Hormones, Econ ...
Possible Solution Offered
For Victims of Poison Oak
By Bill Clothier
It could be your hormones are double-crossing you if you break
out with a dose of poison oak this spring.
If the cemetery call becomes too strong and you get poison oak
when you answer it, just remember you can louse up the glandu
lar balance of the plant by striking a few low blows of your own.
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MAY 14-17
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If
iou just incite tne nttie oak
shrub on to a burst of riotous
living.
Riley W. Matslcr, Eugene park
director, knows all about poison
oak. He says you can eradicate the
stuff by spraying it with certain
chemicals which transform a
smooth, vigorous shrub into a
wrinkled old has-been in a few
days.
A Low Blow
“This chemical spray works on
the plant’s hormones,’’ explained
Matsler. “It’s like you and me
burning the torch at both ends and
going out and carousing around all
night. The plants just burn them
selves up with fast living.”
Dr. Fred N. Miller, director of
the student health service, said
about an equal number of men and
women report to the infirmry for
poison oak treatment each year.
Not all of these cases can be traced
to the cemetery, but the 15-acre
plot contributes its share of rash
out-breaks.
A Moral Rout
“One of our biggest problems is
poison oak,” said Dr. Miller. “We
had 23 hospital cases during 1949
and 145 others were treated. Then
there were 59 cases which may or
may not have been poison oak.
Sometimes it’s very difficult to *-ell
what the infection is.”
Last year, right after the Long
Island University basketball game
at MacCourt, 30 cases of poison
oak were traced to the cemetery.
What might have been called a
moral victory on the hardwood
floor became a moral rout as
sports enthusiasts tip-toed home
through the tomb-stones.
Mastler said the cost of eradicat
ing poison oak varies according to
the degree of infestation and work
involved in placing the spray. You
don’t get promiscuous with this
plant stimulant. Call your shots or
risk wholesale plant massacre. The
spray costs from six to eight dol
lars per gallon and according to
Matsler, “a gallon goes a long,
long way.”
Economic Theory
The University would like to see
poison oak cleared from the ceme
tery. So would the city of Eugene.
Students wouldn’t mind either. As
a matter of fact, everybody is for
getting rid of it but nobody knows
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