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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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WORK?
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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.
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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
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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
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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.