EIGHT .MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, February 17, 1955
Russia's Hydrogen Project Believed
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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.
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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.
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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 ..."
Today, he said, "I guess when
young people don't make the
grade here they should go home,
but hope shines eternal, par
ticularly in the amusement
world." :
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