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I Charles Summerall, Former Army Chief, Dies in Washington Washington (U.R) Gen. Charles P. Summerall, 88, for mer Army Chief of Staff, died 8aturday at Walter Reed Army hospital. He had been under treatment at Walter Reed since last Au gust. It was reported at the time of his admission to the hospital that he was suffering from leu kemia. He is survived by his son, Charles P. Summerall, Jr., a re tired Army colonel. Headed College Charles Pelot Summerall was soldier of, the old school who believed in ramrod discipline and strict military courtesy. His military career spanned 66 years, including service in three cam paigns, four years as Army Chief of Staff, and 22 years as presi dent of The Citadel in Charles ton, S. C, one of the nation's oldest military colleges. On his 88th birthday, which he celebrated March 4 with a small party at the hospital, he was still erect and soldierly in his bearing, precise in all his habits, and unbendingly formal in his manner. As one of his hospital visitors remarked: "Even in pajamas, he looks like a four-star general." Gribble Delegate To State Conclave John Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford, has been elected delegate to attend the Oregon State federation of the National Association of Retired Civil Em ployees meeting in Eugene Thursday. He was elected at a meeting of the Southern Oregon chapter Friday. , At the Friday meeting, Clar ence L. Williams, of Ashland, who Is national secretary of the association, discussed objectives and working phases of the or ganization. Williams Is a mem ber of the Southern Oregon chapter. Box Canyon Generator Receives First Test Newport, Wash. U.R) Box Canyon dam's first genera tor began a "dry out run" test Saturday Project Engineer A. H. Sewell said. Sewell said the test would take three to 14 days and would mean raising the level of the water behind the dam almost to Its final height. Aa soon a the unit has been dried out and tested, he said, it will begin producing power for the North west power pool. UDo Yoro Mave A Ghrievamice UDocitoir? Patients who complain to their friends about the way their doctors treat them have a better place to take their complaints. , This is a special grievance committee, which Is part of the Jackson County Medical Society. The committe was organized some years ago by the Medical Society to hear patients' complaints regarding physicians' services or fees. It provides for fair hearings for BOTH patients and physi cians whenever the patient aid doctor are unable mutually to resolve their disagreement. Many complaints brought before the committee- stem from misunderstandings which arise when a phy sician neglects to explain fully, in advance, the type of treatment required or the cost of the medical services rendered. The medical profession has for its prime ob jective service to humanity. Reward or financial gain should be a subordinate consideration. That is the first provision " in our code of medical ethics. We mean what we say in that provision. We want you to have the finest medical care in the world, regardless of your ability to pay. Our mediation or grievance committee helps the medical profession to give you the best possi ble care by: 1. Offering an efficient way of handling pa tient complaints. 2. Protecting physicians from unjustified criticism. 3. Demonstrating to the community that doe tors have their patients' welfare at heart. This committee suggest that you tell your doc tor when a fee, which may be reasonable for oth ers, is more than you can pay without depriving vourself or your family of the other necessities of life. Frankly and honestly discuss your situation with your doctor in advance. Don't put off ex plaining your circumstances until after you re ceive the doctor's bill. It isn't fair to either of you. Doctors are anxious that no real grievances go unadjusted. Some of the complaints made to the commit tee have been entirely justified. The committee, in these cases, has recommended to the doctor Involved that proper adjustments be made. The majority of the comolaints have been settled amiably between the doctor and patient, and did not require the further services of the committee. The committee has had very little business, and. frankly, we hope it continues that way. Nevertheless, we want the public to know that we. as a profession, are anxious to cooperate in rendering the finest medical care, and in pre venting dissatisfaction. If you feel you have a legitimate comolaint, you may write to the Jackson County Medical Society, Dr. Earl Lawson, Secretary, 406 Medical Center Building, Medford, Oregon. JACKSON MEDICAL Is That So? Over Norway, with S.A.S. (Delayed) "Of Arctic mammals seals, walruses, polar bears, musk oxen, caribou, varied hare. foxes which," asks a fellow north Polar route passenger, "which is most plentiful?" None of these. It's