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In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS How about soaring off to day into the wild blue yonders of the future? TjHDR EXAMPLE: Scientists expect to create temperatures, within a year or two, that will exceed the tem peratures at the center of the sun. What will that do? It will pass the first mile stone in efforts to control the power unleashed by the H bomb. WHAT WILL that mean? It will mean that there will be power enough to last BILLIONS of years. Coal must eventually be exhausted. Petroleum must eventually be exhausted. Uranium must eventually be exhausted. But A gallon of water contains about one-eighth of a gram of deuterium, which should cost about four cents to extract. The energy content of this small amount of deuterium burned in a fusion reactor would equal approximately the energy content of 300 gal lons of gasoline. AT THIS POINT, two ques tions: What is fusion? What is fission? Fusion is the COMBINING of light atoms, such as hydro gens. Fission is the SPLIT TING of heavy atoms, such as uranium. Both produce en ergy. Fusion produces MORE energy from- cheaper and more abundant materials. HOW to turn loose this power? Well.- the problem is to make a fusion reactor that will PRODUCE more power than it CONSUMES. It will take about 50 million degrees just to bring about fusion of the atoms. Scientists estimate that a fusion reactor that could produce more power than it consumes would need I to operate at a temperature well over 100 MILLION DE GREES - if you can imagine anything that hot. Problem No. 2: How to create a receptacle that will withstand temper atures well over 100 million degrees. NO MATERIAL known to man will withstand tem peratures even remotely ap proaching that staggering heat summit. So The scientists are exploring the theory of using MAGNET IC FIELDS as walls to hold the hot hydrogen isotopes dur ing the process of fusion. Don't ask me how. I'm no scientist. But they are work ing on the theory. Some three decades ago, nobody could see how a uranium atom could be split to produce power, but the scientists managed it. ONE MORE question: Will these complex prob lems be solved? Nobody knows. But this much is rea sonably certain: They WON'T be solved by people whose ambition is to work as LITTLE as possible and play as MUCH as possible. grim TN CONCLUSION, a thought: If the Russians are willing to work harder than we do, will they be the LEADERS in all this potential advance ment? If so, where will we wind up? EX-GOVERNOR DIES Vancouver, B. C- IUPD -Eric Werge ,Tammy) Hamber, 80, lieutenant-governor of British Columbia from 1936 to 1941, died Sunday. EGGS ON HIS READERS London -UIPD- Henry Smith today published a recipe book describing 1,000 ways to cook an egg. HUMPHREY GRABS BITE Democratic presidential candi date Hubert Humphrey (D.-Minn.) grabs a bite of sandwich and talks to a friend on the telephone during a campaign visit to Seattle. Herb Waters, his administrative assistant, stands by with notes. Humphrey left Seattle for a visit to Utah. (UPI Telephoto) Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Cincinnati, Ohio-Robert Garfield Brown Jr., 41, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives, quoted by the FBI as expressing relief when he was captured: "I'm glad it's over. I knew the FBI would get me." Washington-Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov, refusing to discuss the results of the first round of negotia tions on Russia's World War II lend-lease debt: "Did you expect us lo settle everything today?" Moscow, Tenn.-Mrs. Cloteal G. Morton, expressing sur prise over her election as mayor of this small town by a 71 51 vote: "I didn't think the people in Moscow would vote for a woman." Carbondale, 111 Southern Illinois university student James Bell Jr., a fast-draw expert, stating that many house wives could outdraw the fastest old west marshal or outlaw: "Women naturally have nimble hands." ENGINEER DIES New York - (UPD - George E. Goldthwaite, 70, internation ally known engineer and pub lic utility consultant, died Sunday. TRUMAN AIDE DIES New York -4UTD- George W. Perkins, 64, assistant secre tary of state for European af fairs in the Truman adminis tration, died Sunday. CENTRAL POINT Caster Wins Contest By DORIS HUGHES Central Point- The Crater High school Future Farmers of America held their chapter public speaking contest Wed nesday evening with John Caster winning first place for his speech, "Concrete Mon sters." In his speech, Caster ex pressed concern over the fact that we are destroying rich farm land with highways, fac tories and housing projects. He advocated conservation by using the edges of the valleys and other less valuable land for purposes in which fertility of the soil is not of prime interest and using our fine fertile soil for agricultural purposes. Don Denning won second place with his speech on lead ership in the future, the need for good leaders and what the FFA is doing to supply this need. The parliamentary proce dure team put on an exhibi tion with the following mem bers taking part: Alan Bray, sentinel: Delmer Smith, Jim Frink, Dave Redmond, John Caster and Don Ryan. Alter nates were Todd Caster, Rus sel Frink, Dennis Cornutt