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.
All primary teachers are in
vited to attend and anyone In
terested in the discussion of the
visually handicapped person is
invited to be present.
JUST IN CASE
San Francisco, April 28 U.R)
Air raid instructions printed
In three languages were posted
today in United Nations confer
ence buildings just in case. .
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