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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON MEDFORD MAIL, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Oennis the Mnflfe THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2fi, 13 5W THURSDAY, DECEMKKR 2ti, 1963 SiIR JM USING S1U6. YOU W0U10NT WANT THE Successes Claimed In Research Work On Farm Products WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) claimed a variety of suc cesses in research work during 1963, including new uses for farm products, advances in bio logical control of insects, aid to rural areas development and to medical science, and improved plant varieties. ARS scientists developed cot ton fabrics that can be molded permanently into three-dimensional shapes. Projected uses of this material include hats, shoes, other wearing apparel, and upholstered furniture. The Agriculture Department announced during the year de velopment of a durable fire-re-tardant paint. This product looks like ordinary paint, but when exposed to flame, it de velops a thick, carbon-containing layer that acts as an insu lating barrier. AHS developed crisp, flavor ful dehydrated apple pieces which are attracting the inter est of some food manufacturers ns an ingredient for dry cereals and baking mixes. In an effort to retain some of the markets lost to synthetic materials, ARh scientists devel oped new processes for produc ing all-cotton stretch socks, which In tesls retained their stretch properties after more than 30 Iaunderings. The de partment said the processes are expected to open up a new mar ket tor 50,000 bales of cotton annually. Progress was made toward new industrial uses and mar kets for wheat, corn, and grain sorghum. Wheal flour treated with enzymes shows promise as an effective paper-sizing agent, i I Alia said. I he scientists also discovered that new rigid foams: made from cereal starches have ; density, crush resistance, and j other properties that compare I favorably with commercial ! foams and should cost less. 1 The agency said ARS ento-i mologists extracted from cotton j I plants a substance that repels boll weevils and developed an experimental machine that nicks ! up and destroys weevil-infested . I cotton flower buds. The scientists found viruses that infect and kill the cabbage leoper and the corn earworm without harming anything else. A combination of insect at traclanl and an Insecticide erad icated the oriental fruit fly from! the Pacific island of Uota in 5'.'; months. Working with sugar heels. ARS scientists developed a test that Is proving valuable in di agnosing gnlacloesmia, a seri ous disease In infants. Capitol Memo fcl3S?3 By Zan Stark llTf Tax Col,ec,or Hate Season Hears SALEM (DPI) -In a few days the HUM "hale the lax col lector" season will officially open. State Tax Commissioners Paul Lunger, Fred llofke and Charles Mack have found a re treat from taxpayer ontago nism which will mount steadily until the April 15 climax. They have a file of "thank you letters." It's only an inch thick, and nowhere as big as the filo of the "oilier kiiui" of letters, but it can serve as a comfortable refuge during (he trying days to come. First letters in Ihe "thank you" file reflect Ihe lone nf many taxpayers. A Portland man comments About I h e $25. 22 deficiency charge ho had to pay. "I must say I was not very happy about the doficincy. However I think H fair to tell you that I was surprised nl the efficient way Ihe matter was handled, and Ihe I'nllrlnsv ovtnilflrH hv flip ljili I lax personnel to a confused and unhappy taxpayer. Keep up the 1 courlcous, efficient job It sure- j ly makes taxpnviiig an easier ' task." " j A Portland couple was over-; Joyed al receiving a rotund. "I, ike most people we are! more, accustomed lo paung than receiving. It was a very pleasant surprise." A Portland man wrote: "We thought we might not gel the amount of refund we applied for since you had requested a special clarification of deduc tions claimed. But you sent ex actly the amount asked (or! So we thank you and we thank the Lord for a wonderful answer to prayer." I A Newberg woman was so impressed with the help she re ceived in making out her lax forms she wrote "when you come to Newberg look us up and have eolfee with us." Another taxpayer lauded the commission (or its help in mak ing out lax returns, and com mented "we certainly regret that we arc now Washington re sidents.. .Seattle. ..is a l ull man's Portland. You know of course about Ihe four per cent sales lax..." A man who moved lo Wash ington slate wrote: "Host re gards to young Mark (Governor Hatfield) long live the stale in come lax and cussed by Ihe ! per cent sales lax, 10 cent pel pack cigarette lax, 10 coin per gallon sales tax, and $'J.r aulo license fee." 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Effective Through Sunday, Dec. 29 Try and Stop Mo -By BENNETT CERF- IRANK LOESSER, who composed the great score of "Guys A and Dolls" nd "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," once invented a game that afforded his young daughter consider- aole amusement. He would press one of his coat buttons and im mediately stick out his tongue, hunch up his shoulders and goggle his eyes. His daughter's task was to push the button above, thereby restoring him to normalcy. One evening Loesser pressed his button according lo the accepted formula and his face assumed the proper resemblance to an agitated lauehinc hvena. This time, however, the daughter failed to react according to Hoyle. She slipped off his lap, took her mother's hand, and cheerfully suggested, "Let's leave him that way!" Dick Keller, at NBC, tinned down an offer ha received in the mail to head up a new Egyptian school for masseurs. "You must have me mixed up with somebody else entirely," replied tha justifiably mystified Keller. "This, obviously, is a job for a Cairopractor." Overheard in Fort Lauderdale: "She- swore she'd go throueh anything for me and an hour later my pockets were empty!" O 1903, by Beuu.tt Ccrf. Di.lrlbuted by King Feelure. Syndic!. Ihe Medical Roundup i CrtiiMtlUnt In Medic In Mayo l imit: i PrnOsstir or Medic In O Mhvo Clinic ' and Tribune Syndicate. 