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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
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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
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$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
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