SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tutaday, May 28. 1957
Americans Not Getting As Much
Good as Possible From Food Use
Washington OPI Americans
aren't getting as much good as
they should out of their abun
dant food supply.
The ironic fact that the nutri
tional content of family diets
is going slightly downhill at a
time when Uncle Sam is strug
gling with food surpluses has
diet experts searching for new
ways to sell the A-B-Cs of good
eating.
Some leading nutritionists met
here at a recent nationwide con
ference to compare notes on the"
problem. They were armed with
stacks of figures from a new Ag
riculture Department survey..
The study shows, among other
things, that 10 per cent of Amer
ican family diets are actually
"substandard" and many more
are well below desired levels in
some basic food nutrient cpunts.
Tough Odds
A new campaign to "sell" nu
trition is the dietician's answer.
They concede they're up against
such things as long-term eating
patterns, stiff competition for
the family food dollar, and diet
fads and food pills.
Dr. Faith Clark, chief of the
food consumption section of the
Agriculture Department's House
hold Economics Research Divi
sion, cites figures which show
the average American family
spent three times more on food
jn 1955 than in 1948. Food
prices, however, rose only seven
per cent during the period to ac
count for only a small part of
the increase.
Her figures show that family
rations of calcium and ascorbic
acid (Vitamin C) actually lost
ground. Vitamin A allowances
remained unchanged, and pro
tein and other basic minerals
and nutrients showed only slight
gains.
Dr. Clark concludes that most
of the additional food money was
spent on more expensive, not
more nutritious, foods.
Below Par
Other figures show that about
29 per cent of the family diets
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's take a look at these
shocking anti-American riots in
Formosa. In FORMOSA of all
places in the world where
such ' disturbances shouldn't
occur. In FORMOSA, where
we have saved the Nationalist
remnant of the Chinese people
from being swallowed up by
brutal communism. In Formosa,
where we have spent hundreds
of millions of dollars, taken
from the pockets of our own tax
payers, in an effort to get these
refugees frm the communist
mainland of China back onto
their own feet.
What has happened there
sheds a lot of light on our prob-blems.
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LET'S look first at the Chinese
side of the picture.
Suppose foreign troops were
quartered here in our own South
ern Oregon and Far Northern
California in Klamath Falls, in
Medford, in Grants Pass, in
Roseburg. in Yreka, in Weed, in
Dunsmuir, in Lakeview, in Al
turas. Suppose they were better paid
than we and had far, far more
money to spend. Suppose they
were good-looking and glamor
our and that our young women
couldn't help looking at them
with interested eyes.
Suppose if you are able to
imagine such a thing that in a
choice of dates our girls might
often- choose one of them in pref
erence to a home town boy.
IF YOU are able to imagine such
a situation, I think you will
be able to realize that all these
ingredients, when stirred to
gether, could create an explo
sive mixture.
Teen
Suppose one of these foreign
soldiers shot and killed a local
boy who was alleged to be peep-
in through one of the foreign
er's windows. That he, was tried
by his own military court not
by a local court and acquitted.
If you have been able to Im
agine this much, you should be
able to imagine that the acquit
tal might be the spark that
would touch off an explosion.
IF WE are to understand fully
what happened in Formosa,
we must take an objective look
at the shooting of the native
Peeping Tom and his subsequent
acquittal.
Was it right?
Or was it grievously wrong?
Remember this: Among English-speaking
peoples, a man's
house is his castle. He is entitled
to defend it. If an American, or
a Canadian, or an Englishman
caught a strange man peeping
into his bathroom where his wife
are not up to .National Research
Council goals for calcium; 25
per cent were under the ascorbic
acid goal; from 15 to 20 were.be
hind in Vitamin A and about 10
per cent lagging in supplies of
protein.
Dr. Clark is quick to point out
the figures do not mean the na
tion is suffering from malnutri
tion. Far from it. American diets
as & whole, she notes have shown
"considerable improve ment"
since the last large-scale diet
survey in 1936.
Then, one-third of American
diets were classed as "poor." To
day, only 10 per cent would
fall, in that category.
But Dr. Clark said most of the
improvement occurred between
the mid-thirties and 1948, the
early post-war period. There
has been little gain since.
Portland Gypsies
Reported On Move
Portland (IB Store dwell
ing gypsies were reported on
the move this week but no one
knows for sure where they are
going.
A Gypsy spokesman said at
least 10 gypsy families had final
order to vacate their empty store
homes. The city council has ord
ered the gypsies to move from
the store fronts. City commis
sioners have condemned such
housing as unhygienic.
was taking a bath and shot him
as a trespassing intruder it would
be very, very unlikely indeed
that a jury of his peers would
hold him guilty of murder.
OERHAPS the Formosa Chinese
are unable to understand
all this.
After all. you know, "East is
East and West is West, and
never the twain shall meet."
Anyway
The whole tragic and regret
table affair brings home to us
the vast and complicated prob
lem of occupation troops on for
eign soil in time of peace. This
problem is laid squarely on our
shoulders by the fact that we
have troops on the soil of dozens
of countries. . . .
