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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, Juna 1, 1958 TO FIRE MISSILES Paris (UPI) France plans to fire 40 research missiles from its Sahara Desert prov ing ground to altitudes of 112 to 125 miles next winter to study upper-atmosphere con ditions, it was announced Sat urday. The Defense Ministry said the missiles will carry instruments to record the con ditions they encounter. The tests will be in progress from December through March. Before You Do Your KITCHEN REMODELING See Our Complete If iff Ii tan fticnlnwcV Featuring . . YOUNGSTOWN STEEL KITCHENS Available with dishwasher, food waste disposer and range hood ... also EMPRESS Unfinished or pre-finished wood cabinets in Birch, Sen-wood (ash), Mahogany, Knotty Pine or Fir . . . and LONG-BELL Birch or Fir Cabinets ' All Kitchen Remodeling Available Nothing Down Terms to 5 Years Free Kitchen Planning at your disposal O SPRING SPECIAL! o 66-inch Youngstown CABINET SINK Doubla Bowl and Drainboards. 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Of course, I knew some thing about the Salvation Ar my, Red Cross, the Cancer Society, the Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, the YMCA, and the Child Guidance Clinic, but did not begin to realize the importance of the serv ices to the life of our com munity until I made it my business to find out. Suffering Real Loss I learned that we could not do without the services of any one of the agencies without suffering a real loss in our community welfare. Each agency is so much a part of the fabric of our com munity life that ie services complement each other and form a pattern of social help that we need. I was even less familiar with the services of agencies located in or .near Portland for which we helped to raise money for support each year. There were 16 agencies rep resented by the Oregon Chest. Eleven of these agencies were institutions for children. The others' were the Mental Health association, the Ore gon Prison association, USO, YMCA youth and govern ment services, and the Amer ican Social Hygiene . associa tion. Serve Useful Purpose All of these agencies serve a useful purpose and are worth attention and support. But, like most people, I acquired special interests and became particularly concern ed with the , child care in stitutions. Because of this in terest, I was appointed to the Oregon Chest board of dir ectors by the UMC board, and attended the Oregon Chest annual meeting held last Jan uary. I met executives of the child care institutions for the first time, learned something of their problems, and heard for ' the first time that the Oregon Chest was to undergo a change in structure. Ttt 1 w u u CLIP J OUT YOUR I CLIP OUT YOUR ORDER NOW! CATION-. 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Complete This Vacation-Pac Order Today or Phone the Circulation Dept. SP 2-6141 After I was named cam paign chairman for the United Medford Crusade's 1958-59 campaign, believing others living here should know more about the child care agencies, I arranged for a group of eight men to visit them. We could not visit all 11 of the child care agencies, but managed to spend time in six of them, talking with the supervisors and the children, and inspecting their facilities All of them serve all counties of the state, and some of the children we saw were from our own community. Pleased With Visits It is an understatement to say that we were pleased with what we saw and heard on the visits. It is heart-breaking to think of children who have been living with hard ship, some of them from broken homes, some orphans, some neglected or mistreated, some afflicted with handi caps such as blindness, dis ease or mental illness. How ever, it was a pleasure to see that most of the children had a bright future because of the care they were given. They had clean clothing, good food, proper training, loving care, and the attention of the best medical, surgical, and psychological care. Most of the children will be adopt ed eventually, by foster par ents carefully chosen for the best interests of the child. Others, because of severe handicaps, (who 1 wants to adopt a child without arms?), will be cared for by the in stitution for years to come. It was interesting for us to learn that during the past year, 121 children from Jack son county were cared for by these agencies. This figure does not seem large, perhaps, compared to the total of 5,420 cases cared for by the agenc ies in the same year. How ever, the 121 cases from our county totaled 17,453 days of care. Average Cost Per Day The average cost of a day of care for all the institutions is between $3 and $4 dollars, About two-thirds of the total cost is borne by state, federal. and county, funds, fees from relatives, and individual do nations. The remaining third amounting to about $700,000 was raised through Com munity Chests and United Funds throughout Oregon Last year, the United Med ford Crusade raised $16,200 for all Oregon Chest agencies of whidalmost $13,000 was devoted to the child care agencies. In spite of the fact that response from the pub lic has been so generous, the child care agencies finished the year with a deficit of about $75,000. The Boys and Girls Aid Society, one of the finest and oldest of the agenc ies devoted to child care, had an office in Medford until last July. It was discoun- tinued because of lack of funds. The agency still seryes this community, but at a dis advantage compared to