Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 31, 1963, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextBitterness Runs Sol By JAMES T. YOUNG i divided ihe lown. United Press International j Pecos Born Pecos, Tex. - U'l - When i Dunn, now a balding man you mention the name Dr. , of medium height, was a John Dunn in Billie Sol Esies' i town boy. In college and mod hometow n, smile, stranger. leal school he received iinaiv The bitterness and the an-icial aid from several towns gcr generated by the arrest j people. Pecos born and bred, of Estes and the collapse of . he married a Pecos girl and his farm empire has crystal- they have four children, lized around this out-spoken ' ranging in age from 2 to 10 physician. There is no middle ; years ground in Pecos. The people , As one of 13 physicians in like him or dislike him. Some town, he developed a fine hate him. Some luv; him. ! practice using the facilities Reeves County .Mem- They like or loathe the John Birch society he be longs to. They all agree he has brought out the town lin en for washing Many say it is clean. Those who back Dunn say it i filthy. They appreciate his attacks on Billie Sol Estcs or. they hold Esles to have been treated shabbily. Tempers High Tempers run strong in this west Texas town wrenched from dilficult earth. When of the orial Hospital. Dunn became interested in polities and joined the John Birch Society. This alone caused controversy in Pecos. lie began making investi gations in town. This caused more controversy. Snooping, many called it. Two years ago, Dunn says, he turned in Billie Sol Estcs to the Federal Bureau of In vestigation. He was the tusi person to blow the whistle on along- The hospital board ac cused him of misconduct and harrassmcnt. He continued his oul ! spoken ways and the tow n reaped a whirlwind. The ac Icusations got personal. Enemies said Dunn con j tributed only a nickel to a community chest drive, j Kriends quickly reminded , that Dunn practiced charily through generous treatment i of the poor and had provided j S3. 000 to help send deserving students to college His record book.- show Stt- 1 010 cnaigcd olf to practice. , Money he never received. j Kind lo Negroes "If we have money to pay. we pd.v him," said a pour Ne- ! gio patient. "Ii we don't, he ' don't ask for it " i A nurse said he was a ded- j icated physician. -I've w atch ed him stand over suitering i patients and cry.'' she said Dunn launched an aim crime crusade He charged there was a crime ring m Pecos. He said there were SECTION B PAGES 1 to 8 MEDFORDt n.M n'iK being sold in low n. The qi,.ii:t 1 approached its clim.iv T'v !i,'-p.;.il. admittedly uul'mni ,i iv.iuircd stall lu aniK. lissstitsM d Dunn lroni his h..vi).,i jHot This would hurt ln practice, since the i nearest hospital was at Fori Sloiluon. ai! miles away. The Tex.i- dcp.-ruucm o( public s.lely and lederal agents were called in. Town Said Clean Tile y said ihey could find no n.i r en i it's tr.iltic in Pecos. In tact, they said, Ihe town was remarkably "clean." Feeling ran higher against Dunn. j "1 just hope the next news y ou come to cover isn't a I killing," a worried prominent citizen told a visiting news man. Dunn got a court hearing on his hospital dismissal. It provided lurid testimony. The judge had to gavel for order in the audience. It was charged that Dunn kissed women obstetrical pa tients, lie was asked whether he killed a Negro patient. He was asked whether he kissed a Negro patient. He was asked about "amorous love scenes." ; This was stricken from the 1 record. But Dunn talked freely later. He said that the ! women had kissed him after being delivered of babies -a natural enough act for a joyful woman. During cross examination of Dunn, a physician in the audience muttered to a news man, "you haven't heard any thing yet." A well-known Pecos resi dent, no friend of the physi cian, said "we'll have his li cense tto practice medicine) Country !r 1 yet before this is over." Lunn Wins The court battle went to Dunn. The judge issued an injunction granting him the right to use hospital facilities pending a hospital board hear ing. Whatever the outcome of the hearing, there will be more court lights. The bitter ness remains. Through it all. Dunn has smiled. He always seems to be smiling. He smiles at his friends and at his enemies. Some smile back. Many don't in this unhappy town. HELplfluS! We need clothing, shoes, dishes, furniture, and bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly 773-7335 -Tribune MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY Estcs was jailed, the stall of u'c then-boy wonoer oi me the anli-F..slps nrwsnnpr kr-nl ! farm world. two loaded shotguns handy as it put out the paper. There has been no violence. But there has been mudsling ing. There have been denun ciations and accusations. Dunn fights. So do his enemies. To an outsider, it appears that his enemies outnumber his friends. The quarrel has riven the town thai once was a sleepy ford on the Pecos river, known mostly to rodeo bulls as the site of the first or ganized rodeo in 1883. In the rugged, dry country side, farms were scraggly. Some cattle were raised. The name of the town had a wild west ring, but it had no con nection with old Judge Roy Bean. "The Law West of the Pecos." And then came discovery of underground water. Irrigation brought riches. Alfalfa, canta loupes, grain and cotton - es pecially cotton - grew under the hot Texas sun. In 1950 there were 8.01)0 people in Pecos. Now there arc more than 13.000. The Billie Sol Estes case hurt them emotionally and, in many cases, financially. The