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0 o Strontium-85 Used in Study of Bone-Knitting Process in Humans By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York TP If you have any qistion about the value of what scientists call "basic re- fwyTrBn search," con- :der broken bones. People have been breaking their bones ever since there were people, yet there is no known way of knitting brok en bones to Delos Smith gether faster than nature knits them. The reason? No basic research. The reason why there hasn't been any, was the lack of a way of studying nature's knitting techniques in the living body, with the idea of finding out how to hurry them along. But now the way has been found and the basic research is about to begin. This way couples rats with radioactive strontium which is the element most to be feared in the "fall out" after a hydrogen bomb explosion. Strontium likes bone. When it gets into the body, it gets into the bones with amazing rapidity. Strontium Extremely Dangerous But the hydrogen bomb made from strontium has an atomic weight of 90 and a half- life of 28 years that makes it extremely dangerous. For the purpose of studying bone-knittings, stronium-85 was especial ly constructed by atomic bom bardment in a cyclotron. SR-85 has a great safety advantage Thornton Tells Of Probe Troubles Salem TIP) Atorney General Robert Y. Thornton said here that several difficulties "greatly hampered" the success of the Portland vice investigations. Thornton, in off-the-cuff re l ML. , -1 'ill A marks at a Salem Chamber of Q Commerce meeting, said he and his assistants did the best they could with what evidence was presented. The attorney general was directed to take charge of the vice probe by Gov. Elmo Smith and later had the direc tive reaffirmed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Among difficulties which lW said hindered the investiga tion Thornton listed: Necessity of relying on tes timony of "underworld wit nesses." Confusion over introducing into the probe of tape recordings which contained material se cured illegally and some ob tained legally. -indictments against state witnesses in attempts to pressure them against testifying. Indictments where there was no real evidence of crime. A "bitter, spiteful feud" "be tween the Oregonian ahd the Oregon Journal. Fall Term at SOC fo End Following Exams Ashland Fall term at South . era Oregon college will end Sat urday, Dec. 21, following four days of final examinations. A 16-day Christmas vacation for students and faculty members will precede winter term open i ing. Jan. 6 is registration day for the winter quarter. Late regis trants Cwill be charged $1 per day. Catalogues and class sched ules mar be obtained from the college by anyone interested. O Management Research Director Appointed Salem (IP) William E. Bass Jr. director of the accounting division of the State Tax Com mission, has been named to head management research, for the State Finance Department by Director John Richardson. Bass, a state employee for the past 10 years, will take over his new job Jan. 15. Richardson said that Bass, 36, would be responsible for better procedures to try to increase ef ficiency of state departments. Pendleton (IP) Oren Allison, assistant manager of the Pendle ton First Federal Savings (IP) Loan Association, has been elect ed president of the Umatilla County Development Association. wAHT Tell us how much - We like fo say "YES!" You will be glad you chose Oregon Finance. Here we have no hard and fast rules. You deal direct G with the owner as we are home owned and man aged. Get the deal you want. See Gene Thomas, Manager Oregon Finance Co., 45 So. Central. Phone SP 2-4433. over SR-90. It's half-life is only 65 days. So you inject SR-85 into a rat. A very tiny amount will do. This rat has a newly broken bone. You have a gamma ray spectro meter set up over the precise site of the fracture, so it will measure the gamma rays origi nating from the break, but from no where else. SR-85 gives off gamma rays. They have incredible energy and pass through the soft tissues around bones without being di verted or changed or harming the soft tissue. When the spec trometer picks up the first gam ma rays coming from the break, you know the knitting process has started. You can then follow it minute by minute as it con tinues. Developed By New Englanders This clever tool for basic re CENTRAL POINT FFA Projects Evaluated By DORIS HUGHES Central Point Edd Griggs, head of the agriculture depart ment of Crater High school re ported that the FFA chapter ha a full program underway in the field of supervised far ming. There are 73 boys in FFA with a combined project value of $41,062. The projects include 58 head of beef cattle, 59 head of dairy cattle, 7 vealers, 27 breeding swine, 15 fat swine, 21 sheep, 252 chickens and 12 rab bits. The boys also have 171 acres of grain, 38 acres of hay, 16 acres of truck crops and 9 acres of pasture. The Chapter itself has 16 acres of grain and will have 40 acres of alfalfa this summer. The Chapter also has $3400 invest ed in farm machinery. The ma chinery consists of a tractor, plow, mower, disk, spring tooth and a blade. The vocational agriculture adult class on farm crops and soils has ended and the elemen tary welding class will end on Thursday. Arrangements have been made for the next two programs to be undertaken. The class on advanced welding will begin January 16 and is already filled. Adults who are interest ed and who want to register for the class on weed sprays and insecticides which