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AEC (Mocoall Says deaths CouDd -Hit 2,000 AmiDTiaaaDDy From Nuclear Tests - Washington - (LTD - A con gressional hearing was told Tuesday tht U. S. deaths and other "tragedies", from radio activity could reach 2,000 a year if atmospheric nuclear tests are continued at present rates. That would exceed the an nual toll in military plane crashes and all other accidents related to the nation's defense. Dr. Charles L. Dunham, head of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine, told a special joint subcommittee on radiation that radioactive fis sion products such as stron-tium-90 from tests held so far might cause 500 "greater or lesser tragedies" in this coun try each year during the next 30 years. He said his use of the term "tragedies" included cases of cancer, Iukemia, hereditary defects, stillbirths "and the Quotes From the f Jews By UNITED PftESS INTERNATIONAL Saltholm, Denmark-Edvard Bergmann, on a government order that the inhabitants stop collecting rain water for drinking purposes because of its radioactivity: I wouldn't bo surprised if the whole thing wasn't a plot to make us drink more- beer and liquor so the government would get more tax revenue. Austin, Tex.-Lt. Gen. Bernard Schriever, the Air Force ballistic missile chief, in announcing that the Atlas ICBM would be ready for operational use in July: "I don't mean we'll have a squadron ready but we'll have more than one." New York-News commentator Lowell Thomas, in an nouncing the start of a nationwide campaign for funds to aid Tibetan refugees: "The plight of the refugees is critical They have evaded Chinese attempts to seal the border and many of them are carrying their wounded. They need medical supplies ur gently." - , i Washington-Lewis L. Strauss, newly appointed secretary of commerce, after being buffeted anew by opponents of his appointment: . "I believe the American people ... want something better from Washington than what appears to be a pattern of per secution through long drawn-out attempts at defamation of a plain man who has done his best for his country over many years." New York-Red-haired song writer Gloria Parker, en why she walloped a woman stockholder at the RCA annual stock holders meeting: 1 "She called me tramp." Investment Funds Noon Quotations on selected funds stRK!iet by th- "-dford Branch of Foster & Marshall, me fears N-w York Stock Exchange rand Bid Asked Bullock 14.22 1559 Chem Fund 1158 1250 Eaton Howard Stk 24.43 26.12 Fidelity 1S.7S 18.11 Gas Ind 13.69 14.96 Group Sec A via Elec 11.68 12.79 Group Sec Com Stk 13.74 15.04 Group Sec Petr 11.47 1256 Group Sec Steel 10.09 11.05 Group Sec Tobae 8.16 8.94 Keystone B-3 16.52 18.03 Keystone B-4 1058 1152 Keystone K-2 15.03 16.40 Keystone S-l 1954 21.11 Keystone S-2 12.92 14.10 Keystone S-3 15.42 16.83 Keystone S-4 13.68 1453 Mass Inv Grth Stk 1450 1555 XV-EIec 1653 17.80 Value Line Inc 5.91 6.46 Wellington ... 1458 15.67 Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair to night and Thursday except for some early morning low cloudiness. Airport low tonight 38. High Thurs day 75. Western Oregon: Fair through Thursday. Warmer in afetrnoon. Low tonight 39-45. High tomorrow 65-75. Northern California: Fair tonight and Thursday except for local fog or low clouds on coast in late night and early morning hours. Warmer Inland. LOCAL DATA ' TEMPERATURE: Mean yester day 52, below normal 5. Record high this date 89 in 1949. ' Record low this date 31 in 1911. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight .19 inch. Midnight to 10 ajn.. none. Total this month .64 inch, .44 inch above normal. Total since Sept. 1. 11.82 inches, 358 inches below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 68 To. highest this a.m. 96. High 4:36 24 Clty Tester- a.m. nr. ' - day Lew Free. Brookings 56 44 .68 Crater Lake i . 35 20 55 Grants Pass . 64 39 Klamath Falls 51 . 32 .08 MEDFORD 60 41 .11 Portland 58 51 55 Seattle 59 40 Spokane 56 33 Yakima 63 30 Eureka .. 58 49 M Red Bluff 77 54 Sacramento , 77 56 San Francisco 60 49 T Los Angeles 78 53 Phoenix rTTrTSzST""-"" Denver -. 61 38 Chicago 89 64 54 Miami Beach 89 73 50 New York 68 54 Washington, D.C. 78 53 FIVE-DAT FORECAST (Through May 11): Western Oregon - Western Wash ington A few showers occurring mostly after Friday. Temperatures averaging near or a little above normal. Normal highs western Washington 62-68. western Oregon 67-72. except 55-60 on coast. Nor mal lows 42-48. Northern California Possibly a ' little rain in extreme north at times. Otherwise, no precipitation. Temperatures above normal . and near normal along coast. Portland Livestock Portland (UPD Cattle 200. Choice 1018 lb. steers 29.60: choice 1127 lb. 2950: good 915-981 lb. 28.50; commercial cows 21-22; util ity 17.50-20; canners-cutters most ly 14-1550; heavy cutters to 16 with Holstein cutters to 18; util ity bulls 23.50-2450. Calves 50. Good-choice vealers 31-35: cull-utility calves and veal ers 18-24; good stock calves 29-30. Hogs 350; holdover 190; No. 1 and 2 butchers 200-225 lb. 18.35 18.50: mixed 1, 2 and 3 lots 180 235 lb. 17.50-18; sows 275-400 lb. 13-1450. Sheep 150. Good choice 104 lb. spring lambs 2355. Portland Produce Portland (UPI) Dairy market: Ems To retailers: Grade AA large, 35-37C doz.; A large. 