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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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