IX MEDFOHD (OREOON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wcdnndar. April 26, I9S0
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N0 COMMENT In new attack upon the State Department,
Ben. Joseph R. McCarthy (right) called former Secretary of State
George C. Marshall 'left) "completely unfit" for the CaDlnet post.
The senator who made the charge at a meeting of the American
Society ot Newspaper Editors in Washington, said "It was a crime
... a pathetic thing" to put General Marshall In charge of John 8.
(Service, Owen Lattlmore "and so forth.' When Informed of the at
tack, Gen. Marshall said: "1 have no comment,"
Northwest Gardens
By John H. Hanley, Ph.D.
Holly trees are great assets In
many of our northwestern plant
ings. We refer here to the Eng
lish type of holly, the one wnicn
yields so many sniny-ieavea
berry-laden branches for Christ
mas decoration, and for shipping
to friends in other sections at
holiday time. Right now is the
season to do something about
holly. The holly leaf miner, scale
insects, aphids and possibly tip
moth, too, can be checked by the
use of proper sprays applied at
regular intervals between now
and the middle of June. DDT
and Lindane give most promise
for simplified control of all but
the scale insects (and they
should eet a lot of the scale, too,
especially if the weather warms
up enough to bring out the
young "crawler" scales pests
during this period).
One of the worst types of in
Jury done by the aphids and
scale pests is rather indirect.
though very definite. Both these
insects produce a "honeydew"
which, when it collects on the
twigs and leaves, provides the
ideal breeding ground for sooty
molds. Thus, there will develop
over the surface of leaves, twigs
and berries a black, soot-like
discoloration which, if not
stopped seems actually to pene
trate into the leaves, making
them permanently ruined for
best holiday-season use.
Most Are Slow
Most of the forms or varieties
of english holly are slow, but
robust and hardy, growers. They
are versatile as to their abilities
to withstand heavy pruning,
sprouting out readily even after
the heaviest cutting back. Men
tion is made of this characteris
tic because they have been
planted so long in many gardens
that they have grown up to ob
scure a view, or to cut out too
much liftht during the winter
months. If it becomes necessary
to prune them heavily, keep in
mind that the new growth which
comes out almost immediately
will not be mature enough to
give another crop of berries
short of two or three years.
Oregon State college studies
indicate that over-fertilizing hol
ly with nitrogen may be detri
mental to berry production, too.
Mulching, plus moderate -use of
nitrogen (phosporus and potash
hould be present in the fertiliz
er, too) should keep the tree in
good productive condition. And,
of course, someone around your
neighborhood must sacrifice and
put in a male tree, especially if
the ordinary seedling types are
being grown.
Rhododendron Country
This is rhododendron country
and even in interior areas there
are some among the older, hard
ier varieties which are perfectly
at home when consideration is
given to providing them with an
acid soil and some protection
from winter wind. Let us all
hope that we are here 30 years
from now to see the massive and
beautiful groups of rhododen
drons, now being put in every
where on the west side, come
into their full beauty. Every gar
den where climate and soil will
permit, should include some of
these magnificent shrubs.
Soil should be well-drained,
and one should get in the habit
of using a regular, yearly appli
cation of one of the acid-type
fertilizers, plus a loose, two-inch
mulch. See your nurseryman for
best varieties. There are sorts
which begin flowering as early
as February in an ordinary year,
and other forms will continue to
bloom throughout March, April,
May and into June or July. Since
some of the best of the rhodo
dendron varieties are on the bor
derline of hardiness, it is not a
bad idea to increase their hardi
hood by fortifying them with
regular acid fertilizer plus some
of the minor or trace elements
which can be supplied by sev
eral products all of them read
ily available. '
Leaf Miners
Holly, and several others such
as lilac, privet and boxwood,
should be worked on during the
late-April or mid-June period.
Same materials as suggested
above for holly will do the trick
but it is safer to use a rotenone
pyrethrum type of spray or dust
on lilacs. Tests at Cornell indi
cate injury to lilacs from DDT.
Lindane compounds should
work, too. Apply them after the
lilacs have flowered out, or
three times at ten-day to two-
week intervals. Pea weevil ,and
raspberry-loganberry fruitworm
and gooseberry-currant maggot)
can be kept down with the rote-
none-pythrerum mixtures. Work
into the soil in early spring, one
of the soil dusts.
