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GOING INTO ACTION WITH ROAR, Shasta Dam overflows for
first time as melting mountain snows fill 35-mlle lake, force water
over spillway. Water Is dropping 487 feet, three times height of
Niagara Falls. Carta, 3 and Terry Benoit, 5 are inspired to make
waterfall of their own on lawn below structure. (International)
Harold Stassen Proposes
U. S. Diplomatic Academy
Spokane (U.R) President
ial nomination aspirant Harold
E. Stassen proposed a "diplom
acy academy" for State Depart
ment employees Saturday and
listed five principles for Repub
lican victory in the keynote
speech at the Washington State
Republican convention.
Stassen said an "academy of
diplomacy", should be conducted
by universities and colleges,
comparable to West Point and
Annapolis for the military.
Addresses Delegates
The former Minnesota gover
nor told about 900 delegates that
to win In November the GOP
party must:
1. Assure labor it will be "fair
and friendly in the year ahead."
2. Champion civil rights for
the "millions of Americans in
the large minority groups."
3. Establish confidence that a
new Republican administration
"will be favorable ... to a
sound and successful future for
agriculture."
Opportunity for Youth
4. Clearly establish to mil
lions of young people a deter
mination to build America and
expand opportunities."
5. Make the independent vo
ters "realize the Republican par
ty will give effective and far
seeing leadership in American
foreign policy never timid
and isolationist."
Stassen '- said fulfillment of
these five principals would "end
an administration contaminated
by the Pendergast political virus."
Air Ambulance Makes
60th Mercy Flight-
Now Strictly Routine
News of 4-H
CLUBS
Reese Cr.ek Busy Beet
The Reese Creek Busy Bees
club meeting was called to order
by President Betty Cook and the
minutes were read by Secretary
Barbara Matthews. Members dis
cussed finishing their work by
June 17 so the Extension club
can judge it. At the last meeting
the members judged their own
needle cases and pin cushions.
Betty Cook started and com
pleted her draw-string apron at
the meeting.
Lana McGraw and Barbara
Matthews put the two inches of
stitching on the corners of their
head scarfs, and Nannette Grow
started her scarf.
Our leader, Mrs. Gardner,
wore a pretty corsage presented
to her at the Shady Cove Exten
sion unit where she visited that
day.
There will be no meeting on
June .3.
.. Nannette Grow, reporter.
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SPECIAL
By ERIC ALLEN JR.
Mail Tribune City Editor
A Mercy Flights, Inc., plane
made the 60th flight in the two
year history of the organization
Friday. I went along for the
ride.
It was strictly a routine trip
for the pilot, George Mllligan,
and for the nurse, Miss Velma
Argotsinger, for both are vet
erans of many flights In the big
white Cessna with the big red
cross on its side.
For me, however, it was far
from routine. It was an eye-opening
experience in watching
the rapid, efficent, yet seeming
lly casual operation of Mercy
Flights, Inc., the unique non-profit
air ambulance service which
is devoted to aiding the suffering
in their need for quick, special
ized medical treatment.
Patient Homeless, Lonely
The patient was a homeless,
lonely kid, down on his luck
and suffering from what had
been tentatively diagnosed as in
fantile paralysis. Arrangements
for the flight had been made
by his attending physician, as
are all flights made by t h e ser
vice. '
It was an emergency. The boy
only 18, needed the specialized
treatment available at the Sac
red Heart hospital in Eugene,
where most sufferers from polio
in this area are taken. His neck
was stiff and sore, and the arm
and lea were hurting him. He
needed to get to Eugene as rap
idly and as comfortably as pos
sible The answer was, obviously,
the air. And Mercy Flights was
the one to take him
Pilots Volunteer
Milligan, in common with the
other pilots who fly the ser
vices two planes, is strictly a
volunteer. As a matter of fact,
he is the founder and sparkplug
of the organization, is its cur
rent chairman, and has been the
pilot on about half the flights
made so far.
Friday was his day off, from
work, and he was doing some
painting around the house when
the call came. Within an hour
he was at the airport, and the
plane was gassed and ready to
go when the Conger-Morris am
bulance rolled onto the con
crete ramp with the patient and
the nurse who was to attend
him on the flight.
Placed on Slrelcher
The boy was carefully taken
from the ambulance stretcher,
and placed on the plane's stret
cher, which is softened with a
cloth pad and a layer of foam
rubber. He was wrapped in the
sheets, recently given to Mercy
Flights by the valley's Barber
shop singers. A complete first
aid kit and warm blankets, also
given by the Barbershoppers,
were available if needed, and an
oxygen kit, given by the Med-
ford Klwanis club, was also
stowed in the plane.
The boy, dressed in a blue T-
shirt and gray slacks, was gent
ly eased into the plane through
the stretcher entrance and strap
ped to the bunk. His shoes and
his few person belongings a
few cents in change and a couple
of packages of cigarettes some
one had given him were stow
ed aboard. The nurse climbed'
into the jumpseat next to the
stretcher, and we were ready
to go.
Trip Was Thrill
The trip, as I mentioned, was
routine, and as flights go was
uneventful. But to realize that
I was riding'on one of the mis
sions of mercy about which I
had so often written little stor
ies for the newspaper to feel
a small part of such a trip, and
to see the friendly, gentle and
easy way things were handled,
this was a real thrill.
We left the Medford airport
Sixth & Central Medford Bargain Counter
at 12:40 p. m., and climbed
straight and steady over the
Table Rocks to an altitude of
7,500 feet, with the dark green
of the forests and the greenish
brown of logged land below us.
