14 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuehy, Jnuiry 13, 195
democrats Get 18 ut off 20
Ore. IK1 o use Chairmanships
Salem -4CPB- Democrats will
be chairmen of 18 out of 20
committees in the Oregon
House.
Republicans were included
on all committees in the Democratic-controlled
House,, but
only Robert L. Elfstrom, Sa
lem, and George Layman,
Newberg, got top Republican
spots on the alcohol control
and judiciary committees, re
spectively. House Speaker Robert Dun
can, Medford, said he expect
ed to work harmoniously and
effectively for good legisla
tion during the 1959 session.
Committees included:
Agriculture: Ben Evick (D-Jefferson).
Republicans- deceive Three
(Chairmanships in Senate
Salem - (UPD - Republicans
captured only three of 20 com
mittee chairmanships in the
Oregon Senate Monday.
Sen. Anthony Yturri, (R
Ontario). was named chair
man of the Roads and High
ways Committee. Francis
Ziegler, (R-Corvallis), was
named chairman of the Agri
Inevitable Chain
Of Radioactivity
From Hanford Plant
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York - (UPD - The sim
ple A-B-Cs of radioactive con
tamination have been spelled
maem, out at the
1 huge govern-
ff't4- ment - owned
atomic plants
, at H a n f ord,
r, Wash. Science
5 thinks it is vi-
tal for every
i one t o know
j those A-B-C's
f m this atomic
veioi tmui
they are.
The Hanford atomic reac
tors are cooled by water
taken from the Columbia riv
er which is then returned to
the river. Like all river water,
it contains traces of minerals.
One of them is zinc. When
the water goes in to the plant
the zinc is stable, inert and
harmless.
But when the water rejoins
the river, the zinc in it is not
the same zinc. It has been
robbed of its stability, it is
no longer inert. It is radio-
Envoy's Daughter,
Friend Missing .
Providence, R.I.-(UPD-Show
business ambitions may have
caused the guitar - playing
daughter of the U.S. ambassa
dor to Argentina to drop from
sight with a fellow coed, po
lice said today.
Joan Beaulac, 19, daughter
of diplomat Willard L. Beau
lac, and Linda Talbot, 17, of
Woodstock, Vt., boarded a
train for New York after
vanishing Saturday from the
Rhode Island School of De
sign, police said.
Letters mailed by the at
tractive girls indicated they
wanted to stay away for at
least five months. But friends
of the coeds told police the
girls possibly wanted to enter
show business or just visit
friends in New York.
Miss Beaulac played the
guitar and sang folk songs in
stage productions at the de
sign school.
Police issued an eight-state
alarm for the pair and asked
special help from New York
police, who were reported
concentrating on the Green
wich Village and Broadway
theater areas.
Examinations for
Mediator Positions
A new examination for
mediator positions has been
announced by the U. S. Civil
Service Commission. The posi
tions, paying 7,303 a year,
will have headquarters in
Washington, D.C. with the Na
tional Mediation Board.
Employees will spend the
majority of their time travel
ing throughout the United
States in connection with du
ties to adjust controversies
arising between employees
and employers in the railroad
and airline industries.
Applicants must have had
at least six years of experi
ence in making and interpret
ing labor agreements.
Information may be obtain
ed from L. B. Nelson in the
U. S. post office building here.
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I wis'.l
Alcoholic control: Robert
L. Elfstrom (R-Marion).
Commerce and utilities:
Roy Fitzwater (D-Linn).
Education: Al Flegel (D
Douglas). Elections and reapportion
ment: John L. Kerbow (D
Klamath). Financial Institutions :
George J. Annala (D-Hood
River).
Fish and Game: W. H.
Holmstrom (D-Clatsop).
Food and dairying: Thomas
R. McClellan (D-Lincoln).
Forestry and mining: Tom
Monaghan (D-Clackamas).
Highways: Verne N. Cady
(D-Grant-Harney-Lake).
Judiciary: George Layman
culture Committee and Carl
Francis,. (R-Dayton), chairman
of the Judiciary committee.
Other chairmen, all Demo
crats, included:
Jean Lewis, Portland,
Rules.
Ben Musa, The Dalles, Al
coholic traffic.
Harry Boivin, Klamath
active, giving off tiny waves
from the stirring of its lib
erated atoms. This keeps up
for a considerable time, as
you will see.
Scientists Check Trail
Thirty miles below the
plant, water is taken from
the river and distributed over
a considerable area to irri
gate fields and pastures. In
the fields are grown peas, to
matoes, o k r a, string beans,
corn and grapes. In the pas
tures cattle graze.
People eat the vegetables
and consume the milk and
flesh of the cattle.
R. W. Perkins and J. M.
Niesen of the Hanford atomic
laboratories sleuthed along
this trail from beginning to
end that is, from river
water to people using ex
tremely sensitive devices and
techniques for detecting radio
active zinc no matter where
it was.
They found it in the river
water as it left the plant. They
found it in the irrigation
ditches, in all the vegetables
as they grew in the irrigated
fields, in the grass of the
pastures where the cattle ate,
in the milk and flesh of the
cattle, and finally in the peo
ple who ate all these things.
In reporting this sleuthing
to the American Association
for the Advancement of Sci
ence, , Perkins and Nielsen
emphasized that the amounts
of radioactive zinc which they
found were truly faint traces
in all cases.
Draw UP Tables
Experts have drawn up tab
les of "permissable limits" on
the amounts o f radioactive
substances which people and
animals can take in their food
and drink without being
harmed. The amounts Perk
ins and Nielsen found were
tiny fractions of the permis
sible limit for radioactive zinc.
The Hanford atomic plant
is operated for the govern
ment by the General Electric
Company, which over the
years has taken elaborate pre
cautions and conducts con
stant testing to make sure it
produces no hazards to the
surrounding countryside and
the users of Columbia river
water, including the fish
therein.
