THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1960
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LIFE OF A DUCK - Come hunting season, the city is the
best place for ducks, if this mallard's life is any indication.
Cina Spinardi, 8, of Merced, Calif., even shelters her duek
Jrom any rain that might fall as it happily floats in her back
yard birdbalh. She rescued the duek from a big black cat
which was chasing it down a residential street. So far, the
duck hasn't tried to run or fly away. No doubt il Is waiting
until Jan. 8, the day duck hunting season ends.
(UPI Tclepholo)
Three Post Office
Employees Honored
On Retirement Here
Three Medford post office
employees who arc retiring
were honored Monday eve
ning at a dinner. More than
1H0 postal employees, retired
employees and their wives
attended the dinner. 1
Honored were Carriers
Charles Pcttegrew and Floyd
K. Lawson, and William S.
Rose, assistant superintend
ent of mails. ' ' ' '
. Three superior service
awards were also presented
employees of the Medford
post office.
Lawson, who lives at 1418
Eeddy ave entered the sorv-
lee June . 12, 1028, under
Postmaster W. J. Warner.
Lawson has been on a foot
route since that time, serv
ing! most of Medford us a
substitute, but ,for the past
30 years he has carried his.
present route.
He has a son, Floyd K.
Lawson Jr., now working at
the Medford post office.
29 Yean Service
Mr. and Mrs. Pcttegrew
live at 1488 Spring st. He has
worked for. the post office
almost 20 years. He retired
' July 31 this year after an
operation. During World War
1, Pcttegrew took a war serv-
lee leave from the post office
to operate a dairy farm, re
turning to the Medford post
office in January, 1040. He
carried the Medford business
Glass Tested As
Tools for Doctors,
Boston (Science Service) -
Tiny bundles of glass or plas
tic fibers that will conduct
light arc being tested as new
tools for doctors to use in
medical examinations.
Drs. J. H. Hctt and' L. E.
Curtiss of the American Cys
toscope Makers Inc., Pelham,
N. Y., reported to the Amer
ican Optical society meeting
here that flexible fibers have
been used to carry Images In
a duodenoseope and a ureter
, scope.
The duodenoseope is 34
i inches long, with a diameter
a little less than half an inch.
The ureterscopc is 30 Inches
long, with a diameter of one
seventh of an inch.
A flexible bronchoscope
and eolorscope using fibers
are In design stages, they re
ported. Use of glass or plastic
fiber "ropes" gives instru
ments for medical examina
tion that eliminate "blind re
gions" caused by curves in
body organs.
Fiber optics can also be
used to transmit Images In
the invisible infrared, Drs. N.
S. Kapany and D. A. Ponta
relll of Armour Research
Foundation, Chicago, report
ed to the meeting. Among the
materials that have proved
most suitable are arsenic tri
sulfidc, silver chloride and
crown glass.
section parcel post route for
the past decade. Pcttegrew
was born at Eagle Point and
has spent most of his life in
this area.
Rose lives at 158 Janney
lane, and he entered the post
al service in Medford Jan. 1,
11)31. Ho served In the United
States army in World War I
being discharged In Decem
ber, 1018. In November, 1057,
he was promoted to foreman
of mails, and in May, 1050
was promoted to assistant su
perintendent of mails. He has
held that position since.
Mrs. Rose is also familiar
with post office work, and is
a substitute rural route car
rier at the Medford post of
fice. All three were presented
a cash gift from fellow em
ployees. Carrier Jack Lynch
also presented each with a
"good luck token," a Hilded
horseshoe bedecked witli rib
bon.
Three superior accomplish
ment awards were presented
employees of the Medford
post office during the program.
Clerks Boyd C. Kline and
Claude B. Allen were pre
sented with lapel pins indi
cating superior service over
the years, and Carrier Virgil
Swanson was presented with
a lapel pin and a check for
$50 for his outstanding serv
ice as a carrier.
The awards were made
from the reglonul office in
Portland, signed by Samuel
G. Swartz, regional director
Fire Restrictions
Lifted in Forest
Yreka - Camp fire restric
tions In the Klamath National
forest were removed this
week, according to Forest Su
pervisor C. A. Yates.
The restrictions were re
moved effective Nov. 14. The
removal allows camp fires on
national forest hinds without
permits and lifts all restric
tions on smoking within the
national forest.
Yates urged all people using
the forest to practice normal
care with fire since prolonged
drying periods may occur at
any time. He also cautioned
thai California stale law re
quires Hint burning permits
be obtained before burning
slash and other concentrations
of debris on any brush, tim
ber or grass covered lands
until Dec. 1 each year.
Burning permits may he
obtained from any U.S. forest
service ranger station or from
Calllornia division of forestry
offices, Yreka, Ft. Jones or
Macdoel. ,
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