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UPI Plans Staff of More Than 60 for Olympic Games Coverage Squaw Valley, Calif (UPD United Press International has assigned a staff of more than 60 persons to cover the 1960 winter Olympic games for its newspaper, radio and televi sion clients. The games will open Feb. 18 and run through Feb. 28. Some 800 athletes from 31 nations will compete in the games. UPI will operate from spe cial Olympic bureaus set up in the press center. Messengers Included Sports Editor Leo H. Peter sen will be in charge of news side coverage, heading a staff of 22 persons; Cliff McDowell, UPI Pacific Division News pictures manager, will be in over-all charge of 25 photog raphers, picture editors, dark room technicians and tele photo engineers and eight ski messengers. Ken Allen, San F r a ncisco UPI movietone staffer, will be in charge of a TV newsfilm pool of eight cameramen. Assisting Peterson will be Henry W. Thornberry, Euro pean sports editor; Hal Wood, Pacific Coast division sports editor; Henry Rieger, Los Angeles bureau manager; Pe ter Uebersax, Zurich bureau manager; Alex Kahn, South ern California sports editor; James C. Anderson, Sacra mento bureau manager; Don ald U. Reed, Fresno bureau manager; Ferdinand Wimmer of Vienna; Klaus Ullman of Stockholm; Cornelius Ryan of the New York foreign de partment; Raimo Rasilainen of Helsinki; Murray Moler, Salt Lake City; and Oscar Fraley, author of Today's Sports Parade. Special Dispatches In addition, Irving Jaf fee, former U. S. Olympic speed skating champion; Low ell Thomas, noted newcaster and ski enthusiast; and Reed Hansen, winner of a high school sports writing contest conducted by the Los Angeles Examiner, will write special dispatches for UPI clients be fore and during the games. Two messengers and three operators round out the news side staff. UPI has installed its trans continental sports wire in its Olympic bureau, as well as a 24-hour high-speed teletype circuit running from Squaw Valley to the New York bu reau. Four telephone trunk lines have been installed as well as direct lines to each winter Olympic venue Petersen will write the day leads and overnights, Wood the night leads. The other news-side staffers will do interviews, feature and color stories. " Separate stories will be car ried on each sport with over all leads as developments warrant. On the domestic wire, summaries will be car ried for the first six place winners in each event, includ ing their times andor dis tances, with, the placings of the other United States and Canadian athletes among the also-rans. The foreign service will carry the complete sum maries of every event. UPI will have two separate desks in its Olympic work room, one to tailor the report to domestic needs and other to produce the report for for eign clients. The picture de partment will operate two Olympic bureaus-one in the press center and the other in a quonset hut, located right at the finish line of the McKin ney Creek course where the cross-country and biathlon events will be held. The eight ski messengers will race film down the slopes to the press building bureau. Medford Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960 - - J Section D li h ' &-A TS StHS 4 Pages BOMB TESTS PROTESTED - University of Minnesota students at Minneapolis parade on the campus, protesting French testing of atomic devices. The rally, which was sponsored by the Student Fellowship of Reconciliation, stressed the dangers of radi ation and the likelihood that more nations will want to join the "atomic club." (UPI Telephoto) zs..v? Ike's Plan To Increase Postal Rates Disliked Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower's brand new plan to boost postal rates was counted as a dead letter in I Congress Wednesday. There is "not a chance in the world" that the election- year Congress will approve Eisenhower's $554 million-a-year postal package, said one prominent member oi the House Post Office Committee.. The sentiment was the same in the Senate. Chairman Olin Lack of Engineer ower Declared Permanent Situation Manp New York - (Science Serv-lce)-Dr. Sydney B. Ingram, vic president of the Engi neering Manpower Commis sion of the Engineers Joint Council, has told Science Service that America's short age of engineering and scien- Career Plans of Young Scientists Show New Trends Washington-(Science Serv ice) Significant new trends are indicated by the future professional plans of . the year's most promising teen age scientists, with more than one-fifth of them looking forward to careers in physics and nearly three times as many boys as girls choosing science teaching. Information released here by Science Service shows that 21 per cent of the 448 out standing high school seniors recently announced as mem bers of the Honors Group of the 19 Science Talent Search hope