4 tTofeesdjy, May 21. 1958
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Medford, and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 21, 1348 (Friday)
Phoenix, Talent, Independ
ence and Anderson Creek
school district patrons will
vote Monday on district con
solidation. Steps toward construction
of a welfare building for the
Salvation Army will be under
Taken by the Jackson county
advisory board.
CI YEARS AGO
May 21. 1938 (Sunday)
Gov. Charles H. Martin car
ried Jackson county nearly
two to one over Henry L.
Hess, according to complete
returns from 67 of 70 pre
cincts. "
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Consid
erable hay is down in the
valley waiting to be rained
on. Corn is weed, high."
30. YEARS AGOv
May 21, 1928 (Monday)
. Recent local agitation cen
ters on ( establishment of a
new Pacific highway route
from the foot of Blackwell
hill back of Central Point
through the Gore land to the
Medford-Jacksonville rd.
The airport committee for
the chamber of commerce has
reported the selection of the
property owned by W. H.
Gore for the new aviation
field.
40 YEARS AGO
May 21. 1918 (Tuesday)
The library calls attention
to an illustrated booklet re
ceived from Reed college de
scribing courses in war work
tliere this summer.
From local and personal
column: "A late night fire in
the business district Sunday
was fortunately discovered in
time. The fire broke out in
the Alco cigar stand."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ei
sis is good.
1. The moon is not self-
luminous; true or false?
2. "Pharos of Alexandria"
was the name of an Egyptian,
a lighthouse, or a pyramid?
3. Which U. S. President
was a Quaker?
4. A clyclotron is a type of
bicycle, a term of years, or an
atom-smashing machine?
5. Translate the Roman
Numeral LXXX.
6. The Mediterranean and
Red Sea are joined by what
canal?
7. Is copper or silver the
best conductor of electricity?
8. An eight-armed fish is
called ?
9. Which countries are con
nected by the Brenner Pass?
10. Name the American
naval hero whose message.
"We have met the enem v and
they are ours," is well known
in accounts of the War of
o 1812.
Answers: 1. True. (It shines
by reflecting the sun); 2.
Lighiiouse; 3. Herbert Clark
Hoover; 4. Atom-smashing ma-c"-i3;
5. Eighty; 6. Suez; 8.
Octccus; 9. Italy and Austria;
10. Commodore Oliver H.
Ferry. (Battle of Lake Erie).
Editorial Correspondence . . .
U.P. City of Portland (en route to Chicago) A personal
note seems called for. This trip is in answer to an "S.O.S."
from grandchild No. 8. A month ago there were only seven,
now we have an octet. The young lady there are now four
girls and four boys demands a view of the rest of the family
which reminds us of Sir Winston Churchill. Sir Winston,
it seems, on his 80th birthday was asked by the Bishop of
Something or Other if he was "ready to meet his maker."
With his usual prompt and snappy comeback Sir Winston
said he was ready but he was not sure His Maker was ready
to undergo such a trying ordeal. So with progeny No. 8
she may be asking for more than she can take at such an
early age. We shall see.
Now we own no stock in the Union Pacific railroad or
any other railroad which considering their condition in the
stock market is fortunate. But after two trips on the "City of
Portland" within a year, we would like to state that the best
transcontinental train in North America we include the
Canadian Pacific and the Mexican Central: is 'the train we
are now on.
There are many other good trains and we have, we be
lieve, ridden on them all but the "City of Portland" every
thing considered is tops. If there is. any thing it hasn't we
don't know what it is speed, comfort, service, and one of
the most attractive scenic routes up the Columbia during
the cocktail hour, any railroad could provide. We don't know
why this should be true, for the City of San Francisco like
the City of Los Angeles, the SP's Golden State and Sunset
Limited are all good- trains but to repeat, everything con
sidered including brand new equipment, the "City of Port
land" in our book leads the procession. And again for some
j-eason not explained, unlike many of the other crack trains
across the country, it has no extra fare.
Bought a Sunday Oregonian before leaving Portland at
5 p.m. and were surprised and disappointed to find no elec
tion news from Medford and Jackson county. Wonder when
the Sunday paper goes to press? It couldn't be before noon,
yet when we left Medford all the returns were reported in
except three' or four small ouying districts. That was
around 8 a'.m.
Wonder if the Oregon Journal did better?
Many things in the primary surprised us. '"'
We expected Unander to win the GOP nomination thanks
to a large majority in Multnomah, with a close race for sec
ond between Gill .and Hatfield. Instead Hatfield had a field
day, with Gill a poor "also-ran" and Unander a poor second.
