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o WfcsCY, SEPTJ.ER 21, MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Price Outlook Given by OSC For 1961 Crops Corvallis - Prices for Ore gon's wheat crop in 1961 will probably stay about the same as this year, but prices of bar Icy, oats, and hay are likely to be lower next fall as North west and national supplies build up again. That's the way it looks right now to Ray H. Teal, extension seed marketing specialist at Oregon State college. Teal re cently completed a survey of prices Oregon farmers might expect next year from crops planted this fall. Little has happened to alter the market picture for next year's wheat crop, Teal said. The government price-support program will be the same for the 1961 crop as this year, with the national average support price at least $1.78 a bushel. Prospects are that the na tional carryover of wheat will hit another new record high next July. The 1960 crop is a little larger than last year's and stocks on hand July 1 reached a new high at one-and-a-third billion bushels. Oats To Stay High Oregon oats and malting barley prices probably won't be as high next fall as this, but feed barley prices have a little better chance of hold ing up, Teal thinks. Oat prices are expected to stay above support levels this fall due to short supplies, since oats are the only grain with local and national supplies below the 1950-54 average. And Oregon's 1960 crop of two-row Hannchen barley of malting quality will probably sell at the highest prices in several years, since the crop of malting barley in Montana has been badly hurt this year by hot, dry weather. But, these higher prices on oats and barley are likely to encourage larger plantings of these grains in the year ahead, Teal noted. This, cou pled with lower prices on corn and milo that could in crease use of these two feed grains, may start a new build up of oat and barley stocks next year that would lead to lower prices. Odds are that hay prices will be no higher, and may be lower, in 1961, Teal also said. Oregon's hay crop this year is expected to be the largest since 1943, and another in crease in acreage seems likely in the year ahead. Refrigeration No Assurance Of Food Safety Madison, Wis. -Science Service) - Immediate refriger ation of food prepare ' in large quantities, as for church groups, school lunches, etc., does not assure safety from food poisoning bacteria, Uni versity of Wisconsin home economists have found. Researchers Maxine M c -Divitt and Mary Hammer found that 100-portion lots of cornstarch pudding refriger ated in stock pots did not cool fast enough to prevent the growth of food poisoning organisms. In order to obtain sufficient cooling to prevent growth of and toxin produc tion by staphylococcus aureus, it was necessary to split the pudding into three parts and cool each in a wide, flat pan. The home economists said that to prevent bacterial growth, food should be cooled to less than 50 degrees Fahren heit within four hours. But in their tests, the internal temperatures of pudding in the 100-portion lots was above 50 degrees for six or seven hours: Prooar Sanitation Since splitting large lots of food and then cooling them is not practical for most quan tity food preparation situa tions, it is important to keep bacteria out of the food from the start by practicing proper sanitation, t h e researchers said. They noted that puddings and pie fillings provide al most perfect places for bac teria to grow, and cases of food poisoning have been traced to such foods which were contaminated during preparation.' S t a pylococcus aureus is one type of bacteria which causes food poisoning. The researchers added sta phylococcus aureus organisms to puddings to determine the course of their development, tr. 33-nnrtion lots cooled in shallow pans, there was only a slight amount of bacterial growth after some hours, in the refrigerator. But the larg er 100-portion stock pots con oinri about 35 times as many oreanisms as at the start of the refrigeration period. Fnr 20 vears. California and Oklahoma rivaled each other for top position among the nation's oil-producing states. In 1928, Texas surpassed them both. $ w A 1 r h - i - AMBASSADOR LEAVES Russia's ambassador to The Congo, Mikhail Yakolev, left, is shown as he left the Rus sian embassy at Leopoldville for the last time. The Russians closed their embassy on orders from Col. Joseph Mobutu, who had seized control of the Congo government. At right is an unidentified attache. (UPI Telephoto) Emphasis on Space Flight Claimed To Be Still on Man Washington (Science Serv ice) - The rule of "Ladies First" does not apply in out er space, Brig. Gen. Don Flickinger, USAF, assistant for bioastronautics, Headquar ters Air Research and Devel opment Command, Andrews Air. Force Base, told Science Service. The emphasis on the offi cial U.S. program for man ned space flight still is on man," he said, despite re ports that a young woman pilot has been "tested and qualified" as an astronaut by a top scientist for the Nation al Aeronautics and Space Administration. D r . Randolph Lovelace, chairman of NASA's Life Science committee, the group that participated in the selec tion of the seven Mercury Project astronauts, last