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MORE THAN ATHLETICS
All Wisconsin Is Campus for
State University's Activities
Madison, Wis., Dec. 15 W) Football kickoffs and basketball
Jump shots thrill crowds, but there's much more to lite in a
Big Ten college.
People, young and old, with or without money, need to be
trained to make a living and taught how to live, at home and
fn school.
The University of Wisconsin,
100 years old and one of the
ten largest state schools in the
coifntry, says it is doing just
that and thriving in the process.
The current campus enrollment
17,700. .
Officers for Macleay
Grange Are Installed
Macleay At a joint meeting
subordinate grange and Pomona
grange officers were installed at
Waldo Hills.
Officers from Macleay grange
installed were Clarence John
son, master; Cornelius Bateson,
overseer; Harry Martin, Sr.,
chaplain; Mrs. Richard McKee,
treasurer; Mrs. Clarence John
son, secretary; Hubert Aspin
wall, gatekeepr; Mrs. George
Tooker, ceres; Mrs. Harry Way,
flora; Albert Mader, Edward
Powers and Archie Bowen, ex
ecutive committee; Mrs. Corne
lius Bateson, lecturer.
Mrs. Bateson was also install
ed as Pomona lecturer; Mrs. Dan
Wilson as Pomona chaplain and
.Clarence Johnson as a member
of the Pomona executive com
mittee.
Church Women Given
Talk About Japan
Lyons Mrs. Helen Har
greaves was hostess for the
meeting of the WSCS at her
home near Jordan. Mrs. Laur
ance Walworth presided over
the business meeting. Devotions
were led by Mrs. George Clip
fell, and prayer by Rev. Jewell.
Mrs. Daisy Johnston read a
letter from Edna Holder, a mis
sionary in India. Mrs. Mac Mor
man, a guest of the afternoon
gave a talk on Japan. She, with
her husband, who is in the U. S.
army recently returned from
Japan after spending 18 months
there.
At the close of the meeting
Mrs. Hargreaves served refresh
ments to Mesdames Laurance
Walworth, George Clipfell, Wal
lace Power, Jim Lande, Albert
Julian, Roy Heineck, Alex Bo
deker, George Huffman, Floyd
Bassett, John Neal, Finas Sulli
van, John Bradehauf, Clinton
Hubbard, Willard Hartnell, Mrs.
Daisy Johnston, Mrs. Alice Hu
ber, Mrs. Anna Johnson, Mrs.
Mac Norman, Rev. and Mrs. O.
A. Jewell.
Pre School Mothers
MnlfA ElllllVA DIM
naive iuiuic nana
Lyons A meeting for the
pre-school mothers was held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Lindemann to discuss and make
plans for the future. The school
which holds classes twice
week Wednesday and Fridays,
have decided to discontinue
classes until after the first of
the year when they will move
into the school house here in Ly
ons.
It was also decided to see if a
permanent teacher may be
found which will relieve the
mothers. They will hold their
Christmas party at the commun
ity club house Wednesday morn
ing, December 21 with a book
gift exchange. Any pre-school
child may attend 'the party by
bringing a gift exchange. The
project is, each child to bring
home-made ornaments to help
trim the Christmas tree. Pres
ent for the meeting were Mrs.
Art Olmstead, Mrs. Floyd John
son, Mrs. Charles Power, Mrs.
John Prideaux, Mrs. Dysinger,
Mrs. Lanscer, Mrs. Stander and
Mrs. Fred Lindemann.
Webfoot Grange Meets
Weboot There were 20
members of the Webfoot grange
attended the annual Christmas
party held at grange hall. Sup
per was served at 7:30, a short
regular business meeting, with
Christmas program, and ex
change of gifts. J. W. Andrews,
master of Chehalem Center
grange and Mrs. Andrews were
special guests. Voting for state
officers was a feature of the
business meeting.
Wisconsin people, who foot the
bill, aren't content with just
sending their sons and daugh
ters to the state university. Let
them go to school and learn, but
we stay-at-homes .want some
thing too, they say.
"You teach and do research
there because we ultimately
benefit, but you must help us
solve our practical problems
now," is the taxpayers' direc
tive.
"Try for good football, but
try a little harder to benefit all
of us," the people, through their
legislators, tell the university
regents, who tell the faculty.
This winds up with the uni
versity pursuing a three-pronged
program of research, public
service and on and off the cam
pus teaching that directly or in
directly affects the lives of prac
tically everyone in the state.
No one has ever questioned
Wisconsin's boast that the whole
state it its campus.
The university sizes up its ac
tivities like this;
"Science is essential to suc
cessful daily living; effective
communication is a requisite of
cooperative activities; the indi
vidual must develop within him
self the resources of personal
and community health; facts
must become instruments of
wholesale group relationships."
The university's own radio
station, heading a state-owned
non-commercial FM six-station
network, spearheads a rural cul
ture program unique in the nation.
