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6. MAIL TRIBUNE. M.dforJ, Or. W.dntidiy, Apr. 27, 1960 SHERMAN B. LOWE Dinner Speaker Lions Director To Visit Medford Saturday Evening Sherman B. Lowe, Salt Lake City, Utah, Lions Inter national director, will speak at the 35tn anniversary lim ner party of leh Medford Lions club Saturday, April SO. at the Rogue Valley Country club. Lowe was elected to the board ol directors of Lions In ternational at the annual con vention In New York, July 3 1959. He has served his own club as secretary and presi' dent and his district as zone chairman, deputy governor and governor. He is vice chairman of the executive council of the board of gov ernors and secretary-presi dent of the International Counsellors Organization of Utah. A graduate of Idaho State college, Lowe is the adminis trative assistant to the gov ernor of Utah, vice president of the Benneville Life Insur ance company and senior partner of Lowe Drug com pany. He is also treasurer of the Utah State Pharmaceuti cal association. Other Lion officials to be here for the meeting will be A. Verne Hawn, past interna tional director, Eugene; Lee Murphy, state president, Junction City; and Forrest Losee, international counsel lor, Roseburg. Lion officials from Medford planning to attend Include Le land J. Knox, Dr. Lee Mellish, and Eston B. Humphrey, In ternational counsellors; Larry Neely, past international di rector; and Dave Irving, dis trict governor. - Herbert E. Seitz, chairman of the event, is arranging for more than 200 members and guests. The Lady Lions auxil iary will have charge of table decorations. Elilott Becken will be master of ceremonies for the program. Relying on Radiation Level Seen Dangerous by Committee Portland - Even if every thing were knewn about ra diation and its effect on bi ology. It could be dangerous for Americans to rely com pletely on the so-called "max imum permissible exposure" levels now being developed by federal health and atomic energy experts. That's the opinion of some members of the new Oregon radiation 'watchdog" com mittee recently assigned the task of developing recommen dations for a comprehensive prevention and control pro- gram by Dr. Richard H. Wil cox, state health officer. They point put that radi ation standards are designed for the population as a whole, and are based on exposures which might be experienced by industrial workers over a 70-year lifetime. Like Speed Limits In addition, they say, max imum permissible levels are something like highway speed limits. If the posted speed is 70 miles an hour, it doesn't mean any given person Is absolutely safe at 65 miles or necessarily will be killed if the speedometer creeps up to 75. In any. event, the highest known radiation reading in Oregon so far has been only a fraction of any of these maximum permissible levels, or even of "threshold levels." which are other standards designated to Indicate the ap proximate point at which ra diation might begin to en danger human health. But because so much is ministration's continuing pro- i ,!i ',71 ' "'-'sWiAtdti ,.-,'. V. i 'J . jj, J, 421W?W 'V '''1- ' i in sii hi irnmiiiii BOOKS RECEIVED Part of a $3,000 gift of books from the Oregon state library was received last week by the Public Library of Medford and Jackson county, which will be assortment of science and non-fiction chil dren's books. The new books are part of the library's current effort to up-grade serv ice io ine people or Jackson county, ac- distributed to county branch libraries. The cording to Librarian Omar Bacon. Sorting books, valued at about $1,400, include five the books, above, is Library Cataloger Mrs. sets of the Encyclopedia Americana, five Thayer Tarvine. Websters unabridged dictionaries and an Official Plays Down Value Of Military Bases on Moon Washington -(UPD- The de fense department's research chief sayls a Soviet military base on the moon would be less of a threat to this coun try than missile - launching sites in Siberia and Red sub marines in the Atlantic or Pacific. The official, Dr. Herbert F. York, told the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors Ihe main reason for Russia or the United States wanting to send a man to the moon or to other planets Is "just to find out what's there." If there is life on Mars, II ill Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkini Porpoises Must Have Highly Developed Sonar There was not even the faint glimmer of itarshine; the night was dark as the in side of a pocket. The only way we on the bridge knew there was black water below us, or even that were were on a bridge, was the faint gurgle of the incoming tide as it whispered round the bridge supports. ' We knew, from previous daytime observations, that there were many wood pilings that supported the bridge. We knew, too, these pilings were but a few feet apart; in fact they were almost a fence they were so numerous. Yet, In and among this maze of obstruc tions a group of large animals were playing. By their grunts, squeals and deep drawn sighs we could picture the school of botilenose porpoises that were awimmlng swiftly back and forth under the bridge. We could hear them plainly as they left the bridge vicinity and cruised up the inlet a hort distance, and then re turned to dash under the bridge. We could also know by the sounds In the water that some of the mammals were traveling at a high rate of speed. The Secret They were playing -some even feeding In the dark night, in the even blacker water. The game went on for nearly an hour, and npcr once did a sleek body run in to, or even come close, to any of the underpinnings. The porpoise cannot sec in the dark, any more than can any other animal. Neither were these creatures trusting to blind luck. Their secret, of course, has been possessed by 1 the porpoise and his kind : lince the very beginning. Its ability to maneuver safely in dark waters never was under stood or had a name until recently. Now of course it has it is called sonar. The presence and definite location of an underwater ob struction by measuring the direction and return time of a sound echo, is essential in formation to the crew of a submarine. By it the crew knows when obstructions, or even objects too small to be obstructions, are close and can therefore be avoided or de tected. It's equally Important, too, to an animal that must live in the sea and move fast in light or darkness; other wise there would be collisions. Must Have Sonar Without doubt the porpoise, adjusted perfectly to its en vironment and to the advant ages and hazards of an under water existence, would have to be equipped by Nature with a highly dcvloped sonar apparatus whereby a high pitched squeal or squeak, emitted constantly while the animal Is In motion, strikes a solid object, bounds back like an echo, and alerts the animal In plenty