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About Roseburg news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1920-1948 | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1936)
Successive steps In one of the most Important functions of the modern city's health department the supervision of the milk supply are halting milk delivery wagon to obtain a sample bottle for testing; obtaining another sample bottle from the dealer's THERE doesn't seem to be any thing unusual about that bot tle of milk you pick off the door- step of a morn- in but, nev erlcss, it's one of the most highly guarded of your foods! So thorough is the super vision of mtlk these days, in fact, that any thing rcsem- t jk 3 bling a milk- W borne epidemic ln the West mhhhI naa become a classed with the extl it Great Auk and the non-exisv ,nt sea serpent! Routine work, this inspection has become through the years, yot thero't plenty of drama back of the milk wagon if you want to look for ltthe drama of men and women working ceaselessly to maintain public health. True enough, they seldom get their names in newspaper head lines, and none has yet created the stir of, say, a trans-oceanic flier. Yet even a casual look at the situation convinces that what th-y lack in publicity, they make up for. in value! This story of milk inspection, typical of the care exercised ST" 'X Dr. N. I Scientific Discoveries Enable Man tO Manufacture Gold By Anne Bibb YESTERDAY'S magic has be come the reality of today and man is making gold. To make gold alchemists of the Dark Ages pored over boil ing cauldrons in dusky monaster ies, Hoping to win wealth and everlasting fame, men gambled away fortunes in trying new pro cohm'8 for the manufacture of gold. Then with the passing of the Mlddlo Ages, alchemy became a matter for ridicule. Scientists laughed at the ancients and their dreams of a magic formula with which anyone could make as much gold as ho wished. But now, in the twentieth cen tury, man is making gold without any more hocus pocus than he uses in making cheese. THE first gold has been made in a laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley. It was mode in the cyclotron, a great machine which was designed by prof. E. O. Lawrence, professor of physics at the university. The cyclotron operates like a vast machine gun which dis charges one hundred thousand billl Jit bullets per second at a ve locity of approximately twelve thousand four hundred miles per CATARRH AND SINUS CHART-FREE UuiranlMll RlJM No Pl. Wop hl.n tuftrH- lTto.1. Send Co Cnl or MM lof N. Ttollniw Chart tnd Mir.Bk 0IW. 10.000 Urul srll Hall'i Cittwrh Mr.lin Nnl vmr to l"in. W. '"'v! F.J.CHENEY A CO. 0H IM TOLEDO. O. OldLegTrouble HEALED WHILE WORKING foniiwtion from VtHKIWK V KIN'S. SWK1.UNO. MM K 1-Kll. or Injun raitw itrhini. I rmh n.l nwrt oM If ukw. iv Hon MMhod rflifvw Skin nlnmin stiff of fornl Iwltmyiwirmiltfcfw FREE BOOK. Dr. F. S. Clason Vlaew Co. 1038 S. Alwrado SI.. Lot Angt.te, Cailf. in Western centers, comes from Dr. N. N. Ashley, city health of ficer of Oakland, California. Let's call it "From Cow to Coffee Cup" Oakland's long record of main taining an up-to-date, modern and scientific milk inspection serv ice is well known throughout the West. In fact, Oakland Is perma nent convention headquarters for the Western Regional Dairy con gress, which covers the 11 West ern States. Under the direction of Dr. Ashley, the Dairy and Milk In spection service, which employs 15 persons, is responsible for the purity of every drop of milk en tering the city. Some of it is de livered from 300 miles away in trucks kept at a constant tem perature. AN AVERAGE of 57,040 gal lons of milk arrive in the Oakland territory datly from 319 dairy -farms. Farmers and milk dealers pay fees on all milk entering the city. A city ordinance requires that any plant handling two or more grades of milk must provide for the services of an inspector. Li cense fees are additional. In this way Oakland provides for complete inspection and there is no cost to the public. As a matter of fact, receipts last ycfcr left a surplus of nearly $300. Let's start at the beginning and trace, with Dr. Ashley the second. The machine weighs 85 tons. Its bullets are invisible frag ments of double-weight hydrogen atoms obtained from heavy water and called deuterons. The object of shooting these fragments at such a speed is to bombard whole atoms and to transmute one ele ment into another. Gold was made by firing the deuterons at platinum. THE successful creation of one form of radium, called Radium E, has recently been announced by Dr. J. J. Ltvingood, research