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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1958)
Falher Returned From Hiding Prays For Little Girl Washington (W Feeling "like a heel," Robert Back the conviction of Dorothy over, 28, prayed Wednesday his return from a fugitive hideout might help his leukemia-stricken little daughter. The father said "Maybe there is a chance" Paula Ann, 6, whom he traded his liberty to see, will recover from the usually fatal disease, cancer of the blood. Cheered by her father's sur prise appearance at her bed side, Paula Ann was to leave the hospital and go home for a while. She will have to make return visits for blood transfusions and other treat ment. Doctors have given her up to six months to live. Emotional Reunion Backover held an emotion- choked reunion with his daughter for two hours Tues day after stepping off a train from California. Then he sur rendered on a grand larceny charge that he fled with $2,300 from a Hyattsville, Md., bowling alley where he was assistant manager. After his release on $2,000 bond a few hours later, Back over learned that the insur ance company which had re paid the stolen funds will ask authorities to drop the charges if he makes restitution. When the stocky, hand some man fled two weeks be fore Christmas he .did not know his little girl had con tracted leukemia. His parents appealed for his return through the press because Paula Ann insisted she would "get better if daddy came home." 52nd Year' Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13,-1958 Pages 1-8 Controversy Over Fluoridation off Water Supply Mystery To Researcher Higher Premiums Set for Policies World War II veterans num bering 3,300,000, who still have not converted GI term policies to permanent plans will pay higher premiums and receive generally lower divi dends every five years they renew their policies in the fu ture, S. T. Brannock, officer in charge of the Medford VA office, said today. Brannock pointed out this widening spread between pre mium costs and dividend re turns will result in a sharply higher net cost "to the term policy holders with each live-year renewal. "For that reason," said Brannock, "World War II vet erans with five-year term pol icies should seriously consider converting to permanent plans of GI insurance with a non changing premium rate and with only slight variations in dividend rates." In addition to the almost stationary net cost of perman ent GI insurance plans, Bran nock said, the policies have certain values which term pol icies do not have, such as cash surrender value, loan value, extended insurance value, and paid-up value. He said a term policy by contrast merely in 1 sures against death for only as long as premiums are time ly paid. Pharmacy Students Scheduled Tour Corvallis Lee Aden Spen cer of Medford will be one of 69 Oregon State college phar macy students who will make a soecial 10-day tour ot mm western, drug manufacturing plants. Feb. 28 to Mar. 10. The tours are arranged ev ery other vear by the col- lee' Dharmacy school to give juniors and seniors an opportunity to study manu facturing procedures and problems. The group will travel by train an4 visit Abbott Labo ratories, Chicago: Parke-Davis, Detroit, and Eli Lilly com pany, Indianapolis, Ind. The three firms have planned spe cial educational tours, demon strations and question-and-answer periods for the stu dents along with special en tertainment in the various cities. Spencer is in his fifth year of the five-year pharmacy school. A 1950 graduate of Medford High school, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Spencer of 829 West Sec ond st. Four Persons Injured In Fire at Roseburg Roseburg in Four per sons were treated in a local hospital and released Wed nesday after they suffered minor injuries in a house fire about 8 a.m. Fire destroyed the home and all belongings of the Rob ert Bitner home. Mrs. Shir ley Bitner, 23, her two chil dren, Karen, 1, and Debra, 3, and two-year-old Stevie Wes cott, escaped the flames but were taken to a hospital for treatment. By LOUIS CASSELS United Press Correspsndeni , Washington OF) The head of the government's Dental Research Institute said today it is a mystery to him why the value of fluoridating pub lic water supplies should still be a controversial question in hundreds of American com munities. "Continuing scientific stu dies have demonstrated be yond the shadow of any rea sonable doubt that fluorida tion is a completely safe, in expensive and very effective method of preventing tooth decay," Dr. F. A. Arnold Jr said in an interview. "I know of no other public health measure which is back ed up by such an overwhelm ing body of proof." According to the U.S. Pub lie Health Service, 1,556 cities and towns now have water fluoridation programs. Their combined population is 32, 730,856. In addition, there are 1903 communities, mostly small towns, whose water sup ply contains natural fluoride. These have a combined popu lation of about 7,000,000. Thus about one quarter of the U.S. population is drinking fluori dated water. ine number of communi ties adding fluoride to public water has risen steadily. It was 709 at the start of 1953, and 1,487 a year ago. The list includes Washington, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pitts burgh, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Francisco, St. Louis and Buffalo. New York City's Board of Estimate is currently consid ering a fluoridation proposal. In New York and else where, proposals to fluoridate municipal water supplies have run into strong public opposition. At least 70 communities, in cluding Akron, Ohio, and San Diego, Calif., have abandoned fluoridation programs after they were launched. And scores of others, including Portland, Ore., Cincinnati, Ohio, Seattle, Wash., Syra cuse, N.Y., Fort Worth, Tex., and Hartford, Conn., have re jected fluoridation. Opponents of fluoridation have advanced a wide variety of arguments, ranging from the claim that it