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not exceed 400 words.
Significant Parallel
To the Editor: I have been fol
lowing with considerable interest
the arguments for and against
fluoridation of our water sup
ply and I would like to add my
"two cents worth."
" Jfirst of all I would like to
CcfJl the attention of your readers
to a fact which seems to me to be
a significant parallel. When I
began to practice in Jackson
county in 1906, this was known
as a goiter belt because there
was not enough iodine in the
soil and water. When I was coun
ty health officer in 1921, serv
ing until 1925, 1 helped with the
examination of the school chil
dren and have been doing the
same work ever since that time.
During the early years we used
to find many goiters, but since
the use of iodized salt in many
homes and the use of iodine in
small quantities the incidence of
goiters has greatly diminished.
As a matter of fact I have spoken
of this change several times. In
my opinipn, the same thing may
be ' expected from the use of
fluorine in proper amounts.
There has been quite an out
cry that fluorine is a poison,
which is perfectly true in suffic
iently large doses; but the same
thing is true about iodine. How
ever, iere has been no case of
iodine poisoning in Jackson
county from the iffie of iodized
salt, so far as I know, in about
35 years. Also, I have-not found
any report of poisoning from
properly fluoridated water. On
the contrary, there has been 'un
questioned benefit, as attested by
many reliable investigations, so
far as healthy teeth are con
cerned. Wm. W. P. Holt, M.D.,
Medical Center Building,
Medford, Ore.
Letters submitted for publication must
Mich., and the drinking of flour
inated water. What about the
cases of leukemia here in Med
ford? Are they caused by drink
ing the pure waters of the Big
Butte?
The many camparisons stated
in these columns, from "Rat
Poison" to other horrible items,
are as factual as stating that we
should not drive cars because the
exhause of carbon monoxide gas
can be fatal, or not eating mush
rooms because certain species
can be poisonous.
Thought and opinion should be
based on knowledge and FACT,
not on hearsay and panic. Science
has proven the effect of flourida
tion by such FACT, and the
people should study these
FACTS before making any opin
ion. When supposedly intelligent
people have to resort to the per
sonal abuse as (has occurred) of
the professional men of our com
munity, by writing insulting
crank letters, I believe it shows
their own ignorance of both
subject and approach to an im
portant problem.
Lola Milhoan
3043 Delta Waters rd.
Medford, Ore.
Too Personal
To the Editor: This fluoride
business is far too personal to be
had on the majority basis.
. Any one that says that it is
tonstitutional and not mass me
dication is not honest with them
selves. ,
Our constitution says each of
us has a rite to seek prosperity,
health, happiness and safety.
Those that are really interest
ed in their, childrens' teeth can
make it a personal matter, since
it has been pointed out that flu
oride is on the market.
, They would also do well to
withhold those things and drinks
which they put in their stomaches
for pleasure. "An ounce of pre-1
vention is worth a pound of
cure."
If those of us who object to
taking someone else's medicine
could boil this chemical out of
the water, it would be a differ
ent story. But we cannot.
A couple of times, not too
many years back the medical
profession tried to have a vote
on a measure making it unlaw
ful for a person to do his own
octoring. If it had have become
a law the doctors would have
had more guinea-pigs than they
could use.
And long ago, in our early
history there was a law against
taking a bath. Probably some
group of persons had a lot of
perfume to sell.
Our bodies are our own per
sonal property; there's nothing
on earth as personal.
So when something is forced
on us, that is trespassing, and
against constitutional rites.
Anyone that is tired of read
ing these pro and cons, let him
skip the page.
Mary E. Atkins,
1634 Orchard Home dr.
Medford, Ore.
Jungle Water
To the Editor: When a certain
Irish soldier went peacock-hunting
he complained the only water
he had to drink was "jungle
water." (Why not reread Kipl
ing's "Reincarnation of Krishna
Mulvaney"?) f
And in "Gunga Din," the regi
mental bhisti brings the wound
ed the only available water. It
was an. " 'arf-pint of water
green" and "it was crowlin' and
it stunk." Carrying that drink
under fire cost Gunga Din his
life, for "a bullet came and drill
ed the beggar clean."
