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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1950)
LSffRU&l JUL" jw.. I w " i rtvi . - DESTITUTE While his wife watches, Charley Morgan, a one-legged farm worker who sold hta blood to buy food for his children, feeds the children from a box of rations rushed in by Juvenile authorities to aid families found starving to death in a farm labor camp near Phoenix, Aria. Almost 100 children were found In a starvation condition In what one Juvenile authority described as "the worst case of mast destitution I have seen." The families in the camp are destitute because a freeze spoiled the crops, throw ing them out of work. Amateur Winners In First Week Revealed By KYJC Radio station KYJC, which is sponsoring a series of amateur entertainment contests in connec tion with the Original Amateur Hour, today announced the four winner of the first week's competition. They are Richard McCorkle, saxophonist; Keith Mirick, cor netist; Ronald Peyton and Fred Bruener, vocalists. Winners in this week's contest will be chosen by ballots, which may be mailed to KYJC or left at McLain's drug center. Dead line in the voting is Saturday midnight. The winners named above, to gether with four winners this week, will appear on a final, 45 minute broadcast at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 21. The top three of the eight contestants will be selected by an applausmeter. The broadcast will be from the stage of the Craterian theater. Prises Told Third prize winner will re ceive S10 in cash, second prize will be $15 in cash, and first prize will be $75 in cash and a trip to Portland, where the win ner will appear on a state-wide contest broadcast over radio sta tion KEX. If successful bn that broadcast, he will appear on the Original Amateur Hour when it comes to Portland next month. Original plans called for six contestants, three chosen each week, but due to high interest shown in the contest and the number who turned out to com pete, it was increased to eight, four each week. New Medical Clinic To Be Constructed Construction is expected to start in the near future on a $25, 000 medical clinic building at 1032 West Main street. Drs. O. J. Halboth, Edwin R. Durno and Brandt B. Bartels, partners in the medical clinic were granted building permit yesterday by the city building inspector but said this morning no further de tails of the work will be known for several days. Cancer Lectures Being Given Here A series of lectures on cancer education is being given in Med ford currently by Mrs. Blanche Frisbie, public health nurse. Mrs. Frisbie spoke Tuesday for the Junior Service league, yesterday at the housing project for county extension unit leaders, and next Tuesday will talk at a meeting of Home Economics club leaders of county Granges set for 1:15 p. m. at the courthouse audito rium. Mrs. Frisbie points out in her lectures that cancer control is needed since it is the second cause of death in the United States and in Oregon, with 1,886 cancer deaths in this state last year. She describes the disease in considerable detail and tells of the importance of recognizing cancer in its early stages if it is to be cured. In this connection Mrs. Frisbie quotes figures on cures obtained from treatment in both early and advanced stages. Explain! Cures The nurse also explains some of the cures used for cancer, and points out that "no home rem edy ever cured cancer; no special diets ever cured cancer, and quack remedies are extremely dangerous because they cause delay in securing adequate treat ment while cancer is still in the curable stages." Mrs. John Day is county chair man for the American Cancer society. Phoenix Firemen To Hold First Annual Bali Phoenix, March 16 Phoenix volunteer firemen will hold their first annual firemen's ball Fri day, March 17, in the gymna sium of the grade school. All proceeds from the dance will be used to purchase additional equipment for fire fighting in the city of Phoenix, those in charge state. Music for the evening has been donated by Hartley's orchestra and a Phoenix orchestra. The public is invited to at tend and participate in the even ing's festivities. i New Record Service To Be Established A new recording service will be opened in Medford soon, it was announced today by John S. Duffy, who said that modern recording equipment is on order and he will be able to start mak ing professional recordings soon after April 1. Duffy, formerly a staff mem ber of a Medford radio station, says his establishment will be known as the Duffy Recording service, and will temporarily be located in his home at 11U4 Last Ninth street. Facilities will be provided for making records for all purposes, Duffy said, including musicians, music students, children's voices, recorded greetings, political speeches and announcements, commercials for local advertis ers, complete recordings of wed dings and speeches, and any oth er event of which a permanent record is needed. Both tape and disc records will be made, he said. Ambulance Plane On Second Mercy Flight Mercy Flights ambulance plane "Rogue s Wings O Mercy made its second emergency flight yesterday, when it was called to North Bend to serve a young ster suffering from leukemia, The lad was very ill, but no am bulance could be found to take him to Seattle, where he had reservations on a Stratocruiser for Rochester, N. Y., where he was to be treated at the Mayo clinic. The ambulance plane, piloted by Harvey Brandeau and Bill Plaskett, arrived in North Bend at noon yesterday, and took off at Z p.m. Weather north of Cort land was threatening, and the plane landed at Portland air port, where the boy was trans ferred to a military all-weather plane, which took him to Seattle. Columbus, O. (U.R) William Reichard, 49. a night watchman at the New Method Laundry, ad mitted he set a fire in the base ment of the laundry. His reason "The job was monotonous." 1 A T-BONE STEAK is just one of the fine cuts of beef that go into A DINNER i7i itself at LESS THAN 20 A SERVING! fMuuiinu t innn MfifiUCTi. Oakland S9f Elks Will Elect At Meet Tonight Medford lodge of the BPOE will elect officers tonight and consider other important mat ters at a meeting which will be followed by lunch. Secretary Ernest Scott will re port on his participation in the judging of applications for con sideration in the eiks 'most val uable student" contest. Scott was one of 18 men representing state lodge districts who met last week at McMinnvillc to review over 203 applications from Oregon students. The applications from Oregon winners will be forward ed for national consideration. It is expected that winners in the Medford area will be announced in a few days, according to Scott. Use Mall Tribune Want Adi County Circuit Court Damage Case Opens The case of R. A. Tanner ver sus Dr. Charles A. Haines, both of Ashland, went before Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna today and attorneys were still examining first panel of veniremen at noon. Tanner, father and executor of the estate of the lale Nina Mar cell Tanner, is seeking $10,000 damages for the death of the 16-year-old Ashland girl said to have resulted from injuries she received when struck by a car driven by the prominent Ash land physician. The accident oc curred in September, 1948. Ralph E. Moody, Salem attor ney, is associated with O. H. Bengtson in presenting Tanner's case and William McAllister is appearing for Dr. Haines. Dead line Sunday Classified U at Noon Saturdays Thursday. March 18, 1930 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Hiring Complaints Aired At Hearing George A. Reid, Seattle, vet erans representative for the 11th civil service district, was at Camp White veterans domiciliary center today, taking evidence in a hearing based upon complaints regarding personnel hiring at the center. The case involves a woman who applied for work under the provisions- of preference allowed the unremarried widow of a veteran of the armed forces. A number of representatives of veterans organizations have In terested themselves in the mat ter, which involves the applica tion of laws and regulations of the civil service commission. COlUMtIA IIWIIIIS, INC. C tACOMA, WASHINGTON! Distributed by Southern Oregon Distributors, Inc. 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