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EIGHT .MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, February 17, 1955 Russia's Hydrogen Project Believed Tb-Amerld-a Cdmijarabfe Uniied Stales Believed Ahead in Quality, Quantity By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) .U.S. offi cials believe Russia possesses an atomic -hydrogen project comparable in continental scope and technical complexity to America's. But most of them also believe, along with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, that this country is "out ahead" of Rus sia in both the quantity and quality of atomic weapons pro duced. Direct Intelligence of what goes on automically behind the Iron Curtain consists in large part of tales told by the winds carrying atomized particles thrown into the atmosphere by Soviet nuclear tests. Intelligence Reports Helpful These particles reveal a great deal about the kind and effi ciency of the tested weapons. '. Thus this country knows that Russia has tested both large and email A-bombs and big H-bombs. That would be enough to make it clear that Russia must have a vast, and far-flung mining, processing, and farbicating op eration, because that is what you need to have to make nuclear weapons. But the United States has other ways of arriving at con clusions about Russia's atomic progress, actual and potential. These are the tedious methods of the intelligence art. They in volve unremitting search for bits and pieces of information, relating them to other bits and pieces, end adding them up under skilled analysis to get an intelligence report. So Wilson and other officials aren't exactly guessing when they say the United States so far Is the world's top atomic power. Don't Underestimate Reds Rep. Melvin Price (D-Ill.), a member of the Senate -House Atomic Energy Committee, esti mated two years ago that Rus sia would have 400 atomic weapons by now. Checked today on his 1953 prediction, Price said that, if anything, he prob ably was too conservative two years ago. "The biggest mistake we can make," he said, "is to underesti mate Russia's capabilities." Few American officials have erred in that direction since the fall of 1949 when Russia shot off a test A-bomb two to 20 years sooner than U.S. experts thought she could. A high atomic authority told the United Press then that "no body has any absolute knowl edge on which to base any com parison" between the U.S. and Soviet atomic projects. . This same authority is confi dent now, however, that "we are far ahead." BOY SCOUTS Troop 8 Troop 8 held its regular meet ing Tuesday. The meeting was conducted by Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Bob Frazer who had the boys work on advance-, ments. Troop 8 committee met in the main church building and all fathers of the boys of Troop 8 were asked to .attend. There were 29 present. Scoutmaster Red Stothers graduated Don Koozer from Cub Pack 6 into Troop 8. Gene Harvey Scribe Bills in Legislature Salem (U.R) A bill that would allow school board mem bers to claim travel expenses in line with their worK nas sur vived an attack by opponents in the Joint Ways and Means Committee. The bill was first tabled by a vote of 7 to 6 but then re moved from the table for refer ral to the Senate Educational Committee. A-tabled bill is normally con sidered dead. Senate bill 79 was ormosed bv committee members who said there should at least be some restrictions on the distance school board members could travel at district expense. They said thev feared there would be abuse by school directors travel ing to distant parts of the coun try to inspect school : buildings or to attend meetings. Best Judges of Necessity Proponents of the measure in sisted that school directors should have the. same right to claim travel expenses as school administrators and that they were the best judges of the nec essity for travel. Sen. John Hounsell (R-Hood River) said "it's their own money" and school boards would have to justify their expenses to their own taxpayers. The decision should be left at the local level, he added. Sen. Gene Brown (R-Grants Pass) told the committee that school boards charged with the control of school budgets often in excess of $1,000,000 could well be trusted to use travel allowances with discretion. The joint committee also ap proved and sent to the floor of the Senate a bill that would permit removal of state seals from cars used by liquor com mission inspectors and members of the State Parole Board. Salem U.R) The House has defeated a bill that would leave to the discretion of county cor oners whether they visited the scene' of a death. Present law makes such visits mandatory on coroners and the House voted A 1,572-foot television tower at Oklahoma City has taken the title of the world's tallest struc ture away from New York City's Empire State Building. Five years ago the Empire added 222 feet to its height by construc tion of a television tower. It now rises 1,472 feet. ; ' More than 40,000 Americans, mostly military personnel, in habit southern Okinawa. This new community for service fam ilies resembles a United States suburban development. Court Records POLICE COURT Lucille Dowlinf Hulburt