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Britain Far Ahead of Western Europe fln Atomic Energy for Peaceful Uses Hi is Tfca Waited Kattoai tapoBaoriai ma htwutioiul eoafer c at Geneva xt atonta on U BaM. -Atoms for reaee." Oa the r. f this KteBtMe t-totfcr the TJntted Prcw polled it Bureaus throufheat Wtiton Europe for aa up-e-tae-ninute revert oa bow HtM tal application of atomic enerry U mortal ahead la 1 nations we of be boa Cartala. Br KENNETH MILLER United Press Correspondent London (U. Great Britain is running away with th atomic hw ihmv in EuiOM. She IS spending more on research and development than the rest of Europe put together. Her first atomic power plant will be generating electricity by . the middle of next year By 1975, Britain will be pro oh atom-made elec tricity to light nearly 40 cities the size of Washington, D.C. And the rest of Europe is far from idle. A survey by United Press correspondents in 16 capi tals shows many countries' work ing with all-out speed to get the atom into harness on a practical, . workaday basis. It is .possible millions of Euro peans "will have the atom as their household servant before many Americans do, even . though the scientific know-how, and possibly the very equipment and materials involved will be . stamped "Made In U. S. A." This doesn't mean U.S. science and industry are slow or short sighted, or tnat uie umxea States, which has offered to help atomic power programs startea, IS giving away- uu'"'5 - ' could better be used at home. European Meeds Certain economic facts of life have made atomic-electric power a more urgent goal in Europe 'than it is in the Umted States. ' .America nu cnuugn tuai, uu ' and hydroelectric reserves to keep generating plants supplied with fuol fnr voars in . come. nower comoanies and users of ventional fuels than to switch to In Europe the story is differ ent. Many nations have dwin dling supplies of coal and oil, or none at all. Mountainous coun tries like Sweden, Norway and Switzerland see the day coming when their hydroelectric poten tion will fail to meet their need for power. . Under such circumstances, electricity produced by nuclear energy would come as a God send, regardless of price. Great Britain is staking her future on the atom. She hopes to lead Europe through a second "industrial revolution," as im portant as the one which car ried Britain to world ascendancy in the 19th century. Under present plans Britain will spend more than $1,000, 000,000 on atomic development in the next 10 years, and by 1996 will have 37 nuclear re actors in operation. British lab oratories already are Europe's leading suppliers of radio-active isotopes for medical research. Technical Shortage - Throughout Western Europe, and in Britain, there is a short age of trained scientists and en gineers to carry on the research and development which must go into any atomic revolution. West Germany, a late but fas t-ru nning starter in the atomic stakes, hopes to "catch up" with other European na tions. But Nobel Prize-winning Prof. Otto Hahn has said Ger many's first task is to train scientists. -t. Italy, too, reports? that the greatest roadblock to atomic de velopment is the shortage of trained personnel. U. S. and British technicians are helping build an experi mental low-power reactor in Belgium to train future atomic engineers. This is part of an ex change agreement in which the U.S. and Britain get exclusive rights to 90 per cent of the ura nium ore produced in the Bel gian Congo.- . Belgium gets the other 10 per cent, and is looking forward to the time when it no longer need worry about dwindling reserves. France is deep in a 15-year atomic development program. 'An atomic reactor generating 30,000 kilowatts of electricity will be running at Marcours by 1957. Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay is pressing for a Euro pean atomic pool involving the six Schuman Plan nations. Atomic City in Sweden . Sweden is building Europe's first "atomic city," a $6,000,000 project south of Stockholm which will house 400. scientists and technicians. This is a kind of insurance. In 20 years, Swe den's hydroelectric, power re sources will have been tapped to their limit. Norway is at work on a light nuclear ' reactor suitable for merchant vessels. The Danes are prospecting for uranium in Greenland, and hope to see an atomic power plant operating in Denmark within 10 years. In Switzerland a group of 150 private firms ' is backing con struction of an experimental re actor. Austria's venture into atomic power is still in the talk ing stage, - until the country's economic burdens under her hew state treaty are sufficiently eased. Radioactive ores are known to exist in Spain, Portugal and Yugoslavia, and each of those countries has begun to exploit them. Spain and Yugoslavia al ready are producing the "heavy water" needed for operating certain types of nuclear reactors. Other South American Countries Expected To Be Trouble Spots I T (I By CHARLES M. MeCANW United Press Foreign Analyst Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala may . become trouble spots within the next few months. Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the Latin American "big three," already are in the news. President Juan D. Peron of Argentina probably has not heard the last of his dis- Charles McCann pute with the Roman Catholic Church. There is a turbulent presidential elec tion campaign in Brazil. Chile has a dangerous transport and communications strike. Thus, it is indicated that Latin America will be a source of headlines for some time to come. A recent dispatch from La Paz, Bolivia, reported rumors of plots to assassinate President Victor Paz Estenssoro.'Paz was put into office in 1952 after a coup by the National Revolu tionary Party. Pas Popular Man Paz's four-year term expires next year. He is a popular man, who is doing about as much as anybody could to combat Bo livia's bad economic . situation. He probably would win an elec tion. But under the constitution he is not. eligible to run for a second consecutive-term. The National Revolutionary Party plans to hold an assembly in October to rewrite the consti tution so Paz can run to succeed himself. Naturally his opponents do not like that idea. Hence the rumors. Dr. Carlos Arroyo Del Rio, for mer dictator-president of Ecua dor, was arrested in April, charged with subversive activi ties against President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. , The government said that sup porters of Arroyo were plotting against Velasco. They quoted Ar royo as predicting that the gov ernment would be overthrown by the end of this month. At the moment, the Ecuador- ean government is battling a strike by workers on the state- owned railroads, who complain that their pay is three months in arrears. The army has taken charge of the roads. Four Presidential Candidates In little El Salvador, in politi cally turbulent Central America, four men have announced their candidacies for election as presi dent next year the exact date is to be set. Dispatches indicate that the campaign may break up in a fight, and that there may be a coup instead of an election., - Finally, there is Guatemala, where a Communist-dominated government was overthrown a year ago. President Carlos Cas tillo Armas rules as dictator. But a new constitution, planned to return the country to demo cratic government,' has just been drafted. After it has been adopt ed, a presidential election is to be called. Dispatches from Guatemala report first that Castillo is get ting stronger and that he is meet ing increasing opposition, from both left and right wings in poli tics. It looks as if anything might happen. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon' Saturday! 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. The train "Rogue River" will be Discontinued August 7 ..-."-. " . ..." A statement to the residents of Southern Oregon ' by Southern Pacific E, fffectlve August 7 we're discontinuing the "Rogue River,H overnight passenger train, which has operated for many years between Portland and Ashland. We don't like to do it but we have no other choice. Only a hand ful of passengers use the service which fails by a wide margin to pay its way. x ; Operating lose for 1B5 was M53A25. Lose in 1955 would probably be even greater. . During the first four months of this year an average of only 18 passengers traveled southbound daily on the train and 20 northbound. (These were not all through passengers they represented the aver age total number of people who traveled between any two of the many stations on the 342 miles between Portland and Ashland.) Obviously there is not sufficient traffic to justify the train's opera tion. It's uneconomic, to say the least, to keep on offering nming the public doesn't want and doesn't use. Actually from a financial standpoint we should have discontinued the train many years ago, but we continued to operate it with the hope that by improving the service we could make it come somewhere near paying for its cost. Early in 1952 we put in service a modern chair car with sponge rubber seats, a fine lounge car with snack meal service; in 1953 diesel power replaced steam, providing a much smoother ride; in 1954 the schedule was cut and cost of Pullman rooms was reduced. But these improvements were of no avail. The "Rogue River" just couldn't compete successfully with modern highways, the speedy new family car, the 8 bus schedules and 6 air nights each way daily between Portland and southern Oregon. Bernal S. Quayli General Passenger Agent , 5??: ;;4- - -- v . - Tmmdar. July 7. 181 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAXX. TRTBUNX TTVE Stevenson Charges Administration Idle On School Problems Chicago (U.R) Adlai E. Stevenson attacked the Eisen hower administration on a new front on Wednesday night, charg-1 ig that it had done "absolutely nothing" to solve the nation's public school problem. Stevenson, the Democrats' 1952 presidential candidate, urg ed a "drastic" billion-dollar fed eral assistance program to meet "America's No. 1 domestic need schools and teachers." Severe Criticism Stevenson has not yet said whether he intends to make a second bid . for the presidency next year, but he has directed severe criticism at various phas es of the Eisenhower program in recent speeches. Wednesday night's address be fore the 93rd annual meeting of the National Education associa tion was billed as his last major speech before next fall. The former Illinois govern or, suffering from a bad sum mer cold, accused President Eis enhower of dodging an earlier promise to give "prompt, effec tive help" to the nation's schools. Instead, Stevenson charged, Mr. Eisenhower has asked Con gress 'to pass "not a' law but a miracle." " - The President told Congress only last