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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, November 29, 1953 Cufover Land Owners May List Land Under Law Salem 'U.R) Owners of cut ever lands in six western Ore gon counties will have an op portunity to list their lands un der the forest fee and yield tax law in time for the 1956 tax roll, the State Forestry depart ment said today. "Public hearings will be held In Douglas, Marion, Yamhill, Clackamas, Washington and Co lumbia counties early next March to consider classification. Applications to come under the law should be filed with the state forester before Dec. 15. Five Cents an Acre Lands coming under the for est tax act pay five cents an acre in lieu of the property tax The low rate enables owners to retain title to cutover lands un til thev can grow a new tree crop. When the timber is har vested, the county is paid a 12V4 per cent yield tax. This tax re imburses the county for any dif ference between the five-cent rate and the regular property taxes. The reforestation act is in tended to stimulate ownership of cutover and logged lands through the five cent per acre feature. Currently, about 950, 000 acres in 18 counties have been placed under the law. Classification of the lands must be approved by both the state forestry department and tax commission. The forestry department has urged all own ers of cutover lands to investi gate the possibilities of classify ing their properties under the act. World of Geography Notes Golden Anniversary on Job Missing Texas Man Found in California Portland U.R) Jack Jetton, 49. a Dallas, Tex.,' insurance salesman who had been reported missing after disembarking from a ship at Astoria Oct. 26 has been located in California, Detective William L. Taylor said he was notified today. ' Jetton had returned from an eight month business trip to Korea. Police had been asked to look for him when he failed to keep an appointment with his sister, Mrs. Gerald Collins of Springfield. Washington Fifty years ago, a young newspaperman named John Oliver La Gorce took a job with a Washington scientific so ciety whose total staff then numbered three. The organization was the Na tional Geographic Society, 17 years old in 1905. It published a slim scholarly journal that went to a few thousand members chiefly professionals interested in geography as an abstract science. Today, the National Geo graphic Society has a member ship of 2,150,000 living in every country on earth. Its staff now numbers some 900 employees The young man, John Oliver La Gorce, has become the Society's president and the editor of its well-known magazine, whose Sherry Fong Case Rested by Slate; Ruling Deferred Portland (U.R) The state rested its case against Sherry Fong last night and Defense At torney Irwin Goodman immedi ately moved for a directed ver dict of acquittal for his client who is accused of murdering a former Portland high school girl. ' 1 Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dob son deferred ruling on the mo tion and the trial movedinto its third week today. Witness Robert Richards said he was told that Diane Hank had 'committed suicide because she was jealous of the money, clothes and other possessions of Sherry Fong. Richards, a special policeman, said his testimony was based on statements to him by Mrs. Fong. He said she told him she discovered-Diane's body and also a suicide note, explaining that she didn't reveal the note to police because she didn't like policemen. Richards said she told him she moved Diane's body so that po lice would have to hunt for it and have a "sensational case." Dr. Homer Harris, former state crime lab head, and two other pathologists testified that the high school girl died of bar bital poisoning or a combination of barbital and alcohol. : " TTTsEE THE II I ! -LIGHTED 1C YEAR'S BIGGEST TRADE-IN II TOP III ; I IFRONT lr"" -C 'Optic Filter 4 jfe. t !gf! 1 Screen I ;j!!!TC""g'!' Mahogany Finish lwyT I GIANT 21" TV fsSrjl with FREE W Stand UO i The Claremont yj i 270 sq. in. Aluminized lg .... t , -r&Fn Optic Filtered against ' g&J " 1 glare for added detail fJ W$h &fisc , m I phone 111 Smart Mahogany Finish 3-5433 Ml See Them at . ... f ? COUEVS Open Wednesday Until 9 P.M. APPLIANCE STORE 321 East 6th In the Littrell Parts Bldg. subjects embrace the world and living geography in the broad est, popular sense. In recognition of Dr. La Gorce's golden anniversary with the Society, and of the part that he has played in making its name a household word, the Geo graphies Board of Trustees hon ored him at a dinner Nov. 17 at the Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Md. Wins Grosvenor Medal A high point of the occasion was the presentation to Dr. La Gorce of the Board's "Grosvenor Medal." Created in 1949, and first tendered to Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, former president and editor and now chairman of the Society's Board of Trustees, the award represents a full century of service shared by the Grosve-nor-La Gorce team in building the National Geographic Society and its magazine. Dr. Grosvenor presented the medal in behalf of the Board. As the inscription reads, it goes to Dr. La Gorce for "outstanding service to the increase and dif fusion of geographic knowledge" a phrase long familiar as the objective of the Society itself. In recent weeks letters, have been pouring' into the Society's Washington headquarters ex pressing congratulations to Dr. La Gorce. Among them were communications from President Eisenhower, Vice President Ni xon, Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles and members of the Cabinet. The President, in a letter be fore his recent illness, wrote in part: "Please accept my personal congratulations on your fifty years of outstanding service to geography, to education and to science. Contributed Much "Through a long career you have contributed much to the expansion of knowledge and the increase of interest in your field, in our country and abroad. With your associates and friends who honor you for these achieve ments, I join in the hope that your future years will be as happy and productive as those of the past. Sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower." Geographic and , scientific organizations in all parts of the world, from the Royal Geogra phical Society in London and the Association of Japanese Geographers in Tokyo to the Geographic Society of Finland in Helsinki, have