Ttiur., June 27, 1957 Th News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 5
T Welcome Moose M Convention
1,500 Expected
To Attend 3-Day
State Gathering
The Loyal Order of the Moose
will be celebrating their 51st an
niversary this weekend in Rose
burg when some 1,500 lodge and
auxiliary members stage the an
nual convention of the Oregon
Moose convention and conference
of the Women of the Moose.
The convention and conference
will have their beginnings Friday
afternoon. They will end Sunday
afternoon.
One national dignitary and a
number of state lodge officers will
be in the city on convention week
end. Officers from 26 local lodges
will be among the throng, which
already has booked hotel and mo
tel lodgings almost solidly full.
Two public functions are on the
convention agenda.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, the lodga
will hold its opening session in
which visitors will be welcomed to
the city by Mayor Arlo Jacklin,
himself a member of tha lodge.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JUNE 28
Oregon Moose Assn.
4 p.m. Slate Officers, Hotel
Umpqua.
8 p.m. Enrollment,
in D.m. Twentv-five Club Darlv.
Turn Around Inn.
10 p.m. Dance, Moose Lodge.
Women of Moose
11 a.m. Registration, Moose
Lodge.
3 p.m. Opening of conference,
Elks Lodge.
8 p.m. Coronation pageant.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2
Oregon Moose Assn.
10 a.m. Opening session, public
invited, Moose Lodge.
11 a.m. Business session.
12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Hotel
Umpqua.
2 p.m. Business session
4 p.m. Parade, Downtown Rose
burg. 6:30 p.m. Slate president's ban
quet. Hotel Umpqua.
9:30 p.m. State president's ball,
Moose Lodge.
Women of Moose
9 a.m. Registration, Moose
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11:30 a.m. General session, Elks
Lodge.
2 p.m. Ritualistic ceremony,
Elks Lodge. '
SUNDAY, JUNE 30
Oregon Moose Assn.
8:30 a.m. Coffee meeting, Moose
Lodge.
10 a.m. Entertainment and talent
show. Moose Lodge.
Noon. Final session, election of
officers and selection of convention
city for 1958.
Moose Visitor Here Hod
Impressive Sports Career
Herbert V. Heilman, a 1934 grad
uate of the "child city" at .Moose
heart, III., will be at the Moose
convention over the weekend here
as a representative of the national
lodge organization.
Heilman has had an outstanding
career as an athlete and coach. He
now is director of enrollment for
the Loyal Order of the Moose.
The former football coach and
director of athletics at North Cen
tral College. Naperville. 111., was
graduated from Mooseheart with
honors. He was captain of basket
hall and baseball, n.ember of the
student council and track team
and governor of the Junior Moose.
He graduated from North Cen
tral in 1938 after winning 12 let
ters in football, basketball and
baseball. He was football captain
in 1936 and voted most valuable
player.
His coaching career has been at
Roosevelt Military Academy, in an
Aurora high school and at Moose
heart, all high schools in Illinois.
After four years of Navy exper
ience during World War II, in
which he was in charge for two
years of rehabilitation remedial
physical training at the naval hos
pital at San Diego, he returned to
Saturday Parade Scheduled
As Feature Of Convention
A public feature of Saturday on
the agenda of the Oregon Mooso
Assn. convention here will be a
parade downtown at 4 p.m.
11. V. Waller, parade chairman
for the local lodge, said the line
up tentatively includes 14 special
units, including bands, marching
unils. riders and floats.
I'ntil now. three lodges have
submitted plans for entries
Roseburg. Portland and Reeds
port. Others may be entered as
parade time approaches.
Portland s entry will depict its
status as the oldest lodge in the
stale. Reedsport is the newest.
Roseburg will enter a float de
picting the Moose-sponsored or
phanage in Mooseheart. 111.
The parade will form on Jack
son Street and Diamond Lake
Boulevard. The line of mar-h wll
be south on Jackson to Lane Av
enue, est on Lane to Main
Oscar L. Burke, Roseburg, gener
al convention chairman, will pre
side. U Lodges Due Here
At 4 p.m. Saturday, all 26 lodg
es are expected to participate in
a parade downtown.
The remainder of the three-day
affair will be devoted mostly to
lodge business.
The Moose convention will start
officially at 4 p.m. Friday in the
Hotel Umpqua with a gathering
of state officers and the state nom
inating committee.
At 8 p.m. Friday, the enrollment
will be held, honoring John Keen
er, Medford, the , state president.
