TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, I960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE.
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CHIT CHAT
By JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune Farm Editor
The Rogue valley pear harvest is now in full scale oper
ation with pears pouring into the packing houses.
The packing house workers are mostly housewives, teach
ers and pensioners who use this seasonal work to round out
their incomes or the family budget. Pear industry spokes
men figure they hire about 5,000 packers and pickers each
year for approximately two months of work. These part-time
incomes will be about $400 a month or about $75 a week
more or less depending on the job. An average crew of pick
ers over the season will make about $1.50 an hour during
the season. It's difficult to reach an average monthly income
estimate for the pickers since their picking rates vary
so greatly.
Money brought into this valley each year through the
overall fruit industry operation is $15 million. A large per
centage of this income comes from places out of state
places which receive and retail Medford district pears.
Naturally anything which cuts pear industry production
also cuts the incomes of the various people who work in
the industry. This is why the public should realize anything
which harms the industry affects a valley income which is
second only to the lumber industry. Like every other part
of agriculture the pear industry is also caught in the cost
price squeeze. In other words, their prices fail to keep up
with their costs.
Labor in the last five years has gone up 10 per cent.
Costs of spray materials, tractors and farm implements have
more than doubled. Pear growers and shippers do not figure
into their labor costs what they should charge for management.
I Purebred Dairy
Owners Invited
To County Fair
Eight purebred dairy breed
ers from the Rogue valley
have been invited to attend
the judging of dairy cattle
during the Tillamook county
fair Aug. 24-27, the Tillamook
county fair board announced
today.
Those who have been in
vited by the fair board are
John and Hazel Jaksch, Gold
Hill, E. B. Poycr, Ashland.
Frank Schutzwohl, Grants
Pass, Mr. and Mrs. 11. L. Mc
Colm, Grants Pass, Mr. and
Mrs. Delbert Mongold. Eagle
Point, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Par-
Weed Control Advice Told
By Valley Nurseryman
TOP HEIFER SO Miss Mill Iron is dis
played by Don Bradshaw of Seven Oaks
Hereford ranch, Central Point. She took
grand champion heifer Hereford awards at
both Josephine and Siskiyou county fairs
recently. Its owners Bradshaw and John
Bohnert plan to exhibit her at the state
fair in Salem in the livestock events Sept.
7-10. This prize hunk of beef weighs about
1,250 pounds and was born in February
1959.
Getting back to labor, a note from the Oregon state em
ployment service states the composite farm labor rate per
hour in Oregon is the third highest in the nation as of July 1,
1960. This handicaps the pear people decidedly in the eastern
markets, areas where labor is cheaper and fruits tranporta
tion costs are much lower.
U. S. Department of Agriculture figures show that can
ning prices paid for pears (mostly Bartletts) were 363 a ton
in 1953 and $62 a ton in 1959, a dollar less. Yet general
packing house help, on an average, is earning 28 per cent
more an hour now than they did nine or 10 years ago. In
1951 they earned $1.22 an hour. In 1960 they earn $1.56
an hour. Other figures show that the pear grower receives
$1.71 a ton for his pears in 1951 and in 1959 received $1.72.
As recently as 1949 the grower received 93 cents a ton for
all pears and 63 cents for Bartletts. Those are the bad years
which he has to make up for over the long haul so he can
pay interest on bank loans used to buy equipment and other
essentials which he needs to keep operating.
One packing house in the valley has figures which show
in 1951 it received $90 a ton for canning pears and $61.81 in
1959. This further illustrates how pear prices are going
down and operating costs are rising.
Soil District Sets
Annual Tour Here
With all the increased interest in wheat subsidies lately,
particularly in party platform conversation, it is ineresting
to see that the Oregon Wheat Growers' league is continuing
its foreign market development for Oregon wheat.
A letter from the League's Pendleton headquarters re
minds the reader that Oregon's wheat growers pioneered
in developing foreign markets for Oregon wheat.
