SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tutiday, June 25, 1957
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TV Stimulates Readining by Children,
Author of Children's Books Declares
'Double Blind' Test
Shows Cobra Venom
Not Pain Killer
BY WILLIAM EWALD
United Pril Correspondent
New York !IP Sunshine,
oatmeal and rich old uncles
aren't the only things good for
growing kids. TV it, too.
At last that's the word from
Mrs. Nora Kramer, author, lec
turer and adviser to publishers
in the field of children's books.
Mrs. Kramer, a member of the
children's book committee of the
Child Study Association of
America, feels TV stimulates
reading for small fry.
"Anyone who says that TV is
APPLEGATE-JACKSONVILLE
fcSafive Plants Studied
By HELGA MITCHELL
' AppIegte-Jacksonville The
O Applejate valley and adjacent
' areas of the Siskiyous consti-
' tute one of the most uniquo
, (pot in the world, as far as na-
O lue plnt life is concerned, and
Xew are aware of it, according
rlo Mercel Le Piniec, who oper-
e th Garden Center nursery
at Phoenix.
Le Piniec, a botanist, lectured
on wild plent life in night classes
tponeored by the Medford cham
ber of commerce at the senior
high school this spring.
Mr. nd Mrs. Ed Ramsey, own
ers of a Grade A dairy here, de-
uring to revive a hobby that en-
iViRed their interest during the
earlier part of their life in South
ern California, attended the
classes, and now are launched
upon a hobby that has started
them and a few other local peo
ple to combing the mountainous
regions of the Siskiyou area in
eearch of wild fiower life to
transplant in their garden.
Contributing to the basic study
of this area were lectures by C.
Warren Fairbanks, naturalist of
Crater national park, who gave
the geological history of the
Siskiyous, and talks by Dr. Elmo
" Stephenson of SOCE on princi
pals of botany. Boyd Klein of
Medford, authority on native
lilies, taught that subject at the
classes.
Field trips have been made to
Illinois valley and Oregon moun
tain areas, where azalea and
darlingtonia plants were ob
served. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey,
.ho enjoyed photography in
earlier years, are combining
modern photography, and are
taking moving pictures of field
fevents. Further trips will be
made to Dead Indian, Union
; creek, Dutchman's peak and
; "W h i s k e y peak. Mrs. Harry
Helms, veteran air raid watcher
-jin Whiskey Peak during World
War II, will lead an expedition
to that area. Delmar Smith, well
known rock collector and nature
observer of Central Point accom
panies the group on field trips.
Mrs. Lance Offenbacher also ac
companied the group, and it is
expected that others in the com
munity will join the search for
plants. The group has learned
J to pack their uprooted plants for
a safe journey home.
several days on a business trip
in Seattle.
There are numerous "tall"
tales from Texas, but one was
verified this week in a letter
ancP clipping from Mrs. Walter
Rhodes, formerly of this com
munity, which stated that 11 oil
wells have been drilled on a city
garbage dump there, and that
drilling will start soon on a
c:ty prison farm.
Women of the Little Apple
g.te sewing club announce that
tr eir . June meeting has been
cancelled.
A program at the Ruch com
munity church Sunday morn
ing completed a successful week
of daily vacation Bible school,
which had an average attend
ance of 83 youngsters. Church
attendance Sunday totaled 138.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. "Red" Ran
ney and daughter Sharon return
ed a few days ago from a two
week's motor trip to Flaxton,
N.D., where they visited Mrs.
Ranney's father. Otto Brandt,
a retired railroad man. In the 18
year period since Mrs. Ranney
had visited her home state, she
said that over 10U0 oil wells
have sprung up in the rolling
prairies of North Dakota and
neighboring Saskatchewan.
