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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE First Trans-Atlantic Phone Cable Due Late Next Year New Yoik (U.R; The first trans-Atlantic telephone cable i', row being constructed and its installation should be com pleted next year. It is scheduled to be in operation by Christmas, 1656. The aim is trans-Atlantic tel ephone calls of clear and con stant quality, instead of the present "hit-or-miss" system de pendent on good radio condi tions. More than twice as many timultaneous conversations will be possible under the new sys tem, i Keed for the cable is evi denced by tne increasing traffic. In 1927 there were only 2,000 calls: in 1951 there were nearly 100.000. The new communicationa sys 1cm is a cooperative project of Britain'! General Post Office, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corp. It will provide 36 tele phone circuits between Oban, Scotland, and Clarenville, Nfd., with Sydney Mines as the termi nal on the Canadian maimand. It will require the laying of two undersea cables, each 1,950 fnsutical) miles long, and of a 335-mile single cable, part on land and part under water. One hundred and eighteen repeaters, or boosters, containing 300 valves and 6,000 other electri cal components, will amplify the sound at regular stages along the route so the voice will be as clear at the outcoming as at the ingoing end. Costs Divided The discovery by Imperial Chemical Industries in 1933 of a substance named polythene, frd the application of this as an Insulant, helped pave the way. Polythene has certain ad vantages over gutta percha and paragutta. formerly used -to in sulate submarine cables, and is considered to be ideal for this purpose. The cable now being made will use 1.400 tons of polythene. It also will require, for its 1,-950-mile length, some 2,700 tons of copper. 11,000 tons of steel wire. 1,800 tons oi jute yarn, end 2.4 million yards of cotton cloth. Britain will pay 41 per cent cf the cost of the $35,000,000 project, the United States 50 per cent and Canada 9 per cent. The cabla will weigh three tons per nautical mile, and must be sufficiently strong and flexi ble to withstand pressure of up to three tons per square inch, and the pounding of breakers at the short line. Plant Built on Thamtf To construct such a cable, a rew five-acre plant had to be built In England on the Thames at Erith. It will employ over 200 technicians and workers, and will be capable of produc ing 4,000 miles of cable a year. The present contract, which is for the greater part of the J$f UMJ Glamour-Stitch Your Pillow Case or Towel FREE or Factory Demonstrator will be and Thursday, March 30 and ?Q amazing machines. DAVENPORT APPLIANCE SHOP I 2101 W. Main 21 Scotland - Newfoundland trans Atlantic stretch, is worth $14, 000,000. Another problem that had to be solved before the telephone hook-up could be planned was the development of suitable boosters to amplify the sound at regular intervals along the ! line. Here, the partnership between the United Slates and Britain proved its value. The British, who had experimented for years with co-axial cables and had laid them successfully between the Isle of Man and Anglesey and across the North Sea to Norway, had concentrated on shallow wcter repeaters. Only One Ship These had the advantage of being large enough to carry two-way speech transmitters but the disadvantage of being housed in large, rigid steel con tainers. The Americans, on the other hand, had turned their energies to the development of deep water repeater housings, and Bell Telephone laboratories had evolved and laid between the United States and Havana cables with boosters housed in an in genious type of flexible con tainer resembling a steel snake, which may be coiled inside storage tank drums. At shore ends, and on the shorter, shallower stretch be- ! tween Newfoundland and Can ada, the British repeaters are to he used; elsewhere, the Ameri can type. A voltage of about 3, 900 volts will be required to feed the boosters on the main crossing. There is only one ship in the world capable of laying such a length of cable, HMS Monarch, the "General Post Office's cable layer. Even this vessel has had to have the bow and stern sheaves enlarged for the job to a diameter of seven feet. Single Operation The whole of the first 1,500 mile deep-water section will have to be laid in a single opera tion without pause, for the cable may buckle if the cable ship has to stop during the lay ing. For this reason it must be done in summer, when a two week stretch of consecutively good weather is a possibility. The first cable will, therefore, be laid this coming summer; the second in the summer of 1956. Rancher Surprised By Finding Watch in Cow Wilcox, Aiz. (U.R) Ranch hand Lencho Hurtado said he got quite a jolt while butchering cattle on a ranch near here. A watch that had disappeared last week when cattle had muti lated a jacked hed left on a fence post turned up between the lungs of one of the animals he was butchering. He said it was still running, and right on time. We'll ON THE AUTOMATIC "DOES EVERYTHING" the "maclc brain" portable at our store Wednesday 31st. to show you these Blocks Out West Main Tuesday. MarA 29, 19SS SWIMMING ONTO BEACH In suicide, Uttering half-mile stretch of rocky shore with carcasses. Mystery of why huge mam mals decided to end lives puzzles scientists as residents debate removal problem. (International) Penologist To talk Ashland Kenyon J. Scudder, superintendent of the Califor nia Institution for Men at Chino, Calif., will speak at a Southern Oregon college assembly tomor row at 10 a.m. "Prisoners are People" will be the title of his talk, which is open to the public. He is an authority on experiments in changing the manner in which convicted prisoners have been imprisoned, which started in 1940 at Chino. The noted criminologist has told the story of the prison with out bars in his book, "Prisoners Are People." Chino is what is called a minimum-security insti tution. No one is looked up; guards carry neither guns nor billy-clubs. Inmates are treated as ordinary human beings who have made a mistake. Each prisoner is given a great deal of trust and responsibility. His family is permitted to visit him and picnic with him on Sundays. Each inmate must make up his own mind whether to try to escape from this open Westray Bay, Orkney Islands, a herd For SOC Assembly institution. Others have said that it is a tribute to Scudder's wise leader ship that in the 15 years of its existence with about 14.000 inmates during that period there have been only two cases of violence. Chino has been the subject of study of penologists from many countries. UAW Convenes; Plans Wage Guarantee Fight Cleveland, O. OJ.R) The CIO United Auto Workers union opened the business sessions of its 15th constitutional conven tion Monday, prepared to ap prove a $25,000,000 strike fund to support demands of the auto industry for a guaranteed an nual wage. