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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. March 21. 1245 4,000 ACRE FEET WATER REPORTED IN FISH LAKE PanBma " ' 'artment of Colombia until 1908. . fmm U rtilni MNTItV FEMALE 4 (JUullMltMiUcTMkl) Lydls B. Plnkham'e Vegetable Corn round Is lamout to relieve not only monthly pel" but a"0 accompanying nervoul. tiled, blgnetrung I filings wnen due to functional perlodlo dis turbances. Taken regularly It helps build up resistance against such dis tress. Plnkhsm's Compound helps na ture Follow label directions. Try Ul There Is at present approxi mately 4000 acre feet oi water in Fih Ink main irrigation water suddIv of the Medford Irrigation district, Manager Don Spencer reports. It has a capaci ty of 7000 acre teet. it was rain inn at the lake this morning. The storm the firs of the Wees IJlipi UVCU uiiBauuu Jw pects materially, irrigationists report and with the spring run off In mine, it is fieured the present Irrigation supplies will be substantially Increased. I GWMIITEBced mmm To make possible better, more complete service for youl That's the reason Gilmore Dealers have tcamcdup with Mobilgas Dealers. This happy, progressive, and voluntary affiliation means, to former Gilmore dealers and their customers (1) Greater con venience in buying, (2) Greater availability of products, (3) Im proved research resources behind each product. Buy America's favorite petroleum products at the Sign of the Flying Red Horse. ILFARE.OUM LITTLE CHANGED, REPORT REVEALS Reports presented at the March meeting of the Jackson County Public Welfare commis sion this week showed little change over recent months in the amounts expended through the various departments. General assistants for Febru ary of 1943 totaled $7,694, about the same as January when the total was $7,792. February's fig ure was for 213 cases including 100 single persons and 113 fam ilies, while January was for 200 cases, including 94 tingle per sons and 126 families. Under old age assistance the report shows 829 cases received $27,399 during February, as compared to $27,560 in January for 833 cases. Eighteen children were cared for In foster homes at a cost of $469, while in January 14 were cared for at a cost of $396. Aid to dependent children for February totaled $4,526 for 62 cases numbering 153 children and in January 137 children were aided at a cost of $4,647. Assist ance to the blind was $405 for nine cases, the figures being the same for the previous month. BIRTHS KINGMAN To Mr. and Mrs. Orville, 216 N. Peach, March 21, 1945, a boy, 8 pounds, at Osteo pathic clinic. Use Mall Tribune Want Ale. HALLMARK EASTER CARDS America's finest. Cards for every relative and friend here or across the miles. Priced 5c to $1.00. SWEM'S G'FTS Salem, Ore., March 21 U.R) Senate Bill 1, first introduced in the Oregon 1949 legislative session, was signed by Gov. Earl Snell today. It is the bill which repeals the 1943 Community Property Law. The law was recently declared invalid by a U. S. Supreme Court decision on the similar Okla homa law. Two other bills relating to community property, allowing those who filed income taxes under the old law to get out from its provisions without pen alties, and saving them from provisions of Oregon's gift tax lav), are still pending. Two in a series of liquor con trol commission bills were signed today. Senate Bills 144 and 145. they caused one of the biggest fights of the session in the House. The bills define property to be declared a common nuisance in drinking establishments oper ating In violation of law, and give more teeth to the commis sion's regulatory powers. SYD BROWN TO VISIT CLINIC IN PORTLAND Sheriff Syd I. Brown, who has been indisposed for the past three weeks, at his home, will go to Portland tomorrow for a check-up in a clinic. Members of the family said today his con dition has shown improvement and he is resting well. County Judge J. B. (Blin) Coleman, who has been ill the past two months, is showing steady improvement and expects to return to his desk within the next month. THREE TO BE REMOVED TO PRISON ON FRIDAY Woodrow Wilson Newburn, sentenced to six years and six months, James Junior Collicut, and James Ferguson, each sen tenced to serve two years, will be taken to the state prison Fri day by Deputy Sheriff William Grenbemer. Newburn was con victed of statutory rape, Fergu son of forgery, and Collicut of probation violation. MUSIC STORE TO . Saturday has been set as the reopening date for Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Puruckvir's Medford music store, they announced today. Re opened in a new location. 