IT IS QUITE a problem.
What tn rtn ahnnt if
Frankly, I don't know. But
let's all hope FERVENTLY for
the coming of the day when our
associates and allies in the free
world will quit looking to Amer
ica, to defend them from com
munism, when they will AC
CEPT RESPONSIBILTY for the
maintance of their own econom
ies and the defense of their own
liberties when they will cease
to look to America for huge
handouts in the form of grants
in aid and will STAND ON
THEIR OWN FEET.
When that time comes, we can
(and WILL) withdraw our troops
from foreign soil and bring them
home where they ought to b.e
and where we WANT them to be.
Lebanon, Ore. (1?) Joseph
A. Fordyce, 46, Lebanon, was
killed Monday as the Jeep sta
tion wagon he was driving over
turned.
SHOOTS MOTHER AND SISTER IN QUARREL Andrew
Casey, 14-year-old high school freshman at Rye, N. Y,
shown here (left foreground) in a happier time with his
family,' shot and killed his mother and sister because of
criticism of his school work. His brother Michael, 12
(right), escaped possible harm when his father ordered
him from the house as the shots rang out. On the couch
are his mother, Dorothy, 48 (left), his sister,' Sheila, 19,
and his father, Eugene. The father suffered a heart attack
after calling police and was hospitalized. Andrew's older
brother, Shawn, 19 (rear), was away at college. It was his
.22 caliber rifle that Andrew used in the shooting.
Neuberger To Speak At Memorial Rites
Washington OP) Sen. Rich
ard L. Neuberger' has been se
lected to give the annual mem
orial address in tribute to Frank
lin D. Roosevelt at graveside
ceremonies in Hyde Park Thurs
day. '
The invitation was extended
on behalf of the Roosevelt fam
ily. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will
preside. .
Neuberger'f wife, Maurine,
also will participate as- will the
farmer secretary of . -the Air
Force, Thomas K. Finletter. V .
Neuberger's topic ' will be,
"Franklin D. Roosevelt as a "-conservationist."
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Neuberger recently was 'ap
pointed by Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon as one of the
Senate members of the Roose
velt Memorial commission.
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NO NEWS CONFERENCES .
Washington (IB The Whlt
House announced Monday that
President Eisenhower will not
hold a news conference this
week, largely because of hia
preoccupation with the visit of
West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer.
Farmers of the U. S. use twic
as much petroleum driven pow
er as the total consumed by th
total of all the nation's factories
and industries.
School Klevs
HEDRICK NEWS
On Friday, May 24, Hedrick
Junior High school held a com
bination PTA meeting and spring
concert and style show.
The art, science, shop and
math departments displayed pro
jects in the gymnasium from
7 to 8 p.m.
At 7 the program began. The
homemaking classes m o d e 1 ed
clothing made during ninth
grade homemaking classes under
the direction of Mrs. Dorothy
Sneed.
The band directed by Ron
Bartlett played three numbers
and the orchestra directed . by
John Drysdale played two num
bers. Mary Milne played an oboe
solo, Robert Heide played a cor
net solo and a trombone quartet
and student combo also played.
A boys quartet made up of
John Frohnamyer, Jim Lacy,
John Lacy and Paul Moore sang
"Round and Round."
The commentators for the style
show were Jim Lacy, Darleane
Hunt, Margaret Medlin, Mikell
Thurston, Karalee Selby and
John Lacy. Technicians were
Ken Peek, Jim Frake, Gary Mil
ne and Kelly Somers.
The art display was directed
by Catherine Fonken, the science
display by Gatewood Smith and
Monte Kounz, the shop display
by Duane Richardson and the
math display by . Bruce Nelson.
John Lusk played the organ dur
ing the open house and the style
show. Refreshments were served
by the PTA at the conclusion
of the program.
One hnudred students from
Hedrick participated in the
music festival at the Senior High
school stadium, Thursday, May
23. The Hedrick chorus sang
three numbers and also sang in
the combined choral arrangements.
inqham Man
Sought by Officials
Olympia (IP) Henry W. Wa
ger, ' assistant attorney general,
was designated by Attorney Gen
eral John J. O'Connell Monday
to investigate the disappearance
of O. M. Case, Bellingham realtor.
Wager, former Kitsap county
prosecutor, began work immed
iately to locate Case and deter
mine , the reason for his disap
pearance two months ago.
The attorney general's office
entered the case at the request
of Tom A.- Durham, Whatcom
county prosecutor, who asked to
disassociate his office with it.
Durham is Case's brother-in-law.
Case, an unsuccessful candi
date for state land commissioner
last year, left home after telling
his family he would take a posi
tion in Olympia.
A letter postmarked in Nevada
said Case planned to go to Mexi
Baltimore, Md. (IP) A bare
foot bandit invaded Sally Rand's
dressing room at a theater here
Sunday, held the fan dancer at
bay -with a fire ax and stole
$114.
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