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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, April 15. 1956 Study Club Wednesday Study club will meet April 18 at 2 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Jack Swem, 33 Ross court. Mrs. C. L. Coyle will present the book "The Vir ginia Exiles" and Mrs. Al Leigh ton will give a short topic. adies Select Your Oval eoHt ,oW tea. Desk or imvtt top. Desk i Amur tap. KmcIioU aesk lop. Kid My oVesuitg tobl tod Curvcd-fro i tobi. t Savor lotmd ad tabk. tobU tea. Chest of drawers. Selby Glass Can Make It For You 303 No. Bartlett Phone 3-3613 Potpourri About midnight a week ago Saturday we settled ourselves down for the night at the Eugene hotel, tired after an early morn ing plane trip and a full day of Oregon Press Women conference sessions. Then we remembered that we"d forgotten to locate the fire escape something which is a mu6t with this timid, cautious woman. So we hopped out of bed, stuck our head out the door and determined that it was at the end of the hall to our right, just outside an ODen window. Three hours and a few minutes later we hurried down that j fire escape seven long stories with the smoke already thick in halls and beginning to pour from windows. A strident alarm had wakened us, an alarm so loud and so I r.oisy that there was no doubting it was meant as an urgent warn i ing. We hurried to the door and stuck our head out again (we ' forgot the safety warning to touch the door first and determine ; if it was hot.) The corridor was empty but smoke was curling up the stairway a few feet away. In this order we put on a light robe over our pajamas, slipped into bedroom slippers, (luckily not heeless mules), tucked our handbag under the left arm because the clasp won't hold, picked up our glasses and the room key. About to leave we turned back and scooped up a handful of hair pins from the dresser. After all, those long wire hairpins are hard to find and this batch had been sent to us by the Brunp Pellegrini's daughter all the way from New York City. j This time as we left the room we remembered our fire in structions again close the door in order to cut down drafts. In this brief time the smoke had already thickened noticeably, and : four or five women were milling around in the corridor; one called out "where's the fire escape" we said "this way" and started out at a fast trot. A woman in the room nearest the escape : window hurried out, carrying her traveling bag and leaving her room door open. ! We now know something of the horrible sensation a human being has when he abandons a fellow human to possible injury or death. For the minute we started down the narrow, steep fire escape we began to hear the voices of people on the floor below 'guests in the rooms off the corridor where the fire started and who already were trapped in their rooms, or too terrified to find their way out through the smoke and fire. One pleading voice, begging someone everyone for help, seemed to be aimed directly at me and for a moment we faltered. But someone above said urgently "get going, get going" and so we hurried on in the line'of descending people. : Safely down in the street we found the firemen just be ginning to unfold the sections of the aerial ladder. Because a one-story building adjoins the seven-story hotel on the side where the fire seemed the worst, the firemen had something of a prob lem in angling the lengths of the ladder upward. And all the time one could hear, above the noise of the people and the equipment, the pleading voice and see the guests leaning from their windows. All of a sudden our trembling legs wouldn't hold us up any longer so we huddled on the front bumper of a big red and black car. The owner of the car, who carried an open bottle of liquor, offered it to everyone who looked as though they needed it, and said in a loud, friendly voice, "If you don't like bourbon there's scotch in the car!" One elderly woman, wearing expensive-looking furs over her nightgown and coat, came out of the alley after being rescued by firemen and turning to her husband said calmly, "If anyone had said yesterday I could do that, I wouldn't have believed them!" Later we were told guests could go into the hotel lobby and there we witnessed the touching reunion of a young couple who had become separated by the fire. The man's face was black as coal from the smoke, and he was helped by a policeman who had wrapped him in a blanket. On a couch sat a composed young mother with two tiny children who