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On The Home Front MEDFORDIkTRIBUNE - News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mail Tribune suggests you clip and mail this news roundup to a relative 01 friend in service. Date- Dear. Civic news of various sorts has been the highlight of the week, with the special city bond elec tion topping the list. The voters approved all six of the civic im provement projects on the bal lot and the council will now de cide which of the six to start first. It is thought this will prob ably be the park, since the swim ming pool, previously approved, is to be in the park. The new sanitary sewer and enlargement of the disposal phmt are also high on the "must" list, with the new Jackson street bridge, li brary and storm sewer construc tion coming afterwards. IV I for all. i I POPULAR I rnui ami i I BERRIES nil iiuiii Here's the Quick, Easy Way to Make Marvelous BERRY JAM 6 Cups Ground BcniM (Any Variety) 1 Packaa M.CP. Pectin . 1 A k- I.. 11.. ttlU Wash, ttem. gnna o quuiw i i --mnl tftl v a laver at a time bo each bony is reduced to pulp. , t-AA I.t tft (ill OUt last CUP, tl Dei"OT,r.r ,.r vu Add m.c j. alining cuaiui " ' j bring to luU rolling dou. duu. w.. . -. aide, stir and skim by turns S minutes. space ice aeaun? j - inui t: rac oirowuwii-j jam, auu 7 i.up Imimmi .uie to Men 6 cuds crushed KorriM Save FRUIT TIME SU WORK - Ml 2m TIRES LOANED FREE WHILE WE RECAP YOURS Save Your Tires With Tinstone Factory-Method RECAPPING ' 0.70 Ftm Impaction) Prompt servlcal Drlv in today yonr tires may be at the danger point I NO RATION CERTIMCAT! NEEDED FIRESTONE STORES 214 So. Riverside Medford Phpne 4757 Early summer surveys tend, to show that the pear crop may be larger this fall than last, but soft fruit crops will probably be light. Bosc pear growers are pro moting a program designed to aid marketing of this variety. Concern over the fat shortage is felt locally, with bakeries and restaurants facing closure in some instances. Operators are making an effort to have addi tional supplies of shortening re leased for the district and have cut down on pies and cakes. Real estate markets are still very active and one of the recent sales was that of the tract at the corner of North Riverside and Bartlett streets to H. C. Witham, who plans to build later. Other deals "in the air" include option ing of lots on South Riverside and Central south of Ninth street to an undisclosed buyer, investi gation by a California college of a possible campus site in the val ley and investigation of a Cali fornia fruit dehydrating and freezing concern of local pros pects for a plant. The Rev. D. E. Millard is erect ing "the Chapel of the Rocks and Roses" at the corner of South Oakdale and Eighth streets, Just across from the courthouse. Na tive rocks and petrified woods are being used in the building, remodelled from two former dwellings. The minister has also supervised construction of a new fountain and bench on the court house lawn as a gift to the coun ty. Announcement has been made of a new scholarship fund of $5,000 a year which Holmes brothers have made available for boys graduating from any 4-year-course high school in the county for study in some Oregon school. A local board of educators will select the winner. June has brought the usual large number of weddings and e n g a g e m ent announcements. Among the recent weddings were those of Huldah Rose to Staff Sgt. J. L. Fisher; Irene Franklin to Pfc. William Person; Doris Louise Fine, Toledo, to Leonard Stanley Hake, Y2c; Lor raine Larson to .Sgt. Walter R. Miller; Violet Ruth Yocum to Harold Stagg; Second Lt. Wil liam Salade to Helen Ann Cox, Globe, Ariz., and Commissioner William Perry of Eagle Point to Mrs. Augusta Seefield. Deborah Tumy has set June 26 as the date of her wedding to Richard C. Ashcom, V-12 medical student at Wayne university and Alpha Whillock will be married June 20 to Capt. Wayne Crews. The engagement of Evelyn Little, University of California student to Douglas Forsythe Mordorff was announced recently. Firsts Lt. John Herbert Neil son, who served 22 months with the 41st division before transfer ring to the air corps, has been awarded an air medal, oak leaf cluster and unit citation. He completed 19 missions in Italy before the end of the European war. Other award winners are S. Sgt. Houston R. Pitts, with the 10th air force in the India-Burma theater, air medal; Pfc. John Ziinmerlee, combat infantry man's badge for service with the Red Arrow division on Luzon; Lt. (jg) Don Wimer, distinguish ed flying cross. Cpl. Hugh Power, with the 6th aircraft repair unit, writes from a Philippine harbor of his life as a "sailjer", and the Applegate RELIABLE GROCERY CHET LEONARD e PHIL WHITLOCK Free Delivery Service DIAL 2126 117 NORTH CENTRAL AVE For FREE DELIVER? conforming with new O.D.T Regulation!. GRAPEFRUIT JUICE, Trupack 46-oz. 40c GRAPE JUICE, Wellman pt. 30c SAUERKRAUT JUICE pt. 13c LEMON JUICE .12-oz. bottle 32c PARD Dog Food IVSafe, III PRUNE JUICE qt. 30c MUSHROOMS, fancy button 4-oz. 57c KRAFT MUSTARDS .2 jars 19c ORANGE MARMALADE. 