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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Midway To Lead Fleet Visiting Seafair Event Seattle iU.P.) A 16 - ship fleet, headed by the gigantic air craft carrier USS Midway, will be in Seattle for the Seafair cele bration Rear Admiral Albert M. Bledsoe and R. C. Torrance an nounced jointly during the week end. The Midway will steam into Elliott Bay on Friday, June 29, and will remain in Seattle 10 days. Trie remainder of the Seafair Fleet will be made up of six de- Commander Selected For Burns Radar Post Burns U.R) r Capt. Thomas B. Barnes, New Medford, Mass., has been named commander of the recently activated radar sta tion here. By the end of the month, some 110 men will be working at the station. Monday, June 20, 1955 Grange kitchen and it was voted to serve the SOS dinner. Visitors included the William Polings, Anna Scott and Kate Ferns. The lecture hour was devoted to the Grange Memorial Service in charge of Chaplain Mona Ferns and consisted of a reading by Flora Ethel Hockersmith, duets ' by Addie Simmons and Louise Norton, and a beautiful tableau by Myrtle Ferns and committee. . The next Grange meeting will have a covered dish dinner also a Father's day program- HEC will meet June 22 at the home of Olive Floyd for desert luncheon with Luella 'Higdon and Peggy Glascock as co-hostesses. : . Phoenix Grange At the June 14 meeting of the Phoenix Grange interesting reports of the State Grange were given by Master Lottie on various bills; Edith Poe on HEC and the Dinsmores on juvenile work. Dee Hendrickson reported that a new roof had been put on the NEW LOCATION Chris the Tailor 36 N. Bartlett-Tel. 2-8473 . Tailor Made Suits Alterations Remodeling ; Repairing stroyer escorts, a division of ocean-going minesweepers, a large-clas submarine and three radar picket escort vessels. Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday l . , pJ I jj ; ; r T .... . r - I : . " . V -5 - ' t SIRENS ARE SCREAMING as President Elsenhower (left) and aide leave White House for hide away in nearby state to test Civil Defense preparations. Key government personnel accompanied President as Capital was theoretically razed by hydrogen bomb after evacuation. (International) hsBppw a ; 'f ""ITT GOING FISHIN' Now that school is out Bobby Mico of San Diego, Calif., and his dog, Rin-Tin-Tin Jr., head for the ol' fishing hole. They're not alone as other barefoot "Tom Sawyers" the land over look forward to a nice long summer of fishing. t Many Local People Receiving Benefits From Social Security In Jackson and Josephine counties at the end of 1954, 3,113 retired workers were receiving $172,616 in" monthly social se curity payments, according to figures released by W.' V. Nus baum, Sociel Security Adminis tration district manager in Med ford. In addition to the retired wor kers themselves, 2,027 people were receiving $71,288 a month as dependants of aged workers or as survivors of those who had died. Of those receiving old-age in surance benefits, 826 had wives or husbands who were entitled to payments as dependants. Ben efits to wives and aged depend dent husbands amounted to $24, 189 per month. Children Benefit Children made up a large group of beneficiaries; 786 were receiving $28,977 in benefits at the end of the year. Most of these were children of younger work ers who had died, but some were children of retired workers. If their father has died and children receiving benefits are in the care of their mother, the mother also receives benefits. In the two counties 107 mothers re ceived $4,830 per month at the end of 1954. A total of $13,292 a month went to 308 aged widows and aged widowers and parents of de ceased workers. These local figures for old-age and survivors insurance pay ments reflect a national trend, JMusbaum pointed out. In the country as a whole, there were 6,886,480 "people receiving bene bit payments at the end of 1954 nearly 1,000,000 more than in December, 1953. Stress Importance Nusbaum stressed the impor tance of these benefits as the greatest of ten, the only source of income to many of the familie who received them. "Two out of three people now reaching age 65 can qualify for old-age and survivors insurance benefits," he said, "and nine out of ten mothers and children in the country are assured of survivors benefits in case of the death of the family breadwinner." Money to pay these benefits come from the Old-Age and Sur- I'm thinking about how sweet my Chevrolet runs on entirely new grade Mobilgas 8 out of 10 owners of pre-1955 Chevrolets and many other cars get smooth, knock-free mileage when they use new grade Mobilgas which sells in the price range of regular. Look for this sign. Dissenters Needed, Warren Declares in LaFollefte Tribute Madison, Wis. (U.R) Chief Justice Earl Warren has called for more "dissenters" and men who aren't afraid to be called radical. Mr. Warren made the plea for independent minds yesterday as he spoke at the centennial cele bration of the birthday of the late Robert M. LaFollete Sr., fiery founder of the Progressive movement. The Chief Justice called La Follette "preeminently a dis senter a dissenter in the finest sense of the word," and said America still has need of such dissent. Must Test Actions " It is as important now as it was then; we must test all of our public actions by dissent," he said. "The majority does not al ways discover the right answer until it is so tested." Mr. Warren led the tribute to "Fighting Bob" LaFollete, the controversial senator from Wis consin who won nearly five mil lion votes when he ran for the j presidency On a third party .tick-! et in 1924-. . I About 50 of LaFollette's old followers . in the , Progressive movement, together with his son, former Wisconsin Gov. Phil La Follettte, joined Mr. Warren in a pilgrimage to "Old Bob's" birthplace at nearby Primrose, Wis. LaFollette, Mr. Warren said later, "did not dissent through mere obstinacy. He dissented in righteous indignation when he thought the objectives of our government were being sub verted." Was Called Radical The Wisconsin statesman was called a "dangerousradical," the Chief Justice said, for advocat ing direct election of U. S. sen-' ators, tariff revision, control of monopolies and trusts, pri maries, and laws to protect labor and civil liberties. The program has -long since been accepted, Mr. Warren said, but "there are those who still be live.it is radical and long for the so-called 'good old days'." "There are still those who would still call it- socialism;, those who refuse to make a dis tinction between socialism and social progress; those who Lin coln described as unable to dis tinguish a horse chestnut from a chestnut horse," Mr. Warren said. Family Offering $25,000 Reward for Prominent Couple West Palm Beach, Fla (U.R) The family of Judge and Mrs. C. E. Chillingworth offered a $25,000 reward today for the safe return of the prominent couple, feared kidnaped and possibly slain. The offer announced last night brought to $43,000 the total re ward posted in the disappear ance of the judge and his wife. Blood Found The wealthy, respected couple vanished from their ocean front cottage in Manalapan, Fla., last Tuesday night. Splotches of blood, a smashed outdoor flood light, two rolls of partly used surgical tape and footprints were the only clues. 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