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MONDAY. JULY 25, 1990 Classically Quiet Farm Potential Accident Site Tho clusslviilly ctilut. sufo iid beautifully culm niiillno ol f ii mi work la u storybook myth, according to the Nu tioniil till rely Council. T h o Increased mccliiinlzu- tlnn mid advanced tcclinlcull- Ilea In tho fiumlng tndualry luive brought Willi tlium In creased Im.iiidn. '11io oxtunt of these him iiiuuntud until n rm 1 1 1 u inn kH ua tho third moat diinguroua Industry In tho tuition, tho nuiiity council joporla. Only mining mid con struction produce muro lutiill ties ouch your. Lual ycur thuro voro USu.OUO known dlsubllng . lnj nrluH to dirm residents In iur niitlon, There wore 11,301) deaths. Quito un astounding degree of suffering, aorrow mid wuato cun bo found on tho o-ciillcd avrono farms of our lund. Thuro uro few veteran farmers or people ruined on liirms who cnn'l r ecu II iiuiir inlaaea. Moat of thcao wuro I) e c u u a o of tho "oughl-to- know-bolter" typo of r 1 a k a mid practices. Some of llifao arc mounting, riding and dla mounting from a disc harrow whllu being towed behind Irui'tor; working around mu. rhliiory while wcurlnif loaae or alrluijy clolhlnit; not keep- lull safety ahiclda, guggles and other anfety equipment In jiluco and wearing It when needed. The qucatluii now lan'l will It happen to mo, but whut can do to prevent It from hap pening to me. Morally, euch person la required to act safe ly. It la considered wrong to deliberately take a llfo In vio lation of tho' law ao it la alao morally wrong to lake a life Accidentally. Has Chun Reaction Farmers ahould remember that an Injury has a chuln re action. 11 rcaulta In loss of time, loaa of equipment, loss of muterlul value, lessened ef ficiency for the Individual mul consequently the nutlon. Muny lndlvlduula are inu lined ruch year through lo.ia of an arm, leg, eye or other vital purt of their working body. Thereafter, an extra peraon la ncceasory for all or part of the time In order to compen sate. Rcault: higher coat per unit of production. Safety Incorporulca every area of activity for every member of the family unit. The houjcwlfe and mother must bo in keenly awnre ot thli us tho peraon operating the combine. Tho hazards of fires, araldlnga, clcctrlcul ahock, fulls from climbing, cure of infanta or small chil dren arc as real aa an Injury received from the whirling inure of a power-lake off. ' The Innocent, routine chore of burning paper can be In rtantly transformed Into a nightmare of flaming clothing nd months of inactivity and mm saat Baud on comparison ol manulaclurara' tuggailad I960 retail m.m.-iii (of 0w.p,Cj v-8 modal). excruciating pain; tho playful adventure of u child chasing Ita duck or I o a 1 1 n g the strength of pond Ice can be come tho scene of horror und tragedy through drowning. Virtually every accident can bo traced to a moment of thoughtlessness o r careless ness only to bo a tormenting regret throughout all of one's llfo. Categorically, the areus of accidents on the farm rank thuslyi muchlnory, drownings, flre-arma, lulls, animals, In nccta, burns, blows from full ing objects, electricity, llght nign. One cannot find rcleusa from tho pressing Importance of aufuty measures und prac tices because of the locution of his or her primary activity. Do Not Reaped Age Alao, uccidenta arc not re spectcra of ages. The moat huz urdous ugrs lire under 10 mid over 23. The 10-24 ugo group la said to bo the safest. Drowning Is tho principal source of fatalities under 10. KIre-arms arc tho chief source of fatalities from 11 to 14 years old. Each age aecnia to huvo a pel hazard. Since every activity each day la potentially a hazard, one needs to be more than passively aware of tho threat Vet's 'Service Connection' Award Protected by Law An award of "service con nection" which has been In force for 10 or more years In veteran disability and death cases will be protected under a new law signed recently by the president, S. T. Brennick, contact representative, V. A. Domiciliary, White City, said today. The new law (Public Law 66-301) became effective on Jan. 1, 1002. The only exceptions under the law, Brannock said, would bo cases in which there la a allowing that the original grant of service connection by the VA wua based on fraud, or where It is clearly shown from military records that the veteran concerned did not have the required service, or lacked the proper character of discharge from service. Service connection" Is es tablished by the VA when it is found that a veteran's In- Jury or disease woa incurred In or aggravated by active service In line of duty during wartime or peacetime serv ice. Establishment of service connection Is necessary be fore disabled veterans can be come eligible for monthly dis ability compensation pay ments, and also gives war time veterans priority for ad mission to VA hospitals, as fflSMSM EVERY '60 MERCURY MUST GO! BUY FROM STOCK AND SAVE! TOWERING TRADE ALLOWANCES! ALL MODELS! ALL STYLES! ALL COLORS! Even before our Sale, Mercury was priced $63-$66 below the