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B WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Rings for Everything Bells Can Make Capitol Building Sound Like Alcatraz Prison Break ym By DICK WEST Washington - IUPD - Several days ago, as a public service, I undertook to explain how tourists visit ing the U.S. Capitol could tell what floor they were on. I pointed out that "F'.' stands for "street," . '.hat "P" stands for "floor," that wen a stands lor "subway," and so forth. Since then, I have been in formed that the floor identifi cation system is only a minor factor in the overall confusion of tourists and is not what gives them traumas. What really shakes them up is that they keep hearing bells. I feel it my duty to explain, therefore, that they really do hear bells. The Capitol has more bells than most cathe drals. There are times when the place sounds like Alca traz during a prison break. Actually, the bells arc a sort of primitive signal sys. tern, serving the same purpose for members of Congress that voodoo drums provide for tri bal leaders in the jungle. , When a congressman hears one long ring at UMO a.m., he knows that the House is meeting at noon. This is fol lowed at 11:45 bv three short rings, which' means thai the session is now only 15 min utes away. Most congressmen can toll time, but til is way they don't have to keep looking at their watches. If the session, already has begun, then three rings moan something else. Thev mean that- no quorum is present Two rings mean a roll call vote and- one ring signals a teller vote, A teller vote is conducted by herding the members, sheep dip fashion, down the center aisle, where they are IVERS 17 n A IklTC 4th and BartleM f PAIN I D Medford k ni Price! good K BloSSOtn Through If Bucks! k Mon., J J April 30 g ' PRINTED TERRY P M KITCHEN TOWELS U r m n 50 FREE Gold Bond Stamps Your'i frsa just to come in and visitl Name .... Phone ... Address City Good at Ivtrson thru April 30 On coupon per customer. m 'counted. It also is known as "once around the park." Finally, at the end of the day, which may be 12:15 p.m., four rinffs let members know that the House has adjourned. ! Five rings announce a recess. I On the Senate side of the ! Capitol, the bells mean some ! tiling different. . i One long ring marks the i hour of convening; one short (ring starts a roll call vote. I Two rings signal a quorum i call and three rings arc used !to call senators who didn't t answer the quorum call. i Senators also use three j riot's to call an elevator, but that is a private signal which has nothing to do with the legislative process. I There are four rings for ad journment or recess; five I rings for an executive session, and six rings for a legislative ! session after an executive ses- sinn, j The average tourist, who is j in the Capitol only a short ! time, has no cause for con I cern. It takes a prolonged ex posure to give you bats in the belfry. The Medical Roundup or fcmerlfut Consultant In Medlcini Mayo clinic Emerltu Pinfetsor of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Register and Trtbimt Syndicate. 1962) ST Society Honors : Dr. Roy McNeal Ashland Dr. Roy M. Mc Neal, long-time Southern Ore gon college professor of ge ography, was honored by the members of Gamma Theta Upsilon, SOC geography so- city, by the ' presentation of an oil-photo portrait of him for permanent display at the college. Making the acceptance speech was Dr. Elmo N. Stev enson, SOC president, who traced Dr. McNeai's teaching career since lie joined the col lege as its first football coach in 1!)27. Dick Simonson, Medford, presented the portrait and also served as master of ceremon ies for the evening. Dr. Mc Neal was ill and unable to atlenci the Friday ceremony, but Mrs. McNeal expressed her appreciation of the honor on his behalf. Dr. Stevenson spoke on "The Geological Development of Oregon," placing particular emphasis on the southern Ore gon area. Miss Sharon Zundel, Medford.' was in charge of making the picture arrange ments. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh G. Simp son. Ashland, sang and lead the group singing which followed. New Discoveries About Cancer The many investigators in the L'rcat Sloan-Kettering In stitute for Cancer Research in New York City just re ported a num ber of hopeful disco verics. They found that the so called DNA (d e o x y ribo nucleic acid) which has so much to do with determining the make up of an animal or a man also the transmission of he reditary diseases-has much to do with cancer. A change in the structure of the DNA can produce cancer. Years ago, my friend Dr. Wendell Stanley, the great virologist, told me he was sure that, with time, we would find that many cancers, not only in animals, but in man, are due to viruses. Now a virus has been found in a transplantable human tumor a virus that causes a deform ity in the immature bones of new-born hamsters (little rat like animals). Every such finding is inter esting because it adds to the evidence that viruses are pres ent in human cancers as well as in .many of the cancers of animals. A virus called Egypt 101 has recently been found in the cancers of 14 patients. Drugs are being found which slow tumor growth or which protect animals from succumbing to a transplanted cancer tumor. Studies on transplanted cancers show that each one of 10 different types of cancer has a different rale of growth. Ever since the work of Dr. A. C. Broders of the Mayo Clinic, it has been known that cancers have at least four degrees of malig nancy. Type 1 is very slow to grow and to scatter, while Type 4 is likely to grow rapidly, to scatter rapidly, and to kill rapidly. Virus-Like Agent Very interesting is the dis covery now of a virus-like agent in some cells which took on cancer-like properties after having been grown for some lime in tissue cultures in glass tubes. Hopeful is the discovery TRAVEL AT MC? ISVCl ON UNION PACIFIC'S DOMELINER ... HI.IIH .tlW.IMWWWfflllW Ar ?