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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1959)
Awards Citations Presented at Safety Council Banquet Six awards and citations were presented to local firms and individuals at the annual awards banquet of the Med ford Safety Council Friday. Mrs. Maxine Horton, 3333 Dark Hollow rd., Medford, was presented the Saved-A-Life award by Jackson County Sheriff Joseph Walsh. Distinguished Citizen Safety Awards were presented to Mrs. J. W. Grigsby, Jackson ville, and Medford Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner. Kogap Lumber Industries, Medford, received the new Hull award for industrial safety, Timber Products com pany was singled out for a special safety citation and the Jackson County sheriffs de partment received the Coun cil's 1958 Traffic Safety award. Commends Mrs. Hoi ton Walsh commended Mrs. Horton and noted that it was her action which saved the life of a driver at the scene of an .accident. The driver, pinned in the vehicle which had overturned in a roadside ditch, was unable to keep his head out of the water. Walsh noted that Mrs. Horton's ac tion saved the driver from drowning. The action was noteworthy because Mrs. Horton had been involved in the accident and still maintained the pres ence of mind necessary to cope with the situation, Walsh noted. For the first time since lo cal safety awards have been presented, Mrs. Grigsby and Captain Fichtner were pre sented Distinguished Citizen Safety awards for their part in the Council's activity for which they have never receiv ed proper community recog nition. C. D. (Swede) Larson, 1959 president of the Medford Safe ty council, presented the award to Mrs. Grigsby, and B. B. Bigham, immediate past president, presented the award to Capt. Fichtner. Jerry Lausmann received the Hull award on behalf of Kogap. The award, named in honor of the late Frank HulL a charter member of the Med ford Safety Council, was pre sented by Dan Hull, brother of Frank Hull. Plaqu Retained The Hull Award plaque will be retained by the win ner each year until a new winner is selected, a proced ure which will be followed annually for 12 years or until one firm wins it three con secutive years, at which time it becomes the company's per manent property. . The winner of the indust rial safety classification is determined on the basis of percentage of increase in safety records from the pro ceding year and is intended as an incentive for any com pany to improve its safety record. James Dunlevy, president of the Medford city council representing Mayor John Snider, presented Timber Products company with the special safety citation. The council also recogniz ed Idean Cement company, Gold Hill, for an exceptional safety records during the past few years. The company had previously been honored by the National Safety Council for outstanding records of achievement in the field of industrial safety. Sgt. William J. Colbert, Newport, noted that it was only through the support of citizen safety groups and of ficial enforcement agencies that any measure of improve ment in the safety picture could be achieved. Portland-tUPD-The Portland school board has voted unan imously to ask the Legisla ture to study finances for the next two years to lead to a new formula for distribution of state aid. 53rd Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1959 Pages 1-6 Mouse mn Would (Lower Age for Use off Cigarettes 1 TAKING over U. S. ambas sadorship in Cuba is Philip Bonsai, . veteran diplomat, succeeding Earl E. T. Smith, who resigned when Fide! Castro's rebels won republic. Red China Approves Of Cuba Executions Tokyo -UPD- Red China's controlled press chorused hearty approval today of the mass executions in Cuba and condemned the United States for protesting. The semi-official Ta Kung Pao declared, "the Cuban people are fully entitled to punish those bloodthirsty murderers under the Batista dictatorship. It is an affair exclusively for the Cuban people and no foreign country is allowed to interfere." . The Peiping People's Daily, mouthpiece of the Commun is. Party's Central commit tee, wrote that behind Ameri can protests "about so-called humanitarianism and demo cracy is an evil plot to re establish the pro-U.S. Batista dictatorial regime." Salem - (UPD A bill lower ing the age limit for purchase of use of cigarettes from 18 to 16 years of age was intro duced in the Oregon House Tuesday at the request of the Interim Committee on Judicial Administration. The bill,(HB 116) also re duces the penalty for selling cigarettes to a minor from $1,000 and up to a year in jail, to $100 for first offenses and 30 days in jail for second offenses. Also of interest to young people was HB 115 which out laws all local city, county or other curfew ordinances of regulations to make the state curfew ordinances uniform. Changes Curfew Hours The bill changes the cur few hours for minors under 18 from 12 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. It also removes crim inal penalties for violation of curfew and gives the juridic tion for violators to the ju venile court where the minor resides. HB 114 would remove the authority of the governor and the State Board of Parole and Probation to transfer minors convicted of felonies from the penitentiary to MacLaren school for boys. It also re moves authority of the cor rectional classification board to transfer inmates between MacLaren and other correct ional institutions and removes the superintendent of Mac Laren from the correctional classification board.. A bill (HB113) outlawing commercial catches of steel head trout in the Columbia river during February was in troduced in the House Tues day. Indians Exempt Sponsors were Reps. Robert Elfstrom (R-Salem) and W. O Kelsay (D-Roseburg). The bill exempts Indians and makes violation a misde meanor. Abolition of the State Bond Movie Industry Conditions Noted Beverly Hills, Calif.