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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1945)
SIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBURS Tuesday. April 9. 1S4I OF WATER WILL BE MADEFRIDAY A. R. Work Will Conduct Medford Meeting to Make Irrigation Water Forecast . Annual Irrigation water sur veys, for eastern and southern Oregon are being conducted this week with the Medford meeting set for April 6. W. T. Frost of the Medford office of the Soil Conservation Service is conduct ing the meetings with the ex ception of the local gathering which will be conducted by A. R. Work, who heads Oregon's cooperative snow surveys. Meetings are scheduled for The Dalles, Pendleton, La r.mnHo Vain Burns. Bend. Med- 4nrH onrt T.nltpvlpw. and will be attended by watermastcrs, irri gation district officials, loresi service men and others. Forecasts Improve John C. Burtner of Oregon State college points out that the important forecasts made at these meetings grow mora accur ate every year, since the records that go into making the estimates are more extensive. The three factors that determine the amount of irrigation water com ln from tha mountains each year are water content of the snow in the mountains, conai TRADE LOT 8. Riverside, Klamath Falls for Suburban Lot Dr. A. A. Soul. M. D. Phone 2870 SPRING MERCHANDISE Coats, Suits. Millinery AlteraUons by Experts Specializing LADIES' COATS & SUITS IN HALF SIZES Burelson's Ladles' Ready-To-Wear SI No. Central Avenue tlon of the soil underneath the snow and the kind of weather in late spring. Snow Surveys Aid Accurate snow surveys are made monthly during the winter and early spring, with final measurements taken about April 1, and soil conditions under the snow are determined at key points shortly before the annual meetings. These figures, with the accumulation of records and past experience of observers the forecasts arrived at in each district are now generally ac cepted as accurate and are used by irrigation districts, larmers, and industries. The one factor which cannot be foretold Is the spring rain fall and this sometimes material ly changes the picture. Work has reported that the prelimln arv reports are not too encour- aging, although March weather Increased the storage In some sections. Poison Campaign Against Squirrels Eyed for County Ground squirrels have started spring activity and plans are now under consideration for a poison campaign. E. G. Alberts, a representative of the federal wild life control bureau Is here and County Agent Robert G. Fowler said it would be known definitely in a couple of days if the same project as last year would be continued. Under the plan the poison is mixed and distributed and instructions given by the federal aide. The county agent said the last two years there has been a de cline in the ground squirrel pop ulation in the county and this is attributed to the poisoning drives. At this season the squir rels come out of winter hiber nation hungry for green stuff and eat bark of trees and ten der roots of all kinds. PLAN AMATEUR SHOW AT EAGLE PT. SCHOOL Eagle Point, April 3 Eagle Point, P.-T. A. is sponsoring an "amateur night" April 20 in the high school gymnasium. As a prize is being offered to the best performer, the commit tee la urging the people of the community with talent to sign up for acts. Money received for the pro gram will go to the cafeteria fund. Clnilnf time for Sunder Too Late to Classify A:30 Saturday afternoon-v-Plenie remember. IE QUOTA CUT DELAYS SERVICE A warning that lowered tire quotas for this district will mean a delay in service to those eligi ble for new tires was issued yes terday by L. L. Temahan, execu tive secretary of tha local war price' and ration board. April s quota of new tires was but 240, he said, in comparison to 408 for March. Temahan pointed out that a new plan for classifying into four preference groups persons eligible for passenger car tires has been put into effect and that in addition to this, the local board has divided its quota into weekly allotments to which the tire panel members will strictly adhere in granting applications for new tires. Group I of the four classifi cations is made up of physicians, public health nurses, police and similar professions, group II In cludes farmers, farm workers and representatives who recruit for e s s e n t i al establishments while group III includes such occupations as buyers and tech nicians for essential establish ments. Group IV takes in all other persons eligible for Grade I passenger tires. LEE V. SHERMAN FINED FOR RECKLESS DRIVING Lee Vail Sherman, 116 Willa mette street, was fined $15 and his driver's license, recommend ed to be suspended for six months in police court Monday on a charge of reckless driving. It was his second offense, police records show. WALTER WOOLRIDGE'S JAIL TERM SUSPENDED Walter Woodridge, who was sentenced to 30 days In jail and fined $25 and costs in Judge W. P. Tucker's court Friday for permitting stock to run at large in the Camp White area, paid his fine Monday and his jail sentence was suspended, Judge Tucker said. PLAN RADIO BUILDING Hollywood, April 3. (U.R) Thomas S. Lee, president of the Don Lee broadcasting system, today announced purchase of a building site for a $750,000 home for radio station KHJ and Holly wood headquarters for the Mu tual broadcasting system. 