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Rogue Valley Council on Aging Plans Friendly Visiting Program A community - sponsored service to provide friendly vis iting for patients in nursing homes and homes for the aged is being organized by the health committee of the Rogue Valley Council on, the Aging. The service, to fulfill a long recognized need - in Jackson county, is part of a statewide movement to set up such a service. It resulted from the formation of the state council on aging appointed by the last legislature. The first training meeting for volunteers for the service will be Wednesday,"" Kov'n 9, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Red Cross building, 60 Hawthorne a v e., Medf ord. Mrs. Frank Fairweather, so cial service volunteer trainee, " will be in charge, assisted by Miss Agnes White and Mrs. Fred Gardner, medical social workers with the Jackson County public welfare com mission. Purpose of Program The friendly visiting pro gram is an attempt to provide companionship for those el derly persons who have be- , come socially isolated and homebound, the committee in , charge noted. The committee hopes to se cure enough volunteers so each nursing home may have at least three who will call during afternoon or early eve ning hours on a regular week- . ly visit. Volunteers are being recruited through the Council of Church Women and civic and fraternal organizations. Purpose of the visit would vary according to the needs of individual patients, and the nursing home operator and would include such services as birthday card remembrances, reading, help with letter writ ing or visiting. In Other Areas Other areas which have in troduced such a service said the program has proven to be one of the most popular and appealing to the community, the committee reported. The committee noted that there are 15 licensed nursing homes or homes for the aged in the county with about 265 patients according to welfare department figures. Many of the patients have no families or have families unable to vis it them. . Nurses in such homes, the committee noted, do not have time to provide more than ac tual physical care, despite the fact that extensive research proves that less medical care is necessary when patients are content by being given small extra attention. Training Course The training course will in clude suggestions for what might be done during a friendly visit and what things might not be beneficial to the patients. Mrs. Fairweather has had social welfare training and is the official Red Cross area social service volunteer trainee. She is the Red Cross representative on the Council. Others on the planning com mittee include Mrs. Everett Faber, Mrs. S. D. Earhart, Mrs. C. Weldon Kline, Mrs. Henry Rowell and Mrs. H. Davich, nursing home oper ators, Mrs. Fred Rankin, rep resenting the state Council on the Aging, Miss White and Mrs. Gardner of the welfare commission, and Mrs. Chester Guches. Anyone now visiting in nursing homes through a church- group or individually is invited to the meeting to help plan the program, the committee said. Volunteers at tending are asked to bring a sack lunch and coffee will be furnished. Fire Damages Upstairs Of John Ross Residence Flames Saturday destroyed most of the roof and two up stairs rooms in the residence of John T. Ross, 1522 Minear rd., Medford, according to the Medford fire department. Flames were shooting through the roof and a wall when the fire department trucks arrived, firemen said. Some water damage occurred downstairs. Use Tribune Want Ads magnificent (Quasi DBtis7 ...can be yours at no si i ! SELF CONTAINED STEREOPHONIC HIGH FIDELITY! r ! , The Stereorama self contained stereo, with provision for external stereo speaker system as well. 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Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Trib une Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME. ..AD- DRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Issues Lacking as Alaska Prepares to Vote for Senator By MARTIN HEERWALD UPI Correspondent Fairbanks, Alaska - (liPD-Re- porters blinked and asked again. It sounded as if Repub lican Mike Stepovich had just said there were "no big is sues", in his 'campaign against Democrat Ernest Gruening for one of the Senate seats Alaska will occupy in the next Congress. "That's right," Stepovich repeated with a shrug. "This is mostly a campaign of indi viduals rather than issues." The same situation applies to" the campaigns for Alaska's other U. S. Senate seat and for its one seat in the House of Representatives. The vot ers of the nation's 49th state will make their choices in the Nov. 25 general election on the basis of popularity and political party. . . For Stepovich, the Aug. 26 primary in which he won the nomination without opposi tion showed he may have to count on popularity alone, be cause, with the exception of the votes he himself received, Democrats outpolled Republi cans about two-to-one. Vote Not Surprising The heavy Democratic vote was not surprising, because Alaska has been in the politi cal column for years, but Stepovich's decided edge over Gruening who also was un-opposed-did cause some