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54th Year Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959 German Beetles May Help Control Insects in U.S. Washington (Science Serv ice) Beetles from Baden may help control a forest-destroying insect in the U.S. Approximately 20,000 bee tles known to prey on the balsam woolly aphid are be ing imported from West Ger many mostly the Baden area near the city of Freiburg. Live beetles are being released by U.S. Forest Service entomolo gists on the most heavily in fested trees in a small control test in Maine. Sever Losses Reported Some of the imported bee tles will also be used to es tablish a colony in North Carolina. Severe losses of fir trees as a result of aphid in festation have already been reported in Washington, Ore gon, Maine and North Caro lina. The balsam woolly aphid damages trees by attaching it self to the trunk and feeding on the sap. Mass infestations injure the trees so severely, the U.S. Department of Agri culture here reported, that trees die in about two years Aerial sprays of insecticides do not reach the aphids and ground spraying is too costly. Researchers are hopeful that using insect predators will solve the problem. Flies Donated The Canadian department of agriculture has donated 200,- . 000 tiny flies, scientiticaiiy known as Aphidoletes thomp soni, that also prey on the aDhid. The Canadians have been very successful in their work with both the flies and the beetles (Laricobius erich sonii) which they imported, re leased and colonized in the New Brunswick area. The British Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control is assisting the USDA's Agri cultural Research Service and Forest Service in their aphid control plans. Blindness Claimed To Be Advantage Warwick, RJ.-flJPD-Stuart L. Rice, 38, bull-rakes for. qua-' haugs like so many other Rhode Island men. But, unlike them, Rice is blind able only to distinguish the difference between day and night. Yet he ventures out into Warwick Cove two or tree times a week and manages to rake up enough of the hard clams to supply his family and pay for the upkeep of his boat. Rice guides himself to his boat with a long aluminum cane, hauls in l?:e 15-foot skiff which is string from a rope on pulleys to a stake, then climbs aboard. t He says he can hear echoes from moored boats as he passes them slowly. Other guides are the songs of birds, the barking of hir dog onshore and outboards passing down the channel. When he gets to a likely spot, Rice dips in his rake, lifts it, shakes out the mud and feels with his fingers. Each quahaug is slipped through a metal ring gauge tied to the side of the skiff to measure it for legal size. Says Rice: "I think the blindness is an advantage in quahauging. I can concentrate on the rake and not be dis tracted by passing boats." Red Scientist Calculates Waves New York - (Science Serv ice) -A Russian scientist has calculated how atomic explo sions result in the emission of radio waves, the American Institute of Physics reported here. Prof. A. S. Kompaneets of the Institute for Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, derived a theory showing the radio waves de tected from atomic blasts are due to the presence of a cur rent in the ionized air. The duration of the pulse due to the electronic current is one or a few microseconds (millionths of a second), thus giving radio waves with a wave length of about three feet. Standard AM broad casts at 1,500 kilocycles have a wave length of some 660 feet. 1 1 LISTING MRS. ALTHEA BASS as man, birth records in Newton County, Tex., are all fouled up according to Mrs. Bass who cites her son, Luther, 8, as proof of sex. Polio Strikes Boy Within Block of Free Salk Clinic HAVE TICKETS? WILL WED Christchurch, New Zealand -(UPD-An apparently determin ed sports fan advertised in a local newspaper that he would like to meet a widow "with an eye to matrimony" - pro vided she has tickets to the forthcoming Britain-New Zea land rugby match. "Kindly send photographs of tickets," ; the ad concludes. Washington -(Science Serv-ice)-Paralytic polio struck a 17-year-old boy here who has never received a Salk shot al though he lives one block from a clinic where the vac cine is given free. He is now hospitalized, both legs paralyzed. This boy is one of more than 1,350 persons paralyzed this year by the polio virus. This is more than twice the 579 cases reported to the U.S. Public Health Service at this time last year. As the number of cases con tinue to climb, presently there are more than 2,050 reported cases of all types of polio, more people are getting out for their Salk shots. This has resulted in a drain on the sup ply of available vaccine be cause many private, local and state clinicsare opeji-rinore hours to give the vaccine, and because many new clinics have been established for the emergency period. To Relieve Situation Despite this seemingly pes simistic news, PHS officials expect the drug industry to be able to up their supply of the vaccine and relieve the situation soon.. More than 2,- 000,000 doses have been de livered to doctors, Clinics and other centers for vaccination each week for the past several weeks. Officials expect this Amount to increase shortly. P o 1 i o severely hit Des Moines, Iowa, New Haven, Conn., Kansas City, Mo., Texas, California, Alabama and Pennsylvania, statistics from the PHS reveal. Alaska has reported six cases so far. 322 Cases Last Year Last year, 322 cases of para lytic polio were reported in