TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday Jun 8, 1933
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Rainmaker and Associates
Disclaim Responsibility
For East's Wet Weekends
By JOSEPH L. MYLER
Washington (U.R) You can
stop blaming rainmaker Irving
Langmuir ior those wet week
ends we've been having.
Dr. Langmuir hasn't been in
the rainmaking business lor
nearly a year, now, so the
blame isn't his.
A while back Langmuir said
out in Tucson, Ariz., that when
he and his associates seeded
clouds in the west on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday, it
rained in the east on Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday.
A lot of people, reading what
Langmuir said, wished fervent
ly that he and his cloud-seeders
would pack up their dry ice and
crawl into a deep-freeze or
something.
Project Ended in '51
What the dispatches did not
note is the fact that the cloud
seeding project Langmuir was
talking about came to an end in
July, 1951. The seeding he did
was part of Project Cirrus, sup
ported by the Army and the Of
fice of Naval Research.
Langmuir's theory stems
from seeding carried out per
iodically from December, 1949,
to last July. He contends that his
once-a-week . seeding - in New
Mexico caused seven-day rain
cycles in this half of the country.
The weather bureau thinks
he's wrong and has told him, cit
ing its reasons. But many per
sons figured he might be right
and, believing he was still mess
ing with the weather, complain
ed to their congressmen.
Wants Dry Week Ends
Sen. Blair Moody (D-Mich.)
demanded on Saturday that De
fense Secretary Robert A. Lov
ett make Langmuir change his
timing so the senator's Michi
g a n constituents could have
some dry week ends.
As a matter of fact, Langmuir
did change his seeding days once
while the project was still going
on. According to his way of
thinking, the change should
have been reflected by a shift in
rainy days in the east. Dr. Harry
Wexler, chief of the weather bu
reau's Scientific Services divis
ion, said this was the "acid test"
of Langmuir's seven-day cycle
theory.
Analysed Mora Data
But, said Wexler, "We analyz
ed a lot more data than Lang
muir had access to and we could
find no evidence of the shift."
It is true, Wexler said, that in
the 18 months of Langmuir's
seeding experiments seven-day
rain cycles did show up at times
in the east.
But such cycles "are by no
means unusual" and, he added,
study of records going back 40
to 50 years show they have oc
curred frequently in the past,
"long before cloud-seeding ever
was thought of."
One thing is certain: You
can't blame Langmuir ior this
spring's spoiled picnics. He has
n't been testing his theories this
year.
Draff Board Rules
Against Bible Quofe
Greenville, S. C. (U.R) A 20-
year-old newly-married youth
called on the Bible in appealing
his 1-A draft classification before
the selective service board here.
The husband in' requesting re
classification, cited the fifth
verse from the 24th chapter of
Deuteronomy which reads:
"When a man hath taken a
new wife, he shall not go out to
war, neither shall he be charged
with any business, but he shall
be free at home one year and
shall cheer up his wife which he
hath token."
The board refused to grant the
request on the grounds that se
lective service laws must take
precedence.
ALVS NEXT?-Liliana ZaHeranI,
17-year-old stenographer of Milan,
Italy, told newsmen that Aly Khan
proposed to her and "I am going
to say yes." She said the prince
wants to marry her after he and
Rita Hayworth are divorced.
Family Argument
Ends in Shooting
Of Portland Man
Portland (U.R) Mcivin
Evans, 51, was jailed on a mur
der charge Saturday after ad
mitting shooting his 26-year-old
step-son with a rifle at the height
of a family argument.
The victim, Roy Baker, died
at Good Samaritan hospital fol
lowing the shooting in the lam
ily's duplex apartment. Baker's
mother, Mrs. Elmeater Evans,
45, and her cousin, Mrs. Stella
Jackson, 44, Klamath Falls, were
held as material witnesses.
Police said Baker entered the
apartment early Saturday and
apparently was upbraided by
Mrs. Evans for his drinking and
indifference toward contributing
to support of the family. The
mother said he struck her sev
eral times as his anger mounted
ana sne obtained a rifle from a
cabinet.
Evans had awakened by that
time and wrestled the rifle from
his wife and stepson.
Evans ordered Baker from the
house, but the stepson who
wore a hook in place of his right
hand which was amputated a
year ago was quoted as saying,
"I'll knock your head off with
this hook."
The stepfather fired the rifle
at pointblank range.
Aosla, Italy (U.R) Four
persons were killed here Mon
day by a landslide which threat
ened to cause a flood in the Bio
naz valley near the Swiss border.
17,278 Oregonians
In Traffic Court
During 5 Months
Salem (U.R) Driving viola
tions of Oregon motorists kept
file clerks and typists in the state
drivers license division busy in
the first five months of this year,
officials have reported.
In that time, the division re
corded 17,278 traffic violation
convictions on driving records of
Oregonians. The figure exceeds
that for the similar period last
year by nearly 2000.
Spots Trouble-Makers
Keeping tabs on traffic convic
tions makes it possible for li
cense officials to spot potential
highway trouble-makers, the di
vision said. If a driver becomes
what is known as a "repeater,"
his driver's license may be sus
pended. May convictions alone totaled
3762, a figure surpassed to date
only by the 4721 convictions re
ported in March.
232 Licenses Suspended
During May the secretary of
state's department suspended 232
licenses after court convictions
of driving while drunk, and 20
for reckless driving.
Other reasons for suspension
last month included: violation of
the basic rule. 11; hit and run, 4:
failure to yield right of way, 2;
and driving record too many ao
cidents or violations, 5.
TRAIN HAS BIRTHDAY
Chicago (U.R) Individual birth
day cakes were served to about
500 passengers of the Illinois
Central's Panama Limited as the
train celebrated its 10th anniver
sary as a streamliner. The rail
road said that the train, which
runs between Chicago and New
Orleans, has run about 7,000,000
miles on 7,306 trips.
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