1 Th Statesman, Sodom, Oregon. Monday, Dm. 23, 1853
Plans to Reduce
Forces in Korea
Bring GI Rumors
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL ( President Eisen
hower's announced plan to reduce
U. S. military forces in Korea,
with two divisions to be withdrawn
"soon," stirred enthusiastic pecu
lation Monday among the soldiers
but was received with undisguised
displeasure by South Korean offi
cials. "I could jump through the ceil
ing if I thought it meant I would be
going home sooner," was the typi
cal reaction voiced by Pfc. Louis
G. Sbeaps, of Lock Haven. Pa.
In a more reserved reaction,
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, com-
Nehru Fails to
Calm Down
Demonstration
BOMBAY. India U Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, with
a cordon of security police around
him, left a Sikh gurudwara (place
of worship) Sunday morning after
tying in vain to calm down one of
the worst demonstrations against
him in his entire career.
Sikhs belonging to the Akali
Party, which wants a separate
state within the Indian Union for
people speaking the Punjabi
language, refused to let Nehru
speak more than a few words.
Later, they chased and showered
brickbats on the car of aaraar
Swaran Singh, India's Sikh hous
ing minister, who was with the
Prime Minister.
Place of Worship r
Nehru, also accompanied by the
Maharaja of Patiala, rajpramukh
(governor) of the Punjab and the
East Punjab States Union, arrived
for a reception at Guru Fatehgark
Singh Sahib, which is one of the
most famous Sikh places- of wor
ship, 35 miles from patiala.
Hundreds of Sikhs brandishing
sticks, spears and axes menacing
ly snouted anti-Nehru slogans
from a rival encloseure near the
Gurudwara, which Nehru had to
pass.
Rain Flowers
While those at the reception
place initially rained flowers on
Nehru and saving a rousing wel
come, responding to a call by the
maharaja, one Sikh got up later
and gave a cue for religious and
anti-Nehru slogans. Nehru was un
able to control the turbulent crowd,
some of which began surrounding
the dais.
Master Tara Singh, the Akali
leader, rejected the Maharaj's
pleas that he restore order, as
serting be would not allow Nehru
to speak at the gurudwara.
Nehru, the maharaja and their
party, left and the commotion
died down 10 minutes after their
departure.
The demonstrators shouted- "Ne
hru go back" and demanded the
end of the rule by Indian Union
officials which was imposed after
the government party led by anti
Nehru Sikhs lost their majority in
the Legislature.
mander of the U. S. Army forces
in Korea, said it may be safely
assumed that the departure of
these divisions will not take place
immediately.
The general also said the with
drawals would not affect men with
considerable time to serve in Ko
rea. Such men will be transferred
from the designated divisions to
other outfits in favor of men whose
tours are about over.
"Could It Be Usr
Speculation was particularly
strong in the U. S. 25th Division
with the soldiers asking, "Could it
be us?"
The 23th has been in Korea long
er than any other division. The
24th was the first Army division
to see action in the war. The First
Cavalry came in almost at the
same time. But the 24th and First
Cavalry since have spent much
time in Japan while the 25th has
remained in Korea.
Rumor Strong
Sgt. Bob Campbell, 22. of Peoria.
HI., said "rumors have been strong
for months now that we might be
going back to Hawaii; that's the
25th's home."
The commander of U. S. Army
forces in the Pacific said at Hono
lulu he believed one of the two
withdrawn divisions would be sta
tioned in Hawaii.
Officials in the government of
South Korean President Syngmih
Rhee. who frowns on the current
truce and favors resumption of the
war arainst the Reds, criticized
Eisenhower's announced plan.
ROKs Not Ready
Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai
said it would weaken the republic's
position and indicated he felt South
Korean troops were not ready to
step into the gap.
"We do not welcome any U. N.
divisions being withdrawn, espe
cially when their replacements
have not been built with Korean
personnel," he told newsmen.
