The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, July 20, 1952, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 The Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Sunday, July 20. 1952 lature's Air Conditioner Could Keep United-States Temperature Just Kight By ROBERT E. GEIGER WASHINGTON (-Nature has a giant air-conditioning system that would keep the United States cool all summer if scientists only knew how to control it. It might keep you warm in winter, too, with little or no fuel bill. Almost every time a searing heat wave hits the United States a mass of polar air a comparatively short jjdistance away is trying to come to your relief. And the in gredients usually are close at hand, in the upper atmosphere, to break up troublesome and disas trous drought, flood and blizzards. The trouble is that nature calls the signals and nature is fickle. When you want coolness nature Is likely to send a puff of swelter ing heat. When you want a warm, Chinook breeze in mid-winter na ture looses a blizzard. The United States Weather Bu reau is a long way from being able to do anything about violent weather changes except to issue forecasts and warnings. But W. G. Leight, research me teorologist, and other weather scientists gradually are under standing more and more about how the changes occur. The past two early summers have added considerable to this knowledge, helping to lead the way to more accurate long-range forecasting. This June nature opened the taps and out flowed one of the worst heat waves that ever en gulfed some parts of the Midwest and East. But only last summer speed, high-altitude wind called a jet stream often is created. Southeast Alaska seems to be a cradle for U. S. weather. If the pressure is high in the cradle it may push polar air down to cool the U. F. If the pressure is low it may allow hot air to come northward from the Caribbean Sea. In 1951 there was a compara tively high pressure area off the West coast of Canada. This pushed down a lot of cold air. Another pressure area over Mexico pushed northward. Hot winds, laden with moisture, struck the polar air. They met across the mid-United States, par ticularly through Kansas. There was a heat wave in the Southeast, a cold spell up North. In the middle the violent change in temperature as the cold and hot air met caused the hot air to drop its moisture. Everyone knows how the rain came. This June the pressure in the weather cradle was comparatively New Sign Greets Travelers t,' .,"'!!aj'r!iiii.B"i"i r . a . . -- ...... n 4 ffl I t I if . natiira nnnrprl nnp nf history's i low. This allowed the high pres worst floods into the Midwest. j sure of the hot Mexican border i - , .k country to move far northward. A set in some areas in June, 1951. High temperature records were established in many places in these same areas in June. 1952 And before the summer is over tome more records may topple. The Weather Bureau sees unusual ly hot weather ahead for most of the nation, at least until mid August. Leight and V. J. Oliver, super vising forecaster of the extended forecast section, say that nature jet stream was created along the Canadian-U. S. border instead of in mid-United States. This caused most of the U. S. to go hot, and the Southeast got one of its worst heat waves. On a weather may It doesn't appear that nature had to move its elements very far to achieve this complete change from one year to the next. But it changed the courses of a couple of "rivers" of cold and hot air in the upper at- fn- ' - v Railroad traveler- through Salem are being greeted these days by a 4 by 10 foot siro (above) which announces that Salem is the cherry city of the world, and the state capital and Is half - way to the North Pole. Salem Rotary Club erected this sirn at the Southern Pacific depot. Art work on the sign was done on a cost basis by the Cockatt Outdoor Advertising; Company; Keith Brown Lumber Company supplied the lumber. Rotarians plan to correct the spelling so it will read, correctly. Capital City and Cherry Capital. changed its basic control ekvs only ! rnosphere. This may sound easy. cr,c I Air isn t hard to shove around. But it was enough to swing earth's early summer weather, in 13 months, from the depth of one extreme to the peak of another. Think of an orange sliced exact ly in two equal parts. The North ern Hemisphere resembles one half, with its rounded side turned upward. At the top is the North Pole. Now think of a plastic cap that fits exactly over the upturned, curved surface. This thing plastic cap has a pattern imbedded in it. This pattern is like a jig-saw puzzle, with areas of odd shapes and sizes scattered through it. These,, correspond with the ele ments, that make up the weather pattern over the top half of the earth, of which the U. S. is part. Some portions of this weather pattern are fairly stable. For in stance, the air over the North Pole