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Master IFOan for eveflopment' if Rettreatoon Areas Necessary (Editor! note: Tkis' second dis- Iiatch reports on measures now be ne taken to cope wit shortages in recreation facilities. Despite the (rowlnr awareness of the nation's recreational needs, many experts feel that what's beinc done Is too little. Losses exceed fains.) Br FRED DANZIG UPI Correspondent New York- (UPD -Wanted: A detailed program lor develop ing the nation's public recrea tion facilities. At present, Federal, state and local governments all are in the recreation business. But have no master plan to follow. A town can set out to build a new playground and the Federal government can knock it aside with a new hignway. There is some hope that leadership will be forthcom ing. Congress has created a National Outdoor Recreation Resources . Review Commis sion that will study public recreation and perhaps come up with a long-range pro gram. Many recreational authori ties believe the solution is up to the 3,000 cities, towns and villages that now provide recreation programs of vary ing adequacy. "These recreation agencies benefit more individuals and afford . a greater volume of service than those under Fed eral and state auspices," says the National Recreation Asso ciation, indicating where a building program must begin. Control Divided The National Park Service, governing 180 national, mili tary and historical parks, controls nearly 24 million acres. The XJ.S. Forest Service guards 180 million acres of national forests. The Corps of Engineers has 5.6 million acres, mostly water. Reservoir projects are the concern of the Bureau of Rec lamation and the TVA. The Fish and Wildlife Service ad ministers 17.5 million acres, And the Bureau of Land Man agement sometimes leases public domain lands for rec reational purposes. In addition, more than 39 million acres are set aside for state parks, forests and game Girl's' Science Fair Exhibit Contributes To Mold Research Washington-fliPD-A 14-year-' old girl preparing an exhibit for a junior high school sci ence fair may have contrib uted significant new knowl edge to research on antibiotic molds. That's the report from sci entists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research who- have examined several mold cultures grown by Dor othy Jeanne Dragoo, a ninth grade student at the Mount Rainier, Md., Junior High school.- Dorothy's project for a re cent science fair at her school was to grow several mold cutures under different condi tions to determine whether vary ins wave lengths of light had any effect on their de- 'velopment. Simple Equipment She used very simple equip ment. The mold cultures were grown in the standard "gunk" -a jelly-like substance called dextrose agar. Dorothy cov ered some of the trays with cellophane of various colors, including red, green, yellow and blue, so that the light would pass through them onto the molds. .She left a few control batches exposed to normal light, and some were kept in total darkness. Her first experiments in dicates that the amount and wave length of light falling on a culture does make a de - tectable difference in the characteristics of the mold. One of .the judges at the science fair told Dorothy this was a very interesting" find ing, and encouraged her to discuss her work with experts at the Walter Reed Institute where much kasic fesearch on antibiotic molds is con ducted. Dorothy, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Don H. Dragoo of Lewisdale, Md., talked over her oroiect with Charlotte Campbell, head of the insti tute's Medical Mycology sec tion and with one of her asso- Forest Taxation To Be Studied Corvallis - Forest taxation and its effect upon the man agement of Oregon forests will be studied in a new Ore gon State college school of forestry research project. Forest economists at the college have outlined a broad research program ' to deter mine the effects of Oregon's property tax, yield tax, and severance tax on forestry op erations. Because of the scope of the project, it will be conducted over a period of several years. First of the studies to be initiated will be an analysis of the property tax burden on forest owners in relation to other property holders. This phase will start this sum mer and may be completed within a year. Other phases of the project will be under taken as funds are received. Working on the project will be Robert F. Keniston, Char les F. Sutherland, Dwight S. Jeffers, and Charles W. Dane of the forestry school staff. The greatest interest in for est taxation is shown by the number of forest tax bill in troduced in the last legisla ture, the foresters noted. Facts developed from the re search are expected to pro vide new and highly valuable information on forest taxation and management in the state. ? ciates, John P. Reilly. They told Dorothy her molds could yield useful knowledge for science if she would continue her experiments. Following Reilly's advice, i Dorothy took small pieces of the mold she had grown in the dark and under the red and blue cellophane and put this "second generation" into fresh agar where they were permitted to develop under varying, controlled con ditions. "It prSbably will be neces sary to grow several more generations of mold to prove or disprove whether these mu tations are stable character istics," Dorothy said. She is developing her stud ies from two basic types of molds-an Aspergillus species considered to be non-infectious, and Trichophyton ru brum, a common cause of ath letic's foot and other skin in fections. The latter is distin guished by a red pigment. . New Factor Two new factors, however, have been noted in Dorothy's fungi: (1) A possible antibi otic substance of the Asper gillus molds (which forms as globules of moisture) is pro duced earlier in their growth; and (2) when grown in the dark, the Aspergillus loses its green pigment as it produces the antibiotic, while the Trich ophyton rubrum's red pigment becomes considerably dim med and produces no