"On the bank where the wild
thyme grows," can be in your
own garden, too. row of the low
ground covers are more satis
factory than the several types
of thymes which arc available at
many nurseries. Use them to
grow down over rocks, to blan
kct a slope, or to fill crevices
among stepping stones, on the
terrace, etc. t lower, an ever
green foliuge, and a lovely frag
rance are among the things
which the thymes can give you,
Grow Peanuts
For the kiddies, why not put
in a few peanuts or some rooted
cuttings of yams or sweet pota
toes? Use a spot In the warmest
part of the garden, where soils
are light, sandy. Trailing arbu
tus from the east and mid-west
can be grown here, too. Best ad
vice is to get hold of plants
which have been started in in
dividual containers. The collect
ed material is very, very diffi
cult to establish because the root
systems are generally all messed
up. The asiatic form of trailing
arbutus is easier to get started
than our own from the east.
Lilacs like decayed manures
and a bit of limestone every year
or two. Dormant spraying with
calcium polysulphides will keep
down the lilac blight (tip
growths wilt down and die, just
as the flowers are well-formed).
Spray with a rotcnone-pyre-
thrum-spreancr mixtures in ear
ly spring when the leaves are
all out to control the lilac leal
miner that produces brown
blotches on the leaves later In
the season.
Pickin' Pears
News, Gossip, Comment
From Camp White
By L. J. "Tick" Malarkey
This is about Lei Tei Ming,
the Chinese girl who sang to the
boys In the south Pacific. USO
sows during the war years.
And this is also about Bob
Flynn, who was shot down while
in the south Pacific and was hos
pitalized at the time he met Lei
Tei Ming.
Today Lei and Bob are Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Flynn of Fall
River Mill, Cal., and together
they operate a farm in that com
munity a little more than a 100
miles south of Medford.
We met this fine couple Sun
day when they were going
through their routine for the
Bamboos, Greybeards and Kids
at Camp White. Bob beat a mean
set of drums with the FR band,
and Lei, the prima donna she is,
sang her songs to the boys until
the rafters rang with encores.
"It was just love at first sight.
We are very happy and we both
like farming. And we both hope
to come back to Camp White
again soon. Maybe we will be
here when the Lions club comes
to put on a show." These their
words.
"Paper, papers Medford Mail
Tribune."
Every evening, just before five
o'clock show line begins to
form, this basso profundo voice
is to be heard in the halls lead
ing to the dining room. A chat
with the lad brings the follow
ing information:
He is Glenn Andrews. He is
a freshman, majoring in chem
istry, at Southern Oregon col
lege jeeping back and forth each
school day. He delivers and sells
on an average of 140 Tribunes
daily. He lives with his folks on
the station, where his dad is
x-ray technician.
It is called lupin, this wild
flower that is so profuse with
bloom out this way. And there
are white blossoms growing
among it. Acres and acres. The
sun was dropping behind Table
Rock and a benediction of colors
blended the scene. Kind of fit
ted in with Sunday evening
Peaceful like.
Bay Logger," and old time "tim
ber beasts" tell that they were
a real shoe.
This past week-end it was
good to visit again, after a lapse
of 33 years, with Floyd Hart, top
hand for the local Timber Prod
ucts company. Hadn't seen him
since Oregon days up Eugene
way, year 1916.
Peeler logs and plywood were
the principal "yak-yak" in the
too brief reunion. It was only
after I'd left the Colonel's of
fice both wars in the air corps
if you please that "Private M."
realized that he had missed the
boat. Floyd told me that he had
a grandchild eight years old.
That made him a grandpaw
when he was flying In this Sec
ond Fuss out of Guam in the
south Pacific.
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WAKEFIELD
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2nd Floor Mtdford Furniture
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With a pair of shoes worn out
at the heels it was my good luck
to be directed to 17 North Fir
street. A trace of Scandinavian
accent was detected in the
speech of the man behind the
counter.
"Sure. I'm a Norwegian.
Learned the shoemaker's trade
in the old country and came to
America when 17 years old. set
tled in North Dakota. And when
war was declared in 1917 joined
the army and went overseas. Be
long to Edgar Usher post uav
and used to belong to the Ameri
can Legion here. Guess I should
join again.
Sigurd M. Cleven was talking
Since 1927 his shop has been
In the same location.
Two of his boys, Edgar and
Glenn, were in Europe taking
part in Argument Two.
Edear was with General Pat-
ton and Glenn was allover with
the Davmaster's corps. Both
lads, with another son, Elvin
mnke their homes in Medford.
Before coming to Medford
Grevbeard Cleven lived in
Marshficld and for several years
he wns in the shoe manufactur
ing business. He made the "Coos
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ust plug In the )V9 Grasshear and
save yoursclt time and effort.
The Stanley Grasshtar Is designed to
bo light In weight and easily balanced.
