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.
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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.
The massive dosages of X
rays Grubbe's body absorbed
in his early experiments were
blamed for the cancer that
now afflicts him.
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of troops past King Suramit
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Rogue River Woman
Donates Eighth Pint
Rogue River - A total of
41 pints of blood were do
nated Thursday during the
Red Cross Bloodmobile visit j
in Rogue River. Officials re
ported that 47 persons arrived
to donate with six persons re
jected for various reasons.
The quota was 50 pints.
A "gallon" pin was present
ed to Mrs. William Hunter
after she had donated her
eighth pint of blood.
JUSTICE DIES
Clearfield, Pa.-dlPD-Pennsyl-vania
Supreme Court Justice
John C. Arnold, 71, died at
his home here Sunday of com
plications resulting from a
fall in September.
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