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; y ana - a. ak os e - - homed Scientist Doubts That Men Con Construct H-Domb By RALPH OIGHTON PASADENA, Calif.. March 21. m Dr. Robert A. Millikan. Nobel priie winning scientist, says he ii pot it ill certain thit man ein make a hydrogen bomb. He li frankly skeptical that any man-made device will ever split the carta asunaer. But it ii true, he s.ys, "That we and our possible adversary now possess tne instruments to destroy each other." Millikaa was SJ Wednesday. In an interview commemorating the occasion, the man who first iso lated and measured the electron and opened the way for present day atomic research observed: "With all the talk about the hydrogen bomb, I'm not yet con vinced that it'a at all certain we can build auch a bomb. Of course, il it were possible to make the hydrogen hi all the seas combine at once Into helium, we probao ly could explode the whole earth and transform it into a nebula. "However, I n still skeptical. I think it would take a warmer lady man motner eann 10 mane auch a horror possible." Millikan, at 82, is known as the "billion volt sparkplug" of the California Institute of Technology Although he "retired" as chair man of the school s executive council in IMS, he still maintains a pace that would kill many a younger man. For instance: Only three years ago he. traveled several thousand miles by truck on a cosmic ray expedition which started in Texaa and wound up in Canada. His only complaint on this trip waa that be couldn't "get the kids away early enough, ine "kias" were profes sors half his age. Regular Office Hours Even now Millikan maXaina regular office hours and makes flying tripe over the country to keep speaking engagements. Since retiring he has completed his soon to be published autobiography and kept up with his duties aa vice president of the Cal Tech board of trustees. How will he spend his birth day? He addresses the faculty of Fresno, Calif., State college at noon, then flies bsck here to at tend a dinner party. With the wisdom of a man who has watched his country recover from Civil war (he was born in 1868) and grow into the strong est nation in the world, Millikan observes: "We may be lost if we fail to maintain the Americas) way of life against socialist trends which threaten our personal freedom. "We must make it very plain to Russia that we will go ahead without her if she won't join with us in this deal. Above all, we must be too strong to be attack ed, pacifists to the contrary." Millikan'a great physical energy almost kept him from being a acientist. Bern In Illinois Born in Morristown, 111., the son of a Congregational minister, he excelled in athletica and plan ned to teach physical education. However, an instructor told him someone waa needed aa a teacher in physics. Up to that time, he hadn't even cracked a phyaics book, but he went on to win a Nobel priie in that field in 1923. Millikan Joined Cal Tech in 1921. A former member of the then amall technical school s board of trustees, who begs anonymity, re calls: "We agreed to pay him a certain salary. At the end of the first year be told ua that he could get along on less that too much money would be bad for his rhil dren. This really inspired us. We were willing to tear our shirts to neip tne doctor broaden Cal Tech s activities. After that, Cal Tech broke all growth records." Most of Millikan'a scientific achievements are too technical for the layman to comprehend. But it takes no special knowledge to understand that the multimillion dollar, world renowned institution that is Cal Tech is largely a monument to the non-academic ef forts of this atomic acientist. In Millikan'a atudy, hia desk la flanked by busts of Albert Ein stein and Ben Franklin. They are symbolic of the two personalities war. nave merged in Miuutan, a living superlative of twentieth-cen tury man. Looking back on hia four score ana two years of rich experience, Millikan aaya: "I attribute mv own fortunate breaks for which I could take no credit to what I choose to call my "good fairy,' who worked very hard for me. "However, I take credit for few wise decisions myself. For While the great architect bad to direct, alone, the earlier stages, it is