and Dave LaFever. Also taking part were Pete Melsted and Dave Foote, members of last year's state championship par liamentary team. They were thereby ineligible to compete this year. Leaving Wednesday after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Law erence Leonard, were the Rev. and Mrs. Al Motes and children, Clifford and Sally. The Motes family also visited in Gold Hill at the home of Mrs. Motes' brother - in - law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ken dal Dufur. The visitors are former Central . Point resi dents, now residing in Aber deen, Wash. George Johns, principal of Central Point Elementary and Junior High school, announc ed that the "White Christmas" was successful in its purpose. All students participated in taking white wrapped cans of food to the school. These were placed beneath the two trees which were , decorated by the students. Fourteen boxes of foodstuffs were pack ed and distributed to needy families in the area. Mrs. Lawerence Leonard visited Friday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hansen, Brownsboro. Mrs. L. C. Johnson is in Washington, D.C., where she was called Dec. 23 by the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Emma Cross. MINISTER OUSTED Belgrade, Yugoslavia - (DPI) -Atanase Joja, deputy premier and minister of education and culture of Communist Ro mania, has been removed from his post, the Yugoslav Tanjug news agency reported Sunday from Bucharest. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfortf, Or. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1960 5 Man Arrested After Incident City police arrested Arthur Grant Cleveland, 37, of 16 North Orange st., on one traf fic charge and cited him on two others after a Sunday night traffic accident on East Main st., between Front st. and Central ave. Cleveland was confined in the city jail and charged with driving under the influence of intoxicating beverages. He was also cited for operating a vehicle the wrong way on a one-way street and failure to leave information at the scene of an accident. Police said Cleveland drove his car east on East Main st., and hit head-on, a car oper ated by Howard K. Sinks, 19, of 520 West 11th St. They said that Cleveland then backed his car away from Sinks' auto and drove off without leaving any infor mation. Sinks, who had ob tained the license number of Bank's Deposits, Loans Set Record First National Bank of Ore gon recorded new all - time high deposit and loan totals when the statewide institution reported its Dec. 31, 1959 statement of condition figures to the comptroller of the cur rency. Year end deposits of $878, 642,322 were reported, top ping by 529,475.228, the rec ord of $849,167,094 set in 1955. The Medf ord branch of First National reported year end deposits of S27,967,333 and loans totalling $15,780, 894, according to J. A. Moore, branch manager. For the pre vious year deposits were S27, 970,985 and loans were $12, 783,004. At the Central Point branch Dec. 31 deposits were S3.263, 010 and loans were $2,183,407 the car, reported it to city police. Cleveland was appre hended at the intersection of Main and Orange sts. Both cars sustained exten sive damage to the front ends, according to police. There were no injuries. according to Francis C. Ayres, manager. Comparable totals for the branch for a year ago show deposits were S2.827,505 and loans totaled $1,781,066. A First National branch will open next summer in the vast Lloyd Center in Portland and applications for establish ment of branches at Phoenix, East Salem and Beaverton have been approved by the comptroller of the currency, C. B. Stephenson, bank presi dent, said. STOP KICKING STOPPED Romsey, England -!UPD- Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Peckham said they used to kick their door stop for good luck until Army experts told them Thursday the 18-pound World War I bomb was still explosive. COLLIDE IN CHANNEL Eastbourne, England - (LTD -A Norwegian freighter collid ed with a Panamanian vessel in the English Channel off Sussex Sunday. Neither ves sel reported any serious damage. trains mmnt2fifi' With "Centralized Traffic Control" Union Pacific trains DO THINK. They're think ing all the time about your shipments. Every track, siding and signal on more than two thousand miles of transcon tinental routes are under C.T.C. to safeguard and speed your shipments . . . through any weather and through any gateway. Another service proving Union Pacific's leadership in freight transportation. if you mine it, grow IT, or make it... be Specific C$p UNION PACIFIC 7 THERE S LOTS OF o o o At Your PAUK SUQP PARK SHOP S.gn. 9 & 9th & Central t&' 4 East NV,n afield) 135 NVain Centra Railroad & How The Plan Works Drive in to any lot displaying the PARK and SHOP SIGN. After you have parked your car the attendant will give you a ticket, on the back of which spaces are pro vided for validation stamps. Go Shopping. After making a purchase present your ticket to the clerk. A validation stamp worth one hour's Free Parking will be af fixed to the ticket. You'll get a stamp from each store in which your purchase is over $2.00. Return to your car and present the ticket to the lot attendant. 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