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STUDY CHEMICALS Radio respirometer
at Oregon State college la used to study the
way chemicals are used by living tissue.
Work is being done under several grants
having to do with cancer and heart research.
At right is Dr. Vernon Chcldclin, director
of the Science Research Institute at the col
lege, with Dr. Robert Newburgh who is now
working on a $30,000 three-year grant from
American Cancer Society.
Education's Quality Index Said
To Be Number of Research Grants
man for the Job Is needed . . ,
there is no question in - my
judgment that the last $100
you spend (on a salary) Is the
best spent."
(Editor's note: This is an
other In the itriti of arti
cles on research and public
service activities of the
state's tax -supported col
leges and university. It was
written for the Oregon
slate system of higher education.)
Development of
State Park Set
Cave Junction-Development
, work will begin this sum
mer on an 80-acre tract near
Cave Junction as a state
park, according to Sidney
Bazett, member of the parks
advisary board for the state
highway commission.
The site is at the conflu
ence of the east and west
forks of the Illinois river
and will be the first state
park actually to be develop
ed In Josephine county.
Bazett said the site was
chosen after a survey by
Chet Armstrong, state parks
superintendent, indicated it
was the most suitable and
attractive between Grant!
Pass and the California line.
Development will Include
installation of electric facil
ities in covered areas, hot and
cold running water and toi
lets and recreation facilities,
according to Bazett. Plans
call for employment ot a
caretaker on a year-round
basis.
The acquisition and devel
opment plans were approved
recently at a meeting of the
advisory board in Albany.
Development is subject to ap
proval by the highway com
mission, but Bazett said this
is regarded as a routine mat
ter since the commission has
always followed the board's
recommendations.
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LEARNING EXPERIMENT Not all the millions in research
orants administered by Oregon s higher education Institutions
are aolnB into Dhvsical science. This monkey going through
a learning experiment with Dr. Robert Leary is one of 25
which University of Oregon's psychology department uses
In study of behavioral questions. A s.3U,uuu gram irom rva
tional Institute of Mental Health has supported study which
involves behavioral effects of tranquilizing drugs.
(Phil Wolcott Photo)
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A request from A. L. (Tex)
Nash for an extension of
Armory dr. to connect with
his property at 2075 South
Pacific highway received con
ditional spproval of the Mcd
ford planning commission
Thursday night.
Armory dr. presently dead
ends some 500 feet east of
Nash's property. The exten
sion is needed, Nash said, to
provide his trucks with a bet
ter means of access to his
gravel company.
The way It stands now, he
explained, his trucks have to
enter and exit on Highway
99, and this is a "definite"
traffic hazard.
He offered to do most of
the grnding and graveling on
the extension himself if it was
approved.
Access Road Needed
In addition to extending
Armory dr. some 500 feet
across city property, Nash
would also- have to build
some 1,000 feet of access road
on his own property to con
nect with it.
In approving the request.
the commission stipulated that
the extension should exist
only as long as the city has
no other contemplated use for
the particular area.
Armory dr. is not a dedi
cated city street, but is on city
property.
The commission left details
of the arrangement tip to City
Attorney Joel Reerier and
Nash's attorney, Gene Piazza.
The agreement must gain city
council approval before it can
be made effective,
By WILMA MORRISON
From $568,500 in 1950-51
to $8,179,000 in the first nine
months ot fiscal 1959-60 is
the dollar record of outside
investment in research and
extracuricular training serv
ices at Oregon's tax-supported
colleges, its medical and den
tal schools.
Chancellor John R. Rich
ards has called the increasing
numbers of grants for baic
and applied research and for
special student and teacher
training institutes, "The most
rapidly expanding index of
quality" in the state system of
higher education.
"There is an interest being
created in Oregon's scientific
community that is attracting
money grants beyond what
might be expected from the
size of the state," he said.
Dean Harry Alpert whose
graduate school at University
of Oregon is administering
more than 100 research con
tracts running from $2,000 to
$380,000 each, said:
From Individuals
"Research comes from indi
viduals, not from manpower:
only individuals inquire, not
bureaus, committees or or
ganizations. It is through this
research that we can compete
for top staff. We can't com
pete for those who want to go
into Industry. We can com
pete for those who prefer the
academic life, and there will
always be those who do pre
fer it ... a good graduate
program cannot exist without
the stimulus of research. And
it becomes part of the com
mon core of knowledge that
sifts down through the under
graduate program, and to the
secondary and elementary lev
els through the teachers who
go out from the university."
A briefing of the hundreds
of large and small research
and training projects being
supported all or in part by
grant funds in the slate's high
er schools fills 100 pages.
Chancellor Richards point
ed to three major building
investments as outstanding
recognition of quality in Ore
gon institutions-the unprece
dented $1,298,000 grant from
the U.S. public health service
for a research building at the
University of Oregon medical
school, another $277,000 to
ward a science building at the
university, and the $502,000
that added one floor to the
physics-chemistry building at
Oregon State to house the
college's recently established
Science Research Institute.
