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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1960)
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1980 OSC Research Is OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY TIL 9 P.M. MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE, On Virus Problem Corvalls-A joke currently tnnklng (lie rounds is that When your physician looks at you with a frown, shakes his head, and says "you seem to have a virus" he really doesn't know what your problem Is. Whether or not this is true, Oregon State college research is throwing some light on the complicated subject of viruses. In studying transmission of plant viruses by Insects, Dr. Knud G. Swenson, OSC en tomologist, has come up with (acts that will help scientists understand human viruses as well as Dlant viruses. Although humans and anl-l mals are not affected by plant viruses, mosquitoes that carry human viruses transmit them in the same ways as insects that carry plant viruses. This basic fact means that agricul tural research docs much tpadework for medical re search, for facts learned by studying the ways plants be come Infected can be applied to ways humans and animals j become infected. Studying Vectors Swenson has been studying vectors (insects that carry plant viruses) for about 10 years-the past six at OSC. During the coming year, he will continue his work in Australia under a Guggen heim fellowship awarded him as an outstanding scholar. The entomologist reported j there are about 400 known j plant viruses. Some 300 of! these are transmitted by in- j aects-100 by aphids. Much I of his research at OSC has! been with aphid-borne viruses, (or, as he puts it "you must understand the biology of the insect before you can control It on1 vnu mucf imriprctanrl the biology of the virus before . you can control it." , Viruses affect all sorts of! plants-small grains, gladioli, ! beans, clover, alfalfa, pota toes, cane fruits, strawberries, . peas, sugar beets, asters, car-; rots, tomatoes, squash, cu cumbers, cherries, cabbage, broccoli, onions, and lilies. Religious Sect Hides in Fear of Russian Affack Benson, Ariz. - HOT - About 1 100 members of a small religi-. ous sect remained hidden to day in bomb shelters and cel lars of their sealed homes, (earful of a Russian nuclear attack within two days. - The men, women and chil-, dren went underground Mon- day night and refused to an swer their telephones or open their doors to visitors or news men because: "We're afraid the Soviet Union is going to attack the United States by Saturday." Warrant Procured City Attorney Fred Tal madge procured a warrant to determine whether the chil dren of the members of the Full Gospel Assembly were safe, and Wednesday night en tered the home of Elder Wil burt William, a member of the assembly. "When we tried to get in they thought the alert had come and we were outsiders trying to take-advantage of their shelters," Talmadge said. Mo Further Action "After we started to break in they realized who we were and let us in with apologies. These ' are good people. We weren't overly worried, but did want to make sure the children were okay. We plan no further action. "They have a right to their beliefs." Talmadge said Williams in dicated the sect's conviction of a nuclear holocaust was divinely inspired. However, he said Williams told him the members would leave their hiding places Saturday If no attack had occurred. 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