Bitterness
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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New York motorists air tak
ing a lesMin from colonial
forebears to protest what they
consider unjust taxation. The
auto club will distribute free
to motorists 100.0(H) card
board replicas of the 1775
"don't tread on me" flags to
protest Gov. Nclsoi. A. Hocke
feller's proposed increase in
license fees.
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