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not exceed 400 words.
Wants New Blood
To the Editor: I believe most
of the voters of Oregon have,
by now, seen the voters pamph
let which is issued by the au
thority of this, our state of. Ore
gon. Such being the case, we should
be wondering if we should wan
tonly and cowardly surrender
our Constitutional RIGHT to say
NO to a contemptuous and con
temptible legislature and vote
away the aforesaid RIGHT to
say NO to the attempt to take
away from us the say so as to
whether we are to be taxed and
have no comeback.
It is an old time axiom that,
'once a tax is levied it is never
again laid aside.' Do not forget
that saying. For it is true. Once
on. never off.
The Republican Party 'hews
to the Party Line' all samee Com
munist Party. We should retire,
with prejudice, every Republi
can from office. That to include
Littrell and Mann of Medford.
All any of them want is to levy
taxes and more taxes. Why swal
low all the whining pleading for
more 'money to run the state?'
When they ran the income tax
upon us we were told the prop
erty tax was to be lowered. Was
it? No. Nor was there any inten
tion of doing such a thing. They
have too many shady sub-surface
friends for any such action.
When the GOP had its con
vention it could have been di
rected by one individual. Was
it? All individualism was lack
ing Every one acted, and spoke
as tho his lines had been cut and
dried. In other words, written
and ordered to be used as direct
ed and in no other way, and was
followed to the letter.
In the Democratic Convention
we saw true Democracy In Ac
tion. Every one who wished to
say something had his opportuni
ty. He was not muzzled nor cut
off.
Stevenson did not express any
preference for any man to run
as his Vice Presidential candi
date. The full assembly consid
ered several names and made
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FOR FEBRUARY 10th,. 1951 -Pages 436-437:-
Effects of Fluorine Compounds:
In the past, the toxicity hazard of fluorine compounds has been encoun
tered in the smelting of cryolite and in the use of fluorides as insect sprays,
roach powders and rodenticides. Since the war, fluorine compounds have found
wide industrial use in products such as dyes, plastics, pharmaceuticals, tanning
agents, metal fluxes, fumigants, insecticides, fungicides, germicides, fire extin
guishers, solvents, fireproofing compounds and heat transfer media. Hydro
fluoric and hydrofluosilicic acids and their more soluble salts cause necrosis and
ulceration with subsequent sloughing and slowly healing yellowish ulcers when
they come in contact with the skin. Ocular effects include ulceration of the
conjunctivas, light sensitivity and continuous conjunctival secretion. These local
effects are best treated by copious lavage and ointments containing metallic
oxides, such as magnesium oxide, which combine with fluorides, local injections
of calcium gluconate are also helpful in preventing the spreading and absorp
tion. Inhalation of gaseous hydrofluoric acid or fluorine causes bronchial irrita
tion, with much musous secretion, bronchial constriction and pulmonary edema.
Oral poisoning results in symptoms referable primarily to the gastrointestinal
tract and central nervous system. Chronic intoxications. resulting from prolonged
intake of smaller amounts of fluorides include dental fluorosis, which has been
described as an endogenous condition in regions where the drinking water has
an abnormally high fluorine content. Fluorine also tends to accumulate in
bones, leading to hypercalcification and brittleness. Ligaments and tendons
also become calcified. Serious symptoms may ensue, such as loss of mobility
of joints, easy fracture and pressure on the spinal cord. Other effects include
alopecia in young men, accompanied by increased fluoride concentrations in
hair and nails, anemia and decreased blood clotting power due to the binding
of calcium. Dysmenorrhea, alterations in growth and weight, lowered birth
rate, high incidence of fracture, thyroid alterations and liver damage have been
observed in regions of endemic fluorosis. The author cites several new extremely
' toxic organic fluorides and the mechanism of action that produces the intoxi
cation. Keep Our Water PURE
VOTE "NO" on NUMBER 56
Ant i Fluoridation Committee
Letters submitted for publication must
the selection, with no advice
from Mr. Stevenson.
'What a difference at the GOP
meeting. There, as I said, it look
ed as tho one person had the
full say and no one was allowed
to differ. Just as we are told
the Communist Party keeps its
membership in line in fear of
penalties. Could it be possible
such could be the case with the
'Grand Old Party'? If so, were
the blue blazes was the feudal
lord? Was it General Motors?
