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fOWW IBH-lUKPf ORB MAIL TRIBUNE Thurs.; April SB. IMS DANGER OF FERN FIRES TO 111 GROWTH IS TOLD . What make men match happy In the spring of the year when he gets in lern paicm This Is a question which Harry Chipman of Ashland, County Keep Oregon Green chairman, will try to help solve with the aid of Keep Oregon Green com mitteemen and other citizens of the county. Labeled ai fernomaniaes by Dr. O. R. Chambers, Oregon Stat College psychology head, fern burners last year destroyed 1800 acres of fine young tin10'; future Oregon forests, and 25,000 acres in 1943. Dr. Chambers said fernoman facs weren't exactly criminals, that the real trouble was In their Ignorance of what a fern fire will do In damage to young trees. Fire will not destroy ferns, it . l.m. nfr fnmnptlntf vegeta- 1U9V JllliB wt f o ; tion and the fern comes back stronger than ever, cnamoers ir. in the nat- saia. F"-"' , ural hothouses for millions of voung seedlin trees wnicn ura die If not thus protected from the strong sun in early years he said. Fern burning doesn't make good pasture In the long run and the net result is a field of worth less brush where good- timber could be growing but for re peated fern fires. It was stated. WALDRON FREED FROMJIAZI CAMP Bat. Ralph Waldron, Jr., who has been a prisoner of war of tha German army for tha past 13 months, has been released, ac cording to a cablegram received by his wife, route 1, box 242-A, today. Sgt. "Waldron cabled that he will be noma as soon as pos sible after going through physi cal check-up. Ha was taken prisoner In Ger many and Interned In Stalag Luft 4, Mrs. Waldron said. He has been In the service three years. Mr. Waldron and baby daugh ' ter are making their homa with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stevie, at the rural address. SGT: SlLlY LISTED MISSING tit. Fayette Shelledy has been missing in action In Norway ainoa April 7, the war depart ment Informed his wife, Mrs. Wlnnabell M. Shelledy today. Bgt. Shelledy has been In the army since Dee. 7, 1943, and went overseas Dee. 17, 1944. His wife makes her homa with tier mother, Mrs. Mary James at J7 Newtown street. 41,318 Japs Killed $ In Past 12 Month i " By United Press Tokyo reported Wednesday 41,318 Japanese soldiers and sailors have been killed In bat tle during th last 12 months. Tokyo, in a broadcast record ed by United Press, San Fran cisco, said that of tha year's to tal 32.920 were army, Including Gen. Osamu Tsukada and Gen. Toshinarl Maeda, and 8,398 were navy. Nazi Resistance To End By July 4 Senator Predicts Washington, April 28 U.PJ Organized German resistance probably will end by June 1 and "pocket resistance" by July 4, Rep. J. Buell Snyder, D., Pa., predicted today after a conference with President Truman. Snyder, chairman of th house subcommittee on war department approprl a 1 1 o n s, said "Mr. Truman agreed with me" on these probable dates. "We could have it all over by May 20 or June 1 In Europe if we wanted to run our men into those dangerous pockets," Snyder said. Primary Teachers To Hear Expert On Visual Problems Mrs. Ethel N. Fortner, Salem, with the state department of education, will sneak on the problem of the visually handi capped child at a meeting of the Jackson County Primary Teach ers' council Saturday, April 28, at the courthouse auditorium In Medford, Teachers .ire urged to bring questions concern!:' the prob lem for discussion and are also asked to bring suggestions for Mothers' Day gifts. Group lead ers will be Miss Marguerite Moore. Evans, first grade: Mrs. Guinevere McCoy, Jacksonville, second grade, Mrs. Nell D. Young, Talent, third grade. 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