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.
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COOLED BACK TO COOLER
Gaff ney, S.C. (U.R) The' heat
got-credit for an assist-ih the re
capture of two escaped convicts
near here. The pair, who had
fled North Carolina prison 'farm,
were caught when they got out
of their stolen automobile to
cool their feet in a creek.
City Employees To Remain
On State Retiremen Fund;
Zone Change Gets Approval
Results of a secret ballot con-
ducted among city employees to
determine if they wanted to stay
under the state retirement fund
or to put themselves under fed
eral social security were an
nounced in the city council meet
ing last night at city hall. The
employees will stay under the
state retirement plan.
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.
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ordinary" rise, it said, may be
prolonged exposure to" indus
trial fumes and automobile ex
hausts. WHO said the death rate from
cancer and other malignant tu
mors is now 187.2 per 100,000 in
the population of England and
Wales as compared with a 1901
figure of only 84.2. Statistics
from almost every other country
showed the same doubling of
death rates.
The statistics for the United
States showed an all-time high of
133.9. compared with 66.4 per
100.000 in 1901.
Cancer Death Rate Doubled
During Fifty Year Period
Geneva, Switzerland vU.P.)
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. Officers
reported he broke into a box car
in which he thought there was a
liquor shipment. Actually, they
said, it contained only empty
beer bottles.
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