Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, January 11, 1960, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextHERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, January 11, 19R0 PAGE SEVEN Health Board Tells Plan For Control Of Mosquito Plans for a four-year study of new methods of controlling mos quitoes which live in and around Oregon log ponds were outlined this week by the Mate Board of Health, The 16-phase project will explore the feasibility of several control techniques reportedly never before used in Oregon, including one to cover ponds with a thin chemical "invisible shield" to trap hatching insects. DR. RICHARD II. WIIXOX, who will become health oflicer next week, said recent studies by Colo rado State College have shown that mixtures of hexadecanol and oc- todecanol, normally used to retard evaporation from reservoirs, have ensnared and killed aquatic insects such as mayflies and arc con sidered promising as a mosquito control weapon. The compounds form a thin film on water surfaces which is im mediately replenished, whenever broken, from supplies of the flaked chemicals stored in floating bas kets. The study project will be con ducted by state health board staff members and is being financed jointly by the health board and the National Institutes of Health, a blanch of the Public Health Serv ice. Dr. Wilcox said the federal gov ernment has already allotted $19,- 170 for the first year's study and has tentatively promised a like amount for each of the next three years. STUDY FINDINGS will be dis tributed to all lumbering commu nities throughout the nation which use log ponds, he said. One phase of the project will in vestigate the possibility that mos quitoes can be controlled by heav ily saturating log ponds with fresh wood wastes or other materials. The connection between pollution and mosquito control was discov ered somewhat by accident after insect specialists had noticed that long-term residual type insecti cides frequently disappeared over night after being sprayed on log ponds, apparently being neutra lized by some chemical in the logs 'It was then found that some log ponds seemed to attract only those mosquitoes which don't attack hu mans. This occurred, the health board discovered, whether the ponds had been sprayed or not. In variably, however, these ponds were or recently had been full of logs, although a pond could be full of logs and still be swarming with millions of viciously-biting mos quitoes. THE KEY WHICH stimulated additional research was the dis covery that only those ponds heav ily polluted from fresh logs are free of mosquitoes which attack humans. GRANGE NEWS HOME EC CLUB New committees for the year were appointed during a meeting January S of Midland Grange Home Economics Club at the home of Alice Hoover. Committee officers are Laura Walker, chaplain; Mayme Cam mock, publicity; Myrtle McGehey, scrap book; Mrs. Hoover and Mil dred Largent, purchasing; Nellie Motschenbacher, display table; Netta Britton, decorating, and Ger tie Huff, card parties. Eleven members attended. Visi tors were Chloe Pryde and Deola Wryn of Shasta View Grange. The meeting opened following a dessert luncheon. Chairman Hoo ver presided. All officers were present. Chaplain Laura Walker read from the scriptures. Mrs. Hoover thanked all persons who helped with the last club card party and members who helped pack candy for the children's Christmas party at Midland Grange. Club members discussed arrange ments for an open house grange meeting scheduled for sometime in February and a fund-raising ham dinner scheduled for March. Members also suggested a fund raising project to help purchase new altar cloths and sashes. Next club meeting will be at the home of Eleanor Sukrow Feb ruary 2 at 1:30 p.m. COOPERATIVE FRESHMAN STANFORD, Calif. (UP1) - Authorities of Stanford University quickly informed freshman Frank Hamil, 18, Tuesday that it was only a typographical error that assigned him to a women's dorm for the next semester. "I am willing to live wherever the uni versity wishes me to," Hamil said. The health board specialists al ready know that fresh wood, and pulp waste liquors, contain some element which repels the pests just as it neutralizes the insecti cides. It is hoped the mvilerv ele ment will be isolated during the research project. All work, they emphasize, will be conducted in cooperation with the State Sanitary Authority to prevent pollution of streams adjacent to log ponds. Another phase of the study will determine the feasibility of plant ing log ponds with types of min nows which live near the surface and are able to withstand silting and wood chemicals. If the min nows can survive, they would feed on mosquito larva and thus con trol much of the problem. If the health board research is successful, it could prove a ma jor breakthrough in the Oregon battle against mosquitoes. Most communities in the state. Dr. Wilcox said, have at least one log pond in or near heavily populated areas. Up to now, the problem has been virtually uncontrollable, and has been so severe that