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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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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Hollywood, June 8 (U.R Cal
ifornia Apparel Creators, Organ
ization of California Fashion De
signers and Manufactuiers, to
day published its first annual list
of the fix best dressed women
in ra'dlo. Harriett Hilliard was
chosen for her frocks, Gracie
Allen for her suits, Hedda Hop
per for hats, Agnes Moorehead
for slack suits, Anne Rutherford
for play clothes and Dinah Shore
for handbags.
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