2-lb. jar 37c SAUERKRAUT qt. jar 26c D!CED BEETS, Diamond A No. 2 can 14c SWEET POTATOES in syrup 2h can 33c HEMO 7 59c THE BEST IN FINE PRODUCE Fresh PEAS, full pods 2 lbs. 33c SUMMER or ZUCHINNI SQUASH lb. 19c CARROTS, large bunches 2 for 15c Salton Sea GRAPEFRUIT lb. 10c Sunkist LEMONS, 360 size .'doz. 29c Sunkist ORANGES, 288 size 2 doz. 65c brothers, First Lt. John, and Dick, BMlc,- recently wrote home of a meeting in Trinidad. Dick is stationed at Trinidad and the lieutenant is a pilot in the air corps. Capt. Dean W. Ford, who had been "flying the hump" in the CBI district, recently wrote to his parents from the Philip pines. A letter from Pfc. Mabel Sherwood, in Italy for 10 months, states that she is now at Gardona. Among the latest arrivals home are Pfc. Rodney A. Witham and Cpl. William Kime, both for mer prisoners of the Germans. Both are fine with the exception of having suffered from prison diets. Home once more after Service overseas are Cpl. Mervyn Chas tain, who served with the 1st army; S. Sgt. Dean W. Logan, who served three years in the South Pacific; Harvey Rowden, Sic, home after 10 months in the South Pacific; Al Piche, Jr., who served 28 months overseas as a specialist first class with the navy; and Lloyd Pitts, AMMlc, who served 11 months in the Pacific. Dr. W. G. Bishop, now a lieu tenant-commander in the navy, has been assigned to overseas duty. Pvt. Harlow Carpenter has completed basic training at Camp Roberts and has been sent to Stanford university for spe cialized training and Arlon Skin ner has reported at Keesler Field, Miss., for training in the air corps. Natalie Parker has left for Bryn Mawr college where she will enroll for a pre- nursing course and later will go to Johns Hopkins university. Warren Fichtner, former cor poral who served 37 months in the South Pacific has been dis charged and Joseph Humphries, former sergeant, has been dis charged after three years and six months service, S2 months of which was in North Africa Italy and England. The Southern Oregon Base ball league opened last Sunday with Butte Falls taking a 15 to 11 victory over Ashland and Central Point dropping a 10-0 count to Klamath Falls Navy. Medford's league game with the Klamath Falls Marines was post poned so the Craters worked out against Gold Hill, a non-league team, and won, 7 to 3. The Softball season opened Tuesday with Ray Singler hurl ing a one-hit game as Jennings Tire Shop took a 7-0. win over Silver Dollar Grill. In the other half of the double header Camp White beat Ordnance Service 10 to 6 in a free-hitting game. Soft ball will be played each Tuesday and Friday with eight teams in the league. Sacramento, June 15 (U.R) Asparagus and olive packing was completely halted today in two Sacramento canneries and a sim ilar work stoppage was threat ened at a third by a walkout of AFL cannery workers in a juris dictional dispute. AT HIP WHITE Colonel John R. Young, com manding officer of Camp White, announced today that skilled ci vilian employees are urgently needed in order for the camp to complete work now on hand and to take care of the additional work load created by reactiva tion of the camp. The following positions are available and personnel to fill them is needed immediately: Shoe repairmen, junior shoe re pairmen, plumbers, refrigeration mechanics, electricians, acety lene and electric welders, paint ers, general heating mechanics, emergency maintenance men, steamfitters, auto mechanics, junior auto mechanics, senior auto mechanics, auto body and fendermen. All hiring of employees for Camp White will be done in ac- PASTEURIZED SKIM WiU ADDS TO ITS GOODNESS Friday, June IS. 194S MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THRU cordance with War Manpower Commission regulations. Any one interested in any of the po sitions available is requested to apply at his local U. S. Employ ment Service Office. Washington, June 15 (U.R) Rep. Alfred J. Elliott, D Calif., said today he has asked the house enmmitten fin tntorsrntf and foreign commerce to investl-' gate a report that the United States will ship Argentina a half million tons of oil. 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