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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Welfare MONDAY. AUGP8T 12, lUi - Commission Pleased With Local Pilot Project Both the state liicio.. mna me welfare commission are pleased with the results of special caseload programs siarcea as pilot projects a year ago in Jackson county ana part of Multnomah coun ty. it was reDorteri The new program is being instituted in Lane countv now and is expected to spread to oiner uregon counties in 1965. The new program here was siartca under former Jackson uounty Public Welfare Ad nunistrator James Pullman who is now with the state welfare commission in Salem "Under the intensive gram each worker had about 35 families so he could do little things like talking to ne doss to iron out employee difficulties." Jacksnn rvinntv Public Welfare Administrator Dave Kuhnz explained. "Be sides rehabilitating the wel fare recipient, the case wnrk. er kept after him . or her aoout getting a job. It also revealed that cooperation is required from a number of public agencies. Welfare can't go it alone." Instruction Counts : The local welfare commis sion hopes to place some wom en later in formal instruc tional courses such as beauti cian training or in a work and learn program. This would mean welfare recipi ents would be assigned to the library or to some other coun ty office to develop work skills. Other agencies would be called on to help, too. Spade work to prepare for the pilot program started ear ly last summer.. The entire caseload of the Jackson coun ty welfare. commission was carefully reviewed according to a plan devised by the Ore gon state welfare commission staff. "Generally, the idea was to identify the basic problem of a family, assess the fam ily's strengths and weakness es, and then come up with a realistic set of goals and plans to satisfy these needs," Pull man had explained at the pro gram's inception. No Additional Caseworkers Families needing extra services by social workers were assigned to caseworkers who were responsible for a fewer number of cases. Yet no additional caseworkers were hired due to this pro gram. The family received more attention in hope prob lems could be worked out and self support accomplished. The local commission had been giving services on this basis for some time, but this was , a better organized and better supervised plan. , Pullman earlier felt there was an urgent need for this program for young 'adults. These are the people who quit high school, marry, then dis cover they have no real train ing for a job.. For a while their families may help them. By their ' mid-twenties the young men and their families are on welfare rolls. At the same time, the wel fare commission proceeded with extensive ' on - the job training and educational pro grams for caseworkers which helped improve their services to people'. Classification Work ' During the' first four months of this year, case workers maintained their reg ular jobs and completed a tre mendous- amount of work in extensive classification and planning. Pullman estimated he spent 240 hours on. the road travel ing to and from the slate wel fare commission headquarters in Salem. Each of the case workers, involved averaged about 30 hours of extra work. A minimum total of 400 hours was spent on the program by the local staff. Specific advantages of the new program have meant bet ter use of time, better organ ization of caseloads, better emphasis on casework serv ices, better supervisory con trol of work, better consulta tion on casework plans, and more regular . review of problems. Example Cited A good example of how this new system has worked is the case of a woman we will call Elsie B., now moved out of the state. She was 39 years old with fourth and fifth grade young sters. She had applied for aid-to-dependent children because her husband had been drink ing continually . since their marriage, - was - unemployed and later deserted her. She was living on a ranch in a remote part of the coun ty, had never worked out of the home. Her appearance was poor and a musing tooth made her self-conscious and reluc tant to seek job interviews. Contacted Employer After a caseworker insisted she find some work she did some ironing at home. She was put in a special caseload and rehabilitation was stress ed. She received dental work. Then, following more encour agement found . a part time dishwashing job in a nearby restaurant. Although she was not completely self-supporting, her grant was released. - Later the caseworker found she wasn't being paid regu larly and had to contact her employer. At the same time the proprietor was given her background so he could work with her and teach her some thing about the restaurant business. After Elsie B. gain ed new confidence in her abil ity to support herself, the lo cal welfare commission began working closely with the dis trict attorney's office. The husband was located reciprocal non-support action brought, but the