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(. r t NEW YORK TRIP AT HEALTH MEET Definite progress In the field of public health has been reveal ed in army and navy examina tions for World War II, Dr. A. E. Merkel reported to the executive board of the Jackson County Public Health association Thurs day night. Reviewing his trip to New York City, where he re ceived one of the S3 awards, granted to counties and cities of the United States and Canada, Dr. Merkel brought encourag ing news to the meeting at the home of Mr. Lewis Ulrich. While war always brings an increase in tuberculosis, he de clared, figures for this war per iod in the United States are a great improvement - over those tabulated during the first world war. The record in this country, he continued, is also much bet ter than that reported for Can' ada and England, according to speakers appearing on the pro gram of the 73rd conference of the American Public Health association in New York. The death rate for tuberculosis in England, ' where very little pas teurized milk is consumed, was 60 per 100,000 in 1938.. In the United States for that same year the rate was 43 per 100,000. In 1943 England suffered a two per cent increase, attributed to the war. Figures available do not in dicate any increase in our coun try for 1944, he said statlticiang revealed. Active tuberculosis, located in army induction examinations in the United States, he stated, oc curred in just one case in 1000. The navy's record, ' he added, was even lower. Discussing speakers at the con ference, Dr. Merkel gtated that Doctors Office 'Ward' for St. Louis Twins' Baaifia ... .A4BB(llBaBBBBV . for IS hours a day, and said he had at least five more expectant mothers who plan to have their babies delivered in his combina tion office and hospital. Paul Corwin Now First Lieutenant Transport Corps San Francisco, Cal. Paul L. Corwin, Medford . resident on army duty at San Francisco Port of Embarkation, was pro moted to the rank of first lieu tenant in the army transportat ion corps. He is in the motor transportation branch of port transportation division. Lt. Cprwln entered army serv ice originally as an air corps trainee in July, 1942, Because of his civilian experience with Pierce Freight Lines, Portland he was transferred to the trans portation corps, which moves the army on land and water, and was sent to the corps officers training school. On graduation he was assigned to San Francis co port, transferred to Alaska highway duty and last May re turned to this headquarters. A 1931 graduate of Medford busiress college, he is the hus band of Mrs. Helen Corwin of 1112 E. Main street, Medford, and the son of W. H. Corwin of Marial, Ore. Two of his brothers are in service, D. W. Corwin with the 9th infantry division, and Ben Corwfn with an air corps group. FIRE IK ASHLAND Ashland, Oct. 30 A loss Of from $1,500 to $1,800 was sus tained at the Chester Smith resi dence on Oak street Friday after noon when fire burned most of the roof and attio of the resi dence. The fire started from a ifhrt-8J n Li rirnn nirm'irw POP Monday, Oct. SO, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE trash burner in the second-story apartment, according to fire de partment reports. PLANS LIBEL SUIT Hollywood, Oct. 30 (U,R Hal Styles, radio producer and candidate for congress, today was prepared to file a $1,000,000 libel . suit against , the Hearst newspapers "because of vicious charges he is a Klansman.' Relief At Last For Your Cough Oreomulslon relieves promptly be cause it noes rleht to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem. branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Oreomulslon with the un derstanding you must like the way it Quickly allays the cough or you are to nave your money oaac CREOMULSION for Coughs. Chest Colds, Bronchitis Styles recently admitted he ones joined the klan but said he did so "to spy ".on the organization. Franz Abt was a German mus ical composer. Watch , for THE JOKER" Paid Adv. Thi Anti-Prohibition Commlttt of Oregon. O. J. McPerton, Chairman, Ptaraon-4Ul Ave. Bldg., Portland )' ' (Acm Teltphoto) Dr. Harry Rich examines the twins, an eight-pound girl and an 8 vs -pound boy, born In the waiting room of his St Louis office. The mother, Mrs. Lucille Novack, 28. wife of seaman veteran of New Guinea and mother of four small children, lies on a narrow cot beside them in the improvised "ward." Dr. Rich claimed that seven hospitals refused Mrs. Novack admittance for the S0 fee allowed by the Government unless si was attended by