MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
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SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1800
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JINX YEAR?
Thin I Iho hex year for (li
Amorlcun prasldoncy. "Cut'
torn" say llio nnin oli-etod to
tlia Wlillo llouso Dili ycu
will dlo In office
1 h I ghoulish prospect
voivoi from tlia fuel Unit ev-
ory president oloclod In
yenr ondlntf In "zero" during
the pint 12(1 ynun h fulled
to sorvo out hlit tenure.
Thoy have not all dlod dur-
Ins the term to which they
were eluded In a "Hero1
yenr, but nil of thorn huvo left
1000 Pennsylvania avenue In
a coffin,
It bt-Kiin with William lien
ry Harrison, who waa duct
ed In 11140 and nicroinhed to
pneumonia contracted during
nil Inuutturiil festivities.
Klectctl In 1H00, Abraham
Lincoln wnl nuirderrd as he
hemin Ida second term In
lSlln.
Jiunos Garfield wna elected
In 1BH0 and waa ihot mortal
ly with In two month) of en
terlng offlco by a disgruntled
oiriceieekcr.
milium Mckinley wai
elected to his second tormln
1000 and assassinated by
lunatic the next summer.
Wnrrcn G. Harding, elected
In 11)20. died of causes which
are still somewhat a mystery
not (iilte half-way through
nla term.
And Franklin O. Hoosevolt
elected to his third term In
1040, riled ns he begun hi)
fourth term In 1045.
This la 11)110. And a good
year In which to give vice
presidential candidates
good looking over. - Forrest
W, Amsden In Coos Bay
worm,
STATISTICS!
Statistics are fanciful, In
terming In themselves, but
not always applicable to
given situation. Look at
t h e s o figures on defense
spending:
Boulder (or Hoover, which
I) It?) Dam cost "only S200..
000.(100. Wo spend that much
on defensp every two day),
In less than a week of de
fense spending, we could
build the St. Lawrence Sea
way and another Boulder,
presuming that cosla were sla
ble.
Wt could build a million'
dollar hospital In every coun
ty In America for the cost of
one month s defense spend
Ing. Our entire national hlglv
way program could be paid
lor in three months.
The Nation has another
suggestion for getting rid of
the $40 billion we spend on
aeiense every year, if, says
the magazine, wo send a mil
Hon American boys and girls
to school in Itussin and If
the Russians send a million
here, the cost would be about
$:7 billion. If the Russians
contributed nothing to the
project (except the kids), we
still save $:i billion a year
And we'd he safe from their
bombs and they from ours,
as long as each country had
a million children in the other.
That's an Interesting sug
gestion, ns interesting as the
listing of other ways to spend
$40 billion a year,
Anothor statistic: $40 bil
lion a year Is about $4.30 a
week for each man, woman
and child In America. That
atatlstlc will be no surprise
to anybody who ever both
ered to compare the amount
on Iho left side of his pay
roll slip with the amount of
the chock. - Eugene Register-Guard.
REPORT ON FLORIDE
In 1093 fluoride waa added
to tho water supplies In Cor
vallla and Philomath. The
Corvnllls Gazctte-Ttimcs, re
porting on results, says that
"pronounced reductions In
tooth decay are- credited to
fluoride." Research on the
project Is being done by Dr.
Gcrtrudo Tank, herself a den
tist, now a dental specialist
on tho faculty of OSC, which
has been doing extensive re
search on nutrition and den
tal health since 1943, aided
by a federal f nint.
Dr. Tank la quoted as say
ing that "all available scien
tific evidence Indicates that
thoro is absolutely no danger
In witter fluoridation," whoro
the additive, brings tho fluo
rine ratio to one part In a
million.
Such Is the mind-set of the
foes of fluoridation that they
will pay no heed to the evi
dence assembled by scientists,
)o they continue to block ef
forts in many cities to add
fluoride for the protection of
the dental health of children.
Salem is still In the "dark
ages" on fluoridation of Its
water supply: - Oregon
Statesman, Salem,
EDITOR'S POLITICS
It la not uncommon, we're
told, for husband and wife to
cancel each oilier out at the
ballot box. We've known a
lew Minnies In which one
member of tho team was a He
publican and tho other a Deui
ocrat. When they spoke of it
It alwuys was Jestingly. Wo
always suspoctud, however
thut in privacy the situation
generated some hcut in an
aloctlon year,
One of tho most Interesting
cases wa ve come upon In
valves a newspaper family.
Co-owners of tho newspaper
Nowaduy (Long Island, N.Y.),
are Marry Guggenheim and
hla wlfo, tho former Alicia
Patterson. Ho is of tho Gug
gonholm family that made a
great fortune In mining. She
Is the daughter of Col. Joe
Patterson, founder of the New
York Dally News, and grand
daughter of Joseph Medlll
founder of the Chicago Trib
une.
In this election year Mr.
335 Landowners
Assisted by State
Farm Forester
A total of 3113 landowners
In southern Oregon was glv
en forestry assistance during
the 1000 fiscal year, accord-
Ing to Farm Forester Jim
Fisher, Oregon state forestry
department, Medford.
I he landowners own or
manage more than 13.000
acres of forcstland. Good cut
ting practices are being fol
lowed on ncaly 70 owner
ships that were advised on
forest management, the for
ester stated.
