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.
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WashCloths 7t
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IRONING COVER STEAM TABLE
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Assorted Styles and
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Values to $3.98
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Subteen Sizes 8 to 16
Cotton Prints & Lastex
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How $398
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Large Selection of Colors & Styles
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.ON
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, NOW
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