10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, May 13, 1958
Humane Slaughter
Decision Hearing
Washington (CQ) Fred
Jfyers of the Humane Society
at the U.S. was telling about
the time he became ill while
Iduilding up a case for hu
mane slaughter legislation.
"I was up in New York
Stete watching them slaugh
ter hogs in the usual way. I
flt sick and dizzy at the same
time. I had to get out of
there. Somehow, I made it
out to the' parking lot before
I started getting sick. And
yet even then I knew I had
to watch slaughtering opera
tions again and again."
That was seven years ago.
Since then he has visited
cores of slaughter houses as
xecutive director of the 21,-000-member
Humane Society.
He has kept down his lunch
by telling himself that only
eye - witness information
would convince Congress to
pass humane slaughter legis
lation. The next few weeks
will show if he was right.
Basic Issue
The basic issue is this:
Should Congress pass a law
telling slaughterers how to
kill animals or trust the in
dustry to work out humane
methods by itself? Congres
sional offices have been
swamped with mail on the
issue, most of it in favor of
humane slaughter legislation.
The House Feb. 4 passed a
humane slaughter bill. Now
it is up to the 15-man Senate
Agriculture Committee to de
cide whether to send the bill
to the Senate floor for a vote.
Senate hearings on slaughter
bills ended May 1. Chairman
Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) of
the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee said it is probable his
committee's decision will be
made May 21.
"I want it clearly under
stood that I'm not sitting on
this humane slaughter bill,"
Ellender said. "I'm for humane
slaughter as much as any
body. But I'm not convinced
the House-passed bill is strong
enough. . 'Why shouldn't all
slaughterers, be required to
slaughter humanely, not just
the ones who sell to the Gov
ernment?" House Version
The House bill would apply
only to those slaughterers
who sell meat to the Govern
ment. Myers and other hu
mane slaughter proponents
admit the bill is a watered
down one, but feel it will
bring widespread humane
practices because so many
slaughterers want to sell meat
to the Government. They see
Senate passage of the House
bill as the quickest and surest
way to get humane slaughter
rules into law.
Ellender, who has received
more mail on humane slaugh
ter than any other issue since
he came to Congress in 1937,
predicted his Committee will
report out some kind of ' a
humane slaughter bill. Myers
said "I'm sure we have the
votes to pass the bill once it
gets out on the floor. But it's
pretty even-steven right now
on the Senate Committee."
Thirty Year Fight.
Myers organization, other
humane groups and the Gen
eral Federation of Women's
Clubs insist that the meat in
dustry will not adopt hu
mane slaughtering methods
on its own. They say it has
been promising to do so for
the last 30 years. They point
to a few packing plants like
George A Hormel & Co. which
have worked out humane
methods and to countries like
England, Holland and the
Scandinavian countries which
require them.
Meat packers, chiefly
through the American Meat
Institute, contend they too
favor humane slaughtering.
But they say there has not
been enough research to de
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termine the most humane
methods. They say following
methods prescribed by Fed
eral law will cost them money
and therefore raise the price
of meat to the consumer. They
want to be allowed to work
out humane methods on their
own.
The agriculture Department
also is against the humane
slaughter legislation. The De
partment says it would be
hard to administer the House
passed rules requiring the
animal to be "renedered in
sensible to pain by a single
blow or gunshot or an elec
trical, chemical or other
means that is rapid and effec-.
tive" before being hoisted up
for stabbing.
The Jewish community is
split on the House bill. Ortho
dox rabbis oppose it on
grounds it infringes on re
ligious freedom while other
Jewish groups do not object
because the bill says they can
still use the Jewish ritual
method of severing the ani
mal's jugular vein.
Slaughter Telhod
Humane societies term pres
ent slaughtering methods as
"cruel, barbaric and im
moral." The Senate Agriculture
Committee refused to watch
a sound film of this slaughter
ing process.
Hormel has worked out a
system humane organizations
endorses. Animals are driven
into a tunnel filled with car
bon dioxide. This knocks them
out painlessly before the
slaughtering process begins.
Some other plants use special
hammers and gun devices
which knock out the animal
instantly.
(Copyright 1958,
Congressional Quarterly Inc.)
Last Rifes Held
For Skelfon's Son
Hollywood (IP) Funeral
services were scheduled to
day for Red Skelton's 9-year-
old son, Richard, who died
Saturday night after a long
battle against leukemia.
