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I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1980 Education Board Continues Policy Of Admissions Portland - (UPD - The State Board ot Higher Education has agreed to continue its selective admissions policy for another year. The policy, adopted in 1957, requires Oregon high school graduates to have at least a "C" average, or must either score high enough on a col lege aptitude test or have high enough grades in a spec ial summer school program to enter state schools of higher education. A staff report said per centages of applicants denied admission under the policy were 4.3 per cent for 1958-59, 7.3 per cent for 1959-60 and 4.5 per cent for 1960-61. It said this was lower than ex pected. To Study Housing The building committee agreed to study possibility of married student housing for the medical and Dental schools here. Dean D. W. E. Baird of the Medical school said percent age of medical students who are married exceeds that for other students in the state system. He said the school has land which might be suit able to develop housing facili ties. Dr. John R. Richards, chan cellor, said the state had cut off the board's land purchase budget request $200,000 be low normal. He said this would have considerable ef fect on campus expansion policy. . : Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins Public Enemy No. 1 Of The Plant World There are not many left; in ' fact only one specimen could be found in spite of extensive inquiries and a very diligent search. i As fast as one is found it Is usually destroyed. Today there could scarcely be a half t a dozen still alive, even in '. several thousand acres of the ' Florida Everglades. To arrive at the place where our sought-after specimen was ) growing we naa to waae through acres and acres of sawgrass. In many places the standing water was nearly a foot deep. At last we arrived at the "hummock" (higher land) where we knew the "criminal" was in residence. Deadly Plant Once we had it located, we approached it with feeling of awe. Here was a tree, inno cent enough in appearance, hill: nnp that is recognized by plant experts and botanists as the deadliest plant in me It was a small tree, about 20 feet high, with a spreading, head. The leaves were dark green above and much lighter in color on tneir undersides. There were a few round, yellow - green fruits hanging from some of the branches. The fruit resembled crab-apples, but we knew they were deadly poisonous. Thic trno the "Manchineel Is commonly called the "tree th " A tree whose fruit. sap, bark, roots, flowers and particularly leaves are both Internally ana externauy pois nnnus even to the touch. Thlc tree is so anti-social that the merest contact with iUa miiirv san will cause a twere skin rash that burns like liquid fire; the fruit so dangerous that a single mie would be fatal. The Manchin eel tree is really a native tree in south Florida, where once H flourished and in its erue some way served a purpose. Poison lor Arrows The Calusa Indians, a war Hire rare nf red-men who in habited the Floridas before and during the time or tne mr first Snanish exoiorers. used the milky sap of this tree to poison their arrows. Fortunate indeed, for peo ple today who may walk or explore parts of Wis last great tropical wilderness, that few of these criminal trees are still alive. Within a short time now the last will be cut down Hestrnverf and the num ber one criminal of the plant world" will be only a brief !,iin in a natural history book. The Manchineel, "the tree of death," has already ..tiit,ei its nlare in the sun. (Released by Tht Rtgisler and Tribune Syndicatt, laoui criianj (IIPI) - Lester E Thayer, Portland, has been amori the nfw executive sec retary of the Oregon Bankers VfcW . cJt&ft. FLOORS! Givti brilliant. 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