14 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, October 27, 1949 TL--, A tMMMJ TL-l C-,..!.
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Created From Dust; Not Fire
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Rochester. N. Y., Oct. 27 UP) A theory that the earth was
created from dust instead of fire was unfolded before the national
academy of sciences today by one of the world s foremost chem
ists.
The author of the new theory is Dr. Harold Urey of the Vnl
versity of Chicago eminent
Pension Hearing George McLain (center, with moustache),
California pension promoter, fights his way through a crowd
. of his followers to enter the hearing in Los Angeles at which
a state senate committee is investigating McLain's Citizen
Committee for Old Age Pensions A boisterous crowd of elder
ly spectators clamored for admission to the hearing room after
all seats were filled. (AP Wirephpto)
Christmas Trees Raised as
Commodity on Valley Farm
By FLORENCE CAKLTON
Stayton, Oct. 27 Christmas trees grown to order is the plan
of Lloyd A. Craft, who has created a veritable Christmas tree
farm on his place in the hills 10 miles east of Silverton and just
north of Drake's crossing.
Craft, who first got his idea of the novel farm from a. pamphlet
flpsrrihinff itrh nilliirp whlrhe -
was Issued by the Oregon State 1 6.500.000 dimes daily.
But in 'one respect the sub
ways haven't changed much
since the day in 1904 when the
first line was opened from City
hall to Broadway and 145th
street by way of Grand Central
and Times Smiare, That day a
'rter wrote:
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able difficulty was experienced I '
herS nf thp r.h tnin nnH .OVd to get Otv" I
college, believes he' is a pioneer
in it in Oregon, although such
practice has been carried out
in the east.
At Christmas time last year.
Craft cut over 280 acres of land
to get some 3000 trees out for
the holiday market. Consider-
because of the rough terrain and
it was finally necessary to use
fleds to bring the trees out.
Last April Craft purchased
27,000 of the two-year-old-Douglas
fir trees for a half cent each
from the Oregon State Forestry
department at Corvallis. These
were set out In blocks, each
'tree having been given a three
foot square of space around it.
As the buds appear at the ends
of the branches Craft cuts them
off, knowing that three more
buds will appear where each
one has been cut away. This
tends to keop the trees symme
trical. ' ,
.
Outside of occasional hoeing,
little cultivation is necessary,,
and the trees seem to thrive in
the red-black soil. -They do not
need irrigation and trees which
were six to 10 inches high
when set out In April, have now
grown to approximately 25 in
ches In height, the owner said.
Coming to Oregon some four
years ago from Los Angeles af
ter his discharge from the serv
ice. Craft first tried raising
strawberries on his 30 acres In
the Silverton hills, but met
much discouragement due to
weevil, marauding deer and ca
pricious weather which Insisted
on being either dry when it
should have been wet, or down
right cold when it should have
been, warm to ripen the berries.
Berries take a lot of cultiva
tion, too.
Trees are of a marketable size
three years after they have been
let out, and Craft plans to buy
ISO, 000 of the two-year-olds and
add them to the ones set out in '
April.
Christmas trees, which Craft i
took from his forest lands last
year were shipped mostly to the
California market, but the trees
he is now growing commercially
will be shipped to eastern mar
kets, Craft said.
The tree venture Is only a
sideline with Craft, who is a
roofer by trade. However, he
aid recently 'in an interview, it
is a lot easier than growing
strawberries.
Since Oregon is the natural
habitat of the Douglas (ir, Craft
believes the Christmas tree ven
ture Is one destined to prove
profitable for its owner.
New York Subway
45 Years Old Today
New York, Oct. 27 The
New York subway' system cele
brated Its 4Slh birthday today.
It's grown some: 241.56 miles
along 37 lines collecting abovit
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atomic scientist, Nobel prize
winner and discoverer of heavy
water.
Urey did something unique.
He looked with a chemist's eyes
at the earth beneath our feet to
find there the signs and clues to
its origin.
The first thing he found was
the temperature which had to
exist in the top crust of earth
about a billion years ago to form
the present chemical compounds
on the ground. That tempera
ture was nearly 2000 degrees
Fahrenheit.
But the temperature was not
the creation, he reasoned. A
billion years still earlier the
earth was cool, just a huge ag
gregation of dust gathering Into
a ball as the sun passed through
one or more vast dust clouds in
space.
This primeval dust contained
every kind of chemical, includ
ing a lot of radioactive dusts.
The temperature of the dust
ball began rising, due to the
heat from this radioactivity, and
the heat pressure of gravitation
as the dust got denser. Thus
it rose to nearly 2,000 degrees.
Iron and everything else was
uniformly scattered through this
dust ball. That would be im
possible according to former
theories, which required a liquid
ball of fire in order for iron to
concentrate in the core of the
earth, where it now is.
But Chemist Urey sees an easy
way for the iron to sink to
earth's center while the earth
was still a large, hard ball of
dust. He names the chemical
condition necessary, by which
melting iron slips in little rivu
lets along silicate paths.
Utey's idea of iron sinking to
the center of a solid earth also
would explain a lot of mysteries.
It explains, he says, the Pacific
ocean, the continents, their
drifting apart, the lost contin
ents, the tropical climate of Ant
arctica, the great glacial periods,
and the fluctuating length of the
day.
