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Newspaper Page TextMLUtOMU MAIL '1 Mount.. McurGhD. DKtuUH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. 1963 ... Communications ... Letter! to the Editor mutt bear lht name and addrtu ol the writer, although undar cartain circumttancai tha use of a pan na.ua or initial tor publication i parmutibla Tha Mail Tribuna reserves tha right to adit all lattara with a viaw to clarification and condamation. Letlari submitted for publication mutt not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tha paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Bully Good Time To the Editor: One summer morning in year 1913 a com rade and I rode a Southern Pacific passenger train to Ashland where we rented a room for the night, before taking off the early follow ing morning for a long hike to Klamath Falls. We carried a light lunch for the noon hour, and by 6 pm. we ale a hardy lunch of sandwiches at an old stage stop ranch we since have forgotten the name of west of Jenny creek. There being a bright moon we continued our hike until late that same evening. After see ing a pilot light some dis - tance away, we decided "to call it a day" and bedded down for the night under some big trees. is not for the aged alone, it takes in all the people who work with their hands and who are eligible for social se curity either for age or disa bility reasons. He thinks the doctors have a God given right to the prop erty, money or other valuable articles that the elderly may have accumulated through a life of hard work and self de nial. He lets it be known that if the big insurance companies don't get their cut then he is ready to fight any health in surance plan that might come before the congress. So Sig has made his bid for campaign expenses which the doctors and insurance com panies are going to give him and if he is successful in win ning the election he will have Early the next morning we i a nice fat job with pay of ' knew we were near Shake, an old stage tavern, where we washed up and ordered our breakfast. After a fresh start and short hike, a Model T car overtook us and the good chauffeur offered us a ride as he was returning to Klamath Falls from Ashland. .It was a well earned gift of destiny we accounted for our lucky ride of fate. After 3' months of em ployment through harvest we returned to the Rogue river valley on a Cadillac stage to Mcdford for S5 fare. Count ing our overnight stop, mak ing the one way fare back to town of Rogue River around the same as the railroad fare of $7 by the way of Weed, Calif, to Klamath Falls. In those days $2 a day 8 hours with outdoor sleeping rooms, was going wage. Sawmill work $2.50 a day . and up according to type of job. One consolation, there was no income tax levied on wages. A tender beefsteak din ner was only 50 cents. To make a long story short, we did not, as the fellow says, get very much money then, but we had a bully good time, Just the same. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside Med ford There are more than 100 cities in the U.S. which have discontinued fluoridation aft er giving it try. Sweden began fluoridating one city as an experiment in 1952. On Dec. 20, 1961, the Swedish embassy In Washing ton confirmed reports that it Retail Trade in Medford To the Editor: In line with your recent editorial comment regarding retail trade promo tion In Medford I would like to add a few comments and some figures on the subject. During the past few years many areas have been compet ing in the race for new indus trial facilities, new highways, shopping centers and most of all for the consumer dollar. Medford has been quite suc cessful in most fields and has an excellent opportunity to make even greater advances in the near future. Within only a few months new highways will be corn- is illegal to fluoridate city I Pleted which makes Medford uiujr vwu uuuis iiuiu an puitii Unander's Campaign To the Editor: Sig Unander kicked his senatorial cam paign off in the true Republi can tradition when he spoke to the Tri-County Medical and Bar association at Bend Mon day. He criticized the Kennedy administration for ils propos als for medicare. Federal Aid to Education and a depart ment of Urban Affairs. He would deny the people who work with their hands the right to medical care through social security simply because it will be under a non- S25.000 a year and the doctors and insurance companies will grow fatter at the expense of the working man. What a nice line of propa ganda Sig is going to hand Khrushchev for his propagan da mill. Krush has shown the world that a medical aid plan is practical for all the people from the cradle to the grave. The time is past due for some social reforms and this gov ernment had better set a de cent pattern or the underpriv