Actor William Lundigan, a
close friend of the red-haired
comedian, was to deliver the
eulogy at services conducted
by Dr. Vista Stewart of the
Beveraly Vista Community
church, at Forest Lawn's
Church. of the Recessional.
Skelton, who swore after
his son's death that Richard
shall not have died in vain,
asked that donations be made
to leukemia research in lieu
of sending flowers.
The comedian pledged him
self to devoting all the time
he can in the future to fight
ing cancer.
"It is something I have to
do," Skelton said. "Richard's
death shall not be in vain."
Richard's death came at the
UCLA Medical Center, about
a year and a half after the
red-haired boy was stricken
with the disease. Skelton
took him to Europe to seek
treatment and to let his son
see some of the things he had
read about in books.
Visiting Day Slated
At Phoenix School
A children's visiting day
will be held at Phoenix Grade
school Thursday, May 15, for
all children who will be start
ing in the first grade next
fall, according to John E
Myers, principal.
Parents are asked to bring
children to school at 1 p.m.
and pick them up again at
2:30 p.m., he said. The visit
makes it possible for the chil
dren to familiarize themselves
with an actual school situa
tion, the principal explained.
LILY
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By BENNETT CERF-
ART VAN HORN relays a story about a traveling salesman
who got lost in the feudin country near the Blue Ridge
mountains and found refuge with two hillbillies who never
had been more than a mile
from their primitive shack.
When the salesman left
the next day, he gave his
hosts a portable radio as a
token of appreciation for
their hospitality. That night
one of the hillbillies, out of
curiosity, fiddled with the
radio dials. After fumbling
with them, he tuned in a
speechmaker at a political
rally.
At bedtime the politician
still was roaring over the
radio and the mountaineers
didn't know how to turn it off. In desperation one of them
picked up an ax and struck the set The voice stopped. How
ever, it had only jarred the set and the next morning the second
hillbilly was awakened by organ music from tie radio. He
woke his paL
"You know that guy you killed last night?" he said. "Well,
they're burying him today.
O 1968. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicate.
Children Declared
Being Exploited
In Summer Camps
New York (IP) Summer
camps exploit children for
money, says a veteran camp
owner.
"Camping has become big
business. But it should be a
profession, not a business. To
day, it exploits children1 for a
dollar," said Mrs. Fannie
Spectorsky, who has been in
camping for 41 years.
She is 80 years old and
still runs Camp Lenore, the
first girls' camp in the Berk
shire Mountains near Tangle-
wood, Mass. She and her late
husband founded the place in
1917.
"Too many camps are run
by persons who visit them
only on week ends. They don't
know the children and they
don't hire dedicated counsel
ors. They think they can run
a camp because they can run
a kitchen," she said in an in
terview after a meeting of
the American Camping Asso
ciation. It represents all
camping interests and ap
proves camp standards.
11 Per Cent Attend
More than five million boys
and girls, or about 11 per cent
of all school children in the
United States, are expected
to attend camps this summer,
the association said.
There are 13,00 organized
camps in the country, worth
$400 million.
Mrs. Spectorsky taught kin
dergarten and English,
studied singing and lived in
Paris nine year. She took up
camping because she felt
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counselors could contribute
to children's development and
overcome their feelings of in
adequacy.
"No mother ever sees her
child the way a counselor sees
him. We have the whole child
24 hours a day spiritually,
mentally, morally, and physi
cally," she said.
"Camping gives youngsters
so many outlets that those
who feel inadequate can be
come outstanding in at least
one thing. Camping should be
more than staging cook-outs.
It should prepare children
for life. We teach youngsters
about the outdoors and ex
pose them to good music and
books. When they grow up,
they won't always be camp
ing out, but they will need in
tellectual stimulation," she
said.
Said the spry, attractive di
rector: "How few people have the
good fortune to see the results
of their labors as I do. One
of the most rewarding experi
ences in the world is to see
my 'children' grow up into
happy wives and mothers and
have them say, 'I was so shy,
but your camp really made
my life. I might have been
lost if not for that.' "
Does working with young
people help keep Mrs. Spec
torsky young?
"I keep young because I
am young just 80 years and
two months old. Men may
come and men may go, but I
go on forever," she said.
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Sf. Helens Boy
Found Unharmed
By Search Group
Goble, Ore.- (IP) A 7-year-
old St. Helens schoolboy,
Jimmy Helton, was found,
safe and asleep, by searchers
Monday afternoon after being
lost some 23 hours. The
youngster, although bleary-
eyea ana admittedly hungry,
was in good condition.
