Medford mail tribune., January 22, 1959, Image 17

New Agriculture Director
Has Common Sense Approach
Salem - The new director
designate of the state depart
ment of agriculture, Frank
McKennon, 69,' brings to his
position more than 23 years
experience within the depart
ment and a reputation for his
"common sense approach" to
agricultural problems.
Named to the post by Gov
ernor-elect Mark Hatfield, the
former chief of the division of
plant industry succeeds Rob
ert Steward who . resigned
effective Jan. 12.
McKennon held the interim
appointment as acting direc
tor between the resignation of
James F. Short and the suc
cession of Steward.
A widely known authority
In his field, he was recognized
by Hatfield as "well respected
by those who have worked
with the department and his
appointment as director is a
fitting capstone to his dis
tinguished career".
. The second chief in the
history of the plant industry
division, McKennon succeed
ed Charles A. Cole, since re
tired, and has headed the di
vision since May 1, 1935. The
state department of agricul
ture itself was formed on
July 1, 1931 from 17 separate
state boards, commissions and
committees serving farmers.
Industry and consumers.
Eased Trad
Throughout the industry,
McKennon is recognized for
his "common sense approach"
to- many of the problems
affecting agriculture and his
contributions toward clearing
channels of interstate trade by
removing many unnecessary
restraints resulting from ques
tionable quarantines in the
horticultural field. His ap
proach that many quarantines
were initiated more for re
taliatory reasons than biologi
cal soundness eventually re
ceived increasing acceptance.
Though first "to give credit
to his cohorts and such or
ganizations as the Western
Plant Board,, the drop in quar
antines from 27 when Mc
Kennon first took office to
five at the present time, is in
dicative of his effectiveness
In expounding the thinking
that "quarantines should exist
solely for the protection of a
state '. against pests and dis
eases of economic importance
and should not be projected
for economic purposes alone."
' The high regard for Mc
Kennon's ability and knowl
edge is also reflected in some
Nematode Control
r
Workshop Set
Corvallis - More than 30
agricultural sci e n t i s t s will
head up a public workshop in
Portland Jan. 27 and 28 to
combat nematodes-worm-like
microscopic pests that cost Pa
cific Northwest farmers and
nurserymen an estimated 10
per cent of annual production.
Latest scientific informa
tion on damage and control of
the pests will cover forage
crops, deciduous trees, vege
tables, strawberries, and nur
sery stocks, reports H. J. Jen
sen, Oregon State College
nematologist.
Some 350 persons are ex
pected to attend the public
sessions, sponsored by Shell
Chemical corporation, at
Neighbors of Woodcraft build
ing. There is no registration
fee and all persons attending
will receive published copies
of the workshop proceeding.
Following the Portland ses
sion, all western states' scien
tists on the program will meet
Jan. 29 and , 30 at Oregon
State college to- organize a
regional research program on
nematodes.
Jensen says nearly all crops
in .Oregon are subject to at
tack by one or more kinds of
nematodes.- Large plantings of
peppermint in Umatilla coun
ty and central Oregon are ser
iously threatened by root knot
"nematodes, the scientist said.
So-called "pear decline"
that has lowered winter pear
production in the Northwest
has also sparked investigation
of possible nematode damage.
Onions, potatoes and major
vegetable crops are also suf
fering serious losses, Jensen
said. Oregon sugar beet grow
ers are also waging a battle
against nematodes.
, Oregon agricultural leaders
and scientists who will ad
dress the sessions include
Frank McKennon, newly ap
pointed director of the Ore
gon state department of agri
culture and former chief of
the department's bureau of
plant industry, who will dis
cuss regulatory . aspects of
nematode problems.
G..E. Page, OSC agricul
tural'engineer, will report re
search with special soil-fumigation
equipment to combat
the pest. Other OSC speakers
will include Roy A. Young,
head of the botany and plant
pathology department; H. E.
Morrison, research entomolo
gist; R. W. Every, extension
entomologist; Ned Frandeen,
Multnomah county agent; and
Jensen.
of the assignments he drew
during his reign as chief nf
the division of plant industry:
He served for several terms
as chairman of the Western
Plant board and as represen
tative of that board to the
National Plant board; was
president of the National
Plant board for two terms,
and past president of the Na
tional. Association of Market
ing Officials.
Represented U.S.'
