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O MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1959 Pollution of Sea Water by Sewage Not Real Problem Berkeley, Calif. (Science Service) - Pollution of sea water with sewage may be more of n aesthetic problem than a health problem. A British physician told the First International Con i rente on We-te Disposal in the Marine Environment here that the general public too often tern's to blame sewage polluted sea water for any in testinal illness contracted at seaside resorts. Dr. B. Moore of the Medi cal Research Council, Exeter, Devon, England, cited several instances of incorrect attrib ution of such illness to sea bathing. These included an outbreak of paratyphoid fever, lat r shown to have been caused by ice cream, and a widespread outbreak of acute non-bacterial gastro enteritis. Results of studies 'on the isolation of salmonellae (a group of bacteria 'ncluding the typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli), said Dr. Moore, indi cate that the risk of contract ing enteric fever or other salmonella infections through bathing in polluted sea water is very slight. r Bathing Histories Investigation of the bath ing histories of children liv ing by the seaside who con tracted poliomyelitis was also described by Dr. Moore Here, the findings strongly suggest ed that a history of bathing in cases of polio ir irrelevant, he said. In another repor to the Conference the disappearance of large kelp beds around major sewage outfalls in the ocean near Los Angeles and San Diego was discussed by K. A. Clendenning and W. J. North of the Institute of Mar ine Resources, University of California, La Jollr, Calif. The causes of this seaweed recession are being sought in field and laboratory studies. The two scientists said, how ever, that the disappearance of kelp several miles from the outfalls is not caused by toxic ageits. Reduced light penetration, on the other hand, seems to be a- more likely cause of the detrimen tal effects of sewage on kelp. Increased water turbidity and greater random abun dances of phy'oplankton, or minute plant life, reduce light penetration to deeply immersed young kelp plants. These then die off. But the established kelp plants, hav ing a surface canopy, are better adapted for survival in turbid water. Egg Producers Now Need Dealer Permits Salem iPD The State Agri culture Department said to day that less than 25 egg pro ducers have inquired about the egg dealer permits needed under a new law effective to day. The department notified 500 known producers and esti mated that even more may need the permit. O. K. Beals, chief of foods and dairies, said producers were required to have the permits who: Sell to a retailer, eating house or food manufacturer Sell to schools and institu tions which serve food to pa trons. ' Sell to dairies and peddlers who sell eggs at retail. ' Sell eggs not of their own flock to consumers. No producer needs a permit of he sells eggs of his own production to consumers on or off his premises, if he sells eggs to any holder of an egg dealer's permit who grades them or if he sells eggs out side the state. Road 'Rules' in Colorado Different Denver-d?D-"The speed on country roads will be a secret, and the penalty for every mile in excess will be S10. : This was one of the "Rules of the Road" which governed traffic in Colorado nearly a half-century ago, largely due to the activities of the Farm ers' Anti-Automobile League, Other rules in 1912 includ ed: "Autos running on country roads at night must send up a skyrocket every 150 yards, wait eight minutes for the read ahead to clear, and then proceed with caution, blowing the horn (or ringing a bell), and shooting roman candles. "In event the road is being used by a horse and said horse refuses to pass said horseless carriage, the driver of the auto will dismantle it as quickly as possible and hide it from view in foliage along the road-' - j l ' - 5? BLACKENING 8,000 ACRES of valuable timberland, forest fire is being fought near Yosemite National Park in Central California. This view was made from Signal Point, three miles west of southern tip of park. Hundreds are fighting blaze. New Measurement to Planned With Radio Telescope By ANN EWING Science Service Astronomy Writer Washington Within two years, man will know accu rately for the first time the distance to the sun. This dis tance, some 93,000,000 miles, must be known with much greater reliability than now before space vehicles can be sent on trips to planets with any assurance of a successful orbit or landing. To make the most accurate determination to date of the sun's distance, a radio tele scope with especially designed receiving equipment will tune in on the radio waves ab sorbed by neutral hydrogen in interstellar clouds. The experiment, proposed Bison, Other Animals Once Roamed in Iraq Bloomfield. Hills, Mich, ancient docunv nts reporting fScience Service)-Iraa. the ! hunts in which hundreds of legendary Garden of Eden, was once the home where the bisonand elephant, rhinoc- eras and lion roamed. Man, however, has played a bloody role in destroying