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SIX MEBrOBD (ORECOm MXIL TRIBUWE Thursday, October 20, 1933 Hew-Found Atom Particle Said Bombarding Earth Since Beginning of Time Local School Board 1 H0ME! I Sm It Demonstrated! Thin Try it at Horn Without Obligation Try a Remington "60" of home for 14 days and see eCDhow much faster, "smooth er shaving you enjoy. It comes in a handsome case. See it yourself tomorrow. For More Outstanding Values Listen to "Weisfield's Mike" O 9:45 a.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday over KYJC. I I WEISFIELD'S JEWELER'S '132 E. Main St, Medford, Oreion Please send the S Pc. Raycine Hair Cuttinr Set at 19.95 ( ). The S-Pc. Set at 16.95 ( ). I am enclosing $ and will send S per week or S per month until the entire imount is paid NAME . PHONE ADDRESS CITY EMPLOYED BY , CREDIT REFERENCE I . Members Schedule Meeting Next Week 00 KBk29.SO YOU PAY ONLY your eld NO MONEY DOWN BALANCE 50 WEEKLY J CMB QMfGB 8017 . . 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Mekvold, county super intendent of schools, has urged all school board members throughout the county to attend A report of the county's school conditions, including financing school districts, will be forward ed to Charles A. Tom, chairman of a legislative interim commit tee on education before July 1, 1956. The report will go through the office of the superintendent of public instruction for transmit tal to the interim committee. Portland Discounts Canadian Currency Portland (U.R) Canadian currency and checks were being discounted slightly in Portland banks yesterday for the first time in three years. The discount followed news from New York that quotes on the Canadian dollar were 164 to 132 of one per cent below the American dollar. The U.S. National bank said it was discounting Canadian cur rency Vi of one per cent and one per cent on coins. The First National bank in Portland said it was charging V of one per cent discount on large amounts. - Largest state park in New York State is the Allegany, 70 miles south of Buffalo and con taining more than 55,000 acres. A strong young male elephant is worth in East Pakistan from $800 to $1,400, says the National Geographic Society. Tibetan aristocrats wear elon gated silk sleeves hiding their fingers to show that their hands are not their livelihood. liIOl COMPLETE 5-PC. SET Down . . 50c Week the Children's Hair at Horn and Save! It's easy to do a profes sional job with Raycine - instructions. . Electric Clippers Butch Attachment .: Barber Shears Tapered Comb Instruction Book 8 Pc. Raycine HAIR CUTTING SET clippers, a butch h e a r s, brush, nr m q r 16 lubricating oil, I Wft of John Oster Mfg. Co. MAIN ST. MEDFORD - 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Devastation Said Enormous But No Cause for Alarm Washington (U.R) That hot new particle of matter just dis covered by scientists at Barke- ley, Calif., has been bombarding the Earth with annihiliating ef fect since the beginning of time. The devastation has been enormous in an inifinitesimal sort of way. - And if anybody cares, the Rus-. sians a year hence will be pro ducing this destroyer particle in far greater quantities than Berkeley can manage. But there is no cause for alarm. Scientists said today that the so-called new particle, known as the antiproton or neg ative proton, can do no harm to man or his works. It is, in fact, a highly com forting little packet of energetic matter because it confirms the ories on which physicists have been basing their picture of the microcosmic world for a long, long time. Building Blocks The fundamental building blocks of matter are the proton and the neutron. The proton, carrying a positive electrical charge, is the nucleus of hydro gen, lightest of atoms. The com pound nuclei of the heavier ele mental atoms contain varying numbers of protons and neutrons packed closely together. All atoms consist of heavy nu clei surrounded by lightweight negative electrons in numbers corresponding to the number of positive protons. Early Deduction Back in 1930 the British phy sicist, P. A. M. Dirac, deduced that there must be "anti" par ticles identical in mass but oppo site in telectrical charge to elec trons and protons. The anti-electron, or. positron, was discovered two years after Dirac predicted it. With it was discovered for the first time the complete annihilation of matter. When a positron and an electron get together their mass is in stantaneously converted into sheer energy in the form of eamma radiation. This accords with the late Albert Einstein's principle of mass-energy equi- valance. The oositron comes into being when .gamma rays pass near the nuclei of atoms. So . physicists ficured that the antiproton also would be the product of conver sion- of energy into matter. . But they figured it would take a lot of energy energy on tne order of that possessed by some of the cosmic ray particles which incessantly pepper - the Earth from outer space. Not until completion of the 6,000,000 . electron volt atom smasher at Berkeley, now the most powerful in the world, did man have sufficiently energetic particles at his command to turn the trick. The Proof Now" that the Berkeley experi ments, reported yesterday, have proved the antiproton beyond any possible doubt, scientists realize that cosmic radiation must have been producing the "new" particle for as long as the universe has existed. Dr. P. H. Abelson, head of the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washing ton, said "This old earth has been pounded by antiprotons since time began." Abelson said verification of the antiproton is comforting to science but, as of now, is strictly "a laboratory curiosity." Dr. N. P. Heydenburg, theo retical physicist of the Carnegie institution's Department of Ter restrial Magnetism, said the antiprcton "confirms the sym metry of nature." Agrees With View Atomic Commissioner Willard F. Libby agreed with that view, He noted that when the 25,000,-000,000-volt atom-smasher under construction at Brookhaven, N.Y., goes