ileged of foreign lands will cry even louder, "Yankee Go Home." How many more American boys are going to fight and die in this brush fire war that the Communists are waging in South Viet Nam. The rebels there are out to get some so cial reforms which are badly needed and if the Communists are the only ones that will give them a deceht life then it will have to be a Communist government. Even the so called loyal troops won't fight. They run in most every battle and the people in the small villages give the rebels aid and comfort. After all, what do the loyal troops have to fight for? Ngo Den Diem says they don t need any reforms. Yes, the rulers can be bought any place in the world but the ones that fight and die are just not for sale. John R. Schumpf, Rt. 1, Box 312, Central Point, Ore. Leave Water Alone To the Editor: Since some in our midst have re-introduced the flouridation issue, ma'y I present some facts that are not generally known? As all readers of daily papers know, whenever a city introduces fluoridation it is news which is given very wide publicity. But if a city discontinues fluoridation, if mention is made of it, it is in profit organization. Medicare a most Inconspicuous manner. water supplies there. "Ac cording to articles in Swedish papers the Swedish Supreme Court by a decision of Dec. 21. 1961, declared that fluori dation in community water pipes could involve health hazards. For this reason flu oridation is not permitted under the Swedish Public Health Act." "Among authorities in Swe den questioning fluoridation are: The Swedish Medical As sociation, the State Institute of Public Health, the Associa tion of Communal Technol ogy, the Association of Water Hygiene, the Association for the Maintenance of Public Health, the Association of Chief County Medical Offi cers, as well as a University of Dental Surgery." Switzerland is a country whose water supply must be much like our own. But in Switzerland the scientists have emphatically advised against fluoridation. Their reason Is that fluorine com bines more readily with all other elements than docs any other element. After its pres ence In the body it is impos sible to say what new com pounds would be formed or how dangerous they would be. Therefore Switzerland has never fluoridated. One clement for which fluorine has an excessive af finity is strontium 90, the most dangerous element in atomic fallout. Both fluorine and strontium 90 alone (not combined with any other cle ment) will be slowly expelled by the body. But when brought into juxtaposition they unite, forming a highly insoluble compound. Both fluorine and strontium 90 have an affinity for bones. Hence the compound will be deposited in the bones more than any where else in the body. The radioactive life of strontium 90 is 50 years. Hence bones containing this compound will be subjected to constant though slowly di minishing radiation for 50 years. And this radiation is one cause of bone cancer. We have a wonderful water supply. Let us thank the Creator for it and leave it as it is. Anna M. Slrccd, 36 North Peach st. Medford. in the State of Jefferson. Only recently I had occa sion to hear a discussion be tween two businessmen In the northern California area in which they were expressing their concern over the open ing of the Oregon Mountain Tunnel. To quote, "we will lose half our business to Med ford and Grants Pass.'' Now, this business won't come to Medford without some effort; those same highways also lead AWAY from Med ford. No city can remain status quo, it must either grow and make changes with the times or it will die. The death may be a slow process but it will eventually happen . . . and a past of growth docs not mean it can continue without effort. An organization should be formed including ALL retail merchants in every part of Medford to take the necessary action in making Medford the unquestioned business center of all Southern Oregon and Northern California. This Job will not be easy and it will not happen overnight but the results can be seen in 60 days if it is properly handled. It is high time to stop this childish bickering and make sensible plans for the future of a wonderful city. The enclosed figures indi cate the opportunity offered Medford merchants to contin ue the advantage they have in increasing retail sales. A large part of this volume can and will come from the area outside Jackson county. This is not just an idea, these things HAVE been ac complished in other areas. Medford has no ironclad con tract that another city in the area cannot embark on a sim ilar mission. As I mentioned before, those same roads that lead to Medford also carry shoppers away from Medford. C. L. "Chuck" McCorkle 1309 Siskiyou Blvd. Medford. Editor's note: The figures Mr. McCorkle included com pared retail sales and