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4A MAIL TRIBUNE, Madfor, Oregon, Friday, December 12. 1938 Atoms for War Topped Peace Atoms In Making Meadiines in Past Year By JOSEPH L. MYLER Washington -JUPD-Atoms for war topped atoms for peace in the headlines of 1958. East and West tested nu clear weapons at the fastest pace ever while calling on each other to stop. The peaceful atom fought a good fight. But the warlike atom hogged the spotlight. - After her biggest ind dirtiest test series, Russia said she would test no more if the West would follow suit. -The West went ahead with its scheduled tests. The United States fired about 51 in two crowded series, the British four. -Britain and America then offered to stop for a year if the Russians would do the same and start negotiations for a policed permanent test ban. -The Russians resumed test ing but agreed to negotiate. They shot off 14 tests, includ ing seven of giant size. -The test ban negotiations started at Geneva amid prophecies of failure. 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CLYDE KELL Gold Hill Many activities including programs, are sched uled in Gold Hill, along with regular meeting dates of vari- our organizations, in observ ance of Christmas. Mrs. Clarence Parsley will be hostess Monday, Dec. 15, at her home on Sardine creek for the annual Christmas party and meeting of the Amethyst Rebekah Friendship club. The meeting will start at 8 p.m. A Christmas gift ex change will be held. Mrs. Ted Schoenemann, president of the Gold Hill Health unit, has announced that Mrs. Melvin Burnett will be hostess at her home on the Upper River rd. Tuesday, Dec. 16. at 1 p.m. for the annual Christmas party. Co-hostesses for the dessert luncheon, which will precede the business session, are Mrs. Clarence Parsley, hospitality chairman of the unit; Mrs. Lester Parker and Mrs. Dale Smith. There will be a gift exchange. "Ideas for both Christmas gifts and receipts" will be ex changed by those attending a meeting of the Gold Hill Ex tension unit at the home of Mrs. Bob Gray on Fourth ave. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 1 p.m. Cohostesses will be Mrs. Rex Allison, vice chairman of the unit, and Mrs. Ivan Governor. Mrs. C. Norman Gail will be in charge of special Christ mas music at a meeting of Amethyst Rebekah lodge Wed nesday, Dec. 17, at 8 p.m. in the Odd Fellow's hall on Fourth ave. Refreshments will be served by Mrs. J. Raymond Ritter, Mrs. Blanche Merriman, Mrs. A. A. Walker, and Mrs. Roy Bornoman, who is chairman Those having birthdays in De cember will be honored. The annual school program with pupils of both the Pat rick and Hanby schools will be held in the Hanby school gymnasium Thursday, Dec. 18, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Gilbert Mack, principal and the facul ties have invited the public to attend. General chairman for the Christmas program is Mrs. Shirley Anderson. Those in charge of play selection and casting are Mrs. Ida Von Buskirk, Mrs. Mildred Black, Deane Roberts, Allen Hill and Mrs. Anderson. Musical arrangements for the affair will be directed by Mrs. Ruth Brewster, school music teacher, who is in charge of the vocal and piano departments, Charles Cook, band instructor, and Mrs. Marie Brannock, Patrick teacher. . Supervising costumes and small properties will be Mrs. Vera Steele, Mrs. Ida Von . Buskirk, Mrs. Cora MacDon ald, Mrs. Barbara Toner and Mrs. Wilda Franks. Those in charge of lighting, staging and large properties are Allen Hill, Deane Roberts, Charlie Foote and Al Beman! Mack, and Mrs. Audree Be man, school secretary assisted Mrs. Anderson with the pro grams and publicity for the occasion. Mrs. Barbara Charles will be in charge of seating the audience. The second and third grades at the Patrick school will pre- nt the Christmas story in Pictures, directed suuga by Mrs. Brannock, with the assistance of Mrs. MacDonald, Mrs. Franks, and Mrs. Toner. "Santa's helpers" will be de picted by the first grade. Christmas music will be furnished by choral groups from the Hanby school, and the advanced Hanby school band. "Christmas at Whitman Mis sion 1845" with a cast from seventh grade students will be presented under the direction of Deane Roberts. Mrs. Ernest Gregory, presi dent of the Gold Hill Garden club, has announced that the annual Christmas party of the group will be held at the home of Mrs. William Fields, Fourth st., Gold Hill, beginning with a dessert luncheon at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19. During the business session, officers will be installed by Mrs. Claire Douglas. Officers reelected were Mrs. Gregory, preseident; Mrs. J. C. Kofahl, vice president, and Mrs. George Dorman, treasurer and secretary. A Christmas gift exchange will be held. A benefit card party will be given by Odd Fellows at the IOOF hall Saturday, Dec. 20, at 8 p.m. to raise funds for the annual community Christ mas party and program spon sored by the Odd Fellows and Amethyst Rebekah lodges for children of the area, according to Jerry Herrington, noble grand of the Odd Fellows lodge. Assisting Odd Fellows are Mrs. Herrington, noble grand elect of Amthyst Re bekah lodge; Mrs. Paul Thompson, Mrs. Lester Parker and Mrs. C. Norman Gail. PENSIVE President Eisen hower puckers up his lips as he ponders a question at his news conference at the White House. He said he saw no reason to refute re ports that Russia has an 8700-mile ballistic missile. but he sharply rejected as without evidence a recent report that Russia had flown an atom - powered plane. Mrs. Paul Molloy said chil dren of the Church school of the Gold Hill Community Methodist church will