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A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tueiday, October 14, 1938 CHURCHGOERS WANTED Scituate, Mass.-IUPD-Seeking to boost attendance, the North Scituate Baptist church put this classified ad in the local newspaper: "For immediate occupancy. One slightly used pew, 660 Country Way, North Scituate. Phone Linden 5-0053 for viewing. Transportation provided." Twenty-three states have cities and towns named Springfield. Is That So? By OLGA BURNS Uoes an owl, hunting a mouse at night, spot the ro dent by means of radiation. H. P. Lyon, of Sacramento, Calif., suggests that as a pos sible explanation of the owl's remarkable ability to kill mice at night. That possibility certainly exists, but the probability is that the owl's chief method WE COULDN'T IMPROVE THE WHISKEY- so tee improved the package! MI1SIIBMS SSBBBBBMSlSi f' w if f ""f I If I PROOF . fe m . , of detection is his hearing. When he flies low over a field at night, his flight is generally soundless. 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And since it does not seem that the tests for color blind ness are necessarily conclu sive, it might be that owls are sometimes guided to mice by either fluorescent or phos phorous light. The rodent's fur could acquire fluorescent or phosphorescent material by either eating or rolling. Different Light Fluorescence occurs while an object gives off a light dif ferent from that which it is illuminated. There could be occasions when ultraviolet rays, invisible' to man, might fluoresce a rodent. Phosphor escence occurs when light is given off by an object after its source of illumination is gone. Therefore ultraviolet rays would not be needed. There is a third possibility. Rodents might have biolum- inescence. That occurs when Fifth Test Shot Fired in Nevada Atomic Test Site, Nev.-(EPD-The Atomic Energy Commis sion early Monday exploded the fifth and most powerful nuclear device in its current test series, a 10-kiloton blast dangling from a balloon 1500 feet over Yucca Flat. Because of the height and size of the blast it was visible for several hundred miles over the western desert waste lands. Motorists were halted between nearby Las Vegas and Beatty, Nev., and advised not to look directly at the fire ball. The experiment with a force of 10,000 tons of TNT was the halfway point in the AEC's weapons development effort. It originally was sched uled to go Sunday but "techni cal difficulties" caused a postponement. Average of 200 Letters a Day by Fairbanks C of C Editor's note: This is the second of four dispatches on Alaska's cities and what they hold for visitors or would-be settlers. the animal itself generates its own light. 1 The fact that man may not have observed any of these three cases does not disprove the possibility. An owl's eyes are marvellously efficient light-gathering instruments. A low degree of luminescence, not detectable to man,' might be visible to an owl. One important thing to re member is that owls have been concentrating on mice for untold thousands of years, but only a few men have stud ied rodents and qwls deeply, and for only a few years. (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life na tnre adventure, the best na ture observation or the best question on nature and wild set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Mad ford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. "Live" TV show 40 fathoms down guides our search for future oil reserves With new oil becoming harder to find, our search widens. Now we're exploring the ocean floor and new techniques are the rule. In one such venture we lowered a TV camera 250 feet below the waves to help guide the drilling of test holes from shipboard. This is typical of the novel techniques used in our quest that last year took us to 21 states, Canada, Alaska and ten Latin American and Caribbean countries. In all, we drilled 120 exploratory wells. Although the cost ran to many millions, the successful ones helped us locate more new oil than we withdrew from the ground. Actually, this benefits you as well as Standard. It means an adequate reserve of our most valuable national resource, to be drawn on in days ahead to provide the thousands of products from petroleum so essential for your daily needs. STANDARD OIL COMPANY plans ahead to serve you better Navy landing ship converted by Standard for off-shore oil search. A 55-foot drilling mast is poised over circular 10-foot-wide opening from deck through bottom. Progress in z-Jr- petroleum means 00 Finding oil to meet 'i?'Sf- U.S. consumption that will increase -gjjSj; 55 in 10 years zSZZ from 9 million barrels per day now to 14 5 " . f ' million by 1968 ; ; OF CALIFORNIA By HAL WOOD UPI Correspondent Fairbanks, Alaska - (UPD Since Congress voted Alaska to be the 49th state, .the Fair banks chamber of commerce has received an average of 200 letters a day from state side families or business firms regarding opportunities in the area. It's just an example jof what statehood has meant for this oft maligned land of the mid night sun. Optimism runs high over the future and great plans are being made and huge sums of money expended preparing for the day when the tourists start pouring in next sum mer. "I wouldn't be here in the first place if I wasn't optimis tic," said Bill Snedden, pub lisher of the Fairbanks News Miner, one of the better small dailies in the country. "But I expect Alaska will have a population of between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 with in 15 to 20 years; Fairbanks will have 100,000 to 120,000 by the same time. We have figures that justify this expec tation. I have installed a press that will handle a circulation of 50,000 with this in mind. "We in Alaska think that the Alcan highway will be paved all the way through Canada in the next five years. Alaska already has good paved roads." Right now about 70 per cent of the economy of this city depends on government spend ing. And the future is bright in that department because