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
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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.
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