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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1959)
; FATHER-OF-YEAR Pat Boone, popular singer, is shown above with his family after being named J. C. Penney's Father-of-the-Year for 1959. Children are Laury, age 1, Deb- by 2, Lindy 3, and Cherry 4. Iipo Given Drivers Who JHave Children in Car What goes on inside an automobile definitely may af fect th driver's ability to control it. Police Chief Charles P. Champlin remind ed Medford motorists last week. It is especially important to realize this when families start on vacation trips, Chief Champlin said. Children turned loose in the confines of a car, he said, can cause acci dents at their worst and at best can cause drivers to come home with frayed nerves. Chief Champlin said his of fice had been asked by the state department of motor ve hicles to pass on some tips for keeping children in hand dur ing a long vaca'tion drive, i ; The department, he said, warns that children should be taught never to put hands or arms out windows, never to climb on seats, and to keep hands off door handles, gear agiif t lever, Ignition key, lights tyid steering wheel. (Recommended The department said travel (Kperts recommend that par en' try to keep youngsters hfppy on long driving trips by providing them with game that does not require physical action and by stop ping occasionally to allow them to let off stored-up steam. The authorities also recom mend that parents take along a bag of surprises to be opened at intervals to help keep children interested and contented. "No one knows how many accidents have been caused by drivers becoming distracted by the actions of their young passengers," Chief Champlin added, 'Taut the wise parents will do everything possible to let the driver concentrate on the job at hand FISHY INSURANCE PLOT Janesville, Wis.-(UPD -Theo dore Hawke, police charged, scattered his fishing gear about the Rock river in an attempt to make it appear he had drowned so he could col lect on his own life insurance. He was convicted and placed on one year's probation Thurs day for leaving fishing lines untended. MAIL TRIBUNI, MidforJ, Or. Sunday, June 21, 1959 v 9 Student Trainee Works in Welfare Bradford Everson, under graduate sociology major at the University of Washing ton, Seattle, has joined the ; Jackson county welfare de partment staff for the summer months as a student trainee, the welfare department has announced. Everson is one of the col lege students placed with welfare departments through out the state for the summer months to experience social work. They are supervised by a qualified staff member to do such jobs as aiding case work ers and processing applica tions for public assistance grants, helping in the prepara tion of certifying foster homes and assisting in short term re search projects. Everson will do a charac teristics study of persons under 21 years of age who have applied for general as sistance during the previous winter, department sources said. This is to help the wel fare agency understand more clearly problems which make it necessary to apply for pub lic assistance, such as lack of education, employment skills, physical and social dis abilities. The resulting infor mation will be made available to such local institutions as the public schools. Following completion of the summer months' training Everson will Return to com plete his senior year at the University of Washington. 63 Disease Cases Reported Last Week Sixty-three cases of com municable disease were re ported to the Jackson County Health department for the week ending June 19, accord ing to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, pub lic health physician. Influ enza accounted for more than half of this total, with 37 cases reported. There were 23 cases of in fluenza reported in Medford, 7 in Central Point, 3 in Phoe nix, Z in Ashland and Shady Cove. Other cases reported last week were Gold Hill 3, Phoe nix l; measles, Medford J, Ashland 2; pneumonia, Med ford 1; strep throat, Trail 1; whooping cough, Medford 1; German measles, Gold Hill 6, Central Point 4, Medford 3. TITrn-1T TT TTT-ITT r9rN , BRAND NEW SHIPMENT! perky cool cottons Choose from sunbacks, and other styles with open necklines , and wonderfully feminine full skirts. Brentwood quality! 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