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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Insurance Women Stress Education At Session Here Education was the theme of a breakfast meeting of Region IX of National Association of Insurance Women held Sunday morning at the Medford hotel. The breakfast closed a week end session planned by Insur ance Women of Jackson County which included a picnic in Lith ia park Saturday evening fol lowed by attendance at the Ore gon Shakespearn festival per formance of "Ai Vrh T.ilci It" in the Ashltftd festival theater. the Oregon Shakespearean fes tival. Mrs. Irene Ostrander, presi dent of the county club, presid ed for the breakfast and intro duced the speakers. Music was provided by Mrs. Robert Lytle, Ashland, soprano. She was ac companied by Mrs. Imogene Owen, Portland, club member. Mrs. Ostrander read greetings from Mayor John Snider, and from natiorpl officers of the as sociation. Rogue River Packing company furnished fruit and candy favors. O Later thjp group assembled in j company and Severson's Candy tne Candle room of the Med ford hotel for a midnight sup per. (5"eakers at the breakfast ses sion included Miss Gladys Main, Seattle, a pasg national presi dent; Mrs. Sadie Ward, Tacoma, Region IX director; Mrs. Amy Seidler, Salem, education chair man for the region; Mrs. Lea Knudsen, Grants Pass, public re lations chairman; Mrs. Giroud Davidson, Portland, puWic safe ty director; Mrs. Eva Brower, Portland, organization chair man. O Also speaking briefly were of ficers of various clubs in the region. They were Mrs. Olga An drew, Seattle; Mrs. Marjorie Johnson, Portland; Mrs. Ouella Tcnnent, Roseburg; Mrs. Mary Frame, Coos Bay and Mrs. Chris Young, Klamath Falls and Mrs. Roberta Daniel, Medford. Program Outlined Speakers outlined the pro grams which clubs have used in the past both to educate associ ation diembers on all phases of the insurance buSness and to educate office staff members. In addition it was stressed that clubs should not stop with "edu cation for business" but branch out into other fields as time and interests dictated. q Mrs. Daniel, first president of Tiie new Medford club, and pres ent education director, stated that the local organization had Society McCamant Family Arrives in City Visiting at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas McCam- ant are their two sons and daugh ters-in-law, Lt. and Mrs. James D. McCamant and Mr. and Mrs. John F. McCamant. John McCamant served as stu dent minister of the Congrega tional church last summer and he and his wife spent the winter in Europe studying at the Uni versity of Vienna and traveling throughout the continent. He will be inducted into the armed serv ice August 26. Lieutenant McCamant, John McCamant's twin brother, is an officer with the United States Marine corps and is stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Expected at the McCamant home this evening are Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Murphy and their ,wo children of Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Murphy is the McCamant's daughter. found that tue educational pro gram was the main interest of both embers and potential members. She praised Medford agents for their cooperation in the women's group. One of the most ambitious programs was that outlined by Mrs. Andrews, Seattle. She stated that the Seattle club has worked out a course in insur ance which runs a year and cov ers broadly all phases of insur ance. Most Seattle agents urge employees to take the course, and pay tuition costs, she laid. Report Given Mrs. Brower, who has organ ized seven clubs in the regiorf, reported on the national con vention in Philadelphia which she attended. Mrs. Knudson reported that the Grants Pass club had not attended the Saturday night events since they conflicted with the annual gladiolus festival in that city, and insurance women had entered a float in the river V parade. The Grants Pass mem bers also provided gladiolus blossoms to decorate the break q fast tables. The program glgsed with a general discussion of insurance problems with Miss Main as leader. Miss Main is a CPCU- Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter a status achieved ty a lew uno-wnters alter a rigid course of study and in struction, it was said. There are but 1500 at present in the Unit ed States. Insurance Women of Jackson County plan to set up a class here3 for both men and women and work towards the CPCU goal. The Jackson county women Owere praised for the success of the regional meeting, first held here by the association, and ex pressed the idea that it might be madman annual event during CALENDAR Calendar notice, and newt for the society section of The Mai) Tribune must be submitted in writing and deadline for the Sun day edition Is 1 p.m Friday Dead line for the weekly calendar is 9 vm of the day of oublication and for week dav news is 6 D-m. to day before publication. Monday: 6:30 p.m. Pi Beta Phi, home of Mrs. Carl Wimberly, Jr. 8 p.m. Olive Rebekah lodge, IOOF hall. 8 p.m. Writer's Workshop, home of Mrs. August Farfan, 723 Newtown ave. Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. F i r s t Methodist church, circle 11, Mrs. Marlow Bates, 1124 West Eighth st. 9:30 a.m. Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae club, home of Mrs. Rob ert W. Shepherd, 132 Greenway circle. 10 a.m. Oak Grove Neighbor hood club, home of Mrs. Alex Connell, 3587 Jacksonville highway. 10 a.m. Rogue Valley Navy Mothers of America club, home of Mrs. Glen Curtis, 839 Wabash St., Medford. 11:30 a.m. First Methodist church, circle 9, potluck in Wes ley hall. 12 noon Central Point Wo men's Relief Corps, city park. 1&30 p.m. F i r. s t Methodist church, circle 5, potluck with Mrs. Gilbert Brood, Gebhard rd. 1 p.m. Central Point Royal Neighbors, home of Mrs. E. Col lins. 1:15 p.m. First Methodist church, circle 1, Mrs. Anne 'Cor by, 5 Myers court; circle 2, Mrs. Chester James, 307 Willamette ave.; circle 3, Mrs. Charlotte Kinder, 1429 East Main st.; cir cle 4, Mrs. H. A. White, 3654 South Pacific highway; circle 7, Mrs. Belle Jones, 59 Quince st. 1:30 p.m. Butte Falls Garden club, home of Mrs. Clay Conley. "Monday, August 19, 1957 Miss Sherry Adam Returns to City From California. Miss Sherry Adam has return ed to Medford after spending several weks in California where she visited Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Freese. aunt and uncle, of Bakersfield. The Freese's daugh ter, Judi Freese, has visited in Medford. Miss Adam traveled to Cali fornia with her mother, Mrs. Betti Boyle, and they visited Disneyland and Los Angeles, be fore traveling to Bakersfield. Prior to her returrt to Medford Miss Adam spent a week with the Freese's at their cottage at Lake Tahoe where Mrs. Boyle met them last weekend and then returned to Medford. Miss Adam will be a sophomore at Medford High school this fall. Degmans Arrive For Visit Here Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Degman and son. Bob, arrived in Medford Saturday evening and are guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Cottingham, 1329 Queen Anne avenue. The Degmans formerly lived in Medford and now make their home in Wenatchee, Wash. The family came here from Klamath Falls where they attend ed the wedding Saturday after noon of the couple's oldest son. Elliott Sanford Degman Jr., and Miss Eleanor Ann Jackson. The ceremony took place in Peace Memorial church. Wedding Set Wilt Mrs. Tt Smith and daughter, Joan, recently attend ed a bridal shower given at the Hornbrook- Bible church by the Ladies' Missionary society for Miss Nancy McMasters of Horn brook. Miss McMasters and Roger Smith have set their wed ding for August 23 at Hornbrook Community church. Mis McMasters is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mc Masters, Hornbrook, and Mr. Smith s parents are Mr. ana Mrs. R. Smith of Hilts. . Meeting Set Medford Dost and auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will hnM thp first fall meeting Tues day, August 20, at 8 p.m. at Vete rans' hall, 42 North Front street. Well Wafer Found Popular in Chicago Chicago W A well in a forest preserve in a corner of the city has become popular. People line up for hours some evenings to fill their glass jars and pitchers with well water. "Maybe it has some quality which makes them feel better," Gerald O'Connor, assistant sup erintendent of maintenance and operations for the forest pre serve district said. "But what ever the reason, they sure flock here." Water gourmets come to ths wel alt all hours of the day and night, and carry home water for drinking, cooking and mix ing cool summer drinks. Charles Mercuric- said he's been going to the well for water for 15 years. "My wife's been going to the well for over 30 years." he said. "You have to go out there during the day or else you stand in line for quite a while at night. People go out there with 10 and 20 gallon con tainers. Mercurio, a bartender, said he uses the water to mix drinks. "It makes a better highball." Loss of life in the hurricane that struck Galveston, Tex., Sept. 8-9, 1900, has never been determined. It is estimated at between 5,000 and 8,000. 66 Monday Evening 99 SWIM SUITS Famous name brands. Values to $12.95 97 SKIRTS Values to $10.95 in lovely skirts 3 BEACH TOWELS 1.97 1.97 Big oblong towels with gaily colored designs. SHORTS Just a few left DRESSES A surprise rack. Values from 10.95 to 24.95. 5 SHOES Final close-outs on odds and ends in summer ploy and dress shoes. 