MAY 29,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MADE NO. 186
PAGE SEVER
WHY WE SAY
STAN J. COLLINS & L.J. SLAWSON
Hay Fever Victims May Find Hope In Chemical That Kills Ragweed
Washington. (UP)—Get out your spray guns, hay fever sufferers. There's hope for you in the sensational and comparatively cheap new weed killer developed by the Department of Agriculture.
The chemical—known officially a commercial names—is death to ragweed, No. 1 troublemaker for hay fever victims.
Later spraying will prevent ragweed pollen from forming, he discovered.
L. W. Kephart, one of the department's crops and soils experts, has found that 2.4-D will destroy *Agweed plants*, if they are sprayed with the chemical early in the season.
But, because ragged grews grows su abutantly from coast - to - coast and border-to-border of the United States it's going to require a large-sized, prolonged battle to kill off the plant to any extent by this method.
Ragweed pollen, he explains, travels for miles and is found even at sea.
Kephart thinks that 2,4-D probably could do a lot for hay fever sufferers in New York City, for instance.
However, the less ragweed pollen in the air the fewer the sniffles caused by this particular irritant.
"New York is relatively remote from agricultural areas," he explained. "Because of this you'll find less ragweed pollen in the air there."
"Municipalities in the Manhattan area could use 2,4-D to kill the ragweed in the vacant lots and neighboring fields and wipe out that source of the pollen."
A campaign along these lines could take most of the ragweed-brooked sneezes out of the Greater New York air, he believes. Various spraying machines could be used and possibly devices such as manufactured fog for wartime smoke screens.
But he doesn't think such a program would have much effect in a city like Indianapolis which is surrounded by farm areas.
Stamping out the ragweed in farm teas poses many problems, he intended out.
Chief among these is the fact that agweed grows often in great abundance in clover fields. Farmers would balk at using 2,4-D here, Kephart reasons, because the chemical kills clover, too.
Generally, the chemical destroys broad-leaved plants and is harmless to the narrow-leaved plants, such as grains. Kephart thinks it may be used effectively against the weeds which hamper corn and wheat crops, for instance.
It is already helping farmers to get rid of the troublesome wild onions which infest many pastures. Cows feeding on these pastures give onion-flavored 'milk' which is unmarketable for dairy uses and results in extensive losses for farmers.
Guam B-29's Break Payload Record
The chemical is proving a boon to golf club owners and the average home-maker is finding that he can rid his lawn of the major problems of dandelions and plantain with about $1 worth of 2,4-D.
Tokyo (UP)—Army B-29's stationed on Guam have broken the world's records previously held by the Soviet Union and Germany by lifting heavier payloads to new heights, Lt. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead, commanding general of the Pacific Air command, has announced.
On May 15, Maj. Finlay F. Ross, Jr., Wichita, lifted a 2,200-pound load to 45,000 feet altitude, surpassing a former Soviet mark by 5,000 feet.
The official record showing the results for the "marathon" project were:
The day before, Lt. John P. Tobison, Fall River, Wis., flew an 11,000-pound load to 42,780 feet, smashing previous United States army record of 24,205 feet.
Records made earlier that week included new marks for 4,400, 22,000 and 33,000-pound payloads. The latter was carried to a height of approximately 6,200 feet.
Washington. (UP)—Arab nations today were expected to renew their strong opposition, possibly in the form of violence, over the state department's announcement that the United States fully endorse immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees into the Holy Land.
In its statement on the Palestine report, the state department said decisions to consult with Arab and Jewish groups did not alter its determination to press for speedy transfer of the 100,000 Jews from Europe to Palestine.
Arabs May Show Violence In Opposing Jewish Entry
East Kansas To Get 101 Miles of Highway Surfacing, Paving
Topeka. (UP)—The Kansas State Highway commission has announced that bids would be received and contracts let by June 12 for construction of more than 54 miles of federal and state highways in the first highway division of Kansas. Southeast Kansas will get 47 miles of new roads.
The Wyandotte county project consists of grading and concrete paving in Kansas City, Kan., on U. S. highways 24 and 40, Marshall county will get a high-type mat surface on U.S. highway 77 from the Nebraska-Kansas line 11 miles south of the highway junction with U.S. 36.
Bituminous sealing construction also is scheduled for nine miles in Jackson county from Holton north, for 11 miles in Osage county; for 13 miles in Riley county and for eight miles in Shawnee county.
Projects include grading and concrete paving of about a mile of U.S. 50S leading into Ottawa, widening and asphalt surfacing of about 17 miles of U.S. 69 in Bourbon and Linn counties, north of Fort Scott, and 11.7 miles of base course and dense grade surfacing in Greenwood and Wilson counties.
Highway K 99 in Elk and Greenwood counties, and K52 in Linn county, are to be improved with bituminous reconstruction and asphalt surfacing.
Ohio High School Graduates One Boy
Fincastle, Ohio (UP)—Valedictorian, honor student, class president, and boy most likely to succeed
—that is the unchallenged record of John William Martin, who tonight will be graduated as the only member of the class of 1946 at Fincastle Eagle High school.
John once was one of the 10 members of the class of '46, but the war and attraction of war industries in nearby cities left him without a classmate at the beginning of his senior year.
Young Martin will receive a college scholarship as the outstanding member of the class, an annual award at Fincastle. His class work actually compares very well with that of seniors elsewhere in the same county.
His commencement invitations have been printed in maroon and gold, the school colors. His class motto, chosen by himself, is "ambition has no rest."
The late Irvin S. Cobb, Paducah, Ky., was the first registered guest in the Irvin Cobb hotel, opened in that city in 1929.
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