in operation in the next five or six years, it should produce "a far greater abund ance" of antiprotons than the less powerful Berkeley machine. The Russians should be beat ing the Berkeley production rate in ' another year, Libby said They are building a 10,000,000,- 000-volt machine scheduled to start hurling particles at targets about a year from now. The Rus sians also are planning a 100, 000,000,000-volt contraption for the future. (See Story on Page 1, Sac. 2) Dead line for Sunday Classified ia at noon Saturday. f OK MARKET 1202 North Riverside I OPEN EVERY J I l NIGHT TIL J ) MIDNIGHT V State Office Building Cracks Under Weight Of Income Tax Files Salem -U.R) The state Civil Defense agency completed a hasty, unscheduled evacuation of its headquarters in the old State Office building yesterday amid the sounds and signs of cracking and falling plaster. The CD's basement officers were vacated after employees noticed plaster falling from a se ries of cracks in the floor above, sagging under the weight of a million or more income tax files. 'Operation Surtax Residents of the building im mediately dubbed the move "Op eration Surtax and said the floor gave way under the added weight of the 45 per cent surtax on income taxes voted by the 1955 State legislature. William E. Healy, assistant Secretary of State, and Law rence Christensen, superintend- EAGLE POINT Wife of Ranger Visits Eagle Point Mrs. Geo. Peters (nee Peggy Simmons) and young daughter Susan, are house guests of her father, Walter Simmons and wife Eagle Point. Mrs. Peters husband is a ranger in Mt. Rainier National park, Wash., where they have made their home for three or four years. She came down with some friends. They arrived Oct. 14 and will leave on their return home Saturday, Oct. 22. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Keim have as a house guest a sister of , Mrs. Keim Whom . she had not seen for 40 years. Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Smith, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, left on their return home Satur day, Oct. 8, after spending a week here with Smith's sister, Mrs. Mildred Dunford. While here they visited the Oregon Caves, Crater Lake and other points of interest. This was their first trip here and they were im pressed with the beauty and grandeur of this country. Smith has been a conductor on the Ca nadian Pacific railroad for 35 years. Mrs. Mildred Dunford received a letter from her son Boyd, who is with the Army in Inchon, Ko rea, last week. He expects to be home again by Dec. 1. Ray Tresham, Eagle Point, who suffered a severe heart at tack while on a hunting trip the first of the season in eastern Ore gon, was able to return to his home from a hospital Saturday, Oct. 15, and is improving as well Ex-Woodburn Boy Killed in Japan Tokyo (U.R) William R. Erickson, 17, son of SFC and Mrs. Louis K. Richardson, Wood- burn, Ore., was killed yesterday when he stuck his head out of a speeding Japanese express train and struck a telephone pole alongside the track. The Army said the boy was on his way to school aboard a Kyoto-bound electric express train when the accident occur red. Richardson is assigned to the Army's camp Kobe. The cornea of a cat's eye has a curved area two-thirds greater than a man's cornea, and for this reason a cat can see farther from side to side than the average adult man. 24 HOUR THERMOSTATIC DOWNORAFT WOOD. HEATERS SEE PROOF OF FUEL SAVINGS Shootd bwU bat oac lire a season, retael ea aera9 every twelve bows, reawve ashes three . tiates raearhly. Ashleys arc popular in ear coMest stares neey beariag entire bowel, schools, stores. AH types wood soccessfaRy see'. See your Ashley dealer. LIBERAL ALLOWANCE on your old stove FREE INSTALLATION HIGHWAY Furniture Exchange CENTRAL POINT, OREGON Phone N0.-4-1161 ent of buildings, examined the first floor and basement of the old building and ordered the move of CD and tax commission employees located under the sagging area. - , , To Relocate Employees Healy said CD employees may be relocated in the unfinished half of the second floor of the Finance building, two blocks away. Voters would have to au thorize a permanent move to that building, he said. Engineers said the first floor of the office building was de signed to hold between 100 and 120 pounds per square foot. The tax files kept their weigh, be tween 400 and 480 pounds per square foot. Healy said the files would be transferred to the basement of the building and the sagging floor will be jacked up and shored with pillars. as can be expected. Sam Coy, Eagle Point, city re corder, returned Tuesday, Oct. 18, with a nice fat deer he shot south of Lakeview near the Cal ifornia line, the same locality that Orvil Henderson and Roy Ashpole went to hunt last Sat urday, Oct. 15. He reported Or vil and Roy as taking it' easy, patiently waiting for the biggest buck yet, to appear. They will not return home until they get their deer, or before closing of the season. 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The Russian oil tanker, which was seized in June, 1954 off For mosa by the Chinese Nationalist navy, has been detained "indef intely." Russia, Finland Plan Direct Plane Travel London (U.R) Russia and Finland laid the groundwork to day for establishing direct air communication between the two countries. Moscow Radio said the two MM Beautifully eW It Has Dozens of Usesl Hero is a famous radio you will enjoy in a hun dred ways. It has all the convenient, automatic features. It is ex- fttiAnallv Wan f - some. ..Superheat circuit means clear, full tone, finer per- f Tormance . . wave magnet antenna. See it tomorrow. N" 1.00 A WEEK ORDER BY MAIL Weisfield's Jewelers (122 East Main St., Medford) . Please send me Zenith Super Cock Radio at 41.95 ( I Zenith Transoceanic Portable at 149.95 ( ). I am en closing $ and will send $ per month or $....... .. per. week until the entire balance is paid. NAME . PHONE ADDRESS: . I HOW LONG. CITY......: ZONE ,. STATE WHERE EMPLOYED;. 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