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-v Kf 4ivi t- TELEGRAM ANNOUNCING he has won $50,000 farm in Washing ton's Columbia River basin Is brought to Donald D. Dunn, Marion, Kan., war veteran by Herbert L. Rosenkranz, chairman ot Veterans of Foreign Wars national agriculture and development committee. Dunn, combat veteran of World War II, was adjudged "most worthy veteran" In contest. From left: Rosenkranz, Mrs. Dunn, Dunn and daughters, Sally Ann, 5, and Deanna, 8, (International Soundphoto) Vet, Loser in Wins Farm in Yakima (U.R) A war veteran who moved here after his farm ing operations were wiped out by the 1951 Kansas flood has a new farm and a new future. Donald D. Dunn, 30-year-old World War II tank driver, was awarded a $50,000 farm in the Columbia Basin of his adopted t state after he was declared the nation's "most worthy" veteran and winner of the Veterans of Foreign Wars "farm-in-aday" contest. Donated By Citizens The 80-acre farm near Moses Lake was donated by residents, land owners, labor unions and business firms of the area. The land is bare now, but on May 29 the tract will be transformed within a 24-hour period into an irrigated, plowed, planted and "operating farm. There'll be a $15,000 house, a barn, outbuildings and fences. The house will be fully furnish ed and tractors, trucks, live stock, farm supplies, imple ments, chickens and other equip ment will go with it. Even a dog and cat will be part of the bargain. Feels Guilty "I doubt if we could have earned it in 10 years. There are more deserving men, and I feel a little guilty about it all," Dunn said modestly. But naturally I'm thrilled. It's a big future. Yessir, that's for sure." The ready-to-operale farm enterprise will be turned over to Dunn, his wife and two daugh ters in a ceremony May 22 cele brating the opening of irrigation sluiceways for 87,000 acres of land of which the free farm is a part. The land will be irrigated y)y waters from Grand Coulee dam, which, also will provide water for an additional 1,029, 000 Columbia Basin acres by the end of this year. Kansas Farm Flooded Dunn, whose ancestors have been farmers for generations, went back to his home at Mar lon, Kans., after the war. His tented farm was a money-mak- Big Flood, VFW Contest ing operation when he was flooded out. He brought his family here last December and took a Job as an implement salesman. But he wanted to go farming again, so when he heard of the farm-in-a-day contest, he entered his name as a contestant. He was chosen from among 49 entries one from each state and Alaska. F7 Acfivians Prepare For State Conclave The annual state, convention of Active International will be held in Medford April 28 and 27, and some 200 delegates and wives are expected to attend the affair, Al Bradford, convention chairman, stated today. The convention business ses sions are to be held at the Med ford hotel and will get under way at 10 a.m. April 26. The state public -speaking contest, with contestants from each club, is to be held at the noon luncheon Saturday at the hotel. Ladies attending will be en tertained at a noon luncheon by wives of Medford Activians at the Rogue Valley Country club, and will join their husbands Saturday night for a banquet at the Medford hotel. Mrs. George Schuler is in charge of arrangements for the women attending the convention. WAIVES HEARING Howard Leon Webber, 37. waived preliminary hearing in district court Saturday on a charge of theft of eight payroll checks from Robert A. Stanage at Toketee Falls, city police said Saturday. State and city police picked Webber up at Toketee Falls after he had passed one of the checks at a Phoenix market and another at a Talent market. He is held in county jail. 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Mr. Nygaard passed away suddenly while on a business trip in Kentucky. He is survived by his wife, a daugh ter, Mrs. Robert C. Duke, and grandson, Larry, all of Ar lington. For 13 years Mr. Nygaard liv ed in Medford, and prior to his ownership and management of the Rogue Restaurant on Cen tral avenue he was district sales manager for Standard Oil com pany in this area. He was a member of various Masonic or ders and Hillah Shrine temple, and affiliated with several fra ternal organizations while re siding in this city. for new factories and equipment this year. But the businesses planning the biggest expansion programs are defense industries. The de fense program is the mainstay of the present high level of business activity. Non-defense business is slumping a little. Program Keeping Up In his final report, ex-Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the defense program Is keeping up with its slowed-down schedule and that delivery of war goods totalling 54.000,000, 000 a month Is "in sight." Industries which manufac ture goods for the general pub lic are planning relatively small expansion this year, in many cases less than last year. Lest Public Buying A new survey of consumer plans for spending and saving shows the public does not in tend to buy as much as industry could produce in the way of new cars, refrigerators, radios and other big items. Personal income is expected to set new records later in 1952, however, and consumer spend ing has climbed a little while saving has dropped off. But con sumers told Federal Reserve Board poll-takers they still plan to salt away almost 10 per cent of what is left over after taxes are paid, as they did in the last three quarters of 1951. Some of ficials' even predict a small in crease In this high rate of saving. Film Actress Sheds Former Football Star Hollywood (U.R) Film ac tress Terr?- Moore has ended her three-months of married life with football star Glenn Davis on testimony that he called her Hollywood friends "a bunch of frauds." The 23-year-old actress won a divorce from Davis, 27, Monday after she testified that the for mer West Point AU-American whom she married Feb. 9, 1951, kept her in a "constant state of turmoil." They separated three months after the ceremony. 1 Tuetdey. April IS, 1SS2 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Oregon Marine Pilot Rescued From Ocean Tokyo (U.R) Capt. Carl S. Detmering, Marine Corps pilot from Springfield, Ore., was safe ly back aboard the carrier Bai roko Tuesday after being res cued from the sea off western Korea Monday. Detmering's Corsair fighter was disabled by enemy fire dur- ing a strike at Communist posi tions and he sent out a distress signal just before parachuting into the water. ! Lt. Robert W. 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