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TWO MEDFOKD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Auguit 7, 1957 League Gommittees Meet To Plan Yearns Programs Plans for the coming year's ac tivities were discussed by the voter's service committee of Medford League of Women Voters at a meeting August 1 at the home of Mrs. I. S. Thomas. Attending the meeting were Mrs. Gordon Mackenzie, Mrs. Robert Duncan, Mrs. Harold Snodgrass, Mrs. Ronald James, Miss Laura York and Mrs. Thomas. Mrs. Nat Etzel. Mrs. Julie Tummers, Mrs. Vernon LeRoy and Mrs. Charles Freeman are also members of the committee. Numerous possible projects were mentioned which would pme within the purpose of voters service, which is to en courage citizens of a community to participate more actively in government and to inform voters of candidates, voting procedures and election laws. One proposed Idea meeting with enthusiasm from the -committee was a "Know Your Coun ty Government" program, with emphasis on becoming acquaint ed with county officials and their duties by scheduling tours through the court house and meetuig the personnel "in ac tion." It was felt this basic knowledge of the workings of the county government and var ious officials involved is neces sary to more properly evaluate competency of those whom we elect. Go See Program Through this "go-see" pro gram league members and others interested would also be notified of court trials and become more familiar with court procedures. It was noted that the following Favorite Doll Curly-top, a child's favorite doll . . . yours, too, she's so easy to make! Her clothes are justt what -a tot likes . . . just like hers. Go on and off easily. Pattern 7381: transfer, direc tions for making 15-inch doll and clothes; pattern. SEND THIRTY-FIVE CENTS (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for 1st- class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, Household Arts Dept., P. O. Box JS8. Old Chel sea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS and PATTERN NUMBER. A bonus for our readers: two FREE patterns, printed in our new Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book for 1957! Plus a variety of designs to order crochet, knitting, embroidery, huck weav ing, toys, dolls, others Send 25 cents for your copy of this nee dlecraft book now! positions will be up for election in the primaries of May 16, 1958: Circuit court judge posi tion No. 1 now held by Judge H. K. Hanna, Circuit court posi tion No. 3 now hejd by Judge Edward C. Kelly and district judge, now held by James Main; county commissioner, county sheriff, and county coroner; two state representatives and one state senator position. Forum Suggested Other activities mentioned by the voter's service committee were public forum meetings with a debate on a controversial sub ject such as public vs. private pow8r by well known speakers and also television programs aimed at education for ballot measures with special emphasis on topics' the league has studied, such as the County Home Rule measure. Voter's service commit tee ideas wil then be presented to the league board for final ap proval. The next meeting of the board will be at the home of Mrs, Ron James, 205 South Barne burg road, at 10a.m. August 13. Although there are no formal meetings of the Medford League of Women Voters until the last Saturday in September, various committees of the league have been active during the summer laying the ground work for studies to be made during the coming year and working on lo cal League organization. The committee studying water resources (National Item II stud ied by all Leagues throughout the U. S.) is under the chairman ship of Mrs. Ogden Kellogg of Gold Hill and held its second meeting of the summer at the home of Mrs. Charlas Crary, An dover drive, Cherr; heights, yes terday. Members of this commit tee are Mrs. J. W. Barnard, Mrs. Lynn Valentine, Mrs. H. P. Bos worth Jr., Mrs. Harold Head and Mrs. I. S. Thomas. The membership committee met recently at the home of the chairman, Mrs. Richard Pedley, and prepared a report concern ing the membership picnic held in July at the lake home of Mrs. John Day. The picnic, an annual social event of the league, at tracted a crowd of nearly 70 women, 36 of whom were guests of league members. Two new league members who joined at this time were Mrs. Robert Mil ler and Mrs. Vernon LeRoy. The membership committee also discussed briefly the Found er's tea to be held in November at which past Medford League officers and charter members will be honored, and a member ship drive to be held in the spring. Mrs. Dunbar Carpenter and Mrs. John Ousterhout, co-chairmen of the local item study for league, met August 1st to dis cuss plans for the preparation of a "Know Your County" book let concerning Jackson county government. 4 Teacher Leaves For Washington Miss Georgia Jacobs, Aber deen, Wash., who has been at tending summer classes at South ern Oregon college, left Tuesday morning for her home. She was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. William Crabb, and her niece, Tuddie Koskie, of Central Point and the three plan a vacation trip in Washington. Miss Jacobs teaches first grade in the Aberdeen public schools. Californians Here To Visit Family Mr. and Mrs. William S. Barn um and two children, Barnaby jnd Sara, of Anaheim, Calif., are in the valley to visit Mr. Barnum's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Barnum, South Pacific highway. They will spend some time jt the Barnum's cabin on the shores of Lake of the Woods, and will attend performances of the Oregon Shakespearean festival in Ashland. . 