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Marshfield Newt-Herald Saturday, June 20, 1981 Page 16 New vaccine may have unlimited potential Island facility, said that "without that collaboration, this event. I don't think, would have taken place as soon as it Is taking place." Callis said testing still has to be done to determine how long an immunity the new vaccine imparts to an animal. Vaccines for foot-and-mouth have been available for many years but those are made from live viruses which, in some cases, can infect an animal. The new vaccine cannot pass on the disease because it Is made from only part of the virus. Callis said more than 2 billion doses of the live vaccine are administered annual land as the II million acres damaged last year, According to agency records, that was the most Great Plains land damaged by wind since 1954 55 when a recou IS 8 million acres were reported.

However, the agency's official records on wind erosion did not begin until 1935-38, and there were some years in the earlier 1930s in which the wind damage was much more extensive. The wind erosion season, as computed by the agency, runs from Nov. 1 through the following May 31. Land is considered damaged if enough soil has been removed or deposited on it to subject the land to further erosion haiard, or to impair Its productive rapacity. "The major contributing factor to wind erosion this season was lack of moisture." Berg said.

When fields become excessively dry. wheat and other crops fail to hold the parched soil together. In many cases, the soil is too dry even to support weeds. Of the total land damaged, 94 percent was cropland, the agency's report said. Montana, with more than 2 6 million acres damaged, accounted for 21 percent of the total, but sharp increases from last year also were reported in Nebraska.

North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. According to the seven-month total, damage from wind erosion this season and In 1979 80 included: Northern Great Plains Montana, 2.648,121 acres this season and 563.33 3 last season; Nebraska, and 49.745; North Dakota. 2.163.600 and 695.970; South Dakota. 1.319.500 and 711.515; and Wyoming, 31.250 and 10.160. Southern Great Plains Colorado.

2,305.400 and Kansas, 913.850 and 510.800; New Mexico, 570.800 and 317.280; Oklahoma, 470,200 and and Texas, 1,954.756. ly worldwide, and that he believed the new kind would be welcome in many of those areas. "I don't see why this product could not WASHINGTON (API The KlentisU who helped develop it say a new vaccine produced by a genetic technique Is paving the way for possible new medical advances in the fields of human and animal diseases. Exuberantly at times, several of them told reporters Friday about how ihe Agriculture Department's long search 28 years, one said for an effective, safe foot-and-mouth disease vaccine finally paid off. Howard L.

Bachrach, former chief scientist at the department's Plum Island Animal Disease Center, said. "There are hundreds of viruses to which this new technology can be and is being applied." Bachrach. who is now retired, headed a team of government and private scientists who developed the vaccine. Agriculture Secretary John R. Block announced development of the vaccine Thursday, calling it a safe and effective product which protects cattle and other susceptible animals like swine and sheep from at least one major form of foot-and-mouth disease.

Block said it was the first vaccine, for animals or humans, developed with gene manipulation, or cloning, that is referred to as "recombinant DNA technology." The disease is found or is a potential problem in much of the world, although it has not occurred in the United States since 1929 largely because of tight security on imported products. "There are a number of virus diseases of man and animals to which this recom- binant DNA technology could be applied, and there are several laboratories around the world that are actively engaged In this," Bachrach said at a news conference. Pressed to give examples of possible candidates for the genetic vaccine technique, Bachrach said a type of hepatitis In man and rabies are among those being worked on in some laboratories. Bachrach and his colleagues at Plum Island, N.Y., demonstrated in 1975 that a portion of the foot-and-mouth disease genetic make-up could pass on immunity without infecting an animal. However, it wasn't until the new genetic technique was developed that the immunity could be captured in a vaccine that can be produced on a commercial scale.

The process was finally worked out cooperatively between Agriculture Department scientists and those from Genentech a research firm based in San Francisco. Genentech, because it had developed the methods of cloning the material, owns the patent rights to license the manufacture of the vaccine. The department, however, has the right to make use of the "invention" without paying royalties. The company asked Plum Island officials about cooperating on developing the vaccine. A cooperative agreement was then worked out.

Jerry J. Callis, director of the Plum be commercially available within a year." he said. "I think some of the South American countries" would be among the potential buyers. Callis said. "It's also possible that some of the countries in Europe might find a use for this product, and perhaps in Africa and Asia.

