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Monday, April 25, I95S 'Survival Town' Faces Destruction in xplosixm at Ypccfl ; .Flat FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday Legislative Tempers Shortening As Adjournment Fever Increases Salem U.R) After 104 days and many nights, tempers were beginning to get a little short at the 48th session of the Oregon Legislature. A lot of pressure is building up for adjournment. Quick changes are being made daily in important policy matters and. under these conditions, pressure groups can be expected to get in their best licks. Important work remains to be done. The income tax bill as revised by the Senate committee, was scheduled for the Senate floor to day and a minority report due from two of the seven members Exemptions Decrease The bill provides for a reduc tion from $600 to $500 in per sonal exemptions and a 45 per cent surtax on amounts paid under the present rates. Surtax and lowered exemptions com bined would' increase present revenue from personal income tax -65 per. cent and provide $44,000,000 in new revenue. ' Under this bill there would be no changes in below $3000 income groups and an increase of nine-tenths of one per cent on incomes over $100,000. Greatest changes percentagewise would Arrival of Monkeys Cuts Worry By Americans Over Supply of Salic Vaccine Columbia, S.C. (U.R) Twenty four hundred monkeys have be come new residents of South Carolina during the past week, and Americans worrying about the supply of Salk polio vaccine can breathe a little easier. The shipments of Rhesus mon- , keys from India by plane to New York and then by truck, to South Carolina will help keep a steady flow of vaccine coming out of drug laboratories around the country. The monkeys provide kidney tissue used in- manufacture of the vaccine and also serve as "guinea pigs" to test it. They are brought from the jungle to a unique 39-acre farm in the South Carolina low country for a 21-day conditioning period be fore they go on to serve the cause of humanity. Ban Lifted A threatened shortage of the monkeys failed . to materialize when the government of India removed a recent ban on their export. They began moving from New Delhi by the plane load again last week. The monkeys ride in tempera ture controlled plane compart ments to assure their good health on arrival. When they reach the Okatie farms 30 miles north of Savannah, Ga., they are put up in style (heated dwellings dur ing winter) and go on a special diet that includes a vitamin sup plement. Okatie farms, which was es tablished by the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis in 1947, was chosen as a clearing house for monkeys in the anti polio drive because the climate "closely approximates" that of their natural habitat. MoTement Stepped Up The farm has facilities for up to 10,000 long-tailed tenants at a time. The traffic has been stepped up markedly since the report on the success of the Salk vaccine. Farm manager Ralph Baker and a staff of 20 has charge of the monkeys during their "basic training." There are no doctors at Okatie and no experiments are conducted there. . The conditioning period is necessary to make sure that the animals are fit specimens for polio research. The national foundation spends about $35 on each monkey from the time it leaves the jungle until it is turned over to a laboratory. Some manufacturers of the Salk vaccine are setting up their own programs for testing mon key candidates. They will be able to acquire monkeys direct ly from Indian or the Philip pines. . . . be in the $3000 to $20,000 class As an example, those with in comes from $5000 to $6000 now pay $3,905,000 annually. Under the new bill they would pay $6, 680,000 annually. The Senate Tax Committee was still undecided about the cigarette tax "and the House Tax Committee was struggling with the sales tax. There are 12 managed, public waterfowl hunting areas, in California. The Portugese Man-of-War is the most poisonous of all jelly- fishes. As a manufacturing State, California ranked in sixth place in 1950. Neuberger Attacks John Day Dam Plan Washington (U.R) Sen. Richard L. Neuberger . (D-Ore) has declared that a federal local "partnership" development of the John Day dam project in Oregon would raise the cost of power in his state. He said in a statement that a new partnership bill sponsored by Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) "re veals in sharp detail the short comings" of a smaller measure introduced last year. "When- we held the line against the administration's partnership scheme for a year," he said, "it forced the 'local in terests' to raise their ante from $164,000,000 to $273,000,000. "It is evident that the power assets of the John Day site are so valuable that the private utili ties are willing to up their bid at least $100,000,000 over their 1954 offer." XNeuDerger said coons new bill- "leads down innumerable blind alleys" and raises import ant questions which must be an swered before power consumers "are. lured down the primrose path of partnership. No Further Sign-Ups For Polio Vaccine ' Portland (U.R) The State Board of Health has asked coun ty health boards not to encour age further sign-ups for Salk polio vaccine as there probably will be a shortage in the state The inoculations have already been postponed indefinitely in Oregon due to lack of word con cerning shipments of the vaccine here. v The board's memo to county health