Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 26, 1941, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1941. TOY REPAIR DRIVE IS STARTED WITH FIRE HOUSE f EAST Lady Lions Serve Fire Boys Chili Supper Workshop And Fire Hall Are Toured. A dinner to give a formal itart and .Impetus to their toy reconstruction work was served for the city firemen at depart ment headquarters last night by the Lady Lions. It was a surprise chili feed that the women prepared for the men who today were to turn their entire attention to the rebuilding and repainting of discarded toys for new Christ mas gifts for underprivileged children. The Lady Lions and the fire men cooperate on the Christmas toy project. The women gather the old playthings and take them to the firemen's workshop, buy a large numbei of new dolls and dress the ones the firemen make over, and carry out the tremendous task of distributing the reconstructed toys a few days before Christmas. Workihop Shown After the dinner the Lady Lions were shown the workshop and the pile of old toys now on hand. They were also taken on a tour of the fire hall and shown how the firemen rush to their assigned posts when the alarm sounds. Chief Roy Elliott in a brief talk called attention to a number of fire hazards that should be carefully avoided. Mrs. Lyle B. Thurman, pres ident of the Lady Lions, pre sided. Other club members pres ent were Mrs. Howard Bush, Mrs. Claude C. Holmes, Mrs. Earl A. Sims, Mrs. Claude C. Haggard, Mrs. Roy Elliott, Mrs Fred Lawrence, Mrs. Clifford C. Proctor, Mrs. Henry Zach arisen, Mrs. A. Boitano, Mrs. Orville Hoselton and Mrs. Ray Marti. In addition to Chief Elliott, firemen attending were Edward Ca noose, assistant chief, Claude Stevens, Fred Stevens, Howard Glascock, George Shreeve, Gor don Barker and Hiram Martin. Other guests were LeRoy Wil liams and Fred York, volunteer firemen, George Davis, ambu lance driver, and Stanley Hamel, who entertained with accordion solos. Gold Hill Ladies To Serve Dinner Gold Hill, Nov. 25. Spl Turkey dinner with all the trimmings will be served by the Ladies' Aid of the Methodist church on Thursday evening from 6 until 8 o'clock, In then church dining room. A large crowd is anticipated and a very nominal price will be charged for the dinner. A fancy-work bazaar will be held at the same time. Plums are generally used aa pickle In Japan and a 1 moat every household hu them. The TTG(BEEY Mac MacKenna 34 No. Central Art Hess for CHRISTMAS GIVE fyT SHIRTS and PAJAMAS ,,71 t I No girt yon ran choone will toe J3'-- " d s more appropriate or more ae- "f'J . If eeptable . . . wrapprd In say I f ,Al holiday package! for the Christ. i J i sLrX m tree, lie aiire to arlect , N., JL MvNIIATTASS they're the $200 I 1 S1 fv$2.50 and See Our Windows Tonight! ' We GiveS&H Stamps SLIGHMHIGHER Welfare Commission Meet Reveals Figures 8C5 Age Assistance Cases. Reason for Smile Cost of public assistance In Jackson county rose to $23, 122.98 last month, this total comparing with $22,724.50 in September and $20,279.71 In October last year. These figures were brought out in comparative statistical reports analyzed yesterday at the regular monthly meeting of the Jackson county public wel fare commission in its offices at city hall. Cost of general assistance last month rose slightly to $4,006.98 as compared with $3,801.30 in September and $3,688.61 in Oc tober a year ago, the reports chowed. There has not, however, been any upward surge in gen eral assistance as has been the case at this season in recent years, Blanch D. Lyman, admin istrator told the commission. Rising food costs have been a factor in welfare expenditures, she explained. 80S Ago Cases Old age assistance cases rose to 803 and cost $16,081 last month as compared with 804 cases and $16,000 in September and 697 cases and $13,738.10 in October last year. Nine old age I cases were closed during the j past month, seven through death and two by moving out of the county. At a recent meeting here, Elmer R. Goudy, state public welfare administrator, asserted there were too many old age cases pending and said liquor revenues, used in welfare work, had fallen below esti mates, Mrs. Lyman told the commission. , She indicated that a ceiling for old age cases here was in sight. The government's food stamp plan has been working smooth ly here, better among WPA workers than old age cases who are reluctant to increase food consumption, Mrs. Lyman said. There was a furore November 1 when work hours on the Med ford municipal airport WPA project were reduced to the ordinary 130 after the men had been working 208 hours a month on special exemption in order to complete the runway paving before bad weather set in, she stated. This reduction in income upset the WPA workers and had a confusing effect on the stamp plan for the time be ing, she related. Set Up Merit Systom Mrs. Lyman explained the re classification of all welfare com mission workers under the state's new merit system and said everyone at the local office had sent in an application for the Job each is now holding. She traced the plans that had been made to set up a state merit system for welfare work ers In compliance with the fed eral social security board's wishes. Head cl the merit sys tem now established is Dr. E. H. Alfred Lton