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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thunday. July J5. 1SST Balsam Woolly Aphid Gets Study InOSC Forest Service Project Corvallij The balsam wool ly aphid, a tiny European insect that is threatening the true fir iorests ol Oregon and Washing ton, is under study at Oregon State college in a cooperative re search project with the U.S. for est service Pacific Northwest forest and range experiment sta tion, Portland. The aphid is now in epidemic itage in Pacific silver fir and subalpine firs in western Ore gon and Washington. Some 356, 000 acres of trees were infested in 1956, according to forest serv ice estimates. The true firs include silver, subalpine, grand, noble, white, Shasta red fir, and others, but not Douglas fir. Noble and Shas ta red fir are least affected and appear to have some degree of resistance to the aphids. The OSC research will be fi nanced by a $5,860 grant from the Pacific Northwest forest and range experiment station. It will support work by Russell Mit chell, graduate student, who will work under the direction of Dr. J. A. Rudinsky, forest ento mologist. Entomologists from the Pa cific Northwest forest and range Experiment station also will rve as advisers on the project yitchell is on the forest service ation staff in Portland this :t'mer and is assigned to the aphid problem. Although the aphid is tiny Oily about l24th of an inch loe the control problem is extremely complex, Rudinsky o one way has been found to ring the aphid under complete ftgitrol in any of the other areas turope, Canada, and eastern V9 where it has been found endier. Chemical control is Xtd only for small, localized intonations, including nurseries. EOS and difficulties in applica nt, combined with limited ef Xtttiveness, make it largely im J;rtical for field control. V of predators or insects lit feed upon the aphids has fct tried with reasonable Sue em in other areas and will be under the cooperative for ts rvlce OSC research. A i linen t of about 10,000 pre fious insects has been given t t!s forest service by Canadian kils for the tests. The preda ccs insects are not harmful i ay way and have a "taste" onl for the aphids, Rudinsky no's. 9lm predator insects were bfCSrftnt to Canada from Europe, lwe the aphids have been a pr)fcm for decades. No native prrtvtors have been found in Canada. Checks will be made as fjrt of the study to determine hther there are any "feeders" on the aphid in this region. SV i Control T help control the infesta tion such drastic measures as cuttir and burning have been recommended in some parts of 5 rope and in northwestern United States. $!vage logging is underway in the Northwest, Rudinsky ncalh the bark surface. Salivary injections at the feeding points affect the cell walls and produce swellings or "gouts" that inhibit bi.6 rowth and eventually kill the tree, he said. cHbl to Beetl Firs seriously weakened by Ih aphid Become susceptible to noted, but care must be taken to see that these operations do not help spread the aphids to healthy areas. Salvaging dead trees killed by the aphids holds no danger, since the insects died with the trees. The aphid feeds on the tree with a sucking tube, which may be several times as long as its body. It inserts the tube into the living tissue immediately be- tfwv lb GRIEF-STRICKEN Mrs. Marie Ficalora (right) is comforted by a cousin mo ments after she was in formed at Oyster Bay, N. Y., that her son, Salvatore, 11, had drowned. Pollsters Advised To Check Subjects Chicago IW A University of Illinois research economist , has suggested that public opinion pollsters check their subjects to see if they know what a ques tion is all about in addition to having an opinion on it. Prof. Robert Ferber said that public opinion polls can go all wrong by using the answers of persons who are uninformed on the question they are asked. Ferber analyzed a study of opinion polls in a article pub lished in the Journal of the American Statistical association. He found that persons who are asked a question they know nothing about dislike to admit their ignorance and reply hap hazardly. He discovered that when they give an uninformed answer, they divide about equal ly on a question with two alter native replies. Ferber also found a high cor respondence between self-interest and knowledge on a given question. He said laborers tend ed to know more about the mini mum wage, and the higher in come groups were better in formed on government bond yields. Hot Rod Club Formed To Promote Safety Rapid City. S.D. ilfl A hod rod club has been formed here to promote hot rod activity, "good fellowship and sportsman ship." "good government" and "highway safety." Articles of incorporation for Rapid Shifters Inc., were filed with the secretary of state in Pierre The organization will have no capital stock and will be non profit. It will also conduct races, time trials, demonstrations and safety programs. Highway Funds Claimed Diverted Boston npi The Automobile Legal Association estimates that 130.000 miles of new highways could have been built with highway funds diverted to other purposes in the United states since 1934. Approximately $4 billion, ori ginally earmarked for highway projects, has been diverted for such purposes as mosquito con trol, oyster propagation, un employment relief, and the like, the ALA said. 'In this manner, the year 1956 alone saw this country lose 5,150 miles of new highways," the ALA elaborated. "New Jer sey, an by itself, lost mues last year by diverting highway funds." The Oklahoma Turnpike, the New York Thruway and the Florida Sunshine (State Parkway all toll facilities could have been financed with highway funds which those states divert ed, said the ALA. Twenty-seven states have amended their constitutions to specify that highway-use taxes must be spent for highway pur poses only. But the other 21 states have no anti-diversion amendments. These states are Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, ' Oklahoma, Nebraska, Utah, Wis consin, Illinois, Indiana and New Mexico. "In fairness to a few of these states Connecticut for example it is to the credit of the state legislature that the highway fund has been used for its in tended purpose. . ." said the. ALA. Westerners are sweet on Spreckels Granulated Sugar... 1 e s 1 1 1 I 6 e 1 a I I 9 ...'cause it looks so pretty in the brand-new, bright- S new Spreckels Sugar 8 bag I And it's extra-thrifty B in the'2, 5, 10 and 25- S pound bags I V m m ? m m m jm jm. their bark beetle enemies also. The "woolly" part of the name comes from the fact that eggs and adults are covered by a woolly material that can be seen on the bark. The insect overwinters as a tiny larva with its mouthparts or tube inserted into the bark of the tree. Early in the spring, it begins to feed and its development starts. Ad ults are formed in warm tem peratures of April or May. The aphids are spread mainly by wind during the crawler stage of development and also by birds and other animals. ' 3 CRASHING INTO CORNFIELD, 150 yards from tracks, these two cars of crack Cote DAzur Express are among seven which jumped tracks, killing 17 persons and in juring more than 100 passengers, in France. (International) Doctor Finds Method Of Measuring Kidney Chicago B A Howard University professor says he was found a new method to measure dimensional changes of the kid ney. Sheridan Perry, assistant pro fessor of physiology at Howard, told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biol ogy that the new method makes use of small c-shaped" caliper like devices which include a strain gauge. Perry said the device trans forms the dimensional changes of the kidney into electrical im pulses which are fed to electronic amplifiers and are recorded graphically. Perry said the exDerimpnt arp designed to gain more knowledge Kianev mnnri rnrpn at nn which is generally considered im portant in regulation of over all blood presure. '" The National Hearf Institute has been supporting Perry's re search intu the problem. Detroit (Tf) There wag hospital for cats and dogs in De troit before one was build for people. 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