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V .--iiii1..7 ijiiiili l 1 i'l - 11 ! h t ; 7k i '" ----- ! i.v: ... ! ;s ' 'iy 'GoW Records Presentee To As Coveted As 'Oscars' in Hollywood New York (U.R) Those "gold" records presented to singers after one of their records sells 1,000,000 copies are as coveted around here as "Oscars1 are in Hollywood. But the secret must come out: They wouldn't be worth more than a few bucks in a pawnshop. They won't even play. Gold paint or electroplate clogs up the grooves. But if your name 'is on the record, yon don't care. You are a poor prospect for the pawn broker, having made a mint in royalties from a million-selling hit record. The custom of presenting an artist with a gold record goes back 17 years and symbolizes success in the most basic way. No nominations are made, no votes are counted. The record companies just add up figures in the sales department. Since a performer's royalty on each record sold may range from two cents to six cents, de pending on what kind of con tract he has, the gold record is ' only a postscript to the $20,000 to $60,000 he has already earned in royalties, and the enhanced reputation a million record brings. Decca Records claims to have started the gold record custom in 1938, when company officials thought it would be nice to give something special besides money to Bipg Crosby. His recording of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" had sold 1.000,000 copies. "Bins got 18 more" gold rec ords after that," a Decca spokes man said. "Silent Night is still a bestseller every year although Bing's White Christmas has out sold it now. White Christmas went over 10,000,000 last season and S.'lena Night has sold about 8,000,000." Crosby has more gold records on his waif than any other-performer. Perry Como has eight, while the bandleader most often honored is the late Glenn Miller. whose name appears eight times on RCA Victor's list of million sellers. 200 Champ You have to take the record eompanie's word for how many recoids are sold. Lists furnished by the companies show almost 200 records have reached mil- lion-sellerdom over the past 35 years. The earliest was Paul White man's RCA Victor recording of 'Whispering" which came out in 1920. The list includes sentimental ballads like "Prisoner of Love" and "To Each His Own", and many novelties such as Spike Jones' version of "Cocktails For Two" or Kay Kysert "Three Little Fishies." There are corny i, . ... . .... . . . - . . . . .. -: ..... n western tunes "On Top of Old Smoky" and patriotic airs ("There's A Star Spangled Ban ner Waving Somewhere.") Some records sell . a million copies in a few months and then ACQUITTED Hands reach in to congratulate Herman (Hank) Greenspun and his wife, Barbara, after he was acquitted by a federal jury of six men and six women in Las Vegas, Nev. Greenspur, publisher of The Las Vegas Sun, had been charged with attempting to incite the murder or. assassination of Senator Joseph McCarthy by . an article written in his paper. The verdict was greeted by cheers from court-room spectators. Seed Law Violations Albany, Ore. " (U.R) Two hundred indictments, each charging a violation of state law regulating sale of seed, " have been returned by a Linn county Circuit Court grand jury in a history-making action .against Frank T. Glaser, prominent Tan gent seed grower.' Bail for each indictment was set at $250, or a total of $50,000. The new indictments each ac cused Glaser of having on Oc tober 20. sold and delivered to Northrup and , King, which com pany maintains a plant at Al bany, a sack of adulterated Eng lish perennial . rye grass seed. each sack bearing a blue certifi Sixth & Free- Ertapirise Cmpain)y's ' - mmmmmmmmmmmmmMmmmtmmmmmummmmmmmmMMMMmmmmmmmmmmtmummmuBmmmmmmmumumm Aimy ItUasFree Singers take a quick nosedive In popu larity. Others hit the million mark the hard way, such as Clyde McCoy's "Sugar Blues," sn oldie that just made gold rec ord status at Decca. Charged in Albany cation lag guaranteeing the con tents to be pure within the limits cf state law. A previous indictment charged obtaining money under false pretense by selling 1866 sacks of falsely packed seed. ANIMAL REPORT Boston (U.R) More than 50, 000 animals were treated last year by the Massachusetts Socie ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. . Only" the United States and New Zealand have a generally established 40-hour work week; a 48-hour work week prevails in most other industrial nations. Front me mi vsms. on iffira : ... ; - - ; 'i . Enterprise Medford United Press full LaMd Wlr Second Section Atomic Explosions Usually &vm Away To ScoeouMsts Wherever They ciw Editor's note: A scientist reported this week that r&dioiodine from Soviet atomic explosions was found in the thyroid glands of U.S. cattle. His find ings illustrate the fact that atomic blasts, wherever they are set off. tend to advertise themselves. A classic example of this is discussed in the following dispatch. , By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) It's prac tically impossible to keep atomic explosions secret. The Russians and the U.S. Atomic Esergy commission try. But the exploding atom usually gives itself away. . From time to time this coun try