The station in Madison, recog
nized as the nation's oldest non
commercial station, beams cul
ture to metropolitan and back
woods schools, homes, churches,
clubs and community centers.
Music, art, nature, dramatics,
writing, farming, politics, sci
ence and social relations are a
few of the air offerings, all au
gmented with mailed material
and personal supervision. Other
information features include
news inerpretations, taxation,
child study, weather information,
health and international affairs.
Polk Cattle
Produce High
Dallas Dew Drop, a regis
tered Guernsey owned by Ray
Hobson of Amity, made the best
record according to the Polk
county dairy heard improvement
association.
In 305 days of association test
ing she produced 766.1 pounds
of butterfat and 12,284 pounds
of milk.
Herd honors go to George
Gentemann of Independence. His
28 registered Jerseys compiled
an average of 526.4 pounds of
butterfat and an average of
9676 pounds of milk.
Among Polk county dairy
herds, second honors go to Hob
son. Elmer Bork of Monmouth
took third. ,
The Oregon State college ex
tension dairy specialist, Harold
Ewalt, says, "25 herds which
make up the Polk county DHIA
group averaged 408 pounds of
butterfat. That compares with
an average of 398 pounds for 22
herds during 1948.
"The average cow, states
Ewalt, "brought its owner $513.
"Feed costs averaged $177 per
cow. That means the average as
sociation- cow returned its owner
$335 above feed costs. Of
course, feed costs are about half
the cost of producing milk."
Western states now have
about 21,120,000 acres under ir
rigation in federal and private
projects.
PLEAS TO SANTA ANSWERED
Uncle Dan Remembers Kiddies
Whose Fathers Are in Prison
By SAUL FELDMAN
Oklahoma City, Dec. 15 VP) A 13-year-old boy wrote the
Associated Press:
"Coud you sind me the name and address of the man that
sinds children presants whos fathers or in prison. Sinsirlcy."
A convict scribbled on blacklined prison stationery:
I have been in prison two
months, first time for me, and
I have been thinking quite a lot
about my children, how tney
would spend Christmas with no
father for a Santa Claus. 1 sure
will appreciate anything you
send them as I know they will
be very well pleased."
Dan Vinson receivea Dotn let
ters part of more than a thou
sand he is getting each day.
And everyone will be answered
with handmade gifts.
Vinson started shipping toys
today so that 300,000 youngsters,
who might otherwise be forgot
ten because their fathers are in
prison, will have a merry Christ
mas.
This gigantic undertaking is
the climax to an unpretentious
project started in 1944.
Vinson will not accept money.
Materials for making toys arc
donated as well as time and
labor.
"I don't believe in buying
toys, anyone could do that." he
said
Vinson, who is 65 and a dead
ringer for Saint Nick if he don
ned a Santa Claus outfit, has
put it on a "help someone else
basis." t
"When somebody wants to aid,
the first thing he must learn is
there is no publicity and no pay.
Right now 4,000 persons over
Oklahoma are making all kinds
of salvageable material into
toys."
And they are toys any young
ster would be happy to receive.
For the girls, there are dolls
and beautiful scarfs made from
nylon parachutes. Among the
toys for boys are airplanes
stamped from aluminum.
And to each youngster, Vin
son is sending a good luck ruler.
On the back is the quotation:
'Let's all share what we have
today with the little kids that
didn't have enough yesterday.'
Uncle Dan as he is affec
tionately called wants to in-
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elude at least one balloon in
each package and has made a
nation-wide appeal for them.
Five years ago, Vinson began
distributing a few toys to Okla
homa institutions. Last year,
23,800 underprivileged children
were made happy with gifts.
This year, Vinson decided
something should be done for
children likely to miss out on
Christmas because their fathers
are in prison.
'I have helped some 500 par
oled persons and their main
worry usually is about their
children. Well, I decided to trv
to do something about it," he ex
plained.
Letters went out to all prisons
in the United States, Canada and
Mexico. They asked prisoners to
write how many children they
have and their ages.
To make sure each gift has
the personal touch, toys are sent
directly to the prisoners. They
in turn re-address them to their
children.
Vinson has five grown chil
dren.
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 15, "31
A successful life insurance
salesman in 1923, he gave it up
to work on a project to convert
useless asphalt into a road build
ing material.
Ho lost his savings and had to
borrow. After 14 years of fail
ures, he discovered an asphalt
mixture suitable for roads.
Vinson turned the process ov
er to a company and is drawing
a modest royalty. He now spends
all his earnings and time on his
life project.
Has this Santa Claus a philo
sophy? Yes, here it is!
"Well, if I were driving in a
heavy rainstorm and came
across some people in a stalled
car, hungry, wet and disgusted;
if I can help them get started
again without regard to their
cotor or race or creed and
leave without waiting for their
thanks or their learning who I
am then I am happy. That's
my religion."
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