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G O O o G o o o G 0 e O 0 & trauss Sees Peaceful World Conference Atmosphere Can Be Retained cPenver (U.R) Chairman (JLewis L. Strauss of the Atomic CRnergy Commission said Monday the world can look toward peace Qnd a better life for its inhabi tants if the friendly atmosphere f the recent Geneva atoms-for-(jieaft conference continues to (revail. q But Strauss warned at a news (Jonferen.ee that this is "not a tfime to be complacent" and "I CSon't think we can rest on our Carg - q Q Strauss flew to Denver Immed iately after returning from Switzerland and reported to Coresident Eisenhower for more than an hour before his press con Cosmic Radiation Dangers Believed Overestimated Slolloman, N.M. (U.R) Dan gers from cosmic radiation and other cosmic reactions at high altitudes may be overestimated, according to a report made here C5by Maj. Davis G. Simons, chief of. the space biology branch. Simons said large scale tests Gwith animals sent as high as 0120,000 feet showed the graying Sot hair was about the only con sistent effect. 0 Apprehension Eliminated Tests conducted by the space biology branch of the Aero Med ical field laboratory here have G eliminated "much apprehension S connected with the exposure of crews in high flying aircraft to O primary cosmic radiation," the .report said. O Plastic balloons were used for 0 the flights in the stratosphere. Some animals were sent to more than 90,000 feet and remained O at that altitude for up to 35 0 hours in a series of tests conduct Q ed over Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. G Workers Perform Normally Q Monkeys used in the high al titude flights "performed nor mally" after two flights which exposed them to cosmic radia tion. "After watching the exposed animals for six months follow ing the experiments, scientists tentatively concluded that cos mic particles may have been ov erestimated as hazards to the nqrye system and that a traveler in the stratosphere should be able to perform duties in a nor mal manner with no serious aft- er effects," the report continued. One of the major "blocks" which scientists believed are in the path of flights at such alti tudes is danger from cosmic ra diation to humans. A 12-state regional poultry breeding station located at Pur due University is testing hybrid, crossbred and purebred lines of chickens for ways of improving gg production. Adri WEDNESDAY SPECIALS! HUNDREDS Values to $29.98 $798 $500 LINGERIE Gowns Slips Beautiful Nylon Gowns A Wonderful Buy Values to $12.98 Values to $8.98 s598 & s798 s498 & $598 SALE ALL SPORTSWEAR PERMA-PLEATED COTTON SKIRTS By Koret Formerly $10.98 Others $2.98 ference. The AEC chairman joined the President in a flight to Hartford, Conn., later Monday night to continue the atomic re port. Strauss said the Geneva meet ing, which dealt only with peace time atomic uses, was held in an atmosphere of friendliness and understanding. He said that if the "climate" of that conference can be "continued and pre served," the "cause of peace" and "the whole standard of liv ing air over the world" can be advanced. The United States is ahead of Russia in peacetime atom uses, Strauss said, only because "we Hamilton Man To Be Head of Klamath Base Klamath Falls. Ore. (U.R) Col. William Harris, deputy commander of Hamilton AFB, Calif., will be assigned as com manding officer of Klamath Falls AFB when the jet inter ceptor, base is activated Jan. 1. The Klamath Falls base will provide a defense link between Hamilton, near San Francisco, anJ Seattle, Wash. School Enlargement Planned at Portland Portland (U.R) The Portland school board last night approved a $5,000,000 building program to begin next year to provide quarters for the state's fastest growing school enrollment. Superintendent J. W. Edwards said he expected the district to number 85.000 to 90,000 students by 1960. Thsi year's enrollment was expected to increase by some 3,000 over last year's. The pay-as-you-go building program would include a new 2,400-student high school in the northeast district, a new gym nasium for Grant high school and enlargement of several grade schools. Edwards said the projects were the "most urgent" in the district and that numerous others had had to be postponed pending availability of more funds. Future City Hall Damaged by Flames . Kennewick, Wash. (U.R) Fire last night heavily damaged a building that was to have be come the new city hall here. Firemen battled the blaze for about half an hour. The building constructed during World War II, formerly was the headquar ters for the Federal Housing au thority." The city offices were to be transferred within the next 10 days because the present city hall has been condemned for safety reasons. nenne s OPEN WED. TIL 9 k m of DRESSES $998 and $3.98 got started earlier" and plowed more money and personnel into the program. But he warned that this nation was not developing young scientists and engineers fast enough to meet the demands and threatens to fall behind oth er countries. Russian scientists "are as good as any in the world," Strauss said. He stressed that the Rus sians are "very competent scien tists . . . they have done very fine work in the field of pure science." He was elated that the meeting proved it was possible for scien tists to communicate the peace time aspects of atomic energy Paflerson Sets Up Advisory Council On Employment Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson has again established a State Advisory Council on Em ployment and Unemployment In surance. The council is authorized by federal law but Oregon has not had such a council for several years. With passage of the new Un employment Compensation Com mission law by the 1955 legisla ture, Gov. Patterson said: To Study New Law "It is my desire that an ad visory council composed of la bor, management and the public be created in order that they might study the operation of the new law, its administration and the effect of such law. They will then be in a vey good position to make recommendations as to any changes that might be indi cated from their present actual experience with the present law." The council will hold its first meeting here Aug. 31. Appointments Listed Named to the committee are: Jesse A. Bell, President of the Oregon State Industrial Union Council, Portland; Anthony F. Vavrus, statistician, Portland Council of Teamsters No. 37, Portland; Henry E. Baldridge, in charge of logging operations for Publishers Paper Company, Portland; James G. Swindells, attorney, Portland; and