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Newspaper Page Texto o o Monday, July I. 1857 o OS Alcoholissi flanks As One of America's Four Major Problems Affecting Heaftfr Editor'! notr: Thli ! the f1r to arla of diapau-hei on wherr a taaad ta too fight aratntt a1r-nhoho . ft portf on th (rowing lnrfoVn thtt affliction, and the scope rf our effort to control It. By LOUIS CASSEL Waia,irjr.on Alcoholism toatr claims nearly S million victims is the United States. Tt . tofui wi'Ji heert disease, cancer! our four major health problems America is spending millions to curb the other three disease and is jetting results. But we od mental Ulaem as one of j have yet to launch an effective ZUDCTT WATEH COMMISSION "WATER TURD Jiy J 1937 to June 30. ItSS RECEIPTS: Estimated Cash on Hand June 30. 195T . Estimated Water Revenues Transfer from Water System Construction uo . Other ReceiDts: Customer Service Connections $ 81.n4S.73 379 04D. 00 4.1U0.00 Servicine Customer Installations Connection Fees - Water District Operation Rent Assessments for Trunk Water Main ll.0Ofl.B0 28.000.00 1.800.00 7.280.00 240.00 43.713.50 national fight against alcohol-1 alcohol to meet ordinary de ism. The number of alcoholics mands of living and whose use is growing at a rate of at least of alcohol has beeun to cans him serious problems at home or at work. TOTAL RECEIPTS EXPENDITURES: Operating Expense! Franchise Taxes Interest on Bonds - Labor & Material for Customers' Servic Connection... Labor & Material for Servicing Customers' Ins'U?ti6nf Capital Expenditures SI 833 30 5145,977.00 3.7150.00 88,75.00 12.000.00 13.000. 00 141. 05. 00 $337,819.25 TOTAL EXPENDITURE ESTIMATED BALANCE JUNg 0. 4488.987.00 IfSB1 78,852.25 BUDGtT WATEB COMMISSION WaTC 4)t8TEM COBSTSUCTIOB FUD July 1. 1857 m JJW 0. 1J RECEIPTS: c Estimated Balance June 30. 1957 Interest in Investment 5104.0!5.85 5,100.00 TOTAL RECEIPTS . DISBURSEMENTS: Transfer to Water Fund ESTIMATED BALANCE JUNE 30. 1958 $107,152.85 4.100 00 $103,052.85 luu.uuu a year. These are some of the find ings of a United Press survey into the status of the long promised "counter-attack" against alcoholism. The survey showed hearttning progress in some areas notably in new treatment techniques which today offer the alcoholic a bright prospect of recovery if he seeks competent help. Few Getting Treatment But it also showed that only a small percentage of alcoholics are receiving the treatment they need. There are still vast gaps in our knowledge about this af fliction. And, in the words of Dr. William C. Menninger, the famous psychiatrist, "only a pittance of money is being de voted to changing the picture." The present scope of the alco holism problem and our com paratively feeble efforts to deal with it are demonstrated in the following facts, supplied by the American Medical Assn., the National Institute of Mental Health, and state alcoholism agencies: If you drink alcoholic bever ages and well over half of all American adults do the statis tical odds are one in 15 that you eventually will become an alco holic. Medical Science now applies the diagnosis of alcoholism to any drinker who depends on Increasing All Orer Alcoholism, thus defined is increasing in all parts of the country, in all segments of so ciety, and at all age levels from 20 to 65. It is easy to underestimate the Incidence of alcoholism because it is an "iceberg" problem 90 per cent hidden from sight For every skid-row type alco holic, whose deterioration of mind and body has become too great to be disguised, there are nine "hidden alcoholics" who are in the early or middle stages of this progressive dis ease. These "hidden alcoholics" are still able to keep up appear ances. They continue to fun tion, at least part time, as wives and mothers, or as business and professional men. The vast