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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, September 5, 1957 ftSeuberger's Interests Move From Power To Public IKIealth Fdifors note: a. Robert Smith. th the National Cancer Institute to Man rrioune wasnineton correspon dent, has made hn column available to Oregon's Democratic congressmen. Wavne Morse. Charles Porter and Richard Neubereer. in which they may evaluate the 83th Coneresi and its benefits to Oregon. Today Sen. Neuberger gives his views. By RICHARD L. NEUBERGER U. S. Senator from Oregon Beyond the hurly - burly of politics lies the wonderful world of nature and the physical facts of life. It is a world of grandeur and majesty, but it also is marked by sickness and anguish. Do not all of us pass through this troubled vale under ulti mate sentence of death? When I ran for the Senate in 1954, my principal interest was public power. Today it is in the far broader and more urgent realm of public health. Legisla tion seeking to expand medical research and to improve the well-being of our people now occupies my attention. I fail to understand, for example, how we of the United States can spend S44 billion on armaments, and yet only a tiny fraction of this on study of the causes and possible cures of the most ter rible diseases plaguing mankind Facilities Studied This thought was foremost in mind when my wife Maurine and I visited Children's Hospital in Boston, where more children are under treatment for cancer than any other place on earth. We have toured the National In stitutes of Health, studying simi lar facilities to cope with this grim problem. We were shocked to learn that more children die from cancer than any cause ex cept accidents. That is why I have hammered away in speeches and articles, seeking in creased funds for cancer re search. I am pleased that the sum available has gone up near ly 300 per cent from $21 mil lion to S56 million since I entered the Senate. But such is only the begin ning. Here are some further projects in this vital area which I am advocating: 1. A National Radiation Health Institute to measure the impact of radio - active fallout on the human race. Learned scientists disagree over the effect of Stron-tium-90 in the atmosphere, as a result of hydrogen explosions. We must not risk contaminating our" planet. Nor should this de cision be made by men produc ing weapons. It must rest pri marily in an agency charged with a mission to safeguard health, particularly the health of future generations. 2. A bill for $500 million for spend on special research under takings. If this rich nation could invest $2 billion in a "crash" program to crack the atom, why not 25 per cent of this for a mass attack on cancer? Great doctors like Sidney Farber of Children's Hospital and Isidor Hadvin, who consulted on President Eisen hower's operation, believe that the principal hope for conquer ing cancer rests in chemothera py. This involves countless tests and experiments. It eats up pro digious sums of money. But what is money when allied against a disease which killed 2V2 times as many people during World War II as perished on all our worldwide battlefronts? In one year, cancer claimed nearly 10 times the number of Ameri cans as were killed in action dur ing three years of Korean fight ing! 3. A bill to aid in preparing 40,000 specially-trained teachers to assist retarded children in leading lives which can be at least partially normal and use ful. The bill would make grants for this purpose to schools and colleges where such teachers re ceive their training. Would End Tobacco Support 4. Legislation to remove to bacco from the list of "basic" crops which qualify for Federal price supports. I was the first member of the Senate to urge that our Public Health Service disclose the relationship between cigarettes and lung cancer. Is 1 it. not absurd for the government to subsidize the growing of to bacco, but not of such nutritious farm products as eggs, apples, butterfat and meat? 5. A program of medical and hospital benefits for Social Se curity beneficiaries. This would be patterned after the "medi care" system already put into operation by the Armed Forces, and which makes use of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in many states. At present, old-age an nuitants have the highest medi cal bills but the thinnest wal lets. My proposal would assure them adequate care during the period of their lives when ill ness is most prevalent. It would be contributory in nature, to be financed by an extra 2 per cent of payroll split equally be tween employer and employee. Animals Can Suffer In addition, we believe that animals can suffer too.. That Is why Senator Humphrey and I are sponsoring bills to require humane methods of slaughter in packing plants, as most civil ized nations have done long ago. And Senator Kefauver and I are authors of a bill to end barbar ism and cruelty on American traplines. Recently a beaver in eastern Oregon dragged a trap four days until it died from loss of blood. I doubt if American women want their fur coats at the expense of animal agony. Such are a few of the legisla tive causes which, to Maurine and me, have assumed great ur gency and importance as my service in