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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1958)
'Farewell To Reform' Keynote of State Leg By DICK HUMPHREY Salem -UPB- From here, it looks like the 1959 Oregon legislative meeting will be a "farewell to reform" session - if by reform you mean spending more money for broadening state agency pro grams or starting new pro grams. Democrats will control the house of representatives by a slim margin for the first time in 80 years. They will have, a clear-cut majority in the Sen ate which was equally split between parties in 1957. Working with them, how ever, will be Republican Gov. elect Mark Hatfield who was elected on an "economy in government" platform. Democrats have a popular reputation cf being a little more free-wheeling with new programs than Republicans, but on the economy issue its going to be hard to tell a Re pubican from a Democrat come January. The temper of Oregon citi zens on the subject of in Crowded Conditions Claimed To Favor Tubercle Bacillus Editor'i note: Following Is the last of a series of articles by Delos Smith. United Press International science editor, on the fight against tuberculosis. By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York -(UPD In Kansas the annual new case rate for tuberculosis is about 15.5 per hundred thou sand popula tion. In the central H a r lem district of New York it was approxi mately 8 0 0 per hundred thousand, de spite the con Delos smith cemraiea ei forts of one of the most effi cient public health depart ments in the world. The central Harlem thous ands live close-packed in ten ements, often five and six to a room, in a condition doctors call "physiological misery." That condition among people crowded together always fav ors tubercle bacillus Even dur ing the past 100 years of steady decline, TB rates have consistently increased in war torn countries. What tuberculosis experts would like most are a vaccine capable of killing all the tu bercle bacilli in a human body quickly. Such a vaccine and such drugs are the prime ob jective of publicly and pri vately financed tuberculosis research. Hat Drawbacks A good vaccine already ex ists but it has drawbacks which limits its use in the United States, prevents it from being the weapon that could wipe out the bacilli, and points up a glaring deficien cy in science's knowledge of the disease. It is BCG, a vac cine based on an attentuated or weakened strain of the bacillus. It causes an extremely mild form of the disease which is quickly put down by body defenses, and leaves an un known degree of immunity to anv subsequent invasion of fully virulent bacilli. There is no question of it being safe -it has been in wide use in Scandinavia and other parts of Western Europe for years. The immunity it bestows varies from person to person. In some it may be long-lasting; in others it may hardly Medford Youth Taken To San Francisco Thomas Lee Robertson, 23, of 220 South Grape st, was taken to San Francisco by a U.S. marshal W ednesday, charged with violating the Dyer act, Medford police re ported. Robertson was arrested by the California Highway Pa trol Monday in Yreka, and held in connection with the theft of a 1957 Ford last week from Crater Lake Motors, Main and Fir sts., Medford. District Court Judge James M. Main issued a warrant Tuesday charging grand lar ceny and setting bail at $2, 500. But the federal Dyer act complaint was lodged the same day. Brig. Gen. Docson's Funeral Saturday Portland-OIPD-Funeral serv ices will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the National Guard Air Base Chapel for Brig. Gen. G. Robert Dodson, 54, a vice president of Jant zen Inc. Gen. Dodson, who had served as chief of staff for air of the Oregon National Guard, died Thursday. creased expenses and increas ed taxes is, to say the least, nasty. Money Issues Lost Witness the drubbing they gave to any state measures that even smelled of money in the November elections. Gov. Robert D. Holmes has been wagging a finger at state agencies lately urging them to "hold the line" on their budget requests and Hatfield has taken the same attitude. With increased and genuine demands for state service, population pressure and nor mal growth, the 1959-61 bud get will doubtless be higher than the $262 million appro priated this time, but legis lators are expected to cast a jaundiced eye on any drastic increases. Best guesses here are that the new budget will run about $300 million, which probably would be within the amount of revenue obtainable from current taxes. But such a "balanced" bud get would not include $20 exist. There is no way of tell ing which person has immun ity short of a challenge by virulent bacilli, but it makes all who get it "positive reac tors" to the tuberculin test which can separate the TB susceptible from the non-sus ceptible. It is on this ground j that U.S. medical authorities oppose its widespread use. Not Fully Understood The layman may find it hard to believe, but science does not fully understand the chemical make-up of tuber cule bacillus, how it breathes, multiplies, and finally dies. Nor does it know precisely how the . anti - tuberculosis drugs act against bacilli. There are a number of theories, none proved. Science also has the prob lem of bacilli learning to mul tiply despite the attacks of anti - tuberculosis drugs. Most scientists feel this is bound to happen some day on a large enough scale to make the pres ent drugs more or less worth less. So far this "resistance" problem appears in only about two per cent of the cases treated. Medical science is losing 10 to 30 per cent of its tubercu losis cases, that is, people still die of the disease. The goal is to lose none, by forging weap ons (vaccines and drugs) which will permit world-wide eradication. No one can be completely safe as long as tubercule bacilli remain on earth. You simply place the speaker-fid approximately 8 feet to the left of the "VictroLa" and you can thrill to True Stereo. Music with an unbelievable in-person real ismso lifelike the musicians seem to surround you! All from this one compact system. Other complete ' Hear it today! RCA tYodiwfc for record and top pioyrt r THE MARX XIV. Portable Jtrpkosfeji . ,v 21222 -IV syit.m. "lift-Away- Speaker-Lid serve, as TrCwW-V J B X V 415)1 USlKV , siZ second speaker system. 4 speakers -2 in (QlOtk 13 X W &l "Vietrolo." 7 in removable lid. Charcoal VCfk?--: ' 1 1 X hi i i HI Grar-and-Whrte. 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Even without any institu tional or higher education building or any bold new pro grams, the difference of $38 million between the current $262 million budget and a possible $300 million budget is nicely accounted for with increased agency, education, higher education, and insti tutional budget requests. - We'll know better what the risks of new taxes are when the budget is published by Fi nance Director John Richard son the week end before Jan. 1 and after Hatfield is inaug urated and makes his recom mendations to the Legislature. urk's Luggage Skyway Dopp Shave Kits Wallets and French Purses by Lady Buxton Lord Buxton Wallets ' and Key Cases S&H GREEN STAMPS Open Every Night 'til If llflC t U I 1 j for Luggage Repairing Luggage Covers Made to Order 314 EAST MAIN ' SP 2-4472 LEFT CHANNEL SPEAKER SYSTEM IN "IIFT-AWAY UO Stereophonic Sound Systems up f 6&w?TiglB00KS Friday, December 19, 1958 3A Christmas Mail Delivery Said Good Washington-(DPD-Postmaster General Arthur E. Summer field said today all reports in dicate "this will be the best Christmas mail delivery in our history." He said the department was asking by telegram for reports from 950 major cities where more than 90 per cent of the Christmas mail is handled. "We intend to see that no Christmas mail remains un delivered in post offices on Christmas Day," Summerfield added. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Charles L. Sorenson. failure to leave address and name at scene of accident. S55. Mildred P. Cooper, no red light on load. S10. Charles F. McCasland. passing with insufficient clearance, $10. Fred J. James. 15 Stewart ave.. driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, $255. CIRCUIT COURT Clifford Earl Miller vs. Murial Josephine Miller, divorce com plaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS William David Seymour, 114 Granite st., Ashland, and Sue Caro lyn i norpe, Oif rtsiiauu at., flail- i land. ' ; Gary Ormal Vilott, box 108. I Camp White, and Edith Louise ! 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