EIGHT MZDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. June 27, 1958
Southern California
Combed for Source
Of Bubonic Plague
Ventura, Calif. (U.R) State
health officers combed this
southern California area today
in hopes of tracking down the
source of dread bubonic plague
which has claimed one life.
The State Health department
confirmed Tuesday that Andrew
Sakacs, 43, of Oxnard, Calif, a
civilian employee at the nearby
Port Hueneme naval installa
tion, died Monday night of the
disease.
Sakacs was stricken June 22
while on a fishing trip in Ven
tura county. Officials said the
victim probably was bitten by
an infected flea from a small
animal such as a squirrel or rat
Ko other persons have been re
ported stricken in the area.
Rare Malady
The victim, a retired Navy
chief petty officer, was treated
shortly after contacting the rare
malady by doctors at the naval
installation. But as soon as they
recognized his symptoms as be
ing those of bubonic plague, he
was put in an isolation ward at
the Corona Naval hospital where
he died.
Health department investiga
tors Dr. Milford Wyman and
Harvey Magy were sent to this
area to trace the victim's fatal
route and collect rodent and flea
specimens for testing. The
Health department stressed that
there was little danger of the
disease affecting others unless
they contacted the infected car
riers of it.
It was the 'first death in Cali
fornia attributed to the disease,
Recommendation for
Portland E-R Site
Portland (U.R) Portland's
oft-delayed and much-discussed
Exposition-Recreation center
was the subject of a recom
mendation filed with the city
council yesterday, which is de
signed to iron out the difficulties
and get started on construction.
Commissioner O r m o n d R.
Bean recommended that a con
ference between East and West
side supporters be called in an
attempt to determine a site.
In the event the conference
fails to meet agreement. Bean
recommended that measures be
placed on the November ballot
that would repeal the charter
amendment limiting construc
tion to the east side, restore to
the E-R commission the powers
it lost in the May 18 vote, or
offer the voters a chance to
name the site.
which swept Europe in the Mid
dle Ages, since 1947 when a 12-year-old
boy was stricken in
Modoc county. Three other
youngsters died from bubonic
plague in northern California
in 1941.
Sakacs became ill two days
after he returned from the one
day fishing trip in wooded area.
He complained of pains in bis
groin and chest and developed a
104-degree fever.
Doctors at the Corona hospital
immediately began tests on Sa
kacs after he was admitted last
Friday. They noticed insect bites
on the victim's legs and tests
confirmed that he was suffering
from the disease.
Stevenson May
Share Indiana
Delegate Votes
Indianapolis (U.R) Adlai E.
Stevenson, pro-labor Mayor
Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute
and former Agriculture Secre
tary Claude Wickard were the
winners today in the Indiana
Democratic convention.
All indications were that the
bulk of Indiana's delegation to
the Democratic National conven
tion would switch to Stevenson
on the second ballot after voting
for Sen. Estes Kefauver, the
Hoosier primary winner, on the
first.
But Stevenson may not have
the Hoosier delegation all to
himself. New York Gov. Averell
Harriman, backed by former Na
t i o n a 1 Democratic Chairman
Frank McKinney of Indianapo
lis, and Sen. Stuart Symington
of Missouri showed unexpected
strength among the delegates
who will cast Indiana's 26 votes.
- Tucker, a dark horse, stole
the state convention spotlight
from the presidential aspirants
and Wickard.
Tucker foyght his way through
nine ballots before winning the
nomination to run for governor
Tuesday night. Wickard's easy
victory over former U.S. District
Attorney B. Howard Caughran
for the chance to run against
GOP Sen. Homer Capehart in
the fall was an anti-climax.
Roseburg (U.R) Ronald
Dwayne Jeffers, six-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jeffers
of Drain, Ore., was fatally in
jured Monday night when a tree
limb broke and struck his bead
and chest.
Cotton Named Head
Of Hospital Group
Ashland John Cotton was
elected president of the board of
directors of the Southern Oregon
Memorial Hospital association at
a recent organizational meeting.
