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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1956)
r PafrB 8 SecHori '4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL' Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dew 6, 1956..? Decides to Stay in Australia b.': ' " -"V d ' ' Champion Hungarian walker Janes Somogyl, who has decided to ilay la Australia, poind to newipaper picture of Ills wife, - Teresla, In Melbourne today. He aald Teresla and their two ' children escaped Hungary to Austria. Somogyl, 34, a Budapest .'merchant, said he believed about 30 other Hungarian Olympic 'i athletes would also remain behind. (AP YYIrephoto by radio from "Melbourne) '' Typo Union's 'War Chest' to : Lose in Voting NEW YORK W The New .York Times said Wednesday a proposal by leaders of the Inter national Typographical Union ,to build up a national delense fund of from S to 10 million dollars appeared headed for defeat, . Returns from IS large cities showed union printers turning down the proposed assessment, 14,1)76 to 11,537, The Times re ported. The votes represented nearly : one third ol the 80,000 cast by union members in a referendum last Wednesday. Delegates to the union's 98th convention In Colorado Springs, Colo., in September authorized the secret ballot on the defense fund. The fund was to have been built up by raising the assessment paid by printers from W of 1 per cent of wages to l',4 per cent. '' Woodruff Randolph, (he union's firasident, told the convention that I the higher rate was rejected he would bo "thoroughly convinced that the members just do not want -to defend themselves and their Jobs and preserve the l.T.U." The Times said. No comment on the voting trend could bo oblnined at the head quarters of the parent union in Indianapolis, The Times said. The official tally of votes Is scheduled to begin Friday and to end three days later. Logger Killed as Load Chain Slips KLAMATH FALLS in -Andrew Kanna, 3d, Klamath Falls truck driver, was killed- Wednesday when a log rolled from his truck at a loading operation five miles south of Bly. Kanna was employed by the Coleman Logging Co. of Bly. Kan na reportedly was chaining the logs on the truck when the chain slipped, causing a log to roll and crush him. 1 Woman Faces Arson Charge ! THE DALLES Wl Mrs. Carol Jeari Olson, 24, indicted on a first degree arson charge by the Was co county grand jury, was grant ed a two-week postponement to plead, when arraigned in circuit court here Tuesday. The indielmont accused the woman of setting fire to the Gates Block .hotel here last July. Mrs. Olson was sentenced to six months in jail last August for causing a grass fire behind a cafe on the outskirts of the city two weeks before the hotel fire. Later, she was sent to a mental hospital, but escaped The arson indictment was re turned Tuesday. AEC Spending Millions in Radiation Surve J By JOSEPH L. MVLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) - The Atomic Energy Commission is spending many millions of dol lars in a continuing worldwide radiation survey called Project Sunshine. Other agencies studying the whole radiation field are the Na tional Academy of Sciences, the British Medical Research Council, and a 15-nation scientific commit tee of the United Nations. Project Sunshine now about three years old is particularly in terested in radioactive strontium- 90, by far the most serious global menace of nuclear explosions. Sunshine collects radioactive fallout from bomb tests at more than 90 stations in some 50 coun tries and territories. It tests soils in all of the Earth s major geo graphical regions for their SR-90 content. It also samples milk in Mississippi, England, Japan, and many other widely separated places. Practically all of the sciences are involved in Project Sunshine research on the processes by which SR-90 gels from th bomb to the person. The AECs Merrill Etsenbud has described the opera tion's scope this way: From the standpoint of its vast geographical dimensions and the variety ot scientific mechanisms involved in the investigation. Pro ject Sunshine rivals the most com prehensive scientific studies ever undertaken. No Secrets Project Sunshine's data are not secret. But it does take technical competence t,o understand and translate them. They are pour ing in and being updated all the time. The great bulk of SR-90 flune Into the stratosphere resulted from explosions in 1954, 1955, and this year. These explosions totaled 30 megatons of fission energy. Atomic Commissioner Willard F. Libby estimates that at least 7.500 megatons could be added before the world s human Inhabitants would receive one safe MPC (oc cupational) Reduce the occupational MPC 10 or 100 times, as variously pro posed by critics of the test pro grams, and you get correspond ingly lower figures for the safe megaton total. You get 750 or 75 megatons. When you consider that the 1954 U.S. Castle tests alone contributed 24 megatons, you can understand why both1 the government and scientists are concerned. The rate fell off sharply in 1955 and 1956 to an average of three megatons a year. Libby says that if tests continued for a century at this rate, mankind would get only about six-fivehundredths of an occupational MPC. At the Castle rate, however, it would be a different story. "If we tested (indefinitely, year after year) at the rate of Castle and with bombs as - dirty as Castle's we'd get in trouble," Libby says, "and we wouldn't do it." Cleaner Weapons So this country has turned to smaller, "cleaner" test weapons exploded at or near the surface to keep fallout as local as possible. One fact that has worried scien tists is that SR-90 is a worse haz ard in areas where the soil is low in calcium. The amount of radio strontium taken into plants is higher in such areas than else where. Wales is such an area. Its soil has 50 times less calcium than the average for other regions. But Project Sunshine