a much smaller, chunky creature only six inches long, including the inch-long tail. It's kind is cir cumpolar. It's among the most wonderful of animals, during "wave years" it numbers in the billions. - In "tough" years, not one can be found in a hundred miles. It's the lemming, close cousin of the mouse, and the only one which in Greenland and North America turns from a tan to a pure white in winter. Their fluffy fur is long, completely hiding the ears. To protect their feet from snow and ice, they S-I4-5S are padded with fur and our col lared lemming of the Hudson Bay develops horny shields on the lower surface of the two middle claws of each front foot sloughing them off toward April. Why is this animal excep tional, and second, because of this, it commits mass extinction hurrying westward toward the setting sun until not one of the onrushing millions, and billions is left. This Arctic lemming lives chiefjy on the barrens, on tun dra, although the collared lem ming of North America extends its range into the tree zone along the Rocky Mountains, to Eastern Alberta. Its food is vegetable. Litters May Increase - In their "townsites," lem mings are subject to great waves of population increases of enor mous proportions, usually every fourth year. In these times of upsurge, the normal two litters of five each may be increased to five litters of ten or more. Mean while the young, in their globe shaped, grass-lined nests show a marked increase in vitality and are enabled to ward off dis eases to which their kind is nor mally subject. This combination results in a lemming population so great that the home food sup ply of bark, grass, lichens, sprouting woody plants proves inadequate and great numbers COUNTY SOCIETY By Eugene Burns - - Ranger-Naturalist are forced to migrate. Sometimes the population of an entire "city" literally hun dreds of millions starts out simultaneously in the late win ter or early spring, as though by a word of command, with count less other millions joining from nearby lemming cities. Press Toward West Moving almost entirely by night, they press on remorsely, inexorably, onward to the west, in a straight course down the valleys over the tundra, through the low-growing sedge and past stunted spruce trees. Rocks and ridges are surmounted. Bogs are traversed. When wide rivers are not frozen, they rush up and down the banks madly searching for calm water crossings; if not found, fhey finally jump in. Hundreds of thousands are swept into the Tapids and drowned. Millions die through cannibalism, millions through starvation, millions through predators. Multiplied millions to parasites and diseases. Huge numbers melt away, but those that survive for the time hurry on, ever on, jumping , into ice cold lakes, if need be, .in their frantic desperation to reach the west, on to the west, and new feeding grounds. As they rush on, a canopy of preying birds owls, ravens, gulls, jaegers, skuas, and hawks accompanies them. Among them, too, are beasts of prey weasel, lynx, wolverine, fox, bear, wildcat. Even the herb eating caribou crush the little rodents between their flat crowned molars, swallowing them whole. But this has no seeming effect upon the sur vivors. On they come. Little Order To Migrations There seems little order to these mass migrations. Some members may pause, as luxuriant foliage, long denied, tempts them, individually. Females may linger to produce considerably reduced litters, rear them, and push on, heading west, into the setting sun, and inevitable death. Only snow stops them for a time then they burrow into it and mate and have more young that is, the American lemming. The European does not produce young in winter. But when spring comes, the restraining brake is again released, and they press on, always westward. Gradually litters become smal ler; the number of mature adults dwindles as enemies take their toll. Disease strikes' down the remainder, and in North Amer ica, the exodus grinds to a halt simply because there art no more left to travel. These westward migrations may last as much as a year or two in Scandinavia but the cli max there is more dramatic. Not having far to travel to the ocean as do these in North America, those that reach the cruel sea dash in boldly, and if they sur vive the surf, swim on. Deter minedly they swim on to the west, but within a few miles their strength ebbs, and the last enfeebled lemming finally sinks below the surface of the cold water where fish devour It. With the departure of these vast hordes, food enough re mains for the few stay-at-homes, and from this tiny seed stock, the pendulum starts to swing back again, slowly but surely. Locked within the lemming, as in every other mammal is the urge to keep the earth filled with its .kind. (Copyright, 1955 by Eugene Burns) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS THAT SO! