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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Man Blind for 48 Years Sees Wife for First Time Chicago (U.PJ Ernest Ek wept when he told how the mir acle of modern surgery rf claimed him from a life of semi darkness and let him see his wife's face clearly for the first time. Ek, 50, Wauwatosa, Wis., had been semiblind since the age of 2. He told his story at a news conference at Weley Memorial hospital, where last June a deli cate corneal transplant opera tion restored full sight to his one remaining eye. Before the operation, he could perceive only light and dim shadows. He could count his fingers only if he held his hand six inches from his eye. "It was like looking through wax paper," he said. "But now, everything is beau tiful. Eggs frying in a pan are really beautiful if you've never seen them before." For most of his life the cornea of his right eye had been scar red, inflamed and painful, his medical history showed. At the age of 6, his left eye- was re moved. As an adult he worked at the workshop for the blind in Mil waukee for a time. Nine years ago he got a job at a shoe fac tory. The company trained him to run a hydraulic last-pulling machine. A Lot Easier Now "I did it mostly by touch," he said. "It's a lot easier now that I can see." A prematurely white-haired grandfather, Ek now is learn ing to write. His wife, Hilde gard, to whom he has been mar ried 29 years, is teaching him. "Most things are . beautiful," he said. "My wife's face. I had never really seen it.' And she has helped he through the years, never letting me feel I was a burden." k S-, erf IX REALLY ObBS PA'fhiksR! Thursday, November 22, 1938 I - -.'Yv wv - - 4 9s ARRIVING IN LONDON, Duke and Duchess of Windsor are center o speculation on possibility Queen Elizabeth II may receive the former Wallis Warfield, for whom Duke relinquished the throne of England. (International) Fighting Men Declared Better Off Than Civilians Tokyo (U.PJ Uncle Sam's fighting men with their good salaries and fancy fringe bene fits, are better off than Uncle Sam's civilians, according to what you heat on the Army radio or read in the Army tpaper here". Thos who join .up and stay in, -can count on good pay, bonuses, promotions, exciting work, housing, medical bene fits plus a lot of other nice 3 things and job security not to bp found elsewhere, the Army says. Furthermore, a promise made by the Army is kept and this can not always be said about of a fers and promises made by pri s vate industry. At least that is what the troops here are told. A series of four articles on why it is advantageous to be a member of, the armed forces 'fattier than a civilian has just e been published in Pacific Stars end Stripes. Attention as called to an en listed man serving with an anti aircraft In Japan. He was a ra 0 dar repairman and had toyed wilh the idea of getting out and taking a job in private industry. Big Re-enlistment Bonus o , A bit of investigating, how ever, showed him what he could s get by staying in the service. With five years 'of service be c hind him, he would be eligible for a six-year enlistment bonus (Of $1,090.80. He also could be assigned to the metropolitan area of his choice. ! , He also could get more educa tion at a special school and be In line for further promotions and pay. increases. The American serviceman 9 gets air this because of the mili Brj career incentive program drawn, up by the Department of 3 Defense to match military op portunities .with opportunities on the "outside." Its features provide for a re enlistrrient bonus, a firm system of rank and pay, medical care and fipaocial assistance, for de pendents and survivors, plus ether benefits. Tha serviceman ia fed, housed and clothed. He can buy at be low commercial prices at the post exchange and commissary. There is guaranteed retirement pay. Surrey Results Stars and Stripes called at tention to a survey made earlier this year by the U.S. Air Force which covered ex-servicemen who left the military to take what they expected would be high-paying civilian jobs. Most planned to cash in on the skills they had learned in the service. ( The poll revealed that only 20 per cent of 3,000 ex-airmen got jobs based on what they had learned in the service. And for these, the average beginning wage was $60 a week and the average current wage was $73 a week. Stars and Stripes said this was "less than Air Force salaries and benefits for the same skills." More benefits are being added all the time. Pay boosts ranging from six to 25 per cent came through for the regulars in 1955. Survivor benefits are up. Effec tive next Jan. 1, all active duty personnel become eligible for Social Security benefits, too. It's not just the enlisted man who enjoys all this superior life in the services. The officers have it good, too, and that includes extra pay as much as $100 per month for some doctors and dentists. Ohio Community Shows All Shakespeare Plays Yellow Springs, O. (U.PJ This community of 3.000 reach ed .a goal with the opening of the production of "Hamlet" by the Antioch Shakespeare Festi val. It became the first American community ever to have experi enced presentation of all known plays by Shakespeare. And the record of producing the entire Shakespeare canon in a five-year period has been equalled by only one other theatrical group in the English speaking world, London's Old Vic Theater. Wl .. ' f If For hmt Hurt WiH Brina ' " A lifetime of Hoppfesss Oraose ipfertodong t9 POWUHMI DIAMOND RINGS Brilliant betrothal ring c i vianwiKR HH bold 150 1 . ..... 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