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i - S ?1tl)F0AD (U?rfolC) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Mareh t, 1951 Pixed-Up Cloud Produced by Monday's Nevada Momidj Explosion Winds Push In Three Directions; No Harm Contained "Washington (U.R) Mon day' big bang in Nevada pro duced the craziest and most mix-d-up atomic cloud of the pring test series. It went three ways at once, meteorologists reported today Part of it soared east from the proving grounds and is now far out over the Atlantic. Some of it drifted west and got shredded up in the moun tain passages of California. Another bit steered northward for a while and then turned east to eet dissapated in a large area over northern Nevada, northern Utah and southern Wyoming, and northern Colorado. Mixed up as it was, there was no real harm in the cloud as far as the people below it were concerned. Neither the Atomic Energy commission nor the wea ther bureau has heard any in teresting news concerning it. A few seconds after the ex plosion at 5:20 a.m. (PSD Mon day, it looked as though the cloud might drop a little radio active fallout on some of the scientific and military observ ers. That was when a cross wind whipped part of the cloud stalk in their direction. The observ ers got out of its way in a hurry and no fallout was reported. ' As the AEC has explained often, the gadgets blown up in Nevada don't pack enough pow er to create a fallout hazard outside the test area. After some Nevada explosions there have been reports of ra dioactive hail or rain and fog ged photographic equipment hundreds or thousands of miles from the proving ground. Such radioactivity has, how ever, been far too slight to hurt anybody. Monday's cloud appar ently didn't contaminate even a ingle raindrop anywhere. Airplanes participating in the spring tests tracked the cloud's various parts for 500 to 600 miles from the explosion site. Thereafter more than 100 wea ther stations, plus AEC obser vers at various major installa tions across the country, watch ed its invisible progress instru mentally. One of the men whose Job is to keep track of clouds from the Nevada atomic tests is Robert List of the weather bur eau here. He gave this rundown of what happened to Monday's cloud: The top part, rising 40,000 feet above Yuoca Flat, got caught up in a high westerly and took off to the east. The lowest part of the cloud got involved with a wind going the other direction and "drib bled back into California." The middle part of the atomic debris from the Monday shot, the part ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 feet in altitude, said good bye to the ethers and headed off north from the explosion site. RUBBER CAR Akron, O. . (U.R) Rubber parts are used in more than 260 places in the modern car, be sides in the tires and radiator hose. Rubber cement is used in about 536 places. WANT A CITY HALL? Central Falls, R. L (U.R) A second-hand city hall is up for sale. So far Finance Direc tor E. Donald McLoughlin has reported only two false nibbles one by a church, the other by a noodle company. Rural Firemen Answer Two Alarms This Week Central Point The Central Point Rural Fjre department was called to two fires this week. One was a log house on the Butte Falls rd., which burned down, according to Fire Chief Dick Krupp. The house was a considerable distance out of the CP rural district, he reported, and was enveloped in flames when the department arrived Monday aft ernoon. The Jorde family lived there. One pumper and a pick up answered the call. The other fire burned several acres of brush on the Ramsey canyon rd. Sunday. The chief stated that the fire was being controlled by residents when the department arrived. No build ings we: threatened. Four-County Effort Pledged to Support New Cascade Route Klamath Falls Cooperative, four-county efforts to obtain a new highway between Medford and Klamath Falls were pledged at a gathering of highway com mittee members of four cham bers of commerce here last night. Representatives from Lake, Klamath, Jackson and Josephine county chambers of commerce met to discuss what can be done in support of the proposed new route over the Cascades by way of McAllister Soda springs and Lake O' Woods. Agree to Appear They agreed to present the matter before the state highway commission at a combined meet ing, with representatives of all counties present. It was argued that, because of the stepped up federal road program suggested by President Eisenhower, this route should be included on maps of the bureau of public roads, and that further work should be done through the federal government to secure access road fund com mitments for the route. Attending the meeting from Medford were Chet Hubbard. chairman of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce highway committee: Paul Rvnninz. for mer highway committee chair man and county engineer; Walt Garner, past president of the chamber: Don McNeil, secretarv- manager of the chamber; and E. B. Devoe, highway committee member. Evacuation of Cities Said Impossible Task Washington U.R) Sen. Al bert Gore (D.-Tenn.) said today Civil Defense is setting up an "utterly impossible task" in pro posing to evacuate all the na? tion's major cities in event of enemy air attack. Gore, a member of the joint congressional Atomic Energy committee, sharply questioned the practicality of the adminis tration's mass evacuation plan. "I wonder if this plan is any more valid than the advice of just a few months ago to build shelters and dig in," Gore said in an interview. Civil Defense Director Val Peterson warned an Armed Services subcommittee Tuesday that in event of enemy attack, all 92 critical target cities in the nation will have to be evac uated. Corn yields in the U.S. rose from an average of 22.6 bushels per acre in 1933 to 40.6 bushels per acre in 1952. 