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IX MZOrORD (OREGON) mail tribune Sunday, July 17, 19SS Unwed Mothers Tell of Adoption Arrangements Made by Attorneys Chica'so (U.R) Three un married mothers testified before Senate investigators Saturday about giving their children up for adoption through lawyers in New York and Chicago. The women gave their testi mony anonymously, seated be hind a screen in the federal court room where the Kefauver subcommittee hearings on "black market adoptions were being heard. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) the subcommittee chairman, gave each Of the. women fictitious names for purposes of the testi mony. . Referred to Attorney "Miss Williams." 28. New York, sobbed as she told of giv ing birth to a child in 1949, when she was unmarried. She aid her doctor referred her to attorney Marcus Siegal, Brook lyn, for help in placing the child. She said after Siegal had ar ranged the adoption and she had given up the child, she decided she wanted the baby back. Siegal then showed her a death certifi cate and told her the child was dead, she said. Later. Miss Williams testified. she learned that Siegal had ar ranged to have another baby buried in the name of her child, and her baby actually was alive and healthy in the home of foster parents. A "Miss Rogers" from a town near Duluth, Minn., testified in a Swedish accent about giving birth to illegitimate boy twins in August, 1954. Adoption Suggested Miss Rogers, 30, said a Mrs. Agnes Brechtels of Duluth sug gested she place the children for adoption in Chicago. She said ar rangements for the trip were made in the office of Duluth at torney Martin Friedman. -The girl said the adoption was handled here by Edward L. S. Arkema. ' She said a man who posed as a judge took her consent to the adoption in Arkema's office. Since then, the woman testified, he has learned the "Judge" was clerk of the court here. Kefauver emphasized there was no apparent law violation on the nart of attorneys who han dled the adoptions, but that the hearings are aimed at determ ining whether there should be stricter laws on adoption. The subcommittee Saturday heard a string of witnesses test ify about operators of "commer cial maternity homes" in Mon treal, Texas, and Oklahoma. A one-time "carnival shill" and a mystery witness, hidden by a screen, combined to testify concerning a home run by a Sara Wieman of Montreal. "Bouncer Testifies Eugene Harry Miner, 44, wh6 described himself, as a former boxer, wrestler, weight-lifter and "shill" in a carnival, told the subcommittee that he acted as a "bouncer" in the Weiman home. He testified he smuggled babies across the border for adoption into the United States. But he objected to the term "smuggling." "That ain't smuggling, mister," he fired back at a committee lawyer who used the term, ''that's giving a baby a home." Subcommittee Special Counsel Ernest A. Mitler asked Miner what business -the woman was in. "Sara's business was making with -the babies," Miner said. "She's selling babies to some American people." Miner said girls who were waiting to have bebies were liv ing in the home. He said one of his jobs was to keep the girls happy. "I make with the nylons, box chocolates and stuff," Miner said, "But Sara paid for it, not me." Home Said in Slum Area The mystery witness, described as a "professional man of means" from New Jersey, testified he ob tained a baby from the Wieman Home which, he said, was in a slum area and filled with "filthy dirt." He said delivery of the baby apparently had been "misman aged." The baby, he said, looked like he was "dying." He said he "virtually kidnaped" the child and took him to his hotel and called a pediatrician. Kefauver and other witnesses agreed that a Federal law, per haps similar to the Federal kid nap law, was needed to stamp out abuses. Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) said childless couples need not turn to Vblack marketeers" to adopt children if they become impatient with regular adoptive procedures. . He noted that under the Ref ugee Act "there are over 3000 babies available in Europe up to 10 years of age." Table Rock Bliss Heine's Juniors Set Open House Today The paper plant , and packing: materials factory operated by Bliss Heine's Juniors will bold open house from 1 to. 6 p.m. today. It is located behind the Patterson Plumbing company, 127 West Jackson st. Businessmen, fruit men and the public of the valley are' in vited to inspect the operation and see how the paper collected in period drives is procesed for resale. More than 80 tons of paper and some 100 bales of - shredded paper are now on hand. During the open house guides will be present to explain the work and the uses for the different grades of paper. Meteorological Aids Needed by Government Robert D. Church, meteorolo gist at the Medf ord weather bur eau, announced Saturday that men are needed for weather bureau jobs at Sexton Summit, Meacham, and Burns, Ore., and at Tatoosh island and Stampede pass. Wash. The positions are those of meteorological a i d s, (G S - 4, weather observers), and pay $3, 415 per year to sart, with train ing on the job. Educational minimum is high school gradua tion with completion of physics and algebra courses. Unmarried men are needed at the stations, except the one at Burns. Those interested may contact Church at the bureau at the Medford airport Table Rock Ray B. Speer of Ross Lane has leased the Ray Baker, farm for a number of years, and will be moving with his family into the house in the house in the near future. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Speer and a grown son and daughter. The Daily Vacation Bible school began sessions at tne schoolhouse Monday morning with the Rev. Alan Hill, Amer ican Sunday School Union mis' sionary in charge, and the fol lowing teachers reporting for duty: Mrs. John Morris, and Mrs. Dale Schulz, also a class is being taught by Mr. Hill. The daily average attendance so far has been about 30 chil dren, from ages 3 to 14, and coming from this and the Sams Valley district. Mrs. . E. Robinson is- now convalesing at her home, after several days spent in the Com munity hospital where she un derwent major surgery. Recent births of interest to Table Rock folk are Craig Stev en, 8 pounds, 3 ounces, born June 25 to Mr. and Mrs. Dean Inglis and David Shane 7 pounds 3 ounces, born July 1, to Mr. and Mrs. David Doran. Several local and Sams Val ley farmers attended the field day meet held recently' at Tal ent, and learned how to raise more of what they already have too much of. With the dry sub soil caused by the lack of the usual amount of rain last win ter and spring, and the contin-. ual afternoon winds, local far mers are operating sprinkler systems day and night in an ef ort to keep crops from 'drying out. O. T. Wilson, Central Point resident and Sams Valley far mer, dropped in the other morn ing carrying a 25 pound rock taken -from his son's mine in the Trail district, which he .said contained so much uranium that it would make a geiger coun ter rattle like a snare drum. We were getting excited, thinking that some in-law was about to hit the jack-pot, until we learn ed that the ore would have to be shipped to Colorado and the freight charge would eat up all the profit. David Doran, local boy, who with his family spent several months here at the home of his parents since being seriously in jured last fall in an auto acci dent, has returned to his work as a barber in the Fred Fry barber shop in Medford. Kenneth iWyatt, who has been spending some of his vaca tion time at the home of his parents here, has accepted the position of school' psychologist at San Morenco, Calif., a city near Oakland with 22 schools. We were pleased to get a re port from the Mail Tribune of fice Thursday stating that "Fergy" Ferguson, . managing editor of the Mail Tribune, a patient in a Portland hospital, is much improved in health and is expected home in a few days. Bob Sage has donned his tin hat and taken to the woods again to spend his between the school terms vacation and is at present driving the water wa gon fof the Steve Wilson road gang. Mrs. Delmar Dolley, and young son, Douglas John, born June 9, are visiting- at the home of Mrs. Dolley 's parents, while preparations are being made to leave next month for . Iran where Mrs. Dooley and son will join her husband who left here June 28 for that country, where he will train students to be come teachers of agriculture for the Near East foundation spon sored by American business firms. Miss Janice Bunten, Carson City, Nev., leit Saturday for her home after several weeks visit with her grandparents at the Arthur Doty home. Other re cent visitors at the Doty home were the Tom Poulton and Don Sinren families of Lakeview, Oregon. Recent callers at the J. S. Mrs. Robert Tucker and son Rob ert Jr., Moultrie, Ga. Mr. Tuck er, former Central Point boy Richardson farm were Mr. and and pupil of Mrs. Richardson, is now engaged in farming and cattle raising in Colquitt coun ty. Asked their opinion about segregation in the schools in the South, the Tuckers express ed regret that the issue is caus sing so much concern, as they believ the Negro' schools are well taken care of at present with facilities equal to the schools for white children, and in most cases preferred by the Negroes as they are. Other re cent, visitors at the. Richardson home were Mr. and Mrs. . J. Maury Cowgill, San Bernadino, Calif., and Mr. Cowgill's moth er, Mrs. Sally Cowgill, Central Point, and the Don Whitney family, Central Point. -Mrs. Anna Jacobson and son Manley are taking a motor trip and at the present time are headed toward Montana where they will visit with friends and relatives for some time and ex pect to be gone about ' two months. Charley Given, farmer ' and stockman from up Eagle Point way, was down this way Thurs day looking for pasture for his cattle. The light crop of hay locally and. the fear of high, prices la ter is believed to have been the cause of nearly 700 cattle be ing put through the Bill Bray auction yard July 8. The sale started about noon and it was almost 11 o'clock that night be fore the long line of critters had gone over the auction block. We were-recently handed a copy of the June issue of the Christian Herald which has a story, by Sen. Richard Neuberg er telling why he doesn't drink intoxicating liquor. For a man living in a city where more liquor is consumed than any othet city in the U.S. his story is remarkable and we would recommend the reading of it by those who feel that to be pop life, one must indulge in such things. M. A. Blackwood, local med icine man, painter, pruner, pear picker, and ' paper hanger, re ports that the Blackwood fam ily will soon be moving from their present home on the Tou Velle ranch, as the lessee wants the house for ranch help. We recently received a let ter addressed to the Table Rock Chamber of Commerce which we were going to send ' to George Loft in, known as the Sams Valley Chamber of Com merce, but our better half got ahold of it and sent it to the Medford chamber. Local mosquitos were given a working over early Thursday morning that they will rememb er for sometime, if there are any left. An aeroplane charter ed by the Table Top farms turned loose two tons of DDT on breeding places and maturn ity wards. Robert L. Godwin, Salem, su pervising engineer for Oregon state tax commission, was a bus iness visitor here recently in connection with assessment adjustments asked for by lo cal land owners, who had ap peared before the equalization board at the court house. When shown