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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
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mouse inevitably makes some
noise. The owl's ears are big
and far apart. And since owls
have been known to kill mice
in barns from which all light
was excluded, it is very likely
that the ears are ,used as a
sonar detection device to ' lo
cate the prey. .
Nonetheless, though tests
have shown owls to be color
blind, it Is not yet determined
that owls do not use radia
tions to locate their prey. '
One strong possibility is
that the owl spots the mouse
by means of infra-red radia
tion which the rodent gives
off in the form of waves of
body heat.
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.
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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. " .
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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.
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