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f FOUR MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, June 8, 1943 On The Home Front Medford(&Tribunb News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mail Tribunt suggests you clip and mail this nawi roundup to a relative or iriend in service. Oat. Dear.. Much of Interest has happened In the valley this past weeK ana to make everything even bright er, the sun has been shining alter almost a month of gloomy skies and frequent rains. A recruiting campaign has Wn started bv CamD White offi cial! for civilian employees and 4t (a otated that the camp is ex pected to soon play a large part In the transier oi men num European to the Pacific front. No date for troop arrivals is Known. Tentative plans have also been drawn for transfer ot the camp hospital for partial navy use ana It s stated that it will be desig nated a general hospital. Camp Adair at Corvallis Is also to be reactivated, according to reports. Gov. Earl Snell is coming to the valley June 18 to address a meeting of the Sons of tne Amer. Iran Revolution at Jacksonville. The Sons have started a drive to. Complete Factory Approved SAFETY SERVICE Chrysler Fae lory Engineer id and Inspect id Ports for Chrysler Dodge Plymouth Dodge Trucks L. C. TAYLOR CO. 112 So. Rive.side Phone J9B5 E 7 Moi?e SHOPPING DAYS BEFORE Don't Forget Dad! Choose Appropriate GIFTS and CARDS Now at the West Side Shopping Center THE REX ALL STORE W. Main & Grape Ph. 3330 c have the old courthouse at Jack sonville set aside as a museum to house historical articles and the meeting is to arouse interest in the project. A contract has been let for construction of a new reservoir for the city water system and next week city voters will ballot on the proposal to bond the city for six additional improvements, including new Jackson street bridge, a new park, a library ad dition, sewer systems and en largement of the sewage disposal plant. Another building project is a new $70,000 terminal here for the Pacific Greyhound company. Out in Sams Valley and the Table Rock districts the residents are planning their mosquito con trol program. To go back to the weather, fig ures announced at the close of May showed It to be the wettest since 1911. Rainfall was 4.98 inches, whereas normal Is but 1.10 inches. Rain has damaged some hay and grain and retarded spraying in the orchards. How ever, It seems to have solved the irrigation problem for later months. Three former prisoners-of-war are back In this country now, and two of them have arrived in Medford. Sgt. Lloyd L. Albern and S. Sgt. R. E. Waldron are both home and Lt. Donald Peart is in the United States and ex pected here soon. Albern and Waldron were both In Stalag Luft 4 and 6 and participated in the 500-mile forced march which made history. Lt. Peart was in jured in parachuting to safety and Is now in a hospital. Every train, bus and plane brings returning servicemen these days. Among those back In the valley are Sgt. Richard My ers, who spent 19 months In Eng land with the 8th air force: Bill Wall, BM2c, home after 23 months sea duty in the Pacific: stove Olppcl, merchant marine, home after seven months In the Pacific; Sgt. Glen JewetL home after tnree months In the South Pacific with the marine corps: Owen K. Phelan, CEM, who re cently completed 18 months In the Aleutian Islands; Bob Ting ley, MoMMlc, home after two years in the Asiatic-Pacific thea ter on a Y-P boat; T. Sgt. John Latourrctte, who spent nine months In the Mediterranean: Cpl. Phillip Butreau, whose 27 months in the Pacific theater culminated at Okinawa, and Cspt. Francis Ayres, home from the European theater. Hal Carver, PhMlc, was here briefly on business and then re ported back to Seattle whore he is now stationed after two years in the Pacific. T. Sgt. Russell Graham completed his furlough and Is now at Snnta Monica for reassignment after service in England with the 8th air force. Before leaving England Graham received a fourth oak leaf cluster to his air medal in recognition of 30 missions over Europe: Sgt. Myron Median has been awarded the purple heart for BUS AD IS AT ITS BEST FOR QUALITY WHEN IT'S wounds received In France. He is currently in Germany with the medical corps. An interesting letter from Staff Sgt. L. E. Campbell told of 1 a ' victory tour" over Germany j taken so fliers of the 8th air force might see results of their missions over Europe. Campbell wrote that he wouldn't have be lieved the desolation and ruin if he hadn't seen it. He has been overseas 25 months. After years of silence, Mrs Dave Osborn last week had a prisoner-of-war message from her husband who was taken pris oner on Wake Island in Decern' ber of 1941. Recently discharged were Frank H. Rogers, Jr., who served in England with the 47th bomb group and completed 33 missions before returning home, and Cpl James Fry, who served 27 months in the CBI theater. Rog ers is going to work for United Air Lines, i Pvt, Clarence (Buster) Cota has been reported officially dead by the army. His death took place June 12, 1942, in the Phil ippine Islands, the report said. Pfc. William Groat, who has been a patient at Mitchell hos pital, Campo, Calif., after service in the Pacific is now visiting in