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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1945)
j TO SUPPORT SWIM The Junior Red Cross commit tee at its quarterly meeting, May 3, voted to support a two weeks "Learn to Swim" campaign, June 16 to 30, and a "Jeep Shop" at the Junior high school July 2 to August 15. Miss Vera Humphrey, Junior Red Cross chairman presided at the meeting of the committee which comprises representatives of all organizations working with young people of the county, school, church, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Robert Dodge, Red Cross water safety chairman, announc ed that the free swimming in struction by a qualified Red Cross expert from San- Francisco as the first Water Safety School will be conducted at the Twin Plunges in Ashland. Arrangements for transporta tion and enrollment before school closes will be made by the committee. City School Superintendent E. H. Hedrick announced that a supervisor, shop and equipment would be furnished for the Junior Red Cross Shop. It will be opened in July in order not to conflict with the Vacation Bible Schools to be held June 4 to 16 and the "Learn to Swim" nroeram. Mrs. Arch Work, of the Girl Scout council, announced that the hours of Girl Scout Day Camp, held in June, also will be arranged so Girl Scouts and Brownies can learn to swim as well as attend Day Camp. " Boy Scout Director Gordon Gilmore, announced Boy Scout Camp from July 4 to August 8 in one week periods would make it possible for Boy Scouts They fight the war with wood King Solomon, they say, was the greatest carpenter of all time. Forty years he spent build ing Solomon's Temple of stone and gold and much fine wood. 'Besides, he must have started the first housing project to take care of his wives and his offspring. Yet, about all that, you can't be too sure. You can't ask any body who was there. You can't even make a trip and size up the ruins. Of King Solomons handiwork, not much is left. But the biggest carpenter job the world has known you'll one day be able to see with your own amazed eyes. One day you'll gas up the old bus again for a jaunt over these United States. You'll find wartime construction of wood thicker than a boy's freckles. You'll see the Army's vast can tonments ... the Navy's huge bases ... the field of the Air Forces ... the Marines' great depots ... the Coast Guard's big stations . . . war industry's whopping plants. They've required if you like statistics 120 million tons of lumber each war year, as against 100 million tons of steel. Lumber, a No. i essential since the start, has been as much a factor in this war as it was roughly in King Solomon's time when the Greeks built a wooden horse and took Troy. In addition to besting all the usual war shortages of machinery and manpower, the lumbermen have triumphed over a special difficulty of their own. Each tree in the nation's happily renewable forests is an individual. You can't cut it, move it, or saw it by strict production-line methods. Yet the lumber industry has delivered and how! It stands in the front rank of industry's good soldiers. to attend the swimming program and do work In the "Jeep Shop" as well as attend camp. Reports on . home nursing, first aid and production in pub lie schools were made by Miss Helen Bullis, Miss Vera Hum phrey, and Mrs. Jean McCul lough. Miss Ruth Vail, Jr. Red Cross representative from San Fran cisco, guest speaker, praised the local group on the extensive production program and present ed a challenge to the Junior Red Cross to double it next year, Stating that the Junior Red Cross', chief responsibility was to make recreational and com- fort articles for wounded men in government hospitals and to aid refugee children in war torn countries, Miss Vail predicted a yearly increase in demands for service. The Veterans Adminis tration statistics place the peak load in government hospitals twenty years after this war, while the needs of children all over the world for educational supplies, medicine and clothing Is mounting daily, she said. Miss Vail urged the commit tee to assist Miss Humphrey in every way possible in her fine work as chairman. L. ANGELES GROCERIES CLOSED BY WALKOUT Los Angeles, May 7 (U.R) Major food markets were closed nere tnis morning as 7,000 AFL grocery clerks met to discuss a wage grievance, but union lead ers said a "strike vote probably will not be taken." The mass meeting called by the Retail Clerks' union is ex pected to end eo the clerks can return to their jobs early this aiternoon. P.