our sense of responsibility for playing our part to the best uf our ability that makea us Godlike." Enterprise Club Raided; Gambling Devices Seized ENTERPRISE. March 23. (" The frontier club waa raided Tuesday night by Sheriff Gilbert J. Cox and atate police who eeized a number of gsmbling devices. Joseph A. Babic, owner of the club, waa arrested and on appear ance before Justice George Rogers posted $500 bond and waa granted 24 hours' delay in entering a plea. The sheriff reported seizing one slot mschine, 17 punchboards, two electric clocks said to be gambling devicea and two dice boards. Several weeka azo atate Douce raided a. number of Wallowa coun ty establishments, confiscating slot machines which had been licensed by municipalities and were oper ated openly. Soldier's Right To Toko Jap Wife Homo Approved WASHINGTON, March 23. tP) A measure to permit Army Corp. John K. Stevenson, Portland, Ore., to bring hia Japanese wife to thia country won approval of the House Wednesday. . . The measure now noes to the Senate. . .- Stevenson served in the occuDa- tion army in Japan. There he mar ried a Japanese girl in 1948. They now have a son, Shawn. The coroDoral's enlistment ex pires In September. He wants to take hia wife and son to Portland, but the apecial legialation is re quired. A eow has been found to utilize up to 25 pounds of chopped white potatoes a day in milk production. SECTION TWOV Israbllshee) 1173 ROSEIURG, OREGON THURSDAY, MAR. 23, If 50 -so 7 I - J !-; I ( i V i ilJi COURT OP HONOR -Eight scouts received second cless ewer ds and one received e first class award at court of honor for Boy Scout troop 7 at the American Legion hell last Thursday ni ght. The boys' parents were present to pin the badges on their sons. Pictured above, left to right,ere Bob Phillips, a member o f the boerd of review and troop committee; Joe Levine, who received his first class award; John Joelion, Jeff Sehulte, $te ven Reed, Carroll Cage, Cerl Johnson, Arthur Mendville and Leonard Chamberlain, second cless ewerds, end Ervin Best, assi stent scoutmaster. Kenneth Overton, second cless, and "Scout master Roy Lorance were not present for the picture. Mombe rs of the boerd of review, in addition to Phillips, were Roy Q. Young, Erwin Short, Peul Cetltey, Mr. Tobies and Ceorge Traps lis. (Picture by Paul Jenkins). ' Eugene Youths Charged With Negligent Homicide EUGENE, March 23. (m A coroner a jury Wednesday after noon brought in a verdict of negli gent homicide against two teen aged youths in an inquest into the deatha of two small sisters on River road, north of Eugene, on Sunday afternoon. Testimony during the morning- long inquest developed the fact that second driver, Andrew Holland, 16, of 638 Sunnyside Drive, was also involved in the deaths, in ad dition to Robert Lee Richardson, age 16, who was previously charged with reckless driving. The hearing establiahed, ta the opinion of four of the six Jury mem bers, that both Richardson and Holland were instrumental in the deaths of Msrlene Poyce Myers, 11, and her sister, Bonnie Jean, age 5. The findings of the coroner's jury will next go through court channels and possibly to the grand jury. The finding was based on testi mony of an eye-witness to the acci dent, who said that Richardson's car had struck the girls and that the Hoiland car ran over them. (IMjteW ' EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTOR WANTED FOR DOUGLAS . COUNTY The Aluminum-Lock Shingle Corporation, manufacturers of e new low cost alum inum shingle, is expanding its sales territory throughout Pacific Coast States and Is seeking a relloble, financially rttponsible man or company for an exclusive dealership on this product In Douglas County. The Aluminum-Lock Shingle has broken all salts records In the Portland orea and is acclaimed by experts to be the greatest Improvement In roofing of oil time. The Aluminum-Lock Shingle Is beautifully embossed with a cedar like grain design locking on all four sides Is easily applied over old roofs or new Is f ueroeteed te last e lifetime. factory Pre von Safes Man and Training Givan With Each Daatanhio jV, 1 University Science Ruilding Construction Approved PORTLAND, March 23. - fP) Contracts for construction of a acience