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o o Three ragon Colleges Selected For Science Training Program By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Three Oregon colleges have been selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in a program for helping strengthen the training of sci entists in the United States. The founda tion is putting up 55,340,000 in g r a n ts to support sum mer institutes for science teach ers at the Univerrsity of Oregon, Oregon State College and Reed College and 101 other institu tions elsewhere. The institutes at Oregon and Oregon State will be for college biology teachers. At Reed it will limited to high school teachers, in the field of physics. A Roht Smito Grants to each institute will cover costs of tuition and fees for 20 tc 100 teachers. Most in stitutes will also pay stipends directly to participating teach ers up to S75 per week, plus al lowances for as many as four dependents and for travel. "The summer-institutes pro gram of the foundation is in step with current plans for strengthening the training of scientists in the United States," explained Dr. Alan T. Waterman, director of the foundation. Expect To Attract 5250 The foundation expects to at tract about 5000 high school and 250 college teachers of science and mathematics during the 1958 summer program. Directors of the institutes, who are taking applications, are Robert W. Mor ris at the University, Henry P. Hansen at Oregon State and Kenneth E. Davis at Reed. In Washington, the state col lege is the only participating institution, offering institutes in biology, chemistry, earth science, general science, mathematics and physics. Alfred B. Butler is the director. "Good science teachers are apt to be the first to stimulate an interest in science among our young people in secondary schools," said Dr. Waterman. "But if instruction is not stim ulating, and contains" outdated concepts," it tends to weaken youths' motivations toward sci ence careers." The foundation is supported by appropriations from Con gress, which for the past two years have included S9. 5 million earmarked for supplementary training of secondary-school sci ence teachers. The problem of . keeping science-trained teachers in the schools is becoming more acute, according to the National Educa tion Association. This is especial- Medford Tribune SectiorT Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1957 Pages 1-6 Breaking Elberta Peach Barrier May Be Boon To Food-Growing By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York -rAP) Science has broken the Elberta Peach bar rier which, in its way, is no less exciting than breaking the sound barrier was during the first year)of the jet propulsion age. You see, nothing is quite so stubborn as a natural "law," and no naturc(f) law was any more .stubborn than the one which deemed to govern the behavior of the Elberta peach tree. After it dropped its leaves in the fall, nothing whatever would induce it to put forth new ones until after it had endured a pe riod of cold days. You could put it in a hot house, into the soil most liked by El berta peach trees. You could cre ate artificially the weather it likes best. But all this to no avail. Productive in Georgia For that reason the Elberta peach tree is unknown in all- Wall Street Visions Tug of War in Next Session of Congress BY ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York HP) Having listen ed to a week of discussion by the nation's manufacturers. Wall Street conclud ed today that a tug of war is shaping up for the next ses sion of Con gress. On the one side will be a group, strong ly supported by the National Manufacturers, Elmer Waizer Association o f seeking to keep nondefense ex penses down and thus make way for a tax cut. On the other, will be a group seeking Go spend the nation's money helter-skelter for defense without cutting down on non-defense items. The latter group may even seek a tax increase, according to the Wall Street discussions. Satellite Failure The spenders received new am munition whep the nation's sat ellite tailed to get off the ground Wall Street studied carefully the speech before the NAM by Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) who warned that a tax rise of even a billion dollars in any techniques, and wasteful prac tices; eliminate extravagance in foreign aid and put more em phasis on military aid while re ducing economic aid: and squeeze every non-essential dollar out of domestic-civilian programs. Program Favored The Byrd program is seen as sound in Wall Street and to that extent not the type of operation that would result in a sprightly advance in the stock market. Such program, it is held, would fight further against inflation which many regard as a real market rise incentive. Only the speculative element in Wall Street favors wild gov ernment spending and a return to inflation. There are many con servative experts who are plan ning to help along the moves sug gested by Senator Byrd, holding that these basic ideas would pro vide a strong underpinning for a long-range bull market. Highway Accident Brings Damage Suit would bring grave consequences. Byrd did not favor a tax re duction at the expense of a bal anced budget. ' He estimated that it would cost the government $6 billion in revenue to give a moderate gen eral overall tax reduction "which is so badly needed in this coun try." He would explore the whole field of spending to bring sav ings in outgo. He would rechart defense expenditures on the basis of a reevaluation of the relative priority of present and develop ing methods of warfare; elimi nate obsolete weapons, methods, Robert E. Harnish, Central Point, has filed a complaint in ; circuit court asking SoO.000 m ! general damages and S2.984.62 bracket J in special damages from Leroy V. Fellows and William Skyr man, Central Point, for injuries received in a highway' accident Sept. 5, 1956, on Butte Falls rd. According to the complaint Fellows was operating a loaded log truck owned by Skyrman when it crossed the center line on the highway six miles east of U. S. Highway 62 causing the logs to fall onto a dump truck diven by the plaintiff. Harnish claims that he suffer ed severe pain, mental anguish, and shock as well as several frac tures in the accident. He is rep resented by W. E. Duhaime, Med ford attorney. year warm climates. This is why the trees are most productive in such areas as Georgia where winters are long enough for the purpose of the trees, but still short enough for growing sea sons to be long ones. To put forth new leaves, an Elbert peach tree must first go through 950-hours or 39 24 hour days in which the tem perature is below 45 degrees. It doesn't matter if there are more than 39 such days. But there can't be fewer. Clive W. Donoho Jr. and David. R. Walker of North Carolina State college, Raleigh, are the peach .scientists who broke the barrier. They did it with the experimental plant growth sub stance, gibberellic acid which is a chemical manufactured by a Japanese fungus. They experimented with trees which had had no more than 164 hours of cold before they were transplanted from orchard into large cans and. put into a stor age room with a continuous tem perature of 65 degrees. After 95 days, the trees still were dormant, as was to be expected. Donoho and Walker then sprayed them twice with j solutions of gibbellic acid, and i behold! The barrier was broken the trees began growing and putting forth leaves. Finding Right Solutions Not many sprayings were needed in any experiment, but the strength of the solutions was all-important. Solutions contain ing 1,000 to 40,000 parts of the substance per million parts were highly effective. Weaker solu tions were not. In reporting to the American Association for the Advance ment of Science, they said that gibberellic acid evidently either put the whammy on a specific Elberta peach chemical which kept it dormant or needled its over-all chemistry into function ing despite the "law." This is the newest horticultur al wonder attributed to gibber- ellic acid which is exciting hor ticulture scientists throughout the world. It has hastened the germination and the early growth of a number of important food plants. It may some day put a new face on food-growing. Overturning Tractor Kills Man at Mulino Oregon City (IP) Francis Foltz, 24, was killed Sunday when a tractor overturned on him at Mulino. The coroner's office said Foltz was trying to tow a loaded truck which was stuck and the tractor turned over backwards, crushing the victim. Foltz was a staff sergeant stationed at the Portland air base. Tired of feeding a gas hog? Little foreign cars too cramped? GIVE THE FAMILY A RAMBLER FOR CHRISTMAS It's the smartest gift you can give, a new jet-stream-styled Rambler. Most practical, too first in economy, first in trade-in value. Roomy! Easiest to handle! See it now. . tet the Best of Both : A Get American Q Get European big car room small car economy, and comfort handling ease LEA MOTORS Go Rambler f American Motors Means More For Americans ly trure in colleges Fewer and fewer of the new doctor's degree graduates have been joining the teaching ranks in colleges' and universities the past four years, an NEA survey showed. 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