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
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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
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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
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life off on the wrong foot. He
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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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