-UKt. . .. if ji t :.' ;r ni r r t the" C'fb or Portland Fuon Rmines.5 Travel is a pleasure when you go U. P. 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UNION PACIFIC that actinomycin D (an anti biotic) either alone, or with x-rays, appears to be helpful in the treatment of certain cancers of children. Also, very Interesting is the discovery that a strange virus will pro tect hamsters against cancer. No tumors have developed in a colony of 1,500 animals who, some time( ago, were infected by the virus isolated from a transplantable human tumor. AH of this can give some hope to those many people now suffering from cancer, or who have a loved relative who is suffering from cancer. Such people write me to ask if any research is being car ried out. Actually, an enor mous amount of research is being done. Many ask, "Why don't they pour millions of dollars in and have a 'crash program?" The trouble is that, in order to do good research, one has to find a promising "lead" or "breakthrough." Only then do the research workers have a hopeful way of attacking the problem of finding cither a cure or a pro tective remedy or a vaccine or Fred Meyer Plans New Shopping Center Portland-JUPD - Fred Meyer confirmed plans Tuesday for a $7 million suburban shop ping center on the west side of Portland. Meyer said the 37-acre project will be built in a tri angular area bounded by SW Canyon rd., the Hillsdale Beaverton Highway, and the proposed new expressway. DROVING BY AIR Chicago - fUPH - Prize cat tle may soon be transported to the slaughterhouse by air freight, the magazine Traffic Management believes. The magazine said it has learned several packing companies are investigating the possibility. a substance that will greatly slow the growth of the cancer cells. As yet, no cure has been found, but the research men and women keep coming ever closer to it. Do you know cancer's seven danger signals? The more you know about this dread dis ease, the better your chances for heading it off. Dr. Alvarez' booklet, "What We Know About Cancer," is available to readers of the column. To obtain it, send 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed en velope with your request to Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, The Register and Trib une Syndicate, Box 957, Des Moines 4, Iowa. Greyhound Signs Driver Contract San Francisco-HJPII-Negotia-ators for Western Greyhound Lines and 5,000 drivers reach ed agreement on a new two year contract Tuesday, six hours before ' a scheduled strike in 11 western states. A company spokesman said the new contract, subject to ratification by the drivers, would be retroactive to March 1. The union said it called for wage increases, a cost of living escalator clause, and improvements in vacations, health and welfare, plus oth er fringe benefits. Unofficial sources said driv ers and station employees would receive an eight-cent hourly wage increase this year, and another six cents next year. - Highway drivers will get an extra 30 cents per 100 miles this year and 20 cents more as of March 1, 1963. The drivers, represented by the Amalgamated Association of Motor Coach Employees had set a strike deadline for midnight Tuesday, the third deadline in four days. A walkout would have af fected an estimated 100,000 passengers using Greyhound service daily over the line's 16,000-mile system in 11 west ern states. Salem-ftlPB-Mrs. Sam John son, Redmond, was sworn in Monday as a memDer oi ine State Board of Higher Educa tion. She succeeded A. S. Grant, Baker. SC PROOF ECHO SPRING CIST. CO.. LOUISVILLE. Kr. BOURBON W years old mmmmt The success of the "Ages" SAY IT AGAIN, ?465 Fif,h . AGAIH Pint J V AND AGAIN! 77 v.v r hfflS)Nj if Mi lilii From Weyerhaeuser tree farms . . . Paperboard containers for the products you use every day You might not expect to find forest products in a supermarket, but many of the paper board cartons on your grocer's shelves actually start out as timber on Weyerhaeuser tree farms located throughout the Pacific Northwest. The long journey from forest to retail store begins when Weyerhaeuser makes wood chips into pulp, the basic raw material in papermaking. Further processing converts pulp into papcrboards for use in the manufacture of useful and attractive packages. Much of this pulp and paperboard is sold to paper mills and container factories throughout the nation. Also, a great volume is used by Weyerhaeuser converting plants. These plants produce the colorful folding cartons found in retail stores of all types... the convenient milk cartons delivered by your local dairy... and the sturdy, practical corrucated con tainers used to store and ship merchandise of all kinds. Although Weyerhaeuser pulp and paperboard mills and container plants are highly mechanised, it lakes the skill of experienced men and women to turn out a product that meets the high standard of quality demanded by modern packaging operations. Many of these folks arc your friends and neighbors . . . people ho, like all of us, share in the benefits of a busy Northwest forest industry. ANOTHER PAYROLL BUILDER FROM NORTHWEST FORESTS As products flow from Northwest forests to mar kets throughout the nation, they set in motion a return flow of money that provides local jobs, payrolls and taies. In fact, the production and sale of forest products support about one-half of the entire economy of this region. This is one reason why it is so important that the North west's industrial forests should be manaccd to insure a relatively steady and endless flow of wood, year after year. Weyerhaeuser lands are managed under this sustained yield policy. 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