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Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1950 Pages 1-6 JXH-;-a- Vis iSfrgSrti DEAF, BLIND GRAD WINS COLLEGE HONORS-RobT'ph S.nithdas (right), first deaf and blind man known to have completed a four-year course in an American college or university, is shown in New York with his "eyes and ears." John Spainer, who is explaining to him, by hand signals, the operation of a moon-type press. Smithdas, 25, who will graduate from St. John's College with honors, became deaf and blind after an attack of spinal meningitis just before his seventh birthday. Deaf, Blind Man Completes Four-Year College Course The Grange Central Point Grange Lecture's program at the Cen tral Point Grange hall Friday evening is open to the public. New York. June 2 ill ? Rob ert Joseph bnuthdas, 25. who ha? not seen the sun nor heard the voice of a friond since he was six years old. will graduate from St. John's college. Brooklyn, with honors next week, the first deaf and blind man known to com plete a four-year course in an American college or university. A slim, good-looking young man with a pipe and a pleasant smile. Bob Smithdas plans to spend the rest of his life work ing for the deaf-blind. He already has recruited another worker. Because of his college record, a permanent scholarship has been founded for the education of oth er doubly-handicapped students. And nexe fall, after summer courses including additional speech training. Smithdas will become a member of the staff of the Brooklyn Industrial Home for the Blind, where he has lived while he went to college. Led Good Life "I think I've led a pretty good life." Smithdas said. He is an expert swimmer and wrestler and a writer of some promise. One article and a num ber of his poems already have been published. His autobiogra- BJ 0 TT H C E ! STARTING SUNDAY, JUNE 4 the 90 and 9 CAFE and TAVERN Will Open SUNDAYS-10 a.m. lo 10 p.m. Steak and Chicken Dinners SUNDAY, JUNE 4 ROAST TURKEY and DRESSING $1.50 Home Made Pies Your Favorite Beverages 1258 South Riverside South Highway 99 3" fill is now being read by a pub isher. "I like parties," Smithdas said, answering questions spelled into his hand by a friend. "I don't believe you have to sec and hear to feel the fun and commotion of a party. I like to dance. "I like fishing. It gives a feel ing of the sense of peace. I like the feel of the ride on a boat and the actual fishing. And there is always the fun of pulling the fish in. "But the fish don't like me," he added ruefully. "I've only caught two that were big enough to eat." Illness Cause Smithdas, son of a Pittsburgh steel worker, became deaf and blind after an attack of spinal meningitis just before his sev enth birthday. He finished high school at the Perkins Institute, Watertown, Mass. Officials of the industrial home and of the Catholic college where Smithdas, majoring in English and philosophy, has hit the honor roll every semester, said he was the first blind-deaf person to complete a college education since Helen Keller. He sat in classes for four years with a fellow student, John Spainer, 22. translating lectures into his palm with the manual alphabet. He has conversed with his classmates and professors by placing his hand on their faces. i hearing through the move- ment of their lips and the vibra jtions of their voices. ' Spainer has made notes for 1 them both, transcribing them in to Braille for his classmate. He won't graduate himself this year his assistance to Smithdas has taken too much of his time. Spainer, who became eyes and ears for the deaf-blind boy to help work his own way through college, now plans to devote his life to work, with his friend, for the similarly handicapped. "J. don't think I've done any thing that you would call diffi cult in school," Smithdas said. "I've probably spent about the same time studying as the ordi nary student does." Before entering college, he re ceived industrial training at the home and is one of its most highly skilled workers. "But I like to use my mind as well as my hands." he said. "I was just determined to get ahead. That's what motivates most peo ple, except that some people give in too easily to their failures." And like every other boy in the world, Smithdas is anxious to be through with college and on to a job with more time for enjoyment of life. "I like being with my friends and ray family. After all. what difference does it make? Every- , body has some handicap. It doesn't matter when you are in society." I The smallest shoe stocked by the U. S. Army for soldiers in i Japan is size 3 and the largest ' 15 ',i EEEE. Table Rock Table Rock June 2 Mr. and Mrs. Bert Pierce returned Wed nesday from San Bernardino, Cal., where they attended the funeral of G. A. Grogan, Mrs. Pierce's uncle, who passed away suddenly at that place. Bob Vanderpool, who under went an appendix operation at a Medford hospital, Saturday, is doing nicely and expects to be home in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sharp of Portland spent the week-end holidays here with relatives. The Francis Russell family moved last week to the Gore ranch west of Medford which Mr. Russell has leased. High school students from the district attending the prom at Ashland Friday night were Mar sha Doran, Harriet Morris, Co leen Reisinger and Clyde Baker. Rattlesnakes are more numer ous here this spring than usual. They are especially noticed in fields where sprinkler irriga tion is carried on. Among Central Point high schpol students spending the week-end holidays at Lake o' Woods was Miss Jean Hamilton of this place. Miss Hamilton was one of the seven Jackson county high school students re ceiving tuition scholarships to attend Oregon State college dur ing the next school year. Small flocks of sheep belong ing to Table Rock farmers wore shorn last Saturday by the Neausbaum and Grissom shear ing outfit of Lake Creek. The fight with Jack Frost has come to an end here after one of the longest smudging seasons on record. The present warm, dry weather is drying out the ground rapidly and late sown grain is needing rain badly. Ir rigation of all types is being used night and day on orchards, gardens, alfalfa and clover fields and other crops. A birthday party for O. A. Wil liams was given Sunday at the Ray Doran home by his daugh ter. Mrs. Ray Doran, with many friends and relatives in attend ance. Sunday visitors here from Mtdford were Norma Miller and son, Danny, and N. R. Mattcson, who