detects, and sometimes re ports, atomic explosions in the U.S.S.R. and Russia- presumably is well aware of U-SS. atomic tests, their scope and nature. How hard it is to hush up the atom was underscored this week by - a researcher's disclosure in San Francisco that radioiodine, a product of nuclear fission, cropped up in U.S. cattle after atomic tests in Russia. It was just another example of the fact that atomic secrets contain built-in self-betrayers. Easily detected nuclear debris from' atomic explosions rides far and wide on fast-moving high atmospheric winds, sometimes circling the planet more , than once. A new classic illustration of atomic detection came to public attention after last spring's N.S. H-bomb tests in the Pacific. The Sherlocks of this story are the scientists of Japan. The AEC did its best at first to suppress ' any information about the big shots it was setting off in the Marshall Islands in the spring of 1954. Repeatedly in official releases it described as DRYCLEANING GROWTH Chicago (U.R) Since 1948 there has been a 22 per cent in crease in the number of dry cleaning plants in the United States, Norbert J. Berg, general manager of the National Insti tute of Drycleaning, told the or ganization's convention. Berg attributed ; :the ' growth" to the high level of personal income. About four cents of the aver age consumer's dollar in the U.S. is for medical care, ighth & That MEDFORD, OREGON, "routine'' explosions since re vealed to be the most powerful and frightening ever detonated by man. Even now the commission re fuses to give the U.S. public certain information about those tests which long since has been in the possesson of scientists everywhere. Such facts as are in the public domain might still be secret, as far as the layman is concerned, except for an accident or an "act of God" as one atomic of ficial called it. Some Japanese happened to be fishing for tuna, in a Pacific area, where they had every right to be, when a test H-bomb was exploded at Bekihi March 1, 1954. And there just happened to be a wind shift at the crucial mo ment. . So the 23 fishermen and their ship, SO miles from , the explo sion, got showered with radio active fallout. All got sick one ultimately" died but they man aged to get home with their con taminated ship and cargo. Japanese scientists went to work on "Bikini ashes" scraped off the fishing boat. At the same time they subjected to close scrutiny sundry instrumental reading on air and sea energy waves obtained during the pe riod of the tests! For a while the AEC suggest ed the possibility that the fisher men had been hurt not by radio activity but by lime bums from coral pulverized and hurled into the atmosphere by the March 1 explosion. Prepare for Promotion Enroll on Any Monday DAY CLASSES-Monday thru Friday 9 to 4 Secretarial and Accounting Courses ' EVENING CLASSES Monday and Thursday - 7 to 10 p.m. Accounting Business English . Typewriting College Spelling . Shorthand Business Mathematics Business Machines: IBM Electric Typewriting; Marchant, Friden and Monroe Calculators, and Dictaphone.. Robertson School of Business 40-42 N.' Riverside Front Foime Made FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1955 It finally admitted, however, that what hit the fisherman was "hot" fallout; And nearly a year after the shot, it reported that the March 1 fallout temporarily poisoned an area of 7000 square miles. But months before, Japanese scientists had published , results of exhaustive . tests that told much more about some aspects of the tests than the AEC ever re ported. Conflicting Stories The AEC told the American public it set off three shots in the 1954 spring tests on March 1, Mary 26, and April 6. It never corrected the general impres sion that the March 1 explosion was the biggest of the series. The Japanese reports reveal, however, that there were two additional shots on April 26 and May 5 for a total of five. They also disclose that the last of the explosions probably was the giant of them all. By radiochemical analysis of the Bikini ashes, the Japanese .discovered a strange substance among the expected products of atomic fission. It was uranium 237. As a U.S. scientist said later, that was "really weird." Not Found in Nature U-237 is not found in nature. It is formed, under special cir cumstances by neutron action on U-238, and U-238 was not pre viously believed to figure in nu clear weapons. , However, U-237 may have got into the Bikini ashes, its presence led to speculation that atomic weaponeers had found a cheap way of souping up the H-bomb cheap because U-238 is far less Ph. 3-4264 Medford 1 T Parkimg This irM United rNif-FuB LwMd Wire Pages 1-6 costly than any of the atomic ex plosives the public had been told about. . . The AEC has never comment ed on the Japanese data despite published reports that it tried for a while to suppress them. ' But as an atomic authority in another part of the government said, "They prove that atomic secrets have a way of telling on themselves." ; CEH3SKEEB SpTTr" omvmcmss fJ ca-Cla BOTTLING CO. 600 North Grape O Mtdford O 2-2339 Mi between Central and Front ILD T -Wooneocket, R. I.. U.RV A. Holstein cow belonging to Adel bert H. 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