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' FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE On The Home Front MedfordvIvTribune News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mall Tribune suggests you ellp and mall this news roundup to talatWa ei friend in seiTica. Dt Dear. Valley folk are looking for ward to the Fourth of July holi day, when plcnici, fishing trips, parades and rodeos will be the order of the day. The Jackson County Sheriff's Posse is hold ing the fourth annual rodeo and horse show Saturday and Sun day, Klamath Falls is staging a rodeo July 2, 3 and 4 and Ash land has planned a patriotic par ade and celebration for the : Fourth. Warm, bright days have has tened .ripening of early cherries and harvesting of these has start ed, while thinning is in full swing in the pear orchards. Voting in the special state election last week was "very liKht. A special levy for build- , inns for state institutions carried throughout the state but the vot ers said "no" on cigarette tax for the support bf schools. One ; of the state projects will be new dormitory at S. O. C.E. to coal i0,uvu. y A fire this week destroyed the mess hall, kitchen and storeroom at Camp Prescott, used to house Mexican agricultural workers. Ashland has been without .Its famed Lithia water recently and city officials stato the shortage Is due to the operation of a dry lea Dlant near the SDrlnes. A new pipe is to be Installed to the upper springs. Again the news of the week has been filled with stories of returning servicemen. T. Sgt. Friday, June 29, 1945 1 battle stars and presidential citation ribbon. Many honors continue to come to valley servicemen. Pvt. Lee H. Bumgardner, who served in Belgium and Germany, lias been awarded a silver star and Lt. Col. Lyle P. Wilcox and T. Sgt. I B. F. Sparks have been given bronze stars. Col. Wilcox is at Erlangen, Germany, with a tac tical unit and Sparks is In the Philippines. An unusual honor was that given Lt. J. D. Logan, navy air I corps, who was made an honor- ary member of the Brazilian air I force after 14 months duty dur ing which he helped train Bra zilian airmen. He has been in Rogue River on leave and will report for duty with the naval air transport. Roy Elmo Myers, Flc, of Shady Cove has been cited for courage during the Iwo Jima op erations and Pfc. Russeu R. Mee, also of Shady Cove, has been awarded the combat infantry- mans badge for service on Lu zon with the Sixth Infantry. Roy L. DeFluiter has added a star to his Asiatic-Pacific ribbon for the Iwo Jima campaign and Cpl. Duane L. Child now wears the Philippine liberation ribbon and the bronze star for the Leyte campaign. Lt. Col. Charles M. Thomas of the famed 41st Infan try Division has been given an oak leaf cluster to his bronze star. Cpl. Lester L. Foley of Cen tral Point has been given an A.A.F. award at a B-29 base In the Marianas. Pvt. Everett E. Taylor's fam ily received a letter from a Fil ipino boy who became acquaint ed witn tne private, now in a Philippine hospital.. The Fili pino wrote that Mrs. Taylor should be proud to have a son who has been a saviour of hu manity. Former prisoners returning home last week were Cpl. Ray Crosby, Staff Sgt. Cecil Claflin and Lt. Boyd Bellamy. Cpl. Crosby, one of the first Jackson county men to be taken prisoner by the Germans, was a captive 27 months but survived the bit ter ordeal in fair shape and is said to be little changed. Lt. Bellamy was a prisoner 111 Clarence A. Tingloaf, Pfc. Mor ris Corby and Hjalmcr Edwards are home after having been hon orably discharged. Tlngleaf and Corby served with the 7th AAF in the Pacific, and Edwards wears seven campaign stars for the North African, Italian and European theaters, the Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre and com bat Infantryman's badge. Lt. Jack Martin, pilot, has been placed on inactive duty. He wears the air medal with five clusters and the Pacific theater ribbon with four clusters. Henry L. Stewart has received a medi cal discharge and is now home. Pat Shaw, CMM, has been spending a 30-day survivor leave jhere, John E. Barraclough, war rant officer, is home after three and one-half years in the Pacific and T. Sgt. Dclmer Wright is here from McCaw hospital where he was a patient after three years overseas duty. Home after a year in Russia Is T. Sgt. Paul I. Losey and Lt. Richard Witt is back in this country after more, than two years Pacific and Asiatic duty. Alton Mingcr, merchant murine who has made 11 voyages since the start of the war, was recent ly home for a brief visit. Also here is Sgt. Roland- F. Hogue, home from Italy. ' T. Sgt. W. H. McCart Is home from. England .where he served as a radio gunner. He wears the air medal with two clusters, two months and the sergeant three months. Pfc. Harvey H. Lunsman was killed in action on Okinawa May 22 and Johnnie J. Kerry, T'4, and Pfc. CharJcs A. Calhoun, have been wounded while serv ing in the Pacific region. Pvt. Ray Mann of Central Point has returned to service with the "Avengers of Bataan" after be ing wounded for the third time. Albert N. Espey has been pro moted to first lieutenant at an 8th AAF base in England and Robert Iven to the rank of cap tain at a 21st bomber command base in Tinlan. Weddings announced last week were Alpha Whillock to Captain Wayne Crews, Hum Cuffell to Capt. John Hunter dt Philadelphia, Frances Fitzgerald to Earl Weaver and Barbara Stuart to Jack Gardner, Jr. The Gardners have gone to Norfolk, Va.. where the groom will attend naval school. He is a veteran of 17 months overseas duty. Capt. and Mrs. Crews will live near BREAD tS AT ITS BEST for BttiROy when ifs Phoenix. Ariz , and Capt. u,nd I Camp Haan Named the east after which .the officer reriorts at Ft. Dix. The engage ment of Mary Ellen Loeffler to Ensign Larry Jackson. of Rich field, Kan., has been announced Debarkation Spot Los Angeles, June 29 !U.PJ Camp Haan, Calif., was estab lished today as debarkation cen ter of the Los Angeles port of embarkation to process troops returning from the Pacific. The army said returned sol diers will spend not more than 48 hours at the new center be fore going to reception centers throughout the country. MONTGOMERY vi A q s? ess y4w m- i f -m lake al . 'ltd. v "V "tf.' A summer pay EXQUISITE SABLE-DYED SQUIRREL LOCKE AMAZINGLY LOW PRICED AT ONLY 2 plut 20 9xelf fax 'os, June the tonsible time to buy this lovely coat I Silky-soft squirrel locke . . . feather-light . . . blended to the rich brown of sable isn't it just what you've been wonting? Then hove it on layaway-r-and take until November 15th to poyl Come Fall, it's all paid for, just when you need it I Simple, isn't it AND sensible at Wards low prices I 0v ami. i r u ' m -m mm i it r j ft i 1 I 1 SI "r J . J I J I tin ck 1 U mm, I J w : r7 v Si i i'V.. ontgomery Ward THI NATION'S IAROIST RITAILIR OF POPUIAR PRICED PURS