In 1951, McKennon was
selected to represent the
United States at the Interna
tional Plant Protection con
ference in Rome, Italy, to
gether with E. R. Sasscer,
then in charge of the division
of foreign plant quarantines
of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture's bureau of en
tomology and plant quaran
Insect Resistance
To Chemicals
Seen Growing
Corvallis - A five-year re
search grant has been receiv
ed by Oregon State college
from the U.S. Public .Health
Service for basic studies on
insect resistance to insecti
cides and what can be done
to overcome this insect "de
fense mechanism."
The first-year grant is for
$7,462. Project leaders are in
sect toxicologists Leon C. Ter
here and Theodore Roubal.
' Insect resistance to insect
icide is a threat to modern
agriculture and world health,
Terriere points out, and scien
tists do not yet know en
ough about the basic physi
ology of insects to 'meet the
problem. Even after 10 years
of use, scientists po not know
how DDT kills insects, he
noted. It is generally believed
that resistant insects survive
by converting the toxic mater
ials into harmless, ones after
they enter the insect body.
; In Oregon, orchard mites
are now resistant to organic
phosphate insecticides such as
parathion, malathion, and,
TEPP in the major fruit-producing
areas. Lygus bugs are
beginning to show resistance
to DDT in some alfalfa seed
areas, and onion maggots
show signs of . resistance ..to
other pesticides. On a world
wide scale, eradication of ma
laria depends upon winning
the race between resistance
to chemicals by malaria mos
quitoes and their control by
modern ) chemicals, ' Terriere
said.
. One of the difficulties in
volved in studying insect me
tabolism is their small size.
Use Radioactive Materials
In the OSC study, Terriere
and Roubal are using radio
active materials and special
micro-chemical techniques to
probe the inner insect work
ings and find out how the in
sects take the complex toxic
chemicals and convert them
into non-toxic materials.
They are feeding houseflies
radioactive naphthalene
(mothballs) in a gelatin pud
ding. Then with the special
equipment, they, are ; tracing
the radoactive material
through the fly. In work to
date, they have found that the
flies convert the naphthalene
into at least seven different
materials.
The OSC workers hope
that when they learn how the
mothballs are metabolized
within the insect, they will
have an insight into the phe
nomenon of resistance since
several of the modern insect
icides are related chemically
to naphthalene..
When the insects biochem
ical "defense mechanisms"
are known, it may be possible
to design new and lastingly
effective insecticides, they be
lieve. - '
MERCANTILE MAN DIES
Upper Montclair, N. J. -EPD-Frank
G. Henry, 99, retired
manager of the New York
Mercantile Exchange, died
Wednesday after a long ill
ness. . ., l
CLINICIAN DIES
Pelham Manor. N.Y.-fUPD-Dr.
Elise Strang L'Esperance, 80,
who founded several cancer
prevention clinics at the Me
morial Center for cancer and
allied diseases, died Wednesday.
Of 1,200 million U. S. acres
classified as "land in farms,"
only . one-third is actually
cropland.
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tine. This trip afforded him
an opportunity to study the
plant protection organizations
of Holland, Belgium, France
and Italy, countries which ex
port considerable plant ma
terial to America.
The new director was chair
man of the Western Area
Standardization confe r e n c e
and in 1956 was awarded a
plaque by Oregon Ground
and Air operators and mem
bers of Oregon State College
faculty, "for services to Ore
gon Agriculture."
Following two years at Ore
gon State college, McKennon
operated his own farm in
Grande Ronde valley of Union
County's Imbler area. He also
served as land appraiser for
the Federal Land Bank of
Spokane for two years before
working for the state depart
ment of agriculture.
A son, Russell McKennon,
is active with the Pendleton
Grain Growers association,
and a daughter, Mrs. Francis
Parker, is also a Pendleton
resident. Grandson Larry Mc
Kennon is currently president
of the O.S.C. student body,
and another grandson, Keith,
is a research scientist with
the Dow Chemical Company,
Pittsburgh, California.
The McKennons live on a
farm near Salem.
Fungus Disease
Harms Mints;
Talk Planned
Corvallis-A fungus disease
threatening West Coast pep
permint production will get
major attention at the Oregon
Essential Oil Growers leagues'
annual meeting, Jan. 8 and
9 at Oregon State college.
The disease, verticillium
wilt, has infested about 4,000
acres in the Willamette val
ley - nearly one-third of Ore
gon's total mint acreage, re
ports league secretary C- E.
Horner, Oregon State college
plant pathologist.
Spread of the disease has
been rapid during the past
five years, especially on low
lands where infested soil and
infected plant parts are moved
by winter flood waters.
