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Ei m tt tt e- o P t i i 3 O O o " f c o W 1 1 o o ' . o o Ike's Lungs Sinuses Clear Washington U.PJ Doctors have determined that President Eisenhower persistent cough ! conducted in Medford and Hood Reports on Pear Storage Tests Highlight Short Course Session Frldar. February 22. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Reports on pear storage tests I od, the buildup of carbon diox- ctfoes not stem from a sinus or luB congestion. ?he 0 President's lungs and sinuses were X-rayed Thursday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. White House Press Secretary James C. Haerty said after wards that the X-rays turned out "what they called negative both the sinuses and the lungs were clear." Hagcrty said both Dr. Howard McSnyder, Ihe President's phy sician, and Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, hospital commandant, described the President's condi tion as "fine" except for "a cough." Mr. Eisenhower has suffered from a persistent cough since In auguration Day Jan. 20, when he stood outside for nearly four hours in cold, damp weather watching the inaugural parade. He apologized for the cough to his national TV-radio audi ence Wednesday night at the op ening of his speech orrthe Mid tie E;it crisis. The President left the White House for 'ihe hospital late Thursday afternoon with Dr. nyder. He returned in less than an hour. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower was taking a spray treatment for his scratchy throat. River with polvethylene bags were among highlights in Thurs day's session of the perishable food loss prevention short course held in the Jackson coun ty courthouse auditorium Wed nesday and Thursday. About 110 fruit growers, ship pers, handlers, carriers and con tainer company representatives attended the course from Ore g o n, Washington, California, Idaho Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Canada. Combined reports of W. M. Mellenthin, superintendent, Mid Columbia branch experiment station. Hood River, and Elmer Hansen, Oregon State college horticulturist, were presented in the final session on the sub ject of polyethylene bag storage tests. Control Concentration The tests were directed pri marily at controlling the concen tration of carbon dioxide gas in polyethylene bags and plastic line boxes used to package pears. The popularity of the use of poly bags was noted in the report. More than 3 million were used during the past season in attempts to extend the keeping quality of fruit through mois ture retention, Mellenthin said The main problem of the meth- KJeirei? Eot7 Chevrolet TfaoEx-Foree 57 TtacExs THE ONLY TWICE-PROVED NEW TRUCKS ffcfny proved and performance proved ... tie world-famous G.M. 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As a general rule, Mellenthin said, pears with the higher respiration rates such as Bartlett and Bosc tend to develop higher carbon diox ide contents in the bags. Lower Rales Even varieties with lower rates of respiration such as the d'Anjou produce carbon dioxide in amounts which become criti cal from the standpoint of brown core. Experiments at Hood River during the past year also showed considerable varia tions in carbon dioxide of pears from different parts of the val ley. Fruit respiration and accumu lation of carbon dioxide is also greatly affected by tempera tures, it was pointed out. Respi ration of fruit increase eight fold when moved from 30-de-gree storage into temperatures of 65 to 70 degrees. Carbon di oxide content increased from .5 to 2 per cent up to 7 and 10 per cent. Difficulties of controlling car bon dioxide levels in poly bags are that some of the holes may be covered up during packing with the results that carbon di oxide concentration tends to ap proach that of sealed bags. This was overcome to considerable degree by using more perfora tions, Melenthin said, but often results in too much aeration that nullified to great extent the value of bags for moisture re tention. Another Method Another method tried experi mentally was use of polyethy lene coated kraft paper as box liners or as large shrouds to cover a 36 box pallet. Tests .show that such material main tained carbon dioxide concen tration in the range of .4 to 4.4 per cent in the case of box lin ers and .8 to 3.2 per cent in the pallet covers. Mellenthin be lieves this type of material may have possibilities for commer cial use if certain handling prob lems can be worked out. A paper on irradiation and perishable foods was presented by Dr. John P. Nielsen, nuclear engineering section, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Calif. Dr. Neilsen reviewed the brief history of the research carried on by the Armed Forces and private industry in the field of food preservation by the use of irradiation. He noted that pri mary research has been in the fields of sterilization and pas teurization but predicted that the next great milestone in food preservation would be in the field of