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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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. .
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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.
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