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Willamette Students Named to Aid Judges Salem (U.R) . Eldon F. Caley, of Salem, third year law student at Willamette university, has been named clerk to Judge James Alger Fee, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the ninth judicial district in San Fran cisco. He will leave Salem May 19 to assume his new duties. Arthur A. Franzke of Port land, also a third year student at Willamette law school, has been named clerk to Oregon Supreme Court Justice Walter L. Tooze. He will begin his as signment July 1. Sales - Rental Folding WHEEL CHAIRS Q Open Sundays and Holidays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. ts 10 p.m. HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E. MAIN PHONE 3-5345 1 Block East of Hawthorn Park SON OF a widowed working woman, Frank Brennan, 10, Oakland, Cal., learns he will in herit nearly $1,000,000 from es tate of Lucille Tyler, an aunt, Los Angeles. (International) Youngster Inherits Million Dollars; No Change Planned Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Frances C. Brennan, a widowed office worker, declared Saturday that a million dollar inheritance will make no difference in her 10-year old son's way of lie. The. son, Frank Brennan, Fri day was named an heir to the $5,500,000 estate of his aunt, the late Lucille M. Taylor of Los Angeles, who died last month. To Share Estate Young Frank and five other cousins will share equally in the estate, coming into more than $900,000 e?.ch. But the whopping bank ac count will mean little to Frank right away, his mother said Saturday. "Money does not necessarily make for happiness or good people," she said. "I don't want him spoiled by this. He'll con tinue to go to school and play with the other boys just like this didn't happen.". Widow of Founder The boy's father, who died several years ago, was a brother of Mrs. Tyler. The wealthy aunt was the widow of John C. Tyler, a founder of Farmers Insurance Corp. Other principal beneficiaries include Curtis Brennan, 8, of Inglewood, Calif., and Joseph, 19, Patricia, 22, Elizabeth, 21, and Joan Brennan, 18, all of Seattle. Linfield to Receive Funds from Neuberger Washington (U.R) Linfield college in McMinnville, Ore., will be the beneficiary of a $500 award to be given Tuesday to Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.) by a New York Democrat club. The Five Towns Democratic club at Cedarhurst, L. I., will make the award to Neuberger for "outstanding achievement" in politics. Neuberger said he would turn the award over to Linfield "to encourage talented young men and women of high ideals to be come concerned about govern ment and to take part actively in American politics." SLIGHT DIFFERENCE Hartford, Conn. (U.R) May or Dominic De Lucco, speak ing at a retail merchants' dinner, said, "We are behind you mer chants of the ,city one hundred per cent." He stopped in embar rassment, then added: "I change that to 1000 per cent." " One out of every three pints of blood donated to the Ameri can Red Cross in 1954 went for the national defense use. HIGH QUALITY LOW PRICES It will pay you to drive out and see our fine selection of new and used pianos. Very Easy Terms RENTALS Also Rental-Purchase Plan OPEN Sundays by Appointment PHONE 2-4296 TODAY ERSKINE'S Piano Store 1304 KINGS HWY. Springfield Manager Submits Resignation Springfield, Ore. (U.R) City Manager Herbert C. Hamilton submitted his resignation Satur day morning to Mayor Edward C. Harms Jr., and asked that the council take prompt action on it. The action followed the Thurs day recall of two councilmen, Ralph Nicholas and Paris Breed love, by a vote of more than three to one. The two council men were accused of undue haste in helping to hire Hamilton. Friday the Mayor issued a call for a special council meet ing Monday night. Items of busi ness were listed as canvassing Thursday's vote, discussion of council vacancies and city man ager aplications. Mayor Harms said Saturday Hamilton's resignation would be submitted to the council Mon day night. DON'T DO THIS Peoria, 111. (U.R) Maggie, the lioness and Zoo Director Dick ; Houlihan reached for a bone at the same time. Houlihan came in second, receiving a slash on his hand that required eight stitches. "She had a longer reach than I thought," he said. Sunday, May IS. 19S8 STANDING IN COCKPIT of Amerlean-made training plant, Adolf Galland, German air force general In World War n, who Is believed likely to head new West German air force, smiles at aides after making test flight over Duesseldorf. (International) -(MB NW! YUE3 OA IF 0' A Delicious Combination of . . . . UNBLEACHED FLOUR - CREAMERY BUTTER AND HONEY A LdPAIF IF EMDMIE DDOTSS This is truly home-style bread, made from unbleached flour. In order to bring out a real home-like flavor, this bread has been kneaded firm er, made more compact and slowly baked for one liour. 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