present a Christmas program Sunday, Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. "As we forgive," with a cast of six children will be pre sented. Other numbers will included several recitations and songs, directed by Mrs. Molloy. During the worship service, Sunday, Dec. 21, special Christmas selections will be provided under the direction of Mrs. C. Norman Gail. Mrs. Paul Molloy, Mrs. Roy Eskew and Mrs. Gail also will sing. Mrs. Gail said members of the choir will go caroling again this year during the Yuletide season. Children of the community who desire to take part in the Odd Fellow Christmas pro gram Monday, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. in the IOOF hall are re- auested to telephone Mrs. tes ter Parker, chairman of the affair ULrick 5-1009. Gilbert Mack, principal of the Gold Hill schools, has an nounced that the annual class room Christmas parties will be held Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 23. School will be dismis sed one hour early that day for the beginning of the Christmas vacation. Room mothers will be in charge of the parties. Any parent wish ing to assist is invited to con tact the room mother of their child's class. Youngsters will participate in a gift exchange. Mrs. Daniel Stewart, presi dent of the Past Noble Grands club of Amethyst Rebekah lodge, has announced that Mrs. Earl Moore will be host ess for tha December meeting Portland Scout Dies of Injury Portland - (UPD - Lawrence K. Arnason, 14, Portland, died Thursday in Emanuel hospital from a skull fracture suffered while on a Boy Scout outing on Mt. Hood last Saturday. Arnason suffered a temple to temple skull fracture when a snag fell on him. He was rushed to the hos pital where surgeons removed a piece of his skull and then placed him in a refrigerated sleeping bag. He was placed in the sleep ing bag apparatus and his body temperature lowered 10 degrees in an effort to pre vent brain damage. Milton-Freewater Man, Son Poisoned Milton-Freewater (UPD A Milton - Freewater man and 19-year-old son were poisoned by cyanide gas here Thursday. Police were called to the home of Alvin C. Gentry, 49, and when they arrived found a sign proclaiming, "keep out, poison gas." Calls aroused Gentry s two daughters and his son, Ralph. The son and a policeman went into the house to get the elder Gentry but found him dead. The deadly gas was accidentally inhaled by the younger Gentry and he was pronounced dead on arrival at a Walla Walla, Wash., hos pital. Police said the "elder Gentry had left a note for his wife, who was working in Walla Walla at the time, indicating he was despondent over fam ily troubles. and annual Christmas party at her home Dec. 23 at 8 p.m. Mrs: Walter McLean will be cohostess. A gift exchange will be held. Amethyst secret pals will be revealed and new pals drawn for the coming year. Those who do not have a sec ret pal may bring a gift for exchange with others who do not have an Amethyst Friend, Mrs. Stewart said. though to undermine the gloomy forecasts the Russians staged two more tests. This brought the all-time score to about 154 for the U.S., 71 for Russia and 21 for the United Kingdom. Refined Warheads The Russian tests presum ably refined warheads for in termediate range and inter continental missiles and add ed to the variety of nuclear weapons in the Soviet arsenal. The U.S. tests included two high altitude shots of anti missile warheads, four under ground explosions, one of vhich escaped detection, and nine weapons equal in power to less than 1,000 tons of TNT. The biggest U.S. explosions were hydrogen weapons sub stantially cleansed of radio activity; the smallest were tiny warheads for, small field weapons and demolition kits. Success of the test-ban talks would prevent perfection of the "small, clean" H-bomb toward which U.S. weap oneers had been striving. It might also jeopardize Project Plowshare. Plowshare is a U.S. pro gram to develop peacetime uses of "atomic dynamite" to blast harbors, create under ground reservoirs of water, materials, and stimulate oil and minerals production. U.S. officials hope Russia and the rest of the world will sanction 10 or a dozen Plow share shots, starting next sum mer, to prove that atomic ex- Mountain Sheep Embargo Favored Enterprise - (UPD An em bargo on construction of a pro posed high Mountain Sheep dam on the Snake river until fish passage problems are solved was favored Thursday at a State Water Resources Board hearing. The Board proposes to pro hibit appropriation of water in a 15.6 mile stretch of the Snake river and a 1-mile stretch of the. Imnaha river until 1965. A high Mountain Sheep dam was recommended in a revised version of the Army engineers' 308 report released this week. . L. E. Perry of the Interior Department's Bureau of Com mercial Fisheries, recommend ed in a letter to the Board a withdrawal "since it will give major assistance to the con servation agencies in protect ing the fishery resources of the Columbia Basin." Crime Rate Shows Increase in Month . Medford's crime rate in No vember showed a slight in crease over the previous month while traffic citations dropped considerably, accord ing to the city police depart ment's monthly report. There were 85 major of fenses in November, includ ing two cases of robbery, one of aggravated assault, 12 of burglary, nine of larceny of more than $50, 54 of petty larceny and seven of auto theft. In October, 83 major of fenses were reported. In No vember, 1957, there were 58 cases. A total of 590 traffic cita tions were issued last month, compared to 651 in October. Assistance was rendered to motorists in 37 cases com pared to 28 in the previous