will begin on Jan. 13, may call the Crater Agriculture department at NOr mandy 4-1103. Beginning at 1 p.m. Wednes day at the First Presbyterian church in Central Point, there will be a Christmas party for pre-school children. Parents and friends are invited. Mrs. Rich ard Krupp is the kindergarten class teacher and Mrs. Al Set ness is the teacher for the nur sery class. ' Sunday at 7 p.m. "The Pag eant of Lights" will be put on at the First Presbyterian church of Central Point. Music by the choir and other additions to the program will be included. The public is invited. Guests Sunday at the home of Mrs. Millie Johnson of Snowy Butte road were Mrs. Mollie Phillips of Seattle, Mrs. Herb Combs and three daughters of Talent, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Sim- "mons and boys of Medford and Mrs. L. C. Johnson and children of Central Point. A Christmas dinner party was given Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wyatt of 615 Alder st. in Central Point Entertainment for the evening was in the form of a gift ex change. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Minnick, Miss Coral Hale, Charles Hughes, Samuel Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Linker, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Greenman Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Ray Britton and the Wyatts and their two sons. "Finders Creepers" is the name of the comedy play which will be put on Friday and Sat urday beginning at 8 p.m. in the cafetorium at Crater High school. Directing the all-school cast is Jim Backen. The Crater High school vars ity basketball team and coach Don Ameliak will be traveling this week end to Oak Ridge. Guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Green- man Sr. were their son and daughter-in-law and family, Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Greenman and CASH? search was devised by Drs. J H. Heller, H. Konig, and L. Fox of the New England Institute for Medical Research, Ridgefield, Conn. SR-85 is unusual among the isotopes of the bone - seeking elements, strontium and cal cium, in that it gives off with gamma rays. The others emit electrons or beta rays, and those are not much good for this work. Electron emissions are shorten ed in range by soft tissue. Some would escape measurement and that would mess up the results. Beta emissions travel very short distances and thus damage the soft tissues. It is routine In science now, but the layman has to be im pressed that scientists can go to a cyclotron and get a radioactive isotope precisely tailored to his experimental needs. Cherry and Ralph Jr. of Tal ent, Ore. Sunday Mrs. Bob Morris and Mrs. Joan Morris of Gold Hill, Larry Pirkey of Table Rock, Miss Joyce Pestka of Central Point and Royal Greenman Jr. of Central Point drove up near Crater lake where snow covered the ground. On the way home they stopped and cut some Christmas trees and decorative greens. Christmas vacation at Crater High school begins Friday, Dec. 20. School will be resumed Jan uary 2. Mrs. Carol Ash, dean of girls at Crater High school, will fly to Ketchikan, Alaska, to visit with her family over the holi days. Tuesday evening the boys of the Crater High school FFA chapter and the Crater High school girls Home Economics group had a Christmas-wreath-making party at the high school The wreaths are for the doors of the school. The boys furnish ed the material and the girls furnished refreshments for the party. Monday the FFA basketball teams from Phoenix, Eagle Point, Grants Pass, and Crater High schools will meet at Cra ter High school for a basketball jamboree. After the games, the boys will meet in the agriculture room for refreshments of choco late milk and ice creafn. Hosteller Receives Government Award Robert D. Hostetter, an em ployee of the district forestry office of the bureau of land management has received an award of $15 for a suggestion for the use of a rubber stamp to indicate ownership of aerial photographs, date and name of person making forest or range type classification, and other ad ditional data. The award was granted by the land management incentive award committee and presented to Hostetter by Ross 'Young blood, district manager. Hostetter has been employed by the bureau since July, 1953. Through the years he has been promoted and transferred from the Salem district forestry of fice to the Medford district for estry office. Incentive awards were Insti tuted for government employees by Congress. The purpose of the program is to encourage civilian officers and employees of the federal government to partici pate in the task of improving the efficiency and economy of gov ernment operations. FLOODS THREATEN ITALY Rovigo, Italy (IP) Pounding waves from the Adriatic Sea and the mounting Po river posed a double threat today to the Pole- sine lowlands in the liver's delta. Sea waters rolling inland through a 100-foot breach in a dyke flooded the community of Bonelli Levante, and 40 miles up stream at Polesella, the Po was almost four feet above normal J latest transistor -i Sonotont hidden in oftroctiv glasses C smallest hearing aid in world, worn entirely tar ft a x wr. -. ALL AT THE EAR NOTHING WORN ON BODY! NO CORD DOWN NECK NO "BUTTON" IN EAR! SO N0T0NE COME IK, PHONE OR WRITE-FREE DEMONSTRATION -NO OBLIGATION SONOTONE of MEDFORD C. R. ADAMSON, Manager 839 E. Jackson Ph. SP 2-5904 QUALIFYING FOR SOCIAL SECURITY entirely on farm income, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Herd, Lutie, Mo., are believed oldest farm couple receiving such