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l-fli ftalesTtadn. -SalaA, Orbh, Suhdfcrr:' Novt 17. 1949 Chemists Turn Base Metal into eGold But Process Tod Costly CHICAGO, Nov. 2HP)-Ancient , alchemists tried in! vsin to turn baa metals into sold. It remain ed for atomic scientists to accom plish the trick but it costs much more . than the official price of goki. ( Dir. Arthur J. Dempster xl the ' Argonne National laboratory; re ; ported today it has been learned that a small portion of mercury wilt chance to fold if bombarded by neutrons in an atomic pile. This isn't an easy method of making (old. And it costs many times 4he $33 an ounce official y price of old.- Dr. Dempster said Argonne phy sicists found that a very weak mercury isotope or particle of , matter made radioactive had a ; great capacity to absorb neutrons. This particular isotope has an atomic weight of 196. . A sample of the mercury 198 was sent to the Hanford (Wash) laboratory of the atomic energy commission and placed under neu , tron bombardment in the atomic pile there. It was left in the pile -Srtwo weeks. : At the end of that time it was . found a small prtion of the mer cury had "been transformed into gold. Under prolonged bombard ment. Dr. Dempster said, five per cent of the' sample would have been transformed into gold. Dr. Dempster said it would be virtually impossible to estimate the cost of an ounce of atomic gold. "You would have to figure the cost of the Hanford pile," he ' wid. "of course, it cost us nothing." ' , He said the finding was made a a result of "random" experi ... ocnts two years ago and never lubliclr announced. ' He said three Argonne phyii ' cists are responsible for the find ings. They are Drs. G. Ingraham, 'David C. Hess, jr., and Richard J. Harden. - Woman Seeks Way To Keep Flowers Fresh Indefinitely VICTORIA, B. C. (INS) A ' secret process that some day might " put many florists out of business is being developed painstakingly t by a Victoria woman. ; Mrs. F. P. Wenman believes she ' has discovered a method to pre serve cut flowers indefinitely. As . evidence she has roses reportedly cut more than a year ago that re i tain the color and fresh appear 1 ance they had -on the bush. She gays: .' "I have been working on the I process five 'years and I think I have succeeded. I'm now trying to Mrs. Wenman will not reveal 'any details of her process. She it Said, however, it involves much .. bandworkvlt is nbt ready now for ' commercial Use and may never be. , What its effect on the commer clal flower trade might be is ques : tlonable, she said. She pointed out, however, that florists have profit ' ad by the perishable qualities of ' their merchandise for many years. Mrs. Wenman began her work with forget-me-nots, sweet' peas ' and pansies. She is certain that it may be extended successfully to oiner large uowers oesiaes roses. GOLD DEMAND MEXICO CITY (INS) Banks Mexico City are finding gold heavy demand since the British i devaluated the pound. They re--, port confidence in the dollar is becoming leas with the expecta j tion of a drop , in the value of f United. States currency. Addilicnal Sporii -Gamecocks Nab Thriller ; ' COLUMBIA, S. C, Nor. JMV- Quarterbacks Ed Pasky and Bo - Hagan led South . Carolina to a ' wild 27 - 20 Southern conference I football victory here today against Wake Forest. Pasky . intercepted ' a pass a yard behind his goal lint 1 and ran it back a& the way to pro : vide the margin of victory. t TULSA L08E8 j ' FAY KITi; VILLI, Ark., Nor. 20 After a shaky start, the Ar--Itansas RazoTbacks wore down a smaller University of Tulsa eleven ' today, 40 to 7. A crowd of 12,000 ike smallest to see Arkansas 'lay in several years watched fSe underdog Hurricane - score first, cling to a 7-7 halftim dead lock and then wilt under a flve- -Jpuchdown onslaught by the Southwest conference) team in the last two periods. : mZ0Zi A t-.a ' iL f . - 1 VI s .. . . THE FRIENDLY NATION WIDE BUS SERVICE Pacific Coast Prospects for Growth Bright WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -(P)-The Pacific j Coast! holds the brightest prospects for growth and opportunity of any geographical section of the ! country during the next 20 years.: the agriculture de partment said! today,;. I A department study on popula tion growth concludes that the three west coast states are! the on ly part of the country likely to have a larger proportion; of the nation's population in 1975 than at present. t The study estimates the U. S. population in 1975 would be about 188,585,000 -under conditions of high fertility, low mortality, 200, 000 annual net immigration and high internal migration. The pres ent population is about 149,215, 000. f The population would be about 162,337,000 in 1975,9 the f depart ment said, under conditions of medium fertility, nledium mor tality, no net immigration and low internal migration. Under the higher population estimate, the Pacific coast region could be expected, I the depart ment said, to have 13.18 per cent of the population compared with 10.01 at present. All other re gions would have either the same or a smaller percentage of the total than at present. Under,;, the lower, population forecast, "the Pacific coast could be expected to have 1212 per cent of the total compared with the present 10.01. Similarly, other regions would either hold their own or lose in the proportionate shares. In making its population pro jections by regions,- the 1 depart ment took into account trends of past 30 years. All divisions other than the Pa cific have shown either a- decline or no significant change in their shares of the .national population during recent decades. ; Judge Affirms Picketing Ban At The Dalles PORTLAND; Nov. 1 28 -P)- A circuit court order today put a permanent ban on ClO longshore men's picketing of the Port of The Dalles.