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Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1955 Pages 1-6 Foreign Pedigrees In Grain Varieties Geneva, N.Y. CU.PJ Prac tically all the present commer cial grain varieties in the United States carry germ plasm trace able to foreign parents, accord ing to a plant expert at the state agricultural experiment station here. "Also 55 or 56 potato varie ties released since 1932 in state and federal breeding programs are reported to have one or more foreign introductions in their pedigrees," pointed out Dr. D. D. Dolan, regional coordinator of the northeastern regional in troduction station. For this reason, Dolan says, is it important to grow, evaluate and distribute plant introduc tions from abroad. In a current project, Dolan is studying among other plants, ' an alfalfa from Spain which has a distinctive branching habit, a serpentine melon from Afgani stan a cucumber from Korea and a tomato from India. He said all may have characteristics that may prove valuable to plant breeders in this country. Besides Looking for desirable traits that might be used by plant breeders, the station preserves seeds of older varieties to guard against loss of germ plasm that might be wanted in the future. Beauty Treatments Major Part of Spring Cleaning CLEANED Hartford, Conn. (U.R) While Mrs. Antose Papekas was teking a bath, a thief tip-toed Into her apartment and cleaned out her wallet which contained $400. Adolph Sutro helped the first San Francisco Arbor day in 1886 by donating thousands of trees and encouraging school children to plant them in public places: Kent, O. (U.R) In the spring, a home-owner's fancy turns to fancying up his grounds. This is the season when shrubs and trees take a trimming. Arboreal beauty treatments are an important part of spring cleaning, but too much haste may spoil the job. Most deciduous shrubs should not be trimmed until after they have flowered, advises Martin L. Davey, Jr., (president of the Davey Tree Expert Co.). Prema ture trimming may destroy buds before they can display their beauty. Pruning directly after the flowers fall is good time tested practice. Severe Shearing Evergreens should be given a severe shearing late in March or early in April. The freshly barbed look will be gone by sum mer and shrubs will be better groomed and more vigorous. But those evergreens which show signs of winter injury shouldn't be trimmed until the growing season is well under way. Cutting off dead-looking brown sections may remove fo liage that would survive, if left intact. When new growth ap pears on main stems and trunks, all injured parts should be re moved. It's also a good idea to give evergreens a spring bath. If they grow in metropolitan areas or smokey sections of the country, chances are the leaves have be come covered with soot during winter months. Besides interfer ing with tree breathing, soot cuts off the sunlight needed for proper health and growth. Tree Feeding A strong spray from a gar den hose, washing carefully from bottom to top, should be sufficient to clean away most of the soot. Evergreens require this sea-' sonal attention more than decid uous sorts since they must wear the same clothes for several years, instead of getting a new wardrobe every spring. Both evergreens and decid uous trees may require extra food to recover from the rigors of winter. It is virtually impos sible for them to get the same food supply from lawns and backyards as nature provides in the woods. For shrubs and shrub ever greens, the quickest method is to broadcast fertilizer over the entire bed area and incorporate it into soil by cultivation. Punch Bar Method For trees, feeding is done most often by the punch bar or auger method in order to spread ferti lizer throughout the root area. Holes are punched about 18 inches deep and spaced one foot apart. Equal amounts of ferti lizer are placed in each hole. Then the holes are filled with loosely-packed peat moss, shred ded manure or topsoil. Trees have big appetites and can store food as camels store water. Proper feeding means re newed vigor, longer life. Al though homeowners often esti mate that 25 or 30 pounds of fertilizer is enough for the aver age shade trees, Davey said his experts have found that the do sage should be in direct relation to the size of the tree and area of root spread. Mature speci mens often demand 100 pounds or more. ildinq To Include Jellyfish belong to a very large group that includes sea anemones, corals and sea fans all forms equipped with sting ing cells. In California about 50 per cent of power generated is hyd roelectric, compared with 30 per cent nationwide. Offices, Residences Chicago (U.R) Plans have been announced for construction of a new type, 15-story building that will include both offices and residences for professional occu pants. Arthur Rubloff & Co., a realty firm, announced that the struc ture will be built on Chicago's near north side. It will be the first multi-storied duplex, office residence building ever built. The $2,000,000 building will hcuse.48 duplex units. In each unit, the top floor will be the office and the bottom floor the residence and each unit will have its private staircase. Tenants will be doctors, com mercial artists, interior decora tors, photographers, engineers, architects and the like. A ten ant must rent both an office and an apartment. The building, "X" shaped to provide maximum sunlight, will be completely air-conditioned. The builders said it will open up "a new way of business life. "Innumerable