classroom and laboratory building at the University of Ore gon were -approved here. Work is. to start within 30 daya and should be finished in IS months. The State Board of Higher Edu cation, acting through a commit tee, awarded the general work to Ross B. Hammond company, Port land, on a low bid of $669,629. Bu chanan company, Portland, got the mechanical installation job t291.SC. L. H. Morris Electric, Portland, won the electrical con tract on a bid of S162, 640. Bida for equipment were rejected aa too high. Funda for the $1,123,111 project were among those approved by the last legislature. The building will serve the biology, chemistry and physics departmenfa. A small electric light bulb left burning in a closet will reduce for dampneas. Hisses Dog, Hits Child SEATTLE, March 23 (PI Charlea Sheridan took a lusty swipe with a broom at the femily dog a big setter in an attempt to shoo the dog from the living room today. He missed, and hia three-year-old Steven went to the hospital with a possible cerebral concusnio" H walked into the room just aa Sheri dan awung. Oil was discovered beneath Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, in World War I. U.S.Sfctt Dept. Rtfuses Passport For RestcrchTrlp ROCHESTER, N. Y., March . (A? The University of Rochester saya the U. S. State department has refused a passport to Dr. Bernard Peters, 39, research physicist, for a trip to India to atudy cosmic raya. University officials aaid the State department gave no reason. The atudiea were to have been sponsored and financed by the U. S. office of naval reaearch. Peters, a German-educated na tive of Poland, came to thia coun try in 1B34 and became a citizen in 1M0. He first located at the University of California. He shifted to the University of Rochester in 1M. In 141, while enrouts to England to attend a scientific meeting aa a representative of the office of naval research, he was questioned in France by navy security officers, who took away hia navy erodes tiala. . Alan Valentine, president of the university, in a written statement, said that from hia "most complete personal Investigation possible nothing haa emerged which in my opinion should impair our confi dence in Dr. Peters aa a acientist, professor or American citizen." Air Force Cells For Added Guerd Of Atomic Works WASHINGTON, March 23 -UP! The Air Force ordered addition al fighter units to the Pacific Northwest Wednesday to guard the air approaches to the Hanford, Wash., atomic worka and other vital defense plants. It announced that headquartera of the Slat fighter-intercepter wing and two of ita fighter squadrons are being moved from Kirtland base, Albuquerque, N. M., to the Moses Lake. Wash., base. This wing is equipped with North Americsn "Sabre" jet fighters. About 1200 persona will be includ ed in the transfer. One squadron of the (1st wing will remain at Kirtland, home of the U.S.Special weapons command. In addition, the Air Force dis closed that squadrons of the 326th all-weather fighter wing already atationed in the Paciric Northwest Vcrhrrs Avcrc-3 Per Vcci SALEM. March 23 C rre- on'a production workers in msnu acturing industries received an average weekly pay check of KS N in the last three months of 1049, the State Unemployment Compen sation commission aaid. Oregon's average Is second high est among the 27 atatea bow be ing surveyed by the U. I. Bureau of Labor- Statistics and state un employment compensation com- miaaiana. WvAmina Hh, ,.b 368, but its average work-week waa ivi nours longer man the aver age work nf sou. i.. t- Oregon. Washington, just under U, was third, and California followed at leaa than $62. n ' v tor aa If (tato waa $55.47. . Th nrintfn aiul . 1.11-1.! , r mw yvuitmamm m- duatry aid the highest average ' j w. bw ine lumoer In dustry, which employe 6 percent of the etate'a 125,000 production workers, did weU, too. The average m una invuiuj WB8 S7D.5Z. wmir earnings mounted to $67.5 in all w uie sees inrew montha of last year. ., FnllAafifi m U- - i Jy wagea by industries lor the wiwiuunuu perioa: Durahlo eooHa eaa u. able goods, 155 01; Food and allied piuuucu, aw.rei canning ana pre serving. $44.33; ether food pro duete. SK1 la. 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