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10 .MAIL TRIBUNE, Madferd, Origan, Wednesday, August 20, 1938 Engineers Focusing Sun's Rays on Tiny Spot for Heating Corvallis To obtain un- contaminated heat, chemical engineers at Oregon State col lege are focusing the sun's rays from 93,000,000 miles away on a quarter inch spot. With this heat of more than 6.000 degrees Fahrenheit, the researchers will be able to melt boron, one of the ele ments used in nuclear re search. This is about the only way high temperatures can be achieved without having side reactions, according to Joseph Schulein, chemical engineer; i - . "'''iitiii a WIDOW Mrs. Charlotte Atkinson, 33. of Van Nuys, Calif., is shown at the police station being booked on suspicion of murder. Police say that during a violent quarrel with her husband, she killed him with a shot pun, in the presence of their three children. Educator Nominated To Run in Wyoming . 'Cheyenne, Wyo. (UPD Dr. Gale McGee, 42, University of Wyoming history professor, Von the Democratic nomina tion to the U.S. Senate Tues day in Wyoming's primary election. Complete unofficial returns from 584 of 685 precincts gave McGee 17,720 votes to 12,563 for Hepburn T. Arm strong, a Lander uranium op erator. McGee will oppose Sen. Frank Barrett in the general election Nov. 4. Barrett had no opposition in the Republi can primary. Gov. Milward Simpson won renomination in the Republi can primary, and had forged ahead of Col. Stanley Ed wards of Laramie, former state civil defense director, 22.630 to 6,786. Edwards also conceded defeat. J. J. Hickey, Cheyenne, was unopposed for the Demo cratic nomination for govern or as Simpson's November opponent. ing professor and project leader. Electric Are An electric arc furnace could produce the necessary temperature, but vapors from the carbon or metal elec trodes would contaminate the boron. This solar furnace is on top of the chemical engineering building. It is located there so the mirrors can pick up sunlight without interference from other buildings. A tracking mirror, . 7 feet square, follows the sun across the sky bv using photo cells. The tracking mirror then di rects the sun's energy to an other 7-foot square mirror and then up to a 5-foot diameter parabolic mirror which is rho dium surfaced. In the parabolic mirror, -the sun's energy falling on 49 square feet is pinpointed to a one-quarter ' inch area. This makes the high temperatures possible. Work On Project Working on the project are Fred Fisher, McMinnville, doctor's degree student, and Jim Bodine, Spokane, master s degree student. Boron is a reactive element. It possesses unique properties which make some boron com pounds of particular interest in high-energy fuels. Boron occurs in nature as a mixture of two different atomic weiehts. 10 and 11. averaging out 10.8. The different atomic weights of boron are called Boron 10 can absorb neu trons to a high degree. This makes it useful in the nu clear program. The United States Borax and Chemical company of Los Angles has supported the QSC research. Flash Floods Rip Sections of Kansas By Untied Press International Flash floods ripped through sections of rain-plagued Kan sas early today in an out break of torrential rains and electrical storms across the Southwest. Hardest hit was Ensign in south central Kansas which was swamped by a five-inch downpour in a ' six-hour per iod Tuesday night and early today. Water six feet deep swirled over Highway 56 near the city. , A B47 jet bomber crashed in the Texas Panhandle dur ing a s e i g e of electrical storms in the area, killing one airman and injuring three others. Cause of the crash was not immediately known. " Rainfall during the night was reported in the southern Plateau states, the Ilockies, and from western Texas through eastern Wyoming and western Nebrask?. Is : 1 ' ''' ' - HAS OPERATION Hollywood (UPD "dward G. Robinson, 65, movl tough guy and Broadway s r, un dergoes a "minor blad ?r op eration" today at Ce ars of Lebanon Hospital. for farm and rural ' home water systems PRESSURE-GLASS TANK , ' ' i bad by A J Tf Ato of CLASS. 