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TEN MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, March 29. 1948
JOHN MEALS IS
OF
DISABLED VETS
By Pat Graham
' John A. Meals of Ruch, Ore.,
was elected commander of Jack
son County Chapter No. 8 Dis
abled American Veterans, at a
meeting in the armory last
Tuesday night. He succeeds
Clay C. Roberts.
Other officers elected are:
senior vice commander, Wm. B.
Hickman; Junior vice com
mander, J. L. Davidson; treas
urer, Karl J. Knutsen; chaplain,
Clifford R. Reynolds; sergeant-at-arms,
Ray B. Ahart; execu
tive committeemen, Harvey r,.
Cassman; Clarence D. Griffiths;
J. Patrick Graham.
Commander-elect Meals serv
ed In the field artillery In the
7th division in France in World
War I. He is now engaged In
farming.
The Ladies' Auxiliary also
elected last night with the fol
lowing results: Commander,
Doris Graham; senior vice,
Thada Griffiths; Junior vice,
Bertha Neff; chaplain, Coyla
Huntley; treasurer, Mettle Cass
man; state executive committee,
Effie Reynolds; local executive
committee, Lula Ahart; alter
nates, Ruby Brown and Cora
Tingley. The ladies are plan
ning a banquet for April 10,
date of the installation of offi
cers. State officers will be
present at that time.
COUMfclL HEARS REPORT
ON CITY SEWER . LANT
A report compiled by John
Cunningham and associates of
Portland, consulting engineers,
on the proposed enlargement of
the city sewage disposal plant
and an intercepting sewer line
on the east side of the city, was
presented to members of the
city council at an Informal meet
ing held Tuesday night. The
report was read by Frank
Rogers, city superintendent.
Rogers pointed out that the
project is quite an extensive
one and will be carried out as
a post-war enterprise since ma
terial and labor are not avail
able now.
Railway freight rates In Can
ada per unit of service are the
lowest of any in the world.
KILLED IN LUZON
Pfc. James Leabo, son of the
late Jim Leabo, formerly of
Trail, has been killed in action
with the infantry, according to
word received by Mrs. Segessen
man of Shady Cove, Ore.
Leabo, with his mother, fath
er and brother Dale lived in the
Rogue-Elk district on what is
now the Wilmar Ragsdale place.
He served In Hawaii, New
Guinea and Dutch East Indies
before taking part in the inva
sion of Luzon, where he was
killed February 16.
Besides his mother, Alta
Leabo-Todd,. he is survived by
his brother Dale of Portland and
his step-father and two step
sisters of the same address; also
two uncles, Barney and Pliney
Leabo of Medford and several
aunts.
VALLEY IN ARE. '
HURT IN EUROPE
Three additional valley men
have been wounded while fight
ing with the army in Europe ac
cording to the Office of War In
formation casualty list released
today. They are Pfc. Austin E.
Caldwell, Phoenix; Sgt. Eloy
Cordova, Medford, and Pfc.
Robert D. Hibbs, Jacksonville
Caldwell's wife, Alma, is now
making her home in Alameda,
Calif., Sgt. Cordova's wife, Dor
othy, resides at 1018 West Tenth
street in this city and Pvt. Hibbs
Is the son of Frank J. Hibbs of
Jacksonville.
Relatives of Pfc. Caldwell
stated today that he had been
hospitalized for face wounds. He
was with a tank unit of the First
Army.
BEAU 'PROBLEM' SOLVED
London, (U.PJ Designers in
the gas industry solved one of
the major problems of the "one
parlor" home by providing a
wooden partition which can be
erected when necessary so that
the family can stay in one end
of the room and daughter and
her beau can have some privacy
in the other.
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PEARTS' MOTHER
GETS AIR MEDAL
An air medal was awarded
Tuesday to Second Lt. Donald
L. Peart, now a prisoner of war
of the Germans, at the home of
Mrs. Gertrude E. Peart, his
mother, 707 West Main street.
The medal was presented to
Mrs. Peart by Capt. Otha M.
Smith, commanding officer of
the Medford air base, in an in
formal ceremony.
The citation which accom
panied the medal read in part
"for meritorious achievement in
aerial flight while participating
in sustained operational activi
ties against the enemy Oct. 10
to 16, 1844."
Lt. Peart was serving with
the 15th AAF in Italy at the
time of being taken prisoner.
He is a graduate of Medford
high school.
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KILLED ON DUTY
Cpl. Robert Bischoff, 24, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Rude Bischoff of
Murphy, Ore., former residents
of the Beagle district, was killed
in action Feb. 16 while fighting
in the Luxembourg sector ac
cording to information received
by his parents from thi war de-'
partment.
Cpl. Bischoff had been over
seas several months.
The corporal attended the
Bonanza grade school as a boy
and later moved to Beagle where
he was graduated from the Sams
Valley high school. In addition to
his parents, he is survived by a
sister. Miss Cleo Bischoff, at the
family home, and a number of
other relatives in the county.
Ammonia Denied
Salem Plant By
Design, Is View
Washington, March 29 U.R)
War Food Administration and
War Production Board officials
have notified Rep. John R. Cof
fee, D., Wash., that they expect
a continued1 scarcity on the Pa
cific coast of ammonia sulphate,
a material necessary for opera
tion of the Salem, Ore., Alumina
Plant scheduled to open June 1.
Coffee culled a conference of
WFA and WPB officials on be
half of the Columbia Metals Co.,
which is to operate the $5,000,-1
000 defense plant installation at
Salem.
"The company," Coffee said,
"feels that the allotment of am
monia sulphate in such modest
quantities may possibly be an
indirect, underhanded attempt
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