16 Capital Journal, Salem, Or., Monday, January 80, 1950
Daughter'! 'Sister Graduate! Mrs. Harry Elliott, 33, who
was graduated from a Van Nuys, Calif., high school, gets a
corsage from her daughter, Aloha (right), 17, just before
commencement exercises. She returned to high school a year
and a half ago and has been known to students and faculty
as Memo Elliott her daughter's "sister." Aloha is an 11th
grader. Mrs. Elliott was a straight-A student and has been
offered a university scholarship. (AP Wirephoto)
Spelling Bee Proves Underlings
In Government Far From Dumb
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
(United Pre Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 30 u.fi) We've got some of the dumbest people
in our governments.
I know seven of 'em personally who can't spell a simple word
like "Zeuctocoelamata." As anybody with a Ph.D. knows, that
means "an extensive division of animals, including worms and
nnlliiiks."
All of thij ignorance among
the wheels in our governmental
system came out in a fancy
Dellina bee the other night
Seriously, we ought to be proud
of the clerks and the underlings
who have to put pencil to pad
and take down the gobbledygook
pitched at them by their brass.
The bee was an idea of little
Howard Lewis, who conducts a
dally column for the Times
Herald called U. S. and us. He
pleads the cause of the down
trodden among the government
workers.
Getting back to the spelling
thing it was a pretty nice
show. The monotony of putting
one little letter after another was
broken up by entertainment
from various government
workers.
The eventual winner of the
bee was one Willard B. Smith,
a quiet little man who said he
had been with the government
for 80 years and has no Idea of
retiring. He stepped right up like
a little man and correctly spelled
"trichogyne." He is busy these
days with the bureau of per
sonnel in the Navy department
nd won himself a fine tele
vision set.
Mr. Smith said he wasn't what
rou'd call a natural born speller.
"I guess I learned It the hard
way," he said. "I've heard this
government lingo so long that I
finally got on to It.
e
The idea of the contest caught
the public fancy and also at
tracted three hundred or so con
testants.
The charge that we are footing
the bill for a bunch of dummies
actually, was discounted when a
couple of dozen survived the test
on "syllabification," which was
a silly little word one of the
judges thought up.
"Synchronous," which means
simultaneous to us common folk,
made the round quickly
Quite a lot of the clerks got by
"onomatopaeia," which as any
second - grader knows, means
"words describing sounds," and
which creeps into many a bur
eauftcratic letter.
The quiet little word that
means "bird study" to us bird
tudiers "ornithological"
was no trouble at all for most of
the spellers.
You can take some of the other
words, too, that crop up in of
ficial correspondence:
"Peccadillo," meaning a slight
fault.
"Perspicacity," meaning dis-
f ernment.
"Postliminary," meaning later
"Vacillating," meaning Irre
solute.
And "zoroastrianism," mean
ing Persian region or the study
of Zorastrianism.
Or better still you can take
the rule of my first city editor.
"Never use a word you can't
spell."
Despite these calculations
which preceded making of nu
clear bombs, a few young sci
entists worried. In New Mexico,
in the semi-darkness in which
the first bomb was exploded
the flash was more brilliant
than the noonday sun. It il
luminated the morning haze and
mist and surounding mountain
tops until they appeared to be
on fire. One young scientist,
whose back was to the explosion,
saw this apparent firing of air
and earth, and exclaimed:
"Oh. Oh. This is it."
Bomb That Might End World
First Considered by Scientists
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
(Associated Prf&e Science Kdltor)
New York, Jan. 30 (Pi The bomb that might destroy th
world, about which Henry Wallace testified Friday, was one of the
earliest threats scientists considered.
They concluded that even though the makings are present, no
such bomb is possible. 1
Mr. Wallace testified before
the house committee on un-
American activities that former
Secretary of War Stimson
brought the bomb up in discus
sion at a cabinet meeting.
He stated that the secretary
said some scientists nad predict
ed future bombs would be much
more destructive than those then
being made. Also that some
scientists feared one might ig
nite the atmosphere and destroy
the world.
This world wide explosion
would come from a chain
action in which one part of the
air, heated to millions of de
grees at the point of an A
bomb explosion, would spread
its neat until an the air wasi
white hot and flaming. On the
sun the gases of the solar at
mosphere are so hot that they
shoot flames in explosion fifty
thousand miles high.
Scientists also considered
whether an underwater bomb
would separate the H-two-O
the hydrogen and oxygen atoms
forming water , into oxygen and
hydrogen. This most explosive
mixture on earth might blow up
the seas with a chain reaction
For the air to explode it was
calculated that the millions of
degrees spark furnished by the
A-bomb was not enough. Also
needed would be long continued
million - degree htat and long
continued pressures of millions
of pounds.
xne underwater bomb was
frightening because it really
turns the water nearby Into hy
drogen and oxygen. To do that
takes a temperature of only
about 20,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The possibility of a chain reac
tion Is completely wiped out by
tne fact that when this A-bomb
created nydrogen and oxygen
explode, their burning tempera
ture Is nowhere near 20,000 de
grees. The fire simply goes out.
Remus' Lilac Ann
Rated as Tested Dam
A Oregon registered Jersey
cow has been rated as a tested
dam by the American Jersey
Cattle elub. The distinction
was awarded Remus' Lilac Ann
for having three offspring with
official production records. She
is owned by Harry D. Iiiff of
Independence.
ne cows descendants aver
aged 8731 pounds of milk and
511 pounds of butterfat on twice
daily milking, mature equival
ent basis. The tests were check
ed by the official representa
tives of the club.
