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SECTION E MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 1960 PAGES 1 to 4
Ike Says Demos Distorting
Facts When They Criticize
Benson for Farm Problems
By TOM NELSON
United Press International
Washington -CPD- President
Eisenhower said Wednesday
that Democrats who blame his
administration and Agricul
ture Secretary Ezra T. Benson
for the farm problem are dis
torting the facts for political
purposes.
The President launched in
to a strong defense of Benson
and his controversial policies
when asked at his news con
ference about criticism of
Benson by Sen. John F. Ken
nedy, the Democratic presi
dential nominee.
Kennedy, in a speech at
Des Moines, Iowa, last Sun
day, attacked what he called
the "disastrous" programs fol
lowed by Benson and support
ed by Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, the GOP president
ial nominee.
Eisenhower said that he had
tried in vain for eight years
to get a real reform of the
farm laws.
Praises Benson's Courage
He praised Benson's hon
esty, courage and selflessness
and said no one should be so
free as to crucify Benson.
In other highlights of his
news conference, the Presi
dent: -Said religion should not be
an issue in the coming presi
dential campaign. He said he
is not so naive as to think
that in some areas it will not
be, but nevertheless he would
never believe it could be a
legitimate issue.
-Announced that he had
signed into law a bill which
paves the way for the net
works to offer free time to
Nixon and Kennedy for a
series of historic television
debates in the coming cam
paign. He said it was a fine
thing that the networks stood
ready to perform this public
service.
-Said that, despite their big
majorities in both houses of
Congress, the Democrats ap
parently are not getting any
where in the current congres
sional session. E i s e n hower
said the Democratic margins
are so large that they could
do anything they wanted to
if they could only get to
gether. Politics in Foreign Affairs
-Reiterated his position that
politics should end at the
water's edge but nevertheless
conceded that the conduct of
foreign affairs probably will
be an important issue in the
campaign.
-Defended this country's de
cision to acknowledge that
pilot Francis Gary Powers
was on a reconnaissance
flight when his U2 plane was
shot down over Sverdlovsk,
Russia. He said that if this
government repudiated Pow
ers, that would have made
him out to be some kind of
an adventurous flier who de
signed, built and flew the
plane, which didn't make
sense to him.
-Said that when the chips
are down, the United States
would invoke the Monroe
Doctrine and take action to
prevent foreign domination in
Latin America. He did not
spell out what kind of action.
-Said Nixon, has partici
pated actively in top level
discussions with him through
out their administration but
that the vice president has not
made policy decisions. Eisen
hower said no one participates
in these decisions because no
one can make a decision in
the national executive area
except the president.
-Asserted that relations be
tween Cuba and this country
have by no means reached the
irretrievable stage. He said
he would always be ready to
participate in any kind of
conference of heads of gov
ernment that could achieve
something useful, although
he said he would not want to
speculate that this type of a
meeting is now in the works.
-Said the question of
whether he should go to New
York next month to address
the United Nations General
Assembly is under discussion,
as it has been every fall when
the assembly convenes." He
said whether he goes would
hinge largely on whether
there was a point he par
ticularly would like to em
phasize to the organizatipn.
Reservoirs 01 Sunshine Provide Cheap Power
Rehovoth, Israel, (Science
Serviee)-A network of sun
shine reservoirs, pools of
salted water storing up the
heat of the sun, can provide
with an easily available and
economic source of energy,
an Israeli scientist has re
ported here.
Dr. Henry Tabor of the
National Physical Laboratory
of Israel, authority on solar
energy, reported on his new
plan for "pooled" solar pow
er to the scientists and states
men meeting (Aug. 15-30) at
the Weizmann Institute of
Science for the first Interna
tional Conference on Science
in the Advancement of New
States.
In the new scheme, salts
would be dissolved in water
at the bottom of a square
pool, two-thirds of a mile on
a side. Then the heat of the
sun would concentrate and
remain at the bottom because
the heaviness of the salted
water would prevent the heat
from rising to the surface
The surface layer of the pool, ,
however, would remain at a
constant temperature since it
would lose heat at the same
rate it picks it up. The suc
cess of the operation would
depend only on keeping the
water in the pool undisturbed.
Construction costs are esti
mated at about $1 million.
The investment would yield
a return in heat energy val
ued at $250 per kilowatt,
producing electricity at one
tenth the cost of any other
solar aparatus to date.
