VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION When Floyd Barnes, Sr., of
Sisters, Ore., appeared before the work evaluation unit of the
Oregon Heart association, his first interview (left) was with Drs.
Robert Condon, left and Herbert E. Griswold Jr. His next step was
Work Evaluation Unit
Helps Heart Attack
Victims Back on Job
a conference with Ron Lindsay, medical social worker (center),
followed by an interview with L. V. Norman, job analyst for the
state division of vocational rehabilitation."
Portlan d A mechanic in
Pendleton suffers a heart attack,
and after hospitalization "there
are weeks of convalescence. Now
he'g ready i for work again and
his family needs the weekly
paycheck.
Can he return to his old trade,
or is it too strenuous? If he can't
go back to mechanics, what can
he do? Where does he start? Who
has the answers?
Because this is a situation in
which a great many cardiacs
find themselves, the Oregon
Heart association has established
what is called a work evaluation
unit a team of experts made up
of a medical social worker, a vo
cational counselor and two doc
tors of internal medicine.
Basically, the program is de
signed to assist men and women
with heart disease to better util
ize their capacities in either stay
ing on 'their present job or to
find a job best suited to their in
dividual case.
Joyce Keller
Ordered Acquitted
Portland (U.R) The depart
ment store bombing trial . of
Mrs. Joyce Keller came to an
abrupt halt yesterday afternoon
when Circuit Judge Martin or
dered a directed verdict of ac
quittal. Mrs. Keller had been accused
of being an accomplice with her
brother-in-law, William Clar
ence Peddicord, in the extortion
plot bombing of the Meier and
Frank department store more
than a year ago.
: Peddicord, a blind chemist,
has admitted placing the dyna
mite bomb in the third floor
washroom of the downtown de
partment store and in a recorded
confession taken at the time of
his arrest, implicated Mrs. Kel
ler as his "eyes" in the plot.
The directed verdict of acquit
tal followed Peddicord's refusal
to testify at the trial and more
than two days legal hassle over
the admittance of the tape re
cording in which he implicated
the 28-year-old Mrs. Keller.
Judge Hawkins said the state's
case collapsed when it failed to
show sufficient evidence link
ing Mrs. Keller with the plot.
Mrs. Keller has maintained
her innocence throughout.
"Actually there is a wonderful
opportuinty here to gain valu
able information on the rehabili
tation of the cardiac," Dr. J. Ed
ward Field, chairman of the re
habilitation and employment
committee, said. "We are just as
interested in what happens to
the patient after he has returned
to work as we are in getting him
on a job that he can handle."
New Program Hera
Although the program is rela
tively new in Oregon, a great
many cardiacs have been assist
ed and are now at jobs which fit
their particular skills and physi
cal limitations.
The program is open to per
sons in all parts of Oregon, and
the work evaluation team meets
each Thursday night at the of
fices of the Oregon Heart asso
ciation, 905 SW Taylor st.
Before, going to the unit, all
patients are referred by their
physician to the state division of
vocational rehabilitation. Here,
the patient is carefully screened
to see if a work evaluation unit
appointment will be necessary.
Persons interested in addition
al details should contact either
the Heart association or the state
division of vocational rehabilita
tion. '
Baker To Seek Aid
To Reimburse Farmers
Baker (U.R) The Baker city
council will ask for federal dis
aster aid to reimburse farmers
whose lands and property were
damaged Friday when the Good
rich dam reservoir gave way and
tons of water cascaded through
a seven-mile stretch of the Baker
valley.
Thousands of acres of land
were flooded and several farm
buildings damaged. A great deal
of top soil was carried away.'
The municipally owned reser
voir was an auxiliary water sup
ply for the city and normally is
not used until late in the sum-J
mer. Officials pointed out that
this year the city may face a
domestic water shortage.
North Portland Tract
Offered as E-R Site
Portland (U.R) The Exposition-Recreation
commission
today had the offer of an 87 acre
tract in North Portland as the
site for the proposed S8,000,000
center, for a fee of $1 lor some
other nominal figure. '
The offer came from the Port
land Housing authority. In a
vote yesterday the group ap
proved a plan to offer the E-R
commission the remaining acre
age in the University Homes
housing project.
New Civil Service
Exams Announced Here
New civil service examina
tions have been announced for
architect, professional nurse, and
miscelleaneous office, machine
operator for filling positions in
the Washington, D.C., area.
All examinations are open for
receipt of applications until fur
ther notice. Information and ap
plication forms may be obtained
from Chester Silliman at U. S.
Post Office, Medford.
Wednesday, May 23. 1956
THEATER DECLINE NOTED
Washington (U.R) The Cen
sus Bureau reports that the num
ber of regular, motion picture
theatres dropped 17 per cent be
tween 1948 and -1954. Drive-in
theatres, however, ; increased
more than 400 per cent, j
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Glendale Youth
Held for Holdup
Roseburg (U.R) A 20-year-old
youth was under police guard
at a local hospital today, charged
with the early morning holdup
of an all-night service station at
Winston, eight miles south of
here yesterday. '
Police said that Walter F.
Wrightman, Glendale, Calif., had
been charged with the holdup
which netted between $85 and
$100. : ' -
Sheriff ' Ira Byrd said that
shortly after the time of the
holdup, Wrightman's car left the
highway while rounding a sharp
curve. ,
Deputy Sheriff Larry, Wright,
investigating the holdup, went to
investigate the accident. At the
accident scene he found that tire
treads - of . the wrecked . car
matched prints he had taken at
the service station, he, said.
Frankfurt, Germany ill.R)
The Frankfurt Opera Co. has
learned that the price of success
comes high. The opera played to
sell-out crowds last month but
costs were so high it wound up
$8,300 in the red.
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Ball and Desi Arnaz signed a
contract Tuesday to continue
their program "I Love Lucy" for
another-year. The sponsors, Proc
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show's half-hour format.
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Oregon Traffic
Death Toll Mounts
Salem (y.R) More people
have been killed in Oregon traf
fic so far this year than in any
comparable period in the past
eight years.
The 121 deaths reported
through April is the worst our
month toll since 1947 when 140
deaths occurred, according to the
State Traffic Safety division.
The month-by-month death
toll so far: January, 28; Febru
ary, 28; March, 27; April 38.
It was the April toll, 18 more
than for the same month last
year, that upset state traffic safe
ty officials. Death reports so far
in May have not eased their con
cern. With only half the month
reported, at least 20 persons
have been killed in highway mis
haps. The next four months usually
reap the highest death tolls be
cause of heavy summer traffic,
officials' warned.
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