the rich animal-life of the country. . An inventory of Iraq ani mals is now available that identifies local animals as far back as 25,000 years ago. How man has virtually ex terminated the animal popu lation in Iraq is told by Dr, Robert T. Hatt, director of the Cranbrook Institute of Sci ;nce here. Royal hn-ts, "great game drives with enormous slaugh ter," were characteristic of the earlier years. There are Court Records DISTRICT COURT Robert O. Grebb, improper muf fler. $15. Burt E Craven, no operator's li cense, S10. Walter W. Miller, improper brakes. S10. . Kenneth D. Van Ausdall, racing on highway. S55. Doyle T. Hodges, failure to make traffic stop. $10. Myrtle R. Davis, no operator's license, $10. William H. Wall, dumping rub bish. $30. Elizabeth R. Morton, inadequate brakes, $6. Richard G. Phair Jr violation of the basic rule, slo. Gary L. Beach, failure to make traffic stoD. $10. Russell B. Jackson, drunk on public highway. S30. Thomas J. Oakes, overload, $117. carol McKeown, failure to -aim lights. $7.50 Benjamin W. Peck, failure to dim lights. $7.50. Clifton G. Beyder, insufficient brakes. Slo. Chauncey R. Beck, overweight, $15. Don R. Shugart, no PUC permit, $15. Jack H. McCandliss, drunk in public place, S30. Don C. Sterrett, overload, S360. David D. Legg, overload, $105, ?izo. siui: overweignt, 515. Donald W. Ellis, failure to make traffic stop, S10. Jimmy L. Twedell, violation of tne Dasic rule. sia. Gerald R. Kime, no mud guards, $10. Gerald D. Couch, drunk in pub lic, $30. Jack D. Hendrickson, no safety chains, $15. Glenn L. Riggs, no muffler, $15. Aiirea J. Kay, overload, $10. Otto K. Pfahler, failure to make traffic stop, $10. DISTRICT COURT Lon W. Young, no operator's li cense. S10. Lawrence B. Patterson, improper lane change. $15. Frank E. Morris, failure to make traffic stop. $15. Garl G. Dusenberg, drunk on public highway. $30. Chester I. Kezer, drunk on pub- ui: lugnway, sou. Calvin H. Pfaff, failure to make traffic stop. $10. Michael E. Burke, 1112 Biddle rd, Medford. driving under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor, $255. corneiius f. .Reynolds, disorder ly conauci. so. . virgii nelson, disorderly con duct, 530. Gordon B. Allen, disorderly con duct, $5. CIRCUIT COURT Eleanor L. Bromlev vs. Robert E Bromley, divorce decree. Mabel E. Osburn vs. James If. Osburn, divorce decree. Alice C. Casebier vs. Loran W. Casebier. divorce decree. Lois Mane Kellv v. Shirlev Rnv Kelly, divorce decree. Evelyn Taylor vs. Lester Leon Taylor, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Allan Leigh Budd. Claremont. Calif., and Shirley Ellen Stafford, 1914 Westerlund St.. Medford. Michael Storm-Kadean Johnson 130 Hargadine ave ant. 2. Ashland. and Suzanne Lela Johanspn 24 Myrtle st.. Medford. Calvin Merton Dixon, and Bettv Mae James, both San Jose, Calif. Raymond Leon Young, 211 Port land ave Medford, and Betty Ja- nete Gnschkowsky. 1277 Iowa st Ashland. A 12-month count showed that a record 7,118 ocean going vessels visited Amster dam, the Netherlands. by astronomers at Yale uni versity, will be made using the Naval Research Labora tory's 84-foot radio telescope located at Maryland Point Ob servatory, some 50 miles south of here. Astronomical Unit Astronomers call the dis tance to the sun the astron omical unit. It establishes the basic scale of the solar system and is fundamental to space technology as well as astron omy. The initial velocity of a rocket departing from earth must be changed from con ventional units into a velocity in astronomical units per second in order to permit calculation of the gravitation al orbit beyond the immediate lions and wild bulls were taken along with elephants by the dozen, ostrichs, giraffes and onagp - or wild asses. The development of the great city-states and the in troduction of riding horses and chariots further influ enced the decline in wildlife, Dr. Hatt oints out. Today automobiles and hunters equipped with guns -even machine guns are used -give gazelles and other des ert animals little chance for survival, he warns. Species now threatened with extinc tion include the bear, leopard, cheetah", wild sheep and goat, roe deer, gazelle, badger, marten and squirrel. "At present in Irq all game is hard put to find food or refuge, ' Dr. Hatt says. . . . "Public opinion in Iraq is not yet ready Ao support effec tive protection and indeed, where the human population pressure 1 . so great, there is little chance to give adequate protection through establish ment of preserves. Neither the mountains nor the open desserts can be effectively pa trolled." Approximately 100 species, living and extinct, are de scribed by Dr. Hatt in his re port "The Mammals of Iraq" published by the Museum of Zoology, Univr-sity of Michi gan. He spent several months in the country, studying its wildlife. Grants Pass Woman To Be Committed Grants Pass - (UPD - Circuit Judge James M. Main ruled today that Frances Irene Mc Curdy, 49, is to be re-committed to the Oregon State hos pital in Salem. The judge ruled she was unable to aid in her own de fense of a first degree murder charge against her in connec tion with the