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Russian Scientist Describes Two
Major Events in Physics Field
Editor'? note: The followinr disDatch
has been written exclusively for
United Press by one of Russia's fore
most scientists. He is Dmitri Skobel
tsyn. since 1951 director of the In
stitute of Physics in the t'SSR Acade
my Sciences.
By DMITRI SKOBELTSYN
Written for United Prs
Moscow U" The year 1957
has been marked by two major
events in the history of Soviet
science, particularly in physics.
One was the creation and launch
ing of the first and second Sput
niks which caused a stir through
out the world.
The second concerns a com
pletely different set of problems
and is also of international im
portance. I refer to the commis
sioning of the 10 billion electron
volt proton-synchrotron or accel
erator at Dubna on the outskirts
of Moscow. Last April the accel
erator, the only one of its -kind
in the world, produced proton
particles with a record energy of
10 bev (billion electron volts).
These areoin effect artificial
cosmic rays.
The particles provide science
with new tools for delving deep
er into the secrets of the atom's
nucleus. To obtain them, it was
necessary to build a tremendous
ringshaped electric magnet
weighing 36,000 tons.
Betler Than Ours
The giant new accelerator sur
passes two similiar installations
operating in the U.S. in size and
energy of its particles. It is a
great landmark in the history of
science. And the launching of
the two Sputniks opens new
paths for science.
Complex machines such as the
accelerator are being built to
study the phenomena in a field
that may be called the "micro
world" a world of inconceiva
bly small space and time. This
is the world of the recently dis
covered particles of matter, the
so-called mesons, hyperons and
"anti-particles."
On the other hand, the appear
ance of the Sputniks equipped
with various instruments was
source of artificial cosmic rays.
i A thorough study of primary
cosmic rays can bring science ex
tremely valuable information on
the originsof these rays, espe
cially from observation of the
fluctuation and variation of the
streams' intensity.
Distorts Picture
Observations carried out by
instruments in the atmosphere
are inadequate because even the
comparatively thin atmospheric
layer which separates these in
struments from cosmic space dis-
the beginning of a new era in ' torts the entire Picture in many
the study of the cosmos.
Cosmic rays are a stream of
nuclear particles, accelerated to
tremendous speeds, which con
stantly penetrate the borders of
the earth's atmosphere. These
are mainly protons whose aver
age speed in this area equals 10
bev the same as in the proton
synchrotron we have now built.
Source in Space
' This stream of particles, whose
sources are located somewhere
in the innermost depths of cos
mic space, contain not only nu
clei of hydrogen atoms (protons)
but also atomic nuclei of a num
ber of other light energy par
ticles. Physicists have long been us
ing such natural high energy
particles in tiny quantities to ob
serve the phenomena of the micro-world.
The giant accelerators
now make possible detailed
study of these phenomena be
cause they are a terrestrial
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Liquor Stores Set
Holiday Closures
Portland (IP) The Oregon
Liquor Control Commission said
today its stores would close at
6 p.m. on New Year's eve.
The action followed an earlier
decision to close liquor stores
at the same hour on, Christmas
eve.
The OLCC said its refusal to
consider applications to license
sale of package beer within the
"dry zone" around the Univer
sity of Oregon campus in Eu
gene was based on a six-year-old
agreement among the Eugene
city council, university officials
and the OLCC to maintain the
dry zone.
The Eugene city council had
approved on Nov. 12 the appli
cation by four grocery stores in
the dry zone for package beer li
censes. Hugh Kirkpatrick, OLCC
chairman, said the commission
believed no change in the agree
ment should be made unless all
three parties were in favor of
it. University officials voiced op
position to the beer outlet li
censing. In other action the OLCC set
Dec. 27 for hearing on a pro
posal to permit taverns to serve
beer in pitchers for consumption
on the premises. Also to be con
sidered will be liberalization of
fules regarding advertising of
alcoholic beverages.
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i Thursday
7:30 p.m. Welcome Wagon,
club, home of Mrs. Kenneth E.
Shuler, 1036 Queen Anne av
enue. 7:30 p.m. Lively Rogues,
Rogue Valley Country club.
8 p.m. Adarel chapter, Jack
sonville Masonic temple.
8 p.m. Royal Neighbors of
America, Pythian building.
8 p.m. Southern Oregon
Stamp club, Girls Community
club.
8 p.m. Phoenix PTA, grade
school gymnasium.
Friday:
10 a.m. First Christian
church bazaar and smorgasbord,
fellowship hall.
12 noon Phoenix Thimble
club, home of Mrs. Guy Cob
leigh, 401 Church street.
2 p.m. Phoenix First Pres
byterian church Women's asso
ciation, bazaar and supper at
church.
Nov. 13 at the Ashland General
hospital. She has been named
Bonnie Kay and weighed IVz
pounds.
Milton (Barney) Barnett of
Medford was a dinner guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ayris Satur
day. The Ayris' then drove to
Medford and spent the evening
at his home.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Covert and
family of Burney were recent
week end guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dettmar.
Ben Capello, a former Hilts
resident has been ill and is a
patient in the Yreka hospital.