0e Mell Tribune Want Ada. a M4 Now, more thaiTever. automobile engines need scientific lubrication? The conservation of aging engines demands extra qualities In motor oil. So Richfield automotive en? gineurs, chemists and refinery technologists pooled years of lubri cating experience to produce today's Richlube. CLEANS AS IT LUBRICATES, From sub-zero temperatures to hottest engine heatsVRIchlube'proi vldes a positive, protecting, oily film to moving parts. And Richlube Is designed to cfean as it lubricates. Its natural solvent action' looiens old carbon and sludge deposits, cleans up pistons and cyU finder walls . . sofey. jYou'll drive with a cleaner motor' when you use" RICHLUBE regu larly and a cleaner motor means better performance and longer life. USE RICHLUBE . .'.V yXy jZR tKV- Japs of Okinawa Of Scrubby Type. Shorter, Stockier Aboard Invasion Flagship, off Okinawa, April 3 (U.R) Amer ican troops set several prece dents In tha invasion of Oki nawa today. For the first time In tht Pa cific war, they carried yen Japanese currency and hit an area heavily populated by Jap anese civilians. The invasion of Okinawa may be a guide to what Is in store as the Americans moved closer to Japan. The island-has a popula tion of 435,000 Japanese more than half of the entire Ryukyus although they are different in many ways from tha Nipponese in the homeland. They look like Japanese, but are a little shorter, stockier and dark, often with coarser fea tures. Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buokner, Jr., commander of the 10th army, describes them as tha "scrubby type of Jap if there's anything sorubbier than a Jap." Eisenhower Tells German Farmers To Avert Famine By United Press Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called upon German workers in agricultural areas to 'continue the necessary farm work" as their only hope of averting "the famine which threatens Germany." The message said that for years Germany had relied on food plundered from the coun tries she occupied and warned that this year "Germany must depend on her own resources. Elsenhower's message, broad cast by OWI transmitters in this country and abroad, said that Allied armies were "driving ever more deeply into the heart of Germany" and that the Ger man government no longer had "effective control over wide areas." Meals Come High In Philippines Is Pfc. Roberts' Word Relating how, he and two buddies paid $11 for a meal of eggs, bread and coffee served in a Philippine restaurant, Pfc, C. L." Roberts recently wrote to his wife in Medford describing conditions in the- liberated Islands. Ice cream is $1 a dish he wrote. Pfc. Roberts saw duty in New Guinea, New Caledonia and New Zealand and writes that he has collected a quantity of sou venirs including two Japanese cavalry saddles, books, baskets and a complete Japanese horse shoeing outfit. He is with an ordnance unit of the 43rd Field Artillery. His wife and two sons live at 313 Bessie street and his mother resides at 539 Effie street. TELEPHONE EXCHANGES 991,559 LAST YEAR Portland, April 3. Indicative of the tremendously Increased and mobile population and the unprecedented activity on the Pacific coast, the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company last year Installed and discon nected 991,559 telephones, N. R. Powley, president, stated in his message to shareholders accom panying dividend checks for the first quarter of 1945. "The preliminary earnings re port for the first quarter indi cates earnings per common share of $1.73 as compared to $1.84 per common share for the last quarter of 1944, and $1.55 per share for the first quarter of last year. Labor costs and taxes con tinue to increase markedly. Fur ther wage Increases Involving substantial expenditures recent ly have been under negotiation with the unions." JAPS TO BAND London, March 3. (U.R) The Japanese Telegraph Service said today that the cabinet has de cided that Japanese civilians are to be formed Into a volunteer corps with Premier Gen. Kuni akl Koiso as commander-in-chief. Poultry Seized for Wounded on Ships Washington, April 3 (U.R) A war shipping administration of ficial revealed today that WSA agents last Friday seized be tween 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 pounds of poultry held in New York City by wholesalers and restaurants after the agency had been unable to buy needed poultry to feed wounded men on troop ships. The official said the poultry was held for several hours, after which all but 800,000 pounds was released to the owners. P.-T. A. Activities Jackson P.-T. A. Jackson school will hold the annual April Frolic the evening of April 6. This year the operetta "Dizzy Baton" will be presented with groups of children from each grade taking part. Arrange ments are being directed by members of the faculty. Preceding the program a chicken-noodle dinner will be served by the Parent-Teacher as sociation from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Lloyd Smylie is general chairman in charge. At close of the program food and other booths will open. Pro ceeds from the frolic are used for school activities. Jacksonville P.-T. A. April meeting of the Jackson ville Parent-Teacher association will be held April 4 at 8 p. m. at the school with an interesting program planned around the topic, "Life Takes the Family Pattern." Mrs. Everett Faber, Central Point, will be guest speaker. Refreshments will fol low the meeting. All interested are cordially invited to attend. Closing time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 0:30 Saturday afternoon Please remember. If you need to QG0BI039! Dud To Monthly Losses If you lose so much during monthly periods that you fwl so weak, "dragged out" this may bo due to low blood -iron so try Lydla E. Plokhsm's tablxtcV one of the greatest blood-Iron tonics you can buy. Plnkham'a Tablets are also famous to help relieve symptoms of monthly functional dlstuibances. Follow label directions. 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