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Women's Ability To Withstand Shock of Atomic Blast Shown Editor's Note: Th followinr was written by Jean Wood Fuller, di rector f women'! activities lor the Civilian Defense Administration. Mrs. Fuller was one of the six women sta tioned in the 3500 yard trench, the closest any Caucasian woman have ever been to an atomic blast. Br JEAN WOOD FULLER ' Written For United Prosi Nevada Test Site (U.R) My' experie nee yesterday shows conclusively that women can stand the shock and strain of an atomic explosion just as well as men.. It also proved that with the proper precautions, entire com munities can survive an atomic bombing, but only if the proper precautions are taken. Excitement Prevails Twenty nine of us huddled at the bottom of a six-foot trench yesterday less than two miles from ground zero. Included in the group were five other wom en volunteers. The normal fem inine excitement prevailed amongst us all, but I didn't feel that my life was in any danger. The greatest scare came when the rocks came tumbling down on top of us. It's a very terrify ing experience to feel the ground rumble and shake under you and feel the rocks and dirt bounce off your head and back- How ever, being a Californian, it re minded me of a good stiff earth quake, although a lot dirtier. I felt no heat from the explo sion, but was blinded by the dust that rose up around us in great clouds. Fortunately we were all wearing respirators. Give Inspiring Sight The sight of that tremendous cloud rearing itself high over our head was one of the most awe inspiring sights I or anyone else in that trench will ever see. We women set a precedent this morning by being in the trench and the Civil Defense Adminis tration can be proud of the way it handles our end of the show, The lessons we learned out there in the dust and dirt will enable us to expand our civil defense facilities and perhaps save addi tional thousands of lives should an atomic emergency ever occur. Surplus of Brazil Coffee Not Expected To Affect Prices in United States Elks Convention May Bring Record Crowd to Ashland Ashland Heavy advance registrations indicate that the Oregon State Elks association convention may bring a record number of visitors to Ashland next month. The convention is slated for June 2 through 4. New requests for housing are coming in daily, according to Roger Rath, chairman of the convention housing committee. Rath declared that hotels and motels in the Ashland-Talent vi cinity are now practically filled, and reservations are being made in Medford for convention dele gates. ' Expect 3.000 Arrangements are being made to feed 3.000 guests at a buf falo barbecue to be held in the afternoon of June 4 at Ashland High school stadium. A parade is scheduled for the same after noon, and eight bands have in dicated they will take part in the event. Other items on the program include golf, bowling and trap shoot tournaments, scenic tours of the area, special events for women, and evening floor shows and dancing at the Elks lounge Full details of the convention program are now being complet ed. Rio De Janeiro (U.R) Brazil is building up a big surplus of coffee this year but the U. S. housewife probably will go on paying as much as ever at her corner grocery. Ordinarily the price of coffee might be expected to drop under the conditions shaping up in cof fee production centers. But Bra zil's price stabilization policy stands in the way of such a de cline, f The new Brazilian coffee mar ket begins July 1. At that time, stocks on hand are expected to exceed 6,000,000 sacks, the equi valent of about four months con sumption in the United States. Lot of Coffee The new crop that will begin pouring into commercial pipe lines July 1 is figured to provide more than 16,000,000 sacks for export. This is about 3,000,000 more than, the current frost blighted crop provided. Adding the July 1 stocks to the new crop, the total is around 22.000,000 sacks. That's a lot of coffee, even in Brazil. . Too much, in fact, and the Lat in American coffee - growing na tions have worked up a plan to keep part of their coffee off the market to prevent a price col lapse. A drop in prices, the produ cers claim, would not really sell any more coffee. What is needed, they say, is a slam-bang sales promotion campaign in the Uni ted States and Europe and even an expansion of sales to Iron! Curtain countries. Meanwhile, the surplus would be taken care of by government stockpiling. Brazilian Finance Minister Jose Maria Whitaker, ' a hard headed 77-year-old banker, has announced that the government will form a reserve of 3,00.0,000 szeks it has bought up from the current crop under the price sup port program. But at the same time he made it clear he wants Brazil's coffee interests to get out and sell what remains of the crop. He hopes to avoid any further stockpiling, which puts too much of a strain on Brazil's inflation backed treasury. To help Brazil sell eoffee, a bill is new being passed by the Congress which would levy a tax of 25 U. S. cents on each sack of exported coffee to finance a sales promotional campaign in the United States and Europe by the Pan American Coffee Bureau. Pendleton Student Get's Annapolis Bid-1 - -Pendleton (UR) Michael P. Bothwell, 17-year-old senior honor student here, has been tentatively accepted for admis sion to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Word of the acceptance was received here yesterday from Rep. Sam Coon (It-Ore.), who said final approval depended on Bothwell's final, school term. PARKER f "TfesV wri fiMKgRA .: I rVlJSil& I smootntr yml ((T,;; -sjB!& K Individually """S C your way! I :QiMil3a V mm I tl OTKsVfln in V tf! 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Back Stairs: Importance of Drugs Br MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Whit Houso Writer Washington 4U.R) Back stairs at the White House: The Salk polio vaccine brings to mind the importance that drug discoveries could have made in the lives of occupants of the White House in days past. A pharmacist and editor of "The Prescriptionist , Edward P. Fleming wrote recently and movingly: 'To the couple looking down upon that small figure lying so still in the big bed, it must have seemed to have happened very quickly. The small boy coming in from the drenching rain, the next day the sore throat, then the horrible cough, the high fever. the succession of nurses and doc tors, the never ending vigil by the bedside, the alternating hope and despair and, finally, the ir revocable end. "Their son was dead. What mattered their position, their in fluence, their power, when all of it was unavailing to save their boy? "No ordinary couple were Abraham and Mary Lincoln, yet death had entered the White House as devastatingly as though it had been a hovel. Five dollars worth of antibiotics would have had Willie Lincoln playing out on the lawn within the week, but the word "antibiotic" had not yet been coined. Of course, that was 90 years ago." Pharmacist Fleming also points out: "Not so remote in time was the era of Calvin Colidge Jr. He had known automobiles from his earliest memories, he sel dom glanced up when an air plane flew overhead, he enjoyed his radio as does every modern boy. "Yet a heel was blistered on the tennis court, infection set in to be followed by the dread septicemia and once again death eluded everv barrier to invade the White House and carry away a president's son. Two or three dozen sulfa tables would have been an effective barrier, but the Coolidges knew no more of sulfa than did the Lincolns of anti biotics." ; but ,need in the distribution of the new polid vaccine. This sort of history also may help to explain why the Eisen howers were so shocked and even indignant when they heard that someone was trying to spread a lie that their grandchildren were given favored treatment and re ceived the Salk vaccine months before other children. It just didn't happen, nor was this ever requested. : . , Dr. Bernard Thompson Wishes To Ahnounce the Re-Opening of ' , HIS DENTAL OFFICE :' -At ' . 303 Medical Center Bldg. Phone 2-4875 Dr. Thompson has just recently completed his 7- -.- tour-of duty with the U.S. Air Force Quite a reminder, from Flem ing; Possibly in similar knowl edge, President Eisenhower has been insistent that no favors be granted, no privilege recognized For Your Mother's Day Gifts shop A Gift To Please Every Mother ... o Take Advantage of our FREE Gift Wrap ' Service" -. e TWO FLOORS AND A BALCONY FULL OF BEAUTIFUL GIFTS ; at. 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