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BIX -MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE JACKSON COUNTY FARM NOTES Compiled by County Office O. S. C. Extension Service Or.ri.ai Package! September 15 to October 15 re the dates for mailing Christ mas packages to men and women In the service without request. Service people liked the food that was sent them last year seal ed in tin cans and have asked for more. Miss Marian Farrell, county home demonstration agent reports that Oregon State College extension service will continue to offer the service of sealing tin cans and placing the necessary labels on them for shipment overseas. The tin cans will be available at a local grocery store and only the sealing will be done at the Extension office. Fruit cake that was baked at home In a No. 2'a tin can last September arrived in Belgium Jn good condition In December. A sailor In the South Tacific has reported that chocolate cookies TIRE PRODUCTION COMING YEAR TO BE 66 MILLIONS Washington, Aug. 31 U.P The War Production board to day scheduled the production of 66,000,000 passenger and motor cycle tires for 1046. This would be the highest pro duction of automobile tires in the nation's history. The pre vious all-time high was 53,000, 000 tires jn 1041. WPB said 44,000,000 tires of the 1948 total would be avail able for civilian replacements nd export. WPB also disclosed it has ad vised Its Rubber Advisory com mittee that tire rationing would have to continue for some time untlll orderly distribution is possible without rationing. WPB said truck tires probably would come off rationing before auto mobile tires. As long as tires till are needed for cars on the road, new cars will be allowed no spares, only four tires apiece. Salt Lake City, Aug. 31 Douglas E. Scalley, president of the U. S. Beet Sugar Manufac turers' Assn. and vice president and general manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., said here today that "Mayor LaGuardia Whaf'S the JVame ? It 8 an animated doll, manipu lated br wires to imitate real people. Ito particularly popu lar with fltililren. The name is ... see 6rou 2 Mm jr - a I L i- ". .uoii-i.itAm A BwidW ITni.lUr 86 Prao) 6S7f Grain Aeulrsf Spiritt atu-wy OuiiUinf Corp, LiuU, Ttiitr. Aug. II. 1945 sealed in a tin can arrived In good condition three months lat er. Various reports have been heard concerning the degree of success in sending various foods and Miss Farrell is very anxious to have this Information so that others will not make the same mistakes again this year. Those who have taken advant age of this sealing service could render great service to the ex tension department by sending the following Information to the office of the home demonstration agent, courthouse, Medford. Have you found that foods sealed in tin cans keep better than that sent by other methods? List foods that arrived overseas successfully and underline those foods that were sent to the South Pacific with success. Recipes or suggestions for food that can be mailed overseas will also be ap preciated. has shown that he knows nothing what ever about supplying the American public with sugar." He made the statement after reading LaGuardla's comment In Washington D. C, before the senate banking committee that the United States can get enough sugar from islands outside the nation and "shouldn't grow a pound of beet sugar." Scalley said New York's fiery mayor was commenting on a subject "he apparently knows nothing about." " Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Mrdfnrd and vicinity: Cl.ar tonliht and Saturday. Slightly warmer Satur day. Oreo-on: Clear tonlffht and Saturdav but fog ni!r coast, ffllghtlv wanner over Interior Saturday. Uentla north west wtnd off const. LOCAL OATA Temperature a year ago today: Highest ; lowest S3. Total monthly precipitation 1.13 Inches. F.xcess for the month .P7 inchee. Total precipitation since September 1, l(l4 ao4l Inches. F.xcaas lor the season S.0B Inches. Relative humidity at 3:30 p. tn. yea terday 3S-V SO today 13. Tomorrow Sunrise S 3A a. m.; Sunset 7:4S p.m. Observations Taken At 4:30 A. M., 1J0 Meridian Time High Low Temp. nt,ise . Bil Boston SO AO 72 08 so no .10 .14 72 78 77 .12 3 .12 .13 01 .12 33 Chicago 94 Denver .,...... 02 Eureka 00 Havre .. 80 l,os Angeles M...W..M... 70 .Medford ........... 87 New York 02 Omaha OA Phoenix .......,... 110 Portland 70 Reno 8.1 ftoeeburg 82 Salt l.ak. 87 San Francisco 72 Seattle ..... 73 Kpokane 82 Washington, D. C. 1)4 Yakima SB .00 A camera which takes a con tlnuous picture 200 feet long and 0'i Inches wide, covering 11 rr.iles of terrain, has been per fected by the Army, Flying re veals. It produces the sharpest aerial photography on record. It 8 a superbly smooth wliUkr-, with a delightful fla Tor all ils own. Some like it mixed . . . some like it straight... but all are agree il this blend it great! the name is - g 1 The name i T luiumAulm. 