TUESDAY, JANUARY 17. 1956
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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. He said he had made the de
cision In the hope to "Insure a
close and harmonious relationship
between the national committee
and the state Democratic organ
ization." Dooley said that whatever hap
pens he will run for the Legisla
ture again.
Davidson said he had filed his
candidacy at Salem without know
ledge Dooley was going to make
the race for national committeeman.
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