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." When two "X"
chromosomes unite in the
fertilized egg, the eventual
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with a "Y" chromosome, the
eventual result is male. ,
Highly Abnormal
Obviously, the c h r o m o
somes of this pullet-turned-
rooster were highly abnor
mal. First, you have to ' ac
count for why they produced
no females. 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
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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.
Jennings Jr., Dr. John Weisel
and James Bayliss.
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