ma jority of them will not acknowl edge, even to themselves, that they have lost control over their drinking and have become ad dicted to alcohol. The real cost of alcoholism cannot be measured, because no one can put a price tag on a broken home, a brilliant career down the drain, a human life r.iat turns into a nightmare of hangovers, blackouts, broken promises and uncontrollable cravings. But a minor part of the cost can be estimated. Wage losses attributed to alcoholism amount to 432 million dollars a year When you add in higher crime and accident rates, law enforce ment and medical expenses, au thorities consider 1 billion dol lars a year a conservative figure for the direct, countable sest of alcoholism. And what are we spending to combat this menace? The eae word answer suggested by Ate United Press survey is "jssa-nuts." Thirty-three sfates and the District of Columbia new have official alcoholism programs. Some of theot exist mainly on paper. Others operate clinics ad hospitals, and conduct re search and public education services. Fer ike support of all of these pfograaaw, state legislatures last year veieil a sjrand total of $3, 823,1 The number of patients treat ed lay all state-supported facili ties in 1SS6 was 22,906 or less than one out of every 208 of the nation's alcoholics. The research picture Is equal ly bleak. A check of major fed eral, state and private agencies turned up a total annual 'outlay of less than $700,000 for scien tific studies of alcoholism. Thii is only one-fifth as much ss the Agriculture Department spends each year for research on foot-and-mouth disease in cattle. Tomorrow: What science has learned about the causes ef alcoholism. Masculinizing Hormone Helps Female Canary Birds to Sing By DELOS SMIT United Press Swetue EditM New Yeck (W It is not at all impassible for female can ary birds to sing and sing bril liantly, but they need a little help, science has found. The help is a "shot" of masculiniz ing hormone. That may er may not be the explanation of a phenomenon which has appeared here and there around the country oi late. Canary birds which sang their heads off in the pet shop, lost the gift soon after buyers took them home. Since male canaries sing en thusiastically as long as they live, that was exceedingly strange. This strangeness be came colored with suspicion when some of these birds were definitely identified as female of sex. You see, among birds, females don't sing. They only chirp. But here were female canaries who Had been singers, if only for a time. Unless nature had sudden ly reversed the rule, something had been done to these females Test Five Birds E. H. Herick and J. O. Harris, poultry scientists of the Kansas State college of agriculture and applied science, took nine young but mature female canaries. By hypodermic needle, they gave five a minute amount of a ACTUAL EXPENDITURES FISCAL YEARS 1954 53 22,937.38 I 34,664.69 f 34.477.49 22,548.00 34.664.69 $111,690.18 1955-58 3,364.46 EtBtoTDITUBM !iC4L YEAB 1858-47 1st 8 Mos. ,700.62 Xelal Bui 82,984.00 CLASSIFICATION 448 Budget Allowance HJ7-S8 Street Construction ; 58,288.00 $ 6,093.44 (S ,25.00 $131,534.00 Total Capital expenditures 88,088.00 8 60,710.71 23,093.75 6,093.44 $ 89,897.90 31,971.50 12,681.8 26,238.00 70.911.S SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES f 81,608.00 40,200.00 131,534.00 o (S253.342.00 Personal Services 1107,232.00 Operation' & Maintenance 49,700.00 Capital Expenditures 88,088.00 GRAND TOTAL $245,020.00 Estimated Balance June 30. 1957 5 80,020.00 Estimated Receipt 1957-5t 155,000.00 O S243.020.00 STOHM StWtB PUD OPERATION Engineering AND MAINTENANCE: Storm Sewer Constr. 1,425.00 46,075.00 Total ..