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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1956 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVEN v A WORRIED PATIENT in Modoc Community Canter at Alturas shown watching water from ! the flooding Pit River creep slowly toward the hospital. Civil defense workers stood by for hours ready to evacuate 58 patients from the institution. (Photo by Don Kettlerl Proponents Of Fluoridation Score Yin In Courts; Doctors Recant Advice PORTLAND W Proponents of the controversial question ol add ing fluoride to the drinking water supplies of cities scored a victory on one front this week but suffered a setback on another. . The Oregon Supreme Court ruled OTI Students Win Honors Three student at Oregon Tech nical Institute have Just passed the Horological Institute of America examination for certified watch maker with high grades, accord ing to Institute Director W. D. Pur Vine and instructor Gerald L. Hyde. Marlon Osborn of Nyssa received a grade of 94.6 per cent, Jerry Morrison, of The Dalles received 83.9 per cent and Donald Crosby of Salem, 91 per cent. Crosby was graduated this winter term at OTI: Osborn and Morrison will graduate in March. All OTI students who have tak en the examination of this national watchmaking group during the past two years have passed, according to Hyde. The two-year curriculum In watch repair technology Includes benchwork training to develop me chanical skill, and the study of the ory and principles and general al lied subjects. Equipment used in the watch re pair course at OTI represents some of the most expensive for its size at' the school, including individual lathes for each student, Hyde said. Among the technical skills learned by the students are tool making, watch assembly, truing, the making of staffs and hair springs, jeweling, stem and crys tal fitting, gearing and timing. Re pairing of watches and the various types of clocks is taught. An Intensive one-term course in refresher work, and advanced watch repair shop and watch re pair theory are offered for stu dents who wish to pursue training above the basic courses. Floods Impair Oregon Sewers PORTLAND I The State Board of Health said Monday re cent Western Oregon floods have impaired the water supply or sew age disposal systems of 24 com munities. It estimated that repairs would run into "tens of thousands of dol lars." But the state health officer. Dr. Harold Erickson, said that so far no cases of communcable dis eases have been attributed to the floods. He explained that many of the communities have repaired their systems and local health depart ments warned residents of the danger Involved in using them. that cities have a right to go ahead , Bend, where the test suit origin' with fluoridation, which is backed ated, already is moving ahead with by state health authorities on the the program. Both the people and ground that It will reduce tooth the Bend City Commission voted aecay in cnuaren. ior uuoriaauon, out wuuam J But only the night before the rul- Baer, a former city commissioner, ing was handed down in Salem, the governing council of the Mult nomah Medical Society rescinded, pending further study, a 1951 rec ommendation of fluoridation of the Portland city water supply. Dr. Arch w. DlacK, president, said there has been enough mater ial written against fluoridation to prompt the action. Dr. David M. Witter, dental health director for the State Board of Health, said some "opinion ated" articles have appeared in Northwest Medicine, official jour nal of the Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska medical socie ties: which might have resulted in the action by the Multnomah so ciety. These articles, he said, "will be answered in the near future." Supporters hailed the Supreme Court ruling, and Dr. Witter said he feels several communities will take steps toward fluoridation. now that the court case has been settled. Many, he believes, held back because they did not want to buy equipment at the risk of an adverse opinion. While oononents asree that the decision may encourage some city oiiicisls to go ahead with fluorida tion plans, they argue that the rul ing will have no effect on the feel ings of the people. Robert E. Millard, Portland, act ing president of the Citliens Coutt oil Against Fluoridation, said that in, tne past year the people have turned down water fluoridation proposals in referendum votes In three Oregon communities Salem Woodburn and Newport. "These votes show that the people are against adding fluorine to the water supply," Millard said. Bolstering Witter's view, how ever, was the announcement by Salem's Mayor Robert F. White a day after the high court ruling that he plans to ask the city coun cil to consider an ordinance to authorize fluoridation. A recent post card poll of cus tomers of the Coos Bay-Norfh Beno water board favored fluori dation by a wide margin. The board directed Manager C. B. Sig nor to get estimates on equipment costs. In Portland, backers of fluorida tion opened a drive Friday. . Some expressed hope of bringing the Issue to a City Council decision by 1957 or 1958. Others called for quicker action. The City Council has said pre viously It would take no action without a vote of the people. Witter said he understands that MclNTYRE TRAVEL SERVICE Your Exptrlenctd Agant WILLARD HOTEL Phone 3088 Ridgway Statement Probe Asked By Montana Solon WASHINGTON I Sen. Mans field (D-Mont) today suggested a Senate inquiry into Gen'. Matthew B. Ridgway s statement tnai as Army chief of staff he felt he was "being called upon to destroy" U. 8. fighting -strength. Ridgway made the declaration in the first of a aeries of articles In the Saturday Evening Post, published today. He said the De partment of Defense tried to silence his criticism of its policies, and he questioned the accuracy of a statement by President Elsenhower. brought suit. He argued that fluori dation is unconstitutional because It denies religious freedom and was beyond the city s jurisdiction. The Supreme Court, in backing a Deschutes County Circuit Court's dismissal of the case, held the city has jurisdiction under its police powers. The religious Issue bears only remotely, if at all, on the question, the court ruled. Lewis R. Collingwood, Portland, past president of the Citizens Council, raid the decision was "not- unexpected," although opponents had hoped for a ruling favorable to them. Collingwood said he wished the test had been based less on a ques tion of religious freedom and more on the case against fluoridation." In the past two years four Ore gon communities have added fluor ide to drinking water even while the Bend case was pending, bring ing tne total to 11. The latest ot these is Sublimity ' which began fluoridating in August, last year. Some others have fluoridation plans. Witter said. At