a hospital staff physician. WE'RE ON OUR WAY TO VICTORY pie Mayor LaGuardia won the ad miration of all listeners -with his profound understanding of the public health setup and unlimit ed information regarding his city of New York. Whatever the po litical prejudices of the audience might have been preceding his address, Dr. Merkel declared, they vanished as he spoke. La Guardia is now working on a general medical coverage plan for New York City, he stated, which will include all persong of $5,000 or less yearly income. If the plan is a success in New York, Dr. Merkel expressed the belief that it would be incorpor ated in a national measure. The objectives of the tuber culosis control division of the United States Public Health serv ice Dr. Merkel informed the board now include financial aid for every family in which a case of tuberculosis occurs and the expansion of rehabilitation of tuberculosis cases to be placed on a federal basis. Take mother. We all know she does one-thousand-and-ont jobj some for the whole fami ly, some for each individual member. And how do we show . our appreciation?. Why, by a supreme confidence that, when something else comes up, she'll manage one-thousand-and-two jobs. Tnlrja lkMnlrati.a. rnn M tti. dee and you'll discover theLfc same thing holds true of bank ers. In this war, the bankers are doing one -thousand -and -one extra jobs. Some are for the whole community some for individual groups. All are im portant. It's hard to lay which job ranks first. The Treasury nomi nates for honors the banks' aid with war bonds. Industrialists give top billing to the way the banks have helped business an swer the call "To arms." Thou sands of women their husbands gone to war value highest the personal advice and counsel they've received. Being in the gasoline busi ness, we headline the manner in which the banks have smoothed gasoline rationing. By acting as ration coupon depositories, they've simplified a process which could have been full of kinks and snarls. Thus they've done every car-owner a favor. And since they've helped keep America on wheels they've done everybody s favor. These things, and more, the banks have managed to do short-handed with staffs often more willing than experienced. So most people take it for granted as families assume mother will handle any new task that war's end will see the banks quietly living up to the country's new necessities. There is no higher compliment. I flat, IA 1 tari. rardad M r Kdamd PUftwy Olive J Barber's Observations Hotel lobby listening post: "Yes, sir, I aim to get me about five acres and hole up, soon as this war is over," said the sales man to the fat man from Texas, "Going to raise cucumbers, Everybody eats some kind of ickle and cucumbers are the oundation of all of 'em. Too, cucumbers don't need rich ground. Just stick in a few seeds any old place, then rock and read and after while you start picking money off the vines." The corpulant Texan said he was going to get some acreage. too, but he was going to raise chickens: Rhode Island Red chickens, he specified, as they had bigger drumsticks, heh, hehl The little woman in the big chair put in her bit by saying she'd heard bantam eggs had more nourishment in them than regular eggs. No one paid - any attention and she wasn't heard from again.' Just then a sailor came In and made a telephone call. The phone was not In a booth. Everyone politely talked louder. Yet I heard him say, not once but sev eral times, "I tell you I would marry you, Baby, but " and not once did I hear his alibi. He Doctor Now Has Three Babies x . ... .,-r t In Library Dresser Drawers St. Louis, Oct. 30 U.R) Dr. Harry Rich left his three "dres ser drawer" babies in. the care of their new nurse today while he went shopping for three cribs and Dr. Edwin C. Ernest, presi dent of the St. Louis Medical society, opened an investigation into charges that city hospitals refused to give maternity care to wives of servicement for xne $50 aovernment fee. The latest addition to the "dresser drawer" fraternity was the 12-pound daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Mclntlre, wife of a St. Louis welder. The child was de livered in the emergency matern ity ward Rich has set up in his library, while the nervous father paced up and down the narrow confines of the doctor s oriice. Twins Born Friday The first "dresser drawer' babies were born Friday to Mrs. Lucille Novack, wife of Machin ist's Mate 3c Paul Novack, a talked a long time. "So there's a gold braid parked on your door step' If that s the