is nearly always cold. At high alti tude it also generally is under lower- pressure than air at the equator. If one part of the pattern shifts, the whole thing is likely to shift. This is what changes weather on earth. The, air that is under high pres sure forms huge bubbles. These come, close together at times. At other times they are far apart. When one bubble starts moving northward and begins approaching another a narrow path is formed between the two. This path is used by the winds, which in the North ern Hemisphere generally move West to East. ' .When the path narrows the wistrds .speed up. They may race as fast as 250 miles an hour. If this occurs at the boundary line be tween the winds of the north and the, winds of the south, a high- Will scientists ever be able to do it? One expert says a dozen bombs of the size that exploded over Japan would be like one lady finger firecracer that's as small as firecrackers come com pared with the energy needed to bring down enough Arctic air to halt a U. S. heat wave like the one this summer. Paper Carrier's Bicycle Missing A bright yellow bicycle was lost Saturday, and its owner has lost the means of following his occupa tion. The bicycle belongs to States man carrier boy David Fitzgerald, 14, 1840 Berry St., who uses it to deliver newspapers each morning. His mother said the bike was taken while David was swim ming at the YMCA. She identified it as a three-year-old Schwinn, painted bright yel low, with paint on tires, chain, and handlebars. Oregon Demo Calls for Civil Rights Plank . By B. L. LIVINGSTONE CHICAGO (JP)-An Oregon Dem ocrat called Saturday for a "strong and enforceable" civil rights plank in the party's 1952 platform. Gene Conklin of Pendleton, Ore., former assistant U. S. attorney for Oregon, made the pleas before the Democratic National Convention's Platform Committee. He said Ore gon has a state fair employment practices act (FEPC) but that it is not enough to have "islands of civil rights ... in this country." Under the state FEPC law, Conk lin said, Indian and Japanese American minorities are protected. But once they cross the state line into Idaho, they have "no legal protection," he asserted. "If the citizens of the state of Oregon are to be guaanteed the privileges and immunities set out in our federal constitution," he continued, "these rights and privi leges must be secured in every state in the union. . . . "I am not saying that we do not still have discrimination against minorities in Eastern Ore gon. We do. But it is decreasing. "But as our minorities gain the equality once held only by the white majority in Oregon, what treatment will they receive in other states? Will the American citizens of Japanese origin of On tario, Ore., be discriminated against in his occupation in Boise, Idaho, just 60 miles away?" Conklin declared that Oregon citizens "must not be discriminated against in another state in viola tion of the federal constitution." "Only by federal law," he ar gued, "can our citizens in the state of Oregon be sure that their rights guaranteed by the constitu tion will be enforced in other parts of the United States. "If we in the state of Oregon can solved our problems on the state level, that alone is not the a.iswer. In our country, in this day of swift transportation and free movement of persons from one area to- another, civil rights are non-existent unless they are granted and enforced on the fed eral level. Civil rights the right to a job across state lines. "The only answer is a platform statement from the Democratic Party calling for enforceable fair employment practices legislation as a national policy." Fire Damages Lumber Mill EUGENE (JF)- Fire destroyed part of the Hills Creek Lumber Mill near Jasper, 12 miles south east of Eugene, Saturday. There was no immediate esti mate of the amount of damage. Firemen from Springfield and the East Lane Fire Patrol fought the flames three Jiours before get ting them under control.- i FOX GOOD PROVIDER I FERGUS FALLS, Minn. OFl- A 1 sly mother fox was a good pro ! vider for her five young. Here's j what diggers found in her den: the remains of five mallard ducks, one small pig, three jack rabbits, one weasel, one muskrat, one woodchuck and several pheasants. East German Reds Start Registration BERLIN (JP)- East German Communist leaders Saturday or dered registration of all persons from 16 to 65 to find out which industries can provide manpower for a "defense army" of 375.000 without crippling production. All former officers of Hitler's army who live in the Soviet zone were directed to register for pos sible service. The Interior Ministry told the one-time officers to report to pro vincial police for political exami nation to judge their suitability for commissions in the new East Ger man army. The Russians have kept a close eye on these men. The Ministry announced the de fense program would be directed by