, We are really sorry for the latter. He impressed us as a
most conscientious, capable and high-minded "public serv
ant" lacking color somewhat, but very deserving.
' Had Hatfield not entered the race at' the last moment
undoubtedly "Sig" would have won hands down.
In fact, had the race been confined to him and Hatfield,
and assuming the vote that went to Gill and the other candi
dates had gone to Unander some assumption of course the
state treasurer would have won.
The painful point is that if the traditional political pat
tern is followed, this will put Sig Unander on the bench as
far as high office is concerned for a long time.
Different timing and slightly different circumstances
would undoubtedly have made all the difference in the world.
(Just shows again how largely Lady-Luck figures in human
affairs.)
To return to the Oregonian. Another Rose Festival
"Princess" picture appears.
What has happened to Portland's "jeunesse doree" any
way? There must nave been a half dozen or more selections
to date, and the gals all look like sisters, not a blonde in a
carload, and not one with an arresting or attractive face as
far as this expert on teen-age pulchritude is concerned. (Ok
what do we care, we have only half a dozen subscribers in
Portland anyway!)
Some other primary surprises: We were confident of
Governor Holmes' victory but didn't look for such a walk
away. Also did not anticipate such a close race between Kelly
and Nunley, and expected a much closer race between Mayor
Snider and Dr. Durno. Mrs. Nye ran like a scared rabbit as
we expected, and County Judge Keating didn't as we also
expected.
In the judicial races, Judge Sloan ran better than we pre
dicted and Justice Rossman did not. Or to put it another way,
Jason Lee received a much larger vote than we thought
likely. -
- Finally, as so often happens, although the Democrats are
considerably ahead of the Republicans in registration, more
of the latter went to the polls. Oregon Democrats are not so
remiss in this direction as the Democrats in California, but
they are pretty bad. If they won't go to the polls, what good
is their majority?!
;
It is warm and very peaceful here in Idaho. The mountain
tops are tipped with snow but the lower hills and valleys
are green, with large bands of sheep, a goodly sprinkling of
contented cows, and a few equally self-satisfied horses graz
ing in relaxed and reassuring splendor.
We never travel through Idaho and Wyoming without
smiling at those Malthusian enthusiasts who worry about a
sufficient food supply for our increasing millions. These two
states with proper irrigation and the rivers and creeks that
are slipping by via the car window are full and some over
flowing could, we think, if all available and productive
land were used, supply enough foodstuffs to the USA west
of the Rockies, with adequate nourishment for the foresee
able future. And why worry about the the future that ISN'T
foreseeable, particularly when there are so many far more
serious problems, so much closer at hand?
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WTe grant, of course, that in the outside world, China,
India, parts of Africa no doubt, the question of an adequate
food supply is a far less remote and academic problem. We
are thinking only of North America,
i .
There is another factor: thanks to the wonders of modern
science, isn't it reasonable to assume that increases in the
food production per acre may keep abreast, or even surpass,
the probable increases in population?
Out answer is "YES."
NEXT question? R.W.R.
P.S.: Apologies to R.B. '
Zephyr next time. R.W.R.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
DESPITE THE FACT that men's heads come in all sizes,
their hats, for many years at least," did not. One ingenious
hatter finally came up with an idea that soon became the ac
cepted practice: he put a
drawstring inside the hat
that enabled the wearer to
adjust it to the precise cir
cumference of his cranium..
Then the string was tied
into a bow-knot.
Although hats have been
coming now in assorted sizes
for fifty, years and more,
and the drawstring inside
has long since been aband
oned, hatmakers have clung
for some unknown reason to
the bow-knot. You'll still
find one, utterly useless, in
side every man's hat. .
'mea culpa" do better a la
Dennis the Menace
hy, CM! Turn rr oh fO& mb, will ya i
Nehru Boosts Tito in
With Kremlin; Hits Red Party
By CHARLES M. McCANN tion movement when members
United Press Correspondent of their parties showed a dan
Prime Minister Jawaharlalgerous tendency to do some
Nehru of India has given independent thinking.
