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.
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