aaaea ineir good wishes. So have District of Columbia Commissioners, gover nors of the several States, per sonal friends, and many mem bers of the National Geographic Society. Some of the letters were read at the commemorative dinner. In one form or another, all paid tribute to the man whose work has been the recording, often with wide-felt effect, of changing life in the last half century. Astoria Newspaper Receives UP Scroll Astoria (U.R) A scroll, com memorating more than 40 years of United Press service to the Astorian Budget, was presented to Publisher Robert B. Chessman today. The presentation was made by John W. Kerr, United Press Portland bureau manager, on be half of Frank H. Bartholomew, president of United Press, and Fred J. Green, UP Pacific di vision manager. The scroll, signed by Bartholo mew, states that the Evening Astorian Budget has been a part of the world-wide news distri bution system of the United Press continuously since March 25,1912. Banker Named Head Of Portland Group Portland flJ.R) Banker Car vel Linden today was elected as new chairman of the Exposition- Recreation Commission here. Linden, vice-president of the U. S. National Bank of Portland, succeeds James H. Polhemus who resigned last week. Thadeus Bruno, appointed to the commis sion last week, was elected se cretary-treasurer. Linden, upon taking the chair, suggested that a vote on a site selection for Portland's new cen ter be taken Dec. 21, but Bruno asked that the date be left open until he has a chance to view studies on site selection. About 4,5000,000 American families now own more than one automobile. Daily's U-Drivs Medford Airport Attorney To Appeal Gal Wrestling Ruling Oregon City -lU.R) Attorney James Goodwin said here today that he has filed an appeal to Clackamas county Circuit Court from the District Court decision that held Oregon's new law ban ning women from wrestling is constitutional. m Goodwin represented Jerry Hunter, a woman wrestler ar rested in Oregon City for partici pating in a wrestling exhibition. Goodwin indicated he intended to use the case to test the consti tutionality of the new law, passed by the 1955 legislature. He contended that the law is class legislation and therefore unconstitutional. It forbids wom en from acting as a wrestler, a promoter or manager of wres tling exhibitions. Freight Car Lack No Longer Exists ' Salem (U.R) The freight car shortage emergency no longer exists, State Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Helt zel said today. A declaration of car shortage emergency based upon the sup ply of freight cars available on the Portland division of the Southern Pacific was issued last June 1. Heltzel, noting that "it now appears that the supply of freight cars presently available on said division is reasonably adequate," said that the declara tion of car shortage emergency is rescinded. The Upper Peninsula of Mich igan has 150 waterfalls. SCIENCE AT WORK New York (U.R) When 62 babies were born at St. Thomas' hospital were taken home by parents, 57, or 92 per cent had staphylococci in their noses. Worse, 55 of the 62 had staphyl ococci which had learned how to deal with penicillin most suc cessfully. When the mothers entered the hospital to have their babies, only 17 of the 62 carried staphyl ococci in their noses, and only one of these 17 colonies of the dreadful little "bugs" was able to resist the deadly chemical embraces (deadly for bacteria) of penicillin. But when the mo thers left the hospital, 30 of the 62 harbored staphylococci in their noses, and 15 of the 30 were strains "resistant" to peni cillin. There, in concentrated form, you have one of the most diffi cult problems of medical science. It may well be unsolvable. On one hand you have penicillin and other antibiotics which have the miraculous power of wiping out staphylococci and other disease-caused bacteria like crazy. But on the other hand, you have the startling ability of all these bacteria to change themselves chemically in such a way that they can resist any of the anti biotics. Cross-Infection If the day ever comes when all disease-causing bacteria have become resistant to all the anti biotics, medical science will be back just where it was before the antibiotics were discovered there will be no sure-fire way of wiping out disease-causing bacteria and thus curing, prac- By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor tically overnight, the diseases they cause. So the problem is a matter of prime and urgent interest 'to science and should be to laymen. We couldn't live without our bacteria.- There are innumerable varieties. Most are helpful in one way or another; only a rel atively few sicken us and kill us. But they all get around, wheth er helpful, harmless, or harmful, with the utmost freedom. Even in the antiseptic atmos phere of even the very best hos pitals. Now St. Thomas' of Lon don is one of the world's most scientific hospitals. It has a fa mous medical school, and prac tically from the advent of peni cillin it has been keenly aware that disease-causing bacteria be come resistant and has been try ing to deal with the riddle of hospital "cross infection." That is why the study of 62 women who had their babies in St. Thomas' was of so much in terest to scientists. The study was made by Dr. Mary Barber, a bacteriologist as well as a med ical doctor, who has been devot ed to the problem for years. Two Ways Of the 31 nurses in the matern ity ward the nurses who at tended the 62 babies, 17, or 55 per cent, had staphylococci in their noses. Fourteen of those strains were penicillin-resistant. Dr. Baker felt that "in most cases the babies had acquired their organisms (staphylococci) from the nurses rather than the mothers." Some of the resistant strains were potential pyogenes that is, puss-causing and, therefore, Infectious. Yet there was not one case of serious infection. She also examined the staphylococci in 100 other hospital patients who were ill of staphylococci in fection. Fifty-nine of these strains were resistant to penicil lin, 30 to streptomycin, 26 to oxtetracycline, and three to chloramphenicol. " . She saw two ways of "attack ing" the problem. One was the keep "clean" surgical cases in "a clean ward." By "clean," meant isolating patients com pletely free of staphylococci from patients who harbored even latent ones. The other way was "the intelligent use of antibiot ics." 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