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6 C THURSDAY. MAY 24, 1962 7 "W Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. Watkins (Rittiler ft Trlbnnt SyndlcaM. What'i More Mirsculoui Thn Growth of Tiny Seed? More miraculous than any chemical experiment ever performed in any laboratory i that strange chemistry of growth in a seed ... any seed from the largest to the small i and that range is tre mendous. First prize for size prob ably would go to the coconut, some of which are as large as a half bushel basket. On the other end of the scale, a petunia seed or the seed of a birth tree both are pretty tiny. It takes about 400,000 of cither one to weigh a pound. It must have been confus ing to that early scientist who tried to estimate what size plant would grow from a cer tain seed. The acorn is much smaller than a coconut, yet an oak tree is larger and greater in bulk than a palm tree. Can Get Confusing In our attempts to classify, this seed business can get con fusing. Take peas, the com mon garden variety, and beans; these are true seeds. But peach pits are not. The seed is the meaty part inside; the same seems to be true of wheat and corn. The bran is on the outside, the seed with in. Nature went all out in de vising ways for the distrubu tion of seeds. The idea was to carry them as far away from the parent plant as pos sible. They have a belter chance that way of finding a fertile spot in which to grow. In nature's repertoire of tricks she made some pretty clever adaptations. Imagine using ocean currents as con veyors, but that is the way the largest of the seeds have a chance to grow on tropical islands at a great distance. A coconut seed, dropped from a 'i f i J 1 " .i V Corvallis - Oregon State university will be one of America's major centers this summer for science teacher and student institutes sponsor ed by National Science Foun dation. It also will play host to one of the nation's biggest scien tific meetings - that of the American Institute of Biologi cal Sciences. The meetings, held each fall on the campus of a leading U.S. science institution, will draw 4,000 scientists. Twenty four scientific societies make up the AIBS and another 24 are affiliate groups. Grants Total $200,000 OSU has received grants to taling $200,000 to offer five special institutes for 150 se lected high school and college science teachers from across the country and for 80 high ability high school students. President James H. Jensen said. All are part of a giant pro gram organized by National Science Foundation to im prove science and mathemat ics teaching and to increase the U.S. supply of top-flight scientists and teachers. OSU was one of 10 universi ties picked by NSF to start academic -year institutes in tree in South America may blewecd, slick close to (he 1 056 and has been on the se travel thousands of miles and parent plant and roll over the lect list each year since then. spend months on the way, but earln '"" considerable dis- finally land on some sandy tances. Every little while a , ,f ,. shore and lake root. I f'-w seeds fall off; that's tlic i idea . Carried on Feel j FoI. cv(,ry socd (hal spri)uts Birds carry small seeds on and grows to maturity, mil the mud of their feet, or as j lions often are produced, undigested material in their ! Seeds go lo feed birds, ani mals of all kinds, and many other forms of life. Nine tenths of all people on this earth live on seeds. Peculiar indeed that asleep in a liny seed is Hint myster ious spark of life that needs only the chemistry of light, moisture and a little time. V V '. I COMPLETES COURT - Norwegian-horn Reidun Mcldal, above, has been selected by Marshall High school in Portland as its Rose Festival Queen candidate. The 18-ycar-old miss is the last of Ihe candidates from Portland high schools to be selected. (UPI) Oregon State Oije Of Major Centers For NSF Institutes MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD. OREGON Bacterial Diarrhea Strikes at Fairview Salem - HTU - Some 70 chil dren and young adults are ill at Fairview Home after an outbreak of bacterial diar rhea. Dr. J. M. Pomeroy, institu tion superintendent, said the disease is similar to the diar rhea which sometimes plagues servicemen. He said the youngsters are "moderately to severely ill." None are critical. Summer Music School Scheduled Eugene High school music students can get a preview of campus life this summer by attending Ihe High School Music Session at the Univer sity of Oregon. Outstanding high school students from 14 through 18 who have had al least two years experience in a musi cal organization and want specialized training in music are eligible. From June 17-30, the band session will