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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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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to bring out a real home-like flavor, this bread has been kneaded firm
er, made more compact and slowly baked for one liour. The extra
care taken in making this loaf gives it an outstanding taste and flavor
which makes HOME-STYLE WHITE an ideal companion loaf to our
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIV
Portland Man Cleared
Of First Degree Murder
Portland U.R) William
Henry Porter, 23-year-old Port
land airman, Friday was "cleared
of first degree murder charges
in connection with the knife
slaying of Kenneth Mann, 20,
Bremerton, Wash.
A Multnomah county grand
jury decided that Porter acted
in self 'defense last April 17
when Mann threatened to beat
him for keeping company with
Mann's estranged wife.
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