to make contributions to modern physics. Eight of these future physicists are girls. Teaching Career Professional educators and scientists, as well as parents, may be cheered to learn that the 10 per cent planning to teach science to the next gen eration include 32 boys and 13 girls. Almost as many girls as boys are looking forward to careers in medical research and practice, with 29 boys and 22 girls making up the 11 per cent choosing medicine. Other scientific disciplines chosen by the Science Talent Search Honors Group include special fields of engineering, 12 per cent; chemistry, 9 per cent; and mathematics and general research, 7 per cent each. Others of the group want to explore the biological sci ences, electronics, biochemis try, rockets, psychology, astronomy, biophysics, dental science, geology, meteorology and geophysics. Desir To Contribute - The reasons these young persons offer for their pro fessional goals include the de sire to make a contribution to human knowledge and pro gress, the appeal of unex plored possibilities, and the great personal satisfaction ex perienced in independent re search, - tific manpower is not tempo rary; it is chronic, continuing and permanent. There just are not enough men . with the gray matter necessary" for first-rate scien tific work, the Newi Tfork scientist said. -- "Our technical manpower has a definite limit," Dr. Ing ram said. The United States thus must determine how to make maximum use of this manpower. Other Professions Share To successfully complete engineering studies, a stu dent generally needs an IQ of 120 or better, Dr. Ingram said. Less than 20 per cent of the population has this kind of brainpower. The en gineering schools already get about one-fourth of the men in this group. The other, pro fessions must share the rest. Dr. Ingram did not mean to say America should give up attempts to get more and better scientists and engi neers. . The United States must increase these attempts to get all who have the IQ to consider .the sciences as a career. "The idea that we've mud dled through before and will again just won't work this time, because this problem is absolutely unique in the' his tory of the world." ' Dr. Ingram urged the best use of the engineers and scientists. America can pro duce. At present, many engi neers are forced to do the work they should have qual ified technicians to do for them. The number of work ers supporting the engineers and scientists must be in creased. Should Survey Use Dr. Ingram also proposed: 1. Government and busi ness should survey their use of their top manpower. .2. Public schools and col leges must offer improved teaching for the top students to maximize their usefulness. 3. High school guiadance programs must be kept up to date on opportunities iff sci ence and engineering. Today, institutions for training engi neering technicians are partly empty because many persons without the highest IQs are not informed of the oppor tunities in this work. Dr. Ingram said the brain power of America's women is not being directed into scientific and engineering fields, but he saw little chance of this being done within the United States present social structure. Eight U.S. presidents . did not veto a singla bill.-. . .... . POWERFUL CAR - The 1960 Chrysler 300F, shown above, is said to be the most power ful car in America. It is avail able here through Hamlin Motor company, Eighth and Front sts., Medford. The ve hicle has four bucket-type seats in leather separated by a control console which in cludes a tachometer. A stand ard 375-horsepower ram in duction engine is matched with three-speed automatic transmission, while a 400 horsepower engine and four speed straight transmission are offered as an option in limited production. PUC Hearing at Grants Pass Set Salem - (UPD - The public utility commissioner has scheduled hearings relating to grade crossings, the building of a spur tracx and regulation of train speeds, all on lines of Southern Pacific Company. The first is set for Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. in Grants Pass on the application of the city for authority to construct a cross ing at 9th st. over the SP tracks and right-of-way. A request to build roadway crossings will be held at To ledo on March 7, a spur track hearing at Springfield on March 15, and permission to construct a crossing at Eu gene on March 16. Size of Red China Colleges Amazes Canadian Professor New York -? (Science Serv- ( placed by Chinese buses, trol ice) - The size and number of ley buses and trucks Communist China's new uni- i Important To Pride WATERWAY SYSTEM Washington - The U. S. has more than 26,000 miles of navigable waterways, one third having a nine-foot depth. SILO ORIGIN New York-Farm silos orig inated in central Europe and were said to be introduced into the U. S. in about 1875. versity