land here unreasonably assessed he readily agreed that corrections should be made. Godwin stated that the valua tion for assessment purposes is derived from the cash value as shown by the selling price witb location and other conditions that might influence the selling price taken into consideration. As to assessing orchards, ac cording to Godwin, - if assess ment, values are to be based on selling prices - then there is something radically wrong with orchards that sell irom- $1,200 to $1,500 per acre are assessed the same as ordinary farm land that wouldn't sell for one fourth that amount. A larger number of voters than usual made the trip to the voting booth at the recent rural fire district election. Some who are allergic to any fund raising for school purposes were out in force because they thought they would save a few dollars in fire insurance cost. Charles Hilkey, Sams Valley fanner, says he and his neigh bors are enjoying good fishing in the irrigation reservoir, where some 15,000 fish were planted and are- now in fine shape, but may not survive the summer, as it is expected that the reservoir, which was only 60 per cent filled last winter, will be drained by the end of the summer. We are sorry to report that Edwin Taylor is a patient of the Community hospital, where he underwent surgery Friday morning. One of the surest signs, for Table Rockers that summer has arrived is when Willard Hows ley takes off his shoes to mow the Elmer Hull lawn, and since this has happened twice in the last two weeks, they are look ing for much warm weather ahead. Dead Una for Sunday- Class! fl ad la at noon Saturday The Provident Life Insurance Co. ... ' . Is Pleased To Extend Its Congratulations To Its Medford Manager GLENN McCULLOUGH In recognition of his having been made a member of the exclusive "Millionaires Club" for having reached a million dollars-of life insurance in force, the Provident Life I nsur 'ance Company presented Glenn with a solid gold watch. " ); " . ' W : D & Tib - " : DRAMA OVER THE SEA In this dramatic picture made by Cpl. James Whitt, of Boise, Idaho, paratroopers jettison everything movable (except their rifles) from a crippled Globemaster over the Pacific. With two engines out and with 87 aboard, the plane reached safety of Hamilton Field, CaL, blew two tires upon landing. Shady Cove and Trail Shady Cove-Trail J. W. Ham mons, Sheridan, Ore., has been visiting with his daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pfeifer, Shady Cove, and with his son and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hammons, Shady Cove. Hammon's, his daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pfeifer, and his daughter-in-law's mother, Mrs. Isabelle Scott, Phil adelphia, Pa., who is visiting the Hammons, were guests at - the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kelley, Shady Cove, for the showing of pictures of the Kel leys' trip through the southern states, Florida and Cuba. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sawyer and daughter, Sandy, are on a month's vacation trip to Mon Wyoming and Utah. Mrs. Saw- Verne Wilson, Shady Cove. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bartuss of Shady Cove spent Sunday visit ing at Union creek with Comdr. Sawyer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Goebel, San Francisco, who vacation at their summer home at Union creek ev ery year. .- Mrs. W.: J. Shumway,' Lovell, Wyo., is visiting her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. . Frank Cook, Shady Cove. f The next show attraction at the VFW. hall in Shady Cove July 18 will be "Song of India." Mr. and Mrs. . Dick Bartuss, Shady Cove, entertained Sunday with a dinner in honor of the birthdays of Dick Bartuss and Frank Blaar, Medford. Guests present were Comdr. and Mrs. Charles Goebel, Union Creek; the Rev. and Mrs. Rolo Dunham and daughter Carolyn, and Mrs. Dunham's mother, North Holly wood; Dr. and Mrs. Verne- Wil son and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Strother, Shady Cove; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blaar, Medford, and the host and hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Brown and children, Stockton, Calif., are visiting with Mrs. Brown's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ody, Trail. Other recent guests of the Ody's have been Mrs. Robert Grey and children of Stockton, Cailf. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pitts and family, Los Angeles, are visit ing his brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pitts, Elk Creek, Trail. The regular meeting of Our Lady of Fatima club was held Six Quartz Location Notices filed Friday Six quartz location notices were filed with the county clerk Friday, four naming nickel and othed minerals. Boyd Kline, 522 Franquette ave.. Warren Gam ill, and Ham ilton Ecker staked a claim to be known as "Wild Cat' in the Mis souri flats mining district Robert L. Wells, box 273, Jacksonville, and W. R. Bishop specified nickel and other min erals in four claims in the Steam boat mining district, to be known as "Whiskey Ridge Nos. 15, 16, 17, and 18." "Golden Streak" claim in the Humbug district was filed by Grace DeHaas, Applegate. Although the sap of all maples contain sugar, it is the sugar maple that is tapped commercial ly and that forms the basis of the maple syrup and maple sug ar industry. at the home of Mrs. Carroll Wat son July 12. A report was given on the Father's day dinner held at the VFW hall and it was con sidered to have been a success. Plans were made for coming events. ' - TYPEWRITERS ft ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Gras Hnm 2-4100 yer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Myklebye, are taking care of the Sawyer's place. 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