month named Jerrie Cobb, 28, of Oklahoma City, Okla., as the first woman candidate quali fied for space duty on the basis of tests given her at the Lovelace Clinic in Albu querque, N. M. Standards Not Met Neither the tests given Miss Cobb, nor the period of test ing, met the standards which guided the selection of astro nauts for the official U. S, program for manned space flight, Gen. Flickinger de clared. "Adequate testing for such selection takes a mat ter of months and, of neces sity, is far more rigorous than that to which Miss Cobb was exposed," he said. On this subject, uen. Flickinger speaks with the voice of authority. He has a major role in the planning of all Air Force space projects in which men are involved; and he also works closely as an adviser in NASA's Project Mercury. He said that neither NASA nor the military serv ices ever contemplated in cluding women in their se lection of Mercury astronauts. Medical Reasons Women have been ruled out of pioneer space flights for practical as well as valid medical reasons, Gen. Flick inger explained. Practically, there is the problem of de signing and fitting a space suit to accommodate their pe- cular biological needs and functions. Additional facili ties would have to be provid ed in the way of toilet fa cilities, for example, in plan ning for extended space flights if women were to be included in the program. In order to determine ade quately women's physiologi cal and psychological resist ance to the stresses of a space environment, b i o m e d i cal studies would have to be made on hundreds of the fairer sex. It cannot be done on the basis of testing one or even the dozen women now reported to be undergoing preliminary testing as candidates for space at the Lovelace Clinic, Gen. Flickinger said. Mora Durable The Air Force officers em phasized that the fact that women have not been includ ed in the official U.S. man-in space program did not mean that they are less capable of withstanding the rigors of space environment. He gal lantly conceded that women are more durable than men "for no matter what we do to them, they live longer than men." He explained this on the basis that biologically women are more resistant to degenerative diseases than men. The studies now being made at the Lovelace Clinic on women seeking to qualify for space flight have, how ever, a value to "pure medi cal science," the general said, in that they may contribute to knowledge that will aid in improving man's resistance to match that of his fairer but stronger sex opposite. Higher Prices Seen for State's Pears and Apples Corvallis-Smaller supplies and higher prices are fore cast for fall and winter fresh fruits, -especially apples and pears, reporu. Stephen C. Marks, Oregon State college extension agricultural econo mist. Estimates put the 1960 ap ple crop at 109 million bush els, the smallest crop since 1956. Oregon and Washing ton expect a crop about the same size as last year, but eastern states are likely to run 15 per cent below 1999. Na tionwide, the apple crop fig ures to be 10 per cent below last year. Pear production through out the United States is esti mated about 13 per cent be low 1959 and the 10-year av erage, says the economist. Oregon, one of the nation's major pear states, is likely to harvest 15 per cent fewer than last year. Northwest growers are getting $25 a ton more for No. 1 canning pears than last year which may channel more of the crop into the canning trade, Marks believes. Short Prune Crop A short prune crop has hit not only in Oregon, the prin cipal producer of canned pur ple plums, but in other major producing areas of the world. California's crop, used mostly for dried prunes, is slightly smaller this year. Fewer prunes are also in prospect in the overseas Medi terranean area. France looks for a 40 per cent smaller dried pack, and Yugoslavia expects less than half as many prunes as last year. Other fruit and vegetable supplies, with a few excep tions, are likely to be about the same or slightly below last year, Marks reports. Strawberries: The 1960 froz en pack now looks to be be low 1959. Tree nuts: Total supplies should be as abundant as last year with more walnuts and pecans but fewer filberts and almonds. Vegetables: Total supplies of canned vegetables will be slightly smaller than last year and market supplies of frozen vegetables should be about the same as last season. Smokey Says: 1 I I . i y & i s i m on 1 . on WELCOME TO THE WORLD'S PROFESSIONAL K LETS SHOW THEM 01 FOREST INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTES. LETS ACQUAINT THEM WITH PEOPLE, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WAY I Prevent Forest Fires Good Advice Anywherel Khrushchev Said To Have Two Speeches Prepared for UN Open Wide New York - fOTD - A Health Insurance Institute analysis of claims paid by group health insurers shows that 18 per cent of all surgical claims excluding maternity - are for the removal of tonsils. Most tonsillectomy patients are between the ages of 3 and 8. The operation is more com mon among girls than among boys. New York - (DPI) - Com munist sources indicated to day that Soviet Premier Nl- kita Khrushchev has two dil ferent speeches ready for his major United Nations address one a "hard sell and