and institute buildings "amazed me," a Canadian pro fessor of geophysics told the American Geographical So ciety here. During a one - month tour through China, Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson of the University of Toronto saw geophysics lab oratories of his own choosing and met with Chinese scien tists now working behind the Bamboo Curtain. He said he went through "several dozen" new univer sity and institute buildings. All are well-built with brick, three to four stories high with out elevators. They have run ning water, electric light and, in North China, central heat ing. . . Scientists Overworked Many of the scientists have degrees from universities in the U.S., Canada and Europe. They have been "very over worked, but they have had vastly more support than ever before," Dr. Wilson said. "The size and excellence of their libraries amazed me. They have lots of tolerably good equipment and enuthsiastic and diligent students.' He expressed belief in the claim that there are 450,000 college students in Communist China, "when one takes into account that the standards at some places are much lower than others, and that techni cians of all grades have to be trained." In drawing a thumbnail pic ture of the rising country, Dr. Wilson said he crossed a fine new, high-level bridge across the Yangtze river at Wuhan. It had two railroad tracks and six lanes for automobiles. He said he saw no highways from the cities, but wide concrete main streets in cities. Coolie drawn rickshaws are being re- Archaeology is being foster ed, he said, because it is im portant to Chinese pride to show that men have lived and developed in China for half a million years. Technical help and mater ials are coming in from Rus sia, East Germany and Hun gary. A chief import is oil, but Red China is building its own refineries now. "Of course, there has been brutality and millions of Chi nese hate present conditions and loathe the Communist government," he said, "but it is also true that the force is not conspicuous to a visitor and that one does see vast numbers of people who are clearly enthusiastic." Lawsuit Aimed at Southern Pacific D. Johnston (D-S.C.) of the Senate Post Office Committee said "this' is coming at a mighty late hour and unless there is evidence of more de sire for it, I don't think there will be any hearings." The President's new plan was unveiled to Republican congressional leaders Tues day. It contains some features of the S355 million proposal last year that Congress ig nored. The new plan repeated the administration's 1959 request for a one-cent boost in regu lar letter and air mail rates. It added a one-cent hike for postcards and increases in second and third class rates. House Democratic Whip Carl Albert (Okla.) predicted that the administration pro posal "won't get to . first base." an Business Building Planned in Salem Salem (UPD Plans for $8 million, block-square busi ness building in downtown Salem have been announced. As proposed by State Fi nance Company, the building would be bounded by Com mercial, State, Court and Liberty streets in the heart of the city. R. J. Schmidt, company spokesman, said all but one option has been signed of properties now in the area. The one property is Mont gomery Ward C o m p a n y which is cooperating in the ! project. The proposed building fea- Tiny Detector May Aid Treatment of Cancer Van Rie To Take Stand in Defense At Murder Trial Boston - (UPD - Debonair ship's radio officer William Van Rie will testify in h;z own defense at his first degree murder trial in the death of a young Chicago divorcee, his shipboard sweetheart. The anouncement by de fense lawyer W. Langdon Powers followed five hours of emotion-packed testimony in the fifth day of the trial Tues day. Three witnesses testified Van Rie, 31, of Rotterdam, chided pretty Lynn Kauffman for wearing a tight-fitting slit sided Chinese dress which "gives me naughty ideas." Opinions Differ One of these witnesses was Mrs. Juanita Spector, 43, of Clayton, Mo., who also testi fied that she had "differences of opinion" with the 23-year-old divorcee who had worked for her husband three years as a research assistant. Capt. Albert J. De Bruyn, skinnpr of Van 'Rip's shin the Utrecht, testified for the prose- ( particles 1,000 times faster uiau picviuus ucvitca alia 15 so accurate that it can analyze particle energy to less than one-half of one percent error. Ordinarily tiny, the device could be made larger for alpha particle detection in low radiation level areas. Would Be Injected Dr. Friedland described the potential use of the solid state detector in the treatment of cancer. Boron, an element that tends to concentrate in malignant tissue for a limited length of time, would be in jected into a cancer patient. The detector, imbedded in a hypodermic needle, would be inserted into the