One wonders if every Ameri
can at least once yearly could
not profitably reread both above
Kipling yarns. He might thus
remember how grateful he
should be for American Know
How as to the purity of every,
glass of water he drinks.
Jungle water is no picnic. This
writer was in Hindustan's wild
peacock country. In fact it was
our only poultdy. There came
times in those days when one
might be forced to drink even
"jungle water"! Writer once was
in such an emergency. His
weight dropped fram 180 to 130
in 2 weeks.
C. M. Goethe.
Seventh and J sts.
Sacramento 14, Calif.
Dangerous Crossing
To the Editor: On March 15
at 10:35 p.m., my husband and
I were driving east on West
Jackson st. At the railroad tracks
we heard no train coming, and
no signal lights were on. Just
as we were nearly on the tracks,
the bell started ringing, but still
no signal lights. There were none
until the engine" was part-way
across the street.
We had to stop very suddenly,
although we were not driving
fast. This is a bad blind spot,
and if a person had been excited,
it Could have caused a car to be
come stalled on the tracks.
We hope this can be looked
into before we do have more
crossing accidents.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Heeter,
Route 2, Box 493,
Gold Hill, Ore.
Venus and The Moon
To the Editor: I hope you re
membered to view the unusual
sight Thursday evening in the
western sky. It was the thrilling
view of Venus and the moon, so
near to each other that the bril
liant star seemed to have drop
ped from the edge of the moon
as a drop of dazzling milk
from a cup.
I searched in vain - for a re
minder in Thursday's Tribune.
Not that we needed one, but for
those who did not remember an
article in a previous paper.
Perhaps your Tribune staff
was too busy with earthy things
to stop and gaze at the Heavenly
sight or could it be that the
moon has not the place in minds,
as when "you and I were young
Maggie?"
Am sure it was an unintention
al oversight not to print a last
minute reminder and I hope that
the majority of our citizens did
as our family was.
This makes us realize the part
in our daily living which our
evening newspaper plays, even
in such seemingly small matters.
Thanking you for such a fine
paper, and1 the pleasure it gives.
Mrs. K. J. Knutson,
615 N. Columbus ave., ,
Medford, Ore.
Is That So?
Kyoto, Japan, with Japan Air
Lines -Because good timber
pine, oak, maple, arbor-vitae,
beech, cryptomeria (a huge,
cedar-like redwood), bamboo
and cypress could be obtained
with such ease in Japan, the
wooden structure has been the
basic form of architecture since
ancient times. In addition to
buildings, wood in Japan has
been put to more than 4,000 dis-
(Editor's note: It was, as Mrs.
tinct uses. Wood, in truth, is
part of their life and its lovely
grain runs through the life of
the people.
The durability of properly
seasoned wood is indeed amaz
ing. The oldest wooden carving,
now preserved in the Cairo mu
seum, is a life-sized statue of a
man dating from 4,000 B. C
roughly 6,000 years old! Old
Egyptian coffins, made of fig
wood, exist too. More recently,
specimens taken from the piling
of a Tiber river bridge, driven
by Caesar's men about 2,000
years ago, are still sound. In
Norway, viking ships used as
sepulchres have been found,
well preserved.
In Japan where wood-working
has been a continuous craft
in some instances handed
down from father to son for
more than 1,800 years one
finds bridges that are 300 years
old; pagodas over 500 years; and
temples well over 1,400 years
old and all of these wooden
structures in daily use, viewed
and cherished by the people.
One of the most beautiful
wooden structures in the world
is or perhaps I should say was
the Kintai-bashi bridge (the
bridge of the brocaded sash)
some 200 miles southwest of
Hiroshima. A 900-foot structure,
it was made up of five arches
and the 20-foot wide surface
was shaped ' in line with the
swelling arches.
Kintai crossed the limpid
Nishiki whose banks are thickly
lined with tended cherry trees.
Need I say more?
This bridee withstood the
vicissitudes of centuries and
then durine the flood which
came in the wake of the disas
trous typhoon of September 13,
1950, was partially carried
away. Fortunately, because the
Japanese cherish old structures,
however impractical, each arch
was replaced timber by timber
and once again its graceful
curves invite the populace to
tarry atop or to view the beauti
ful' bridge and its reflections
from the river bank, through
the tracery of rigidly-pruned
branches.
