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THURSDAY. MAY 24, 1962
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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
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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.
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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.
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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-
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Your Honey's
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By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc.
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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.
This is a turning point in our history And the 87th
Congress, living up to the best of our traditions. m the i
spring of li)fi2 turning u.fioutward and upward to peaks never i
before touched.
Oregon City Auto
Mishap Kills Woman
Portland HTDMarRarel L.
Donnelly, 43, Oregon City,
died Wednesday in a Portland
hospital from injuries suf
fered in a nne-rar accident in
Oregon City Tuesday.
She was a passenger in a
car driven by William R.
A nderson, 42, that went out
of control and struck a utility
pole.
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