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MAIL TRIBUNE, MeJforJ, Oregon, Monday, January 19, 19S9 3 - II s?ri " EH i ( big ) J CUBA EXECUTION This three-picture sequence shows Lt Despaigne, chief of the army prowl cars under Batista and a "well-known murderer," being shot by a Castro firing squad at Santiago de Cuba. Left, Despaigne stands erect, waiting for the command to fire. Center, his body buckles a moment after being shot, and right, he topples backwards into an open mass grave in which 70 other Batista supporters were buried the same day. In Washington, there has been a growing wave of con gressional protest against the mass executions being conducted by the new regime in Cuba. Castro has replied that he will not take orders from the U. S. Emphasis on Developments for Preservation, Storage of Food New York OJPD Some day you may be able to buy "fresh" meats and vegetables that are months and years old. . The food industry and the government are putting great emphasis today on develop ing new methods and improv ing older ones for the preser vation and storage of food. "The new field includes atomic irradiation antibiotic and chemical preservation and dehydration by "freeze dry ing." They will supplement present methods of canning, freezing and cooking. - - The U. S. Army is building a new food processing center at the Sharpe General Depot in Lathrop, Calif. This new . center, scheduled for comple tion in mid-1960, will boast a 24-million-electronvolt linear accelerator and a high density cobalt-60 gamma source. Long Underway Research in food irradia tion has been underway for several years under direction of the Army Quartermaster Corps, in cooperation with the Departments of Defense and Agriculture, the Atomic En- First Artificial Planet Now Lost Washington Science Ser vice The solar system's newest planet, Russia's rock et "Mechta," is now lost for many years in the future.. ;'. The baby planet, known as an asteroid to astronomers, is much too small and faint to be picked up by earthly tele scopes, even by the giant 200 inch reflector atop Mt. Palo mar, when Mechta makes its closest approach to earth some IS months hence. The smallest asteroids now observable are about a . mile in diameter. At closest ap proach to earth these faint points -of light move " so swiftly across the heavens that they can easily be miss ed. Because Mechta is so much smaller and, therefore, fainter, it is highly probable that the first artificial plan et will also be lost, wander ing, unrecorded in space. . Improved observation al methods might bring inta view in the future consider ably fainter objects than can now be photographed. How ever, the chances are still high that Mechta would be found, if at all, only . by chance, because its orbit through space was not deter mined sufficiently accurately before its radio went dead. The Russian news agency Tass carried Russian an nouncements that Mechta will pass within observable dis tance of earth once every five years and will be visible through powerful telescopes. However, U. S. astronomers believe chances of this oc curring are very slim. Rebels Renewing . War in Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia (DPD The Indonesian rebellion has flared up on Celebes island and heavy fighting is going on between rebel and govern ment troops, it has been re ported here. Military officials at Mak assar, in the Celebes, report ed a 400-man force of com bined Darul Islam. Tentar In donesia and Pro Rebel "gangs" captured the central town of Malili and apparent ly wiped out a platoon of po lice there last Sunday. They sa d the rebels car ried their attack on to Sing kr.ng, in south Celebes, but were beaten off by Army forces yesterday. The reports paid the rebels still were holding Malil despite re peated strafing attacks by air force B-25's. ergy Commission and various private industrial and . re search groups. Indefinite preservation of food by atomic radiation would be a boon to all. na tions, particularly those where refrigeration presents a prob lem. . - Through irradiation, bac teria which cause food decay are destroyed. However, in order to sterlize by atomic energy, foods must be pack aged to protect them from becoming - contaminated by the irradiation process. Tests show that foods thus irradiated can be consumed by humans and animals with out harmful effects. Problems Remain - Industry sources point out that there are many problems still to be ironed out before food irradiation becomes com mercially economical and feasible. Negro Attorneys Win in Little Rock Little Rock, Ark. -CPD- Ne gro attorneys have won per mission to . ask a three ludge FederaTcouri "to order the immediate opening of Lit tle Rock's four closed high schools on a desegregated basis. They lost an attempt, how ever, to have a Federal court rule first on the Constitution ality of four anti-integration laws. The rulings came after two separate hearings in Fed eral district court. - In the first, Federal Dist rict Judge John E. Miller agreed to accept a complaint by Wiley Branton, Pine Bluff, Ark., Negro attorney, asking for a three-judge court to order the opening of . the schools. - Branton also asked and won permission for the same three-judge court to rule on the validity of two state laws under which Gov. Orval E. Faubus kept the schools clos ed last September to prevent integration. .. One big hitch is the fact that while radiation kills bac teria, the enzymes in living food tissues which change the flavor and odor of food re main active. Most foods come through the radiation process un changed in taste and food value. But some foods, such as steak, don't taste the same, while milk and orange juice lose some of their food value: j Studies at the Army's ioniz ing radiation center will con centrate on perfecting the process for meats, fish, vege tables and fruits, according to a spokesman for Ford, Bacon & Davis Inc., consult ing engineers on the project. The goal is to develop a means of preserving food without freezing, cooking or other processing, so that it may be taken "fresh" from sterile containers and cooked and served as desired,, he ex plained. When the " problems are solved, housewives will be able to store foods that are now considered perishable for long periods without refriger ation. Troops could carry ir radiated foods for indefinite periods in light plastic wrap pings. Greater Variety " : Gen. A." T. McNamara, Quartermaster General, said the ultimate benefits of such a process will be to provide a greater year-round variety of nourishing foods, cut refrig eration requirements, reduce food losses from spoilage and assure better control of cer tain food-borne disease. ' The impact on the food pro cessing industry would be great if research into new pre servation methods: led to a process which supplanted cer tain canned and frozen foods. "Greater short-term impor tance is to be found in the possibility that low doses of radiation will retard the rate of spoilage of fruits and vege tables to be canned or frozen," a food industry official ex plained. . "In this way radiation would supplement rather than supplant present preservation methods." Tell him "don't worry" . . . and mean it. Ho one has to tell vou your family's good life ;. depends on your paycheck. 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