Contrary to this picture of
progress, Mrs. Ranney stated
that the grade school which she
attended, had not changed, and
she visited with several of her
primary teachers. Mr. Ranney
also visited the scene of his early
school days, in Wenatchee, and
said that the school there had
not changed. The Ranneys vis
ited relatives in Seattle and
viewed Yeliowstone national
park, coming into intimate con
tact with the park bears. They
camped out on the trip.
Youngsters of the Junior boys',
club of the church, accompanied
by the Rev. Earl Best, went on
an overnight camping trip to
Squaw Lake Thursday with cat
fishing as a special activity. The
nine boys went prepared to do
their own cooking, and one boy
was reported to have been prac
ticing breaking an eag before he
left home. This week the Junior
girl's club will take a camping
trip to Hiatt lake.
Mrs. Jaceqi'.eline Lewis and
Mrs. Virginia West of Kansas
City. Mo., recently spent a week
with Mrs. Lewis' parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James E. Bishop, of
Jacksonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Farrand re
ported a son, David Wayne, was
born to their son and daughter-in-law.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Far
rand of Orland, Calif.
Mrs. Lloyd Shannon is con
fined to her home with a broken
ankle, which occurred when she
fell on the steps of the Medford
public library a short time ago.
The Harold Reed place, near
Copper, was sold this month to
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hackett of
Foots creek. The deal was trans
acted by Edward Kubli of T. J.
Hight realty company. Mr. and
Mrs. Hackett, who have a daugh
ter and two sons of grade school
age are residing on their new
ranch, formerly known as the
Dorn place. Mr. and Mrs. Reed
are residing in Jacksonville,
where he is employed at the
cold storage plant.
killing off reading among child
ren is just uninformed," bristled
Mrs. Kramee. "Studies on this
thing have been made in librar
ies all over the country and they
show just the opposite.
- "Nature and science books are
very big now among children
and much of this impetus comes
from TV shows. Biographies are
in demand by children because
of their exposure to hero-type
adventure stories on TV. Shows
like 'Disneyland' and 'Robin
Hood' constantly stimulate reading-.
"Up until this yast year, tales
of fantasy were moving every
slowly. But suddenly fairy tale
books have become hugely suc
cessful. Why? Well, in the past
year TV has turned to many fairy
tales for its spectaculars."
Mrs. Kramer, who has three
children and five grandchildren
brushes off those who decry
violence in children's shows.
"I'm not a pussyfooter about
this," she said. "I don't object to
adventure stories with lots of
action. Action provides a release
for children. It does them a lot
of good to get up and stomp
around.
"They need this excitement
within the bounds of good taste
by this, I mean without things
like mutilation or the showing of
blood in color. But I see nothing
wrong with shooting in Western
shows.
"There's no reason why par
ents should be afraid of sadness
or human emotion in children's
TV shows. There's no reason why
parents should be afraid of show
ing death. We shouldn't shield
our children from human ex
periences. They're much tougher
than we think."
TV, said Mrs. Kramer, has
proved a boon in other areas of
child education. "It's certainly
improved the vocabularly of
children," she said. "Words they
may have read, but didn't quite
understand are suddenly illumin
ated when these words are used
on TV.
"And TV illuminates life it
self for children. It fill in corn
ers of their minds. Quiz shows,
I thing, have done a wonderful
job of stimulating children.
When that little Robert Strom
boy was on 'The S64.000 Ques
tion' I think many children ident
ified themselves with him and
become more curious about
ideas."
However. Mrs. Kramer does
have one big reservation about
TV she dislikes the attitude of
many family-type situation
comedy shows.
"They show the father or moth
er as fumbling idiots," she said.
"They don't treat parents as
warm human beings, but just
look at them contemptuously, j
This type of show is far more ;
of a danger than any shooting
Western."
BY DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York IT The "double
blind" test, which is used by
scientists in seeking unchal
lengeable truth, has tested the
poisonous venom of the cobra
as a pain-reliever in human
beings and found it wanting.
