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Show ' 1 v --:: 1 ; i CESERET NEWS, f. A f Wedrwdoy, Jun Plant Damage Prom Air Pollution By ANTHONY S. LOBO Copiey News Service Air sewLOS ANGELES age is destroying plant life in the major domestic - industrial agricultural air pools in the United States. This defection is reaching :c staggering proportions. Scientists now say the : process of photosynthesis in plants is under attack. IV'"-- Soon, if not already, the oxygen - hemogloin animals and bin process Sv st .; man may suffer a major si. onslaught. mi The simpler forms of life on . the planet are susceptible first to the Increasingly poiIt-.r- ; sonous atmosphere. Experts r?-- : say they are a warning signal H ,, ;? for ,v;.-what maybe in store for . the higher forms of life. ij'r life-givi- if. 1; . . i-- i. o. ,. 1 . DEGRADED AIR jt -- Degraded 4:- Surveys show destruction of a I?--,. w p ' $ JS : : f In crop yield. Acting as a yearly barometer fur this invisible devastation is the visible crop damage, which exceeds $15 million in three California air pools. They are Los Angeles-Sa- n Diego, San air- sheds. Experts prefer to call them air slums or ecological slums. jy : $ $20 MILLION LOSS Losses exceed $20 million in pools along the eastern : the air seaboard. lem: Trees easily susceptible to smog damage include apricot, grapefruit and walnut In the r field, alfalfa, oat and sugar beet are first t be attacked, among vegetables, common beans, pinto ai.d lima beans, celery, parsley, spinach, lettuce aid some varieties of tomatoes suffer heavy damage. A wide variety Of grapes, including carignane, mataro, miss.on, palomino, pedro ximenes and zinfandel art highly susceptible to pollutants. Numerous varieties of flowers ranging from carnations, chrysanthemums and roses to orchids, petunias and snapdragons also come under death sentence from air pollu- The effect of these pollutants on the agricultural economy varies from place to place depending on the kind of Industry, fuel used, number of hydrocarbons, sulfur dio:dde, nitrogen oxides, organic ozone, peroxyacyl nitrates or pan, pesticides, fluorides and radionculides. acids, Warning Signal motor vehicles, size and location of cities, and the geographical and meteorological nature of the airshed fa which tiie sources of air pollution to the agricultural vegetation damage binger of ecological which go to the mans survival are located. Plant pathologist Ellis F. the Riverside of Darley Research Center says damage to crops is not only important economy; is a harproblems heart of stacks 'n' stacks of tion. The pollution which affects these crop as well as the high-levpine forests Is a typical mixture of domestic, Industrial and automotive effluents. Agricultural pollutants also add to the peril. Chief culprits now recognized by researchers are aldehydes. SHIRTS SUGAR HOUSI Now the destruction has encroached on the forests of , , the land and when the neces, sary climatic conditions exist the vast fronts of air pollution . blow into the pine forests at -- higher elevations. The earliest evidence of smog damage to pine trees r was recorded on the East Coast in 1860. The first signs of damage to ponderosa pines in the San Mountains In p Southern California were discovered in the early 1950s. Damage is now reaching epi. demic proportions and at elevations aboove 5,000 feet ExI perts warn this is an ominous sign of the ubiquitous natura 5 men's famous beat shoes Reg. 6.00 Summer favorites in heavy-dut- y canvas . . . great colors of Navy Blue, White. 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