slayings of her son and daughter in a local motel in 1948. Judge Main's action was based on unanimous agree ment of three psychiatrists. Mrs. McCurdy was arested in Portland two days after the bodies of her children, Pame la, 11, and Paul, 9, were found in the motel. She was sent to the state hospital in Novem ber of 1948 anC was released this year. Oregon City Man Dies Of Alcoholic Poison Honolulu (UPD The Navy disclosed Tuesday that Engine- man 3C Russell Dahl, 32, of Oregon City, Ore., died from acute alcoholic poisoning Monday. Dahl was stricken aboard the Destroyer USS Sturdevant in Pearl Harbor. The Navy launched an investigation into his death. His survivors in clude his widow Rachel, of Oregon City. CANNONFALL SPORT Busksport Me. -(UPD Skin- diving members of the Blue Continent Explorers' club have a ne wsport: hunting for cannonballs buried in the mud of Penobscot river off historic Fort Knox here. Sun Being vicinity of the earth. Thus an exact distance for the astro nomical unit is not needed for lunar probes. This change from terrestrial to astronomical units is now in error by the same percent age amount as the error in the present value of the astro nomical unit, one part in 20, 000. Using the radio telescope information, astronomers ex pect to find the sun's distance to one part in 280,000, or an accuracy of about 300 miles in ' the distance between the earth and sun. Important Determinations At present, the two most important determinations of the sun's distance both de pend on observations of the asteroid, Eros, but use differ ent methods. The values ob tained by the two methods differ by 89,000 miles, an "alarming" amount. The radio telescope method involves obtaining a precise measurement of the earth's speed in its orbit around the sun. Using this newly determ ined value .and standard equations, the astronomical unit can be found directly. ine telescopes receiving equipment will record the radio waves of hydrogen atoms in clouds in the space between the stars that are ab sorbing the radiation emitted by so-called radio "stars" at even farther distances. At one time during a year, the earth's orbital velocity will be directed toward the star. Six months later in the earth's journey around the sun, the earth's velocity will be directed exactly opposite Interstellar Cloud The faraway interstellar cloud of atomic hydrogen gas will have a , velocity with re spect to the solar system that will remain constant for both measurements. By taking the difference between the amount of the red shift in the hydrogen lines taken at six- month intervals, the cloud's effect is eliminated and a pre cise value for the earth s speed obtained. When combined with the time taken for the earth to make one orbit around the sun, the sun's dis tance is known. ine radio telescope mea surements of interstellar ab sorption may also give a bet ter determination of the lunar mass in the, future, Dr. Dirk Brouwer, director of the Yale University Observatory, and Dr. A. E. Lilley, also of the Observatory, reported to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration here. . NASA has allocated $110,- 000 to support the research, which is also supported by grants from the Research Cor poration and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Naval Research Laboratory's coop eration is directed by Edward F. McClain. Sentence Imposition Suspended by Court Suspension for a year of a jail sentence or a fine was made by District Court Judge Roy Bashaw Monday against Jewell David Kirklin, Grants Pass. Kirklin had pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery. He was fined $5 court costs but the imposition of further punishment was suspended on condition that he refrain from doing anything to disturb the peace and that he refrain from seeing the plaintiff, Bet ty Louise Kirklin,, his sister-in-law, for a stipulated length of time. N"tre Dame de Bonsecours, the oldest church in Montreal, dates from 1657. BOB and NETTIE LEWELLEN Have Taken Over The SIGNAL SERVICE STATION SHADY COVE, OREGON We Invite All Old Customers And New Ones To Come In. HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON 'Little Kiiisey' Hearing Expected To End Today Los Angeles-(UPD-The hear ing of a teacher accused of unprofessional conduct for taking a "Little Kinsey" sex survey among his teen-age students was expected to end today. Cecil Cook, 38, Van Nuys High school physiology and math teacher, was ordered to return today to complete his testimony in defense of the survey. Cook said in the fifth day of the hearing Tuesday that he held the survey among his mixed physiology t students last January after" another teacher had used it without incident. Also, Cook said, his stu dents showed a sincere inter est in the subject and "I think young people should have their honest and sincere in quiries answered." Could Los Credentials Cook, suspended .from his post in February after stu dents complained of the sur vey, now faces loss of his teaching credentials if found guilty of California board of education charges "of unpro fessional conduct involving moral turpitude." The teacher