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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY, MARCH 22. 19S3 Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Rei later m4 TrikniM Syndicate, 1M3) Sony, You Jutt Can't Ctt Banana Oil From Bananas One would naturally expect that the origin of various types of oils - olive oil, corn oil, soybean oil, castor oil, fish oil and many others - is tied to the plant or animal whose name it carries. But there's something a lit tle fishy about another oil which we are all rather familiar. That one just doesn't come from where its name would indicate. We never did get banana oil from bananas. Squeeze as hard as you can, and you can't even get juice from them, let alone oil. It's downright peculiar, too, for there is a great deal of banana oil used. Most folks have used it some time or other, or have at least smelled it. It smells just like bananas: that's why it is called banana oil. But the stuff was never any closer to a genuine ba nana than you are, right now, To Timbucktu. Strang Fruit The absence of banana oil In the banana is little stranger than many other common facts about this tropical fruit: seeds, for one thing. It is a rare plant that produces fruit without seeds, but the banana accomplishes it. Banana seeds are more scarce than "hen's teeth"; there just aren't any produced. The tiny specks you may notice in the pulp of a ripe banana are remnants of seeds, but they are only pieces. The , plant does not grow from seeds but from shoots which come up from the under ground root system. When a banana plant final ly succeeds in producing a bunch of fruit, it "turns up its leaves and dies. Before it ex pires, however, it makes some arrangements for future ba nanas. It sends up a shoot or two which 'later develop , into a banana plant. No 'Banana Treat' You have heard about banana tree, but surprisingly, there is no such thing. To be a tree a plant has to develop a woody stem. The trunk of the banana plant is composed merely of the ends of the Tooth Decay Cut by More Than Half in Fluoridation Program A 3 leaves wrapped around one another, each leaf forming concentric sheath. Long ago before the banana became a common household article, it grew and developed in China and India. But it does as well in its newer American home, the tropical section of our hemisphere, as it ever did m the Orient. The banana grows its fruit in bunches composed of hands," and the entire as sembly grows on the plant in an upside down position. If a banana is subjected to a low temperature, it loses its banana flavor. Whip a ripe banana and it turns to a thick, creamy liquid.' But no matter how hard you beat it, you can't get banana oil from a banana. Banana oil is produced chemi cally; it doesn't come from bananas. But, it sure smells like it does. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - Dra matic evidence of the effec tiveness of fluoridation in sharply reduc ing tooth de cay has been revealed here by city offici als of the na tion's capital. The program for chemical ly treating the Was hington, smitk D.C., drinking water supply has cut dental decay rates by more than half since it began over 10 years ago in June. 1962, This finding was based on Openings Available In Nursing Course Mrs; Thomas Donahue, Red Cross nursing instruction chairman, announced today that -valley . residents, may still register for. the Care of the Sick . and Injured class scheduled to start Tuesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. at Rogue Valley hospital. Students will be instructed in standard home nursing pro cedures, how to cope with home emergencies, nursing care under special conditions, causes and symptoms of ill ness and community health The 12-hour class will be taught on consecutive Tuesday and Thursday evenings by Mrs. Natalie Reichenberg, a qualified Red Cross instructor. There will be no charge for the course now being organ ized; however, Mrs. Donahue said that registration should be made in advance as the class will be limited in num ber. Registration may be made by calling the Red Cross of fice, 772-4405.. Picture Showing Communists In Europe Scheduled 'My Latvia," a motion pic ture describing the Commu nist take-over of eastern Eu ropean countries, will be shown at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Medford High school auditor ium, The Rev. Claude G. Pike, Portland radio commentator, has announced. The picture, produced by the United States Information service from films taken by an official of the Latvian gov ernment, smuggled from be hind the Iron Curtain, por trays the Communist con quest.' It is the same grim pattern still followed as late as Cuba, Mr. Pike said in announcing the Medford showing. "It re veals how the Communists released hardened criminals and placed them in top lead ership. It also shows how cler gymen, police officials, law yers, teachers and other civic leaders were marked for tor ture and