In 1954 the league started a survey of possible wheat
markets in the Orient and followed this up with a successful
marketing program for wheat from Oregon, the Pacific North
west and the U.S. From July 1, 1959 to June 30, 1960 the
Pacific Northwest shipped a total of 119,497,000 bushels of
wheat to foreign markets. Total U. S. wheat shipments to
foreign markets for the same period came to 412,889,000
bushels.
By GENE WINTERS
County Extension Agent
Jackson county farmers and
others interested in conserva
tion are invited to accompany
the Supervisors of the Sams
Valley-Beagle Soil Conserva
tion district on their annual
tour of the district next Satur
day, according to Elwood Ab
bott, chairman of the board.
The tour is planned to as
semble at the junction of
Highway 62 and Highway 234,
approximately 'four miles
north of Eagle Point. It is
scheduled to begin at 9:30
o'clock Saturday morning and
be completed by 4 o'clock in
the afternoon. Those going
should bring a lunch.
First stop of the tour will
be at the G. H. Jess ranch
on Agate rd., where Agate
desert land is being prepared
for surface irrigated pasture.
A novel feature of this irri
gation system is the utilization
of the sprinkler irrigation
pump to supply water to a
holding reservoir while the
sprinkler irrigation is in op
eration on other lands. Watc
from the reservoir will then
be used on the newly de
veloped pasture lands.
The second stop will be
made at 10:30 on the Marcus
Dey Evergreen ranch about
10 miles west of Prospect
where erosion control dams
Now the Oregon Wheat Growers' league has joined with
other wheat organizations in the Western Wheat Associates
of Portland. This is the foreign marketing agency for wheat
which is sponsored by wheat growers and wheat commis
sions of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and the Great Plains
states. This group is increasing use of wheat and building
new markets in Japan, the Philippines, India, Pakistan,
Ceylon, Thailand, Burma and Indonesia.
and fish ponds will be ob
served. Control diversions, lined
ditches and pipe line of the
Nye ditch-mill creek diversion
will be seen at the third stop,
about two miles northeast of
Prospect.
A lunch break will be held
at noon at Copco dam on
Rogue river. Following lunch
tour members will inspect the
Nye ditch siphon works near
Copco dam. Irrigation struct
ures, lined ditches, pipe lines
and weirs have been construct
ed through the group action
of 26 farmers irrigating near
ly 2,000 acres from this facil
ity.
The next scheduled stop
will be the Mel-Mar ranch
on the Prospect-Butte Falls
highway owned by Morley
Pingle. Drainage, border irri
gation and pasture scedings
will be the main points of in
terest at this stop. !
Visits to land leveling on
the Philip Nevin and Ed
Greenwood ranches near
Eagle Point, gunite ditches of
the Little Butte Creek Irriga
tion group and slipform
ditches on the 401 Orchard
will complete the tour.
Assisting the supervisors
with the tour will be Bob
Lonzway, work unit conserva
tionist and Gene Winters,
county extension agent.
iARDEN NOTES
When we visited with league representatives three years
ago we remember hearing of how they had sent technical
oHvisnrs In JaDan to teach the Japanese how to bake with
wheal and market their bakery products. Since that time
the wheat market promoters have brought delegations from
these Far Eastern countries to the Pacific Northwest. They
w i.onn shown that the U. S. can offer a dependable
source of supply of quality wheat of more types than any
other wheat exporting country at competitive prices. Major
competitors for the Far Eastern wneat mantel are i.
and Australia.
urhiin nn tnnr the foreicn delegations have seen wheat
processing, storage and shipping facilities in the Portland
area and have visited wheat ranches, grain elevators and
representatives of the Oregon Wheat Growers league in
eastern Oregon.
In Japan a school lunch program has been set up which
Includes serving wheat rolls to an estimated 10 million chil
dren Since prewar days annual per capita consumption of
wheat has jumped from 30 to 90 pounds. Rice consumption
has dropped from 300 pounds to 264 pounds. Desipte bumper
rice crops in the past four years wheat consumption has
risen 10 per cent in that period. Japan is the United States'
best dollar customer for wheat, league officials state.
