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UIM Tribute io a Hero . . . (This column is from a We natchee World editorial.) If you have visited parts of Minnesota you must have no ticed giant statues of the great legendary figure of Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox. Our Northwest has its share . of Paul Bunyan legends, too how he dug the Puget Sound, for instance, and along with his crew, including the fabulous scribe Johnny Inkslinger, gouged out the Columbia river and a few other trifling matters. Paul, of course, is just a sort of national gag in American folklore, but he is typically American and symbolizes some thing that is typically Amer ican bigness. Ours is a country of bigness whether it is the State of Texas, Graund Coulee Dam, Grand Can yon, the automobile industry, or our forests. The American people have be come so imbued with the bigness of things everywhere, that we have developed into a nation which expects big things to be done. Paul Bunyan Outdone ... Where, less than a century ago, Indians roved the plains and flitted through the forests of Michigan and other midwest areas, there are now some of the greatest industrial plants in the world. Gigantic steel mills belch forth their smoke and turn out steel products to feed into the hungry maw of these and hundreds, of industrial plants everywhere. From millions of acres of rich farmland in the Midwest pours a stream of golden grain, fun nelled through grain elevators into railroad cars and ship holds to be spread into processing plants and converted into food products to feed a 160,000,000 people. Oil wells tap the bowels of the earth beneath our prairies and provide fuel and power for planes that wing their way everywhere, and furnish the sinews of might for our war machine,, should we need it. And so it is only natural that eur people, a cosmopolitan mix ture of the races of the world OPEN 10 TO 5 MONDAY h THRU SATURDAY to consolidate f& IMS STEVENS S generally, should by association with big things have developed a bigness complex. The Paul Bunyan statues that are scattered over the country, in the lumbering regions of Min nesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and in the Northwest area of Seattle, are just the natural symbol of this phase of our national life, woven into the fabric of a na tion through our folklore. That it is exaggerated is taken for granted all legends and folklore are. It is easy to point a finger of ridicule at such ebullience, and call it m childish boastfulness, but it is probably the most typically American symbol to be found anywhere in our nation. Despite an obvious element of horseplay and youthful exhuber ance, which it certainly has, stripped down to its elemental factor and its intent the. Paul Bunyan lore typifies our coun try, its growth, its people, and its future. 4 If our youth, who like to have a hero of some sort to worship, could become better acquainted with Paul and his exploits, as an American mythology that stands for a predominant trait of their country and its people well they could do lots worse. Paul Bunyan is a much more desira ble character than many of the comic strip heroes of the day. Scientists Can Divide Air Into Thin Streams Philadelphia (U.PJ Scien tists now can divide air into such tiny streams that it is pos sible to divide an inch, into mL lionths. W. I. Wilt and H. Kiefaber, of the Sheffield Corp., Dayton, O., told a meeting here of the Americaa Society of Tool Engi neers that "new ways are being found every day in which air can be used to divide that inch smaller." 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CAHYOUSETrT MINUTE UNTIL I DUST SMOPTIETVSET J.m dS5kI4NdSrAM off the floor.' ort, I IS BROUGHT BACK JTS slupebm ,run out & 1 Back Stairs: Tom Stephens By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer Washington UJ.R) Backstairs at the White House: It takes less time for Presi dent Eisenhower to fly to Au gusta," Ga., than it does for him to motor to his farm at Gettys burg, Pa. The White House won't be the same without Tom Stephens, Mr. Eisenhower's appointment secre tary who returns to private law practice in New York Feb. 19. He read one day that it was possible to grow mushrooms in the clothes closet of a midtown apartment. He sent away for some mushroom spore and other growing equipment. It was only a few weeks before he was bringing, fat, clothes-closet grown mushrooms to his friends. Tom leaves the White House without being able to complete one of his more ambitious ex periments freezing fishing worms alive, then selling them like frozen peas to fresh water fishermen who would then thaw Time Ml 111 II Mil I the worms and have live, wrig gling bait. ; Stephens is stepping out of one of the most irritating jobs in government the task of arrang ing the President's daily sched ule of appointments. No man in the federal establishment must say "no" quite as much as the appointment secretary, who also must do much of the planning for presidential trips. A small girl was visiting the White House lobby with her fa ther the other day and met big Bill Simmons, the President's receptionist. She gave Bill a searching eye, then asked, "Where's your wife?" Simmon's didn't quite under stand. "Where's Mamie?" piped the child. . ' Simmons flushed visibly and explained with all his old Vir ginia dignity that he was not the President, but one of the Presi dent's helpers. The officers of the National Association of Postmasters vis ited the White House too, last APPOaP BRANCH By Jimmy Hatlo To Be Missed week, to present Mr. Eisen hower with a large, handsome Paul Revere silver bowl as a token of their esteem. To be sure credit was given where credit was due, one of the officers distributed around the lobby a prepared press release on the event. It was an informa tive, crisply written release. Ex cept that the President's name was spelled' "Eisenhauer." Klamath Falls (U.R) Em ployers of the Pine Industrial Relations Committee, Inc., and the Northern California district council of AFL ' Lumber and Sawmill workers have signed jointly to recommend a iVz cent hourly wage increase. . Dead line Sunday Classified is- at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousdav SPECIAL! AUTOMATIC-ELECTRIC PERCOLATOR One ef Americc's finest 10 cup percolators. 