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u n j i u O G TEN MEDFORD (OREGONS MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 1, 1955 4-H Club Help from Public ( Backs Aid Society Adoption Program (Editor's note: This is IStioth er in a series of articles about agencies which benefit from the fund drive of the United Medford Crusade, now under way. Material is furnished by the agencies themselves.) Not all the babies that find homes with the help of The Boys and Girls Aid Sogiety of Ore gon each year are as healthy and happy as those appearing in magazine ads. Many have spe cial problems that would have been considered insurmountable a generation ago problems of health and inheritant that used to loom so largesin the ptalic mind as to deny the benefits of adoption by loving parents &: far too many children. Today ma of these children are growing up to lively and hopeful childhood in homes that surround them with intelligent, loving car. Needs Similar Take Roger, for instance. Though not 'from this commu nity, his needs were similar to those of Medford children who have been helped by the Society. Roger came to the Society wfaen he was a year old. His mother had been committed to the state hospital for the mentally ill shortly after his birth; his father was unknown, his maternal grandfather in the penitentiary. Roger was a sad little boy. Before coming to the Society he had been in four different homes, with very indifferent care. He was pale and sickly, had occasional convulsions and was in every way below .aver age in development. His pros pects looked far from bright. Today, at seven years of age, Roger is a delightful, handsome, active child, deeply loved by his adoptive parents, who say with great feeling that they don't know how they were so lucky as to have been given this opportunity. He gives every promise of living a completely normal life. He is both loved and loving. How did this come af)out? Plan Outlined First, the Society found a good foster boarding family who would give the baby warm and affectionate care. With them he improved so much that soon plans for adoption could be corf sidered. (Last year the Society had 274 children in 105 such carefully supervised foster homes.) Then just the right adoptive family had to be found. They turned out to be a couple who were a bit older than most who came to apply, and they had asked for a child "who needs us more than the average child." Theywere not afraid of Roger's backfround, accepting it along with his physical condition as a challenge. They helped him to grow in health, security and self confidence. Now he is active in the wonderful and complex ex perience of school, with the strength of normal family life to give him assurance. Here, then, is a child who not many years ago would probably have become a permanent ward of the state or community, cost ing the taxpayers thousands of dollars, who is now, through an informed and modern adoption Ways To Ease Chores Of President Expected Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower's heart attack pgpbably will set off a congres sional study next year of ways to relieve the chief executive of some of his bigrdens, an authori tative source said today. This informant, a congression al leader who asked not to be identified, said there also may be a study of ways to clarify 4he constitutional provision unHer which presidential powers are transferred to the vice-president. No Injuries Listed In Four Automobile Accidents in City Four auto accidents, in which no one was injured, took place in Medford, Sunday and Mon day, according to city police. s At about 2 asn. Sunday, a car operated by "Janus Douglajs Vernon, 804 Beekman ave., col lided with an auto being towed by Lloyd Vernon Pierce, Port land, at the corner of North Central ave. and East Sixth st. Pierce was cited by city police for not having an operator's license. ! ( Driver Cited Cars driven by Blair Donivan Crosby, 512 South Holly, and Olaf Johnson, 1306 Brookdale rd., were involved in an acci dent at the corner of West Fifth and Worth Holly sts., Monday. Johnson was cited for failure to yield the right of way. Lawrence Neil White, 443 Haven st.,. and William George Werner, 8140 Stewart ave., were the drivers of cars which col lided in an alley connecting East Fourth and Fifth sts., be tween Bartlett st. and North Central ave., Sunday. In a fourth accident, an Ever green bus operated by Lawrence Ray Pilcher, 529 Slidway rd., struck a parked auto owned by Cleve Charles Ferris, 526 Palm st., acdording to a city police report. Portland State Professor Heads Affairs Council Portland (UUP.) Dr. Dean Anderson, associate professor of education at Portland State Col lege, was named president of the World Affairs council of Port land at the group's annual meet ing last night. He succeeds Dr. Fraak Munk of Reed college who had declin ed to seek a fourth one-year term as president of the organization. service, accepted as a normal human being. v Major physical handicaps, such as severe loss of eyesight or se rious heart condition, mixed ra cial backgrounds, family groups of 2, 3, or 4 who want to stay together none