Yugoslav President Tito an im- Nehru recalled that Mao, in
Mccann threat to readmunism came at the moment
Tito out of the world Commun-when Tito was studying the
ist movement constituted in-ultimatum in which the cen
terference by a foreign coun- tral committee of the Russian
try in Yugoslav domestic af- Communist Party threatened
fairs. k him with dire penaties unless
Nehru also referred sarcas-he toed the party line,
tically to the way in which . Belgrade dispatches say
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Nehru's statement made a pro
Khrushchev and Chinese Com-found impression there,
munist leader Mao Tse-tung It was a welcome counter
had checked their liberaliza-to the determined campaign
In the Day's News
By FRANK
The eyes of the world as
this is written are on Paris
as they have been so often in
the past dozen centuries.
General Charles De Gaulle,
one of history's strange char
acters, is speaking at what
amounts to a news confer
ence at the historic Palais d'
Orsay. He has just stated that
he is ready to head a new
French government IF THE
PEOPLE WISH IT.
In his relatively brief
speech, he condemned the idea
of force. Asked what he would
do if GIVEN POWER (in
whatever form) he replied: "I
Carrier to Win
Week at Camp
A week's vacation at R-bar-E
Ranch, camp for boys from 7
to 14, is in store for an out
standing Mail Tribune carrier
the week of June 8. The
camp, now in its second year
of operation, is located eight
miles south of Grants Pass on
the Applegate river.
The camp is in connection
with a stock ranch iif full op
eration. Week-day activities
include ' fishing, swimming,
camping, barbecues, horse
back riding and hiking. Sun
days are reserved for letter
writing and family visiting.
The week at camp will be
awarded by the paper to the
top-ranking boy in the desig
nated age group in the regular
carrier's contest, according to
Dale Erickson, circulation
manager. There are seven
boys who 'qualify, being be
tween the ages of 7 and 13.
Prizes are awarded each
month to the 10 top-ranking
carriers.
. Selection of prize winners
is based on scoring in per
formance of duties connected
with being newspaper merch
ants, as well as school grades,
attitude, honesty and other at
tributes. The winner of the week at
camp will be announced about
June 1, after scores for the
May contest are tallied, Erick
son said.
Speaker Announced
For Newspaper Meet
Salt Lake City OP) Anton
F. Peterson, manager of News
paper Agency corporation,
was announced today as key
note speaker for the western
regional conference of Insti
tute of Newspaper Controllers
and Finance Officers.
The conference will be held
here June 8-10. It will be at
tended by more than 75 news
paper finance officials from
the western states and Hawaii.
0ALL &ucw lUOTMlj?) S-2 1
portant assist his short-lived invitation to
in his latest Chinese Reds and non-Reds to
dispute w i t h criticize the party, said: "Let
the Russiana hundred flowers bloom and
Communists, a hundred opinions flourish."
Addressing a Now, Nehru said, "all the
convention of flowers have become weeds to
his Indianbe pulled out."
Congress Par-Tito Studying Ultimatum
ty, Nehru said Nehru's support for Tito's
that Mnscnw'snnlifv nf inHpnpnrient Com-
JENKINS
would re-establish republican
liberties.". He then added,
amid loud applause from his
followers: "Do you believe
that at 67 I would begin the
career of a dictator?"
Asked as to the terms under
which he would ACCEPT
power, he replied that it
would have to be on HIS
terms and not on the solicita
tion of "various political
parties."
AT THE conclusion of the
session, he said:
"I am going back to my vil
lage. But I remain at the dis
position of my country."
WHAT will come of it?
Who ever knew what
would come of ANY crisis in
France? 4
We'll wait and see.
In any event, General De
Gaulle couldn't be any worse
than General Anarchy.
GETTING closer home:
At Angels Camp, up in
the Mark Twain country of
California, a pair of frogs
owned by an Oakland father
and son team finishes first
and second in the annual Cal
averas county frog jumping
contest.
The father's frog (named
Tule Jim) took first place with
a leap of 14 feet 5Vz inches.
The son's frog, named Mag
gie, came in second with a
jump of 14 feet 4V6 inches.
"FIFTEEN thousand people
turned out to see tne con
test.
A thought:
Maybe until the world
calms down a little it will be
just as well for us to get all
steamed up- about frog jump
ing contests as to go off our
rockers over what is going on
in the Old World.
114 Apartments
Sold in Manor
A total - of 114 apartments
have been sold in the Rogue
Valley Manor, according to
Walter Higgins, executive di
rector of the Manor.
'Higgins said only 21 apart
ments remain to be sold to.
reach the half-wav mark in
apartment sales. "This is an
all-important stage in our
progress to date," Higgins
said, "because when we reach
the half-way mark the archi
tect will finish the drawings
and specifications and the con
tract let for construction of
the 10-story building."
