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1 v I ' . jrjf Jff ; ', tt, r v X " - f ., ' ' ;. . WOUNDED FIGHTING REDS-Royal Ladtian soldier, wound ed in battle against Communist rebels advancing on military headquarters in SamnUa, Laos, is placed aboard single-en-gined plane for evacuation to Vientiane. The Communist forces are reportedly launching a massive attack in Sam neua province. 'y. .. Moon Exploration Claimed Necessary Risk of Human Life London (Science Service) The argument that we cannot afford to risk human life to ' explore the moon is unsound, both historically and econom ically, (wo scientists from the National - Aeronautics a nxl Space. Administration, .Wash ington, D.C., told the Interna- - tional Astronautical - Fed era tion Congress here. . ' Milton W. Rosen frA F. ,.- Varl Sckwenk said man has always dominated the history of exploration "and has been . able to cope with all physical ' hazards to reach inaccessible , regioni of the earth. ' They conceded that explora- tion implies risk of life and that instruments could . be built to withstand a greater range of temperature, pres sure, acceleration and radia- ' tion than the sensitive body of man. t" (':-' Capabilities Not Duplicated "But,", they argued, "while an instrument can do one or several things, there are. thou sands, - indeed millions, of things it cannot do. To put it bluntly, no. instrument or ar ray of instruments exists that can duplicate the sensing cap ability to record, remember, interpret and discriminate, we see how paltry are the powers of the most sophisti cated mechanical substitute." Arguing the merits of send ing rockets on "direct flight and by the orbital rendez- , vous i methods, the scientists said that ' the . direct flight method would be more costly, but would be better in every way. Effects Minimised ' They described a vehicle which could : make, a round: trip to the moon. A" two and a Lhalf day flight from earth' to the- moon .was chosen, as the shorter trip! : tiine - minimizes effects of errors in burnout velocity. The rocket would have five or six stages. -The first three stages would accelerate the payload and re maining stages-, to an initial velocity of ; 36,0,00 feet per second. After coasting to the vicinity ; of the moon, the fourth stage would lower the vehicle to a landing on . the moon. , At the time of departure, the fifth stage would propel the vehicle toward the earth. After two and a half days, the payload approaches the earth. A sixth stage of propul sion could be used to slow the payload to orbital speed, or the vehicle , could enter the earth's atmosrhere at hyper bolic velocity. This Nova rocket, as the sct- entists called it, would carry two men in a truncated cone 14 feet high and with a maxi mum diameter of 12 feet. They could have a 12-day istay on the moon and in that short time, the NASA scientists think they, could collect more lunar facts than . all the in strument - equipped vehicles sent up before they get there. 54th Year Price 10 Cents Medford ' IT A T . 3rd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1959 Pages 1-4 Milk Supplies To Be Sampled In Effort To Detect Pencillin Columbia Basin Washington-(Science Serv ice)-' The Food and Drug Ad ministration will shortly be gin . tapping milk supplies throughout the country in an effort ; to detect and remove from the market all milk that contains penicillin. A recent nation - wide milk survey disclosed that more than three per cent of the samples contained this anti biotic. Penicillin is a very ac tive germ fighter. Concentration Low Although its concentration in milk is very low, it is cap able of causing reactions in Sighly sensitive persons. More lan 18,000,000 Americans could have reactions from these small amounts. Persons allergic to this anti biotic may develop a fevef or rasn, or experience severe vomiting. FDA will begin sampling shortly, thanks to a new tech nique that can detect the pres ence of as little as 0.05 units of penicillin per milliliter of milk within two and one half hours. The method currently used takes up to 18 hours, a For College or High School ebsterV II lew u Collegiate J) V Dictionary 1 . 5.00 ' ;6.00 Regular Edition-. Indexed. Edition ' Southern Oregon's . . Largest '. Book '' ' . Store r Charge Plate Store f ft "How Hospitals Are Curing their IDs" by Lawrence Galfon .,' . Read how iodern lecfiniques such as intercom sys tems, cafeteria style meals and modern floor plans v . cut costs and get patients home quicker in the September 13 JmJIjr "" , - . ..,..,:u,,..v.weflAi5Fr:A .. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Safety Lessons Put in Classrooms 1 Stillwater, Okla. (UPD Stu dents here will have to play it safe if they want to do well in the classroom. Stillwater is the first city in the nation xo include a full program of safety instruction in all elementary schools. The program was designed by the Oklahoma Safety Council, which hopes to have it in operation in 5,000 class rooms this school year. The program will provide teachers and students with special classroom materials, including lesson units, posters, teachers' guides, workbooks, magazines and other selected items, all designed to impress the need for safety upon young- minds. ' ; Oklahoma Safety Council Manager- Bob Eastman- de scribed the program, which has been underwritten by Stillwater's civic . clubs at a cost of $12 per classroom, as "one of the most important projects we have ever under taken." - "The child of today,'East man' said, "is born into a world of thousands of poten tial hazards, most of them un known 30 .years ago. Basic safety .knowledge is as neces sary as the ABC's if today's child is to live in our mecha nical world." '. t Russia Caret For Physicians Chicago -Science Services Russian physicians have few worries because "the state takes care", of them, the direc tor of a Soviet medical insti tute said here today. V ' .. "In the USSR, improvement in doctors' professional; skill is 'a matter of 'national im portance,'-': said" Prof. Z. I. Yanushkeykhius, director of the Kaunas Medical Institute. He made the statement in dis cussing advanced training for physicians before the Second World Conference on Medical Education. ' 1 . "The state budget bears the whole expense connected with the maintenance of the ad vanced training institutes for doctors . . . ," .Prof Yanush kevichius said. "The same goes for traveling allowances, etc.' A doctor need, not worry about who will replace' him while he is absent. The state takes care of that."