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.
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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. Woolson had been hospitalized
twice earlier this year with lung
congestion and then returned to
the home ' of his daughter, Mrs.
John Kobus, Duluth, where he
The commission said this work
is now handled by 29 agencies
and is slated to cost some $2,
400,000,000 in the fiscal year
starting July 1. Of the total,
about $2,050,000,000 is planned
for military research.
Endorses 13 Recommendations
The commission endorsed 13
of 15 recommendations by its
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Oveross Returned
To Marion County
Salem (U.R) Casper Oveross,
43,- was returned to Marion
county jail from Fiairbanks,
Alaska, yesterday to face trial
on a charge of murdering his
Silverton area neighbor, Ervin
Kaser.
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was brought back by Marion
County Sheriff Denver Young
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geant Wayne Huffman.
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booked. Oveross conferred with!
his Salem attorney, Bruce Wil
liams, on plans for his defense
against the first degree murder
indictment returned against him
by a Marion county grand jury
May 16. Oveross is charged with
shooting Kaser to death as he sat
in his car in the driveway of
his home Feb. 16. The Silverton
carpenter give himself up to
territorial officials in Alaska
when he learned an indictment
had been returned against him.
Sinatra Tackles
Suspected Prowler
Palm Springs, Calif. (U.R)
Singer Frank Sinatra nailed a
suspected prowler with a flying
tackle at his home here yester
day and then refused to press
charges when the youth said he
enly was trying to sell Sinatra
a song he had composed.
Sinatra held the suspect, Rob
ert Enriquiz, of nearby Indio,
until police arrived with the
help of a house guest, songwriter
Jimmie Van Heusen.
Enriquiz told police he "was
trying to get into Frankie's
house to sell him a song I had
composed."
The singer told officers he
was awakened by the sound of
footsteps on the roof. He said he
went outside and teckled Enri
quiz when he reached the
ground.
President Commends
Rotary Peace Work
Chicago (U.R) President
Eisenhower commended Rotary
International for "making an
outstanding contribution toward
peace" in a message to the or
ganization's golden jubilee con
vention. About 20,000 delegates from
90 nations and nearly 9000 clubs
are attending the convention,
which opened yesterday. .
Election of A. Z. Baker, presi
dent of the American Stock
Yards Association, Cleveland, as
Rotary's new president and a
pageant with a cast of 250 de
picting Rotary's 50 years high
lighted the opening sessions yes
terday. The convention will end on
Thursday, when Vice-President
Richard M. Nixon will speak.
NAUTILUS AT SEA
Groton, Conn. (U.R) The
atomic-powered submarine Nau
tilus put out to sea early today
to finish its shakedown cruise.
The Navy announced the nuclear
submarine will "contine opera
tional training exercises" but did
not say when they would be concluded.
Dead line lor Sunday Classified ii
Monday: other aays 5:30 oreviousday.
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Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) The
Red Chinese were reported to
day to be operating submarines
out of Hoeng Shan harbor off
the northern Chekiang coast of
mainland China.
The Tatas News agency of the
ministry of the interior said the
harbor had become an important
military base. It said the subs
apparently kept a watch on the
U.S. 7th fleet and the National
ist navy in the Formosa Strait.
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