lowest-priced Chevrolet Impala or Plymouth Fury V-8! With our deal, you'll save more than you've ever dreamed! Come in now and see! MEDFORD MOTORS, Inc. io himself and his security. Consider yourself, permanent ly crippled through Injury: consider your family, con fronting the fuels of earning u livelihood and education without you earning wages or a sulary; consider the crip pllug loss of valuable pieces of equipment or buildings through firo or unsafe oricrnt ing procedures; consider the total of hours lust and minor coats Incurred euch year be cause of fulling to keep equip ment In proper operational maintenance. In any event, one cannot escape being aware of the economic phase of safety. Insurance, even If one should have coverage, Is poor consolation for a crip pled life. It Is sound ond prof itable business to operate a sufc business, Do not full to realize Unit you, the Individual, whether on a lurgc or small farm, urc tho vital link in the sufc ope. rut Ion of the vust farming in dustry of our great nutlon. It Is up to you to put Into prac tice every measure of com mon senae ana manufactur er's advice contributing to ward safely. The slogan u im plies, "Enjoy farm life - prac tice safely." well ua eligibility for certain other benefits Brannock staled. Wldowa of deceased vct crani also will be protected under the aamc provisions of the new law in all cases where the widow's benefits arc bused on the service-connected disabilities of the vet eran. Oregon Delegate One of Youngest Chicago -HOT- One of the youngest delegates attending the Republican National Con vention today was Bruce Phil ippi, a 22-year-old farmer from Stayton, Ore. Phillippi, an alternate dele gate, is a veteran of Young Republican club activity in Oregon and is a graduate of the University of Oregon. TOUGH CAMPAIGNERS Knoxvlllc, Tcnn. - (11PD -Sen. Estos Kcfuuver and his senatorial opponent, Judge Andrew Taylor, proved they have the stomachs for political campaigning. Four hospitals reported a wave of stomach upsets Sunday among persons who attended a Democratic barbecue rally at which the political opponents were pres ent. Neither was among the casualties. The better low-price car MERCURY tint Farm Accidents Highly Expensive To All People ' " "Accidents to farm people cost the nutlon $1,100,000,000 euch year! "That's why farm safety Ian t Just for farmers alone," commented Muynard C o e farm safety director of the Nallonul Safety Council. He announced tho 17th annuul National Farm Safety Week proclaimed by President Dwlght D. Elsenhower1 for July 24-30. The week - coaponsored by the Council and tho U.S. De partment of Agriculture - has as Its theme: "Enjoy Farm Life - Practice Sufoty." Purpose of a week devoted to farm safety, explained Coc, Is to focus nationwide atten tion on the year around need for reducing the number of farm accidents which cause death, disability and grief to farm people and drain the nation's economy. "By farm people we mean more than Just the 20 million farm residents alone. Others who suffer Indirectly Include the six million persons who supply what farmers need, plus the 10 million transpor tation, alore, processing and Merchandising people. "That's a sizable chunk of the population that suffers because of farm accidents. 'The farm today is a small Industrial plant. And It has all the small industrial plant's need for safety practices. The farmer, his family and employees must carry safety into their everyday living." DREAM BRIDGE CLOSER Palermo. Sicily - IUPD - Si- city's great dream of a bridge linking It to the mainland is moving a small atcp closer to reality. Huge drills soon will start probing the bottom of the Straits of Sicily to seek the best place where the bridge could be built - If it ever Is. U.S. Puts Mechanical Sherlock Holmes on Trail Of Income Tax Cheaters Washlngton-UPD-Tax cheat ers, big and small, your days arc numbered. Uncle Sam Is putting a mechanical Sher lock Holmes on your trail. The automatic tax inspec tor actually an electronic computer center will go Into operation late next year and will be scanning all tax re turns from individuals and corporations by 1969. The Internal Revenue Serv ice currently picks tax re turns at random to check. Thus, the returns of many cheaters are never even look ed at. MEDFORD MAIL Hatfield Lukewarm on Plans For Seashore Park, But California's Brown is Eager By A. ROBERT SMITH Mall Tribune Washington Correspondent Sacramento (Special) - The governor of California Is anxious to get a national sea shore purk for his stale that he Is willing to have Cali- f 0 r n I a pay half the cost of acquiring the land. This offers a contrast to the approach A Hoai amiib ",e gover nor of Oregon, who has stated that he will go along with a national seashore park on the Oregon coast only if the fed eral government meets the exacting terms stipulated by the state. Gov. Mark Hatfield has demonstrated no anxiety about having the National Park Service create a sea shore park along the Oregon Dunes between Florence and Rcedsport. There is nothing In Hatfield's expressed