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EIGHT MXDTOHD (OREGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, October 6, I9SS Russians Must Have omb, Atomic Scientist Declares Super Administration Fact Sheet Tells Farm Developments Washington OJ.PJ The Ag riculture department today dis tributed 3,000 copies of a fact iheet designed to acquaint far mers with developments affect ing agriculture since the begin ning of the Eisenhower adminis tration. Heading the list of 39 "facts Important to farmers," is this paragraph: "There is peace, a The fact sheet from the "of fice of the secretary." bears the name of True D. Morse, under secretary of agriculture and pres ident of the Commodity Credit corporation. Sent to Regular Lilt A department aide said the sheet was distributed to its reg ular mailing list. This includes persons who get copies of all de partment policy statements botn within and out of the depart ment; editors of farm papersr and magazines; women's page editors; persons who get all re leases on Commodity Credit cor poration activities; state exten sion editors, radio farm directors and members of "two or three" advisory committees. The aide said the regular mail ing list also includes the Repub lican and Democratic national committees. Record Business Activity Fact No. 2 on the sheet reads: "There is record high business activity and income." Fact No. 3 states: "Farmers have not hared fully in the great pros perity of the nation. More farm products are being consumed be cause of high level incomes." Fact No. 4 is a long paragraph quoting Secretary of Agriculture Eza T. Benson. It reads, in part: "This administration is not con tent with the general level of farm prices today or with the present income of our people. We will seek earnestly, energet ically, and constantly to do ev erything that is fair, right and economically sound to improve this situation .. . '" Siskiyou Timber Salvage Starts Yreka Salvage work on trees damaged during September for est fires in Siskiyou county is now well underway, according to A. K. Crebbin, information of; ficr for Klamath National for- The forest service has started to advertise sales of salvage tim ber, offering to sell from 1,000, 000 to 8,000,000 board feet a week. Crebbin noted that the forest service plans to seed grass over some 900 acres of land hit by fire. The work is scheduled to be completed this year. Reseeding and plant of young trees will get underway in the spring. Planting will be speeded up as soon as new young trees Girl Scouts Get Help for Camp from Special in Series Something Extra Annual UMC Drive (Editor's Note: This is anoth er in a series of brief articles describing the agencies which benefit from the United Med Ford Crusade fund drire, now under way. Material Is sup plied by the agencies themselves.) During the four sessions this summer at Low Echo Girl Scout Camp more than 500 campers participated. Hiking was one of the out standing activities with Marri- ane Johnson from Sweden as visiting director. The treks to Lake Harriett and Mt. McLough- lin as well as being fun taught how Girl Guides in other coun tries hike with maps and compass. Various crafts were taught and badges earned for boating and swimming. A balanced and nourishing diet is a part of the program and living and dining together is a never to be forgot ten experience for scouts. Fathers are directly and in directly aiding with the camp too. The call went out last July for workers at Low Echo Camp and an enthusiastic group built shelters, assembled boats and readied the camp. This year more than 615 girls attended day camp at the day camp site in June. They learned camping techniques and outdoor skills during the two week period. The Brownies are en gaged in learning the true scout way and encouraging new re cruits who will soon be joining their ranks. , The United Medford Crusade helps make it possible for every Girl Scout to believe in, belong to and build this great organization. Accident Details Listed by Police The positions of two of three cars involved in an accident on Highway 99 north of Talent yes terday morning were reversed in the first story of the mishap, state police reported today. The accident occurred at about 7:35 a.m. Drivers of the cars were Ger ald Leon Pawlowski, 23, of route 1, box 6, Jacksonville; - Donald Dean Babbit, 19, of 156 Ash land st., Ashland, and Sturmon E. Peterson, Ft. Lewis, Wash. Police said Pawlowski and Pe terson were southbound. Peter son swerved to miss a car which stopped suddenly in front of him, and Pawlowski was forced to swerve to miss Peterson's car. The Pawlowski car sideswip- ed Babbitt's vehicle, which was northbound, and bounced into Peterson's car, police said. The Babbitt car was towed away by a wrecker, and damage to the other two vehicles was minor. Water-soluble insecticides are being developed by the U.S. De partment of Agriculture to con trol mosquitoes in irrigation water. 