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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1952)
TWO MCTrOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUHT Tuesday. March 23. IMS Life Expectancy of Americans Figured To Be About 63 Years Br PAUL r. ELLIS United Prtta Science Editor New York (UJJ If your health is reasonably good you should live to be about 68 years old. , That's the life expectancy of Americans today. But how many of us will reach that 68-year-old milestone? The answer may be found 'in the statistics of the Metropolitan Insurance Company. The statistics show that' a man's chances of reaching the age of 52 are about 83 out of a 100. In 1900, his chances were only 55 out of a 100. Chance to Reach 75 Batter . A man's chances to reach the age of 65 are now 63 in 100. More significantly, those men who reach the age of 65 now have better than a 50-50 chance of going on for at least 10 years longer. For women, the odds of living 10 years beyond 65 are even greater. , Their overall life ex pectancy is 71.5 years. The men's 65.9, with the average pf both sexes about 67.6 years. But there is a grim side. It is this: what will cause your death if you don't reach that 68 year old milestone? The Metropolitan statistics recognized as accurate as can be show: Cancer Odds 1 to 7 The odds are 3 to 2 that your death will be caused by a dis ease of the heart, arteries or kidneys. For cancer ,the odds are 1 to 7. The odds that you will be killed in an accident are 1 to 50; in a fire, drowning or fall, 1 to 33. The chances that you will die of tuberculosis are 1 to 40. For influenza or pneumonia, 1 to 33. The above odds are, for males In the 40-age group, . and the I older you get the shorter the odds become. About 90,000 Americans are killed each year in accidents, of which 40 per cent are motor ve hicle. A statistical bulletin of Metropolitan says: "It is a sad commentary on present-day conditions that the chances of eventual death from accidents exceeds the combined chances of death from pneu monia, influenza, and tubercul osis." For the women who don't Evangelist Says Korea Hot Armageddon Evangelist Harold E. Metcalf, who has been conducting serv ices here in the newly-constructed Bible auditorium on South Central avenue, was heard by a 750-person, full-house audience last night. Disclaiming the Korean strug gle as the last conflict, the evangelist said it is "one of God's great signboards to men in this generation that Armageddon is just ahead." . "No victor in the last war of earth is named," he said, "but the Bible points out the defeated as 'those which destroy the earth. Syria, Iran, Iraq, Arabia and Turkey are in the storm cen ter of the great military drive involving all nations which will center around Jerusalem, ac cording to five great prophecies," he added. , Armageddon will be both a spiritual and physical conflict,. Metcalf said. "The only way to be on God's side, and to find our day to be a time when 'to be living is sublime' is to know the Bible for ourselves, espe cially the book of Revelation," he concluded. Just What You've Waited For! Big New Shipment at LEO HS... of These famous - - c alh-iDOftsie y SAVAGI-WAYNI Bouncy Foam Rubber Soles s Washable tops on thick. bouncy foam rwbbor solo. QUILTED PLASTIC Now faille vlon In brilliant rd, grn, blu Th grandest little house slip per you'll ever put on your "footsies" . . . and so practical, too! f j N Women's sixes: small (4-5); w moaium C '- 'al y largo (7-8); I axtra largo (8 ',-',). Pleon's "-2i" north central iTmedforJP I Pioaso send mo pair of "ah-footsies" at I $1.99 par pair. Slxa. I I- Nam Address I State I .Color. lentk .lml Color. .City- Cash Charge C.O.D. , Go To 21 North Central make the life expectancy, the odds are similar to those for men. For. cancer, 1 to 6; influ enza and pneumonia, 1 to 33. Tuberculosis 1 to 100. The wom en have a much better chance of escaping death by accident. The death rate for cancer and heart disease in men has been increasing. For the women, the rates have been coming "down. The statistics show that many of the old foes typhoid fever, childhood diseases, diarrhea, tu berculosis and deaths resulting from childbirth complications, are being rapidly conquered. The statistics disclose that deaths from typhoid fever have been eliminated by 99 per cent since 1911; childhood diseases 98 per cent; tuberculosis by 85 per cent; and 95 per cent for diphtheria. It has been such progress in health that has increased the life expectancy to 68 years, and medical scientists are predicting that the life expectancy may in crease to 100 before the turn of the 21st century. By that time, the answer to heart disease and cancer will have been found, the scientists hope. - Washington GOP Committee Moves To Oust Williams Spokane U.PJ A move to oust Chairman Walter Williams of the national