plans were recently an nounced for the expenditure of S250 million to build an ICBM detection base near here. But if government spending ever should slow down, then the businessmen are looking for the tourist trade to pick up the slack. Some money still flows in from the mines that made the city fabulous during the gold rush days but not much. "At $36 an ounce and the present price of, labor and equipment," said an old-timer, "it pays better to just work for the government." Right now the major prob- School Teacher Hew State Officer Eugene - Medford High school newspaper adviser Vern F. Wolthoff was elected vice president of the .Oregon Association of Newspaper Ad visers at their annual meeting Saturday in the Erb Memorial Student union at the Univer sity of Oregon. The meeting was held in conjunction with the 32nd an nual Higli School Press con ference at the university. Other officers elected were Marv Evans, newspaper ad viser for David Douglas High school in Portland, president; and Mrs. Harriet V. Langmas, newspaper adviser for Bend High school, secretary-treasurer. Oregon Labor Force Object of Study Salem - UPD - Labor Com missioner Norman O. Nilsen said Monday he has started a study to determine the skills and adaptability of Oregon's labor force. The project will be under the direction of Dr. Eric J. Weiss, the department's re search director. Nilsen said he hopes the study will prove that Oregon has an unusually well-skilled and versatiile labor force to offer employers coming to the state. "Such skills represent the state's most valuable asset in attracting new industry and encouraging expansion," the commissioner said. lem here is food, most of which is imported. But exten sive experiments have proved that the land here will grow anything that can be grown in the Matanuska Valley, 300 mllles south. . The growing season is lot days a year. Temperatures climb to the high 90s, but they also drop to 60 degrees below zero. The days are long running as much as 23 hours in the summer months. from. the Arctic Circle. Fairbanks possibly has the finest summer weather in Alaska very much like the midwestern U.S. without any winds. But it also is the most expensive city in which to live in Alaska. j Prices are astonishing to I the visitor. Electric lights for j an average two-bedroom home j cost about $35 a month in j the summer, when; the days are long; much more . in the ! winter. Bananas are 49 cents j a pound; fix a flat tire, $3.50; j car wash $6; piece of pie and glass of milk at a counter j restaurant, 60c; milkshake 55 cents. Most hotels charge from j $3 to $5 extra for a room with bath. Salaries High But salaries are high. For instance, a grade school teach er, who works nine months, starts at $6,000. a year and may reach as high as $1,000 a month. Laborers make $4 to $5 an hour, plus a lot .of over time. Musicians get . $6 an hour. i The housing, . as in most Alaska cities, is critical. I was shown a two-bedroom home which was sold just a few days before for $40,000. In most state-side cities it would cost no more than $12,500. This is a good territory for girls looking for husbands. Statistics show there are three men for every two women in Fairbanks. "But don't come up here planning to stay unless you have a bankroll in your pock et or the promise of a job," says the , chamber of com merce. "Like most other cities in the states, we have a sur plus of labor." The city has 12 churches, and it also has the . only in stitutl6nTSf3, higher learning in Alaska the University of Alaska. With a beautiful all modern campus over-looking the city, the university has an enrollment of 600, with 150 of these being extension students in Anchorage and Juneau. " . (Next: Ketchikan.) Changa Your Rooms With MIRRORS All Sizes irt Stock Phone SP 3-3613 SELBY GLASS CO. 303 North Bartlett Radiation Band Seen Less Serious Than Expected ' Washington - (DPD - Scien tists reported Monday that preliminary findings from America's moon rocket indi cate the band of radiation around the earth is less seri ous than expected from the standpoint of future space travel. Had a human being been aboard the rocket in its ascent to an altitude of nearly 80, 000 miles the space traveler would have suffered less than 50 "roentgens" ofradiation, they said. , ' , Lethal Dose A roentgen is a unit of ra diation. A lethal dose is aboul 450 roentgens. Atomic work ers are not permitted to sus tain more than 15 roentgens a year, but there have been cases when up to 50 were sus tained by accident without any illness resulting. Previous calculations lad. indicated that passengers on board a space ship might suf fer a lethal dose before escap ing the radiation band even if they left the earth at the rock et's sped of 25,000 miles per hour. The radiation readings from the rocket's radiation counter showed however that activity was at a rate of four roent gens per7', hour at 5,000 miles, three roentgens per hour at 10,000 miles and two roent gens at 17,000 miles. Shielding Cuts Radiation If the amount of radiation continues to decrease with al titude, the scientists said the average would certainly be less than two roentgens per hour during the 24 hours a space ship would be subject to a substantial amount' of this time of radiation. Moreover, they pointed out this calculation was based on the assumption that space passengers would be com pletely unprotected. A reason able amount of shielding, they said, would greatly reduced the amount of radiation sustained. MARKET Home of SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS OPEN 8:00 A.M. UNTIL MIDNIGHT 7 DAYS A WEEK EASY PARKING EASY SHOPPING 1202 NORTH RIVERSIDE AVENUE MEDFORD SPECIALS MEM'S NEW FAIL SLK)IOTSHIRT$ - 4 MEN FOLLOW YOUR FALL URGE TO OUR WIDE WONDERFUL VARIETY OF STYLES, COLORS AND PAT TERNS. MANY WASH AND WEAR FABRICS IN POPULAR DAN RIVER GINGHAMS. EVERY SHIRT IN THIS COLLECTION IS GUARANTEED A $3.98 VALUE. MANY ARE REGULAR $4.98 SHIRTS. 'S DEPT. STREET FLOOR HOYS' FIAMMEL shirts. 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