John Barbera and Gorden Car
penter of Redding spent Satur
day night at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Chase and family.
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Goddard
of Talent called at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Roush and
Mrs. Carlos Goddard recently.
Mrs. Phil Hemstead and son,
Gary, Arthur Blanchard Jr., and
Mrs. Sam Moore of Redding were
recent visitors in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blanch
ard Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Doug Whittaker
and family visited recently in
Medford at the home of his sis
ter and brother-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. William Buckingham. On
Sunday they visited her mother,
Mrs. Beryle Harlow in Gazelle.
George Vieira has returned to
the Yreka hospital from the Uni
versity of California hospital in
San Francisco. He will remain
there for a month before being
returned to the hospital in the
bay area to be fitted with a brace
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Thursday, December 5, 1S5T
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Douglas McKay Turns Down Bid
To Head Veterans Administration
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The White House
called Douglas McKay a few
days ago and asked if he were
i n t erested in
being appoint
ed head of the
Veterans Ad
ministration. Harvey V.
Higley, pres
ent administra
tor of VA, has
tendered his
resign ation
Bobt smith ana is anxious
to return to private life in Wis
consin. McKay visited Higley at
the VA headquarters last week
to discuss the problems of the
agency, then formulated his an
swer. "If I were a younger man, I
would be interested," said Mc
Kay. "But I'll be 65 next year.
That's a job for a younger man."
The White House wasn't ex
actly offering McKay the job,
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Truck Operators
Bring Charges
Portland (1?) Hearings on
charges of unfair practices
brought by the Truck Operators
League of Oregon againstf Team
sters Local 324 were opened
Wednesday by the National La
bor Relations Board. ;
The complaint results from a
recent strike of Teamsters in
Salem against three beer dis
tributors in which secondary
boycotting was charged.
The Truck Operators League,
an association of common car
riers, said its members were
caught in the middle When the
beer distributors called on them
to by-pass their own idled trucks.
The League claimed that un
der a recent ruling the common
carriers were liable in court for
failure to delive unde such cir
cumstances. The League also
claimed that Teamsters prevent
ed them from delivering beer by
instructing common carrier dri
vers to respect picket lines.
The stike was settled Sept. 24,
but spokesmen said the League
would like the NLRB to rule on
the issue, setting a precedent for
any similar cases that might
arise in the future.
CATHOLIC BISHOP DIES
Leiria, Portugal OP! Rom
an Catholic Bishop Jose Alves
Correia Da Silva, 86, who de
clared the apparitions of our
Lady of Fatima worthy of be
lief in 1930, died here today
after a long illness. Correia Da
Silva began his investigation
of the apparitions in 1917 short
ly after they were reported by
three shepherd children in Cova
Da Iria, a village in the bishop's
diocese. The virgin reputedly
confided three "secrets" tot the
children and they told one of
the secrets to Correia Da Silva.
tensive injuries in an automo
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but there had been a good deal
of pressure in his behalf from
veterans organizations. The
White House wanted to know
what McKay himself thought
about it.
McKay is now chairman of the
United States section of the In
ternational Joint Commission,
the agency which Canada and
the- U.S. use to settle boundary
water problems. Appointed ear
lier this year, he hopes to find
a solution to the stalemate over
use of the Columbia river for
upstream storage, especially at
the proposed Libby dam.
"I was happy back home in
Oregon," observed McKay. "I
dont need a job."
Anxious To Return Home
He indicated his fondest hope
is to break the deadlock over
Libby, come to mutually satis
factory terms over power bene
fits for each nation, and return
home to Salem. Any estimate of
when this might be accomplish
ed would be "purely specula
tive," he believes, although he
is optimistic that it won't drag
out indefinitely, as some officials
seem to think.
McKay got into the running
for the VA post because he is,
as he calls it, a "professional
veteran." He is a charter mem
ber of the American Legion, life
member of Disabled American
Veterans, and 25-year member of
Veterans of Foregin Wars. He
also wears the Purple Heart.
Patterson To Get Job
The Washington Post reported
Monday that the VA post will
now go to John S. Patterson,
who has been Higley"s deputy
for two years. The vote organ
ization may be an embattled
agency next year, for reportedly
the administration is preparing
to slash its budget by about
$1,000,000,000 to affect civilian
economies and make way for
higher defense spending.
This is expected to cause a
fight in congress, with an elec
tion in the offing. Tentatively
slated for cuts are programs for
loan guarantees, insurance, out
patient treatment, vocational re
habilitation and education.
St. Louis Pastor
Churches President
St. Louis (IP) The Rev. Dr.
Edwin T. Dahlberg, 64, pastor
of the Delmar Baptist Church of
St. Louis, today was elected to
a three-year term as president
of the National Council of
Churches.
Dahlberg is the first Baptist to
hold the highest elective office
in the U.S. protestantism. He
succeeds Dr. Eugene Carson
Blake of Philadelphia, a Presby
terian. The St. Louis pastor was elect
ed without opposition at the
council's triennial General As
sembly, attended by 2,000 dele
gates from 30 member denominations.
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