antibi otic Whether Dorothy has pro duced a useful antibiotic is yet to be determined, Miss Campbell said. But she said the project is "scientifically useful" arid "might lead to a new medically useful antibi otic too." refuges. And some 455 forest products companies own or! lease 46.2 million acres, of which more than 90 per cent is available to hunters and fishermen. Sixty-five companies oper ate 132 parks on their com mercial timberlands and 'in dustry spokesmen believe this approach is becoming a trend. Mission 66 The Federal government two years ago launched Mis sion 66, a 10-year, billion dollar program aimed at building roads, buildings and other improvements at exist ing national recreation areas. When launched in 1956, the government estimated it would be completed in 1966 when 80 million persons would visit 180 federally-owned parks, monuments, historic sites and other recreation areas. However, the 1958 attend ance should reach 63.5 mil lion and if this 8 per cent an-' nual increase continues, the 80 million visitors will be at the park gates in 1961. Conrad L. Wirth, director of the National Park Service, said Mission 66 will increase by 4,000 the capacities of privately-financed lodges and cabins in national parks, now at 40,000. Another phase of the fight to keep public land public: Federal law now prohibits the armed forces from taking over government-owned lands of 5,000-acres or more without Congressional approval. New Bill Being Readied And the Senate Interior Committee now is preparing a new, controversial National Wilderness Preservation Bill that would preserve some 55 million acres against commer cial exploitation. Many Western state offi cials oppose the bill on grounds that they would rath er see more industry than parks. They add that the eastern half of the nation needs the conservation more than the western half does. Doubling-up on land usage is another proposed aid in ex panding recreation facilities. For example: Turn reservoirs and the wooded fringes around them into public parks. And build schools on park sites and vice versa. . As annual attendance at state parks, forests and game refuges nears the 190-million mark, (more than twice the 1948 total), every state is tackling the problem of ex panding recreation facilities. California has 614,000 acres in its state park system, more than double the acreage it had in 1940. Its park program is largely financed through oil royalties obtained from com panies that drill on state owned and submerged lands. Washington State last year raised the cost of a driver's license by $1 to give the State Park and Recreation Com mission more revenue. Illinois recently created a Conserva tion Advisory Board to study the state's recreation needs. Massachusetts is consider ing a 20-year, 100-million-dol-lar . development program. More and more subdivisions for vour next MM session: dtBlW I I am: M.C.P. JAM & JELLY PECTIN in the familiar yellow package make delicious jams and jellies with normal sugar content (60 65). 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Two state forest areas have been sold to private interests in the last 10 years, but state officials say acquisitions dur ing the same period more than offset the loss. That's the crux of the prob lem: To offset land losses through new acquisitions. Despite the growing aware ness of our nation's recrea tional needs, many recreation- ists feel whatever we're do ing isn't enough. Losses ex ceed the gains. ' 12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Or. A Thursday, June 25, 1959 List of Norway Fire Survivors Told By Embassy Oslo 0TPD - The XL S. Embas sy has released the names of 79 American citizens who sur vived the disastrous fire at Vossesstrand Tuesday. An Embassy spokesman said, however, that no list of missing Americans would Be published by the Embassy in Oslo. He said soph a list would be released by the State De partment in Washington after the nearest kin are notified. The spokesman refused to say how many Americans were missing in the fire. Un official estimates put the fig ure at 20. Included in the list of sur vivors -were the following West Coast residents: . Mrs. Leila Rosen, Holly wood. Calif.: Mrs. Nellie O. I Lash, Los Angeles; Edvard URGE CHARTER REVISION Washington - (UPD - Sixteen senators headed by Sen. Jo seph S. Clark (D-Pa.) intro duced a resolution Tuesday calling for review and revi sion of the United Nations charter. Fourteen House mem bers introduced the same pro posal in that body. The resolu tion calls on the President to take the lead in advocating a conference before 1962 to completely review the U.N. charter. LeRoy Lash, Los Angeles; Miss Adelaide Dorothy Fisch er, Seattle; Dr. William M. Mulvehill, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Mrs. William M. Mulve hill, Beverly Hills, Caif. John Roland Anderson, Glendale, Calif.; Mrs. John Roland Anderson, Glendale, Calif.; Richard Crandall, Men lo Park, Calif.; Mrs. Helen R. Kahn, San Francisco; Fay R. Levy, San Francisco; Johanna Davis, Berkeley, Calif.; Charles Copp, Alea Oahu, Hawaii; Mrs. Charles Copp, Alea Oahu, Hawaii; Brooks Farrar, Alhambra, Calif., and Mrs. Elizabeth Farrar, Al hambra, Calif.' Connective Tissue Yields Clue To Muscular Disease London-(Science Service) New clues suggest that con nective tissue, not muscle fi ber, harbors the culprit that causes vcrippling muscular dystrophy. Damaging changes occur in muscles "when this disease strikes, leaving its victims weak and crippled. Two American researchers h a y e now ".iscovered that the muscle fibers in "a number of cases" have been invaded and are being destroyed by en zymes that are found in con nective tissue. "Enzymes Present Connective tissue binds to gether and is the support of the various structures of the body. These enzymes are pres ent in the connective tissue that surrounds the decaying muscle fibers, Goeffrey H. Bourne and M. Nelly Golarz, department of anatomy, Emory University, Atlanta, explain. 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