tne other an appeal to sweet reason. They said they had been told that the content and tone of the Russian leader's full dress presentation to the Gen eral Assembly late this week would depend to a consider able extent on what President Eisenhower says when he ad dresses the session Thursday. Khrushchev is scheduled to follow the President - speak ing Thursday afternoon or Friday. Ticking Time Bomb There was a feeling among many U.N. delegates that they might be sitting on a ticking time bomb as they awaited the addresses by the leaders of the two major world pow ers. They acknowledged that East - West differences could erupt even more violently in the world forum in the wake of the Eisenhower and Khru shchev appearances. The bouncy Sovie' leader so far has been a model of af fability, hamming it up for photographers with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and speaking only of his desire for peaceful coexistence in a miraculously disarmed world. Tuesday night, during a spur-of-the-moment visit to the U.N. delegate's lounge, he In dicated again he might like to meet with Elsenh iwer. When asked by reporters how long he would stay here, he joking ly replied "about two weeks after the assembly end s. This would keep him here al most three months. Positive Note European delegates and some from other areas are convinced that Khrushchev would like to pitch his U.N. appeal on a positive note de signed particularly to woo the new African nations admit ted to the world organization Tuesday. But they doubt his ability to do it if the President talks tough on Berlin and re news charges that Russia "sabotaged" the Paris summit conference. United Press International For party fare this fall, the pig-tail set will be wearing frocks loaded with trimming tricks eyelet, ruffling, runch Ing, hem flounces, tucks, pleats, laces and hand em froidery. For the best skirt forward, there are flounced petticoats. Topside extras in clude bibs, aprons and pinafores. Failure To Get Space Capsule 'NASANightmare' Washington - (Science Serv ice! - The Air Force, in fail ing to recover the Discoverer XV capsule after 11 re entered the earth's atmosphere and plunged into the sea, has en acted what is known around here as "NASA's nightmare." With a Russian man-in-space attempt rumored to be imminent, there are probably some scientists over there with the same dark dream. It goes like this: A manned satellite is put into orbit. As public excite ment mounts, the satellite makes its rounds. Telemeter ed data shows tho astronaut is well. Then comes the proud an nouncement that the satellite has successfully re-entered the earth's atmosphere. The world cheers. The satellite continues on its long loop toward the sea. It plunges In. Radio data from the satellite are mud dled. Technique Not Mastered Planes and shl.is continue to search for several days. Criticism rises. The manned capsule is not found. The nightmare Illustrates just this: the U.S. still has not mastered re-entry and recov-, ery techniques to such a level I that recovery of a manned I capsule would be sure. ! An explosion of the big rocket used to put a man into orbit used to be the big night-1 mare. But the National Aero-j nautics and Space Adminis tration is relatively sure of its techniques for releasing and recovering a lanned capsule should the Mercury Project's big Atlas act up on its way to putting the capsule Into orbit. In this case, small rockets pull the capsule from the Atlas and the capsule parachutes to earth. Enough experience has now been gained to be relatively sure of getting the manned capsule into its proper orbit. Might B Killed But space scientists know that a few seconds error in the setting off of retro-rockets to take the capsule from orbit to earth would mean the cap sule might miss Its target by miles. If the capsule missed so badly it struck land, the astronaut might be killed. If the missile fell In the wrong part of the oceans, it would float, of course, but might not be found if its signal devices failed. Bad weather would in crease the difficulties. The astronaut could crawl out of his capsule - but where would he go from there? 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Benson Given Cranberry Scoop Washington (UPI) Spokes men for cranberry growers to day gave Agriculture Secre tary Ezra T. Benson a Mass-1 achusetts cranberry harvest ing scoop as a symbol of their ! gratitude for Benson's help ' during the 1959 cranberry scare. ! Benson, grinning, bent over j double to sweep his office rug , with the scoop, shpwing how it was used. But he agreed ; the old-fashioned wooden! scoop, now replaced by ma-i chines in most cranberries bogs, would be more useful as a magazine rack. ; The presentation, including. samples of 1960-crop berries, j was made by George Olsson.l of Plymouth, Mass., president I of Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc., a cooperative marketing organization. TIMBER AREA Forests cover more than 30 per cent of the total area of the Saar region. Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be amDermaed by looee falet teelb. tllpplnl. dropplni or wobbling when you nt. talk or leugb. Jurt prtnkle mile fastketh on rour platae. 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