of time to avoid the obstruction. To prove what seemed ob vious by the observations on bridge on a dark and stormy night, we blindfolded a por poise and liberated It in a large lank In which several obstructions of various sizes were Installed. Without a second's hesita tion, the animal cruised at full speed In and between the objects with never a collision or even a near-miss. Other porpoises, under similar con ditions, reacted the same way. This seemingly must be a however, elementary, and so ber people think there's a 50 50 chance there is, being able to analyze it would lead to an enormous advance in all of the sciences concerned with life on earth," he said. York said it is "conceiv able" that ways may be found to launch H-bombs from space, but he said "it is not very likely" soon. Slow Rockets "I see no practical military use for a base on the moon," York said. "Rockets fired from the moon would take a long time to get here, and re connaissance observations made from there wouldn't be nearly as good as you could make from an artificial satel lite nearer the earth." York said the primary mili tary applications of apace flight would be to use orbit ing satellites for reconnaiss ance, communications relay, navigation aid and weather forecasting. In reply to questions, York said the $1.3 billion being spent on U.S. space projects in fiscal 1961 is "about right" and any more money would be wasted. But he said that if expenditures had been dou bled several years ago the United States would not be "behind" Russia in the space race now. York said this country lags "mainly in the matter of big rocket engines." He said that in sophistication of instru ments and payloads "we've done more than they have." The Pentagon official out lined current projects for de velopment of big U.S. rocket engines and said "it won't be too long - although it will still be some years yet - be fore we are ahead in this business." In reply to another ques tion, he said that space travel beyond the solar system is a very remote prospect and would require "much differ ent propulsion systems" than are now in use. With present chemical rockets, he said, "it would take a space vehicle 500 years to pass the outer most planet of our solar system." still unknown about radiation and its effect on humans, the Oregon committee wants to begin collecting data now which will permit health ex perts in future years to chart precisely what the trends have been and what dangers, if any, may confront residents of this state. The Oregon work will parallel a brand new radia tion study project announced last month by the Secretary of Health, Education and Wel fare. Main features of the fed eral program, which will be conducted by the Division of Radiological Health of the U.S. Public Health Service, in elude: 1. Monthly publication of radiation data collected by the federal government, state health departments, and other sources; 2. Opening of two new Pub lic Health Service radiation laboratories at Las Vegas, Nevada, and Montgomery, Alabama. A third laboratory, for special research work on x-ray exposures, is scheduled for completion by late sum mer in Rockville, Maryland; 3. Expansion of the milk sampling network from the present 12 to 60 stations; 4. A substantial increase in the numbers of persons from federal, state and local agencies and industrial con cerns being trained for work in radiological health at the Robert A. Taft Sanitary En gineering Center in Cincin nati. During the past six months enrollment has totaled 337, compared with 386 for the full year of 1959. Increase in Research 9. A substantial increase In the amount of research being undertaken at the Service's National Institutes of Health and through grants-in-aid. The total for fiscal 1960 is approximately $5,500,000 compared with about $2,000,- 000 with about $2,000,000 for last year; 6. Completion of plans for the establishment of a radio logical unit in the Food and Drug Administration to con duct research in measurement techniques and methods of de contamination of foods, drugs, and cosmetics. The Food and Drug Administration labora tory which will form the nu cleus of the new unit has al ready been equipped for the identification of specific ra dioisotopes; 7. Completion of plans for equipping selected Food and Drug Administration field laboratories for identification of specific radioisotopes. This will make possible an expan sion of the Food and Drug Ad- gram of monitoring foods to detect and evaluate any in creases in radioactivity con tent of foods due to fallout; 8. Completion of plans for training key Food and Drug Administration personnel in instrumentation and radio chemistry, and in use of por table radioactivity measuring equipment. First groups of laboratory personnel have completed training at the Atomic Energy Commission laboratory in New York City. James Agee, a public health engineer and chairman of the New Oregon committee, said his group will first tackle the knotty problem of trying to develop recommendations for a realistic long-range radia tion control program. If these recommendations are accepted by the State Board of Health and the 1961 Legislature, Oregon could be gin to gather the equipment and specialists needed to keep tabs on the expected wide range future use of nuclear energy and radiation points out, already are being used for diagnosis and treat ment by Oregon physicians and hospitals. The compounds also are serving industry. Nuclear Vessels to Call It is only a matter of time until nuclear-powered vessels will be calling at Oregon ports, and nuclear power plants will be located on Ore gon rivers. Before that happens, Ore gon health authorities want to know what the normal ra diation levels are for food, water, air, and everything else people use in their every day lives. They don't maintain there is absolutely no risk today. Any "expert" who flatly dis counts all danger is speaking before the facts have been collected, they contend. As one Oregon committee mem ber put it: "If you're going to use atom bombs, you have to assume a certain risk." But their considered opin ion is that the risk so far is still extremely small - far lower than most other health lufely no reason for anyone i tential danger ii large - they to become alarmed. ' P'an to be ready with ade By the time radiation is in quate prevention and control widespread use - and the po-1 procedures. Above all... it's light i H Blending the past with the present... to create the smooth Scotch of today Radioactive materials, he problems - and there is abso- 16 PMOF IUNDE0 SCOTCH WHISKY- MOWS. ASKBV t CO., INC. KW TURK., H. Y. SOLE . S. IMPORIUS ...STYLED FOR THE ROCKETING "60s! Dynanto U nun. Now. Pour OLD8MOBILI FIESTAS to etiooso from I FWtw mean fm . . . ia bmm wmy than oac! 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