Apartment sales have been
progressing rapidly recently,
according to Higgins. Since
May 1, three - have been sold
to Medford residents, one to
f forts to Widen
Labor Legislation
Beaten in Senate
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IF) Back
there in the 80th Congress,
which Harry Truman called
the worst
there was en
acted legisla
tion which
leaders of or
ganized labor
called a "slave
labor law."
That was the
Taft - Hartley
Act which, in
Lyle C. Wilson P r a c u c e ,
proved to be no slave labor
law at all because organized
labor has thrived under, or
despite, its terms. Moreover,
congressional investigators in
recent months have proved
that the Taft-Hartley Act was
not strong enough to prevent
offenses by some labor lead-
Dispute
which the Russian Commun
ists have been waging against
Tito, as ' part of which they
have required Communists in
both Red-ruled and free coun
tries to denounce him.
It is reported that Tito is
now drafting his reply to the
Moscow ultimatum and that it
will be sent to Moscow in a
few days in the name of the
central committee of the Yugo
slav party.
Will Maintain Independence
Advices say the reply will
urge the Russians to agree that
disputes among Communists
should be argued out in a
friendly way. But the reply
will leave Khrushchev and his
colleagues in no doubt that
Tito intends to maintain his
independence whatever the
cost may be.
"Neutralist" Nehru's criti
cism of the Russian and Chi
nese Reds was aimed also at
the Indian Communist Party.
Nehru said the Indian Reds
sent a message of good will to
Tito last month during a con
gress -of -the Yugoslav Com
munist Party. But when Mos
cow opened up its new attack
on him, the Indian Reds sent
him another message, quite
contradictory, criticizing his
independence.
Nehru's criticism of the Rus
sian and Chinese Communists,
as well as his own, may have
been influenced by the fact
that his Congress Party, domi
nant ever since India attained
its independence, is losing
ground to various opposition
groups "including the Com
munists.
Commencement
Set at Talent High
Tomorrow Night
Talent Commencement ex
ercises for 29 graduating sen
iors will be held at the Tal
ent High school gymnasium
Thursday, May 22, at 8 p.m.
"The Call of Life" is the
topic on which Valedictorian
David Spongier will speak;
Priscilla Welch, salutatorian,
has selected "So Long, Mr.
Biggs." Dr. Bill A. Sampson,
of Southern Oregon college,
will deliver the principal ad
dress, "The Uncertain Fu
ture." Presentation of diplomas
will be made by Gilbert Hill,
chairman of the local school
board. The Rev. A. Clark will
deliver the invocation and
benediction.
"We have crossed the bay;
the ocean lies before us," is
the motto of the class.
Graduates
: Graduates are Gerald D.
Baer, Hermon Darrell Can
non, Philip Howard Combs,
Paul Emmerson Conner, Ny
lia Jean Cooper, Colleen Ann
Creel, Betty Jean Cutburth,
Charlotte Ann Ford, Melvin
Walter Gingerich, Julie Co
rine Hanson, Michael Bell
Harris, Karlos Wayne Heard,
Sallie Jeanne Henry, Jerry
Allen Holdridge, and William
Lee Howell.
Others are Christine Louise
Knudsen, Oscar Darrell Leek,
Mary Kathleen Olson, Gloria
Jean Quackenbush, Gerald
W. Rice, Marie Alice Schmel
zer, William R. Snyder, David
Robert Spangler, Frank Mar-
shall Thompson, Charmian
Ann Tipsword, John Riley
Toll, John Wayne Walker,
Dixie J. Webber, and Priscilla
Kay Welch.
Commencement tomorrow
marks the 39th annual grad
uation exercises at Talent
High school.
a Chico, Calif, couple, two to
Ashland people, three apart
ments to Grants Pass residents
and two to North Carolina
people. .
ers which made honest men
shudder. For example: Dave
Beck and others.
On the record, the epithet
"slave labor law," was a con
trived and indefensible over
statement designed more to
defeat the legislation than ac
curately to describe its pur
pose or its likely effect.
Congress now is in the pro
cess of correcting some of the
conditions disclosed by its
labor investigators, limiting
its corrective action, however,
to a narrow field. An effort to
widen and toughen the cor
rective legislation was licked
in the Senate. The Labor lead
ers opposed this effort as hot
ly as they opposed the Taft
Hartley Act back there in the
80th and, doubtless, rate the
toughening amendments as an
other effort to enslave labor.
