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Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1950 A Nicholt Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS UiiiUd Prau hilim Writw Jin I jVj Jill tUrinu Nichol Washington, Jan. 26 U.R The way my captain looks at it, the mighty mo will stay stuck in her mud puddle on the flats off Hamp ton Roads un til: 1. A stiff n o r'e a s t e r comes along or, 2. T h e y do things my cap tain's way. Enck Just, a merchant ma rine captain who has sailed the seven seas and more, admits that a good hard blow could get the job done quicker. But he thinks his idea, gath ered from experience, has merit too. "The navy, the army, and the coast guard are doing the job all wrong," he said. , The captain pushed aside his coffee and drew a diagram on his napkin. "These guys," said the old salt who came of a long line of sea men from Denmark, "have got all those tugs attached to the stern end of the ship. The way they're doing it, the prop wash from the tugs is pushing against the ship, rather than pulling the 57,000 ton battleship Missouri out of the mud. Lot of Experience "I've had a lot of experience of that kind. The thing to do is to put the steel cables on the bow and attach the tugs at that end. Then the prop wash' would be to the advantage of the op eration." Captain Just, who went to sea at 19 and stayed there 25 years, once directed the job of getting the S. S. Rollo, of 9,000 tons, off a sand bar in the bay of Biscay. "It sounds a lot easier,'' he said, "but it was the same sort of problem and we handled it like I said." Captain Just fancies himself a good cook. He learned the bus iness the hard way. He was in the South Atlantic on a square rigger when a gale came up and the cook was washed overboard. During the storm the creW had nothing to keep body and soul together but hardtack and water. When the wind died, the 3kipper called the boys aft and looked them over. He kind of went eenie-minee-mo. The "mo" point ed to Eric Just, who had never even boiled water before. He became "chief cook." Kept Crew Happy For 60 days he parboiled his face over a coal stove and kept the crew happy. They reached port pot-bellied pn the captain's cooking. Mostly hash and stew. the old tar isn t too much wor ried about the fate of the mighty Mo. Hes about to open a res taurant out west. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I sat the other day through the annual meeting of the Klam ath Production Credit associa tion, which operates on the other side of the mountains. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. It was an unforgettable lesson on what government and the people can do when they work together intelligently, wisely and with due and proper regard for sound and time-tested business principles. KPCA has been operating lor about 16 years. During that time it has loaned to the agri cultural industry of its area shade under 40 billion dollars ON THAT RATHER LARGE VOLUME OF LOANS, ITS LOSSES HAVE BEEN JUST ONE-TWENTY-THIRD OF ONE PER CENT! TO MAKE sure' that it is under stood, let's nut that this wav: For every $23 loaned by this association since it was organ ized, the bad debt loss has been only ONE CENT. As a business man, I'd like to add that I wish I could do that well with my collections. OIXTEEN years ago, when J KPCA was organized, the government came in as a stock holder and put up the bulk of tne capital with which to make the early loans. At the end of these IB years, this government money with which the pump was primed has all been RETIRED and the as sociation owns its own business. There isn't a cent of government money left in the kitty. You see. it IS possible for tree enterprise and government to work together without- govern ment swallowing up free enter prise. It all depends on how it is gone about. . ' ANOTHER thing ought to be pointed out: During the years in wnicn the government was a PART NER, the association paid no fed eral taxes. (The government, you know, doesn't tax itself.) But when the government CEASED to be a partner, which has just happened, the situation changed. Hereafter KPCA will Pages 1-6 :"f.5t -S'.'tp tAcme Teltphotol ONE MILLION IN GREENBACKS M'M Velma Demaso stacks up one million dollars to give a graphic Idea of the amount ol money stolen from Brink's. Inc., In Boston. A 1100.000 reward has been ot tered for the capture of the nine maskea men who staged the daring holdup of the armored trucking firm. The bandits also escaped with $500,000 In checks. This photo was made DEEP inside R well-guarded bank vault. have to nay federal taxes just like anybody else, because it is privately-owned. So this year it had to take a large sum out of its profits with which to pay its taxes. Because of this fact, and the further fact that as a private enterprise, ample debt reserves must be set up to lake care oi losses that might later be incur red, there were no dividends this year. ' VOU'D have thought the mem- 1 bcrs of the association might have been a little let down by this. THEY WEREN'T! They were as happy as clams because tne government has been iinauy bought out and they now own the business themselves in their own right. WH Y have these production credit associations, which operate under the federal inter mediate credit bank, worked