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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
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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.
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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."
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