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;
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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?.
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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
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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
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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.
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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. He said
it disappeared into a wooded
gully. Les Ordeman, Oregon
Journal photographer,
tracked the elk and said it ap
parently was a "huge beast."
An elk had been reported
seen in the area only recently.
Marks said that a wild elk
was reported in the same gen
eral area two years ago. It
was believed the elk could
have come from Columbia
county forests and followed a
route along hilltops and
through Forest park to Port
land.
WORKERS INJURED
Nashville, Tenn. (UPD
Workmen Billy S. Hayes and
Robert Miller escaped serious
injury Tuesday when they
were buried under about three
tons of ornamental steel that
fell on them. It took rescuers
45 minutes to free them.
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