Both Pyun and the South Korean
prime minister, Paik Too Chin,
said they had not been notified of
the plan. President Eisenhower
said in his announcement Satur
day that the South Korean govern
ment had been informed.
Military speculation in Korea
was that there are eight divisions
to choose from: The First Marine
and the Army's 2nd. 3rd, 7th, 24th,
25th, 40th and 45th. Those divisions
were in Korea at the time of the
armistice. There has been no an
nouncements of shifts of any of
them since then.
The First Cavalry and the 3rd
Marine Divisions are in Japan.
BaKyBorrv
Dies as Four
Await Rescue
WINNIPEG cn Four persons
marooned in a snowbound plane in
northeastern Manitoba were res
cued Sunday after a six-day ordeal
in which life and death came to
an Indian baby.
The child was born Tuesday to
Mrs. Annanias Harper of Ther-
ese Point, Man., the day after the
plane carrying her home was
forced down 340 miles northeast of
Winnipeg. The plane, piloted by
Paul Rickey, 37, of Winnipeg, also
carried Mrs; Harper s children,
Elizabeth, 4, and Joseph, 6.
The four were saved when a
Royal Canadian Air Force search
plane spotted the craft A ra
dio message brought one of
the plane's ski-equipped sister
ships from Central Northern Air
ways to the scene, and the four
were flown 40 miles south to Island
Lake Hospital.
Rickey said be became lost about
dusk last Monday after taking off
from'Bigstone Lake for a 35-mile
flight to Island Lake. He landed
in a clearing.
He had plenty of gasoline but
heavy snow prevented a takeoff
the next morning.
A few hours later, Mrs. Harp
er gave birth to the child. Then it
began to show, cutting off any hope
of early search or rescue. From
Tuesday to Saturday, the group
huddled around the plane, which
was well equipped with emergency
rations, heaters and sleeping bags.
The temperature fell to II below
at one point, and another eight
inches of snow fell. The newborn
baby died Saturday.
Wgiv Yeair to See Supreme Court decide Df itiies
Oregon to Get
$3,098,057 for
Forest Roads
Ike Considers
Free Exchange
Of Currencies
Mrs. Luce
Returns From
NEW YORK UT Clare Boothe t
Luce. United States ambassador
to Italy, Sunday stressed the need
for "sympathetic understanding"
between Italy and the U. S. to
solve mutual problems.
Mrs. Luce, arriving by plane
from Rome, said she could make
no comment on Communism. Tri
este and Italian politics. I
"I am very happy to be back.
even for a short time." she said.
"1 can't say much else until I
report to Washington."
She was met by her husband,
magazine publisher Henry Luce,
and they left Idlewild Airport for
their Manhattan home.
WASHINGTON The De
partment of Commerce Sunday
announced apportionment of 22 Vi
million dollars among the states.
Alaska and Puerto Rico, for im
provement of highways in the na
tional forests.
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
yesterday announced apportion
ment of 373 million dollars among
the states. Hawaii. Puerto Rico
TtqIt IVk. Vicil- and tne District Columbia for
JLlctl y llir T lSll aid in general highway construc-
tinn
Both funds were authorized by
the Federal Aid Highway Act of
June 23, 1932. i
The sums for improvement of i
forest highways are for use in the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1934.
Expenditures will be under the di
rection of the Bureau of Public
Roads, in the Department of Com
merce. The announcement said
the money would be used to mod
ernize "obsolete and dangerous"
sections of forest highways.
The total was apportioned
among the states. Alaska and
Puerto Rico in proportion to the
area and value of national forest
lands, as certified by the department.
When the Romans conquered i The allocation by states in-
Egypt in 26 B.C. they collected ! eluded:
part of the tribute in the formi Oregon $3,098,057; Washington
By FRANK O'BRIEN
WASHINGTON (flVThere are
sisns that the Eisenhower ad.
ministration may quietly have
added convertibility free ex
change of currencies to its list
of things needed for long-haul
defense against Communism.
