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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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"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.
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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
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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." ;
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