persons who had had the three Salk shots. Dr. C. C. Dauer, medical adviser for the National Office of "Vital Sta tistics, explained that al though a person has had three shots, if he is severely para lyzed, this usually eliminates other viruses as a cause of the paralysis. He probably has polio. Salk shots offer be tween 70 per cent and 90 per cent protection against para lytic polio. Then, too, there are a num ber of diseases caused by vi ruses which have been impli cated as a cause of a muscular paralysis that resembles crip pling polio Dr. Vernon Knight Copper Oxide Might Reduce Smog Gases Los Angeles (Science Serv ice) Copper oxide is a "high ly effective" catalyst for breaking down and thus elim inating the two gasses that produce most of our smog. This is the finding of a two year laboratory experiment by Dr. Srinivasa Sourirajan, as sistant research engineer at the University of. California, Los Angeles. Dr. Sourirajan's home is in Bangalore, India. . The smog gases are 1. nitric oxide, formed during combus tion, and 2. hydrocarbons, which make up gasoline. In the main, they are emitted by auto exhaust when air and gas mix in a car's combustion chamber. Gases Lose Effects . However, when nitric oxide is decomposed by copper oxide into nitrogen and oxy gen, and hydrocarbons oxi dized into carbon dioxide and water, both gases lost their pollution effects. . During his experiments, Dr. Sourirajan tested a large number of possible catalysts in a simulated auto exhaust sys ter, at temperatures ranging from 600 to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. His next project is to design the apparatus which can actu ally put the copper oxide natlyst to work in an automo bile's combustion chamber. The same catalytic method can be used to cut down the gase ous pollutants from oil refin eries, blast furnaces, or any combustion process, he points out. Way Sought To Measure Varying Height of Smog Los Angeles-(Science Serv- ice)-A $10,000 study at the University of California, Ls Angeles, supported by the U.S. Weather Bureau and the U.S. Public Health Service, will attempt to find a way of continuously measuring the height of smog. The results may help me teorologists make earlier and more accurate smog forecasts, according to James G. Ed inger, assistant professor of meteorology at UCLA. Height Limited The height of the polluted air layer1 is limited by the base of the inversion layer, which serves as an effective lid on the smog layer. , With a low inversion base, the pol lutants are confined to a shal low layer, resulting in more concentrated smog than when the base is high and the pol lutants are dispersed in a deep smog layer. . The height of the inversion base varies from, zero to 4,000 feet above the earth surface, depending on the time of the day, the. winds, and the seasons. If an inexpensive method of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis eases, Bethesda, Md., told Science Service. Antibiotics Measured If a victim of paralysis is examined after the culprit vi rus has left his body, doctors can many times determine if the disease is polio by meas uring the level of the patient's polio antibodies, he explained. If these antibodies are ex tremely low, then some other viruses becomes suspect. Most of the polio cases re ported through the PHS are carefully screened to estab lish the presence of one of the three polio viruses as the cause of the paralysis. Back To City Trend Forecast by Expert Ann Arbor, Mich (UPD At least one expert on the sub ject thinks the post-war trend to the suburbs will be re versed in time and it'll be "back to the city" for millions of Americans. This view was expressed by Otto L. Nelson Jr., vice presi dent in charge of housing for the New York Life Insurance Co., in a talk at the Univer sity of Michigan on "The City in Transition." "We may well see an era when downtown living will appeal to many people," Nel son said. "As our society becomes more mature, its cities will not be able to afford to extend their services farther out into the country. As our citizens become more sophisticated, they will want more of the cultural services which can be provided only in areas of high population concentration." WIFE. SHOT AS PROWLER - Belzoni, Miss. (UPD - A hus band who mistook his wife for a prowler killed her in their home Monday night, police said. Officers said Sidney Cobb had gone to bed early and was awakened when his wife slammed the door after bringing some laundry in from the yard. Cobb grabbed a gun and shot her, police said. can be found for running a continuous c h e c k on the height of the base, air pollu tion experts should be able to learn more about the causes of inversion, forecast smog conditions more accur ately, and give earlier warn ing for anti-smog emergency actions. Dr. Edinger will investigate such methods as sending up small measuring instruments called radiosondes, using ra dar detection techniques, and, at night, following the beams of searchlights. In other phases of his proj ect, he will measure the ver tical distribution of pollutants in the smog layer, and how the atmosphere diffuses pol lutants from various complex sources. rV from oiaia CANADA4 n CANADA DRY FLAVORS IN NEW KING-SIZE BOTTLES! Same delicious Canada Dry Quality. King-Size Bottle gives you more for your money. Delectable flavors include True-Fruit Orange, Root Beer, luscious Grape, and many others. Handy six-pack for take-home convenience. 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