joined a party here and drove to the top of Lower Table Rock, where a wonderful view of the valley was enjoyed. Table Rock Community club will meet Thursday night, June 1, with the program being in charge of the Teen-Age club. Each lady is asked to bring a pie. Cutting and baling of alfalfa is progressing here with some fields showing more weeds than usual. According to reports received here alfalfa weevil is doing con siderable damage to alfalfa in .some sections of the county. Two of Table Rock's well known and beloved citizens have recently passed to the great be yond. Mrs. Nettie Green, whose death occurred in Berkeley, v. .o -aw. lli m f 1 av " V.vV-V - ''--.vnNsvnNwxsWN,' YEP! All the gang, here at Edgerton Motor Company, are mighty proud of the record of the past ten year . . . it's been ten year of pleasant, friendly dealing with folk here, and we've made a heap o' friends among the many Oldsmobile owners and other. We've made these good friends by offering the very finest service that we possibly could, and by selling the finest cars on the road, we're going to keep on pleasing forks in these parts, too, and we've an experienced staff and most modern, up-to-the-minute equipment to do it! College Graduates Will Have To Hunt Jobs, Survey Says Minneapolis, June 2 Four out of every five job-hungry June college graduates will be employed by October 1, though many will have to hunt harder and longer than did the class of '49. This is an average of the estimates of placement officials reporting recently in a survey of 128 colleges and universities made by Northwestern Life In surance company. Actually 1950 will be a good year for the job-seeking college graduates not as good as 1H4H, but much better than was con sidered normal in pre-war ' ears the report says. In spite of an other record "crop" of seniors, 61 schools, nearly half of those covered in the survey, estimate that from 90 to 100 per cent ot their available June graduates will be employed by October 1; another 34, or more than one fourth, expect from present in dications that 70 to 90 per cent of their graduates will have jobs by autumn. Smaller Firmi Active Placement officials report as many or more large concerns represented on college campuses this sprirtg, but taking on fewer new employees per firm. A sharp increase, however, has been not ed at many schools in the num ber of smaller concerns seeking college graduates this year. Four out of every five schools in the survey 102 report that starting salaries are as high this years as in 1949; a few find the average slightly higher. Most of the 26 schools which show lower average salaries this year than last state that the drop is very slight; that the large employers arc generally maintaining the same salary levels as in '49. but that some of the smaller com panies are paying a little less. Initial salaries for business school and liberal arts seniors generally range from $175 to $275 a month; for engineering and other sciences, $225 to $350. A few outstanding seniors get higher offers, of course, ranging up to $400 a month for outstand ing advanced-degree men, the survey found. Lutheran Ladies' Aid Conference Conclude Ashland. June 2 The annual meeting of the Lutheran Ladies aid conference, comprising south ern Oregon and northern Califor nia, was held at Grace Lutheran church here last Sunday. A business session was con ducted in the afternoon at which Mrs. Lydia Guctzlaff presided and the Rev. Carl Eggers, Grants pass, acted as pastoral advisor. This was followed by a short ves per service conducted by Pastor Paul Harms, Ashland, with Pas tor Victor Schulze, Klamath Falls, as speaker. The banquet was held in the Women's club house where Mrs. Blair of Port land spoke on her experiences in a Japanese prison camp in China at the time Hongkong was taken over by Japan. Attending the conference from St. Peter's Lutheran church, Medford, were Mesdames G. J. Wolff, Susie Pech, Hugo Froh reich, Lottie Bowman, John Hueners. Rex Danner, E. Lud- wig, L. Guetzlaff. Myrtle Morti mer, Homer Pleyer, A. F. Jahnke, H. Hidalgo, R. E. Kun kel. Reimer Peterson. Vera Wright and Pastor H. H. Young. Cal., came with her family to this community back in 1908 and lived on what is now the Orville Hamilton farm. After the death of her husband she and her four daughters moved to Central Point and then to Ashland. She was always active in church and community work, a good neighbor, devoted mother nd wife. In the death of Margaret D. Lydiard recently in Medford, those who have lived here long est can more accurately appraise the loss to the community. The Lydiard family in 100B pur chased a farm from D. D. Sage and moved into the house now occupied by the Iverson family, where Mrs. Lydiard lived almost continuously until the last few years. She was deeply in love with the Rogue river valley. Each sunrise was to her the be ginning of another glorious day and those who met and con versed with her went away feeling that life was more beau tiful than they had realized. Al ways optimistic, with a cheerful, pleasant disposition, she was en deared to all who knew her. Reserved for You! CASH COURTESY CONVENIENCE When You Need a Loan $50 to $500 You may have as long as 24 Months to kepay Se. AMERICAN FINANCE CORPORATION Room 210-211 Leverette lie. Ucenie M-Jel Ucente S-2IJ H0NI 2-8886 Phoenix School Baccalaureate Sunday Phoenix, June 2 Baccalau reate service for the Phoenix Presbyterian church, with the Rev. E. J. Clark bringing the message. The 'pastors of the oth er two churches, Christian and Nazarene, also will participate in the service. The girls' choir of the high school will render "The Lord's Prayer." and a mixed chorus will sing "Dear Land of Home." The sermon topic will be "Better Equipped for the Task." The service will be held from 11 a.m. to 12 noon. All in the community are invited to attend. The Ryukyus Islands now have more firef ighting equipment than at any other time in their history, due to the $147,000 GARIOA program. Uu Mail Tribune Went Ad ANNUAL JUNE BLANKET SALE NOW IN FULL SWING The Blanket Event that shoppers from all parts of Southern Oregon and Northern California look forward to, here in all their warmth and glorious colors are Amer ica's Finest Blankets Blankets nationally advertised as leaders in quality, beauty, and long life. Pure Wools, and Combinations of the Finest Yarns. Yours on Mann's Easy-to-Buy Lay-Away Plan. 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