1 11 it tA all Mil YEARS OLD STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 1 UN? Backed by 122 years &N-f32 f Doming Experience I ""Kmc Of Tests Revealed By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) An atomic scientist said today that "Russia must have the Super." He was referring to persistent reports, never officially confirm ed, that there was "something extra special" about a series of Soviet nuclear tests revealed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis sion a year ago this month. By "the Super" this scientist meant the kind of weapon tested by the United States at Bikini ir March, 1954. It also has been caller the three-F or fission-fusion-fission bomb. It achieved notoriety because, in addition to its destructive power nearly 1000 times greater than the ordinary A-bomb it loosed enough radioactive fallout to poison an area of 7000 square miles. This country maintains a mon itoring network which tells it when the Russians stage nuclear tests, the latest of which got un der way last summer and may be still going on. Unspecified Weapons But the 1 commission seldom specifies the kind of weapons, whether fusion H-bombs or fis sion A-bombs, the Russians are testing. And it has never come right out and said whether there even is such a thing as the "Su per" of whatever nationality. It - is known, however, that the Russians have exploded new varieties of their H-bomb since the last Soviet fusion test for mally announced by the AEC in August, 1953. A high U.S. of ficial told the United Press that they "have not been sitting on their bottoms." , . Whether the Russians tested a super H-bomb last fall un doubtedly is known to this coun try if it was made anything like the U.S. Bikini bomb. Japanese scientists who analyzed fallout particles from the American weapon tipped off its apparent three-phase nature. " Their reports indicated it con sisted of an atomic trigger, a fusion charge, and a jacket of normally inert uranium-238 fis sioned by the fusion reaction. In any event, the Russians have been testing nuclear wea pons since 1949. Starting with a single-shot test program they have worked up in recent years to elaborate test series compar able, informed sources have said, to the multishot U. S. programs. No Precise Score It is impossible to keep a pre cise score because the AEC does not announce each individual shot of a series. The best guess appears to be that the Russians have set off between ?0 and 30 nuclear explosions. The U. S. score is at least 65. The number of weapons in the American nuclear stockpile has never been officially disclosed. Close obervers of the atomic pro ject reckon the total at a fat five figures. They guess the Russian at four figures. AEC Chairman Lewis Li Strauss refused recently to dis cus the significance of the lat est Soviet test series, which start ed in late July or early August and was still going on as recently as Sept. 24. He said only that presumably the Russians were aiming at "improvment of their weapons stockpile." But U.S. officials have learned to credit Russia with being scien tifically on an atomic par with this country. As the scientist said, , "Russia must have the super." Mint Control Area For Three Counties Salem (U.Pp A mint control area will be operative in Jeffer son, Crook and Deschutes coun ties beginning Oct. 10, the State Department of Agriculture said today. . ' This means, the department said, . that any . planting stock going into that area from any other place in Oregon or from outside the state must be clear ed by plant officials. The control area order affects any mint grower in Oregon who expects to sell planting stock to central Oregon growers. Dead line for Sunday Claadfied is at noon Saturday. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airpqrt Israel Tells US Of Need for Arms Help To Counter-Balance Egypt Washington U.R) Israel has formally told the United States it needs new arms aid to counter-balance weapons Egypt will get from the Soviet bloc, it was learned today. The notification came within the past week. Israel did not request specific military equipment. But the action indicated the Israeli gov ernment will follow up its for mal notification with a request for new military aid. Diplomatic sources said Israel is convinced that only the United States would be in a posi tion to supply it with enough arms aid to restore the balance of Middle Eastern power after a Czech offer of arms to Egypt is carried through. Furthermore, Israel feels it help that the United States would have to supply such arms free or sell them on very liberal terms. In the past the United States has sold limited quantities of weapons for security purposes to Middle Eastern nations only on a strictly reimbursable basis. Apparently Israel is waiting to learn details of the Czech Egyptian arrangement before submitting a detailed request for weapons. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declined to tell a news conference Tuesday whether the United States would be willing to supply Israel with arms to balance Soviet bloc shipments to Arab nations. Officials said any decision most likely will de pend on what kind of report Dulles gets when Assistant Sec would need so much military retary of State George V. Allen returns from his vtrouble-shoot-ing mission to Egypt next week. Allen rushed to Cairo last week for talks with Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser al most immediately after Egypt announced she would get arms from Czechoslovakia in ex change for cotton and rice. Bakers Union Leaders . Consider New Contracts Portland (U.R) A two-day conference of Pacific Coast lead ers of the AFL Bakers Union ended here yesterday after dele gates considered proposals for new employer contracts. James G. Cross, international president of the union, said a pension plan was the major topic discussed. 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