the superior service offered by a worker stationed here. The Oregon Chest was started 15 years ago at the outbreak of World War II, as an emergency measure. It was well supported, as were all state chests during the period of the war. Other1 states dis continued the state chests after the war, and fo some time, Oregon alone had such an organization. .Primarily, the reason for this was the fact that Oregon had no child care institutions except in Multnomah county; other counties had no local in stitutions, and could not af fort to build and maintain them. They were, therefore, glad to use the state-wide services offered. Many of the children referred to the child care institutions are sent by juvenile courts. For example, 19 girls committed by our Jackson County Circuit Court were cared for last year in the St. Rose Industrial home. Problems Arise However, during the .last 15 years, some problems arose for the Oregon Chest that remained uncorrected un til this year. One of the prob lems concerned the financing of Oregon -Cheset agencies in cooperation with the Mult nomah County United Fund. This Fund had accepted the responsibility for raising 60 per cent of the total of all the Oregon Chest child care agency budgets. The Oregon Chest did not aid in raising the money contributed by the Multnomah County United Fund. Therefore, there was some unwillingness on the part of the directors of the United Fund to continue pay ing a large percentage of the administratis costs of the Oregon Chest. This spring, the Oregon Chest has been replaced by a new agency called the Oregon United Appeal, with new con stitution and by-laws. The of ficers and directors of . the Oregon Chest will continue w i t h the new organization until the next annual meet ing, which will be held in . rrn - . i m I lHOa. ine uregon ineat wju rnot be dissolved until the I end of 1958. The Oregon United Appeal does not automatically in clude all agencies previously included in the Oregon Chest. Each agency was invited to apply for membership, sub ject to a new membership agreement. The principal feature of the new agreement is that no member-agency of the Oregon United Appeal could accept direct support from a Com munity Chest or United Fund, but would accept sup port only through the Oregon United Appeal. Written Agreements It is the policy of the Ore gon United Appeal to enter into written agreements with the local united funds. These agreements specify the terms on which campaign funds will be allocated. The new organ ization is thoroughly demo cratic. The board and its com mittees are composed of rep resentatives from all counties in the state. The Oregon Chest employ ed a fair-share quota plan to allocate its total budge to all Oregon countries. The quota formula included a number of factors such as the actual county use of the child care institutions, population, ex perience in fund-raising, etc. Quotas allocated to some counties were not realized if there was not a federated fund in the county to accept the quota and raise the money. Several counties had no federated fund organization at all, others have a united fund that covered only a portion of the county. Because of this, quotas were allocatedto non-J productive areas from which there was no possibility of in come. Oregon Chest agency budgets were often trimmed times before quotas were ac cepted by United Funds. The Multnomah County United Fund trimmed the budget re quests, the Oregon Chest budget committee trimmed it more, and the local federated funds trimmed them, again when they felt that they could not raise the amount re quested. The Oregon United Appeal seeks to solve the problem by allocating quotas only to productive areas, and to en deavor to get the agreement of each united fund in Ore gon to accept a fair-share quota. The change will not guarantee that the Oregon United Appeal goal for 1959 will be reached, but it should aid greatly in getting a bet ter jo done. - At this timo, most of the agencies of the Oregon Chest have applied for membership and have been accepted by the Oregon United Appeal Qualifications committee. Did Not Apply The Oregon Mental Health association did not apply for inclusion. The Salvation Army White Shield home will not join, but will place its budget requests through local Salva tion Army units. The applica tion of the Oregon Prison as sociation was rejected by the committee. I was privileged to serve on this committee, which met the second week in May .Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Reter of Medford also served. In my judgment, the fair share quota asked of the Unit ed Medford Crusade will ex ceed last year's request, be cause of the changes iri pro cedure noted above. I am hopeful that our UMC budget committee will support the Oregon United Appeal quota as liberally as may be consist ent with the ability of our community to provide the money. If the Oregon United Ap peal child care agencies were to exact payment for every day of care given Jackson county children, or if our community had to build and support child care institutions . to meet our needs, the bill . ..11 1 C tl. UA one we are asked to pay by voluntary gifts. Both the visible and me chanical parts of door latches v and locks are being molded of nylon. Form and color are practically unlimited and the wparinit narte are cmnnth. working and durable. Finest Major Gasoline i-i'C " An, Major Oil Credit Card On the Point S. Riverside and S. 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