of these prob lems is proving too serious as obstacles to adoption today at The Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon, a United Medford Crusade and Oregon Chest agency whose functions are three-fold: adoption placement for babies and children "(a total of 163 last year) confidential maternity services efor unwed mothers, and temporary foster care of children denied their own homes. The Society has a branch of fice in the Leverette building serving Medford and southern Oregon. J1 .:- N THERE'S f Hcrve you tried GREYHOUND lately? A GREYHOUND ASENT-NEAR-YOU Margaret bailed by Tritons as Martyred Heroine sLondon kUR) Prime Min ister Sir Anthony Eden an nounced today he is consider ing moves to alter the ancient Royal Marriage Act so that future .royal lovers would be free of the marital obstacles that confronted Princess Margaret. London OI.R) Britons hailed Princess Margaret today as a martyred heroine, and their run a w"a y emotions (threatened trouble for those who wrecked her romance. was the first target of the ro manticists who had hoped for her marriage to Group Captain Peter Townsend.SThe Duke of Edinburg drew fire, too. The Princess, who announced on Monday she would not marry Townsend, was reported deter mined to rebound swiftly from heartbreak by seeing her old faithful escorts and perhaps to seek happiness in a trip to the United States. There was solid speculation that within the next few months The Archbishop of Canterbury she would announce her accep tance of Mayor Robert F. Wag ner's invitation to visit New York. The royal family now would give her almost anything she wants. Time Seen Needed The Duke of Ebenburg remark ed when he was last in Ottawa that Margaret "is always com plaining she has never been over here yet and I think she means to remedy that just as soon as she can." Friends close to Margaret said the hurt of her unfulfilled love will take time to'dull but that she was shunning serious thoughts of sacrificial spinster hood and probably would seek the help of her past escorts, Billy Wallace and Lord Wilton. But the rejected Townsend, who was unecceptable because he is divorced, the .future may prove more difficult. He was be lieved preparing to resign from his job as air attache at Brussels and enter private business in Bri tain, possibly with the aviation section of Rolls-Royce. May Issue Statement A belief grew that Townsend himself might issue a statement today after sleeping off the night's heartache at the country estate at Uckfield where he and Margaret spent their last week end together. Pride and respect for the prin cess and the royal family were the first feelings of Britons when the news was thundered in great back broadsides across the pages of the nation's press. & The second feeling ranged from worried uncertainty to out right anger. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Ex press openly questioned the ac tions of the Archbishop of Can terbury who in one week "twice chose to make public affirma tions of his uncompromising viewpoint on divorce." ri "Then it is argued that the rumored opposition of the Duke of Edinburgh to the wedding will be revived and that he will become a figure of public con troversy," the Express said. Decision Regarded Unnecessary The influential Manchester Guardian said "her decision which has plainly been come to after subtle pressure will be're garded by the great masses of the people as unnecessary and perhaps as a great waste. "In the long run it will not re bound to the credit or influence of those who have been most persistent in denying the prin cess the same liberty that is en joyed by the rest of her fellow citizens. . . ." Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, the arch bishop of-Canterbury, remained silent. But the fullest glare of love's champions fixed on him as the main destroyer of Margaret's dream. He had only upheld the doc trine of the Angelican church but an upshot of Margaret's sacrifice was expected to be stormy agitation for revision of the doctrine on divorce or even, as the London newspaper, the Star, began demanding, dis establishment of the state church. Engagements Not Cancelled Margaret has made it clear immediately that she is shunj ning the old-maid weeds; Grieved as she admittedly is by loss of the man she loves, sbe plunges tomorrow into an al most daily series of public en gagements with no thought of cancellation. Friends look for the princess to bounce back into the night club set in the arms of another partner. Two old faithfuls re main Billy Wallace, a tall and understanding type, and the rugged Earl of Wilson. The royal family, delighted by Margaret's devotion to duty, is believed offering her any get-away-from-it-all trip she wants. And Margaret's wants have long lain in the direction of North America. Central Point Pig Club The Central Point Pig club met at the C. W. Anhorn home on Freeman rd., Oct. 24. Each of the members told of his ex periences last year. One of our new members, David Foote, told about the fair at Redmond. For next meeting each of the mem-' bers is to tell about a hog dis ease. 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