Guest speaker will be Herbert W.
Heilman, Mooseheart, 111., nation
al director of the membership en
rollment department.
A special party for members of
the "25" Club members must
have recruited two new members
into the lodge in the past year
will be at the Turn Around Inn at
10 p.m. That also is the hour of
a dance in the Moose ballroom at
1222 SE Stephens St.
Banquet Set Saturday
Featured Saturday along with
the opening session and the parade
will be the state president s ban
quet in the Hotel Umpqua at 6:30
p.m. Charles J. Skill, Portland, a
state director will be toastmaster.
At 12:30 p.m. Saturday, a
luncheon for officers and members
will be in the hotel with Heilman
speaking.
The remainder of Saturday will
be taken up at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
by business sessions.
Election of state officers will be
Sunday at noon, as will the selec
tion of the 1958 convention city.
Three lodges are making over
tures to attract next year's gath
ering Seaside, Tillamook and
Eugene.
Sunday morning will start with
a coffee gathering in the lodge at
8:30. At 10 a.m., the lodge will
present its annual all-star talent
show, in which every lodge in the
state is intitled to two entries.
Roseburg, as host lodge, may enter
more, and the list may reach 65.
Officers Are Listed
One state officer who will be in
attendance is well-known in the
lodge here. Jim Addcox. Port
land, state secretary, formerly was
secretary of the local lodge. Rob
ert Gunderson, Roseburg, is a dis
trict vice president.
Local officers include: Bill Ev
ans, governor: Joe Cole, junior
governor; George Krueger, secre
tary; Nick Lehrbach, treasurer:
Dick Tucker, Del Crowiey and
Lloyd Andrus, trustees; and Bill
Haynes, sergeant-at-arms.
HERBERT HEILMAN
j ... due in Roseburg
North Central. His football teams
Sat the college won 14 of 17 games
! and was conference champion both
years he coached.
He lives now at Batavia, III.,
with his wife and two children.
Street, then north on Main to the
courthouse, where the parade will
disband.
I Parking will be prohibited along
'the roule on Jackson and Lane be
tween 2 p.m. and the breakup of
the procession.
, In addition to the 14 entries, 10
cars bearing lodge and civic per
sonalities will head the procession.
' They will include an American
Legion color guard, the Roseburg
liikh School band, a Job's Daugh
ters drill team. Masse Hoy Scouts,
a Joy Powell Dance Studio entry
.laycee Indians, Paul Hunyons,
Moose di-ater squad, Tillamook
Drum and Bugle Corps, the Doug-
'las County Mounted Sheriff's pos
se and Doug Ettes.
i Noise is expected from threo
lodges competing for the 19"8 slate
convention. They are Seaside,
Tillamook and Eugene.
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ROBERT GUNDERSON
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LODGE INTERIOR Moose convention-goers this week will mak the Roseburg lodge,
1222 SE Stephens St., their headquarters. The room is large enough to hold all Moose
expected to be at business sessions. (Koop photo).
Moose Disaster Squad 'First' For Local
Lodge; Men Called Out In Emergency Time
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DISASTER SQUAD ON CALL One of the emergencies in which the Moose squad was
busy was the attempt to recover the body of John Q. Vickers, Dillard, who drowned in
the North Umpqua River June 9. (Staff photo)
A "first" scored by the Rose
burg Moose Lodge was scored dur
ing the past year, and the idea
already is being copied by olher
lodges in the Lnited States.
When it became apparent during
high water periods that some or
ganized civilian help was needed
to help police and Civil Defense,
the lodge stepped in to form its
disaster squad.
The squad has been recognized
by the national organization, and
when the national Moose conven
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TRAINING is port of the disoster squad's routine. Above, members put a boat into
the North Umpqua above Winchester Dam in a drill. (Gilman photo)
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JIM ADCOX
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tion is held in Spokane this sum
mer, the disaster squad will be all
set up to demonstrate how it works.
The demonstration is by specific
invitation of national officers.
The squad now is far past the
talking stage and has been called
out on several emergencies, rang
ing as far away as Lemolo Reser
voir in the extreme eastern part
of the county.
Divers form the core of the out
fit. Norman Root and Leonard
Swanzy are the specialists.
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Roseburg governor
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I The squad is called into action
! by the sheriff when help is need
led. His phone call to the lodge re
j suits in an instant call for aid from
1 members of the disaster squad.
Coded maps locate the scene of
the emergency immediately.
