Pa'ge Bisection 2 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, December A, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL" SI ir a P I I I l 1 ;l Strontium 90 p In Air Won't : Kill Anybody Enough High Up to End All Life; Harmless When It Falls By JOSEPH h. MYI.ER United Press Slaff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) Fioatine in the high atmosphere rifiht now is more than enough of man made poison to kill everybody on earth. It in tlronlium-M, a radioactive product ol the atomic age. It was unknown to science a decade and a half ago. It is the most menac ing of the radioactive poisons that were spawned in profusion when man learned to split the alom. Deadly as it is, the SUM now in the stratosphere won't kill any body. By the time it settles out, it will be spread so thinly over the 200 million square miles of earth that no one will get a fatal or even damaging dose. The stratosphere, lliat region of thin air that starts 40,000 to 50,000 feet up, is impregnated with about 40 pounds of radio strontium. It was put there by superbomb tests, mainly Ameri can. Its effects are global. They last for years. ! It has been estimated that less than 32 pounds of SR90 would be. enough to inflict agonizing slow death on all of the inhabitants of the planet should it reach them directly. 1 Rones Contain Traces Radiostrontium has been drift ing down slowly over all the world since the first giant bomb test in 1952. The bones of every human being contain detectable traces of It. But there Is no evidence what ever that SR90 has yet sickened anyone or is likely to as a result of tests to date. No case of radio strontium poisoning has ever been reported or even surmised. Actually, all that is known of radiostrontium's deadlincss was learned from experiments with animals or deduced from the long studied effects of chemically si milar radium. Like radium, If it gets inside the body, SH90' Is a "b o n c seeker." Tiny amounts Injected into laboratory animals invari ably cause bone cancer... . Radiostrontium is one of many products of atomic fission, tho nu clear reaction of the A-bomb. It is not produced by atomic fusion, th nuclear reaction of the H-bomb. But since H-bombs have a fis sion trigger, and some of them a fission Jacket, they also create strontium-90. In addition, because they are more powerful than A . bombs, they shoot It higher and spread It farther. ll-llnmlu Cleaner This country's newer H-bombs are "cleaner" than earlier models because, for a given size, tliey yield more fusion and less fission energy. Even so, no bomb with a fission trigger, however much the trigger may have been reduced, is absolutely clean. An all-out nuclear war with wea pons like some of the giant bombs now in the U.S. and Soviet stock piles would be a catastrophe to mankind from the standpoint of radioslrontium poisinong alone. And it is generally agreed that any sharp jump in the rate of big bomb testing could Imperial hu manity. Because of this, (be United States would not think of conduct ing indefinitely, year alter year, tests like its 11154 Pacific scries. Thai test program, Operation Caslle, threw into the strato sphere four times as much SUM as has been added by all tesls since. But Dr. Willard F. I.ibhy. phy. sicist member of the Atomic F.nergy Commission, has estima ted that tests could go on safely for a century at the average world rale o( the past two years. This rale. on. an annual basis, is one-eighth that (or the year 19S4. The other side of the picture Is that no one can guarantee Hint future tests by all nations will not surpass the rale of the past two yetrt. Chapter One THE SOI.DIEItS CALL Listen, now, and 1 11 tell you the strangest story ever told. A story of giants and elves and a pot of gold; of'a lost princess and a secret room and Santa Claus in trouble. There ore folks who'll say none of (his is true. But they're wrong. It's all true. I know. Because 1 was there and I saw it all. My name is Alexander. I have seven brothers and seven sisters4. I'm the youngest. I have no ma and no pa but my sisters and brothers lake care of me. We live in a little old house at the end of a crooked road. My sisters sleep in the house while v.e boys bed down In the barn. My story begins on a snowy, windy night just before Christmas. We were all gathered around the fire in the kitchen