended, according to Miss Mary Busch, adviser. Cast for the Torch Honor play, "White Phantom," scheduled for May 1, was announced March 13 by play director, June .Williams. . The following students will participate: Lois Hoffman; Nancy Swem, Janet Horsley, Jeraldyn Jerome, Alan Kircher, Jerry Liebman, and Elmer Kyle. First Lieutenant Paul McQuat and Second Lieutenant Bud Dodge, former students of Med ford high school, and now offi cers in the Air Corps, have been visiting high school while home on leave. Lieutenant McQuat is a former editor of the high school paper, the "Hi Times," having graduated with the class of 1940. Lieutenant Dodge grad uated with the class of 1939. The following students made the honor roll for the first six weeks period of the second sem ester: Sophomores: Peggy Bray, Zella Rose Chinn, Susan Inskeep, Beulah Konopasek, Harriet Walker, Jerry Igo, Don Long, Bill Moffatt, Phil Phipps. Charles wnite, and Nick Green. Juniors: Beverly Autry, Ann Conroy, Sybil Hagen, Elaine Hoffman, Janet Horsley. Jeraldyn Jerome, Barbara Meadows, Ioree Montl eth, Nancy Rinabarger, Helen Robertson, Betty Shaw, Norma Stearns, Geraldine Thomas, Vir gie Vanderpool, Carol Skeen, Bruce Stafford, Bill Jones. Several of the high school stu dents were excused Thursday and Friday to attend the state hoop tourney in Salem. Friday, March 18. 194S MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FIYS WHOOPING COUGH HEADS DISEASE LIST FOR WEEK Whooping cough, with nine cases in Gold Hill and one in Ashland, led the list of com municable diseases for the week ending March 9, according to a bulletin from the Jackson county health department. 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