WATER FOR WEST COAST
'Oceans of Food' Await
Man to Find Them Cheaply
By pail r. elms
New York U. The world today has "oceani of food" that
hive never been tapped.
Furthermore, according to Dr. Werner Bergmann, Yale Uni
versity chemist, the oceani and seas in the not too distant future
may be a lource of new "wonder drugs," medicine that may
even exceed the poweri of peni- -
cillin and the sulfas. I
i Bergmann believes salts and
minerals should be removed from
the sea water so that new sup
plies of fresh water will be a
vailable for Industrial and farm
use, especially n 7"" Eugene in 1946. Last year's re
and some sections of the West ,H u,-.j,, ,., .."...
Coast.
Three past presidents of the af
fair and a member-at-large, as
yet unnamed, make up the gov
erning board for the Timber
Carnival association.
Scharpf came to Albany from
cord breaking event attracted
more than 150,000 to the Wav-
3 and
., , j erly lake site on July 2,
Bermann recently reported . '
becoming acute on the West
,) Danfhter Finds Father Mel DeCovey, cafe owner of San
ose, Calif., and his daughter, Mrs. George R. Schwoob, Butte,
Mont., art re-united after 31 years. They were separated in
the flu epidemic of 1918 and believed each other dead. Grand
pa now has two grand-daughters, Marjorie 14, (in rear) and
Lorna, 6, on his lap. (AP Wirephoto)
AMERICAN DOLLAR SETS THE PACE
, That Green, Folding Stuff
Is Mighty Popular These Days
By CLARK BEACH
Washington Those rectangular green pieces of paper you
tarry in your pocketbook are just as popular as any commodity
In the world today.
When proud old nations knuckled under and devalued their
currencies to make them worth less in terms of the American
dollar, the young American
greenback really came into its
own.
Once upon a time it "wasn't
worth a continental." That was
when the Continental congress
turned out 210,000,000 on print
ing presses during the American
revolution. In terms of gold and
other nations' money, the con
tinental dollars were worth only
a fraction of their face value.
The dollar got on its feet
when congress, after the consti
tution had been adopted, estab
lished the present monetary sys
tem in 1792. Congress began
coining dollars at the Philadel
phia mint in 1793.
They were all metal coins
gold eagles (worth $10) and
fractions of eagles, silver dollars
and fractions of dollars and cop
per cents and half cents.
The federal government did
n't turn out any paper money
until the Civil war, when
"greenbacks" were first issued.
Banks operating under federal
or state charters issued notes as
currency and much of the pa
per eventually became badly de
Dreciated in value.
There was great hullabaloo
when the government made
greenbacks legal tender, requir
ing that they be accepted in pay
ment of debts. People are in
clined to be distrustful of paper
money, and even today folks
don' like to handle it in some
towns in our western states.
But the dollar managed to
hold its own in relation to gold
and the mighty British pound
Through most of our history
the pound has been worth about
$4.86. After the first World war
it began to slip. In 1920 the
pound was worth only $3.66. It
was back to its normal $4.86
by 1930. But in 1932 it dropped
to its lowest point up to that
time, to $3.50 in U.S. money,
Then it fluctuated wildly. In
1934 it reached the highest va
lue of which the federal reserve
system has a record, $5.03. In
1941 it sold for $4.'03, and that
was its official rate until the
recent devaluation sent it down
to $2.80.
The reason for the rise of the
dollar in relation to the pound
is primarily America s new po
sition as a creditor nation.
For more than century we
bought more from the rest of the
world than the world bought
from us. But in about 1926 we
became the world's investment
banker. Now we have so many
things that the world wants to
buy that our dollars are in un
precedented demand, throwing
other currencies off balance.
The word dollar was in gen
eral use before our government
adopted it. One or another form
of the word designated many
kinds of European currency. It
came from the Greek word tha
ler. In Dutch it was the Daalder.
In German it was the taler.
Spanish "pieces of eight" were
called dollars.
The dollar sign also was In use
before the Revolution. It is be
lieved to have designated the
Mexican peso. It was first writ
ten "Pi." Later manuscripts
show the "P" superimposed on
the "S" which seems to be how
we got the dollar sign.
Today there are about S3 bil
lion dollars in the world. About
28 billion of them are in circula
tion. Most of the rest are held in
the U. S. treasury.
There they are in the custody
of Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark,
treasurer of the United States,
whose signature also appears on
all paper money now being pro
duced. Another woman, Mrs. Nellie
Tayloe Ross, for 16 years has
been in charge of the manufac
ture of all U.S. coins. As direc
tor of the mint, she has in that
time turned out about $1,028,
000,000 worth of metal money.