the Senate has continued. Malheur Auditor Arraigned in Court Vale, Ore. TO Don Hosier, Malheur county auditor has been arraigned in circuit court here on a charge of receiving unauthorized compensation for performance of official duties. The secret indictment was re turned last week by a Malheur county grand jury. He posted $250 cash bond Tuesday and was released pend ing a hearing Thursday. The indictment involves a bill presented by Hosier to the county court audits commis sioners in May of 1956 for $500 for "personal services and ex penses," The money, had been paid for his claim for expenses incurred in the building and furnishing of an old folks home county in Vale. District Attorney E. Otis Smith said that according to Ore gon law, the -auditor's salary is a set one, and that any comp ensation for services performed could not be lawfully granted. Souvenir Hunters Leave Statue Meaningless Atlanta, Ga. (IP) The presi dent of the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Association said new lettering would be carved in the base of a statue of the former Georgia governor here. Right now it's difficult to fig ure out the meaning of "erb ra or a safe ut 6 es i e dmini tr or of pu lie tr s." Souvenir hunt- for the ers have been taking the raised School Zone Speed Limit in Effect Salem Twenty miles-per-hour designated speeds are again in effect in school zones. Drivers were reminded today that Oregon law calls for 20 miles per hour or less when pass ing school buildings, grounds or street crossings "during school recess or while children are go ing to or from school during op ening and closing hours." Traffic safety officials also re minded drivers the school bus stop law must now be observed and that drivers should be on bronze letters. (Translation: "a superb orator, a safe but progressive adminis trator of the public trusts.") New York W Charles L. Haber, 51, nationally-known lock and safe expert known as "Mr. Locksmith," died Tuesday of a heart attack. guard for children walking on shoulders" of rural highways and in suburban areas. NOTICE OF HUMOR Little Rock, Ark. M Nota of humor evolved from Wednes day's tense integration crisis when National Guardsmen sur rounding Central High School asked a small boy why he was afraid to come to school. His reason: "Latin." Classroom Shortage In Nation's Schools Declared Nonsense Kansas City, Mo. (IP) Phil- J lp jvi. laiDou, president. 01 we U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to day branded as "utter non sense" claims that a shortage of classrooms has created a nation al emergency in education. Talbott, in a speech prepared for delivery to the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, said estimates of the classroom short ace have been greatly exaggerated. He again expressed the cham ber's strong opposition to federal aid for school construction. Congress has refused in two successive years to enact such legislation, but Talbott said "This issue is like some fantastic creature out of Grimm's Fairy Tales every time the Congress chops off its head, it grows a new one." He noted that the Eisenhower administration has said it will send another school aid bill to Congress next year. This, he said, will lead to' "a terrific bar rage of highly skilled press agentry in behalf of federaliz ing our schools." Some Problems Talbott said he recognizes that in some areas school enrollments have risen faster than class rooms can be built and that some states are not doing all they can about classroom shortages. "But the idea of a national emergency in education is utter nonsense,"' he said. "The present need for class rooms is being met on the local level with more dollars than the federal subsidizers seek to spend themselves. Every day our states and communities are doing what the proponents of federal funds say they are not doing." Whiteface Mountain Loses Five Feet Height Wilmington, N.Y. HPi White face Mountain in New York State, for many years a tourist mecca, has "lost" five feet in height. A recently completed survey showed the peak's eleva tion to be 4.867, compared with a previous recording of 4.872. Geologists say the drop in height may be the resulit of a earth's crust shifting. Mt. Marcy, however, remains the state's highest peak with an elevation of 5,344 feet above sea level. He cited Federal Census Bu reau figures which he said show that in the past October-July period more than $2,600,000,000 was spent by states and commu nities for school construction and other capital outlays. The aid bill which the House recently refused to pass pro posed an expenditure of 300 mil lion dollars a year for a five year period. Talbott said the money ex pended without federal aid pro vided financing for 87,000 class rooms. And he said if that rate of spending is projected for a one-year period, more than 100, 000 classrooms will have been built more classrooms than we have ever built in any 12 month period." 1 mmm 3 Westerners are sweet on Spreckels Granulated Sugar... Hat -m 3 ..cause it looks so pretty in the brand-new, bright- ! new Spreckels Sugar I bag ! And it's extra-thrifty I in the 2, 5, 10 and 25- 1 pound bags I ' 1 at m m us m a Fancy Local Cello Pkg. 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