eyebrow- raising. Stepovich doesn't like to compare his own vote-getting success with that of other GOP candidates. He prefers to accept it without explan ation, although he will ac knowledge he was helped by the fact he was governor when Congress authorized statehood and he played a major role in the statehood campaign. Stepovich, 39, the father of eight children and still young looking enough to pass for a college halfback, spent only a short while in the gover nor's mansion at Juneau be fore resiging to run for Sen ator. Gruening, 71, was territori al governor for 14 years, ap pointed by President Frank lin D. Roosevelt. He has long been a dominant force in Alaska politics, and, since the primary, has been working hard to overcome his vote deficit. In the other senatorial con test, veteran Congressional Delegate E. L. (Bob) Bartlett was the most popular man on the ballot in the primary. He carries into the general elec tion what appears to be an overwhelming majority over his Republican opponent, R. E. Robertson. But Robertson has been scurrying around Alaska on the theory that anything can happen in poli tics. Little More Hopeful's Republicans are a little more . hopeful about their more hopeful about their chances in the race for Con-gressman-at-large. They fig ure their candidate, former territorial Labor Commis sioner Henry A. Benson, will pull a surprise by upsetting Democrat Ralph J. Rivers. .The contest for governor between Democrat William A. Egan, wha was chairman of Alaska's constitutional con vention, and John Butrovich Jr., a close associate of Stepo vich, also finds the GOP in the position of having to win over many Democratic votes in order to triumph. Although this race also lacks burning issues, Republicans have been trying to make one by charg ing Egan with being the cap tive of labor leaders. Alaskans also will elect 20 senators and 40 'representa tives to their first state legis lature in the Nov. 25 election. Here again, unless the Repub licans can turn things upside down, the indications are that Democrats will ' have strong control in both houses. Fliers Make Unusual Entrance for Cup of Tea Hornchurch, England-OT-Mrs. Mabel Vaughan was hav ing tea under the apple tree in her garden when all the trouble started. Ronald Black, 29, and a friend, Mary Holmes, 27, were flying about the countryside in an American-built, single-en- gined Aeronca monoplane when the engine began sputtering. Black zigged and zagged over the local golf course, send- in golfers running for cover. Watchers sucked in their breath as the plane hit a 60-foot elm tree, spun twice and plopped right into Mrs. Vaughan's apple tree. Black and Miss Holmes clambered out, uninjured except for a slight cut on Black's forehead. Mrs. Vaughan sprang to her feet and quickly sized up the situation. "Would you like a cup of tea?" she asked. "Yes, please," they said. They had their tea, left the plane in the garden and went home by cab. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Mondjy, November 10, 195S S Unusual Hobbies To Be Displayed at Chin Up Club's Hobby Carnival Several unusual hobbies will be on display at the Chin Up club's annual hobby car nival, to be held at the Girls Community club in Medford next Friday and Saturday. Show hours will be from noon to 9 p.m, on Friday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday. Among the hobby displays will be an antique gun col lection, valued at about $1, 000, entered by Kenneth Mc Hugh of Medford. Treavell Turpin will display Indian artifacts and a civil defense ham radio station will be in operation. The Southern Oregon Mush room society will have a dis play of mushrooms found in southern Oregon and the Roxy Ann Gem and Mineral club will have a r,ock display, in addition to other hobbies. , Znteriainment Slated A large assortment of han dicraft items will be offered for sale and a cooked food de partment will be in operation. Entertainment will be offer ed each night with a group of Colleen Hope dancers to per form at 7 p.m. Friday and The Shadows, popular Medford singing group, at 8 p.m. Sat- urday at 7 p.m. Mrs. George ; Heide will play organ music, and her son, Bob, 'will play, the cornet while at 8 p.m. Mrs. C. R. Alexander's Ha waiian band will perform. A small admission charge will be made and a table lamp will be given away Friday night and a turkey on Satur day night. Birmingham, England -dlPD-Birmingham university has banned all-day poker games which kept students away from classes and meals and sometimes led to the gambling away of scholarship grants, the London Sunday Graphic reported Sunday. Doctor Faces 91st Cancer Operation Chicago - (UPD - Dr. Emil H. Grubbe, 83, believed to be the first physician to use X-rays as a cencer treatment, will un dergo his 91st operation Tues day for the malignancy he contracted during his experi ments to aid others. Fellow doctors said they never heard a complaint from Grubbe, who already has lost his left hand, his upper lip and jaw, his nose and much of the right side of his face to cancer. Dr. J. R. Orndorff will am putate parts of the fingers of Grubbe's right hand in Tues day's operation. 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