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irXTEEN MEDFORD (OBEQOIf) MAO. TRIBUNE Sunday, October 31, 193 t f ".I. ; , i ; 1 !' vr. 3 I. i Medford Men Retu rn From Safety Session Two' Medford men, Vernon Thorpe, traffic engineer a n city director of public works, and Claude Haggard, safety di rector for the California Oregon Power company, recently re- , turned from the National Safety , council convantion-in Chicago, ! Haggard presented his well known demonstration on low , voltage electricty. Thorpe was the delegate from the Medford Safety council. His trip was : : sponsored jointly by the council the Medford Xiwanis club, and the city of Medford. . ' Report On Radar ;v Thorpe reported that one sec tion was devoted to discussions of the use of radar as a-speed , control device. It-is gaining in popularity and effectiveness, he said, and the public seems to have more confidence in it than in older methods of speed con- : ;trol, , A section on driver education concluded that driving schools are needed throughout the na tion. It was pointed out that '. the national loss caused by traf fic accidents amounts to some - $4,300,000,000 annually. While driver 1 training is becoming more widespread, it is not keep ing pace with the increased use of motor vehicles, Thorpe re ported, and he said that invest!' gations show that of the 71,000,- ideons'Autumn Rally Affracfs jOver 100 Persons The annual , autumn rally of , the Rogue Valley camp of the Gideons was held at the Jack son hotel last week with more ' than 100 .members, Auxiliary ' members, visiting ministers and ' guests In attendance. ' State officers attending were Introduced by Hugh High, presi dent of the local camp, including William McCallum, president of the state organization, who - brought greetings and reported ; on the Gideons' statewide activl '. ties. ; : '. Volunteers Needed ' John Bollinger, Salem, state chaplain, was the main speaker, and discussed .the urgent need lor volunteers to carry on the Gideons work in placing 'Bibles and testaments in hotels, motels, penal institutions, hospitals and other public places. He said this is a challenge for every Gideon , and every church, and he em phasized that the need is world wide, particularly in such places s Russia, India, China, Japan and . others, v ( The Bible secretary reported tnat some 28,000,000 Bibles and ' testaments have been placed in public places since the first 25 were placed in a Montana hotel 66 years ago. In Jackson and Josephine counties, 26,118 Bibles and testaments have been dis tributed in the past eight years ai a cost of ?u,578.57. Visit Churches I,ast Sunday, 11 teams of Gideons visited various churches speaking to congregations at the throughout the Rogue valley. morning services, and reporting on the Gideon ministry. The Teams gathered for luncheon, and brought back reports on "wnicn plans for a more cxten sive program can be based. 000 motor vehicle operators now in the nation, some 15,000,000 would be denied licenses if re examined. ' New Signs ' Thorpe also attended a section of traffic engineering, and said the use of standard traffic signs is growing. Some cities have adopted "Yield Right Of Way" signs, rather than "Stop" siens, These do not require a vehicle to stop unless another vehicle is approaching. Oregon's motor code would have to be amended before such signs could be used here, Thorpe said. In a, section . on pedestrian traffic, one speaker blamed the parents of school children for training them in improper safety habits. . v. Josephine county was present ed a national award for improve ment in home safety, .and Hag gard accepted the award on be half of the county, ... Englishwoman III Here; Blood Gilts Follow Requests Miss Jean Thompson, 22, who arrived in Medford from Eng land about three weeks ago, is in critical condition at Ashland General hospital, where she un derwent surgery last week, ac cording to her sister, Mrs. Harold Ross, Hartley lane. Miss Thompson had not been ill and had arrived here for a six-month visit.- Mrs. Ross has been in this country for 8V4 years. Ross was serving with the 8th Air Force in England during World War II when they met...; -i .. , :.. Many Blood Transfusions Miss Thompson, required num erous transfusions of blood dur ing the two times she had surg ery and because her type is O negative the suddIv was not easily obtainable. A call was made through the Ashland Tid ings and the radio station there with the result that the hosDital averaged a teleDhone call three minutes following the ap peal, m me present no more donors are needed. Her parents have been noti fied of her critical condition but it is not certain whether they will be able to make the trip to this country to be with their daughter. a ' , ill III., ll CONVICTED AND ACQUIT TED Actress Lynn Baggett Is shown in Los Angeles court immediately after hearing jury convict her of hit-run in ihe death of a 9-year-old boy. She was acquitted of man slaughter charges in connec tion with the traffic death. BUSY MOTHER Indianapolis. Miss. -(IIP) A five-year-old cow owned by W. C, Burnley has given birth to seven calves. The cow has had three seta of twins and a single Baldock Directed To Make Available Letters About Span : Portland U,R) The State Highway Commission Friday di rected Engineer R. H. Baldock to make available to shipping interests correspondence be tween himself and Army en. gineers on the planned new inter state bridge over the Columbia river. . Baldock read" the commission correspondence over the continu ing controversy about navigation features of the new bridge be tween Portland and Vancouver, Wash. Engineers advised him that any request for more changes would have to originate with groups using the river. Exercise Control . Army engineers' exercise the federal government's control of navigable streams. Baldock raised the question of making the present Interstate oriage coniorm in appearance with the new one which would have a center span of about 630 feet with a vehicle clearance much higher than the present bridge. He estimated a saving of some $250,000 might be real ized oy making changes in the present bridge at the same time the new one was being let for contract. Do-it-yourself time v iiJ; l J tnmM hcatteA-Toa tntd thehn ( u ntiwimecd, loetd fcwwlnfi aid zprt, backml by a nationwida ortaniaatlo pradndnt fin In mr tn and ytm M. 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