made no outcry; a young woman, who had been found unconscious in a corridor, was being helped by friends. Later we were told she had been rescued by Victor Isaacson, optometrist from Las Vegas. Two newspaper reporters from Oregon City, Mrs.. Josie Barnett and Miss Jean Mclntyre, had nothing but praise for the Nevada man, who had occupied the room next to theirs on the burning sixth floor. They told how, as they knelt at their open window with the air in the room getting hotter and hotter, the optometrist had talked to them from his window where he held the unconscious woman he had carried in from the hall. One of the first persons we saw in the lobby was Mrs. Faith McCullough, women's editor of the Ashland Tidings, who had Bridal Dresses, Pictures To Be Exhibited During Tea FREE PARKING When You Shop at . . . h&fei rX 1 -;-3 Next Door f ob,nson Iwiaemta I ...with flat, flexible RIBBON WIRE 1 jBgi I m&flKHE.Sea. I Further plans for the annual I silver tea of the Jackson County unit. American Cancer society, were made at a meeting of the board and executive committee held Wednesday afternoon. The tea, held eacch spring at Hill crest orchards, is set for Wednes day, April 25. Mrs. John S. Day, county chairman, presided over Wednes day's meeting, held at the home of Mrs. B. Brandt Bartels, 35 Valley View drive. Mrs. Day will serve as chairman of the tea, with Mrs. Bartels and Mrs. L. W. Bates as vice-chairmen. Each year interesting exhibits are a featured part of the tea, and this year the public is invited to display old wedding dresses and old wedding pictures. Wo men's clubs and service organiza tions are to be invited to arrange table settings appropriate for bridal receptions. The executive committee also announces the formation of an auxiliary to which experienced volunteers may apply. ' Mrs. Donald McGeary, Phoe nix, is in charge of newspaper publicity for the tea, and Mrs. Martin L. Vorheis will arrange television and radio time. Attending the meeting Wed nesday were Mrs. Day, Mrs. Ralph Thompsen, Mrs. Russell Barnes, Mrs. Bates, . Mrs. Fred T. Burich, Mrs. Vorheis, Mrs. Lawrence Scott, Elli, Mrs. Ray mond Frisbie, Mrs. George Schu Ier, Mrs. Ray Casterline, Mrs. Earl Lawson, Mrs. Earle Jossy, Eagle Point, Mrs. Roy Vaughn and Mrs. O. E. Stone, Prospect and Mrs. Bartels. The tea is given each year during the nation-wide campaign of the American Cancer society to raise funds for research and to educate the citizenry concerning the disease. The society states that more than one thousand top flieht. scientists working in hos pitals, universities, and labora tories across the country on re search supported by the society, are concentrating their energies, skills, and talents to insure the conquering of cancer. Manwhile, . progress is being made even against an enemy still unknown, the society states. "One vt the hopeful signs of this progress is the decrease in cancer death rates among women in the last ten years. Today, some 10,000 more women in the United States are being saved annually than in 1941-1943. Improved methods of detection and treatment account for this in part, but so does the year round educational program of the ACS" Pointing out that very early cancers in women are compar atively easy to treat, but often do not show any symptoms nor give any warning, the Society stresses the urgency of regular physical checkups. For while the figures cited above are encouraging, the ACS reminds that there are other fig ures which indicate how much more there is to be done. For example, uterine cancer takes the lives of some 15,000 Ameri can women each vear. More than half of "these are unneces- sarv deaths, according "to the society. 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White embroidered cotton, A cup 32-36, B cup 32-40, C cup 32-40. $Q50 Also available in strapless style. hurried over from the Osburn hotel to see if she could help. Finding that Potpourri was still shaking in every nerve, Mrs. McC. took one arm and guided us into the coffee shop where employees were beginning to serve the fire victims. There were many, for the hotel was hosting four conventions that weekend. As we joined other Press Women Mrs. McC. said to Potpourri "Why don't you put those hairpins in your purse?" Sure enough, more than an hour had gone by since we left the seventh floor, but we still clutched the hairpins and when we unfolded the hand, it was stiff and sore. Mrs. McCullough eventually took us back to the Osburn, since nothing could have persuaded us to go back