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YOUR GOOD HEALTH !
A child born in this country in 1900 had a life
expectancy of less than 50 years. A child born today
will live, on the average, for about 70 years.
This means that life expectancy has increased by
some 40 percent in a little more than half a century.
That is a development of almost incredible magnitude.
What has made such unprecedented progress possible?
. Obviously it wasn’t just magical good luck. It was
the result of many factors. And one of those—possibly
the over-riding one—is found in medical progress.
Disease after disease has been conquered. Infant
mortality has been reduced and reduced. Frontiers of
medical knowledge have been pushed back and back.
Our medical schools produce more and more physicians
—and better prepared physicians. The standards of
hospital care have been constantly raised. In every
phase and facet of the healing arts there has been out
standing achievement.
All this, let us not forget, has been accomplished
under a system of free medicine. Here the doctor is not
an empioVe of the slate. Here the patient is not a pawn,
to bQ shuttled about according to a rule book, as he is
under socialized medicine. Here the stress is on the
value and freedom and independence of the individual.
We live longer lives and healthier lives than our
forefathers did. Each day some new contribution is
made to the vast body of medical knowledge. Thus do
free men achieve in an atmosphere of freedom.
Theresa Hoover, Methodist
Field Worker, Is Guest
At WSCS Dinner Here
fyliss Theresa Hoover, field
worker for the Women’s Division
of the Methodist Church, was the
guest of honor at a dinner Wed
nesday evening at the LWY Re
creation Hall, given by members
and friends of the local WSCS.
There were 30 ladies present.
After a short business meeting,
Miss Hoover spoke on the purpose
and difficult phases of the Wom
en’s Society. She spoke of the
spiritual and material accomplish
ments possible through the united
efforts of a group such as the
Women’s Society, which has a
total membership of 4,000,000.
Miss Hoover is an accomplished
speaker and her talk timely and
interesting and it brought a new
challenge to each one present.
Three Young Brothers
Missing From Home
ATHERTON, Calif., OPt—Three
young brothers were missing from
their San Francisco Peninsula
home here today.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warren
Greene, the stepfather and mother
of the boys, said they did not
know whether the youngsters
were with their father, Arthur G.
Woodley of Seattle, president of
Pacific Northern Airlines. Mrs.
Greene and Woodley were di
vorced in 1955.
The children are Gordon, 6,
George, 9, and John Woodley, 11.
Mrs. Greene said the boys went
out to play yesterday after school
and did not return. She notified
police about 4:45 p.m.
Greene said the boys’ father
had been reported in this residen
tial community on Saturday.
Hinchen, Blumenstein
Stranded at Salmon Lake
With Damaged Plane
Two local men were stranded
for several hours yesterday at_ the
Salmon Lake airstrip when their
plane overshot the runway in
landing.
They were Dave Hinchen of
the Weather Bureau and Bernard
Blumenstein, a CAA electronics
technician. Hinchen was the pilot
and co-owner of the plane.
When word of their plight
reached town yesterday afternoon,
George Weyer of the Civil Air
Patrol went * to the scene flying
his own plane. It was too rough
to land so after ascertaining that
there was no immediate emergen
cy, he dropped them some rations.
During the night, Dr. Maxwell
Kennedy landed at the strip and
was able to bring the two men to
town.
Today it was learned that the
plane was damaged structurally
and can not be flown until exten
sive repairs are made.
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Commissioners In
Alaska May Get To
Keep $12,500 Fees
WASHINGTON, L'Pt—1The House
Territories subcommittee Wednes
day approved a bill to permit U.S.
Commissioners in Alaska to retain
up to $12,000 in fees as compen
sation. The present limit is $7,500.
Elmore Whitehurst, assistant
director of' the administrative of
fice of the U.S. Courts, told the
committee the increased limita
tion would affect only five ot the
65 commissioners in the territory.
The 60 others, he said, do not
now earn as much as $7,500 a
year in fees.
Whitehurst said legislation is
pending in Congress to increase
the compensation of U. S. Com
missioners in the states to $10,500.
Commissioners in Alaska, he said,
perform all the duties of commis
sioners in the states as well as
many additional duties.
Delegate Barlett proposed the
$12,500 limitation. He explained
all other federal employes in
Alaska receive a 25 per cent pay
differential over the salary scale
in the states.
Good Diet Causes
Eskimos to Have Three
Times as Many Babies
WASHINGTON—Eskimos are
having three times as many babies
because their diet is better.
Prof. G. E. MacGinitie of the
California Institute of Technology,
in a report published by the
Smithsonian Institution, observes
that births increase as much as
i three-fold when Eskimos eat
j “white man’s food” instead of
their traditional animal diet of
j whale, fish and seal.
The professor made his biologi
cal observations at the Navy’s'
Arctic Research Laboratory at
Point Barrow, Alaska.
“When hunting was the only
means of subsistence.” he writes,
| “Eskimo women became pregnant
j only once in several years, but
j with the new diet they bear a
j baby about every year.”
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Conservation Organizations Charge
Plan to Split Fish and Wildlife Service
Politically Inspired For Personal Gain
WASHINGTON, OP — Nine na-'
tional conservation organizations j
charged Wednesday that pro
posals to split the Fish and Wild
life Service “were initiated as
pure politics for personal gain at
the expense of the national wel
fare."
The organizations issued a joint
statement saying “it has become
clear that the politicians of both
parties are willing to barter off
the nation’s fish and wildlife re
sources in an effort to win key
Senate seats in Washington, Cali
fornia and other coastal states.”
The statement attacked both the
White House proposal announced
Monday to create a separate Fish
eries Bureau in the Interior Dept.,
and pending bills to separate the
Fisheries and Wildlife activities of
the present service.
The conservation organizations
contend placing the fisheries act
ivities in a new bureau, which
they said would be dominated by
commercial fishing interests,
would mean sport fishing would
become “an orphan.”
The statement said commercial
fisheries have a long record of
self-destruction through over-ex
ploitation, and expressed fear pro
posals to give the new Fisheries
Bureau jurisdiction over the fur
sealing industry, of the Pribiloff
Islands and other marine and
mammals might result in doom
for the hair heal, the sea lion,
and the beluga whale and the
walrus.
It asserted politicians of tooth
parties “obviously are willing to
destroy the U.S. Fish and Wild
life Service as an integrated con
servation industry in an effort to
appease disgruntled segments of
the commercial fishing industry
that are having hard times.”
Sen. Morse Asks Treasury
Consider Tax Exemption
On Travel to Territories
WASHINGTON, UPW-Sen. Morse
(D-Ore) has asked the Treasury
Department how it feels about
proposals to exempt travel from
the United States to Alaska and
Hawaii from the transportation
tax.
The Senate recently adopted a
Morse amendment tying the Alas
ka-Hawaii tax repealer to a House
bill which would repeal the tax
on foreign travel. The bill is now
in conference.
In a letter to Secretary of the
Treasury Humphrey Wednesday
Morse said he had been advised
the department opposes his pro
vision. He asked to be informed
of the department position.
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