34-36c; aa medium. 3Z-34c: aa small. -B- 30c; carton l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA and Grade A prints. 65c lb.: carton, lc I higher; B prints. 63c. ' 1 Cheese medium cured To re tailers: A grade Cheddar single dai sies. 41-51C-. processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf, 40-43c. . Farm Market First California peaches reached the market here today. They will retail at 29 cents a pound; first Dallesport, Wash., bunched tur nips, leaf lettuce, salad bowl and butter lettuce is due Thursday; turnips were quoted at 155 a doz en bunches; green onions went to producers around 50-55 cents dozen bunches. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens Quoted to grow ers at PorUand. Salem and south to Eugene: f.o.b. ranch. No. 1 qual ity fryers. 2 -4 lbs.. 17: light hens. 9-llc heavy hens, ll-12c. Dressed Chickens No. 1 grade dressed to retailers: Fryers, whole drawn. 33 -3 6c lb.;' cut up, 38-41c; hens, heavy type whole drawn. 37 40c; light-type cut up. 33-35c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailers: Frozen, ready to cook. A grade young toms, 40-43 cents a pound, according to weight; A grade young hens, same basis, 38-40 cents a pound. Breeder Turkeys To producers: (Nominal) A grade hens, 23c on an eviscerated Dasis: a graae toms, 23c on the same basis; to retailers. A grade hens, 35-36C. Rabbits (average to growers f.o.b. killine plants) Live whites 33.k-4ViC lb. t.o.b. Portland. 20-Z3c: colored pelts. 5e under. Fresh killed fryers to retailers. 57-60c lb, cut up, 61-64c. like." A spokesman for the sub committee's technical staff said the tests, if continued at the 1957-58 rate, might quad ruple the 500 per year figure. Russia Worst Offender AEC figures released at the. opening of four days of hear ings, showed that Russian tests have ' injected more ra dioactivity into the atmo sphere in the last two years than the U.S. and British tests combined. The two-year total for all three nations about equaled the amount of radioactivity produced during the first 11 years of weapons testing. AEC charts, previously kept secret, showed that in the past two years the "fission yield" of U.S.-UJK. nuclear tests was 19 "megatons" while Russia's yielded 21 megatons. A megaton gives an ex plosion equal to a million tons of TNT. .The fission yield is that part of the explosion re sulting from the splitting of atoms. The "fusion" of atoms in the H-bomb causes no simi lar deadly radioactivity. Rep. Chet Hdlifield (D Calif .), subcommittee chair man, pointed out that com mittees of scientists have recommended that radioac tivity injected into the strato sphere should never exceed 10 megatons a year. With cer tain deductions to eliminate small, low-level bursts, he said the total for 1957 and 1958 appeared to b"e 35 mega tons, or 171. megatons a year. Different Theories Dunham emphasized that his testimony on cancer and Iukemia caused by radiation was based on "one current theory." He said it is possible "there may be no additional cases at all." The AEC expert said the agency's safety levels for ra dioactive contamin a t i o n of both people and food are like auto speed limits - they may be either safe or unsafe. He used the analogy in explain ing why maximum permis sible concentrations of stron-tium-90 recently were raised by 100 per cent for human beings and 25 per cent for food. In a lengthy prepared state ment which also stressed that radiation can shorten life and cause hereditary damage, he continued: ."Neither a recommended maximum permissible dose nor a speed limit has any particular significance beyond marking a point at which an advisory group has agreed to draw a line in recommending a maximum degree of hazard. "A speed equal to the speed limit is not an absolutely safe speed since many serious ac cidents occur at lower speeds. Nor is it extremely dangerous to drive at speeds somewhat greater than the speed limit." Dunham attached to his statement a paper by Dr. Douglas Grahn, AEC geologist and geneticist, estimating that the life shortening effects of radioactivity in man at be tween two and twelve days per roentgen' absorbed. At that rate, the life span of AEC workers on a job in volving the maximum rate of exposure could be shortened as much as 20 to 120 days per year. If the present maximum for the public were reached, av erage length of life would be shbrtened at a rate of three to 18 days per year. Grahn explained that the low figure in his estimate was based on preliminary results from experiments with mice. The high figure resulted from a possibility that the effects in man might be five or six times greater than in mice. Wall Street Chatter New York -UPB- Prentice Hall says selectivity should be our watchword as stock prices edge up into still more vul nerable areas. The days of the quick profits in almost any stock, as during most of 1958, are how history. A period like this, says B. K. Thurlow, research editor of J. R. Williston and Beane, provides unusual opportunit ies for the investor to enhance his capital, if he has the men tal discipline to separate the wheat from the chaff, to weed out those stocks he should not have bought, pay his capital gains tax, and reinvest in sit uations where, the prospects of the future reward outweigh the evident market risks. 