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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
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