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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. JUNE t, 1160 8 A Relative Debts To Welfare Said Biggest Problem .Portland - WW - Relatives Of persons on Oregon relief rolls owe the state nearly $3 million under the 10-year-old Relative Responsibility Act, I subcommittee of the Legisla tive Interim Committee on Welfare was told Tuesday. Officials of the State Pub lic Welfare Commission told committee members that the state had netted more than $300,000 but that the I acklog of unpaid obligations had be come the department! big' gest problem. In two cases, individuals own th estate more than $7,000 each. Act Still Valuable Welfare staff members. however, said the act still was valuable as a deterrent mounting relief rolls. Mrs. Lola Ballingcr, super visor of the relative responsi billty division, and Harry G Spencer, an assistant attorney general and counsel for the Welfare Commission, criticiz ed the formula used in fixing relative responsibility. Spencer said a person with $9,000 a year income and two dependents pays $50 a month, but if his income were $9,001, he would pay $60, .Mrs. Ballingcr said it was "ridiculous for a single per- son earning $5,000 to pay only $10 a montn. Dry cleaning Expert Says Moths Choosey Silver Spring, Md. - Moths are choosey chewers, says Clay H.irdin, chief textile analyst for the National In stitute of DryclcaninR. Jardin found two moth holes in a wool necktie, both of which had been chewed through the middle of food spots, while the rest of the wool was untouched." He concluded that moths re more likely to close in when food stains on clothing offer them an added attraction. Quotes From the News BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Charlotte, N.C. Mrs. Mary Heasley, fired from a sports wear manufacturing company because she wouldn't let the plant management search her pocketbook in a check against petty thievery, defending herself: "No man has the right to search woman's pocketbook.1 Ankara, Tureky Gen. Cemal Gursel, provisional chief of state of Turkey, charging that the toppled regime of Premier Adnan Mcndcres planned to kill 1,500 military col lege cadets to weaken the army: "We threw out the most guilty people in history." Washington A Stale Department official, commenting on the department s statement that commitments to defend "the Far East" in the new U.S.-Japanesc security treaty do not mean the U.S. and Japan commit themselves to defend eastern Russia: "It all goes to prove that when geography enters inter national relations one can t be too careful. Pittsburgh Sgt. Patrick Moloney, one of two British sergeants hiking across the United States, recalling that he read about Pittsburgh's steel production when he was a child: But I never thought I would get to see it by walking.' Plastic Surgeons Able To Make Usable Hands Milwaukee, Wis. (Science Service) Dramatic demon strations and reports at the annual meeting of the Amer ican Association of Plastic Surgeons showed how opera tions can transfer bones, ten dons and skin from one part of the body to another to re build a Usable hand. Ten patients of Drs. Wil liam H. Frackelton and Jack L. Teaslcy, Milwaukee plas tic surgeons, came to the meet- ng to show what had been done for them. Most of the men had been injured in in dustrial accidents in which fingers were crushed, skin torn away, nerves and ten- ins severed. . Eight had a scries of opera tions that enabled them to use llicir hands. Seven could re turn to their former jobs. Only two had to have amputa- ons and had to be fitted with artificical hands. A single finger with sen sation and movement," the doctors said, "performs better than any artificial hand thus far conceived." One of the men had lost four fingers from his right hand, retaining only the index finger. An operation that transformed tendon and skin and deepened the cleft be tween his forefinger and the stump of his thumb enabled him to write and pick up ob jects. Reporting on seven opera tions on small children born without thumbs or with a rudimentary thumb, the Brit ish surgeon, Dr. David N. Matthews of the Hospital for sick Children In London said that in each case he turned the child's index finger into a useful thumb by shortening it- and shaping the discarded bone into a peg. He then fit ted one end of the peg into the hand and the other into the forefingers. 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