Two recent speeches by high
treasury officials, one of them
off the record until now, give
strong signs that:
1. The administration thinks
the time has about come for
some major European countries
to cut their coddled currencies
loose for a free, convertible run
in competitive world markets,
and is urging them to do so.
2. It does not consider major
downward revision of U. S. tar
iffs the principal answer to Eu
rope's continued inability to earn
enough dollars in trade to pay
for its purchases in this country.
: 3. The recent brightening of
Europe's economic situation has
convinced administration finan
cial leaders that no big new dol
lar help by the United States
would be needed to underwrite
convertibility.
4. Freely convertible curren
cies are an essential factor in the
Free World economic stability
which is needed as the founda
tion for an indefinitely long
struggle against Communism.
Convertibility would mean that,
to take an example, Britain's cen
tral bank would guarantee to ex
change dollars for pounds sterl
ing for anyone who wished to
convert pounds into dollars.
Such conversions now may be
made only by government per
mission and at rates set by gov
ernment regulation, not supply
and demand in the market
By GORMAN HOG AN
PORTLAND (Jf) Has a city
the right to add fluoride to the
public drinking water supply
even if a majority of the people
are in favor of it?
This hotly contested question
will be answered early next year
by the Oregon Supreme Court.
And on that decision may hinge
the future of water fluoridation
in Oregon.
Cities which have held up ac
tion pending the decision almost
certainly would drop any plans
if the court handed down an ad
verse decision. In other cities
where fluoridation now is in ef
fect, opponents would have am
munition for a referendum elec
tion.
State health authorities, back
ing the fluoridation program on
the ground that it reduces tooth
decay in children, are confident
that the right to fluoridate will
be upheld.' Opponents are just as
curtain it will be declared illegal.
Approved by Five
Meantime, seven Oregon com
munities are now artifically fluoo
idating drinking water supplies
and it has been approved by
five others. The people of two
other cities have rejected it.
The Supreme Court test devel
oped from a fight at the Central
Oregon city of Bend, where fluor
idation was approved by the city
commission in February, 1952,
The action was referred to the
people in November, 1952, and
was approved by a vote of 2,683
to 2,082. .
Legal Action
William J. Baer, a former city
commissioner, brought legal ac
tion, arguing that fluoridation is
unconstitutional and beyond the
city's jurisdiction.
A temporary restraining order
was granted by Circuit Judge E.
H. HowelL He later dismissed the
order and Baer appealed to the
Supreme Court, Oct. 26, 1953. The
case is to be argued in Salem on a
date still to be set
Gearhart, on the Oregon coast,
was the first to fluoridate, after
city council approval, in July,
195L Four other cities Florence,
Forest Grove, Pendleton and
Astoria have since started fluor
idating after city council approval
Plan Approved
population of about' 35,000, ap
proved fluoridation in September,
1951 A year later the city Water
& Electric Board conducted a
post card poll of water users. The
vote: 4,045 yes; 4,823 no: 693 no
opinion. Some 9,138 failed to
return cards. The council then
tabled the question and no action
has been, taken since.
At Klamath Falls and Rose-
burg, city councils approved by
resolution fluoridation in the fall
of 1952. But at Klamath Falls
action is being held up until the
Bend ease is settled. Petitions
there favored fluoridation about
2 to 1, while a smattering of
letters to the council opposed it
Asks Ordinance
At Roseburg, the Oregon Water
Corp., a private water company,
refused to fluoridate without a
city ordinance. ' In the face of
objections, the council declined to
pass the ordinance without a vote
of the people. Pressure against
fluoridation increased so it was
dropped. City Manager W. A.
Gilchrist said-one of the promi
nent objectors was a church
group he declined to identify.
Cities Going Ahead -
Two other cities Coquille and
Mill Cityare going ahead with
plans to fluoridate after council
approval, according to the State
Board of Health.
