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MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. MARCH 1. 1963 Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- Experiments Being Held With Strontium-90 and Swine rrHE NOTED minister, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, sum-J- mers in Maine, and recalls a romantic interlude that occurred there a few years back. The local blacksmith, only ve-ieet-one ior an nis , muscles of steel, fell in I h-f love with a girl who towered fully a foot above him. Diffident for months, he proposed mar riage to her one night in a sudden burst of cour age, and was promptly accepted. He climbed on . top cf his anvil and kissed the girl rapturously. Hours later, walking home through a pasture, he asked if he might kiss her again. "No," she de cided. "Let's not overdo our sparking. "Shucks," said the disappointed blacksmith, kiss you no more, I might as well stop lugging this anvil." How to get ahead In the Navy: The Secretary of the Navy waa inspecting a recently launched carrier. The entire crew stood at attention. "I suppose," said the Secretary jokingly to the carrier's Captain, "you know the name of every man on the ship." "I think I do," was the Captain's unexpected reply. "Aha," smiled the Secretary. "What's the name of the third man from the left there in the rear rank?" "William Jones," said the Captain. The Secretory addressed the seaman himself. .."What's your name, lad?" he asked. "William Jones, Sir," replied Seaman Jonathan Abcrnathy. C 1963, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate "If I can't The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consist! Dhvcbtatrist. three clergymen, three editors and the ranks, a 23-year-old fresh man will just be one of the hoi polloi. We urge Mrs. Y. to avoid recrimination with George. His rebellion came fast and may be past. Who knows whether Dan's may be seeth ing to a boil quietly, to burst forth at a later period of his life? We hope not. But com' paring is a dangerous game for parents. Certainly there's no law of nature that makes brothers alike. William Perry, Jr., a guid' ance official at Harvard uni verslty, says that his office advises many freshment to leave and return later. of a Judce. . women's editor. Each arUcle Is a summary of a famUy disagreement presented to the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Cupyrlint by General Features torp. Mrs. C. Y. - How can two brothers turn out so differ ently? George Y. - Why not? He's Dan and I'm me, George. Mrs. C. Y. - Our sons are a year-and-a-half apart in age, yet they are miles apart in temperament and accomp lishments. George enrolled in our state university and flunked out during his fresh man year, while Dan, who followed him there a year later will be graduated this June as a Phi Beta Kappa honor student. And it's not a matter of brains, because George was an A-student right through high school. My husband and I are puzzled. What went wrong? We treated both boys alike, tried not to spoil them but gave them every encour agement. Now, at this late date and after he completes military service next year, George talks of returning to college. But he'll be 23, and how will he feel among the teen-age freshmen? George Y. - I don't know how my folks can expect me to be a carbon copy of Dan, their pride and joy. He takes to teachers, books, rules and regulations, like a duck to water. I didn't, when I was 19. Now after being in the Army this long I think I can get used to the campus cur fews, the heavy assignments, and all those do's and don't's. Of course I'm sorry I couldn't breeze through the four years like Dan. Maybe being a college boy went to my head. It was my first ex perience being in the compa ny of lots of older fellows. Whatever they did. I did, even if it was drinking, gam bling, and staying out late. A little of that during Army leaves is all right, but in col lege it got me in trouble, and pushed my marks below the water-line: Latin American Reds Forced into Open Washington (UPD DeLesseps S. Morrison, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of Ameri can States, told congressional investigators Thursday that the Communists in Latin Am erica are being forced into the open. "Increasingly thwarted in the field of political action with repeated losses in recent elections, the Communists are apparently turning more and more to outright violence," Morrison said. He made the report in tes timony before the House for eign affairs subcommittee on Latin America. The ambassador said that the American republics- "are increasingly coming to realize that Communist subversion in one country affects the se curity of the community as a whole . . ." However, he said subver sion is basically an internal problem, and "the main bur den of combatting it rests with the individual govern ments