Dr. Jes sie M. Smith, University of Oregon, Eugene, representing women and the public. Rubber Tube Houses Made for Air Force Rome, N.Y. (U.R) The Air Force has invented a new kind of house. You don't nail it, weld it, or glue it you blow it up with an air pump. Twenty-four rubber tubes placed side by side form the roof and walls of the house, which is bigger than a Quonset hut and is designed for the Arc tic. When the tubes are filled with two pounds of air, they rise and snap into an arch 16 feet above the floor. They keep standing even under 24 tons of snow. Another set of 24 air tubes forms the floor of the shelter. They conform to the contour of the ground even if it's snow or a swamp and provide a lev el floor on which sectionalized plywood can be laid. The whole thing can be car ried in a standard truck or light transport plane, and can be as sembled in two hours. It was developed (by B. F. Goodrich for the Air Development Center, here. Revolving Doors Move At Entrant's Wishes St. Paul (U.R) The world's first two-speed automatically powered revolving doors have been installed at the Pioneer Building here. The doors revolve constantly at three revolutions per minute but when the crossbar is touch ed, the motor speeds the revolu tion to nine revolutions per min ute, normal walking speed. Doors can be adjusted to a max imum speed of 12 revolutions a minute. According to the manufactur er, International Steel Company, Evansville, Ind., the two new en trances allow a maximum of 5,760 persons to enter the same number to leave the building each hour. It's also possible to reverse direction of the door or to stop it with slight pressure. Pirn (sattfRfp Sacs' eosc Of Geneva "without violating security." He said he found the Russian scientists "friendly, approach able and human ... they were just like our fellows so far as I could see." The AEC chief said the next few weeks or months might see the United States making public more information about its long range experiments in the devel opment of power from hydrogen. Strauss emphasized that the most important aspect of the Aug. 8-20 conference was that it "solidly lined up the scientists pool of the world" behind the President's atoms-for-peace pro gram. Puerifoys' Ashes t To Be Flown To States Bangkok (U.R) The ash es of the late U. S. Ambassador to Thailand John E. Puerifoy and his young son will be flown to the United States some time Wednesday, an embassy official said today. Potato Growers To Vote on Agreement Portland (U.R) Ballots have been mailed to most Oregon potato growers for voting on extending the Oregon-California potato marketing agreement, the U. S. Department of Agricul ture announced today. Malheur county in eastern Oregon, which has an agreement with Idaho, was the only potato- growing Oregon county not to receive Dawns. , . Producers will also vote on amendments to the agreement, which would authorize market research and development proj ects and enlarge the administra tive committee by one grower and one handler.' Costs less to buy, because the record-breaking trade-in allowance that authorized Ford Dealers are now giving on your old car and Ford delivered prices as low as $1759 make the cash outlay required amazingly small! Costs less to finance, because your authorized Ford Dealer's long term, low-interest new car financing is adjusted to what you want to pay monthly ! Costs less to run, because new car guarantees and legitimate service by your -authorized Ford Dealer give you years of trouble-free driving at minimum cost per mile ! A better investment, because low price, top deals and Ford's top resale value makes a new Ford your best transportation buy! See an authorized Ford Dealer this week. LETTER FOR MARGARET Group Capt. Peter Townsend drops letter for Britain's Princess Margaret into mail box in Brussels, Belgium. The princess reached her 25th birthday and is free to mar ry the 40-year-old Townsend without her sister's permis sion. (NEA Telephoto from Look Magazine) Walter H. Leverette Named in Damage Suit Edith M. (Mrs. Richard L.) Dorn, 778 Marshall ave., has filed a suit in circuit court for $10,200 damages against Walter H. Leverette, south pacific high way. The suit charges Leverette with carelessness in the injury of Richard L. Dorn in a high way accident Oct. 26, 1954. A pickup driven by Leverette al legedly struck" Dorn who was standing by the highway and caused him permanent partial disability. Mrs. Dorn asks $10,000 gener al damages and $200 special damages. After shopping around, I found that ' ' Tuesday, August 23, 1955 Question Posed As Outgrowth of Alley Court Case Washington (U.R) Do the armed services have the legal authority to court martial ser vicemen accused of collaborat ing with the enemy in .Korean prison camps? Or do such trials belong in federal courts before civilian juries? ' This question confronted the military today as an outgrowth of the court martial of Maj. Ron ald E. Alley, a tall, handsome, 34-year-old veteran officer from Bar Harbor, Me. The armed services so far have obtained nine convictions on enemy collaboration charges. But Alley's attorneys, raising an ad mittedly "novel contention," ar gued yesterday that the Consti tution forbids military trials for such an offense. In a second motion to dismiss the case, they contended that a fair military trial may be impos sible because the Army's so-called "tough policy" in dealing with repatriated prisoners of war as contrasted with the Air Force's "leniency." Before Alley entered his ex pected plea of "not guilty," the court martial, in its first day, was ordered recessed until Friday. The Army's prosecutor requested the delay to give him time to prepare a formal reply. The government's reply may be set forth earlier in federal court. "BRIDGE CITY" READY Mackinaw City, Mich. (U.R) Although the $100,000,000 Straits Bridge won't be com pleted until November, 1957, Mackinaw City already has adopted the slogan, "The Bridge City." The five-mile span will link Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. BOYS WANTED Middletown. Conn. (U.R) Middlesex Memorial Hospital mails brief questionnaires to pa tients after their release. One of . m I OTRAIQHT BOURBON if?l Pro"d'y present in this I mT jjjj I IJJll handsome new 'package the finest - i3 I IgSS Century Club ever bottled. Enjoy . v..? LJjV it tonight, at no increase in price! -N & YEARS OLD 5 " lrLQreaS9 Pri0d' Straight Bourbon "Wliisk.ey SS Proof ' National Distillers Products' Corporation N. "2". 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