This is my stepfather's first cousin. Can you remember when penicillin was this rare? Laddie Robertson Loses Long Fight Against Death After Penicillin Aid Fails Death came Friday night to Laddie Robertson, 13-year-old Springfield boy, who for months has been fighting a strange blood malady which even famed penicillin failed to cure. Twice shipments of the precious drug were rushed from the east, but those did not save the boy, although for several days it appeared as if they would. The “cold” which Laddie was reported as having was, according to his doctor at the Sacred Heart hospital, more fiction than fact. The idea was more or less of a myth to convince the boy that his latest relapse was only temporary. At late as two weeks ago Wednesday Laddie was strong enough to walk, to sit up for 15 minutes in his hospital room, and to eat a trout dinner. The penicillin sent from Baltimore, Md., for the Robertson boy was so far as is known the first shipment to be sent to Oregon. Two parcels of the drug were sent and used through special permission of authorities. Except in special cases, the available supply is reserved for use of the armed forces. The arrival of the first and most urgently needed package was complicated and delayed slightly by confusion in routing it to Eugene. Many persons in the Portland postoffice, as well as United Airlines employees, went to great pains to locate the small parcel. The case caused great public interest and concern for the boy’s welfare. Besides his parent, Mr. and Mrs. Glen L. Robertson of Springfield, he is survived by an older brother, Dale Robertson, and a sister, Berl Robertson, a student at the University of Oregon. Connie