Statesman, Salem, Or Friday, April 30, 1S54 (Soc 2 7
Child Killer Probably Lurks About Every Oregon Home, Says Official
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Observance of Child Safety Week brings to light the fact that last
year 172 Oregon children lost their lives in accidents. Five sf the
long list of potential child killers are shown above in these state
health department photos. UPPER LEFT Despite the publicity
given abandoned ice boxes, many remain and are potential killers.
UPPER RIGHT Pots and pans containing boiling liquids can if
Child Mishaps
Kill 172 in
State in 1953
"There probably is a child kill
er lurking in and about every
Oregon home."
That's the statement from Pr.
Harold M. Erickson, -"He health
officer, in connection with Ore
gon's observance of Child Safety
Week in an attempt to reduce the
state's toll of 172 fatal child ac
cidents during 1953.
The state health officer point
ed out that accidents now kill
more children in Oregon than all
the communicable diseases com
bined and emphasized that "most
of these" could be pr. vented if
parents would practice and teach
good safety habits.
Pr. Erickson pointed out that
accidents in and about the home
top all other classes of child ac
cidental deaths, including traffic
accidents. He urged that every
Oregon parent take time this
week to remove potential killers
and cripplers in the home area.
He said that free home safety
check lists are availaw,e through
county health department offices.
Among the common safeguards
listed by Dr. Erickson were:
1. Keep insecticides, medicines
and cleansing agents in a secure
ly locked cabinet out of the reach
of children.
2 Turn all pot handles to the
back of the stove.
3. Keep fire arms in a locked
cabinet
4. Make sure that you can see
where children are when backing
the family car out of the garage.
5. Make sure electric cords and
appliances are in good condition,
and keep unused electric outlets
covered.
. Make sure that baby's toys
do not have loose eyes, buttons,
.or stuffing which could strangle
a child.
7. Never leave a baby any time
In his bath even for "just a mo
ment." 8. Keep knives and tools out of
the reach of young children.
9. Keep fireplaces screened and
do not allow very young children
near.
Dr. Erickson emphasized that
children should receive complete
protection for the first year or so
of their lives, and that parents
should then begin to relax the
protection and increase the
child's safety education.
A single steam electric plant
near Lexington. Ky., can bum
more than a million tons ol bitu
minous coal annually.
Shown Toxins
Schine's Appearance Before
Probe Committee Tempered
By Military Training Effects
By ARTHUR EDSOV
AP Newsfeatures Writer
WASHINGTON :P In one re
spect at least. G. David Schine
is a very model U. S. Army pri
vate. The young man about whom so
much has been said during the Ar
my - McCarthy hearing Thursday
made a sudden, unexpected ap
pearance before the Senate com
mittee he once served as an un
paid consultant.
And from the first question put
to him will you please state your
name? he showed the effects of
his brief military training
"Gerard David Schine, sir," he
said.
Carefully Adds "Sir"
From then on, on almost every
question asked. Schine carefully
added the "sir." All told, he
"sirred" the committee more than
300 times.
It's ironic that this polite appear
ance should have been made
Thursday. For it produced some of
the roughest language used yet in
the six-day hearing into charges
1' by Army officials that Sen.
McCarthy iR-Wis' and aides used
pressure to get favors for Schine
and 2 by the McCarthy camps
that Army officials used blackmail
tactics to halt an inquiry into al
leged subversives in the Army.
Until Thursday, both the Army
counsel, Joseph Welch, and McCar
thy have been gracious and defer
ring to Ray Jenkins, the special
counsel who is supposed to be un
prejudiced, whose lone function is
to dredge out facts.
McCarthy Insists
But Thursday afternoon McCar
thy insisted that Jenkins was going
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With Potential Killers
left within reach of children scald and kill. INSET Matches are
always dangerous. LOWER LEFT Medicines which cure adult ills
can kill curious children. LOWER RIGHT Falls are a leading cause
of accidental death and serious injury among youngsters under 15
years of age.
about bragging about his ability as
a criminal lawyer was "badger
ing this private."
Jenkins denied he had done any
bragging about his lawyering abili
ty. He said the only thing he
bragged about was his intention to
be fair, to get at the truth, "let the
chips fall where they may."
And he said he wasn't badgering
here he dropped his voice to a
sweet, unbadgering whispering.
In the morning, while Secretary
of the Armjr Stevens was on the
stand, it had been Welch who was
complaining.
Put Gently
Only he put it more gently than
McCarthy did, in this way:
"I am informed, Mr. Jenkins,
that you have tried many murder
trials and with great success, but
may I remind you. my friend, that
this is not a murder trial, and that
you are examining the Secretary of
the Army.
"It may feel good to me when
you jump down the throats of the
witnesses on the other side, but I
beg of you, this witness is entitled,
I think, to at least ordinary cour
tesy. "In your zeal, which I admire,
I think by the tone of your voice
you may convey an impression to
the country that you would not wish
to convey."
Since Schine's appearance had
not been announced in advance hel
created a stir from the moment he
walked into the room.-
Schine is a tall, good looking
blond. Other witnesses have
brought along volumes of reference
material. In his hand he carried
but one thing, his service cap.
