Thurs., May J, 1936 The News-Review, Rotoburf, Or.- 5
Kiwanis Club' School Forest Operation Launched At Britt Nichols Park
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ROSEBURG HIGH PLANTERS look helplessly at the job
ahead. Debris such as this scatters the landscape at B.ritt
Nichols park qt the start of the lO-to-15-year project to
reforest 80 acres of the 120-acre park. Charles Collins,
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DIRECTING THE PROJECT
left, they are: Robert Meyers
of the U. S. Forest Service,
Butler, one of the Kiwanians
Adoption Plan For Mixed
Blood Korean Orphans Stirs
Related Action In Congress
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Ntws-Rviw Correspondent
WASHINGTON Legislation to
push back the fast-approaching
deadline on Harry Holt's orphan
airlift between Korea and Oregon
was introduced in the Senate Mon
day by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.).
Holt is the Creswell farmer who
has already adopted eight young
sters fathered in Korea by Amer
ican servicemen stationed there
during the recent war. He is now
engaged in bringing as many other
mixed-blood orphans from Korea
to the United States as possible be
fore the refuge relief act ex
pires Dec. 31, 1951).
Neubergcr's bill would extend
the expiration date to Dec. 31, 1959
and also raise the ceiling on the
number of orphans that may be
brought in for adoption from the
present limit of 4.000 to 9.000.
"One of the most urgent needs
in our world today is homes for
thousands. of orphans who face a
bleak future in their homeland,"
sa,id Neuberger. "Many of t h e m
should be the direct responsibility
of our people and government since
they were fathered by American
military personnel."
The senator pointed out that be
cause these children are mixed
bloods thev "are not accepted by
the Koreans. They are mistreat
ed, humiliated. Other children
noinJ their finscrs at them and call !
them GI babies." He said there are I
estimated 1500 American no-
rean orohans in need of adoption
hy American families and that
Holt has received requests from
enough American families to take
Air PoluHon Costs City
Of New York Huge Sum
NEW YORK W An expert es
timates that air pollution costs
New York City 100 million dol
lars a year.
Dr. Leonard Greennurg, city
commissioner of air pollution con-lilies by proxy. ttaiKins pill would
trol. yestersay told -the American keep 4,000 as the allowable maxi
c;.i cfe.iv Fniiiuvn that mum number of orphan adoptions
..r tniinn u .'''wia! arrf rro-
nomic evil" demanding constant '
surveillance. I
in its first phase of planting were the above men. From
of Roseburg Lumber Co., Jack Price and William Benecke
Robert - Kischel of the Douglas County Lands Dept. and Lee
spearheading the project.
all of these youngtteri time per
mitting. 1
Holt has tried to cut down the
ordinary time-consuming red tape
by personally flying to Korea to
adopt children there under Korean
laws for both himself and, with the
power of attorney, for other fam
ilies. Prior Approval Adviftd
In addition to granting Holt and
others more time to complete adop
tion arrangements, Neuberger'
bill would tighten some require
ments which Holt has complained
of recently. The bill would require
prior approval of the head of the
Children's Bureau of the Depart
ment ef Health, Education and
Welfare of each adoption.
As the' law now stands, a family
that goes to Korea, or other foreign
lands where similar problems ex
ist, could adopt a child without the
customary checks being made of
the youngster's physical condition
or the ability of the parents to pro
vide it a good home. Holt has said
this is unfair to families hi this
country who go through the red
tape of making these standard
checks prior to adoption.
Neuberger's bill would also raise
the age limit on orphans from 10
to 14. He said all the provisions of
his measure have been recom
mended by the American branch
of the International Social Service,
Inc., the agency through which
many foreign adoptions are made
throughout the world
Committee hearings on bills by
Neuberger and various otner sen-
ators are expected to be held with
in a few weeks. Sen. Williim La tig
er (R-N.D.), chairman of the ref
uge subcommittee, is sponsoring a
bill which would extend the pro-
gram for three years and increase
ine quui iu ,vw uui wumu uvi
tighten adoDtion requirements
Another bill being sponsred by
Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah),
top Republican on the committee,
would discontinue entirely the
method now being used by Holt of
arranging adoptions for other fam-
but waive the time limit. This bill
is being co-sponsored by 14 other
Republican senators.
