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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Some Scientists Question Whether li-Oomb Possible Now or Any Time Washington U.R) The big question about the hydrogen bomb today appears to be: What kind of hydrogen do you use? Ever since the super bomb be came a headline, U not a tact, scientists have been coming up with conflicting answers to such Questions as: Can it be made? If it can, how soon? What would it cost? woum it be worth the money and ei- fnrt? It is agreed that the only way to set off a hydrogen bomb would be to use the multi-million de gree heat of a bursting atomic bomb to trigger it. The hydrogen explosion would have to "go in a hurry. Otherwise the whole assembly would scatter and the tremendous temperatures and Pressures required would fade efore the hydrogen reaction got started. Diffarent Forms Where there has been disagree ment on other aspects, the rea son apparently is that scientists were talking about different Historical Group Elects Officers, Appoints Curator Miss Claire Hanley, Jackson ville, was re-elected president of the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Inc., at the annual meet ing of the organization held last evening in the Jackson county court house. J. P. Wells. Ash land, was elected vice-president, succeeding Robert Dodge of the same city, who had notified the nominating committee that he would be absent from the valley much of the coming year. Mrs. Edith M. Gifford, Medford. was elected secretary and Frank De Souza, Medford, was re-elected treasurer. The following directors were re-elected: E. W. Kubll, Apple gate; A. C. VanGaldcr, Jackson ville; Bert Lowry, Medford; E. C. Ferguson, Medford; Ralph Billings, Ashland; A. E. Powell, Central Point; Walter Leverette, Medford. Mrs. J. H. Cochran, Medford, was chosen to succeed William Ferry, Eagle Point, who declined to seek a second term because of 111 health. Another director will be named at a later date to succeed A. E. Voorhies, Grants Pass, who resigned. Curator Chosen At a meeting of the board following the general meeting, it was voted to employ Mrs. Myrtle P. Lee, Jacksonville, as curator for the Jacksonville museum. Mr. Lee, presently employed in the credit depart ment of Mann s store, will re ceive training from Earl E. Pat terson, of the Oregon Historical society's museum in Portland, who has been here since early in May, helping set up the Jack sonville museum. Mrs. Lee is a descendant of Jackson county pioneers, having been born in Jacksonville, the daughter of Henry G. and Mamie L. D. Dox. Her maternal grand father, Silas Johnson Day, came to San Francisco as a soldier with General Fremont and was stationed at Camp Far West when gold was discovered at Sutter's Fort. When his enlist ment ran out he ran pack trains to Shasta City and Inter to Ore- f:on City, his "train being the first nto Jacksonville when the gold rush started there. In 1852 he took up a donation land claim on Little Butte creek where he made his home until settling in Jacksonville. He served in Capt. Miles F. Alrorn's company "G" Oth regiment of the Oregon mi litia during the Indian war in 1855 and Inter served terms as county assessor, county clerk and rounty judRe of Jackson county Retiring to private life in 1884, Mr. Day established the first ab stract company in southern Ore gon, conducting the business un til his death in 1909. Mrs. Lee's father was cashier and bookkeeper of the Beekman Banking House in Jacksonville from 1900 to 1916 when the in stitution was closed because of the death of the owner. Appointee Qualified Mrs. Lee has had considerable experience in business and In clerical work and served last year as editor of the Credit Wom en's national publication. The historical society direc tors, in announcing the appoint ment of Mrs. L,ee last evening, stnted they felt fortunate In se curing the services of a pioneer descendant. Intensely Interested In Jackson county hlstorv and with the business and office work experience, necessary to Conduct the mumetim. Reserved for You! GASH COURTESY CONVENIENCE When You Need a Lean $50 to $500 You may have ai long ai 24 Months to Repay Sec AMERICAN FINANCE CORPORATION Ream 210-211 ImntH Bld . license M-J62 license S-UJ PHONI 2-8886 forms of hydrogen. Hydrogen, the lightest ele ment, exists naturally in two atomic weights hydrogen 1 and hydrogen 2. Hydrogen 2, called deuterium, is twice as heavy as the other. But it is scarce. In 5,000 parts of natural hydrogen only one part is the heavy kind. There is a third kind, hydro gen 3, called tritium. It is three times as heavy as ordinary hy drogen. It is man-made, produced by nuclear reactions in the same kind of piles that produce the man-made atomic explosive, Plu tonium. Hydrogen 1 is plentiful. It is a rich nuclear fuel. The sun and stars use it. But scientists say it won't work In a bomb. It reacts too slowly. Timing Important Hydrogen 2 can be produced easily in large quantities. It, too, is a powerful atomic fuel. Get it hot enough and it will react with itself in a split second where or dinary hydrogen takes millions of years. But even a split thou