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O TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, March 6, I95S , '?' ,V!'vjfp-s toy x A t Jf' C VICTD1S OF WEIRD MALADY, Robert (left), 12, and Jacob Werner, 10, have been drinking 34 quarts of water daily. Recently doctors at Bethesda, Md., gave -lads the good news they now need only drink seven quarts daily. (International) Pro-F!uoridationist Argomaots esented There is "no scientific contro versy" concerning fluoridation of water and its value in pre vention of tooth decay, Dr. John Brandenburg yesterday told the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce round table luncheon. The Medford physician pre sented views favoring fluorida tion of Medford city water, fol lowing a speech last Monday against the proposal, made by Vern Shangle, president of the Natural Foods Associates of Oregon and leading local op ponent to fluoridation. Settled by Scientists Brandenburg said that fluori dation arguments were settled by scientists after 20 years of study and research, and "there is no doubt as to its safety and beneficial effect." . 'It has now been definitely established," he quoted from a widely-used 1955 pharmacology text, "on the basis of studies in a- number of communities that the fluoridation in a concentra tion Ox one part per million is safe and practical public health measure which results in a 50 to 66 per cent reduction in the incidence in dental caries in permanent teeth." Americans spend more an nually for the correction of the results of dental caries than for treatment of any other disease, ie iJeclared, and dental caries id. their effects were the single major "cause of draftee rejection in World War II. List Meihods Quoting the president of the American Dental association the physician listed the methods of improving dental health as "re duction in consumption of sweets, brushing the teeth, es pecially immediately after eat ing, early dental care, and fluo ridation of water." Sixteen-year-olds in Jackson county who, according to a re cent survey, have an average of 14Vfc teeth decayed, missing or filled, would have only five such teeth with fluoridation of water, Dr. Brandenburg said. The average Medford child has a S58 annual dental bill, he said. Total cost of fluoridation of city water, including initial in stallation, would cost but 47 cents per capita annually over a 25-year period, according to the physician. He said the aver age cost of $20 for two dental appointments would pay for40 years of fluoridation. Support Program ; Organizations supporting the program include the National Research council, Commission on Chronic, Illnesses, American Academy of Pediatrics, U. S. Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, Public Health service, American Medical as sociation, and many others. "No agency having to do with the public health disagrees," he said. "Fluoridation has never hurt anybody in the amount which would be added in Medford," he averred. "In 15 years there has never been a single instance of such harm." Artificially fluorinated water is used in 11,000 United States towns and by 22,000,000 people, Dr. Brandenburg 'explained, and of the 39 cities which rejected fluoridation after first accepting it, only three have not again instituted the program. Cumbersome, Unimproved Methods of "home fluorida--tion" are -too cumbersome and are unproved, he said. Such methods also are expen sive, according to the speaker, one survey reporting an annual cost ox $6 per child. Anti-fluoridation arguments "don't stand up under the light of scrutiny," he said. As to the "morality" of the installation of fluorides, Dr. Brandenburg quoted Lincoln, "If the majority should not rule, who would be the judge? . . . We should all be bound by the majority of the American people." Den Hull Wins Speech Tournament ai Yreka Dan A. .Hull, 1505 Wilson place, won first place in the an nual Toastmasters International speech contest of area three at Yreka, Calif., March 3. Hull represented Medford Toastmasters club and competed against contestants from Yreka, Klamath Falls, Ashland and Grants Pass. He spoke on the subject, "Should government compete with private business" and expressed the belief that there is a part both can play in the development of the coun try and that government should set official policy to encourage the development of the business world. Second place winner was Bob Harrihill, Klamath Falls, and Ralph Woods, Ashland, won third place. County Democratic Committee Sets Meet A committee meeting of the Democraticparty of Jackson county will be held at 24 V South Grape St., at -& pjn.Wed nesdaj, according to Democrat ic County Chairman Robert A. Boyer. A rep!t from precinct organ ization chairman William Dea therage will be given. All who plai)to file for precinct com mittee posts are asked to bring declarations, jo they, can be turned to me county clerk's office before0the March 9 dead line, Deatherage said. Final plans for the forthcom ing sixth annual Roosevelt Me morial dinner at which Mrs. Fragjklin D. Roosevelt will be speaker will be announced by Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, general" chairman. Mrs. W. G. Werner, foods chairman will report to commit teesmbers on her plan of ser vice lor this year's event. The dirmer which will be held at Hedrick Junior High school, Monday, April 23, is open to the public Tugboat Captain Found Dead on Boat Oregon City (U.R) Capt. Joe Bernard, 50, was found dead last night in his tugboat after a search of several hours. The search started when the craft was found beached and damaged on Rock Island. The island was searched but later the body was found under debris be low the boat deck. Searchers had missed it earlier. Clackamas county sheriff's deputies theorized the tug struck a sunken log and that the cap tain beached the tug