Knowing that good balance reduces
fatigue, Stanley has constructed this
Grasshtar so that it can be adjusted
for the tall or short man or woman
without changing the balance.
HUBBARD
BROTHERS, INC.
Main at Riverside
Phone 2-6119
Sunday morning seemed like
a morning at home. In fact I
thought the overcast was fog.
Fog just like that which some
times rolls in from the ocean and
the bay at Warrenton and As
toria. A ward mate put the recruit
right.
"That's smudge pots burning
in the pear orchards to chase
away the frost."
We are learning about
pickin' now.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
Cleveland. O. U.R) Cleve
land will have one of the best-
lighted baseball fields m the
country when Wcstinghouse fin
ishes its installations this sum
mer. The municipal stadium
olaying field will be covered
with about twice as much light
as it had last year. The installa
tion will consist of 1,318 floodlights.
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Defense of Tuberculosis
Germ Broken Up By Drug
Speaker lo Tell
Details of Hoover
Commission Study
As a part of the campaign by
the Oregon committee for the
Hoover report to inform citizens
of this state about the facts con
tained In the report, Mrs. Frank
Taylor, Portland, will speak at
an open meeting today at 8 p.m.
in the senior high school audi
torium. Mrs. Taylor, chairman of the
speakers' pool for the Hoover
report, is making a series of ad
dresses in various cities of the
state and is appearing here un
der the sponsorship of the Med
ford Business and Professional
Women's club.
Bipartisan Volunteers
The Oregon committee for the
report is made up entirely of
volunteers, it is stated, who are
Interested in "better government
at a better price." The state
committee is bipartisan, Mrs.
Taylor points out, as well as the
report itself. She calls attention
to the fact that the commission
was bipartisan, with Herbert
Hoover as chairman and Dean
Acheson as vice-chairman.
Mrs. Taylor formerly worked
under E. B. McNaughton, first
chairman of the Oregon commit
tee who was recently replaced
by Milton Kahn, also of Port
land. Mrs. Taylor, who by pro
fession is public relations direc
tor for Goodwill Industries of
Oregon, is considered one of the i a four month period with strep-
state's outstanding speakers
There is no charge for the
lecture and anyone interested is
invited to attend.
Portland, Ore.. Apr. 26 U.P.)
Sen. Wayne Morse, (R., Ore.),
will return to the state from
Washington Tuesday to open his
campaign for re-election. Herb
Cox. state chairman for cam
paign announced today.
Bv Paul F. Ellis
United Press Science Editor
Washington, Apr. 26 U.R)
A "break through in the defense
of the tuberculosis germ against
the wonder drug streptomycin
was reported today at the annual
meeting of the National Tuber
culosis association.
Doctors said the development
was an important step in the
battle to overcome the greatest
handicap of streptomycin the
fact that the TB germ eventual
ly resists the drug
Known As Killer
The report on the cracking of
the germ's defense came from
Col. Carl W. Tempel, and a
group of other U. S. army doc
tors who have been conducting
studies at the Fitzsimmons Gen
eral hospital, Denver, Colo.'
Streptomycin has been known
as a "killer of the TB germ in
human bodies. But treatment is
slow and the germs gradually
develop a resistance to the drug
meaning that once a patient
has developed that Immunity he
no longer can be helped with
streptomycin.
Dr. Tempel said he and his as
sociates were using a chemical
known as para-aminosalicylic
acid, or pas, for short, in con
junction with streptomycin.
The army doctors found mat
the combined treatment was def
initely effective in delaying the
appearance of resistant strains.
They experimented with a stag
gered course of treatment over
tomycin given every three days
and pas every day. ordinarily,
streptomycin would have lost its
effectiveness before the end of
such a period.
Tempel said that 102 patients
now are being given the com
bined "staggered' treatment.
Tests are being made at regular
intervals to determine whether
the resistant strains of TB are
showing up.
Up to now. he said. 18 patients
have been treated for 120 days
and 14 for ISO days without the
appearance of the resistant
germs. Significantly, the longer
streptomycin treatment can be
administered, the doctors say,
the better chance for a complete
arrest of the disease.
Soma Overlapping
The doctors conducted strepto
mycin treatment alone on a
group of patients for 120 days.
It was found that resistant TB
germs began lo show up in 23
per cent of the patients after 60
days of treatment, in 36 per cent
after 90 days, and 73.5 per cent
after 12.0 days. There was some
overlapping 'in the tests.
Tempel said that In another
group of patients, both strepto
mycin and pas were given dally
for 120 days, with the result
that no resistant type germs
were found after 60 days treat
ment, but 19.2 had resistant
germs after 90 days and 33.1 aft
er 120 days.
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