failure to stop at stop sign, $5. Mary Alice Springer, parked on wrong side of street. $2.50. Clarence LeRoy Hickey, wrong way on one-way street. $5. California Oregon Power company, parked on wrong side of street. $2.50. Volney Byron Jones, no operator's license. $5. Gilbert Miller, no operator's license. $5. Josephine Lee Batzer. failure to stop at red light, $5. Jerome Oden Vielbig, leaving the scene of an accident, $25. DISTRICT COURT James H. Nunes, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Frank M. Hixon, defective brakes, $6. Richard L. Zimmerlee, no oversize permit. $5. Charles H. Ward, overload. $455. Edward E. Robinson. . excessive overhang, $10. Gilbert C. Squakin, failure to stop at stop sign. $10. Bron M. Oglesby. violation of basic rule, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Mary O. York vs. William Earnest York, divorce complaint. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS. Edgar Harrison Bailey. 38. Klam ath Falls Star route. Box 80. Ashland, and Levona May Davis. 28. same route. Box 85. John Enright, 45, Healdsburg, Calif., and Edna Eileen Clark, 34, same address. Harry Arthur Newnham. 21. of 1127 Spring St., and Lois Ann llowsley. 19, route 2, box 268. Central Point. Warren Dick Harding, 23. route 1, box 399C. Medford, and Lucille De lores Jansen, 25, of 770 Oak St., Ashland. f.1Al$! ykdM ALSO TRY SpaghMr SnloektH, MaoawnL Sea Shells, Kvrle-Q-Noedtes end Intnjwe, rOtTER-SCAMEUl MACARONI CO. MHLAM&. OttGOtk 36 to 23 to leave the law un changed. Representatives approved a Senate-passed bill that would al low use of prison labor to har vest, load, and transport crops exclusively for prison use. Rep. Gust Anderson (R-Portland) said he feared the bill would open the door to wider use of prison labor to the point where it would compete with free labor. Rep. Walter Pearson (D-Port-lar.d) said farmers have inade quate farm labor now and would be aided by the use of convict help in cases where the peni tentiary purchased the crops for its own use. Twenty no votes were cast against a bill that would include fishermen or harvesters of "Ma rine crops" under the law per mitting formation of agricul tural cooperatives. Rep. Pearson lead the opponents of the meas ure, claiming that cooperatives were formed solely to avoid pay ment of taxes. STATES WARNING Red China's Premier Chou En-Lai stated, during fifth anniver sary of Sino-Soviet assistance treaty celebration. that if "U. S. circles dare launch ag gressive attack against us. the Chinese peoples are deter mined to defeat them.' Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent IT i V Hollywood (U.R) While Abi gail Adams lay dead Sunday in her pink satin bedroom, a ore- diction of her death was downstairs in a green paper covered manu script. The- fore cast was writ ten by the man who was her escort for 11 year s, Aline Mosby George Jessel, in his book about show business, "This Way, Miss," to be published in April. I found the book in "Tommye" Adams' now quiet apartment, stacked on the dining room floor with scrapbooks of clippings and photographs about the two of them, her best claim to fame after 12 years in the tinsel city that ended in what police called "possible suicide." In a chapter called "Beauty and Busts" Jessel tells about the young, beautiful girls who crowd into Hollywood with Stardust in their eyes. . "Yes, I was thinking of Abi gail when I wrote it," Jessel said today, "and of girls like her.'! In the book he calls them" "very nice people who have got ten into a game that is a million-to-one against them . . . poor lit tle baby peacocks one may soon boast of beautifully colored feathers, most will soon be plucked of their tiny plum mage." Jessel tells in the book of a mythical "Mabel Zunza" who wins a free trip to Hollywood and a $75-a-week studio con tract. The studio drops her, but it is too late. Mabel doesn't want to go home. ! "She refuses to take any job but acting . . . She's made up her mind that maybe the best way to get anywhere is to go anywhere . . . And before you know it, Mabel makes the rounds . . . Her name is in the movie columns, but that doesn't help her career. "There's an actor she's quite fond of. Sometimes the prom ising young ham does marry the little girl who misses, but not very often. She, Mabel gets the air and finally takes up with an older man who sees her once in a while ... Pills and Vodka "By this time Mabel has learn ed to drink pretty good Also Mabel can't sleep, so she takes a sleeping pill and after a while one doesn't work so she takes two or three, which find her awfully groggy In the morning, so she takes a little vodka to wake her up. "And so it goes. As long as Mabel can keep good-looking, it will continue for a few years, and Mabel will awaken every morning, sorry about the night before, then not give a dam and take all the pills." Jessel concludes, "You can't blame Hollywood for this. The tiniest moth leaps at any possi ble opportunity for a .try at the glamorous flame. Some are singed, most are burned." In another chapter he writes Abigail could have been a star "If she'd gotten the right breaks at the beginning ..." 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