Now that the Rogue river basin project seems well on the
road its interesting to look around and notice that he neigh
boring state of California is having its water project develop
men problems. According to news accounts from the golden
but dry state many people and factions are taking a swing
at Governor Brown's water program now. The plan seems to
be unpopular with tactions oi oom laoor ami aBi
Labor feels that water from the proposed project should
not be delivered to farms of over 160 acres. The current
nlan provides higher rates for that used on farms of over
160 acres This "infuriated important farming interests,
especially in the central and southern San Joaquin valley.
The California state legislal I e which supposedly repre
sents the people okayed the proposition and now the people
mCst vote bonds for it. Farmers have been pushing to put
X show on the road so have been backing the bond issue
proposal in spite of some misgivings they may have, accord
ing to accounts.
By DON BERRY
County Agent
The growers are picking
Bartlett and Anjou pears.
When should apples and
pears be picked? This ques
tion confronts many home
growers each year. Proper
picking time is especially im
portant when the fruit is to
be stored.
The commercial grower can
draw upon his experience and
pressure tests available to
him. The home gardener of
ten doesn't have these re
sources to answer the question
for him.
Several indications, rather
than any one, should be used
to determine proper time to
pick apples and pears. Color
of fruit, both outside and
under the skin, is a good in
dicator if you're acquainted
with the color characteristics
of the variety.
Color an Indicator
Firmness of flesh and seed
color can be used as indicators.
The flesh should be firm, but
not too hard. The seeds should
be brown although unripe
fruit often has brown seeds,
too. Green seeds do indicate
unripe fruit, however.
Ease of separating the fruit
stem from the spur is still
another indicator. The stem
should remain attached to the
fruit and the spur to the tree
when apples or pears are pick
ed. Ripe pears will usually
detach when "tilted to a
horizontal from their usual
verticle hanging position.
One of the most reliable
indications is to watch the
fruit fall. When the first un
blemished, worm free, healthy
fruit falls from the tree, the
apples or pears are usually
ripe for picking. On apples the
best index is to pick one and
cat it. If it is ready, you'll
know.
TOMATO PROBLEMS
Each year we have consid
erable complaints of rots
showing up on the blossom
end of the tomato. These
black spots which occur op
posite the stem end are due
to irrigular waterings. To
matoes need regular watering
during the dry summer
months to grow high quality
fruit. Also, the , fruit of to
matoes has a high water con-1
lent and requires considerable
moisture to mature properly.
Where excessive drought oc
curs, leaf curling and rolling
will also appear. I
Where the blossom end rot
is occurring, anything to help
maintain uniform soil mois
ture conditions will help re
duce this problem. Mulches
of black polyethylene plastic
or organic materials such as
sawdust or grass clippings
will help, along with the reg
ular even water applications.
500 Lambs Set
For County Pool
Shipment Here
Approximately 500 lambs
will be shipped out some time
this week in the Jackson
county lamb pool, County
Agent Earle Jossy said.
Jossy was busy all day to
day contacting possible ship
pers. Since the lambs are
shipped into San Francisco
prices received are based on
the San Francisco market quo
tations. These quotations are
about a week behind the
Portland market.
Based on supply, Oregon
lamb prices may remain about
the same for much of the year.
The 1960 Oregon lamb crop
totaled 742,000 head, accord
ing to the Oregon crop and
livestock reporting service.
This is 1 per cent greater than
1951 and 19 per cent above
the 10-year (1949-58) average
of 625,000 head. Lambs saved
per 100 breeding ewes on
hand last Jan. 1 averaged 99
head, the same as a year ago,
and slightly above the 10-year
average of 98, according to
the 1960 lamb crop report
Western Oregon may have
slightly fewer lambs to ship
to the fall markets since the
cold, wet weather early last
spring was not helpful to
lambing, but the adequate
moisture kept the lambs in
pretty good condition. Death
losses on July 1 amounted to
about 4.4 head per 100.
