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:
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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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nished bedroom. The room is made interesting by the use of
light and dark Weldwood birch "planks" (4 x8' preftnished
plywood panels). The long built-in night table is topped with
white Micarta, and the Novaply folding doors on closet art
faced with the same paneling.
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built into this patio-barbecue. Gas is not only used for light
ing the charcoal, but a gas pipe and burner units were in
stalled underneath the removable griddle at the top of the
oven for all types of cooking and food warm-up.
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