City councils of Coos Bay and
North Bend approved fluorida
tion in 1951 but nothing has been
done about it, pending Supreme
Court decision.
The people of Hulsboro re
jected fluoridation by a decisive
Rail Disaster Scene in New Zealand
Mi'
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VUCKLAND Workmen search the wreckage of railroad cars in New Zealand after aa express
train broke throuch a flood-weakened bridce and slanged into a raging stream. Part of the col
lapsed bridge is visible at the upper left. An estimated 166 persons lost their lives in the Christmas
disaster, which happened in a mountainous area 250 miles south of Auckland. (AP Wirephoto via
radio from Wellington to The Statesman.)
Pillsbury to
OfM
onoDoiv
At Corvallis, a vote of the 1
people approved fluoridation by -r r
a vote of 2,700 to 2,000, on May'j h nnp I HurOTP
18. 1952. Eauinment was installed 1 VlUCli
a month later. Corvallis also sup
plies water to nearby Philomath.
Salem Heights, a suburb of the
state capital which has its own
water supply, began fluoridating
in August, 1953, after a post card
poll of users showed 75 per cent
in favor and 25 per cent against.
About 90 per cent of the water
users returned cards. No one has
objected since.
In Salem, a campaign is now
underway by Parent-Teachers As
sociaiton officials for fluoridation.
A controversy has developed.
Sanctioned in Eugene
The city council of Eugene,
Oregon's third largest city with a
Eisenhower
Acts to Limit
Oats Imports
of Egyptian glassware.
$l,561J09.
That's All for You'
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AUGUSTA, Ga President Eisenhower clamps his hand ever month
of his grandson, David, 5, in a playfal gestare as they posed for
pietare aroaad Christinas tree ia Aagnsta, Ga. Ike's graaddaagh
ter. Barbara Aha, 4, (lower left) looks at Christmas tree, while
Mamie . (right) aad her mother, Mrs. Joha Dowd look enThe
Eisenhowers are in Augusta for the Christmas holidays. (AP Wire-
C photo to The Statesman.) y,
Death Claims
Ex-Turkish
Prime Minister
ISTANBUL. Turkey t-Sukru i
Saracoglu, 66, Turkey's Prime
Minister during World War II,
died at his home Sunday.'
The veteran political leader, who
entered public life as a protege
of the great Kemal Ataturk, served
as Prime Minister from 1942 to
1946, when he was succeeded by
Recep Peker.
During his long career be served
as foreign, education, finance and
justice minister. In 1939, as for
eign minister, Saracoglu traveled
to Moscow to try to negotiate a
non-aggression pact.
He was met by Soviet claims on
Turkey's eastern provinces,. Kars
and Ardahan. He refused to yield
and returned home. ' '
While Saracoglu was en route to
Ankara, the then Premier. ReCk
Saydm, signed a non-aggression
agreement with Britain - and
France. --y
Saracoglu entered Ataturk's first
government as education minister.
From then on he was never out
of politics. He occupied successive
ministries until, on Ataturk's death
in 1938, he became foreign minis
ter. His was the task of building the
many-sided structure of neutrality
on which Turkey relied when
World War II began. Its corner
stones were the alliance with
France and Britain, a. friendship
and non-aggression treaty with
Germany and cautious friendship
with Russia. '
In 1942 Saracoglu became Prime
Minister. It was during his regime
in 1945 that Turkey declared
war on the Axis. . '
Aspirin was discovered about
100 years ago by Jan Alsatian
chemist but was a laboratory
curiosity for SO years before men
learned what it was good for.
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
AUGUSTA, Ga. Ufi President
Eisenhower, acting to protect
American producers, Sunday limit
ed imports of oats into the United
States from non-Canadian sources
to 2,500.000 bushels from Dec. 23,
1953, to Sept. 30, 1954.