the way we always do at close of day. Aninida, my oldest sister, was readini; us a story about Santa Claus and how he had saved the life of a boy who had never be licved In Santa. The rest of us were stringing cranocrnes and making colored puper ropes to hang on our Christ mns tree. It was nice and warm and loving in that kitchen by the fire. I was happy just lying there on my back listening to the story and thinking about the marshmal- lows we would be toasting by and by. Suddenly there was a bang, bang, bang at the door and a voice shouting, "Open up in the name of the King!" My sister dropped her book. Noj one else moved because, honest, I heard breathing Inside! I don't know how long it had been since anyone had come knocking at our door! LeMay Asserts SAC Still Has Edge on Russ WASHINGTON W Gen. Curtis E. LeMay says that despite Sov iet progress in airpower, his Stra tegic Air Command still has the edge. But LeMay, who commands this country's long-range, nuclear- armed striking force, told a Georgetown University audience last night: 'These Soviet Rains are stead ily narrowing our presently favor able margin." The SAC chief said that five years ago he would have said a war with Russia could have been won without serious damage to tho United States. He said lie still believes such a war could be won by the United States, but this nation would suf fer serious losses." And, he cautioned, unless the combat capacity and readiness of American airpower continues to Improve, "we will be still more vulnerable to still greater damage by (lie Soviet long-range air arm five years hence, "Just so long as this nation's capacity to win war is clearly recognized by the potential ag gressor, there will be no war," LeMay asserted. "But once the potential aggressor dcubis this capacity, the peace of the world is in jeopardy," Second 1 1 cart Attack Fells Sinner Pinzi GRKI'.NWICII, Conn. W-Singing star Klin Plnn was felled yesterday by his second heart at tack in Ihree months. The name of the M-year-old basso was placed on (tie d.ineer list at Greenwich Hospital short ly alter he was admitted, hut a hospital spokesman said this pro cedure was routine In such cases His wife spent the night at the hospital. Pinza. a Metropolitan Opera tar before going on Broadway in ''South pacific and "fanny,' Mid only last month he was end Inf his 37-year singing career and Dlinnfn to mice up acting. Last August he suffered a heart attack at his summer home in Cervia. Italy, not far from his boyhood home in Ra-rnna, It forced him to cancel his con tract to appear In the play "A Verv Snerial Bahv." Yesterday's attack caught him hist before lunch in the dining rnrnn of his home in nearby Slam ford, where he lives with his wifr and three children, aged 5, 19, nd 15. About .1 million Inns of coal are produced annually from North Dikota lignite mines. Bang, bang, bang came the knocking again. Amanda said quietly, "Best to see what it is, Thomas." So Thomas, my oldest brother. pulled back the bolt and opened the door. Three great, big sol diers marched right in. My eyes nearly popped from my head. I d never been that close to soldiers before. They lined us up three deep by the kitchen wall and asked us our names and ages and where we'd away by now," said my brothers, "They'd never dare to stay in the Kingdom. "What about Christmas?" cried. "Will we have Christmas just the same? "Oh, Alexander," said Amanda Of course we will!" They kept on talking and was much, much later than usual when Thomas finally said, "Time for bed, Alexander. Get to the barn." I always have to go when he says it's time, so I took the lantern and ran quickly to the barn. But when I got to the barn I'd spent the day. Then the biggest hardly put my foot in the door- soldier took a paper from h i s pocket and began to read: "Princess Anne has been kid napped from the royal palace. The Kihg commands all his people to searcn tor ine Kidnapper and re cover his daughter without de lay. After that the soldiers stomped out of the house. We all began to laix at once. "What a shame! What a horror!" exclaimed my sisters. 