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I'' ' 3i ; 7J,"V ? 4 s4 " ? 77 "W ss -V. - 7","'(Y'?Z&iZitm 71 7 f r 4 s'W ''s '7 ' ' 4 ? . t ,, 7 I' ' i ifm -aft - 50TH STATE CAPITOL - This is Iolani delay, both House and Senate in Washing Palace in Honolulu, state capitol building ton finally approved statehood for Hawaii for the new state of Hawaii. After years of by overwhelming majorities. Beef To Be More Tender, With Less Fat, Thanks To Science Washington -CPD- Thanks to farm science, the beef you are eating today is leaner and tastier than beef you could buy 20 years ago. And it's go ing to be still more tender, with less fat, as time goes on. Department of Agriculture research teams may, in fact, be on the verge of a break through that will speed up the process of breeding tastier, less fatty, meat on the hoof. When the breakthrough comes, scientists will have a tool that will allow them to short-circuit years of tedious breeding and slaughter exper iments in the search for strains of cattle and grow more tender red meat and less waste fat. Prediction Goal The goal for the research teams working on the prob lem at the Agriculture depart ment's big research center in nearby Beltsville, Md., is a practical method of predicting "potential tenderness" in liv ing animals. "I'm hopeful we'll get something on it before long," said Dr. E. J. Warwick, head of the department's beef cattle research branch. One likely looking tool being tested, he said, is a sound-probing de vice which gives research workers an estimate of the amount of lean meat on a liv ing steer. Scientists already know that tenderness is a quality which can be inherited in cat tle families, Warwick explain ed. When they develop a sim ple, dependable method of spotting superior animals on the hoof, they'll be able to se lect them for breeding new lean and tender strains. The American consumer is getting more tender and high quality beef today than 15 or 20 years ago, Agriculture de partment experts agree. But they contend that little of the improvement is due to better breeding and special cross breeds. Progress in this field has been slow in the . past, Warwick said, and there is "very little scientific evi dence" yet to back up claims made for some newly-develop ed cross-breeds. Generally Tastier Today's beef is tastier, gen erally, than the beef of 20 years a . 0 largely because more ca'-ile are being fattened in feedlots before slaughter and because they're being slaughtered younger. The younger a steer is at slaughter, the more tender the roasts and steaks from his carcass, Warwick explained. And a "marbelling" of fat streaks within the lean meat also has a lot to do with taste, other experts pointed out. This is one of the most com plicated puzzles in the meat picture. "IMarbelling" has very lit tle to do with the tenderness of your beef. But it has a good deal to do with the juiciness, according to Dr. Richard L. Hiner, another government pirn JAMES CROW created the first modern bourbon 1835 TASTE THE GREATNESS of James Crow s Masterpiece -OIL Born 124 years ago. America s favorite today. O Ft- t a pt. -I M 7UCTI OLD CROW Ugbf Mild -S6 Proof KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY CRO W DISTILLERY CO.. FRANKFORT. KY., DISTR. BY NATIONAL 01ST. PROD. CO. scientist. Theoretically, research workers may be able to pro duce a completely lean steak, as tender as any you can get now but without a trace of fat. But presumbaly it wouldn't be as juicy as a steak with some thin veins of fat "marbelled" into the lean. Some Ma belling "Many housewives say they want lean beef. But the mar ket trend today is to U.S. choice grade which has some marbelling," an Agriculture department marketing special ist said. "Nobody really knows what makes a good steak," he added. There is no disagreement, however, on the fact that con sumers now do not want over fat beef. Marketing experts have found a steady trend away from the top "prime" grade which carries more "finish" fat than the choice grade. Pork also is getting leaner in response to consumer de mand, said Dr. John H. Zeller, head of the Agriculture de partment's swine research branch. Noticeable Progress Zeller said hog producers and meat packers have made noticeable progress in giving the consumer leaner pork in recent years. He predicted the trend will move "much fast er" in the future because both farmers and packers "are pretty well sold on the idea of producing meat-type hogs." Just five or six years ago, Zeller said, about 43 to 45 per cent of the average hog was turned into the "meaty" pork cuts. Today, the average hog will yield up to 50 per cent of these leaner cuts, he said. Hog breeders already have a workable device for measur ing back-fat on live hogs and selecting the leaner animals for breeding. But even before this tool was developed, Zell er said, hog producers were working with improved strains of lean hogs. mordupthtiatsjathdlyBrns s Yale Students Due For Court Action New Haven, Conn. -(UPD-Forty-one Yale students faced court action today for plaster ing white on blue during the season for the wearing of the green. Police and spectators were peppered with snowballs and insults as they marched dur ing a St. Patrick's Day parade between two Yale dormitor ies late Saturday afternoon. An estimated 100 police men with their Irish up-and led by captains McGuire, Scanlon, McSherry, McCar thy and Dinnan-charged into the snow-throwing students. Three students were hurt in the free-for-all, requiring hospital treatment after being hit with a billy club. One pa trolman suffered an eye in jury when hit with a snowball. Rat Poison Fatal To Portland Girl Portland-(UPD-A three-year-old girl who died late Satur day night was the apparent accident victim of rat poison, the coroner's office said today. The victim was Cheryl Compton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn G. Compton, Portland. Sheriff's officers said the girl and other children had been playing in a vacant house and had found a tube of poi son paste on the ledge of a basement stairway. The victim apparently had tasted the poison. