MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
SUNDAY, JANUARY 6. 1983
Communications
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contrary is often the case.
Deer Killing
To the Editor: Would like
to thank the Central Point
Sportsman's Club lor their
efforts to put a stop to the
killing of doe deer. This club
is sure on the right track,
and I hope many other organ
izations will join in this
worthy cause. We buck hunt
ers have been treated like a
bunch of stupid yokels, be
ing told what was good for
us and the game for a long
time and this condition will
continue as long as we keep
quiet.
I'll back up my - friend
Johnie Minor for his good
letter of 1-1-63 and say that
his many days spent in the
woods should make hi ob
servations of value to all con
cerned. To this we would
like to add our "two-bits"
worth. I have hunted deer in
three states since 1928 and
smaller game and birds for
15 years before that. Have
put in the last 17 seasons
here in Oregon and during
that time I've seen the deer
steadily decrease in numbers,
especially in Eastern areas.
Have had good hunting up
In Wallowa county for four
years previous to the past sea
son, so when the Game Com
mission issued 1,000 permits
nt S5 to cut down the esti
mated great surplus of deer
Jn the Chesnimnus area, I
was one of the yokel suckers
that bought one. Made a
1,200 mile round trip, hunted
four days, didn't see a buck
and only a few does, some
of them in very poor shape.
Gave up in disgust and came
clear home with a pocket full
of tags, yellow permit card,
tagging instructions, and a
very empty bill fold. Five of
my friends hunted the area
hard and the total bag for the
six of us was one very small
fork horn. The area should
have been closed to hunting, j
The Game Commission calls :
this a surplus of deer. To
them any number over one
Js known as a surplus.
Come on, all you buck
hunters. Kick up a lot of
real noise and maybe it may
help our future hunting a
little. At least help prove that
Hank DeVoss was wrong when
lie said "Only about 1 per cent
nt the deer hunters in this
State are at all organized."
Personally, I think he should
have said 110 of 1 per cent.
Bill Brewster
Box 550,
Trail, Ore.
cause of the oposition of its
scientists.
In our own country the As
sociation of American Physi
cians and Surgeons (15,000
members) in convention in
San Francisco a few years
ago voted unanimously to op
pose f luoridaiion in their com
munities. The most eminent
doctors of our country are
members of this organization.
Furthermore most of the doc
tors, dentists, and practicing
nutritionists who comprise
the American Academy of Nu
trition are opposed to fluori
dation. Actually as far as the
medical profession is concern
ed, fluoridation is opposed by
many of its most eminent
members. For instance, Dr.
Oechsner of the famed Oechs
ner Clinic in New Orleans
is very outspoken in his oppo
sition to fluoridation.
Perhaps it would not be
out of place here to relate
how the idea of fluoridation
was accepted by the U.S. Pub
lic Health Service. Early in
President Truman's term of
office Alger Hiss introduced
a Mr. Oscar Ewing of Pitts
burgh to him. Mr. Ewing was
(and is) chief counsel for the
American Aluminum Co. with
a reputed salary of $72,000
per year. Mr. Truman imme
diately appointed him head of
Civil Defense at a salary of
S17.000 per year. I do not
remember his exact title. This
position automatically placed
him over the U.S.P.H.S. It is
not known what pressure he
used but it was while he was
in Washington that U.S.P.H.S.
began advocating fluoridation.
Having accomplished this he
returned to his office in Pitts
burgh. Anna M. Streed,
36 North Peach st.,
Medford
The Pig and the Drunkard
To the Editor:
Oh, how well do I
remember,
Its was early in
December,
I was walking down the
avenue of pride.
My heart was all a
flutter.
As I fell down in the
gutter.
And a pig walked up
and lay down by my
side.
Our hearts were both a
flutter
As we laid their in the
gutter
And a lady passing by
was heard to say.
You can toil the man
who boozes
By the company he
chooses
And the pig got up and
slowly walked away.
(Name on file)
Medford
No Miss Oregon
To the Editor: I really don't
know to whom I should men
tion this, but whoever is "Miss
Oregon," Marly Wyatt's P.R.
man sure did goof. Why didn't
he have her on the Oregon
float. Not a girl on there.
It was very funny - different
friends have asked me why -because
you see I am her
grandmother, and I used to
live in Medford, was married
in Jacksonville in 1911. Next
year they might consider
"Miss Oregon" on the float.
Of course it won't be Marty.
Mrs. C. Watson
2217 Berkeley ave.,
Los Angeles 26, Calif.
A Silver Dime
To the Editor:
How many dimes will you do
nate To all of those who lay in wail
In hopeful dreams that you
will share
Willi them a wonclcrous cour
age rare?
