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Suit Seeks $20,000 In Damages Here A suit asking more than $20,000 in damages was filed Thursday in circuit court by Myrtle Pearl Martin, Talent, for alleged injuries received in a traffic accident on 5th st. and Central ave., Medford, on Oct. 281958. In her complaint, she charges Floj?d Kenneth Law- son Jr., Medford, with negli gent driving. She claims to have suffered a skull frac ture, brain concussion, rib fracture and multiple contus- ' ions and abrasions. ' She was a pedestrian in the accident, according to -her complaint. General damages of $20,000 are being asked, and special damages of $1,637.30. She is represented by Har bison and Piazza, Medford attorneys." TIPSY TEEN CYCLIST , Ilkeston, England (LTD A drunken driver was placed on probation Friday, after admit ting he had drunk several bot tles of beer on the job and had steered a bit wobblingly on his way home. The offend er, whose name was withheld, was a 15-year-old baby-sitter, on a bicycle. ' y In the Day's Hews By FRANK "JENKINS . From Washington: Senator Warren G. Magnu son (from, the state of Wash ington) and other Western sen ators Wednesday, urged legis lation to provide' for establish ment of a national wildlife disease laboratory. ' Senator Magnuson said proposed bill would authorize an appropriation of three and a half million dollars for con struction of the laboratory. He told the senate interstate and foreign commerce committee, of which he is chairman, that the laboratory would be used by all states in their search for ways to prevent wildlife di sease. of rrS WONDERFUL, course. The wild creatures are our neighbors , on this territorial globe that we call the Earth. We love them. We are sad when we see them stricken by disease. Our natural and quite commendable impulse, when that happens, is to use the re sources of modern science to PREVENT it - to keep them healthy and vigorous and full of the joy of life. -But even wonderful pro posals call for careful apprais al We must ask ourselves whether THIS wonderful pro posal is more important than THAT wonderful proposal. We OUGHT to be able to have everything our hearts desire. Maybe, in some distant gener ation, we will be able to have everything our hearts desire. That time, however, isn't here yet. In this still imper fect world we have to choose between the things we can af ford and the things we can't afford. . Piclcin' Pears News and . Notes From Camp White i MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. j Sunday, Aug. 9, 1959 5 By SID HOLLINGS WORTH This will introduce a new columnist to readers of Pickin Pears - Walter Townsend a writer of considerable ability, who will provide a refreshing viewpoint that is needed at this time. It was the policy among the great editors of the past to shift reporters around so that interest would not be grooved too definitely in the personal ity of the "by line." No one holds a copyright on this feature in the Mail Trib une and with all the changes at Camp White, there has nev er been a dearth of good writ? ere.-This is a country where great writers and even poets like Markham have lived and flourished in the past. There is something in the Oregon air that is conducive to the free flow of ideas. 1 Walter Townsend has been winning prizes consistently in the Hospitalized Veterans Writers project. He is turning now' from' fiction to fact and his first news stories follow: , ' Br Walter Townsend' - "Colossus of leisure, hours" was , the' way Dr. Harold D. Meyer, University of North Carolina, department of soci ology and anthropology, open ed his address to an interest ed audience in the Camp White theater, Aug. 4. He gave an hour and a half lecture on planned living un der the auspices of the Veter ans administration. If we sur vive the leisure which the Atomic Age has made, he said, it may be more horrible than jvar. v He' said 15 million retired people 'are living in America; recreation was growing more important every day. Especial ly was this- true in the Med ford area he stated. His facts and figures showed that recreation in the United States has become a . $42 bil lion" a year business. Automa tion was the. next step, .which' wolild free millions more peo ple from their usul- occupa tions. Even computers were now used, one of which would do the work of 30 persons. They would not only ask but answer questions where they were already in operation at the university where he taught. A fine recreation program is a vital need, he declared. The life span, he stated, had now reached 69 years and 9 months, and there were now 15 million persons 65 or over. He divided the needs of lei sure time into six groups: They are (1) social recreationi (2) arts and crafts, hobbies; (3) music-' (4) recreation services; (5) dramatics! and (6) sports. Henry C. Herzog, manager of the domiciliary, who was present with' members of his staff, said he was grateful for Dr. Meyer's message. On Aug. 3, the Readers and Writers club of Camp White, accompanied by Enid Holmes, the librarian, went to Ashland in a Red Cross station wagon driven by Mrs. Ness. They heard the president of j Southern Oregon college, Dr.! Elmo Stevenson, an authority j on geology, say that Oregon had the widest and greatest variety of flora of any place in the United States. He also said that until a mil lion years ago, elephants, rhi nos, dogs, and horses, roamed this part of the" world. Then something happened to all of them. Sheet upon sheet of lava poured out through cracks, he said geolo gy taught. It was the -largest lava flow in the-world except in India, he said. , Mrs. Minnie Zahnow, gray lady, American Red Cross, was with the group and after ward she treated the party to refreshments at the Plaza cafe, Ashland. West Virginia mines about 30 per cent of the nation's coal output. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERT HAVE YOU EVER longed to see with your own eyes the famous Indian rope trick? You never will, insists Will Dex ter, in '-This Is Magic," because it can't be done. An English. millionaire had a standing offer of 5,000 pounds for anybody who could perform the fabled . illusion, and agents of the Prince of Wales scoured India in search of a magician who could oblige but people who claimed to have seen the trick never could re member where or when! The myth goes 'back to an Indian' 'legend written 500 years ago. Two city dogs had a jpassin g conversation at a friendly curbstone. "What's your name?" inquired one. Tm not qatto Stg' admitted the other, "but I think it's Down Boy." ., i. . ---asr3 " - A Yankee reporter, investigating conditions in the SofltB, writes that there- is a definite movement in Mississippi to form a aacomi party.' ( r . , 0 1959. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. FAIRY'S ' PENNEY' hains rpHERE ARF human beings, -- for example. The idea is growing (quite legitimately) that we must do more and more for them in the way of disease prevention and medical care. Modern science is showing us HOW to do more for human beings along those lines. . ' There is pretty general agreement ' among , practical people that first things should come first, and it seems pretty clear to all practical thinker that in a choice between hu man beings anc the creatures of the wild that human beings come first. THIS PROPOSED bill calls for a preliminary appropri ation of only 3Vi million dol lars. 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