the "Inner Politburo," headed by Prime Minister .Otto Grote wohl. The registration of workers af fects 7,500,000 men and women. Teams will determine which in dustrial areas can get along with fewer workers. Then intensive Ro 0verh.se 9" with full-w,ed I I YOU DON'T bare to v. car a second pair of hose over your full-footed ACE ELASTIC HOSIERY. NYLON SHEi R knit oi nylon and rubber thread. ACE ELASTIC HOSIERY resem bles service-weight nylons. YOUR LEO trouble' are "supported is tyle" with attrac tive easy to wear ACE ELASTIC HOSIERY. ir-J f if drives for Volunteers" will be I It Is believed that the Fhoenl- made in these areas by quota. I dans invented wax candles. rkwMd by S-O makmrt 4 ACI tCMTK lAROaSU CAPITAL DRUG STORE 405 State St. at Liberty We Give SAH Green SUmpa 'Aim ZZjPAA w'n mid-season applaust Feathers sculptured to head-hugging curves, edged with rhineitone-klsitd petal, like this from o group In summer flower tones. J Others 5.00 to 17.95 Women of India believe no mar riage can be successful unless the bride wears pearls. Symbiosis is the term used to describe the status of two organ isms which live together to mu- j tual advantage as the plants and I algae which together form lichens, j PArs PARCEL CHECK Opening July 21st 185 S. LIBERTY II I By AGNES MEYER I Jr Compounded end copyrioKtd by Cy tnc In U- S. A. CAPITAL DRUG STORE 405 State at Liberty We Give SAH Green Stamps The continuing popularity of dadoes isn't at all surprising when we. consider the decorative value they lend to so many type rooms. Dadoes are particularly at home in Provincial settings: Early Ameri can, French Provincial, and Dutch Colonial. Also in Federal Period rooms. Originally, dadoes were con structed from fine hardwood, or hardwood paneling. Due to high building costs today, many dadoes ar,e improvised. Often they are used to bring color control into a room scheme or to break the wall height in high-ceilinged room. In the room sketched above, the dado effect has been achieved by using wallpaper that looks like pine paneling capped by a nar row molding. Upper walls have been wallpapered in a colorful Provincial pattern. This forms an arresting background for the maple furniture. Small sofa, upholstered in apple-green cotton damask, is color foil for soft golden finish on double-drawer end tables and cobbler's bench coffee table. A ! braided or hooked rug in Pro- ; vincial pattern would fit nicely ; into this plan. Another equally attractive dado treatment would be to paint the dado the same color as the wood- ; work and trim. Or use a wall- ' paper simulating mahogany pan eling for a more formal-type room. Often it's the small accessories that put the stamp of charm on a room. We have a lovely assort ment of living room accessories; lamps, pictures, mirrors. We cor- ' dially invite you to come in and browse around make selections. unhurried fid I FUINITUII COURT AND LI1IKTY HON! 36543 fCMATZ' SALIM FUINITUII l m LV xlid cologne I fragrance in its most refreshing form . . . in NEWLY STYLED sleek golden fTTTit frc-i tubes In your favorites L'AIMANT KORIGAN EMERAUDE "PARIS" 155 N. Liberty Phone 3-3191 7 ? Open 9:50 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Friday 9:50 A.M. to 9;00 P.M. Clearance Sale TIMELY SAVINGS ON Summer Fabrics REG. 59c PIQUE PRINTS Waffle-weave cotton for smart dresses, sportswear. Vat-dyed multicolor prints. 36". REG. 59c PINWALE PIQUE Fine-ribbed vat-dyed cotton. Popular for family fashions. 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For fashions, home accessories. 36 in. 47c 47c 87c 87c 77c 47c 37c 77c 67c 37c 57c REG. 89c SEERSUCKER Permanent woven crinkle. Needs no ironing. Yd. Vat-dyed, mercerized. Solid colors. 36". REG. 79c BUTCHER RAYON Linen-like rayon is washfast to 160. Max. Yd. thinkage 2. Pastels, brilliants. 39 in. REG. 59c WAFFLE PIQUE Sports cotton, rich texture interest. Vat Yd. dyed solid colors. Pastels, darks, white. 36". REG. 98c TISSUE CHAMBRAY Luxurious vat-dyed Egyptian Pima combed Yd. yarn. Permanent starchless finish. 36 in. REG. 89c WOVEN DOT SWISS Combed, mercerized, fast color cotton. Yd. For fashions, home accessories. 36 in. REG. 49c COTTON DIMITY Combed for smoothness, mercerized for Yd. strength. Solid-color pastels. 36 inches. REG. 69c PRINTED LAWN Permanent-finish combed cotton. Dainty Yd. multi-prints. For fashions, home uses. 36". REG. 1.39 NYLON TULLE All-nylon Tulle offers superior strength Yd. and durability. Solid colors. 52 inches. REG. 79c DRESS SHEERS Extra sheer for your coolest, most comfort Yd. able summer fashions. All rayon. 45 in. REG. 1.29 SILK ORGANZA Extra sheer, crsip organdy finish. Picture Yd. pretty summer prints. All silk. 36 inches. REG. 1.39 OTTOMAN CREPE Rayon-and-acetate btend. Smooth-draping Yd. dress weight. Solid colors. 45 in. width. 77c 57c 47c 77c 77c 37c 57c 97c 57c 97c 97c Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd. Yd.