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Mysterious Eyes In Television Set Removed by Police Hatbrouck Heights. N.J. IP "Th.r. is soma kind of animal in my TV sat. I can ayes," a frantic housewifa telephoned polica Thursday. Polica arrirad at tha home of Mrs. Alica Robol and began axaming her television set. They rattled and shook the sat and a squirrel scampered across the floor toward Mrs. Hobol's front door being held open by police. Robin Hood Festival Slated at Sherwood Sherwood, Ore. W This Radiological Warfare Practical, Government Handbook PointsOut Friday, July II, 1157 MEDFOHD (ORESOrT) MAIL TRIBUNETHREE By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent Washington W The gov ernment said today that radio logical warfare is now practical. Calculations "based on somewhat uncertain premises" suggest that in war, fission debris "from many thousands of megatons of fission would have Indeed, it would be "an auto-1 to be added to the stratosphere matic extension" of war waged 'before" more than a "safe with the big nuclear weapons in amount was concentrated in hu-: successor the U.S., Russian and British i man beings. arsenals. Nowhere in the book is there To the million wiped out by :any mention of the "absolutely H-bomb blast, heat, and initial i clean" H-bomb, the theoretical possibility of which was first publicized a month after the book was finished. The book's premise is that, in radiation would be added mil lions killed or injured by radio active fallout far from target centers. The inevitability of radiologi cal disaster in event of all-out atomic war is one of many grim Willamette valley town took on facts reported in "The Effects of Nuclear weapons, a new hand book published today by the De fense Department and Atomic Energy Commission. The book inferentially casts doubt on the wisdom of at tempting to evacuate prospec tive target cities. At the same time it makes it clear that no practical shelter can be built that would be proof against all kinds of nuclear attack. The Threat But as for contamination of the world with bomb-produced strontium-90, a dangerous and long-lasting fission product which can cause bone cancer and perhaps leukemia, it says: If H-bomb tests are con tinued at the same rate as in the past, the worldwide biologi cal effects of strontium-90 "will not be detactable." the look of an English village at jousting time today as it readied itself for the 1957 Robin Hood Festival next week end. Highlight of the annual event will be an archery competition Fridway between Oregon, arch ers and bowmen in Nottingham, England. British Consul James McDonald will be honorary judge of the contest at Sherwood which currently holds the silver trophy bowl awarded to the top scoring team. Ann Magi, 17. of Tigard, a refugee from Esthonia. will rule over the festival as Maid Marian. The Illinois Institute of Tech nology, (Chicago), formed by the merger of Armour Tech and Lewis Institute, now claims the largest engineering enrollment in the country. La Grande Man To Head Aeronautics Board; Work Told Salem (IP) Dr. William M. Peare of La Grande Thurs day was elected chairman of the Oregon State Board of Aero nautics. Dr. Peare, a member of the board for 16 years, succeeds Ralph Scroggins as chairman. The board, at its meeting Thursday, named nine airports on which seal coating will be applied to runways under a proj ect authorized by the recent Legislature. The board will buy the materials for the seal coat ing and local municipalities will provide equipment and labor. The nine airports are at La 'Grande. Baker, Pendleton, On tario, Burns, Lakeview, Corval lis, Eugene and Salem. Mat Due at Lapine A bid was accepted from Bab ler Bros., Inc., Portland, to lay an oil mat on the landing strip at Lapine. But the board reject ed as too high the only bid for installing lighting at the Cas cade Locks landing strip. A request from the city of Newport for engineering help in maintenance work at the Newport airport was approved. Engineering help will be given to Seaside in constructing a new airport. Peare and Earl Snyder, state aeronautics director, will attend the convention of the National Flying Club at Denver later this month. OVERCOME BY GRIEF, mother is restrained by friends after her daughter fell from tenement window in New York. Child is in critical condition. (Inttrnational) Miss Portland Chosen For Pageant at Seaside Portland W Nancy Wen man, a Grant high school gradu ate, Thursday night was chosen Miss Portland to represent the city in the Miss Oregon pageant at Seaside later this month. This Foolish World in Need of Fools; So Sam Levenson Justifies Existence BY SAM LEVENSON Written for United' Press New York W Somebody once said that a man without a sense of humor is capable of the worst villainy. I don't know who said it. It might even have been me. I be lieve that the ability to laugh is a pain-reliever that was around before aspirin and will probably survive the atom bomb. Perhaps