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17 (3 T -TW' yj W " CM' TW J British Scientist Says Alcohol Helpful In Protecting Mice Against Radiation Br JOSEPH L. MYLER Washington U.R) If you're a man and not mouse, getting tiff won't save you from atomic radiation. Even if you're a mouse, the alcohol treatment comes close to being as bad as the evil it pro tects against. For a man it would be every bit as deadly. That was Dr. Charles L. Dun ham's comment Saturday on a British medical magazine's pre scription of whiskey as a anti dote to A-bomb radiation. J. Gordon Cook, writing in "The Family Doctor," said tests show mice can survive radiation if they are fortified with alcohol. He conceded that what's good for mice may not be good for human beings, but he concluded that: 7 RENT A CAR DAILY'S U-DRIVE and BODY and PAINT SHOP Southern Oreqon'a Oldest and Finest 29 S. Barf left . Medford There seems to be every justification for taking a protec tive dose of alcohol as soon as it is known that atomic bombs are on the way." Dunham did not discuss the general merits of a shot or two of whiskey in a time of stress. But he warned against expecting alcohol to do for people what it does for mice. Dunham is chief of the medi cal branch of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Bio logy and Medicine. The AEC has done a lot of research on ways of minimizing radiation effects, and it has known for several years that both alcohol and mor phine help to protect mice. But that is a far cry from say ing that a drunken dope addict is safe against the A-bomb's deadly rays. Won't Work In Rats "There is no reason what ever," Dunham said, "for believ ing that what's helpful for mice would be any good for human beings. "There seems to be something peculiar about mice that makes alcohol a protection for them against radiation. Tests show it it not for rats, and 1 rats are more closely related to mice than man is." In the experiments with mice, the alcohol was injected into the body. Dunham said the amount it takes to protect a mouse from radiation is almost enough to kill it Increase this protective dose on a weight-for-weight basis and it would amount to about one pint for a man. "That much pure alcohol in jected into an average man," Dunham said, "would raise the alcohol level of his blood well above lethal." In other words, if the radia tion didn't kill him, the alcohol would. Senator Sees Danger In Appeasing Reds Pusan, Korea (U.R) Sen ate Majority Leader William Knowland warned Saturday the free world will never find peace by appeasing the Communists. In a brief address before the South Korean National assembly he recalled the fatal attempt to appease Nazi Germany before World War II and said "in my opinion appeasement is not the road to peace." Dead line Sunday Claasifled la at noon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day can .Ir You celebrate CHRISTMAS in rail MM fUl LIU if you begin Building NOW! Drive out East Main to Groveland or Windsor, turn right to the .beautiful mountains! Call Mr. Carl Beebe Medford Realty Co. or your favorite realtor! 6 School Districts Schedule Inservice Training Session Eagle Point Teachers of six school districts will participate Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 1 and 2, in an inservice training program at Eagle Point high school. The program will be the first so extensive. Schools previously have had inservice projects of their own before the opening of classes in the fall. Participating here will be in structors of the Jacksonville, Butte Falls, Prospect, Shady Cove and -Elk-Trail districts, as well as the host district. General, Special Sessions Consultants from Southern Oregon college, tlife State De partment of Education, the coun ty school office and publishing firms will take part. The train ing will commence with a gen eral session at 9 a.m. on Tues day. There will be special ses sions for elementary and secon dary teachers. The consultants will be Dr. John McAulay and Dr. Arthur Krejsman, Southern Oregon col lege; H. Irene Hallberg, Agnes Shields and Glen L. Weaver, state department; Bernice Hughes, Scott Foresman com pany; Russell R. Tripp, A. J. My strom and company; John W. Mc-Hale, Compton and company; Mrs. Una B. Inch, county rural school supervisor; Alf B. Mek- vold, county school superintend ent, and Mary Ellen Bell, county health nurse. Bandar. Angatt ML ltSS MEDFORD (OREOOV) MAIL nXSUK3-TV8 More Woodworkers Returning to Jobs Klamath Falls (U.R) More CIO Woodworkers trooped back to work under their old contract Saturday after the American River Pine company, Forest Hills, Calif., and Woodworkers local No. 13-86 reached agree ment. The settlement, involving 140 workers, came Friday soon after an agreement was announced in Portland between, local No. 5-3 and the Inman-Poulsen Lumber company. At present, the woods picture in the Northwest looks like this: Twenty companies have set tled with at least 44 local unions involving approximately 20,000 workers, on a no wage increase basis. Seventeen companies have settled with 14 locals involving 8,080 employees, 7,000 of them employed b y Weyerhaeuser, Inc. on the basis of a five-cent hourly wage increase. The Inman-Poulsen settlement in Portland, which involved 32S employees, was made without a wage increase. Sagging Market Gets Blame as Mill Closes Molalla (U.R) A sagging lumber market was blamed Sat urday for closure of another Oregon lumber operation. Frank Lowes, president of the A. F. Lowes Lumber company, said the firm's Colton plant would be closed indefinitely be cause of lack of sufficient mar ket for its production. The mill employed 20 per sons who will be given prefer ence openings at other Lowes operations, he said. The Colton mill will not be reopened until there is sufficient business to put the big Lowes plant at Molalla back on a two shift basis, he said. The Molalla plant is now running one shift a day. Ailing Elbow Halls Ike's Fishing Plans Fraser, Colo. (U.R) President Eisenhower, his ailing elbow still bothering him, was expect ed to avoid trout fishing again Saturday and continue acting as cook for other members of bis party. The White House physician, Dr. Howard M. Snyder, drove up to the President's mountain retreat from Denver Friday to look at the elbow. Press Secretary James C. Hag gerty, after Snyder's visit, told reporters that the President's sore elbow resembled a sprain. He said there was nothing seri ously wrong with it, but it pain ed Mr. Eisenhower too much to fish. French Aviatrix Breaks Sound Barrier Paris (U.R) Aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of the president of France,' Saturday smashed through the sound barrier in a French-built Mystere jet plane. 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