4l tj II The 12 The NORTHWEST EACEO BY STRIKE, Seattle, Aug. 31 (U.R) A strike of more than 60000 Paci fic northwest AFL lumber work ers was forecast by union lead ers today as the national labor relations board began sorting 30,000 ballots from the first two scheduled strike votes involving Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and northern Califor nia workers. Its office jammed with sacks of ballots received before the deadline last midnight, the NLRB said results of the ballot ing would not be known until Sept. 6. Union leaders, however, have warned they planned to strike regardless of the outcome, to enforce their demand for 20 cent hourly wage increases. Ballots now in the hands of the NLRB were cast by workers In 330 northwest lumber com panies and the Willamette val ley district council in Oregon. A second vote has been called for the Klamath basin in southern Oregon with a Sept. I deadline. MEET (By United Press) Gen. Douglas MacArthur shook hands today with Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright who took over Corregidor's defense when MacArthur was ordered out bo fore the fall of the fortress. CBS Correspondent William J. Dunn reported the meeting at MacArthur's headquarters at the New Grand hotel in Yokohama. Wainwright, freed from a Japanese prison camp in Man churia; was rushed by air via Chungking and Manila to be pre sent at the formal surrender ceremony Sunday. . The meeting took place In a private dining room of the hotel where RCacArtluir and his staff awaited Walnwright's arrival. "Well, I'm glad to see vou," MacArthur said, shaking Wain Wright's hand as the emaciated officer walked in. Wainwright, obviously in fine spirits, swal lowed momentarily and said "I'm glad to see you, too." Wainwright was accompanied by Gen, Sir Archibald Pcrclval, British commander at Singapore, also invited to witness the sur render. While the mileage of railroad tra.i:s In the United State. It1 eight times that of Great Bri- i tain, the number of passengers carried is only one-third. j It S a performer with a re markable sense of balance, whose tight-rope art is a thrill ing feature at the circus. The name is . . . see below 1 Pi 1 I, Here's New Role JW 2 . I " " t- III numi afti niliiiitT . , The world's largest Implement of warfare, the B-29. became an imple ment of mercy when nine superforts of the 73rd Bomb Wing dropped food and supplies to Allied prisoners of war at Weithslen, China. One giant bomber Is shown being loaded from a field In China. (20th AAF photo transmitted by Navy radio from the U. S. S. Iowa in Sagaml Bay.) Washington, Aug. 31 (U.R) Industry expects to produce more civilian goods by the end of the year than it did before the war. Production Chief J. A. Krug, Because of the economy and convenience of preserving meats, fruits and vegetables for year 'round use, there it increasing demand for cold storage lockers in this com munity. To meet this demand ... We Are Constructing More Lockers This will be your opportunity to secure lockers CEN TRALLY LOCATED AT OUR PLANT just TWO BLOCKS FROM MAIN STREET. Your LoQaken Efow! A $2.00 deposit will reserve your locker and assure early choice of location. Remember! Chrystal cold storage lockers are accessible LONGER HOURS from 7:00 a.m. until 1000 p. m. No telephone reservations can be ac cepted. Don't delay make a deposit AT ONCE on your new looker! o BREWING & DIST. CO. CLIQUOT CLUB BOTTLING COMPANY 301 North Fir Street for Mighty B-29s (tlcmm Raaio-Ttleaholol made public the war production board's first survey on the pro gress of industry's shift-over to peacetime output. lie said the reconversion rate right now is better than he ex pected. The survey covered 42 of the most important peacetime indus tries, representing 3,750 manu facturers. Nearly every tree, plant and flower native to Ohio is found In the forests of Scioto and Adams county. o YOU Heed a SL1 9 esenve EASE E PILOTS WERE YOUNG JAPS Yokosuk Naval Base, Aug. 31 U.R) Specially-trained Japan ese suicide pilots were recruited for the highly-advertised "special ; attack corps" from volunteers and pilots who had no choice in the matter, it was learned today. Yagiu N l o y u k i, reported "most of the volunteers were younger pilots." "They were giv- Len special discipline for the sui-; cide jobs along with pilots irom units arbitrarily chosen by thei high command." "The people believe that cap-! tured Japanese are disgraced if they come home, but I feel sorry ' for them because they put up a good fight," Naoyuki said. "In-! tellectuals, however, do not feel . this way and would welcome j home a Japanese who was cap-! tured." Naoyuki said that towards the i end the Japanese were exhaust- j ed and felt the war was going! against them. They knew they , were definitely licked when the big Superfortress raids started in Mav, he added, and the atomic j bomb was the chief reason they! quit. , . j Fire Doors Offered By Surplus Agency . Approximately 150 Industrial and residential fire doors, de clared surplus when government agencies completed certain dormitory and ship construction contracts, were announced for sale today by Reconstruction Finance Corporation's surplus nrnnsrtv division. reniOIl uuiiu-. ing, Portland. The offer includes metal clad and sheet metal doors, some assembled with door frames. About 200 tons of chrome manganese steel rounds, 1.968 inches in diameter, are also for IT'S WALL COSTS k 0MT 7 ...because NT---' fT'S THE 00 SJWwf Just $2.98 a gallon and one gallon does the average room I $&WIS ON RIGHT OVER WALLPAPER, painted walls and ceilings, wall board, basement walls. NO WONDER HAS TAKEN COUNTRY BY JUST ROLL IT CN! Quickly, easily with the new K cm-Tone RoUer-Koater. TRIM IT! Use smart, new Kern Tone wall border trims. Qummed, ready. to apply. Washablel (HK nx w Roller-Koater 89 TRIMS 15 is lew HUBBARD Main & Rirerside 55 m sale, under set prices established w. The largest cut of timber for any one year in the United States was in 1906. In that year the cut was 46,000,000,000 board feet, as compared to about 36, 332,000,000 board feet In 1942. YOUR ROOMS! THE MIRACLE FINISH WAY! A ROOM costs u- COVERS WITH 1 COAT! DRIES IN 1 HOUR! WASHES EASILY! Just use ordinary wall cleaners! THE STORM! 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