HERALD 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.
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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.
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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.
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