out so successfully as a partnership between government and private business? I think this is it: They were started for the simple, businesslike purpose of finding a better and cheaper way to finance the operation of farm ers and livestock growers. So far as I have been able to learn IT WASN'T A SCHEME TO KEEP THE ADMINISTRATION IN POWER by buttering up the farmer and the livestock grower with government cash'. In their conduct, business principles, not political principles, have been followed. Santa Claus methods have been strictly eliminated So the whole thing has worn ed out very nicely indeed, and everybody is happy and a lot of good has been accomplished SPICE CAKE news.' UMy3MMctfe$ WW?? oecause Only an emulsorized shortening can give you such superb cakes with so little effort! What a gift for cake-making you'll discover when you try Emulsorized Snowdrift. This Sun-Kissed Spice Cake requires no creaming of shortening! No separate egg beating! All ingredients are mixed in the same bowb-in just 3 minute But remember: only an emulsorized shorten ing can blend your cakes so smoothly with so little time and so little effort! If you want the reward of finer-grained, richer-tasting cakes that stay moist and lus cious for days, make them with Emulsorized Snowdrift! Yes, use Snowdrift for all your bak ingbiscuits, pie crusts, cookies, and for crisp, digestible fried foods too. VtM-1""""" . .1. ffml"" -..i,k-bl- I. ,1VP 1 f . I I I I I I I I I I .era W.ttmtnuu.. p rh3w;'iip.,ou.ii--ce, , v - I AllOIf V PURE VEGETABLE SHORTENING- OFF ON WRONG FOOT Monterey, Cal. (U.R) A bride groom here started his married life off on the wrong foot. He paid for h i s marriage license with a worthless cheek. TREATY NEEDED Boston, (U.R) Padlocked by authorities because of a brawl, a tavern posted this sign: "Closed for altercations." Recipe For Hydrogen Bomb Produced By Authority On Atomic Science Washington, Jan. 26 (U.R) An authority on atomic science today produced this recipe for the so-called hydrogen bomb. 1. Take one plutonium . or uranium bomb of the kind now being manufactured. 2. Assemble a quantity of lith ium deuteride (lithium combined with heavy hydrogen) at least as great as the weight of plutonium or uranium used. 3, Arrange the lithium deuter ide so that it envelopes the plut onium or uranium at the moment of detonation. 4. Explode when and where directed. Powerful Bana The resultant bang, the anony mous but highly qualified auth ority said in an interview, will be Between two and three times as powerful as a plutonium or uranium bomb going off by it self. H will not be anywhere near 1,000 times as powerful as some discussions of the "super bomb" have suggested. To get that much power, you'd have to pour in so much additional lithium deut ride that assuming it all would "go" you'd have a bomb no conventional airplane could carry. The scientist who suggested the lithium deuteride recipe has spent a lot of time in the past decade figuring out possible energy-producing nuclear reac tions. He believes it is the lith ium deuteride bomb that Presi dent Truman and his atomic, de fense, and diplomatic advisers are now wrestling with. Decision Expected Mr. Truman's decision as to whether to go ahead with pro duction of the new bomb is ex pected fairly soon, perhaps with in the next two or three weeks. Problems posed by the new bomb include the old one of military vs. civilian control of atomic energy; the most profit able use of scientific brains. technical skills and money; and peacetime vs. military uses of nu clear lorces. Another question suggested by the probable effectiveness of the lithium deuteride bomb would be: "Is it worthwhile? Suppose it is twice or even four times as powerful as the present atomic-fission bombs. The atomic energy commission says that doubling the power of an A-bomb increases by only one fourth the radius of severe damage. Not "Absolut Weapon" Some atomic officials believe the Dresent bombs are "lough enough." But military experts say they are not an "absolute weapon." Some hydrogen reactions would release more energy than the lithium deuteride bomb. But the only one that meets all the specifications of space, time, and probability'' is, according to the recipe's author, the one involv ing use of lithium deuteride. Lithium is nature's lightest metal. It is roughly, 2,000 times as plentiful in the earth's crust as uranium, the sole raw mater ials of fission bombs. Deuterium, or heavy hydro gen, is rare in nature but can be mass produced from ordinary water. Before the war, Norway sold heavy water, made of heavy hydrogen and oxygen, for to cents a grain. Heavy hydrogen in bomb-sized amounts would not be excessively expensive. ANOTHER $100,000 SHOT Manchester. N. H. (U.R) Sen. Styles Bridges, (R., N.H.) said a recent government survey that cost $100,000 showed that only 53 per cent of American men sleep in pajamas, while 47 per cent sleep in underwear, night gowns or in the raw. There are 175,700 co-opera- The Rockefeller Foundation, tive societies in India with a to- New York, has granted a fund tal membership of nine millon to make a one-year survey of and a workng capital of about dances of India to Mrs. Raginl $350 million. Devi, well known dancer. 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