research indicates that SR-90 acquisition by human beings is by no means di rectly proportional to th eamount of calcium in the soil. According to official estimates, Welshman should have no more than double the world average of radio stron tium. In October, Libby estimated this world average would be about four-thousandths of an occupa tional MPC when all SR-90 from tests to date had completed its slow descent and humans had taken up all they were going to. Libby said recently that new Project Sunshine data indicate this figure probably is too high and that the actual world dose will be lower. People always have been bom barded by nuclear radiations from naturally unstable atoms like radium or pottasium, and from cosmic rays. Libby says cosmic rays penetrating the body leave "tracks" similar to radio strontium's. Cosmic radiation intensity in creases with altitude. According to Libby, the effect of SR-90 on people up to now has been about the same as if everybody on Earth moved 50 feet higher. And when all of it now sus pended comes down and man gets his share, the effect will be as though everybody had moved up 5,000 feet. Or, ss Libby says, "as though everybody had moved from Wash ington to Denver." Other Producers "Tests aren't the only producers of SR-90. Peacetime atomic re actors also produce it. The Na tional Academy of Sciences says that by the time a worldwide nu clear power industry is develop ed, if it ever is, its accumulated wastes "might represent more radiation than would be released in atomic war." Such wastes are not, of course, broadcast around the world. But their existence creates a disposal problem of tremdndous magnitude wnicn isn t even close to solution now. It is the menace of SR-90 from German Auto Makes Debut in Salem . WML9 ffiMOUS . . ; I i sLf. .': '"" ' CARS" fN0Mr ' " JjiW''' Insects and disease kill ten times as many trees as do man made fires, says the National Geo graphic Society. The German-made DKW was Introduced to Salem recently at Autohaus company, 340 North nigh St. Autohaus was recently opened by Al Bowes and features the DKW line of cars and trucks, both of which "are equipped with a seven moving parts engine and front wheel drive. the big fission explosions, how ever, that worries tne scientists, inside and outside the govern ment. Suppose the nuclear arn.s race gets hotter. Suppose other nations, in addition to the United States. Russia, and Great Bri tain, get into the competition, and tests mushroom. Suppose other nations do not follow this country's example, and do not abandon testing of bombs both big and dirty. Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, writer on nuclear affairs, sees no reason to believe the test rate will be stationary. Deadline Nears Suppose, as Dr. Lapp believes, that "the upward arc of bomb testing is proceeding out of con trol." By 1962, Lapp fears, enough SR-90 may have been "commit ted to the stratosphere" to give every person or. the planet his (occupational) MrX. These possibilities may or may not be probabilities. The experts weigh them differently. And there has ben much scientific and po litical controversy over how best to seek a world curb on nuclear explosions. But there is no disagreement that eventually there must be such controls and that, in any event, all-out nuclear war must never be allowed to happen if man wants to maintain his resi dence on this planet. Some of the control problems seem at times to be almost in soluble. So also do the problems of atomic power waste disposal. But the time approaches when they must be solved when, the National Academy of Science says: ' f "We had better be ready will the answers." & Suit Charges t Wife StolerA By Hypnotic MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UP)-Stii ley Werra, 44, charges that a dar per amateur hypnotist stole bis wife's affections by conjuring ,up the spirit of '76. , Werra, in a $20,000 alienation' affection suit, accused Jacob iff. Apsel, 59, of convincing Mri. Werra that she and Apsel w$r married in a previous life during the Revolutionary Watf It was dis closed Tuesday.- (i Werra said Apsel, a formei friend and fellow machine shoi worker, put Mrs. Werra intoVa trance and talked her into believ ing this is her third life on earth. Mrs. Werra is convinced that during her first life she and Ap sel were married in 1776, and "belongs to him more than she does to her present husband1 according to Samuel Schrinsltjr, Werra's attorney. , 'A Christopher Columbus discovered Nicaragua . in 1502 on his fourth voyage to the New World p SHOP&SAVE The $pimn Stamp Way at Salem's Only Exclusive Men's Store Giving ZM' Green Stamps Capitol Shopping Center r D Beet Farmers i Nipped Short ! Sugar Supply . BOISE, Idaho Ml Western user beet farmers averted a hitherto unrcvcaled threat ol n sugar shortage in the United Stales this year. Richard W. Blake, spokesman for 60 per cent of the nation's beet growers, said Wednesday. Beginning early In the fall, he aid. a combination ot natural di saster, a longshoremen's strike and world unrest had threatened to reduce or cut off much of the nation's usual foreign supplies of sugar. . The threatened sugar shortage was revealed by Blnko at the ll!h annual meeting of the National Bret Growers Federation. He is executive secretary of the federation which consists of 18 major beet growers associations In nine Western stales. American bee' farmers provided over 310 million pounds mure su gar than they had been depended upon to provide this year in order to prevent shortages In Eastern markets, Blake said. "But while we did this job, we feel that our returns were less than they should have been," he laid, "because marketing methods ere not as efficient as they should te" He said his organization will press for immediate changes in marketing practices to bring "more equitable" returns to the American sugar farmers. 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