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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 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 tne 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 ing but, nev erlcHH. it's one of the moat I highly guarded or your ioous: So thorough Is the super vision of milk these days, in fact, that any thing resem bling a milk- borne epidemic in the West has become a Dp. N Ashley my iu ue the extl :t Great Auk and the non-exlm nt sea sorpent! Routine work, this Inspection has become through the years, yet there'i plenty of drama back of the milk wagon if you want to look for It tho drama of men and women working ceaselessly to maintain public health. True enough, they seldom got their names in newspaper head lines, and none has yet created the stir of, Bay, a trans-oceanic flier. Yet even a casual look at the situation c nvinces that what th-y lack in publicity, thoy make up for in value! This story of milk Inspection, typical of tho caro exercised r Scientific Discoveries Enable Man tO Manufacture Gold By Anne Bibb YESTERDAY'S magic has be como the reality of today and man is making gold. To mako gold alchemists of tho Dark Ages pored over boil ing cauldrons In dusky monaster ies. Hoping to win wealth and everlasting fame, men gambled away fortunes In trying now pro cesses for the manufacture of gold. Then with the passing of tho Middle 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 he wished. But now, In tho twentieth cen tury, man Is making gold without any more hocus pocus than he uses In making choose. THE fli st gold has boon made in n laboratory at the University of California at Horkoloy. It was made In the cyclotron, a groat machine which was designed by Prof. E, O. l-awrcncc, professor of physics at the university. The cyclotron operates like a vast machine gun which dis charges one hundred thousand bilH .ii bullets per second at a ve locity of approximately twelve thousand four hundred miles per CATARRH AND SINUS CHART-FREE QuyniMi RrM N Psy. Utor. ha wkinf up Kiw-Il twalh -Siud wriUlinft -Wm-WM ihrmt Sod ft Cart ar Irttt fw Mrm Trtm Chart tnd MmrBk Ofttr. 0,lM UtummU aril Hail Catarrh Mftifc-ift. Mr t in tMUHMi Write tolv' P.J.CHENEY 4 CO. Owl fM TOLtOO.O. OldLegTrouble HCOUD WHIlt woukino. (Wli. fcnm V tlllnxK WINS. MVKU.INU. Mil k I. Hi w li.irww mow ilcKint, k r4i it numl W Mt ww H.n l.th,l ni hlmni cn.r-' tit "'.I VlMtim m ttKiLWi FHll BOOK Df F. S f 'Man Vitrei Ce. I DM 1 Alnndo it. la Ant". Cal. i 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 IS 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 daily 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 tho public. As a matter of fact, receipts last year 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 arc Invisible frag ments of double-weight hydrogen atoms obtained from heavy water and called douterona. ' 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 doutorons at platinum. THE successful creation of one form of radium, called Radium E, has recently been announced by Dr. J. J. Livingood, research associatt In the Radiation Labo ratory of the university. This form of radium is ono of the naturally 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. Or, M. Stanley Livingston, his assistant. occurring disintegration products of ordinary radium in thp proccM of 1U decay into lead. Dr. Livinjiood, working with the cyclotron, haa succeeded in pro during Radium K by bombarding ordinary bismuth with bullets made from tho nuclei or hearts of double -weight hydrogen atoms The amount of Hadium K thus far created is almost Infinitesimal but careful checks leave no doubt as to its identity. While Hadium E is the first From the Cow to Coffee Cup, Constant Supervision Is Exercised By Great Corps of Inspectors and Laboratory Workers i f & A- 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 ship milk into the city, a permit is required of the dairy farmer. Application for such a (radlo-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 one-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 adio-actlve phosphorus. THE production of radium E from bismuth, the heaviest of all non-radio -active substances, Indicates that every clement known to man can be transmuted by the giant cyclotron. In the present experiment the apparatus produced a barragq of double-weight hydrogen or deu teron bullets endowed vth some live and a half million volts of energy. Tu cyclotron will produce ex perimental intensities of a new, very powerful ray. known Vs the neutron ray, which is more pene trating and more highly endowed with energy than the X-ray. permit brings an inspector to the farm, who carefully checks the property and the herd. Cows must bo 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 69-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 in the summer lime 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. "Mclican people hurry too fast." he aays through withered gums, out of which the last tooth dropped recently. "Alice 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 1S67, Ho was taken to Canton by his parents when only throe years old. He stayed with them until he was 17. when the I'nlted States called him- For several years he lived in San Francisco, but life got humdrum. When one of the 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 lighting, ventilation and drainage, with a concrete floor and side walls. Tho animals themselves 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 tion; 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, ct 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. new revolutions broke out In 1SS7. he hurriedly booked pas sage for Poking, 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 MM . J ) 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 fHm 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 Mrs. Public Jeopardize their health through Improper handling of delivered milk. 1 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 Philtn- pincs 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 In 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 ns the foreman of a Chi nese cannery crew. He liked it there, except that the weather wasn't right for him. "Heap freeze allec time," he says. "Too cold for China boy, so me come home quick." For a time following his return he cooked for Sheriff Tom Gur dane of Pendleton. Umatilla coun ty, Oregon, and then worked for George Kanz. who later became chief of police at Walla Walla. H was then that he began to work In as the station msscot. a post he holds even though Kunz 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 tho Jests bother him. however. "Me alloo same cop. too." he declarer "Me got plenty flat feet." That's usually sufficient to hol.l any of them! j 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- laden 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 wag,;n3, 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 this purity and rich ness is more than apt to be care lessly handled by the house wives! MILK is not Vie only thing subject to Inspo-tion, of course. Ico aceain and olher by produ: 13 must 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. In 1935, Oakland's department collected 13,091 samples for anal sis a matter of 65,455 analyses. Multiply that by the many health departments In the West and you'll see tho scope of this great safety measure. ' Next time you gather in the morning milk handle with re spect. It's science-guarded! dizzy SPELLS Here's a fair offer get a Jar of Kruschen Salts take as much u will He on a dime every day in your morning cup of tea or coffee or In hot water. After the jar it empty if you ar not satisfied with improvement In health get your money back. No drastic cathnrtins no consti pation but blissful daily bowel ac tion when you take your little daily dose of Kruschen. Adv A Eabv For You? yKER-CHOO) The sneen it future's svarninji of cold. f-J Stopiiwher it warn, Y Nsuljel.'r br.osi immediate relief, loosen conjceMion. makes breathing frt. I'nhke drops, Kondon'S does Porne; it stavt at work killing rotir cold. Fortr-six years of success. KONDON'S NASAL JELLY He Won't Be BALD! 1 II Sild it ill IWom , M (;hicimi,Birhfit,,cTnu , M C.IOTfi'iitcitmeiiiieisuliilv. Hi r H 1 1 tMMt on lb Hair and tcstp-writf OLOVfcR , l-uurth Avenue. N. V.Utj If you re denied the Memjt of bihy U your own n.l vcjio (or a bby irm$ and a ruby nnle. d. n.( give tip hope. Imt ute in conrhlcme t- Mrs. Mildred Owens. Dept. M. MO Hjnjn Bide. Kins City. Mo., nd he tfll you jhnut simple home mclhtHltli.il liclrn-.l her iticr heing denied 1 vctis. Many i.ihm wv thit has helped blew :he.r Inev Wme niw and try for this won- iK'lljl ltjni"W- AAm He USM Glnvr' Min. fJ::- followed by tjlover'i 3F5k Medicated Si.ip for the .th B,ljr. I)in.!,u(f -ViBvJS or rurxive Fillm, H,,,, U inr- ,rr inc thixu it stri V.i PACE FOUR B
