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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1945)
Of. The Home Front . MEDPORlUwTRIBLTiE News From Jackson County for Men in the Armed Services The Mail Tribune suggests you clip and mail thii news roundup to a relative or iriend in service. Date.. Dear.. Summer is having a final "fling" and temperatures have been near or up to 100 for most of the week. The fruit harvest continues at top speed and the k city's youngsters are enjoying J the last week of vacation before school opens next Monday. Sen ior high school opening has been delayed until October 1 in order that students may continue to aid the harvest and the Oregon Board of Education has ruled that students essential to the harvest may register late this fall. . Mothers are having much trouble finding suitable clothes for school boys, with cords, jeans, and underwear scarce or unavailable. Girls' clothes are not quite so scarce. About 50 valley horsemen, mostly members of the Medford Sheriff's Posse and the Ashland Riding association have been working with the cast of Can yon Passage, now being filmed in the Diamond Lake country. Ernest Haycox, author of the book from which the movie is being made and members of the Universal cast attended the Posse rodeo here Saturday night. Dr. and Mrs. Sweeney have left Medford to live in Portland and in Carmel, Calif. The veter an physician has practiced in the valley since 1910. The Sweeney home and office quarters have been sold to Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Kunz. Former County Commis sioner George Alford died Wed nesday after a long illness. American Legion delegates to the state convention succeeded in having Medford named the 1946 convention city. A district meet ing of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held here Friday and that same night fruitgrow ers will meet to discuss the prob lem of a new pest, the Oriental fruit moth, which is reported on the increase in. Oregon. Weddings held recently were those of Jean Lydiard to First Lt. William Seibert of Jackson ville, Fla.; Fannie Sullivan to Dick Foster; Joyce Evelyn Gei- ger to Sgt. Richard Charles Myers; Mrs. Edith Hunt to Wil liam Skyrman. The engagement of Helen Webb to Capt. Wm. A. Fairfield of San Francisco has been told. Sgt. Dolph Guyer recently wrote from a post on Luzon to describe the surrender scenes in his sector and to say, like all the rest, that he could hardly wait to be home. James Doe, F-'c, and Dale Kenney, F2 Care pals aboard the now famous battle ship "Missouri", and recently w rote to their parents of the cel ebration on the ship when peace was announced. Andrew Flor ey, T' 5, recently sent his mother a set of maps showing the pro gress of the 41st reconnaissance squadron from the time they left England until their arrival at Kirchdorf, Austria, where they were when the war ceased. A Merton W. LeRoy, in England with the air corps, has been pro noted to first lienutenant, and Warren W. Parke. SI c, is now an instructor at Manila after 27 i months in the South Pacific. Charles McLallen, SI c. has written to say that his ship, the USS Gwinn, is now in Tokyo bay. Home on leave have been Col. L. P. Wilcox, who spent 20 months in Europe; Victor Leh man, GM3'c, in the navy three years; Pfc. Donald Payant, home after 25 months in the Aleutians; Cpl. Robert E. Lee, Jr., who served 25 months in England; First Lt. Neal Curry, home after two years in Europe and his sis ter. Cpl. Phyllis Curry, stationed at Camp Pickett, Va.; Pfc. James Glenn, who served 21 months with the 91st in Italy and First Lt. Johnnie Davidson is expect ed home soon, having arrived in the United States from Italy. Also expected home are Ensign Eugene Hayes from the South Pacific and TSgt. Donald Hig gins, veteran of 26 months over seas, lately in France. Frank Dixon, RT2 c, was in San Diego briefly and phoned to say that his ship was en route from the Pacific to join the At lantic fleet and Jim Elliott is home on leave before entering the University of Nebraska as a navy V-12 medical student. So many men are being dis charged that it is difficult to make, note of all of them. Among those recently in the news were First Sgt. E. R. Birk, who went overseas in 1941; Sgt. Roy Hu son, who left Oregon with the National Guard and was over seas for an extended period; Ed ward E. Ford, Shipfitter l'c, in the navy for seven years and Cpl. Emil linger, who spent nearly three years in England with the Eighth air force. . Gold Hill Gold Hill, Sept. 14 Gold Hill Garden club sponsored a Flower Show Sept. 7 in the Scout Hall. Adults e n t e l e d flower specimens, clusters and arrangements. Juniors entered flowers, vegetables, cooking and canning. Ribbons and cash priz es were awarded. Many visitors were in to see the display. Mrs. L. O. Gentner of Medford was leading judge and gave an inter esting talk on flower shows and the art of arranging of speci mens. The Rebekahs enjoyed a party Sept. 5, put on by the losers in the attendance contest. A min strel show and a watermelon feed were enjoyed. At their regular meeting they decided to 'have another contest. Leaders, are Ellow Mae Gail and Bessie Ferguson. Next meeting will be Sept. 19 and after the clos ing of Lodge the Rebekahs will entertain the Odd Fellows at a party honoring the founding of the Rebekah Lodge. A. E. Becker, local druggist, has received word from the War Department that his son Zane has been liberated. Zane was on Guam at the time of the Jap- anese invasion and has been a prisoner of war ever since. 