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..nY29, 1?54 HERALD & NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON : .( i.r- -f 'v:r;s;f fry r 1 PAGE SEVEN Wt DELEGATES from the Klamath County Branch of the Oregon Educational l, VeDresentaUve council of OEA in Portland,, were (1 to r) the following teachers: fa ei Ann Bice and Hazel Todd, president. Nearly 150 teachers attended. . mjcdokl "".JuSmI Monday : i i. Macdoel patron, club to dls lalor school playground ft u.rltn McGinnls K , merry-go-round can rm. -u-..t tonn Tt. was hem ... n.nre BalleV. Mrs. L u,. Llovd Davis and Lin cross was named to K'ra Wright told the club X. iMd to purchase 16 f books with the money ' nPuriyand Kenneth Alex IRn ihuied for repairing mrami slid8' . . i Hd Hoakes showed the rti plus for the proposed Idttl elementary school utkttcnea oy aiciukui. Ptrrin, Kiamain pans. 11 hive not yet been ap- ihi nehool board. - dd building Is expected to staled oms, DUb nut ue- proposea new uuu lmnt.Mrs. Noakes said, nlmleeruie to serve as Mihen and lathers were Ui Billcr and Mrs. Mar- Finui, llrst grade;, Mrs. mourn, second graae; LijbT Johnson, third; Mrs. (Da (takes; fourth; Mrs. iCtoa, fifth; Mrs. Etna jfa Mrs...3ewell Carey, ii uiarence wross ana tUs, eighth. ib meeting will be held ill the school. I SUMMERS lautcce Ward showed her Wplclures and told of her unngn Europe mis sum ( U Summers PTA at a tttlDg on January 15, at m Mrs. Ward's talk, the aiding was conducted bv p, Mrs. Fred Wolfram. ki unounced that the PTA ft i baked food sale, Feb B a downtown location. N meelta to be held in fl s oeuig planned bv so oanmiuee including Mr. ptj, mrs. w. w. French. f Jdamson, Mr. and Mrs. pw ana Mr. and Mrs. pioeri ana William Kurtz, mnc na L Coffee Wai lrvpr1 hv pi mothers. March of Dimes Aid Case Of 16-Year-Old KF Girl A little over a year ago 16 year old Dorthella Rose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Orval Hose, was stricken with polio. And since that time the March of Dimes has expended over $12,000 on her care, r Dorthella, who lives at 2316 Cal ifornia Avenue, symbolizes one of the grave problems confronting the March-of Dimes the need for pro viding care for the large number Tank Contract Probe Asked WASHINGTON Ut Sen. Ke- fauver (D-Tenn) said he will ask Pentagon officials today to explain what he regards as "a dangerous policy of concentrating defense con tracts in a -single producer." -At his request. Chairman Saitoh- stall (R-Mass) called the Senate Armed Services Committee for a public inquiry into a 200-mlllion-dollar contract for Army tanks with a General Motors subsidiary, Pisher Body Corp. "This appears to be a dangerous departure from the principle of maintaining a very broad defense production base," Kefauver said in an interview, adding that destruc tion of a single plant could halt air production. Fisher Body and the Chrysler Corp, were the only' bidders- on tne contract. , , ' Kefauver ' concedes that the Fisher Body bid was lower than Chrysler's but . questions whether there - win be an over-all saving as far as national defense Is con cerned, , . , , BONAN7A fSM-Ttie annual Parents Jf Valentine dance will 1' !' One ticket will ad- T- room dancing, in the F J " music of "The F1. Of (0 the innara rian..- Smalt ffVm niHh fig " Bi Mayhew. IT? ""''Sumo win be fU O'clock. Cinrilrlol.,, ritehmen class are Lois tVTryChatterton, the ter?I!nted "d toe seniors by P M Leon Tlnh.n. ,,,pec1"1 Drl'nd Jlsed from the dance Parent H m ? wUy P'W'ound ""'"IMrs. on a h. Cabbies, Cops Cooperate DETROIT m The pursued man hardly had a chance in this race. Not only, were radio-alerted po lice cars chasing him last night but so were 11 taxicabs. Cab driver Paul 3. Chappus, 29. said he saw a car run a red light and strike 9-year-old George Van Havel. The boy wasn't badly hurt. Chappus radioed his dispatcher. The dispatcher notified police. He also notified other cabs. After a mile-long chase, the car was overtaken by Chappus and two other cabs and a police car. The driver, Eddie Herzman, 32, was hooked for allegedly leaving the scene, of an 'accident.