'Peck's Bad Girl1 Debuts; Declared in Same Pit Of Most Family Comedies t A LJ By WILLIAM EWALD UPI Correspondent New York-(UPD-There's real ly only one formula for a TV situation comedy: round up some grown ups and some children. Then have all the adults act like children and t i all the chil dren act like grownups. Peck's Bad Girl, a situa- William EwaW tion comedy which curtsied in on CBS-TV Tuesday night, is certainly no worse than other TV offerings of the genre and, in ' some ways, a good deal better. It owns players of skill in Wendell Corey, Marsha Hunt and Patty McCormack. It is on tape rather than film which gives its surface the near clarity of a live picture. And it displays occasional spurts of non-doltishness. In Miasmal Pit Nevertheless, off the evi dence of Tuesday night's opener, I would say it falls into the miasmal pit of most of TV's family comedies. Father is a research physicist, but even so, acts like a bit of a bumblehead. Mother is less conniving and anti-man than most TV mamas, but she seems a little bit too simple minded and one-dimensional to be quite real. As for the daughter, played by young Miss McCormack, she is strictly from Mars. Tuesday night, Miss McCor mack essayed the role of a 12-year-old who fell in love with her art teacher and pursued London House Airs Prostitute Problem London (UPD Lord Howe, 75-year-old cousin of Sir Win ston Churchill, told the House of Lords Tuesday night that a prostitute accosted him on the street and struck him with her umbrella when he tried to avoid her. 1 Howe spoke during debate on a bill aimed at cracking down on the 1,800 prostitutes who roam the London streets. The House passed the bill on second reading, 46-11. Portland Hay, Grain Portland Wholesale Hay Prices: no. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f.o.b. Portland and Seattle. S32-33 ton with top quality to S35. Wholesale Prices as reported by the Portland USDA market . news service. Basis by the ton, bulk. prompt delivery, i.o.b. track, .Port land. Wheat, No. 1 soft white $69.00 No. 2 Milo. Eastern shipment $53.50 No. 2 corn, Eastern shipment $38.50-57.00 No. 2 wh. oats, 38-lb. Coast $52.00-54.00 No. 2 Western barley. 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May Be for Real I will concede that some where in this nation there may be 12-year-olds who pur sue grown men and unblush ingly invite them home to meet their parents, but if there are, I don't think I real ly want to spend a half-hour watching them. Except, may be, under a microscope. United Business service holds that no stock moves in a straight line forever, and with many issues selling at 40 to 50 times earnings, certainly a lot of caution and,care in selection are needed. The list may have to labor with increasing difficulty to make any further progress on the upside, according to the Fitch Survey, but individual situations where value still exists will continue to high light the market. Oregon Deaths Set Monthly Record , Portland .-(UPD- The ' State Board of Health said today that 1589 death were reported in Oregon during March.' That is an all-time monthly high in Board records. The previous high was 1,428 deaths in March of 1951. The Board said the current epidemic of respiratory ill ness was directly responsible for 67 of the deaths and was listed as a complicating fac tor in 82 others. , PLANS TV FESTIVAL Montreaux, Switzerland (UPD The city council said today it is pushing a plan to host the world's first international festival of television arts and sciences. The council would like to hold the first festival next spring and project it as an annual event. Pet owners in the U. S. spend about $300 million a year for pet food. PHOENIX Houlihan Home Purchased By LILLIAN KNIGHT Phoenix Miss Dorothy Houlihan of 501 Church st., Phoenix, has sold her home and is moving to San Mateo, Calif., where she will make her home with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer L. Hasty. Miss Houli han has lived in Phoenix for the past 14 years. Mr. ad Mrs. Ed Workman have purchased her home and will move in soon with their two children. James Cotton is still in Sac red Heart hospital after suf ering a serious heart attack last Sunday. He is allowed no visitors as yet. week's visit with her daugh ter and son-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. George- Weh mann, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, May 6, 1959 7 Mr. and Mrs. Riley Line bough of Redding, Calif., spent several days recently with Mrs. Nannette Coats of 116 First st. GIFT FOR SUKARNO Stockholm, Sweden -TCPD-The Swedish government said today it had ordered a heart lung machine as a gift to In donesian President Sukarno who just completed a three day visit to Sweden. The ma chine is designed for compli cated heart operations. Mrs. C. W. Corey came home from the hospital Tues day after surgery and is abld to be up and around the house partxof the time. Mrs. Carl Chriss is home after surgery and will soon be back to work in her beauty parlor. 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