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Economical Method For Transform.no w Sea Water To Fresh Water Far Away Washington, Jan. 24 iU.PJ Engineers laid today it may be poisible to find a cheap way to transform sea water into fresh water on a big scale. But, they added, it will take a long time. Government officials, from President Truman on down, hope the engineers are right about being able to do the job cheaply because they look to sea water as an answer to future water shortages. In fact, Mr. Truman asked congress in his 1951 fis cal budget for $500,000 for such research. Cost Prohibitive It long has been possible to convert sea water into drinking water. But, engineers said, the initial cost of doing it on a big scale is a 1 m o s t prohibitive about $1 a gallon. For example, the engineers said, it would cost more than $1,000,000,000 to build plants and pipes to handle New York city's requirements of about 920, 000,000 gallons a day. Greatly increased use of water for home, industrial and irriga tion uses has underlined the ne cessity of finding new sources of fresh water. Mr. Truman emphasized that point in his budget message And Secretary of Interior Os car L. Chapman wrote recently that California will have reached the limits of its normal water supply by 1975. By then, Chap man said, California will be us ing more than one trillion gal lons of water a year for indus trial and drinking purposes. He They have all the ap peal and charm of the Valentines of yester year. You will be de lighted and thrilled for here is "Something different." Swems BOOK & GIFT SHOP 217 E. Main - Medford said this means that new sources of supply will have to be found. Nitt Don Work - So far, the navy has done all of the government's experiment al work with sea water. It has installed distilling units on ships and on some Pacific islands. There is another method, known as ion. exchange through chemistry. This method was used during the war on life rafts for shipwrecked sailors and downed airmen. Through this method survivors could produce a few quarts of drinkable water from the sea with a distilling kit. But it was expensive. Griscom-Russcll company, of New York, has done-most of the work for the navy. Engineers for that company estimate that they could produce distilling units which would produce be tween 60,000,000. and 120,000, 000 gallons of water daily for New York. "The cost would be very high," Kenenth Ris, president of the company, said. "But it could be done with our present equip ment. The original cost would be in excess of $60,000,000 for such plants, but the fuel costs would n't be too high once the plant got under way." Explosion Rips Through College Dorm ' Houston, Tex., Jan. 24 (U.R) Homicide officers today ques tioned students for clues to who set off a homemade bomb in a Rice Institute dormitory. The bomb blew a two-foot hole in the wall of a second floor corridor. The blast ripped four doors from their hinges and broke several windows. There were no casualties, but police said "everyone in the vi cinity" could have been killed had the bomb been placed in a "strategic" position. Police believed the bomb was made by someone who "wasn't a complete amateur." It was constructed by packing a pound of TNT in a short pipe. Pieces of brick and papers were stuffed on top of the explosive. Rice Institute President Will iam V. Houston maintained a belief that the bomb was ex ploded by a prankster. One student commented: "Prank, hell. That stuff was like shrapnel." 1,000 Pickets Patrol Carlsbad Potash Plant Carlsbad, N. M., Jan. 24 (U.R) More than 1,000 pickets patrolled the strikebound Carlsbad potash plants today as a company back-to-work deadline passed without a noticeable break in the two-month-old strike. A spokesman for the "Big Three" potash companies esti mated that between 350 and 400 workmen went through the ?icket lines this morning. About 00 of them, they said, were members of the striking CIO Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' union. More than 1,500 union mem bers struck last November 19 for higher, wages and better working conditions. Use Mail Tribune Want Ada i . Dorothy Nicholls, member of the Episcopal Church's Na tional Youth Commission who is the new chairman of the Ad visory Youth Committee of Church World Service. Logging Conclave Slated For Next Month At Chico Sierra-Cascade Logging con ference will conduct its first an nual meeting on February 2, 3 and 4 at Chico, CaU airport, combining a pine logging equip ment show and a "rigger's round table," according to A. A. Laus mann and George Flanagan, Medford, Rogue ' River district directors. The theme will be "How Can We Reduce Logging Costs." Speakers planned are E. J. Regan, California state senator; P. A. Thompson, United States forest service regional forester; DeWitt Nelson, California state forester; Walter S. Johnson, American Box company; W. S. Rosecrans, California board of forestry; Charles T. Gray, Stock ton Box company, and William R. Schofield, California Forest Protective association. Varied Subjects Subjects will include stump age, forest practice, road build ing, fall and bucking, yarding and loading and hauling, unload-, ing and decking. Advance registration indicates a large attendance, the two di rectors reported. They said hotel space is being filled up rapid ly and suggested that those plan ning to go from this area make reservation arrangements as soon as possible. In order to coordinate travel and hotel reservations, Flanagan and Lausmann have advised log gers of this district to inform L. L. Simpson so that he can tell conference officials. His telephone numbers are 2-7481 and 2-2364. Fills Need The new organization, a sub sidiary of the Pacific Logging conference, fills a long felt need for the pine operators of Cal ifornia and for the Rogue and Klamath River areas of Oregon, the two men said. H. R. Crane, Corning, Cal., is president. Special arrangements are be ing made to provide transporta tion by car or bus to Chico from Gerber for those who travel to the conference by train. Letter From Washington y HARRIS ILUWORTH Mambar f Caaicaaa tnm Orafaa The question of U. S. foreign policy, with interest sharply fo cused as the result of tne aban donment of Formosa by the Tru man administration, has been the top subject of discussion here lately. One member of the house called attention to Truman's statement that "today, the free people of the world nave new vigor and new hone for the cause of peace." That, the member pointed out, is ridiculous in view of the fact that at the close of the war in 1945 the Russian gov ernment controlled 180.uuu.uuu people. In 1948 the expansion