The Interpretation
Sponsors of the tougher
proposals do not so interpret
them. Quite the contrary. Sen.
Andrew Schoeppel (R-Kan.)
was challenged by organized
labor for his support of more
stringent amendment of the
Taft-Hartley Act than the
Democratic leadership of the
Senate would accept. The sen
ator's telegram in response to
that challenge contained some
questions which might profit
ably be directed to any man
who, controlling and practi
cally owning a big union, finds
himself in the preffered posi
tion of a Dave Beck, then, or
a Jimmy Hoffa, now.
"Are you opposed," Schoep
pel inquired of his challenger,
"to giving every member of a
labor organization the right
to vote?
"Are you opposed to the
use of secret ballots properly
supervised where every mem
ber may vote without fear of
reprisal?
."What is so damaging with
legislation which provides
that the funds of the local un
ion are to be used exclusively
in connection with the affairs
of the local union when a trus
teeship has been established?"
Amendments Defined
Here is how Sen. William
F. Knowland (R-Calif.) de
scribes the toughening amend
ments which he introduced
but which the Senate rejected:
Guarantees election of
union officers by secret bal
lot. :
Provides for lecall of
union officials who misuse
their positions.
Prevents conspiracies be
tween management and union
officials against the welfare
of union members.
Protects union members'
welfare and pension pro
grams. Requires that unions le
gally permitted to represent
all employees in an industry
or plant shall admit all em
ployees desiring membership.
Provides a voice for un
ion members in conditions,
terms and duration of strikes.
Prevents .appointed trus
tees from exercising arbitrary
control.
Provides for regulation
by union members of the ac
tions of their unions on ques
tions of excessive union fees,
assessments or arbitrary ac
tions. Those provisions were re
jected by the Senate and by
the labor leaders. They were
put aside with a promise of
action later at this session.
That promise probably isn't
worth a dime because it does
not bind the house where no
action is remotely likely.
Sawmill Workers
Set Negotiations.
Portland OP) Earl Hartley,
executive secretary of the
Lumber and Sawmill Work
ers Union, AFL-CIO, said on
Tuesday the next negotiations
meeting between the union
and lumber industry employ
ers would be held here May
28. It had originally been
scheduled for Thursday.
Hartley said the union's ex
ecutive board would meet
May 27 and would announce
then the results of a strike
authorization vote among 80,
000 members in seven West
ern states.
The union is asking for a
31-cent hourly pay package.
It refused to go along with
the rival International Wood
workers of America, AFL
CIO, agreed to go along with
out a pay hike for the present
because of a depressed lumber
market.
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Anniversary of TVA
To the Editor: It was 25
years ago that Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed an historic
document creating the Ten
nessee Valley Authority. In a
time when democracy seems
irresolute and sterile in many
areas, the story of TVA's
achievements deserves wide
celebration. As Morris Rubin
points out in a special TVA
anniversary issue of The. Pro
gressive, the TVA idea "has
come to symbolize a deeply
democratic alternative to
both the law of the jungle and
the tyranny of totalitarian
ism." The essence of TVA, he
notes, is the "partnership of
the federal government with
the people of a great river
valley to plan the unified de
velopment and maximum use
of all the resources for the
benefit of all the people." A
In its infancy TVA was bit
terly damned by know-noth
ing critics as a threat to
"states' rights," an omen of
federal despotism, a symbol
of un-Americanism. Now,
throughout the Tennessee
Valley, millions of lives are
better because this dream
came true. It is perhaps the
greatest of all New Deal mon
uments. More than that, it
points the way to a new vis
ion of federal, state and local
partnership that has been
virtually lost in the era of
Eisenhower.
John Jackson Taylor,
136 Fourth st.,
Troy, N.Y.
Lessons of History
To the Editor: Congratula
tions on the fine editorial
"The Lessons of History"
which appeared in the Med
ford Mail Tribune, May 12.
The Oregon Historical Soc
iety is deeply interested in
the work accomplished by our
affiliated organization, the
Southern Oregon Historical
Society. If the Siskiyou Pio
neer Sites Foundation can in
any . sense supplement the su
perb work accomplished by
S. O. H. S., our entire region
al history will be deeply obli
gated to their program. ",
Thomas Vaughan,
Director,
OregonHistorical Society
Portland
High-Handed Companies
. To the Editor: The automo
bile industry holds a key po
sition in our economy. What
are the big automobile com
panies doing to help combat
the present recession?
