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Average Earnings
Of Production
Workers Increase
Salem, Ore., May 19 -iU.K)
Average weekly earnings of Ore
gon's production workers in
creased in March to $66.53, best
level of the year but slightly
under the high of $67.57 in De
cember of 1949.
Reports from more than 400
large manufacturing plants
showed an average hourly wage
for industrial workers of $1.72,
highest figure yet released by
the Oregon unemployment com
pensation c om m 1 s sion in co
operation with the U. S. bureau
of labor statistics.
The January average weekly
wage dropped to $60.72 and Feb
ruary came back to $64.18.
Wood Products Lead
Lumber and wood products
led' the advance in March, jump
ing $3.61 from the previous
month to a new 1950 top of
$69.88 for a week of 38.8 hours
at $1.80 a nhour. The weekly
average for lumber was $6.95
higher than in January but
slightly under the high of $70.52
for last October.
Lumber production is increas
ing in all parts of the stale be
cause of better demand and high
er prices, and officials look for
1 the April and May reports to
show still higher wage levels.
An average work week of 43.5
hours in plywood and millwork
plants compared with 40.5 hours
in February was responsible for
much of the March increase.
Printing and publishing still
led in March with a weekly
wage average of $76.16.
Profitable Business
Year Seen in 1950
Memphis, Tenn., May 19 UP)
Secretary of Treasury John W.
Snyder predicted today that
1950 will be "one of the most
profitable business years in our
history."
Snyder told the Tennessee
Bankers association that "the
fact that last year's business re
adjustment did not unsettle the
economy has created a justifi
able feeling of confidence."
He said rising industrial pro
duction, plant and factory ex
pansion, booming home building
and automobile production are
the healthy signs.
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Science
Research Men in Laboratories Are "Unsung Heroes"
Fight io Develop New Wonder Drugs
By Paul F. Ellis
United Press Science Editor
New York U.R The "un
sung heroes" of this day of won
der drugs that are giving man
better health and longer life are
the scientists in the research lab
oratories. They are the men who know
that the so-called "wonder" or
"glamour" drugs are not "com
monplace," but are the result of
long, painstaking and sometimes
heartbreaking efforts to discover
the drugs and then find ways to
make them in mass production
so that all may benefit.
Robert Lincoln McNeil of Phil
adelphia, who has just finished
a term as president of the Ameri
can Drug Manufacturers' associa
tion, expressed it this way:
"The tortuous path to medical
discoveries is opened by the
work of thousands of scientists
associated with our nation's re
search and teaching institutions.
These unsung researchers are
constantly moving into unex
olored regions of human knowl
edge in the basic sciences. Very
often, the "miracles" are the ap
plication of knowledge thus un
folded. Though we contributed
to the support of basic research,
either through direct participa
tion or by financial support, the
most important contribution of
the pharmaceutical industry is
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the conversion of the basic
knowledge into effective thera
peutic agents."
Final Tests Worked Out
McNeil pointed out that after
the conversion that is the task
of converting the discoveries into
drugs to be used for humans
the hospitals and clinical doctors
take over. They do the evaluat
ing of the products, and the final
decision rests with them.
"After research is successfully
completed, ours is the responsi
bility for efficient production,"
McNeill said. "This involves a
tremendous research and devel
opment effort of another kind.
To use an outstanding example,
penicillin was first discovered by
British scientists. The assistance
of American industry was sought
for the speedy development of
sufficient production to meet
war-time needs."
The story of penicillin is well
known. The American drug in
dustry produced it on a mass
scale. Later, new and improved
types of penicillin were pro
duced. Drug to Treat Polio
Another spokesman for the
A.D.M.A. is Carson Frailcy, ex
eccutive vice president, who
pointed to the competition be
tween members of the drug in
dustry as a good sign for the de
velopment of drugs that will be
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effective against virus disease.