is a Commu nist plot to soften the brains of American citizens to the rumor (circulated widely in Boston) that it is a birth con trol measure. The most com mon battle cry, raised in New York and dozens of other cities, is that fluoridated wa ter is "poisonous." The National Institute of Dental Research Service. It has investigated both the beneficial effects and all of the alleged harmful effects of fluoridation. "This is not a matter on which we have to make care fully hedged, qualified state ments." Arnold said. "Every scintilla of evidence points the same way. "We know without question that fluoride in a water sup ply, at the recommended rate of one part per million, is absolutely safe and does not produce any undesirable sys tematic effects in human beings." Moreover, Arnold said the "margin of safety" is tremen dous. Even if you - should drink water containing many times as much fluoride as the recommended level, you would not be exposed to any thing worse than a mottling of the enamel on your teeth. The beneficial effects of fluoridation," Arnold said, have been just as thoroughly established. Of the many con trolled tests that .have been conducted, the most famous is the Grand Rapids, Mich., experiment, now in its l?th year. Regular dental exami nations of Grand Rapids school- children show, that tooth decay has dropped about 60 per cent since water fluoridation was begun. Other tests indicate the pro tection rate for children who drink fluoridated water from birth ranges as high as 65 per cent. Older children and ad ults, whose teeth are already formed when fluoridation be gins, get some benefit but not nearly as much. ' Oregon State Research Dentists Study Fluoride Corvallis Fluoride in com munity water supplies re duces tooth decay in teenag ers as much as 55 per cent, according to a five-state study conducted by an Oregon State college research dentist. Dental studies were made on 2,068 boys and girls, ages 14, 15 and 16, who were born and -raised in Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho, Utah and Mon tana. They revealed that one part per million of fluoride in municipal water supplies re duced teenager tooth decay by as much as half. Teeth of the fluoride treated group were compared to teeth of youth born and raised in sim ilar communities where water did not contain any fluorides. Causes Studied In the study summarized by Dr. Gertrude Tank, OSC research dentist, possible causes of tooth decay were studied. They included cli mate and geographic location, the water supplies hardness and amount of fluoride pres ent and the nutrition of the children. According to Dr. Tank, more than 99 per cent of the teenagers studied in the five western states had or now have decayed teeth. Oregoni ans spend more than $12 mil lion a year for dental care, she said, but only 10 per cent of the children get adequate dental care. The less spent on the teeth in childhood, the higher the cost for it in adult life, she said. In addition to fluoridation of water supplies, she recom mended these rules of health for children: a well-balanced diet, restriction of sweets, proper use of toothbrush aft er eating, early and frequent visits to the dentist, and pre vention and correction of ir regularities of the teeth. Children can be given some protection by direct applica tion of fluoride compounds to their teeth by dentists, Ar nold said. Institute studies show that a series of four applications preferably at the ages of 3, 7, 10 and 13 will reduce tooth decay about 40 per cent. What about toothpastes? "There are some studies which indicate that at least one type of fluoride may have some promise as an additive to toothpaste," Arnold said. "But final evaluation of the effectiveness of fluoride tooth pastes must await further clinical trial." "Brushing your teeth is de sirable because it is good oral hygiene, it helps prevent gum disorders and it removes food particles from the teeth," Ar nold said. "But as a method of preventing decay, brushing with any existing dentifrice is greatly overrated in the j public mind. It is nothing like as effective as iiuoriaating water supplies or direct appli cation of fluorides." Clackamas Court Decision Reversed In Narcotic Case Salem OF) The Oregon Su preme Court has reversed ed the conviction of Dorothy Margaret Powell, Clackamas county, who was charged with attempting to obtain a nar cotic drug by use of a false name and address. She was convicted under the provisions of a felony statute and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. The court said that the crime arises under the felony statute when use of a false name or address is a factor in obtaining the drug. No Reliance Given But the court noted that in this case the doctor put no reliance in the name or ad dress given by the defendant but relied solely on her rep resentations of her physical condition and his own exami nation. Thus, the court said, the false name and address were immaterial. The court said there was "conclusive" evidence that the defendant had violated a mis demeanor statute by using a false name and so directed the Clackamas county Circuit Court to resentence the de fendant on the lesser charge. Penalty under the misdemea nor statutes is a fine of not more than $500 or imprison ment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or both. Radioactive Waste Burial Proposed Berkeley, Calif. OP) Dr. Warren J. Kaufman of the University of California be lieves it may be possible to dump lethal radioactive wastes so deep in the ground they will not even contami nate the water supply. He proposes to inject the wastes into deep fossil forma tions far below the level of useful ground water. These formations may be more per manent containers than any man could construct himself, Kaufman said. Present methods of storing I heavy shielding, an expensive radioactive wastes require technique increasing the cost leak-proof containers with I of atomic energy. 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