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-"3 v?i.,H SsSSa 4 -ij FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, April 11, 19S3 Science Seeks Facts on Effects Of Atomic Radiation on Mankind Washington (U.PJ Science set out today to establish, once and for all, the facts about what atomic radiation does to man, animals, and plants. The vast project was under taken by the National Academy of Sciences with the Rockefel ler foundation's financial back ing and the Atomic Energy com mission's blessings. It will be carried out by em inent scientists who will try to find out all that can be learn ed about effects of A-bomb and H-bomb explosions on living things. The study, an academy, spokes man said, should disclose where the truth lies between those who preach atomic doom and those who uncritically retort "non sense." Which Will Slay? Among other things it ought, he said, to liquidate the current controversy over whether the more than 75 nuclear test wea pons already exploded have cast a genetic blight on the race of man which will manifest itself generations hence in the form of human defectives. The study will last as long as necessary. At its conclusion the academy will report its find ings to the public. Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, acad emy president, said the study will be "a disappassionate and objective effort to clarify the issues which are of grave con cern as well as great hope to mankind." Stated as starkly as possible, the big issue appears to be whether both man and the atom are here to stay or just the atom. Bronk said the academy "will appoint a committee of eminent scientists and staff to deal with the problem." The committee, working with full access to data accumulated by the AEC,- will dig into "all phases of the bi ological effects of the increas ing use of atomic energy." Object ires Listed It will: 1. Collect and appraise av ailable information on every thing from H-bomb fallout to contamination of the air by At omic power plants. 2. Formulate any conclusions warranted by this information, whether they are reassuring or frightening. 3. Identify problems which urgently require further inves tigations. 4. Get such investigations un derway. In addition the committee will catalogue what is known about radition "therapy and protec tion." AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, whose agency has beein in the middle of a heated inter national controversy 'over atom ic effects, said of the study: "No more timely service to the world's people could be per formed by American scholar ship." The academy committee's hardest job will be to. establish the effect on human heredity of nuclear radiation to date and the probable genetic effects of fu ture weapons tests, or of atomic war. The AEC is convinced its test programs" will not seriously ef fect the genetic constitution of human beings." But it concedes "there is a rather wide range of admissible . opinion on this subject." A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That1 By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Presi Fastaro WriHi Washington (U.P.) Interest ed in a cozy little summer place? Your Uncle Sam has some for sale surplus lighthouses, 16 of t h e m, lo cated along the Atlantic Coast. The General Services Ad m i n istration here is hand ling the sales, and wouldn't be surprised if harman fticnois the current of fering was gobbled up as fast as 17 others that were put on the block in the last five years. . Inflation has hit the light house market. For example, the light station at . Wings - Neck, Cape Cod, was built in 1849 for $3215. It has been done over a number of times since, and the going-rate today is $13,738. It Was Quite a Life Much has been written about the old keepers of lighthouses. Some of the glimmers were a mile out to sea. When summer was around the keeper could row home for a week end, if he had an assistant. But in the chill of winter, he packed a big lunch, oared out in his dinty and for the next few months saw more of the waves than he did of his wife. Sure, he could wig-wag his missus a message, but that wasn't as good as kissing her be hind the ear at Yuletide. Worse, the life of the keepers was here today and maybe gone tomorrow. Take the plight of one John W. B. Thompson, assistant keeper of the Cape Florida light house in 1836. The incident occurred on July 23 during the Seminole War. After it was all over, according to files in the Coast Guard head quarters, Thompson made out his official report. The Cape Florida house was practically on shore. He looked out the kitchen window and saw a band of In dians approaching, muskets and bows and arrows at the ready. Thompson and his helper ran to bolt the door of the lighthouse. The Indians Attack "I had the key in the inside lock," the keeper said, "when an Indian had his hand on the out side latch." There followed many arrows .and even more musket balls. All Thompson and his man had were three muskets. They fired two of them- until they were hot and then picked up the spare. The helper finally was done in and the keeper was wounded "in several places." The Indians fired, by accident, into tin tanks of oil, 225 gallons of it, and soon the inside of the lighthouse was an inferno. Finally Thompson made it to the top of the light house and to escape cremation climbed out on a two-foot ledge. "I recommended my soul to God," the keeper wrote in his report. "I thought of jumping to the rocks below, but decided not to." The Indians thought him dead, went about plungering and steal- Russian Experts To See All on Journey To Iowa Editor's Note Any Soviet delega tion bent on studying Iowa farming would be permitted to see whatever it wisbed. But the following dispatch in dicates not all Iowans would be happy to greet the Russians. By ED DE MAR United Press Correspondent Des Moines, la. (U.P.) Gov. Leo H. Hoegh said today that Russian farm experts coming to Iowa to learn "how the tall corn grows" would be permitted to see "just about anything they want to" about American farm methods. But, Hoegh warned, the Sov iet visitors wouldn't be greeted "with a lot of fanfare." Visit Good Idea The governor said he thinks the visit might be a good idea because "when they are acquain ted with us, that should erase any suspicians and even any hatred they might have for us." But he's even more interest ed in the other part of the ex change proposal for Amer icans to go to Russia. "I'd like to be named to go over there," he said. "And I'd like to be able to appoint a few people to come with me. I'd straighten them out and sell them on the United States." Housewife Opposed At Cedar Rapids, however, a housewife Mrs. Joseph Vitek who was arrested in her na tive Czechoslovakia by Com munists on trumped-up spy charges, said she opposes the suggestion to let Russians visit Iowa. ' "If the millions of Russian peasants were free to see our way of life, I'd be for that," said Mrs. Vitek, who is a lec turer against Communism. "But I'm against showing our secrets to a bunch of hand-picked Communists. They won't tell the people what they saw, any way. "Besides, they couldn't use our methods. Their climate Nand machinery are different." More than 500,000 children in the U.S. suffer some form of heart disease. , ing everything they could lay a hand on. Then the Redmen went away. The keeper cut off one leg of his pants and waved for help. Help finally came, and Thomp son lived to tend another light. I SBBD I 1 GEB3 I A&fijl&k j 'K Svt oML adds ubto me, tltkq tastes good like a cigarette should! 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And after the rest of us are washed away by the water, "Sub Group X" will emerge and start the tedious job of getting the world on its feet again. The Society of Metaphysicians has been assembling "Sub Group X" for about 10 years, ever since the first atom bomb went off. The World's End Metaphysics is the study of phenomena outside the realm of orthodox science. John J. Wil liamson, head of the society, and his followers are away, way out side. They claim that by using special techniques they have figured out that the world is due for destruction either by a flood exceeding Noah's, by radioactive poisoning or by 'a combination of disasters such as melting ice caps, polluted atmosphere, uni versal sterility. Williamson, in fact, hints darkly that he would not be sur prised if the first flood, Noah's, was caused by atomic and hy drogen bomb experiments. Secret Is Mental Energy As head of the society's "so cial community," W i 1 1 i a mson has been charged with forming "Sub Group X" and selecting the spot to hide in. "The secret of survival is mental energy," he said, "and the simple truth is that a ma jority of people are incapable of survival." Williamson, who is 38 and an electronics engineer most of the time, said, he had found a few people with the right amount of mental energy. This "savior com munity" is learning how to live FONG TRIAL OPENS Portland (U.R) The trial of Wey Him Fong and his wife, Sherry, for first degree murder in connection with the death of Diane Hank, 16-year-old high school girl, opens here today. The body of the girl was found more than a year ago near Wa shougal, Wash. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. with each other against the day they leave for South America. 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