Although each man on tbo squad
lis assigned a specific duty, mem
bers are required to know three or
four jobs. All eventually will know
first aid. and most carry equip
ment in their cars to be ready on
instant's notice in an emergency.
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JOE COLE
junior governor
Women Of Moose Slate Conference
Women will be reoresented over
the weekend as the Oregon Moose
Assn. holds its annual convention
in Roseburg.
The Women of Moose, in con
junction with the convention, will
hold a conference, with most ses
sions set for the Elks Lodge. Fern
Craig of Roseburg is general
chairman, and will be honored as
queen of the convention parade
downtown at 4 p.m. Saturday.
consuella Wheeler, St. Helens.
will preside over all sessions of
the women as deputy grand regent
FERN CRAIG
. queen of parade
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'Child Cifyf Health Quest
With the accent on preventative
medicine, a community of nearly
1,000 children is among the health
iest in the nation today.
The community Mooseheart,
III., near Chicago is maintained
by the Loyal Order of Moose for
dependent children of deceased
members ot the lodge, it has a
mortality rats of 1-10 of 1 per cent.
probably the country's lowest.
l)r. h. Denny, director ot
health at Mooseheart, stresses the
value of prevention. Living in com
fortable suburban-type homes
about 20 children to each dwelling
the boys and girls are constantly
under the watchful eyes of the
housemothers. Any child with the
slightest sign of trouble, even a
scratch or a minor cold, is sent
off to the modern 65-bcd hospital
for treatment.
Prompt Treatment Cited
"The fact that the children are
spared Irial-and-error home rem
edies," Dr. Denny says, "is prob
ably no small factor in maintain
ing good health in the commu
nity." Core of the hcallh-care program
is the hospital and dental clinic.
The hospital was presented to
Mooseheart in 1919 by the Phila
delphia Moose Lodge. It is solely
responsible for, and administers to,
the illness of any child.
Through its prompt treatments:,
serious difficulties usually are cor
rected before they start.
The children are immunized
against all communicable diseases
SPECIAL SCOUT TROOP, one of the few of its kind in the United States is sponsored
by the Roseburg Moose Lodge for handicapped boys, Harold Lester, left, is scoutmaster
and Dennis Linnell, right, assistant scoutmaster. Member scouts are, left to right: Lylo
Wait, Walt Simpson, DoVd UirStyartj and Jim StqHcliff. (Koop photo)
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"CURLY" CRAIG
. . . past governor
in charge. An official visitor will
be Kay Mahaffey, Lodi, Calif.,
graduate grand regent.
Registration will start at 11
a.m. Friday at the Moose Lodge,
1222 SE Stephens St. The opening
session of the conference will be
at 3 p.m at the Elks. Mrs. Craig
will make the address of welcome.
At 8 p.m., the organization will
have a coronation pageant with
Mrs. Wheeler presiding.
A dance at the lodge will be at
10 p.th.
Registration continues at 9 a.m.,
CONSUELA WHEELER
. deputy grand regent
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MOOSEHEART HERD This is the modern dairy, with
part of the herd in the foreground, which provides sur
viving children of deceased Moose with milk.
for which approved treatment is
available. Since the present im
munization program was instituted
by Dr. Denny in 1934, there hasn't
been a single case of smallpox,
diptheria. scarlet fever or whoop
ing cough.
Specialists Available
Specialists are available for eye,
ear, nose and throat treatment,
and for lilting glasses. The X-ray
department performs therapuetic
las well as diagnostic services and
is in charge of a trained techni
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OSCAR BURKE
convention chairman
Friday, and the general public as
sembly will follow at 10 a.m.. in
conjunction with the Moose. A
general session is set for 11 a.m.
At 2 p.m., Saturday is slated a
ritualistic ceremony at the Elks.
The stale Moose president's ban
quet is at the Hotel Umpqua at
6:30 p.m., and dancing will be at
the lodge at 9:30 p.m.
Sunday will wind up the con
ference. At 8:30 a.m., a coffee
meeting is set and at 10 a.m., is
the all-star Moose talent show,
both at the lodge.
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KAY MAHAFFEY
I ... graduate grand regent
Success
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cian supervised by a physician.
Whenever heat, massage or spe
cial exercises are prescribed, a
staff physiotherapist is available.
Physical checkups are made an
nually on the anniversary of the
child's birth and dental examina
tions are given semi-annually.
The dental clime, working with
the medical department, makes
recommendations of proper foods
to be served for the maintenance
of health among Mooseheart residents.