But even in the hubbub his polite
ness never escaped him.
Jenkins asked Schine if he felt
CLEAN
EFFICIENT
ECONOMICAL
he had been abused during the
questioning.
Schine didn't answer that ques
tion directly for a moment, but he
finally said, polite as ever:
"If you are abusing me, sir, it
doesn't bother me."
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ped, according to R. L. Polk & Co.
industrial statisticians, while new
car output totaled 6,121,787, with
total new registrations at 5,738,-
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By J. HENRY BROWN
International News Service
Special Correspondent
S. S. INDEPENDENCE AT
SEA (INS) All I can say is
that it sure was a sorry showing
for the South. Why it was
enough to make the blood of a
Daughter of the Confederacy run
plumb cold.
Maybe it's because it was all
thought up by a damyankee in
the first place and happened on
board this ship which runs out
of New York City, but anyway
here- is what happened.
The other day we were sailing
south along the coast of India
when one of the members of the
cruise staff from a northern
state came up with some his
torical data.
He said we were going to pass
an island called Anjengo just off
the Indian coast where that great
naval hero, Admiral Raphael
Simms, took the battleship Ala
bama for refitting after he had
sunk practically the whole north
ern navy during the War Be
tween the States.
Ceremony Suggested
As a fitting memorial to this
man, he suggested that some of
our boys and girls might want to
conduct some sort of ceremony.
They gave us so little time to pre
pare that we couldn't have pos
sibly done justice to the occa
sion. It was just about sunset when
they told us we were just about
abreast of the island and should
gather on one of the upper decks
to pay our respects to the late
Admiral Simms.
The captain of the ship, a man
named Switzer from Connecticut,
had come up with a lot of ex
cuses about reefs and tides and
currents and fishing nets so we
weren't able to get in close
Dixie Captain
enough to shore to see the island
itself.
Several of us pointed out that
a seaman of Simms stature ap
parently didn have any trouble
sailing right 'up to that island
with the Alabama, but nobody
paid us much heed.
They got the band out for us
all right, but I'm sorry to say
that only about half of our boys
and girls even showed up for
the ceremony.
Stood Around Watching
As if that wasn't bad enough
Mme. Chiang
In Country for
Medical Aid
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif. Ufi A smiling Mme. Chi
ang Kai-Shek, wife of the President
of Nationalist China, arrived from
the Orient Thursday night by Na
tionalist air force plane.
She left immediately by auto for
San Francisco, where she will un
dergo medical treatment.
As she stepped from a C54-type
transport. Mme. Chiang was pre
sented a bouquet of roses by T. K.
Chang, Chinese consul general and
greeted by other members of the
Chinese community in San Fran
cisco. Mme. Chiang will undergo treat
ment of a recurring skin ailment
at Franklin Hospital in San Fran
cisco, where she underwent treat
ment in 1952.
No pictures or interviews were
permitted.
A large group of Air Force po
licemen kept reporters and photo
graphers from the landing area.
From a distance, Mme. Chiang ap
peared lively and in good health.
On India Trip
you should have seen the dam
yankees that came out and just
stood around foolish-like watch
ing. They told us we were going to
have a wreath to fling over the
side while the bugler played
"Taps." As it turned out they
didn't even have any real flow
ers for us, just some little old
crepe paper ones which they
gave to some of the girls.
Exactly when we were oppo
site where tfiey saia the island
was, they blew the fog horn three
or four times as a signal to throw
the flowers.
Then, with those Yankees gig
gling and talking in the back
ground, a fellow with a cornet
played "Taps" so quiet you could
hardly hear him.
The final crushing blow came
when the band played "Dixie"
and there were only about a doz
en or so of us standing at atten
tion and singing. 1 quit myself
during the second chorus when
I looked around and noticed the
man singing the loudest came
from New Jersey.
Czechs Showered
By Crusade Leaflets
MUNICH. Germany (V Millions
of anti-Communist leaflets began
to shower Czechoslovakia Thurs
day from high-altitude balloons
launched by the American "Cru
sade for Freedom" from secret
border sites. rao Free Europe re
ported. At the same time RFE trans
mitters supported the crusade by
Czechoslovak-beamed broadcasts,
marking the start of a coordinated
campaign called "Operation Veto."
The Cro-Magnon race of pre
historic men had skulls and pre
sumably brains larger than" those
of modern men.
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W. L. Warren
To Join State
Police Force
William L. Warren, Salem po
lice officer since October, 1950,
and son of Police Chief Clyde A.
Warren, will join the state police
force Saturday.
He will be assigned to the Sa
lem unit for about 10 days, ac
cording to State Police Captain
Raymond G. Howard, and then
will be transferred to Newport
for an additional six-months train
ing. His wife and three daugh
ters will accompany him to New
port Prior to his Salem position.
Warren was with the Prineville
police department
The vacancy on the Salem ri.
partment created by the resigna
tion win ne ziued from the civil
service list according to Chief
Warren.
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