- (UPD - Pioneer moviemaker Samuel Goldwyn Tuesday night called conditions in the movie in dust'ry the worst in 47 years He urged producers to make fewer but better-quality pictures. Goldwyn, presented the Milestone Award for his his toric contribution to the American motion picture by the Screen Producers Guild, told the group much of the industry's present trouble comes from producers, direct ors and writers trying to do each other s jobs. "Let the directors direct, the writers write and pro ducers produce," he said. He also scored movie, stars who "demand and get a half million dollars, three quarters of a million dollars, a million dollars a picture and a huge share of the gross of the prof its in addition." The U.S. Tariff Commis sion says that in terms of dol lar value antibiotics were the most important medicinals produced in this country in 1957. Prove it to yourself with a Commission and transfer of its duties to the state treas urer was recommended in HB 118. The bill, introduced by the State and Federal Affairs Committee at the request of the Interim Committee on I Government Reorganization, also would authorize the state treasurer to appoint a com mittee to advise him on in vestments. Other Highlights Taxes: Among 25 bill Intro duced in the House was HB 85 which levies a gross in come tax of 1 per cnt on earn ings of seasonal agriculture workers with no personal ex emptions, deductions or cred its allowed. The tax would be paid in lieu of a personal I property tax. Tax Program: Sen. Anthony Yturri and Rep. Robert L. Elfstrom, Republican minority leaders, asked the Democratic majority to "gear the legis lative schedule to a speed that will allow Hatfield to present his tax program to the legis- lure." The GOP leaders were afraid a program might be "rammed through without the benefit of Hatfield's recommendations." Prove that Plymouth gives the Big difference in RIDE and PERFORMANCE i Big difference in FEATURES No other low-price car can match Plymouth's Torsion-Aire Ride . . . yours at no extra cost in every Plymouth. You enjoy superb handling ease with no roll or sway on turns, no front-end dive on stops. And you thrill to V-8 power, including optional New Golden Commando 395, largest engine in Plymouth's field! Only Plymouth in the low-price field offers options such as: easy entry Swivel Seats and rear Sport Deck (both standard on Sport Fury) push-button heating and push-button transmission. 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SO MUCH THE SAME IH PRICE...S0 DIFFERENT ON THE ROABl X Chromosome May Contribute To Longevity Washington -(Science Service)- The chromosome that helps determine, sex in hu mans - the X chromosome -has been found to be three times larger than the Y chro mosome, two geneticists re ported here. Since the female has two X chromosomes while the male has one X and one Y, this may help explain some of the differences between the sexes.;. . As a consequence jof the larger size of the X chromo some, the human female cell is about four per cent greater than the male in chromosome volume. Thus, the female has a "substantially richer gene tic capacity." Drs. J. H. Tjio and T. T. Puck said in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that this may contribute to tne re male's greater longevity. Other differences, such as differences in response to X ray irradiation and the nature of malignant growths, might be explained by the sex chro mosome size difference, tne geneticists believe. Further' Evidence Drs. Tjio and Tuck, respec tively of the Estacion Experi mental de Aula Dei, Zara goza, 'Spain, and the Univer sity of Colorado Medical Cen ter, Denver, also studied the number of chromosomes found in human cells. Further evidencew as reported that the "real" somatic, or body cell, chromosome number of humans is 46. Previously it was believed to be 48. Cells from various organs in 13 persons were analyzed and exact chromosome counts performed oh almost 2,000 cells. More than 95 per cent of these revealed 46 chromo somes, the scientists reported. They also divided the chro mosomes into eight groups on the basis of size, position of the centromere and the pos session of a satellite body. (The centromere is a small round body that divides the chromosome into "arms" and is believed to play the im portant role of "nucleolar or ganizer" in cell division.) A total of 74 individuals have now been studied whose chromosome count is 46 rather than the classical 48. 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