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.
The age factor doesn't
count for much on the col
Ipse level. With other G.I.'t.
urarluatc students, and back-
to-school retirees checkering
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