Was it a BIG Banker? I ask to
know.
Or, maybe, the Party has gone
so far down the road to Perdi
tion it canot recover. I hope it
goes much farther in the same
direction. Unless it throws all
old fogies and takes on newer
and younger and more enlighten
ed blood and lots of it.
A. L. Unger,
634 Pennsylvania ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Those Questions. Again
To the Editor: I am a mother
of two children, a registered
voter, and very interested in flu
oridation. The information I
have read thus far indorsing flu
oridation has left me with these
questions:
(1) Specifically, what labora
tory tests have been performed
on animals in an equal amount
for them to our 1 p.p.m. to prove
that it is safe to all children and
all people? (When the Salk vac
cine was released all such de
tailed information was made
public so that parents would
know of its safety. Incidentally
unlike fluoridation the vaccine
is on a purely voluntary basis,
but so much more important.)
(2) Isn't it true that McClure,
the scientist who originally com
piled all the information about
decay and fluorides based his
conclusions on assumption? He
took a handful of men in these
decay free areas, asked them if
they'd had any broken bones,
kidney ailments, heart . trouble,
etc. and if they answered "No,"
then he assumed that it was safe
to everyone. However, we all
know that each person is differ-
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drugs are harmful and ineffec
tive to some.
(3) If this is truly progress
and not a good deal for the
aluminum companies, machine
makers, etc. Why does not the
U.S.P.H.S. recommend some
method such as fluoridated salt,
milk, etc., so that all children
could be decay free instead of
just those supplied by a public
water supply?
(4) Isn't it true, that many
medical men, chemists, research
scientists, and several European
countries have opposed fluorida
tion and warned to go slow?
Why then do promoters tend to
stereotype our thinking by say
ing all opposed are crackpots,
food faddists, habitual aginners.
etc.? (Incidentally we can find
something wrong with anyone,
since no one is perfect.)
(5) Specifically why is calci
um fluoride (natural) and sodium
fluoride (artificial) considered
the same chemically? Isn't it true
that the calcium fluorides are us
ed in chemistry experiments in
stead of sodium fluorides be
cause they are more safe and
cheaper?
(6) Have 1 the constitutional
right to ask my neighbor to use
fluorides because I may want
my children to have them?
(7) How can the parts per mil
lion be controlled and equal
as they come out of our water
taps?
Barbara Miller,
728 Newtown,
Medford, Ore.
Work and Vote
To the Editor: The Republican
convention at San Francisco was
the worst padlock convention in
United States history.
It was planned and settled
weeks before. No one had a
chance to block the nomination
of Nixon.
Terry Carpenter of Nebraska
proved to the wide, wide world
that they were afraid of an hon
est, open convention.
That great Senator Wayne
Morse, being a man of the peo
ple and for the people, believing
in freedom of speech and the
principles of Thomas Jefferson,
had to leave the Republican
party to serve and protect the
rights of his people.
It was a difficult decision lor
him to make, but he put your
interest ahnve the partv. We in
tho middle-west hoDe and pray
that you will vote for Wayne
Morse before the Republicans
steal the rest of the far west
riches. You can't match the
money that is being spent to
defeat Morse.
You must work. McKay was
hand-picked in the east to come
back and run. Talk it up. W,ork
and vote for Morse.
Clem N. Meyers,
North Loup, Nebr. '
Proof Cited -
To the Editor: How can any
one say that adding fluorides to
water is poisonous, with this
proof that it is not. quote:
Grand Rapids. Michigan
Muskegon, Michigan .
Aurora. Illinois
The Method:
In January, 1945, 1 ppm flu
oride was added to the fluoride
free water of Grand Rapids.
Mich. Muskegon's water was left
fluoride-free its source is Lake
Michigan as is Grand Rapids.
Aurora, Illinois, water has
contained 1.2 ppm fluoride nat
urally for years.
Comparable groups of school
M. PaJ. Adv.
children (many thousand in all)
were examined at the start of the
experiment and each succeeding
fall.
The Results after 6 years:
1. Significant reduction of
tooth decay in all groups of
Grand Rapids children.
2. 66.6 To reduction in tooth
decay in 6-yr. olds.
3. The younger age group ap
proximated Aurora's.
4. 18.1 To. reduction in the 16
year olds.
