2A Register-Guard, Eugene. Ore.Thurs.. Oct. 21, 1954
Smog Sufferers
Demand Action
LOS ANGELES m Several thousand residents nf Los Angeles
County's 48 cities Thursday urged enlistment of 100,000 smog suf
ferers to wage a "little people's" war against air pollution.
The resolution for the smog war came Wednesday night at a
mass meeting in nearby Pasadena, sponsored by the Citizens' Anti
Smog Action Committee, and attended by an estimated 6,000 irate
persons.
E. James Lee, a co-chairman of the committee, told the meeting
the purpose of the gathering was to "organize for battle and to
enlist 100,000 people in our cause."
"We are going to organize the little people into a united force,"
.Lee asserted, "so their voices
Still No Clue
To Missing j
Newport Trio
DALLAS, Ore. W) Rain and
fog Thursday prevented search,
for the second day this week, for
the long-missing Norman Zeisz
ler family of Newport.
Police confessed themselves
without a clue in the baffling
disappearance of Zeiszler, his
wife and his wife's 14-year-old
son. They left Oct. 9 to go deer
hunting in the Coast Mountains
west of here. Several days later
their car was found beside a
mountain road. There has been
no clue to where they went from
there or what happened to them
Wednesday's search, headed by
Sheriff Tony Neufeldt, was car
ried out in foul weather that at
times cut visibility to 20. feet
The going in the extremely
rough, heavily timbered country
was so bad that one searcher,
Milton Reimer, Dallas, collapsed.
At the hospital here he was
treated for fatigue and cold.
He was among the 85 National
Guard members from this area
ordered into the search by Maj.
Gen. Thomas E. Itilea. Sheriff's
deputies and other volunteers
swelled the total in the search to
more than 100.
The sheriff, who called off
Thursday's search, said it would
be taken up again when the
weather improves. Similar bad
weather had halted the search on
Tuesday. Daily hunts, including
with the aid of a helicopter, have
turned up no clues at all.
The Zeiszler family moved to
Newport from North Dakota last
spring.
TV Earnings Up
WASHINGTON (W The Fed
eral Communications Commission
has reported that 1953 earnings
of television stations and net
works were up almost 23 per
cent over 1952. The FCC said the
net income of four TV networks
and 334 stations last year totaled
fiR millinn Hntlarc hpfni-A fnHnVal
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can be heard."
"We want the law enforced,"
Lee continued. "If we need a
stronger law let our public offi
cials whose duty it is to make
laws, make one.
"We will cooperate with any
one sincerely dedicated to the
elimination of smog, but we will
oppose anyone and everyone who
seeks to compromise with our
only enemy-smog."
j me citizens cummmee nas
'asked the Los Angeles County
'grand jury to investigate "at
once" any possible breakdown in
smog law enforcement. The com
mittee hinted that smog officials
may "have been guilty of derelic
tion of duty."
Meanwhile, as smog clung to
Southern California for the 15th
consecutive day, further indica
tions of a smog war appeared as
more officials attacked one an
other in verbal skirmishes.
Los-Angeles Mayor Norris Poul
son said Wednesday that air pol
lution district director Gordon P.
Larson warned him last Thursday
the smog situation was becoming
dangerous.
The mayor said Larson "alerted"
him that if the smog became
worse it could possibly be danger
ous to health and to stand ready
"to issue a proclamation to halt"
much of the smog - producing
sources in the city.
But Larson, at a later press
conference, flatly denied he had
ever given Poulson such a warn
ing.
Previously the Los Angeles city
council and the county board of
supervisors clashed when the su
pervisors, whose job it is to
handle smog legislation, ordered
the Air Polution Control District
to ban back yard incinerator
burning within a year.
Angered city council members
accused the supervisors of trying
to make goats out of the little
offenders while letting the big
offenders, large industries, "get
away."
Meanwhile, Gov. Goodwin J.
Knight, accused by the Citizens'
Smog Committee of doing nothing
to combat smog, said he does not
want (o "paralyze this great
slate by declaring a state of
emergency.
However, he pledged his readi
ness to give Los Angeles County
unu cl a t inn sir rr tnri if nnr1c
to wipe out the smog blight.
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FOR HIS ANCESTORS President William V. S. Tub
man of Liberia, descendant of American slaves, pays
homage to the man who set his ancestors free as he
places a wreath at the statue of Abraham Lincoln in
Washington. President Tubman is on a three-week good
will visit to the United States at the invitation of
President Eisenhower.
Cancer Chemical
In Burning Paper
By DELOS SMITH
Of The United rress
NEW YORK an A powerful
cancer causing chemical com
pound has been identified in burn
ing cigarette paper, it was dis
closed this week.
