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" , 1?" . V- nit-riM ..g- .- .. STONY PIT VIRUS - This is what stony pit has been a problem in Bosc pears for many virus looks like in pears. Pear growers have years and is also causing trouble in some I been advised to be on the outlook for the D'Anjou orchards, according to Oregon , trouble in Bartletts during the harvest. This State college specialists. .1. I -; ; -A HEAVY PEAR DROP - Pear growers Fri day inspected various orchards in the Rogue River valley for pear drop. Die fruit is ripening faster than it can be picked and falling to the ground. Growers estimate the equivalent of four boxes of pears have fallen from many Bartlett trees. With the peach harvest starting and the winter pear harvest fast approaching a picker shortage has de veloped. Growers have sought Outside aid to get their pears picked and into the packing houses. Mexican Nationals started arriving Saturday. Dietary Controls Help Boost ence Score Children's - Washington-(Science Serv-3ce)-New dietary controls are helping boost the intelligence scores of children with cer tain relatively rare inherited mental deficiencies. Heartening I.Q. rises have leen recorded in Great Brit :in and the United States in youngsters whose conditions arise from defects in body jchemistry. Additional Jump ' Even the prevention of Omental retardation is being achieved in some cases when afflicted infants are detected almost immediately after .birth. Physicians are getting 'an additional jump in early "treatment through the Spotting of genetic carriers jamong parents-to-be. f Many children with these disorders would, only recent ly, have been , destined be fore birth to an almost vege table existence. Some now iiave a chance to meet life rwith a productive, closer-to-jhormal intelligence. ; Up-to-date work in this new approach to mental defi 'ciency is currently being re Jported by a British pediatri cian, Dr. Alan Moncrieff, to several leading child health xenters in the U.S. - Dr. Moncrieff described progress in three treatable types of mental deficiency. -However, he emphasized that Jittle can be done presently lor dozens of other types. Water Babies Included t The three that have yielded Jo dietary treatment are phe nylketonuria, galactos e m i a, nd a condition, victims of 'which are known as water Jabies. X Phenylketonuria is a he xeditary disorder affecting Tone child in about 25,000 fcirths. It results from in ability to metabolize the amino acid known as phenyla lanine. Children fed milk low in phenylalanine experienced improvement in I.Q. after a few months on the diet. In ' one of Dr. Moncrieff' s cases, Interna ' EVEREST AKD JBSiiKSS WHEELCHAIRS ft WALKEXS .''HUDSON'S PHARMACY :-13 E. MAIN PH. SP 3-5345 f 1 Block East of Hawthorne Park "l Open Sundays and Holidays 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Wtakdiy :30 a.m. - 10 p.m. the I.Q. of a retarded child was raised-to -nearly-that of her normal twin sister. Dr. Moncrieff does not yet know whether a life-time diet- is in dicated for maintenance of the higher intelligence level. While his own research specialty is phenylketonuria, Dr. Moncrieff is intensely in terested in the entire field of mental retardation. He re ferred to the work of other British, and American re- DEFEATING 10 others, Car olina Aurora Teran, 21,' is named queen of San Diego's Fiesta del Pacifico. Maryland and Virginia con tributed 100 square miles to form the District of Columbia for the U. S. capital. searchers in describing strik ing successes in the other two disorders. Galactosemia, an inherited enzyme defect at the site of conversion of a form of glu cose, causes jaundice and cataracts as well as mental deficiency. It can be detected after birth through an excess of lactose in the urine. It is possible, Dr. , Mon crieff said, to prevent all three symptoms . with, a lac tose-free diet starting very early in infant life. Unfortu nately, lactose-free foods are hard to find, and even tiny amounts of lactose have po tent- detrimental effects. Kidney Defect Water babies have a kid ney defect and they pass tre mendous amounts of urine. The ; condition is genetically sex-linked; the defective gene being carried by the female and the disorder appearing only in males. Why it results in mental . deficiency is .not known. In order, to keep the baby alive in the early weeks of life, one must -almost con tinually "pour" water into it. A somewhat less trying fluid treatment is then maintained to prevent mental retardation. The parents of one set of afflicted twins must feed them every two hours around the clock. Concerning a young medical student with the disorder, Dr. Moncrieff said he "was endowed with a mind simply by giving him water." New Plotter Can Watch All Airplanes Approaching U. S. Colorado Springs, Colo. (Science service)-A new sys- ter has been developed for keeping track of all airplanes, friendly or unfriendly, ap proaching or flying over the U.S. The new plotting system, called Iconorama, will be in stalled here at North Ameri can Air Defense Command (NORAD) headquarters and at Strategic Air Command (SAC) headquarters at Omaha, Neb. Iconorama shows almost in stantly the positions of air craft thousands of miles away, such as those that might be detected by the Distant Early Warning defensive radar net work. By projecting the automati- 6 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. - A... tn ioo ------7 -3 - ' SUMMER , CAPS AND STRAW HATS ON m SALE AT I D I n I I BARKER'S gJr y little as rf V 49c J II Main - Central A , Portland Youth's Hearing Postponed Portland - (UPD - Arraign ment of Wilbur D. Denson, 15, Portland, on a first degree murder charge has been post poned until Monday by Cir cuit Judge J. J. Murchison .The youth was indicated on the charge by the Multnomah county grand