If age and fine workmanship
of 1,500 is your dish, then go to
Nara, Japan's first capital and
cradle of hearts and craits.
standing there, only seven miles
from the citv's center, in the
midst of scenic and restful sur
roundings is Horyu-ji temple,
consisting of 33 wooden build
ings. Five of these date back to
the sixth century!
Among these five are the
Kondo (golden hall), the dream
Knutson suspected, an uninten
tional oversight. A discussion of
the Heavenly phenomenon ap
peared in last Sunday's paper.)
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
hall, and the five-storied pagoda.
Not only are these three of sur
passing beauty but the golden
hall is today recognized as the
world's oldest cdntinuously-used
wooden building. Perhaps that
should be qualified by ''largest,
oldest, continuously used." At
any rate, it was started in 593
A.D. and finished in 10 years.
Why do these wooden build
ings last so long in Japan?
The secret is in the selecting
of good wood using heart
wood, mainly; proper seasoning
when a tree is cut it is from
20 to 60 per cent moisture: and
the prompt replacement of de
cayed parts which calls for
the frequent changing of tim
bers which rest on the moist
ground where insects, bacteria
and fungus may attack.
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Deny Terroristic
Tactics in Chinatown
San Francisco (U.R) A gov
ernment attorney denied Satur
day that "terroristic tactics" had
been used in investigation of an
alleged Chinatown immigration
racket.
Robert H. Schnacke, chief of
the criminal division of the dis
trict U.S. Attorney's office said
charges leveled against the in
vestigation by leaders of the Chi
nese Six Companies were "en
tirely unwarranted by the facts."
In fact, Schnacke said, federal
agents haven't even entered San
Francisco's Chinatown except to
serve subpenas.
The truth, according to Sch
nacke, was that federal process
servers "met in many cases with
a total lack of cooperation, a uni
form refusal to admit identity, a
persistent denial of knowledge
. . . and an attitude of arrogance
and contempt."
Leaders of the powerful Six
Companies called a rare press
conference Thursday to accuse
the government of conducting a
"blanket fishing expedition" in
volving "even our children at
Play."
The federal Grand Jury here
is investigating an alleged racket
which brought alien Chinese to
this country on fraudulent identi
fication papers.
Sunday, March 18, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVB
Two Bibles Among Articles
Now On Display at Museum
DUKES ELECTED
Salem (U.R) Delores Dukes,
Klamath Falls, was elected pres
ident of the Distributive Educa
tion Clubs of Oregon at the
group's three-day convention
which concluded last night.
Two Bibles once owned by the
father of the late H. U. Lumsden,
Medford, were among articles
received during February by the
Jacksonville museum. The books
were loaned by Mrs. Bessie
Lumsden, Medford.
The museum also received a
bayonet which eight-year-old
Mark McBarron found on Myrtle
Creek, two miles up Evans creek;
the original Oregon pressure
tester for pears used in the val
ley since 1919, presented by
County Horticultural Agent B.
C. Lordy; and county school rec
ords for 1884 and 1886, from
Mrs. Una B. Inch.'
Journal, Ledger
Mrs. Veatbelle Carter, grand
daughter of E. K. Anderson, one
of the Ashland Woolen Mills
founders, donated to the museum
a mill journal and ledger from
1885 to 1900, an old music rack
owned by her mother, Lena An
derson Phillips, a dictionary, and
other school books.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Thomas,
Ashland, presented the museum
a picture.
A total of 1,367 persons visited
the museum during February,
according to the monthly report.
Daily attendance averaged 54
and the total since the opening
July 10, 1950, was 205,409.
Student Visitors
Visitors included the 80 pu
pils enrolled in West Side school,
accompanied by Mrs. Bertha
Haskins; 39 pupils from Fruit-
dale school in Josephine county,
accompanied by Mrs. Jane
Fowler; 11 from Crater Lake
school, with Mrs. Jacki Pool; 29
from Sams Valley seventh and
eighth grades, Roland Smith;
and 150 from Grants Pass junior
high, accompanied by Jack Sut
ton, Dale Smith and Mrs. Hazel
Kiag.
