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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford Oregon, Wednesday, August 6. 1958 Worldwide Medical Research Program Urged by Sen. Hill Editor's note: Disease knows no national boundaries so the attack against It should be worldwide in cope with all nations working to gether. That's the view of veteran Senator Lister Hill (D-Ala.) who has taken a particular Interest in health legislation during his 34 years In Congress. In the following dispatch Senator Hill outlines his ideas for a global assault on disease. By SEN. LISTER HILL. (D-ALA.) - (Written for United Prest International) Washington WD With in the next few years, medical research can achieve a mo mentous breakthrough that will enable man to overcome many of the dread diseases that - have plagued him through the ages. There is reason for confi dence that this breakthrough will yield many answers in the battle against heart dis ease, cancer, mental illness, and other crippling and de generative diseases. I propose that the United States speed up this break through by initiating a dy namic program of internation al medical research. The essential elements of the pro gram would be these: 1. Cooperative internation al support of medical research directed against all major dis eases. 2. Exchange of research workers so that all countries may obtain the benefits of the latest developments in research. 3. Distribution of drugs, medical equipment and reha bilitation appliances to all parts of the world. Demonstration Projects 4. Establishment of demon stration projects to dissemin ate the latest techniques of combatting diseases in all areas. 5. Organization of an inter national clearing house, in cluding appropriate transla tion services, to facilitate, ex changes of medical knowl edge. Sucn a program would be come a major and vital part of American foreign policy. In our effort to win the trust and friendship of the uncom mitted millions in the world, what more important boon can we bring to them than the promise of better health and longer life? Here in America, with the vast resources of modern medicine at hand, we tend to forget that two-thirds of the earth's 2,500,000,000 peo ple know only a submarginal living standard in which sick ness and undernourishment are the "normal" state of life. We forget that every 60 seconds 20 people die some where in these underprivi leged areas of malaria, tuber culosis or intestinal infections. Fundamental Needs We forget that the funda mental needs for sanitation, pure water and ' simple pre ventive medicine are pressing problems of life for these peoples. The World Health Organi zation has done much to bring the benefits of modern medi cine to underdeveloped areas since it was founded 10 years ago. It has demonstrated that a single shot of penicillin, cost ing about 15 cents, will com pletely cure the horrible open sore disease of yaws which afflicts tens of thousands of men, women and little chil dren in tropical climates. It has administered millions of injections against yellow fe ver, now resurgent in South America. It has developed a high protein food called INCAP-8 to combat malignant malnutrition among children. It is currently waging a global campaign to stamp out ma laria, which, afflicts 200,000, 000 people and claims more than 2,000,000 lives each year. Excellent Testimony All of these programs are excellent testimony to what can be achieved when nations work together in medical re search to lift the health stand ards of the world. As the wealthiest nation, both in resources and in medi cal skills, America must take the lead in this great sharing of healing knowledge. American medical research has already developed many magnificent life-saving agents Thailand Orders State of Emergency Bangkok, Thailand (UPD The Thai Government has de clared a state of emergency along its border with Cam bodia and there was specula tion here today that the Com munists may be getting ready for a new offensive against free Asia. The interior minister said Thailand acted to protect the border against increasing Communist activity and fo rays by border bandits. The decision, first disclosed by Cambodian Ambassador Ty Kim Sour Monday, comes less than two weeks after Cam bodia decided to recognize Red China. It also follows the secret Peiping talks between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Red Chinese leaders. . which can be spread through out the earth. Can we measure the good will created by our manufacture and distribution of the Salk vaccine to the children of the world? This great fruit of American medi cal research has even pene trated the Iron Curtain and is ,being manufactured and distributed widely in Soviet Russia. Medical science as an in strument of foreign policy would find America's great strength not only in our medi cal knowledge and skill, but in the humanitarian instincts, the generosity, the compas sion of our people. 1957 Population In Prisons Above Any Other Year Washington (UPD There were more inmates in U. S. prisons last year than in any other year in the nation's his tory, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported Tuesday. But the number of women prisoners declined. In a year-end review, Bur eau Director James V. Ben nett reported that there were 195,414 prisoners con fined in state and federal jails and reformatories on Dec. 31, 1957. 3.1 Per Cent Higher The growing prison popu lation, 5,849 inmates or 3.1 per cent over 1956, was due partly to an increase in com mitments to state institutions, Bennett said. It means there were 116 prisoners for every 100,000 persons in the country as a whole. Bennett's report showed the rise in the prison popula tion last year was proportion ately higher in state prisons than in federal institutions. State prisoners numbered 174,994 at the end of 1957, up 5,563 or 3.3 per cent over the previous year. The number behind bars in federal penitentiaries and reformatories totaled 20,420, an increase of 286 or 1.4 per cent. Women Decrease The number of women in jail at. the end of 1957 was 7,301, a drop of 74 inmates Five Youths Appear In District Court Five youths, who said they lived in Medford, Monday in district court were each fined $25 and were given a sus pended sentence of six months in the county jail for petty larceny. Sentenced were ' Tommie Wayne Honaker, 18, Phillip Dean Day, 18, James Ran zoni, 18, Morris Lee Gunn, 19, and a 15-year-old youth. All formerly lived in Calif ornia. The youths pleaded guilty to taking 15 gallons of gas, two clocks, an electric drill set, Coleman camp stove, fry ing pan and a number of other miscellaneous articles July 30. William P. French, 917 North Central ave., Medford, was fined $25 and given a six months suspended sentence for assault and battery in dis trict court Monday. The com plaint was signed by his wife, Dorthy R. French. Herbert Joe Taylor, Hills boro, is scheduled to appear in district court for a prelim inary hearing Aug. 8 on charges of assault with a from the same period in 1956. Bennett said that 30 states recorded increases in persons serving time. Of these, the top seven included New Mexi co with a 16.2 per cent in crease; Florida, 11 per cent; Arizona, 10.7 per cent; In diana, 9 per cent; Texas and California, 8.9 per cent each and Wyoming, 8 per cent. Bennett also noted 2,306 prisoners broke out of jail last year. Of this number 2, 210 escaped from state prisons. dangerous weapon. He waived privilege of having an attorn ey and bail was set at $3,500. He is being held in Jackson county jail. The site of George Washing ton's Christmas crossing of the Delaware river is now a state park north of Morrisville, Pa. Espey Ends Freshman Year at Academy David L. Espey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Laurance V. Espey, 619 Park st., Medford, recent ly completed his fourth class, or freshman year, at the Unit ed States Merchant Marine academy, Kings Point, Long Island, N. Y. During his sophomore year he will serve aboard various BUILDING BIG DAM Taipeh, Formosa (UPD Nationalist China has started ed construction of the Far East's highest dam at Shihman in northern Formosa after two years of preparatory work. The 410-foot arch dam is scheduled for completion in 1961. ships of the American chants Marine. Mer- FIRST IN VALUE! 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