Last fall when the United
Auto Workers' Union propos
ed that car prices be reduced
by S100 the automobile comp
anies replied, in effect, that
it was nobody's business but
theirs what prices they chose
to set. Recently government
officials proposed that, in re
turn for the removal of excise
taxes on new cars, car prices
might be reduced. The auto
mobile companies replied
that they could entertain no
such proposal, since it would
amount to "virtual price con
trol" by the government.
Price control. I wonder.
Seems to me the quickest
way to bring it on (price con
trol, that is) as a permanent
policy will be the continua
tions of this haughty-highhanded,
uncooperative public-be-damned
attitude of the big
companies. For surely in this
democracy where we hold
destiny in our own hands by
means of the popular vote
we will not be forever content
to have our cream siphoned
away by the motor and oil
companies while thousands
go unemployed.
As of now the "you auto
buy now" campaign amounts
to little . more than free ad
vertising for the benefit of
General Motors, Ford and
Chrysler.
E. Whealdon,
804 Cedar st.
Medford
A
STEADFAST
PURPOSE
to serve every familily ac
cording to their dictates,
and financial means, has
made possible the success
of this organization for
mnmm uumm
C. M. Lirwiller
more than twenty - three
years.
Wedding Chapel by appointment
. at any hour, call MU 5-4541
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ASHLAND "t is better to know us and not need us,
We Never Close than to need us and not know us."
Porter Criticized
To the Editor: Porter keeps
talking and the price of ply
wood keeps dropping. Our
Congressman says that Japan
ese plywood does not affect
the plywood industry in "Ore
gon. The fact that more and
more of it is being used while
more and more Oregon lum
ber workers are suffering
must be of no concern to
Congressman Porter.
Elizabeth Miller,
Trail
From Clerk Candidate
To the Editor: I want to
thank the many people who
voted for me in the Demo
cratic primaries and the many
people who worked so hard
for me during the campaign.
I am very grateful to you for
the nomination. ,
I also want to assure all of
my supporters that we will
conduct a vigorous campaign
to win this November.
Marvin Madden,
Box 476,
Phoenix
Plea for Hemophiliacs
To the Editor: Here is an
ad we'd like to run in every
newspaper of the Western
and Mountain States if we
had the money: "Wanted:
Five-Hundred Women's Clubs
in need of a project devoid of
frills but loaded with imme
diate importance. Object
To keep innocent youngsters
from bleeding to death. Apply
to Hemophilia Foundation."
There are many thousands
of hemophiliacs in the United
States most of them chil
dren a large percentage of
them resident in the Western
and Mountain States serviced
(plasma by mail) by this non
profit, non - denominational
Foundation. Many of these
kids will die this year unless
they get help.
A hemophiliac's blood does
not clot. The slightest bump
can start internal bleeding
and, without quick and skill
ful treatment, the result can
be painfully crippled joints
or even death.
There is a cure for hemo
philia! If we weren't sure of
that, the whole struggle would
be hopeless. The only thing
is that cure has yet to be
found. And we need help in
finding it.
We need help, too, In keep
ing our kids alive until the
cure is found. This we do by
means of whole blood . and
plasma transfusions.
We'd like to be proud, and
say we can handle it alone.
But we can't! We need help.
We need it badly. We are in
debt up to our ears. Our kids
continue to bleed. And we
must keep them alive, till a
cure is found. That's why
we're making this appeal to
women's clubs. We know that
most such groups already are
committed to helping favorite
charities and we don't ask
that they throw out those
charities and take us instead.
Our hope is that each wo
men's club in the West might
consider giving us' the crumbs
from the table of Lazarus, so
to speak; keep your present
charities, but pledge your
selves to give one of our kids
just one plasma transfusion a
month. That means only $4
a month per club or group. "
Would anyone reading this,
who belongs to a club, a so
ciety, an auxiliary please take
it up at the next meeting of
your organization? Or, if you
have a friend who belongs to
such an organization, clip this
letter and give it to her.
Please write to us. In telling
your friends about us, please
stress the word "Hope" in
our address.
R. P. McDonagh,
Secretary
Hemophilia Foundation
of Southern California,.
1401 South Hope st.,
Los Angeles, 15
Memphis, Tenn. rtPI Mrs.
Virginia Croft went fishing
Tuesday in the Tennessee
river and caught a duck. One
of her casts accidentally
hooked a member of a flight
of mallards.
Mrs. Litwiller