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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1952)
Glamorous Pear Aim of Reimer In Experiments F- C. Reimer, horticulturist with the Southern Oregon Ex periment station for many years, now retired, is continuing his efforts to develop a more at tractive pear. And he says that thic year his three-year-old seed lings look extremely promising. Realizing that eye appeal is extremely important in the mar keting of fruit, Reimer began some years ago to try to breed a more colorful pear a pear of large size, high quality and with red coloring. Many variet ies of pears are not especcially attractive, he declared. In fact many of the best - tasting pears are quite unattractive. Reimer noted that the reddest of apples and peaches are the ones that sell most rapidly. It was his intention to develop a pear that would be able to com pete on the fruit stand with these more gaudy fruits. Most of the fruits in Southern Oregon are greenish-yellow, he noted. He thought it would great ly improve the appearance of the area's pears if they could be developed with a red cheek. Keimer iirst tried crossing sekel with cornice pears. The product was red, all right, but it also was very small. So he then turned to experimenting with the crossing of various pears with two red mutations max-red bartlett and royal red hardy pears. Despite his retirement from the experiment station, Reimer has continued his work and has many red leaved and barked seedlings that he expects to start bearing fruit in the next few years. He said the seedlings are being hurried to the bearing stage. "It is highly probable," he added, "that these red seed lings will also bear red fruit." Fifty-five per cent of the seedlings produced from a cross ing of max-red bartletts with bartlett pears have red leaves and bark. About half the seed lings resulting from the cross ing of bartletts with royal red hardy pears are red. 12 Unaccounted For In Alaska Hotel Fire Fairbanks, Alaska (U.R) Twelve persons still were unac counted for Wednesday as crews continued the grim task of sift ing through the blackened ruins and ashes of the Pioneer Hotel. Five persons already were list ed as dead. Eight others were burned, one critically, when the old Alaska landmark burned to the ground early Monday. THET LIKE DICK AND IKE-Senator Richard M. Nixon (right) of California, Republican candidate for the vice presidency, finds his neighbors ready with a campaign sign on his arrival in Wash ington from the G. O. P. national convention. Holding the sign boosting the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket are, left to right: Barbara Green, Moscow, Idaho; Anne Wilson, Bethesda, Md.; Marilyn Coombs, Ross, Calif., and Marlene Paulsen, Oakland, Calif.' Brannan Wants Fighting Campaign for Farm Votes Washington (U.R) Demo-I high mandatory price supports crats will wage a fighting cam paign for the farm vote this year if Seqretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan has any thing to say about it. Brannan told a news confer ence Tuesday the party should advocate high mandatory price supports, a support program for perishable farm products and generally blast the "negative" and "phony" language in the Re publican farm plank. Criticizes GOP He also criticized the GOP platform as a "negative docu ment" and said the Democrats "deserve to lose" if they can't come up with a better one. The Democrats began drafting their platform in Chicago today. with the farm plank scheduled to be one of the most controver sial issues along with the touchy civil rights question. 'Phony 'Language' Brannan described the Repub lican platform's endorsement of "full parity prices for all farm products in the market place" as "phony language." He said he "certainly", hopes the Democrats will be more specific. Brannan, who will be one of the chief targets of the Republi cans this year, said he favors to protect both farmer and con sumer. ' Endorses Supports V While he now endorses sup ports pegged at 90 per cent of parity, he said that level is still "only 90 per cent of fair." But he said supports any higher would not be "realistic" a't this time. , Brannan said he would not propose his so-called .."Bran nan Farm Plan" to the Demo crats this year. But he said he certainly would recommend "some kind of support prcferam" for non-storable commiities such as dairy products arid .eggs. SPECIAL DRESS EVENT at the... COTTONS - - NYLONS - - SHEERS SUN DRESSES DRESSY OR CASUAL STYLES . Beautiful NEW Dresses . . . especially purchased for this event. 