Parents Warned on
Danger To Children
In Spring Gardens
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By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York - (WD - An azalea
imposed the death penalty
upon a cat which chewed it,
This insPirei
xne new York
City health
department to
f J Issue a d i r e
warning that
the spring
4 gardens which
many of us
will be tend-
rf i l "Js d e i o r e
Deios smith long are not
necessarily as safe as they
seem.
Azaleas contain a small
amount of the chemical andro-
medotoxin which in large
enough amounts is poisonous
to man or beast. The cat-kill
ing azalea was a hybrid with
taree parent lines. It con
tained a triple supply of an-
domedotoxin, evidently.
The warning came from the
department's poison control
center which keeps medical
men advised on chemical haz
ards, simple and complicated,
new and old
It acknowledged that its ex
periences with plant poisons
had not been "too alarming"
since there are relatively
few persons tending gardens
within its bailiwick of many
acres of steel and concrete
Hazards Frightening
However, its studies of
plant poisons show that "the
potential hazards in the gar
den for children are very
frightening." "Indeed," it
aid, "parents should impress
on children, particularly very
young ones, not to nibble or
chev on anything but known
Tn varning was centered
ti th plant family, ericaceae,
yhich includes not only azal
mi, but such other prized
ttfMmental plants as the rho-
to&endrons and the trailing
rtitus or mayflower, and the
producers of luscious berries
eft pics, the blueberry and
Jatekltberry.
Various members of this
Umily are known to have
f illrS both wild and domestic
fniMals.
Ixcidentally the cranberry
fim it considered a member
of kha family although its re
lationship is said to be rather
renwta. However, there is no
nee for a new cranberry
scfr - nor a scare about blue
berries or huckleberries. An
dromedotoxin is not found in
th fruits of the plants.
It is found in the fibrous
tissues of leaves and stems
where presumably it serves a
useful purpose of protecting
the plants from grazing ani
mals. But any fancier of
rhododendrons in rural sec
tions around New York City
will tell you that deer eat the
leaves in winter without ap
parent harm.
The poison control center
also found a "poisonous prin
ciple" in the chemicals arbu
tin and ericolin which are
found in some azaleas, rho
dodendrons, and other mem
bers of the family ericaceae.
There is no scientific agree
ment there either is a poison.
Arbutin is sometimes used by
doctors as a diuretic.
The center also warned that
sodium fluoride is coming
back as a man-dispensed pois
on of insects which it thought
a pity because it is a violent
poison for people. Its use had
decreased with the advent of
the organic insecticides such
as DDT which are much less
toxic as to human beings.
But insects developed re
sistance to the organics and
this has opened the door for
the return of sodium fluoride.
It is a distinctive green in
color and the center suggest
ed that when you're handling
any green insecticide you
should be especially careful
and keep it out of the reach of
children.
LEADERS MEET Israeli Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion, left, and West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer break out in
big smiles when they met in New York
Monday to discuss steps to erase hatred
built up between their nationalities by the
Hitler regime.
(UPI Telephoto)
Episcopalians Start
Development Plan
Among the Jackson county
Episcopalians in Portland to
day to launch a development
program of the Diocese of
Oregon is the Rev. George R.
V. Bolster, rector of St.
Mark's Episcopal church,
Medford.
During the morning session
delegates heard about the pro
jected $819,712 campaign and
what it will do for the diocese.
The Rt. Rev. James W. F. Car
man, bishop of Oregon, pre
sided. The money will be used
for college centers, confer
ence centers, church work for
the aging, missionary expan
sion and aid to the Church
Divinity School of the Pa
cific, Berkeley, Calif.
William W. Jewett, Port
land, general campaign chair
man, spoKe on xne laymans
part in the campaign and Mr.
Bolster on the rector's part in I
the campaign.
Chessman's
Prisoner is
Victorville, Calif . -0JPD- The
former wife of convict-author
Caryl Chessman says she can
not believe the kidnap-rapist
is euiltv of the crimes of
which he is convicted.
But she said she feared he
would be executed because
"too much fuss has been
raised now for him to get out
this time."
Chessman now is scheduled
to die May 2 in the San Quen
tin gas chamber.
Declines Identity
The woman, now remarried
and living quietly in this des
ert town with her new hus
band and children, declined
to have her identity revealed
when found and Interviewed
yesterday by Murray Flander,
editor of the Victorville Press.
"Like all women," she said
of her brief marriage to
Chessman, "I thought I could
change him. But he s not one
tn he chaneed. He has a will
of his own.
"But he was always respect
ful to me."
She said they met while
students at Marshall High
School in Los Angeles and
married in 1940. "There was
nothing the matter with him.
Even when we were going
together as high school kids
he always respected no,
Flander quoted her as saying.
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tie never was one to use
force.
"I just can't imagine him
doing the things they say he
did."
Wanted Money Easily
She said the only argu
ments between her and Chess
man during their marriage
came because "he was lazy
and wanted to make money
easily."
"We did all the things teen
agers did in those days the
malt shops, movies, and the
beach," she said. .
The first she became suspi
cious of Chessman's criminal
life, she said, was when she
looked in his dresser drawer
and found it "loaded with all
kinds of artillery from the
Wife Doubts
apisf
Acfor Freed on Narcotics Charge
came
biggest to the littlist.
"Then in 1941 he
home one night and dumped
a sackful of money on the
bad.