Dunn affair brought out more animosity and further j Billie Sol's friends remem ber this claim. Estcs, what ' ever he did. was genero is to ' a fault to many in Pecos who j needed help. I Dunn and members of the hospital staff did not get i Shell Beans Make I Comeback in Cans Indianapolis - HW - A pre Civil War vegetable favorite, shell beans, now is on the canned foods shelf. The combination of green and dried beans originated with a Georgia plantation owner, says A. C. Moll, agri cultural research director for ihe packer. The two types were cooked together when the green bean harvest oc curred just as vine-dried pole beans were ready for shell ing. Kentucky wonders and white creascback dried beans were used for the home-made combination, said Moll, but dried pinto beans are used in the commercial pack. These mottled brown and cream-colored legumes are named for cowboys' pinto ponies, which have similar markings. 'Genetic Effects1 Of Radioactivity On Humans Noted ft : 1 P4 fv r , c t-'s. h 'Ami v r i1.ftiiiimf ni'Viidt r.ir i 'mif lifriifji Witt i' hiViie mmm 1 DUNN IN TURMOIL Dr John Dunn, a John Birch So ciety member, who claims to have been the first person to blow the whistle on Billie Sol Estcs. is as controversial a figure as the town of Pecos has these days. Dunn is strug gling to keep his post at Reeves County Memorial hospital in Pecos. tUPli By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York - 'LPl' - Science has long talked of "genetic eltects" upon human beings and other m a m in a I s from the ra dioactive par ticles of "fall out." Now, for the first time, there is a clear-cut dem onstration o f how one such ueios smun e f feet would work. This one is exceeding ly subtle but exceeding lethal. It begins with the entrance of slrontium-00. a common "fall out" particle, into the blood and lymph fluid of the male. From there it gets into the organs where male germ cells. spermatozoa, are being made. There strontium-90 gets in corporated in spermatozoa -into the chromosomes which contain the male part of the recipe for a new individual. When spermatozoa merge with female germ cells, radio activity goes with them. Male and female chromosomes unite - the recipe is com pleted. Destroying Chromosomes But as the recipe begins unfolding - as ihe new indi vidual begins developing - the radioactivity is destroying the chromosomes without which there can be no new life. In a measureable time, chromo somes arc broken up and l'ie new life is at an end before it could get born. A demonstration of this process was made by four scientists of the Swedish na tional research institute in the common experimental mam mal, the mouse. There is no scientific reason for thinking anything so basic in mam malian reproduction wouldn't work the same way in all mammals. The Swedes look off from a theoretic finding of Dr. Don ald Mazia of the University of California that a certain type of metallic ion can get "bound" chemically into chromosomes. Strontium - 00 is a metal, of course, and its radioactivity causes it to dis charge this type of ion. Stronlium-90 in body chem istry substitutes for calcium and it is known that much of it will quickly enter the bones. The Swedish scientists - K. G. Liming. H. Frolcn. A. Nelson and C. Ronnback - reasoned these strontium ions in male chromosomes. Strontium-90 was injected into male mice. It reached its peak ability to enter their chromosomes there weeks afterward. Then this penetra tive ability decreased rapidly. From this the scientists rea soned the process was reversi ble. That is. calcium ions could II I' ''I .'l'P.J.l'.llJJllljlfWlg. nnd did replace the strontium ions which hud replaced them. The revcrsins occurred, the scientists reasoned, when much of the injected stron tium had been incorporated in bones and the remainder had been excreted. When there was no rein forcing backlog of strontium 9u in the body fluids of l lie mice, calcium ions - always abundant in mammalian chemistry - were able to pet back into their rightful places in the chromosomes. If there had been a con tinuous intake of slrontium 90 this reversing couldn't have happened - and if the atmosphere becomes m ore heavily ladened than it is now with fallout products, in cluding strontium-90, then in take of all males would be continuous. The scientists made the same experiments with anoth cr fallout particle, ccsium-137. and found it had no such effect. Duncan to Announce Panel for Nominees Congressman Robert. B. Duncan (D-Orc.) said today ho will announce within a month the names of seven Fourth dis trict residents to serve as an impartial panel to aid in the selection of armed forces acad emy nominees. "I plan lo select both Dem ocrats and Republicans to serve on this panel.'' Duncan said Oregon's newest con gressman will select panel members to represent the di?i trict geographically and occu pationally. 'I hope to bring together a panel of Orgoniaiis sincerely intereslcr1 1 helping to select the nios. outstanding young men from the Fourth district to represent our state in these academies," he said, Duncan also said he will announce the names of addi tional armed forces academy nominations by Feb. 1 lie is reviewing the applications of candidates for West Point and Annapolis. There arc no open ings this year for the Air Force Academy and no appli cations have so far been sub mitted to Duncan for the Merchant Marine Academy. TAKING A TIP Syracuse. N Y. - 'U'li - Some New York motorists air tak ing a lesMin from colonial forebears to protest what they consider unjust taxation. 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