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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. January 6, 1956 P ans for 1 956 H-Bomb Tests in Pacific Expected To Be Told Soon Continuation of Nuclear Weapons Vork Made Clear Washington (U.R) Look for an official announcement soon ?at the United States will stage new H-bomb tests in the Pacific this year. President Eisenhower made it clear Thursday that this coun try will not be duped by foreign propaganda into calling the tests off. c Atomic sources saw in his State of the Union message as surance that the United States will continue to perfect nuclear weapons for defense of the free world. A congressional authority said the new tests will be held this spring at the Eniwetok Bikini proving grdund in the Marshall islands. The last tests there, in the spring of 1954, were of "super H-bombs" comparable in violence to 15,000,000 or 20, 000.000 tons of TNT. "This year," the congressional authority said, "we are thinking in terms of 400,000,000 to 50,- 000,0.00 tons." Message Mentions Atom In Thursday's message Mr Eisenhower mentioned the atom in 10 different paragraphs. Five of the references were to peace time uses. Tho PrpsiJent sDoke of U.S. efforts "to harness the atom for the betterment of mankind.' He said "nuclear war would be an iotnlorahlp disaster." And he thaf this country will IrAPn trvins to eet Russia to ac cept a perfidy-proof system of arms control. But he also noted that Soviet leaders so far have refused :'to create the indispensable condi tions" for a secure peace. That being the case, the Unit ed States is beefing up its power to deter ,or repulse aggression by "making operational new weapons and by integrating the latest scientific developments, including new atomic weapons, into our military plans." You can't do any of that without field experiments to prove the fruits of research. Others Oppose Tests So the 1956 tests will go on as scheduled despite political pressure from the Communist world, from India, and from British Laborite circles for an East-West agreement to ban fur ther H-bomb development. - Preparation for this year's tests have been under way a long time. The test organization, Joint Task Force Seven, is a semi-permanent agency. President Eisenhower is un deleted to have given his final okay for this year's tests to AEC Chairman Lewis ' L. Strauss shortly before his pre-Christmas returnCfrom Gettysburg. J,!S55 ..... iSMMfMMA ON DISPLAY The 1956 Cadillac Eldorado Seville, above, is now on display at Skinner's Garage, 143 South Riverside ave. The Seville is powered by a newly developed 305 horse power engine and features Cadillac's "con trolled coupling" hydramatic transmission. The car's tailored roof panel, custom trimmed in padded Vicodec material, blends with char acteristic Eldorado swept back fin effect and new oval exhaust ports. Is That So? The week's mail. "Why does a moth fly into a flame?" asks P.D.B. "Do animals get sick with hu man diseases?" writes John M. "What is the shortest and what is the longest living ani mal in the world?" asks S.O.M. "And what about birdi;, insects, fish?" Moth and Flame: Man of course is constantly searching for human parallels in the ani mal kingdom. Pairing for life. Mother love. And suicide. Off- By UNITED PRESS Background on A-Bomb On Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman ordered development of a hydro- een bomb until a "satisfactory plan" for international control of atomic energy could be achieved. World diplomats still have not agreed on such a plan. On Nov. 16, 1952, the Atomic Enerev commission announced it had staged successful H bomb "experiments" at its Eine wetok .proving ground ,in the Pacific. The disclosure was made after a flood of letters from task force members told of being aboard ships 30 to 35 miles away Qvhen a tremendous explosion was set off on Nov. 1, 1952. Fallout on Japanese A series of hydrogen bomb explosions were set off during Marcn and April of 1954. Dur ing one of the series the March 1 shot a sudden change of wind caused radioactive fallout to dust a boatload of Japanese fishermen and nearly 300 Mar shall islanders and U.S. service- men. Many countries asked that the H-bomb tests be stopped. Russia set off an H-bomb on Nov. 22. 1955. British nuclear tests in Australia this year are expected to include detonation of the first British H-bomb. Northwest Gas Pipeline Arrives at Hermiston Hermiston (U.R) Eighty- eight flatcars loaded with more than 19 miles of 20elnch pipe for the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corporation's natural gas line into the Northwest have arrived here. - - - Company officials said the pipe would be used on sections in northern Oregon and southern Washington. hand, this may seem like the latter self-destruction. But the moth cannot help himself. When light falls upon its eyes, its wings beat faster. When the light falls more strongly on one eye than on the other, the wings on one side beat faster than those on the other. As a result, his flight curves toward the source of light and if he reaches an open flame, he singes his wings or dies. Of course, this drive for the burning candle must have de veloped millions of years . be fore man came on earth and learned to use a flame. (Maybe it was directed to a night-bloom ing flower, which are usually white to attract moths for pol lination.) And now, the helpless moth pays with its life for this development. Fish, too, are sometimes at tracted to light at night in fishing with cormorants, the Japanese have employed this knowledge for a long time. Deer, too, will stand in the rays of a strong light and fall to the fire of illegal hunters. But as for the moth hasn't it pointed the way to many a moral? Animals Get Ailments Animal diseases: Yes, animals get many of the ailments from which humans suffer and die. Bacteria, viruses get into ani mals just as they do into hu mans with the same effects. As for malaria, yes inded, mammals are subject to ma laria. So are birds, toads and even snakes. You see, malaria- bearing mosquitoes bite