"The bed was just covered
with money. I fussed and got
mad but it didn't do any good.
He just laughed."
Visited Prisoner
A short time later Chess
man was arrested and sent to
prison. His former wife said
she visited him several times
until he asked her not to see
him anymore.
They were officially di
vorced in 1945 and three
years later Chessman was ar
rested and convicted of the 17
felonies which led to his
marathon stay in death row.
Heiigion Has Been
Sssye in Political
Campaigns 5 Times
By LOUIS CASSELS
Washington - (UPD - If re
ligion becomes an issue in the
1960 presidential campaign, it
will be the sixth time in U.S.
history it has happened.
So says Prof. Robert Mich
aelsen of Iowa State univer
sity, who has been doing some
scholarly research on the sub
ject. His findings are reported
in a. series of articles for
Christian Century magazine.
Thomas Jefferson was the
first presidential candidate
whose religious beliefs be
came a subject of political
controversy. Michaelsen notes
that Jefferson was a profound
believer in God, and his pri
vate writings show that he
spent much time studying the
teachings of Jesus. But he
never joined a church and was
extremely reticent about dis
cussing his religious convic
tions in public.
Publicly Denounced
In the campaign of 1796,
when Jefferson first opposed
John Adams for the presi
dency, many clergymen pub
licly denounced him as an
agnostic. One called him "a
howling atheist." Martin Van
Buren wrote that some Ameri
cans expected "the burning of
Bibles and the prostration of
religion" if Jefferson ever oc
cupied the White House. The
issue 'was doubtless a factor
in Jefferson's defeat.
When Jefferson Tan against
Adams a second time, in 1800,
the question of his religious
unorthodoxy was again raised
vociferously. But Jefferson
was elected. By ironic coinci
dence, the nation experienced
a major religious revival dur
ing his term as president, and
in ifj04, he was reelected
without much talk about
"Bible-burning." :
The third campaign in
which religion played an im
portant role was that of 1884,
when Democrat Grover Cleve
land faced Republican James
G. Blaine. One of Blaine's
sup porters, a Presbyterian
minister named Samuel D.
Burchard, threw the fat in the
fire by proclaiming at a meet
ing of clergymen that the
Democrats were the party of
rum, Romanism and rebel
lion."
Blaine promptly repudiated
the statement, but the Demo
crats gave it wide circulation,
and used it to win enough
Catholic supporters for Cleve
land to carry New York state
and the election.
The religious issue reared
its head a fourth time in the
1908 campaign between Re
publican William Howard
Taft and Democrat William
Jennings Bryan. Taft was a
Unitarian, and this was point
ed out and deplored by some
conservative Protestants. But
it never became a major
source of controversy, and
Taft was elected.
Figured in 1928
The last previous campaign
in which a candidate's re
ligion figured promin e n 1 1 y
was that of 1928, in which
Republican Herbert Hoover, a
Quaker, defeated Democrat
Al Smith, a Catholic.
P o 1 i t i cal historians now
believe that Smith's Catholic
ism was only one of the fac
tors that caused his defeat.
He was also an outspoken op
ponent of prohibition, and
this stand as well as his re
ligion may have contributed
to his losing several states of
the normally Democratic
"solid South." But there is no
question that many Protes
tants opposed Smith both
publicly and in private whis
pering campaigns - primarily
on the grounds of his church
affiliation.
Deschutes Jail
Escapees Nabbed
Vancouver, Wash.-dJPD-Two
youths who overpowered a
jailer at Bend, Ore., Sunday
night and escaped from jail
were being held here today
for Deschutes county author
ities. -
Detectives said the two
youths were picked up driv
ing a stolen car .about 45
miles an hour in a 35-mile
zone Monday. They were
brought into jail for question
ing after it was found they
did not have drivers licenses
and later admitted they were
the escapees, police said.
The youths are Thomas Ray
Korbel, Harvey, HI., and
Louis Floyd Myers, Bright
wood, Ore. Both are 18 years
old. ..
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Hollywood -(UPD- "How can
a person have marijuana in
his possession when he didn't
have a strip of clothes on his
body?"-
That logical question by
Deputy District Attorney
John , W. Loucks freed actor
William Talman the district
attorney on the Perry Mason
TV show and six others
Monday from prosecution on
a narcotics charge sought by
sheriff's deputies.
' But Talman and the others
still must appear in court
Thursday for arraignment on
morals charges arising from a
wild party Sunday in which
deputies claimed the guests
were unclothed and narcotics
present.
Actress Lola De Witt, 31, an
eighth guest at the party
made up of four men and four
women, also was charged on
a morals count. But she was
arraigned separately Monday
and granted a jury trial April
8 on her innocent plea.
DUKE DIES
Barcelona -(UPD- The 18th
Duke of Plasencia and Grade,
Jose Maria Martorell, whose
dukedom was created in 1476,
died here Saturday.
Driving Laws
Hearing Scheduled
Salem-UPD-The State Motor
Vehicles Department and Pub
lic Utility commission will
make recommendations for
new laws and amendments to
old ones at the Legislative In
terim Highway committee
meeting here Friday.
A draft of a propsed bill
to require implied consent for
a chemical test when apply
ing for a driver's license will
be discussed. This is one phase
of proposed legislation to curb
drunken driving. State-wide
hearings will be held later
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