associate in the Radiation Labo ratory of the university. This form of radium Is'ono of the naturally Fini ' af.IBi i 3M in m ft , 3 Here's the 85-ton cyclotron which produces a shower of particles that on striking atoms blast them apart and transmute one sub stance into another. Right Is Dr. E. O. Lawrence, and left, Dr. M. Stanley Livingston, his assistant. occurring disintegration products of ordinary radium in the process of its decay into lead. Dr. Ltvingood. working with the c;.clotron, has succeeded in pro ducing Radium E by bombarding ordinary bismuth with bullets made from the nuclei or hearts of double -weight hydrogen atoms. The amount of Radium E thus far created is almost infinitesimal but careful checks leave no doubt as to Its identity. While Radium E la the first From the Cow to Coffee Cup, Constant Supervision Is Exercised By Great Corps of Inspectors and Laboratory Workers And In spite of the extreme care with which your milk Is science-guarded, the family Tabby too often Is apt to take a satisfying, but unhealthy, lick or two from the bottlel function of the inspection service. To strip milk into the city, a permit is required of the dairy farmer. Application for such a radio-active substance found in nature to be duplicated in the lab oratory, many short-lived radio active substances never found in nature have already been manu factured and more than ono-third of all elements known to man have been successfully transmuted by this means. Among the most interesting of these are radio-active sodium, made from a constituent of com mon table salt, and radio-active phosphorus. THE production of radium E from bismuth, the heaviest of all non-radio -active substances, indicates that every element known to man can be transmuted by the giant cyclotron. In the present experiment the apparatus produced a barrage of double-weight hydrogen or dcu teron bullets endowed with some live and a half million volts of energy, The cyclotron will produce ex perimental intensities of a new, very powerful rav. known as the neutron ray, which is more pene trntlng and more highly endowed with energy than the X-ray. rr j; 1 a.1 1 PR ' 2B. bKtrW.'I'NMf E tK.rrfS permit brings an inspector to the farm, who carefully checks the property and the herd. Cows must be tuberculin test Old Chinese Is Police Mascot Cooked in Philippines; Canned Salmon in -Alaska Ho Set 'On Duty At Walla Walla Station Daily SOLDIER of fortune, wartime cook in the Philippines, gold hunter and Alaskan cannery fore man these are just a few of the jobs 60-year-old Ho Set, Chinese mascot of the Walla Walla, Wash., police department, has handled. Now he's a wrinkled, toothless old fellow with a cackling laugh, who takes up his post at police headquarters at 8 o'clock In the morning and stays on duty faith fully until 9 or 10 at night. Perhaps the oldest police mas cot on the Coast, Ho Set is a pet of the officers, who provide him with clothing and tobacco and give him enough simple odd jobs to do ln the summer time to earn money for his few wants. Ho is a philosophical Chinese who sees little reason for all the hustle of the average person and still less reason for worry about the hereafter. "Melican people hurry too fast." he says through withered gums, out of which the last tooth dropped recently. "Allee same wear out heap quick. Worry help, wear out, too. No need worry 'bout die. Man only die one time. After that heap long sleep. Me not hurry. Me not worry. Me happy." BORN in Montana in 1867, Ho was taken to Canton by his parents when only three years old. He stayed with them until he was 17, when the United States called htm. For several years he 11 veil in 5an Francisco, but life got humdrum. When one of th periodic Chi- shown above. Left to right: an inspector advising a dairy farmer on the care of his cattle; Inspector Ice box: home Inspection to warn housewives of the dangers from torn screens. ed; must be free from the ail ments which transmit themselves to human beings through the milk. Raw milk, unpasteurized, must be delivered double-capped. FROM the herd, the Inspector travels to the barns. Cattle must be properly housed and, of prime importance, properly fed. The barn where the milking , operation is carried out must have proper lightiflg, ventilation and drainage, with a concrete floor and side walls. The animals themselvea must be kept as clean as their houses. . After the barns the milker. He must pass a laboratory and physical examination. He must pass a test on the correct way to care for cows. Then to other equipment: steam boiler for washing and steriliza- tlon; ice machine to allow