The move supplements an ear
lier agreement which restricts
shipments of oats from Canada
to this country to . 23,000,000
bushels during the period Dec.
10, 1953, to next Sept. 30.
Eisenhower's action affecting
non Canadian sources prim
arily imports from Argentina
came shortly after the President
and the first lady attended 11:15
a.m. services at the Sunday school
chapel of the Reid Memorial
Presbyterian Church.
A Department of Agriculture
spokesman in Washington said oat
imports from Argentina in the past
six months amounted to ,z mil
lion bushels but purchases there
in the last few weeks indicated the
import figure would have been in
creased "quite a little."
None Last Tear
About 200,000 bushels of oats
were imported from Mexico an
nually from 1943 through 1950 but
none last year.
The President arrived here
Christmas Day from Washington
for 10 days of work on a series of
early January messages to Con
gress and a television and radio re
port to the nation on his adminis-'
tration s program thus far.
Te Talk to Aides
Work on that Jan. 4 report, which
also will deal with future goals,
will get started in earnest Mon
day morning when the President
confers with two White House
aides arriving, from Washington
late Sunday.
The speech-writing aides are
Kevin McCann. on leave as presi
dent of Defiance College, and
Charles Moore, who recently joined
the White House staff. .
James C Hagerty. presidential
press secretary, told newsmen oth
er administration officials will be
arriving here later in the week
for. work on three messages to
congress. Tbey are the state of the
union message which Eisenhower
will deliver to congress in person
Jan. 7, the day, after the legis
lators reconvene, and the budget
and economic reports which will go
i to the capital a few days later.
WASHINGTON -In its first
decision under a 1950 Anti-Merger
Law, the Federal Trade Com
mission (FTC) Sunday ruled that
Pillsbury Mills, Inc., must face
anti-trust proceedings arising from
its purchase of two competitor
firms.
The commission reversed its own
hearinz examiner, who had dis
missed the complaint
Pillsbury's purchase in 1951
Ballard fc Ballard Co., for S5.172,
000 and in 1952 of Duff s Baking
I Mix Division for $2,238,000.
The FTC held that evidence re
ceived in earlier hearings estab-
: lished a prima facie case that the i
! effect of the mergers might be
' "substantially to lessen competi
j tion or tend to create a monopoly."
! Pillsbury will have a chance to
refute or explain that evidence
when the hearing is resumed.
Second Largest
The Minneapolis concern is the
country's second largest flour mil
ler. The evidence showed, the FTC
said, that it substantially enlarged
its share of the market, especially
in the southeast, by the acquisi
tions. Ballard was a major competitor
in the Southeast, where it was the
third largest seller of family flour
and baking mixes. Duff's, a divi
sion of the American Home Prod
ucts Corp.. was the country's fifth
largest seller of mixes.
Major Decision
In what an FTC spokesman
called a major policy decision, the
commission held that the com
plaint was "improperly dismissed"
by hearing Examiner Everett F.
Haycraft. upon Pillsbury's motion
at the close of the prosecution's
C3SC
Chairman Edward F. Howrey,
who wrote the opinion, said evi
dence in the case to date would
justify a finding that "the pattern
of competition in the Southeast,
paricularly in the cities, has un
dergone a considerable change as
a result of the mergers."
He said Pillsbury now will have
a chance to "rebut, explain or con
tradict" the evidence which now
shows, he said, a change which
"constitutes a move away from
healthy competitive conditions."
Howrey noted that the milling
industry is a declining one in
which the bigger companies have
steadily increased their share of
the market, largely through mergers.
Minor Damage
In 2-Car Wreck
A two-car collision at Center
and Commercial Streets Sunday
evening resulted in minor dam
age to the two vehicles but no
injuries, city police reported.
Drivers were identified as
Elmer Lloyd Hastings, Monmouth,
and Jalmer Pederson, Portland.
