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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25. 1962
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Rings for Everything
Bells Can Make Capitol Building
Sound Like Alcatraz Prison Break
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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
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'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
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Mayo clinic
Emerltu Pinfetsor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
(Register and Trtbimt Syndicate.
1962)
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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board cartons on your grocer's shelves actually start out as timber on Weyerhaeuser
tree farms located throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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