00 5 OPEN 9:30 TO 9 icons 21 N. CENTRAL RICHARD TRAVIS Landis-Shangle Photo. Travis To Replace Ayres in Crusade Richard Travis will replace Cliff Ayres as service division chairman for the 1957 United Medford Crusade, according to General Chariman Robert A. Johnson. Ayres is leaving Medford for an Army training school, and has resigned the post. Travis served last year as laundry and dry cleaning sec tion head. Section leaders select ed for the coming crusade: John L u s k, amusements; Edward Barnett, communications; Reese Alexander, general insurance; George Bruse, life insurance; Richard Henselman, real estate; Jack Fitzgerald, transportation, Mildred Anderson, beauticians: Lowell Shepard and W. H. Reichstein, cafes; Orville Ham- cr, barber shops; Murrey Du mas, laundries and dry cleaners; Richard Miller, finance com panies; Ort Miller, taverns; Jack Creager, utilities; and Lloyd Pope, motels and hotels. Johnson announced that Rob ert Cunningham is replacing Don Monteith, who recently moved to Klamath Falls, as as sistant chairman of the retail division. Travis is a member of the American Legion, Elks, and United Commercial Travelers lodges. He, and his wife, and three sons live at 1042 Mt. Pitt ave. Government Warms Against False Hope In Curing Malady By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent Washington (IP! The gov ernment as an act of mercy cautioned victims of an incur able malady today against false hope. , The -malady is "Lou Gehrig's disease" or amyotrophic lateral sclerosfs (ALS). . It is almost invariably fatal. Medical science knows of no effective treatment for it. . . . In recent months dispatches have appeared in newspapers around the world reporting that a German physician. Dr. Artur Boss of Schwenningen. claimed some success in treating ALS sufferers. According to Edward M. Glick, information officer of the Public Health Service's National Institute of Neurological Di seases, the German reports sow ed a bitter seed which since has borne fruit in needless heart ache. Desperate Inquiries The institute has received many hundreds of desperate in quiries from ALS victims or their relatives, in this country and abroad, who had read of the German doctor's claims. It has been Glick's unhappy duty to dash the hopes of the stricken. He has done it by let ter, telegram, telephone and even cable. "To the best of our knowl edge," he says, "there is no known cure for ALS, nor is there a treatment which is fully effective." ALS is a degenerative disease of the nervous system. First there is weakness of the limbs, then a wasting of the muscles, finally involvement of the brain and death. Death usually occurs about three years after the first symp toms are diagnosed. The malady is called "Lou Gehrig's disease" after the fam ous Yankee first baseman who died of it in 1941. There are 15.000 to 16,000 cases of Lou Gehrig's disease in this country alone and an estimated 4,000 deaths a year from ALS. SHUCKS, DIDN'T FEEL A THING Nurse Marjorie Hill is on the receiving end of "this won't hurt a bit" routine as Dr. Joseph Ballinger gives her one of the first Asiatic flu vaccine shots to arrive at Montefiore Hospital in New York. Even as staffers at two New York hospitals received the first shots, the Health Department announce! that eight foreign students who arrived in he city by plane brought New York its first Asiatic flu. Meanwhile the state Health Department confirmed that the foreign' flu ;. has broken out at a migrant labor camp near upstate Auburn. Salem Man Named To State Position Salem (IP) Loren D. Hicks, Salem area businessman and at torney, has been named assistant attorney general for the depart ment of state, it was announced today by Attorney General Rob ert Y. Thornton and Secretary of State Mark Hatfield. Hicks will start work with the state department Sept. 3. He re places Ralph Arnold who re signed to enter private practice. Owner and operator of a cat tle and sheep ranch near Turner, Hicks is a director and part owner of the Salem Title com pany; director of the Western Radio Corp., The Dalles; aid owner, of the Oregon Bag com pany, Aurora. He has practiced law here four years. , Air Material Handles $10 Billion Business Dayton, Ohio OP) The Air Material Command; with head quarters at nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, transact ed more than 10 billion dollars' worth of business last year. Base information officer Caot. Dennis McClendon, said 31 per cent of the amount went to small business. " ' The AMC can deliver material at an average speed of 150 miles per hour from the time an ord ef is placed until it arrives at its destination, McClendon said. The command employs 228,000 persons, most of whom are civ' ilians. Chicago P) Dietary note for expectant birds: Mrs. Madlynn Slingsby says that her parakeet Micky, who is working on her 95th egg, spikes her diet with an occasional glass of beer. Survey Develops Research Help Washington IPi The Geo logical Survey has developed an improved method of accounting for water gains and losses in drainage basins. The method involves periodic determination of precipitation, stream flow, storage of water in the stream, water level. other significant factors. Statis tical analysis also is made of ground-water storage; the amount of water evaporated from the soil or used up by vege tation, and other factors which are not so readily measurable. A rating curve was devised to permit the approximation of water contributed to a stream by ground-water seepage. This in turn led to a better estimate of the total discharge of ground water run-off to streams, evapor ation