even the tranquilizers. People often ask me why I laugh at my own jokes. I really don't I laugh at laughter. When I see people laugh it makes me happy, so I laugh. As the pro verb says: "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me ad." I don't know who said that either, but this time I know it wasn't me. World Needs Fools Perhaps I have just called my self a fool, but this foolish world needs fools. There, so now I have justified my existence. Man is the only animal that can laugh. And he probably has the least reason to do so. Ani mals feel fear, hunger, joy, love in fact, they feel everything but ridiculous. If they could laugh out loud, they probably would laugh at man. This would give them a feeling of superiority and they would probably organ ize and refuse to work for us. This feeling of superiority is the one thing above all else that I try to avoid in my laughter. I never tell jokes aimed, however subtly, at physical defects, men tal illness, or racial or religious slurs. I don't believe that God gave us this gift of laughter to be used as an instrument of op pression. Laughs At Self Sometimes I laugh (and this is indeed foolish) because the gift I offered was not accepted the audience did not laugh. I laugh because this is a funny situation. Here am I handling a guy a present and he doesn't want it. This is silly I now find myself laughing at myself. This, too, is healthy. Since I am only human I can be just as ridicul ous as the next fellow and heav en has reminded me of this in a gentle manner. There is always a danger when writing about laughter to be come very analytical and un funny, so I'd better quit while I'm ahead (if I am). I'd rather wind up on this note. It is a prayer inscribed in the Chester Cathedral in Eng land: "Give me a sense of humor, lord, Give me the grace to see a joke. To get some happiness from life, ' And pass it on to other folk." war, "the efforts of an enemy would be devoted to cause the maximum destruction and casualties," a premise implying use of radioactvity "dirty" weapons. . The new publication is the of "The Effects of Atomic Weapons" issued in 1950 more than two years be fore the world's first H-bomb explosion. The Difference For the first time it details of ficially, on one 579-page docu ment, some of the differences be tween the "small" bombs which destroyed Hiroshima and Naga saki and the giants now avail able. The "small" bomb was equal in violence to 20 kilotons (20, 000 tons of TNT.) The new book estimates the destructive range of weapons up to 20 megatons 20 million tons and beyond. In a foreword, however, De fense Secretary Charles E. Wil son and AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss emphasize that "the figure of 20 megatons is not to be taken as an indication of cap abilities of developments." The largest U.S. weapon ever deto nated, according to official sources, was the 15 megaton bomb tested at Bikini March 1, 1954. The book is packed with in formation of use to Civil De fense about the different effects of weapons of different size ex ploded in different ways i.e., in the air, on the surface, or be low the surface of sea or land. From it can be gleaned the fact that the 1954 Bikini bomb's radioactivity, one minute after detonation, was. equal to one billion tons of radium. By com parison a one-kiloton bomb, like some of those tested in Nev ada, is equivalent to 100,000 tons of radium. Portion of Mt. Hood Forest To Be Closed Portland W The super visor of Mount Hood National Forest today announced partial closure of the area to public entry, effective at midnight to night. Supervisor Lloyd Olson said the closed areas were mostly those of unabated logging slash and that travel and fishing cor ridors would be left open. 'Per sons with legitimate business in the closed areas may obtain entry permits. Olson reported Hood forests getting progressively dryer and four fires have been reported there so far this year Last year there were 36 man-caused blazes. Tillamook Dairyman Apointed by Holmes Salem (W Hans Leuthold, 42, a Tillamook dairy industry leader, was appointed today by Gov. Robert D. Holmes to the Dairy Products Commission. Leuthold, a past president of the Oregon Dairymen's Associa tion and northwest regional grassman of the year in 1956, succeeds John Gienger, also of Tillamook. The governor also announced the re-appointment of George Hostetler, Redmond, and Lyle Hammack. Portland, to the seven-member commission which is charged with promo tion of the state's dairy indus try. All three are for three-year terms expiring June 30, 1960. UNBELIEVABLE BARGAINS SALE TABLES LOCATED ON Main Floor Balcony 2nd Floor Record Shop SALE ENDS SATURDAY, JULY 13th Doors Open 9 A.M. Daily .NO LAY-AWAYS 1 "Com Earl and Get the BARGAINS" We Believe a Sale Should Have GENUINE BARGAINS! WE LIKE TO CLEAR OUT OUR ODDS 'N' ENDS to make room for new Fall Merchandise. YOU GET THE ADVANTAGE! 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