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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
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with the business and office
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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area of the United States is not
adequately mapped according to
the U. S. geological survey.
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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.
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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.
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