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.51st Year Medford lniled Press hull Leased Wira Price 10c Tribune Umtea Press Full Leased Wirt Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1956 Pages 1-10 Camp White Veteran, Hearing Damaged by Shell Explosion, Now Gainfully Employed BY A. W. Hiberdy, Editor, Camp Whit Dominaws You cannot run away from a weakness." wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "You must fight it out or perish, and if that be so, why not now and where you stand?" He was afflicted with tuberculosis of the lungs, but some of his greatest work was done while he was suffer ing the most. He gave of the best that was in him and enriched the world with his writings. Courage, however, is not limited to the great. Walter L. Wills is a World War II veteran of 3'2 years of army service. He is 41 years old, is married and the father of a nine-month-old boy. Before the war Wills was an art glass worker in Chicago, 111. On entering the service he was sent to Camp White, the former Army training camp, where he nerved his entire army career with the 96th Division. It was during a training ex ercise that Wills was injuried by an exploding shell which damaged his sense of hearing to the extent that he was given a medical discharge in 1945. Noisa Unbearable Upon returning to civilian life and his native Chicago, he found that he was unable to continue his former line of work due to the fact that the machin ery used in art glass working caused a peculiarly high pitched noise which was unbearable to his sensitive nerves. He was transferred to the firm's shipping department as shipping clerk. During the few years that he worked as a shipping clerk, he learned lip reading which, to gether with a hearing aid, per mitted him to carry on a con versation in an almost normal manner. In 1946 and again in 1947 Wills spent his annual vacations in Medford where he had met and courted a local girl. It was during his 1947 vacation that they were married, and both re turned to Chicago. However, after their return there, and per haps influenced by a fondness r----------------- i W3k Wednesday Nite Anniversary Spectaculars on sale from 4-9 tonight only .) reg. 1.50 spun nylon MEN'S HOSE Heavy weight English rib syle in many popular colors and all sizes. reg. 1.35 stretch HOSIERY Famous brand sheer nylons excellent fall shades popular stretch type. reg. 19c imported china DISHES 66' for Oregon and some homesick- workers. ness on the part of his Oregon born wife, he decided to return here and make his home which they did in September, 1949. 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This was in Febru ary, 1951. n. survey Dy jne various re habilitation agencies throughout the country confirm the fact that the deaf or hard of hearing per son is more efficient at a job in which he has been properly trained man is a person with normal hearing. Employers are said to be more willing to acceDt the deaf than any other group 01 nancucapped people. This is due to several factors. In the first Ptace, the deaf are usually phys ically aoic-oodied and can do heavy or light work, sitting or standing; in the second place, they can readily be trained to do jobs on which there is a min imum of conference with spoken instructions. The deaf, moreover. have keen observation and are able to concentrate better, on their work than most hearing employees. And last, but not least, they are ,no longer hard to get along with1 because of the excellent training given them in vocational schools, which makes them cheerful and agreeable Washington (U.R) Baxton Howard, Midland, Tex., Oil Co. attorney has testified he re ceived a S5.000 bonus for his work on behalf of the natural gas bill. The things -thesa 15" - Haveyou been inside her house? Everything so neat and clean. Three youngsters, too Yet site, manages to have loads of time for so many other things! Now don't turn green, girls. Sue really isn't that good! She simply uses her head instead of her mus cles. Finds quicker, easier nays to get her housework done. Like using new, lomer-wearing Bruce Self-Polishing Wax on her floors. With three youngsters around, Sue finds Bruce a wonderful an swer to scuffing little feet. Its hard lustre resists scuffs, dirt and stains. Wears longer so you don't re ax as often. Try it next waxing day. 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The film appears headed for the finish line in the Oscar Derby. It has its world premiere in New York Albany, Ore. !U.R) The of fice of Rep. Harris Ellsworth has notified officials here that the Air Force has authorized release of $4,830,000 for im mediate use in planning and building its SAGE installation at Camp Adair. tonight. But the fans who have raised the late actor to a status not even matched by Rudolph Valen tino might not care to hear that not all of the critics and column ists agreed it was his best per formance. Performanca 'Uneren' Columnist Sidney Skolsky de clared Dean's acting was "un even." "Whether it was because of ac ting, direction or cutting, he started out as one type in the movie and without any transi tion suddenly became another type," he said. . Critic Philip Scheurer of the Los Angeles Times pointed out that "all the Dean mannerisms are there, and if anything, exag gerated. . " Daily Variety reported Dean gave a "competent" perform ance. 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