Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 15, 1952, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE K .Tuesday, July 15, 1S5Z Festival Members 25 Per Cent Over Number Last Year ; Ashland Membership sales for the 12th Shakespearean fes tival are running 25 per cent hisher than last year, with the total now more than 400, it was reported today by William Daw kins, executive secretary. While the total sales are up, the number of Rogue valley pur chasers has declined, but it an ticipated that most of those wish ing memberships will purchase them in the final two weeks before the opening night per formance of "The Tempest" on August 1. Added Incentiye Memberships carry an added incentive this year, Dawkins pointed out. . Each $10 member ship includes 8 reserved seat tickets, which may be used in anv wav and represent a saving of 55 cents on each reserved seat. In addition, a special "divi dend" for members will be in cluded in the form of two free reserved seats for the Eliza bethan music concert on August 29. The concert, an addition to the festival program this year, is being prepared under the di rection of Hans Lampl, music director. It will feature a full evening of Elizabethan music. Memberships, which will be on sale only until August 1, are being sold at the festival box office (telephone 2-8636), at the Plaza cafe in : Ashland and at Purucker Piano house and Pruitt's Music center in Med ford. Other places in downtown Ashland where memberships will be sold are to be announced at a later date. Number of People Hospitalized Last Year at New High Chicago U.R) More Am ericans were hospitalized last year than ever before. ... . The American Medical Asso ciation's council of medical ed ucation and hospitals says the 6,637 United States hospitals registered with the council in 1951 admitted 18,237,118 pa tients. . j ' The average daily census was 1,293,658 patients. The rate of admittance was one patient ev ery 1.7 seconds. In 1950, the former peak years. 17,023,613 Americans were . hospitalized. Births Hit Peak Births in hospitals in 1951 al so hit a new mark. The Council reported one birth every 10.7 seconds for a total of Z,998,37l Nearly half 48 per cent of last year s hospital capacity went to mental patients. Gener al hospital patients got 42 per cent and tuberculosis six per cent. t Federal, state and local gov ernments controlled three out of every 10 hospitals and provided seven out of every 10 beds Three out of every four admis sions were to non-governmental institutions. That was because patients in government hospitals stayed longer. The nation's hospital facilit ies last year were at a record peace-time high, the council says. Bed space was available for 1,529,988 patients. Stays Grow Shorter The average stay per patient last year in general hospitals as a whole .was 10.1 days, a rate that has been fairly constant for the last three years. . As late as 1945, the average stay was 15.9 days. The average stay in govern mental general hospitals was 17 days, compared with 7.7 days in non-governmental general hospitals.. State hospitals maintained the highest bed occupancy rates 94.5 per cent because of the prolonged hospitalization nec essary for medical patients. The report also showed 216, 047 graduate nurses employed by hospitals last year, compar ed with 205,389 in 1950. BIRD KEEPS COOL Memphis, Tenn. XU.R) Mrs. Clara Bracey thought it was just the usual heat wave when the air conditioning unit began mak ing queer noises. Investigating she found a bird's nest in the part of the unit which faced '' - 'Pf'-fc- is p- If HASHING THINGS OVER California's Senator William Knowland talk things over during lunch at the governor's campaign quarters (left) and Governor Earl Warren in Chicago's Conrad Hilton HoteL- High Conviction Rate Reported in FBI Cases Washington OJ.R) FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover re ported Tuesday that 97.2 per cent of FBI-investigated cases tried during the year ended June 30 resulted in convictions. There were 9,036 convicitions of which 8,316 or 92 per cent, were on pleas of guilty. Remain ing convictions were obtained after trial. Man Released from habit-forming laxatives "I feel happier, younger now. not constipated." writes Detroit man. "Eating your all-bran does so much for me. What wonderful relief, after so many pills and medicines." If you can't keep reg ular because of lack of diet-bulk, try Kellogg's all-beau and see if it doesn't help you regain youth ful regularity as thousands have. " It's the only type readyto-eat cereal that supplies ail the bulk you may need . .a it's not habit forming. Rich in iron, high in cereal protein, provides essential - B and D vitamins. Eat Vz cupful daily; drink plenty of liquids. If not completely satisfied after 10 days, send empty carton to Kellogg's. Battle Creek. Mich, and get dottbu your momy back! STILL VOTING AT 101 Columbus, O. (U.R) Charles D. Heacock of west Unity, is Ohio's oldest voter. -Heacock, 101, cast his first ballot in 1872 for the re-election of Gen. Ulysses Grant. Heacock hasn't missed an election since. NOTHING BUT "AV . Portsmouth, O. (U.R) School officials here said that ' when Janet Gail Teeters received her high school diploma it marked the end of 12 perfect academic years for her.. All of her grades were "A's." Nitrogen Makes Grass Unpalatable to Cows Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Brome grass which has been fertilized with a high rate of nitrogen seems to be unpalatable to cat tle, according to experiments at the University of Nebraska col lege of Agriculture. The tests showed that dairy calves readily will eat grass which has been fertilized with 70 and 140 pounds of nitrogen per acre. They seem to shun the grass which has been treated with 350 and 740 pounds per acre. I. L. Hathaway of the dairy department said the cattle in the highly fertilized plots have clipped the unfertilized fence row grass closely. He said none of the calves have got sick from the highly fertilized grass but they seem to dislike it. Tupelo. Miss. (U.R) Thomas Barnes was digging for worms here when he turned up a Dutch coin, minted in Utrecht in 1791. Gambling Debts Blamed For Leap from Pyramid Cairo, Egypt (U.R) Gamb Ing debts were blamed Tuesday for the first recorded suicidal leap from the 4,000-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza. Leon Capelli, 34, an oil . com pany worker, leaped from the top of the 420-foot pyramid Monday and rolled down the huge stone steps to the ground. His skull was fractured. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at noon Saturdays. Veterans' Club , Remodeling Done Completion of the remodeling of the Veterans', club, 42 North Fir street, was announced today by Manager J. M. Arnold. Ar nold said it .is now one of the state's outstanding dining and club rooms. ' . .- ' The club was opened in Feb ruary, 1947, and is operated by a board of directors. It has been completely remodeled and an open house has been set for Wednesday so the public can see the improvement, Arnold said. There will be a grand opening Thursday. Albert W. Gandt was design er for the remodeling. Lee Williams was in charge of the construction worfc. Arnold announced that the dining room will continue to be open every day for lunches and that it will soon remain open until 11 p. m. for dinners. FOOTPRINTERS SPONSOR 1 The Medford chapter of the Footprinters association was in advertently omitted Monday in a Mail Tribune story listing the sponsors of the Rogue Valley Soap 'Box derby. The chapter was a sponsor along with Barnes Chevrolet, Medford; the General Motors corporation Chevrolet di vision and The Mail Tribune. IIIDCSI ANGEL FOOD Quick CAKE Mix 'just add water! 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