- . , of patients who must be cared for year alter year. During 1954. on a nationwide ba sis, the Marcn of Dimes will pro. vide care for 66,000 "carry over" patients the largest in the" 16 year history of the organization. , Dorthella's case is tvnlnnl of these.. She was first placed in an iron lung, when her breathing mus cles became paralyzed From Sep tember 23, 1952, when she contract ed the disease, until December of tne same year she used the lung GUEST OF HONOR at the annual Camp Fire Girls Council meeting to.be held here, Friday, February 5, and. speaker at the banquet in the WiUard Hotel, will be Mrs. Warren C. Hunter, Portland, National Council president. The an nual meeting is called to review the work and progress of the past year, and to elect council officers and board mem bers. ,Mrs. Percy Murray is general chairman for the meeting and will be assisted by Charles Mack, council , president and Mrs. John Heydon,' social chairman. Dinner time will be 6:30 p.m. and reservations may be made by. calling the Camp Fire office. ' - ' . i , . ' Photo by Jordan, Portland 7 GOOFY GET-UPS got yells of approval at the recent meeting of the Peterson Parents and Patrons.- Here (1, to r) Van Mollison, president, as the "Hero,'' Estin Kiger, the "Villain," and Maury Clark, the "Heroine," do a noble bit of acting. The skit, "Tragedy In One Act", brought laughs from an audience of 300. ' Regular Meet Malin AuXi "SoSSf- "pmier l,''Dartcin,M N breBl,:renl5-Palns at --wj aim 'Wesided over by 5 USS Ml din,!.' F tot iou .ul"' tnclud- ti-rSL&.'W'Ui gr.de n andTCi one Act," oy Minnie V man. ... ' h' !ulM . nnu1 i(4.""ea ir. ... "'e r, ana MrSi L.(lr..,-',. Pr- Woman Dies In Plant Blast NEWHALL, Calif. Wl One worn' an was dead' today and 17 others were in a hospital,, two crlticaUy Injured, as a . result of a blast which shattered half of one build ing at the big Bermlte Powder Co. plant yesterday. Dead is Mrs. Delia Mitchell, 41, San Fernando, one of four women blown out of the buUding. In criti cal condition were Miss Frances Floyd, 30, San Fernando, who may lose her legs, and Miss Leora Tole, 35, of Acton. Britain Seeking Red Trade Outlets LONDON Wl Britain, striving to step up commerce in nonstrateglc materials with Iron Curtain coun tries, soon will open official trade talks with Communist Hungary, roiand and Czechoslovakia. - A spokesman for the Board of Trade said today discussions with a Hungarian delegation will open in London in March. A Polish mis sion is slated to come to London soon. British government repre sentatives have agreed to go to Prague to discuss renewal of a five-year agreement with Czecho slovakia. DORTHELLA ROSE, 16-year-old victim of ' infan tile paralysis, one of the thousands who has bene fited from, the March of. Dimes in Klamath Falls. and the monahon (a plastic cap which does the Job of the iron lung except that only the lungs are -covered, not the whole body). Following diagnosis by local doctors, Dorthella was taken- to Sacred Heart hospital In Eugene, where an iron lung is located. (This was before Klamath Falls had its own lung,) , - In Eugene, Dorthella received physical therapy treatments, and when she -was able to breathe, by herself, she-was taken to the swim ming pool at the hospital once a day. ..