WHAT'S COMING NEXT?
Science Can Make Tough
Rooster Into Tender Broiler
By ROBERT E. GEIGER
Washington, July 18 (ff) Scientists can cut a chicken's person
ality to many different patterns by feeding it chemical substances
and hormones, which are extracted from glands.
The big question now is this: Will .these substances have the
same effect on the people who eat the chickens as they did on
the cnicKens;
Tough , old roosters become
tender-hearted and tender
meated. They quit fighting.
They lose their interest in hens.
The baryard is peaceful.
"That's why we are very
careful in approving these new
substances for use in chickens
intended for eating," says one
official of the food and drug
administration.
"We can't be sure yet what
effect some of these drugs might
have on people.
"There may be some tough
hided human beings whose per
sonality couldn't be changed
by a ton of this stuff. But we
have to protect the women and
young people who might be
more sensitive."
Hormones control such things
as sex characteristics, body
growth and ability to put on
fat. Chemical substances manu
factured In the laboratory, call
ed synthetic estrogens, imitate
the results of some hormones.
Hormones and synthetic es
trogens, fed in extra quantities,
do such things as make chickens
put on feathers faster, make
birds fat by slowing down the
life processes and make hens
lay more eggs. Besides, there
are those roosters that quit
crowing and fighting and lose
their sexual activity.
Now that synthetics can be
manufactured, scientists are
finding a lot of new uses for
them. They may help revolu
tionize the poultry business be
cause the eating, qualities of
birds can be improved substan
tially and birds can be made to
put on weight faster.
The government has approv
ed the use of synthetic estro
gens contained in a pellet in
serted in the chicken's neck. The
chicken absorbs the contents of
the pellet. Then, when his head
is chopped off, the pellet goes
along with it. This protects
Huge Error in
Budget Found
Washington, July 18 (ff)
Economy-minded senators had a
pleasant $108,000,000 surprise
today.
They learned from clerks of
the senate appropriations com
mittee they had slashed military
spending for this year by $1,
118,000,000 below the $15,908,
000,000 previously voted by the
house.
Senator Elmer Thomas (D.,
Okla.), who led the economy ef
fort, first announced the cutback
as $1,010,000,000 on a basis of a
quick computation by these same
clerks.
The extra $108,000v000 was
discovered over the week-end
after hours of checking the hun
dreds of individual army, navy
and air force items voted by the
senate group against identical
house items.
Street Improvement
Contracts Awarded
Woodburn At a special
meeting of the city council, con
tracts were awarded for im
provement of the north portion
of Second, Third, Fifth, and
Sixth streets and one block of
Oak street. Grading was award
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people from eating any large
dose that might remain, in the
pellet.
But it is unlawful to use
some hormones and synthetics
in chicken feed.
People who have eaten hormone-treated
chickens say it is
delicious meat.
Louis Franke of Texas agri
cultural and mechanical college
says he took some from a college
experimental flock.
"You had to be careful frying
those birds," he says. "They
were so tender that by the time
one side was browned, the
whole chicken almost fell
apart."
Franke didn't know, at the
time, they were hormone-treat
ed broilers. He thought they
must be a new breed because
they were so unusually delicious.
One combination of hormones
tried at the Texas college put
weight on chicken almost twice
as fast as other chickens gained.
When they were dressed they
had about four per cent more
meat in ratio to bone and other
inedible parts than other
chickens.
At a recent meeting of vet
erinarians one scientist told of
a tough old rooster that lived
only to fight, boss the hens and
create a barnyard disturbance
A few shots of female sex
hormones made him quit crow
ing and strutting. An the scein
tist said solemnly this old
rooster squatted like a setting
hen trying to find a nest of eggs
to hatch. He even clucked like
a hen that has laid an egg.
The government food expert.
discussing this case, said one
serving of this old bird's meat
wouldn't turn a cavalry offi
cer's voice to soprano. But when
it comes to the public and hu
manity in the mass, he added.
the government can't be too
careful.
ed to L. Parmeter of Canby and
paving went to the Warren
Northwest Inc., of Portland.
The new street lighting pro
gram will be handled by the
Portland General Electric com
-pany under a new contract
signed by the city, and a
quisuion tor tne set-up was
turned over to the company.
Thirteen of the new mercury
vapor lights are to be installed
on Front street, between Cleve
land and Harrison and seven on
First street between the same
two streets. The new lights will
be installed on light poles ap
proximately 30 feet above the
ground and spacing will be
about 130 to 140 feet on Front
street and on First street will be
installed on each corner.