-T. A. Activities Final meeting of Phoenix P. T. A., was among the most in teresting and timely of the en tire year with 45 members pres ent. Miss Marie Prescott's sec ond graders presented corsages of spring flowers to members as they entered the room. The sec ond . grade entertained with songs and second graders' moth ers assisted Miss Prescott in serv ing tea and cookies at close of the program. Highlight of the meeting was a talk by Robert Elder, Jackson county juvenile officer, on "de linquent parents," rather than delinquent children. He stated that the law provides measures to prevent minors from smoking and drinking, and that if parent and teacher would help bring about more rigid law enforce ment, and always know where our children are, we would be greatly helping. In the discussion following Mr. Elder's talk, the prevalent opinion was that since children can be arrested for smoking, we should overcome false ideas of 'squealing," and Inform some one in authority, either parents or teachers, because although parents might approve of chil dren smoking, or not care, it is still against the law for children to smoke. An impressive installation service, with Mrs. Floyd Barrett acting as installing officer con cluded the afternoon. Mrs. D. N. Christie, incoming president, presented a past president's pin to Mrs. Andrew Stevens, in ap preciation of her work as presi dent for the past two years. Eagle Point P.T.A. Final meeting of the Eagle Point Parent-Teacher associa tion for this season will be Wed neelnv Mav B. at 8:15 p.m. It is urged that members make a special effort to be present. A movie which had been plan nl for the meetine will not be shown, since a projector could not be secured, out an entertain ing evening is planned. Installa tion nf nffirera and annointment of committee chairmen for the summer and next season s pro gram will take place. Group sineine. cames and refreshments will conclude the evening. HOPPE HOLDS LEAD San Diego, Calif., May 7 U.R) Challenger Willie Hoppe to day held a 30-point lead over titlist Welker Cochran in their transcontinental match for the three-cushion billiards champion ship. The series score is Hoppe 3514, Cochran 3484. Closlna time for Sunday Toa fjita to Clautf; 5 30 Saturday afternoon Pleas remember MMI..TM 77 f MEAT SAUCE WITH TUB T-BONE tang! Review of Historic War Week Num lice liy m-ii I Niiciy, whpic truopv verge on uiicnder GREAT BRITAIN Ninth Sea Hitler die; Docniti takct over Surrender inFKi in Holland, Denmark imminent at British lyavjCopcnhaa, cross lattcr's border S 'jp'i .,''7Ve PR? BELG. Berlin, Munich tall V 6 FRANCE 7 .,,...", SWITZ.C. Surromlcr ot northern Italy, western Austria nets million prisoners, Mussolini, henchmen shot by Italian partisans Weather Hazards on Highway 97 Powerful Argument Against Its Designation Says Yreka Editor (Editor's note: A comparison of weather conditions on high ways 97 and 99 and a concrete example of difficulties encountered on the Klamath Falls route are given in the following editorial by W. G. Bailey of the Siskiyou Daily News, of Yreka, Calif., as argu ments favoring designation of Highway 99 as the main Oregon link in the proposed inter-regional highway.) The unfortunate experience of an Oklahoma couple traveling i tween Weed and Dorris, their along Highway 97 last week be tween Klamath Falls and Weed presented a powerful argument as to why Highway 99 should be designated the main Oregon in,ter-regional highway. The Pacific Highway associa tion was meeting that same day, Wednesday, in Medford. It was studying the logic behind di verse claims of Highways 97 and 99 for primary designation by the Oregon State Highway com mission for a choice of routes. One of the arguments ad vanced In favor of Route 99 was that the Klamath Falls cut-off. Highway 97, costs about five times as much per year for snow removal as does the road from Weed via Yreka, Ashland and Medford. That meant, stated another way, that travelers over High way 97 stand five times as much chance of becoming stalled or delayed by snow conditions as do those on Highway 99. Mr: and Mrs. Henry Dawson of Stillwater, Oklahoma, provid ed a clinching argument for pro ponents of Highway 99 for, driving along Highway 97 be- Look for Ihi BLUE GOOSE SIGN f KM. I The National Brake Test Campaign it NOW UNDER WAY . . . and it it time NOW to have YOUR car'i brakes carefully checked. Our experienced mechanics will check them for you and, if adjustment or relining it needed they'll do the job quickly and economically. For YOUR protection and the safety of fellow motorists, be sure that YOUR brakes past the test! AMERICAN FRUIT GROWERS Blue Goose tMJIM9U$niiaaWW l IMnDWAV "I. ' I 5:T . Stl,tkh&"T I Docnil reported ot Kiel for linnl pence negotiations with Marshal Montgomery .J Prague decloicd hospital city VI 40 1 Hri'"V-pcnn90" . LITH Munich Prague. ? Sii iCZECHo: AUST. Vienna .Budapcs (Acme Telephoto) car wrecked when the wind shield was packed with flying snow and the machine plunged over an embankment. That same day, delegates to the Medford meeting had driven there over Highway 99 on a road so dry and warm that the thought of snow seemed fantas tic. As a matter of record, only once the past winter was travel much hampered on Highway 99 because of snow and that was on the section from Weed thru Dunsmuir which serves BOTH highways 99 and 97. By