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Alcoholissi flanks As One of America's Four Major Problems Affecting Heaftfr
Editor'! notr: Thli ! the f1r to
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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