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Many Chemicals
Enter Food Supply
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Editor-! Note: This is the second ca!j a fn a
of three dispatches on the prob- 7, - r" - " "Fa"iou.
lems raised by the increasing use
of chemicals in the production and
processing of food in the United
States.
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This Week's Home For Living-
By HIAWATHA ESTES
What better way is there
to start planning for a new
home than to consider full
play of the modern trend of
indoor-outdoor living?
In this design you'll find a
close relationship between
outside and in. Large window
areas throughout the house
Progress Made
In New Studies
On Starlings
Salem - Oregon is making
satisfactory progress in its
starling control program.
Frank McKennon, director i
of agriculture, made this'
statement Jan. 15 following
a meeting of the overall com
mittee on predator control.
Also represented on the com
mittee are the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, the State
Game Commission and the
Extension Service.
Concentrations of this nuis
ance bird have been found in
various places in eastern,
southern and western Oregon.
Holly-growers, the commit
tee reported, were able to har
vest their crops without dam
age. Whether the starling con
trol program had anything
to do with this may remain
a tongue - in - cheek question
until someone proves that
these birds can read. In any
event, the birds didn't move
onto the holly orchards until
after harvest this past sea
son! McKennon says the state
department of agriculture at
Salem is receiving quite a few
inquiries about the starling
program.
"Actually, in this program
we are utilizing the talent and
experience of the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife service under a
cooperative agreement", Mc
Kennon explained. For that
reason, and for the most di
rect information, queries
should be sent directly to Mel
vin D. Smith, district agent,
predator and rodent control,
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice, Old U. S. Courthouse,
Portland.
The 1959 legislature, which
set up the appropriation for
starling controls, classified
starlings as predators.
invite nature indoors and con
versely, extend inside di
mensions to outdoor living.
The large sliding glass
doors at the rear of the living
room open to the partially
covered patio. The patio is
also directly accessible to the
kitchen, which makes serving
meals on the patio very con
venient. Washing facilities and wa
ter heater are in the garage.
The furnace is located in the
attice but could also be
placed in the garage if de
sired. The door of the over
sized garaee-20 feet by 22
feet 6 inches inside measurements-is
offset to give suf
ficient space for a workshop.
Access is available to both
the rear yard and the house
from the garage.
The sheltered entry opens
onto a center hall leading to
the three bedrooms, living
and family rooms and yet the
home has less than 1,300
square feet:
A half-bath at the rear is
convenient to the garage,
kitchen and family room. The
main bath has an enclosed
tub with shower over and
pullman lavatory with stor
age below.
The front elevation of this
house presents an interesting
blend of materials. Horizon
tal wood siding with heavy
vertical members, which add
to the design interest, are
used on the front bedroom
wing and the garage door.
The circular stone planter
and veneer, together with
the louvre windows provide
an unusual design feature at
the front of the bedroom
wing. The wide eave over
hang around the entire house
protects it from both the rain
and direct rays of the sun.
Complete ' working drawing of
the above plan can be obtained at
a cost of $7.50 for the first set, and
S3 for each additional set. ' when
ordered at the same time. This
plan will be available for a period
of four months from this date.
Please allow two weeks for deliv
ery. If the above home does not
entirely meet with your satisfac
tion, a new home plan book.
Homes for Living, may be pur
chased for $1. Send all orders for
either plans or books to Hiawatha
Estes, P.O. Box 404-T, Northridge,
Calif.
Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
Mustache Auctioned
For Tab of $67
Chamberspurg, Pa. - Mary
Lee Nye bid $1 for her dad
dy' mustache at an auction
for charity.
"Preposterous," said her
father, Herbert. He'd owned
that mustache for 24 years
and wouldn't part with it
for a cent less than $50. But
he didn't price it out of the
market.
A group of his fellow mem
bers of a service club chipped
in a total of $67 and Nye was
shorn with a snib-by-snip, de
scription given over the pub
lic address system.
BLACK SHEEP .