We're hopeful that it will be used worldwide." WASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department says wind damaged nearly 12 5 million acres of land in 10 Great Plains states this year, the most in 26 years and the second-largest area of damage officially recorded. Norman A. Berg, chief of the department's Soil Conservation Service, said Friday that damage reports this season covered about 2'i times as much Dim 'Lrifife "-sr '1 1 I 'T! stairs 4 ,1 Made i il mi i iliiumni il nitel i 'Ltjai i I iA 4 Tornado damage Lawrence, residents look at the damaged Kmart touched down. At least one person was killed and scores store in Lawrence Friday evening after two tornados were injured. Property damage was extensive.

(AP Laserphoto) Rape law amended in wake of highly publicized trial itr it COUPON for Developing and Printing 1 2 exposure Color Print Film Olltr Expires Junt 28, 1981 COUPON for Developing and Printing 20 exposure Color Print Film Offtr Expires June 28, 1981 Finland, known publicly only as Anna, was waiting at a bus stop when a group of teen-age boys invited her to smoke marijuana in their tent. Once in the tent, she testified, Anna was held for several hours as 10 boys, ranging in age from 14 to 17, assaulted her. Five teen-agers were convicted of rape in juvenile court and sentenced to terms at a youth correctional facility. But in March, a jury found four older teen-agers who were tried as adults innocent. Charges against another youth were dropped.

Jurors said they felt the prosecution did not show the victim offered "earnest resistance," an element of proof in the old law. The word "earnest" was removed from HONOLULU (AP) Public outrage over the acquittal of four youths charged with raping a Finnish tourist has spawned a revision of Hawaii's rape law, designed to ease a rape victim's ordeal in the courtroom and improve chances for conviction. Under pressure from a fearful and angry public, Gov. George Ariyoshi on Friday signed into law a bill drafted during the closing days of the legislative session in April. The July 1979 rape that sparked the controversy occurred at a rural beach park about 30 miles from Honolulu.

It was one of the most highly publicized cases in a wave of violent crime that recently hit this island paradise and hurt tourism. A 24-year-old nursing student from fl7 I ZZ Coupon must accompany order. mm Cash ksIim 120 cent ZZ Coupon must accompany order. mm Cash lin 120 csnl mm the law last year. Some lawmakers felt that alone would have made a difference in the verdict.

The defendants, however, had to be tried under the law as it was written at the time of the alleged rape. Following the verdict, an estimated protesters marched on the state Judiciary and Capitol buildings, carrying signs such as "Hawaii Paradise for Rapists." Anna, who returned from Finland to testify during the trial, said she was glad to leave "this society and their criminals." "Your whole legal system is a big gamble," she said. "What's right and what's wrong really has nothing to do with it." The new law eliminates a requirement that the prosecution show a victim offered "resistance" to in attacker. A provision allowing rape complaints to be made only up to 90 days following the alleged offense was eliminated. And the time period in the "social companion" provision of the law was reduced from 12 months to 30 days.

Prosecutors previously had to show that the victim and defendant were not "voluntary social companions" who had engaged in sexual intercourse in the past year. "Only the crime of rape may be prosecuted in such a manner as to bring out the behavior of the victim," said state Rep. Donna Ikeda during a legislative hearing on the rape bill. "It's not a perfect bill, but it was the best we could do with the time we had. We'll continue to study it in the interim and work on it again next year," said state Sen.

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19. Fair application deadline is July 15. Softball team members will meet for their first game June 22. Members of the Cary Go-Getters opened the June meeting by cleaning, mowing and clipping the town of Cary Hall lawn, which is the club's community service project. Plans were made for a trip to Green Bay with the Lindsey 4-H Club.

The trip will include visits to the post office, police station, the Bay City Amusement Park and the animal refuge. Members should take a sack lunch. Jan Dickson spoke about the state Club Congress and Monique McDonald gave a demonstration on pudgie pies. Paula Lippert, Dawn Graf and Donny Erwin will give demonstrations at the July 9 meeting, which will be at the town hall. Sue Wendlandt will be a the next meeting to show the club how to give demonstrations.

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