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Y Knot Twirlers Postpone Dance Kenneth Hood, president of the Y Knot Twirlers Square Dance club, has announced that the scheduled dance Thursday at the Medford YMCA has been postponed until Thursday, Aug ust 15. The dance was postponed be cause there will be two dances at the Josephine County Fair in Grants Pass this week end. Dances are scheduled Friday and Saturday nights sponsored by the Rogue Valley Square Dance Callers association and the Fair board. Women of Moose Attend Meeting Officers of Medford Women of Moose were in Grants Pass recently to attend an instruction meeting. New officers of the Medford chapter who attended were Mrs. Ray Daniels, graduate re gent; Mrs. Leo Webster, senior regent; Mrs. Elbert . Cooper, junior regent; Mrs. E. L. Thomp son, chaplain; Mrs. Paul Coates, recorder; Mrs. Yetta Flowers, treasurer. Kansas City Girl Youngest Camp Director By TILL HAGERTY Kansas City, Mo. (W A 24-year-old Kansas City girl has become the youngest director of municipal camps in the history of the city. Blonde Beverly Breuer, who attends graduate school and pampers a black cocker spaniel, will direct the city's 400-acre Camp Lake of the Woods this summer. Beverly admitted that the re sponsibility of directing an 11 week program for some 750 en thusiastic campers is bewilder ing at times. "You really have to have a basic knowledge of . . . well . . . everything from plumbing to astronomy," she said. "Just the other day I learned how to oper ate the filtering system on the swimming pool. And the day be fore that I had to round up five horses that broke through a fence." Beverly and her staff of 35 counselors, cooks and mainten ace men have to deal with more than the run-of-the-mill prob lems. In addition to special leader ship training programs and regu lar session open to all Kansas City children, the camp offers a unique program for handicapped children. It is the only municipal camp in the country which plans special supervised sessions for the cardiac, cerebral palsy, dia betic and blind. Most of the children are be tween the ages of 9 and 15. But one week each summer is set aside for the Golden Age session for the 65 years and older group. Democracy prevails in all camp activities. Each day the campers meet with their coun selors and discuss what they would like to do. In addition to swimming, horseback riding, archery, overnight hikes and cookouts, the children are taught such basic camping skills as building fires, chopping wood, erecting shelters and making furniture. ' - . For years Beverly has been working with groups. While while studying for her M.A. in social psychology at the Univer sity of Kansas City, she has been graduate adviser and moderator of a group called the "Panel of Americans." The panel is com posed of students with varied ra cial and religious backgrounds who discuss current and social problems. Beverly was graduated from KCU in 1953 and taught first grade the following year. The next year she worked as a recre ation supervisor for the city be f o r e returning to graduate school. For five summers, , Beverly counseled at Camp Lake of the Woods. She's also volunteered as a summer church school teacher, a folk and square dance instruc tor for the YWCA and a trainer for adult Girl Scout leaders. When Beverly isn't working on her thesis a personnel test for camp counselors she is in the Ozarks on a canoe trip, show ing her dog in an obedience class, or exploring caves. Plaid shorts and blue sneakers are Beverley's favorite clothes. Her friends say that whenever she enters a room, so does the smell of woodsmoke. But she brings something more- a revi valist's zeal for professional camping. Society Colonel, Family Visit in Medford Visitors in the valley include Col. and Mrs. Everett W. Duvall and their two children, Claudia and Douglas, who are guests in the home of Mrs. Duvall's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Cummings, 1000 Alta avenue. The Duvalls are also visiting another brother-in-law and sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Gass, 805 Pine street. The family has been living at Ft. Monroe, Va., where the colonel was assigned to duty for the past three years, and from here will go to Bang kok, Thailand, for his r.ext tour of duty. The Duvalls will sail from San Francisco August 16 for Hawaii from where they will continue to Thailand. Texas Woman Sees Medicine Develop in AF Br PAT RIEHL United Press Correspondent San Antonio, Tex. HP) Miss Cora Hughes has had a front . row seat for observing the unfolding of a new facet of medicine. She was on hand when the Air Force first developed all altitude chamber, and she saw the Air Force School of Avia tion Medicine here attract world-wide renown as the cen ter of a new science that of space medecine. In her modest way, Miss Hughes helped the Air Force school out-grow 'it quarters sev eral times, as it spiraled into new fields. Recently bids were school, and at the same time Miss Hughes ended her 30 years in the field. In 1926, she went to work for the Aviation Medicine School at what then was Brooks Field. The school was housed temporarily in one cor ner of a big dirigble hangar which no longer exists. When the school left Brooks in 1931, for new, roomier quar ters, the efficient cheerful bru nette went right along with it. Miss Hughes' part in the school's increasing contribu tion to aero-medical science never was impossible. But it was long, it was always de pendable, and it was her life. She Remembered Her first assignment was in the general physical depart ment where the candidates for flight training get their exami nations. . Later Miss Hughes