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Influenza Cases
Top Week's List
Influenza, with 132 cases,
topped the list oi communca
ble diseases reported to the
Jackson county health depart
ment for the week ending
April 2S, according to Dr. A.
Erin Merkel, director.
A total of 193 cases of com
municable diseases were re
ported during the week. The
influenza was reported in
Med ford 71, Ashland 16, Cen
tral Point 20, Shady Cove 15,
and Phoenix 10.
Measles - Medford and Cen
tral Point 9 each and Gold
Hill 11 - accounted for 29
cases. German measles were
reported in Medford 3 and
Ashland 7.
Other diseases reported
were chicken pox - Medford
3 and Shady Cove, Ashland
and Central Point, one each -gonorrhea
2, mumps - Med
ford 4, Gold Hill l and Cen
tral Point 9 - and infectious
hepatitis, one case each in
Gold Hill and Medford.
Mother Sentenced
On Welfare Fraud
Portland - (IIM - A mother
of eight children was sent to
prison for welfare fraud Mon
day. Circuit Judge Virgil Lang
try sentenced Mrs. Dorothy
June Becker, 40, to a maxi
mum term of three years. The
judge said he hoped the pun
ishment would serve as "an
example" to her children.
The state claimed the wom
an drew welfare funds while
also drawing unemployment
compensation, working at var
ious jobs and receiving a
$2,400 settlement from an au
tomobile accident. She was
found guilty by a jury in
February.
Judge Langlry said he had
dealt with the family for a
number of years while he was
a Juvenile Court judge and
aid six of Mrs. Becker's eight
children had been referred to
Juvenile Court.
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SUIT NAMES ACTOR -Deanna Fish, 22, above, and six
other persons are seeking $105,000 damages in a suit against
Academy Award winning actor Gregory Peck. The group
claims that Ihey were injured when the actor's car allegedly
triggered a multi-car collision on the San Bernardino Free
way Dec. 12, 1962. (UPI)
Two Teachers To Attend Seminar
Two southern Oregon high
school journalism teachers
have received summer study
grants, it was announced by
The Newspaper Fund in New
York City,
The teachers, to attend a
seminar at the University of
Oregon, are Mrs. Jane Collins
Riggan, Illinois Valley High
school. Cave Junction, who
lives on Backachers ranch.
Officers Elected by
Downtown Merchants
Mrs. VerNetta Brainerd was
reelected president of the
Downtown Medford Mer
chants group at its meeting
Monday morning at the Jack
son hotel.
Others elected were Donald
Ford, first vice president; Ben
jamin Trowbridge Jr., second
vice president; Robert Stew
art, secretary, and Chester
Irish, treasurer.
Sclma, and Hugh F, Friel, St.
Mary's High school, Medford,
who lives at 2784 Valley View
id., Ashland.
Teachers from 46 states,
Washington, D.C., and the
Philippine Islands have re
ceived the study fellowships.
Under the program, the teach
ers will spend up to 12 weeks
studying scholastic and pro
fessional journalism problems
and techniques.
The fellowships pay ail ex
penses for tuition, fees, books,
room and board and a large
share of the travel expenses.
Grants from the Wall Street
Journal make the program
possible.
LOTTERY BILL SIGNED
Concord, N.H. - fOTB - Demo
cratic Gov. John W, King to
day signed into law a bill
establishing a state-operated
sweepstakes in New Hamp
shire, the first m the nation
since 1894.
Clarence Gladden Observes 10 Years as Head of Penitentiary
Salem - Wt - Just 10 years
ago this month Clarence T.
Gladden, a grey-haired, 23-
year veteran of the U.S;
Bureau of Prisons, took over
as warden of the State Peni
tentiary. Gladden was hired after a
special investigating team of
three prison wardens found
the convicts in virtual control
and the guard force demoral-
Grange News
Happy Camp Grang
During the last meeting of
the Happy Camp Grange,
Home Economics Chairman
Mrs. Bernice Sutciiffe an
nounced the net proceeds of
the basketball championship
dinner.