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Councilman Stanley Jones read the results compiled by the mayor's election board. Ninety four voted for the federal plan and 36 for Hie state plan, but a 75 per cent majority was re quired before a change would be made. The majority for social se curity was 72.3 per cent. Water Main Accepted The ordinance calling for a trunk water main on Jeanette street from the south city limits to West Main street was unani mously accepted. The council also called for a hearing August 5 on the rezon ing of the north side of West Jackson street between Holly and Woodstock. There was some confusion whether the planning commission had recommended a change to zone 3 or 3B, so Re corder Ralph Woodford was re quested to poll the commission. Both classes are commercial zones, but there is a difference in set-back restrictions. A city owned lot at Washing ton and 10th streets was sold to Joe Crawford, Cargill court. After the sale was completed a motion was made and adopted that the city will not be respon sible for the surveying of the lot. The council voted to assume the expense of preparing polls and of publicizing an election to bring into the city a small peninsula of non-city area near Siskiyou boulevard and Modoc avenue. John E. Westlund, 727 Keene Way drive, who is carry ing a petition for the annexation, asked for this assurance that the people in the area would not have to pay those expenses. Bills Turned Down At the recommendation of Councilman Dwight Houghton, of the finance committee, two bills were turned down until fur ther study is made. One was from Community hospital and requested $222. It was the bill for a man who was taken there by the police and had stayed there there 21 days. Houghton argued that the welfare commis sion should pay at least some of the expense. ' The other bill was from, the humane society. The city was charged for '"overhead" and "advertising," and Houghton charged the city's contract with the humane society does not call for such expenses. The meeting was adjourned until July 22 when several pav ing bids are to be awarded. Wednesday. July'l6. 1952 Carnival Trapeze Man Killed by 75-Foot Fall Blue Island, 111. (U.R) A Hun garian trapeze artist fell 75 feet to his death Tuesday night while a crowd of about 3,000 carnival goers looked cn. Stephen Hegedus, 47, plunged to the ground when his descent rope snapped. His partner, Rena Martini, 24, of Paris had just de cended the rope. . Hegedus and Martini had just finished their acrobatic and aer ial performance at a Veterans of Foreign Wars carnival when the mishap took place. The crowd was still milling around the area when he fell. MF.rjrQttn fOREGONl MAIV TRIBUNE FIVE HOME FREEZERS Mora savings .for you! yes, double savings! 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The World Health organization said Wednesday that cancer ap parently kills twice as many people as it did 50 years ago and that Great Britain has the highest cancer death rate in the world. However, WHO said it was a "burning question" whether this global increase is a . "slowly progressing epidemic" or only a statistical increase due to bet ter diagnoses in recent decades. Real Increase Dr. M. Pascua. director of WHO'S division of health statis tics, said a number of reputable pathologists "hold the view that a real increase, even if .generally a slow one, has actually taken place in modern times." The report said a "spectacular rise" in deaths from cancer of the lung in the last 20 years, particularly among men, con tributed heavily to the general increase. Smoking was cited as an "important factor" in cancer of the lung. Risk Increases WHO quoted a 1950 investiga tion of lung cancer carried out by the Medical Research Coun cil of England and Wales which suggested that "above the age of 25 the risk of developing can cer of the lungs increases in simple proportion with the amount smoked." The London report said thisH risk "may be approximately 50 times as great among those who smoke 25 or more cigarettes a day as among non-smokers." Another factor in the "extra- English Queen Recovers From One-Day Illness London U.R; Queen Eliza beth II, apparently recovered from the "chill" which kept her from her cousin's wedding to a former actress Tuesday, carried out her scheduled program at Buckingham Palace Wednesday. The Queen had been schedul ed to attend the wedding of her cousin. Gerald Lascelles, 27, to a commoner, Miss Angela Dowd ing, 33-year-old one-time actress, at St. Margaret's church, Westminster. Fort Worth. Tex. (U.R) Arrest of the man seemed like adding insult to injury. 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