irradiation. Gamma. Bela Ray To date, no studies have been made on the effect of gamma or beta ray irradiation of pears, but Dr. Neilsen said much of the work done with other perish ables would be useful in deter mining the practicality of its use with this fruit. - Remarks by Dr. G. W. Wood bury, agricultural department, University of Idaho, chairman of the concluding session, ended the course. Wednesday's meeting featured reports on loading of pears in A lugs by E. H. Collins, Gate load Manufacturing company of Medford; and result of tests of transit temperatures in carloads of pears with various icing methods, H. A. Schomer, senior physiologist, U.S. department of agriculture, Wenatchee,- Wash. A tour of local packing and storage facilities was conducted Wednesday afternoon. In charge of local arrange ments for the meetings were representatives of the Medford Pear Shippers association and the Jackson county extension service. The Family Council Ertltiir'i nnta: The Family Counrll rnnsktf of m 1ud?e. a DSTChiatrist, three clergymen, m newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Eacb articJe is a summary of an aettia report. The Family Council does not give advice; It merely reports on problems Utat have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Mrs. D. M. My daughter-in- law calls my clubs silly. Frances M. I'm not used to a small community. Mis. D. M. My son and his bride recently settled in our community after having lived in another city for six months. I am very active in church anil other activities here and I was very eager to bring my new daughter-in-law into contact with all the nicer women. Imagine my surprise when Frances said she didn't like club work, she didn't like women and she had no intention of "wast ing" her time getting involved in church bazaars and "silly teas." I am extremely hurt. The work we do is far from silly or time-wasting. I, alone, have raised thousands of dollars for charity and groups that I head have attracted considerable at tention because of the worthi ness of the causes we advance. My friends all assume there is bitterness and hostility between me and my daughter-in-law and she has set tongues wagging all over town. Frances M. Before we moved here, I told my husband I wasn't used to living in a small com munity, and I didn't feel I could adjust. to the very things that are making for trouble now. I am accustomed to lots of per sonal privacy and I don't like to have my time taken up by proj ects in which I am not interested. My mother-in-law had hoped to enhance her prestige by bringing me into her groups. I had a rather glamorous job in the city before I was married and my mother-in-law announced to me the first day I got here that "the girls" were all impa tient to meet me. I didn't come here to be looked over or shown off or to "set tongues wagging." I have told my husband that his mother is making it impossi ble for me to live here. I have had my career and now I want to live a quiet life, fussing about my home until I have a family. The Council These two strong minded women have fallen into a most unpleasant trap and are headed for a great deal of trou ble and misery unless they can learn to be more understanding of one another. Mrs. D. M. let her excitement and pleasure at having her daughter-in-law near her run away with her and assumed far too domineering a position one which any bride might resent, more especially a young woman new to the community. Frances may have come to like Mrs. D. M.'s groups and her friends if she did not feel that she was being pounced upon before she got her breath in her new life. On the other hand, Frances came into the community on the defensive and started to battle her mother-in-law at the first hint of intrusion on her person al privacy. A smile and a tactful explanation of the understand able fact that she was more in terested in her new home than in club work at this time might have been sufficient to tone down her mother-in-law's over eagerness. She had no right to attack, as she did, all of this woman's activities. She may come to feel, later on, that these groups are not so silly or time wasting as she now assumes. These two women owe one another apologies. Mrs. D. M. I should let Frances know she is ; welcome in any of the groups j as soon as she feels inclined to enjoy this kind of activity, but j that she will not be urged to -join against her wishes. Frances j should let her mother-in-law know she plans to keep an open ' mind about the groups until such time as she feels inclined to test them for herself. (Copyright 1957, General Features Corp.) SWEET AND SOUR Saigon, Vietnam (U.R) The English language is spread ing, sometimes awkwardly, in South Vietnam where nearly ev eryone learned French in the old colonial days. An American ! woman said "No" to a young Vietnamese girl who was sell ing peanuts at the Continental Hotel's sidewalk tables. "Go to hell, s'il vous plait," the girl replied. 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