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3 i t .1 MAIL TRIBUNE, M4for4, Or. ThuridT July 1939 Biologist Sees 'Movless' Lawns Within 10 Years Pasadena, Calif.-(Science Service)-Ten years from now you will be able to sit on a lawn that needs no mowing and reach up to pick a normal-sized peach from the low branches of a dwarf tree. This will be possible be cause within 10 years we will have an "anti-gibberellin," Dr. James A. Lockhart, biologist at the California Institute of Technology here, predicted. Gibberellin, the hormone that plants secrete to induce stem growth, has been widely studied, Dr. Lockhart pointed out. Considerable research is under way to discover an anti gibberellin which would sup press the growth of plants without affecting their abil ity to flourish and yield nor mal crops. Slows Plant Growth An application of this anti-gibberellin-perhaps in a spray form or as an additive to fer tilizer could, slow plant growth so that grass, for ex ample, would need virtually no trimming. Fruit trees treat ed with the anti-growth sub stance would be the same as normal trees except for their shortened stems or trunks. Dr. Lockhart based his prediction of the properties of the anti gibberellin on what he has learned about gibberellin. The hormone affects young cells, especially in the plant stem, promoting stem growth by counteracting the effects of sunlight. Light slows down stem growth by making the young cell walls more rigid. Gibberellin enables the cell walls to stretch, growing longer but not wider. Polio Crippling Twice as Many As Last Year Washington- (Science Serv- Ice)-Polio i crippling twice i many ueople this year as it did last year at this time. United States Public Health i officials arc disturbed. This two to one ratio may continue . for the entire polio . season- and the season has gust oegun. Furthermore, the ratio may increase as the summer pro gresses. Normally, the number of polio' cases bits a peaK some time in August, or septemDer, Dr. C. C. Dauer, medical ad viser at the PHS, told Science Service. IncxMs Expected There will undoubtedly be : an increase in the .number of cases reported as the season . progresses. But officials are keeping their fingers crossed that the increase does not' sur pass the number of reported cases for the peak-season of 1958. ' Surgeon General LeRoy Burney has repeatedly warn ed that the polio season is approaching. More than 40,- 000,000 persons in the United : States still have .hot received their Salk shots. The PHS has even suggest ed that those who have re ceived three shots could gain added protection from a fourth booster shot. Pregnant women, the most susceptible, and persons who expect to ' travel in areas where polio Ts expected, plus those who have not. had Salk shot for several years were urged to do so. Former jeweler Now Makes Crowns Cleveland, Ohio (DPD Rich ard Long has a head start on success. He makes crowns. x "Sometimes people don't believe me when I tell them what I do," he said. "I have to show them the catalog:" A former jeweler's bench man, Long teamed up three years ago with Harold Gilbert to buy a small crown-making company. Gilbert handles the sales and shipping. Long works at their shop after his regular job as a tool and die maker. . Working by hand, with only a torch and a grinder and pol isher as tools, he turns out more than 1,000 crowns, tiaras and scepters each year. The regal headwear, retailing from $5 to $50, graces beauty queens, lodge officials and actors. Although he loses track of : most of the crowns when they are sold, Long remembers that " one of his most expensive models was bought by a housewife a year ago. 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