before fur ther damage was caused. They said the impact of the crash ashore may have thrown Ber nard from his post, causing fatal injuries. Discussion, Vote on EP Budget Thursday Eagle Point A school meet ing will be held in the Eagle Point High school library Thurs day, March 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. to discuss and vote on the pro posed 1956-1957 budget for Dis- Total estimated levy is $181,- 479.62. . , After the meeting the budget will be sent to the Jackson coun ty rural school board. All registered voters who have resided in the district- for six months are eligible to vote on Thursday, School Superinten dent Glenn Hale stated. Heavy Thunderstorms Shake Middle States By UNITED PRESS Arctic air clashed with a sum mery "heat wave" over the na tion's midsection today, setting off heavy thunderstorms across a wide area. The U. S. Weather Bureau lifted night-long tornado warn ings in parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri early today. But it warned of severe thunder storms along a 120-mile wide line stretching from Missouri into Illinois. More thunderstorms will break out farther east as the freakish, record-breaking warm weather collides with the cold front, it was predicted. Telephones Knocked Out Thunderstorms Monday night knocked out telephones in a two-county area 'around Detroit, Mich. The storm also caused power breakdowns, turning off lights, television sets, and traf fic signals in the city. More thunderstorms crackled over Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, but no serious damage was re ported. Farther west, winds as high as 60 miles per hour churn ed up billowing dust clouds in west Texas, eastern Colorado, New Mexico, and elsewhere in the southern plains. ' The sharply contrasting weath er produced a temperature spread from the record-breaking 91 at Wichita Falls, Tex., Mon- Eugene Council Puts Fluoridation on Ballot Eugene (U.R) The city- coun cil here voted last night to place a water fluoridation proposal on the November general election ballot. The vote was taken while the council sat as a committee of the whole and would have to be taken a second time at a regular council meeting. Members re jected proposals to start fluori dation without a vote and to put the issue on the May primary ballot. day to the three below zero at Cutbank. Mont., early today. Warm in Missouri Other record breakers Mon day included 84s at Columbia and Kansas City in Missouri, 77 at Evanville, Ind., and 45 at International Falls, Minn. Records were equalled at Dallas, Tex., with 86, and at Columbus, O., with 72. The temperature was still a balmy 74 early today at Laredo, Tex., and readings were in the 60s as far north as central Illinois and Indiana. ' But the mercury plunged 15 to 30 degrees in the north and it was near or below zero early today in Montana and. North Dakota also got three inches of snow and forecasters predicted falling temperatures across the Central Rockies and northern and central plains. Bricker Amendment May Be Called To Vote Washington (U.R) The Sen ate Democratic Policy Commit tee today faced the decision of whether to call up for a vote the party - splitting B r i c ke r Amendment. Sen. John W. Bricker (R-O.) predicted the Senate will ap prove the new "simplified" ver sion of his constitutional amend ment on treaty powers. And he predicted President Eisenhower will approve it. The Senate Judiciary Commit tee approved the amendment Monday, 11-2. It would nullify the power of any U.S. treaty conflicting with the Constitution. A stronger version of the Bricker Amendment failed to win the necessary two-thirds vote by only one vote in 1954. The administration fought that version. So did many Democrats. If the amendment passes the Senate, it still must win a two thirds majority in the House and be approved by 36 states. Volcanic Steam Tapped for Modern Requirements Engineers more and more look to the world's volcanic areas as sources of power, heat and light. Mexico, after investigating several promising hot springs districts in the general vicinity of its capital, now plans explor atory drilling to tap potential underground steam supplies. The project is one of a series being carried on in cooperation with the United Nations techni cal assistance program to devel op various forms of industrial and domestic power in Latin America. ' : r Volcanic steam has the advan tage of ready-made natural pres sure and heat for driving tur bines and generating electricity. Tapping nature's steampower is far less expensive than building and maintaining dams or con stantly burning fuel as required in other electric power plants. Caribbean to South Pacific Besides the Mexican project, similar efforts to use convenient volcanic energy are under way in the small Central American republic of El Salvador, and on the British island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean. In the South Pacific, New Zea land is building a power station at Wairakei in North Island's famous volcanic region where pools boil, fumaroles and geysers erupt, and mudpots churn fur iously. Dozens of steam bores have been drilled, the deepest reach ing 3,000 feet or more. Many pro vide high pressure that remains undiminished, : occasionally even increasing, despite years of spouting. Electricity to be generated at Wairakei within the next few years is expected to help power New Zealand's industrial future in such fields as paper making and railway transport. In addi tion, special installations will produce heavy water for Brit ain's atomic energy program. Pioneered in Italy Harnessing volcanic energy for machine-age industry got its start in Italy. The idea grew out of a commercial venture started more than a century ago by an emigre Frenchman, the Count de Larderel. Larderel became interested in boric acid deposits left beside the seething