month. t Dog bites declined' from five in October to three last month. Drunkenness cases increas ed from 34 in October to 44 in November. In 'November, 1957, 33 cases were reported and in 1956 there were 27. The American Embassy In Baghdad, the capital of Iraq,' is a replica of the White House in Washington. fan c FREE PARKING 245 S. Central at 10th heat, and useful radioactive plosions can accomplish good instead of evil. The atom as a driving force moved ahead in 1958. The United States built a test reactor for Project Rover to develop nuclear rockets. First flight test of an atomic space engine conceivably could come in 1965. Close To Success After spending 850 million dollars in 13 years, the United States was close to success in harnessing the atom to drive airplanes. At year's end five U.S. atomic submarines were op erating and 17 new sub en gines were being built. Two submarines cruised under the North Pole. Land - based atom engines Halfway Man Air Crash Victim Halfway, Ore. - (UPD - N. C. Jones, local contractor, was killed Thursday when his small airplane crashed about three miles east of here. Jones was en route to the Halfway landing strip from the Oxbow dam site. He failed to arrive at the landing strip and Howard Beymer, a me chanic and a pilot for Jones, searched in another plane. Beymer sighted the wreckage of Jones.' plane against a hill about 3:30 p.m. Fog and rain hampered the search. A ground party reached the scene late Thursday and found that Jones apparently died instantly. I Jones was owner of the N. C; Jones Logging & Construc tion company of Halfway, which had a contract to haul "slum," a fine sand, from the Cornupcopia mine to the earth-filled Oxbow dam. He employed about 75 men. Jones is survived by his widow, two sons and two daughters. for large surface ships were being tested. The keel of the first atomic merchant ship, the Nuclear Ship Savannah, was laid. A congressional expert pre dicted that Russia would have a large atom sub fleet cap able of launching a devastat ing attack on the United States by the early 1960's. Another expert said Russia may beat the United States into the air with a nuclear powered plane. Development of atomic power plants for cities and industry also made headway in 1958. By 1980 the atom is expected to supply 10 per cent of this country's power. A 60,000-kilowatt power plant was dedicated at Shipping port,. Pa.' Four civilian power plants were under construc tion and 11 were planned. Seven experimental power re actors were operating during the year. Britain, which started up the world's first atom power plant in 1957, projected the world's biggest - a 650,000 kilowatt plant in Suffolk. She plans six other large ones. Project Underwritten Russia is building a 600,000 kilowatt power station. One 100,000-kilowatt unit already is operating. The United States, mean while, has underwritten a 350-million-dollar project by the six Euratom nations to build nuclear power plants totaling one million kilowatts in capacity by 1963. Britain beat America to the jump in an international race for the free world's atomic power business. Ground was broken for a power plant to be built with British help 70 miles south of Rome. General Electric Co., how ever, kept the competition going by landing a job to build a 150,000-kilowatt sta tion in Punta Fiume, Italy. The first license for export of a U.S. power reactor was issued Nov. 6. It went to West inghouse Electric Corp. for a 11,500-kilowatt plant sold to Belgium. The year produced these other developments: John A. McCone, Los Angeles business man, suc ceeded the controversial Lew is L. Strauss as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Com mission. The AEC also got a new general manager and new officials for its reactor development division. Setback Suffered -Efforts to tame H-bomb fusion reactions for power suffered a setback. "Energy losses through radiation stall ed progress with several ex perimental machines. -Another power approach, direct conversion of atomic heat to electricity, took on new promise. Several private firms and the AEC predicted at least small-scale success in the next few years. -Plutonium, the prime fis sionable material of atomic bombs, was used for the first time as fuel for a large re actor. - International cooperation continued on many fronts., The West released all of its fusion power information to the world. A second atoms-for-peace conference was held at Geneva. The International Atomic Energy Agency held its second meeting in Vienna and threshed out some organi zational matters. -The AEC committed five million dollars to stimulate greater use of radioactive ma terials, already credited wit, saving U.S. industry half a billion dollars a year. Too Low To Hurt Healt Meanwhile, new scientific indications were reported that the radiation levels created by weapons testing are too low to hurt t-e world's health. The year also saw proof of" official claims that nuclear weapons won't go off acci dentally. A B-47 dropped a bomb at Florence, S. C. Its high - explosive trigger ex ploded but the nuclear charge didn't. Another B-47 crashed and burned near Abilene, Tex., with a nuclear weapon aboard. The bomb did not ex plode. A third B-47 Stratojet, with a nuclear weapon aboard, burned on the flight line at Chennault Field near Lake Charles, La. There was no atomic explosion and no ra diation hazard. Peeler Core Wood Special We still need more room! Here is a real worthy special Cured, split D.F Peeler Core Wood U-Haul $1200 PerC0fd Our Haul $1500 Pereord M Our Haul $2150 per 112 cords m- Green, Unsplit D.F. 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