departments Sunday not ed thaUonly 76,140 cubic centi meters of the fluid were allocat ed, to Oregon. vAccording to board figures, 81,738 cubic cen- Save freight charges on your incur car! Ability of Homes To Stand Blast Sought in Test Atomic Test Site, Nev. U.P.) The specter of atomic destruc tion hung today over Survival Town, U.S.A. Weather permitting, an atomic device encased in an ominous black cab atop a 500-foot steel tower on dusty, sagebrush and joshua tree-sprinkled Yucca Flat will be detonated at 4:20 a.m (PST) Tuesday. The nuclear gadget, its build ers predict, will have the potency of 40,000' tons of TNT. This is twice the punch of the "Model T" atom bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. Stars of the experiment, one of America's most spectacular atomic tests, are the mannequins who are the only residents of the 10 typical American-style homes built on the desert south and east of the tower base. Impressive Array Around their homes, which range from about one to. about two miles from "ground zero, is spread an impressive array of typical trailers, gas tanks, power lines and even fire trucks. . aneives of tne Kitcnen cup boards are stocked with a wide variety of canned foods. Re frigerators will be stocked with fresh foodstocks and beer. The idea of the elaborate ex periment is to find out what would happen to the nation's homes, offices and factories should they be subjected to an atomic attack. The same nuclear device that tests the durability of the sim ulated town will also be the spark for an Army armored task force exercise. More than 4,000 military and civilian observers from through out the United States and from Canada, Puerto Rico and Hawaii will witness the blast. Most of the civilians will be on a hillside seven miles south of the shot tower." Women in Forward Trenches Thirteen persons 12 Army officers and one civilian Army workers will be in deep trenches only 2,600 yards from ground zero. Another group, in cluding three women civil de fense workers, will be in other forward area trenches. The lead Army tanks, con taining several newsmen volun teers as well as their regular crews, will be 3,100 yards out the closest to an atomic explo sion . that humans have been above ground since the wartime blasts in Japan. Charts prepared by the Fed eral Civil Defense Administra tion indicate that' five of the 10 homes will be destroyed or vir tually ruined by the heat, blast and radiation of the 40,000 ton yield" device. The other five are expected to suffer lesser, although severe, damage. Scientists Unable To Tell Brain -Of Genius From That of an Idiot timeters would be needed to give even a first dose to all eligible children.' The state board has protested the .amount of the allotment to the National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis, officials said. Deer in New Zealand have be come so numerous they are re garded as common pests. Fly f'fJf TED oast for factory delivery... fir f , . ' 3 I Enjoy a vacation drive home! Ask your dealer to give yon the details on factory de livery of your, new car. Yoa'Il see that the savings in freight charges goes a long way towards covering the cost of your trip to the factory and ypn can then enjoy a leisurely vacation trip back home. Your nearest United office will handle all the arrangements. Also be sure to ask about UniteoTs economical half-fare family plan if you wish to take others with you. Don't delay find out about this wonderful plan today I Airport Terminal. 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The question was: "Which is the idiot?" What's The Difference The neurologist was pointing put that despite the vast accumu lation of knowledge about the human brain, science knows very liitle about it. That's not contradictory. Science knows its anatomy in minute detail. Yet anatomically' science usually can't tell the difference between the brain of a genius and the brain of an idiot. ' Scientifically the neurologist belongs to the school which ar gues that genius has no physical cause. . Therefore, the physical cause of Einstein's genius must be in his brain, since the hu man body has no other intellec tual organ. It just has . to be there, and it is isn't found it means only that science doesn't yet know how to look. Since the physical cause-for- every thing-school has, Vso far, found nothing to support itself in the human brain, then how do their opponents argue? They argue that "forces" de velop in the intricate physical functioning of the brain which converts to a blubbery mass of blood, tissue, and nerve cells in to a mind, but that these "for ces" have no anatomy because they have no physical existenca. Yet the proofs are obvious, they say. For example, we all have con science, in greater or lesser de gree, but where, anatomically is the conscience? Yet there is a conscience of which we are con scious and another, the "super ego." of which we are not con scious. Also there are both a conscious and an unconscious ego. To sum up,, there is an unconscious mind as well as a conscious one which both are manifestations of the same brain - Public Welfare Bill Passes House Salem (U.R) A bill appropri ating $31,150,032 for public wel fare was passed by the House Saturday with only one dissent ing vote. . The largest appropriation bill to reach the floor of the House this session encountered the ob jections of Rep. G. D. 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