Douglas County Parks -airector, said salvage Timber afier
the big Hubbard Creek fire in 1951 netted the county'
$42,000, but, as is evident much of the timber was not
solvable. (All pictures on this page by Charles Collins). .
Machines To Act
Like People, Says
Bell President
CINCINNATI Wl The presi
dent of the Bell telephone labora
tories in New York predicted here
recently that aome day there will
be machines which talk to ma
chines in the same manner that
people now talk to each other by
teiepnone.
Dr. Mervin J. Kelly made the
prediction as he appeared at a
University of Cincinnati panel dis
cussion on "America's Future
Scientists, Engineers and Man
agers." The discussion was part of UC's
observance of the 50th anniver
sary of the founding of its system
of co-operative technological edu
cation. Dr. Kelly predicted that when
automation reaches its full devel
opment during the next few dec
ades it will be possible to inter
connect widely separated automa
tion systems over the nation's
communications systems.
' Then, by means of an electron
ically transmitted digital lan
guage, automation systems of
commerce, business and industry
can be integrated and controlled
from one source.
Dr. Kelly asserted that Ameri
cans need not fear automation. He
asserted it would be beneficial
economically and socially and
called it "a growing economic
and social force whose signifi
cance can well be larger than that
of mechanization."
Guggenheim Fellowship
Won By U. O. Professor
NEW YORK Wl Earl Spencer
Pomeroy, professor of history at'
the University of Oregon, Monday
was named a winner of a' Guggen-
neim ioiiowsnip,
He will use the award to further
his studies of the history of the
Pacific Coast states.
Pomeroy is one of 275 scholars
and artists winning awards total
ing 11,100,000 from the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation.
The foundation was established
in 1925 by the late Colorado Sen.
Simon Gueeenheim and hi wife
in memory of their son, John, who
died is a young man in 1922.
Hi"
30,000-Degree
Temperature Said
Produced In Test
By FRANK CAREY
WASHINGTON W Laboratory
production of a 36;0O0-degree tem
perature more than three times
as not as tne surtace ot tne sun
has been reported here by two
Atomic Energy commission scf
enlists.
The disclosure prompted specu
lation the studies would aid in
the effort to harness the H bomb's
power for peacetime power.
The AEC scientists themselves.
Drs. G. E. Seay and L.B. Seeley
Jr. of the Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory, made no mention of
studies and controlled thermonu
clear H-bomb reaction research
But it's no secret that the attain
ment of extremely high tempera
tures is one of the major prob
lems in research aimed at tam
ing the H-bomb.
While 36,000 degress hot as it
is is well below even the min
imum order of temperature ranges
so far mentioned- as necessary to
trigger the hydrogn "fusion reac
tion, it appears obvious that re
search even at the 36,000 level
would be an' important contribu
tion. .
Some . scientists at the spring
meeting of the American Physi
cal Society, where the Los Alamos
team made their report, specu
lated that the work had particular
"potentialities" in this field be
cause of the reported high density
of the helium gas that was heated
to the super-solar temperature.
They said that in a controlled
fusion reaction it could be pre
sumed that the more dense the
material used, "the bigger the re
action." Alcohol Is Shot
Into Brain Cells
To Halt Palsy
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEI
AP Scitnco Reported
LOS ANGELES I Shooting al
cohol into the brain often stops
the constant trembling and muscle
rigidity of shaking palsy, a neuro
surgeon reported today.
The alcohol kills part of t h t
brain which sends out the volleys
of nerve signals causing the tragic
shaking. It is chemical surgery, in
an area almost in the middle of the
brain, known as the globus palli
dus. Brilliantly promising results
with this and another new tech
nique were described to the Amer
ican College of Physicians by Dr.
Irving S. Cooper, 33, of New York
University College of Medicine.
A needle is thrust into the brain,
guided by X-rays to reach the pal
lidus area. Novocaine is injected
first to see if it temporarily blocks
the trembling. If it does, s dose
of pure alcohol is injected to de
stroy this small part of the brain.
There are two of the pallidus
areas. Destroying one stop the!
shaking and rigidity on the oppo
site side of the body, Some per
sons have had both areas treated
to eliminate shaking altogether.
Dr. Cooper said. It does not cause
loss of muscle strength.
