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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
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