-' Now she goes through a rigor ous few hours each day while casts are put on her leg to strengthen leg muscles while she stands. Es.cn day the old casts are cut off and replaced. Last summer, Dorthella under went surgery, on her right hand. Thumb muscles didn't respond so a muscle was transplanted from her third finger; she still is unable to use her left hand; and has no lifting power in her right. She sits up ail day now in a wheel chair. She reads, writes. draws, listens to the phonograph, and entertains herself in a hun dred ways to which normal children need never resort. Dorthella's parents credit the pol io foundation for the progress made so far. and lor weir nope mat somedav'she will walk again. Throuzh contributions made to the local March of Dimes drive, research will continue, gamma glo bulin will be produced and the new vaccine, which may prove me an swer to polio, will be tested. MALIN '"Malta American Le- grin Auxiliary Unit No. 84 met at the home of Mrs. Mervyn. Wilde, Thursday evening, January 21 with Mrs. Jim Ottoman in charge of the business session. A-card of thanks was read from the Roseburg hospital thanking the unit for the nice gift which was sent them in December. Mrs. George -.Brothanek was in charge of the mailing of the gift. - . - Mrs. John Freitag and Mrs. Charles Hamilton, who had been appointed to represent the auxili ary, reported -on the January 10 meeting held - at the old Malin cheese ' factory' that they had at tended. The factory, long , aban doned, was purchased last year by the Malin community park board to convert it into a public meeting place. If all the organizations in the community, are ifl favor of .sup porting it, Uie plan will tee carried out. Mrs. Hamilton, -child welfare chairman, reported, that only one famuy in the community had been reported to her since last month; and that family had 'already been helped by the community. The unit at present lacks enough members to make its quota and the-president -urged' members to find prospective persons to Join be fore January 31. The book Key to Peace," was recommended to the members as well worth reading. ' Cards of thanks were read from Charles Dobry, Paul Kessler, Rich ard Drazil, Fete Lahoda and Ron ald Hawkins, who had received their homemade' cookies sent to them overseas by the auxiliary. . A petition to keen communist Chinese out of the United States was passed for signatures. Tne nostess served refreshments June McCulley,' Helen Schmidt, Anna Schmidt, Lynda Drewelow, Ethel . Hamilton, Leah- - Street, Carol McCulley, Ann Lahoda, Irene Jelinek, Virginia; Blohm, Hazel Kalina, Ilia Bunge, Lorene Bauer, Helen Loosley. Irene Frei tag. Ethel Roberts, Martha Broth anek, Nettie Pope, -Pat.- Ottoman and Norma Petrasek. Office Party Turns Into Big Fight On Cancer . WASHINGTON tfl The office cocktail party -started out the way they usually do,1 but the guest pf honor turned it into a fight against cancer..- : - The xaU went out last: Jan. : everybody chip in S3 each for a going away party Jan. 21' in honor of John Leddy.. .... -. i . Four days later Leddy, an eco nomic defense official at the State Department slated for 18 months' leave, put out an office memo of his own. U said the party was a fine idea but he thought he had a better one. :-; . . i -. . After the arrangements, were made, Leddy said, doctors had ad vised.one of the co-workers, strick en with cancer, that a leg ampu tation was necessary,-. How about taking the money that would have gone toward the party, Leddy suggested, and pooling Pheasants In Good Shape Pheasants are in good condition and still getting plenty of feed to eat despite the recent storms, ac cording to Ken Cochrun, state game commission agent... . , , ., , , . If the present clear weather con tinues no feeding of the birds will be necessary, he said. ' Deer herds now moving into the Lava Beds, area are . also . In . ex cellent shape and due to the open winter did not move off the higher summer ranges until about two weeks ago. : Unless bad weather sets in with in the' next few weeks- there will be no need to worry about, the pheasants and deer wintering In good shape,' Cochrun concluded. as a fund to combat their col league's cancer? -v . The idea caught on. The pool today boasts more 'than 1700, with U'more rolling In Donor, to Match Weight With Dimes, MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (P) An : anonymous donor has' agreed to give enough dimes to the March of Dimes fund to match the weight of a 4-year-old polio victim, 1 The weichlnK ceremony will be held Saturday on the courthouse square. Linda Bonfill, who has al most recovered from' the disease, will be counterbalanced' with dimes. 