Eugene, where the city coun cil approved fluoridation then tabled it after a post card poll showed a slight margin against the program, a spokesman for water and electric board said no action is contemplated on the strength of the ruling. At Roseburg. a citizens commit tee has had the question under study for six months. Any move in favor of fluoridation apparently would require approval of the Douglas County Court in addition to the City Council since the Ore gon Water Corp., a private firm, serves city and county areas with water. Dr. Witter feels that eventually all of Oregon's drlnklnsc water sup plies will be fluoridated as a dental protection. Millard, however, disputes this. He said his organization will con tinue to fight the program by dis tributing literature and aiding local groups In election campaigns. Op ponents consider fluoridation dan gerous. The . net test at the polls will come at St. Helens in the May primary. Ike Quiets Clamor For Tax Slashes WASHINGTON (m President Ei senhower appeared today to have quieted for the present at least demands in Congress for a general tax reduction in this election year. But his requests for an increase In appropriations drew fire from many Democrats. Republicans, on the other hand, praised his esti mates that the budget will be balanced. With Elsenhower urging "pru dence" on tax slashing that would unbalance the budget. Democrats for the most part adopted a cau tious attitude until first - quarter tax receipts are counted and the revenue picture jells. Elsenhower yesterday sent ' to Congress a balanced budget for this year and next based on con tinuation of present tax rates. His figures called for govern ment income of $64,500,000,000 and outgo of (64,270,000,000, with a surplus of 230 millions, in this bookkeeping year ending June 3. For the following year, ending June 30, 1957, he estimated federal Income at $66,300,000,000 against spending of $65,865,000,000, for a surplus of 435 millions. He told Congress the aurplus should go toward reducing the na tional debt, and asked for "tne utmost cooperation" in keeping the government In the black. Sen. George (D-Oa), an advocate of tax reduction for taxpayers in the low and middle-income groups, said. "We'll have to wait until the figures are In for the first quarter of the year. "Nobody wants a tax cut if It's going to create a deficit," ne said but added: "I'm still very hopeful we can have a tax cut." Chairman Cannon (D-Mol of the House Appropriations Committee said he was disappointed because the budget offered "no hope, no prospect whatever of a reduction In taxes." Chairman Byrd (D-Va) of the Senate Finance Committee said he Is "disturbed and disappointed" by increased government spending based "on the premise, apparently, that the present boom will con tinue, and this no one can predict." OOP House Leader Martin of Massachusetts called the prospec tive balanced budget "a major achievement." Sen. Bridges of New Hampshire said Elsenhower "has made good, the balanced budget pledge." Meanwhile, an Income tax relief bill for farmers was introduced by Rep. Cooper (R-Tenn) in what ap peared to be a counter to Elsen hower's proposal to exempt from the 2-cents-a - gallon federal tax gasoline used on farms. Secretary of Defense Wilson told reporters In New York last night that "I cannot comment because have not read the article." He added he regards Ridgway. who was not named to a second term as Army chief of staff last fall, dedicated general who be lieves very strongly in the Army." Sen. Francis Case (R-SD) said today that while he has great respect for Ridgway. he thinks the general is "thrashing some old straw." Ridgway had made clear some months before his retirement his disagreement with administra tion moves to cut Army man power. Mansfield said in a separate in terview it would be well for some Senate group to give Ridgway an opportunity "to document his state ments and lay the story before the American people." sen. Symington (D-Moi told the Senate yesterday that Ridgway's remarks showed that In the Ei senhower administration "the secu rity of the nation is being thrown into the market place to be traded for political advantage." Ridgway wrote that his super iors sought to persuade him to fit nis views to a "preconceived politico-military 'party line.' " In my Job as chief of staff." he said, "I say In all earnestness and sincerity that I felt I was being called upon to destroy. rather than to build, a fighting force on which rested the world's best hope for peace." Ridgway said he was "non plussed" when he read Eisenhow er's 1954 State of the Union mes sage to Congress. He said the Pres ident claimed his new budget then was "based on a new military pro gram unanimously recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.1 As a member of the Joint Chiefs, Ridgway wrote, he had most emphatically not con curred." He said three Army budgets on which he had a respon sibility were founded on "budge tary considerations, on political considerations, on the advantage to be gained in the field of domes tic politics by a drastic reduction in military expenditures Ridgway said Secretary Wilson cautioned him that to express his views publicly would "place me In the position of taking Issue with my commander In chief, 'and that. he (Wilson) added bluntly, 'would not be good." " Ridgway said he felt he had been subjected to pressures, "sometimes crudely ap plied," to drop his opposition. am., of bogs ut SUIT FILED LOS ANGELES 11 Two men who were playing gin rummy in Echo Park when a eucalyptus tree fell on them have sued the city of Los Angeles for $150,000 damages. Albert Slrvin and Salvatore Ouer rero charge negligence upon the part of the city and claim the tree had rotted at the roots. Lawyers Seek Demo Position PORTLAND 11 C. Girard Davidson, an assistant secretary of the Interior under the Truman ad ministration, and Pat Dooley, state representative for two sessions, wll vie for the position of Demo cratic national committeeman. The two, both Portland attor neys, announced their candidacies Monday. The day before, Monroe 8weetland, state senator who has been national committeeman since 1948, said he was quitting the posi tion to run for secretary of state. Davidson is general counsel for the National Hells Canyon Assn., which is fighting for federal con struction of a high dam In the Snake River on the Oregon-Idaho border. He said friends in the as sociation had urged him to make the race. Davidson, 45. said, "They felt OFFICE SPACE City canter, Main Street entrance, quiet tenants. DREWS' Manstore it would be appropriate to imple ment on the national level the work being done for Oregon by our Democratlo delegation" In Congress. ' Dooley, 37, said he had been urged to run by many party lead era. 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