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Medford TRIBUNE 2nd SEaiON MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Redding Mills Bow To Demands Redding, Calif. -TCPG- Two email northern California lum ber mills today acceeded to union demands for a 31 cent an hour package pay increase to include pension benefits. Ray Phillips,' business agent for the Lumber and Sawmill "Workers Unions here, said negotiations also were under way with the huge U. s. Ply wood Corp., which he describ ed as the "key" employer In the area. He said the firm has re fused to grant the union's demand for a health and wel fare plan that would cost em ployers an estimated $15 per month for each employee. The firm's industrial man ager, Frank Doherty, said, however, that the firm was not opposed to the health plan "but to establish one with con trol and administration out side the company." More than 1,500 horses were killed or starved to death at Valley Forge when George Washington's army wintered there in 1778. Pullet-Turned-Rooster Puzzle To Science; 'Couldn't Exist' By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-IUPD-You're go ing to find this a first-rate puzzle. But be of good cheer. The scientists are the too. Begin stuck on p u z z le, a pen of pul lets. They're one year old and are start ing to act like hens- they're Delos Smith laying eggs All except one. This one looks oil color. - Almost as you watch, the comb starts grow ing and un-hen-like tail fea thers are appearing. Within two months t h i "pullet" becomes "a normal looking ana aggressive ro oster and is behaving as such Naturally, the attending scr ientists are astonished. Once established, sex is not sup posed to be truly and really reversible-in fowl, fish or people. The scientists are skeptical- Experiments follow at once to determine if this apparent sex reversal is functionally genuine. And it seems to be, since the pullet-turned -roost er mates with three hens who proceed to lay 144 eggs. Eventually the rooster comes to the dissecting table. Not the slightest signs of with ovarian or other female tis sues are to be found, but male tissues are normal and well developed. Although one kid ney is missing, the autopsy re sults indicate he was a roost er all along and the people who had thought him a pul let hadn't looked closely enough. Puzzle Darkened Plausible as that sounds, the puzzle must now be dark ened by the fate of those 144 eggs only 92 proved to be fertile. Only one hatched and the chick died at once. In the others, the embryos died in the shells. Forty - nine em bryos were sufficiently ad v a n c e d for sex to be es tablished. They and the one chick were all males. This brings us down to the puzzle the chromosomes of the germ cells which deter in i n e sex. Female chromo somes are always "X" male chromosomes may be either "X" or "Y." 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You can suppose that the "X" . chromosomes contained a lethal gene which foreclosed the possibility of female life at the very instant of fertilization. For technical reasons too complex to detail here that is most unlikely But suppose it was so. To account for the failure of male life to get beyond the shell, you have to suppose further that the lethal gene was a dominant gene. Hav ing supposed this much, you now have to explain the ro oster. With a dominant le thal, he couldn's have exist ed! All this took place at the University of Sydney, Au stralia. The scientists,- H. R. Crane and W. L. Waterhouse, asked American scientists (through the American Genetic Associ ation) to help them figure it out. "It is difficult to put for ward an explanation which carries any conviction," they said despairingly. Functions of WICH E Told To Roundtable The Western Interstate Commission on Higher Educa- will meet in Medford next year, according to Frank Van Dyke, Medford attorney and past chairman of the commis sion. The commission will be here Aug. 8-10, he said. The functions of WICHE were explained at the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce roundtable luncheon Monday by "Van Dyke. : All the western states and Alaska, except Nevada-cpop- erate in tne venture between the departments of higher ed ucation, Van Dyke said. There are 33 commissioners, three from each state, charged with operation of a student ex change program in medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine, he continued. The commission also has programs in nursing educa tion and mental health, and is cooperating with the Rocky mountain region in a science program, he reported. ' ' ' - Commission Explained Van Dyke, a commission member himself from Oregon, explained that ' Ihe commis sion was formed after stimu lation at the Western Gover nor's conferences in 1948 and 1949. The program is design ed to meet the deficiencies in higher education programs of the participating states. An example given was ap plicable here in Oregon: This state has no veterinary medi cine schools so students wish ing to study that field must go out of state for their education. Advantages of the program are that out-of-state students certified to sjpecific institu tions pay the same tuition as in-state students, and the vari ous institutions set aside a certain number of spaces for Straight from Kentucky a truly American whiskey KENTUCKY STRAIGHT B0D8B0K WHISKIES !B PROOF - TUB PROOF IHt OLD MTUMISIltUH CO.. FBAHKFORT i LOUISVILLE. 