Tupper Lake, N. Y. - (UPD -A
local deer hunter bagged a
spikehorn buck whose wooly
long-haired hide caused specu
lation that the animal may
have had a sheep somewhere
in iU ancestral line.
Let's Find Out Which
Predators art on Our Team
In nature's scheme of things
there is a rather complex sys
tem of checks and balances
that preserve some species of
animals and threaten to elim
inate others. Man himself en
ters the picture frequently
and disrupts the program.
Too often in our ceaseless
war on the predators we
don't stop to figure out just
which ones are playing on our
team or which ones are
against us.
There are a great many an
imals and birds in nearly
every section of our land, that
are named "killers": these are
supposed to be "killed on
sight." Any creature that has
an appetite for anything that
man hunts, eats or uses is
classed as a pest.
Many species protected in
one locality are considered
harmful in others. Some states
protect the American eagle,
our so-called national bird. In
other areas the bird is killed
on sight. The bird's preference
for fresh fish is reason enough
to kill off the eagles, say those
people who use the fish for
sport or food. Of course, no
creature, except man, has any
right to exploit any kind of
animal.
Different Opinions
In the list of predators the
common house cat is as bad
as any wild animal, but here
we argue the cat kills mice
which are destructive to man
and his belongings. Regard
less of the many people who
defend the cat, this animal is
one of the few predators that
kill for the sheer joy of kilL
ing. Much of the blame can of
course be laid right at the
door of the cat s owner. Too
many people liberate or aban
don cats. The animal, placed
on its own, desires to eat and
becomes a menace to all small
animal and bird life.
Another member of the cat
family, the bobcat, is also list
ed as one of the worst of the
wild predators. The fox, rac
coon, opossum and weasel
kill to eat, too, but most of
the prey that falls to these
animals is that which would
seldom live or beget healthy
young. This is where the orig
inal system established by Na
ture herself comes into play.
High on the List
The common crow is high
on the list of predators. Their
great numbers and evasive
natures assure their contin
ued existence. These black
marauders are friendless, but
actually need no friends, for
they usually are smarter than
most of the gunners who at
tempt to kill them.
Among the lists of "objec
tionable' 'animals of course
are many who should not be
in the list at all. The hawks
and owls have always been
killed on sight for no good
reason except that farmers
and uninformed hunters have
considered them as enemies
of game birds.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1960)
Company Puts End
To Flops on Ice
Pittsburgh - Cold feet and
flops on icy pavements are a
thing of the past for patrons
of a shopping center here.
The builders of the center
are installing heating wires
just below the sidewalk to
protect patrons against the
hazards of ice and snow.
, The wire is insulated with
Geon vinyl, developed by B.
F. Goodrich Chemical com
pany engineers. The insulaton
protects the wire against abra
sion and corrosion-among the
"bugs" in previous attempts
at sidewalk heating.
DIAMOND CENTER
Capetown - About 95 per
cent of the world's diamonds
are produced in Africa.
By LOUIS CASSELS
Washington -(UPD-Traces of
more than 1,000 different
chemicals get into America's
food supply in the course of
processing and packaging.
These chemicals usually
called "additives"-are in ad
dition to any pesticide resi
dues or other contaminants
that may get into food while
it is being grown on the farm.
Many types of chemicals
are deliberately introduced
into food to help preserve it,
to change its color or texture,
or to improve its flavor. Other
chemicals get into your diet
a s "accidental additives."
They migrate into food from
packaging materials, from
processing equipment which
has been chemically-cleaned,
or in other incidental ways.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration warned Con
gress in 1958 that hundreds
of chemicals were being wide
ly used in food that had not
been adequately tested for
possible bad effects on human
health.
Obvious Dangers -
The i FDA, which is respon
sible for guarding the purity
of the food supply, was able
at that time to ban use of a
food additive only if it could
produce positive proof that
the chemical in question was
harmful.
With new chemicals coming
into use much more rapidly
than FDA could test them, the
situation contained obvious
dangers.
