Medford mail tribune., July 22, 1952, Image 2

TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, July 22, IS52
WHERE QUAKE STRUCK Wreckage of the Juanita Hotel in tne
tiny Southern California town of Tehachapi, where at least 11
persons died in a severe earthquake that was felt over nearly
600 miles of California. It was one of the severest in state's history.
McKay Summons Log
Haulers to Meeting
Salem (U.R) Gov. Douglas
McKay has called a meeting of
representatives of the' lumber
industry and officials of various
state departments for 9:30 a.m.
Thursday to develop a program
of cooperating in regulating the
Polio Death Toll
Mounts in Iowa
As Tests Continue
Sioux City, Iowa (U.R) The
polio death toll mounted Tues
day while frightened parents vol
unteered their children as "guin
ea pigs" in experimental tests
designed to control the crippling
disease.
The death of 11-year-old Dav
id Anderson brought the death
total here during the present ep
idemic to 14.
: Two more patients were ad
mitted to overloaded Sioux City
hospitals, bring the number of
active cases to 135.
. Fourteen patients were in iron
lungs, while hospital staffs held
three machines in reserve for
use at a moment's notice. Three
additional iron lungs, one from
Minneapolis and two from the
East, were expected to arrive
here shortly.
Nearly every mother in town
made plans to take her children
to inoculation clinics for a poss
ible Injection of gamma globu
lin, the experimental serum
which doctors hope will strip
polio of its power to paralyze.
Some 4,000 children between
the ages of one and 11 were
inoculated Monday. Half of
them received gamma globulin
serum, the rest a harmless gela
tin substance. More than 12,000
children remain to be inoculat
ed before the test is completed
late this week.
Alaska Deserter
Turned Over lo Army
Portland (U.R) -The Army
Tuesday took charge of James
T. Coss, the 72-year-old man
who deserted the Army in Al
aska in 1905 and finally turned
himself in to Portland police
Sunday.
Coss, who said his real name
was Banks C. Roddey, told po
lice of embezzling S300 to $400
in federal funds while he was
an Army sergeant in Fairbanks,
Alaska and then deserting his
post and traveling disguised to
San Francisco. He was held in
temporarly custody at the Port
land air base and then moved
Tuesday to Ft. Lewis, Wash.
Ah Army spokesman said
Coss probably will receive a
general discharge the in-between
type of separation from
service that is neither honor
able nor dishonorable. He de
clined to predict whether he
would be prosecuted under the
old embezzlement charge.
hauling of logs and lumber on
public highways and streets. The
meeting will be in the Board of
Control room in the capitol build
ing. Hopes for Safe Hauling
Gov. McKay said he hopes the
meeting will develop a program
which will insure the transporta
tion of logs and lumber on pub
lie highways in a safe manner,
with proper equipment, includ
ing approved couplers and safety
chains, loaded within the legal
limits and in observance of all
traffic safety laws.
Gov. McKay said a number of
recent log truck fatalities result
ed from failure to equip trucks
with proper couplers and safety
chains:
Due to the seriousness of the
problem, the governor said he
had asked these persons, to at
tend the meeting: Attorney Gen
eral George Neuner, L. L. Simp
son, Southern Oregpn Truckers
Association; Loren Stewart, state
representative and with the Bo
hemia Lumber Co.; Ed Crosby,
Columbia Basin Loggers; Charles
Ogle, Associate Forest Industries;
W. W. Stiffler and P. B. Sipprell,
State Highway Department;
Charles H. Heltzel and A. F.
Harvey, Public Utilities Com
mission; H. G. Maison, super
intendent of state police, and
Paul E. Gurske, T. Morris Dunne
and L. O. Arens, State Industrial
Accident Commission. .
Central Point 4-H
Community Fair
Winners Listed
Central Point The Central
Point 4-H Community fair was
held July 19 at the Harold Geb
hard ranch with Rufus H. Cate
Jr., county 4H club agent, acting
as judge. '
First event was the identifica
tion of the parts of a pig. Win
ning boy and girl were Carl Do-
brot, Central Point and Linda
Malloroy, Antelope.' Prizes were
given by Steve's Barbershop and
Burelson's Dry Goods Store.
Following lunch a forestry II
demonstration was given by Carl
Dobrot and Carl Skyrman.
Joann Russell Winner
First place in dairy showman
ship went to Joann Russell. The
award, 25 lbs. of feed, was do
nated by the Grange Co-op. Car
ol Russell, second; Rosemarie
Legler, third; Gwenn Moore,
fourth; Billy Williams, fifth; and
Lee Gossett, sixth.
An award by Burelson's Dry
Goods Store went to Dona
Brown, Antelope, for first place
in the visitor's dairy showman
ship class. Linda Malloroy, Ante
lope, second; Mary Dugan, Val
ley View, third; Lula Mae Ca
hail, Antelope, fourth; John Fo
ley, Howard, fifth; Edward Nei
now, Howard, sixth.
First place award, 25 lbs. of
feed from Grange Co-Op went
to Dale Smith for beef showman
ship. Joann Russell, second; Stu
art Hurst, third; Carol Russell,
fourth; Donnie Williams, fifth;
Paul Williams, sixth.
