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Americans Pile Up Record Debt During '55 Second Quarter Washington U.R) Ameri can piled up record debts during the booming second quarter of 1955. At the same time U.S. produc tion and income climbed to new and unexpected peaks. 'The Commerce department re-r-, ported these twin facts Sunday. They also underscored com ments by President Eisenhower and Commerce Secretary. Sin clair Weeks over possible soft ipots in the current unprecedent ed prosperity. The department indicated that Americans may be leaning too heavily on credit to buy things they want. It also pointed out that business may be stacking up outsized inventories. The report brought out that statistics for the second quarter Great Wall Has Outlived Purpose, Communists Say Hongkong (UP.) The Communists say that the Great Wall, one of the architectural wonders of the world, has' out- Mvfii its oriainal Durpose. It's no longer needed against aggres aion from the north. The current issue of People's China said that "bordering China's northern frontier today lie the People's Republic of Mon golia and her great ally, the Soviet Union," and added: "But while the Great Wall has nntlivpH its original nurpose, it is still looked on by the Chinese r people as part of their heritage a wonderful piece 01 arcmteC' tural, a thing of beauty and an historical treasure. The Great Wall is popularly known as Wan Li Chang Cheng the 10,000-li wall (a li is about a third of a mile), but its actual length has never been calculat ed accurately. It has been roughly estimated at 3,000 miles. It is said to have been started about 2,500 years ago, in the lat ter part of the Chou dynasty. The feudal lords and princes engaged in constant war against each other, built walls on their frontiers to defend their own territories. A Description Then in 221 B.C., the maga- Tmo saiH Shin Hiians Ti th first emperor of the state of Chin, succeeded in defeating all rivals and creating an empire. He then ordered up an army of 300,000 workmen to build a con tinuous wall to defend the north ern marches of his empir against nomadic invaders. It took 10 years to complete the work. Thus the wall as a whole has a history of over 2,100 years.- From then on the Great Wall was China's strong defense against attack from the north, . the magazine said. And since the wall has been frequently re paired and extended. The article said: "The wall as we know it to day has an average height of 21 feet, eight inches. It is 21 feet four inches wide at the base, sliehtlv tanerine to 18 feet at tie top. The top of the wall is rreally a roadway flanked by a battlement on the far side, and a low, one-yard-high wall on the near. "If we take the length as 3,000 miles, the actual wall, exclusive of the foundation, must consist of some 115,000,000 cubic yards of lime and packed earth, and close on 38,000,000 cubic yards of stone and brick." outdistanced expectations in ma jor economic categories. They topped first quarter figures by sizable margins. Praises Employment Program On another economic front, Labor Secretary James P. Mit chell praised the "remarkable growth" of the federal-state em ployment insurance program. On the 20th anniversary of the program's beginning, he said Sunday that the number of workers protected and the size of jobless paychecks have more than doubled since 1935. But Mitchell called for cover age of 12,000,000 persons left outside the bill. He also said the average jobless paychecks, de spite the weekly rise in bene fits from $10.66 in 1939 to about S25 now, was not good enough. He said it amounted to only about one-third of the average worker's regular pay, compared to 41 per cent in 1939. The nation turned out about 7 per cent more goods and serv ices in the second quarter of this year than in the same period of 1954. At the same time, wage earners received about 5 per cent more in personal income. Income Above Expectations Income climbed to an annual rate of 5300,500,000,000, some $200,000,000 above expectations. This was an increase of $6,900, 000,000 over the rate for the first three months of 1955. It compared with a rate of $286, 600,000,000 in second quarter 1954. The report showed that taxes on personal income amounted to about $33,400,000,000 at annual rates, a rise of about $800,000, 000 from the first quarter. This left some $167,100,000,000 for spending or saving. Of that amount, again at annual rates, some $250,500,000,000 went for spending and about $16,600,000, 000 for savings. Savings increased $1,300,000, 000 over the first quarter