concerned." By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New New - (UPD - One of the major dangers ot excessive atmospheric "fall out" to human beings is what it might do to their reproduc tive efficiency. For this rea son there is sharp scientific interest in experiments with strontium-90 and the repro ductive efficiency of swine. The three scientists respon sible for the experiments meant nothing invidious by human values in swine. Obviously they couldn't use oeople in this Hem. wexi best for finding true answers were members ot tne riunan Moore breed. As swine they're called "miniatures." The adult usually weigns around 155 pounds. Itus is comparable to usual human weights. Their food require ments are similar to the hu man, and so are meir gastro intestinal tracts and their ra tio of bone mass to body size. All this is important De- cause strontium-90 is a radio active "fall-out" parncie which gets into animals by way of what they eat. It is first soaked up by grasses and grains, for instance. Then animals eat tne grasses ui Srains- . .... Once in meir kohu-" tinal tracts the stronuum-tiu inr tho most Dart gets de posited into their bones Be cause mciaDonsm though it were that essential bone mineral, calcium. Its -oriinsetivB half-life is 28 years. Thus any creature with strontium-90 incorporated in its bones is being suojeciea to internal radiation for a long time. . , The scientists added siron- tium-90 to the food of female swine, in daily doses. The nntrnls" cot none, ot course. tvip remainder were divided into four groups. The tirsi goi a wrv small daily dose but much larger than those hu man heines the world over now are getting due 10 tne "fall-out" from- the nuclear ovnlnsions of the past. The second group got five limes that dose daily. The ihlrri cot one five times larg er than the second and the fourth eot one five times laroer than the third. When strontium-90 -was de posited in their bones, the swine were mated. In the lower dose ranges all gave hirth to litters normal both size and vitality ai uie centa and also the "selective' ability of placenta and plasma in determining what of the maternal crosses over, had protected them in large meas-l ticlcs emitted by strontium-90 j ure from the dam's intense "decay" have a very short radioactivity. range-a range too short to Besides the radioactive par-1 reach the fetus. ! The scientists are R. O. Mc- Clellan, M. E. Kerr and L. K. Rustad of the General Elec tric Company's Hanford lab oratories, Richland, Wash. Their results still are in Ihc preliminary stage. As of now they know the fetuses of A 3 dams with relatively low strontium-90 radiation-thosa which will be born since the dams will survive pregnancy -absorb some radiation into their bones. They get thejo small amounts from the ma ternal gastrointestinal tract. DroDer time. There were no detected differences between these offspring and those of the "control swine. But in the two highest dose ranees, the swine did not sur vive their pregnancies-they were killed by the constant internal radiation coming from their bones. All had conceived, and the fetuses had developed norm ally up to the death of tne dams. It seemed apparent that the thickness of the uterus wall and of the pi: Veterans Loan Bill Passes in House - Salem - (UPD - A bill to raise the ceiling on state vet erans' real property loans passed the House Thursday and went to the Senate. The measure would lilt the limit on real property loans from $13,500 to $15,000, and on farms from $30,000 to $40,000. The Council - One of the most common fallacies pa rents labor under is the be lief that their children had the "same" parents, the "same" upbringing the "same" home. Mrs. Y. was older when her second son was born, Mr. Y. may have had more worries as the la ther of two with less time and patience for handling them. No two children ever have the "same environment, and even if they did, by some test tube miracle, they'd re act to it differently. So you , can't win, Mrs. Y., if you ex-! pect childraising to be some- I thing like cakebaking same ingredients, same re sults. George's dropping out of school is no calamity. It's a frequent occurrence and, ac cording to guidance officials in many universities, often a good thing. The leap from high school to college in volves a major emotional ad justment. We speak of a high school "boy." but a college "man." There are new free doms. Too many freedoms too soon give some young folks trouble. As George suspects, they went to his head. Actually a good percent age of freshmen who drop out do return, when they have a clearer idea of what they want out of life, what is ex pected of them on the cam pus, and why they crumpled up on their previous try George's absence was not time wasted. He'll return more mature, more disciplin ed, more purposeful. 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