buying income for 1955 and 1960 for the ten counties of northern California and southwestern Oregon. An abbreviated ver sion follows: Coos county retail sales up 11.1 per cent, buying income up 30.8 per cent; Curry sales up 75.3 per cent, income up 108.6 per cent; Douglas sales DOWN 11.8 per cent, income up 30.5 per cent; Jackson up 15.8 and 41.1 per cent; Jose phine up .03 and 28.4; Klam ath, up 23.3 and 37.7 per cent; Lake up 34.2 and 30.8 per cent; Del Norte up 2.3 and 19.9 per cent; Modoc up 3 and 2.2 per cent; Siskiyou up 20.2 and 38.4 per cent. Some United States Sena tors want to pass a law that would give the public a choice on radio and TV. You could listen to the Republicans or the Democrats but not to the Socialist Labor Party. Henry R. Korman 2640 Garfield st. Longview, Wash. A Choice To the Editor: A cowboy riding through the hills of Utah, was caught by a posse and told that he looked just like the man that dry-gulched Slim back in Ogdcn. "But since you are in the great democratic state of Utah," the leader told him "you have your choice." "That's good," replied the cowboy, "so I choose free dom." "Well," explained the lead er, "it isn't quite that kind of choice. What we mean is that you have your choice of being hanged or being shot. Oh. Pioneertl To the Editor: Again may I offer my tribute to those rem nants of our pioneers; stalwart menfolk who are once more preparing to face the arduous task of providing for their lit tle broods. THE HUNTER Across the rocky, burned-out ridge, The mighty hunter staggered. His face was worn; his cloth ing torn; His weary features haggard. The morning hunt was cruel and cold, And though the sun shone bright, His meager clothes would not withhold The bitter, freezing bite Of stinging wind and driv ing snow. That cut him to the core. And yet, as you and I both know, He'll go back up for more. Up on the ridge from which he came; His weariness he'll stifle. But still, he must return again, For he forgot his rifle! Gig Farfan, 723 South Newtown st. Medford. Poets' Corner Conducted by Arnold Eugene Jenny lfkbm hmj ... for fine furniture that is (l " distinctive in design, flawless in w, 'Sw,' 3fc 49$ craftsmanship and each piece an jtN,' artisans treasure, there is only one AtatTS?" V place to shop McGuires. jA WHERE You buy l Jusf at Important at J ; ' VI WHAT You Buyl- ' MJj ! A. V jfJit- y 220 N0RTH BARnETT II I !tf3l Nexl 18 Greyhound Phont 773-439S "Formerly lippert't" ij Our Cnnitnt Pirkine Let Nt Deer Nature As a fond mother, when the day is o'er. Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted -By promises of others In their stead, Which, though more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or slay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Suggested by Ethel L. Marley, The Manor, Medford) O . The Meteor How far away how beautiful the stars! Flaming like daisies in the vast Unknown The Void of Dark, whence nebulae have flown In blazing arcs, with arms that stretch out far. Who knows the point in Cosmos where we arc? What further voids and mysl'ries may be sown? What obscure spawn from cosmic mists be blown? What other Suns or Moons? What Earth or Mars? We were alone my little dog and I In field that day would paint with flow'rs of gold. When, lo! a meteor fell across the sky! I asked myself as men have from of old Are we a flame that burns in heaven's thron, To light the fearful mists of the Unknown? Kenneth F. Ostheimcr Southern Oregon College, Ashland O Recurring Song I cauzht the early song of a bird, . Hurried to capture it in a word: Color of wings, shadow of tree Where fragrance and music beckoned me. Each lime those simple words are said Come echoes of music, delicate red Scarves of sunrise, blue wings at dawn; The bird long gone. Madeline B. llcarn Portland, Ore. o Oda To a Dandelion O, sweet dandelion, Thou sprite of butter-gold. What mysteries concelest thou? What secrets dost thou hold? From earthy bed thou springest up To seek the vig'lanl sky, And gaze at Him that maketh thee As if a loving eye. And, yet, thou knowest fully well That soon thy bliss must end, When to the breeze thy airy seeds As promised thou shall send. And when thy purpose is' fulfilled, And withered, weak thou grow'st, Then, thou, with hope of life lo come, Shalt welcome calm repose. O, thou yellow dandelion, Faithful chicory, Thy wisdom teach to me, I pray, That I may be like thee! Ellen Louise1 Montgomery Medford (Senior, Medford High School, '62) Geo. Grabow 1365 Kings Hwy., Medford Phone 772-8J60 Ultrasonic Cleaning Electronic Timing W lUT OLD GOLD! was accepted by both Aris totle and St. Thomas Aquinas. This view however, is only a probable physical theory and to draw the ethical conclusion - justification for destruction of the fetus - does not neces sarily follow. Robert J. Howard 