rate, but remained below expecta tions. The President's Council of Economic Advisers had expected personal savings to hit an annual rate of $17,500,000,000 in the second quarter. The April -May -June rise in spending was largely for food clothing and services, the report said. This followed a "sharp" rise in expenditures for automo biles, furniture and household equipment during the preceding three months. OVERCOME BY EMOTION, Airman Harry M. Benjamin, Jr., Worthington, Minn., kisses ground at Travis Air Force Base, Cal., as he steps from plane which brought 11 airmen home after 21$ years of captivity by Chinese Reds. (International) Scientists Warned on Dangers of Atomic Radiation To Humans Ham Radio Operator Given Many Awards Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.R) Norman MacPhail, Grand Rap ids "ham" radio operator, has received awards from British and French societies for the rec ord number of fellow "hams" he has been able to contact in parts of the world. MacPhail received the BERTA award from the Radio Society of Great Britain for establishing two-way contact with 50 broad casting stations in British pos sessions in North America, South America, Europe", Africa, Asia and the south Pacific. The DUF, diploma for the Union of France, is issued by the Reseau des Emitteurs Francais for working 10 French colonies on five continents. MacPhail said he has started work on five awards from Ar gentina, Brazil and Canada. The task is a long one although a hobby he said, because con firmation letters are needed and "I'll bet not more than 75 per cent of hams send out in writing what they promise you over the air." REDUCE! 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Nuclear Pioneers Uneasy The American-inspired atoms conference which drew leading scientists from 72 nations went into its second week with reams of highly technical papers. But laymen could see that the nu clear pioneers were uneasy about their brainchild. Dr. Russell, principal geneticist of the Oak Ridge laboratory's biology division, read a paper on the effects of radiation on mice in the middle of a lively international controversy on the possible birth in the future of freaks and monsters because of radiation from atom bomb tests. Russell said the danger came from so-called mutation chang es, changes passed on by men and women to their children. He noted the great changes in several generations of mice and said calculations on human haz ards may seriously underesti mate the human damage. He suggested a partial solu tion for cases in which a man, through accidents in atomic stud ies, receives a considerable ra diation dose. GUN HITS TARGET Birmingham, England (U.R) A 26-year-old laborer was fatally injured Saturday night by a discharging gun he threw down in disgust after missing a target 16 times at , a carnival rifle range. George Larmore was hit -in the chest by a bullet and died Sunday. Court Records POLICE COURT Cecil De Valence Moon, violation of basic rule. $10 bail. Norris Keith Lehman, violation of basic rule. $10. Eldon Gordon Knight, no Oregon driver's license, $5. Darwin Duane Morehouse, exces sive noise. $10. Donald Dan Webb, excessive noise, $10. Joyce Wendell Wickmaw. no Ore gon driver's license. So bail. fioya i nomas jeniuns. laiiure to stop at stop sign. $5 bail. Henry onand waelty, violation of basic rule. $10 bail. Donna Bouslauen. no operator s lic ense. $5 bail. Ben Gilbert Neal, excessive noise, $10 bail. Ronald Richard Muik, failure to stop at stop sign, $5 bail. Jeanette aoKoi. violation of basic rule. S10 bail. Raymond Clifford Hayes, failure to stop at stop sign. $5 bail. Donald Raymond ureazeaie, exces sive noise, $10. He recommended that the in dividual abstain from procrea tion for the few weeks required for the disappearance of sex germ cells that were irradiated. Would Reduce Risk . v But he added that his studies indicated that although post ponement of procreation for a few weeks would reduce the risk of transmission of mutational changes, further postponement would not give any additional reduction in risk. Russell said adequate protec tion against genetic hazards may require a limitation not only of the average dose of radiation received by the population as a whole but also of the dose, ae cumulated by individuals. Carter said most experts agree that to expose a human popula tion to a continuous irradiation would be "very undesireable,' but that the limit of 25 roentgens he mentioned is far more than the world is getting from A' bomb tests. 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