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TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thunder. July 12, 1943 .WATER PROGRAM IS TO Pnrtlnnrt Ore.. Jul' 12 U.R) irnniitF nt the water conserva tion and utilization program from Farm Security administra tion to Soil Conservation Service became effective on July 1, J. M rhrlct Pncifln enast regional conservator, Soil Conservation Service, announced today. The transfer was authorized Mnrrh 30 hv the War Food ad ministrator. As of July 1, all functions, personnel and prop erty involved in the operation of the program were iransierreu iu the Soil Conservation Service. Known as the Wheeler-Case program, It handles development nt irrlffntlnn nrotects in the western states through Joint operation of the uepartmeni oi Agriculture and the Interior, in., ant nt 1Q3Q Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to develop lands tor proaucuon under Irrigation, acquire and divide lands into farms of suit able size, select families for oc cupancy, and sell developed farms to qualified operators Kui.li rievelnnment follows con struction of large dams and other facilities by tne uepari mnnr nf Interior which make possible the utilization of water on land by farm lamuios. Carroll H. Dwyer, regional supervisor explained there are 12 projects under actual develop ment in ine II western jum-a. Local Contractors To Get Knowledge Of War Contracts A war contract termination conference will be held at the Jackson county Chamber of Commerce building, beginning at 12:45 p. m. Friday. Army and navy contract ter mination experts will conduct the training session to provide contractors of Medford with knowledge for settlement of ter minated war contracts and. for filling out settlement forms. Heading the group will be Lt. Elton B. Jones, Thirteenth Naval district labor relations officer. Other members of the contract termination team are C. E. Mus scr, industrial specialist with the V. S. army ordnance department. Portland; Andrew J. Brugger of the contract termination branch of the U. S. army engineers, Portland district, and Percy Black, Smaller War Plants cor poration, Portland, The scheduled four-hour train ing is offered without cost to con tractors and their representa tives. Participants will be given practice in filling out settlement forms and will be given other detailed information on typical contract termination cases. American Legion at the regular meeting Monday. Other officers elected were Robert Bryant, vice commander: Guy Wilcox, second vice commander; Bernard O. McBride, adjutant; Hugh Gould, service officer; Rev. Francis H. Ball, chaplain; Ben W. Coutant, historical commit tee; Carl Walker, sergoant-at- arms. and Louis Rlnguette, fin ance officer. Named to the executive com mittee were J. Z. Thompson, Ben W. Coutant, Noble D. Stan ton and Jay Hoffman. Delegates to the state convention will be Noble D. Stanton and W. C. Allen. Of the newly elected officers, Robert Bryant, Bernard O. Mc Bride and Louis Ringuette are veterans of World War II. FAST FREIGHT CO. A caption appearing In the May 23 issue of the Mail Tri bune reading, ' Pierce Auto Is Upheld by Court," was not in full accordance with the facts, due to inadvertence, and correc tion is herewith made. The Pierce Auto company and four other truck lines, in a suit against the Public Utilities com mission and the Orcgon-Nevada-California Fast Freight, sought to vacate an order of the PUC permitting the Oregon-Nevada-California Fast Freight to oper ate between Portland and southern Oregon. The vacation plea was denied in the Marion county circuit court, and in an appeal to the statu supreme court the lower court was up held. The Pierce Auto and other truck lines were not upheld as the headline indicated. TRAITOR DOOMED Paris, July 12 (U.R) The French high court of justice to day sentenced to death the "Traitor of Stuttgart," Paul Fcr donnet, who broadcast nazi pro paganda in the early part of the war. Fcrdonnct was arrested re cently at Tuttlingen by French troops. He had been condemned in Absentia by a Paris military tribunal in 1940. There are 27 Indian reserva tions in California with a total of 899 square miles. "American Girls Marry Italians From POW Camp San Francisco, July 12 (U.R) Three girl cousins today pro tested an army ruling ordering their Italian soldier husbands sent to an Arizona prison camp because of regulations prohibit ing marriage between prisoners of war and American citizens. ; The girls are Italian-Americans. .They are Norma Romeo Scorza, 23, Virginia Panfili Maz zoncino, 21, and Mildred Circo Bertolotti. Mrs. Scorza and Mrs. Mazzoncino were married at Antioch, Calif., in a double cere mony June 17 hnd Mrs. Bertolot ti was married June 3 at Mar tinez, Calif. When the marriages were discovered, the Army re turned their husbands to prison er-of-war status and sent them to Arizona. The girls called for an Inves tigation of "many more secret marriages between American girls and former Italian prison ers of war." FORCED "TIE-IN" SALE ILLEGAL SAYS OPA HEAD Portland, July 12 Requiring a customer to buy a couple of pairs of "foot protectors" before she can purchase a pair of hose is another type of "tie-in" sale reported to the district OPA price division which Is definite ly Illegal, Hosea K. Evans, price executive, announced today. Evans said that this type of transaction has been reportedly occuring in several Oregon towns in the wake of acute short age of hosiery. Customers should report this type of sale to the price panels of their local boards, he said. Fnrest flren are a trinle threat: They destroy valuable war re sources, they divert necessary la- PARTS and SERVICE lor all makes ol WASIIKKS and REFRIGtKATOKS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett. Phone 2419 Sea HUNT'S SIGN SHOP TRUCKS BULLETINS WINDOW 205 W. 8th St. Ph. 7312. bor from war Industry and agrl. culture, they give aid and com fort to the enemy. Keep Oregon Green. 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