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June. . Q6o Volume XXIX No. 6 Ineustriai Hygiene rouncanor. 400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa 15213 INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE DIGEST Literature and News NEWS ITEMS 5 15 President Johnson Affirms Need for Water Fluoridation: Eisenhower and Kennedy Took Sarr.e Stand. There is no doubt that todav the President of the United States has at his command the keenest and most critical scientific advice in our nation Evidence of this is dear in tne progress being made not only in health research through federally financed projects, but also in me neics of nuclear energy, aerospace problems, interplanetary exploration, jet propulsion and in sur vival under the most extreme environmental conditions. Particularly significant is the fact, tnerefore that President Lyndon B. Johnson has joined the growing number of statesmen wno ask that we take advantage of the unquestioned value and safety of adjusting properly in our public water supplies the content of fluoride, wh-.cn was termed, in Connecticut Medicine 2', 106 (Feb. 1966), a mineral nutrient which we must have to enable us to construct a dental enamel that is maximally resistant to decav In his statement to the nation on the occasion of Children's Dental Health Week, for the second ween of February 1965, the President asked parents to help bring the benefits of water fluoridation to their communities. ' 1 urge all parents to join dentists and health organizations in the support of dental health education in our schools and in the encouragement and adoption of such preventive measures as fluoridation of community water supplies to reduce painful and costly tooth secav among our children. " In his plea for fluoridation of water supplies,- President Johnson joins tne efforts of both his predecessors, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedv, to pom: up the value of what has been haiied as one of the greatest public health advances of me I'.'.r. century. .. Corn Health Bull. 79, 71 (March, 1965) 51 6 Biological Symposium. On July 12-14, the University of Mien g- .... oresent its summer Biological 5vmpos:-.-r. on Biological Excitability and Membrane ?-.er o.-T.e-u . one of the newest areas of scientific investigation. The topic is one of learning no* :.7 a. cells --in nerves, muscles and endo. enne systems--can "communicate" with e.;- v-e- r r tig ram chairman Dr. Lawrence B Me..ft: of the department of pharmacology, said t.v.t : cation pnenomen 'may ultimately exp.a.- rr.ar.v actions of drugs and anesthetics, arc ; ,'*') .naerstanding of a number of diseases in wmch living tissue is no longer excitao.e - *>.4 Nobel Prize in Biology and Medic-.r.e was awarded to investigators working m :r..t - * : Zr Mellett said, it has become or.e :: me most vigorous new areas of study anc *** 7-> symposium is the 16th annual meeting sponsored by the University of M.c* >: General Biological Sciences ertitv of Michigan News Service oi' . Permanent Commission and Internationa. A : - * 7 c cuoational Health. The Permanent Commission and ;.-.tr-,i- Association on Occupational Hea.m will nolo its 15fh International Congress or - - . . n:.?-... health September 19.13, los. m Vienna, Austria. All professional peop.e eft .r. me field of occupational anc er.. v.ronmental health are invited to attend m.s . fre-.e u.-.a contribute to it. The scier.!:::: program will include suen topics as Orgamcui.c*- j:, J:c.national Medicine, Industrial K.f.e Occupational Disease, Toxicology. Occupa:.or.*, r s . cr.o.ogv and Physiology, Traumau Met anc Rehabilitation, Cnronic Attntionai Disease <i.-c Rer.abi.itation. and Occupational Ke.it- Nursing. For further information regarding me topgreis ana procedures for presenting z: write to Or. Christian Frieberger. Univers.ta: v.er. Sen sengas se , 2, Wien IX Austria 01 132 26 * % O *L I