1INING V IXPEIIINCI X Maintains a svppty of -sparkling CLEAN water Preeaare-glaas is an exchisive for mula of glass-lining' developed fot pressure water systems. Now, with a pressure-glass tank, youll be amazed at the improvement in water like drinking from a glass compared to drinking from a rusty cop. A pressure -glass tank won't rust. Water stays pure. Tank gives more years of service. The pressure -glass tank is de signed for all makes of domestic water systems away from urban service for farms, for rural and suburban homes, for summer cabins. Decide now to enjoy the advantage of a presswe-glaes tank. Contact your local dealer ' for prices We Give S&H Green Stamps MADE BY FOWUI MAMUFACIWM& COMTAWT, POTOAMO, OfEGON SISKIYOU HARDWARE Phone SP 2-2939 225 West Main - S j RAID Jordan soldiers in full battle array raided three big refugee camps near Amman. Jordan, under orders from King Hussein to search for arms. The troops swooped down at dawn, seized blasting powder and ammunition, and arrested 60 persons. . - r Sees 'Storybook1 As Fairly Charming Hour of Fluff By WILLIAM EWALD United Press International New York (UPD Views and reviews: "The Magic Fishbone," a Charles Dickens piece carried by NBC-TV's "Shirley Tem ple's Storybook" Tuesday night was a fairly charming hour of fluff. It wasn't a very singular tale to a large ex tent, it smacked of Dickens' own "A Christmas Carol" but it was whacked alive by a predominately English cast who glided through it with artful stillness. Barry Jones as a poor king, Estelle Winwood as an odd ball fairy and Leo G. Carroll as a semi-Scrooge were the principal whackers. Lisa Dan iels, a Welsh girl who played a princess, looked a, bit hard for her part but worked com petently. One additional chunk of useless information: The young man who played the fishmonger's boy was Richard Lupinio, an American .cousin of actress Ida Lupino. The night-time "Dotto" on NBC-TV was replaced Tues day night by "Colgate The atre," a fill-the-gap anthology series. It . weighed in with Joanne Dru as star of "Ad ventures of a Model," a pilot film for a series that never made it. After watching, I would say there's no mystery why it was a humorless comedy with a hackneyed plot and tubercular dialogue. To 'Fair Offer' Listed For PP&L System ' Springfield, Ore. (UPD A vice president of Pacific Pow er and Light company said here Tuesday that the Portland-based utility would prob ably consider $2,800,000 a "fair offer" for the PP&L system in the Springfield area. The city, which has a com peting system in the same area, notified the company that it would proceed by con demnation unless PP&L would sell on the city's terms. It offered not more than $2,800,000. D. R. McClung, vice presi dent of the utility, said "It is obvious that the city is -in a legal position to condemn, so we must act accordingly." He indicated that PP&L would probably accept the city's of fer as fair. Springfield voters presum, ably would be called upon to authorize a $3,500,000 reve nue bond issue at the Novem ber election to finance the purchase. Dredges Will Be Taken from River Portland (UPD Army Engi neers announced here today they are moving two sea going hopper dredges into the Columbia river between Van couver, Wash., and the mouth of the stream to top off criti cal shoals which threaten navigation due to- extreme low water. Col. Walter L. Winegar, Portland district engineer, said work would begin Sept. 1 to augment the pipeline dredges already at work in the Columbia. The prolonged dry spell has caused an early run-off and extremely low stages in the Columbia. The dredge Biddle will work in the Columbia until Sept. 15 when she will move to Coos Bay. The dredge Pa cific will work in the Vancouver-Astoria areas the entire month of September and then go to Sacramento for work there. - j compound the difficulty, can ned laughter punctuated the sound track with indecent regularity. Take it away, awready. ABC-TV's "Pantom ime Quiz" churned out some funny bits Tuesday night with Howie Morris, the elf who walks like a man, com ing off funniest . . . The duke of Bedford, making a return visit to the NBC-TV "Jack Paar Show," provided some wonderful comic moments, overshadowing such pros as Shelly Berman and Hans Con ried. It was Paar's best show in several weeks. The Channel Swim: Melvin Douglas landed the role of Stalin in CBS-TV's "Play house 90" opener, "The Plot to Kill Stalin," on Sept. 25. NBC-TV has corralled Ginger Rogers for a live weekly va riety series it'll probably start sometime next year. ABC-TV's "Voice of Fire tone" will open its season Sept. 8 with a half-hour pow erhouse Rise Stevens, Joe Stafford, Doretta Morrow, Ray Middleton and the Fla menco guitarist, Carlos Mon toya. Jackie Cooper and Bar bara Bel Geddes have been signed on the lead - roles in "Mid-Summer," on CBS-TV's "U.S. Steel Hour," Oct. 9. Jack Drees, regular com mentator on the ABC-TV "Wednesday Night Fights" will be sidelined for about two weeks by illness Jack Brickhouse