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''' 614" to 10" SIZES PRICES START AT $1.93 Jl 11M MAIN AND RIVERSIDE Tuesday, February 1, 1953 Technology Not Expected To Outstrip Science Field (Editor's Note: Ever since the in' d us trial revolution, men of science have turned their knowledge to the advance of technology. Some say this demand for material things has ham pered basic research in "pure science" and that an imbalance between the two could seriously hamper progress. The head of a leading research or ganization gives his views in the following dispatch.) By ROBERTBOYCE United Press Correspondent Columbus, O. (U.R) Dr. Clyde E. Williams, president and director of Battelle Memor ial Institute, believes that ' the big problem in research today is the training of enough scientists and engineers. The head of the world's largest independent research organiza tion gave two reasons why he thinks there is no danger of technology outstripping the pro gress of basic science. "First, we have a long way to go before we adequately put to use the basic information we already have," Dr. "Williams said. "Secondly, there is being gener ated constantly by our industrial, university, and governmental laboratories a tremendous vol ume of new basic information. The research head added that "since 1940, we have developed more basic information than we have been able to put to work the atomic energy field being the outstanding example." Ratio To Increase Dr. Williams pointed out that although "most of our scientists are working with useful end re sults in mind, it does not follow that they are not making contri butions to basic science." He explained that both indus try and -government sponsor re search in fundamental science areas that look promising for producing information that might be useful. "This research is just as fun damental as that conducted by investigators who. have no -ultimate objective in mind," he added. 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We will probably need even more basic knowledge before we have a broad enough base to put it to work." " Automatic Balance Dr. Williams mentioned the use of radioisotopes as a tool to help gain new fundamental knowledge in many fields of sci ence. "W h e t h e r that knowledge comes as the result of someone deliberately going after it in hope of solving practical prob lems, or whether it comes through purposeless experimen tation is immaterial," he said. Dr. Williams said the problem of balance between fundamental and applied research "occurs automatically under our compet itive industrial system. He warned, however, that Rus sia "seems to be making faster progress in solving technical manpower problems than we." The director suggested that universities give more attention to the training of personnel and less to applied research. Fundamental Research He also suggested more encour agement of interest in science "at the high school level" and im provement in the quality of high school teachers. Dr. Williams said that his own organization does much of its work in fundamental research. Such work is usually "directed" to supply information that might be helpful to a useful end. He explained that the purpose of a project might sometimes be so loosely defined as "try to find TAYLOR Thermometers For Most All Requirements! ROOM WEATHER FROOF INDOOR-OUTDOOR HUMIDIGUIDES FREEZER ROAST MEAT DEEP FRY OR CANDY COLLINS AXES All commonly used styles and weights for e WOODS CHOPPING HOUSE CAMPING M5J TRAYS 43c Missing Bridge Found; Thieves Face Penally Bemus Point, N.Y. U.R) A bridge created a problem for of ficials of the town of Ellery. A government surveyor study ing creeks and roads was unable to locate the Cozy Hollow bridge listen in a township map. Finally town police discover ed the bridge's steel framework on the shore of Chautauqua lake where someone apparently had planned. to use it in construct ing a ramp to haul boats from the water. The bridge had been closed for nearly two decades but had not been abandoned by the township. If police catch up with the thieves and if a value more than $100 is placed on the bridge the culprits will face a grand larceny charge. , out why glass breaks" or "find out what is plastic flow in met als." Some projects take th Bat telle researcher on ventures into the unknown. "For instance," he explained, "in the development of xero graphy we had to uncover new knowledge about tribo-electricity before we could make xero graphy work. Xerography is the process of reproducing pictures and printed matter by a "dry" method, based on the electrostatic principle. It was developed by Batelle and was one of the outstanding achievement in the graphic arts field in 1948. Klamath Falls (U.R) John H. 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