fumaroles and boiling hot springs of a valley south of Pisa. He established a successful business there to recover and market the chemical. About 1904, engineers of. the company that carried on Lar derel's work thought of tapping the valley's steam to run their processing plant. The project worked well, once technical problems of hazardous terrain and shooting jets of chemically tainted steam had been solved. Today, power from Larder ello, so named after the original enterpriser, furnishes an im portant share of Italy's needs. Locally, the Italian island of Ischia, near Naples, is preparing to wcrk its own geothermal re gion for electricity essential to tourist-trade conveniences. Far to the north, Iceland vol canic isle of fire and ice but little fuel has been using na ture's steam heat since the 1930's. Engineers built their first small plant to pipe neighboring hot- springs water to Reykjavik. Bigger and better installations now heat most of. the capital's homfes, offices,-' public buildings and swimming pools. Even small Iceland communi ties draw hot water from avail able springs. And in the last few years the government .has em barked on a large-scale program to develop industrial power from steam j vents .drilled many hundreds of feet into volcanic bedrock near Reykjavik. May Reduce Width Of Airport Runways Washington (U.R) The Civil Aeronautics Administration is reported to be considering a pro- posal to revise downward the width limitations on runways and taxiways of the nation's air ports. ' " r. Planes, official publication of the Aircraft Industries Associa tion, says the proposal is de signed to increase the utilization of the airports and was spon sored by the Airport Operators Council. Planes says the proposal sug gests that runway widths be cut down to 150 feet. Present re quirements call for a 200-foot width. Another suggestibn made by the group is to cut the width of taxiways from the present 100 feet to 75 feet, and design them so that planes can turn off and onto the runways at higher speeds. In support of the proposal, it was cited that since only one airliner can land or take-off on a runway at any one time, there is little need for extremely wide and costly runways." Stevens Pass To Be Reopened To Traffic Olympia (U.R) Stevens pass was scheduled to be reopened to day to through traffic,- the State Highways Department reported. Chains were required for travel on White pass and on the west side of Snoqualmie. The Navy's Test Pilot Train ing Schools at the Navai- Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Md., is one of only three such schools in the free world. Turn To Pages 8 and 9 FOR ADRIENNE'S -BIG LIQUIDATION SALE ANNOUNCEMENT WELL; BLOW ME DOWN Getting this plane down isn't going to be as easy as Mother Nature put it there. The small plane was torn from its mooring and thrown against this power line at Boeing Field in Seattle by winds, up to 75 m.p.h. Note the concrete tie-down block hanging from the wing. No injuries were reported. Iowa Farm Soil Deposited At End of 2,343 Mile Trip New Orleans (U.R) At the end of a twisting 2,343-mile jour ney from Minnesota to Louis iana, an Iowa dirt farmer can find some of his valuable land and natives of 30 other states can find a little home soil. But nobody wants any part of this stolen soil and almost no body uses the nation's most mix-ed-up mass of land. That's the Mississippi River delta, Ameri ca's growing double chin, built up from land filched from 31 states along the mighty river's course. And it's still building like an orphan subdivision, at a forward rate of about 85 feet - a year; Since the turn of the century, the U. S. Corps of Engineers es timates this unwanted offspring of the Mississippi has built out ocean-going vessels. The building process, fashion ed by a river system that drains 41 per cent of the nation, con tinues, mostly out of sight in submerged shoaling. Birds Like It The land that eventually pok es above the water over years of sediment action is flat and treeless, shunned by man and covered with tall marsh grass. The only thanks the bread basket of the country receives for jts reluctant gift of land can be heard in the screams of a pel ican, Louisiana's state bird: Huge flocks of these arrogant birds roam the stolen soil, and nearby, ducks and geese from the headwaters of the Mississip pi find a homey atmosphere dur ing their winter restup at the Delta National Wildlife refuge. .-. The benign Mississippi quietly ', goes about its work of transport ing dirt from almost half of the ; nation to the .sea, while the en- gineers battle and the geese honk. MI What a magnificent taste it has! No wonder it has been a favorite for over a century! Now available in a milder, lower-priced 86 proof companion to the famous 100 Proof Bond. almost a mile into the Gulf of Mexico. Headache to Engineers The load dropped each year would make a two-foot tonsoil for 140 acres of good farmland. Captains on incoming vessels headed for Southwest pass and upriver ports can see nature's artwork miles at sea as the Mis sissippi's sediment-laden waters spreads a huge muddy fan over the Gulf's blue calm. But if the Iowa corn farmer or the Kansas wheatgrower or even the Minnesota dairyman want the land back, the U. S. Corps of Engineers would be glad to let them take it. It's an annual multi-billion dollar head ache to the engineers who must maintain navigable passes for 86 PROOF -- Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 10 ;$4 80 4SQT. Also available: Old Crow 100 Proof BottUd in Bond OLD CROW lomicnr Stmicb OLD CROW DISTILLERY CO., 01V. OF NATIONAL DIST. PROD. CORP., FRANKFORT, J0f.) he feels good , . . he's got money in the bank! YouH feel good, too, with a savings account at First National Bank, Oregon's favorite place to save. Try it. 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