Way you feel about it, okay!" The girl was evidently letting him know the competition was pretty stiff, yet I gathered she'd clear the decks the minute he d agree to sign on the dotted line. The sailor left and I found the Texan and the salesman were still in the chick en business. "Oh, yes, I know there's more work to chickens than cucum bers. You have to sort the big eggs from the little ones and stuff like that, but chickens work for you 12 months a year: cucumbers don't. Besides I want to have something with brains And chickens have plenty of brains. Why a feller was telling me only last week of a White Leghorn hen he had that would take hold of his pants leg with her beak and pull at him until he went and dug her some worms." I didn't believe this and neither will you if you've ever had much to do with chickens. And as to raising cucumbers, well, I remembered the wheel barrow loads of barn fertilizer we'd carted to the cucumber patch; of the buckets of water we'd carried from the spring each evening. If we neglected this, most of the blossoms fell off and the ones that didn't pro duced funny little twisted cukes, yellowing before their time. But I said nothing. Though I doubt if I could have kept still, had they brought up the subject of fences, especially electric fences, WANT TEMPORARY WORK? 'The Christmas Rush is on here at Bear Creek and we need: Typists File Clerks Checkers Here's a chance for housewives, too, who have had office experience, to work full or part time. From now until mid-December you can earn . your Christmas money while enjoying this in . teresting work which brings tfrders by mail from ill parts of the world. OUR OWN BUS SERVICE EXCELLENT CAFETERIA Call Mrs. Bartelt Today 2161 BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS South Pacific Highway Medford veteral of the New Guinea cam paign who is ill in a San Fran cisco hospital. ' The twin babies, a boy ana a girl, were delivered by the 59-year-old bachelor doctor without incident but their first lusty squall re-echoed through the halls of seven city hospitals which Rich charged had refused to admit their 28-year-old mother for the $50 government fee. "The 2,500 private doltors in St. Louis haven't got a chance," Rich declared. Charge $10 Day .The hospitals which are run by churches and civil organiza tions charge the expectant moth ers $10 a day, Rich said, and if the private doctor asks for a nurse to be on duty in the pri vate room, it costs the mother another $7. Rich was prepared to carry on his fight alone if. necessary and has prepared for the delivery of more babies in his emergency maternity ward. He had added a nurse to his staff, employs her Cjem, JHUlicnd Aaq wAetit . . tVtlfl i Blended Whitksy, 86 proof,. 65 grain neutral spirits -OOODERHAM 4 WORTS UO. Peoria, Illinois Let's Keep the Skipper "Politicians who embraced the policy , of isolationism or . who never raised their voices against it in our days of peril are not reliable custodians of the future of America." - Roosevelt. "The people of the nation want their government to act and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace." Roosevelt. "Never again, after cooperating with . other nations in a world war to save our way of life, can we wash our hands of maintaining the peace for which we fought!" Roosevelt. "We either work with the other great nations or wo might some day have to fight them." Roosevelt "We shall not leave them (the Nazis) ' a single element of military power or potential military power." Roosevelt AT THE HELM! Help President Roosevelt Win a Strong Peace by Giving Him Loyal Support in Congress EDGAR SMITH WILLIS MAHOIIEY ELECT TO THE UJ.S. SEN ARB and Both Have Pledged Them selves to Uphold Preaident Roosevelt In Writhiff a Perma nent Peace. Floyd K. Dover CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS Iran the 4th District Is Pledged to Support our President in the. passage of ' strong post war legislation. Floyd K. Dover Vote AGAINST Future War Vote FOR Permanent Peace Support In Congress O F.1AII0HEY O DOVER lis ' i a - . -wts4;J VOTE FOR DISTRICT For Representative, Nineteenth District O. H BENGTSON, For District Attorney GEORGE W. NEILSON, of Jackson County COUMTY For County Commissioner RALPH G. JENNINGS ' For County Clerk . G. R. CARTER For County Astetsor C. A. MYERS For County Treasurer RALPH E. SWEENEY For County Coroner H. W. CONGER PRECINCT For Justice of the Peace, Medford Justice District FRED KELLY Paid Adv. Jackson County Democratic Central Committee, V. D. Miller, Ashland. Chairman.