Slaughter reports show a 14
per cent decline from a year
earlier. Average live weight
January-May was about the
same as a year earlier.
The 13 western sheep stales
including the 11 western
states and South Dakota and
Texas, produced 4 per cent
more lambs in 1960 than in
1959 and 12 per cent more
than average. The lamb crop
in the 35 native sheep slates
is 2 per cent smaller than last
year but 10 per cent above
average. In Texas, where ap
proximately 15 per cent of the
nation's lambs are produced,
the 1960 crop is 5 per cent
above 1959.
By J. VERNON MARSHALL
For Rogue Valley Nurserymen
August-Garden Weed Con
trol, is an interesting subject.
All of us are looking for the
j magic control which will elim
i inate all objectionable plants
!or weeds without damaging
I good plants.
There are a few weeds that
I can be disposed of through
! cultivation. Annuals will die
in the sun when the plant is
cut off below the crown or
when the plant is uprooted.
Perennial weeds often will die
after several years if the fol
iage is destroyed each time it
appears. However, litis meth
od is far too slow, especially
in this valley of much fertil-
sons, 'Gold Hill, and Gerald I and plenty of water to spur
them on. Let s consider the
chemical weed control. The
2,4-D Weed-Be-Gone, an Ortho
product is very effective on
all broadleaves, will not harm
hardy grasses. Lawn Groom,
also a Ortho product will do
three big jobs with one appli
cation. Feeds your lawn, kills
weeds and controls insects,
such as lawn moth and wire-
worms. Crabgrass is one of
the worst pests in garden or
lawn. Timing a chemical kill
er, the right months (and Au
gust and July are the right
months), can kill il.
1 have been using Miller's
liquid crabgrass killer, here
at the nursery for some time,
and find it very effective.
By applying the chemical dur
ing July and August, most of
the seeds and seedlings will be
destroyed, crabgrass is an an
nual, therefore, timing to kill
seeds and seedlings is very im
portant. The new bark prod
ucts that may be obtained
from some of our lumber com
panies, provide a good control,
since the weeds grow more
lush and soft, making it easier
to pull all the roots. Also, the
bark contains some natural
plant food. We must pull some
weeds along with our chem
ical control, the chemicals
cannot do the job alone.
A. McDonald. Eagle Point.
The Tillamook dairy show
is noted for the high quality
exhibits of Jersey, Guernsey,
and Holstein cattle. Winners
at this fair often top slate
and regional shows, a fair
spokesman staled. Judges at
this year's show will be
George Drumm, San Luis
Obispo, Calif., Jersey classes;
C. R. Knight. Ba'kersfield,
Calif., Guernsey; and Prof.
Floyd Wolberg, Oregon State
college, Holstein. The three
breeds will be judged at the
same time in three different
rings, it was reported.
The Tillamook county fair
will have a night show in
front of the grandstand fea
turing the Broadway musical
comedy hit, "Annie Get Your
Gun." Pari-mutual horse rac
ing will be held each after
noon starting Aug. 25. Horses
from the Grcsham fair race
track will compete and appear
at the Salem state fair on
Sept. 2.
Ex-Deputy Sheriff
In Ag. Department
Salem - Roy K. Nelson,
deputy sheriff for Lake coun
ty at Paisley the last two
years, has assumed his new
Crater Nets Top
Dairy Show Award
Astronaut Shuttle
Design Outlined
By Boeing Co.
Seattle, Wash. -(Science
Service)- A bell-shaped design
for an astronaut shuttle be
tween space stations and the
earth was outlined here Aug.
11 at the annual West Coast
meeting of the American As
tronautical Society.
E. F. Styer of Boeing Air
plane company's Aero-Space
Division said his investigation
of possible vehicles for from
one to 50 passengers showed
the bell shape was structural
ly simpler and required less
weight per crew member than
glide vehicles.