-The court ruled the union cannot strike against the govern ment or any arm of 5 government. The order had slight effect, sin ce picketing long since had ceased under a temporary restraining or der, and only rarely does The Dalles have longshore work. The order, issued by Judge Wal ter L. Tooze of Portland, resulted from the recent "hot pineapple controversy at the Columbia river port- The pineapple! was? broght from Hawaii by barge at a time when longshoremen in the island were on strike. S Portland longshoremen picketed the port-owned dock where the barge tied up. A riot broke out with several f men -injured and some pineapple cartons damaged. Later, under the temporary re straining order, the pineapple was unloaded by non-union help and went to? California by truck. The barge has sailed away. Judge Tooze's order said the longshoremen V did not have the right to i picket' a governmental agency in this case the public ly opera tied port district "Labor, which, has the legal right to strike and engage in peaceful pic keting against private employers, cannot strike against the govern ment, or any arm of government," Judge Tooze held, I 1 FREE CLIP Try fn ba of our delicious Carina I Crisp at 10c l. And rocoivo socond bag Fro Haskins Carmel Crisp Shop ! I 33S N. HoDogsjlSc ! Coffoo ON NEXT TRIP Via Tho SAIITIAil HIGHWAY New schedules and Trailways direct rovto oast now saves you many houas on trips to Bond, Boiso, Twin Falls, Ogden, Salt Lako and points south' and oast. 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Flint, Mich., hand an overnight low of 7 below zero. Lansing, Mich., had 9 below and Battle Creek. Mich.. 1 below. Tempera tures moderated during the day as a heavy snow began falling throughout most of the state. Sub zero cold in northern New York froze the Chippewa bay on the St. Lawrence river the first time this season. Ice was an inch thick. The. lowest unofficial read ing was six below. In the deep south, the mercury slipped to 21 degrees at Anniston, Ala., and 27 at vicKsDurg, miss. before warmer southwest breezes chased the cold away. Many sections in the path of the snow storm got up to six inches of new snow in a few hours. At noon Saturday. Park Falls, "Wis. and Marquette. Mich., had 14 inches on the ground. Man Charged ? With Murder Of Grandfather ROSEBURG, Nov. 28 -i?V A 20 - year - old ex - college student was arraigned today on a first degree murder charge, accused of bludgeoning his grandfather to death. Wallace Green, .Bremerton Wash., former student at Olympic Junior college, asked to ; have a preyminary hearing date set later. The murder charge was filed this morning, fater an autopsy showed that 77 -year -old Robe Thomas Green had died of a blow on the head. The elderly man was found In the kitchen of his home at Dillard Thanksgiving afternoon. Young Green, who had been living J with the grandfather two months, said he found the man dead: "I did not," he told police, "participate in my grandfather's demise" ' Police said it was believed that the youth was the grandfather's heir. FREE THIS AD High 5c Sandwkho 20c YOUR AJL 2:45 FJL mad 4;0J FJL 520 N. High Sr. Phon 3-3815 a sir FICHTER-BOMBER - This F-I4E Thanderjet. a high-speed propelled fithter-bomber. It Is equipped with 32 five-inch rockets and Mother Whale, Calf Die After Separation ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 26-CP)-The best efforts of man could not help a mother whale and her calf which was born on a beach. Both died today. The 1,500-pound mother whale died struggling to find her baby. The calf died a little later in a tank where experts tried to keep it alive. Mother whale of the pygmy sperm type came into shallow waters at St. Petersburg beach yesterday to have her calf. But the wind and tide pushed them out of the water. The mother and her newborn were left high on the beach. Passersby spotted the flounder ing whale jThey carried the baby to the water, then tied a rope around the mother whale and with a truck towed her into the Gulf of Mexico. The mother whale swam slowly out to sea. The baby tried to fol low but couldn't make it. It fin ally was put in a tank. No one thought the mother would be seen again. But the mother came back to seek out her calf s birthplace dur ing the night. She was found dead near the spot. 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The front was on a 45-mile-long curve from that area northward to Fowling. The defense ministry also ac knowledged that the reds striking northwest from captured Kwei yang were within 30 miles of the highway town of Pichieh. Once they take that town, they will have cut the road that leads 400 miles from Chungking southwest to Kunming. This would be a blow to nationalist escape hopes. ntevtng North A 35,000-man red force also was acknowledged to be moving north from Kweiyang a t unspecified places within 95 miles due south of Chungking. . DR. Pentist - ' - . ! , . mm 125 N. liberty Street, Salem, Telephone Salem 3-8825 4: , Offices in Eugene and Portland also in all principal Pacific Coast cities 7 w. long range fighter, has become M-3 50 calibre machine gnus. (The communist radio in Peip ing said the reds Friday captured Liuchow, site of an American air base in Wvrld War II, but the nationalist Idefense ministry did not admit jjt. 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