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i u J a1? rJpy, .14 1 KV A V. ' 4. y x f - ' 1 CHRISTMAS MAKES HIM SICK Ten-year-old Scott Gar rison toys with the only kind of Christmas tree he can get close to a plastic one. He was four years old before doctors finally learned the reason for his deathly illness every Christmas evergreen. When the trees go up in doors, Scott has to take to his bed in his Santa Fe, N. M. home. And that's not alL At Easter time the same thing happens. The Easter eggs make him sick. - m a vwteIYoods. tyiSlVL STEVENS sgj H 1 1 BT!- Hemlocks and Atoms . . The federal atomic-power res ervation of 630 square miles in the Columbia Basin and the Fed eral reservation of some 1,300 square miles in the Olympic Na tional park, are brothers under their bureaus at least step brothers. Look at the two parcels of Washington State earth togeth er in one view, and you see Fed eral powers of destruction at work with awful might. The de structive power in generation on the Columbia is well known around the world. - It is not-so well understood that the Federal government is also committed to a process of destroying a vast rich forest of Douglas fir and replacing it with a climax forest of West Coast hemlock trees on former com mercial forest areas of Olympic National park. Where does hope abide? On the Columbia it is rooted with the General Electric company, which is managing production at no profit to the company ? and is exploring prospects for I using atomic power for peace production. On the Olympic Peninsula the ; hope is in rightful restoration of . the commercial forests in the ' present Park to U.S. Forest Ser vice management and for order ly, productive harvesting of the Douglas fir stands that are al ready in ancient age. -The Bunyan Works ... Late in 1942 the Manhattan District of the U. S. Army En gineers looked the nation -over for a proper plutonium produc tion site. The broad . require ments were a great area with ' few specimens of humanity in it, a big river with a reliable flow of cold, clean water" and with much electrical, power ori tap. The engineers soon settled for 630 sections of Benton Coun ty, Washington. The sagebrush settlement of Hanford was made headquarters. Christmas time, 1942, Hanford had a population of 125. Next Christmas there were 51,000 go ing, coming and camping there. This was the human tide of the building job. North Richland, the biggest trailer town on earth, and Richland, today's thriving city of the General El ectric company's employees grew on after the main con struction job was done. Engineers estimate that the lumber used on the project was enough to have built a solid board fence six feet high from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine. Temporary buildings that were built at Hanford in the boom, mainly of Douglas fir green common, were moved to Richland in 1946 and are serv ing as well as ever for headquar ters of the Atomic Energy Com mission and G-E. Hop for lh Futur ... Richland, now a city of 28,000 souls, looks to a future of incor poration in the American way, with the government permitting all-round home ownership by the residents. Of course the needs of national defense and security will remain ' under Federal con trol .at Hanford. But the pros pects for channeling atomic pow er into the uses of peace are be ing opened, on a non-profit basis, for exploration and research by private enterprise. '. On the Olympic Peninsula an other example of the kind is in the efforts to salvage 515,000, 000 board feet of timber that were fire-killed three years ago. Were it not for the wood-using industries of the peninsula, tha dead trees would stand there for decades, a deadly, menace to the surrounding green for ests. The industries and the U.S. Forest Service are partners in the program. This dead hemlock forest was originally excluded as an un wanted weed-tree area by the promoters of the present Olym pic National park. The prevalence of the hem lock species on the burn repre sents the species of climax for est that nature has equipped to destroy, year, by year, . billions of feet of Douglas fir trees now locked up in the park and then to bring up new forests of West . Coast hemlocks amid the dead snags and rotting windfalls of ancient-age fir. Modern timber management on the national forests and pri vate tree farms is planned to perpetuate Douglas fir stands through conservation cycles of harvesting and growth. Egyptian Censors Certify 404 Films As Fit For Showing Cairo (U.P.) 3gyptian cen sors certified 404 foreign films as fit to b& shown in over 13,500 movie houses throughout Egypt during the 12 months ended Oct. 31. i These movie houses vary from Cinemascope-screened, air condi tioned theatres in Cairo to pro vincial cinemas where an inter val takes place every 15 minutes to cool off the sole projector and where, if the audience applaud enough, they can see the picture again. Statistics show, that the United States took the lead an the num ber of films shown on Egyptian screens with 247. Next came Italy with 85. Sixty per cent of the movie houses in Cairo and Alexandria show foreign films around the year. Ten per cent show Egyp tian films and 30 per cent give Egypto- foreign double feature programs. This double feature system was tried out in other movies out side Cairo and Alexandria but proved a failure. The Egyptian films, having usually the same old-faces acting the same old roles, did not find favor with the foreign-film public while the Egyptian-film fans were dissat isfied because, due to the high percentage of illiteracy, they were unable to follow even the sub-titled films. This system was thus aban doned. Nowadays, except for regular serials, a foreign film is shown occasionally . for two or three successive nights in pro vincial movies. Statistics indicate that 63 Egyptian films run for an aver age of 27 weeks each through out Egypt, breaking all records. The most popular American films this year were "The Robe," "From Here to Eternity," "Val ley of the Kings" and "Niagara." Why Drive Around DRIVE RIGHT At Johnston Stores Monday December 13, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRES AFTER-CHRIGTr.lAG HOLME TRIAL! Start your man on a new life of shaving luxury Give your child the wonderful i advantages of a musics! futnrt. 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