and transpiration, and ad dition to storage in the ground. The Geological Survey regards the rating curve as an important contribution to the science of hydrology. The survey's pilot study was made of a small drainage basin Beaverdam Creek, near Salis bury, Md. The work was done in cooperation with the Maryland Department of Geology, Mines, and Water Resources. The. study was on a small scale, and the precision of Jhe re sults leaves much to be desired. However, it will serve as a foun dation for more exacting work which, the survey said, will add to the nation's basic store of hy drologic information. Dog and Cat Change Places Inside Pipe Ft. Thomas, Ky. (IPl The question is, said Bob Diemar, how did George get out of that 15-inch sewer pipe first? George is D;emars mostly beagle dog, which chased a cat down the sewer pipe. After sev eral hours of trying to get him nut bv rainlprv anri wilh thp channels, ground-fliri of - eart,pn v,osp. , nn ,vaii soil moisture and , .o-i fU.".. " ...... . They set off a black powder shell that made a loud bang and a lot of smoke. Sure enough, George came scooting out the other end of the pipe closely followed by the cat. But Diemar figures there must have been some real scrambling when George and the cat chang ed places in the pipe. Suspension of Rate Increase Is Sought Salem (IP Immediate sus pension of a proposed new tariff that would boost the price of natural gas to pipe line users 55,500.000 annually was sought by Public Utility Commissioner Howard Morgan today. In .a letter to the Federal Power commission, 'Morgan urged that everything possible be done to induce the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp., to withdraw its 17 per cent rate increase application. , Under Federal law the FPC has no ppwer to suspend the new rates for "interruptible" power to industrial users which will affect 56 Oregon plants starting Sept. 5. But the FPC does have the authority to suspend the opera tion of new tariffs and schedule a "hearing where the company must justify the proposed rates on the basis that they are rea sonable, Morgan said. The commissioner said he thought the rates should be sus pended on grounds the company had been in operation less than a year and that new rates were based on only five months of actual operation. He added that impact of new rates might be too severe on lo calitilities that have just under gone expensive conversion programs. Nantes, France IIP) Miss Anne Marie Medelec, believed to be France's oldest- citizen, died Friday at the age of 107. Cases of Port Wine Ready for Bosfonans Boston Hit In the store rooms of S. S. Pierce Co., world- famous Boston grocery firm, are 25 cases of port wine which will be delivered to as many Boston ians on their 21st birthdays. About 15 years ago the grand father of a new Boston baby boy bought a case of wine for the infant. It will be delivered in the 1960's. Friends heard about it and did likewise when their own grand sons were born. A case of wine costs the grandfather a mini mum of $30 with storage charges approaching the purchase price. COOL CUSTOMER Charleston, W. Va. HP) Fed eral revenuer Dick West is never without a Tom Collins when go ing on a liquor raid. Tom Collins is the name of his assistant. Television To Spot Troubled Motorists Pittsburgh (IP) A closed circuit television system will be installed in a new split-level tun nel here to spot motorists in trouble and rush assistance. The tunnel TV will employ cameras inside the 10-million-dollar Ft. Pitt Tunnel now un der construction. A spokesman for the state Highways Depart ment said drivers of stalled cars won't even have to leave their vehicles to summon help. The cameras will spot dis abled cars and two trucks will be dispatched immediately to avoid traffic tie-ups. Eight cam eras will be used in the system to keep a 24-hour "eye" on traf fic flowing both ways through a giant hill near this city's "Golden Triangle." The Highways Department guarantees there will be no commercials. Popular Man Gives Water During Drought Wakefield, Mass. HP) One of the most popular men in Massa chusetts during the drought was selectman Kenneth Morang. He gave away water. Morang, who has a private well in his back yard, put, up a big sign on his front lawn: "You can have all the water you want." He said his home was crowded with people bringing all sizes of containers, from bot tles to trucks. xArvA if IF J& 1 HIS THIRD DFC Maj. Samuel W. Tyson (left) veteran Military Air Transport Service pilot, receives his third Distinguished Flying Cross in Washington from Gen. Thomas D. White, Chief of Staff of the USAF. Tyson brought in a crippled C-97 Stratofreighter transport with 67 persons aboard to a safe emergency landing in Hawaii August 8. THE MEDFORD CLINIC announces that it has moved to its New location at 1025 East Main Street Telephone SPring 3-6271 (Day or Night) Launderei uin6)T O Fit better! O Feel better! O Look better! Individually Scaled in Plastic We'll Give You ... 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