1 " Bank President' D. R. Richards' estimates It -will take' from $600 to $800 to equal Linda's approximate, 40 pounds. . CMltMl ,.'.- riafll fat vdrf'Baai '-' ' 1 -'Cbmiltta Una " - ' ol musical ' - k -l InitnirMiiaa -... : I .. ; t fcyte merfaa-r-. - pines .-, reur faatdwtn duue - toes turn - other entertainment. Money from the entertainment will help buy a Jungle Jim for the school play yard and "black-out" curtains for the four new rooms. Tweetie-Pie," the bird, went to the fourth grade for a month be cause more parents of students in mat room turned out for the meet ing. The bird rotates by the month, Hostesses were fourth grade Mrs. Leonard Allen, Mrs. Joe Swan mothers, Mrs. Walter Pranklin, and Mrs. McKlnnev. The next regular meeting, Wed Unusual Will Has Court's Okay DETROIT Mt Carl F. Clarke's extraordinary will now has court approval. So, at a date to be specified friends will sit down to dinner at a hotel and draw lots for his per sonal effects. r. arke. IS. a business executive, died Nov. 18. leaving a $160,000 estate. His will provided for the dinner and lot-drawing- The will vu admitted to oronaus yesieroay. Two nieces, Mrs. Leola C. Oreer of Magnolia, Ohio, and Mrs. Fran ces Hamblen of Portland, Ore., are bequeathed $1,000 each. Clarke also gave 100 items of art work to museums ana irienas. PICTURE FRAMING Women Gain In Survey An all-time high of 303 women are members of tne 1954 state legislatures, according to a recent survey made by Miss Bertha Ad kins, assistant to the chairman of the Republican 'National Com mittee. More than two-thirds of the '54 women state legislators are Re publicans, .the survey disclosed. There are 11 Republicans and Democrats each, in the Senate, 1S4 Republicans and 84 Democrats in the House, one Independent in the House and two without party designation in that body. This outstanding record of wo men legislators. Miss Adkins said, indicates the increasing p u o i i c recognition of women's Influence and contribution in public office It Is imDortant too. that more and more women are serving in state legislatures where significant ed ucational, social welfare and budge tary decisions related to local com munities are lormuiaiea. The 1064 total represents a gain of 14 over the early, 1063 figure. As a result of the IBS! elections, 2io women were listed as siaie legislators. The subsequent gains were made in the 1953 regular and special elections ana tne va cancy appointments. By virtue of the 1953 election of a woman legislator in Virginia, women are now serving in au oui three states. These states are Ala bama, Nebraska and Oklahoma. In 19, when women first began going Into political positions, the number of women legislators was 20. . - These figures have been com piled by the Women's Division of the Republican National Com mittee for its over-air annual Issue of "Women In Public Service." For Lto't Lasting tuifr Photo Fini$Wni IN LAKEVIEW... THORTON'S REXALL PHARMACY ' m II - J fk, V - '" s 1 " 1 "- -' ' - . - mmfsm it - r Shake the can'and prove it! M J'B's full f lavor roast means more measures'to the pound -more flavor in every measure : You canimeteo bod cup of MU'O Sec for qourgclf Shake several cans of coffoe before you buy. Most brands rattle but not M. J.B I It's packed solid. Proof of more measures and extra Savor, because . Filly-developed roast pands each coffee bean in M.J.B's Ortiniryftoait rjch blend. This brings out ' nore flavor, and increases 4$staa volume,too...givesyou 2to8 fulty-4ivtop4 measures more per pound 0"1 than other grands. . Full-lllVir fflnfl makes each particle of M.J.B exactly the right size for your coffee maker to release all the good ness . . . r o large lumps to imprison flavor, no powder or chaff to dilute the goodness. i i ; - . nesday. March 10, 7:30 p.m. will -iuines and be a "Sanitation Forum." .
