7—Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Jan. 30, 1969
Funding for Treatment at Mcrch of Dimes Center
Juvenile Ct. Enables Girl to Throw Away Crutches
Act Proposed
Patty Bruce, 7, of Pontiac,
Mich., crippled since birth
by a severe spinal birth de
fect, learned by happy ac
cident when she was little
Rep. Gerald Detering today more than three years old
introduced a bill dealing with that she could walk without
state financial assistance to braces or crutches.
local juvenile courts. Essential
ly, the bill provides for $750,000
to be distributed to the various
juvenile courts throughout the
state based on the number of
children within the jurisdic
tion of the particular court.
An additional $44,000 is re
quested in the allocation which
will enable the Corrections Di
vision to administer the funds.
The funding proposal will pro
vide the means for juvenile
courts to implement the re
sponsibility given them in the
1967 passage of H.B. 1038.
Local juvenile courts have
been faced with increasing de
mands for their services, which
local funding bodies simply
have not been able to support
Part of the increased demand i
is reflected in the increased i
number of referrals to the'
courts, the added legal profic ,
iency required by the Gault
decision and even the added I
administrative demands placed
upon the courts by the addition i
of youth care centers.
Participation in the program '
by local juvenile courts would
require the counties to increase
the existing juvenile court bud
get by roughly 10% of the a-
mount to be received in the al
location.
The money will be used to
strengthen the primary ser
vices to the court which in
cludes counseling and proba
tion, foster care facilities, shel
ter homes and other services
deemed necessary by the parti-j
cular juvenile court.
At their recent Portland
conference, the Juvenile Court ,
Judges Association passed a re-1
solution endorsing the funding
proposal and emphasizing the
need for state assistance to
juvenile courts.
It was a hot summer day and
her mother had set aside
Patty’s crutches, removed the
braces from her legs and stood
the pretty little blonde in a
neighbor’s backyard wading
pool. “It was like a miracle,”
Mrs. Bruce recalls, “She began
to walk right through the
water.”
After that day, Patty, who
was bom with leg-paralyzing
open spine and deformities of
both feet, practiced and ex
ercised until she needed neither
braces nor crutches on dry
land. If there is a miracle in
her ■ story, however, it has
nothing to do with the water.
Dr. Donita B. Sullivan, di
rector of the March of Dimes-
financed Birth Defects Center
at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, explained, “With
proper physical therapy and
other treatment over a period
of time, children like Patty
often develop enough muscle
power to walk without the
support of braces.”
Today, for a girl who had
such a slow start, Patty can do
a swinging job with a hoola
hoop. But life has been a long,
uphill struggle.
Patty’s fight to live like
children born free of handi
caps began in Pontiac when
she came into the world pre
maturely, weighing only 3*4
pounds. She was the first ef
fraternal twins, and her
brother, Mike, was also born
with a birth defect.
Doctors detected a heart
murmur in the lad, indicating
Jiossible congenital heart de
eds, and have been seeing
him once a year since birth.
Patty’s condition required
immediate attention. When she
was three months old, she was
taken to the Birth Defects
Center in Ann Arbor where
neurosurgeons performed cor
rective surgery on her back.
After that, her deformed feet
were treated, first with casts,
then with biaces and now with
exercise only. The little girl
has returned to the March of
PATTY BRUCE, 7, Pontiac, Mich., may sound sound lu !,«r twin
brother, Mike, but she was born with an open spine and can't
walk so well. Mike has no problem walking, but he was born
with hear* defects. With them is Dr. Donita B. Sullivan, director
of the March of Dimes-financed Birth Defects Center at the Uni
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dimes Center four or five
times a year since her opera
tion for continuing treatment
and checkups.
According to Dr. Sullivan,
Patty may need urologic sur
gery sometime in the future.
As a result of the open spine,
the little girl cannot control
her bladder or bowels.
Through the years much of
Patty’s therapy has been re
ceived at home. One of her
favorite means of exercise is
a rocking horse. Mrs. Bruce
points out, also, that brother
Mike has a lot to do with
Patty’s success in learning to
walk. “She always watched I
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Portland District Engineer, in
announcing the total attend
ance, said that for the second
time since 1938, when it was
first open to visitors, Bonne
ville Dam on the Columbia
River moved down to second
place in visitor attraction in
Oregon.