But scientists were impress
ed with the simplicity of the
demonstration of how . first
a trace mineral, then vegeta
bles, animals, and finally peo
ple become radioactive in an
inevitable chain. This is how
it works, for your future guid
ance as the atomic age devel
ops more and more, touching
more and more people.
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PURUCKER'S
(R-Yamhill).
Labor and industries: W.O.
Kelsey (D-Douglas).
Local Government: Vernon
Cook (D-Multnomah).
Military affairs: Edward J.
Whelan (D-Multnomah).
Planning and development:
Ed Benedict (D-Multnomah).
Public health and welfare:
Grace Oliver Peck (D-Multnomah).
Rules and resolutions: Kath
erine Musa (D-Wasco).
State and federal affairs:
Norman R. Howard (D-Multnomah).
'
Taxation: Clarence Barton
(D-Coos).
Way and means: Keith D.
Skelton (D-Lane).
Falls, Commerce and Utilities.
Monroe Sweetland, Milwau
kie, Education.
Alice Corbett, Portland,
Elections and Privileges.
Richard Groener, Milwau-
kie, Financial Affairs.
Dwight Hopkins, Imbler,
Game.
Dan Dimick, Roseburg, La
bor and Industries.
G. D. Gleason, Portland,
Local Government.
Andrew Naterlin, Newport,
Natural Resources.
R. F. Chapman, Coos Bay,
Public Health.
Dan Thiel, Astoria, Resolu
tions.
Boyd Overhulse, Madras,
State and Federal Affairs.
Ward Cook, Portland, Taxa
tion. W. A. Grenfall, Portland,
Veterans Affairs.
Alice Corbett, Portland,
Ways and Means.
Senate President Walter
Pearson named himself and
Sens. Donald Husband, Eu
gene, Overhulse and Yturri
to the Legislative Council
Committee.
Three Men Die in
Crash Near Eureka
Eureka (UPD Three men
were killed an a fourth was
injured in a freak accident
Monday morning on High
way 101, about 30 miles north
of here.
A logging truck, carrying a
trailer piggyback, overturned
against a pickup truck which
itself, had overturned a few
minutes earlier when it
crashed into a storm-caused
slide. The accident occurred
about 6:40 a.m.
Dead were Oscar Hanse, 62,
Eureka; Ray Dutton, 58, Mc
Kinlayville, and Hiram L.
Benzinger, 57, Trinidad. The
injured man was Duane Cox,
28, Trinidad.
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STANDING FIRM though damaged this church withstood gigantic flood tide that in
undated Ribadelago, Spain, killing 142 persons, nearly one-third of the town's popula
tion. One hundred foot high dam, holding seven million cubic feet of water, broke dur
ing torrential rains, and swept down river channel and over the Spanish community.
Graham To Have
Eye Treatment
Dallas, Tex.-(UPD-Evangelist
Billy Graham made plans to
day to fly to Rochester, Minn.,
to enter Mayo's Clinic for
treament of a "rare" eye ail
ment. The religious crusader dis
closed Sunday that vision has
become blurred in his . left
eye and doctors have ordered
him to enter the hospital for
treatment.
Graham was in Dallas to at
tend the world evangelism
conference of Texas Baptists.
He told a crowd estimated at
more than 12,000 at Dallas
Memorial auditorium that
Americans have more to be
happy about than the citizens
of any nation but they are the
world's most miserable and
bored people.
The 40-year-old evangelist
planned to fly to the Mayo
Clinic Tuesday.
Graham made the disclo
sure of his eye ailment at a
press conference. Asked
whether he could see, he
laughed and said, "Why,
sure."
"Insofar as I know, I do
not have cancer," he replied
in answer to another ques
tion. "The doctors are as con
fused as the Republicans are
nowadays."
"I place myself in God's
hands," he said.
Washington (UPD Presi
dent Eisenhower will forego a
regular news conference on
Wednesday but will submit
to questioning then when he
pays his first visit to the Na
tional Press club since enter
ing the White House.
Nine million tons of fill
were dumped to form the
4,200 foot long causeway from
Nova Scotia to Cape Breton
Island.
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Boy, 12, Captured
Following Holdup
Portland - (UPD - A 12-year-
old boy was captured Sunday
after , holding up a service
station and fleeing on a bi
cycle. Attendant Carl Lynch, 24,
said the boy pointed a pistol
at him and demanded the till
currency, $77. The station
owner, Robert Black, started
out in his car and located the
youth, forcing him to halt.
Black said the boy fired
two shots into' the front of
his car and ordered him into
the : vehicle. Black again
caught up with the boy in the
car.- This time the youth left
the money beside the road
and scaled a fence near the
airport. When he saw air po
lice he reversed course and
was met by Black and Deputy
Sheriff Al Benz.
Benz said the boy told him
he wanted the money to fly
to Alaska. He was turned
over to juvenile authorities.
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Company Formed to
Construct Building
Articles of incorporation
were filed in Salem last week
for the Lumberman's Realty
company of Medford.
The articles were signed by
Ernest B. Devoe, Robert E
Schott, and James W. ' Fair-
child, all- Medford.
According to information
received the corporation plans
to construct an office building
sometime this year at the
corner of West Main st. and
Lincoln ave.
Local Man to Appear
In District Court
Emmitt Gerald Revis, 203
Elm st., will appear in dis
trict court on Feb. 26, at 9:30
a.m. on charges of assault and
battery.
Revis appeared in district
court Monday and pleaded not
guilty to charges of kicking a
2V-year-old boy about the
head and body on Nov. 13.
The complaint was signed by
Barbara Lee Revis. Revis
posted $105 bail.
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