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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THUHSUAY. APRIL 18. 18(3 'Railroad to Moon' Sold by Dartmouth I Boccaccio Letter Found In Bookbinders' Papers Perucla, Italy -ilW- Doctor , eye recognized an assortment changer named Del Chiaro i caccio, who alread: C 13 Concord, N.H. JU- When 1 back in 1858, they thought he i forgotten when the the man from Massachusetts was crazy. ouuon nomea lawmakers in neighboring New Hampshire papers , ing speed of four miles per hour. Scientists May Find Key to Cancer Secrets "Preposterous," they cho used. The proposal of Sylvester Marsh was ridiculed and he was hooted from the State House but not before he got what he came for-a charter to build a railroad on mile high on Mount Washington. Now Dartmouth college has sold what's known these days as the Cog railway for a sum estimated In excess of $100, 000. Marsh's role in the tour ist attraction lie hacked out of the mountain was all but But Marsh met the moun-1 Marsh - the dreamer tain and mastered it. 1 won. had Raise Husky Dogs Portland, Ore. -HOT- Scien tists at the University of Or egon medical school have suc ceeded in unwinding the tight ' m il coil of a human chromosome i jOlIlM At T I Cd fl S ior ine itrst time. They hope this new insight in a basic human element may unlock some secrets of can cer, other diseases and birth deformities. The chromosome contains the genes, the tiny units of a cell's nucleus which deter mine hair and eye coloring, growth-the physical and men tal characteristics that make you who-and what-you are. Within these genes, located on a fixed, but yet unex plored map along the coiled chromosome, may lie some of the secrets of serious diseases. For this experiment the team, directed by Dr. Edwin E. Osgood, used human leu kemic blood cells from a cul ture which has been kept in continuous cultivation since 1955. The cells were placed in a solution of potassium chlor ide and heated to 107 degrees P. for 30 minutes. As the solu tion dried, the chromosomes spurted out and uncoiled. The scientists injected a ra dioactive substance into the cells and watched them under a light microscope. They found the chromosomes contain a number of fibers. They saw how the radioactive material was incorporated in the DNA (Deoxyrebion Nucleic Acid), the genetic material of ani mals and plants responsible for reproduction. The success of uncoiling the minute particles of life opens the way for new studies on the intricate process of cell pro duction and heredity. Fifty Deaths Few can boast this feat. It's believed the wind -whipped, 6,288-foot peak is responsible for the deaths of some 50 per sons who tried to best it in various ways over the years. Marsh was different. He never forget that day in 1858 when the legislators approved his charter jokingly and suggested an amendment which gave Marsh permission "to continue the railroad to the moon." Undaunted, he invaded the waterfront deadfalls a n d ! MUrO-Wave Ovens teeming tenement areas of j New York and Boston. He re- Becominq Popular With the passage of time, however, he lost control of the mountain railway. The counterparts of those legisla tors who shrugged him off as a crackpot maneuvered again and again to gain control of the enterprise It never came to pass. The sale by Dartmouth col lege, which was willed the property, w'as not to the state which had expressed an in terest in it, but to Col, Arthur S. Teague who has manged the attraction since 1935. Pretoria, South Africa -0OT- i cuited an army o workers ,l j Dallas-OTP-Thc micro-wave Giovanni Abbondanza, direc tor of the state archives of this ancient Italian city, is a lucky man and is willing to admit it. A few weeks ago. a local bookbinder walked into his office with a stack of faded bits of handwritten paper he had set aside as padding for his bindings and offered it for sale. Abbonranzii gave the papers a cursory glance. His trained ! of 14th century commercial handwriting in "vulgar Ital ian. As a matter of routine, he offered a small sum for the lot on the assumption that any handwriting that old is worth I looking into. Later, in a moment of leis ure, Abbondanza took out his going through the slips. The I papers appeared to have been written by various corespond ents in Italy to a money Only 150 miles south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the South African government is running an unlikely but flour ishing new industry: raising husky dogs for Antarctica. The dogs are needed for South Africa's national Ant arctic expeditions. The Onder stepoort agricultural research center north of Pretoria has tackled the problem of re plenishing the supply of hus kies for Antarctica sledge teams. The first two huskies, Bid ulc and Fatima, were a gift from the 1960 Belgian Antarc tic expedition to Hannes la Grange, who led South Afri ca's first expedition to the deep-frozen south. La Grange handed the dogs over loathe government to build up a re serve of huskies for future ex peditions. Fresh blood was brought In when seven fully grown dogs were imported from Greenland. In the bland climate of South Africa huskies can live up to 15 years. But in the howling gales and blizzards of Antarctica the husky's aver age life span is five years. Because of this there is a con stant drain on the animals and sledge teams have to be re placed regularly. help him wage war on tne ; oven employing so-called mountain. j "radar eooking" is catching The snows of 1 1 years pas sed over the crag and Marsh's ragtag labor battalions Opens in 1869 Then on July 3, 1869, some three months afted the con tinent of North America itself on in restaurants, the Ray theon company reports. For the first IS years after its in troduction, sales of the dar stove languished. But new techniques of pre paring frozen foods especially had been spanned by a rail- for radar cooking in seconds road, a small engine chugged has recently caused sales to up the mountain at the amaz-l spurt, the company said. The 1960 census counted 9.7 million foreign born resi dents in the United States. REDUCES FATIGUE This laundry room was designed to reduce stooping and other tiring washday problems. The combination washer-dryer is raised 18 inches from the floor while other units for folding and sorting are carefully organ ized for a minimum of extra steps. This is an ideal arrange ment for the "retirement home" says the Maytag laundry idea center for whom this plan was designed. changer named Del Chiaro living in Avignon, France, In the years from 1360 to 1370. Then Abbondanza came ac ross a letter starting: "Although I have written thrice I have har no answer." It was signed "Giovanni de Boccaccio" and was dated from Certaldo, near Florence. GOOD REASON Abbondanza jumped in his chair and for good reason. Of the three giants of Italian lit erature, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, not one piece of signed handwrltting In Italian lias survived. Abbondanza had hit a liter ary jackpot in this letter by the author of the famous "De cameron." When he deciphered the en tire letter Abbondanza had no doubts it was Boccaccio who wrote it from his home town in Tuscany, in the Spring of 1366, to his friend Del Chiaro in southern France. In Avignon Boccaccio had been to Avig non himself the previous year as "ambassador" of the Flor entine rcpuglic to beg Pope Urban to return to Rome, this obviously was one of several follow-up letters which the writer sent to Del Chiargo begging him to keep remind ing the Pope of that "certain benefit" which His Holiness had promised Boccaccio dur ing his stay in Avignon. What the benefit was Is anybody's guess. Possibly further dispensation for Boc caccio, who already had taken minor orders, to climb higher on the ecclesiastical ladder a step made difficult by the fact that the great storyteller liar been born out of wedlock. The letter goes on to report the goings of certain German mercenary bands around Spo leto. After many greetings, the letter closes with the famous signature. On the reverse side, Del Chiaro recorded the date of arrival before filing the let ter away. How did the letter come back to Italy? Possibly the Del Chiaros brought their business files back to Italy upon retire ment, A couple of centuries la ter the files were probably thrown away but picked up by someone because paper was valuable in those days. Some binder brought the whole stock and started using it to pad his bindings. The ink on the letter Is still fairly blrck, a sign that the note had been lying in the dark most of the 600 years since Boccac cio sent it off on ihat Hay morning of 1366. 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