The pilot, who was interested
in a new type of radio antenna
recently installed in the plane,
tested it frequently and to his
satisfaction. Far to the right
the snow-crested backbone of the
Cascades loomed up Mt. Mc
Loughlin, white and conical from
the west and craggy from the
northwest; the peaks of Mt.
Scott, Llao rock and the other
hills around Crater lake, Mt.
Thielsen, the jagged tips of
Three Fingered Jack, the white
bulk of the Three Sister, and, to
the northeast, the rugged slopes
of Mt. Jefferson.
Lakes and Rivers Below
Below was the glint of the
Rogue and Umpqua rivers, and
before long the long, level fing
ers of the Willamette valley be
gan to creep into the hills. The
waters of the two reservoir
lakes near Cottage Grove came
in sight, and soon Milligan re
ported our position to the CAA
in Eugene, and confirmed the
fact that an ambulance would
be waiting for us at the Airpark
west of town.
Almost before I realized It
except for the pressure in my
nose and ears from losing alti
tude we were low over the
hills of Eugene, then over the
city, and then circling the Air
park. A steep banking turn, a
short glide down to the runway,
and we were on the ground and
bumping toward the white shape
of the ambulance. It was 50
minutes after we left Medford.
Put In Ambulance
The boy was unloaded and
put on the ambulance stretcher.
Nurse Argotsinger saw that he
was comfortable with a pillow
under his head. She put his
shoes and small change and cig
arettes in the ambulance. (I
think she stuck a couple of dol
lars in his pocket before the
door closed) and he was whisked
away to the hospital.
That's about all there was to
it. The flight back also was rou
tine, retracing our route, and
watching the ridges to guess
which one Medford lay behind.
We flew in over the Table
Rocks, circled once, and landed.
We taxied to the ramp, refueled
the plane, parked it, and drove
to town. I was back at the office
about 3V4 hours from the time
I left.
Another mission of mercy
the 60th made by the pilots and
nurses was accomplished. It
all seemed so easy.
And yet, when I remembered
how much thought and time and
planning and bother had gone
into the organization of the cor
poration; how much worry there
had been before the pre-paid
subscription plan put the ser
vice on a sound financial oasis;
how many hours of work had
gone into the planes, getting
them and keeping them ready at
any hour of the day or night;
how there always seems to be
a pilot willing to take off on a
trip to get someone sick or in
jured to the care they need
when I remembered this, I mar
veled at the smoothness and ease
of the flight I had just made.
I have a new respect for the
planes with the red crosses, and
for the men and women who
form their crews.
Home Improvement
Will Cut Number
Of Drug Addicts
Chicago (U.R) Better hom
es and more understanding par
ents will reduce the number of
narcotics addicts, according to
an expert.
Dr. Kenneth Chapman, In
charge of the Lexington, Ky.,
Public Health Service hospital,
said emotional Insecurity at
home caused unstable personal
ities in children and frequently
led them to grow into the drug
habit.
"Children given proper home
surroundings free of tension ana
anxiety, emotionally stable par
ents, and sufficient love and un
derstanding seldom tend to
ward anti-social behavior, part
of which may be addiction to
narcotic drugs," he said.
Despite the successes of the
Bureau of Narcotics and the
United Nations to restrict the il
legal sales of drugs. Chapman
said, greater controls are needed.
Sunday. Mar M. 1853
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE BIKE
Death Means Told
In Chase Hearing
Mt. Vernon, Wash. (U.R)
Testimony by a Seattle doctor
showed Friday that 50-year-old
Leonard Lewis died from a
sharp blow in the larnyx and
not by hanging.
Dr. Gale Wilson, King coun
ty autopsy surgeon, made the
statement Thursday at the trial
of Harold Chase, 23, accused of
slaying Lewis three years ago.
Dr. Wilson performed an au
topsy on the body after Chase
confessed he murdered Lewis
while both were inmates at
Northern State hospital at Se
dro Woolley.
Prior to that time, the death
officially had been listed as a
suicide.
STARTS PANTIE RAID
Wake Forest, N. C. (U.R) A
campus disc jockey passed along
a pantle raid challenge from
Wake Forest coeds Thursday by
playing "Come Ona My House."
At the request of male students,
he then played "Let Me In" and
the raid was on. Police shooed
the boys back to their dorms
amid coed cries of "chicken."
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President Commends
Scout Vote Campaign
New York, (U.R) Presi
dent Truman commended Amer
ica's Boy Scouts Friday on their
"get out the vote" campaign,
calling it a movement for the
best interests of the nation.
His message was read at the
opening of the 42nd annual
meeting of the national council
of Boy Scout leaders here. About
1,500 attended the two-day ga
thering. The President said the excel
lent progress of the non-partisan
irl Scout News
Plan Investiture
St. Mary's neighborhood will
hold its Brownie investiture
ceremony and court of awards
Monday, May 26, during a meet
ing of St. Mary's Parents' club.
The investiture will be held in
Sacred Heart church at 7:30
p m. and will be followed by a
court of awards in the Parish
Hall at 8 p.m. for Intermediate
scouts.
Each troop will participate In
the program with numbers of
its own planning. Mrs. Paul Hav
Hand, neighborhood chairman, is
in charge of the evening's ceremonies.
vote campaign must please all
who have the Interest of their
country at heart. He added that
it should have the vigorous sup
port of all political parties and
civic organizations.
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