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Scientist Pontecorvo May Be Engineering Russ Nuclear Schemes , V? 'I By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst If scientist Bruno Pontecorvo is telling the truth, he may be master mindini some of those big schemes for utilizing nuclear energy of which So viet Russia boasts. Pontecorvo, disclosing that he had gone behind the Iron Curtain in 1950, im plied, if he Charles McCann cua not actu ally say, that he was working exclusively on research involv ing the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Of course, there is no essen tial reason to believe him. Italian-born Pontecorvo fled to France from the Fascists. When Germany invaded France in 1940, Pontecorvo sought refuge In Britain. He became a naturalized Brit ish subject, learned Britain's atomic secrets and then betray ed them to Russia. A man who did that might well be a liar as well as a renegade. - But taking Pontecorvo at his word, he may be doing some practical work for the Kremlin as well as engaging in pure scientific research. Russia claims the leadership in the peaceful use of atomic energy as well as of the manu facture of the hydrogen bomb and practically everything else. It would hardly be surprising to hear from the Moscow Radio a claim that some prehistoric Rus sian invented love. But Russian science has been probing into the secrets of atomic energy for many years. It was back in 1934 that Russian-born atomic scientist Peter Kapitza, who had become world famous in his field through years of study in Britain, went to Rusisa on a visit and was kept there. Russia also captured many German atomic scientists at the end of world War II and took them to aid in its research. The late Andrei Y. Vishinsky really startled the world when he announced in the United Na tions in November, 1949, that Russia was using atomic energy on a gigantic scale. - "We are utilizing atomic energy for our economic needs," Vishinsky said. "We are razing mountains. We are irrigating deserts. We are cutting through the jungle and the tundra. We are spreading life, happiness, prosperity and welfare in piaces where the human footstep has not been seen for thousands of years." Vishinsky 's statement turned out to be somewhat premature it was admitted that Russia merely planned to do all those things. But in the years since then, Russia has worked steadily on energy, as well as on A-bombs the peaceful use of nuclear and H-bombs. Portland Recreation Center Bonds Sold Portland OJ.PJ A finan cial sydnicate has purchased some S8,000,000 worth of bonds to finance an exposition-recreation center here. Purchasers were U. S. Na tional Bank of Portland, Nation al City Bank of New York, Blythe and Co., and 15 associ ates. Interest rate to be paid to the city will be 2.0051 per cent. City auditor Will Gibson said the money received from the sale of the money received would be deposited in local banks. He said the city hopes te receive a higher rate of in terest than it is paying on the bonds themselves. Burns Cooperative j Store Destroyed Burns (U.P.) A spectacu lar fire leveled McAllister's co operative farm store here yes terday afternoon, wiping out stores of grain and hay and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. Firemen said they were pow erless to control the blaze which started about 1:30 p.m. probably from combustion in the grain. The store, located on the edge of Burns, carried large stocks of furniture and groceries in addition to hay and grain. Own er of the establishment, J. M. McAllister, was out of town and could not be reached to esti mate the loss. NO FUN An 18-inch fall of snow had weekend guests doing more shovelling than frolicking at Twin Peaks, CaL, as a Pacific Coast storm raged from the Sierras. Above is typical scene found in the Big Bear Arrowhead Mountain area of Southern California, y v zu WRITES FOR RUSSIA Bruno Pontecorvo (above), British atomic scientist .who vanished several years ago, is now in Russia, two Com munist newspapers have re vealed. The two papers car ried an article by Pontecorvo calling for a worldwide ban i on atomic weapons. There are 1,889 accredited colleges, 23,746 high schools and 128,225 elementary schools in the United States and there are 1,242,249 teachers employed to staff them. NEVER BEFORE AT THIS LOW PRICE! only S u Here's the lowest priced 21-inck television in RCA Victor history the exciting new "Special 21" ! Think of it! The value and quality that make more people buy RCA Victor than any other television yours in 21-inch TV priced so surprisingly low! Dollars less than ever before! 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IUl nn LTUUJ Open Tonight 'Til 9 P.M. 112 South Riverside In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This modern world note: In San Francisco, at the eerie hour of midnight, an air raid siren located high up on one of the numerous hills in the city of ' Saint Francis went off its rocker and for 41 minutes made night hideous over a wide area of the Bay region. By coincidence, two air liners came in over the city at the same time. Putting two and two together, thousands of people came to the conclusion that this was IT that the Russians HAD GONE AND DONE IT! In the newspaper offices, in the news rooms of the radio sta tions, in the fire departments everywhere that people might be expected to be up and around at midnight the telephones be gan to ring and those who an swered the calls describe the voices as in some cases frantic and in others hysterical. Wednesday, March 2, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE - ? ----- 2 wmim m m m r m w w m a m " i r--y OX l lFDIn) II c 11 l 31 Come One! 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All around this little family there were RED INDIANS, who were angered by this invasion of what had been their ancestral home. They were plotting re venge. AT ANY MOMENT, their revenge might take the form of an attack on this little cabin that sheltered this little family. Such an attack could have meant death by an arrow, death by a knife thrust, death by the stroke of a tomahawk wielded by a savage arm, death in the flames of their cabin home fired by savage enemies. 0 R Worse still Death by savage torture. All this was EVER PRESENT. CONSIDER for a moment the NIGHTS in this little cabin back in the Dark , and Bloody Ground. The noises of the night. Every time this little family heard the hoot of an owl, it might be merely the hoot of an owl. But it could have been a SIGNAL by savages creeping in for the kill. The father and the mother never could know whether it was a SIGNAL or merely an owl hooting in the normal manner of owls. WHAT I'm getting at is that ''life back in those days was just as grim, just as full of terri ble possibilities as life in these modern days when at any mo ment atom bombs might come dropping down from the planes of marauding Communists. BUT THEY SURVIVED IT. those pioneer ancestors of ours back in the deep forests and the wide plains and the rug ged mountains. And they stayed sane and clear-headed. They brought forth a sane and clear headed generation to follow them. And a sane and clear headed America emerged from it all. So I'm pretty sure we'll sur vive this hair-trigger present pe riod in which incidents like the going off its rocker by this siren in San Francisco at a moment when planes were over the city in the night and MIGHT HAVE BEEN ENEMY BOMBERS will be more or less -common and will send us off into spasms of fear. Over the centuries, the human race has been surprisingly dura ble. I think it is still durable. pj ey 7 m Big savings for heavy blooming field grown favo rites. 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