said he believ ed the survey in which stu dents anonymously answered in writing intimate sex ques tions would help the teen-agers in setting their moral standards. "I will fight to the bitter end to prove my good inten tions," Cook said. "If you put off answering young people's sincere ques tions they soon will not look to you for the answers," he said. Assigned Sex Studies He said students asked him what was "normal between married couples," and he re sponded by assigning a term paper on mental and physical effects of abnormal- sexual behavior. Student" were told to consult their parents, reli gious leaders and library on the matter. The assignment of the term papers drew fire in the hear ing from at least one co-ed and her parents. Cook said the discussion of abnormal sex problems in class was a success and that after the session some stu dents went to him and said, "that was wonderful and it really helped me." Cook's wife, Carole, testi fied in the hearing conducted by the Department of Voca tional and Professional Stand ards that should Cook lose his license to teach in California he would be welcomed to re turn to a former teaching post in Snowflake, Ariz. She said the job offer came Monday nigh., from H. A. Hendrickson, superintendent of schools in Snowflake. Robert Mifchum Tangles With Judo Dublin - (UPD - Hollywood he-man Robert Mitchum tan gled with -a gimpy little Irish man in a bar here Monday night and wound up nursing a cut eye and a fat lip, it was reported today. The Irishman turned out to be a judo expert. He limped up to the actor in a Dublin pub and asked him to sign his wife's auto graph book. Mitchum com plied by scrawling an unprint able message in the book. When the Irishman com plained, the actor dumped his drink over the Irishman's head, exclaiming "Peace . . . peace ... peace . . . mats all I want." The Irishman expressed a few outspoken opinions about Mitchum's manners and prob able ancestry, and the strap ping actor charged head down like a bull. A skilfully applied judo hold sent him flying, and the Irishman - nobody got his name - limped quietly off into the night. "Bob is inclined to chalk it all up to experience," a spokesman said today. OUTSIDE JOB Portland, Maine-(UPD-"Start your gasoline-powered lawn mower whenu you are out on the lawn," is the advice of Fire Chief Carl P. Johnson. Johnson said that two fires in Maine's largest city within three months were caused by explosions from power lawn mowers which had been started up inside buildings. Radiation Safety Rules Formed To Prevent Rare Occurrences By DR. MARSHALL BRUCER United Press International Oak Ridge, Tenn. -(UPD- At Oak Ridge, radiation safety rules are so strict that if the same rules were applied to the speed of automobiles, no scientist would be allowed to drive faster than one-hundredth of a mile per hour. The precautions at all atom ic energy plants are designed to ' prevent such rare simul taneous occurrences as those which caused injury to the eight men here. Human error is expected and automatic machinery cor rects it, but human error did not cause the accident at Oak Ridge. The chain of events that led to the accident at Y-12 (the name of the plant where the accidental nuclear reaction oc curred) was so long, so in volved and so impossible that not even the most conserva tive safety inspector could an ticipate it. Murphy's Law All engineers know Mur phy's fifth law: If an accident is impossible, it will eventu ally happen. We have learned that this law is still in effect. The accident was short in duration. Considerable medi cal observation awaited these men although, except for an expected change in blood counts, they seemed normal ly healthy. The accident was immedi Years ago, we attempted to brew light Olympia Beer at various locations. However, without the one priceless ingredient our naturally perfect artesian brewing water Olympia's distinctive good taste could not be duplicated elsewhere. That is why, today, Olympia is brewed only at the little town . of Tumwater . . . where this rare water flows from the earth. "Its the Water A free service of THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE ately hailed journalistically, administratively, and medi cally as atomic energy's big gest accident. It wasn't, but the Y-12 ac cident was unique in that it was clean, sudden, and could be repeated as a controlled experiment. Therefore, we can learn important basic lessons. Phrase Defined The phrase "dangerous ac cident" must be defined. Ra diation is dangerous but so are automobiles; so is aspir ing, so is just plain everyday living. Every day in Oak Ridge some secretary cuts her fin ger on a piece of paper or a physicist stumbles over a jan itor's mop. These could be "dangerous accidents." That is why there are "emergency rooms" in hospitals. Oak Ridge has enough ra diation, if used improperly, to kill many people. Scientists in Oak Ridge own enough automobiles, if used improperly, to kill many people. But it is more difficult to kill people with radiation than with automobiles even in Oak Ridge. 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