A) a result of the forestry
assistance, nearly 230 acres
received forest stand Im
provement work by thinning
and control of competitive
vegetation, over 450 acres
were planted with tree seed
lings, and more than 100
acres pruned towards the fu
ture production of "peeler
logs" for plywood.
One of Eight Projects
Iho Medford funn forestry
project is one of eight such
projects established by the
Oregon state forestry depart
ment to assist private wood
land owners. Other project)
are located at Salem, Albany,
Tlllnmook, Oregon City, Eu
gene, Forest Grove, and La
Grande.
Besides advising private
woodland owners, the farm
forester works closely with
other slate, federal, and pri
vate foresters in promoting
good forest management.
Among the cooperative pro-
grama Is the Agricultural
Conservation program con
cerned with aiding private
landowners financially with
the Improvement of their
woodland.
Complete Information on the
farm forestry assistance may
be obtained by writing post
office box 71, Medford, by
telephoning NOrmandy 4-1213
by contacting the state
forestry department head
quarter) on Table Rock rd.,
Medford.
Newly Elected Head
Of NARCE Dies
Joseph L. Spllman, newly
elected president of the Na
tional Association of Retired
Civil Employees, In Washing
ton, D. C, died recently fol
lowing a heart attack, accord
ing to rccont word to the
southern Oregon chapter.
Spllman was elected nation
al president at the June convention.
The southern Oregon chap
ter also announced that it will
have no meeting) until September.
Guggenheim la supporting
Richard Nixon and his wife Is
plugging fur Adlal Stevenson.
Shu speaks In tho editorial
columns and ho In a signed
column on tho editorial page.
This Is most unusual. It Is
not unusual, however, any
newspaper editor will tell you,
fo ru wlfo to disagree with
some of the editorial views of
her editor husband, Usually
this nevor goes any further
thun a good discsslon at home,
And it can be most helpful
to tho editor. Where other)
may hesitate to tell him they
dlsugrcn with an editorial his
wife does not. She gives him .
the other slrio and forces him :
to defend his thinking. i
Do members of a newspa-j
per') editorial department I
) t a f f disagree politically? ,
We've been asked that ques- i
Hon many time). Tho answer
Is that of course thoy do. A
news staff whose members
were all of one party would
bo hard to find. We've never
known an editor who asked
the political affiliation of a '
man when he hired him. Moat 1
editors couldn't go through
their newsrooms and tell you
the politics of the people
working there. It Just doesn't i
make any difference.
A newspaper') view) on pol-,
itlo are expressed In the cdl-
torinl columns, not the news i
columns. An editor hopes
there are no communists on
his staff but beyond that he .
doesn't glvo a hang how they -think
politically. He knows .
that some do not agree with
his political thinking but he
doesn't consider it of any im-:
portance. - J. W. Forrester in '
the Pendleton East Oregonian. j
Logging Truck
Hits Bridge on
Applegate Road
A loaded logging truck and
trailer turned over and struck
the railing of the Cameron
bridge on the Big Applegate
rd. Friday afternoon, state
police said.
The truck and trailer are
owned by Dumian Eatrcmado,
Gold Hill, and was driven by
Charles Burton Beck, route
1, box 480, Gold Hill. The
driver apparently escaped In
Jury, police said.
State police said the truck
and trailer were nearing the
curve approach to the bridge
when the driver apparently
lost control. The truck skid-
cd 2(10 feet, turned over and
lid into the bridge railing.
Most of tho logs rolled over
the bank, state police said.
Driver Charged
State police said the driver
would be charged in Gold '
Hill Justice court with cither
failure to operate on the right I
side of the road or violation j
of basic rule.
Claire Axtel, Eagle Point,
reported to state police that
her pickup truck and one
driven by Charles Jcnks, 1819
Taylor st., Medford, collided
about 7 p.m. Friday Just off
the Crater Lake highway near
tho approach to Eagle Point.
Minor damage resulted to
both vehicles.
Two .nation wagons collid
ed Saturday morning ot the
intersection of the Crater
Lake highway and the Sams
Valley Gold Mill highway,
state police said.
Vehicles involved were
driven by Ruth Jackson
Brown, 22, Oswego, N. Y., 1
and Mary Stanley, 47, Grants
Pass. Minor damage resulted ,
to both vehicles, officers said.
The New York driver was
Informed a complaint will be
filed in district court charg-1
ing failure to drive on right
side of highway, police added. ;
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
OINCE WORLD WAR I, points out Arthur Salomme, many !
.cities In Eastern Europe have, through capture or legis- i
latlon, been shifted across International borders. Such a 1
city, for example, wns
the Gorman city of Lcm- 7-rt
burg, rennmcd Lwow
when It was ceded to Po
land In 1919, nnd renam
ed again as Lvov when it
was incorporated Into the
Soviet Union.
A schoolboy in 1958
made tho mistake of men
tioning in clnss thill tho
rent name of tho city was
Lomburg. Tho shocked
teacher barked, "Pupil
Iv'unov will march to the
front of the class and re
cite ten times: Pupil mill say we're in Lvovl"
Mother," wallod tho daughtor of a confirmed beatnik, "I'm
fretting mighty tired of running; around In circle." "Shut up,"
i-aapcd tho dear, Victorian mother, "or I'll nail your other foot
to the floor." (Hick, sick, nick.)
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