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.
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Monday Evening
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Values to $10.95
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with gaily colored
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SHORTS
Just a few left
DRESSES
A surprise rack.
Values from 10.95
to 24.95.
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Final close-outs on odds and ends in
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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
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that it has moved to its
New location at
1025 East Main Street
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