aid. He is 91, "tie 89. He once farmed 900 acres. (International) SHADES OF THE OLD WEST George Cowden of PearsalL Tex., sits atop 2000-pound bull buffalo he shot on the 320,000-acre Reynolds Ranch near Marfa, Tex. Cowden, along with other modern day Buffalo Bills from as far away as Kansas, paid $350 each for a permit to shoot overage bulls in the herd of 200 bison roaming the ranch. SEEKING "OLD IRONSIDES" as amusement park attraction, California promoter offers $1,500,000, says it -could earn at least that sum in few years, enough to keep U.S.S. Consti tution in top shape. Vessel now is at Boston Naval Shipyard, Charlestown. (International) Five Girls Killed In Car-Truck Crash Brooksville, Fla. (IP) Five girls from a religious school on their way to collect money for charity were killed near here Tuesday when their car collided with a big truck. Two other girls were injured seriously. County Judge A. J. Hayward said all five girls were students at Forest Lake Academy, a Sev enth Day Adventist high school five miles north of Orlando. Names of the dead were not immediately available, but a S,Aj.w-:'KiW.v.yjwAV.wAw-vjj-( JJB" - " f er V kolf-otmce $ model worn in variety of styles highway patrolman said they were all 15 or 16 years old. Witnesses said the accident oc curred when the girls' car skid It A D I O D I S P A T C H E D IF WE MIX IT, YOU CAN'T LI'L Got a Fluid Driveway? (and a shiftless husband?) Got a Party Planned? (and wall-to-wall mud?) Give Dear Old Dad a Concrete Walk or Driveway (we'll bill him after Christmas) Listen To Our Rewashed News 7:30 A.M. - KBOY Wednesday, December 18, 1957 The Family Council Editor's note: Ibe Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; it merely reports on problems that have keen dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Marjorie D. -I may be getting a nervous breakdown. Leon D. I wqrry about her all the time. Marjorie D. I am 22 and a bride of less than a year. I had looked forward to this period as the happiest time of my life, but it has become the most horrible. About two months after we were married my husband's mother died. His father, an in valid, was brought to live with us. He is quite ill but not bad enough to be hospitalized. He is cranky and keeps finding fault with everything. I run my feet off waiting on him and I have no freedom to go anyplace at all. Things have gotten so bad that I cry all the time. 1 just don't want to get out of bed in the morning and I lie awake most ded off the road near Land o'Lakes, hit a culvert and bounc ed back on the highway into the path of the big truck. . OLE WHIRLY-BERT, MIXER-MASTER. READY MIX SPring 2-5336 SPring MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE of the night crying. I think I may be getting a nervous break down. Shouldn't my husband do something about all this? Leon D. Marjorie thinks I don't worry about her, but I worry about her all the time. What will we do if she gets a nervous breakdown. I didn't want things to happen this way. If I had anticipated my mother's death, I probably wouldn't have gotten married at this time. Somebody has to take care of my father and there Is only my sister and me. My .sister has three youngsters under seven, so I don't see how she can possibly care for my father as well. Mar j oris thinks I am some kind of a miracle man and can make everything happen the way way she would like it. I can get a nurse for my father but only if Marjorie goes back to work. She says she doesn't want to do this. She wants to be a homemaker. Now she's just a nurse. The Council: Marjorie and Leon can both give up worrying about what will happen if she gets a nervous breakdown. She apparently already has one. However, Marjorie's form of nervous breakdown can prob ably be easily cured. She simply must give up her childish rant ing and raging against fate and make up her mind to do some tiring to make things better. A few minutes after making this decision she 11 be on the road to recovery. She'll feel better and better every day as she does whatever it is she decides to do to improve her lot. We'll agree that this young bride has had a piece of tough luck, but her sense of fair play toward her husband, if not her love for him, ought to be enough to stop her from 'adding to his worries. A decent sport would take this situation in hand and use it to some advantage. Dealing with a cranky elderly persona is not very different from dealing with a cranky child. Marjorie can get some val uable experience in this art and also learn something about nursing. She needs to learn pa tience and to develop her inge nuity in handling problems like this. If she is not inclined to do this however, she can accept the very fair alternative her hus band offers go to work so that he can pay for a nurse. (COPYRIGHT 1957, GENERAL FEATURES CORP, Grange Notes Central Point Grange A Christmas party will be held Friday, Dec. 20, for Central Point Grange members and their invited guests. The entertainment will begin with a potluck dinner at 7 p.m. Turkey will be furnished by the Home Economic club. Members are asked to bring either a sal ad or a vegetable dish and their own table service. Santa will be present with candy for the children. Carols will be sung and Doctor and Mrs. Bert Elliott will show their slides taken in the Holy Land. An offering will be taken to be used to help make a nice Christmas for a local needy fa mily. Members of the Juvenile Grange are asked to bring food packages for their offering. 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