Lula Mae Cahail, Antelope,
placed first in the visitor's beef
showmanship class. The award
was given by Faber's Market.
Linda Malloroy, Antelope, sec
ond; Anita Kubli, Applegate,
third; Winston Foley, Howard,
fourth: John Foley, Howard,
fifth; Dan Gilman, West Side,
sixth; Jerry Leonard, Central
Point, seventh..
Poultry Awards
Poultry showmanship award
went to Gwenn Moore, donated
by Marshall Wells Store. Rose
marie Legler, second; Sharel
Swanson, third; Gary Legler,
fourth; Barbara Swanson, fifth;
Carolyn Dalker sixth.
Gary Legler won the swine
award donated-by. Steve's Bar
bershop. First place in the forestry I ex
hibits went to Joan Dobrot. Set
ness Variety Store donated the
award. Robert Taylor, first; Lor
en Gebhard, second; Janet An
derson, third. " .
The Forestry II exhibit award
went to Carl Dobrot from Alex
ander Hardware and Implement
company. Second place went to
Carl Skyrman.
The Central Point 4H clubs
thanked the Home Extension
Unit that helped serve refresh
ments, merchants who donated
awards, and especially the' large
group of people that attended.
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MAY BE THE WINNER Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
who many political observers pick as probable winner of the Demo
cratic nomination for President opens first session of Democratic
convention in Chicago. He got tremendous ovation from delegates.
Some 3,500 Southern
Oregonians WiSl Get
Increased Benefits
beneficiaries aged 75 or over
already on the rolls to take ad
vantage of the higher benefit
payments provided under the
new formula, if they have had
at least a year and a half of cov
ered work after 1950.
Military Credits
The amended law allows so
cial security wage credits of
$160 for each month of active
military or naval service after
July 24, 1947. This provision is
simply an extension of the one
which already gives social se
curity wage credits to service
men of World War II. It applies
to service in the armed forces
up to Jan. 1, 1954.
Of advantage to the survivors
of deceased service people is a
provision in the amended law
extending the time for claiming
a lump-sum death payment. This
applies to servicemen who die
aboard and are later returned
to the United States for burial
or reburial. Survivors who pay
the burial expenses may now
claim reimbursement up to two
years after the reburial instead
of two years after the service
man's death.
Napoleon once contemplated
residence in the United States.
The emperor is quoted as say
ing to - his brother Joseph: "If
we are forced to flee to America,
I should choose a place between
Philadelphia and New York and
on the Delaware river, in order
to get news by packet."
Longyearbyen (Longyear City)
administrative capital of Spits
bergen, was named for John M.
Longyear, a Bostonian who in
1905 conducted the first large
scale coal mining operations in
the icy Arctic archipelago. Spits
bergen has been governed by
Norway since 1925.
The antelope ground squirrel
is one of the most conspicuous
small desert animals encount
ered in Death Valley National
Monument.
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About 3,500 people in Jack
son and Josephine counties will
receive higher social security
payments as a result of the soc
ial security amendments whjch
President Truman signed into
law on July 18. The first increas
ed check will be for the month
of September, delivered early
in October.
O. K. Kimbrel, manager of
the Medford social security of
fice, emphasized that no one
needs to apply for the increased
payments. "The Social Security
administration is already chang
ing the amounts," he pointed
out. "We expect to get them
changed in time to have them
in the mail October 3, the reg
ular delivery date, but if in a
few cases we don't meet that
schedule, we'll send the regular
check and make up the differ
ence in a later check."
Some Checks Change
Kimbrel said that although
nearly every family receiving
payments would receive an in
crease, the additional amount
would not always be divided
among all the members of the
family receiving morfthly
checks. In some cases the entire
increase will go to the retired
worker.
Under terms of the law, most
families will get an increase of
about So; some get less, some
will get more. A few present
benefits and most of those pay
able in the future will be based
on earnings after 1950 instead
of after 1936. The amended law
provides a new formula for de
termining the amount of the
payments in these cases. Under
it, a retired worker's monthly
benefit would be 5 per cent of
the first $100- of his average
monthly earnings plus 15 per
cent of the remainder up to $300.
Allowable Earnings Up i
Beginning September 1, the
new law increased to $75 a
month, instead of $50, the am
ount of money a beneficiary may
earn and still receive the month
ly benefits. Self-employed peo
ple entitled to old-age and sur
vivors insurance benefits may
receive, the payments for each
month of the year if their net
earnings during the entire year
are not over $900.
The amended law contains a
provision of special importance
to self - employed people who
have retired or plan to retire
during 1952. Before the passage
of the amendments their earn
ings for the year in which an
application was made could not
be used to figure their old - age
benefit payments. Now, ' those
self-employed people who orig
inally applied for benefits in
1952 may re-apply at the close
of the taxable year and have
their 1952 earnings used in fig
uring their monthly benefit pay
ments. In general, this will in
crease the monthly benefit pay
ment to self-employed persons.
Figure Current Wages
A similar change in the law
now permits insured wage earn
ers who retire in 1952 to have
their wages for this year used
immediately in figuring the am
ount of their benefit payments.
Heretofore, it was necessary for
them to come back after the
end of the year in order to have
all of their covered wages for
1952 included in the computa
tion of the benefit amount.
Another amendment allows
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