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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. -
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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
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You don't risk a penny ! Yet on Christmas morning:,
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He uses the New Custom Schick at home for 14
days AFTER Christmas. Then, he must be com
pletely happy with it - or return the shaver to us.
Only if he keeps it, do you start paying small, con
venient installments. You risk NOTHING to give
this labor-saving, luxury shaver!
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