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County Court Asks Reports on Other Farms for Prisoners The county court Friday requested reports on the ex perience other counties have had with prison farms before making a decision on a simi lar, proposal for Jackson coun ty. . County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt said such an opera tion would not make the coun ty any money but thought it would meet expenses. County Commissioner Edwin Taylor remarked he had been urg ing such a move for a long time. Sheriff Joe Walsh, District Court Judge L. L. Sawyer and District Attorney Alan Holmes met with the county court Friday afternoon to dis cuss the proposal. The three men recommend ed the former horticultural experiment station on High way 99 .. south . of Phoenix. They suggested a beef, dairy and - vegetable "operation. Us County Equipment The county court said it might be possible to use coun ty farming equipment and . machinery now at the coun ty farm home, and the serv ices of the part-time farmer there. Perhaps the prison farm and farming operation of the county' farm home could be combined, it was suggested. Food raised would supply the farm home, juve nile, detention home and ,the county jail. A prison farm would re lieve the need for expansion of the county jail and give the prisoners something to do, it was pointed out. Later a new county jail might be con structed at the old experi ment station, ' Walsh sug gested. Transportation of prisoners to the courts for trials would not involve any serious prob lems, the sheriff said. Only prisoners charged withcom- paratively'- minor offenses would be kept at the honor farm, Walsh explained. ' Sawyer said an unarmed man could supervise the pris Ofcs0Q2 OQfcfiEDSfiJB oners at the farm. This fol lows the practice of other counties, he noted. ' The district court judge a'dded that he planned to put his teenage traffic offenders and minors guilty of misde meanors to work on the farm. "This would rid habitual resi dents of the county jail of the idea that the county will pro vide for them a free, warm, comfortable place to stay," Sawyer commented. Holmes noted that a recent grand jury had praised the excellence of the food served the county prisoners. "I think such an operation could possibly break even. I don't think the county would lose any money from it Wendt remarked. He said the county farm home ' now has about 20 beef animals and some oats and vetch. The county farm home discontinu ed its dairy operation, he said. Remove Fruit Trees The district attorney said county prisoners could be used next week to remove the remaining fruit trees at the experiment station. "The only thing that both ers me is that we told the voters we would sell the ex perimental properties when we received so much opposi tion to establishing the South ern Oregon branch experi ment station on Hanley rd.," Wendt commented. Catholics Celebrate Date of Apparition Fatima, Portugal (UPD Hundreds of thousands of Ro man Catholics from all over the world gathered under warm, sunny skies Saturday to celebrate the 44th anni versary of the apparition of "Our Lady of atima. The pilgrims marked the day with prayer commemora ting the appearance of. the Virgin Mary yto three poor shepherd children. MEDFORD - -vril-jJ0 f A! LSI - "'" """" ' CHEAPER WATER Dr. Gerald L. Hassler of Narmco Industries of Southern Cali fornia, has told a state "senate fact finding committee on water in Sacramento, Calif., that southern California can get drinking water from the sea at perhaps half the cost of water the state plans to transport from the north under the 1 billion-dollar water Federal Loan, Research for Commuter Problems Sought By HENRY J. BECHTOLD New York - (UPD - A New York real estate executive ad vocates a federal long term loan and re search grant program as a solution for the nation's commuter ' transportation problems. Urban traf fic congestion and the break- Bechtold down in com muter transportation systems are threatening the economic health and vitality of Ameri ca's metropolitan areas. And, according to Morris Karp, president of Realty Equities Corp. it has reached a point where it no longer is a problem whether or not private railroads make ' a profit but whether our cities MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. can afford to see them "not" make a profit. ' Writing in the company's monthly newsletter, Karp said that as our suburbs grow the problem of getting the people to and from work is becoming more difficult because of snarling traffic congestion and completely inadequate rail transportation systems. The situation can only get worse, he declared, noting that by 1970 expectations are that three out of four Ameri cans will be living in metro politan areas. There are an estimated 500, 000 commuters today, the bulk of which reside in the most critical areas - New York, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. And, Karp said, Washington, D. C, Los An geles and Cleveland soon will become hopelessly ' clogged rciiiiTa 33 OFF Reg Price Sale Price You Save $ 998 $ ,65 $333 1298 $65 433 1498 1032 466 1698 1132 566 1998 1332 666 OREGON development program. The model shown has been proposed to the U.S. Interior depart ment's office of saline water by General Electric. The company has tested its thin film of distillation process for more than 3,000 hours