diseased area. The patient would then be exposed to a stream of neu trons. When the boron reach ed its heaviest concentration, neutrons striking it would create alpha particles that would flash through and de stroy diseased tissue. The detectors would spot the alphas and determine when boron concentration reached its peak and how long it last ed. This information would New York - (Science Serv ice) - A new radiation detect or, smaller than the' head of a pin, is expected to have im portant applications in the treatment of cancer. The device, which measures the number and energy of atomic particles traveling at extremely fast speeds, is also expected to have uses in space exploration, military science, nuclear power control, indus trial process control and basic physical research. Slice of Silicon Known as a "solid stale ionization chamber," it was developed by Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles. The detector is essentially a slice of "doped" silicon so thin it is barely discernible to the eye. When struck by a charged nuclear particle, it emits a pulse that can be measured and analyzed. The detector's value lies in its ability to make measurements that up to now could not be made, Dr. Stephen S. Fried land, Hughes physicst, reported. The detector is said to have five major advantages over earlier devices. It is so small that it can be packaged in the tip of a hypodermic needle. It requires no cumbersome power pack because it oper ates at very low voltage. Furthermore, it can detect cution that Van Rie failed in his duty to obtain a weather report the night the Dutch passenger - carrying freighter left Boston Sept. 18. He said Van Rie was off duty from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock that night. Lynn was missed at 9:20 p.m. and her battered, half naked body was found on a Boston Harbor island next day. ; Sandwich 5fae After 45 Years Left in Walt Niles, Mich. - Back in 1915 a workman left his lunch in a house he was helping build. The lunch was found re cently when plumbers had to cut into a wall to make re pairs. They found a sandwich, wrapped in a newspaper dated Sept. 7, 1915. That is the year the house was built. The sandwich inside was intact, rye bread, crust and all. The filling had blackened too much to tell what it was. It was hard as a rock. be transmitted instantly to readout devices, allowing technicians to plot precisely future treatment and to deter mine the minimum effectiv exposure to radiation. Teacher Favors Bigger Galoshes White Plains, N.Y.-Mrs. Marjorie Jones, retiring after 46 years of teaching, had this to say in a departing note: "If parents wanted to do just one thing to make kinder garten teachers happy, they'd buy galoshes big enough for their children to put on and take off by themselves." OkO FAtHIONIO SOU MASK JOCEEYCLUB 1B OH1GI1W1L C&.GENUINE (pppcf Distilled KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY $80 $Q15 4 to Qt. V W. soma it t t nmnn ti.. tomsmit ht. im cutiMATi. imi. ii rmr San Francisco (UPD The California Public Utilities Commission filed suit against ture, 300,000 square feet of the U.S. government Tuesday mercantile space and 400,000 in an effort to force Southern I square feet of parking for Pacific railroad to resume ! cars- year-around daily service of its Shasta daylight train. The CPUC, in a filing in U.S. District Court, also asked the court to declare unconsti tutional a recent law permit ing railroads to abandon pas senger service after the Inter state Commerce Commission has failed to approve the dis continuance within a four month period. The ICC authorized South ern Pacific May 5 to reduce its daily service of the Shasta daylight to a tri-weekly sched ule during non-tourist sea sons. The railroad had con tended it was losing too much money on the service. Homing Pigeon Leads Owner To Stolen Flock Boston - Janitor Kyle Dott son admitted to police that he'd stolen a crate full of homing pigeons he was carry ing, but said he was drunk at the time and didn't remem ber where he'd picked them up. When police could find no record of missing pigeons in their files, they released one of the birds with a note ask ing the owner to come around to the station house. . Kenneth Coggle turned up to claim his flock. I'll be an angel for... new CAT FOODS J Made to pamper your eat... UjfrjiT 3t& I liver 'n Meat, Chicken, Meaty Mix lSLrfffiltl I and Chopped Fish. Your cat will I fpUCM lovetheml l ' Midget Prices Thursday, Friday, Saturday TOM THUM OPEN 8 a.m.-7 p.m. EVERY DAY Table Rock Road at 4 Corners W reserve the right to limit WE GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS SfCCC BO COD Oregon Brand, 1st Quality GrOUnd BOBf 100 Pur-Th Best SolOCJilQ Nebergall's Jumbo Sliced . BCOf ROQSt From U.S. Graded Coed Chucks ... 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