Results have been excellent In
76 per cent of 145 persons under
going this chemical surgery in the
last two years, he said. Less than
3 per cent died.
One man, bedridden for eight
years, now is working after chem
ical treatment of both pallidus
areas halted his uncontrolled shak
ing and paralyzing rigidity, the
young neurosurgeon said.
Perhaps half a million American
men and women have shaking pal
sy. The new methods can probably
benefit at least 30 per cent of them.
Dr. Cooper said.
The United States is the only
country where almost all the rail
roads are privately owned, says
the Twentieth Century Fund.
I
RHS Youths
Plant 2,000
Little Pines
The Roseburg Kiwanis Club and
some high school sophomores this
year have begun a reforestation
project west of Roseburg which it
is hoped will start a trend of tree
planting over the county.
As explained by one of the guid
ing spirits of the program, the
purpose is to "create a public
awareness" of the problems of
reforestation. County Judge Carl
Hill said he hopes the program
will do its part in spreading the
"gospel" to other schools in the
county.
Pictures on this page show the
first phase of a project at Britt
Nichols County Park 17 miles west
of Roseburg which was caught in
the path of the 1951 Hubbard Creek
forest fire.
Nuener explains that the Kiwa
nis Club made an agreement
with the Douglas County Court to
take over 80 acres of the 120-acre
park to undertake reforestation
over a 10-to-15-year period. The
hope is also to elicit interest of
other schools in the county in
planting trees. '
It was also agreed that any pro
ceeds from sale of Christmas trees
or timber in, the future will be di
vided up among the Kiwanis, the
high school and the county.
The planting started this spri
ng. The 24 v youngsters worked
two days planting 2,000 seedlings.
The seedling pines were furnish
ed by the Forest Service from the
Mt. Shasta nursery in California.
Robert Kischel, supervisor of the
Douglas County lands department,
said the trees will yield clear tim
ber in about 120 years. He said
survival under normal conditions
was about 80 per cent, but con
ditions at the park were not quite
normal.
The youngsters planted the seed
lings over a six-acre area, and
more planting is scheduled this
fall in the Kiwanis School Forest
as the project is called.
Charles S. Collins, Douglas Coun
ty Parks supervisor, said plant
ing of the trees was the "best
fiossible beneficial use" for the
and denuded by the fire.
R. Glenn Brady, a biology teach
er at the high school, who led the
planting expedition with another
biology teacher, J. A. Strasburg,
said that over the state about 3,
000 grades and high school pupils
in 13 western Oregon counties are
taking part in similar tree plant
ing expeditions. He cited Reeds-
port's area as one of the projects.
He said 26,000 trees have been
planted In that area over a 10
year neriod.
James E. Slattery, one of the
fathers of the Kiwanis project here
said the Kiwanis School Forest
will form "an excellent outdoor
classroom which will not cost the
taxpayers a dime." (The young
sters do their planting outside
school hours.
The Kiwanis received consider
able help from other agencies and
businesses in the project. Included
were Melrose and Umpqua Dairies
Roseburg Lumber Co. and the
U. S. Forest Service.
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REBUILDING A FOREST The debris of a fire scowls over the scene of the planting'
sites of new trees to replace the useless wood scattered over the landscape. Roseburg
High youngsters work busily to set the foundation for the Kiwanis School Forest.
Virus Causing Children's New Disease Found
By ALTON L. BLAKESLII
AP Scionce Reporter
HOUSTON, Tex. HI Discovery
of the virus causing a strange
"fifth disease" in children was re
ported here to the Society of
American Bacteriologists.
The fifth disease is erythema In
fectiosum, so called because it can
be mistaken at times for measles,
German measles, scarlet fever or
Beret For Soldiers
Meets With Protests
WASHINGTON W The Army
is thinking of outfitting its troops
with berets but the idea already
has one Congress member aghast.
Army quartermaster officers told
the House Appropriations Com
mittee, in testimony made public
Tuesday, the Army has "under
study" proposals to outfit all
troops In green berets.
Rep. Flood ID-Pa) said he
thought berets might be good mo
rale huilders for special units like
paratroopers, "but not GI berets
for the whole army. '
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THIS IS HOW The two youngsters above show how the tender seedlings should be
planted in the shade such as next to a stump as shown. Every effort was taken to as
sure the young forest of tomorrow. It is estimated the trees will reach commercial size
in 120 years.
