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Tuesday. May 8, 195S MECFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE STYX , ;J.n'a ;e i (VM why g THE OPPOSITION Some 30 pickets march around Chicago's City Hall carrying plac ards protesting water fluoridation. The group, called citizens against fluoridation." is opposed to injections of chemicals into the city's drinking water. Dental and medi cal experts say fluoridated water helps prevent tooth decay. Chicago FI File Court Chicago (U.R) Opponents of Chicago's . fluoridation pro gram filed a court suit yester day seeking to halt the project and stop the "criminal waste" of taxpayer's money. The city inaugurated a limit ed fluoridation program May 1 which added the chemical, de signed to prevent tooth decay, to water used by an estimated 1,300,000 residents. An addition al 300,000 suburbanites also be gan drawing the newly treated water from Chicago's mains. . The complaint filed In Super ior Court calls the flouridation process mass medication and charges that the program was approved by the City Council without referendum. The suit also charges that the chemical is a poison and asks court or der to stop further treatment . The four plaintiffs are Mrs. Alice Schringa, head of Citizens Against Flouridation; Mrs. Anna C. Fout, the mother of six chil dren; Dr. Paul Thorelius, and "Walter Olson, a Christian Scien tist. Olson charges his religious rights were violated, since, as a Christian Scientist, he is oppos ed to medication. uoridation Opponents Suit To Halt Project Defendants in the sun are Mayor Richard J. Daley and oth er city officials administering the program. Pickets circled City Hall last Tokyo Rose Plans To Continue Legal Fight . Chicago (U.R) Tokyo Rose will leave Chicago for San Fran cisco Thursday to continue her fight against deportation. Tokyo Rose, whose real name is Mrs. Iva Toguri D' Aquino, was freed last January from a federal prison where she served six years for her famed propa ganda broadcasts for the Jap anese in World War II. She was living with relatives here when her deportation was ordered. Mrs. D'Aquino said she want ed to go to the West Coast be cause her attorney and others who might help her are there. Despite her treason conviction, she maintains she is a native born citizen and cannot be deported. About 53 per cent of America's families own their homes. week when Daley prepared to turn a valve which mixed fluor ide with the water. They carried American flags and signs ask ing "Why poison our God-given water?" and "What do alder men know about internal med icine?" James W. Jardine, commis sioner o water and sewers, said the entire city and suburbs which buy water from Chicago would receive fluoridated water by July. SNUFF CAUSES CANCER Johannesburg,- S.A. 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With Carrying Case, Regular Price $87.50, plus tax If you have no trade-in Special Price, $79.50, plus tax Medford Stationery Store 210 East Main Phone 2-6780 Editor Credits News Staff Work For Winning of Pulitzer Prize Watsonville, Calif. (U.R) Editor Frank F. Orr of the Regis-ter-Pajaronian said today that his news staffs efforts "to keep the public informed" won his paper the Pulitzer Prize for "its courageous expose of corruption in public office." Orr, who for more than a year directed his news staff of eight members, carried on a campaign that resulted in the resignation of District Attorney Charles L. Moore and a prison conviction of Moore's associate, Raymond H. Jehl, in a pinball protection racket. People Entitled To Know "We feel very strongly that the people are entitled to know what their public officials are doing," Orr said. "Not only what they say in speeches, but also, who their associates are and what they are saying in small groups, particularly when it conflicts with their public statements. "In this case, the people of Santa Cruz county were entitled to know why their district at torney parked his car in a dark driveway at 1 a.m. and why he had his license plates covered. They were entitled to know why the district attorney was meeting at that hour with his 'vice ad visor' whom , he had identified the day before as the middleman in a $1,500 transaction with a gambler." Two of Orr's newsmen re porter Bill Kennedy and pho tographer Sam Vestel discov ered Moore's car and were threatened with a gun by Jehl. As a result of the newspaper campaign, Jehl was convicted and sent to San Quentin prison and Moore resigned from office under charges of wilful miscon duct. Newt Was Thunderbolt' Managing Editor Ward Bushee said the news of the award came to the paper as a "thunderbolt." very proud and very happy. But we are humble, too. It is quite an honor for a little paper our size, way off in a corner, to re ceive such an honor. We're still numb. It was a staff effort car ried on for more than a year and the honor which we have been given is a result of this staff ef fort from the top to the bottom on the news side." The Watsonville Register-Pa-jaronian, part of the John P. Scripps group of newspapers, has a circulation of about 7,800. It derives the second part of its hyphenated name from the Pa jaro Valley in which Watsonville is situated in Central California. The town is on Monterey Bay. . Producer Happy That Diary Won Pulitzer Prize as Best Play New York (U.R) No one ever had a more ready or more appropriate or more commer cial answer as to his feelings about a Pulitzer Prize victory than did producer Kermit Bloomgarden yesterday when notified that "The Diary of Anne Frank" - was the winning play. "I am," said Bloomgarden with a grin, "The Most Happy Fella'." The subquote happens to be the title of the Frank Loesser musical which Bloomgarden pre sented on Broadway last Thurs day night to a reception that in sures it being as big a hit as "Diary." "But, seriously," he continued, "I am really most happy for the Hacketts (Albert Hackett and his wife, Frances Goodrich) who did a wonderful job in creating this play from the famous diary of the little German-Jewish girl who was a victim of the Nazis. They are well deserving of the prize." Bloomgarden, Garson Kanin, director of the play, and Joseph Schildkraut, co-star with Susan Strasberg, kept a nervous vigil in the producer's office for a "Naturally," he said, "we are couple of hours before the, an nouncement of the prize was made. The producer immediately put in a long distance call to the Hacketts in their Hollywood home. "And, do you know, they were out," Bloomgarden said. "Because of the time difference, it was tht-ir lunch time. It was an hour and a half before I got hold of them, and I bawled them out for not having thought enough of their chances to stay home until they heard. "Naturally, they were very happy. 'We can't believe it,' was the first thing they said, then they wanted to be. reassured it was true. Kanin got on the phone to them and reminded them that when the three were together in London more than a year ago working on the play he had told them it was a potential Pulitzer Prize winner." Bloomgarden has no plan to set up a second company of "Diary" for touring purposes. "We've thought of that," he said, "but part of our success has been based on the fact that this original company is a per fect one. We'll let it carry the load and send it on. tour when its Broadway days are over." 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