Guests Coast Cousins
Grand Island Mrs. Clifford
Stroh and son Robert, 12, and
daughter, Carol, 11, of Honolulu
were guests for a week with her
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Scoggan. She is spending the
summer with her parents at Dev
il's Lake. Her husband is in re
frigeration business in Honolulu.
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Child Kills Grocer Seven-year-old Teddy Moreno laoove;,
who had never seen a typewriter before, is intrigued by the
machine in a San Francisco juvenile home where he was
placed after he confessed killing a grocer. Terry shot the
grocer with a gun he found under the counter in the store.
"I pulled the trigger to see if it would go off, and it made a
noise like a firecracker," Teddy said. He had been sent to
the store on an errand. (Acme Telephoto)
'AGGIE' IS STILL HOUSEWIFE!
First Woman City Editor
Tells of Exciting Career
New York (U.R) The first woman to become city editor of a
metropolitan daily newspaper in
book telling how she got that way.
Agness Underwood took a tern
porarv Job as a relief telephone
operator at the old Los Angeles
Record 22 years ago wnen ner
daughter was four and her son
16 months old. She moved to
the editorial department and
hasn't been out of newshound's
harness since.
Her newspaper education
forms a tale that skims the front
page cream from an era in a sen
sation-rich city.
"Aggie" Underwood, now city
editor of the Los Angeles Eve
ning Herald & Express, has cull
ed the bright and interesting ex
periences of a long career as a
top-drawer reporter in a top
news center and put them to
gether in a direct and forceful
style.
"Newspaperwoman" (Harper)
as a result is an inside story of
Los Angeles surface-history as
well as an account of one wo
man's career.
The author now bosses a crew
of more than 50. She gets to
her desk at 5:30 a.m. But:
"City editor or not, I still do
my cooking, washing and iron
ing when I get home from work
weekdays and on Saturdays and
Sundays. But I'd be daffy if I
thought Id be content away
from the newspaper profession.
Twenty-two years ago, I got a
bear by the tail and couldn't let
go."
The reader gets the impres
sion as the book progresses that
"Aggie" soon had a firm grip
on the tail and was swinging the
bear around her head.
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the United States has written a
As a general assignment re
porter, she found herself, be
cause of her ability at turning
up exclusive angles and setting
up pictures, assigned more and
more to crime and trial stories.
She has covered almost every
big murder and criminal trial in
her territory for 20 years, and
her "Gallery of Murderers"
chapter discusses some interest
ing specimens.
She tells how she operated in
breaking exclusive stories, how
she helped police question sus
pects, how she scrapped with
unco-operative press agents and
balky news sources. She spares
few details in describing over
ripe corpses and in telling how
her stomach held firm in watch
ing the autopsy on the movie
star, Thelma Todd.
No punches are pulled in her
stories about Interviewing the
movie stars.
Those who were insulting to
the press got their come-up-pa
nee in quick order from Ag
ness Underwood.
Fly from Seattle
Silverton Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Moon (Jean Oveross) of Se
attle arrived Saturday evening
at Silverton as over-night guests
of Mrs. Moon's parents, the Hen
ry Overosses, enroute to the
"breakfast hop" at Gates, where
the airstrip is located, . The
Moons, coming by private plane,
made record time because of
weather conditions, from Seattle
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Revenue Bureau
Ignores Court
Washington, July 18 (UP)
The internal revenue bureau has
ruled that any prize won In a
contest whether it s an essay
contest or a radio giveaway
is taxable.
By making the ruling, the bu
reau is ignoring a U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruling that
certain prizes cannot be taxed.
But the bureau is confident that
the U. S. Supreme Court would
approve of its position and is
willing to risk a case.
The particular order reveal
ing the bureau's stand was one
which said prizes awarded each
year by the American Bar asso
ciation in an essay contest
would be taxed in 1B49. Sev
eral years ago a winner sued in
Federal District Court to re
cover taxes he paid on the prize
and won. The Appeals Court
upheld him.
The bureau has ruled con
sistently that radio giveaway
prizes are taxable and has not
yet been faced with a court test
on the matter,
Phil Hart Named
Symphony, Manager
Portland, July 18 WP) Phil
Hart, 35-year-old Portland mu
sic dealer and former manager
of the Seattle symphony orches
tra, was named manager of the
Portland symphony orchestra
today.
He promised to operate on a
shoestring budget. The sympho
ny society is so short of funds
that it decided to have a con
cert series only when the mu
sicans' union offered to forego
wage ' contracts and gamble on
gate receipts for their salaries.
