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$3 Million Bio-Medical Research Center Dedicated in Beaverton
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JOINS STAFF James (Jim)
Stoop, formerly assistant dis
trict forester in 1948 for the
bureau of land management
at Roscburg, has joined the
Medford district BLM staff.
Sloop joined BLM In 1938
and continued in various ca
pacities until 1948. From then
until May 1, he was in the
field of forestry working as a
consultant and for private in
dustry in Douglas and Lane
counties. Stoop's assignment
Is In the field of road mainte
nance, District Manager Ross
A. Youngblood said.
Bcaverton-A 200-acre, $3
million blo-n-11cal research
center opened its campus
last week end a few mijf's
from Portland.
In a setting enhanced by
tall firs, the Oregon Regional
Primate Research Center
greeted its first official visi
tors at a three-day dedication
ceremony.
Visitors - numbering some
200 scientists, educators and
business leaders - received
a preview of an institution
which many scientists believe
is destined to become one of
the most significant biological
research centers in the na
tion. Three Major Buildings
The research campus with
its three major buildings rep
resents a combination of
some of the most advanced
scientific and architectural
thought and planning of the
modern age. At full comple
ment, the new scientific cen
ter will enlist the services of
about 100 scientists and tech
nicians. The Oregon research insti
tution has already attracted
the Interest and attention of
scientists in England, Latin
America, Europe and, even,
the Soviet Union, which is
the site of the world's only
comparable Institution, at Su
kumi, on the shores of the
Black Sea.
All of this activity, archi
tecture and expenditure is
firmly dedicated to the bet
terment of mankind, by
means of man's closest kin
in the biological family - mon
keys and great apes.
Purpose of Ctnter
Purpose of the Orcgr Re
gional Primate Research Cen
ter is to provide scientists
with the opportunity to dis
cover all they can about the
biological characteristics of
various species of monkeys.
With a colony of 400 to 600
of primates to scrutinize, sci
entists intend to materially
advance all areas of knowl
edge relating to these species
and, ultimately, to apply
much of this knowledge to
ward the understanding and
control of human disease.
The chief laboratory ani
mal under study at the Ore
gon Primate Center is the
mulatta macaque monkey,
commonly known as the
Rhesus. The macaque has al
ready contributed greatly to
modern science. In the con
quest of polio, in the triumph
over tuberculosis, in the cur
rent investigations of space,
macaque monkeys have play
ed vital supporting roles.
One unique feature of the
Oregon Regional Primate Re
search Center's scientific op
eration is the number of sci
entific disciplines which are
involved. The Center encom
passes studies in fields as di-
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"breaieshrough" in research
on infectious hepatitis. e
Dr. Allan Schrier of Brown ;
university and Dr. Kenneth
Brown of the "University of I
California presented studies!
on vision in monkeys. Dr. 1
Frederick Stare of Harvard
told about new world mon
keys and their role in re
search. Drs. Gertrude vanWagencn !
of Yale and Miriam Simpson
of the University of Cali
fornia discussed hormones
and ovulation in macaque
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VIEW OF CAMPUS - A view of the research campus of
the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center shows the
Bio-Research Building (center) and a portion of the Cen
tral Services Building (right). Up to 150 scientists and
graduate students will be engaged in research activities
covering a broad range of scientific disciplines allied to
biology and medicine in the Research Building. Knowl
edge gained from the study of monkeys and great apes
during their life cycle will contribute directly to the under
standing and control of human disease. (Photo-Lois Wright)
verse as nutrition and gen
etics; micro-biology and in
strument design.
Will Be Correlated
Information gained in one
field of investigation will be
correlated with information
acquired in other divisions al
lowing scientists who would
customarily proceed independ
ently to benefit from the find
ings of their colleagues. Thus
one line of investigation may
progress faster without du
plication of effort on the part
of the researchers.
Papers Are Listed
The kcynoting event of the
new research center's open
ing ceremonies was a day
long scientific conference at
which nine scientific papers
were delivered by outstand
ing authorities in the many
phases of primatology. The
board range of the subject
matter of the papers delivered
at the meeting is indicative
of the vast scope of scientific
pursuits the Oregon research
center will include.
Dr. Frederic C. Robbins,
Nobel prize recipient who is
now with Western Reserve
I university in Cleveland, Ohio,
discussed contributions of the
primate to research in infecti
ous disease. A paper on the
Chimpanzee given by Dr. Ar
thur Riopelle, director of the
Yerkes laboratory in Florida,
noted the possibility of a
Fossil Crocodile Found in Northcentral Oregon by Scientists
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Eugene - The first fossil
crocodile ever found west of
the Rocky Mountains has
been uncovered in northcen
tral Oregon by two Univer
sity of Oregon scientists. It
is estimated to be from 45
to AO million years old.
The discovery, consisting of
skull and lower Jaw of the
prehistoric reptile, went on
display at the university's
Museum of Natural History
last week.