It also provided additional
proof thabthere is a quirk in hu
man nature which permits peo
ple to "gibe up" their plans, in
order to please some person who
is sympathetic, understanding
and trying to do something to
help them.
For some 25 years there have
been reports that a very little
corba venom had the magical
power to relieve pain from such
undoubted pain-causers as arthri
tis and cancer. '
Enthusiastic Reports Appear
Cobra venom was prepared in
vials mixed with formic and sil
icic acid. E n t husiastic reports
began appearing in medical liter
ature. But there was no "double
blind" .test. That was under
taken by Drs. Lf-onard E. Meise
las and Austin A. Schlecker of
the State University of New
York Medical School in Brook
lyn. They had a batch of vials
prepared which were labeled
"A", "B" and "C."
The "A" vials contained formic
acid only, the "B" vials cobra
venom mixed with formic and
silicic acid, and the "C" vials
contained the acids without the
venom. It was impossible to tell
the vials apart except by their
letters.
Now the stage was prepared
Supreme Court Term Sets New
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human beings.
When the "double blind" was
removed, it was revealed that
formic acid alone and formic
and silicic acid together had af
forded "considerable" pain re
lief for as many patients as has '
the two combined with cobra
venom and no one has ever
found either acid to be a pain
reliever.
But either alone or together,
they afforded "some" relief to
more patients than they did
when combined with cobra
venom. And the same numbers
of patients found no relief for
their pain from any of the three.
The report of the doctors was
published by the Medical Soc
iety of the State of New York.
Their results, the doctors said,
"emphasizes that the continued
interest of the physician, the
participation of thq patient in a
research project, and his desire
to please the physician by re
sponding to the drug may be
some of the factors that are re
sponsible for his positive reaction."
Slenderizing
Mrs. Bill Barker underwent
treatment in the Ashland hos
pital for several days last week.
Information on rose culture
was brought to 18 Applegate
Valley Garden club members
Wednesday by Mrs. Robert Sorb
er who showed rose branches
with various infections and ex
hibited numerous bugs and pests
which damage roses. A talk on
insecticides was given by Mrs.
Ed Goodwin. The club will be
inactive through July and Aug
ust and will meet again in September.
During the absence of this
columnist next week, those hav
ing news items to contribute are
asked to telephone TW 9-1333.
Recent guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Twiss at Star
Ranger station are Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Foss of Long Beach. th2
latter a former resident, and Mr.
Tw'ss's brother and family. Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Twiss. of Red
lands. Calif.
Robert Colvin is spending
Rural reflection: With the re-;
turn of the warm season, a
feathered friend has appeared
for the third year at the home j
of Mrs. Stella Winningham. This :
is a one-legged black bird who
refused to divulge the secrets of i
his winter w hereabouts. Another
unaccountable bit of doings in
the bird world occurred when a
local banty rooster by the name
of "Pearson" went to the roost
er crow at Rogue River and dis-1
graced his folks. "He will crow ;
at home, but he wouldn't open !
his cock-eyed bill down there," j
said a spokesman for the
family. 1
Girls See Festival
Play Rehearsal
Ashland Twenty two junior
and seenior high school girls of
the Mcintosh Girls Pipe band,
en route from their home in
Vednon, B. C. to San Francisco
witnessed a rehearsal of "Henry
VIII'' at the Elizabethan Thea
tre in Ashland Saturday night.
The bagpipe and drum unit
will appear in several events at
the Lions International Conven
tion in San Francisco June 25
to 29. They will be representing
all the Lions Clus from Dawson
Creek. B. C. to Othello. Wash.
Now in its tenth year, the
pipe band tours extensively.
While in the Rogue Valley, they
played at the Medford junior
high, during the regional Lions
conclave at the Craterian Thea
ter, and also paraded through
Medford streets. Following the
Saturday night rehearsal, the
girls collected autographs from
the Festival company, and con
tinued on to the Bay Area via
chartered bus.