Bonneville again in 1968 lost
out to Fern Ridge Reservoir
for the second year in succes
sion. The Long Tom River pro
ject in Lane County near Eu
gene attracted 1,284,656 visi
tors while Bonneville had a
total of 1,247,730. In 1968 Fern
Ridge’s total was 1,169,100 and
Bonneville’s 1,134,000.
Since 1938 Bonneville Dam
has attracted a grand total of
16,664,430 visitors while Fem
Ridge since 1945 had account
ed for 8,348,256.
Detroit and Big Cliff Reser
voirs on the North Santiam
River east of Salem drew 597,-
520 recreationists in 1968 com
pared to 572.500 in 1967 and
561,300 in 1966. Since comple-
i lion in 1953 Army Engineers
have counted 4,966,820 people
at these two projects.
Other Corps of Enineers’ re
servoirs in western Oregon
with their 1968, 1967, 1966 and
grand total visitor attendance
figures, are:
Lookout Point and Dexter
Reservoirs on the Middle Fork
Willamette River near Eugene-
275.431, 317.700, 269,00 and 2-
662.931.
The Dalles Dam on the Co
lumbia River: 398.698, 311,700
228.000 and 3,124,698.
Cottage Grove Reservoir on
the Coast Fork Willamette
near Cottage Grove: 181.223,
235,100, 158.900 and 2,028,023.
Fall Creek Reservoir near
Springfield: 152,358. 217,900, 37,-
200 and 377,458.
Dorena Reservoir on the
Row River near Cottage Grove-
192,017, 192,100. 181,100 and 1,-
515,417.
Cougar Reservoir on the
South Fork McKenzie River
near Blue River: 97,400, 113,200,
51,400 and 458,800.
Green Peter and Foster Re-
ervoir on the Middle and
South Santiam Rivers near
Sweet Home: an estimated
150.000 for 1968 and 100.000 for
1967. first year of record.
Hills Creek Reservoir on the
Middle Fork Willamette near
Oakridge: 160.035, 99,600, 107-
400 and 595,435.
Recreation activities at Corns
of Engineers’ projects Include-
' fishing, boating, swimming,
'picnicking, sightseeing, camp-
I ing. hunting, water skiing and
(horseback riding.
him and tried to copy him.”
Patty has learned to walk
well, but she is not yet able
to walk normally. She still
tends to toe in.
“One day she came home
from school and said one of her
classmates called her pigeon-
toed,” Mrs. Bruce says. "Well,
I just smiled and told her not
to mind. I am just so happy
that she can walk at all.”
Since that hot summer day
several years ago when Patty
took her first unaided step, the
Bruce family have installed a
new fixture in their backyard.
Right in the middle is a very
large children’s wading pool.
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Farmers Have January
Deadline To File Social
Security Reports
Farmers have until January
31 to file reports on the Social
Security taxes withheld from
their employee wages, A. G.
Erickson, District Director of
Internal Revenue for Oregon,
said today.
The reports should be filed
on Form 943, Employer’s An-
n ual Tax Return for Agricul
tural Employees.
Erickson said that any farm
er who pays an employee cash
wages of $150 or more a year
must withhold Social Securi
ty taxes. Taxes must also be
withheld on wages under $150
for any person hired 20 days
or more a year.
For tax purposes, a farm em
ployer includes anyone who
furnishes and pays workers to
perform agricultural labor on
his behalf or for somesne else.
Erickson said a “crew leader”
is an employer under this de
finition.
I
The 1968 tax rate is 8.8 per-'
cent of the first $7,800 of tax
able wages paid a farm em-'
ployee. Half the tax is paid by
the farmer and the other half
by the employee.
Farmers should remember to I
give a W-2 wage and tax state
ment to every worker they
pay $600 or more a year. Em-
ployees paid less than $600
should receive a statement cov
ering their Social Security tax
es Erickson said.
More detailed information is
available in IRS Publication
51, “Agricultural Employer’s
Social Security Tax Guide.” I
Send a post card to Internal
Revenue Service, 319 S. W..
Pine Street, Portland, Oregon
97204 for a free copy.
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