worked in the aeromedical library where she obligingly typed papers for student medical of ficers. Most of the high-ranking officers in the Air Force medical service remember Miss Hughes for some aid offer ed to them in their student days. For the last 16 years of serv ice. Miss Hughes was a contract clerk in the school's material division. Here again, she did a competent, thorough job. When Miss Hughes retired, the commandant of the school, Maj. Gen. Otis Benson, wanted to offer a token of the school's appreciation. Miss Hughes was the last surviving employee of 1 mtorofto For your tremendous response 'to our ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! o Anniversary Prices Prevail Until Saturday, Aug. 10 YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT INVITED! Beginning Monday Aug. 1 2 We will be open each Monday from 12 noon to 9 p.m. We are open ing at noon in order to have a complete staff to serve your needs. Main and Bartlett Streets Phone SP 2-6428 Control Centers Reducing Loss of Life from Poisons By GAY PAULEY United Press Correspondent New York (IT) Just name it, and a child will swallow it. As a result, each year 500 children under the age of five die from household 'poisoning; untold numbers more suffer in jury, and often permanent dis abling. In an effort to, prevent this loss of life or injury, 32 poison control centers today operate in various cities around the nation. One of the first centers, and a pattern for many of the others, is the one operating as part of New York City's Health Depart ment. It was founded at the request of local medical societies who wanted an information clearing house; a place where parents, doctors and hospitals could get speedy information on the chemical content, and the danger involved, when junior ate or drank something not meant for a small tummy. Director of the New York center is Dr. Harold Jacobziner, assistant health commissioner; chief chemist and technical di rector is Harry Rayburn. Danger of Pneumonia "Some of the items dangerous to a child aren't posions in the true sense," Rayburn explained. "But they stiU can be fatal." He explained that anything contain ing the petroleum oils was risky because if a child got any in his lungs, there was danger of irrita tion and pneumonia. Talk to these two men and you wonder why the death toll annually isn't above their figure of 500. They have records of children gulping everything from heavy amounts of whisky (the child died) to a bottle of perfume (the child recovered). The New York center handles an average of 500 cases a month. Most frequent calls ask for ad vice on a dose of aspirin or household bleach, Rayburn said. But lead poisoning is the one which worries the center the most, because it so frequently is fatal. 'It kills more children than polio in this city," said the medi cal director. . 'Eight deaths - al ready this year." Jacobziner said most paint manufacturers now use only a minute and safe amount of lead in paints. Just From Chewing "But the old coats underneath can kill ... just from a child chewing on a window sill or eating painted plaster," said Jacobziner. Rayburn said pther potential ly dangerous items which find their way into children's stom achs include insecticides, deter gents, shoe polish, lighter fluid, the caustics such as lye, furni ture "polish, turpentine, lini ments, drugs meant for grown ups only, kerosene, machine oil, solvents, and even those liquids which are meant for blowing bubbles. "Our advice to parents is if it isn't food, keep it away from the children," said Ray burn. s The center's emergency work is not without its lighter side. One of its steadiest customers is the mother of a small boy, who has a knack for eating the wrong thing. His latest "diet" the interior of one of those snow-scene paper weights. The center said the contents were harmless. CALENDAR Calendar notices and newt for the society section of The Mai) ' Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition Is 1 o m Friday Oead line for the weekly calendar is 0 vm of the day of oublication and for week day news is 5 cm the day before publication. the school's first years in Texas. But civil service regulations don't provide for parting gifts such as commemorative watch es. So Miss Hughes now hat a hand -Uuminated certificate of appreciation for her long and dvoted service to Air Force medicine. Wednesday: 8 p.m. Veterans of World War I, Medford barracks, Red man hall. Thursday: 11 a.m. Woman's Christ ian Temperance Union, at home of Dr. and Mrs. Bert Elliott. IL . ' . vssss 11 Is.- Jf MISS INDIAN AMERICA Delores Jean Shortly (above), 19, a full-blooded Navajo Indian of Brigham City, Utah, was crowned Miss Indian America V at Sheri dan, Wyo., as a climax to the All-American Indian Days Celebration.' ' . To Meet Eagle's auxiliary will meet Thursday, ' August 8, at 8 p.m. in the lodge hall. Election will be held to fill a vacancy in the roster of officers. i Sister Here : Mrs. Lillian Rode Huguenin of New York City is spending several weeks in Medford as a guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Rode, Griffin Creek. Mrs. Hu guenin is a teacher in the New York schools. . EVEN THOUGH YOU OWN HOME LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT You Still Need Our Professional Services USE OUR' DELUXE FINISH FOR EXAMPLE: 3 Shirts, qq 4 Sheets, 4 Pillow Cases For Only j I W Fluff Fold Service. Dress Skirts Finished at a Small Additional Cost. Dumas' Domestic Laundry & DRY CLEANERS 30 N. Riverside Ave. Phone SP 2-6165 Go Back to School On The Right Footing! ORIGINAL WHITE BUCK 1 Spaldings j. . 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