Silverton Friends
Honor Peggy Scott
Silverton Three delightful
social affairs during the past
week have been given in com
pliment to Mrs. Peggy Scott who
will soon leave to make her
home in Portland.
On Friday of the past week.
Mrs. Earl Adams and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Vernon Barkhurst of
Eugene, entertained at the
Adams McClaine street home
with six tables of bridge in
play following a dessert lunch
eon served in the attractive
home gardens.
Earlier In the week Mrs. Low
ell Brown was home hostess as
sisted by Mrs. P. A. Loar in an
afternoon hour of bridge with
four tables In play followed by
luncheon.
On Tuesday afternoon at the
Norman Eastman gardens, Mrs.
Eastman, assisted by her mother-in-law,
Mrs. L. C. Eastman,
entertained for Mrs. Scott in a
dessert luncheon with five ta
bles of bridge in play. Score
awards were given Mrs. Robert
Duncan and Mrs. C. R. Wilson.
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Asks Church Seizure Al-
exei Cepicka (above), Czecho
slovakia's communist minis
ter of justice pictured Arch
bishop Josef Beran as a traitor
to the state and moved to
seize full control of the Roman
Catholic church. In a speech
to the central action commit
tee of the National front, he
proposed a law which would
give the Red government a
strangle-hold on the church.
He later ordered that anyone
attempting to enforce the Vat
ican's order of excommunica
tion against communists would
be charged with treason. (AP
Wirephoto)
Another Open Meet
On Merger Question
Another big open meeting on
the West Salem-Salem merger
question will be held at the
West Salem City hall next Fri
day night, 3ays an announce
ment by Mayor Walter Mus-
grave.
Former members of the city
council will be invited to state
their position on the question,
as well as others who attend.
The merger question will be
voted on by the people of West
Salem on July 26, and if the
vote is favorable Salem will vote
on it at a later date.
Woodburn Rorarians
Hear Father Alcuin
Woodburn Rev. Alcuin Hel-
ber, OSB, of Tillamook, former
ly of Mt. Angel, was the guest
speaker at the Woodburn Rotary
club. He was introduced by
H. M. Austin, program chair
man, and spoke on the import
ance of the flax industry, boost
ing the flax festival at Mt. An
gel, July 29 to 31. Also present
was Miss Jacqueline Rue, Wood
burn candidate for festival
queen, and Gene Barrett, man
ager of the festival.
Harry VanArsdale was an
nounced as a new member,
Other special guests were James
Lamb, superintendent of the
boys school, and Frank P.
Doerfler, the new superintend
ent of the Woodburn schools.
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Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, July 18, 1949 15
Band Concerts
Start Tonight
Salem will have 12 public con
certs by the city's municipal
band this summer, instead of the
10 provided for in the city
budget.
The first 10 will be paid for
by the city and the last two by
the recording fund of the Ameri
can Federation of Musicians.
The first concert will be Mon
day night at 8 o'clock on the
west steps of the State House
Maurice Brennen is director of
the 25-piece organization.
The summer concerts have
been popular entertainment for
about 40 years. The $1800 item
in the new city budget, which
pays for 10 of the concerts, was
once cut out in the progress of
adjusting the budget, but public
pressure got it restored.
Two concerts will be given
weekly, Monday and Thursday
nights.
Following is the program for
Monday night:
March Olorta Losey
Sprlnitlma Overtura Letdsen
Rival Rovars March Alexander
Suite In E flat Hoist
Knlghtabridge March Ce-atea
INTERMISSION
Smoke Gets In Your Eyea Kern
In a Chinese Temple Garden ,. Ketelbey
The Westerner March Jewell
From Africa to Harlem Bennett
Man Among Men March Fillmore
Committees Selected
For Silverton Lions
Silverton Gene Smith, re
cently installed as president of
the Silverton Lions club for the
coming year, has named the per
sonnel of permanent assisting
committees.
On finance. Ernest R. Eknun. C.
Anderson. Paul Ennls. Attendance, Bruce
Btlllntrs. Bill Bloch. E. R. Ekmsn. Mem
bership, Prnnlc Powell, Junes Taylor, C.
Morley, Bill Evans. Program. Dr. A.L.V.
Smith. Bob McEwen, Walt Lelsy, Publi
city ana Hiuieun, bob Miner, or, a. L. V,
Smith. Lilons Education, Lowel Pa up, Wil
son Johnson. Convention and Visitation.
Dr. A. L. V. Smith, Bob Miller, Bob Mc
Ewen. Constitution and By-Laws, cliff
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