' The compound is 3,4 benzpy-
renc. in mice it is one ot me
most powerful if not the most
powerful cancer-causer known to
science. No one knows what it
docs to human beings.
D. V. Lefcmine, research chem
ist of the Cancer Institute, Miami,
obtained 1.7 pounds of tars by
burning enough cigarette paper
to roll 80,000 cigarettes (80,000
cigarettes would last a pack-a
day smoker 11 years),
AKOUSES DISCUSSION
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tars into chemical components,
and one component he identified
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His report represented the first
identification of a cancer-causing
chemical compound in cigarette
smoke, and it was found in the
paper rather than the tobacco
Tars derived from burning whole
cigarettes will cause skin can
cers in mice when "painted" on
their backs daily for months. But
the specific chemical or chemi
cals in the tars causing the effect
haven t been identified.
Seed Crop Down
PORTLAND HPI The Federal
Crop Reporting Service said
Wednesday Oregon's 1954 alfalfa
seed crop was estimated at
1,595,000 pounds, down from last
year's 1,730,000 pounds.
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Liner Leaves
Struck Harbor
Queen Mother Sails
For Visit to U.S.
LONDON ltf Tugmcn eased
the liner Queen Elizabeth out of
Southampton harbor in a loyal
opshire to Britain's Queen
Mother Thursday and then be-
beean debating whether to join
the waterfront strike which has
paralyzed Britain s major sea
nnrts.
Queen Mother Elizabeth, for
whom the ship was named, sailed
for New York and a month's visit
to the United States and Canada.
It had been feared that tne ih
dav clock stoppage, now involv
ing more than 43,000 men, might
hamper her departure.
OVERTIME WORK
The walkout, loudly backed by
British Communists, stems from
a demand bv dockers for the
right to reject overtime work
Fewer than half the strikers
have the backing of various
unions involved.
Queen Elizabeth II, who began
this morning a two-day tour of
south Lancashire, made a point
ed change in her schedule to
avoid the Dickcted Liverpool
dock area.
She and her husband, the
Duke of Edinburgh, had ariang.
ed to visit the Canada Docki
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ham Palace announced Wednes
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The still-growing stoppage
held 298 ships idle in London
Liverpool, Birkenhead, Hull 1 '
Southampton, Garston and
Rochester.
Fewer than 33,000 of the na
tion's 76,000 cargo handlers were
working.
Export shipments worth more
than 80 million pounds (224 mil
lion dollars) were piled up on
the wharves.
RESERVES DWINDLING
Food reserves, especially of
imported eggs, butter and bacon,
were drwindling.
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill's government gave no
sign of any immediate intention I
to use troops for unloading es
sential imports as has been done
in previous major dock tieups.
A government board of in
quiry, which began investigating
the dispute Wednesday, is ex
pected to continue hearings until
Saturday. The government likely
will wait until the inquiry ends
before ordering out troops.
Jane Wyman,
Husband Split
HOLLYWOOD lPV Movie ac
tress Jane Wyman's third mar
riage has failed.
Her husband, musical director
Fred Karger, has moved out ot
their home and Miss Wyman says
there will be no reconciliation
this time. The couple has had
several arguments and separated
a few times, but reconciliations
always followed.
'We're not happy and there's
no use remaining together,"
Karger said Wednesday.
The actress told newsmen:
"I've tried to keep this marriage
together but it just doesn't seem
possible to make it work." She
domed that her many movie roles
and much hard work in fil niK hurl '
caused an estrangement.
Miss Wyman's other husbands
were Myron Futterman and Ron
ald Reagan. She and Karger
wp re married in Santa Monica in
1M52.
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No Progress
In Currency
Controversy
SEOUL W) A South Korean
government spokesman said
Thursday there was "no progress
at all" in a 2,j-hour meeting be
tween President Syngman Rhec
and Gen. John E. Hull, U.N. Far
East commander, over the dollar
hwan currency .dispute. .
The statement came from Paik
Too Chin, South Korean econom
ic coordinator. ' Hull, who flew
here from his Tokyo headquar
ters, had no comment except to
say the talks would continue Fri
day. The dispute over the exchange
rate and the handling of a new
700 million dollar. U.S. aid pro
gram has plunged South Korean
United States relations to their
lowest ebb since the armistice.
South Korean suspended pay
ing hwan to the U.S. military Oct.
1 because of American refusal to
pay past advances at the official
exchange rate of 180 hwan to
one U.S. dollar. This left 100,000
Korean employes of the U.S.
Army without pay and stirred up
angry statements from both sides.
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