Medford. Seaman P. Vincent is in a naval hospital at Astoria for treatment following action at Treasury Island and Bougainville. Pfc. Ralph D. McGonagle has been awarded a distinguished unit badge for service in the Mediterranean theater. He Is now home on rotation and is at Keesler Field, Miss. Engagements in the news were those of Jeanne Deatherage to Bernard Piels, New York;. Pa tricia Ballantyne to Sam P. Hoi man, Y2c; Chloe Ellenburg, army air force employee in Ha waii, to Roland Mosby Broach, Bm2c. Marriages announced were those of Joan Grace, Chica go, to Lt. Don Herried, and Rose mary Nan Bishop' to Sgt. Frank Minchow. Prospect Prospect, June 8 Mrs. Chaun- cey Arant was hostess for her club, at her home, May 30. A birthday luncheon was served honoring Mrs. Joe Dobbyn. Pres ent besides the club members were Mrs. Joe Phlpps and Miss Ida Boothby. Miss Mary Lou Neville has completed her sophomore year in high school at Mesa, Ariz., and returned to her home here, May 30. Arthur F. Goode underwent an eye operation at Sacred Heart hospital, May 29, and is making satisfactory recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Snook and children, Gene, Stanley k Esther, ana Patricia moved to their new home near Medford, last week. Billy Grieve, who has stayed with his grandmother, Mrs. Kate M, Grieve, and attended school here, has finished the eighth grade, and has gone to Portland to spend the vacation with his mother. Private and Mrs. Dwlght V. Moore of Douglas, Ariz., are spending several days visiting the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rueben Moore. Miss Theda Goode and Miss Dorothy Dolcnshck, members of this fall s Prospect senior class, have accepted positions in the office of the Medford Corpora tion, at Medford, and are living at the Girl's Community Club. Marriage of Herbert Sutcliffe and IVelva Horn was announced here last week. The ceremony took place at San Diego, May 9, and the young couple are living at Coronado. Mrs. Sutcliffe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- lard F. Horn of Keno, former Prospect residents, attended Prospect high school the first three years, taking hei senior year at Klamath Falls, where she was graduated in 1944. She at tended Medford Business College for the past nine months. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Her bert D. Sutcliffe, Sr., graduated in 1943 from the local high school, and enlisted In the navy shortly afterward, and carries the rating of machinist mate, second class. Mr. and Mrs. Clcll Cunning ham and daughter. Miss Eliza beth, spent Memorial Day at Myrtle Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Neece, Miss Donna Shadley, and Miss Dorothy Clemens were at Gil christ and Crescent over the week end, attending to business and visiting friends. They stopped at Diamond Lake on their return and brought home a limit catch of fish. Edythe and Gilbert Wright. children of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wright, underwent tonsillecto mies In Medford, May 30. Miss Eva Frey spent June 1, In Medford. visiting friends. Mrs. Elizabeth Flannery, Pros pect high school commercial teacher, left last week for Ra cine, Wis., to spend the summer. Her husband, Warrant Officer Loren Flannery, Is stationed at FATHER'S DAY CARDS You'll find cards In our larg display that express uit what you want to say, SWEMS Book & Gift Shop an army base in the Hawaiian Islands. David Neville and son Clar ence left June 2, for Teton City Idaho, to visit the former's par ents, and other relatives, and Mr. Neville will receive medical treatment. Mr. and Mrs. A. Howard Arant and daughters, Nancy Lu and Sandra Kay, of Klamath Falls, visited here over the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey F. Arant. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cannon and children have moved here from Medford, and Mr. Cannon Is working for the Ross-Cushing Lbr. Co. They are living with Mrs. Cannon's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith, for the pres ent, but plan on bilding a house adjacent to the Smith home in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Falrchlld, Sr., have received word that their youngest son Glenn, Jr., is now stationed at Camp Meade, Maryland. Pvt. Glenn enjoyed a crip to Washington, D. C, last week. Fairchild's oldest son, Pfc. John Falrchlld, who served in the 7th army in the Infantry, is .iow in Austria. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Scheel and Dee Neville spent the week end at Diamond lake, fish ing. Closing time for Classified Ads 8:311 a m Too Late to Classify 12:15 p m ONE LICENSE PLATE FOR OREGON AUTOS Salem, Ore., June 8 OJ.R) Oregon motorists will drive with only one license plate next year, and that on the rear of the auto mobile. Manufacture of Oregon license plates has been resumed for driv ers for the first time since 1942, when it was stopped by lack of metal. The new plates will be of medium-grey color, with black figures, as brighter colors are either unavailable or unsuitable. Secretary of State's department ouiciais saia. A validating sticker, for police ourposes. will 'appear on the front windshield In place of front plate. 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