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4 Th. N.wi-Revl.w, Ro.eburg, Or: Thur.i, Moy 25, 1950 I SCIENCE OR NATURE? Mrs. Taft's Illness Halts Campaign artnershlp WASHINGTON -P) The elec tion campaign team of "Bob and Martha" which has advanced the political fortunes of Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) to high mention for the presidency finally has broken don. Senator Taft told a gathering of Ohio Republican congressmen and congressional nominees that the illness of Mrs. Taft, the Martha in (heir team, probably will make it impossible for her to share in the campaign platform with him this year. Mrs. Taft long has been recog nized as a capable campaigner fur Bob," with whom she has toured the nation often in his quest for the republican presidential n o m i n a tion. Mrs. Taft Is a patient in a Wash inglon hospital for treatment of a high blood pressure condition. i 5 nr-ri I li r?rnr' t rk Villii ft Who's Making New York City's Rain These Days? People Ask By JOHN RANDOLPH NEW YORK, (.Pi Who i mak ing New York city's rain these days a Harvard professor or old mother nature? They tried to thrash that ques tion out last night for the ump teenth time and got the same old answer nobody knows. But it HAS been raining a lot lately, slowly filling the big city's long-parched reservoirs and mak ing the city fathers dance for joy. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but during most of that time the city's SI0u-a-day official rainmaker Dr. Wallace E. Howell of Har vard, has been attacking the local rain clouds with scientific wizard ry from above and below. But if the city fathers are danc ing, a lot of other folk are plain hopping mad. Some of them are worried farm ers in the watershed area. Some belong to civic groups worrying about possible floods. Others are if resort owners whose crowds have turned sour during the long wet spring. One New Jersey amusement Dark on the Hudson river palisades has even gone so far as to hire two "anti-rainmakers " at a (reported) salary of 500 a day to keen How ell's flood away from their door. Their success so far is open to question, but it hasn't hurt the park's publicity any. Dr. Howell himself was put on the griddle last night at a meeting of the Hudson valley division of tne American Institute ot Llectn cal Engineers. The engineers threw the meet ing open to farm groups and local mayors. They all asked the same ques tion. "I wish I knew the answer," the mooest nroicssor torn them. 'AH along, Howell has held to strict "maybe" on the success of his efforts in seeding the clouds with dry ice from airplanes or silver iodide smoke from the ground. But he did deny altering the weatner s tar away as New Jer sey and Pennsylvania which also have had several wet weeks; He also denied causing any flood risK. Quickly and for reason" pric I Lockwood Motors, Inc. ! Rose and Oak Phone 80 ! 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The bureau said that about 800. ooo jobs were added to the wurk force in the two. months ended April 15 not including the return of striking workers. Last year in the same period, employment declined by 100.000 A Inial of 42.800.000 workers In these npn-agricultural and Bon. military jobs was reported this vear, approximating the level o f April 1949. Unemployment dropped substan tially for the second successive month. It declined to 3.. W0. ooo i n April from 4.100.000 in March, the census bureau reported. In television the camera tube it known as an iconoscope while the receiving tube is a kinescope LOOK YOUR BEST ON GRADUATION DAY DENIES KEPOKT3 Katharine Dunham (above), exotic Negro dancer, hat denied in New York a published report that she has been receiving atten tions from Prince Aly Khan. The magazine article said Aly has been straying from the side of his wife, movie actress, Rila Hayworth. 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