THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1954
CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN. CENTRAL POINT. OREGON
Teeth of Local School Children Said
'Seriously Defective and Neglected'
Teeth of school children in
Jackson and Josephine counties
are defective to a serious degree
and are being gravely neglected,
a survey completed by the Un
iversity of Oregon Dental school
reveals.
Almost half of the teeth of
native bom and reared young
sters ages 14 to 16 are decayed,
filled or missing—and nearly
half of these defective teeth have
not received dental care. Dean
Harold J. Noyes of the state
school reported this week.
Two County Check
Checkups in 10 Jackson and
three Josephine communities last
spring found tooth decay was
slightly worse in Josephine than
in Jackson. The latters average
for the 285 pupils examined was
13.4 defective teeth each, includ
ing 7.7 filled, 0.9 missing and
5.6 with open caries. Results
were not announced by schools
or districts.
Real purpose of the suivey was
to determine if southern Oregon
is much different from the
parts of the state in rate of tooth
decay, and to explore causes if
variations were found.
Little Different
Field work and analyses by
Dr. D. M. Hadjimarkos, assist
ant professor of public health at
the dental school in Portland, re
vealed this area’s conditions,
serious as they are, were little
different from those found earl
ier in coast and Williamette Val
ley counties.
Josephine’s rate of defective
teeth was the same as in Clatsop
county, and Jackson’s was slight
ly higher than in Benton. Sunny
and high-altitude Klamath and
Deschutes showed best conditio
ns noted thus far, with 9 and
11.3 defective teeth per child,
respectively.
“The southern Oregon survey
furnishes new data on the mag
nitude of the dental decay prob
lem in this state, and the dis
parity between needs and serv
ices actutally received,” Dr. Had
jimarkos remarked.
Sunshine and Altitude
“Sunshine together with alti
tude seems to favor development
of sound teeth,” he said. “The
Rogue river valley has more
sunny days that the Coast and
Willamette counties, but a haze
contributed to by its many saw
mills may reduce ultraviolet rad
iation from the sun.”
Previous studies also sugest-
ed the trace element selenium
may be a villian in making
teeth more sucepitible to decay,
after less of it was found in
Klamath than in Clatsop.
Amounts of selenium will be
checked in southern Oregon
soon, he said.
No Fluorides
Public water supplies in Jack-
son and Josephine were found
to
contain
no
appreciable
amounts fluorides.
Oregon is the first state to
undertake such a detailed study
of the prevalence of dental de
cay among its children.
The small ratio of children ex
amined was due mostly to a re
quirement that they had been
born in one of the two counties
and had spent not more than one
month in any year outside the
area.
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CENTRAL POINT
A. Bohnert Chosen
For Committee
Arnold Bohnert of Central
Point has been named to the
Jackson county “Farmers for
Cordon" committee, acording to
a press release this week.
Bohnert was named to the
committee by W. M. Tate, Sub
limity rancher and chairman
the state-wide “Farmers for
Cordon” committee.
Other Jackson county men
named to the committee include:
E. W. Beeson, Talent; Charles
Hoover, Eagle Point; Robert Nor
ris, Medford; Robert Root, Med
ford; Paul Culbertson, Jackson
ville; John Billings, Ashland;
Stephen Nye, Talent; Ralph
Cook, Medford; David Lowry,
Phoenix, and Charles Barnes,
Talent.
Ghelardi, secretary; Mary Lou
Savage, refreshment chairman;
Patty Barber, game chairman,
and Margaret Taylor, reporter.
Along with this meeting, there
was a organizational meeting on
beginning sewing.
Margaret Taylor, reporter.
Over 200 Attend
Eagle Point P-TA
(Too late for last week)
By Mrs Ada Bonebrake
EAGLE POINT—Eagle Point
P-TA met the fourth Tuesday in
September for a potluck dinner
held in the school gymnasium.
Over 200 parents and teachers
were in attendance.
Thursday, October 7, the Eagle
Point Lions Auxiliary' met at
the Teen-age club with Presid
ent Tena Olsen conducting a
lovely evening for the state presi
dent and third vice president.
It was most enteraining and ed
ucational.
Mr. and Mrs. James Clarke
have moved into the recently
converted store. This was known
as Sparkies, is a lovely home
now.
Mr. and Mrs Art Hotho moved
into the resident previously oc
cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Clarke.
Everyone regretted seeing Mr.
and Mrs. Kettlewell leave the
community’ this past week. Due
to his health, he could no longer
live here. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Keasler bought the Kettlewell
home and are now’ getting set
tled.
Mr. and Mrs. James Wallis
moved into a larger house this
week.
A huge success this week was
a rummage sale at the Teen
age club Saturday, October 9.
S. Coffman Elected
To Lead Kandy Kids
Sharon Coffman was elected
president of the Kandy Kids 4-H
Cooking club at the organiza
tional meeting of the group held
October 5.
The meeting was held at the
home of Mary Lou Savage.
Other officers chosen to serve
with Miss Coffman are: Deana
Russell, vice president; Sandra
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Camp Fire girls held a baked
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The Colleen Hope dancing
classes started Monday, October
11. There were 12 students in
the pre-school classes; 13 in the
first, second and third grade
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grade and up.
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