Dr. Tabor does not believe
the development and use of
solar energy will be adopted
by the developed areas of
the world; but it may pro
vide the economic independ
ence so- eagerly sought by
the arid underdeveloped reg
ions of the world which boast
little else in the way of na
tural resources than the blaz
ing energy of the sun.
He predicted that in the
future this heat may be con
verted to energy that para-
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Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg, di
rector of the Oak Ridge Na
tional laboratory, Tennessee,
nd winner of the Ford
Atoms for Peace award, hail
ed Dr. Tabor s scheme for a
solar pool built upon the prin
ciple of water density as "the
most important theory so far
presented" at the conference.
An authority on nuclear
energy, Dr. Weinberg warned
that making the sun or any
other energy source pay off
will require adequate financ
ing operations.
The underdeveloped coun
tries of the world must look
to . foreign investment and
capital for the financial en
ergy needed to develop phy
sical sources, Dr. Weinberg
said. The economic self-suf
ficiency sought by the new
states through power devel
opment will contribute to
world peace and stability as
well as to national stability
Another source of energy
independence for the new
states is the use of breeder
reactors, Dr. Weinberg said.
Such reactors can be fueled
with residual uranium and
thorium which exist every
where in the earth's crust.
He predicted that energy in
dependence among . the na
tions of the world eliminate
access through the Suez to the
Middle East as "a major po
litical issue."
New Membrane
Developed To
Filter Sea Water
Los Angeles (Science Ser
vice) - A membrane to filter
the salt out of sea water has
been announced at the Uni
versity of California, Los An
geles. It is said to be 100 times
more effective than previous
commercial membranes.
This new and promising
filter was developed by re
search engineers Sidney Loeb
and Srinivasa Sourirajan. The
membrane, or film, has a
large number of tiny pores
which in effect filter the salt
water and separate the brine
from the potable water.
To make their film, the
UCLA engineers mix cellu
lose acetate with aqueous
magnesium perchlorate solu
tion and acetone, and then
cast the sticky mixture cold
on a glass plate.
Membrane Mounted
After putting the glass
plate into cold water, a film
four thousandths of an inch
thick is stripped from the
plate and then shrunk slight
ly in hot water. The finished
membrane, which can filter
water 100 times faster than
previous commercial turns,
is mounted on each side of a
porous steel disk.
Any number of disks are
then stacked in a frame press,
salt water is circulated
through the unit at 1,500
pounds per square inch pres
sure, and the desalted water
flows out from the bottom of
the unit.
Single Filtering
With their present film,
Loeb and Sourirajan have
been able to get potable wa
ter at the rate of eight gal
lons a day per square foot of
membrane area. Furthermore,
the potable water is produced
in a single filtering from a
brine containing a 5.25 per
cent salt concentration, which
is much saltier than ordinary
ocean water.
Loeb and Sourirajan be
lieve that their process holds
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scale, commercial use, because
the film is both cheap and
durable, the equipment is sim
ple and can run 24 hours a
day without maintenance, ana
power requirements are as
low as for any other desalin-
lzation metnoa.
Asphalt Improves
Construction Work
Tulsa, Okla.-IUPll-Railroads
have found two new uses
for asphalt -and neither of
them involves paving high
ways. !).
The American Petroleum
institute reported that "atom
ized" asphalt-a metal preservative-can
effect a 75 per
cent saving in the' cost of
preserving railroad bridges.
The Jersey Central railroad
sprayed a bridge with asphalt
and found that it did the
work of two coats of paint
and cut in half the man
hours needed to treat a
bridge. Asphalt costs 21 cents
a gallon compared with $2.85
for conventional paint.
And the Illinois Central
railroad sprayed a test sec
tion of its roadbed with as
phalt to preserve and stabil
ize the rock ballast and pre
serve the crossties.
Resident Builds Bar
From Salvaged Boat
T.akp Mahawlc. N.J. N O r-
man Rintoul has built a bar
for his game room from the
shell of a salvaged motorboat.
The deck supports drinks on
a raised "dry dock" stand.
Mixes are stored under the
spat, a cooler unit is under the
deck and an oar is used as a
footrail.
Council Condemns
Use of Lenses
Chicago - The use of night
driving lenses or windshields
whether tinted, reflecting or
polarized has been condemned
by the American Medical As
sociation's council on industri
al health.' .,
The council said that a night
driving lens or windshield re
duces the light transmitted to
the eye and actually makes
seeing at night more difficult.
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