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1 4 l r ti M P fin . 1 1 mm mmfmmmmBmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tfWV''-5i? 1- V ! K 7 TfflffmTillTlllll Ma IM lillttffliiIIIIM fill hi Mil Ih ftlllll 1 M (Acme Telcphotoi 'OUR EYES DON'T PLAY TRICKS'-AIr Force Sergeant Bill Elder (left) and Bob OHara swear on the Bible or even a stack of Bibles that they saw a fantastic sky form cavorting over a mountain resort near Long Beach, Calif., for nearly two hours. Their drawing of the "pinkish, pancake-like affair with a fin on one side" is shown on the left. "Our eyes don't play tricks on us," the airmen claim. Elder was a Navy lookout during the war and O'Hara was an Air Force air-sea rescue spotter. ( Grants Pass Active Clubbers Guests Here Forty-four members of the Grants Pass Active club were guests of Medford Activians at their meeting on Thursday at the Rogue Valley Country club. Vince Vandre, lieutenant gov ernor of District 3, Active Inter national, reported to the joint session on the programs being carried out by Active clubs in the southern Oregon area. Don Safford, Grants Pass, chairman of the Active club sponsored Gladioli festival to be held there July 28 and 29, re ported on the plans and arranged for Medford Active club support of the show. Presiding at the program was Clint Bennett, president of Med ford Active club. Dr. Robert Plainer, president of Grants Pass club, spoke briefly. There were 12,758.698 hunting licenses sold for the 1948-49 seasons; thus represents an in crease of 1.366,888 over the 1947-48 period. Last Of Landscaping Demonstrations Held The last of the county land scaping demonstrations was held Friday afternoon at the Robert O'Harra home in Ashland. The meeting differed from the four other demonstrations held last week in that the shrubs were ac tually planted after the prelimi nary planning was done. Prof. I. B. Solbcrg, who is landscape architect at Oregon State college, laid out the plan and O'Harra furnished the shrubs. Anyone interested in ob serving the results of proper landscaping is urged to drive by the home at 432 Lit way, just off Highway- 66 south of Ashland. All the shrubs in the planting were high-quality balled shrubs purchased from local nurseries at a total cost of $40. Because of the interest shown in the demonstration, C. B. Cordy, county extension agent for horticulture, said an effort will be made to hold a series of similar meetings next spring. STILL MANY - BEAUTIFUL ft i to Patterns That Will Thrill You! ON SALE 3313 to 50 Off Free Yardsticks EKERSON'S Phone 2-2843 ROOFS PAINTS SIDING, INSULATION 38 S. Bartlett Science Needed to Win War With Reds, Scientists Say Sunday, March 26. 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIFTEEN (Followlnt It the tilth ot six dls-pau-hes prepared by the American Sm-lety ot Newspaper Editors' com mittee ou atomic Information In col laboration wllh the Bulletin of the Atomic scientists, and distributed by the United Press.) Scientists- believe we would have to use science to win a war with the Soviet Union.. Many believe we also need an edge in scientific weapons to keep Russia from attacking before we can achieve a. peaceable world. Prop Nuts Slale Postponed Flying Meeting Today The Medford Prop Nuts, local gas model airplane club, have announced that the free flight model airplane contest originally scheduled for last Sunday will be held today at the club's flying field on Agate desert west of Camp White and south of Bybee bridge starting at 10 a. m., and will have events for all sizes of gas engines, a rubber powered event and a towline glider event. The club has posted $153 in rimes, including three K and B Torpedo model airplane motors, and has announced that any fly er of model airplanes is eligible to fly regardless of residence or club affiliation. Tiny Motors In the gas powered events there will be four classes with the Vih class being the smallest. It is for motors with a displace ment of from .020 to .050 cubic inch. These tiny motors have a piston less than one half inch in diameter, the smallest being the K and B Infant motor with a pis ton a little over one quarter inch in diameter. The motors turn up speeds between 8,000 and 12,000 r.p.m. The Class A event is for motors with displacements be tween .051 and .199, Class B for .20 and .30, and Class C for mo tors between .30 and .65. Rubber Power Class The rubber powered event is for rubber band powered air planes with a wing area between 100 and 300 square inches. Tow- line gliders must have an area of at least 100 square inches. The new British Jetex rocket powered ships will compete in the '2A event with a permanent class to be created if enough en tries arc received. The club has announced that there will be no admission charge made and that spectators are welcome. Festival Association To Meet Here Monday Members of the