Basketball players from Mar
tinez, Calif., and Cub Scouts
from Den 15, with their leader,
Mrs. Karl Kliever, also visited
the museum.
4-H Leaders Take
Sewing Training
Fourteen Jackson county 4-H
clothing leaders have been di
vided into two groups and are
attending a series of four train
ing meetings here this month.
Final session will be March 26.
Training in "Getting the Most
Out of Your Sewing Machine"
is being conducted by Miss Mar
jorie Hattan, Jackson county 4-H
club agent. The meetings are
held in cooperation with the lo
cal Singer Sewing Machine
company story and Mrs. J. D.
Neil, instructor at the store.
Topics covered in the course
include "Know Your Sewing
Machine," "Adjustment and
Care of the Sewing Machine,"
"Machine Adjustments for Var
ious Weights, Textures and
Thicknesses of Fabrics" and
"Use of Machine, Attachments."
, Leaders taking part in the
course are Mrs. E. A. Malloroy,
Mrs. James Edge, Mrs. W. M.
Hunting, Mrs. Clifford Roush
and Mrs. Francis Putman, Eagle
Point; Mrs. Vivian A. Miller,
Rogue River; Mrs. A. A. Smith,
Mrs..Tyla Smith and Mrs. Paul
Gasparotti, Medford; Mrs. Har
old Grubb, Mrs. Paul B. Snook
Medford Men Are j
Apprentice Council
Position Nominees
Eight men from the Medford
area are among nominees for 120
vacancies on 42 state and local
committees who will be selected
at the State Apprenticeship coun
cil's quarterly meeting Monday
in the Forest Grove armory.
Nominated from the Medford
area are Harry W. Steelman and
Lindsay M. Vinsel for the Med
ford Apprenticeship committee;
William G. Werner, Carl Peter
son, James W. Stevens and
James V. Knapp, for the Jackson
and Josephine Counties Brick
layer apprenticeship committee;
and, John Voorheis and Robert
Faux for the Jackson and Jose
phine Counties Allied Printing
Trades apprenticeship commit
tee. The council will consider ap
proval of 27 trade-training stand
ards, almost double the number
reviewed in any quarter of 1955.
On Increase
Labor Commissioner Norman
O. Nilsen, chairman of the coun
cil, asserts trade-training is on
the increase in almost every sec
tion of the state. One statewide
and 15 area standards are in
cluded in the new training pro
grams formulated by various
trade committees.
Each standard sets an ascend
ing wage scale, classroom studies
and required work cycles for
learning the trade's skills. Aver
age training time is four years,
varying with the occupation.
Under consideration for Jack
son county are standards regu
lating apprenticeship in photog
rapher and radiator repair
trades.
A total of 240 apprentices be
gan on-the-job training in the
past three months, according to
A.. C. Hoggan, state director.
New construction in Coos Bay,
Mediord and Grants Pass is re
garded as favorable for young
men desiring to learn a building
trade.
and Mrs. Arden R. Pinkham,
Central Point, and Mrs. Donna
Williams, Jacksonville.
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Portland (U.R) The Oregon
State Game Commission Friday
reached an agreement with the
Grants Pass Irrigation District
on maintenance of a proposed
screen in the Savage Rapids area
of the Rogue river.
The commission also approved
installation of a boat hoist at
DePoe Bay on the central Lin
coln county coast. The commis
sion will install the hoist, but
local boatmen will maintain it.
Improvement of fishing sites
or. Sauvies island near Portland
was voted by the commission.
Two public access sites along
the Rogue river were abandoned.
One at Conway was given up
because the site is now away
from, the river. The Peyton
Bridge site was abandoned be
cause of bad rapids which have
developed below the bridge.
The commission reduced its
1956 pheasant production from
40,000 to 31.000 birds because
of overcrowding on the game
farms.
The commission also approved
and allocated funds for construc
tion of the Bellinger boat land
ing on the McKenzie river.
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daily columns about the ques
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pressions come to mind. I for
one cannot see the improbable
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