be held. Sym phonic, concert, prep and dance bands will be included. The orchestra session will be held from July 1-14. Divisions to be included are symphony, string, chamber music and solo performance. Applications for admission may be obtained from Ira D. Lee, director. High School Summer Session, school of music, University of Oregon, Eugene. t''iSY SISKIYOU LL-A- HARDWARE (( rl Outside White '1 stomachs. Many seeds are equipped with horns, spurs, or prickles that stick to fur or clothing, to be picked off or rubbed off many miles from the parent planl. The wind itself is a carrier of major importance. Wind- borne seeds are either flimsy, or fitted with vanes or wings. Some seeds, such as Ihe tum- iBiwtMiiitiiitittiiiimiiifiiiifflniiisiffliHiiiiiiiiinii Your Honey's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. m CONGHESS TAKING 'THE GIANT STEP Since March, the U.S. Congress hns h;id the enormous responsibility of deciding whether in lMi2 the United Slates turns outward nd takes a giant step toward a trade partner ship with a united and competitive Europe or turns inward and deliberately risks shrinking lo the stains of a second rate economic power. Congress is making Ihe decision now. We are turning, outward, taking the giant step. We are laying the foundation for whal will be a great : trade partnership among the industrialized nations on both j sides of the Atlantic. We are saying to equals who also are I rivals, we will greet you as equals and accept you as rivals ! All of this and more is inherenl in the brillanl fact that 1 after months of around-the-clock debate, the House Ways' and Means Committee is placing on the floor for vole by the House a Trade Expansion Act of 19(2 which is extra ordinarily clo.se to the bill President Kennedy requested. The key fight has been won; the House will not substantially amend a bill on which its Ways and Means Committee has worked so long. The Senate won't be h pushover but it won't emasculate this bill either. Victory for Kennedy's revolutionary program is in sight, therefore, and it is simultaneously both exhilarating and sobering. Soon President Kennedy will have the most iweepinq powers ever given to a U.S. President to smash and eliminate the tariff walls which protect our industries and workers from foreign competition in return for similar moves by Europe's Common Market nations. He'll have j power io erase entirely tariffs on a long list of products ' of which the U.S. and the Common Market are dominant producers. He'll have authority to cut other tariffs by 50 per cent. Corporations which are badly hurl by the increased im ports will gel major help in the form of loans, tax relief. I assistance on reorganizing and modernizing. Workers whose i jobs are eliminated will get major assistance in the form j of retraining, readjustment allowances, aid in moving to where jobs are available. Of course, tariffs will remain in ninny instances and there still are "escape" clauses but Ihe direction of this crucial act greatest trade through freer trade remains as Kennedy set it. What will it mean? Fundamentally, it will signal the emergence of a mag nificent Atlantic partnership in which we'll play a leading role and which could be decisive in winning the Cold War' for the Wesl. It will help .spur our economic growth through expanding our exports to Europe and other areas which permit our goods to come in on a more competitive basis By expand ing ur exports, it'll help make jobs and profits here ami also help shrink the dangerous deficit in our balance of payments. It will give you, as a consumer, a chance to buy more quality imports at attractive prices fine tor you and bt an added defense against Inflationary price hikes by our producers. It will put intensified pressure on our industries to mod ern izc their factories, replace their obsolete equipment o they can compete more aggressively at home and abroad Not ever have so many factors flashed at one lime the mes sage to our nation's industrialists to modernize or die and the warning to both businessmen and lahor leader Mi.it both price and wage boosts must tie restrained It will cause upheaval in many fields, increase iob!cMie-. and bankruptcies in Industries which can't compete with 1 foreign producers. The assistance programs, though, will be there and Europe's experience with these demonstrates the programs work. But most of all. the law as it is emerging will s.iv the United States is not afraid, we have faith in our own com petiliveness. our own abilities, we're ready to n'egotiaie and compete with equals as equals, we think we all will come out ahead via freer trade. 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