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Ma zey, in a report prepared for de livery to the 3,000 delegates, said the fund was necessary "in order to minimize possible sacrifice on the part of members who may be engaged in economic struggles." S SUPREME of 63 whales commits mass Multiple Sclerosis Organism Isolated Philadelphia (U.R) The isola tion of an organism believed to be the cause of multiple sclero sis has "been reported by a Rus sian - born woman research worker. Rose Ichelson, director of re search on the disease at St. Luke's and Children Medical Center, said she had succeeded for the first time in growing and propagating an organism identi fied as spirocheta myelophthera. Miss Ichelson, graduate of the bacteriological institute of Pol tava, Russia, said she believed her work will provide a definite means of diagnosing the disease. However, Miss Ichelson said it will not be used as. a basis for treatment at present. Almost one-third of the entire labor force of the U.S. is com posed of women, according to Department of Labor studies. The ratio has been increasing steadily over the years. n ,x ueiergeni"jciwn ...because it ends carburetor deposits-the biggest single cause of engine trouble to give you smooth idling, stall-proof action in traffic, extra power, longer mileage. . .plus balanced performance! You get not 1, not 2, but all 10 features needed in a gasoline for today's high-compression engines as well as older cars - under all road and climate conditions! : Try Chevron Supreme or Chevron - prove the difference for yourself! Oregon's 'Maverick1 History In Politics Cited by Speaker By OLIVE STARCHER Mail Tribune Society Editor Salem Oregonians should not have been surprised at the elec tion of Sen. Richard Neuberger, for the state has a history of political "maverickism," Robert H. Schulman, chief of the north west bureau of Time, Life and Fortune at Seattle told mem bers of the Oregon Presswomen at a spring workshop meeting here last week end. After coordinating material for Time's recent article on the two Oregon senators, Schulman said he better understood why Neuberger had been elected, and that it followed the pattern of political history in Oregon. He cited several instances to prove that' politics in Oregon are sel dom "as usual." Schulman said writers for news magazines operate under a different set of concepts than those on daily papers, and that "group reporting" produces a "distillation" from the "cream of the news crop." Schulman told how extensive is the bapkground work and ma terial needed on such lead ar ticles as the Neuberger-Morse story, and mode some "off the record" comments on the ad verse editorial reaction to the story which appeared in Oregon papers. Public reaction on the article ran about 50-50 he told a reporter later, with half of those who wrote in blasting Time for having given so much space to two such political figures, and the other half saying "thanks for the story but how could you be so snide." Schulman praised Editor Charles A. Sprague of the Salem Statesman, saying "he is one of the most sagacious editors in the country"; and also had kind words for Frances Blakely, fea ture writer for the Oregon Jour nal, and Wilma Morrison, educa tion editor of the Oregonian. Commenting on' other west erners in the news he repeated a remark which Interior Secre tary Douglas McKay had made in Alaska about Alaskans and then added that while many people think Mrs. McKay just bakes cakes, "make no mistake about the role played by Mrs. McKay in the secretary's politi cal life." What's the biggest difference in today's . gasolines'? . i STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA State Sen. Mark Hatfield told the women at noon that instead of setting up a board of censor ship to decide what type of mag azines and comic books could be sold in Oregon, perhaps a tax should be levied on the sale of comic books and the money used to put educational programs on television. Such a censorship board has been proposed in a bill intro duced during the current session of . the legislature, but Hatfield reminded his audience that Ore gon already has a law which, if public sentiment would help to enforce, is adequate to pre vent the sale of lewd literature. Discusses Libel Bill The senator also discussed a bill which would protect pub lishers against unscrupulous libel suits, measures which would force all state bureaus and commissions to hold open meetings, and a bill outlawing advertising by the chiropodist profession. The senator said that the last bill goes deeper than it appears, and added, "What distresses me is the growing tendency on the part of professions to belittle advertising as an evil by sug gesting it is beneath the dignity of a given profession. We may be going from the closed shop in labor organizations to the Water Heaters All the HOT WATER Tou Want Whenever You Want It No Down Payment on Approved Credit Only $20 O . 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Leopold-loeb murder Here, with Nathantto pold's co-operation, is the full stcry of the famous "thrill killing" - and its grim 30-year aftermath. Both Leopold and Loeb were found guilty of a sadistic murder after one of the most sensational trials of the century. Loeb was murdered in prison. But Leopold still hopes for free- . dom. This is the story of hi life, his career n n prisoner and his efforts to atone for his crime. Author John Bartlow Martin had the full, co-operation of Leopold's family and of Leo pold himself. The result is one of the frankest stories of crime and prison life ever printed. Be sure to read Murder oh -His Con science by John Bartlow Martin. And don't miss Cameron Shlpp's revaallng closa-up of Judy Car land "Tha Star Who Thinks No body Lovea Her."'' Out today on ill newsstands A CURTIS MAGAZlNftj 99 protection car,