. Oregon's key weapon
against the disease at present
is Central Oregon disease-free
planting stock - some 2,000
acres of peppermint where
"outside visitors" are not per
mitted until they remove their
shoes to- avoid carrying in
fested soil into the fields.
Research Bolstered
Oregon State college re
search to combat the disease
was bolstered a year ago with
funds from buyers and users
of peppermint, mainly drug
manufacturers, and some 200
Oregon growers. Horner will
review OSC research with an
tibiotics, systemic treatments,
and testing of new varieties
for for disease-resistance.
Market outlook for pepper
mint in 1959 will be pre
sented by M. D. Thomas, OSC
agricultural extension econo
mist. Oregon produced nearly
liOOO.OOO pounds of pepper
mint oil last year - more than
one-third of the national out
put. '
Production and handling of
disease - free planting stock
will be discussed by county
extension agents Amos Bierly,
Madras, and Herman Bier
man, Hermiston. Other topics
on mint production include
"community action" for mint
rust control by growers Ver
non Woods, Harrisburg; Clif
ford Plagmann, Albany; and
Tony Marthaller, Grant Pass.
Ed Ammon and Dale Eisen
man, Jefferson area growers,
will report mint fertilizing
practices. A review of new
chemicals for weed control in
mint is slated by W. R. Fur
tick, OSC agricultural experi
ment station agronomist.
Banquet speaker will ' be
Dr. Ernest Guenther, New
York, technical director for a
leading essential oil company,
who will show films of recent
trips into Africa and the West
Indies to study sources of
spices and essential oils.
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District Official
Speaks at Kiwanis
A. M. Neslin, Ashland, lieutenant-governor
of District
15-A, emphasized the Kiwanis
International theme, "Build
ing Individual Responsibility,"
in a talk to Medford Kiwanis
club yesterday.
Speaking at the luncheon
meeting at Rogue Valley
Country Club, he was paying
an official visit to the Med
ford organization.
Joe Patella issued a Med
ford Lions club challenge to
Kiwanians for a March of
Dimes wheelbarrow race.
New Kiwanians introduced
were Dr. Eugene Ray, dentist,
and Dr. Henry Boehnke, ped
iatrician. Darel Gleed, field
executive for Big Pines Boy
Scout district, in another new
member.
Medical Survey
Supports Complaints
Made on Hospitals
New York-Patients have
been complaining for years
that most hospitals are not
fit places in which to be sick
-and finally, an official med
ical survey has confirmed
most of their accusations.
The secret study, author
ized by the California Med
ical association in order to
determine why so many doc
tors were being sued for mal
practice, is revealed in the
new issue of Look Magazine.
The report has been labeled
"confidential."
Investigators found that:
"At present, our hospitals
Hospitals Changing
Attitude Toward
Alcoholic Patients
Albany, N.Y. -(Science
Service)-Alcoholics are find
ing more community hospital
doors open to them.
Hospital officials and the
public alike are accepting the
fact that alcoholism is a dis
ease, not a "periodic bout with
acute intoxication."
A study of New York State
hospitals admitting alcoholics
may point the way for other
hospitals throughout the na
tion, Paul F. Robinson, assist
ant director of the New
York State Interdepartmental
Health Resources Board here,
told Science Service. Now
there is evidenc that tranquil
izing drugs are a boon to the
general hospital in quieting
disturbed alcoholics and mak-
Astronomy Show
Set in GP School
Grants Pass-Rogue Valley
astronomers and amateur tel
escope makers - will sponsor
the second annual astronomy
show in the Fruitdale school,
Grants Pass, at 8 p.m. Satur
day, Jan. 24. .
The program will be divid
ed into two sections. One sec
tion will be devoted to show
ing slides of the moon with
descriptions of many points of
interest. The other will be de
voted to slides of interstellar
objects such as constellations,
spiral galaxies and globular
star clusters.
The slides used in the pre
sentation are taken from
photographs made by leading
observatories with most of
them coming from the 100
inch Mt. Wilson telescope.
Following the slide presen
tation there will be a question
and answer period.
Club members plan to dis
play at least one amateur built
telescope and materials and
methods used in mirror grind
ing. The club is composed of
of amateur astronomers in
southern Oregon with head
quarters at Grants Pass. Ac
tivities include observation of
the moon, planets and stars at
informal meetings.
Club members have ready
for assembly three four-inch
reflectors, a six-inch'reflector,
and eight-inch reflector, and
a 2.6 inch refractor for public
observing parties. Club mem
bers grind mirrors for reflect
ing telescopes, and are now
building three more reflectors.