$ 47,500.00 1.588.36 2.444 89 2.155 81 3.195.47 2.843.86 """ 37 6 4 5 290.40 223.80 280.12 13,397.16 29.29 1,997.00 168.82 113.80 856.87 388.56 163.17 1,926.57 38.30 1.337.66 398.61 1.184.89 490.49 $ 11,294.03 S 4.177.46 2,739.00 $ 6.936 46 2,&5.51 2,200.01 3.456.48 3,084.00 845"b"6 221.70 220.15 271.71 $ 12.304.56 $ 339.45 2.302.33 82.06 981.4a) 1,174.25 1,818.16 1,712.42 744.80 651.49 17.52 $ S TIBET? AD BEWEBS PERSONAL SERVICES Utility Worker 1-12.3.2 1-12.3 1-12.3.14 1-12.3.15 2.025.00 2,460.00 3,740.00 3,542.00 147.96 $ 7,442.82 $ 183.53 9S6.71 26.53 13.397.18 11.294.03 6.936.46 S 31.627.63 S 2.340.00 3.816.00 2.100.00 1.732.84 63.00 153.36 140.20 $ 12.082.38 $ 141.36 2,332.05 807.84 37.59 225.63 93.60 200.00 3.835.10 857.98 445.44 160.21 2,015.28 13.75 4.949.03 170.57 1,018.93 223.98 $ 12,578.01 $ 339.66 717.80 - $ 1,057.46 $ 12.304.56 12,579.01 1.057.46 $ 25,941.03 533.40 218.46 85.08 1,143.53 107.55 3,157.44 10.73 811.98 208.37 44.30 $ 7,456.61 $ 457.82 1.000.00 250.00 325.00 260.00 $ 13,602.00 t 350.00 2,500.00 300.00 250.00 1,200.00 350.00 200.00 2,500.00 10,000.00 20,000.00 700.00 1,500.00 500.00 40,350.00 2,000.00 1-12.10.1 1-12.11 1-12.12.1 1-12.13 General Foremen (1PT 490) Mechanic Foreman Utility Worker III (2 330-390) Utility Worker II Carpenter .'. Overtime Compensation Retirement Social Security 2,208.00 2,580.00 8,640.00 1,200.00 225.00 275.00 345.00 Total Personal Services - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE: 1-12.17 Office Supplies 1-12.17.2 Warehouse Supplies 1-12.17.5 faint 1-12.21 1-12.22 1-12.24 1-12.26 1-12.46 1-12.50 1-12.51 1-12.53 1-12.68 1-12.69 Travel Gasoline Electricity Telephone & Telegraph Drainage Control Const. Sidewalks Outside Work Street Sign Maint Equipment Maintenance 1,500.00 Bldg. Maintenance 1,000.00 Sewer Repairs .. 15,473.00 .. 350.00 2,500.00 200.00 250.00 1.350.00 550.00 200.00 4.000.00 .. 10,000.00 .. 20,000.00 925.00 $ 457.82 $ 7.442.82 7,456.61 457.82 6 $ 15,357.25 Total Operation and Maintenance S 42,825.00 CAPITAL EXPENDITURES: 1-12.96.1 New Equipment $ 1,500.00 Warehouse Addition $ 2.000.00 Total Capital Expenditures $ 1,500.00 SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES $ 13,602.00 Personal Services 40.350.00 Operation and Maintenance - 42.825.00 2,000.00 Capital Expenditures . 1,500.00 ..$ 15,473.00 $ 55,952.00 GRAND TOTAL ..$ 59,798.00 419.83 S 8.213.02 $ 2.812.20 4.052.24 677.64 $ 2.460.00 $ 1.230.00 $ 2.460.00 3.960.00 1.980.00 3,960.00 2.100.00 875.00 2.100.00 1,880.93 699.96 1,400.00 356.10 855.00 1,086.65 1,552.47 2,500.00 36.51 23.84 100.00 162.24 115.92 300.00 173.97 109.91 250.00 $ ll!860.30 $ 6,943.20 $ 13,925.00 $ 145.96 . $ 150.27 $ 190.00 1.626.48 538.68 2.500.00 897.84 582.91 1,500.00 55.00 25.40 55.00 175.63 91.83 200.00 69.55 61.55 168.00 97.29 20.09 100.00 8.535.48 4,339.36 7,400.00 283.67 157.50 315.00 402.10 970.68 1,160.00 $ 10,309.00 $ 6,938.27 $ 13,588.00 $ 1,824.89 $ 308.03 $ 2.000.00 700.00 1,663.90 2,000.00 100.00 100.00 845.77 200.00 430) TRAFFIC ENGINEERING PERSONAL SERVICES: 1-13.2.8 City Electrician (1PT 1-13.2.2 Park Meter Att 1-13.3 P.W. Director (1PT 780) 1-13.3.8.1 Engineers Aide II (1PT 370-390) 1-13.7.4 Secretary (1PT 270-290) 1-13.10.2 Extra Help 1-13.11 Compensation 1-13.12.1 Retirement 1-13.13 Social Security $ Total Personal Services OPERATION St. MAINTENANCE: 1-13.17 Misc. Supplies 1-13.17.3 Traffic Supplies 1-13.17.4 1-13.18 1-13.20 1-13.21 1-13.66 1-13.79 1-13.80 1-13.81 Meter Parts & Supplies . Publications Mileage Travel Car Expense Electricity for Signals Annual Interconn. Cost Traffic Signal Repairs . Total Operation & Maintenance CAPITAL EXPENDITURES: 2,580.00 4,440.00 2,280.00 1,520.00 860.00 4,500.00 75.00 390.00 340.00 ..$ 16,985.00 ..$ 300.00 3,000.00 1,850.00 70.00 200.00 168.00 50.00 . 9,000.00 315.00 1,200.00 1.203.96 1-13.52 1-13.82 1-13.83 1-13.96.1 Traffic Traffic Signs Signals Overhead Direct Signals i-quipment Surveys & Reports ..