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Medford United Pr ruU Leased Wire Tribune Pren- United -Tull Leased Wira Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY,' NOVEMBER 10, 1954 Pages 1-6 Hydrogen Bomb May Some Day Be Tamed For Industrial Use Editor's note: This Is the third and last in a series on power. By JOSEPH L. MYLEH Umled Press Correspondent Washington (U.PJ Despite official disclaimers or silence, the belief persists in scientific circles that H-bomb violence may some day be tamed for pro duction of industrial power. In the early days of H-bomb development, the nation that the super-bomb's city-killing vio lence could be controlled was de rided. As recently as last April 7, Fresident Eisenhower said at a news conference that scientists knew of "no direct application of the Hydrogen bomb principle, Clamp on Overseas Drinking Suggested Washington flJ.R) "A nation al temperance leader has urged Defense Secretary Wilson to clamp "a more spartan way of life on U.S. military forces abroad. William A. Scharffenberg, ex ecutive director of the American Temperance Society, said he found in a recent tour of 22 Euro pean capitals that heavy drink ing by members of the armed forces is destroying good will for the United States in many countries. Scharffenberg said officials of European government's told him that greater discipline and more self-restraint on the -part of United States armed forces per sonnel would do more to build up American prestige abroad than political or foreign aid pro grams. In Berlin, Scharffenberg Baid, a cab driver told him, "pay day for your boys is the day I stay at home." He said an Army offic ial in Germany reported that 98 per cent of 28,000 U. S. court martial cases in the Americag zone last year were due to ex cessive drinking. Pointing out that American servicemen symbolize the whole country to Europeans, Scharffen berg said the majority of people still like them "in spite of their annKing. $ut ne added, "our good will is fast running out." ... to peace-time power." Potentialities Limited But the notion will not die. The potentialities of atomic energy are limited by the rela tive scarcity of uranium and thorium, the raw materials of atomic fission. , The H-bomb, however, gets its power not from fission of scarce and costly heavy- elements but from fusion of abundant and cheap light elements. Obviously, if its violence could be quelled, fusion energy would be a tre mendously greater source of power than fission. . The planet is poor m uranium, but its oceans, seas, lakes and rivers are rich in the lightest element, hydrogen. To the layman, it is hard to figure how the sudden violence of an H-bomb might be slowed to a pace that would make its energy available for peacetime power. So many authorities have hinted at hydrogen power pos sibilities that John S. Walker, a Washington attornejr who used 10 De counsel to tne:iouse-aen- ate Atomic Energy Committee, recently composed a scholarly criticism of the new atomic law on grounds its provisions are "inadequate" to deal with peace time development of hydrogen energy. ; Scientists Believe Among scientists who believe hydrogen energy may some day he tapped are Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, who worked in the war time A-bomb project; Dr. George Gamoy, famous theoretical phy sicist of George Washington University; Dr. Edward Teller, one of the fathers' of the H- bomb, and Dr. Kenneth S. Pitzer, former AEC director of research. Dr. George R. Harrison of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology pointed out recently that if the thermonuclear-fusion re action can be slowed down water itself "can become the fuel that investors have long dream ed of." Each water molecule consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. If hydrogen fu sion can be tamed, Harrison said, "humanity should neyer need to worry about its energy supplies again." , . CONFERENCE IS HELD by Marilyn Monroe and Director Tom Ewell on set where latest picture is being produced, shortly be fore she entered Hollywood hospital lor operation. Estranged husband Joe Di Maggio drove her to hospital. (International) Jeweler Specializes In Music Box Repair Massillon, O. flJ.R) Has your music box been sounding all right recently? If it hasn't, the man to con tact is Glenn Heckert. He's a local jeweler with a naional rep utation for knowing what is good for the little boxes of mel ody that once delighted Europe and America. There's no money in the work, so Heckert regards it as his avo cation. He has to make his own tools, since it would pay no one else to produce them. He also has to rely a great deal on his own ingenuity in the repairs, since manuals themselves are collectors' items. He owns one of the best col lections of music boxes known and all of them work. They range from floor models with mahogany cases (original price $350) to little modern ones CALLING CARDS Detroit (U.R Dr.. James J. Lightbody writes in tne De troit Medical News that surviv ors of coronary thrombosis should have calling cards print ed to let. friends and relatives "know they are taking it easy. He suggested that the cards read: "No business. No office. No address... No phone." imported from Switzerland that cost from $5 up. Music boxes work by having pins on a turning cylinder pluck steel teeth on a comb. They were at their most popularity in the 1890's before Edison's pho nograph spelled their doom. Heckert is a member of a na tional music box society that was formed after World War II with headquarters in St. Louis. Unemployed Monarchs Who Haunt Europe Capitals Cling To Family Traditions By PRISCILLA BUCKLEY United Press Correspondent Paris (U.R) They say it hap pened at Maxim's. Ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia had reserved a table for .two. He didn't come and didn't come, and when the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived, his table was the only empty one in he restaurant. The head waiter gave the Duke and Duchess Peter's ta ble and hoped for the1 best. But when Peter arrived he was fur ious. "But after all," the head wait er argued, "the Duke of Wind sor was once the King of Eng land!" "Well, I am the King of Yugo slavia!" Peter snapped back, and stalked out. Idea of Protocol Peter, whose throne was voted out of existence by the, Yugo slavs in 1945, was reacting ac cording to his idea of protocoL The Duke of Windsor had ab dicated his throne. Peter, on the other hand, feels he was only cheated out of his and is there fore still king. J And besides, the Duke of Windsor married a commoner. An American, at that. . , The exiled monarchs, princes and other nobles who haunt Eu rope's capitals and resorts cling to their social and family tra ditions above all else. Though they may have no throne or property, they have lota of dig nity. . Should Be King ' Take the Count of Paris. He is the great great grandson of Louis Philippe, the last Bourbon King of France. The count be lieves he rightfully should be King of France today, and he lets people know it. The Count of Paris was sup posed to have been a witness at the wedding last year in a small French village of Arch duke Robert of Hapsburg and Princess Marguerite-Isabell of Savoy, who represent two of Europe's most prominent but un employed royal families. But the count refused to at tend the wedding, all because of a dispute over protocoL It seems he thought he should be given precedence in the wedding party over Prince Xavier de Bourbon Parma, another pretender to the French throne, and the ex-Empress Zita of Austria. Compromise Fails Robert of Hapsburg, trying to make a compromise, agreed to give the count precedence over the Prince of Bourbon-Parma. 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