The goal of the association is a
new hospital in Ashland.
Lloyd Selby was elected vice
president, Mrs. Carl Hegler, sec
retary and Ben Lombard, treas
urer. Directors voted to meet the
second Monday of each month.
Ed Singmaster was named
temporary chairman, and presid
ed at the organizational meeting.
Lombard presented articles of
incorporation, which have been
approved by the state corpora
tion commissioner, and the board
discussed and adopted a set of
by-laws to govern its operation:
.Cotton, Lombard and Richard
Westerberg will serve one-year
terms on the board of directors;
Don Lewis, Harold Strauss and
Singmaster will serve two-year
terms; Mrs. Hegler, Selby and
Graham Dean will serve three
year terms.
The annual meetings of the
membership of the hospital as
sociation will be held each April,
with three directors to be elect
ed at each meeting. ,
4-H Club Members on
Annual County Tour
About 75 Jackson and Jose
phine county 4-H club members
and leaders left from the South
ern Oregon Experiment station
in Talent at 10 a.m. today for the
annual two-day Southern Oregon
Crops and Livestock tour.
The group will visit Jackson
county farms to judge sheep,
dairy, beef and swine and look
at latest developments in south
ern Oregon crops. They will
camp overnight at Vic Garden
er's lake on Yankee Creek rd.,
where they will also fish and
swim.
At noon today the group had
lunch at Lithia park in Ashland
and at 1 p.m. were scheduled to
judge sheep at the George Nich
ols ranch on Highway 99 South,
Ashland.
At 3 p.m. the 4-H members
were scheduled for dairy judg
ing at P. K. Nelson's Cloverlawn
Dairy, Bellinger lane, Medford.
Thursday's schedule calls for
swine judging at 8 a.m. at the
A. T. Lathrop ranch in Central
Point; beef judging, 9:30 a.m.,
John Bohnert's Seven Oaks farm,
Highway 99 North, Central
Point; crop tour, 10:30 a.m., Otto
Bohnert s ranch. Highway 99
North; lunch at TouVelle state
park at 1:30 p.m. and a tour of
Plans for Ashland
July 4 Celebration
Parade Taking Form
Ashland Plans for the Fourth
of July celebration parade,
which will start at 10:30 am.,
are taking form, according to
cochairmen Malcolm Blohn and
Don Lewis of the sponsoring
Lions club.
Entry blanks have been sent
to clubs and service organiza
tions and a special invitation has
been extended to commercial en
trants and to mounted units, they
said.
The parade will form at the
Ashland Junior High school and
will march to the entrance of
Lithia park. An American Leg
ion color guard with Ashland
Mayor Richard Nerll as grand
marshal will lead the parade.
Concert Scheduled
The Ashland city band will
present a concert at the Butler
Memorial band shell at 7:30 p.m.
First and second prizes will
be awarded in each division of
the parade, Blohn and Lewis
said. A grand prize will be given
the best float. Among entries
for the parade thus far are the
Kilty band, the Junior Chamber
of Commerce and the American
Legion Junior auxiliary.
A fireworks display will be
held at the Valley View race
track north of Ashland the night
of July 4. Robert Boyce is chair
man of the Jaycee committee in
charge of the display.
Buzzer Helps Blind
In Crossing Street
San Francisco (U.R) San
Francisco has installed some
thing unique in safety devices to
help blind persons faced with
the problem of heavy downtown
traffic when they want to cross
the street.
The mechanism, recently built
into a traffic light pole on one
of the city's busiest corners, con
sists of a bell and a buzzer. The
sound is synchronized with the
lights and when the bell rings
blind persons know the traffic
is flowing east and west at the
intersection. When the buzzer
signals they know the traffic Is
moving north and south.
City officials said the device
was installed at the corner of
Seventh and Howard Streets to
help the blind who come to the
San Francisco Center for the
Blind at that location.
Timber Products, Inc., to see ply
wood manufacturing.
There were about 2,000,000
fires in the United States and
Canada during 1955. They caus
ed about $1,098,000,000 damage
and 296 deaths.
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