atti tude that would indicate he would countenance use of state funds to buy up the land for the park if it Is establish ed. Brown Pushing Hard Gov. Edmund G. Brown, however, is pushing hard to get a stretch of the California coastline called Point Reyes, north of the San Francisco area, converted into a sea shore recreation area. Up to now the Park Service has approved both the Oregon Dunes and Point Reyes areas, but it has given the Oregon coast priority. The Interior Department, after r e c o m- mending legislation covering the Oregon Dunes (along with Cape Cod, Mass., and Padre Island, Tex.), quietly agreed not to object if Point Reyes The new electronic eagle- uye, ill uuuiwuii w iwuunis , tax evaders, will sped up re- funds to honest folks. The IRS announced the new setup Thursday. The compu ter center wUl be located near Martinsburg, W. Va. Under the electronic check up system, every taxpayer would be assigned a serial number, much like a Social Security designation. Corpora tions already have such num bers. By referring to these num bers, the computer will be able to match up returns with a taxpayer's master file. The procedure will provide an automatic check against prev ious returns and against data on how much an individual has earned in wages and sal ary, dividends and Interest. Machines Rented IRS Commissioner Dana La tham said the government would rent the electronic ma chines from International Bus iness Machines Corp. Rental rather than purchase of the equipment will prove cheap er In the long run, a spokes man said, because the ma chines become absolesccnt relatively quickly. The service estimated It would be paying rent of $3.5 million a year by 1969. How ever, the cost would be offset by more efficiency and recov ery of tax revenue lost by evasion or honest error. Silverton Firehouse Damaged by Blaze Silverton -OJPD- The Silver- ton city firehouse caught on fire Sunday and the blaze extensively damaged a room for ambulance crews. Silverton has volunteer firemen and no one was in the firehouse at I hp time A davenport and chair burned and flames damaeed a wall and floor. The fire deDartmont Is In. cated in city hall. None of me city's flrefighting equip ment or city offices were damaged. Authorities said some boys turned In the alarm. Cause of the fire was being Investigated. Wood r Get your winter wood at summer price. Old growth body fir 16" ft 24" lengths. Also oak and laurel. Phen SP 3-1855 TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. were added to the bill during congressional debate. The legislation, however, was still in committee when Congress adjourned. Gov. Brown views the value of a seashore park In the con text of his state's expanding population. Point Reyes, he noted, Is cloao to the big Bay area population center and is two hours from Sacramento and Stockton. 10 Million People "In less than two decades this seashore area should be within easy reach of almost 10 million people," he stated. Once the Point Reyes sea shore is created, Brown would be willing to have the state manage it under the expand ing California state beach and park program. This involves a commitment of state funds to the idea. "We, In California, are acutely aware of the need to provide major coastal recre ation facilities," he said. "Gov ernment agencies own less than one fourth of California's 1,200 miles of coastline above the level of mean high tide. About six per cent of the 900 miles of coastline reached by access over private lands -only 34 miles - Is available to the public." Gov. Brown said the state is now forced to pay $1,200 per linear foot - which Is $100 per inch - for beach property near Santa Monica which would have had a nominal price quarter century ago. We must exercise more foresight today," added the governor. Local Opposition In California there Is local opposition to making Point Reyes Into a playground. The area is now occupied by pri vate dairy farms. The Park Service has in mind using about 32,000 acres for the park, with the remaining 21,000 acres being left In a pastoral state for the farmers. Gov. Brown is willing for California to put up 50 per cent of the cost of buying up the park land. The land with in the proposed park has been assessed at $1,489,000. Congress, always looking for ways to economize, may increiore look with more favor upon the California sea short than some of the others which would be much more costly to the federal govern ment, notably Cape Cod. wnaievcr may happen to me Oregon Dunes proposal to wnien Gov. Hatfield has Decn not overly warm and Sen. Wayne Morse has greeted with coolness, California is maneuvering Its favored shoreline Into a position of advantage for the time when Congress makes its decision on me seashore concept. Burned Toast MayCauseMishap To Unwary Farmer Does a farm accident begin at breakfast? "It can," said Maynard Coe, the National Safety Council's director of farm safety, "if there's a lack of harmony at the breakfast table. "The attitude the farmer has when he goes out to run a lot of complicated machin ery," said