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POURING 25-FT. WALL OF LAVA through Iwasaki Plantation, Hawaii's Kilauea comes to life with roar, belching smoke and fumes high in air. No major damage was reported. fnteniattoRaO Mining of Mercury Lures Prospectors in California San Francisco (ll.R) Mer-has refused to confirm or deny cury, the rare liquid inetai max seems to run away when you try . to pick it up, has a new genera tion of prospectors on its trail in the mountains of California. Something like a book has hit the small and shaky quicksilver (or mercury) mining industry. The Defense Minerals Explo ration Administration is spend ing more than $300,000 in searches for new quicksilver de posits. Atomic Program Use The New Idria Quicksilver Mine, which bores into a moun tain in lonely deer-hunting coun try 180 miles southeast of San Francisco and produces 29 per cent of the nation's output, is eoing activity seldom equalled except in time of war. Besides its familiar role in thermometers, insecticides, and medical and paint preparations, mercury is used in detonators for certain explosives. It also has been reported that mercury is used in atomic reactors, but the Atomic Energy Commission The New Indria Mine, which dates back to the rowdy gold rush era, had been in the doldrums since the end of World War II. Its production charts for the last half-century show up-and-down curves, rising to peaks in the 1914-18 and 1940-45 per iods. But last year the government announced a price support for quicksilver and the production curve swung back up. The General Services Admin istration said it would buy quicksilver at S225 per 76-pound flask and stockpile it. Actually, the support has never been put into effect because the handful jof quicksilver mines have sold all their output to industry at the going market price of $300. Refinery Workers Vote C and H Strike Crockett, Calif. Oj.R) Mem bers of the AFL Refinery Work erj Union have voted to go on strike against the California and Hawaiian Sugar Company plant, union Business Agent G. P. Paoli announced today. Paoli said the strike is sched uled for 8 a.m. PDT Saturday. He said the membership re jected last night a company con tract offer despite the recom mendation of the union execu tive board to accept it. The company had offered a guaranteed five-day work week, nd also agreed to work with the union in investigating new pen sion plans. The union had de manded a pension plan with "more liberal' benefits than the company plan now in effect. One of the union's principal complaints was against the cur tailed four -day work week adopted for a short time last year. U Nu To Mediate Israel-Egypt Conflict Jerusalem. Israel U.R) Bur mese Premier U Nu indicated tonight he would try to mediate the Israeli - Egyptian conflict which has erupted into many border incidents recently. U Nu hinted at such action in a speech at a dinner given mi his honor by Israeli Premier Moshe Sharett. U Nu declared that Burma's policy of peace and friendship was based on the firm conviction that war only breeds new problems. mm? Try the train ffntf avoid the strain Enjoy a good night's sleep on our smooth, diesel-pow-ered train to Portland. It's the easy, safe and time saving way to po. Comfortable Pullman car with berths, bedrooms (new low rates) and draw ing room. Snack lounge. Chair car, with sponge rubber seats, at very low fares. For tickets, information. Pullman reservations call any S.P. ticket office. Southern Pacific F. G. MORRIS, Agent Phcne 2-2846 130 Register for Jersey Club Meeting Salem (U.R) Some 130 members from 28 states have al ready registered for the 87th an nual convention of the Ameri can Jersey Club holding a week long session here. Registration began Sunday at the Marion hotel. D. T. Simons of Fort Worth, Tex., president of the national club, said four changes in the constitution will be considered at a business session Wednesday. One would authorize a shift from the $500,000 holding per mit to one of $2,000,000. Assets of the association frequently run to $1,000,000, Simons said. An other change would be a reduc tion in membership fee from $50 to S25, with the object in view of increasing the membership. Hoover Commission Raps Two Agencies For Research Lack Tuesday, May 31, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THBSS Washington (U.R) The Hoover commission charged to-i day that the Defense and Wel-j fare departments have not giv en enough support to basic scien tific research such as led to the atomic bomb and the Salk polio vaccine. The' commission also said in a report sent to Congress that the armed services "are not suffi ciently daring and imaginative in their approach to radically new weapons." It said that only "'. . . a minor amount of research into the laws of nature and the nature of ma terials'' is done. This was a ref erence to basic research into fundamental scientific principles and phenomena not necessarily having - an immediate applica tion. It was in the field of such ba sic research the late Dr. Albert Einstein developed his theories of relativity which led to the atomic bomb and opened the en tire field of nuclear energy. 'Dramatic' Results The commission criticized the Health, Education and Welfare department and the Budget bu reau for not asking Congress for money for a vast backlog of medical research projects. It in dicated some of these might yield "dramatic" results compar able to the Salk vaccine dis covery. The commission report dealt with all of the government's numerous research activities. ! lives military research "task force and said all could be put into ; effect without congressional ac-l tion. It proposed creation of a com mittee of "outstanding basic and applied scientists" to "canvass periodically the needs and op portunities . . . for radically new weapons." It said that since the end of World War II, development of new weapons has resulted "largely through informal prod ding by civilian scientists and technologists." It said the re sults have been good but that future development "should not be left to chance." Civil War Veteran Taken To Hospital Duluth, Minn. (U.R) Al bert Woolson, 108, last survivor of the Union Army in the Civil War, was admitted to St. Luke's hospital early today for the third time this year. Hospital officials said he had bronchial pneumonia but his condition was fair. The old soldier was placed in an oxygen tent and was re ported to be showing improve ment. 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