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pha O. Lane, 57, Florence, was I
killed Monday when struck by
a car as she crossed Highway
101 to her mail box three miles
south of here. The driver. Dewey !
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Mrs. FDR Denied
Visa To Red China
New York UP Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt said today she had
asked for a visa to visit Com
munist China, but was turned
down.
"I made application and was
told that, as yet, no newsmen
was permitted by our govern
ment to visit Communist China,"
Mrs. Roosevelt said in her col
umn. My Day. The column is
distributed by United Features
Syndicate, Inc.
"I stil hope that the State
Department may find it possible
to allow all correspondents who
wish to gather news from this
area of the world to go there if
the Chinese will allow them to
enter.
"I beljeve it might be easier
to learn some things in, China
than in the Soviet Union. But
I am anxious to go to the Soviet
Union, too," she said. "Since I
cannot now go to China, I hope
that I will be able to visit the
Soviet Union in the near future."
LOGGER KILLED
White-" Salmon, Wash. (IP
Louis McKenzie, 55, White Salmr
on, was killed Monday in a log
ging accident north of here.
Washington UP The Su
preme Court today looked back
on a long, arduous term which
set new landmarks for individ
ual freedoms under the Consti
tution. The justices will sit again
July 8 to hear the case of GI
William S. Girard, whom the
government wants to turn over
to Japan for a manslaughter
trial. Except for that, their work
is finished. The term has already
lasted longer than most.
This term saw the addition
of two new members Justice
William J. Brennan Jr., who re
placed retiring Justice Sherman
Minton last October; and Jus-i
tice Charles E. Whittaker, who
took the seat of retiring Justice
Stanley F. Reed in March.
DuPont Rapped
One recent decision included
a new interpretation of anti-j
trust law with a finding that
the huge DuPont Corporation :
has been guilty of monopoly j
tactics. Du Pont owns 23 peri
cent of the stock in General
Motors.
Only last week, in three de
cisions which are still echoing
through the capitol, the court
slapped down both the execu
tive and legislative branches of
the government.
Ordering the acquittal of five
California Communists convict
ed of conspiracy and a new
trial for nine others, the court
laid down new principles for
prosecutions under the Smith
Act. Speaking for the court. !
Justice John M. Harlan said the
law does not bar preaching the
violent overthrow of the gov-
ernment, even with evil intent,
unless some concrete action to
ward that end is involved.
In another precedent-shatter-;
ing opinion, Chief Justice Earl '
Warren reversed the contempt: j
of Congress conviction of Illin !
ois labor leader John T. Wat-1
kins, who had refused to Identi !
fy persons he had previously j
known in the Communist move-
ment. Warren said legislators
who encounter an unwilling wit
ness must tell him "the subject
under inquiry at. the time and
the manner in which the pro
pounded questions are pertinent
thereto."
Another Harlan opinion set!
aside the 1951 firing of veteran j
career diplomat John Stewart
Service by former Secretary of
State Dean Acheson. Harlan
found the secretary had violat
ed the regulations he himself
set up for such discharges.
Must Reveal Reports
Earlier this month, Brennan
spoke for the court in an area
long the subject of intense con
troversy the circumstance1!
under which the FBI must re
veal secret reports.
Brennan held that if the gov
ernment puts an informer on
the witness stand at a criminal
trial it must also supply on de
mand the reports about the ac
cused made by the informer to
the FBI. The report can be used
to check on whether the witness
is telling the truth.
If the government objects to
this procedure, it can drop the
prosecution, Brennan said.
The court also this term freed
two women convicted of mur
der by overseas military courts
maritial on the ground that they
were entitled to a civilian trial
Obscenity was one of the few
areas where the court cracked
down on individuals. Monday it
upheld the constitutionality of
the Federal Obscenity Law as
well as New York and CalifornH
statutes. The court held that
"obscenity is not within the arei
of constitutionally protected
speech or press."
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