jury Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of David Lee Heads, 16. x : , Police . said the Denson youth admitted shooting the Heads boy Tuesday night on the front porch of the victim's home. Denson told police he did not mean to kill the other boy, only to hurt him. Denson said Heads teased him about a limp that was caused by an injury suffered in an acci dent. Judge Murchison set the arraignment over to allow Denson time to obtain an at torney before pleading to the charge. PENNY UNWISE Richmond, Va. (DM - A Fed eral Reserve Bank spokesman complained Friday that peo ple are "hanging on to" then pennies. But he indicated it is not really because of increas ed thriftiness. The spokesman said people have the mistaken belief that there is a mistake in the new Lincoln penny is sued last January and that it has a premium value as a col lector's item. Gasoline-Fume Addiction Found In 12-Year-Old Boy Wilkes - Barre Pa. (Science Service) - W. M. was 18 months old when he had his first sniff of gasoline. At the time, his mother was working in a shoe factory and his father was out plowing on their small farm. The boy somehow had lo cated a gasoline container and seemed to enjoy smelling the fumes. They served to pacify him. Today, W. M. is a 12-year-old gasoline-fume addict. The drinking of gasoline and kerosene by children is familiar to the medical pro fession. But known cases of gasoline inhalation are so rare that W. M.'s history was giv en special mention in the cur rent American Journal of Or thopsychiatry. Good Pacifier After discovery of his child's unusual craving, Mr. M. found that gasoline, conven iently placed, was always a good pacifier for the boy. It enabled Mr. M. to complete his farm chores, unimpeded by his "happy" baby. However, young W. M. overdid it. He carried his gasoline container to meals, about the house, to bed, and out of doors. School was the one place to which his parents would not permit him to bring his pacifier. Some feeble parental at tempts were made to put a stop to W- M.'s growing addic tion. When the addition of ammonia to the gasoline did not deter him, the parents tried medical help. They were referred to the Child ren's Service Center of Wy oming Valley here. Regarded as 'Queer' It was found that the boy had few friends because children regarded him as "queer." His school work was poor. He told an examining psychiatrist he did not want to change or grow up. But, he said, he could stop the the "habit" if some one really made him stop. Although he was found to be physically and neurologic- ally normal, his breath con tained a heavy and offensive gasoline odor. The parents rejected an of fer of psychiatric aid, point ing out the drawbacks of the distance to the clinic and the loss of working time for both. They wanted to "work it out" themselves, and it was decid ed that they would get in touch with clinic in a year. This is how the situation now stands, as reported 1 by the Center's chief psycholo gist, Dr. Carl J. Nitsche, and director, Dr. J. Franklin Rob inson. cally drawn tracks on a big screen, it has been demon stated that the system can do the work of six men at the old clear-plastic plotting boards used since World War II. Traffic Information The Iconorama system ex pands traffic information han dling capacity by 400 per cent. It is expected to pay for itself in four years by obvi ating human plotters. Traces made by the planes being tracked are scribed on a coated slide by a moving stylus. Date received over existing teletype lines are made to guide the stylus over the slide, scribing a special metallic coating. The slide plot measures only one inch square, yet overall error of the projected display is said to be about one part in 1,000. As many slides as needed may be used to cover a given situation.. Each is projected, in register, on the viewing screen and in its own identify ing color. Slid Filed When the slides become DIVORCE GRANTED Fort Worth, Tex. (UPD - Mrs. Jean McKinnon, 27, won a divorce Friday after telling the court that her husband, Air Force Ma j. John McKin non, "spends all his daylight hours playing golf and all his nights watching television." At present rates of popula tion increase, in almost every part of the globe, the world will have 5.5 billion people in the next 30 years. . . . WHEREVER GOOD FOOD IS SOLD . . . Quality DAIRY FOODS filled with tracks, or the situa tion is over, the slides are re placed. Each removed slide can be filed as part of the flight record of the plane it represents. Leasing contracts for the Iconorama system, made by Fenske, Fedrick and Miller, Inc., Los Angeles, call for in stallation to be completed at NORAD by July, 1960, and at SAC by October, 1959. Iconorama units already have been installed and op erated at the Pacific Missile Range, Point Mugu, Calif.; the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico; the At lantic Missile Range at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and the Na v a 1 Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation also is understood to have signed a contract for use of Iconorama at its Palo Alto, Calif., control center. , Accent the your home charm of - ',2 Off ENDURANCE m&J NOT The elegant exterior finish for city or country home in new, vibrant, fall colors that stay brighter longer . . . lend more beauty and value to your home. 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Keep your car.in good mechan ical condition . . . especially steering gear and brakes. Keep tragedy out of the lives of little children ... and bitter remorse out of your own ... by driving cautiously always! MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Dread polio at th peak of its virulence never took a toll in children's lives remotely com . parable to that exacted by traf fic accidents. Do YOUR part to reduce this grim casualty list!