mill pro duction has been cut drastically for short periods, and outdoor liv ing at nearby homes has been next to impossible. THERE ARE about 33 known varieties of mosquitoes in Oregon which bite humans, and some can carry such dread diseases as ma laria and encephalitis, although neither disease has been a major problem here during recent years. If the program is successful, these varieties would be forced out of the log ponds and probably would die off, unless humans provided other attractive breeding grounds such as improperly irrigated land, open refuse dumps, outdoor bird baths or general yard litter which would hold water. Only the female mosquito at tacks warm-blooded animals, and the blood meal is used in the pro duction of eggs. A female lives about three weeks and can pro duce several batches of eggs dur ing her short life span, Dr. Wilcox said. With several hundred eggs to a single laying, he pointed out, an area can swarm with millions of mosquitoes after only a few days a! favorable weather. The Oregon study will be con ducted by LaVerne S. Miller, health board mosquito control su pervisor, and Robert A. McHugh. Tutor Crackdown Promised For Holding Back Truth JAMES R. CHANCE, son of Mr, and Mrs, James C. Chance of Merrill, recently completed the initial phase of basic Air Force training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, He will attend arma ment and gunnery school at Lowry AFB, Colorado. He was graduated from Merrill High School. Group Heads For Equator SEATTLE (AP) Twenty-two men, women and children set out in a 100-foot converted refrigera tor ship Friday on the first leg al an' adventure they hope will take them to the Galapagos Is lands on the Equator. First stop on the 5.600-milc journey was to be Lopez Island in the San Juan group 50 miles to the north. There, Capt. Don Harrsch said marine equipment belonging to Fletcher Burgan chief engineer of the vessel Alert, will be loaded. From there the Alert will sail to Port Angeles to load life boat davits and cradles before turning her bow southward. About 150 persons were on hand at sailing time to wish the Alert and her passenger-crew 'bon voy age.' By late evening the ship had reached Port Townsend, the Coast Guard said. The Alert will pick up 13 other adventurers at 'San Pedro, Calif. Harrsch plans a stopover in Costa Rica, then will proceed to San Cristobal in the Galapagos. BOYS & GIRLS! There's a $10,000 Cash Col lege Scholarship waiting for one of you! Phone TU 4-8484 Evenings BERLIN (AP) West Berlin school officials threatened today to crack down on teachers who re fuse to tell their pupils the truth about Hitler and the Nazi era. School Supt. Carl Heinz Evers said his move was inspired by the recent wave of anti-Jewish acts, most of them carried out by vouths who have had their school ing since World War II. The new move came in the wake of a demonstration by 10.000 Ger mans against hate-mongers and Nazism. Evers told newsmen he intends to bring disciplinary action against any teacher who fails to give a correct picture of what the Nazis did. He also promised to prevent (ormer Nazis from getting teach ing jobs. Half the teachers in West Berlin are over 45 and Evers said most of them were members of the Nazi ! party. Under a West German law. party members who had no seri ous charge against them are en titled to get back jobs they lost right after World War II. "This," Evers said, "has brought us teachers we could have done without." In Friday night's demonstra tion, the crowd mainly young people carried banners reading "Nazis Get Out" and "Against Race Hatred." Thev marched quietly through the center of West Berlin. The anti-Nazi demonstration was the first staged in Germany since 1M3. when Adolf Hitler rose to power. The paraders. ignoring freezing weather, poured into Steinplatz Square, site of twin monuments to the victims of Nazism and Sta linism. Sen. Joachim Lipschitz, head of West Berlin's police, praised them for defending the honor of Ger done without." "Up until now," he said, "the world has had conlidcnce in this youth and it is up to us not to cause this conlidcnce to wobble." The young people also were commended in a telegram sent by West German Chancellor Konratl Adenauer. Despite a crackdown on racists, there was no letup in the flare ups of anti-Semite incidents that spread through West Germany and other parts of the world follow ing the desecration of a synagogue in Cologne Christmas Eve. More swastika daubing cropped up in oilier countries Friday. In Brooklyn, N.Y., a swastika and the words "Heil Hitler" were scrawled on the front door of the Congregation Beth Israel. Swastikas were chalked on two doors of St. Luke's Lutheran church in New Rochclle, N.Y. In Mexico City, the Nazi sym bol was smeared on restaurants, stores and a building adjoining the presidential palace. N. J. Roscnbaum INCOME TAX CONSULTANT Commerce Bldg. II I I Wolnur Ave. Ph. TU 4-5903 or -TU 4-5863 In Klomath Foils Since '46 Mondays In Mulln thru Frb. Ill COMPLETE HOME Remodeling! 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