11)63). TtcEtitcr and ' Transplanting Kidneys Some weeks ago I wrote a column in which 1 pointed out that some experts on kidney transplantation have been warn ing our people against too much enthusiasm about transplanta tion of kidneys into patients whose kidneys have failed. Since I wrote that column, some pa pers have been full of descrip tions of efforts lo transplant into a paticnl kidneys taken even from a monkey. As any expert could have prophesied, there was mighty little chance of such an operation succeed ing; and according to the paper, it did not succeed. In the November U Issue of "Modern Medicine," Wendell Weed has said there is an ex cellent summary of our present slate of knowledge in regard to Kidney transplantation. As he said, al Boston s Peter Bent Urigham Hospital, the trans plantation of kidneys has been pioneered since (ho early 1050 s, but even there Ihe doctors con sider their work mainly investi gative. Ilieir besl results have been obtained, naturally, with ID transplants between identi cal twins; but even among these most favorable cases, there are only III patients who are still living. Three died ut periods of from four months lo mure than five years after the transplan tation when the ingrafted kid ney became diseased. Many oth er transplants between related and unrelated persons have been attempted with six of the last II patients still alive. I read that in two of Den ver's hospitals, surgeons have transplanted more lhan 4(1 kid neys between both related and unrelated persons, with appar ent success in about 70 per cent of Ihe cases. This, of course, is an excellent record. That the doctors are learning more and more about the operation is shown by Ihe fact lhal most of the postoperative deaths oc curred among Ihe first 13 pa tients worked on. The big problem has been to suppress Ihe normal immune response In the implantation in a person of a bit of tissue which the hody treats as a foreign invader, killing It and throwing it out. When success in a trans plantation has been obtained, big efforts have been made to suppress this immune reaction. In some hospitals, for a while the recipient of u kidney, first htid his spleen removed but now this is being Riven up. For awhile, Ihe thymus gland in the chest was first removed, bul one group of surgeons abandon ed this after it failed lo work well. For awhile an effort was made In destroy Ihe immune reaction by X-raying the whole body, bul I read thai in Denver this procedure has been aban doned. In many places, much reli ance has b:cn placed upon the giving of a drug called Imuran. Sometimes this drug cannot be given for long because of bad side effects. Another drug used is prednisone (a cortisone-like drug) which is given in large doses. Also, actinomycin C (an antibiotic) may be given, per haps together with drugs de signed to lower a high blood pressure. The surgeons say that the tendency to rejection of a kidney probably cannot be com pletely wiped out, but more and more is being learned about the art of suppressing it. Another place in which trans plantation nf kidneys is being porlormod is in the medical col i lege In Hlrhmond, Va. There, i Dr. David M. Hum believes that surgeons must go on study ing the operation, but it is not yet so perfected that any sur geon can perform it. No one should undertake Ihis work who is not fully prepared to com bat the immune reaction which so often causes the death of the patient. The Richmond group have performed 20 non twin kidney transplants in 18 patients, 10 of whom are still living. It has been found that when the first kidney transplant ed is rejected, a second one, put in, may work, at least for l a few months. Since writing my last column on this subject, 1 have learned that a method has been worked out by which a person, at inter vals, can be hooked up for some hours to an artificial kid ney and then unhooked and sent back to his or her work. This sounds very hopeful. Dr. Alvarez' new booklet. "An Enlarged Prostate Gland." will be ot interest to many men. You may obtain a copy by enclosing 25 cents and a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your re quest lo Dr. Waller C. Alvarez, Dept. MMT, Box 957, Des Aloines, lown 50304. Churches Request Release of Money WASHINGTON (UPI) Sec relary of Stale Dean Rusk has been asked by Protestant church leaders to reconsider a U. S. government ruling that prevents American churches from sending money to churches in Cuba. The request was made to Husk Tuesday by representa tives of the National Council of Churches and the Southern Bap tist Convention. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church, who head ed the group, said the meeting produced no definite results. Transmittal of dollars to Cuba in general is barred 'under U.S. regulations adopted last Julv. They were designed to further inolalc the Castro regime anS deny it foreign exchange. The church group argued that their humanitarian use and the fostering of religion in Cuba was in the U. S. national interest. 4-H NEWS Sugar Cookies The December meeting of Hie Sugar Cookies 4-H club was called to order by our new president, Brenda Long. Wc had a demonstration on making "Plain Muffins" by Di ane White. While the muffins were baking, we played games. When the muffins were done, Ihey were served to us and we then judged them and ate them as refreshments. Our next meet ing will be at the home of Mrs. Gladys Long, 617 E. Cedar St. Linda Guss, Reporter Tricky Trailers The Applegate Tricky Trotters 4-H Horse Cluh held their meet ing recently at the Brion's home. Our leader passed out some new literature. We also saw some slides about riding aids. The next meeting will be at the Applegate School, Jan. 13. Marilyn Winningham, Reporter,