birds and toads and snakes and deer and thus transmit the disease from bloodstearm to blood stream. Animals also get tumors and cancers. They get infections and impacted teeth. Skin disorders and heart ailments, An epidemic may sweep through a migrating flock and decimate it. Even trout get sunburned. But even so, the great ma jority -f animals die by violence a rabbit is killed by an owl; or by natural mishaps a deer may break a leg in leaping over a log; or by violence by freez ing and starving. But mostly, being caught and eaten by an other animal. Shrew Shortest Lived Longevity:' . Restricting the subject first to mammals, the shortest lived is perhaps the shrew, which is also the small est, with perhaps a life-SDan of three years.. Most of course die J Court Records DISTRICT COURT William E. Brooks, failure to stop at stop sign. S10. Harold L. Fitzsimmons. improper load. S10. Thomas C. Griggs, violation of basic rule. S15. Augustine F. Lewis, overload, $56. CIRCUIT COURT Geraldine Christine Wright vs. Wil liam Harrison Wright, divorce complaint. MARRIAGfE LICENSE APPLICATIONS James WUford Cureton. Austin. Nev.. and Lana June Moore, route 1. box 26. Central Point. Roy Allen Swim and Marie Julie Jacohson, both Ashland. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist The longest lived is the elephant, reaching perhaps 100 if all goes well. As for insects, the shortest- lived perhaps include the May flies. Their adult life is reckon ed in hours, some even in min utes! With them, adult life is so short that they aren't even equipped with mouths to feed with. As for fish, a carp has been credited with reaching a cen tury I doubt if any official rec ord would go beyond 75. As for the shortest lived fish, that hon or would appear to go to the white goby, the course of whose life is run in a single year. This is perhaps the only backboned animal that runs its lifespan within a year. The parrot, owl, eagle and os trich may outlive a human and it is said that an ostrich may possibly attain 100 years. Including all animals, quite likely the giant tortoise has the over-all life expectancy record! A few venerable members may have attained 150 years, possi bly 250. And claims are made for 300. (Copyright, 1956, by Eugene Burns . (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO: co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. . . P-l Group Plans To Stay in Portland Portland (U.R) R. L. Clark, president of the Pacific Interna tional Livestock Association, said today the group intends to keep its livestock show here al though it apparently has been left out in the city's proposed new $8,000,000 exposition-recre ation center. There have been reports that the show might be switched to Spokane or some other city. The association has said that it could not show at the South Auditor ium site near downtown Port land' which was chosen yester day as the location for the voter approved center. No provision was made for a separate facility for the livestock show. Clark said the Pacific International- has "grown continuously into one of the great shows of our country and one of Port land's biggest assets. We fully expect to continue it and we ex pect to continue it here." He said a move to another city would be only as a last resort. Moro Woman Announces Republican Candidacy Moro, Ore. (U.RK-Mrs. Collis P. Moore, of Moro,. Sherman county Republican chairman, an nounced today that she would be a candidate for Republican national commiteeewoman for Oregon. The present committeewoman, Mrs. Marshall E. Cornett of Klamath Falls, recently an- much before this maximum age. reelection. NOTICE!! Beginning January 1, 1956, and until the completion of our new building THE MEDFORD FEED & SEED will do busi ness temporarily in the old Co-op building at the corner of 4th and Fir streets. Across 4th Street from where we are now located. The telephone number wHI remain the same Geo. C Barr, Mgr. Medford Feed & Seed Henry Kaiser Returns Home From Hospital Honolulu (U.R) Industrial ist Henry J. Kaiser returned home from Queens hospital last night after a three-day treatment for "aches and pains" suffered in "a pre-Christmas fall. His son, Edgar, rushed here from Oakland, Calif., Tuesday with three prominent California physicians. He said his 73-year-old father was eager to resume work on his plans td" enlarge tourist trade in the islands. Seasonal Layoffs Increase Number Of Oregon Jobless Salem U-R New seasonal layoffs, mainly in lumbering and construction, added 9100 to Ore gon's unemployed during De cember, the State Unemploy ment Compensation Commission said yesterday. The year-end total of 46,800 active jobseekers was 6400 un der last year and slightly below the postwar average. Lumber, construction and food processing accounted for more"" ..than two-thirds of the claims for compensation, which reached 24,507 for the last week of 1955, highest since last March. Initial claims also rose sharply to 7456, indicating new layoffs during the holiday period. Number Slightly Higher Downstate offices of the com mission in western Oregon re ported two-thirds of the newly unemployed, with the number slightly higher than last winter. The total was lower east of the mountains. At The Dalles, dam workers being returned to jobs more than offset seasonal losses. The Port land area, including most of four counties, counted only 16,200 unemployed as against 22,400 a year ago. Payments to insured- workers last month were $1,684,830, nearly double the November fig ure of $883,574. i EAGLE WOOD CO. Split Peeler Cores 16" or 24" Split Log Ends Cord or 2 Cord Deliveries DIAL 3-TA-62302 For Action, Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141- X TESTIFYING before Senate probers in Washington, James Glaser, ex-editor of New York Communist Daily Worker, says Reds once tried to ruin small businessmen. ( International) Is Your Old Water Heater Too Small? HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO GET A 10 YEAR GUARANTEED Rh 52 Gai. Electric Heater HURRY! ONLY 8 LEFT! 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