The find of some 35 bone
fragments and 15 teeth was
made almost by accident in
mid-April by Dr. Jane Gray
and Dr. Kankichi Sohma, both
research associates at the mu
seum. Dr. Sohma is on leave
from his post as curator of
the botanical gardens at To
huku university in Sendai,
Japan.
Stumble Onto Bones
Both are palcnbotanists, ex
perts in fossil vegetation.
They stumbled upon the
bones while working out an
Itinerary for scientists wish
ing to visit the Clarno fossil
beds following a meeting of
the International Pollen Con
gress in Tucson, Ariz., in late
April.
"The bones were covered
by a thick matrix, clay which
has gathered and formed into
rock," according to Dr. J.
Arnold Sholwell, assistant di
rector of the museum who
identified the bones, "and It
was remarkable that scien
tists trained to recover veg
table matter would even rec
ognize the material as bone.
It is gratifying that they were
able to recover so many frag
ments in such good condition."
The crocodile, the oldest
vertebrate find in the Clarno
fossil beds, comes from the
earliest level in the Clarno
strata and probably belongs
to the Eocene period at the
beginning of the Tertiary, the
Age of Mammals, when the
climate In this area was sub
tropical. Dr. Shotwell said.
With Fossil Leaves
The bones were found in
association with fossil leaves,
which is an unusual occur-
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FOSSIL CROCODILE Dr. Kankichi Son
ma (left) and Dr. Jane Gray, research asso
ciates at the University of Oregon Museum
of Natural History, discuss skull and jaw
bone of first fossil crocodile ever found
west of the Rocky mountains. The scien
tists came upon the bone fragments and
teeth while visiting the Clarno fossil beds
in northcentral Oregon. Restoration was
made in the university's paleontology lab
oratory, and the find went on display in
the museum this week. Skull of a modern
crocodile is in foreground.
mice, Dr. Sholwell reported.
Fossil leaves and fossil ver
tebrates are not usually found
together, presumably because
the chemical environment that
preserves one will not pre
serve the other. More precise
dating of the crocodile may
be avail
after the com
plete find has undergone fur
ther study, he added.
Positively identified fossil
crocodiles have been found
elsewhere in the U.S. but
never before in the West. Sci
entists have found tiny frag
ments of bone and teeth in
the western slates that may
have been crocodile, but this
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is the first time that enough
material has been recovered
to make a positive identifica
tion, Dr. Shotwell pointed
out.
The Oregon crocodile "ap
parently" is an ancestor of the
crocodiles now found in the
southern U. S., he said.
90 Per Cent Recovered
Dr. Sholwell estimates
that about 80 per cent of the
reptile's skull and jaw bone
was recovered. Richard L.
Wilson, senior in geology from
Eugene, spent about 35 hours
in the paleontology labora
tory, removing the matrix
and fitting the fragments to
gether. The characteristic
long narrow snout measures
about 18 inches. The living
crocodile was probably about
eight feet long, Dr. Shotwell
estimates.
"The find gives us an op
portunity to determine what
kind of crocodile this is and to
learn more about the distri
bution of these reptiles during
this time period.'' Dr. Shot
well commented. "Perhaps
more important, it indicates
lo us that vertebrate remains
are availabel in parts of the
Clarno oilier than those we
have excavated, and we are
going to investigate this new
site immediately."
Fossil Mammal Found
Although the Clarno beds,
a thick strata extending for
1.000 square miles or more
across northcentral Oregon
have been known for more
than 100 years, and Dr. Thorn-
as Condon, the unlversty's
first professor of geology, ex
cavated there in the 1850's
and '60's, the first fossil mam
mal finds were not made un
til 1942.
This discovery was made
by the late Lon Hancock,
Portland amateur paleontolo
gist, who also located the
Clarno "quarry," overlooking
the John Day river midway
between the towns of Fossil
land Antelope, in 1953 and
1954.
I This quarry, as palcontolo
I gists call an excavation site,
I was worked jointly by the
university and the Oregon
Museum of Science and Indus
try between 1955 and 1960
and has proved to be the only
significant fossil mammalian
deposit yet found in the Clarno.
Transition Period
I Bones from this deposit
' come from the transition pc
. riod between the Eocene and
i the Oligocene. about 45 mil
; lion years ago, when the cli
I mate was changing from sub
tropical to temperate. The
crocodile was found at an
earlier level about 40 miles
away from this site.
Among the Clarno quarry
finds has been a miniature
horse, about the sire of a col
lie dog. which is new to pal
cntologists and which "fills in
a gap in our record of the
development of the hoise."
Dr. Shotwell said
A tapir, which proved to be
a "missing link" between two
previously known descending
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lines of this animal, also has
been found.
In all, the bones and teeth
of about a dozen different
types of mammal have been
recovered from this quarry,
including two types of rhinoc
eros and two animals which
have no modern descendants,
the titanothere and the oreo
dont. The Clarno takes Its name
from Andrew Clarno, who
was one of the earliest while
settlers along the John Day
river.
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