$ 16,153.00 1,500.00 1,410.00 100.00 200.00 CITY OF MEDFORD INDEBTEDNESS QmhsI Obligation Bonds, June 60, 197 Airport Park Improvement Sanitary Sewer Sewage Plant Enlargement Storm Sewer Trunk Sewer Library .: Fire Department Jackson Street Bridge Armory Construction Sewage Disposal Camp White Sewage Disposal . Kenwood Water District Grandview Water' District Vater Enlargement Bonds . 212.000.00 37,500.00 40,000.00 5,000.00 159,000.00 65,000.00 32,000.00 52,000.00 20.000.00 40,000.00 15,000.00 260,000.00 40,000.00 111,000.00 2,605,000.00 Improvement Bonds Improvement Warrant, March 31, 1157 3,693,500.00 230,886.47 297,097.09 TOTAL . ..$4,221,483.56 BOID FUVD BUBGS? 19(7-4 GENERAL BOND FUND: Bond Schedule 1957-51 ? 8.174.00 Delinquent Taxes- Discount . 4,908.00 Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1157 Levy WATER BOND SINKING FUND: Bond Schedule 1957-58 Held to Pay Bonds July 1, 1957 Delinquent Taxes Discounts .. Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1957 Levy IMPROVEMENT BOND: Bond Schedule 1957-S8 Bond Sale Expenses Assessments Receivable 1987-58 Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1S57 0,000.00 13,400.00 1,995.00 40.028.00 500.00 50,000.00 184,000.00 $103,082.00 47,329.00 79,393.00 33,500.00 40,528.00 234,000.00 LEVY 55,753.00 male hormone preparation. With in nine days the female chirping was beginning to sound like song and within 12 days all five wer singing although for only a few seconds of time. But thereafter the females be gan singing for progressively longer periods "and the song was indistinguishable from that of a male bird," the scientists reported. For approximately one month the five females sang and then they stopped and began chirping precisely like the four females who hadn't been treated. Waited 10 Weeks The scientists waited 10 weeks and then repeated the experi ment to see if the results would be the same. They were except that the second time they ap peared sooner. One female was singing like a male within four days. Reporting their experiments to the American association for the Advancement of Science, Herick and Harris said some pet dealers had appealed to them for a scientific explanation of ths strange business of the on-and-then-forever-off singing of can aries. These odd birds had been ap pearing among imported can aries, the dealers told the scientists. Indeed, one dealer told the scientists he wasn't handling any more imported canaries because he had so much trouble with disappointed customers. But please understand the scientists are not accusing any one of anything. 41,895.00 Levy CAMP WHITE SEWER SINKING FUND: Bond Schedule 1357-58 Sewer Charges Receivable 1957-53 46,000.00 Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 19S7 126,700.00 26,650.00 172,700.00 CAMP WHITE SEWER CONSTRUCTION FUND: Construction Costs 49,843.00 Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1957 49,843.00 SANITARY SEWER FUND: Sewer Construction Estimated Cash on. Hand July 1, 1957 FIRE DEPARTMENT BOND FUND: Switchboard & Fixtures Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1957 860.00 860.00 3,341.00 3,341.00 SEWAGE DISPOSAL BOND FUND: Bond Schedule 1957-58 5,500.00 Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1957 56,377.00 PARK & SWIMMING POOL BOND FUND: Construction Expense Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1957 417.00 417.00 AIRPORT RECONSTRUCTION FUND: Airport Construction, Maintenance & Repair Revenue: Property Rentals 1957-58 Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1957 AIRPORT BOND FUND:. Expenditures Airport Development .... Estimated Cash on Hand July 1, 1957 .. 14,392.00 . 2,400.00 12,192.00 30,407.00 30,407.00 $ 8,746.04 $ 3,470.66 $ 1,971.95 $ 4.300.00 Total Capital Expenditures $ 12.082 38 8.21J.02 8,7.04 $ 29,041.44 $ 11.860.30 10,309.00 3.470.66 $ 25,639.96 $ 6.943.20 6.938.27 1.971.95 4 15,853.43 SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES ..$ 3,210.00 13.925.00 13,588.00 4,300.00 31,813.00 Personal Services $ 16,985.00 Operation & Maintenance 16,153.00 Capital Expenditures 3,210.00 GRAND TOTAL ..$ 36,348.00 ARTERIAL STREET BOND FUND: - Purcnase of Right-of-Way, Engineering and Street Construction 220,000.00 Sale of Bonds 220,000.00 STORM SEWER BOND FUND: Purchase of Right-of-Way, Engineering and sewer construction 95,000.00 Sale of Bonds .. 95,000.00 Arteiial sMmbk SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED REVENUES (OTHER THAN IMPROVEMENT FUNDS 1957-58) Tire General General Off-Street Park & Sanitary Sewage State Tax M nten ce Bond Fund Library Parking Swim. Pool Sewer Treatment Street None None None None None None None None None None None Safety Campaign Being Conducted For 4th of July Chicago There is a chance of one traffic smash-up for every 20 miles of highway travel dur ing the four-day Fourth of July week end, the National Safety Council said today. The Council estimates there will be 45,000,000 motor ve hicles on the nation's 3,400,000 miles of streets and highways an average of about 13 vehicles a mile if they, should all take " to the road at the same time. Safety Campaign In an attempt to prevent a holiday of tragedy for hundreds af persons, the Council again is conducting a nationwide cam paign for a safe Independence Day celebration. The campaign, supported by 158 national organ izations, is designed to increase public awareness of the extra holiday hazards and the extra caution needed to overcome them. "Accidents of all kinds took 8.S00 lives last July," said Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Ctuncil "and the Fourth con tributed substantially to the toll. Dangerous Factors "This year we have many dan gerous factors; a four-day holi day, more cars and mileage, and plenty of money. These add up to a big celebration and a big hangover of grief and suffering unless we crack down on the small minority of drivers who refuse to heed appeals for decent behavior behind the wheel. For tunately most drivers are decent, law-abiding citizens who may be guilty of inattention, thought lessness or ineptitude, but who will listen to appeals for safety and try to hold down tfte toll. 'There are two days to hold down deaths during a holiday period such as the Fourth. One is for police to be especially alert and vigorous in enforce ment, and crack down on those who refuse to listen. The other is for all of us to recognize that holidays are danger days and walk and drive in a prudent manner." Storm Sewer Water Bond Total Property Tax .:T143.i.W 83.75i.00 S 53.753 00 S286.421.00 S 18.427.00 S 23.440.00 S 19,000.00 S 47,500.00 $ 41,895.00 S729.795.00 General Reven: nirpin t Buildg & Insp. Engineers Gen. Admin - Jack. Cty. & Lib. Parking Meter Police" Sale-Labor & Mtt. Sewer Service State Gas Tx SVimmirMb Pool Kiral Fire 42,800.00 22.000 00 50.573.00 147,556.00 64.000.00 46,170.00 30,600.00 31.000.00 35,000.00 15,000.00 20,000.00 3S.S00.00 8,500.00 155,000.00 42,800.00 22,000.00 50.573.00 182.556.000 31,000.00 79,000.00 46,170.00 30,600.00 20,000.00 155,000.00 8,500.00 38,500.00 Total 89,500.00 S403.699.00 S 31,000.00 S 50,000.00 $ 8,500.00 Estimated Cash 71, W o 9 15.00 $ 47,329.00 S 52,365.00 5 4,205.00 $ 4,054.00 $ 20,000.00 $155,000.00 ) $706,699.00 $ 90,020.00 $ 33,500.00 $227,498.00 We. the undersigned Chairman and Secretary of the Budget Committee, hereby certify that the foregoing statement of Budget Estimates are as approved by the Budget Committee duly appointed for the purpose of preparing said Budget estimates Tor the City of Medford, Oregon, for the ensuing year ending June 30, 1958. Signed: H. J. Beyd, Chairman Signed: Marina S. Gates, Secretary