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. MEDPORlUwTRIBLTiE
News From Jackson County for
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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
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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-
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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.
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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."
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