Their pleading hands are
stretched to you
To help them fight this battle
through:
A twisted leg, a tortured back
Earnestly pleading . . . "Help
attack
This enemy that strikes with
force,
Without regret, without re
morse." No respecter of brown or
white;
Both old and young are in its
sight;
Hich man, pauper, big or
small,
Yet bravely fighting ... one
and all.
Please . . . won't you join us
in the race
To put this cripplcr in i's
place?
A Silver Dime could do so
much
Toward a cane or tiny crutch.
There'll be no glory, fame or
wages
As long as this evil monster
rages
Upon the face of God's great
earth,
So let '63 be the Nation's
birth
Of a fighting crusade against
sorrow and pain,
Let's help the stricken to live
again;
This joy is ours . . . yours and
mine . . . ;
And the price is small . , . just
a Silver Dime.
Ann Parsons
148 Van Ness
Ashland, Ore.
Fluoridation Again
To the Editor: This is in an
fwer to Miss Stratton 12-31-62.
You state: "If fluorine Is
co dangerous, that it is unfit
for use by humans, why do
medical and dental persons
advocate its use?" That is a
good question and it is in the
mind of nearly every one. It
is because fluoridation has
been advocated by doctors
and dentists that it has been
hard to combat.
But in regard to this ques
tion the medical profession is
house divided. This is not
generally known. But it was
opposition by the Swedish
medical and dental societies
that caused the Supreme
Court of Sweden to declare
fluoridation illegal on Dec
l( 196! Switzerland has
tnvrr had fluoridation be-
Poets' Corner
Conducted by
Arnold Eugene Jenny
On Writing Poetry: A Portrait
I do not now remember all the words
She said, but in that granted interview
She made it clear that nothing new is new:
Then turned to watch the sky and flight of birds.
Her private worlds were Dante and his host,'
But still she flirted with the modern school:
She made me feel that I was quite the fool
To dream that I might make an honored ghost.
She never looked me squarely in the eye,
Or told me that a poem really grows
From strange and twisted roots that no one knows:
She merely sought her patterns in the sky.
( Virgil, the host to Dante in The Divine Comedy.)
Lloyd B. Halvcrson
Medford
o
Opportunity
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:
There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged
A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords
Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner
Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.
A craven hung along the battle's edge.
And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel
That blue blade that the king's son bears, but this
Blunt thing!" he snapped and flung it from his hand,
And lowering crept away and left the field.
Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead,
And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,
Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand,
And ran and snatched it, and wilh battle-shout
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down.
And saved a great cause that heroic day.
Edward Rowland Sill
O
My Enemy
My enemy and I have fought:
He lies there, in the rain.
His sightless eyes look to the skies;
He'll never see again.
I should be glad his life is done;
Our war is at an end.
But still I think that had he lived
He might have been my friend.
Louise Livingston
Medford
(Composed at age 17.)
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Chinology
If you'd make friends of those about,
Hold up your chin; don't stick it out.
Jack Finel
Central Point, Ore.
- O
In Years To Come
In years to rome, when men have grown more wise,
A child shall find, in some museum nook,
A rusty sword or twisted bayonet;
Perhaps a hand grenade, or some device
Of poison-death, upon which he will look
With questioning. In sorrowing regret
His grandsire, at his side, will make reply:
"A sad, sad talc, it is: there was a time
When fathers sped their stalwart sons to kill
On fields of battle, spurring them to die.
If need be, that some other sons in grime
And gore might fall. A nation's mighty will,
Its wealth and life, were spent that there might be
Above one flag emblazoned, 'Victory!'
'Twas long ago you doubt my word, I sec,
But that's the tale my grandsire told to me."
Thomas Curtis Clark
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Pernicious Law
To the Editor: As the dale
for the convening of the 1963 I
session of the Oregon Legis
lature draws near it becomes
obvious that one of the most
vital subjects to come before
that body will be the price of
electric power and its effect
on the slate's industry. Ten
years ago we had a chance lo
get a big block of cheap pow
er in the Snake River valley,
but due to the success of a re
actionary national administra
tion and the appointment oi
an official who chose to be
tray the people of his own
state, we lost that opportu
nity and are now paying the
highest rate in the northwest.
The private power company
is now demanding an exorbi
tant increase in rate and has
obtained a substantial part of
it in Idaho. It will probably
gain the same increase in
Oregon.
Meanwhile, Bonneville
Power Administration is pro
ducing great blocks of cheap
power from the waters of the
Columbia river, the potential
of which, without doubt, be
longs primarily to three
states, only one of which is
getting its share. And why?
