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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1955
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English Channel Swimming Fever Begins
To Inject Signs of Life in Dover Town
Dover, England U.R) This
little town, flanked by the tower
ing white cliffs, smugly expects
a boom year in English Channel
swimming this summer despite
the predictions that, as a sport
or stunt, the hard way across
the water is finished.
"They say that every year,
pay no attention," grinned the
OPTIMISTIC Former President Herbert Hoover (left)
waves a greeting as he prepares to address the annual
meetings of the United States Chamber of Commerce in
Washington. Mr. Hoover said the Federal budget might be
"balanced overnight" if members of bis commission on
Government reorganization "could have our own way."
With him is Russell C Harrington, vice president of the
Chamber of Commerce.
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old salt in front of Annie Kidd's
East Cliff Hotel, headquarters
for channel swimmers.
"My granddad says they were
claiming no one would have any
reason for trying after Matthew
Webb swam it in 1875 and
there have been hundreds fol
lowing him."
The lure of swimming this
body of water doesn't appeal to
most people. But it must have a
terrific pull because some of
those who have tried it before
are returning for another dose of
self -inflicted suffering.
How They Suffer 1
And how they suffer! There
are, of course, super athletes like
Florence Chadwick of San
Diego who finished her 20-odd
mile swim with a sprint.
But most of the starters, es
pecially th,ose who fail, are little
more than mumbling automa
tons, numbed by agony, by the
time they are hauled from the
water. -
Nevertheless, Bill Floyd, the
Folkestone cop who is head of
the Channel Swimming Associa
tion, says that he has had notifi
cations from 30 prospective
starters and more are expected
before the water warms up
enough to sustain human life in
early June. Floydd is cautious
but he feels this 80th anniver
sary (dated from Webb's swim)
will set a record. '
Dover's unique industry al
ready is stirring to life. The Bur
will family, which provides
pilots and boats for swimmers,
is laying in a supply of grease
and first aid equipment (the
grease protects swimmers from
the cold).
Steaks and Potatoes
The East CUff Hotel is order
ing hundredweights of steak and
potatoes the staple pre-swim-ming
diet. .Strong-armed young
men are practicing to row along
in the training swims. Retired
seamen confide to visitors that
a good observation point is just
near the ruined Roman light
house, above the east cliff which
lit the way for Caesar's galleys
1900 years ago.
There may be several firsts this
year. Miss Chadwick, the hand
some, former stenographer, is
going to try to swjm the channel
both way non-stop and set a
woman's record each way.
Df: George Brewster," 64,- is
going to make his 15th or 16th
try to become the oldest success
ful channel swimmer.
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Adenoid Sufferers
May Be Only Allergic
Detroit (ll.R) A professor
at Indiana University's medical
school says that many children
believe to have adenoids trouble
merely are allergic to such
things as household dust.
Dr. Kenneth L. Craft said that
because of these allergies too
many unnecessary operations
are performed on children for
the removal of adenoids. He
voiced his critiicism in a talk be
fore the American Laryngologi
cal and Otological Society.
Before adenoids are removed,
Craft said, children first should
undergo tests to determine if
they have allergies. '
"If an operation has to be
done," he said, "it is. better to
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so that the child will be in bet
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If the adenoids are not part of
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State Forestry Men
Attend Meetings Here
Three state forestry depart
ment officials from Salem left
today after being in the south
west forestry district since Mon
day for a series of meetings
with loggers and lumbermen.
They were Dwight Phipps,
deputy state forester; Lee Har
ter, head of the inspection ser
vice, and Frank Hamilton, sup
ervisor for this area. Hamilton
formerly was district warden in
Medford.
1 The last in the series of meet
ings, held to discuss forest laws
and regulations, particularly
those enacted during the cur
rent legislature, was in Grants
Pass last night.
Ted Maul, district warden, ac
companied the Salem men to the
meetings. . ..
Trailer Owners Set
Meeting on Saturday
A meeting of local members
of the Organized Trailer Home
Owners of Oregon will be held
at 8 pan. Saturdays May 7, at the
Valley Center "frailer court,
3410 North Pacific highway, ac
cording to W. R. Mitchell, pub
licity director.
He said a report will be given
on a meeting of the group's state
directors held in Roseburg last
week, at which time organiza
tional -work in a number of
other counties was discussed.
The trailer owners group has
been working for a reduction in
taxes imposed on trailers, and
this will be brought up at the
meeting. An invitation to all
owners of trailer homes was ex
tended by Mitchell.
Ike Believes Salk
Vaccine Shots Wise
Washington U.R) President
Eisenhower said yesterday that
on basis of all the evidence given.
him by government medical au
thorities he considers the Salk
polio shots safe and wise.
He emphasized that "scientists
are" continuing intensive studies
of many questions about use of
the medicine.
There is a possibility, he said,
that the scientists might decide
it is unwise to administer vac
cine to anyone at certain time.
In a news conference discussion,
he put it this way:
"It may be that they (the
scientists) will decide there is a
certain period of the year when
they shouldn't give this at all."
They have not reached any
such conclusion so far, however.
Fort Wayne Ind.. and Bos
ton, Mass., are among 10 major
markets which receive all live
stock shipments by truck. More
than half of the 63 U. S. mar
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90 per cent or more of incom
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Forbes' assertion was in reply
to an article published recently
in a western newsmagazine in
which the claim was made that
"eastern corn-fed beef is super
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In a special bulletin to associa
tion members, Forbes blasted
the claim as "erroneous and en
tirely misleading to the consum
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the producers, feeders and pack1
ers of western-fed beef."
Forbes cited results of a test
program at the University of
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"Judges scored the samples
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Legionnaires Plan
For State Convention
Medford American Legion
naires who plan to attend the
state Legion convention in Red
mond the last week in July
should notify Adjutant Joe
Hosick of Medford Post 15, he
said today. He will make reser
vations for housing and handle
registration.
Those wishing to compete for
a free air trip to the national
convention must have turned in
at least five new or renewal
memberships for 1955, he said.
Nominations for hew officers
for the post will be made at the
next post meeting May 10, and
elections will follow on June 14.
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