couple was reconciled when the case came to court. He claimed he had stopped drinking and El sie and her youngsters moved to California with him where he is working as a caretaker. Whether the husband has licked his drinking problem or not, Elsie now knows she can support herself and chil dren. She continued working in California. - "Many of these people and families under - the special case-load program are multi problems. We don't really know if we can change the adults in this generation. But next generation of these fam ilies will be less of a commu nity problem. We learned that money alone won't solve the welfare problem. Case workers have been convinced of this for a long time, but now we have shown the pub lic what - we can do with a properly administered reha bilitation program," Kuhnz said. Pesticides Found - i - In Tests on Eagle Washington - IUMI '- Traces of pesticides have been found in research tests on the bald eagle, America's vanishing national symbol, the Interior Department reported today. But the department drew no conclusions about whether the pesticide - DDT - is ac tually harmful to the bird, which numbers only 3,807 in a January, 1962, survey. Specimens of 25 out of 26 bald eagles tested by the Fish and Wildlife Service con tained DDT, frequently used to kill mosquitoes, the report said.- It said that "A marked lack of- breeding success in costal areas , . . has led some peo ple to suspect that these areas, which are frequently treated for mosquito control, are pro ducing contaminated fish that make up a large part of the eagles' diet. 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The commission Saturday ordered the companies to tear up all price lists for tetracy cline, a drug used to cure a great variety of bacterial in fections, and publish new prices independently.. -A basic ingredient of the drug is Aureomycin, the FTC said. " The five - man commission also claimed, in an unprece- Appointments Are Announced for Red Cross Chapter Dr. Elliott D. Becken, 1211 Queen Anne ave., vice chair man of the Jackson county chapter of the American Red Cross has been appointed one of the fund campaign con sultants for the Cascades dis trict- by Frank Holmes Jr., na tional fund vice chairman for Oregon. Dr. Becken will assist Jack son, Josephine and Douglas counties, according to Dr. Elmo N. Stevenson, chapter board chairman. The appoint ment was announced at a re cent monthly luncheon busi ness meeting. Mrs. Lillian Salade, 140 Greenway circle, has been appointed volunteer chairman for the coming year and Mrs. John Winton, Eagle Point, as Red Cross representative to the United Crusade board. A "friendly visitor" service to convalescent and nursing homes and homes for the aged has been started, accord ing to Mrs. Frank Fairweath- er, 3013 Dark Hollow rd. The Red Cross will be responsible for orientation and training of volunteers in cooperation with the state board of health and public welfare. First training session is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 10 a.m., at the Mcdford First Methodist church, 607 West Main st. Bloodmobile Visit The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit . Medford Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 12 and 13. There is a severe shortage of blood available in the Port land center for state distribu tion, according to Mrs. Joe Burba, 2543 Old Military rd., bloodmobile chairman. Jackson county chapter helped sew over 700 hooded winter capes for Algerian refugees which were sent by the Portland chapter. The Red Cross home nurs ing film will be shown again this fall, il was stated. Com munity courses in mother. baby and home nursing care will start in September. Arthur Flemming, Univers ity of Oregon president, will be guest speaker at the an nual meeting Thursday noon, Sept. 12, at the Red Cross building on Hawthorne ave. Those wishing to attend should call the office for reservations. Alfred S. V. Carpenter thanked Dr. Stevenson for three years of service as a board chairman. His term ex pires in September. Three students of the re cent youth aquatic school talked briefly of the skills and knowledge they had gained. Arms Delegates Return to Table Geneva - HJPII - Disarma ment negotiators returned to the bargaining table today with little expectation that the nuclear treaty would lead to further East-West arms ac cords immediately. Delegates to the 17-nation disarmament conference scheduled a resumption of talks this afternoon following a recess auring wnicn me partial nuclear test ban agreement was signed in Mos cow. The western acicgaiions met privately in the morning for strategy consultations. The atmosphere was rela tively free of the tens! n which often has marked the disarmament talks here in the past, but informed sources said the delegates ruled out any new moves until at least after the next meeting of the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and Russia. The three foreign ministers, who initialed the