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52nd Year Medford Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wi Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1957 8 Pages Afr' s l T TEXAS TWISTER CAUGHT IN THE ACT Tornado funnel is caught by the camera from a Dallas skyscraper as . it moves northeastward through the industrial area as it dipped into the city. Tornado death tolls in the south- west have been at least 16 with 800 others injured. More than a dozen twisters raked Texas and Oklahoma. Aspirin Tablet Poisoning Sends Many Youngsters To Hospitals Washington U.R More children are poisoned by aspirin than by any other substance. The "harmless" white tablets, a familiar fixture in every medi cine cabinet, send more than 100,000 toddlers to hospital emergency rooms ea h year. They are responsible for more poisonings than lye, ammonia, roach powder, cleaning fluids, shoe polish and laundry bleach combined. ' These facts are well-known to doctors. They apparently are not so well known to parents, who persist in leaving bottles of as pirin on the shelf next to the tooth paste, within easy reach of mall fry, Doctor who attended the spring meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics here this week listed aspirin poisoning as one of the major remaining men aces to childhood health. Acade my leaders urged al' pediatri cians and the press to join in a campaign to warn parents of the danger "If you have a child under four in your home," said Dr Harold Jacobziner, assistant tea 1th commissioner of . New Sork City," you should treat aspirin like a deadly poison. Lock It Up "Don't put it on the top shelf V the medicine closet. Lock it up Jacobziner said small children seem .o have a natural penchant for eating aspirin by the handful. "They apparently like the taste of ordinary aspirin tablets, which most adults find bitter, as well as the flavored aspirin which are put up especially for children, he said Highway Marker Would Honor West Salem (U.P.) The House High waj s Committee Thursday passed favorably on a joint reso lution which provides for erect ing a marker in honor of Form er Gov. Oswald West somewhere on the Oregon Coast highway. Gov. West during his adminis tration had the state's beaches declared public highways to pro tect the public's free access to the shore. The committee amended House bill 408 calling for the motto "Scenic Oregon" on the state's license plates, but it balked at reflectorizing the plates at an estimated cost of $800,000. A majority of the committee appeared to favor turning the bill over to the interim highway committee for further study with actual changes in the plates to be made in 1960 when new plates will be issued. No final action was taken on the bill. Rogue River Man Named Chairman of Board Chester W. Jensen, Rogue Riv er, was appointed chairman of the Rogue Soil Conservation dis trict board of directors at a meeting Wednesday night. Efclwiar Smith, Central Point, was named vice chairman; Don jtfinee. Medford, treasurer, and V. & cker, secretary. This dangerous appetite is whetted, the doctor continued, by parents who "foolishly tell, a child that the aspirin the doctor has prescribed for him is 'candy'." "Never tell a child that any medicine is candy," he said, wav ing his finger under a reporter's nose. "Tell them it's medicine and the doctor said they should take just this much, no more. ' Aspirin ir large enough quan tities is toxic even to" adults. But it takes very much less to poison a child than to poison a" grown up. Consult a Doctor "S.o m e children, especially when they are ill, do not toler ate aspirin well," Jacobziner ex plained. "Even a relatively small amount can be hazardous to a very young child. No parent should undertake to give a child aspirin without consulting" the doctor." Once a child has gulped a fist ful of aspirin, Jacobziner1, said, there are only two things a par ent can do: 1. Make him vomit immediate ly. 2. Get him to a hospital as quickly as possible. Hospitals, by applying emer gency resuscitative measures, usually can save the life- of an aspirin-poisoned child if he gets there in time. "The death rate so far has been mercifully low, less than one per cent," said Jacobziner. "But it is tragically unnecessary for any child to die, to have a close brush with death, from this cause. i "All we need is to use a little common sense and lock up that aspirin bottle." Fire Prevention Campaign Scheduled Cave Junction A plan to en list fifth and sixth graders in a campaign of fire prevention in the Illinois Valley got underway Tuesday at the joint fire drill for Cave- Junction, O'Brien and Selma volunteers. Firs Chief Herb Falkenhayn suggested that each child be given fire prevention score cards to be filled out by families and neighbors. The cards are to list fire hazards "around- the"" home and the steps taken to eliminate them.' . The child bringing in the high est score will be made honorary Fire Chief for a day, and will preside over the fire truck at the Illinois Valley Labor Day Jubi lee parade. More than 30 volunteers at tended the fire drill at the Eagles hall in Kerby. A picture on fire prevention was shown. Nevada Atomic Tests To Prove Bombs May Be Stored Near Cities Washington U.R) A major purpose of tests starting in Neva da next Wednesday is to prove that atomic air defense weapons may be safely stockpiled next door to every large American city. ; The Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission al ready are convinced, on the basis of past tests, that it is next to impossible to explode such weap ons accidentally. But they are taking no chances. The new safety tests, starting April 10 and continuing intermittently into next fall, are designed to make assurance doubly sure. In addition to these handling and storage tests, which do not involve atomic explosions, the AEG. also will stage its sixth series of atomic weapons experi ments at the Nevada proving ground. It announced Wednes day that the new atomic tests will start about May J 5 and con tinue at intervals through the summer. Blast Plant Close observers of atomic de velopments expect the nuclear explosions to: Lead to development of 714 inch atomic artillery shells, the smallest yet attempted, and of tiny but potent tactical A-bombs for delivery by high-speed, low level fighter-bombers. Provide new data on the "quake effect" of subsurface atomic explosions. There is rea son to believe this effect can ac complish destruction greater than would be inflicted by air blast alone. S u p p 1 y Information now lacking on the feasibility of mass shelters against atomic violence. The AEC has confirmed that the Nevada program will have civil defense aspects. Prove that atomic tests can be carried out under circum stances which make detection by other countries impossible. The quake effect, shelter, and detection data woul " come from explosions the AEC plans to stage in tunnels dug in the rock under the proving ground. Such shots would transmit practically all of their violence through the earth rather than the air. Their radio-activities would not escape into the air for other countries Municipal Workers in Buenos Aires Strike Buenos Aires (U.P.) A flash j strike of municipal employees j paralyzed the city administra tion for "the second successive day today. Skeleton crews operated hos pitals, cemeteries and the zoo. The city chartered 140 private trucks for garbage disposal. Mayor Edwards Bergalli said me waiKout, wnicn aid not nave the backing of union leaders, came as a surprise to him. The strikers are scheduled to return to work Saturday. 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The new tests are calculated to allay fears anyone may have about stockpiling such weapons near target cities. In this connec tion, a key member of the con gressional Atomic Energy Com mittee, Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), told the United Press: "Every, large city in the coun try will be defended by atomic stockpiles supporting our surface-to-air defense missiles. "We now have to have atomic warheads in the environs of our large cities. We have to learn to live side by side with the mili tary atom if we are going to have adequate military defense." As for the nuclear tests start ing in mid-May, the first explo sion of the new series will be the 46th in Nevada and at least the 76th in U.S. atomic history. The AEC is making great efforts to keep radioactive fallout near the proving ground lower than it ever has been. 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