'The poor little thing!" "Whoever took her would be far way when I stopped in my tracks. Plain as day I heard breathing inside! It wasn't the cow and it wasn't the hens or the hog. It was person breathing. I know cause there's a difference between man and beast that you can feel in side of you, even when you can't see at all. Quick as a lick I knew what it was. "It's the kidnapper!" I thought. "He's hiding inside!" Tomorrow: A Strange Story 200 Expected to Attend Real Estate Conference on Thursday Speaker . Interest Rate On Savings to Rise to 3" Pot. WASHINGTON Ml Starting Jan. I, federally insured commer cial banks may pay 3 per cent interest on savings nccounts and certain other deposits. The government yeslerdny au thorized the Increase from the cur rent 2'i per cent ceiling in a !!!!t'mS!?,ii?K,rlng.T';SiBMn' Worker Killed in Lodging AocKieni BURNS Ifl Ralph Robinson, Real estate brokers and sales men from the Marion-Polk-Yam- hill area numbering approximate ly 200 wKl be in Salem Thursday, Dec, 6 to take part In a reaV es tate educational conference to be held at the Marion hotel. This conference is one of a ser ies sponsored by the Oregon Real Estate department under Ragnor O. Johnson, real estate commis sioner, and Burton W. Dunn, edu cational supervisor of the depart ment. Frederick J. Bashaw of Palm Beach, Fla., lawyer and realtor, one of the best known figures in the field of real estate develop ment will be the principal speaker. He will discuss "Finding and An alyzing the Best Listings" at 9:30 Thursday morning. Bashaw will speak again during the noon luncheon and again at 1:30 p.m. A feature of the forenoon ses sion will be n panel discussion at 10:45 a.m. touching upon the le gal aspects of real estate. Mem bers of the panel will be Kenneth Sherman, John Hcltzcl, Herbert Carter and George Rhoten. At 3 p.m. Charles r . Walker of Portland will speak on "Suc cess in Real Estate." Members of the conference com mittee consist of Ted Zwnschka, president of the Salem Realty board: John Black, secretary; Nila Cluctt, Al Isnnk, Clayton Jacob sen, and Roy Ferris, for capital investment The Increase applies not only to savings nccounts, but to time about 25. Burns, was killed Men deposits and certificates which ; day in a logging accident in the run longer than six months. Thoso Ochoco forest. He was employed "Ml, an2Sv ic4 y - t. Frederick J, Hnslinw, Palm Beach, Ta., lawyer and realtor, will be' principal speaker at the educntlonnl real estate confer ence which will be held here Thursday. between 90 days and six months now may carry .24 pPr cent in terest, up from 2 per cent. at the llines operation. Robinson Is survived widow and two children. $25,000 Sought to Pay Hungarians' Transport PORTLAND W Tho Oregon Committee for Hungarian Refu gees began n campaign Monday for funds to pay the cost of trans portation of refugees from the East Coast to jobs and homes awaiting them in Oregon. The goal is (25,000. Part of the money would be used for loans by his to refugees who lost their posses I slons in being dislocated. V CP I Car Room, Comfort ilo: and Performance! UrAI Compact Car Economy I aLUi and Handling Ease! Get the Best of Both- fn 4 Antrim VNpn St lha only car that gives you the beat room Bnd comfort of big cars, combined with the best maneuverability of com pact cars. 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The ratio of Negroes to the total U.S. population is about 11 per cent. Besides the capital, cities cov ered by the survey were Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Mobile, Ala. The committee found that 43 per cent of the Negroes employed in the five cities held "Classification Act" or "white collar" jobs and 31 per cent held "wage board"- or blue collar jobs paid on a per-day basis. The 26 per cent I Red Bulgaria Purges Army PARIS un France Solr said today Communist Bulgaria is purging its army as one phase of campaign to prevent any up rising similar to the Hungarian revolt. Two hundred officers have been retired and two generals, Yonko Panov and Boris Kopchev, have been reduced in rank, the mod erate newspaper reported in a dis patch from its Belgrade corres pondent, Jean Delamotte. France Soir said all the officers involved in the purge were sus pected of being hostile to the Red government's policies. listed in "other" jobs included postal employes. The survey showed that of all Negro federal workers in the five cities, 5 per cent were in super visory jobs and had administra tive direction over other employes. The "white collar" civil service jobs are graded by number from 1 through 