MILITARY: Jackson County, Oregon ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Elizabeth Corethers 16 April 2003 ****************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Thursday, 4 Jan 1945, Local and Personal, p. 7 MEIER HERE - Pvt. William Meier is in Medford visiting relatives and friends, having arrived in time to spend the holidays here. Pvt. Meier is a member of a division now serving in the Philippines and has served two years overseas, including 34 days of combat in the Aitape sector in New Guinea. Following his furlough, Pvt. Meier will return to Barnes General hospital in Vancouver for medical treatment. Before entering the service he was employed at Padgham's Planing mill. BROTHERS ON LEAVE - Sgt. Jim Wright from Ft. Benning, Ga., and Cpl. Jack W. Wright, marine corps, visited their mother, Mrs. Dora Wright, recently. Cpl. Wright had returned from three years in the Southwest Pacific theater where he served with two famed marine battalions on Guadalcanal, receiving the Presidential citation. Cpl. Wright was accompanied to Medford by his bride, the former Dea Jean Hardy of Klamath Falls, the couple having been married Dec. 24 in Sacramento, Calif. The newly weds were guests at the Jackson Hotel for four days. AT STOCKTON - Aviation Cadet Charles W. Lawrence is now at Stockton Field, Calif., for the advanced phase of flight training after which he will be commissioned and receive his wings. Cadet Lawrence, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lawrence, 1422 Euclid avenue, has been in the army five years. He served in Alaska during the early days of the war and then transferred to the air corps. SON HOME - Dick Nelson, pharmacist first class in the navy, returned to a naval hospital in Seattle late yesterday after a 10-day leave here at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Nelson, route 2. Nelson came to Medford directly from a hospital at a South Pacific base where he was a patient. He was seen action on Saipan and Guam. This was his second visit at home in three years. Nelson enlisted a few days before Pearl Harbor and was a pre-med student at the University of Oregon before he donned the navy blue.