liquidation." Showing of the picture is part of the Christian Ameri canism seminar to be conduct ed during the afternoon by Mrs. Claude Pike. Following the discussion of current topics, Mr. Pike will speak. He has spent 25 years as an ordained minister in the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren denomina tions in nation-wide speaking tours and as a radio commen tator. There will be no admission charge for the motion picture or the seminar. AND WHEN I GRADUATE, THE WARRANTY ON MY NEW PLYMOUTH WILL STILL BE IN EFFECT! SEEKS . DAMAGES . Blackburn. England OIPD Poultry farmer Hindle Tay lor sought $1,000 damages from George Corta in court Thursday because the horse Corta sold him wasn't worth $336. Hindle said the mare, Sundowner, was at least 10 years older than Corta said, had a bent leg, couldn't jump fence, was frightened of traffic, and was not, as ad vertised, "one of the finest horses in England." real for Towels Lucky freshman! He can't drive on campus so he won't pile up many miles in the next four years. But... he's got a Plymouth with a 5-year50,(XXV mile warranty. So he's well protected. If you'd like that kind of protection, buy a new Plymouth with America's longest and best new-car warranty! ao.000 aim. "JZZ " ": T-XTl - .j-j ik. etirt nam MM rvsao aw nawwuw DICK KNIGHT CO. 33 S. Riverside, M&Hord, Oregon rjrfj 7102 1 X V the largest and longest area tudy yet made to determine the consequence of adding sodium silicofluoride to the water supply. It is based on dental examinations of more than IVi million youngsters in the public and parochial schools, according to Dr. A. Harry Ostrow, chief of the District of Columbia Health Department's Bureau of Den tal Health. Insidious Effort The question of adopting fluoridation program has been a hot issue in numerous Oregon cities during this same decade. Inflamatory cam paigns against fluoridation have been waged in many communities, often by per sons who charged that it rep resented an insidious effort to poison the American popu lation. Plans of officials in many cities have been block ed by such propaganda cam paigns when the issue was put to a vote of local citizens. Because the citizens living Washington, D.C., have not in many years been permitted to vote, the issue has never been one for the local water users to decide in a referen dum. It was adopted by city officials after various U.S. Public Health Service reports and investigations indicated that dental health among chil dren would improve with flu Before the program was launched in 1962, all school children were examined to determine the prevalence of decayed, missing and filled teeth. Similar examinations were made each successive year as ' the program ad vanced. These examinations showed that in 1951-52 the 6-year-olds had a DMF (decayed, missing or filled) tooth rate of .22 per child. That is, about one child out of five at that age had some dental trouble. The rate for 6-year-olds in 1961 had dropr ;d to .09 per child, or only about one child in every eleven youngsters had any tooth trouble. This represents a 59.1 per cent reduction in the inci dence of decayed, missing or filled teeth in youngsters who were born after the program began and had the benefit of fluoridation from birth, as suming they lived in the Washington area during those six years. Trouble Had Dropped As the age of the children examined in 1961 increased, the comparison with children their same age 10 years be fore showed less improve ment. Dental trouble for 9- year-olds, for example, had dropped by 46 per cent, for 11-year-olds by about 30 per cent, for 16-year-olds by about 15 per cent. Doctor Ostrow said prac ticing dentists report that they can see the difference in the mouth's of today's children, who seldom have cases of crumbling badly de- ayed teeth, unless they have moved to Washington from non-fluoridated city. These findings take into account a unique feature of the Washington, D.C., school population - its change in proportion from white to Negro. The results were fd jusied to take into account the less prevalence of tooth decay among Negro children, otherwise the findings would on the reason for a greater more apt to eat plainer foods have shown a more marked incidence of decay in whites and fewer sugared foodstuffs, change between 1052 and than Negroes is that more The cost of fluoridation 1961. of the latter race are less here has been eight cents per The most accepted theory economically prlviledged and person yearly. Washington - tan - Presi dent Kennedy has named Ice land J. Haworth, a member of the Atomic Energy commis sion since 1961, to succeed Dr. Alan T. Waterman as di rector of the National Science Foundation. 8 Fruit V vegetables in singing mood! Do in bright colors-orange, yellow, green, red - cheer a kitchen! Brighten cloths, towels. curtains with this embroi dery. Pattern 7102: transfer six 6x7-in. motifs; directions. 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