Miller, Jr.. 9. whose smilo two yoars ago won nation-wido attention because it was so friendly and appealing that surgeons turned at the last minute against a decision to amputate his leg. injured in an accident, isn't quite satisfied with his football punting. The Liberty, Mo., boy will have an ; operation Nov, 30 "to fix up the I ligaments in the leg. The only trouble is, he explained. I can get it down, but when I kick a football I can't get it up far enough for a good punt." 250 Skin Grafts Restore Health To Critically Burned Local Boy; Story of Recovery Told Firemen Twelve-year-old Stanley Hamel entertained with accordion solos at a dinner given for city firemen at the fire hall last night by the Lady Lions. Last May there were gravel doubts whether Stanley would live and if so whether he would ever be anything but an invalid. Stanley, it will be recalled was the youngster who was critically burned from the waist up on Sunday afternoon May 4 when he used a cup of gasoline to s'art a fire in the kitchen stove at the residence of his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Doty of 208 Tripp street, with whom he made his home. Even the Inside of Stanley's mouth was seared. A couple of days after the horrible accident. Airs. Theodore Florey, the neighbor residing at 624 East Ninth street to whom Stanley, suffering terribly from the burns and shock, had run for nelp telephoned Fire Chief Roy Flliott and asked if he couldn't make a book shelf so that Stan ley might prop a book on it and read while he lay in pain on the hospital bed. The chief went to see the boy. He returned to the lirA hall nnH trtlH 1h. firim.n lie didn't think Stanley would;" lne Bn,rme nff"al, P Nubian Goat Herd On Sardine Creek Gold Hill, Nov. 26. Spl Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Humrick, formerlv of near Grants Pass, have purchased a ranch on Sar dine creek and have moved kJ nt 91. Fffvntinn Nubian goats there. These goats are saia xo oe neia Maeu m Egypt and are believed to be the only ones of their kind la this country. "' COLDS- FIGHT MISERY where you feel It rub throat, chest and back with time-tested Shrlners. Arrangements were made to send Stanley to the Shrine hospital for Crippled Children in Portland. At that time the youngster could scarce ly move any part of his upper body. He couldn't raise his arms at all. Last night Chief Elliott told this story for the first time. He called upon Stanley to tell what he wanted to say about the acci dent. In simple, straightforward manner the boy told of being in the Shrine hospital two months and 11 days, of receiving 230 skin grafts. He's going back won again for more treatment, for he still can't raise his right arm quite high enough to satisfy the surgeons. Otherwise Stan ley is restored to normal health. If he and the chief hadn't told ; tneir stories, no one at the dinner last night would have known j that Stanley had been the victim of a searing gasoline fire. Good medical care here, surgical mir- need a book-stand long. Never theless the book stand was made. The chief culled upon the boy daily and became impressed with his grit and his painful effort to smile a grateful grin. The chief took him some ice cream. The two became buddies. Chief Elliott got together with the boy's doctor and fellow Portland not only saved his life but restored Stanley to a normal boy. To Stanley, Chief Elliott Is 'my pal." The youngster ended his simple, little talk last night with a straightforward admoni tion from the heart. "Don't," he said, "don't ever start a fire with gasoline." SAVE TIME IN MAINLINERS V. A 5 Mainliners to Portland, 4 to San Francisco, con necting at both cities with daylight and sleeper flights to Chicago, New York and the East SAN FRANCISCO 2Vi hrs. LOS ANGELES 41 'a hrs. PORTLAND Hi hrs. SEATTLE 2!2 hrs. UNITED Air Lines Municipal Airport, Tel. 3841 or trtvtl agents, hotels Porter, Jr., whose parents reside here. It is expected that the first merit system examinations will be held in January. Statistical tcpoits for the three months follow: Octobar. 1941 General assistance: Families 103 $ 2,677.66 Singles 61 1,329.32 164 $ 4,006.98 Old age assistance: Cases 805 $16,081.00 Aid to dependent children: Cases 81 (Children 184) $ 2,708.00 Blind assistance: Cases 13 327.00 $23,122.98 September 1941 General assistance: Families 106 $ 2,751.06 Singles 33 1,050.44 159 $ 3,801.30 Old age assistance: Cases 804 $16,000.00 Aid to dependent children: Cases 81 (Children 181) $2,396.00 Blind assistance: Cases 13 $ 327.00 jlfy" Top value andtop yi-'i - .JM I $22,724.50 October. 1940 General assistance: Families 116 $ 2,280.83 Singles 85 1,407.78 201 3,688 61 Old age assistance: Cases ....697 $13,738.10 Aid to dependent children: Cases 83 (Children 187) $ 2,589.00 Blind assistance: Cases 10 $ 264.00 $"0,279 71 RELEASES Hhntroted, Oxmpioa CiHtoia Club Sedan, 1640 deliver ol row,.- redetal to kKlvdef Americas ozcest priced Six Big. roomy, new 1942 Studebaker Champion Fort Lewis, Nov. 26 - Among men of the 41st division released from active military duty according to the priority system announced by the wa" department to be returned this week to their local board of origin or their unit rendezvous, are: Grants Fass Sgt. 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