to bed and try to sleep in that seventh-floor room with the smell of smoke in the air. What do people take with them when they flee from a burning building? Potpourri first thought of money and then of spectacles and hairpins, the man on the street had his whiskey, the elderly woman had remembered her furs, the young mother had brought her children " safely out. But Mrs. McC. had the best story of all she met a woman who carried nothing but her girdle which she had hung over one arm, a la muff. Some women, probably those from lower floors, were com pletely dressed, or appeared so, and many had brought down all their luggage. Some hurried right out of the hotel and into cars and drove off into the night. Next morning, except for the blackened and charred sixth floor, one would scarcely have known there had been a fire. Hotel cleaning crews had gone to work as soon as the firemen left, everything was in' order and the guests appeared as they had be fore the catastrophe. But they gathered in knots to talk of the events of the night, to learn of those who had been calm or heroic, and those who had been hospitalized, and to hear that the fire had started in a mattress out in the hall while a room was being redecorated. Mostly it was thought that , the' hotel guests had been calm and resourceful during the fire, that the Eugene fire depart ment had been prompt and efficient, although some 30 minutes had elapsed before all guests had been rescued from the sixth floor, a time which seemed an eternity to those trapped in their rooms. We also learned that it was the first time the Eugene fire men had ever had to rescue victims with the aerial ladder. Four members of National Secretaries association from Med ford were in the , hotel also that night Mrs. Kay Thomas, Mrs. Kay Jandreau, Mrs. Jeanne Rose and Mrs. Virginia Schuster. Mrs. Thomas talked to us at the height of the excitement, but later we could not remember the meeting. We had other reminders of the fire, including muscles so sore we could hardly go up and down stairs, and a pair of big black bruises from striking our legs on the narrow, steep fire escape steps. The bruises will go away but it will be longer before we can forget the clanging alarm, the flight from the building, the sight of men and women hanging far out the windows, some with smoke curling around their heads. And it will be a long time before we forget the voices crying for help. O S. Bride-Elect Guest At Shower Party n Gold Hill Home Gold Hill A bridal shower honoring Miss Joyce Rosecrans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Rosecrans of Galls Creek road, was given by Mrs. Joe Morgan April 17, Mrs. Morgan's home was decorated in pink and white. Miss Rosecrans and Nor man Bennett of Phoenix, Ariz., are to be married May 6 in Gold Hill Community church at an afternoon ceremony. Miss Rosecrans received many gifts. Attending were Miss Jan ice Rosecrans, Miss Daisy Rose crans, Mrs. William Rosecrans, Miss Jackie Wright, Mrs. Paul Throne, Mrs. Al Beaman, Mrs. Earl Moore, Mrs. Bob Gray and Mrs. John Jones, all of Gold Hill; Mrs. Joe Willett, Mrs. Jack Garrison, Mrs. Joe Morgan Jr., Mrs. Bud Morgan, all of Med ford, Mrs. Preston Vennett of Selma, Ore. and Mrs. Dan Dol larhide of Ashland. Refreshments were served. Friendship Night Planned by Lodge Friendship night will be ob served by Olive Rebekah Lodge Monday, April 16 at 8 p.m., in the Odd Fellows hall, 221 West Sixth street. Members of all Rebekah lodges in the district are invited. Each visiting lodge will pre sent a stunt for the program. In charge of the program is Mrs Clara Franklin. Mrs. P. M Aldredge has charge of the badge committee and the com mittee to serve refreshments is made up of Mrs. Homer Vinzant chairman, Mrs. Lee Garrett, Mrs. Bertha McNew, Mrs. Marg aret Davis, Mrs. Dollie Love, Mrs. Floyd Murray, Mrs. Esther Coleman, Mrs. Ella Russell, Mrs. Doris Coy, and Mrs. J. D. Brum mond. Officers and others are to dress in formal attire. Fruit salad with a cream cheese or cream and mayonnaise base can be frozen for future use. the Society contends, if all wo men and physicians made prompt and proper use of the knowledge and skills available today. Cancel Dance The usual dance of the VFW auxiliaries at the Camp White Domiciliary Monday April 16, j has been cancelled since the an nual "Turn About Party" of the Domiciliary will be held that evening. , Anyone wishing transporta tion may take the bus at the Trailways depot at 7:30. 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