5. Muskegon, the fluoride-free
control city, showed no signifi
cant change in the decay rate;
and as a result of public demand,
fluoridation was started, making
Muskegon no longer a control
city.
"We have not observed any
significant change in the vital
statistics of Grand Rapids since
the inception of our fluoridation
program." .
W. B. Prothro, M. D.,
Public Health Director,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Let us help our grandchildren
to have 'better teeth by voting
"Yes" to amendment No. 56 on
the ballot.
Mrs. R. W. Gordon,
116 Medford Hheights,
Medford, Ore.
To the Editor: Your paper of
October 19 published a fine ac
count of my husband s speech
in Medford to the Democratic
County Central committee. How
ever, in the paragraph referring
to my own brief remarks, it was
stated that I compared the in
terest shown in the Indian hear
ings at Klamath Falls between
that of Senator Murray of Mon
tana and Congressman Ells
worth. Of course, the Congress
man referred to should be Sam
Coon and not Mr. Ellsworth.
I had reference to the fact
that an 80-year old Senator from
Montana sat patiently for five
or six hours at Klamath Falls
listening to testimony about the
future of the Klamath Indians.
By contrast, the Republican con
gressman from the second Ore
gon district declined an invita
tion to sit wrth the committee
and then left the hearing in his
own district, after attending for
only 30 or 40 minutes.
Thank you so much for this
opportunity to make a brief cor
rection. ' Maurine (Mrs. Richard)
Neuberger, Medford
Hotel, Medford, Ore.
The Eisenhower "Ordeal"
To the Editor: Many reports
from Washington state that the
president's second term (if there
is,one) will be farther to the left.
The accuracy of these reports is
confirmed by Paul G. Hoffman's
article in a present issue of Col
lier's. Clearly, Eisenhower is
bidding for votes of more lib
erals and left-wingers.
Now 1 happen to be a Bob
Taft-Douglas MacArthur type of
conservative Republican, and I
find such news extremely dis
concerting. If such senators as
Welker, M a 1 o n e, McCarthy,
Schoeppel and Dworshak are to
be read out of the Republican
party, I am afraid I shall have
to go with them.
At the Geneva conference the
Communist cutthroat Bulganin,
between vodkas, expressed the
hope that Eisenhower would be
elected again. Henry Wallace is
now on the Ike bandwagon and
a radical, left-wing Democrat
congressman from New York has
joined Ike's motley crew of sup
porters. First we had Roosevelt's New
Deal. Then came Harry and his
Fair Deal. Now we have Eisen
hower's Ordeal. It appears that
we have only changed name tags.
I have no love for Mr. Steven
son but I hope he is elected.
Under Stevenson, conservative
Southern Democrats and those
conservative Republicans which
Ike wants to read out of the Re
publican party, would in all
probability form an effective co
alition as they did in 1950-52
against Truman. If Eisenhower
is victorious we shall continue ,to
be led farther into Socialism to
the strains of the National An
them and mocking lip service to
free enterprise.
Dwight Gifford,
Route 2, Box 929,
Creswell, Ore.
Educational Confab
Scheduled at YMCA
By Real Estate Men
Real estate representatives
from Jackson and Josephine
counties are expected to attend
a two-county real estate educa
tional conference in the Medford
YMCA building Tuesday, Oct.
23.
Principal speaker at the con
ference will be Frederick J.
Bashaw, Palm Beach, Fla.. who
will speak at 9:30 a.m. on "Find
ing and Analyzing the Best
Listing." He also is scheduled to
speak at a noon luncheon at the
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REPUBLICAN STATEMENT
The Republican party, by its
record, proves that it is keenly
aware of the fact that today's
generation has a solemn obliga
tion to conserve our physical and
scenic resources for tomorrow's
children. At the same time, the
nation's high standards of living
give ample proof that, under the
American way of life, intelligent
conservation and development of
natural resources are compat
ible. The Republican party takes
pride that national forests, na
tional parks and wildlife refuges
are more adequately financed,
better protected and more ex
tensive than ever before. In four
years of the Eisenhower admin
istration about 90,000 acres have
been added to our national wild
life refuges. In 25 states new
lands have been brought into the
federal refuge program. By con
trast, federal wildlife reserves
were reduced by more than
400,000 acres in the previous six
Democrat years.