board of di rectors of the Ashland Shakes pearean Festival association will j meet Monday evening at the home of Mrs. I. E. Schulcr. Plans will be made for the ninth annual presentation of the festival this August, and for landscaping of the Chautaqua shell, which is being converted into an Elizabethan theater. Gene Malecki, Salem pro moter and publicity man who has been retained to assist publiciz- ing the festival, will attend the meeting. Which Twin? (What diffarence does it mak for both should be most interested.) Beware of "Double Talk" . . . and there has been a lot of "double talk" concerning the great benefit . . , the saving . . . the progress . . . the worth of a program of government supervised (directed) Medical THAT MEANS "SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!" Look Out for that "Double Talk" GET ALL THE FACTS . . . NOW! You'll be "doubly surprised" at what this Federal Control over medicine (and over your family Doctor) really means. AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE WE URCE YOU TO CET ALL THE FACTS. Hi? (rr v m WHEN DID YOU WRITE YOUR SENATOR OR CONGRESSMAN? LATELY? Yet many scientists are con vinced that today we are de stroying, not building, our scien tific resources. In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scienists a jour nal edited by scientists who de veloped the tools of World War II one recently asked: Is the United States strangling "The geese that laid the Pluton ium eggs?" Hydrogen Eggs ' Now that the H-bomb may be on the way many scientists would ask: "Is the United States now strangling the geese that we may desperately need to lay hydrogen eggs?" These scientists believe they are being choked by secrecy re quirements where no "secrets" exist, and by FBI loyalty investi gations where "loyalty" is no issue. On March 1 the house of rep resentatives passed 247 to 125 a national science foundation bill which scientists have begged for since the end of the war to sup port basic science. The house at tached to the bill a clause re quiring FBI investigations and "clearances" for every student who would get government aid. Most scientists today are bit ter and disappointed, for they believe this requirement could be a death blow to free science in America. Most believe that a death blow to science would also be a death blow to Ameri can security. Veto Seen Possible President Truman, it has been reported, mav veto the bill if it retains the FBI clause after senate-house conference. Yet if con gress should refuse to pass any bill without an FBI clause, sci entists would mourn. It might seem "logical" to some Americans to refuse federal money to disloyal students (though no such restriction made under the GI bill of rights.) But educators say the investiga tions would swamp every college campus with fear and suspicion. Scientific spokesmen have od jected to: 1. "Lovaltv tests and invesli gations" that "probe thoughts and nrivate lives rather than deeds." Public Defamation 2. "Public defamation" by leg islative committees and some of the orcss. The editors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists be lieve the congressional Hicken looper investigation of last spring raised an uproar over a pinch of misplaced uranium but ignored the facts that "really choke prog ress." 3. Secrecy beyond security. Security, say most scientists, does not consist of calling so many things "secret" that American re search men are in effect shut up in compartments where they can not talk to each other and can not advance. The Bulletin of Atomic Scien tists last week published an issue based on the H-bomb and dis cusses our security in the light of: The possibility of the hydrogen bomb a grave threat to the United States, If Russia develops it- The case of Dr. Klaus Fuchs. the spy. Called Grim Cat This "grim" case, says the Bulletin, means soviet A-bomb work "could have begun two or three years earlier" than gen erally assumed and may have saved the Russians additional months' effort. "Atomic scientists," says the Bulletin, "are probably the most sought-after secret agents in the world." We must face the possi bility of an occasional traitor. Yet, argues the Bulletin, this should nnt lead us to erect higher super-secrecy fences and cut off relations with scientists in Bri tain. On the contrary, the Bulle tin pleads, if it is indeed true that Fuchs has stolen much of our knowledge, that Russia is rapidly overtaking us and that nur very survival is at stake then we badly need more "secur ity by achievement" and fast. Progress, says the Bulletin, "requires not tightening but re laxation of atomic security." More Cooperation Asked Progress, says the Bulletin, al so demands not less but more "cooperation with scientists in Britain and all countries." Foreign born scientists con vinced President Roosevelt that we could make an A-bomb. Brit ish and other