DISPLAY BURNS' WORKS
London fllPD A collection
of works by Robert Burns has
gone on display in Moscow to
mark the 200th . anniversary
of the Scottish poet's birth,
Radio Moscow announced
Wednesday.
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ing them manageable.
The New York researchers
are hopeful that hospitals
which have rejected alcohol
ics on the basis of their being
difficult to manage can accept
them as patients with the
same need for treatment as
persons with pneumonia, heart
trouble or any other disease.
Another important finding,
Robinson said, was the fact
that 81 per cent of the hos
pitals accepting alcoholics
took in persons who were so
ber at the time but were in
need of treatment and obser
vation. From the financial aspect,
the alcoholic patient is a good
risk. Payments in full or in
part were received from 79
per cent of those admitted to
general hospitals, Robinson
said. Also, almost 92 per cent
of the 'alcoholics admitted to
voluntary general hospitals
made payments before being
discharged.
Low Admission Rate
Results of the study, con
ducted by the Health Re
sources Board in cooperation
with' the Hospital Association
of New York State, showed
that hospitals in New York
City and the "immediate met
ropolitan areas" had a low
admission rate for, alcoholics.
Hospitals in the Rochester
region and neighboring coun
ties, however, had a high ad
mission rate. '"7:
Both the American Medi
cal Association and the Amer
ican Hospital Association
have issued resolutions urg
ing community general hos
pitals to accept alcoholics. De
tails of the New York study,
published in the current issue
of the New York State Jour
nal of Medicine, support their
recommendations.
Dr. I. Jay Brightman, exec
utive director of the Health
Resources Board, and Charles
M. Royle, of the New York
Hospital Association, are co
authors of the report. In addi
tion to Robinson, Bernard
Ferber and William T. Rob
inson also worked on the
study.
tend to destroy in the patient
any attempt at self-determination
and actually cause him
to become emotionally, if not
physically, sicker than he was
when he entered the hospi
tal." Practices Condemned
The survey team condemn
ed many practices now pre
valent in hospitals such as
not permitting a mother to
remain with her sick child,
waking patients to give them
a sleeping pill, providing
tasteless food, forbidding the
patient to know such com
monplace details about him
self as his temperature, in
sisting on hospital bedcloth
ing instead of personal cloth
ing and excessive charges for
drugs.
Pointing out that hospitals
are now run for the benefit
of doctors and nurses with
the patient's needs coming
last, the investigators have
recommended a series of hos
pital reforms.
Reforms Suggested
These include: a re-examination
of hospital standards
by the Joint Commission on
Hospital Accreditation, estab
lishment of a standard of con
duct for physicians in hospi
tals so that physicians will
not be reluctant to call at-
Gene Tierny Back
In Kansas Clinic
Hollywood- (LTD -Twentieth
Century-Fox Studios announc
ed today that sultry actress
Gene Tierney has re-entered
the Menninger Clinic in Kan
sas which she left only last
summer after six months of
treatment.
A studio spokesman said
Miss Tierney's voluntary re
turn to the famed clinic was
reported to them by her moth
er, Mrs. Belle Tierney, by tele
phone from Greenwich, Conn.
He said she would not appear
in "Holiday For Lovers," with
Clifton Webb, with whom she
also costarred in "Laura."
"Miss Tierney has voluntar
ily re-entered the Menninger
Clinic for further treatment,"
the terse studio announcement
said. "Miss Tierney was to
have reported here this com
ing week end from Connecti
cut where she has been for
the last six weeks to two
months."
At the clinic, in Topeka, of
ficials declined to comment.
tention to substandard prac
tices of colleagues, establish
ment of county medical so
cieties of committees on local
hospital practice and improv
ed training of physicians and
nurses in coping with the
emotional responses of pa
tients to hospitalization or
threatening medical treat
ments such as surgery.
MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Thursday, January 31. 19S9 3A
Driver Cited After Highway Accident
Paul David Williams, 20, of
route 4, box 461, Medford,
was cited by state police Wed
nesday afternoon for failing
to operate on right side of
highway following a two-vehicle
accident on Carpenter
Hill rd.
According to police, Wil
liams was driving west on the
road when he went around a
..left curve on the left side of
the highway and hit an east
bound vehicle head-on. Op
erator of the other automo
bile was - Glenna Harolene
Haggard, 18, of 312 East
Main st., Phoenix, police
said.
No injuries were reported,
police said, and both vehi
cles were moderately damaged.
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