111 North Central avenue, the store will be known as the Purucker Piano House. For IS years the Puruckers carried on business as the Baldwin Piano Shoppe. A feature of the Saturday opening will be the making of recordings, it is announced and musicians are Invited to bring their musical Instruments to the shop and play for a recording which will be given to them as souvenirs. A special musical program Is being planned for Saturday evening. Puruckers announce that the store will handle a complete line of pianos and that new pianos will be on display. In addition the store will carry all musical instruments, a complete line of sheet music, records and cabi nets, radios, when they are avail able and all types of music mer chandise. "We have planned a really outstanding music store for Med ford," the Puruckers declared and added that it would com pare favorably with those in larger cities of the coast. Hour of the opening is Z p. m. LEE REYNOLDS, HURT IN WAR, IN BASE HOSPITAL Pfc. Lee M. Reynolds, pre viously reported by the War De partment to have been wounded in action in the Pacific area, has been removed to a base hospital according to a letter from the young man received by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R Reynolds, 38 North Peach street. The young man wrote that he was feeling better but that his face wounds, caused by shrap nel, were still giving him trou ble. Pfc. Reynolds has been serv ing with an overseas infantry unit for 16 months. He was wounded Jan. 23. 4 IVJien your Red Cross Solicitor comes to tiie dmr.,, OPEN YOUR 'HEART! Remember He represents more than just the American Red Cross ... he speaks for hundreds pf thousands of G. I. Joe's. Through him you can bring a bit of laughter to wounded men lying id hospitals; a bit of hope to American boys stagnating In prison camps; a bit of home id men yrho. have hot seen home in years. Your Red Cross must He at His side for a long, long time. The wounded, the 'discharged veterans - the men overseas, all need Red Cross. Help. So give; Jnore this year for the need is greater than ever. me t voun RED CROSS Volunteer SOLICITOR with o simei Open your door, your heart and your pocket-book wide when this faithful neighbor calls on you. He b donating his time, his energy and his money, too, for your G. I. Joe's. This volunteer worker Is helping to. keep your Red Cross at "his" side, GIVE NOW! GIVE MORE! Ktt? yr RCD CROSS ttklsskt A rWi itiltmnt Idt lien prtftrti mi ttUuti j BUTt-XtTINrlARD COMPANY uith lU tPfrtvl ml Multnouub Conlj CitfUr lie AmttrUm Kti Cm 'Unconditional' 1 Surrender Said Prolonging War Washington, March 21 (U.F0 Rep. Howard Buffett, R., Neb., today called on President Roose velt to announce proposed peace terms for Germany and Japan with a view to shortening the Buffett told the House that the "swashbuckling, uncondition al surrender," had given the ene mies a propaganda weapon to keep their peoples fighting to the last, prolonging the war at a high cost in American lives. "Until the terms are dictated, there seems to be no possible ground on which a body of, opin ion can be built up in enemy countries to effectively work for peace," he said. "A short time ago, on the floor of this house, the president prac tically acknowledged that the terms of 'conditional surrender' were being effectively used by our enemies to prolong the war." Berserk Father Bludgeons Five With Flat Iron San Bernardino, Cal., March 21 (U.R) A pretty, young moth er and her four children were in critical condition today after war-worker Albert H. Summers went berserk and bludgeoned his family with a. flat-iron to "save them from suffering." Summers methodically beat his wife, Elvira, 35, and their three sons, Donald 8, Richard, 7, and a baby, William and their daughter, Barbara, aged 2, late yesterday at their home in a war housing project. Richard and William were In dangerous condition - but physl cians said the others had good chances of recovery. Summers said he .was suffer ing from an incurable disease and was afraid it had been trans mitted to bis family. BRIDGES ORDERED TO SHOW ALIMONY CAUSE San Francisco, March 21 (U.R) Harry Bridges, west coast la bor leader, today was ordered to show cause why he should not pay his estranged wife $450 per month alimony to support her in a style and manner fitting . . a wife of a prominent un ion official." Mrs. Agnes Bridges late yes terday obtained a temporary re straining order freezing the Au stralian-born labor official's bank account and his salary from the Internati o n a 1 Longshoremen s and Warehousemen s union (CIO). Bridges' earnings, she as serted, are in excess of $1,000 per month. MOSQUITOES PIN-POINT COPENHAGEN GESTAPO Stockholm, March il (U.R) The Danish Press Service re ported today that an attack by British Mosquito planes this morning destroyed Gestapo headquarters In Copenhagen. The Gestapo headquarters. housed In the Shell building, was destroyed, the report said. LANDING FIELD FOR EVERY TOWN URGED Washington, March 21 (U.R) An airplane executive pro posed today that some sort of landing field be built in every U. S. community after the war. W. T. Piper, president of the Piper Aircraft Corp., told the Senate Commerce Committee such a program would open up thousands of Jobs. 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