During the Eisenhower years
some 400,000 acres have been
added to our National Park sys
tem. The first new park since
1947 has been authorized.
What is the Eisenhower rec
ord of financial support for con
servation? Nearly half again as much
money was budgeted in each of
the last two years as in the last
fiscal year of the previous ad
ministration for acquisition, de
velopment and maintenance of
wildlife refuges. . '
A 15-year trend of neglect of
our national parks under previ
ous administrations was brought
to a halt.
The budget for development
and maintenance of our national
parks this current fiscal year is
double the amount made avail
able in the last fiscal year con
trolled by the previous adminis
tration. In the fields of resource de
velopment and public works, the i
President's record is equally il
lustrious. Vast new programs have been
initiated such as the St. Law
rence Seaway, so long denied
kinder previous administrations.
In the- Upper Colorado Project
we have the first basin-wide
multi-purpose water develop
ment program authorized in
many years. Over 300,000 acres
of land will receive an assured
water supply from this project,
and a million kilowatts of power
will be generated. The key
structure, Glen Canyon Dam,
will be fully comparable to
Hoover Dam. During the Eisen
hower administration, almost $3
billion has been invested in the
construction of water-power fa
cilities. In its report on the above ac
complishments, the Department
of the Interior states that "we
have again put on record our
belief that it is fundamental to
the American way of life that
the Federal government shall
do only those tilings for the peo
ple which they or their local
levels of government cannot do
for themselves."
Medford hotel.
During the afternoon session
he will discuss "advertising,
showing, closing."
Sponsor Named
The program is being spon
sored by the Oregon Real Estate
department under Ragnor O.
Johnson, real estate commission
er. Burton W. Dunn, education
al supervisor of the department,
will be in charge and will serve
as chairman.
Eugene E. Burdick, Portland
attorney and a member of the
real estate board, will be chair
man of a legal forum including
Bob Dames, Ben Lombard, and
O. H. Bengtson, local attorneys,
who will present a panel on le
gal problems in real estate.
The program includes a talk
on the multiple listing bureau
by John Black of Salem, and a
talk by Charles F. Walker. Port
land, former president and own
er of the Northwestern school
of commerce, at 3 p.m. Walker
will speak on "Success in Real
Estate."
The conference committee is
made up of Willis T. Fasel,
president of the Medford Realty
board; Clark Walker, Victor
Sether, H. O. Martin and Don
Herried, all of Medford; and
Dave Curtis, Clarence Bell, and
J. K. Adams, all of Ashland.
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DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT
The Democratic Party stands
today as always for Peace;
not the phoney peace the Re
publicans are bragging about but
real peace.
There is no peace when a
Secretary of State brags about
the art of getting us to the brink
of war three times in two years.
There can be no peace when we
build bigger and better H
bombs, each of which can ob
literate a country and all its
life.
The way to real peace, as
Adlai Stevenson says, is to take
a hard look at the monster called
the H-bomb and work toward its
elimination, along with other
atomic weapons, from the ar
senal of nations.
President Eisenhower calls
this "a theatrical gesture." Can
we ever speak of the cessation
of H-bomb detonation as a theat
rical gesture when we know its
frightening possib i 1 i t i e s? Al
ready according to some atomic
scientists, our atmosphere is
probably saturated with more
fire Razes Heating
Firm Near Salem
Keizer U.R) A $25,000
fire early Saturday razed the
main warehouse of the Home
Insulation and Heating Company
in this Salem-area community.
Keizer volunteer firemen said
the blaze broke out about 2 a.m.
from undetermined causes. They
managed to save an adjoining office.
The Democratic Oregon Journal
of Portland
Is Signing Doug McKay!
A Reprint from The Oregon Journal, October 10th
Why We Support Doug McKay
It is not without good reason that
the eyes of the nation are upon Ore
gon's senatorial campaign.
For one thing, nowhere is -the pro
Eisenhower versus anti-Eisenhower
issue more sharply drawn.
For another, the opposing candi
dates are personally as different from
each other as two' men possibly
could be.
For a third, each is nationally
known in his own right, the Repub
lican, Doug McKay, as secretary of
interior under Eisenhower the sec
ond Oregon man ever honored by
presidential appointment to a cabinet
post and the Democrat, Wayne
Morse, as one of the senate's most
controversial and self-publicized in
dividuals. McKay has steadfastly supported
the president's program. He has done
so without fanfare or attempt at per
sonal aggrandizement. Morse, on the
other hand, has declared the presi
dent to be "lacking in all political
morality" and "the most dangerous
man who will ever have been in the
White House."