I Mr. Styer said the bell
, shaped vehicle could have
I small control flans and wnnlH
Gilbert Harrison, Crater juse smilll rockets for cstab.
FFA chapter, won the grand i lishing desired re-entry condi-
chanipionship in dairy show
manship Saturday at the Jack
son County 4-H and FFA fair.
During this last FFA event
Gilbert competed as senior
champion against his younger
brother George Harrison, also
from Crater FFA chapter,
who had the junior champion
ship. Gilbert's senior Guern-
work as chief of the division sey cow also won the grand
of animal industry, state de-1 championship in the Gucrn-
lions. Parachutes and Inflata
ble impact bags would be
used for landing.
His studies were made of
vehicles re-entering the at
mospnere at more man six
miles a second - about the
speed of vehicles returning
from the moon, other planets
or distant earth satellites.
Vet's Farm Loan
Earns Highest
Funds in Years
The Oregon veterans' farm
and home loan program earn'
ed a net operating revenue
during the last fiscal year ol
$1,228,281, the highest in the
history of the Department of
Veterans' Affairs, H. C. Saal.
fold, director, reported today
This brings the department's
loan earnings to S5,488,493
since the program started in
1945. The earnings are after
the payment of loan operating
costs, principal and interest on
loan bonds, property taxes,
and operating the depart
ment's veterans' services di
vision. They result from the
favorable difference between
the 4 per cent interest veter
ans pay on their loans, and
the present 2.868 per cent cost
on $150 millions in bonds out
standing. Last year was the highest
in net loans granted, with
4,345 veterans borrowing $44,
783,150. Only about $12 mil
lions will be available this
year, however, Saalfeld said.
because of the shortage of
loan funds, unless Measure 13
is approved by the voters in
November. That measure
would authorize the depart
ment to issue another $135
millions in loan bonds, mak
ing available sufficient funds
for an additional 13,000 loans.
Fifteen per cent of Oregon's
eligible veterans have now ob
tained state loans.
In the 15 years of the pro
gram through June 30, net
loans have been made to 30,
458 World War II and Korean
veterans in the amount of
$221,886,245. Veterans have
repaid more than $107 mil
lions, including $24 millions in
interest. There are 20,369
loans outstanding in the
amount of $153,149,502.
partment of agriculture.
Nelson's appointment was
announced earlier this month
by J. F. Short, director of ag
riculture. He will direct all
animal industry work except
meat inspection and disease
control programs for which
the state veterinarian, Dr.
L. E. Bodcnweiscr, is rcspon
sible under direct reporting to
Short.
The new chief lias the ad
vantage of prior experience
in the work he now heads.
He was with the animal di
vision, first in a field position
and then at the Salem head
quarters, for 13 years until
he resigned to lake the Lake
county post. Prior to that he
was with the Oregon State
Police for about eight years.
Nelson expects to spend as
much time as possible In re
n e w 1 n g livestock contacts
throughout the state. He suc
ceeds Fred Pope, who resign
ed to return to his Klamath
county cattle ranch.
sey breed class.
Placings in the advanced I
dairy showmanship were; Gil
bert Harrison, Crater, first;
Willie Dcbrick, Crater, sec
ond; Ron Grcb, Eagle Point,
third; Dean Sommer, Phoenix,
fourth; Todd Caster, Crater,
fifth; Benny Sutton, Eagle
Point, sixth; David Gregory,
Crater, seventh, and Steve
Kcslor, Phoenix, eighth
It is planned to release an
instrument carrying balloon
from a two-stage rocket at an
A "sausage skin" area for ,uuu"V,.UL.uu.,"''t's- i. le 1
iuuii will i lots lu duu iiiiica auu
send back information.
Now even they are wondering about some of the details.
For instance, Sacramento valley ranchers want a big Oro
ville dam on the Feather river. This and an aqueduct system
to take water from the Delta to southern California would
be financed by the $1.75 billion in Proposition I, they
thought. Now it looks as if the money would not be enough
to do so. And voting time comes closer.
