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.
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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." With most of them, she' said
in her report in The Lancet, "lo
cal treatment for long periods
is one of the bestways of rend
ering an organism resistant."
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