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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-
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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.
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By DELOS SMITH
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.PJ Referring
to the brain of Einstein, which
now is in a glass jar awaiting
scientific study, an eminent neu
rologist was reminded of his stu
dent days.
Ha was in a mental institu
tion, assisting the man in charge.
This world-famous, most learn
ed doctor was engaged in a game
cf chess with an inmate who
was, by all measurements except
one, an idiot.
He played a . mean game of
chess which is reputed to be an
intellectual game. When the doc
tor came into the room, the idiot
had the great brain of his op
ponent perplexed, bewildered,
and frustrated. All these things
were reflected on the great
brains face".
But the iodictic brain's facial
mirror was bright with mas
tery, and a very odd question
popped into the young doctor's
mind. 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. Gleason
(D.-Portland) who said it provid
ed only enough money for "gen
teel starvation."
Included in the measure was
appropriations for the aged, to
tally disabled, blind, and de
pendent children. Rep. Leon Da
vis (R.-Hillsboro) presented the
bill.
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The interplay of these '"for
ces," the shifting of power from
one to another, the subjugation
of one by another, the balances
achieved among them all
these vastly subtle and intri
cate relations, can make for ge
nius and can also, make for
idiocy, these scientists say.
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