TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. May 17, 1935
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' BLOSSOMLAXD From San Francisco's Golden Gate Park into
uepiune county, uregon, Keawood Empire is ablaze with rhodo
. dendron and other Spring flowers. Pretty Carole Nielsen is pic
; tured in a typical roadside setting in .Mendocino County as Fort
5Hl!g.C0.In.pletes Plans for its annual Rhododendron Festival May
28-30 in MacKerricher Park.
Small Doses of DDT
Given Dogs, Rats To
Learn Harmful Effect
By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) If the burn
ing question of what tiny
amounts of DDT and related in
secticides are doing to human
beings can be answered by what
tiny amounts do to dogs and rats,
the answer is that they seem to
do nothing in particular.
There is no argument about
what large amounts will do to
human beings, rats, dogs, or any
animal. Large amounts are
quickly fatal. The argument in
science is how large must the
tiny amount be before the ac
cumulation of many tiny
amounts beings to harm people.
Drs. Joseph F. Treon and
Frank P. Cleveland of the Col
lege of Medicine, University of
Cincinnati, fed the extremely
poisonous chlorinated hydrocar
bons insecticides, of which DDT
is one, to rats for two years. That
is most of the life span of the
rat. Each meal the rats had dur
ing that time contained 25 parts
per million of DDT or a relative.
Dogs -More Sensitive
In theory that's a poisonous
level even for human beings if
it is consumed day in and day
out for a long time. But Treon
and Cleveland reported in a
Communists Reject
American Protest
Tokyo (U.R) The Commun
ists have rejected an American
protest of an attack on U.S.
planes off North Korea last
week, Radio Pyongyang report
ed today.
The broadcast by the official
voice of the North Korean re
gime labeled the protest a ""dis
tortion of fact." It said the Red
Chinese MIG15 jets did not start
the air battle, but were attacked
by American planes.
Maj. Gen. Li Feng Cho, chief
Communist delegate on the
Korean military armistice com
mission, sent the protest to the
United Nations delegation Mon
day, the broadcast said.
The U. S. Air Force reported
that two MIGs were shot down
and two probably destroyed in
the dogfight May 10 between
eight F86 Sabrejets and from
12 to 16 MIGs over international
waters.
The Reds claimed one Sabre
jet was destroyed and two others
damaged in a battle started by
the Americans when they in
truded over Communist Chinese
territory.
Go To A Doctor?
Geo. N. Taylor
Sure, when you get sick, you
go to a doctor, and he puts you
on your feet. By that he does
you good for
this world. But
when you sin,
the d o c t o r's
medicine can
not set you
r i'g h t "to i t h
God. Only the
sinless b 1 o od
of Christ can
do that.
Line up all
the people who
hear Grid's of
fer of eternal life and you have
two kinds. ONE Such as will
decide. Tell them that the sin
less blood of Christ washed their
page clean forever: At that thev
accept Christ as their own Lord
and Saviour and God writes
their name in his Book of Life
Others put off and put off and
die lost. At Judgment they meet
their sins and go on to eternal
hell. You choose Christ's cleans
ing blood? Then God gives you
eternal life. Being saved, grow
up. By daily Bible and Prayer,
Grow Up. This Message spon
sored by a Washington County
Dairy man and family. adv.
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technical journal of the Ameri
can Chemical Society, that the
lives of their rats were not short
ened by this diet, that their
growth rates were not affected,
but the weights of their livers
in relation to total body weights
"were somewhat on the high
side."
The dogs were much more
sensitive. The chlorinated hydro
carbons in ratios of 10 to 50
parts per million "induced fatali
ties after periods of feeding
ranging from several days to
several months, they said.
When the poisonous parts per
million were reduced to three or
fewer, the dogs seemed unaf
fected over prolonged periods ex
cept that the insecticide, Diel
dren, at 2.5 parts per million,
seemed to reduce the number of
pregnancies of any given female,
but without reducing litter size.
Humans Involved
However, accumulative affects
were indicated in the livers of
both rats and dogs. In the rats
there were degenerative changes
in the cells which the scientists
called "minor" and, from the
cellular viewpoint, "non - spe
cific. In the dogs, prolonged
dosages of Dieldrin seemed to
enlarge their Iive'rs but DDT
and Lindane didn't.
All this is of sharp personal
interest to human beings because
the chlorinated hydrocarbon in
secticides are in such wide
spread use that practically all of
us are bound to get a whiff from
time to time, if only in the form
of residue on fruits and vege
tables. The residues are tinier than
tiny. They can't even approach
one part per million. But chlori
nated hydrocarbons do accumu
late in body fats, especially the
liver there isn't much scientific
argument on that. But some med
ical scientists maintain that the
accumulations must eventually
add up to impaired health, and
even to premature death.
Rhododendron Show
Due at Fort Bragg
Fort Bragg, Calif. One of;
nature's most colorful wildf low- j
er displays was nearing peak j
beauty today as Fort Bragg pre-1
pared for its annual Rhododen-j
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aion icsuvai may o-ov. jl
Sponsored by the Chamber of j
Commerce, the festival will open
a three-day rhododendron, art'
and flower show, starting May
28, in the Fort Bragg Grammar
school auditorium.
In addition to rhododendrons,
displays will include flowers
and shrubs grown in and around
Fort Bragg, oil painting, water
colors, weaving, ceramics, wood
and leather carving, copper ham
mering and jewelry.
MacKerricher State park,
near Fort Bragg, will be the
scene of an outdoor celebration
on May 29. The program will
include band music, crowning
of the festival queen, folk danc-
ing and singing. j
A Memorial Day program,
sponsored by veterans organi
zations, will be held May 30.
Religious Demands
Concern Delegates
Guatemala City, Guatemala
(U.R) Delegates to the National
Constituent assembly were con
cerned today by the demand of
the head of the Roman Catholic
church in Guatemala that the
catholic religion be granted
priority in the new constitution.
Archbishop Mariano Rosell
protested in a letter to the as
sembly that a proposed article
in the Constitution providing for
lay education was "discrimina
tory" because 99 per cent of all
Guatemalans are Roman Catho
lics. I
Some delegates said the let
ter created a "very grave" prob
lem because a majority of the
people follow the dictates of the !
prelate.
Siamese Girls Die;
Autopsy Scheduled
Detroit (U.R) An autopsy
will be performed today to de
termine the cause of death of
Siamese twin girls less than 34
hours after their birth.
The twins, joined by a six-inch
strip of flesh from the upper part
of the breast bone to the abdo
men, were born to Mrs. Richard
Herring, 27, by Caesarian section
Sunday.
They died while physicians!
sought to determine how many
organs they shared. Doctors said
they were fairly certain the
twins had separate stomachs but
were unable to determine
whether they shared the same
heart, lungs and liver.
Dr. Glen Hause, pediatrician
in charge, said it was possible
that their death resulted from
lack of oxygen supplied by a
shared set of lungs.
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