SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, February 18, 1955
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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."
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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
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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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Washington (U.R) The
House, in a three-vote triumph
for the administration, refused
yesterday to open up President Taking up the controversial amendment rule, on a roll call
Eisenhower's foreign trade pro- proposal earlier today the House vote, 207 to 178. This action
gram to restrictive amendments, had tentatively rejected the no-1 came as a surprise to House lead
ers and a stunning setback to
President Eisenhower's trade
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