and these tests are expected to lead to construction of a full-scale plant. (UPI Telephoto) with auto traffic unless better rail facilities are developed. The commuter problem stems from the huge growth in population, suburbia and new metropolitan areas, and from technical and financial problems which have faced the commuter railroads. ' ' These lines must have crews and equipment available to handle the heavy rush hour traffic,, then see much of it lie idle for the rest of the day. For example, the eight com muter roads serving New York have lost many millions of dollars in recent years, and thus are unwilling to sink money in new equipment. As a result, facilities are aging and service deteriorating. Karp said it is an unfortun ate fact of economic life that government is expected to be all things to all people, but "it is a fact." of? GtaDss tto CD UNDERSTATEMENT OF Man With Busy Protecting People's Health By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - Commis sioner George P. Larrick of the Food and Drug Adminis tration is a man with ap proximat e 1 y 6,000 prob lems, some of which cannot be seen with the naked eye. Half of his problems are caused by the Weit a.uuu c n e m- ical preparations that farmers spray on fruit and vegetable plants to ward off insects and diseases. The other half are caused by the 3,000 chemical prepara tions that food processors use to make various grocery items more attractive to consumers. It is part of Larrick's job to try to make certain that this liberal use of pesticides and food additives does not endan ger our health when we sit down at the dinner table. He summed up the situa tion quite succinctly in testi mony recently before a House appropriations subcommittee which is considering his re quest for more money to pro tect us. 'Is No Good' In what I rank as the under statement of the week, Lar rick pointed out that "if you spray an apple tree or some thing to kill the bugs and it also kills the apple tree, it is no good." It likewise is no good if it kills the people who eat the apples. So Larrick's agency undertakes to test the various chemicals to determine how much can be safely consumed The commissioner let him self in for a bit of needling when he told the subcommit tee he is trying to carry on this work in such, a way that it will "not lead to another major publicity problem." "You mean the cranberry deal?" asked Rep. John E. Fo garty, a Rhode Island Demo crat who believes in being specific. TO mm mb m q ana? mm WEEK About 6,000 I didn't mention it," Lar rick replied. "You didn't have to men tion it," Fogarty said. "But that is what you were refer ring to, isn't it?" "That is exactly what I was referring to," Larrick con ceded. The commissioner also told the subcommittee that the high price of modern drugs has been attracting under world elements into the phar maceutical field. Some of the criminal types who in the past might have made counterfeit money now find it more profitable to make counterfeit pills. Others have taken up medical boot legging. Larrick s agency, using modern detective methods, has learned to identify coun terfeit pills by comparing them with genuine samples under a microscope, "We look at the markings that are put on them when they are stamped out-just like 21 Mumps Cases Reported in County Twenty-one cases of mumps headed the list of communi cable diseases reported last week to the Jackson county health department, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. Diseases reported included mumps, Medford, 14, Jackson ville, Central Point, and Sha ry Cove each 2, and Ashland, 1; strep throat, Butte Falls, and Medford 2; gonorrhea, Central Point 1; infectious mononucleosis, Medford . 1; pneumonia, Medford 1; meas les, Medford 9; Central Point and Shady Cove each 1; scar latina, Medford S; influenza, Phoenix 3, Medford 10, and Shady Cove and Ashland each 2; chicken pox, Phoenix 1; and whooping cough, Medford 3. ..... rKrryrr MONDAY. MAY IS, 1961 Problems a fingerprint expert can iden tify a person by his finger prints," he explained. As just one example of what can result from the sale of impure or impotent medi cal products, Larrick cited the case- of a 71-year-old woman who began taking vitamins each day. Eventually, she had to un dergo surgery. During the op eration, doctors found 31 un dissolved capsules in her stom ach. . SI NGER INDUCTIONS FROM EST $30 TO $60 v r-r-fli: Umitri QoMHm Snn Om-M-A-KM Tkii h yur chonra to ftl a lata m4tl 1IN0IM Machint al bargain price I .SUkT-MUrK JptW. .;.omJ otta nwifk Ask about our FASHIONOMICS program . . you con MV mora than you payl . as irmi as '12 down, 1 rat wuk on out wooer pun crr ! 318 East Main Phona SP 2-7153 Mr Vnm ttto CrJ. O 50 OFF Reg Price Sale Price You Save $ 998 $449 $449 1298 649 649 H498 749 749 1698 849 849 1998 999 999 A 3 Bonneville Youth Killed in Fall Bonneville-flJPU- The body of Jack Steven Dliley, 15, Bonneville, was found Satur day in the Tanner creek area where he had apparently gone to look at the site of a recent ly discovered plane crash. ,-. The Multnomah County Coroner's office said it ap peared the youth fell from a 300 foot cliff. GASES KILL NINE , Jakarta, Indonesia-flJPB-Hot, sulphurous gases billowing from the crater of Mt. Merapl claimed nine lives Saturday and sent 16 persons to hos pitals. smrir... oo M a wl voritty of cobfitf mi ptrtobl $tylw I 4 k