It explains, for example, how
water formed from the incoming
dust and how originally waters
probably lay literally boiling
upon the whole face of the
earth. As the iron sank, it dis
placed the lighter material at
the earth's center. This material
rose on one side of the earth-
where Europe now stands as
the first land. On the opposite
side a compensation depression
formed, which now Is the hug
basin of the Pacific ocean.
Latvians Don't
Understand 'Kill'
Tacoma, Oct. 27 (IP) Armed
only with a dictionary and
spurred by a too-recent memory
of a life of oppression in their
native Latvia, Mr. and Mrs. Os-
Uars Karlins came to the Puyal
lup valley last summer with their
three children.
They settled at the summer
farm home of Dr. and Mrs. Harry
Johnson. They could speak lit
tle English; none at all when
excited.
Last week Dr. Johnson re
ceived a frantic call from Kar
lins.
"Very bad, come quick," was
all the doctor could make out of
the obviously terrorized plea.
He raced to the farm. There
he found Mrs. Karlins and the
children huddled in an upstairs
closet. The father was in the
yard, worried appearing but
resolute.
He handed Mr. Johnson a slip
of pink paper.
It read:
"Kill Thursday."
It was a notation from the
circulation department of a Ta
coma newspaper to stop delivery
of the paper during winter
months while the Johnsons lived
in town.
To the Karlins it meant what
their dictionary said "kill"
meant:
"Make dead, take away life."
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No Comment Defense Secretary Louis Johnson (right)
and Secy, of Navy Francis P. Matthews (left) talk with re
porters after they conferred with President Truman for nearly
30 minutes at the White House. Johnson declined to com
ment on reports of an impending shake-up in the navy high
command, but admitted that he and Matthews had. conferred
with Mr. Truman about recent Capitol Hill testimony on their
inter-service battle over unification. (Acme Telephoto)
Expelled Doctor
Witness for U.S.
Portland, Oct. 27 VP) A phys
ician testified today he was ex
pelled by the Multnomah Coun
ty Medical Society in 1937 be
cause he treated members of the
National Hospital association.
The physician, Dr. Leland Bel
knap, said he applied two years
ago for reinstatement but re
ceived no answer.
His testimony was in the gov
ernment's suit charging that the
Oregon State Medical Society
and affiliated groups sought to
monopolize prepaid medical care
with their own organization,
Oregon Physicians' Service.
Dr. Belknap said that as a
result of his ouster, he had to
pay more for malpractice insur
ance, could not subscribe to the
American Medical Association's
Journal, was not listed in the
doctor's telephone exchange and
could not care for patients who
were members of the Oregon
Physicians' Service.
A fence made out of shrub
bery of anv sort is knnwn s 9
"living fence." One of the oldest
is me neage, wnose sharp barbs
kept animals in as well as out.
BIBLE PASSAGE FOR LYRICS
Religious Music for Peace
Comes to Tin Pan Alley
By CLAIRE COX )
New York (U.B Two Tin Pan Alley song writers have turned
their attention from syncopation to the Scriptures so they can
help fill an unprecedented demand for new religious -music.
Howard Fenton, 28, and Gene Bone, 32, are trying to fill the
needs of atomic age worshippers with songs set to the Psalms
and lyrics of their own, appeal--
ing for world peace and broth
erhood.
They started writing religious
music more than a year ago,
when word reached their ears
that Bible sales were hitting an
all-time high and church attend
ance was increasing.
' Bone, 'son of a Menlo Park,
Cal., Presbyterian minister, con
sulted his father, who told him
he would be doing a real service
for mankind if he turned his ef
forts to church music instead of
love ballads.
It isn't easy for composers to
make a living on religious mu
sic, but Bone and Fenton decid
ed to live on their royalties from
a couple of hits for a while and
see what they could do about
improving church music.
"There are plenty of hymns,
and good ones, too," Fenton said,
"but there hasn't been any good
choir or solo stuff written for a
long, long time. We used mostly
Bible passages for our lyrics be
cause we feel the lyrics -are the
most important part of a song,
and who can improve on the Bi
ble?"
,
And so, in their apartment In
the heart of Manhattan's Tin
Pan Alley, the boys set to work.
They have written music to the
first and 119th Psalms, and
their own peace hymn, "Prayer
of a Waiting World," which they
call a' modern spiritual.
They played and sang their
songs while the composer next
door was rapping out boogie
woogie on his tinny piano and
the musical neighbor upstairs
chanted a corny ballad off key.
"That's a lot of Junk," said
Bone, who 12 short months ago
was part of the tinny Tin Pan
Alley chorus.
"At least what we are doing is
not junk. We are trying to help
fill the barrier between classical
stuff like Handel and Bach and
what soloists can handle. We are
trying to write music that the
average church soloist can sing,
and most of them are housewiv
es, not opera sopranos..
"Of course, we'll have to go
back to moon and June stuff
pretty soon. Song writers have
to eat, you know?"
GOP Worker Dies
The Dalles, Oct. 27 VP) Mrs.
John Patterson, 37, secretary of
the Wasco county republican
central committee, died yester
day after a long illness. Her hus
band is party county chairman.
Scientifically, the domestic
cat is known as Felis catus or
Felis domestica.
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