Iliff's cow also has been class!
fied for breed type. She was
rated as very good, equal to a
score of 85 to 89 points on the
breed's score card, which gives
100 points for a perfect animal.
The production testing and
type classification work carried
on by Iliff are part of a pro
gram offered by the American
Jersey Cattle club to make pos
sible the continuous improve
ment of the Jersey breed. The
club's national headquarters is
in Columbus, Ohio.
Sewing Club to Meet
Brooks; The Brooks Sewini!
ciud will noid its February
meeting at the home of Mrs.
James E. Sayre Thursday afternoon.
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For Men Only Cashier (left) covers eyes as four trouser
less waiters hold positions three bandits forced them to as
sume during $300 holdup of the famous Kitchen Theatrical
restaurant in New York. Bandits forced waiters to drop their
pants to foil pursuit after forcing them and two women
employes into back room. (Acme Telephoto)
Sfeelworkers on
'Holy Crusade'
Pittsburgh, Jan. 30 VP) Five
hundred CIO United Steelwork
er officials today embarked on
what their president, Philip
Murray, termed a "holy crusade"
to fight for civil rights.
Murray urged his deputies to
support President Truman's civil
rights program in every way
possible. He said of Mr. Tru
man:
"Not since Lincoln has a pres
ident gone to bat for a people as
has Mr. Truman. He has put
his head on the political block
and his party has been torn asun
der by the issue."
Murray told a United Steel-1
worker-CIO civil rights confer
ence yesterday that the civil
rights campaign is virtually as
important to the steelworkers as
their successful drive for pen
sions. The meeting launched a series
of cross-country sessions the
steel union hopes will result in
enactment of national civil rights
legislation.
Church Workers Meet
Amity Rev. Bruce Wake
man, Mrs. Andrew Wakeman
and Joyce, Mrs. Edward Leh
man, Mrs. M. J. Lehman, Mrs.
William Neeley, Alvin Rutch
man attended a church workers
conference at McMinnville Bap
tist church Thursday.
Rev. Wakeman, Rev. Fremont
Faul and Mrs. Wakeman attend
ed a meeting at Linfield college
and Bruce Wakeman attended
Baptist men's conference.
SNOW'S A SIGHT
Couple Had Seen None for
20 Years, So They Like It
By JESSE McNEIL
To one of Salem's newest citizens, the recent snow is a sight
and one not seen for 20 years. The newcomers Mr. and
Mrs. L. W. Eveland, had spent tnai time in uw vresi inuiei ana
South America.
"It'j a treat for us," they said.
On January 1, 1930, Eveland-
was aDDointed supervisor oi
electrical installations of the
Standard Oil company on Aruba
island in the West Indies. They
left their home in Casper, Wyo.,
to take over duties which he
handled there and at Caripito,
Venezuela, for the past 20 years.
During a visit to Oregon in
1941, they purchased a home
consisting of 17 acres at RFD
9, Box 284, Liberty road, south
of Salem. ,
They plan to spend the spring
and summer re-decorating the
house and landscaping the
grounds. The home has been oc
cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Krauger.
The Evelands had their share
of the war along with the rest
of the world.
One of the attacks mentioned
by them was made in 1942.
Enemy raiders bombed and sank
several of the lake-type tank
ers which were anchored in the
harbor of Aruba. Then turning
on the town, they gave it a
good pelting.
Some of the people left
Aruba after that, but we stuck
it out, and we are glad we did,"
Mrs. Eveland said.
When asked why they chose
Oregon and Salem for their
home, they said, "We couldn't
find a better place." They have
many friends in and around Sa
lem. Most of them are former
residents of Aruba.
Included in this group are
Mrs. A. L. Yates of 745 Court
street, who spent seven years
there, and Ted McGrew of the
Keizer district, who like Eve
land, is a 20-year retired Stand
ard Oil man from the islands.
The last five yean of foreign
service for these folk were
spent in Caripito, Venezuela.
They expressed a fondness for
the people of that tropical coun
try. This feeling of friendship was
mutual and will long be remem
bered by them for each possesses
a cigarette case of hammered
silver on which is inscribed.
"Jan. 1, 1950 to Mom (or Pop)
Eveland. From your Caripito
Refinery Friends."
POWERFUL HEARING AID
Developed for Those with
Excessive Hearing Loss
Announcement of this powerful hearing aid has brought
hearing to many who have thought an aid could not
help them. This small single unit hearing aid can be
used with "Out-of-Sight" tip or with nothing in the ear.
For further information call or write
SONOTONE
W. F. DODGE
1933 State St., Salem, Ore. Ph. S-9485
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Lebanon Planning
Annual Turkey Day
Lebanon The city's 12th an
nual Turkey day will be held
February 15, it is announced by
George Britton, president of the
Chamber of Commerce. Five
hundred growers and breeders
from Linn and adjacent counties
normally attend the event.
Registration will be conducted
by the Chamber of Commerce at
10 a.m., with a morning and aft
ernoon session scheduled.
Free turkey dinners will be
served to all official delegates at
the Presbyterian and Methodist
churches, the same ai In past
rears.
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