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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1955)
TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, March 23, I95S TB Case Level Same As Quarter-Century Ago; X-Rays Advised Though the death rate from tuberculosis has been greatly reduced through the use of new drugs, Jackson county and the state as a whole has just as many active cases of this disease as we had 25 years ago, Dr. A. E Merkel stated today. "That is why, as county health officer, I am urging every adult to have an x-ray at either the Community or Sacred Heart hos pital during the 'out-patient' clinics," he added. "It is only in this way that we can break the chain of infection and wipe out this completely unnecessary and preventable disease. The Sacred Heart hospital clinic is available to the public or the first time this Thursday between the hours of 2 and 5 BALANCED" A wonderful blend of GUERNSEY MILK for ? olden richness, HOL TEIN MILK for added energy units and JER SEY MILK for health ful solids. SNIDER'S GOLD-fl-niCII p.m. ihe community hospital clinic is open on Wednesdays from 3 to 6 p.m. Both clinics are being operated by the hospitals and the Jackson County Public Health association in a case-finding program. Officials of the Health association emphasized today that it is not necessary to remove clothing to have a chest x-ray, and no appointment is necessary. School children are being given tuberculin skin tests which indicate whether or not they have come in contact with the germ. Dr. Merkel explained. "If adults will now take advantage of the x-ray facilities provided for them, with the skin testing program we have a good chance of finding the estimated 100 cases which are spreading the disease," he added. Pear Blossom Queen Contest Has Entries A dozen entries in the contest for queen of the Pear Blossom festival, to be held here April 23, have been entered so far, ac cording to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Deadline for entries is April 1 Queen contestants cannot be older than 6 years. A $5 entry fee for organizations sponsoring queen contestants - is being charecd to cover expenses of photograpy and other costs of conducting the contest. Some 150 local organizations have been mailed entry blanks for the parade to be conducted during the festival. No entry fee is being charged, but the' dead line for making arrangements to enter the parade is April 21. Youngsters participating ' in the parade cannot be older than 12 years. Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White Excuse, please It waa simply horrid of us! How in the world did we ever forget to tell wonderful you, of all people, about the marvelous Bruce Cleaning Wax way to care for wood floors? You might never have known how in one oh-so-easy operation Bruce Cleaning Wax thoroughly cleans and waxes floors ... or the sheer joy of never having to wash floors again or how a floor can gleam up at you month after month. Try Bruce Cleaning Wax for wood floors or Bruce Floor Cleaner with lighter wax base for both linoleum and wood. Then hold us personally responsible for the happy results. cleaning wa I m i ii By SID HOLLINGSWORTH Some illuminating figures were presented at the last VAVS meeting in Medford by Assistant Manager R. H. Denning, cover ing operations in the Veterans Administration as a whole. He gave the volunteers these little known facts: 1. The number of employees in the VA has decreased in the past year by 5,000. 2. The new hospital construc tion program is almost com pleted. 3. The daily patient load in hospitals of the country averages 106,000, with 17,000 domiciliary members. 4. An increase of 12 per cent is reported in the number of vet erans who are receiving treat ment outside of VA hospitals, in Nusing Care Homes. Mrs. Helen Pearson, chief dietitian, has returned from a conference on dietetics in Albi querque, N.M., attended by all VA dietitians in the 11 western states. She reports that many new ideas for improving the service and saving money were discussed. Special Services Chief Frank Glonning announces that four used surplus bowling alleys will be transferred from Port Town send, Wash., to Camp White for use in the recreation program at the station. They should be installed and in use by next fall, he says. Bowling teams among members will then be organized. Mae Seeley, national VAVS chairman, Navy Mothers Clubs of America, has appointed Mrs. Charlotte Lehman, Medford, as representative, and Mrs. Daisy Reinhart, of Medford, as alter nate. ' Appreciation has been ex pressed bp the ladies of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, who were in charge of the mailing of near ly 20,000 Easter Seals in the campaign to "Help Crippled Children," for assistance ren dered by the domiciliary members. The job of stuffing the enve lopes with seals and literature was completed last week. The members who assisted Mrs. Howard Phillips, mailing chair man, were Ben Anderson, Arch W. Button, H. Careswell, Don Cirkot, Hugh Ector, Leo S. Kean, Percy L. King, Benton MacPher son, Howard Schoonmaker, El mer Thomas, Robert F. Wilhelm, Henry Williams and William H. Wolfe. Other members of the sorority group in charge were Mrs. Roy Howe, Mrs. Lyman Smith, Ms. Russell Roseborough and Mrs. Chester Peterson. Mrs. Charles Jones, chapter president, is act ing as Easter Seal chairman for Jackson county. Camp White Needs Revealed by VA The $276,760 listed by a Con gressional committee this week as being needed at the Camp White Veterans Administration domiciliary center is for four projects, it was learned here to day. A United Press story from Washington said the committee had said that renovations at Ore gon's three veterans facilities, at Portland, Roseburg and Camp White, totaled 84,191,560. The Camp White job listed for the fiscal year 1955-57 is a laun dry and conversion of Building 235, at an estimated cost of $250,000, and for the year fol lowing, a cafeteria counter, $5,- 000; concrete slab for coal stor age, $13,700, and a greenhouse, $8,000. The list of estimates was pre' sented to the committee by the VA office in Washington. Unbudgeled Funds Go To Welfare Pot Salem U.R) The Ways and Means Committee of the state Senate yesterday authorized use of $396,641 in unbudgeted funds to prevent further'' cuts in wel fare funds during the next bi ennium. Sen. George Ulett said the state would lose about $600,000 in federal matching funds if the money was not made available, making necessary a 10 per cent cut in all welfare categories. Multnomah and Washington counties recently had welfare funds cut by as much as 50 per cent because of a shortage of funds. Study of Columbia Bridge Plan Slated Olympia (U.R) The State Toll Bridge authority yesterday hired Wilbur Smith and assoc iates of New Haven, Conn., to make a traffic engineering study on the proposed second Colum bia river bridge between Van couver and Portland. Cost of the survey was listed at $4,500. The TBA also discussed ar rangements for a meeting of of ficials of the Oregon highway department, Sherman county, Ore., and Klickitat county, Wash., officials to work out de tails on a four-wey agreement to study the feasibility of a bridge across the Columbia riv er at Biggs rapids. Both bridge studies were au thorized by the legislature. Thelma Williams, American l Legion Auxiliary representative, has been receiving numerous let ters complimenting the men for the fine poppies made this year. Emma Pearce, Salem unit secretary, writes: '"The poppies arrived safely and have been checked and stored for our 'big day.' 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