15, with 15 carrying the highest salary. Fifteen per cent of the Negroes employed in the five cities were found to be distributed from grades 5 through 15, as com pared with 67 per cent of the whites in the same cities. Eighty five per cent of the Negroes and 33 per cent of the white in the same cities were in grades 1 through 4. Fire Destroys Pa. Christmas Wreath Plant NEW ALBANY, Pa. W-A roar ing fire in this tiny highway com munity destroyed a Christmas wreath plant and the 100-year-old town hall today. It sent hundreds of wreaths up in smoke and para lyzed . the industrial life of most of New Albany's 500 citizens. The flames leveled the main manufacturing plant of the Ryn veldt Wreath Co., the firm's large storage barn and the steepled two-story town hall. All were wooden structures. . "She just blowed up and burned the plant down," said Henry Dustman, Rynveldt plant mana ger, who estimated company damage at 1400,000. , Thirty-rive persons In the build ing most of them women fled to the street, just off U.S. Route 220 in the heart of New Albany's two-block business dis trict. Harry Kingsley, a paint room worker, attempted vainly to smother the flames, and then ran, screaming the alarm. Outside, flames punctuated by several minor explosions from paint drums were sending sparks into the air on a high wind. New Albany firemen found their new fire house ablaze and saved it Store Bandit Takes $1000 OREGON CITY W A gunman robbed .a supermarket at Jennings Lodge, north of here, of about SI ,000 Monday night. , State police said the man en tered the store, asked the clerk for $1 in change, then produced a .45 caliber automatic. He forced the clerk to go to the rear, open the safe and give him the con tents. The gunman left by the back door. The clerk said he neither saw nor heard a getaway car. Arraignment of Judge Postponed Two Weeks HILLSBORO W! County Judge Harry M. Seabold has been given until Dec. 17 for arraignment on a charge of receiving a bribe. A two-week delay was granted Monday by Circuit Judge Glenn Hieber to give Seaboid's attorneys time to study the case. Judge Hieber said he plans to disqualify himself and ask the Oregon Supreme Court to appoint someone else to hear the case. Seabold was indicted in connec tion with a real estate transac tion. Solons Order Pier Union to Show Figures HONOLULU Itf-Harry Bridges International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen s Union and some affiliated organizations are under subpoena to produce today their financial records for the last' four years. The U. S. Senate subcommittee on internal security headed by Sen. James 0. 1 astland (D-Missi opens the fourth day of its he&i lng into communism in the Hawai ian Islands. Union leaders yesterday contin ued to refuse to answer commit tee questions under protection of the 5th Amendment. At the same time, 6,000 ILWU members staged a 24-hour work stoppage protest ing hearings which Bridges has said are aimed at breaking the union. from more than roof damage. A number of other rooftops were scorched. Alstadt Named To Realty Post Gov. Elmo Smith Monday an- pointed Herbert Altstadt, Portland, to the state Real Estate Advisory Board. Alstadt is associated with the Title and Trust Co. of Portland. He will fill out the term of th late Eugene E. Burdick, Portland, which expires in June, 1959, a a a siM sum tikes jstiESiS HATURAL GA kqes TO SIM AT HEW, MFES WE'VE BEEN ASKED: Will the oil price Increase affect the new, low rates for Natural Gas? THE ANSWER IS DEFINITELY HQ! In the past, manufactured gas prices were partially affected by the cost of oil because gas was produced from oil. Today, a 1478-mile pipeline brings Natural Gas to your home from the San Juan basin in New Mexico. And there is plenty of clean, Natural Gas for everyone. After all, private enterprise would not spend over two hundred million dollars to build the pipeline unless there was plenty of Natural Gas to supply the demands of this area. Another point, too! Natural Gas rates are under the jurisdiction of state regulatory authorities and cannot be changed without their approval. The new, low Natural Gas rates were effective throughout the entire system on November First. SO, ADD THEM UP! . . . ADD UP ALL THE EXTRAS! . . . AND, YOU'LL CHANGE TO "THRIFTY NATURAL GAS". . . TODAY'S LOW-COST FUEL! PORTLAND GAS & COKE COCIPANV