and Steve Ellis will spell him. Jet Bomber Crash Kills One in Texas Follett, Tex. (UPD Four men flew a Strategic Air Command B47 jet bomber, equipped with three ejection seats, over the Texas Pan handle Tuesday night. The plane exploded and crashed near the Texas-Oklahoma border and the three men in the ejection seats were thrown clear of the wreckage. SSgt. Roy K. Schell went down to his death in the six engine craft. The medium bomber was on a routine training flight from Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso, Tex. Wreckage, was strewn over a two-mile area. Cause of the blast and crash was un known today. """ Ml Small Forest Owners Important to Industry Corvallis Small forest owners are still an important part of Oregon's timber indus try, operating 50 per cent of the state's private commercial forest acreage, an Oregon State college forester reported. While small forest holdings are gradually being bought up by large operators, there are still about 35,000 so-called small owners in Oregon, Charles Ross, OSC farm for estry specialist, said. Small forest land owner- FarmWorkers in Oregon Highest Paid Corvallis (UPD F a r m workers in Oregon and Wash ington are the highest paid in the nation, according to fig ures released today by Mrs. Elvera Horell, Oregon State college economist. , Washington farm wage scales were the highest in the nation, she said, at an aver age of $1.20 an hour." The Oregon average was $1.12, and California $1.06. While Washington rates remained about the same the past year, Oregon's increased about two cents an hour. Mrs. Horrell noted that last year's business recession prob ably reduced the demand for farm workers; fewer people left the farm to go into in dustry and some returned to the farm. Early Ripe Tomatoes Seen for Residents Corvallis (UPD Oregonians may be able to have ripe to matoes in their backyard gar dens as early as June." Dr. W. A. Frazier, horticul turist at Oregon State college, said that after nearly eight years of research, a tomato which will ripen despite chilly nights in late spring has been almost perfected. -The tomato crosses the Eng lish dwarf Puck" with four American varieties. It is smaller and not as beefy as American tomatoes. " Dr. Frazier said it might be some time before the tomato can be widely marketed. He said more work is needed on the crack-resistant quality of the tomato. This has been a good sum mer for Oregon tomatoes but in many years they remain green on the vines until fall frosts arrive. ships holdings of less than 5,000 acres totaled 4,923,000 acres in 1952, latest actual count reported by the U.S. forest service. All private com mercial forest lands in Oregon total 9,768,000 acres. One Million Acres Nearly one million acres of the small holdings fall in the 10 to 99-acre class, mostly in western Oregon. More than 21,000 western Oregon own ers in this class operate a total of 835,0g0 acres. Clackamas county leads the state in numbers of owners in the 10 to 99-acre class with 2,550 owners having 115,000 acres. Lane county has 2,408 owners with 50,000 acres, and Jackson county's 2,006 small owners total 88,000 acres. Douglas county is also credit ed' with 88,000 acres in this class with 1,105 owners. A further breakdown of small forest contributions to the state are made for owner ships up to 2,000 acres in west ern Oregon and up to 5,000 acres in eastern Oregon. These forests are estimated to produce about two billion board feet annually with val ue at approximately $250 million. Ships, Planes Asked To Ctear Pacific Area Honolulu (UPD Ships and planes have been warned to stser clear of the Christmas Island area of the Central Pacific beginning Aug. 25 be cause the British plan a series of atomic tests. The warning was issued Tuesday. It said a danger area included thousands of square miles on both sides of the SUSPEND SUEZ TALKS Cairo (UPD The British United Arab Republic talks in Geneva on compensation for the Angfo-French invasion of Suez in 1956 have been "sus pended," an official source re ported Tuesday night. equator may be extended for certain tests. ' British task force "Grap ple" is conducting the nuclear experiments. Bull Elk Reported Seen in Portland Portland (UPD A bull elk with "tracks as big as a horse" was reported seen again today 'in Portland's West Hills district. Zoo Keeper Jack Marks said that as far as he knew no elk were missing from the local zoo. Bruce Russell reported see ing the antlered elk early to day at a playground. 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