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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1949)
Southern Oregon News Review, Ashland, Oregon, Thursday, August 25, 1949 - Five Polio Cases Have Been Reported in County To Date, Says Chairman Foremost in public interest is the undulant fever menace which strikes -10,000 new victims every year. Health authorities airree that raw milk is a dangerous carrier of undulant fever, bovine tubercalosia, typhoid and other diseases. Pasteurising milk is the only safe way to check such milk-borne diseases, they say. This new Safgard h'.me milk and cream pasteurizer offers an easy way to combat the dieeaee for it makes pasteurizing milk at home a simple task. It is vcrr.pl-. tely automatic so that anyone can operate **- Oregon State Fair Old In Years, But Spirit Is That Of Pioneer On the iorth bank of the Cla-' ckamas river, one-half mile fr.m cattle raising, horse raising, cu lt its m outh and a mile and one- half north of Oregon City, the ivated grasses adapted to Oregon first Oregon State Fair was held m anagem ent of fern lands and the best system of tillage. The prem October 1 to 4, 1861. The Oregon State A gricultural iums had grown to $7,500. Society was the guiding spirit of For tw enty-four years the Ag th at first fair. U ndaunted be ricultural Society guided the fair; cause money was scarce, the leaders literally passed the hat then in 1885 the legislature plac in Portland; citizens subscribed ed it in charge of the State $130 w ithin a few hours. The Board of A griculture and appro first prem ium list offered $758 priated $5,000 yearly for its sup port. By the turn of the century, in prizes. it was a week-long event—nearly In the displays of the first fair, 1,000 tents dotted the cam p the envy of the women was a grounds. Buildings were slow in silk bed quilt which had been coming..—the fair-goers d id n t designed as a gift to President m ind the m ud puddles. The Abraham Lincoln. first horseless carriage created a And the first fair along the C la sensation at the 1904 fair (and ckamas was a big success. A ttend ance was considered rem arkable fair patrons were n ot overly im when over 1,500 persons attended pressed by the first commercial airplane displayed in 1946)—by at one time. This success led the A gricul 1910 eight autom obiles were ture .Society to call for bids for counted at the fair. At the golden perm anent fairgrounds. Salem anniversary in 1911 there were received 65 of the 71 votes cast. just over 1,000 livestock entries. Two years later the legislature So to Salem the F air was moved the next year, 1862, and in Salem created the five m an board of it has been held each year since, state fair directors, placed the except in 1905 when the Lewis fair in its hands and set the and Clark Exposition was staged opening date the fourth Monday in Portland and during the recent in Septem ber ... It was natural that it should be placed in the w ar years. The fair grew slowly but surely. state departm ent of agriculture Even as early as 1866 it was well when th at agency was created established.....people came to e x in 1931. M odem fair history dates from hibit and adm ire.......the grounds were surrounded by tents spread th at time. The 1933 fair opened for the period of the exhibition. on Labor day for the first tim e In its fifth year at Salem the and it has been the official open sizeable sum of $25.00 was offered ing date since that time. It is to winners of an oxen plowing interesting to note that during match. the 12 years prior to the Labor Prizes of $10 and $5 w ent to I day opening, the average def the best exhibits of mechanical iciency appropriation from the dentistry. The fair was keeping legislature was over $71,000 an abreast of the tim es Cash a- nually. Total legislative appro wards were offered for essays on priations in support of the fair Mr Sm ith said that the local chapter’s carry-over case load from other years illustrates one of the moat serious problem s facing the National Foundation. "It look*,** he said, "as if this y e a r’s epidem ic will be as costly us lust year’s when $ 1 V.UiH'.OOO was spent for m edical euro alone. The cost of taking euro of 1948 putients still needing care in 1949 will cost additional millions. W hat will the carry-over of 1949 into 1950 be?" "There’s no way of preventing an epidemic,” he said ‘‘ut least no scientifically proven way. But we can do much to reduce crippl ing and fatalities by being prop erly prepared with personnel und facilities for prompt m odem care We also can observe sim ple health precautions recommended by our health authorities and the N at ional Foundation.” Mr Sm ith also asked local citiz ens to observe such precautionary health rules as: Avoiding crowds; over-fatigue: sudden chilling; and observing the golden rule of per sonal cleanliness. Vern Sm ith, chairm an of the Jackson County C hapter of the National Foundation for Infuntile Paralysis, said today that five polio cases had been reported here this year, and that 12 p a t ients are being assisted financially by the local March of Dimes Chapter. "Polio is a long term disease,” | he declared. "Long after out breaks have subsided a ertain num ber of patients require m ed ical tre a tm e n t The local C hapter has provided financial assistance am ounting to over $11,000 in the last year to underw rite continu ing care for those who neded It. "W hat we are trying to do here is part of a nation-w ide struggle against infanttile paralysis. The incident this year following the high incident of 1948 is unprece dented in the history of the dis ease in the United States. Never before have we had two such bad polio years In a row." Mr. Sm ith said natonal head quarters of the Foundation re Douglas Fir Sales ports this sum m er’s polio case Exceed Production rate and March of Dimes expen PORTLAND, Aug. 3— Demand ditures for polio care are far for Douglas Fir lum ber during ahead of last sum er s near-record totals for this tim e of the year. Ju ly forced orders 25 million feet a week above production, accor ding to H. V. Simpson, executive from 1919 to 1931 w ere $756,408. vice president of West Coast The only legislative allocations Lum berm en's Association. The m ade since 1933 w hen the legis lum ber official said there was a lature set the Labor day opening general strengthening of demand date, was in 1936 for the rebuild as m id-summ er home construct ing of certain barn roofs destroy ion building hit Its stride. ed by heavy snows th at appro O rders for Ju ly averaged 149, priation was approxim ately $30, 926,000 board feet weekly, Sim p son stated, while production lag 000. Biggest single day in fair ged behind, due to vacations and history was Labor day, 1946, shutdow ns for repairs, averaging w hen 55,266 paid admissions 125,090,000 board feet weekly. packed the grounds and total at- Shipm ents bettered production packe the grounds and total a t slightly, averaging 129,845,000 tendance th at day neared 80,000 board feet a week. the largest single crowd in the Try the News Review History of Oregon. Total prem- Get your Job P rinting at the for the 1949 State Fair will again News Review total approxim ately $75.00. made during the recently concl Sales of E Bonds in Jackson uded O pportunity Bond Drive are County were exceptionally high keeping the desirability of thrift during July, according to County before the people of the county. Ciiuiruian C. W. Thnisoo, am ount Tor Office Supplies ing to $79,218. 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