citizens' commit tee for Eisenhower from the chairmanship of the state Repub lican central committee was re ported under way Tuesday. A majority of the state group' executive committee- was pre paring to call a special meeting of the central committee to con sider a proposal to replace him Mrs. Marion Schulte, state party vice chairman, said. Follows Job Acceptance . Demands for Williams resig nation followed his acceptance of the Eisenhower job Friday. William Howe of Spokane, one of the first party leaders to move against Williams, resigned as chairman of the party's state finance committee. Howe is lead er of the eastern Washington Taft-for-President movement. He said he telephoned Wil liams Sunday and told him he should call a meeting of the cen tral committee to name a sue cessor, but that Williams took no action after saying he would think it over. Alcatraz Too Costly; May Transfer Inmates Washington (U.R) Alcatraz, the big, federal prison on a rock in San Francisco bay, may be abandoned because of its cost. Attorney General J Howard McGrath said the cost of keeping bank robbers, murderers, kid napers and other hardened crimi nals at Alcatraz has been "tre mendous." He said it is neces sary to transport to the island all the food, water, and other supplies to keep it running. "That is an expensive ferrying operation," McGrath said in a recent closed session of a House appropriations s u b c o m mittee. The testimony was released Monday night. McGrath said the cost figures for 1949 showed that it required $8 a day to house a prisoner on Alcatraz, compared with less than $3 a day at other prisons The 125 guards required to watch the '228 prisoners on the island made up a large part of the 1949 cost. McGrath said fear of incarcfr ration on the "Rock" is no deter rent to the hardened criminal He said the "fellow who eventu allv lands in Alcatraz . . . has committed crime after crime and is so confirmed . . . that he is not apt to think about anything except what he can get away with." "I do not think Alcatraz, or any other prison, is such a deter rent in his mind when he is go ing to commit a crime," McGrath said. In event the "Rock" is aban doned, the prisoners would be transferred to other federal penitentiaries, Alaska Resembles Western Pioneer Days, Solons Told Washington (U.R) Prostitu tion, gun violence and liquor are big problems to law enforcement authorities in Alaska, which the Justice Department says is now pretty much like the old Wild West. Resembles Pioneer Days S. A. Andretta, administrative assistant to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, told a House appropriations subcommittee re cently that Alaska resembles "the old pioneer days in this country where the only law west of the Pecos was the United States Marshal." Both Andretta and McGrath asked the subcommittee to ap prove a bill for $55,350 to recruit and equip 50 more deputy U. S. marshalls for Alaska. Their testi mony was released Monday night. McGrath said, "I always live in fear of what is going to hap pen up there we might have an outbreak of lawlessness." Aluminum Company Planning Expansion Vancouver, Wash. U.R) Alu minum Company of America plans to spend $1,217,500 in ex panding its Pacific Northwest facilities, C. S. Thayer, north west operations manager, said here Tuesday. Thayer said ingot casting facil ities at the Vancouver Alcoa plant will be modernized and re vamped to up production of alu minum for sale to customers as well as the company's own opera tions. Initial phase of the expansion program will create 50 new job opportunities, ALCOA officials said. Andretta was more specific. He said Anchorage and Fair banks are the main trouble spots. Prostitutes are doing business on the outskirts of both towns, he said, just outside the jurisdic tion of local police. That puts po lice action up to U. S. marshals, and there aren't enough to do a good job, he said. Declared Out of Bounds U. S. military authorities have declared the fringe area "red light" sections out-of-bounds and arrest servicemen caught in the area, but Andretta said the mili tary "cannot go in and close up a house of prostitution." The deputy marshals are paid $5,250 a year. Andretta said the cost of living in Alaska is so high that it might be hard to recruit 50 new ones. He said a haircut costs $2 and a piece of pie sells for $1.50. Yoncalla Accident Fatal folnfanl Boy Yoncalla, Ore. (U.R) A nine-month-old boy was killed and his mother seriously injured in a headon crash betweri a south-! bound auto and a logging truck on highway 99 near here Mon day. Dead is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Walcott of Butte, Mont. State police did not ident ify the youngster by name. Mrs. Walcott was reported in serious condition in a Cottage Grove, Ore., hospital. 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