5 Minute Shrimp Supper "Hue Piai'J Tastes just right with BLUE PLATE Canned Shrimp HereVeasy, tempting variety for folks who love fine seafood, e Add plump, rosy Blue Plctfe Conned Shrimp to cheese sauce. Heat in double boiler, serve on toast, e Or try Blue Plate Shrimp in omelets for extra goodness, e Or add chopped Blue Plate Shrimp to seasoned mashed potatoes. Shape in patties and deep fry. Blue Plate Shrimp come from the sunny Gulf of Mexico home waters for nature's best-tasting shrimp. Enjoy their sea-fresh flavor often. Ready to eat. No peeling. No waste. A 3-ox. cm f Mm FMa Shrimp tmval to 1 lb. wtmta. row shrimp. Pickin' Pears News and 'Notes From Camp White By SID HOLLINGS WORTH Acting Manager R. H. Denning drew attention to one of the glaring faults of government use of highly technical or obscure language when he spoke at the incentive awards meeting last week. He told of an incident when the bureau of standards replied to a plumber who had written in, requesting confirmation of his findings in the use of strong acid to clean drain pipes. The government scientist, who han dled the letter, wrote a thor oughly scientific explanation of the effects of hydrochloric acid upon metal, making it obvious, he thought, that it was damaging to the pipes. "I am glad you agree with me that the acid does the work," the plumber wrote back, thanking the department for the high flown letter. The government official tore his hair and then sent this di rective to the confused plumber: "Don't use hydrochloric acid; it eats hell out of the pipes." A delightful concert sponsored by the Junior Red Cross was given by the symphony orchestra of the Medford High school at the theater last week. It was pre sented under the direction of John Drysdale, with the young ladies attired in pink evening frocks, and the men in white coats. Joan McCready, special serv ices secretary, recently acquired a new car. In order to give it a good workout, she decided to drive it all the way to Montana, her home state. She has returned safely, but says she ran into a little difficulty at Plains, in a slight encounter with another driver. Semi-monthly fire drills and a quarterly evacuation operation have been ordered by the man agement. One building at a time only will be used in the drills. The exact time will not be speci fied, to --provide an element of surprise. A dozen mothers of accordiana girls were present when they appeared at the special event ar ranged for them by VFW Post 6412 at the recent open meeting in the veterans hall. A joint installation of officers is planned by the WWI Veterans and the Rogue Valley auxiliary to be held 'at the "barracks" in April. Tom Ginn, American Legion VAVS representative, has been named chairman of the public information committee, the oth er members being Mary New mann, Lester Moser and Mabel Nicholson. The object is to ac quaint the public with the work of the Veterans Alministration Volunteer Services in minister ing to the needs of veterans domiciled at Camp White and other VA hospitals and homes. The new Dominews is under editorship of Ross W. Lewis, ex newspaper reporter, with a number of new names listed in the contributing staff. Among them are Dan Dyer, formerly with the "New Yorker," and Tom Beckett, stencilist, with consid erable experience as a teletype operator. The "new blood" also includes Samuel Sims, Clifford Thompson and Francis Rohr. The Camp White orchestra is practicing for their scheduled ap pearance on television next Mon day night. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. ' i Rogue River's Need for School Building Cited by House Group Salem Rogue River school sion of plans to take care of Ore- district is one of 34 districts throughout the state which the House education committee says are the "most distressed" from the standpoint of needing new buildings for schools. It is the orly such district in Jackson county. Only two of the districts operate both elementary and high schools. All others operate only elementary schools, as in the case in the Rogue River dist rict. Plan of Little Benefit The listing was made in con nection with committee discus- MISSIONARY The Rev. Ho ward Johnson, above, a mission ary to India for 514 years, will speak at Eagle Point Commun ity Bible church Friday at 8 p.m. The skin of a leopard he killed, other curios, and colored slides will be shown. gon's need for some $100,000,- 000 worth of new schoolrooms within the next few years. The committee indicated it feels President Eisenhower's school building plans will be of little benefit to Oregon, and that the state had better seek its own ways and means of solving the problem. Five possible alternatives for assisting the 34 districts, which cannot take care of their own building needs because they would have to exceed legal bonding limits to do so, are be ing studied by the committee. Proposals Listed 'v These proposals are increasing the bonding limits of districts, giving more basic school sup port, to the distressed districts, issuing state school bonds, pro viding money from the state's general fund, and financing on the county level. A decision as to which plan, or combination of plans, will be recommended will come after the House taxation committee decides on a bill which would limit bonding powers of coun ties, cities and school districts. Other ideas which the com mittee is studying would call for double daily school shifts, and 12-month, rather than nine month, operation. Bristol, Conn. (U.R) Fire men summoned to a smoke-filled apartment by a neighbor quickly brought the situation under control. They reported, "burned toast." (Conrectidim We're terrible cads! We should have put youv c straight ages ago on the easiest, prim 'n' proper way to take care of your wood floors. We should have told you how in one oh-so-easy operation Bruce Cleaning Wax thoroughly cleans and waxes floors without one drop of harmful soap-and- water touching your precious floors ... or precious you ! And how floors gleam and gleam for months and months. Now that we have told you, try Bruce Cleanittg Wax for wood floors, or Bruce Floor Cleaner for linoleum or wood. We'll take the blame for the easy results, too. 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