If one believes Eisenhower Is the
most dangerous man ever to be in
the White House, then consistency
demands a vote for Wayne Morse.
On the other hand, if one believes
1 Eisenhower will be the most effec
tive architect of our foreign policy
during the next presidential term,
then consistency demands a vote for
Doug McKay, who holds the presi
dent's confidence and who can be
counted upon for support rather than
obstruction at every step.
McKay has a long and honorable
record as a small businessman, a
state legislator, mayor of Salem and
governor of Oregon. He has shown
stability, integrity and consistency
plus a remarkable equanimity under
often unfair but sometimes heavy
fire. '
Morse has been in the senate for
12 years. His record there has been
one of mercurial instability and In
effectiveness. His greatest assets are
a quick mind and a glib tongue.
Although he now runs on a plat
form of "principle," he has more
often than not seemed to adjust his
principles to the expedient which
best suited his personal purposes at
the moment.
Such facility in shifting ground
while appearing to adhere to a "prin
ciple" might win honors in a debating
atomic fallout than is safe for
human beings.
A few more H-bomb detona
tions by any nation may well
bring results which will be dis
astrous to this and future gen
erations. The hard fact is that
not all radiation from atomic ex
plosions is dissipated into noth
ingness; a substantial portion
stays in the atmosphere and
drifts with the wind over wide
areas.
This is the reason Adlai Stev
enson, Democratic candidate for
President, insists that we work
toward the cessation of H-bomb
explosions and for an agreement
with other powers to stop mak
ing this most infernal of all in
fernal machines.
Until this is done there can be
no assurance of peace only the
marking of time in an indefinite
and shaky armistice. It is the
Republicans who are the war
mongers of today, with their
art of brinksmanship and big
talk that cannot scare the po
tential, enemy.
Paul
Wants Your Vote
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8 Years City Councilman. 3 Years President of Council, Chairman of
Finance, Police, Fire Committees, Past President Junior Chamber of
Commerce, Past President Medford Kiwanii Club, Member -Chamber
of Commerce, Medford Business Man for 16 Years.
Clayton W. Lewis, Campaign Manager Paid Pol. Adv.
society where the side a debater
takes is decided by a flip of the coin.
But it is not this type of dubious
genius which is to be desired in the
U. S. senate in the critical years
ahead.
The Journal, consequently, bases
its support of McKay in this campaign
in part upon his staunch defense of
the president's program.
It bases its support, also, upon Mc
Kay's positive and constructive ad
ministrative record in Oregon and
Washington, D. C, and upon his
understanding of the problems of
workers, small businessmen, farm
ers, lumbermen and other citizens of
the state an understanding gained
from a lifetime of working with them
as a private citizen and for them as
an elected official.
' Born of poor parents in Portland
in 1893, McKay as a youngster helped
feed his family by working at odd
jobs and by selling newspapers. He
paid his expenses at Oregon State
college by working in a laundry,
driving a butcher wagon and sweep
ing floors.
In 1917, a month before gradua
tion, he volunteered for service in
World War I. He still bears the scars
of wounds suffered in the Meuse
Argonne. Back in private life, he be
came an automobile salesman. Herd
work and frugal living made it pos
sible for him to acquire a modest
automobile dealership in Salem. This
he developed into an outstanding
small business concern.
Fellow citizens honored him by
electing him first as president of the
Salem Chamber of Commerce and
later as mayor. In 1935, Marion coun
ty elected him to the state senate.
In, World War II, McKay volun
teered again, although exemptions,
could have been his on the grounds
of service injuries, age or his posi
tion in the senate. Oregon elected
him its governor in 1950 by the
largest majority ever given a candi
date for that office in this state.
. He left the governorship to accept
President Eisenhower's invitation to
become secretary of interior, a post
in which he served with dignity and
distinction.
Of Oregon's two senatorial candi
dates, McKay has greater stature in
every respect.
For all these reasons. The Journal
urges his election to the U. S. senate
on November 6.
Paid Political Adv. by . . .
STANLEY C. JONES, Jr.
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