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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
She made her flight over Bret
igny test field.
ENTER LOW BID
Portland (U.R) Miller and
Strong, Inc., Eugene, submitted
a low bid of $25,000 for clearing
the second and last part of the
Dexter regulating dam reservoir
area on the middle fork of the
Willamette river, the Corps of
Engineers reported' Saturday.
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