11. DISTRIBUTED BY NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CD. Principals Meet, Hold Discussions A number of discussions were being held when the Jackson County Elementary School Principals association held its first meeting Sept. 8, at 2:30 p.m. in the county school superintendent's office in the courthouse. Items on the agenda were discussion of the results of achievement tests given in May, stepped - up safety pro gram to educate children in iding school buses, present county-wide testing program. Principals present were Boyd Gibson, president, Ruch school; Harold Boner, How ard school; Myrna Frink, Grif fin Creek; Lee Merriman, sec retary, Lone Pine; Francis Guidery, Jacksonville; Max Killingsworth, Rogue River; Norm Bonzon, Appjegate; Bob Phillips, Oak Grove; Mel Rochester, Prospect; Charles Stratton, Butte Falls and Gene Farthing, Talent. - Members present from the county school superintend ent's office were Alf Mek vold, superintendent; Bruce Hitt, assistant superintendent; and Robert Lawrence, curric ulum supervisor. - - students from other states, Van Dyke said. In the case of Oregon schools, he continued, al though we send some veteri nary students to out-of-state schools, we admit a larger number of out-of-state stu dents to our medical and den tal schools. The various state legisla tures appropriate fixed sums for each student certified by the commission to" an out-of-state school, the money being given to" the admitting school, the speaker explained. Van Dyke was chairman of the commission for a year and a half until Aug. 10. Serving with him from Ore gon are Chancelor John R. Richards, Eugene, and Mrs. Edna Scales, Sandy. The attorney also discussed the program for Business Ed ucation day which will be held tomorrow and is spon sored by the Business Rela tions committee of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce. The speaker at next Mon day's luncheon will be Dr. Howard Piquet of the Library of Congress. He is making a study of the foreign trade im pact and its effects on Ore gon's economy and will speak on his findings. He is to be in the area to study the picture in the fruit industry and its effect on trends in foreign trade, according to Donald McNeil, manager of the cham ber of Commerce. Asia Flu Outbreaks Expected To Again Hit Nation in Fall By HELEN THOMAS' UPI Correspondent Washington -flJPD- New out breaks of Asian flu are ex pected to hit the country again this fall but nothing like last year's rampaging epi demics. Public Health Service offi cials predict that Asian influ enza will be making the rounds again, but in milder form than the 1957 world wide killer. Whenever a new strain of flu virus breaks out, it usu ally stays around as an active infection for several years. "There is every indication that Asian flu will be with us for some years,"- a PHS offi cial said. The virus spread like wild fire last year, he explained, because it was "so new it ran into no resistance." Immunity Built Up This year it will not be able to attack so freely; Persons who have already -had a bout of Asian flu will have built Stevenson Says Foreign Policy . Clumsy, Erratic New York -UPD- Adlai E. Stevenson, returning from a three-month tour of 13 Euro pean countries including Rns- sia, characterized U.S. foreign policy Tuesday "clumsy, er ratic and self-righteous." Stevenson said he found lit tle "neutralist sentiment" in Europe but "an undertone of grave anxiety about the con flict between the East and the West.'? He said there was too much tendency to look to the. U. S. for leadership and blame the U. S. for everything that goes wrong. "I suppose it is understand able in view of the responsi bilities which accompany our power and the clumsy, erratic and self-righteous conduct of our foreigh affairs," he said. Solemn Obligation He said the defense of For mosa is "a solemn U. S. ob ligation" but declined to say whether he felt that defense hcnrid: include Turing to ;-war over the Quemoy and Matsu islands. Stevenson said he planned to "be as active as possible" in Democratic campaigns this fall. He said his only present commitment is to speak in California at the end of this month for Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, who is running for governor against Sen. William F. Knowland. up some immunity. The odds are against those who have had Asian flu getting it a sec ond time within a year. More than 70 million Amer icans came down with Asian flu during the 1957-58 flu sea son, running from early Octo ber until late February. During the peak period of last year's epidemic-the last week in October and the first week in November-the serv ice reported 20 million per sons were suffering from ,the flu. uinciais iorecast an up surge of influenza during the normal season this fall, which usually begins with wet weather. v At present, the Public Health Service is planning no campaign for mass vaccina tions. However, the picture could change rapidly. Shot Recommended Shots still are strongly rec ommended for special risk groups, including the chroni cally ill, pregnant women and in cases where a secondary infection could be harmful They are advised for anyone else who wants protection against an attack of flu. There is now plenty of vac cine on hand of the polyval ent variety which provides protection against the Asian flu strain and all other strains. Some 79 million shots of vaccine were produced by drug firms to handle last year s big demand. Much of it still remains on drug shelves and in the hands of doctors. The armed services are con tinuing to vaccinate service men against flu. In addition, PHS officials noted that some big industrial firms which need to keep down absentee ism, may be giving mass in oculations. Deaths Grouped The service has no break down on flu fatalities during last year's nationwide epi demic. Such deaths have al ways been grouped with pneu monia mortality figures. However, the service be lieves it deserves a pat on the back for cutting down flu deaths last year by its early awareness of the impending epidemic and its vast all-out preparations to meet it. Service officials said they are ready to man the medical ramparts again if their pre dictions prove to be wrong and a serious flu epidemic does sweep the country again. Petty Larceny Charged For Theft of Pickles Jean Vague, route 2, box 569A, Central Point, pleaded guilty in district court Mon day to a charge of petty lar ceny and was fined $25 plus costs and given a six months suspended jail sentence. Judge James Main senten ced the woman after she ad mitted taking a jar of pickles and three packages of lunch meat from the Elk City mar ket, 3338 North Pacific high way. Training Session Set for Crusade Dr. Frank Wilson, chair man of the United Medford Crusade campaign profession al division, has called a trainr ing conference for his work ers for 7 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Jackson hotel, it was announced. Division, goal is $10,250. Dick House, training chair man, will conduct the meet ing. - Section heads appointed by Wilson and his assistant, Frakn Knox, include William Seibert, Richard Courtright, William Glomb, Dr. Eugene Rayi Charles Dorrell Dr. Robert Urie, Dr. George S. 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