It should be interesting to people In this valley because
. or nnt faced with a huge bond issue for construction
of dams in the Rogue basin. The water users will have to
cay for the works over a long period. Looking back on
past difficulties all the feudin' and fussin' looks kinda silly
when construction of water development projects here don't
seem to face hall tne prooiems uaiuornia r.s.
Ex-Inmate Held
On Narcotics Rap
30 in Dallas, Tex.
He will be one of more
than 6,000 John Deere sales
personnel in the United States
and Canada to attend the one
day sales meeting.
More than 5,000 persons at
tending the meeting will be
airlifted to Dallas on Monday,
Aug. 29, it was reported. The
Portland (UPB -George Lee airlift will be the largest corn-
Sims, 36, recently released merciai ntt ol its type witn
County Herds
Rated Fair's Best
E. M. Lippert and son (Lip-
pert Home Furniture, Med
ford) exhibited the grand
champion Hereford bull at the
Siskiyou county fair in Yrcka
Calif., last week.
Don Bradshaw and John
Bohnert, of Seven Oaks Here
ford ranch, Central Point, ex
hibited the grand champion
heifer.
Norman Jacobs Hereford
ranch, Tulclake, Calif., had
the reserve champion bull
Table Top ranch owned by
Ben Newman, manager of Reter Fruit company of Med
Hubbard Wray farm imple-lford look the reserve cham-
ment company. 909 South i uion heifer award.
Riverside ave., plans to see Lippert and Son also
the new line of John Deere brought back the grand cham-
farm tractors unveiled Aug. pion get of sire award to the
New Tractor Line
Planned for Firm
ranch in Williams, Ore.
from the Oregon state peni
tentiary, was arrested by po
lice here Monday night and
charged with illegal use of
narcotics.
Police said they arrested
Sims after a 55-mile-per-hour
chase across the Broadway
bridge. Police said Sims ad
mitted taking narcotics prior
to the chase.
Americans use thr tele
phones an averagpof 195 mil
lion times a day.
16 U. S. and Canadian air
lines participating. The meet
ing will use the 7,000 scat
Dallas Memorial auditorium,
the Texas State fairgrounds
coliseum, the Cotton bowl,
and the 15-acre Cotton bowl
parking lot which will be con
verted into a large display of
iarm machinery.
John Deere officials report
that the new line represents
one of the most thorough re
designs of farm tractors since
powder farming was started
Poor Gold Price
Causes Evacuation
Portland UPD The Oregon
state census board said here
Monday that the lack of a fa
vorable price for gold is caus
ing almost a mass evacuation
of some eastern Oregon com
munities.
The board cited the gold
mining community of Granite,
30 miles west of Baker, as the
most outstanding example. It
Spray Statements
Needed For Fruit
Fruit growers are now re
quired to give buyers state
ments as to sprays used and
percentage of active ingredi
ents, County Horticultural
Agent Clifford B. Cordy said
today.
A careful record should
have been kept of all spray
and dust applications, noting
date of application, kind and
amount of material. It may be
impossible to sell your fruit
unless such a record is avail
able to satisfy buyers that the
fruit was sprayed in accord
ance with established regula
tions, Cordy explained.
Percentage of active ingre
dients must also be listed for
each spray used, he added
Such percentages for the var
ious sprays include: copper,
45-53 per cent, Cyprex 65 per
cent, DDT 50 per cent, diazi
non 25 per cent, dieldrin 50
per cent, EPN 25 per cent,
Fcrbam 76 per cent, Guthion
25 per cent, Karathane 22't
per cent, Kelthane 18'4 per
cent, Malalhion 25 per cent,
Parathion 25 per cent, Scvin
50 per cent, Ziram 75 per cent
and Tcdion 25 per cent.
Cordy also advised this is
the time to apply the last
cover spray to apples before
they are picked. He recom
mended 10 pounds of 50 per
cent DDT to the acre or two
pounds per 100 gallons.