sandth of a second is a long time perhaps too long as nuclear explosion rates go. Tritium is expensive ana its production slow. Some atomic experts say it is far too hard to get ever to be useful for wea pons. But, they add. it would be ideal otherwise. It reacts swiftly. In combination with deuterium it would release considerably more blast energy in less time than deuterium with deuterium. But Dr. Robert F. Bacher, for mer member of the atomic energy commission, has pointed out that tritium product ion would cut into plutonium output. On the theory that Plutonium bombs are good enough for all practical military purposes. Bacher questioned the wisdom of diverting piles from plutonium to tritium production. In the earlv davs of H-bomb discussion, most scientists as sumed that the explosive would be hydrogen 2 (deuterium) Drob- ably in combination with lithium tor space-saving purposes. Heine's Juniors Miss Rose Festival Contest Bliss Heine's iunlors returned from the Portland Rose festival early Sunday, and Heine said today that circumstances pre vented them from getting to their parade place on time, thus eliminating them from competi tion. However, he renorted. Col. Krista Stelle was presented with a metal head soloist baton for outstanding work, and a perfect attendance record over a long period of time. The Juniors will lead the bi cycle safety parade Friday, and will meet at the armory at 12:45 p.m. that day in uniform, leaving at 1:13 p.m. for the starting place. AH classes will be resumed as usual Saturday at which time the class schedule and other par ades and activities will be an nounced. Fifty-six, including chaper- ones, made the Portland trip. Overdue P7of Lands Safely at K. Falls Klamath Falls, Ore.. June 13. (U.Rl Pilot Walter Stewart of Red Bluff. Cal., landed safely here last night after being over due three hours on a flight to Ontario. Ore. Stewart's estimated time of arrival at Ontario was 11:54 a.m. It was feared he might have crashed after he failed to arrive in the eastern Oregon city by 4 p.m. Pay In Easy Installments Right now It the BEST time to give your home that paint coat that meant to much in appearance and protection . . and here't your opportunity to do it and pay in montht to comet Two Coats of DEPENDABLE Lowe Bros. Paint PAY NOTHING DOWN Only $3.17 Per Month Average Size Home BIG PINES LUMBER CO. Sixth and Fir Phone 2-6251 Tuesday. Junt 13, 1950 w. si (Acme Telrphato) GOLFING WHIZ KID-n Mackey Jr 26-year-old unem ployed professional from Birming ham, Ala., kisses the golf ball thai gave him a record-shattering six under par 64 In the opening round of the U. S. Open championship m Ardmore, Pa. It was the best round ever carded In the 50-year history of the tourney. Education Board Favors Plan for Teacher Training Portland, Ore., June 13 (U.R) The state board of higher educa tion has again indorsed the rec ommendation of Dr. Henry Gunn, director of elementary teacher training in Oregon, that all elementary training be con fined to the three colleges of edu cation. The colleges are at Monmouth, La Grande and Ashland. Board Chairman Edgar Smith, Portland, had asked members to add elementary teacher training at the Vanport extension center. Dr. R. G. Langston, professor of education at the University of Oregon and soon to take over as president of Eastern Oregon College of Education, argued for quality as well as quantity train ing of teachers. "Most states and most educat ors agree there is a common core of general and teacher education which should be the foundation for all people going into educa tion," Dr. Langston said. Pistol-Toting 'Tough' Guy Stared Down by Victims in Cleveland Cleveland, O. (U.R) A pistol toting robber was stared down twice in the same evening as he Jittered through two holdup at tempts. The trembling tough guy first tackled a delicatessen. He or dered two bottles of pop and managed to fumble his pistol from his pocket while the pro prietor went to the cooler. The owner Mike Manseur, let liy with one of the bottles, aiming at the robber's head. He missed but the robber went scooting down the street. Two hours later the man tried another delicntesssen but its owner, Carl Honeberger, just stared at him. The robber stared back uncertainly for a few se conds, then broke and fled. Oklahoma officials are mak ing a complete inventory of slate-owned property, probably the first in 43 years of state hood. The inventory is expected to take more than a year. -.4 Rg Trace of Atlantis Continent Sought By Englishman London (U.R) Egerton Sykes, 55-year-old explorer and former British diplomat, hopes to start soon on his long-cherished ex pedition to the Azores in search of the lost continent of Atlantis. Sykes, who is chairman of the Atlantean Research Center, has been seeking to finance his search for Atlantis since last June, when he was disappointed in his endeavor to lead an ex pedition to Mout Ararat in Tur key to find the original Noah's Ark. The Ararat expeditions, he be lieves, was blocked partially by international diplomacy because the soviet press charged that his avowed mission of seeking the Ark was a cover for espionage activities. Hopes