1 Sgt. Ernest Kell who has been home on furlough left Sunday to report to a camp in North j Carolina. ! Mrs. Leonard Ramsey and son , of Keno visited friends here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robbins and daughter of Dunsmuir. Calif., visited over the week-end with Mrs. Robbins" uncle, George Dorman and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Mel Hood and two children are spending their vacation at Midvale. Ida. Mel Davis and wife visited last week with Mrs. Davis' par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cook. Mr. Davis has just returned from overseas duty. They went from here to Sutherlin to visit other relatives. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnstone and chil dren of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smith of Jacksonville hnd Georgia Lee and Marilyn Brown of Medford. Mrs. Harry Frederick and daughter of Klamath Falls arc visiting Mrs. Fredericks sister-in-law, Mrs. J. Frederick and Mrs. N. Kellogg. Jerry Smith who has been working near Springfield this summer, returned to his home here Sunday. Mrs. W. A. Woods of Rich- CHICKEN and STEAK DINNERS KING'S CAFE Owned by OTTO and WAVE KING Highway 99 at Talent Come Out and See the Bearsl PARTS and SERVICE lor all m ! WASHER ind REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER'S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett. Phone 2419 BREAD IS $T ITS BEST F6R MTJtlTIOit VmiH IT'S I land, Wash., visited last week with her brother, P. E. Holder ness and family. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Johnson of Dorris, Calif., are visiting Mrs. Johnson's mother, Mrs. Daisy Gilchrist. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Davis and Mrs. Davis sister Virginia Dia mond of Fairfax. Mo., visited last week with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cook. Sgt. Alvis Winn and mother, Mrs. Dave Winn, of Bend, spent several days here last week vis iting friends. Alvis just return ed from overseas haviqg been in France and Germany. Mrs. Maude Coy Robinson re turned home last week from Eugene where she has been at tending summer school. School starts Monday morn ing. Sept. 17. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Inman and three boys returned Monday from a weeks vacation spent on the coast. Bud and Rosemary Klrchner are attending high school in Grants Pass this year. Mr. and Mrs. John Avena and children of Sacramento, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Kesterson of Klamath Falls, are visiting here, called bv the death of their step father, William Puhl. Mrs. Eddington left last week for Portland where she will visit relatives for several weeks. Rita Davis fell and broke her arm recently while roller skat ing. Mrs. M. Farmer returned to her home here Monday after visiting relatives in Portland. Mrs. L. Steinmetz and Mrs. Jane Cook returned home last week after visiting in the north ern part of the state Mrs. Steinmetz with her husband in Portland and Mrs. Jane Cook with relatives in McMinnville. YANK IN TOKYO DENIES MP AID Yokohama, Sept. 14-U.Ri Mark Lewis Streeter of Lewis ton, Idaho, only American on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's first list of war criminals, insisted to day that he had worked for Radio Tokyo with his tongue in his cheek "to assist the American war effort." Streeter, 47, who was captured on Wake island, admitted that he had gained the confidence of the Japanese by writing a poem bitterly denouncing the late President Roosevelt. "I was playing a very danger ous game and there was no turn ing back or I would have lost my head." he said. "My real purpose was to assist the American war effort and to aid prisoners of war as much as possible." Use Mall Tribune Want Adi. SEE HUMPHREY FOR CASH for your 1941 or 1942 Gar HUMPHREY MOTORS USED CAR EXCHANGE 33 S. Riverside Ave. PERSHING 83 J Friday. Sept. 14. I94S Washington, Sept. 14 (U.R) General of the Armies John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, celebrated his S5th birthday quietly Thursday MEDFORD MAIL-THIBUNt BEVEK at Walter Reed hospital. Perish ing's son. Major Warren Persh ing, accompanied by his wife and two young sons, came fiom Fort Jackson, S. C, for a small party including birthdaj cake at Pershing'i hospital suite. 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