nuclear treaty for their governments in Moscow last Monday, are expected to meet again at the United Nations General As sembly opening Sept. 17. dented move, the authority to lane action to limit or com pletely halt enforcement of drug patent rights held by two of the firms. Chas. Pfizer and Co., Inc. and American Cyanamid Co. The FTC charged they had obtained the patents unfairly by withholding important in formation from the U.S. Pat ent Office. The other three firms chain ed were Bristol-Myers Co. and Bristol Laboratories. Inc.; Ol in Mathieson Chemical Corp. (Squibb), and the Upjohn Co. The FTC said it considered Bristol Laboratories a subsidiary- of the Bristol - Myers Co. . ,. j ,;,.ti. Deny Charges Pfizer and Bristol - Myers promptly denied the charges),' ana along with Cyanamid, said they would appeal the order in federal courts. The FTC said that Pfizer's 17-year patent on tetracycline could yield potentially more than a billion dollars in sales.. Sales of the drug, "probably the leading antibiotic on the market today," it said, have run more than $100 million annually. Deputy Sheriff Accidentally Shot Mapieton tUPU Lane Coun ty Sheriff's Deputy Dean Lin gafelter was accidentally shot in the leg while attempting to serve a subpoena here Friday afternoon. According to the . sheriff's office a youngster ran up to the deputy, grabbed his pistol, and it discharged. The bullet entered Linga felter's leg at the top of the calf and emerged about five inches below. No bones were damaged. . The deputy was released from a hospital at Mapieton after undergoing emergency treatment. The FTC order, which over ruled its examiner's recom mendations made after two years of study, told the com panies that new price lists must be based on individual manufacturing and overhead costs, desired margins of profits and "other lawful con siderations." The regulatory agency gave each firm a deadline of 60 days from the date of its final order, which was not speci fied. An FTC attorney ex plained that the commission would tirsl study and issue a second order dealing with the Pfizer and Cyanamid patents. As the basis for its author ity to prevent a patent's en forcement, the FTC cited Su preme Court decisions and its own powers inherent in the Federal Trade Commission Act. It said it used this power to prevent the public from being "classed anion,- the mute and helpless victims of deception and fraud." Charge Conspiracy The commission charged the Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CIRF "Tl f ILTIE," a script writer asked Milton Berle, "would J-'-- you give me another autographed picture of yourself? This one is rather dated." Berle noted that the picture re ferred to was inscribed, "To Marty, a great writer with a fantastic future, May 23, 1940." He promptly inscribed a new photograph for his friend. This one read, "So what happened?" A very popular middle aged farmer's wlfa in a mid-western town was asked her secret for making and keeping friends. "There's no secret about It," she explained. "I'm just always careful to taste my words real good before I let 1: 'em get put my teeth, OVERHEARD: Bob Hope, driving past an abandoned schoolhouse, with all Its windows broken: "Somebody in there must have flunked chem istry!" A hen-pecked husband,- asked how lie had met his wife: "I was working in a travel bureau. Bhe came in looking for a place to spend her vacation. I was the last resort." The producer of the year's most gruesome horror film: "I got the idea from my wife seeing her hair every morning in those confounded curlers." An ex-cowboy: "No more of that life for me, pardner! Home on the range, I guess the deer and the antelope was playing, all right but all I seemed to hear waa them discouraging words." O 1063, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins rlurei ByndlceU firms conspired by having frequent contacts, including exchange of up-to-date price lists, issued uniform price lists; identical bids to pur-, chasers and identical dosage forms. .';...'. Pfizer, in a statement, said "We have not fixed prices. We obtained our tetracycline pat ent in good faith and without any impropriety." Dr. Philip I. Bowman, pres ident of Bristol Laboratories, said his firm would appeal "with confidence that our po sition will be ultimately vin dicated." W. G. Malcolm, chairman and chief executive officer of American Cyanamid Co., said his firm's lawyers "assure us that the examiner's initial decision exonerating Cyana mid and the other defendants was well founded." CONTACT LENSES ON CREDIT! . Green Slams ' '' fOLUMUAN OPTICAL CO. Madford Shopping Cantor 772-W90 ; : Drs. Omar i. Nolts .. and William Hodson Good idea, Consolidate your debts. Lump them together and pay them off with a cash loan from us. Chances ere your one monthly payment will be a lot less than you're paying out every month right now. ;.,v : , CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185E. 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