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
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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. Coast
$49.00-50.00
Soybean meal 44 protein ...$77.00
Standard millrun
$43.00-44.00
The year 1958 was the first
since 1949 during which no
single disaster in the U5.
claimed as many as 100 lives.
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nim with ail the wiles of a
17th Century courtesan. Well,
well, practically-after all, this
is a family show. The proceed
ings were implausible, the
resolution of the problem un
satisfactory and the dialog ex
cessively arch.
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.
Mrs. Bertha Cobleigh re
turned home recently from a
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Washington -(UPD An an
nual award for newspaper
men was established Tuesday
night in memory of the late
Thomas L. Stokes, noted col
umnist for the United Fea
tures Syndicate. The $500
"Thomas L. Stokes Award"
will be given each year to the
newsman who best typifies
Stokes in reporting on con
servation and development of
natural resources.
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