Because of the obstructive
laws relating to hydroelectric
power which both Oregon and
Idaho have allowed the pri
vate power monopoly to in
sinuate into our statutes. The
state of Washington has the
most liberal public utility
laws in the nation and it
should require no argument
to convince anyone that the
state has profited largely by
them.
A bill was passed in the
1961 session to give the Pub
lic Utility Commission, now
headed by a known staunch
friend of the private power
companies, authority to con
trol the extention of P.U.D.
lines into territory claimed
by a private power company,
and it would seem that that
law is now on the way to a
court test. The West Oregon
Electric Co-operative wants to
move into the area around
the deactivated Tongue Point
Naval base. Under the origi
nal public utility laws the Co
op would have required per
mission of no one except the
public to be served. Under
the 1961 statute it must ob
tain permission from the Pub
lic Utility Commission and
Pacific Power & Light is said
to be demanding exclusive
control of the area.
If the private power com
pany wins this decision I be
lieve the constitutionality of
the law will be tested in the
State Supreme Court and if it
is upheld there it will ring
the death knell of the P.U.D.'s
in Oregon and eventually it
will mean that the great bulk
of Bonneville power will go
to Washington and taxable
property and population will
go wilh it. It is of vital in
terest lo the people of Ore
gon thai this pernicious law
be expunged from our sta
tutes at the earliest possible
dale.
D. Ivan Frills
974 Fortncr Lane
Ontario, Ore
Questions
To the Editor: After living
in other parts of the USA,
Germany, Turkey, Siberia and
Switzerland from 1-10 years
each, and traveling extensive
ly in some 40 other countries
on five continents and nearly
every stale of the Union.
friends in various parts of
the globe still ask me how in
the world I had come to settle
in Medford, Ore. of which
none had ever heard before-
except one in N. C. who once
sent me a box of Harry &
David pears.
My answer is quite simple:
because here's where I found
the u.4imate in residences for
retired folk: Rogue Valley
Manor!
After living here over two
years my friends still ask:
"Are the country and people
around Medford as fine as you
first indicated?" My answer
to botli queries is an emphatic
"Yes!"
However, I do have a few
questions that trouble me a
bit now and then-and which
I prefer not to discuss with
my friends:
Why do Medford laundries,
unlike any I'd ever done bust
ncss with elsewhere, insist on
charging 42 cents to do a
plain cotton sport shirt and
delivering it on a hanger in a
bag, yet only 33 cents for a
dress shirt neatly folded for
tucking away in a dresser
drawer? One laundry's an
swer was that "the general
public" prefers it that way
(perhaps for shirts of delicate
fabrics but surely not plain
NOW ON LEAVE
Ashland - Laurence Butler,
associate professor of educa
tion at Southern Oregon col
lege, is on leave to do gradu
ate study at Washington State
university in Pullman, Wash.
Butler is working on his doc
toral dissertation in the field
of audio visual aids with
emphasis on learning.
"the public" to find out? I
would doubt it.
A radio announcer report
ed a few days ago that the
Census Bureau (I believe he
said) found that doctors, den
tists and lawyers receive the
highest personal incomes.
Anybody doubt it? But why
should their fees in Medford
be even -ii lo 'j higher than
for comparable services on
Long Island?
After shopping in most of
Medford s major supermar
kets for good eating apples,
I've rarely found any in tex
ture or flavor to match those
of N.Y. (or its imports from
Wcnatchee). Pears, of course
where can one find belter?
But apples oh for a crisp,
luscious Macintosh or Delici
ous of like quality!
Why should the Oregon in
come lax on my reduced in
come of modest pension and
Social Security hit me for al
most twice as much as' else
where on my salary when I
worked for a living?
Anyboby got any good
answers?
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medical Sleuth Now Serving County
Thl, .Ivnlrenn pnimi,. .n,,-t
Friday noted that the new j
medical investigator system
is now in effect and replaces
the former county coroner
system.
A medical investigator or
one of his assistants will be
available throughout the day
to investigate all reported
deaths. County Judge Earl M.
Miller, noted.
Miller attended a meeting
last week of the county pub
lic health board during which
Dr. John L. Welch, Medford
physician, was appointed as
sistant county medical investi
gator. The appointment of Dr.
Ralph Ilibbs, Medford physici
an, as a second assistant was
temporarily tabled.
Following a letter from Dr.
A. Erin Merkel, county public
health officer, and a meeting
with them, the county court
rejected his recommendation
for salary increases for four
public health nurses and
nursing supervisor. Proposed
increases were from $420 to
$460 for the four nurses and
up to $490 a month for the
supervisor.
Miller said the court could
not authorize increases in mid
budget year, but would in
clude the proposal in budget
requests this spring when
work starts on the new fiscal
year budget.
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