con trast, the high, windswept re gion traversed by Highway 97 between Weed, Dorris and Kla math Falls was snow-bound on several occasions. It is perhaps too much to ex pect that any great number of Oregonians would be familiar with such local conditions just south of their border. Yet, these condltlqns have a vital bearing on the choice of that state's main inter-regional highway. The road itself Is not a one state matter. It will be necessary for Oregon and California to co XX -Bah - iikim I I A v Trieste, Fiumc 1 1 1 'r . capitulato YOUR BRAKES ARE s A mm WHEN THEY'RE EEFAIE SHOP 213 South Fir Slrsel operate In achelvlng maximum benefits from the coast-long route reaching from Mexico to Canada. California's logical destination Is Highway 99, not only because of winter conditions affecting the two routes in this area, but because of the more populous and substantial area served in this county by Highway 99. Route 97, for example, touches no town except Dorris all the way from Weed to the Oregon border and the town of Dorris may cease to exist if the lumber mills which make that commu nity are removed. There have been rumors for two years past that the mill may be moved within a space of months after the war's end. Tn that case. Hiehway 97, while a eood road, paved and amnle for more traffic than it now rnrries. will become a long stretch through this county where for 100 miles here is un likplv tn be other than sketchy ronnir nr service facilities for travelers and no hotels. Even under present circumstances one nhwtinn nf o-avelers is the long stretches where for mile after mile there is not so much as a filling s ation or a ranch house Bv nnntrast. Hiehwav 99 tra verses a stable' area from Weed northward via Gazelle, Grenada Vt-oVn Wnrnhrnnk. Hilt. Ash land, Phoenix and Medford The traveler always is close to serv ice, repair and overnight accom modations. Finally, it behooves both Cali fornia and Oregon to bear in mind that Highway 99 has routes to the Pacific coast while the much farther inland Hiehwav 97 has not one such coast connection. That is import ant from the standpoints ot rjom peace and war conditions. Ordnance Plants Are Said Safest Industry In U. S. Chicago, (U.R) Despite the dangers of handling explosives, a job in un Army ordnance plant is safer than any in American industry, according to Capt, Lawrence W. Schott of the ord nance office here. Schott said the Army plants have the lowest rate of occupa tional Injuries and diseases in the United States. This is due, he ex plained, to a well-organized safe ty and health program. Medical officers and safety ex perts are assigned to each plant. They give every applicant a com plete physical examination and place him in a job he can do safely and efficiently. The Job, as well as the worker. Is studied carefully to determine the safest and most healthful working con ditions obtainable. In addition, Schott said, an extensive educational program is carried on to acqaint employees with personal hygiene. Emphasis is placed on proper nutrition, recreation and avoidance of fatigue. to Classily 5 30 Saturday afternoon nease remnnncr PARTS and SERVICE tor all mKN at WASHKKt and RISFKIUEUATIIRS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett. Phone 2419 arSTaBtaMaTwtarTrttir CHECKED HERE! I VALLEY EXCELS Excellent weather conditions now prevail for pear and other crops of the valley, according to Clarence Pankey of the Reter Fruit company, who estimates a larger pear production than last year with more Boscs and Bart letts. The pears are now In the first stages of sizing. Reports from the Sacramento valley tell of a heavy drop now underway there. So far this season, there have been but five firings of orchard smudge pots and none of the frosts have been damaging. Though heavy frost have oc curred after May 10, they are regarded as unlikely. The frost season officially ends May 30, Assistant County Agent C. B. Cordy says the first local grown strawebrrles will be ready for picking the first days of June. Due to decreased acreage the crop will be less than last year. Tiger Is Honored For Enemy Attack Chungking, (U.R) A tiger has Deen accorded posthumous hon ors" by the residents of the Jap anese-occupied city of Faoching, in Hunan province. According to the story reach ing Chungking, the jungle beast stalked into a Japanese garrison headquarters on the outskirts of Paoching las Nov. 26 and killed one Japanese soldier, injured a second and wounded seven pup pet troops before it was brought down by machine-gun fire. THE PROVED IN SOFTER, v NEW YES..AND THBBfG BARGAfN BOX SAVES YOU 3 $ A1 SWTCHNG TO MOOESS,JUSTLKE ALL THE GIRLS know! FOUND EXTRAORDINARILY EFFECTIVE. ..this wonder-working deodorant in the new Modess. Proved to in 26 different testa by a famous Independent laboratory. THOUSANDS TRIED THIS NEW MODESS for a whole year. They praiae it enthusiastically. So will you. 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