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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1959)
Sailor, Yife Are Banned from TV London -4TPD- An American sailor and his 14-y ear-old bride were banned today from a television quiz show on the grounds their appearance would be "in bad taste." Comedian Hughie Greenl said angrily he was 'speech less when he was told by As sociated Re-diffusion, a com mercial TV company, that Navy enlisted man Norman Scruggs and his child bride, Barbara, had been cut from the film which will be shown tonight. "I was told the item was in bad taste," said Green, a Canadian who ranks as one of Britain's top TV entertain ers. "I just wanted a young couple, thousands of miles from home, to answer a few questions and stand the chance of winning some money." The television company laid in a prepared statement that Scruggs, 21, and his bride from Lawrenceville, Va., were cut from the show "because our policy is not to make 'Double Your Money' an inter view program but to keep it to the quiz." "We did not think that item would enhance the show," as sociatiated rediffussion said. The Scruggs who have rent ed an apartment in North London were not available for comment. They could have won up to $89.60 by answer ing a series of questions bas . ed on general knowledge. EXPECTANT FATHER' AWARD .. - . Hollywood- (UPI While awaiting the birth of their second child with his wife, ac tress Janet Leigh, actor Tony Curtis was awarded the "ex pectant father of the -year award."The; Midwestern As sociation of .' Mental Relaxa tion presented the actor with a gold-plated diaper pin and cited him for his "cairn and unexcitable outlook towards impending fatherhood. - - Teamsters Union In Relreat from Plans for Police New York - (LTD - The Teamsters Union appeared to be staging a general retreat today from its plan to union ize the nation's police. The reversal came in the face of vigorous opposition from many groups, including oth er unions and the police them selves. Teamsters president James R. Hoffa had announced the plan to enroll the nation s police at a meeting of his Ex ecutive Board in Miami three weeks ago. In the first step to put the plan into effect, a teamster official here announ ced Monday that picketing of the New York Police Depart ment would begin Jan. 12. Probably the bitterest re action came from Mayor Rob ert F. Wagner, a normally mild man whose late father sponsored the Wagner Labor Relations Act. In a table thumping attack at a news conference Wednesday, the mayor denounced the plan and hinted disciplinary action against Henry Feinstein, the local teamster official who also is on the city payroll. Other' Developments In other developments Wednesday, the chairman of the monitors appointed by a federal court to clean up Hof fa's scandal - tainted union said the plan was atrocious and they would order Hoffa to drop it; a group represent ing 5,000 officers of the New York department issued a statement saying "The Police Department and unions just don't mix;" and members of the AFL-CIO Labor Feder ation in this area termed the move "outrageous." Hoffa reacted quickly. He issued a statement from his "Washington headquar ters which differed considerably from his Miami Beach an nouncement. This time he said the Teamsters would organ ize the police only if they Random Check of Hospital Bottles Reveals Bacteria t A 3SX By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York iL'PD A random testing of the water bottles at bedsides of hospital patients revealed that more than half were contami nated with sta p h y iococci, a bacterial fam ily with mem bers capable of sickening and killing human ibeings. Cul- ueios smith tures of some of these water bottle staphy lococci were injected into the veins of 10 mice, .and seven of the 10 were dead of acute staphylococci infections with in four days. You can see why the testing has caused a stir in hospital circles throughout the country. The stir is all the greater because the bottles were in 24 hospitals in Boston, a lead ing medical center with three top medical schools. Boston hospitals are under the con stant scrutiny of the highly scientific faculty . members. Hospital scientists reason that if it could happen in Boston, it could happen anywhere. Not Enough Washing The trouble was that the housekeeping departments of the hospitals lacked sufficient respect for the amazing abili ties of staphylococci in par ticular and microorganism in general, to multiply, the scien tific investigators reported. Cross-infections-that is, bac teria getting from one patient to others-are presently a ma jor problem in hospitals. The Investigators said the water bottle was a way bacteria could get around in a hospital and, in view of their findings, it was an "unappreciated" way. In general, the hospitals were not washing the bottles often enough nor well enough. Bottles were not sterilized at all in many cases: their mate rials would have disintegrated in the heat required for prop er sterilization. Moreover, the investigators continued, it was clear that the bottles were not washed daily nor even emptied and re-filled daily be cause "the walls of some were slimy," and "gelatinous is lands of algae and fungi float ed in others." Ice Was Handled The investigators also found fault with the way hospitals MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, January 1, 1959 3 handled the cubed and shaved ice which went into the bot tles to cool the water. The investigation was done in July and August when pati ents require iced water. The ice was exposed to air in hos pital areas where it could get contaminated. It was handled by hands rather than tongs. Scoops and ice rakes were not sanitary. In all, 103 water bottle3 were snatched from the bed sides of patients without prior notice, and subjected on the spot to bacteriological exam ination. Only five of the 103 proved to be free of bacteria. Staphylococci were found in 68.9 per cent, and coliform bacteria were found in 21.7 per cent . in higher than ac ceptable numbers. CALLING in newsmen, An toine Pinay, French finance minister, announces in Paris devaluation of French franc. asked to come into the union. Even then, he added, they shouldn't be allowed to strike. 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