This should carry the ap
ples through to harvest, he
said.
repairing ailing spacecrafts
was also proposed at the meet
ing. E. J. Merrick, project en
gineer in General Electric
Company's Missile and Space
Vehicle Department at Phil
adelphia, suggested in a re
port that repair drydocks in
space "could be as simple as
a plastic 'sausage skin' drawn
over and around the craft and
then Inflated, or they could be
as complex as a geodesic
Placings in the beginning sphere."
dairy showmanship classj The drydocks would be in
were: George Harrison, Cra
ter, first; Steve Hall, Crater,
second; Jerry O'Connor, Cra
ter, third; Larry Vaterlaus,
Crater, fourth.
Some Chemicals
Said Ineffective
Dr. L. E. Centner, Southern
Oregon Experiment Station,
reports parathion and mala
lhion are no longer effective
for control of pear psylla.
These two chemicals may be
added to TEPP, toxaphene,
cthion, and diazinon on the
fast growing list of chemicals
to which psylla have develop
ed a resistance.
Dleldron is still - working
locally but reported failures
have come from Washington
and California. The organic
phosphate Guthion is still the
one bright spot in the organic
phosphate picture of psylla
control.
Experimental plots at the
station as well as on growers'
orchards show the addition of
oils to organic phosphates
greatly Improves control.
Work is being done with' oil
In combination with mala
lhion and cthion and diasinon
in an effort to improve their
control sufficiently for grow
ers' use.
flated with gases fed from a
mother ship or other sources
Inside, comfortably suited
men could work in a life-sustaining
atmosphere.
And a Princeton, N.J., engi
neer told the meeting that to
morrow's space stations and
some satellites could be built
with balloon-like tubes that
inflate In space with a plastic
foam that would become hard
ened in the sun's heat.
Carl C. Osgood, manager of
design engineering for the
Radio Corporation of Amer
ica's Astro-Electronics Divi
sion in Princeton, N.J., said
the division is studying such
systems for large solar energy
collectors and radar antennas
60 feet or more in diameter.
THERE'S AN
EASIER WAY
TO GET EXTRA
Highest Magnetic
Fields Produced
FORMALLY JAILED
Norwalk, Calif. - (UPD -Frank
J. Palmer, 54, an ice
delivery man, was arrested
Monday night for hitting a
id that Granite has dropped bartender on the head with
from 40 nersons in 1950 to ; a neer oouie aucr me Dar-
only three in I960.
TRAIN TRAVEL
An average railway passen
ger's Journey in the U.S. is
about 72 miles, according to
current estimates.
keep Jovially slapped him on
the shoulder and said "Hi,
Frank!" When police asked
what touched off the incident,
Palmer told them he was tir
ed of being treated informal-
Many Gl Loans
Paid Off in July
Salem - IUPII - Almost as
many stale GI loans were
paid off in July as were is
sued. H. C. Saalfeld, director of
the State Department of Vet
erans Affairs, said 107 vet
erans paid off their loans and
that the department granted
112 new loans during the
month.
A total of 8,707 of the 30,-
570 loans granted have now
been paid off since the slate
program was started in 1945.
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ice The highest magnetic
fields known have been pro
duced at Los Alamos Scienti
fic Laboratory using the tech
nique of implosion, the in
ward direction of explosive
forces, which is also one
method for detonating atomic
bombs.
A thin copper tube was im
ploded by high explosives
and a large volume of initial
ly weak magnetic field was
compressed up to a strength of
14 million gauss in a volume
of about one cubic inch by
Mrs. C. M. Fowler, W. B. Gam
and R. S. Caird. The achieve
ment of such a strong mag
netic field, which lasted for
two-millionths of a second, is Why do It the hard way? Call on
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The Gauss is a unit measur
ing magnetic strength. The
earth's magnetic field aver
ages less than one gauss. One
application of very high mag
netic fields is in the confine
ment of a hot plasma in a
"magnetic bottle," the major
problem in the control of hy
drogen bomb, or fusion, pow
er for peaceful purposes.
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