702 Beekman at. Medford O Editor's note: The editorial mentioned said in part: "Docs life begin at the instant o conception? This is the view of some religions, including the Roman Catholic." The New Catholic Dictionary says, The human soul is in the whole body and each part of the body. It is created by God and. according to the more modern opinion, infused into the body at the first in stance of the latter's exist ence . . ." When Life Bogint To the Editor: It would be prudent for you to more com pletely inform yourself with the stand of the Catholic Church as to Her position on "When Life Begins," and then correct the mistake in your editorial (MT 9-B-62). As you did state however, no one knows the exact mo ment when the human soul is put Into the body lo make it a human being, and this is precisely why, for all prac tical reasons, it is important to consider the moment of conception as the first instant of a new human life. Frobab lism cannot be used here. We musl not directly destroy what is probably a human being. As we may not bury a man if he Is only probably dead, because he is also prob ably alive, we may not de stroy a fetus If it is only probably non-human, because Is also probably human It Is only reasonable, only safe, to treat the embryo as living human being with the same right lo life as any person. Again, you staled H has been accepted for centuries that the embyro does not be come human until some time after conception. Such a view Thank You To the Editor, and those it may concern: I wish to tnanK ou all for the lovely house hold shower. Each and every gift was given with so much thoughtfulness and kindness hat I shall always be grate ful. Though my tragedy, the loss of my home and contents to fire, was a great loss lo me, the experience of everyone s sympathy, understanding and willingness to care, is some thing that will never be destroyed. God bless you all. Betty Robinson 166 South Main st. Phoenix, Ore. manner of drugs. We may open a door which we will never be able to close. "Another aspect of this flu oridation problem is a need to bring to the attention of this Congress the unethical meth ods used in promoting fluori dation, starting with the fourth annual conference of the State dental directors and the Public Health Service held in Washington in June 1951. This culminated in a now new accelerated high pressure program of the U. S. Dental Public Health Divi sion that will be conducted through the use of undeter mined funds now being re quested under House bill 4742 and Senate bill 917. "These are not good bills. They would permit uncon trolled use of Federal funds for promotional schemes not in the best public interest. The U. S. Public Health Service has aggressively, through the use of tax payer's money, promoted fluoridation throughout' these United States with grants-in-aid in ducemcnts. Fluoridation proj ects have been underwritten byor subsidized with Fed eral funds. "When approximately soma 60 million people havai rejected fluoridation, includ ing those In 100 cities which discontinued it after a trial because of damage to health and property; and when 100 million Americans are now facing possible fluoridation of their drinking water, I be lieve a most serious Federal policy problem exists." This speech was given Oc tober 16. 1901. For copies write to The Creator New York Committee Opposed to Fluoridation, 342 Madison ave.. New York 17, new York. Mrs. Alice I. Black 812 S. Newtown st. Medford. Fluoridation Issue To the Editor: Congressman Waller Baring, from Nevada, has introduced resolutions, Nos. 514, 515, 516 calling for an investigation of the fluori dation issue, and for a ban on activities of the Public Health service in promoting fluoridation pending outcome of the study. Following la his speech, in part: "I refer lo a program launched by a sub agency in the Health, Educa tion, and Welfare department of this administration to pro mote fluoridation throughout cities, towns, communities, and all states of this nation. "During the past year voters representing some 2.500,000 water users in 43 out of 5o cities rejected fluorida tion with little more than SO, 000 having accepted. It is a fact that those who want their children to have fluo ride can give it Individually, in measured doses, with greater safety, greater relia bility than if it were put into public water supplies. "Once the precedent of adding fluoride to the public drinking water has been established, there is almost no limit to the possibilities for the introduction of all IT'S BETTER SEEN ON A RADIANT SCREEN A Reminder to All Slide and Movie Makers... Does It make good sense to buy good equipment and take good pictures only to show them on the wall; bed sheets, or an Inefficient screen? 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