Congress responded by en
acting a law that bans from
food any chemical additive
whether deliberately or acci
dentally introduced - that has
not been established as safe.
If there is any doubt about
the safety of a chemical, it is
up to the producer to prove
it safe rather than to the FDA
to prove it dangerous.
Congress gave the food in
dustry an 18-month grace per
iod to get ready for enforce
ment of this new law.
It becomes effective next
March 6.
FDA believes it will great
ly increase the consumer's
protection against health
hazards presented by indis
criminate use of untested
chemicals in food.
Any chemical believed to
cause cancer is totally banned
from food use. Other chemi
cals, even if potentially toxic
in sufficient quantity, may be
used within "tolerances" set
by FDA. These tolerances are
often quite tiny. For example,
FDA may permit some chem
icals to be present in food at
a rate of only one part per ten
million.
Fed To Animals
As is the case in setting tol
erances for agricultural pesti
cide residues in - food, the us
ual procedure is to test the
chemical by feeding it to lab
oratory animals for a pro
longed period. When the
smallest amount of chemical
that will harm a small animal
is determined, the FDA per
mits one one-hundredth that
amount in human food.
To simplify industry's prob
lem in complying with the
new law, the FDA has pub
lished a series of "white lists"
which grant advance clear
ance to a large number of
commonly -used chemicals
whose safety is regarded as
already well established.
Nearly 500 chemicals used
in food have been cleared in
this way. FDA is processing
about 50 applications for
clearances, submitted by man
ufacturers who want to get
other chemicals on the ap
proved list before the March
6 deadline.
But upwards of 400 chem
icals now in use have not yet
been cleared - and many of
them obviously will not be
cleared before the cutoff date.
The FDA has authority to
grant time extensions, but has
indicated it will do so only on
a selective basis, for good rea
son. Are any of these uncleared
chemicals potential- health
hazards?
"None that we know of,"
But
CHARGE DRIVER
Chattanooga, Tenn. - (UPD -Joe
Ridge Jr., who was the
driver of a car that veered
off the road killing four pas
sengers, has been charged
with four counts of. murder
by drunken driving.
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that has been the whole trou
ble - we simply don't know
enough about some of these
chemicals to be sure whether
they're safe or not. The new
law, when it is in full opera
tion, will take care of that
situation."
(Next: What chemical poi
sons are doing to wildlife.)
Boy Offers To Go To Jail To
Save Dad From Revenue Aqent
Washington -UPD- "I'm not
a delinkunt, I don't steal or
bust windows. Don't send my
daddy and mom to jail. I will
go to jail for them."
That was the slightly mis
spelled plea that a 9-year-old
shut-in sent to President Ei
senhower after the boy had
caused his father to get a call
from the Internal Revenue
Service.
The lad, a rheumatic fever
victim who can be identified
only as Jim, decided to
change some of the numbers
in his father's account books
one day when he was bored.
A revenue agent eentlv-but
apparently quite impressively
-admonished the youngster
when the father's tax return
did not jibe with the books.
The lad wrote to Eisenhow
er: "Will you help me? I'm in
a lot of trouble."
He explained what he'd
done and offered to go to jail
for his parents.
"I'll be old when I get out,
and my dad and mom will be
old too, but I'll never do any
thing like that again. Can I
learn to be a doctor or syen
tist if I go to jail? I pray every
Braves Lose Flag,
Man Leaves Wife
Coffeyville, Kan.-Marletie
Heckenbridge blamed the Na
tional League baseball pen
nant race for her trouble.
She told the judge it all
started on a day the Dodgers
beat the Braves.
"I told him that it wasn't
any great calamity," she said,
"and he got up and left
home."
MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or.
Thursday, Jan. 21, 1960
Canada's forests
about 600 million acres.
cover
night you will forgive me."
The White House forward
ed the letter to the IRS which
assured Jim that neither he
nor his parents would have
to go to jail.
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