Both cars were headed east on
Center Street, investigating offi
cers said, a
Mitchell Say
had dis-:warr i
ff?S White tase
Hurts Demos
Si
State Holiday
Fatality List
Climbs to Six
Four Die in
Plane Crash
SAN BERNADINO, Calif.
Three men and a boy were killed
instantly Sunday when a four-passenger
private plane crashed one
half mile from the Big Bear Air
port in the San Bernardino Moun
tains. Deputy Coroner P. H. Evans said
the dead were identified as Thom
as R. Devault. 40. Long Beach,
owner and pilot; Robert Brunell,
29, Downey, and Fitch O. John
son, 42. and his son, Richard,
12. or 13, both of Center, Colo.
Evans said the plane apparent
ly - was caught in a - down draft
shortly after taking off , from the
Big Bear Airport. It crashed nose
first in a field, r;
CHICAGO UP Democratic Na
tional Chairman Stephen A.
Mitchell, said Sunday his party
lost ground in Illinois during
1953 and was hurt generally by
the Harry Dexter White case
revelations.
In a television interview Mitch
ell admitted frankly that the
White case "has hurt the Demo
cratic Party." The FBI reported
White, a Treasury Department of
ficial in the Truman administra
tion, was a security risk.
Speaking of Republican vic
tories in judicial elections in
Cook County and in the Rock
Island Supreme Court district,
Mitchell said:
"I think these recent elections
in Illinois have been rather dis
couraging to the Democratic
Party. They concern me very
much. I think we have lost
ground..
Mitchell said Sen. McCarthy
(R-Wis.), chairman of a Senate
investigating subcommittee, was
a "Republican problem." He also
referred to the senator as an
"American problem," and con
ceded that McCarthy had made
headway in some parts of the
country.
Mitchell predicted big Demo
cratic gains in the 1954 congres
sional election, but said it was
too early to make specific claims.
Mitchell said the Democrats
should hold their minority posi
tion in Congress and give the
Eisenhower administration oppor
tunity for leadership.
Nixon's Father
'Feeling Fine9
PHOENIX, Ariz. Uf Vice
President Nixon's father, who suf
fered a gastric hemorrhage late
Tuesday, was quoted Sunday as
feeling "fine" since being taken
off the critical list at St. Joseph's
Hospital
Mrs. Frank A. Nixon said her
73-year-old husband may be well
enough to continue to Los Angeles
late this . week.
"The doctor has assured me
that Frank can go home sometime
this week if his condition doesn't
get worse," Mrs. Nixon said. "He
feels fine.
Mrs. Nixon has remained almost
constantly at. her husband's bed
side since be was taken off an
airplane after the attack. They
were en route home from Birming
ham, Ala.
The Vice President has kept in
contact with his parents by tele
phone from Washington, D. C. Two
other sons. .Edward and Donald,
spent Christmas here.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Six persons in Oregon met vio
lent death during the long Christ
mas holiday which began Christ
mas Eve and ended at midnight
Sunday.
Traffic accidents claimed the
lives of four. One burned to death
and another drowned.
James A. McDougall of Walla
Walla was a Sunday traffic victim.
His school teacher wife of only
four days. Eva Crystal McDougall,
55. Pakdale, Calif., was injured in
the accident when their automobile
skidded on icy pavement and over
turned 14 miles south of Klamath
Falls.
They had been married the day
before Christmas at Walla Walla
and were driving south apparently
to Oakdale when the accident oc
curred. Car Turn Over
Investigating officers said the
car swerved out of control on
Highway 97 and turned over three
times, throwing McDougall into a
nearby grain field. He wt killed
outright.
Mrs. McDougall was found be
side the wrecked automobile. She
suffered head injuries and possible
internal hurts. She was taken to
the Klamath Vallev HnsniLal where
J her condition was described as
1 serious.
I Body Found .
I The body of Lauren D. Follett,
33, who drowned Saturday while i
fishing in the Alsea Kiver, was
recovered "Sunday.
