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.
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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
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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
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