- He described courses at the 11 advanced - training insti tutes that handle 27,000 doc tors a year. Younger doctors, he said, are' taught, among other things, medical special ties, foreign languages, and the fundamentals of Marxism and Leninism. ' j. ', : In 1880, the first roll film for cameras was patented by George Eastman. long delay for a perishable food such as milk, Dr. Henry Welch, division of antibiotics, Department of Agriculture here, told Science Service. Could Prosecute Shipper . Beginning shortly, milk shipped in interstate com merce that is found to contain penicillin could be seized and the shipper prosecuted by the Federal Government, he ex plained. State and local regu lators will prosecute intrastate violators. Penicillin finds its way into milk when the drug is infused into cows suffering from mas titis, an inflammation of the udder. Since farmers them selves can administer the drug to their animals, Federal labeling'regulations warn that Break in Heat Wave Predicted For September : Suitland, Md. (Science Serv ice) Some break in 'the, heat wave that gripped the north ern half of . the country east of the Rocky Mountains dur ing August is seen ; in the Weather Bureau's long-range forecast for September. The 30-day outlook calls for temperatures to average above seasonal normals over the western half of the nation and also over the Middle and North Atlantic states. Great est temperature extremes are expected over : the " Northern Plains and the far Southwest. Near normal temperatures are anticipated for the" remaining areas, except for below nor mal in the middle Mississippi valley." Rain in West Lacking Precipitation during Sep- j tember is expected to exceed normal over the eastern third of the' nation, but be deficient over the western half. In the remaining areas, near 'normal rainfall is forecast. Jerome Namaias, head of the Weather Bureau's long range forecast section, said that cold air sweeping down from Canada to break the heat wave was notably absent this summer, for the country's northern half east of the Rock ies, particularly during Au gust. He told Science Service that present , trends indicate that the world-wide weather pattern causing this long per sistence is now breaking up for some areas. Pattern Not Uncommon Namias said this summer's weather pattern was not "un common," occurring once out of every five or six years dur ing the last 25. That in 1959 was, however, very intense. -He blamed the upper air circulation for the heat wave. A high pressure area cen tered in the upper atmosphere over the southeastern United States was very favorable to the lack of southward move ment of cool air and to draw ing warm moist air from the Gulf over the eastern. United States. -.-,'.;- : '' ." This high pressure, area, is usually found over Bermuda. Also as part of the world-wide pattern, the polar Pacific high pressure area was displaced north of its normal position in the eastern Pa -if-c. the milk from such treated animals should not' be used for human consumption be fore three days after the last dose. Apparently, some have not complied with the regula tions. Dose Content Boosted Furthermore, it has been found that many manufactur ers of the drug preparation boosted the content of the dose to 1,500,000 units. Re peated doses of 25,000 units are considered adequate. Therefore, such highly potent doses increase the length. of time required to eliminate the drug from a treated cow's milk. FDA has limited the dose to 100,000 units per dose. Within the past few years there has been a considerable drop in the percentage of peni-1 cilkn-containing milk samples, Dr. Welch pointed out. During 1954, 1955 and 1956, three sur veys dipped into milk sup plies from every state. At that time j6.9 per. cent of the sam ples proved to be adulterated with penicillin.: A survey in the fall of 1958 and winter of 1959 revealed that this per centage has dropped to 3.7. Meeting Slated Spokane - (UPD - Representa tives of Idaho, Montana, Ne vada, Oregon, Utah, Washing ton and Wyoming were ex pected here today for a meet ing of the Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee. Agenda topics include a forecast of power needs in the Pacific Northwest in the year 2010. The committee will alsp discuss employment of a per maanent executive secretary, a staff engineer and resources planning specialist. Allan J. Meadowcrof t, Fed eral Power Commission repre sentative, will discuss hydro electric capabilities for meet ing power loads forecast for 1968, 1985 and 2010. Other re ports will be presented by E. F. Cook of the Idaho Depart ment of Mines and Geology, and by Roger James, Spokane representative of the State Health Department. The agency is an organiza tion composed of seven fed eral agencies and seven west ern states involved in the area's water resources. V? - Plant Virus Helps Insect University Park, Pa. -(Science Service) - The first plant virus known to help out an insect was reported here. - The plant virus, known as "aster yellows," increases the number of foods the tiny corn leafhopper can eat, Dr. Kark Maramorosch of Rockefeller Institute, New York, told sci entists at the American Phyto pathological Society meeting. The aster yellows -virus, which affects asters, lettuce; spinach and carrots, is carried from sick to healthy plants by another tiny insect, the leaf hopper. This insect is , also slightly affected by the virus which lives and multiplies in side it. However, Dr. Maramorosch explained, when the corn leaf hopper sucks up the virus, it then is able to feed and thrive . . ' Los Angeles Firm Only Bidder for Booths Mason Manufacturing com pany, Los Angeles, Calif., wa the onlv hidder on inn nnllin This may mean an "entire j c Tt : t i f . I new o-ieia oi researcn inio on healthy asters and carrots foods that normally would have poisoned the insect. the possible beneficial effects of plant viruses, the scientist concluded. the couuty court has reported. The bid of $2,800 was ac cepted and the contract awarded.- ...WHEREVER GOOD FOOD IS SOLD . . .V . Quality DAIRY FOODS perfect breakfast, little pig sausages and OREGON FARX3 FRESH EGGS Guaranteed fresh! II' I 1 Oregon Joined in Suit For Fire-Fighting ost Salem (UPD Oregon's suit against the United States, to recover fire-fighting costs in a 1957 Klamath forest fire has been joined by a similar ac tion by California, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said Wednesday. The Oregon State Forestry Department, through the at torney general's office, is ask ing $27,250 damages from the U. 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