Coc, "is extremely important. If his wife or chil dren upset him at breakfast, he's much more likely to have an accident than if he leaves the table in a good frame of mind. ' It's Just a theory," he said. "but we think how a farmer feels at breakfast has a lot to do with how safe he stavs throughout the day." Coe's observations came on the eve of the annual National Farm Safety Week, which the National Safety Council is co sponsoring July 24-30 with the U.S. Department of Agri culture. It's not only a nagging wife at the breakfast table that can drive a man to an acci dent, Goe - a married man - hesitated to point out. "Burnt toast, bad weather or a sleepless night can have the same disastrous effect," he said. "Anything that causes a rarmer to concentrate less on the work at hand is to be avoided, if at all possible." BE ALERT TODAY... ALIVE TOMORROW mm s This message I, brought to all farmers as a public service of th. CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY. Pleas, take time to check your farm and help prevent needless accidents. THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY A Western Company owned and operated by Western People Baby Elephant, 'Candy' To Be Busy at Convention By HELEN THOMAS Unlttd Prass International Chicago OJPD A baby ele phant named Candy has a big week ahead of her at the COP national convention. , The year and a half old 450-pound pachyderm, symbol of the Republican party, will be on parade at several big events. Saturday she was the star attraction at an elegant luncn given by the Women' national Republican club of Chicago. inc party honored Mrs. Clare B. Williams, assistant cnalrman of the GOP Nation al Committee and Mrs. Ber tha Baur, 88. retiring Illinois committeewoman who says she is now a "precinct cap- lain. Candy was put on display in the lobby of the plush 18th century style Ambassador ho tel. She patiently posed for pictures with top women in the party and she was reward ed with lumps of sugar. "The sugar Is her reward for standing around being bothered by people." said Joe Frisco, Candy's keeper. At one point a Goldwater for vice president yellow hat was placed on her head but with a thrust of her trunk she quickly knocked it off. The women at the gourmet feast did a lot of politicking, mostly for their husbands. Mrs. Barry Goldwater, wife of the Arizona senator, was ask ed how she felt about her husband's chances of winning the vice presidential nomina tion. 'It will be interesting to see what happens," she told a UPI reporter. "It's very excit ing and very flattering, but I still enjoy being a senator's wife." Mrs. Goldwater added that "Barry says no one in his right mind would turn down an offer like that but he hopes he won't get it." Mrs. John Sherman Cooper, wife of the K entucky senator. topped off her smart white suit with a white straw Breton that sported a red band read ing "Re-elect Senator Coop er." In case anyone missed the point she also waved a fan which read: "I am a John Sherman Cooper fan." When buttonholed, Con- gresswoman Judy Weis of 1 J AFETY Get Safety minded today! Accidents are always looking for a place to happen on Your Farm. Give Your Farm a thorough checking over-Machinery, equipment, yard and buildings. Seven people lost their lives last year in farm accidents; another 2,253 were injured. THE TIME FOR SAFETY IS EVERY DAY B 5 New York, aaid she thinks Gov. Nolson A. Rockefeller would help give the GOP "a strong ticket." . Pressed as to why the gov ernor is shunning the vie presidency, she said, "J think there are all kinds r,f rea sons." . ... .' ,1 She also said that she rec ommends that the Republican party "run scared" so as not to take any chances. .' Mrs. William G. Strattori, wife of the Illinois governor, dropped by a pre-lunch recep tion before going on to anoth er lunch which she and her husband gave Saturday for Republican governors ri d their wives. The Rockefeller1 went to the luncheon from the airport soon after their arrival. Civil Defense Calls Farmers The office of civil and de fense mobilization Is actively cooperating in plans for na tionwide observance of J"arm Safety Week July 24.30. ac- cording to W. L. Shaffer, di rector of rural activities of the office. 'We' believe this is par ticularly fitting because rural civil defense is farm safety in the nuclear age," Shaffer ex plained. ,: 'Authorities tell us that if an enemy should attack the United States with nuclear weapons, radioactive fallout would be the greatest threat to non-Urget areas. This fall out could blanket rural Amer ica, killing or injuring people and livestock, and contami nating crops and soil," the director pointed out. OCDM, in cooperation with state and county civil defense offices, is carrying out a na tionwide program to inform rural people of the radio active danger and tell them how they can take simple measures to protect their families and livestock, he ex plained. This is a tremendous educational effort and help is needed to assure reaching every family, through th. press, radio and television. K 22S South Riverside