Police said Follett, a resident
of Waldport, apparently slipped
from the shore and was carried
downstream by the current.
The widow and two small chil
dren survive.
George Jimmerfleld, 53. of Al
bany, was burned to death. He
died Christmas day after suffering
burns when his small home on the
outskirts of Albany caught fire,
Cause of the blaze was not de
termined. Three persond died in earlier
traffic accidents. They were:
Mrs. Virgil Harrison. Benton
City, Wash., about 40, killed Fri
day morning when a car driven
by her husband skidded off a high
way near Ontario.
Laura Douglas. 53, North Holly
wood, Calif., killed Christmas night
when her car plunged off a high
way 35 miles south of Roseburg.
Herbert C. Nelson. 35, San Fran
cisco, drowned Thursday night
when his car ran off a highway
into Salt Creek near Oakridge.
vote in September, 1953, after a
not campaign. The vote was 137
yes, 74 no. In April, 1952, flu
oridation had been approved in
an advisory vote asked by the
city council, 192 to 168. The
county health department said
it plans to seek another vote after
the Bend case is settled.
At Albany, the city council in
October, 1952, voted against flu-"
oridation. A new council in May,
1953 approved it The people re
jected fluoridation at a referen
dum election in June, 1953, by a
vote of 878 to 582. About 24 per
cent of the registered voters cast
ballots.
No Action Taken
Portland, the. state's metrooo-
lis, has taken no action. City At
torney Alexander Brown has
recommended that. the city coun
cil do nothing until the question
has been put t a vote of the
people. He expressed "grave
doubt" that the city has author
ity to add fluorine to water with
out consent of the people.
The State Board of Health has
tion by cities.
Several Eastern Oreson cities
have in their natural water sup
ply more than one part of flu
orine to each million parts of
water the recommended formu
la for artificial fluoridation..
They include Boardman, McNary.
Umatilla and Arlington. Com
munities with .7 ofone part flu
orine to each million parts of
water include Ontario, Ordnance,
Stanfield, Nyssa, Fort Klamath,
Echo and Adams. Scores of other
places in Oregon have lesser
quantities.
Less Tooth Decay
Dr. David Witter, dental dt
rector for the State Board oi
Health, made a study of the
teeth of children born and raised
at Umatilla. He reported that
while the number of children
available to- check in the small
town was not large enough to be
statistically sound, the study
showed that the children had 65
per cent less tooth decay than
those where the water contained-:
no fluorine.
Various other groups, both put
lie and private, are on record in
favor of fluoridation. The League
of Women Voters and the Port
land City Club are now making
a study of the question.
Organizations Oppose
Principal opposition in Oregon
comes from.4he Citizens Council
Against Water Fluoridation, and
the Pure Water Committee of the
Health Education League. Both
were active in the campaigns af
Hills boro and Albany, ringing
doorbells and distributing litera
ture. Both groups, headquartered
in Portland, work with local com
mittees in other cities.
Lewis R. Ellingwood, president
of the Citizens Council, said oppo
nents argue principally that fluor
idation is dangerous and un
necessary and that it invades th.
rights of man by giving him some
thing . . . in his drinking watei
supply . . . that he might not
want. Iftan individual wants flu
orine, then that is a problem ht
should work out with his medical
adviser, Ellingwood says.
Objects to Policy
' Ellingwood contends that pub
lie funds are being used to pre
mote fluoridation which his grou,
feels is not in the public inter
est
An unusual aspect of the fluo
rine situation which affects Ore
gon, principally the Portlant
area, is claims of farmers that
fluorine gas emitted by nearbj
aluminum plants, has poisoned
livestock and vegetation. Ellin g
wood says that this gas also is it
the atmosphere and that the peo
pie of the area are getting mor
fluorine than they should have
through the air and through foot
consumption.
Calculations indicate there are
about 70 million pounds of nitro
gen in the air around the earth.
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