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SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8
Loan Association
Notes Increase in
Loans During '60
Assets of the Jackson Coun
ty Federal Savings and Loan
association increased by $1,
538,211 during 1960, and total
savings increased by $1,579,
104 during the same period,
according to W. J. Warner,
association president.
The reserves of the associa
tion on Dec. 31 were 10.29
per cent of the total savings,
according to Warner. In addi
tion, the firm paid out $592,-
619 in dividends to its inves
tors. Warner said that although
there was a general decline
in the demand for good loans
during the year, mortgage
loans totaled $3,048,590 at the
year's end, or $794,276 more
than the previous y e a r's
figure.
At the association's annual
meeting, Rollin D. Watson
was elected assistant secre
eary. Watson joined the staff
at Jackson County Federal in
1959, and has been in charge
of the loan department since
that time.
Warner and John P. Moffat
were reelected to the board of
directors.
Other reelected officers
are Warner, president; H. J.
Field, first vice president;
Glen O. Taylor, second vice
president and attorney;
Pletsch, secretary - treasurer;
Paul G. Antony, assistant sec
retary; Irene J. Childs, assist
ant secretary; and James
Fredericks, assistant treasurer.
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Library Club To
Send Alba Books
Two packages of books will
be sent by CARE to schools
with junior high age studen
in Alba, Italy, Medford's sis
ter city, for the McLoughlin
Junior High school Library
club.
Members of (lie club, during
the recent Book Week, collect
ed money from home rooms
for CARE book packages for
children overseas. The room
contributing the most money
decided where the books
should be sent.
CARE will send the books
to Nicola Enrichens, educa
tion director for Alba, and
the secretary of the McLough
lin Library club will write a
letter to him telling of the
project and the books to be
sent.
Prior to requesting the
books be sent to Alba, the
club corresponded with CARE
officials in New York to de
termine if it was possible to
have books sent to Alba.
The McLoughlin Library
club is made of 25 students
from the seventh, eighth and
ninth grades who wojk as li
brary assistants, checking out
books, slipping books, shelv
ing books, reading shelves,
processing new books, and do
ing other work necessary in
the library.
Officers for the first semes
ter are Cynthia Taylor, pres
ident; Ruth Peters, vice presi
dent; Ron Smitlv secretary;
Mary Bannister, treasurer;
and Corla Earl, reporter.
SAILING AWAY Bubbles the cat looks a little disturbed
as she sails across a pond created by drought-breaking rains
at Tujunga, Calif. Bubbles' mistress, Therese Gray, 4, was
playing with the pan as a boat in her yard when Bubbles
strolled by. The youngster decided on a game of rub-a-dub-dub
before her father came to the rescue of Bubbles.
(UPI Telephoto)
Births and deaths showed i groups remained comparative-
slight increases during I960 j ly constant except that the 50
in Jackson county, according! to 69 age group showed a
to the Jackson county public marked increase of 20 per
health department. -cent over 1959.
Jackson county recorded i)6 j Totals showed that 110 peo-
more births in 1960 than in pie in the 50 to 59 age group
1959, and 13 more deaths. A died in 1960, compared to 76
total of 1.445 people were in 1959: 162 died in the 60-69
born in 1960. compared to age eroup compared to 140
1,349 in 1959. A total of 430
people died in 1960, compared
to 417 in 1959.
Deaths due to genito uri
nary causes decreased 61 per
cent, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jack
son county public health offi
cer, noted. Deaths by age
Planners Schedule
Hearing on Request
Medford's city planning
commission Thursday night
called for a public hearing on
a request to rezone approxi
mately 11 acres of land east
of the Medford Shopping cen
ter. The hearing is set for Feb.
9. Mark A. Goldy, real estate
broker and financier, told the
commission that he would like
the property rezoned from
single-family to multiple- fam
ily. Goldy said the land fronts
on the shopping center, Cra
ter Lake ave., and south of
Stevens st. It was indicated
that an apartment type de
velopment might be erected
there.
in 1959. Most of the deaths
were recorded in llie iU plus
Group, 327. in I960, compared
to 348 in 1959. The 50 to 69
age groups were the next
highest.
Hccorded by Age Groupi
The number of deaths re
corded by age groups dropped
in the 40-49 asc bracket, 38 ill
1960, compared to 42 in 1959.
Fewest deaths were recorded
in the one to four age group,
two in 1960. compared to five
in 1959. Deaths in the one to
nine age groups dropped 50
per cent during the last year.
The number of deaths occur
ring under one year of age
was 35 in I960 and 39 in 1959.
The one to four ace group had
four deaths in 1960 and eight
in 1959.
"There was one maternal
death in Jackson county this
past year. However, due to
the fact that she was in this
county only 24 hours before
death, and that death was at
tributed to other causes, the
final allocating and coding
may not be charged as a ma
ternal death in Jackson coun
ty," Dr. Merkel said.
The public health officer
also noted that the deaths in
infants under one month was
reduced. In 1960 the rate was
19.3 per 1,000 live births, and
23.5 in 1959.
Heart DeallM
Most deaths recorded in the
two years wete attributed
directly to heart of circula
tion, 430 in 1960 and 417 in
1959. Cancer and tumors
ranked as the next greatest
causes, S2 in mou ana oi in
1959. Accidents and violence
resulted in 68 deaths in Jack
son county in 1960 and 67 in
1959.
Other more prevalent causes
of deaths listed were: 51 due
to respiratory diseases in 1960
and 44 in 1959: diseases of
early infancy. 29 in 9tiO and
33 in 1959: genito urinary, 12
in 1960 and 20 in 1959: di
seases of the nervous system,
9 in 1960 and 10 in 1959; di
seases of tile digestive system,
9in 1960, 10 In 1959; ill de-1 diseases of the endrg-ine sys
fincd causes, 9 In 1960 and 8 tern, diabetes, alcoholism, dif
in 1959. iscascs of the skin, septicemiai
One and two deaths 'were I meningococcal meningitis, epi-o
noted in the following forjlepsy, diseases of the blood,
1960: barbiturate intoxicution, i childbirth, and flu meningitis;
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Bank Debits in Area
Show Rise in Month
Bank debits for Curry,
Jackson and Josephine coun
ties increased by 11.1 per cent
in December, 1960, compared
to November, 1960, and de
creased by 11.1 per cent a
year ago.
Debits for December, 1960,
totaled $93,850,465, $84,472,
219 for November, 1960, and
$105,551,879 for December,
1959.
Bank debits represent the
dollar value of checks drawn
against the deposit accounts
of individuals and business
firms.
Bank debits are considered
food indicators of current
business activity. The value
for this purpoie can be im
paired if they include large
checks used lo transfer funds
for the purchase of certain
kinds of capital assets that are
not "business activity."
The data is collected and
ompilM hy the bureau of
business research of tha Uni
versity of Orcnon.
U.S. Flans Announced
tor 'Youth Corps'
Washington -fl'PD- The State
Department announced plans
Saturday to launch President
Kennedy's "Youth Corps" pro
gram b sending about 150
young American teachers to
four B8.i' territories in east
Africa.
"This represents the first
relatively large scale effort to
engage the services of young
Americans in the Organised
Overseas Cooperation p r o
gram," a spoilsman said.
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