Up to 500 persons took part
in the search. Bloodhounds
were pressed into the hunt
Monday morning.
Wants to Go Home
Jimmy was found by two
teenagers, part of a group of
more than 200 high school
students in the search, who
came upon him lying on the
ground fast asleep. When the
two, Bob Kraus and Frank
Merritt, both 15, awoke the
boy the first thing he said was
"I'm hungry and I want to go
home to my mother."
The boy was found about 3
p.m. He became lost about 4
p.m. Sunday.
Helping With Cattle
The boy's mother, Mrs.
Rosemary Helton, had taken
Jimmy and her two other chil
dren, Sandra, 5, and Clyde, 4,
to visit her parents on Moth
ers Day. Several cows strayed
out of the feed lot during the
afternoon and Jimmy became
lost while helping round
them up.
Jimmy told searchers he
was unable to find his way
back. He was found in a gully
about a quarter of a mile
from a farmhouse and three
quarters of a mile from his
grandparents' home.
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Five in Family Die
In Head-on Collision
Indio, Calif. (IP) Five
members of a family, includ
ing three little girls, were
killed Monday night in a
head-on crash with a semi-
truck and trailer.
Officers identified the dead
as Mr-, and Mrs. Walter. Ben
nett and their three daugh
ters, aged 6 months, 4 and
5 years. A fourth daughter,
7-year-old Carol, was in
serious condition in a local
hospital. -
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FABRICS
yd.
on
Fish Conservation
Depends Upon Use'
Of Three
(Editor's Note: This is the
first in a series of articles
concerning Cons ervation
Week, being observed in
the county this week).
By COLE M. RIVERS,
Fishery Agent, Oregon
State Game Commission
Basically, conservation of
fish is dependent upon the
orderly use and respect of the
three chief natural resources;
namely, soils, waters and for
ests.
Wise use of our fishery re
sources does not start with
the angler on the stream or
lake. It must begin with all
related uses of the ground,
timber and the varied uses
of the water that is produced
from the watershed.
Why Fish Disappear
People often wonder why
some of our fish disappear so
rapidly when it is so obvious
all couldn't have been caught
by fishermen. Research and
fishery science has recently
found that unorderly logging,
road construction, poor farm
practices and indiscriminate
use and abuse of water has
had a great deal to do with
that decline. In many places
throughout the nation, this
was realized too late.
The rush of people to the
Rogue valley was compara
tively late in history, and
coincidental with learning
what we have to do to keep
our important fish species,
the picture for. the future is
not as black as it may seem.
As more people become
conservation-minded with re
spect to activities affecting
our natural resources, they
also become more interested
in conservation and manage
ment of fish and game.
Economic Value
Only recently have people
of the Rogue valley realized
an economic value to its fish
ery. Before, it was just a
small- group of "nuts" that
would spend their time out
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on a lake or stream with a
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economic aspects of the Rogue
fishery, more than just fish
ermen have become interested
in fish conservation.
Recreation is becoming in
creasingly important to our
health and welfare. Fishing
is the Nation's No. 1 preferred
diversion. Fewplaces in the
United States have so many
recreational features includ
ing fishing as the Rogue val
ley. Their development has a
tremendous economic possi
bility.
Continued expansion and
development of the Rogue
basin will create not only a
greater need for fishery pro
tection but will present more
problems that will limit maxi
mum recreational benefits in
the way of fish to the angler's
creel. With a better educated
public and more respect for
the three basic resources of
soils, waters and forests,, the
problems that develop will
not be insurmountable.
Voter Registration
At Record Heights
Portland (IP) Organized
labor Monday night was cred
ited with a major role in
boosting voter registration for
Friday's primary election to
record heights, even though it
is an off-year election.
George Brown, political di
rector for the ' Oregon State
Labor Council, told the Mult
nomah county council that la
bor is "sitting all right, if we
get out the vote" Friday.
Labor was urged to defeat
the proposal to move the Port-
1 a n d exposition - recreation
center to Delta Park and was
urged to approve the urban
renewal measure, for the job
creating potentials of both
projects. x
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of the first grade, and parents
will meet in the cafeteria for
an informal coffee session.
Officers of next year's Par
ent Teacher association will
be introduced, and the pro
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