According to Mrs. Sutciiffe,
the net proceeds for the ham
dinner served by the Home
Economics club in honor of
the elementary school basket
ball team and cheerleaders
amounted to $30. Mrs. Sut
ciiffe also announced that the
Home Economics district
meeting is scheduled at the
Greenview Grange hall May
17.
Master James Tristan obli
gated the new member Mrs.
LaVonne Walters in the first
and fourth degree.
Treasurer Mrs. Phil Tole
man explained briefly advan
tages of the Grange Credit
Union and Grange Health In
surance, and suggested a
representative from each de
partment be invited to speak
at one of the meetings to ex
plain in detail the advantages
and benefits of both.
For the lecturer's hour a
poem entitled "Spring in Your
Hearts" was read by the chap
lain Mrs. Jack Fiteer. A piano
solo "Minuet in G Major" by
Bach was played by seven-year-old
Stan Tristan.
Jayne Mansfield
To Obtain Divorce
Dallas, Tex. MPS- Actress
Jayne Mansfield left Dallas
ioday for Juarez, Mexico, to
obtain a divorce from former
Mr. Universe Mickey Hargi
tay. Mrs. Harry L. Peers, Miss
Mansfield's mother, said her
daughter was flying to EI Paso
and then would cross the in
ternational border to obtain
the divorce.
Mrs. Peers said she believed
"everything was set" for the
divorce to be granted today.
Miss Mansfield and Hargt
tay were married Jan. 13,
1958, at Palos Verdes Estates,
Calif. She had previously been
married to Paul Mansfield,
Dallas. That marriage ended
in divorce Jan. 11, 1958.
ized. Discipline due is part to
political meddling, waa so bad
that guards walked in groups
for self-protection within the
walls.
Gladden, looking back on
the day he took over, says
now:
"It waa chaos.
"Certain inmate were in
the saddle. Their Mends were
well taken care of. The rank
and file wasn't getting proper
food or clothing.
"There was no training pro
gram for officers ... no or
ganization within the walls."
Wardaa Acts
Backed by three experts
borrowed from the federal
prison system, Gladden moved
to create order.
He coaxed 10 additional of
ficers and more administrative
help from the legislature and
set up a training program.
Guards began to clamp down
on the undisciplined prison
ers. Four months later, the word
went out along the convict
grapevine.
Gladden was to be put to
the test.
Convicts rioted, set fire to
building and filing taunts and
demands at guards and state
policemen who rimmed the
high cement wall Tinging the
prison.
The new warden ordered
most of the rinters sealed in
the prison yard. They sat and
shivered and sweltered and
thirsted for three days. The
riot collapsed.
Chidden says today those
three days of rioting did more
to clear the air and establish
order than could have been
accomplished in several years.
While the prisoners rioted,
guards swept the celiblocks
clean. One hundred trucktoads
of weapons, furnishings and
junk were hauled away. The
contraband included knives,
saws, tools, ball bats, clubs,
and even sewing machines,
typewriters and overstuffed
furniture.
Gone also was the "Boss
Con," a convicted robber who,
as chief prison clerk, boasted
he held more power than the
warden.
The tired and defeated riot
ers came back to a new spar
tan existence.
The prison program now is
designed to instill good work
habits and to equip prisoners
for their return to society,
"The convicts know what
we expect from them. And
they know what to expect
from us," Gladden says.
"They realize that they will
be treated like decent human
beings, but they are expected
to behave in a decent and
respectable manner."
Escapes from prison details
have dropped from 4G to 50 a
year to three or four. Tight
security has broken up inmate
goon squads, and Gladden
bojls only one secreted knife
has been found in years.
The prison farm, where in
mates once stole eggs to oper
ate their own egg route to the
nearby Turner community,
has been put on a productive
basis.
Last week the State Senate
approved a measure to allow
Gladden asd other heads of
state institutions to, stay , on
beyond retirement age at the
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