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STUDENTS START WORK The Roseburg High School youngsters began work clearing
away grass to allow better survival of the pine seedlings. Under the direction of county,
school and Forest Service men, the 24 sophomores planted 2,000 trees in two days.
urners win De pianrea later.
another rash disease, roseola in
fantum. Erythema infccliosum, hitting In
epidemics, brings a harmless red
dish rash on the fare and other
body parts. It may be more com
mon than supposed.
The virus causing it was iso
lated from secretions of sick chil
dren, said Doctors Georges II.
Werner, Albert Keller, Philip S.
HEARING SIT
WASHINGTON I The Senate
Interior Committee has scheduled
a hearing May T on the size of
family units in the Columbia Basin
project.
Sen. -Jackson (D-Wash) said the
hearing was called at the request
of Earl S. Gregory, president of
the Quincy-Columbia Basin Irriga
tion District.
Gregory told Jackson and Sen.
Magnuson (D-Wash) that the lim
itation of one farm unit of not
more than 160 acres to a family
makes it "generally impossible for
a farm family to make a decent
living."
. ri.;M
Brachman, and Geoffrey W. Rake,
of the University of Pennsylvania.
The virus can be grown in mon
key kidney tissue, just like polio
and other viruses. This will aid in
understanding how it's related to
other virus diseases like measles
maybe from a common parent
virus and in making a vaccine
if one is needed.
Rabies Vaccine BtHortd I
An improved vaccine appears to
start bringing defense against ra
bies within 15 days, said Doctors
11. M. Powell and C. G. Culbertson
of the Ell Lilly Research Labora
tories, Indianapolis, Ind., in an
other report.
The virus to make the vaccine
is grown in duck eggs, and then
is killed by a chemical, beta pro
piolactone. This method avoids or
reduces risk of paralytic, alergic
type reactions from virus growth
in rabbit brains, or from use of
live virus, they said.
The new vaccine produced pro
tective antibodies against rabies in
tests on dogs and othr animals,
and in 32 human so far. The de
fending antibodies appeared witlt-
in la days or less.
Three Cylinder
Car Will Make
American Debut
By DAVID J. WILKII
AP Automotive Idltor
DETROIT Wl A three-cylinder,
front engine drive automobile will
shortly be introduced to the Amer
ican market. It is two-door,
four-passenger sedan built in Swe
den. It will be one of something
like 200 different makes of cars
to be presented at the Internation
al Automobile Show in New
York's new Coliseum, opening
next Saturday and continuing
through May 6.
It is the first Sweden-built ear
to be offered on the Americas
market.
Leading American car makers
are joining with the foreign manu
facturers in presenting what are
said to be the industry's finest
styling and engineering develop
ments. More than a score of Brit
ish-made cars include all the bet
ter known of that country's mod
els. Among them Is a new Jaguar,
described as a 100-mile an hour,
five passenger sedan, with a 112
horsepower six-cylinder engine.
French manufacturers are show
ing the latest Citrocns and Ren
milts; German producers have
the Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz
and Porsche lines and a new
Borgward. Italian cars at the
show will Include the famed Alfa
Romeo, Ferrari, Lancia and Ma
serti lines.
The American market for foreign-built
automobiles is a rela
tively small one, compared with
over-all retail deliveries. How
ever. It showed a sharp upturn
last year, encouraging increased
efforts by foreign car builders to
try for wider sales here.
Sun-Drenched Fruit Pill
May Prevent Sunburn
FLORENCE, Ariz. ( A little
pill made from sun-drenched fruit
trees is being studied in the desert
here to determine whether it has
the power to prevent sunburn.
Scientists from the University of
Oregon hope the drug, psoralen,
will speed the sometimes painful
process of tanning.
Psoralen, derived frorh fig and
citrus trees, has been used by the
Egyptians for centuries to deepen
skin pigmentation.
Last year the scientists realized
they were a long way from suc
cess when eight volunteer con
victs at the state prison here sent
to the hospital with severe sun
burn. But Dr. Thomas B.Fitzpatrirk,
University of Oregon dermatolo-
it said he is encouraged by the
i test results.