man hours will be saved by the individual, since the only time elapsed from home to office and from office to home will be a stairway of one flight," the xirrn said. Volcanologist Credited With Saving Hawaiian Lives Salem (U.R) Five bills de signed to give the Oregon Rac ing Commission tighter control over horse and dog racing meets in Oregon have been signed by Gov. Paul L. Patterson. Washington (U.R) A Senate public works subcommittee has approved a bill to increase the authorization for replacement of Indian fishing grounds made un usable by Bonneville dam from 50,000 to $185,000. The last of San Francisco's fire horses was retired in 1921. Pahoa, Hawaii (U.R) Dr. Gordon A. Macdonald is a hero today in the eyes of the volcano plagued people of the Puna coast. The 43-year-old volcan ologist is the man they credit with saving their lives even when he couldn't save their homes and land. Macdonald is a tall, gangling, scholarly appearing Californian who looks every inch the scien tist he is, but very little like the hero he is considered to be. He is a hero to residents of the Puna district because he looks at a volcano from a human as well as a scientific viewpoint. They believe he is largely re sponsible for preserving Hawaii's record of never having a fatal volcanic eruption in modern times. Only Installation Macdonald runs the Hawaii volcanic observatory at Kilauea crater in the heart of Hawaii's volcanoland. The observatory is the only installation of its type in United States territory. He went far beyond his call of duty as a government scientist during the recent eruption in Puna. Macdonald's job was to study the progress of the eruption and lava flow with his trained eye and scientific measuring instru ments. But when he saw thai life was endangered, he took command of evacuation and se curity operations during the awesome eruption the first in modern American history to occur in a populated area. He told the Civil Defense peo ple and the National Guard which places should be evac uated. He iold police where to set up roadblocks for the protec tion of eager sightseers. He com forted evacuees and reasoned with territorial legislators, some of whom viewed the eruption with more alarm than necessary. He took valuable time to brief reporters, taking pains to give them a complete and accurate picture of the situation. Drive-in Variety The ordinary Hawaiian vol cano is the "drive-in", variety, situated in a deep pit where spec tators can stand safely on the edee and watch the fiery show - .. iii i i mmmm in m With a phone in the lutchen, Mom can Recalls and make them without "dropping everything Extend telephone convenience to any pair at your nome i In the living room, where the family spends lots of time, a telephone is a great convenience for everyone. It's a comfort, indeed, to have a bedside phone that you can xach for easily ... without having to get up, By having an extension phone in every room that's used a lot, you can take the run out of run ning your home. For an up-to-date arrangement like this is a real time- and step-saver. When ever you want to take or make calls, there's always a phone within easy reach. How much for this added convenience? Lit tle more than you pay now. And if you like, you can have your extensions in any of eight full colors or four two-tone combina tions. Takes only a couple of minutes to order, too. So call your telephone business office today ... or tomorrow sure. Take life easy. . . each extension phone costs less than a nickel a day. An extension phone in the workshop is a handy tool for Dad, lets him talk without leaving his pet project Pacific Telephone below. The recent Puna erup tion blasted open among sugar cane fields, small farms and near several small villages. Macdon ald's cool-headed directions were of immeasurable value in the confusion that resulted. Macdonald said he regretted that the unexpected responsibil ities thrust upon him prevented him from studying the scientific aspects of the eruption as much as he would have liked. How ever, he said, he adheres to a theory of volcanology that recog nizes the human as well as the scientific aspects of an eruption. A lot of people on this island are glad he does. Food Lures Ducks From Trip To South Milton, Pa. (U.R) A nock of 75 mallard ducks here decided against the traditional trip south ward and instead spent the win ter months on the chilly waters of the Susquehanna River. Food provided by Milton resi dents was an important reason for their decision to stay. The mallards began to gather on the river last year. Later game officials inspected the ducks and their new winter en vironment following reports that some of the birds had died of starvation. They said the ducks, "natural beggars" and easily tamed, were far from starving. The officials said the ducks were in good condition and even were '.'spoiled" by people's atten tion. The ducks have been fed so long, officials believed, they have forgotten how to forage. They warned that feeding should be continued throughout the winter months but should be stopped in the spring to permit the ducks to resume natural feed ing habits. For the dairy marketing year ended March 31, 1955, produc tion was 123,000,000,000 pounds compared to 122,400,000,000 for the preceding 12 month period, the U.S. Department of Agricul ture has reported. California has the largest re maining stands of virgin timber in the United States. The Star Spangled Banner was first sung Sept. 22, 1814. CAUA mwM RELAX With o o o rpsrp s$gM buEl II f HE a r f. i., ' A