foreign scientists played a leading roie in the proj ect. Canada leads the United States in plutonlum separation methods today. Britons lead still in several particulars. The scientist finally argue: "ft took nine years to find out Fuchs. How can the FBI find any more like him if it must check every college student get ting a teacrai scholarship? Several scientists warn that Russia is moving faster than we. "Progress of U. S. atomic re search has not been satisfactory," stated Prof. Harold C. Urey. "Every scientist in a responsi ble position is hampered or even paralyzed if he must permanent ly be on guard to defend himself against ridiculous accusations of real or imaginary violations of petty security regulations or against charges of serving com munist leanings. Partisan Attacks Rapped Another leading scientist Dr. Frederick Seitz of Illinois univer sity, who believes the nation should mobilize science immedi ately says partisan attacks on atomic energy leadership have "probably done as much to im pede progress as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." The scientists' appeals come at a time wien U. S. defenses may be in a precarious state. Many scientists maintain that a Soviet edge could make a surprise at tack so effective we might never recover. David E. Lilienthal, former AEC chairman, commented a yeaf and a half ago on the issue which the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists believe is at the heart of the matter: "The men in the Kremlin have put their blue chips on their ability to outstrip the rest of the world meaning us in science. Fire Problems Of City Told Realty Board Members Acting Fire Chief Leo Weid ncr and City Councilman Paul Sclby, chairman of the city's safety committee, were guest speakers at a meeting of the Medford Realty board at the Medford hotel Friday noon. The two officials explained de tails of the fire prevention pro gram now being worked 'out in the Medford department, and told of some of the problems which are being faced. They asked the cooperation of the realtors in achieving the goal of a city safer from fire danger than ever before. Discuss Milk Quota C. Lyall Fidlcr, president of the Medford board, led a discus sion of the state's milk quota laws. The discussion may lead to later action in regard to what were described as inequities the law. Fidlcr said. A past president's pin was pre sented to Don Herricd, head of the Realty board during 1949 the first such recognition offered to any past local president in Oregon, according to club offic ers. Similar pins are to be ob tained for presentation to Carl Tengwald and Ray Schumacher, other past presidents of the group. New Members Nino new members were in ducted into the organization at the Friday luncheon. Twenty- eight members and two guests attended. It was announced that a real estate clinic, for all realtors, brokers and salesmen in south ern Oregon, will be held in Grants Pass on May 1. The group passed a resolutiot in honor of the late Davil Holmes, who was killed in an automobile accident Thursday, in recognition or his work in be half of progress valley area. in the Rogue THIEF WITH NO HEART South Bend, Ind. (U.R) A thief broke into a March of Dimes collection booth at a street corner and took between $2 and $3 contributed for polio victims. National parks were visited by a record 31,864,180 people during 1949. mums. now raoMonoN MANAOM lootivm hot .. FK ANO SALMON roaruuw, ohkon ' I hear there Is rumor bout that I have retired from the hotel business. As one of my old friends in Canyon City used to say when anyone asked him If he was getting married, "T'aln't likely to." No sir, I am not retired, and any time you come to Portland you'll And me at my desk in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel, operated by my daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ed FeUig. I am promotion manager, and my little newspaper, "The Inn-Side News," will continue to reach subirrlberi from the Roosevelt Hotel, S. W. Park and Salmon, Portland, Oregon. I know you'll like the Roosevelt and the L'Abbe restaurant. We're close to downtown, but we're out of the heavy traffic district, and you can get a good night's sleep here. Pretty easy to And parking placet, too. Next time you're In town, drop in and say hello. SAMARITAN ROBBED Tacoma, Wash. (U.R) Danny Harlloff Jr. parked his car Bnd went to the aid of a truck driver whose vehicle was stalled. When he returned to his car his gold plated saxaphone, valued at $125, had been stolen. RMY KEEPS CLEAN Fort Lewis, Wash. (UP) The 'ocal army post laundry an lounced that since it began oper ition in 1941 it has handled ap proximately 212.840.000 pounds. New and Ued Office Desks, Files, Chairs Adding Machines and Typewriters For Rent We Repair All Makes Medford Office EQUIPMENT CO. 41 S. 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