February that the na tion needs $7,000000,000 worth of new schools, Stevenson said, but administration nroeram calls for grants of only $66,000,000 a year for three years. "This is 33 cents a year to meet every $35 of admitted, present, crying need, Steven son said. . Figures Cited In contrast, Stevenson cited figures of economist Beardsley Ruml that ' the government should spend $700,000,000 next year and possibly as much as $3,500,000,000 a year by 1965 to "salvage" the nation's school system. .'; The Democratic leader also urged support of bills now before Congress which call for the an nual spending of $400,000,000 in federal school construction funds during the next four years plus federal grants of $50,000, 000 a year to improve teachers' salaries and help educate more teachers. : , NOT HOT IN HELL Oslo OJ.R) Hell and Para dise had practically tha same temperature today. Tha cities of Hell, near Trondheim, and Para dise, near Bergen, both record ed comfortable reading! near 50 degrees. . POSTMAN'S HOLIDAY Madison, .Wis. UR) . Wea ther, forecaster Al Joos mad plans today for his annual two weeks vacation. He said he will do weather forecasting for a ra dar station construction crew in the Atlantic Ocean. Shady Cove and Trai! Shady Cove-Trail Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pettigrew of Califor nia have been visiting his father, Frank Pettigrew, Trail'. The Ben Pettigrew's are on their way to Alaska. Mr. and Mrs. Nevin Jensen and children, Marsha, Diane, and Nevin, Inglewood, Calif., and Mrs. F. E. Jensen, Sr., Los An geles, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Athel Dudley on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jantzer, Trail, have been gone about a week on their vacation trip to Zion and Bryce canyons and northern Arizona. Mrs. Fl E. Mitchell, Baird, Tex., and Mr. and Mrs. H. M. McElrath and family, Travis 'Air Force base, Calif., have been the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell, Shady Cove. Girl Scouts of Shady Cove planning to attend the Scout Camp, "Low Echo" at Lake O' Woods starting July 10 are Pat Barr, Gloria Collins, Susan Knotts and Mary and Judy Leek- ey. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nork en tertained at their home on Sun day, July 31, with a party hon oring Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chubb, Shady Cove, on their 25th wed ding anniversary. Color motif in the decoration theme was deep rose, white and silver. A number of gifts were received. Cake and refreshments were served. Guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Hornseth and the Chubb's daughter, Susan. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vonden- huevel, Sidney, O., are visiting Mrs. Vonderhuevel's brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mill er,- Shady. Cove. - Mrs. N. Smith and Lee Pitts of Baldwin Park, Calif., spent the July 4 holidays visiting with his brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pitts, Elk Creek, Trail. A number of local people made trips over the July 4 week end. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Segessenman, Shady Cove, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ross and Mrs. Mae Lane, Trail, who went to Fish Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kelley, Shady Cove, who made a rock hunting trip around the Crooked river and Prineville. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Buttram, Shady Cove, accomp anied by their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Rogers, made a fish ing trip to Miller lake, near Chemult. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Hale and family, made a trip-to Bend. Mr. and' Mrs. Chester Pfluke have returned from their honey moon , trip to Reno and other points and are now staying with Mrs. Pfluke's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Segessenman, be fore going to Berkeley, Calif., where he is employed and where they will live. Mrs. Carroll Watson entertain ed at her home In Shady Cove with a birthday party honoring Lane Watson, on Thursday, June the fifth birthday of her son, 30. Following lunch gifts were opened with the children then amusing themselves on the play equipment and swings. Guests present were Mrs. Delbert Spain, Delberta and Bruce Spain, Al len. Quail, Mrs. David Wilkin son and children, David, Shar on and Pat Wilkinson, Mrs. Bob Vincent ' and children, Kenny and Mario, Carol ad Kevin Hale, Pat Barr, all of Shady Cove. Mr. and Mrs. Max Wopschall and children, Marsha, Maxine, Mari lyn and Melvin Wopschall of Reese Creek ayd Mrs. Burle Grif fin and children, Alan and Mark of Medford. - DUST OILING - ROAD MIX ONCRETE WORK CONCRETE WORK All Types of Asphalt Work Hughes & Dodd Go. Medford - Phone 3-4221 HUDSON HOUSE 46 oz (0)? JUDGE WESSON OIL Bottli 6S' W ZEE 80 Count Whit Napkins 2 Q)E LIBBY'S STEWED Ho. 233 TOflATOES Tia CASHMERE BOUQUET ' Tfl A A E) 3 Dsg. bars 25s L JUMP 2 fcalh siio 25s Dead : line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; I.e. m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. BLUEBELL No, 2Vi Tin SH0ESTRIKI6 POTATOES 2 Tins 3i)C PURE LARD 2 Lbs. 3c FRESH Ground Beef Pork Sausage . SIX . ASSORTED VARIETIES Cold Cub 5)c Lb. U.S. Inspected- - Choice & Good Beef POT ROASTS H. ,-uJ 2 2) L(b U.S. No. 1 . ' RED POTATOES Fancy Tender SWEET CORN 4 526 SOUTH RIVEXSIDE CRISP FANCY LETTUCE FANCY SLICING TOJVIATOES Lb. : v