There's another interesting
fact about women and American
Dwarf Cattle
Sold in Billings
Billings, Mont., Oct. 20
A Montana state brand Inspector
said a herd of dwarf cattle the
owner claims he discovered in a
lost canyon" actually were pur
chased in Billings.
Brand Inspector H. H. Harmon
said a bill of sale for two cows
and three bulls Gene Holter of
Jamestown, N. D.. said he took
from a "lost canyon" by helicop
ter, is on file at the brands' in
spection office at Helena. Har
mon said brands tattooed in the
dwarf cattle's ears also were reg
istered when the brands were
inspected at Billings.
The brand inspector said the
five animals, ranging from 24 to
28 inches in height and weighing
160 to 220 pounds, were shipped
trom Billings to Roundup, Mont,
and then to Jamestown.
The midgets were bred by
Kendall Shaules of Ballantine,
Mont. They were registered
Herefords.
Shaules said dwarfs are a com
mon occurrence among Hereford
and Angus cattle and definitely
are on the increase." He ex
plained the phenomenon as
'breeding accident."
The breeder said the bull and
five cows who produced the
dwarfs had normal production
records, otherwise.
Coast and the use of ocean water
is seriously being explored."
Science already has accom
plished the trick of taking salt
from salt water, but on a small
and expensive scale.
The solution, according to
Bermann, "would be to derive
both minerals and the water
from the oceans."
Also the sea water contains
small organisms known as
plankton food that the fish, in
cluding whales, eat. He said it
was not too remote that man
some day may be eating plank
ton "burgers."
Bergmann estimated that there
are 300,000,000 cubic miles of
water in all the oceans and that
if "we could dry out one such
cubic mile of water, we- could
get a mountain of salt, contain
ing 117,000,000 million tons of
common salt."
Besides the salt, Bergmann
says the following could be taken
from a cubic mile of sea water:
Six million tons of magnesia,
4,000,000 tons of potash, 300,000
tons of bromine, 2,200 tons of
iodine, 200,000 tons of borate,
900 tons of iron, 450 tons of cop
per, 70 tons of uranium, 15 tons
of silver, and a nice hunk of
gold."
For the time being, according
to Bergmann, land resources of
metals are holding out and no
"ocean mining is necessary.
However, some countries in
the world may start tapping the
ocean to avoid importing materi
als. One day, he believes, coastal
and near coastal stretches of
desert may be converted into
"productive lands" as a result
of turning salt water into fresh
Scharpf said his biggest aim
for the 1950 show is to make it a
community project, and that an
attempt would be made to
streamline and speed up lake
events, capitalizing on the ex
periences of this year, when a
record number of contestants
entered the world and regional
championship contests.
Scharpf succeeds Larry Roth,
president of the 1949 affair.
Canada Gas
To Be Piped
Ottawa, Oct. 20 (CP) The
Canadian senate transportation
committee gave quick approval
today to a bill incorporating a
new pipeline company to pipe
natural gass from Alberta to the
British Columbia coast.
Expected heavy opposition to
the application failed to materialize.
The company Alberta Nat
ural Gas company plans to
route its line through southern
British Columbia to Vancouver
Though a petition opposing
the incorporation had been filed
earlier with the senate by West
coast Transmission company, al
ready incorporated for the same
purpose, this opposition was not
pushed actively at today's hear
ing.
Most likely route shorter
and about $20,000,000 cheaper
would be through the United
States. It would serve Trail and
other B.C. points before cross
ing the border at Kingsgate,
B.C., and would end at a point
half way between Seattle,
Wash., and Vancouver. It
would serve Seattle and Tacoma,
Capital Journal, Salem,Ore Thursday, Oct. 20, 194927
Wash., Portland, Ore., and vari
ous Canadian points in the area.
The committee now will hear
from a third group which seeks
to incorporate under the name
of the Prairie Pipe Line com
pany for the same purpose. A
bill to incorporate the company
passed second reading in the'
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senate yesterday and wa refer
red to the committee.
The lowest temperature rec
orded on earth was BO degree!
below zero on Feb. 5 and 7, 1892,
at Verkhoyansk, Siberia, U. S.
Weather Bureau report show.
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records, otherwise. the board of directors of the W I star Ell m ' rTM ' V ' ,,
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surance ha. e.timat th.t in Jaycee PrMident, announced. APPU GROWERS ASSOCIATION 1 TWBSSISSnnE t ' 4 I
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