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Pseudo Doctor
Pinches Toes
Santa Barbara, Calif., Nov. 20
(Pi A policewoman complaining
that "he pinched my toes until
I winced" brought about the ar
rest of James Martin on a charge
of practicing medicine without
m license.
Diagnosis of her feigned ail
ments, policewoman Dorene
Meyer said, was based on squeez
ing of her pinkies. She said Mar
tin explained that the little toe,
for instance, was an indicator of
heart ailments; the big toe com
municated trouble from the kid
neys, and so on.
Miss Meyer said that when
she consulted Martin she pre
tended that she had cold feet,
for one thing; also headache,
heartburn, pains in her arm and
side.
Special agent James Barry of
the state board of medical ex
aminers said Martin was arrest
ed yesterday in his office, where
equipment included a "miracle
machine" which, Miss Meyer
was told, would send electric
waves through her body and cure
her cold feet, etc.
Martin is also charged with
using the title of doctor illegal
ly in violation of the business
and professional code.
Coy's Future
Is Uncertain
i Washington, Nov. 21 (P) Two
'contradictory reports about the
future plans of communications
commission chairman Wayne
Coy were circulated in Washin?
ton today.
One said that because of the
current heated color television
controversy Coy may shortly
step out of government service.
The other said that, because
of the current heated color tele
vision controversy, he will prob
ably remain at his present post
for an indefinite period.
Coy declined to comment to a
reporter.
The FCC chairman told a con
gressional committee several
months ago that he did not ex
pect to "be available" for reap
pointment to the communications
commission when his present
term runs out in June, 1951.
The statements was associated
with reports that Coy planned
to return to the publishing field.
He was formerly associated with
the Washington Post. However,
Coy himself has never elaborat
ed on his statement before the
committee.
Synthetic Rubber Plant Reactivated Workmen repair and
clean tanks and pipes in "tank farm" section of government
owned $7,000,000 Kentucky synthetic rubber plant in Louis
ville which is being reactivated and will begin operating early
next year.
Hydrogen Bomb Lies Between
The Possible and the Probable
By JOSEPH L. MVLER
(United Preu CorrupondenO
Washington, Nov. 21 (U.R) In a matter of weeks the United
States will reach the ground-breaking stage of a multimillion-
dollar project to find out whether it can make super atomic bombs
out of a gas called tritium.
Science says the so-called hydrogen bom is a sure thing
theoretically. Engineers say that
practically speaking it is no such
thing. The atomic epergy com
missioners put it this way: some
where between the possible and
probable.
It is up to duPont de Nemours
& Co. to determine just where
the truth lies. This company,
which built the vast Hanford,
Wash., A-bomb works during
World War II, has contracted for
a fee of $1 to construct a sim
ilarly huge plant for manufac
turing H-bomb explosive.
Haborate Precautions
Safeguard A-Bomb
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE
Auociatd PrtM Science Editor!
Richland, Wash.. Nov. 21 OP On the record, the safest work
ing place in the world is the Hanford Atomic Reactor plants here
making plutonium for bombs.
"Unprotected," the records read, "A man could not safely come
within a quarter of a mile of such a nuclear chain reaction as
takes place in a Hanford pile."1
DuPont, the atomic energy
commission, and other agencies
have been hunting for a suit
able site for the new works since
early August. It hasn't been an
easy job. They have surveyed
scores of offered locations but
have found few that meet many
of the specifications.
However, they are nearing a
decision, it is understood. Chair
man Gordon Dean said on Oc
tober 24 that the AEC hoped
to announce a site "soon." But
usually well-informed sources
said It will be at least a week
or two, possibly a little longer,
before all concerned are agreed
on where the hew plant will be
built.
Once the site is picked, Du
Pont will send its construction
team in and the big job will
get under way. Because of what
DuPont learned about building
atomic furnaces in 1943-1945, it
believed that engineers will
lop a few months off the 17
months needed to build Hanford.
Congress has given the AEC
$260,000,000 to finance the H
bomb project at the outset To
build and operate Hanford dur
ing the war cost nearly $650.-
000,000. But the government
knows more about building and
running such operations now
than it did then.
The H-bomb plant will con
sist of atomic reactors like those
at Hanford. But instead of mak
ing the A-bomb explosive plu
tonium, it will change ordinary
substances like the metal lith
ium by atomic bombardment in
to tritium.