No Difficulties He hones, however, that no such difficulties will prevent his going to the Azores some time this year to try to photograph evidence of the submerged con tinent of Atlantis from a bathy sphere. Sykes had planned the ex pedition earlier but was delayed by security considerations which placed on the top secret list some of the underwater appara tus he intended to use. The apparatus included underwater radar and echo sounding devices which Sykes said could have been used to determine a contour of any submerged architectural structure. Sykes now hopes to get pic tures of the relics of the van ished civilization of Atlantis by using submarine cameras from a bathysphere. "I have a fairly good idea where to look," he said. "Obvi ously we cannot hope to find very much because the area in the Azores I plan to investigate would have been high on a mountainside in Atlantis. 'It will be much the same as an explorer of the future relying on relics on the upper slopes of Mount Blanc in the Alps to prove the existence of civilization in Europe." He tmnks, however, there should be traces, perhaps even a temple which will give photo graphic proof of a civilization which vanished about 10,000 years before Christ. From a mass of scientific data he has amassed on the subject Sykes is convinced the Atlan teans built pyramids like the Egyptians and carved elephant figures like Indians. He said: It may be possible for me to dredge something of this kind to the surface. I simply want to obtain evidence to prove that it would be worthwhile to arrange large expedition to make a complete survey." Every tree, shrub and flower to be found in North or South America has its prototype in San Francisco's Golden Gate park. in DAILY SCHEDULES and SERVICES Effective June 18 STREAMLINER "Citv of Portland" Fastest train East. Latest departure, earliest arrival. No Extra Fare. EASTBOUND Lv. Portland 5:30 p.m. Ar. Chicago 11:30 a.m. WESTBOUND NEW SCHEDULE Lv. Chicago 5:30 p.m. Ar. Portland 7:30 a.m. "PORTLAND ROSE" Convenient through service to Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, and Chicago , . . direct connections for Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Texas, Southwest and East. EASTBOUND NEW SCHEDULE Lv. Portland Ar. Denver 8:30 8:00 11:15 Ar. Kansas City WESTBOUND Lv. Kansas City Lv. Denver Ar. Portland 1 1:30 5:30 6:15 "IDAHOAN" Fast schedule with through service connecting with the "City of St. Louis" Streamliner for Denver, Kansas City. St. Louis. Direct connections for Salt Lake City, Texas, Omaha, Chicago, East and South. EASTBOUND NEW SCHEDULE . Example Lv. Portland B:10"am. Friday Ar. Denver 7:45 p.m. Saturday Ar. Kansas City 7:45 a.m. Sunday Ar. St. Louis 1 :00 p.m. Sunday WESTBOUND NEW SCHEDULE Lv. St. Louis 4:00 pm. Friday Lv. Kansas City 9 30 p m. Friday Lv. Denver 7:45 a m. Saturday Ar. Portland 4:40 p.m. Sunday The "SPOKANE" Coach and new Pullman accommodations to Spo kane. EASTBOUND NEW SCHEDULE Lv. Portland 0 45 p m. Ar, Spokane 7:00 a.m. WESTBOUND NO CHANGE Lv. Spokane 9:30 p.m. 7:00 a.m. (All Schedules Shown are Standard Time) For Complete Travel Information, Consult GENERAL AGENT 201 Ardil Office 3J East 10th Ave., Eugene Phone 4440 VtfiuuUtU luHUfivxtotio "St SHetfU . . . Stf UNION PACIFIC CBS Technician Strike Cancels Television Shows New York, June 13 (U.R) Co lumbia Broadcasting System ex ecutives manned television cam eras today to substitute for tech nicians whose sudden strike can celled six television shows. The executives were pressed into service at 7 p.m. EDT last night when 335 engineers, mem bers of the AFL electrical work ers union, walked out of the New York studios in a contract dis pute over working conditions. CBS radio programs were not af fected. Substitutions Mad. The strike forced cancellation of "The Goldberts," "Studio One," and four shorter programs. Solo entertainers and movies were substituted, including a film transcription of a Fannie Brice show not scheduled for re lease until next Monday. It was Miss Brice's television debut. Howard Meighan, CBS region al vice president, said he under stood sympathy walkouts had been planned at seven network owned stations, but operations were reported normal at all but station KNX. Hollywood, where 32 technicians went on strike. Fisherman Perfecting Automatic Caster With Motor Made of Rubber Birmingham, Ala. (U.R) S i d Rowe, who has spent 50 years fishing, has designed an auto matic caster. The three-and-a-half foot cast ing apparatus is a more or less square aluminum tube which at taches to his rod. The motor is a strong, thin rubber band. The band is stretched over a roller inside the front end of the caster. A winder pulls back the bait cup on top of the caster by a heavy cord. A trigger, similar to one on a rifle, releases the line. It zooms out 50 feet or more to its objective. The line is rewound by an automatic winder. Dentist Fills Teeth In Washing Machine Lagrange, I n d. (U.R) James K. Duff, a dentisf, had a patient which showed no pain whatso ever to tooth-filling. It was the timing gear of an automatic washing machine, brought to his office to have four defective teeth repaired. Duff filled the holes in tne teeth with a new plastic used to fill human teeth. The gear now is in perfect working order. NATIONALISTS ARRESTED Hone Kong, June 13 (U.R) The Communist New China News Agency said today that comunist police had arrested more than 40 umnese nationalist agents in the communist capital of Peiping. The agents were accused of spy ing, sabotage and counterfeiting. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at Noon Saturdays. IMPORTANT CHANGES! NO CHANGE Ev ample Friday Sunday Friday Sunday Example Friday Sunday Sunday Friday Saturday Monday p.m. a.m. p.m. NO CHANGE p.m. p.m. a.m. Broadway Player Tells Hollywood, Tome and Get Me' New York (U.R) Danny Scholl, rising Broadway musical comedy player, is looking west ward with his thumb to his nose these days and telling Hollywood to "come and get me." Scholl, who whirled to promi nence in lead roles in "Call Me Mister" and the current "Texas L'il Darlin'," says he was snub bed when he tried to crash filmland a few years ago. "1 starved out there for a year-and-a-half, just begging for a chance," he said. "It was like yelling at the moon. Everyone gave me the brush-off and the same line: 'Get a name for your self'." Hollywood, Scholl concluded, is "publicity-wacky." Clippings Count "They don't care about tal ent," he said. "All they judge anyone by is his press clippings. I went out there after 'Mister' closed. I spent all the money I had saved; exhausted my unem ployment insurance, and then worked part-time in the Los Angeles post office so I could eat. "Every studio I went to told me the same thing. 'Sure, you did a fine job in Mister, but the show's closed now and you can't make a name for yourself in one show even if it is a hit,." Scholl said he finally gave up in disgust, hitch-hiked back to New York for a try-out in "Tex as" and came up with the lead. Since the show opened, the handsome, six-foot-four Cincin natian has pulled down excellent notices. About 75 per cent of the land area of the United States is not adequately mapped according to the U. S. geological survey. For ImmWWm Church Organizations, Home Economic Clubs, Civic and Social Groups An Open Letter To All CLUBS From GEORGE LOWER Publisher The MEDFORD HEWS We have the choice of hiring some outside organization to make a circulation drive for us or making the effort locally with rewards to local groups. Wc prefer the latter and it is on that basis we make this proposal: For every one-year subscription your group sells, The Medford News will pay $1.00. For every two-year subscription we will pay $1.70. The price of a one year subscription is $3.00; two-year subscriptions sell for $5.00. These subscription prices have been in effect for more than a year in ofher words we are not boosting the price of the paper in order to make this offer to you. Here is opportunity for your group to build a fund for whatever purpose they might wish. Returns could be substantial. We place no limit on the number of subscriptions or whether your returns total $10 or $1,000 or more. The only limit is on the time of the drive. It ends July 29. The offer holds good whether the subscriptions are new ones or renewals. Our only stipulation is that they be sold at the full price and the money paid to us at the time we enter the names and addresses of subscribers. That is necess sary in order to put the money through our books in full amount for tax pur poses. Then we will write a check for the group's share of the proceeds. We will do this weekly, every two weeks, or at the end of the campaign according to the group's wishes. In addition to the cash returns, we will also give a grand prize to the group turning in the most subscriptions. Watch The Medford News for succeed ing announcements, but in the meantime make your plans NOW to profit by this money-making offer. MORE MEDFORD NEWS SUBSCRIBERS MEAN MORE DOLLARS FOR YOUR CLUB Police Told of Rape Attempt Early Today An attempted rape was report ed to city police early this morn ing by a 19-year-old girl who said that a man grabbed her from behind and threw her to the ground at Jackson and Ver mont streets. According to police, the girl said she managed to get away and ran to a Jackson street resi dence. Police were called there but found no trace of the man in the neighborhood. The girl said the man was abut 5 feet 10 inches tall, had grayish hair and was wearing maroon shirt or jacket. Uio Mail Tribune Want Adi ''M?rf?tJ . iap um EXTRA VNrLL SOCKETS Don't overload your electric circuits. When you build or modernize provide ADEQUATE WIRING. See Your Electrical Contractor f ss War Babies Presenting Problem in W. Virginia Wheeling, W. Va. (U.R) War babies, born in an era of insecur ity, tension and intolerance, have posed new problems for teachers who now have then in class. The first three graders, ac cording to a survey of Ohio Valley schools, are more difficult to handle because because they lacked normal home life in earlier years. homes, both parents working and and separation of children from parental restraint as coninouuns factors. Dead line for Sunday Classified la at Noon Saturdaya. ir-MT iri 1 ll lr PUT IN VET? I r
