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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1952)
j SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Auguit ' 1952 P Iff"- ffibi 'PERFECT CONDITION Brent Bradberry, 13-year-old Lynwood, Calif., Boy Scout lost for seven days in a Sierra forest wilderness northwest of Yosemite Park, has his weight checkedin Sonora, Calif., by Deputy Sheriff Don Hineman. Brent, found 19-miles from where he became separated from a fishing party, had lost no weight and his condition was described by doctors as "perfect." Increased Checks Due Some Welfare Recipients Soon There will bo increases in the checks of some recipients of Jackson County Public Welfare commission assistance in Octob er, it was announced today by Mrs. Blanche Lyman, adminis trator. Other checks will be un changed. The increases result from a change in federal law, which will provide additional funds for a two-year period for some wel fare recipients. They will be made effective by changes in standard food costs. The following persons will re ceive an additional $5 amount in their grant, under most circum stances: Recipient of old age as sistance aid to the blind, anfl aid to the. permanently and total ly disabled. Increases of $3 monthly, under most circumstances, will go to needy "caretaker" relatives and each child receiving aid under the dependent children program. Mrs. Lyman pointed out that any recipient who is receiving aid on a boarding basis, as in hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the aged or any other board ing situation, will not receive the increase. Also unchanged will be grants to those receiv ing aid for which federal match ing funds are not claimed. The reason some will receive increases and some will not is because federal matching funds are not available for all phases of the welfare program, and the state and county budgets are not large enough this year to cover the increased coSts, Mrs. Lyman explained. The present amount for food throughout the state is on the following schedule, Mrs. Lyman said: Old age assistance, aid to the blind and aid to the permanently and totally disabled, $27 per months for each person; for aid to dependent children, amounts of $26.75 or less per individual, ranging downward on scales which are dependent on the number of persons in the family unit, and the age of the children involved. Oregon Children Lead Country in 1952 Polio Drive Oregon's March of Dimes ag ency today loosed a statistical blitz as proof positive that resi dents of the Beaver state are high among the highest in the generosity of their support of the incessant campaign against pol io. Oregon school children topped the nation in the 1952 March of Dimes Portland was the lead ing American city in the over 100,000 population class and Oregon finished a snappy fourth among all the. states in per cap ita contributions to this year's record-breaking effort. The results were announced by Dr. E. T. Hedlund, Portland, state March of Dimes chairman. He said they were based on a country - wide compilation re ceived this week from the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in New York. Record Campaign This year's campaign in Ore gon brought in a record $640, 000 ' which represents a 25 per cent improvement over 1951's $512,000. It also represented 42 cents per capita, as compared with 34 cents in 1951. This av erage earned Oregon fourth in the nation, behind Wyoming (56 cents), Nevada (50) and Idaho (49) but Dr. Hedlund said the Oregon total was greater than the combined sums raised in the three top states. " . Oregon school children gave1 $42,000 or an average of 25 certs apiece. This, Dr. Hedlund said, was the ' best per capita school showing of any state. Tweity-two thousand dollars came from Multnomah county schools. . The Portland - Multnomah county per capita contribution for all givers was 54 cents the best for any city in the over 100,000 class. However, Gilliam outranked the other 35 Oregon counties with a 99-cent average; Grant county- was second with 76 cents, Sherman and Lake tied for third with 71 cents and Doug las next with 66. warn Let Us Do Your Family Bundle WE DO IT BETTER! Dress Shirts Q EXPERTLY FINISHED i i When included with the Family Wash Bundle Everything Else Washed and Fluff Dried All Flat Work Finished. : Phone 2-2534 or 2-4776 THE American Laundry ' - - - 1 r ... . " ' W o 112 EAST MAIN STREET MEDFORD, ORE. RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO ROBINSON BROS. - if " ' :: : - -' - - ' - - ; . 132 SOUTH CENTRAL
