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Maurine Neuberger Finishes Book on Danger of By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Trunin Washington Correspondent Washington -(Special)-Sen. Maurine Neuberger, who fol lowed her late husband into big time politics, has set, out to follow his example into the big time literary realm. She has just finished a book, due for publication in the fall, on one of her favor ite causes - arousing public and governmental interest in the connection between cig arette smoking and cancer of the lungs. In the book, Mrs. Neuberger says she seta forth her program for controlling diseases connected with smok ing. . The senator needs help in finding an intriguing title. One that is being considered is "Smokescreen." The book damns the activities of the tobacco industry which have been designed to defend smok ing from the fears aroused by medical research on the causes of lung cancer. ' Another title possibility, in the form of a macabre pun, is "Dying for a Cigarette?" Apparently that idea has been eliminated, although the au thor feels strongly that cig arette smokers are risking School News St. Mary's High Editor, Mary Ann Carnegie! Reporters, Ann Depner and Michelle Ely The Mississippians of the National School Assemb lies entertained the high school students Wednesday with series of songs composed of Negro spirituals as well as various folk singing tunes, The Mississippians are a group, of four- Negro singers who "originally came from Mississippi. They have made numerous a p p e arances, in cluding one on the Ed Sulli van show. Members of the sophomore class presented a dance "Spring Fling" in the multl purpose room recently. Chap- erones for the dance were Or, and Mrs. Alvin Fellers, Mr. and Mrs. John Carnegie, Mr, and Mrs. Hugh Friel, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rementeria, Mr. McKibbin and Richard Paup. Richard Schuchard was guest disc-jockey. The Twilights, a trio from St. Mary's provided live music. Chairmen for the dance were Steve Cook and Tara Hill. Dr. Florian J. Shasky spoke to 23 St. Mary a seniors, jun iors, and sophomores who felt they might be interested in becoming doctors in a special session in the St, Mary's library recently. His talk was in connection with the M.O.R.E. Program which the hospitals are sponsoring in an attempt to recruit more doctors to satisfy the growing shortage. He first discussed the as pects of a doctor's life and the various fields into which a doctor might enter and then threw the session open for an informal roup discus sion. The M.O.R.E. Program is being presented to students at Medford, Phoenix, and Crater as well as St. Mary's, and delegates from each achool will attend a staff tour of the hospitals. Kathy Zapell was chosen as St. Mary s delegate to Girls' State to be held at Willamette university this summer. Miss Zapell is sponsored by the High School Parents club. She was chosen by the Girls' State committee of the Ameri can Legion auxiliary headed by Mrs. Edward McGinty. Pat Fellers was chosen as alter nate. Save... By the 10th... Earn from Now JC Home Office-2 E. Smoking death by continuing their hab it. Wants Control Program Mrs. Neuberger wants the Kennedy administration "to mount an effective program of smoking control." She says no new legislation is required to do this, just administrative will power. Such a program should include the following: 1. A massive child and adult education effort. 2. Expanded research into both the biological effects of cigarette smoking and the technology of producing less hazardous cigarettes. 3. A Federal Trade commis sion requirement that cigar ette ads contain warnings of the hazards of smoking. 4. Required labeling of cig arette packages to reveal the tar and nicotine content under an existing law which re quires warnings on hazardous substances. In addition, the book advo cates further legislation to prohibit free distribution of cigarette samples to minors, to restrict the permissible tar and nicotine yields from cig arette tobacco, and to provide an increase in cigarette taxes to finance programs designed to educate the public about the dangers of smoking. I have been frank but not moralistic," Mrs. Neuberger said, "and if I have been hard on the industry I think I have been equally hard on the pub lic guardians whose failure to act courageously or decisive ly has left unchecked the epi demic rise in smoking-connect-ed disease." Mrs. Neuberger is an after dinner writer who enjoys the diversion of creative writing much as her late husband, Richard L. Neuberger, did when he combined politics and authorship of books and magazine articles. Much of the writing on this relatively short book was done during the period between congressional sessions late last year. She had some assistance from medical experts of the U. S. Public Health service and her legislative assistant, Mike Pertschuk, a Portland at torney, who smokes only ci gars and a pipe. Caution Gardeners About Label Reading Home gardeners were cau tioned recently by Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county health officer, to read the labels be fore usine sprays, dusts or aerosols to fight plant-devour ine insects. There are more than 40,000 brands of insecticides and pesticides registered with the U.S. department of agricul ture, he noted. Many of these contain chemicals that are ex tremely poisonous to people and animals, as well as to the insects they are intended to kill. When applying these sub stances, be certain that no one, especially .a child, is nearby Dr. Merkel stressed. Keep pets out of the way a-.id be careful of wind or drift to avoid in haling dusts or s ways. If any of the material gets on cloth' ing or skin, wash both IraraC' diately. Republicans Split on Rockefeller's Chances Washington - IUP1I - United Press International polled Re publican leaders throughout the nation on whether they thought Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's remarriage had hurt his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomina tion. The result was: Yes 15. No 12. Noncommltal 16. Jackson County Federal , Savings and Loan Assn. Main, Medford Ashland Branch-337 E. GARY OTTOMAN Receives Appointment Medford Student Is Named To Annapolis Gary Ottoman, 18, Medford High school senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Ottoman, 2822 Merriman rd., Medford, has been notified of his ac ceptance to the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. Ottoman, a member of the Naval Reserve for the past year, made application to An napolis through the reserve. He is a member of NRED13-5, of which Lt. Com. R. E. Brid- enstine is commanding officer. Ottoman will graduate from Medford High school early in June and will report to An napolis June 26. He is the only member of the 1963 class of Medford High school, to date, to be appointed to Annapolis. Mike Higgins of the 1962 class is now a student at the Naval Academy. Area Students on OTI Honor Lists Klamath Falls - Seventeen students from Jackson county were on the president s list and the dean's list at Oregon Technical Institute for the winter term. On the president's list for which students must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better were five from this area. They were Lawrence A Brown, Phillip C. Reeves and David A. Elrod, of Medford; and Dean L. Weltman of Ea gle Point, and Patricia D. Lo gan of Talent. The dean's list of students with a grade point average of s or better includes Donald D. McFeters, Shady Cove; Frances M. Huffman, Eagle Point, Gary B. Williams, White City; Frank M. Thomp son and Mark L. Schmidt, Central Point; Delbert C. To biasson and Delores A. West gaard, Ashland; and Carl A. Luchterhand, John B. Ander son, Gerald R. Gould, Curtis A. Boardman and John M. Humphrey, Medford. One Grants Pass student, Diane Kay Maxwell, is on the list. Four-Star General Sentenced in Iran Tehran, Iran - (UPI) - Iran's first four - star general was sentenced to two years in soli tary confinement Sunday for embezzlement. . The military court also fined Gen. Abdollah Hedayat $25,000. The former chief of the combined general staff was found guilty of collusion with American construction firms building frontier bar racks. FIRST SOLO DRIVE Windsor, England - IUPD- Princess Anne, Queen Eliz abeth's 12-year-old daughter, made her first solo drive Sun day, a 400-yard spin around the private grounds of Wind sor Castle in her father's midget car. But she must wait another five years to take the car onto the public highway. The minimum driving age even for princesses is 17. A il w MEDFORD family Council Editor'! Not.: Tat family Coun cil coniltU of a Judge, a psychia trist, three clarryra.n. a newipaper editor, a women's editor, and two writers. Eacn article U a summary of an actual caie history. The Council report! on problems that, have been dealt with by respon sible agencies and counselors. (Copyright 1963 General Features Corp.) Roger I.-I'm ready to be hospitalized to take off weight. Brand L-That'a embarrass ing. We can handle it at home. Roger I.-I'm 35 years old and 6 feet tall. Up to ten years ago I carried my 270 pounds well, but I m over the 300 mark now, I feel terrible, yet I can't stop eating. When I see food, my will power crum bles. I've tried pills, diet foods, and now the alterna tives are long-drawn-out psy choanalysis or a quick drastic new method my doctor pre scribes - hospitalization with no food for ten days. Brenda I If there s no food involved, why can't the doc tor treat Roger at home? I'll carry out all instructions. even to locking the cupboards and refrigerators. How would Roger feel lying In a hospital bed receiving visitors, flow ers and get-well cards when he's there merely because he's fat? It sounds silly and trivial, even though we know it's a serious thing. The Council: Never mind how it looks, Brenda - it just may work. Years ago Fannie Hurst wrote a tongue-in cneeh report on weight re duction, entitled, "No Food With My Meals." But now Dr. Garfield Duncan of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine declares that short periods of total tasting under hospital care are easier and more effective than the slow torture of dragged-out low-calorie pro grams. On a diet of vitamins and no-calorie beverages, his patients reported no suffer- ing. Dr. Duncan explains that this method keeps the diges tive system in a quiescent state whereas a small intake of iood stirs up the hunger mechanisms. . . . You can't risk it at home, Brenda; daily lab tests and complete rest are required. Your doctor asks Roger to be a local "guinea pig" for the new approach to weight control. Better a guinea pig than a plain pig, says Roger - and we wish him success. Panel Discussion Scheduled Tonight In Medford tonight for the annual meeting of the Jack son County Mental Health as sociation are Dr. John Renne- bohm and Dr. George Saku rai, psychiatrists, and Miss Peggy Howe, social worker for unit 6 at Oregon State !,os- pital, Salem. They are scheduled to pre sent a panel discussion at the meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at the Rogue Valley hospital In the conference room on the lower floor. Dewey Wilson, president of the association, will moder ate the panel and the discus sion will center on the new program for mental health in Oregon, the decentralization program and the responsibil ities assigned to communities in the care and treatment of the mentally ill and emotion ally disturbed. The daylight - you saved can be spent shopping at Barker's, open each night until nine! Main, Ashland MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, SBasamBti! i. tlasia I llm. i I I mK SHAVE HEADS Some freshmen at Texas , A & M college have shaved their heads in protest against a new policy of admitting women to the college. Four hours in the disciplinary "bull ring" failed to halt the Constitutional Revision Head Pleased by Editor's notai The House makes a historic decision Mon day, It votes on whether to send a new state constitution on to the Senate, and If it passes there, to the people of Oregon, This is the last of six articles. By ANN H. PEARSON Salem -IUPD- The chairman of the Oregon Commission on C o n s 1 1 tutional Revision is "quite pleased" over the way legislative committees have handled a proposed new state constitution. "I would vote for it," said Attorney George Layman of Newberg, a former legislator. "I am pleased at the study the committees mude and at their report, which conforms very largely to the report of the commission." If the new document be comes a reality, it will largely be the product of these two teams of 18 men and women each. The commission was ap pointed by action of the 1961 legislature. Its members in cluded attorneys, judges, for mer governors, businessmen, legislators, newspapermen, a professor and a housewife. Second Team Takes Over Over a period of a year and a half, the commission drafted a proposed new constitution which was presented to the 1963 legislature in January. Then the job was taken over by the second team: The nine members of the House Committee on Constitutional Revision and the nine mem bers of its Senate counterpart. Meeting jointly, the com mittees went through the com mission's document section by section, making changes along the way. ; The net effect of tne legis lative committee work was to come up with a document a little nearer Oregon's pres ent constitution than the com mission's proposal. The committees agreed with the 'commission that a new constitution should be present ed as a single package. They agreed that the executive branch should be revamped. 71 the 1st OREGON Committees1 Work They discarded the "MIS' souri Plan" of having judges run only against their own records. They dropped a new reapportionment plan. The committees compromis ed on some points, such as making annual sessions of the legislature optional instead of mandatory. In many of the 14 articles, they kept the streamlined, Modernized language of the commission, virtually un changed. . Layman said it was signifi cant that the committees agreed with the commission that the executive branch must be grouped in 20 de partments run by a single, accountable chief executive. "They really retained the heart of our desire and at tempt to make government more efficient and responsi ble," he said. GIFTS FOR fh (iff' vfyfrx $ 7 x '(Mi ' ' HLfl M T fad. Looking in the mirror are (left to right) Dan Peterson, Dallas; Duano Naron, Hous ton; Ronnie McDaniel, Waco; Pete Ralph, Houston; and Bill Wilson, Dallas. (UPI) It Is important that they have approved a package, an overall revision," he noted. As for the changes made by the legislative committees, Layman said, "I have no rea son to quarrel with them. They did not hurt the basic theory of our work. It was inevitable another group would not agree with every thing. I am pleased they came up so closely with what we did." Layman said he thought most members of the commis sion would be satisfied with the document on which the House will vote. ' He said the new document, as revised by the committees, will do what the commission intended: "Provide a frame work, flexible and yet stable, in which Oregon can grow, with efficiency and responsi bility, in the next century." 1111 mh mi i: 3 f: f GIFT WRAPPED vAx?S I ' cours8' 9 lj'' 1 MONDAY. MAY I. Scout News Cub Pack 4 The April meeting of Cub Scout Pack 4 was held in the Oak Grovt school gymnasium with the Webelos Den pre senting the flag. Songs were led by Den 4, and Den 2 sang a special Plnewood Derby song. The awards flag, akela doll and special attendance ribbon for having the most mothers present, were won by Den 4. The cubmaster congratulated all cubs who participated In the Pear Blossom Festival parade, in which the pack won the $25 prize for the best comic entry. A picnic will be held June 1 in celebration of the year's end. The following awards were presented: Jay Dumas, 2 sll ver arrows on wolf, bear badge; Tommy Watson, 1 gold arrow on wolf, denner badge Ray Ayres, denner; Mike Bry ant, assistant denner; Dennis Bailey, bear badge; Ricky Hart, 1 year pin; John Plane, Jeff Bailey, bobcat pins; Mar tin Harrison, denner badge; Grey Taylor, assistant denner Save Time . . 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C "Arietta," nylon tricot tncircltd with dtllcatt lact at bodies tnd htm. Short: 32-40, Avaragt 32-40. Tall: 34-40 til In white tnd black. 112 IAST MAIN STREET -Next Doer to Robinson Bros. .A 5 badge; Mark Carr, wolf badge, gold and silver arrow; Mike Walley, gold and silver arrow on wolf; Ronnie Rush. ton, gold and silver arrow on wolf; Edwin h'endrix, two silver arrows on wolf, denner badge; Mark Harris, three year pin and graduation cer. tlficate. , Harris was graduated from Pack 4 into Troop 4 by Scout master Gerald Keesee and Mike Flynn. and Arnie Wat. dron, boys from ti e troop. Ha was presented his Boy Scout handbook by the pack. Mike Walley was presented a mirror as his gift for selling 10 tickets for the recent scout circus. He was the only boy in the pack to receive this award. After the meeting, the Pinewood Derby race wa held with the boys racing the cars their fathers had made Winners were Doug McKen lie, first place, gold plaque; Ricky Eppinger, second place, copper plaque: Each boy in the race re ceived a miniature car as memento. . Gas . . . Coins CONVENIENT Service CREDIT Is GOOD ... It's GOOD at PICK'Sl 1SS3 I