Tritium is hydrogen 3, a
triple heavy-' form of nature's
lightest element. Science says
tritium, triggered by the tre
mendous heat of the A-bomb,
can be made to explode. Get
enough of it together, set it off
and theoretically vou could
blow up a city bigger than
Chicago.
But no Hanford worker ever
has been harmed by these radio
active rays. Only a few have
gotten in an entire year as much
radioactivity as having your
chest x-rayed. X-rays are one
form of radioactivity.
Thick concrete walls furnish
most of the protection, but there
are jobs in which workers walk
right into the rays.
Here is a case, in a plant
where fresh plutonium is sep
arated from forty kinds of ra
dioactive substances. Men with
periscopes, magnifying lenses
and powerful lights detected a
piece of apparatus out of order.
A remote control crane lifted it
over a wall to an area free from
rays. But the piece itself was
emitting powerful gamma rays.
A crew taped paper on the
floor where the piece was to
rest, to save the floor from get
ting radioactive. The distance
the rays would travel from the
apparatus was calculated, and a
safety fence st up at the limits
of danger.
The piece had to be repaired
First a crew trained on an iden
tical piece of apparatus, to save
time when they came to the
hot" apparatus. As much as
eight hours on a job of repairs
has been saved by this fore
sight Whether the rays hurt
you depends on how long you
stay, and how close.
Attcr training, the crewmen
stripped. Those with cuts or
jcratcl.es on hands and arms
were rejected. The others
dressed in two pairs of white
coveralls, two pairs of gloves,
rubber and leather, cloth hats
fastened down over hair, and
rubbers over shoes. They wore
masks furnishing their own oxy
gen foi breathing.
At the fence the men found
their tools already laid out at
points nearest each tool's prob
able need. All the tools were
long-handled. Part of the crew
stepped inside the fence, into the
direct rays, which then bathed
their bodies. New men on this
kind of job say they feel the
rays prickling their skin. That
seems to be nerves, because ex
perienced men never feel any
thing.
Gardeners to Meet
Keizer A meeting of the Kel-1
zer Garden club will be held
, Tuesday, Nov. zi at b p.m. at
the fire hall. A turkey dinner
(will be served for the members
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ering on fuchsias. Anyone inter
ested In flowers is invited.
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EVERY DAY IS VALUE DAY
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the MIDGETS you can pick your choice of the different
cuts. Remember LOW PRICE MEATS at the MIDGETS
are HIGH QUALITY MEATS.
PORK ROASTS . 35c
PORK STEAK ,40c
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You'll feel proud and your family will be pleased when
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AUTOMATIC
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COMING FRIDAY IN THE
'51 FORD
A timekeeper watched them.
checking how much of the rays
each worker got. Presently he
signaled one to come away. That
man left the job, because he had
received all the rays permissible
on one day. One of the reserves
took his place. So it went un
til the job was done.
By that time every man
clothes were presumed to be
covered with radioactive atoms.
The crew went to a room where
they stripped these clothes,
washed, and had their bare skin
tested for radioactivity
Some had radioactivity on
their hands, the parts which had
been closest to the "hot ap
paratus. These had to scrub
several times with special green
soaps and other chemicals
The amount of radioactivity
permitted these workers is less
than the natural radioactivity
which everyone gets from the
air at one mile altitude. Dust
and air might get radioactive in
the Hanford plants, and for this
robot monitors detect the con
tamination long before It is dan
gerous. The robots blow whis
tles, ring bells and flash lights
in warning.
To make absolutely sure, the
United States atomic energy
commission requires of the few
thousand Hanford workers about
two-and-a-half million separate
measurements for radioactivity
each year.
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 19503
Camp Fire Girls Take
Hike on Forestry Study
Salem Heights The "Eha-
wee Camp Fire group went for
a hike Saturday along Croison
creek. Each member took a pic
nic lunch and they gathered
three leaves for their scrap
books. Each will write an essay
about the nature study. Mrs.
Richard Amrine, Mrs. Leonard
Strong and Mrs. Charles Hage
mann accompanied the group.
The group honored their
mothers at a Mother's tea at the
home of Mrs. Ed. A. Carleton
on Monday. On the social com
mittee were Carol Hagemann
and Geraldine Wellard, and on
the refreshment committee Pat
Marggi and Elsie Strong.
The group have been making
Thanksgiving turkey favors for
the Old People's Home for their
Thanksgiving table.
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