He said:
"The competitive drive toward
development of newer anti-bi-otics
(drugs) to supplement the
miracle of penicillin has uncov
ered agents effective in some vi
rus conditions. Continued pro
gress in this field leads to the
hope that even potential polio
victims may be among the suf
ferers who will benefit."
Frailcy also believes that com
Dctition between drug manufac
turing firms will bring better re
sults than production by govern
ment supervision. He recalled
the race for synthesis of ACTH
and Corsitone, two of the newest
"glamour" drugs.
"The winners in this competi
tive race ultimately will be cho
sen by the medical profession
through its practitioners and its
research clinicians." he said. "It
is my opinion that we are mov
ing faster toward our goal than
we would have moved if govern
ment had succumbed to the pres
sure of last summer to take over
the project."
Gov. Dewey Weakening;
May Seek Third Term
Albany, N. Y., May 19 (U.R
Governor Thomas E. Dewey
New York's chief executive since
1943. indicated today he is weak
ening in his desire to quit poli
tics and may seek re-election to
a third term this fall.
The governor said he would
give New York republican lead
ers a definite answer when he
returns from vacation June 9.
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Taliulah Bankhead
Claims Employee
Swindled Money
Washington, May 19 (U.R)
Actress Taliulah Bankhead
claims a former woman em
ployee swindled her out of some
S20.000 during the past year or
so. She hopes to get some of it
back because, she says, she needs
the money.
"I know I make $5,000 a
week," she said, "but where does
it all go?"
Miss Bankhead, currently ap
pearing here in "Private Lives,"
told newsmen yesterday the em
ployee changed the figures on
some 100 checks she received
from Miss Bankhead for ex
penses. When she first discovered the
practice, Miss Bankhead said, she
was inclined to be lenient. But
she changed her mind, she said,
after the employee threatened to
circulate "malicious, vicious and
unfounded" reports about her
private life.
"When somebody suggests
blackmailing me, 1 m ready to go
at 'em with everything I've got."
she said. "Nobody ever black
mailed a Bankhead because there
never was anything to blackmail
a Bankhead for."
She has instructed her attor
neys to file a formal complaint
with the district attorney s oV
fice in New York after they cony
plcte their investigation of her
cancelled checks.
Fluid Determines
Sex, Scientist Says
New York. May 19 IU.R) A
Belgian scientist reported today
a revolutionary technique of de
termining the sex of babies be
fore birth.
The test, according to Dr.
Pierre A. Rosa, of the University
of Brussels, has been tried on
25 pregnant women and the re
sults were satisfactory.
Rosa made his report at the
fourth International American
Congress on Obstetrics and
Gynecology. Rosa's technique in
volves the injection of a needle
into the abdomen of the prospec
tive mother and withdrawing a
small amount of the amniotic
fluid, in which the embryonic
child is immersed.
A laboratory test of the fluid.
Rosa reported, will determine
whether the child to be born is
a boy or girl.
Friday. May II. 1SS0
Azalea Festival at
Brookings May 20, 21
Brookings, in Curry county on
the coast, center of the native
Oregon azalea area, will the
scene Saturday and Sunday1, May
20 and 21, of the annual azalea
festival, Brookings is the loca
tion of the Oregon state azalea
park, a 33-acre tract of azaleas
growing in their natural state, i
now coming into full bloom.
Festivities will begin Satur
day at 11 a.m. with coronation'
of Queen Leta Hassett, who will
reign for the two-day festival,
attended by Nancy Vincent,
Phylis Darger, Mary Ann Bid
die and Beverly Hill. Court
members are Juniors and seniors
at Brookings high school.
At noon Saturday, a flower
show will open with arrange
ments of various types of flow
ers on exhibit. The queen's ban
quet and ball will be held that
evening, with Ralph Cohan,
Portland attorney, as principal
speaker.
Sunday will open with church
services at 11 a.m. At noon a
wild hog barbecue, free to the
public, is scheduled. A baseball
game has been arranged for the
afternoon.
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