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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, February 18, 1955 Jew York law 'Permitting 1 8-Year-OIds To Irinkf oses K mmm Parental Groups Trace Delinquency To Staten Bistros Perth Amboy, N. J. (U.R) "Worried parents on the North Jersey shore are demanding that New York raise its legal drink ing age from 18 to 21. Their children, in the "flaming youth" tradition, swon't stay home. Teen-agers flock across the Hudson river by the carload every week end to buy liquor and beer in New York taverns. They would have to be 21 to drjnk in New Jersey. Delinquency Traced Civic groups and parent or ganizations in New Jersey com munities bordering New York complain that juvenile delin quency and many auto accidents can be traced to teen-age drink ing bistros of Staten Island and Manhattan. ' . New York and Louisiana are the only two states in the nation which permit the sale of intoxi cating beverages to 18 year olds, although Ohio allows 18 year olds to buy and drink 3.2 per cent beer. - Parents in New Jersey's Berg en, Middlesex and Union coun ties, alarmed by two shootings, a traffic death and several other accidents at the New York border, have succeeded in get ting a bill introduced in the New York Legislature to raise the minimum drinking age to 21 in New York. Resolution Adopted The New Jersey Assembly al ready has adopted a resolution asking New York to pass the bill. - Elizabeth, N. J., police set up a blockade on the Goethals .Bridge and gave drunkometer tests to teen-agers suspected of intoxication as they drove home , from Staten Island. Over a pe ' riod of several weeks, police found no cases of intoxication among 50 to 100 youths tested each week. . Police Capt. Nicholas Migliore said many of those stopped ad mitted drinking but none had been drinking too much. Parents in Elizabeth were aroused recently when a youth in high spirits climbed the Goethals Bridge structure on a dare and dove 200 feet into the water. He swam ashore safely. Grange Live Oak Grange Live Oak Grange met in reg ular session Feb. 10, with Mas ter Roy Cameron in the chair and all officers present. Mrs. Delia Gregg of Foots Creek was reinstated and obligated. Master George Barrie and Mrs. Barrie of Enterprise Grange were wel come guests. Agricultural committee re ported egg prices up lc to 3c, hog prices dropped and that , the cattle market was the same., Larry Sheehan, legislative chairman reported on current bill3 on the agenda in Salem and called particular attention to the milk bill. - . Kollin Taylor, on the building committee, reported further im V provements on the big hall con tinuing. ' An interesting program com memorating St. Valentine's day, Lincoln's birthday and Oregon's birthday, was presented by Lec turer Frank Hall. He introduced the mother singers who presented two groups of songs. Charles White gave 1 the Gettysburg ad . dress.' The mothersingers were 'Es ther Fabric, Betty Frantz, Anna Butterfield Verlie Babcock, Myrtle Streitz and Edna Shee han. They were accompanied on the piano by Leora Mitchell. " Refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Golding, Edith Osborne and Pearl Linderman. . fee's Tariff -Cutting Plan Brings Dispute Washington (U.R) A dispute broke out in the House yester day over a proposed rule bar ring changes in legislation to carry out President Eisenhow er's tariff-cutting foreign trade program. ; They conceded they had Tip chance of killing the program but they were determined to re duce the President's tariff-trimming powers if possible. Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey (D W.Va.) called for an "America first' 'attitude toward recopro cal trade agreements. He said "Let's don't kow-tow to some body in the State Department." tm la fct$M 13 3a C2 1 o o V (VS Y V - - - MEETING WITH NEWSMEN in Las Vegas, directors of new atomic tests to be held m Nevada aiscuss pians. fTom ieit: eng. Gen. Fred Sladen, Jr., deputy director of troop exercises; Ad miral Louis Strauss, AEC chairman; Dr. Alvin C. Graves, test director of AEC's Los Alamos laboratory. (International) A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment' On This and That fir in m.jiir naiman mcnois By HARMAN United Preit Washington (U.R) "How do you like being a senator, Senator?" That's the way the inter view started. The f 2-year-old senator from Iowa, Thomas Ells worth Martin, said he liked it fine. Tom (I've called him that for 24 years) moved over to the Senate this year .after serving a long hitch in the House. It had been a long time since I had seen the big, now gray, hunk of man. When I was going to the University of Iowa he was weight coach. Tom, as a fledging, could side-wind a 35 pound weight farther than al most anybody. Tom, who wotild rather talk about track than politics, al most, asked me if I remembered how he became a weight coach at Iowa. I sure had heard about it. It was in 1921 when Torn was around Iowa City, his home, thinking about digging into law He Showed Them books. One day he went out to watch the javelin boys and the shot putters and the weight-heavers perform. He told the coach that the swingers of the 35-pound hammers were letting go with out making a proper whirl around. . "Let me show you," said Tom. He did and came within a cou ple of inches of setting a new outdoor record. So naturally they, tapped him to be coach. Tom Martin, former mayor of Iowa City, and that's how he got into politics; has two favorites among the men he coached. One was "Spike" Nelson, who was an AU-American tackle back in the early 30s, and another great Iowa athlete, the great Negr,o lineman, Duke ' Slater, who - was a little ahead of "Spike." "Both were fine weight men," Tom told me, as if I didn't know from watching. "Duke was one cf the best coordinated athletes I ever saw, and 'Spike' wasn't far behind." Time " Telling 'Sen. Martin has been around the; Capitol for quite a spell now and he works , as hard as the next one. He is proud as punch of his . gran dkids, and he ought to be. They are all lovely all nine. v ; ...Getting old, Senator? :. "Well, I'd like to think I'm not," he answered. But maybe the wonderful guy W. NICHOLS Futurt Wi is. Not too long ago he and a bunch of other biggies from Cap itol Hill challenged the Marine lads at Quantico for a game of ball. Tom hit a long ball. It should have been a double. By walking fast, our man made it to first. And through the aid of teammates he got to third. Then a smoking double went through the short stop's legs. "I made it home for the win ning run on my hands and knees," the Senator said. Heart, Circulatory Ills Lead Death Causes in County Heart and circulatory ailments were by far the largest cause of death in Jackson county during 1953, according to the Oregon Heart association. There were 308 deaths due to these causes, or 52 per cent of the 571 deaths' from all causes reported in the county that year. The Heart association drew at tention to these figures in con nection with its current drive for funds to continue its research programs. No. 1 Problem The totals "offer dramatic and convincing proof that diseases of the heart and blood vessels constitute our No. 1 local health J problem, as well as the nation's No. 1 health problem, according to Henry -Andreae, Heart fund chairman for the state. Throughout the state, there were 5,529 heart or circulatory deaths in 1953. The second most frequent cause of death was can cer, with 2,210. . 1 In 16 While ho estimates are avail able as to the number of those suffering from one or another type of heart or circulatory ail ment in the county, about one out of every sixteen Americans has some sort of cardiovascular disease. . The Heart association, here and nationally, is attacking the problem with three principal weapons scientific research, professional and public educa tion, and community heart pro grams. A major portion of all funds raised in this year's cam paign ' will go to pay for local and state heart, programs, with the rest going to the American Heart association. Washington (U.R) The : na tion's railroads had the second best passenger safety record in their history in 1954, according to President T. Faricy of the As sociation of American Railroads. 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