for cold storage. This latter opera tion takes place directly after the milk is strained, and the liquid is kept at a temperature of 50 de grees F. in storage and in deliv ery trucks. Once a permit is issued, in spectors make regular, visits to obtain specimens of milk for the city laboratory, where a chemist Meet Ho Set, who has been places and done things and now, at the young old age of 69, Is settled down In Walla Walla, Wash., as mascot of the police department. "Me no worry" that's his motto. nese revolutions broke out In 18S7, he hurriedly booked pas sage for Peking, where he en listed In the revolutionary army. After two months of fighting, his side was victorious, and the war was over. He then returned to San Fran and bacteriologist are constantly watching. Samples are labeled with an identifying number, and all receive the same treatment? The requirements are that milk must Arrive at the distribution plant at 55 degrees F., or less. Be free from physical sediment. Contain not less than 3.4 per cent butterfat.' Contain not less than 8.5 per cent solids not fat. Be free from objectionable feed flavors and .dors. Have a bacteria count not over 100,000 per c.c. before pasteuri zation. Strict, indeed. And rigorous the task faced by the farmer, who must supervise the diet of his herd almost as carefully as that of a young mother! Here is where the inspector must have a com plete knowledge of his subject to advise the farmer and to prove his contentions with the labora tory analysis. After these extensive safe guards, it isn't infrequent that Mr. and M rs. Pu b I i c j eopa rd i ze their health ' through improper handling of delivered milk. SUPPOSE an inspector visited your home some morning. Hm! A bottle of milk on top of the stove! He'll tell you that ' warm milk is the perfect breed- cisco and from there went to Portland, where he opened a store. Storekeeping was monotonous for the energetic ex-soldier, however, so he pulled stakes for the Philip pines with the beginning of the Spanish-American war. Army officers were in need of cooks, so Ho promptly became a cook and stayed through the en tire campaign, learning to dish up savory concoctions for his em ployers. With the close of the war, Ho returned to Oregon and became a restaurant cook, finally getting a cafe of his own ln the eastern part of the state. GOLD was found shortly thereafter, so he became a miner with Indifferent success. The money came In so slowly that he opened another cafe in Pendle ton, later selling it to go to Alaska as the foreman of a Chi nese cannery crew. He liked it there, except that the weather wasn't right for him. "Heap freeze allee time," he says. "Too cold for China boy, so me come home quick." For a time following his return he cooked for Sheriff Tom Cur dane of Pendleton, Umatilla coun ty, Oregon, and then worked for George Kanz, who later became chief of police at Walla Walla. It was then that' he began to work in as the station mascot, a post he holds even though Kanz is no longer connected with the department Ho takes a lot of good-natured kidding from the officers, who ac cuse him of having an Indian wife and of being a hatchet man. He doesn't let any of the Jests bother him. however. "Me allee same cop. too." he declares. "Me got plenty flat feet." That's usually sufficient to hold' any of them! tng place for bacteria which may cause serious illness! that milk should be kept in the refrigera tor at all times. And there a ragged patch of broken screen on the back door. YES the perfect inlet for germ ladcn flies, which, lighting on your milk and other uncovered foods, might bring you any one of a dozen illnesses. George just doesn't seem to be able to get around to fixing it? Well, per haps he will if he reads this. That inspector might well feel sarcastic about the whole thing. Oakland, and most cities, con duct "surprise." milk scoring con tests. Milk is taken off delivery wagons, at farms and pasteuriz ing plants. No one knows when or where these bottles will be picked up for analysis. In Oak land, Dr. Ashley relates, an av erage score of 96.6 per cent is made. And thin purity and rich ness is more than apt to be :.a:e lessly handled by the house wives! MILK is not the only thing subject to inspection, of course. Ice cream r.ml other by products muHt be kept up. to the high standard. But milk, on which countless lives depend, serves to illustrate the modern trend. Prevention that's the watchword. Literally hundreds of inspectors, chemists, health officers, scientists of all sorts labor daily toward that very end. 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