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, March 16, 1959 3 Reuniting of Latvian Family Accomplished by Church Group Waclimirtnn (ITH TViJcr ic o I fnim 7nhonc in Woct flop. I rloo Vi J7U t . a ., . . . . . Washington - (LTD - This is a story for the people who ask why the newspapers don't print something about the good things that people do. It is a true story, document ed in the files of a big church relief agency and double checked by UPI reports in New York, Washington and Lincoln, Neb. It is about a Latvian family that was reunited recently after 14 years of separation. It took just one wanton act of human cruelty to break the family up. It took an almost incredible series of acts of hu man kindness to bring it to gether again. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. William Zobens, their daughter Valija, and their son Janis. Shipped to Camp The Zobiens were separat ed when the Nazis overran Latvia in World War II, Zo bens was pressed into mili tary service, and Valija, then 19, was shipped to a Nazi work camp in Czechoslovakia. After the war, Mrs. Zobf ns and Janis left Latvia to search for the rest of the family. Af ter months of wandering, they found Zobens in West Ger many. By that time, the Rus sians had taken over Latvia, and the Zobens were afraid to go back home. West German Lutherans tok them in, provided them with food, clothing and a place to live. In 1950, with the help of the U.S. Lutheran Relief Service, they came to America under a "D.P." quo ta. Lutheran churches in Lin coln, Neb., found Zobens a job as a railroad worker, and helped the family get settled in a modest little house at 4335 F st., Lincoln. Not Quite Dead The Zobens had been un able to find any trace of Vali ja, and assumed she was dead. But she wasn't-not quite. Valija contracted tubercu losis soon after she arrived at the Nazi work camp. Without medical care, her condition grew steadily worse. The dis ease spread to her spine, and she was paralyzed from the waist down. A group of women from the Czech Reformed church found Valija in a makeshift hospi tal after the wa;. They nursed her back from the brink of death. When she was strong enough to remember, she gave them her name, and the meager details she could sup ply of her family. With the help of the Inter national Red Cross, the Czech church women traced Valija's family to Lincoln. They per suaded the government to grant her an exit permit. Then they wrote to a Czech friend in America, Prof. Ka rel Hujer of the University of Cincinnati, and asked him to arrange for Valija to be brought to Lincoln. Service Enlisted Prof. Hujer enlisted the aid of Ctiurch World Service, the refugee relief agency of the National Council of Churches. Immigration Director Roland Elliott said the agency would be glad to pay the expenses of bringing Valija to America. Then a serious hitch arose. U.S. officials in Czechoslova kia refused to issue Valija a visa. They said U.S.. immigra tion laws forbade entry of anyone with tuberculosis. Elliott appealed to Joseph Kenoerson. chief of the State department's visa office in Washington. Henderson im mediately got in touch with the U.S. consul in Prague, and they agreed that Valija could be admitted under a special law that provides for aliens to come to this country for medical treatment. Loaded on Airliner Last October, the Czech church women tenderly load ed Valija and her stretcher abqard an airliner. Church or ganizations all along her route were alerted. Wherever the airliner landed, a group of fx iendly women came aboard to care for her. When she landed in New York, two Latvian speaking women from a local Lutheran church took her in charge. The Burlington railroad, for which' Zobens works, pro vided him free transportation to go to New York to meet Valija and escort her home to Lincoln. They arrived Oct. 31. Lutherans in Lincoln ar ranged for Valija to enter a Nebraska hospital. While it is too late for medical science to help her paralysis, doctors have b.een able to build up her general health enough for her to join her family at home. Valija is not discouraged by 1 In halting English she as- the doctors' report that she sured a recent visitor that can never walk again. she is "very happy." SPRINGTIME! EXTRA SPECIAL! "EXTRA NOW IS THE TIME DOUGLAS FIR PEELER HEARTS Unsplit $14.00 Double Load Split ..$21.50... Double Load . (C.O.D. PRICES, F.O.B. MEDFORD) Outlying Deliveries Slightly Higher PHONE SP 2-8086 Serving th Valley For 40 Years Timber Prod Company MEDFORD WE CHI E.CK UR O IM OURSE LVES Meet one of our new Service Station Inspection Teams. They visit Union Oil Stations regularly, year 'round. They check the rest rooms to make sure they're as spotless as you expect them to be. They check the entire station to make certain it's clean and safe ... for your visit. (This new service reinforces the Minute Man's day-to-day housekeeping.) A new idea, based on our old-fashioned business principle: At the sign of the 76, you always get The Finest-ot everything. UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA P.S. 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