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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, January 23, 1958 Atomic Research To Bring Progress In Food Industry Chicago U.P.) Research with the atomic age's new scientific tools will bring major prograss in food production and process ing, an industrial research scien tist predicts. . Dr. W. M. Urbain, associate director of the Swift & Company research laboratories, told the Chicago Agricultural Club that gamma radiation can change the characteristics of plants and ani mals. Atomic radiation also can sterilize and preserve food, he added. Research is under way in sev eral laboratories to find practi cal uses for these techniques in increasing food yields from crops and livestock, Urbain pointed out. He said gamma ra diation has a mysterious ability to alter the genes present in chromosome bodies on which species' inherent characteristics depend. "Hitherto, we have been de pendent largely upon the natural occurrence of mutants, Urbain said. "The use of gamma radia tion brings this process more nearly under our control and may prove of immense value in producing new species of grains and other crop plants. Food Research The scientist cited an experl ment at Brookhaven National Laboratory in which scientists created a new variety of oats which yielded well yet was re sistant to a particular strain of oat rust. The variety was pro duced in one and. one-half years, Urbain said, compared to at least 10 years required to achieve a similar result through conven tional plant breeding methods. "Mutations can be produced in animals as well as in plants," Urbain said, "but so far this ap pears to be in the future." -' The use of atomic rays to ster ilize food promises a revolution ary method of food preservation, Urbain said. "There is a great deal of re search going on this method, and, while promising in many aspects, the process currently is being held up primarily because of an undesirable characteristic off-flavor produced by the radia tion," he explained. Grades by Present Yale Students Better New Haven, Conn. (U.P.) Yale University students are ma king better grades than . their predecessors. The university said this first was noted immediately after World War II and was ascribed to the influx of mature veter ans. Now the number of vets is dwindling but the high marks remain. Q Associate Dean Richard C. Carroll said this is because col leges are getting the "cream" of the nation's youth and because " more students strive for super ior grades to qualify for gradu ate and professional schools. Studying became such a vogue at Yale that nearly half, of the undergraduates qualified for the Dean's Honor List by maintain ing an average of 80 per cent or more. Now the requirements have been stiffened in include only those in the top 25 per cent of the class. Farm Problem Said To Be Ever Present. Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.PJ A University of Michigan econo mist said the United States al ways will have a t"farm prob lem" because the human stom ach is the ultimate farm market. "Almost every other com munity has an expansible mar ket as prosperity advances you can buy several cars, homes, television sets, washing ma chines, toasters, etc.," said Prof. J. Philip Wernette of the school of business administration. "But the farmer's ultimate market, the human stomach, just can't absorb all that increasing farm productivity is making pos sible." Sailor Finds Small Town Has Advantages Allegan, Mich. (U.PJ A letter from a sailor addressed to only "Tony's sister, Allegan, Mich." convinced a Grand Rap ids, Mich., sailor that living in a small town has some advantages. The letter was mailed by Rog er (Tony) Nichols and D. R. Wil liams after Nichols told Wil liams living in a small town was better than living in a big one because everybody knew every body in a small town. Williams doubted the state ment and the two sailors decid ed to test it by mailing the let ter. It was delivered promptly. ' Williams and Nichols are serv ing on the destroyer escort USS Owens. Accurate mapping of the Grand Canyon was not complet ed until 1923. 4. -fciM i i It i n ) MhKE IT TASTE BITTER v3 if j -a a P t i i V r CA M Whew! See how this little walloper fought breakfast before his mama discovered Holsum Bread. Now he WANTS to eat more. Especially when she butters him up with hot Holsum toast, apple rings, scrambled eggs and bacon. Delicious with Holsum toast And does it hold, crispy-helps you balance breakfast so deliciously. Eggs, bacon, apple, they're nourishing all right. But Holsum Bread gives him that extra energy boost Serve it with Holsum and he sure. No more guesswork with Holsum vitamins and minerals on your side. Look for the protective Holsum orange red wrapper-it keeps this goodness fresh and health-building for you. . Buy Holsum Bread today and watch your ,. .-"ri- Make It fiasfte 1 X fn I inn & i t. i i him till noonr You bet! Only Holsum toast-hot and son eat like this. PMIDUCT yes mam if he fights eatina breakfast Ibeftfteir rf aim