of the iron curtain area included 450,000,000 people. Today, after the fall of China to Russian domi' nation, the Soviet government rules 800,000,000. Certainly those people are not free people. Sure ly they cannot honestly be said to have new hope and vigor. For a long time I have resent ed the use of the ohrase "our bi partisan foreign policy." There never has been, in fact, any part nership between the administra tion and republicans on import ant foreign policy matters. The most recent example of the out right refusal of the administra tion and the state department to cooperate was the announcement regarding Formosa which came without warning. Republicans were not a party to the crime in Asia. SCHOOLS, especially high Uranium Production Talks Scheduled London, Jan. 24 (U.R) Amer ica, Britain and Belguim will be gin talks in Washington January 30 on matters of mutual inter est in connection with atomic energy, the foreign office an nounced today. The talks were expected to center around uranium produc tion in the Belgian Congo, now earmarked entirely for the United States. A foreign office spokesman declined to discuss the possib ility that Britain was asking for a share of the Congo produc tion. Belief that the talks would re volve around the Congo uran ium was strengthened by the fact that Canada will not take part in the talks. The spokesman would not say on whose initiative the talks were scheduled. He said, they would be held on the "ambassa dorial level." He also said there were no plans for an allied conference on production of a hydrogen bomb. The Grange Pomona Grange Regular meeting of Jackson County Pomona Grange will be held at Bellvlew Grange Janu ary 28 at 10 a.m. Dinner will be served by, ladles of Bellview; those attending are to bring sal ads and desserts. Greenville, Tex., Jan. 24 (U.R) Police authorities said they had no leads today on the theft of upwards of $50,000 in industrial diamonds from an oil well sup ply firm yesterday. j,v v.. . - i ljusf-saw he NEW DESOTO I just drove it w a jwtkv vA. ii AJuwj? 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Every Wtdnetday night over all CBS ttlim HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 SOUTH RIVERSIDE, MEDFORD - PHONE 2-5203 schools, may be Interested in knowing about a chart which has recently been produced by the bureau of land management of the department of interior. This chart shows clearly and graphic ally, the distribution of the land of the United States how it was distributed, when it was par celled out, and by what act of congress. The data is complete from the beginning of our gov ernment under the Constitution down to date. Ortb of these charts can be obtained either by writing me or directly to the bureau. ' . . CONGRESSMAN John Taber of New York, former chairman of the house appropriations com mittee in the 80th congress, points out that the budget amount requested by the presi dent is actually nearly $51 bil lions. Mr. Taber figures it this way: "If you add the new appro priations that he is asking for, including the contract authori zations, the deficiency which this congress is asked to provide, the new authorization which thus congress is asked to provide, and the items provided for In new legislation carrying an over-all picture of what the president is asking the congress to give him in this session, you get a total of $50,833,000,000." The cash requests, he says, are really $9 billion more than the cash provided by the extravagant first session of this 81st congress. Tuesday, January 24, 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TTVK ....AROUND HOLLYWOOD r VIRGINIA Unitao" Pitas Hollywood, Jan. 24 (U.R) The big noises of the Musicians' union opened for business today in w n a t they declared was the country's fanciest office building. The building has pink pil lars, glass walls, tropical g a r d ens and e x e cuti v e s ' desks to suit their personalities. Virginia "There isn't MacPhtrwa a union in the country that has offices like this," Kelly Shugart, a union representative, said. "In fact, this Is a better looking building than the bosses have." The union unveiled Its $5, 000,000 headquarters with a party for 15,000 guests, a 12 hour continuous television broad cast, a transcontinental radio show featuring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Lionel Barrymore, and a platform across Vine street to accommodate the fans. "We've been saving up for this," Shugart said proudly, "for 55 years. We started over a cigar store. Now we are up to the caliber of management." As a result, the union hopes it may be able to talk more money out of them. "It makes them feel better M.cPHIRSON CwraspMalaiit coming to a fine place like this to negotiate," Shugart explained. "We felt embarrassed and at a disadvantage before." The saffron yellow building, backed up to a movie studio in the heart of Hollywood, has a pink-pillared lobby, a tropical patio, and a plush 700-seat audi torium on the main floor. Sound proof rehearsal halls and a rum pus room, also sound-proof, are in the basement. On the second floor are the wood-panelled offices, including one with a circular desk for President J. K. (Spike) Wallace, 71, who was one of the original Paul Whiteman men. "Petrillo's office doesn't equal this," Shugart noted. Personality In Mind "The desks were designed with the personality of the de partment in mind. For instance, the president's completely sur rounds him." The Los Angeles local, second only to New York's in size, has 14,500 members. The money for the building was saved from dues of $1 a month and $50 initiation fee. Besides the national radio show, the opening ceremonies Saturday afternoon Included a 12-hour local radio broadcast, an 85-plcce band with 10 directors working in relnys, 13 orchestras and 30 dance bands. The national union head. James Petrillo, was invited but didn't come. "He'i a great negotiator," Shu gart explained, "but he doesn't particularly take an Interest." China's mung bean, source of the tender sprouts that make chop suey and other Oriental dishes exotic, achieved commer cial importance as an American crop during World War II. Grown almost exclusive in Okla homa, it reached a production peak , of 24,200,000 pounds la 1945.. YOUR OWN GOOD TASTE will tell you why so many thousands have swltchad to milder, lighter Qgjyg CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whisk -8S.8 Proof-e.5 drain Neutral Bptrlta. divert Distillers Corp.. New Tort City BROADLOOM CARPETS There Is Every Indication That Wholesale Carpet Prices Will' Advance in February SAVE NOW On Carpeting of Your Choice! 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