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Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
Twenty years ago, parents in the little town of Oakley, Idaho began to complain that their children were growing up with dark brown, pitted teeth. After long investigation, curious dentists found that the mottling was caused by fluorine (a relative of iodine, chlorine, bromine) in the town's new water supply. At considerable expense, Oakley parents dug another set of wells. Ten years later they proudly reported that children drinking "pure" water from the new wells had teeth white and glistening...
Taking a lesson from Oakley, the U. S. Public Health Service for years sent warnings to 300 other "mottled enamel areas" from South Carolina to Oregon. Even one-millionth part of fluorine in four daily glasses of water over a period of a year, said dentists, was enough to pit a growing child's teeth for life. And fluorine-pitted teeth, all dentists believed, quickly decayed and fell...
Dentist Henry Trendley Dean of the Public Health Service set to work examining the teeth of 15,000 children in the Middle West. Last year he issued a report of his findings that shocked every dentist in the U. S. left Oakley parents down in the mouth. Said he: "The amount of caries [decay] is less in mottled enamel areas than in normal areas. ..." Although fluorine makes ugly smiles, it preserves teeth "independently of mottled enamel." To the known factors causing tooth decay (too many starches and sweets, not enough vitamins, an abundance of mouth bacteria) he suggested that...
Graves was well down in the qualifying lists, with a 78, but he literally took the stiff Oakley course apart Saturday. Captain Jack Barr was his nearest pursuer, and a distant one at that with a 74-76--150. The nine stroke winning margin which Graves had even surpassed the record of present national amateur champion Willie Turnesa, who reigned over the Eastern Intercollegiate golfers for three years...