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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1952)
State Gambling Law 'Said Disgraceful Portland (U.R) Oregon's pari mutuel law permitting gambling on horse and dog races has been a disgrace since its inception, the Presbyterian synod of Oregon declared Tuesday at its annual meeting. The delegates , unanimously supported the report on gam bling, which also called on law enforcement officers to live up to their oaths of office and en force present gambling laws. The synod suggested the full use of the state law permitting children to be released from school studies one hour a week for religious instruction to help stem juvenile delinquency. Vacuum Cleaners SERVICE & REPAIR ALL MAKES Duif Bags, Filters etc. Phone 2-4998 CM II Metal Box To Tell Chance of Life In Atomic Explosion Wednesday. June 25, 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB Sacramento U.R A small metal box, known as a "color metric dosimeter," that can de termine your chance for life or death in an atomic attack, is being developed by the Univer sity of California at Los Angeles. The two-inch black box is a chemical radiation detector and contains three tubes of purple liquid. Each tube is set to ab sorb a certain amount of radia tion without change. Tubes Tell Story After that point if one tube turns yellow you'll survive if given blood plasma and treat ment. If two tubes turn yellow there's a slightly less than 50 Der cent chance you'll survive. If all three tubes turn yellow 99 chances out of 100 you 11 be dead within six weeks. Development of the device Is being supervised by Dr. Stafford Warren, dean of the UCLA medi cal school and California's of ficial radiological expert. State civil defense officials saidfvery Californian may some day wear one around his neck like an army dog-tag. 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Dr. Warren said before the boxes become acceptable for public use the Federal Bureau of Standards must give them ap proval and the $2.50 per unit cost must be brought down to 25 or 50 cents. Liquid Defined The purple liquid contained in the box is potassium hydrox ide, chloroform and a special litmus-type dye. The tubes are made of a special pyrex to pre vent radiation from minerals in the glass itself. ' When enough injurious gam ma rays penetrate the liquid, part of the potassium compound changes structure. It combines with the chloroform to produce hydrochloric acid which turns the dye from purple to yellow. Yreka Copco Manager Retires This Month Yreka, Calif. O. G. Steele, manager of the Yreka and Duns muir divisions of the California Oregon Power company, will re tire June 30 after more than 49 years of service with the company, he announced this; week. Steele will be replaced by C. A. Patton. I Steele first went to work for the company in April, 1903, ' when the firm was called the Siskiyou Electric Power com pany. He was named assistant secretary for the company in 1943 and assumed his present job in 1950. Aside from his duties as man ager of the division, Steele has been active in the California State Chamber of Commerce, the Siskiyou county chapter of the American Red Cross and other civic organizations. Among other activities, Steele assisted in the organization of the Sis kiyou County Historical society. Mrs. Loffln Named Chairman of Board Mrs. George Loftin, Sams Val ley, was recently elected chair man of the board of the Antioch Cemetery Association, for a three year term. .The clerk, chosen for the com ing year, is Miss Ina Pearl Lucas, Box 1253, Medford. The association was formed four years ago to purchase ceme tery property from the govern ment. The board of trustees in cludes Mrs. Loftin, Miss Lucas, Bill Bigham, Eagle Point and M. B. Sweet, 624 East Ninth street, Medford. slow drivebTpenalized Oakland, Calif. (U.R) A name meant nothing for Walter Speed, 42, of Oakland, who has been sentenced to spend one night in police traffic school. Speed was tagged on the San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge traveling 30 miles per hour. He was charged with "driving so slowly as to obstruct traffic." FIREMAN MAKES ERROR Johnson City, Tenn. (U.R) J. S. Riddick went to sleep in a hotel lobby here and set his chair on fire with a cigaret. He was a delegate to the Tennessee Firemen's) Association convention. GREYHOUND More Travel Extras No fxfro Cost I Yes, bigg" vilut! More service to more ' pieces Finest buses. Best drivers. Choose the travel leader, ,. choose Greyhound! 10 Buses Daily to PORTLAND end SEATTLI from Medford Including 4 Eiprotset Complete Service to All A me rice , J. A. TOMJACK, Afenr 212 N. Itrtlett Phone 2-2202 8 A.M. to 6 P.M., Wednesday to 9 P.M NOW! 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