S2 Million More
The $8,178,000 in research
and training grants accepted
thus far in 1959-60 is already
some $2,000,000 more than
the total received in 1958-59.
A recent Washington, D.C.,
release said Uiat for the first
time in history more than 50
per cent of all health science
research going on in the coun
try is now financed by the
federal government.
A check of Oregon's higher
education budgets reflects the
growth of government invest
ment in research since World
War II demonstrated the
unique role of the colleges
and universities as centers of
knowledge and skills vital to
national survival.
Twenty years ago the slate
board of higher education
could handle all its research
grant business in less time
than it took to call roll. There
was only $16,000 given to all
campuses in 1939-40, none of
it from the government.
From Government Agencies
In 1950-51 when the total
for the system was $568,500,
the federal government was
source of $303,000. In 1958-59
government agencies were
source of $4,968,000 out of a
total of $5,970,000. -
Lion's share of the research
money has always been invest
ed in the medical school with
its hospitals and clinics that
serve the state. Oregon State
and the university with their
graduate schools have alter
nated in second place (about
$2,000,000 each this year). In
creasing professional recogni
tion of the University of Ore
gon dental school since its
1956 move to a new building
on the medical school campus
on Marquam hill is reflected
in research grants-from a to
tal of $17,400 10 years ago, to
$202,000 in first nine months
of this year.
This 1959-60 year is the
first time that Portland State
college and the three regional
schools at Monmouth, Ash
land and La Grande have
been allowed a few thousand
dollars of research "seed
money" from the state system
budget.
Unique Distinction
Last week Portland State,
youngest of the system col
leses, reported $130,000 in
grants since September. It
had had only $43,000 in its
previous five year history. A
unique distinction came to the
Portland campus this spring
a $25,000 Defense Education
act grant that has launched
the only undergraduate center
of Middle East studies in the
nation.
One organizational evi'
dence of the new orientation
toward research and scholarly
excellence is seen in the re
search institute set up at the
university and Oregon State.
Another is the four-year Hon
ors College program to start
at the university next fall.
Nationally Recognized
The Institute of Molecular
Biology under the nationally
recognized scientist, Aaron
Novick, at the university is
working in a "break-through"
field in science, studying ba
sic processes of life as seen
in the chemical and physical
analysis of the molecule.
At Oregon State the Sci
ence Research Institute is
headed by Dr. Vernon H.
Chcldclin. Its more than
$200,000 of research grants
in the past year, he said, in
volved an investment of $40,
000 of state funds. "A five
to one return: better than Las
Vegas operates on."
Other newly established re
search institutes at the uni
versity are in community
studies, international studies
and overseas administration,
theoretical science, and social
service training and research.
Great University
On the subject of what
makes a great university or
college, University President
O. Meredith Wilson, who
leaves this spring to take over
Uie presidency of University
of Minnesota, said:
"Almost everything that
happens-including the acqui
sition of outside support of re
search and training programs
-is because of the presence of I
a superior and Imaginative
individual at critical spot
. . . And most of the falling on
evil times that comes about
in higher education institu
tions, as in most other human
institutions, comes from ex
cessive adherence to conven
tion, to over-concern over
nennin when a little more
determination to get the best
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Return from SF
The Jackson county 4-H
delegation to San Francisco
returned Thursday with addi
tional honors from the Junior
Cow Palace show.
The team of Jo Anna Mai
loroy, Eagle Point, Craig
Wright, Medford, and Larry
Wright, Rogue River, placed
10th In competition with 30
counties in California,
In the showmanship contest
approximately S per cent of
the exhibitors are classified
as "expert showmen", and
these S per cent compete for
the championship of the show.
Competing with over 300 beef
exhibitors, Larry Wright plac
ed 11th. and Patsy Charley,
Eagle Point, placed ninth, and
were judged "expert show
men. Philip Krouse, Apple-
gate; Jo Anna Malloroy, Eagle
Point; and Georgia Hubbard,
Eagle Point, were listed as
"qualified showmen" in the
beef contest.
Susan and Craig Wright,
Medford, were listed as "ex
pert showmen" In the sheep
showing contest; and Marilyn
Deckelman, Rogue River, was
classed as "expert" in the
dairy showmanship.
Market steers from Jackson
county were sold at the auc
tion and the top price was re
ceived by Larry Wright. He
received 34 cents. Prices
ranged down lo $28.50 per
hundred.
Show officials were well
pleased with Jackson county
showing at the Grand Na
tional.
Prentice Attends
Reserve Exercise
Brig. Gen. Wlllimn Pren
tice, assistant 104th division
(training) commander. Med
ford. attended part of the first
combined training exercise of
the first and third battalions
of the 414th regiment (train
ing) near Corvallis.
The multiple drill "fire, for
record" session was hosted by
the first battalion commanded
by Lt. Col. James W. Carroll,
Corvallis. It included troops
from both Salem and Eugene
third battalion units. Regi
mental commander. Col. Ed
win B. Nelson, of Salem, at
tended the early morning for
mation and started the drill.
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