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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1960)
s MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Friday, Jan. 22, 1960 A SICK GAL Chills and pills accompany the flu bug sweeping Wheeling, W. Va., and leaves Karen Marsh, a high school senior, fighting the flu. She wrapped herself in blankets, checks her temperature and ponders whether to take her aspirins or gargling solution first. (UPI Telephoto) 16 Safety Awards To Be Presented Sixteen safety awards and citations will be presented Friday, Jan. 29, at the annual awards banquet of the Med ford Safety Council at the Rogue Valley Country club. Speaker at the banquet will be Vernon Murdoch Jr., Rose- burg police chief, who will discuss "Community Cooper ation in Time of Disaster." Seven individuals will re ceived Saved-A-Life awards, according to Medford Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner, general chairman of the event. This is the greatest number of awards for saving a life in Jackson county ever present ed in one year by the Med ford Safety Council, Berry Bigham, awards chairman, said. Other awards to be present ed include a traffic engineer ing commendation, the Frank Hull trophy for industrial safety, two special traffic safety citations, and the Dis tinguished Citizen in Safety plaque. In addition, Ollie Smeltz, state industrial accident com mission, will present awards to four firms which have re corded outsanding industrial safety records during 1959. Installation of officers will precede the awards ceremony, with Russ Jamison, secretary of the Council, serving as master of ceremonies. Tickets for the banquet are available from members of the Council, or may be obtained by con tacting Captain Fichtner at the Medford Police station. Pesticide Application Seen Harmful to Nation's Wildlife Editor's note: This is the last of three dispatches on the problems raised by the increasing use of chemicals in agriculture, forestry and food processing. Spanish Ambassador Refuses Castro Order Havana -UPD- Spanish Am bassador Juan P. Lojendio has refused to accept a Cuban government note declaring him "persona non grata" and asking him to leave the country. Eugene TOPD Earl McNutt, contractor, has been named as Eugene's Senior First Citi zen of 1959. By LOUIS CASSELS Washington - (UPD - Millions of acres of U.S. farmland and forest are sprayed with chem ical pesticides each year. These pesticides, most of which have come into use since World War II, have been extremely valuable in con trolling plant diseases, insects, rodents and other pests which destroy billions of dollars' worth of farm crops and tim ber. . But the steadily increasing use of chemical poisons has one adverse effect that the average American may not realize until he comes upon a stream depleted of fish ... a hunting field barren of quail ... or a flock of dead robins on the ground. Major Project The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has undertaken a major research project to de termine how badly the na tion's wildlife is being hurt by wholesale application of pesticides. "We have reason to fear that the long-term effects on wildlife will be very serious," said Dr. Dan Leedy, one of the directors of the study. He said most of the chemi cals which are used to kill insects and control tree di seases are also highly poison ous to wildlife, especially fish and birds. When large areas are spray ed from the air an increas ingly common practice - the poison may get into streams and kill the fish directly. Or fish may die from starvation because their normal insect food has been destroyed. Birds pick up the poison by contact with sprayed vegeta tion, by eating contaminated insects or berries, or by drink ing from chemically - coated pools of water. Die-Offs Reported Spectacular die-offs of wild life following pesticide spray ing operations have been re ported on several occasions. For example, heavy mortality among robins and other song birds, ranking from 30 to 90 per cent of the bird popula tion, have been noted in the suburbs of Chicago and De troit after DDT spraying in tended to control dutch elm disease. The Fish and Wildlife Serv ice believes that this kind of slaughter of birds is entirely unnecessary. It has been dem onstrated that the most effec tive time to spray for dutch elm disease is when the trees are dormant - and spraying at that time may cause little or no damage to birds. Naturalists are particularly concerned about the Agricul ture Department's announced plan to spray about 27,000,000 acres of farm and forestland in the Southeast with a potent chemical called heptachlor to control infestations of fire ants. Boy Scouts Cub Scout Pack 8 Awards and badges were presented at a meeting of Pack 8, Jackson school Cub Scouts, recently. A total of 99 persons attended. Den 8 led the flag cere mony, and each den partici pated in a skit. Awards pre sented included: One-year pin: Jeff Jones, Greg Meadors, Rick Singler, Steven Rothbeck and Ronald Ogier. Two-year pins: Jim my Phillips. Denner stripes: Jeff Jones, John Fitchner and David Rudig. Assistant den ner: Gary Singler, Danny Gairson and Steven Rothbeck. Bear badges: David Rowe and David Rudig. Wolf badge: Terry Witter, Gerry Douglas, Steven Fix sen, Tommy Pidcock, Ricky Keene, Timmy "Barker, Larry Funk, Ronnie Phillips, David Rudig and Greg Meadors. Den mother's badge: Mrs. Jackie White. Den mother's 1-year-pin: Mrs. Iris Wimer. Huge Plane in Safe Emergency Landing Olathe, Kan. -(UPD- A huge Trans World airliner with a jammed nose wheel and 31 persons aboard made a safe emergency landing Thursday at the Olathe Naval Air Sta tion after circling over Kansas City and St. Louis for almost four hours. Spot checks in areas already treated by heptachlor have in dicated that it is particularly deadly to wildlife. For ex ample, government natural ists found in a study in De catur County, Ga., that the number of quail inhabiting a heptachlor - treated area was about one-tenth the number found on untreated lands in the same county. Dr. Leedy said the imme diate kill-off of wildlife that results from pesticide spray ing may be less serious than the "long-term effects of sub lethal doses which reduce fer tility." Many naturalists believe that pesticides are responsible for decreased egg - laying which is reducing the popula tion of America's national birds, the bald eagles. Some go further and warn that the continuing wholesale use of chemical poisons may ultimately upset the "balance of nature" and that insect pests, no longer kept under "natural" control by birds, may become a greater enemy to mankind than ever before. The U.S. Department of Ag riculture, which has strongly promoted use of pesticides, scoffs at such ideas. "The preponderance of ad verse effects to wildlife has been limited to restricted areas," the department says in an official pamphlet. "When the amount of insecti cides used in the last 50 years is compared to losses, the im pact on wildlife has not been great and certainly not disas trous." ' Another factor which enters into the picture is that insects sometimes develop resistance to chemical poisons which were once deadly to them. In some cases, immunity has de veloped with unexpected ra pidity. A classic example is the growing ineffectiveness of DDT against malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Job To Keep Ahead Much of the chemical re search conducted in recent years has been aimed at non-toxic to wildlife and to human beings. The research is beginning to bear some fruit. The Ag riculture Department has an nounced discovery of a new pesticide called sevin which is as effective as DDT in con trolling gypsy moth infesta tions of woodlands, and which present a "minimum hazard to fish and wildlife." Sevin also has "very low toxicity" for human beings if it happens to get in their food. Nature lovers and all consumers - will doubtless applaud that kind of research, "keeping ahead of the in sects" by developing new poisons more rapidly than they can develop resistance to the old ones. Recently, however, there has been a growing emphasis on searching for chemicals which are toxic to insects, but n rn n n ... For only $72 more than the best low-price name" cars, you can own the best-built car in America! 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