TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1960
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Railroad Wants
Sale To Sante Fe
San Francisco - IUPU - The
board of directors of the
Western Pacific railway voted
Monday to sell the railroad to
the Santa Fe and reaffirmed
Its opposition to a bid by the
Southern Pacific to obtain the
line.
The sale is subject to ap
proval by the interstate com
merce commission.
Santa Fe, which owns 20
per cent of W ester gt Pacific
stock, applied Oct. 25 for a
controlling interest - offering
one and a quarter shares of its
own stock for one share of
WP.
Southern Pacific, which
owns 10 per cent of WP, of
fered to buy the railroad Oct.
10. SP offered a one-for-one
stock exchange. The Western
Pacific board said its reasons
for Monday's action included:
-The Santa Fe offer of VA
shares of its stock for 1 share
of Western Pacific is fair and
reasonable from the Western
Pacific shareholders' view
point, both as to the value of
shares and also the increased
dividend that would be re
ceived. -Assure the perpetuation of
efficient competitive east-west
rail service in the territory of
California, Nevada and Utah
now served by Western Paci
fic, and particularly with our
transcontinental eastern con
nections at Salt Lake City.
Assure Competition
-Assure continuation of
through north-south efficient
competitive rail service via
Santa Fe-Western Pacific and
Great Northern, via the inside
gateway.
-Provide stronger, more
dynamic and more competi
tive service in the West, par
ticularly in the San Francis
co Bay area, the Santa Clara
valley and the Sacramento
valley; and
-Permit substantial econo
mies that could be achieved
through joint action of Santa
Fe and Western Pacific, while
additionally maintaining the
opportunity for economics be
tween the Western Pacific and
the Southern Pacific.
Bomber Crash
Fatal to Five
Lockbourne, Ohio (UPD An
Air Force B47 jet bomber
crashed on take-off at Lock
bourne Air Force Base early
today, killing all five crew
members aboard.
A spokesman for the base,
located about 15 miles south
east of Columbus, said the
plane was bound for a routine
training mission and carried
no nuclear weapons.
Witnesses said the plane
seemed to explode "in a ball
of fire" while taking off
about 2:05 a.m. EST. Flames
from the burning plane shot
100 feet into the air, but base
firemen extinguished the
blaze within an hour.
Names of the victims were
withheld pending notification
of next of kin.
The plane was 50 feet off
the ground when the right
wing dipped and touched
ground, the Air Force said.
The plane exploded on im
pact but Air Force experts
hoped to reassemble the
pieces to try to find out what
caused the accident.
REFUGEE AUTHOR DIES
Oerebro, Sweden -IUPU- Es
thonian refugee author Au
gust Gailit, 69, whose many
works included "The Father
land" and "Toomas Niper
naadi," died Monday after a
long illiness.
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ARRIVES AT UN Congolese Foreign Min
ister Justin Bomboko, left, looks on as Con
go President Kasavubu answers newsmen's
questions during a press conference follow
ing the latter's arrival at New York. Kas-
avuDu was reported prepared to denounce
the UN for alleged "aggressions" in the new
African republic when he goes before the
General Assembly later today.
(UPI Telcpholo)
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BOMB EXAMINED Postal inspector Frank Fish examines
a small bomb wlncn was founa in xne San Diego posi office
addressed to Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The find im
mediately caused the Post Office in Washington to "realert"
its branches throughout the country to examine closely any
packages addressed to the presidential candidates and their
runnin'g mates. An investigation was under way to learn
the identity of the anoymous mailer of the package.
(UPI Telcpholo)
To guarantee the same
amount of batter for each
muffin or cupcake, use an ice
cream scoop when filling the
cake pans.
If you are going to sew
light-colored fabrics, first dust
your hands with cornstarch to
absorb the perspiration and
keep the material clean.
Chance for Early
Miscarriages May
Be Much Greater
San Francisco - . (Science
Service) - The chance for mis
carriage is much greater in the
early weeks of pregnancy than
some previous reports have
shown, two scientists from the
University of California, Berk
eley, have found.
Their five-year study, con
ducted on the island of Kauai,
Hawaii, is the first attempt to
follow all pregnancies in e
community over a period of
years.
The report shows a rate
among early - reported preg
nancies of 221 fetal deaths,
commonly called miscarriages,
per 1,000 total births, much
higher than earlier studies
based on medical reports have
indicated.
The risk of prenatal loss Is
probably highest in the first
weeks of pregnancy, then de
clines gradually until the time
of birth, their study showed,
Report Findings
These findings were report
ed here at the American Pub
lic Health association meeting
by Dr. Fern E. French, biosta
tistician, and Dr. Jessie M.
Bierman, professor of ma
ternal and child health, of the
University of California's
School of Public Health,
Berkeley.
One of the aims of the study
was to identify every preg
nant woman on the island of
Kauai within a month after
her first missed menstrual
period.
Some 85 per cent of all the
Crop Failures in
Space Ship Farms
May Be Expected
San Antonio (Science Serv
ice) - Crop failures may be
expected in interplanetary
farming In the confines of a
space ship just as on earth,
but farm failure In space is
irrevocable, Dr. Daniel I. Ar
non, professor of cell physiol
ogy at the University of Cali
fornia, Berkeley, said here.
Anion spoke at a symposi
um on the Medical Biological
Aspects of Energies of Space
at the School of Aviation Med
icine, Brooks Air Force base.
Although Anion stressed the
possibility of crop lailure of
algae used in photosynthesis,
he said that this did not indi
cate that he was pessimistic
about the ultimate success and
value of such farming to the
man in space.
Can't Tak Chancel
"I merely want to empha
size," he told Science Serv
ice, "that at the present stage
of our knowledge, we cannot
afford to take chances on com
plete dependence on such a
system in space."
A photosynthetic system,
theoretically, could supply
man in space with the main
essentials of life: food, water
and oxygen. '
Arnon pointed out that crop
failure would mean the death
of the system and possibly the
death of the astronauts that
might be dependent upon it.
"Until inherent biological
uncertainties are removed,
man must take reserve sup
nlics of his life needs with
him in space," Anion said.
Arnon, and his associates at
Berkeley, Drs. Mitsuhiro No
zaki and Manuel Losada, are
trying to "unravel the me
chanics of photosynthesis, to
break the process down to its
component parts to eliminate
present biological uncertain
ties."
Their research, still a long
distance from the goal, he
said, has revealed important
evidence on the process of
evolution of primitive plant
and bacterial life as it existed
hundreds of millions of years
ago on earth, and the ad'
vances to more complicated
plant and bacteria structure
and behavior,
TRIES TO STRANGLE WIFE
Houston, Tex. - (UP1I - Jesse
Garcia, 36, told police he
tried to strangle his wife in
a supermarket parking lot
Monday with a piece of baling
wire for his own protection.
"She shot me a month ago,
and I wasn't going to give her
another chance," Garcia said.
Food Is Weighty
Problem in Long
Term Space Trips
fetal losses occurred from the
fourth through the 15th week
of pregnancy, the report said.
Early Losses
Contrary to earlier findings
based on medical records
alone, the Kauai study showed
that fetal losses from the
fourth to the seventh week
of pregnancy were as high or
higher than losses in the
eighth to the 15th week.
The findings can be applied
in the U.S. mainland, the
Berkeley scientists said, be
cause Hawaii has a very high
health status and compares fa
vorably with the other states
In life expectancy at birth,
proportion of women receiv
ing prenatal care, and number
of infants born in hospitals.
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) - The weight of food man
needs may limit the time he
can spend in space, Miss
Beatrice Flnkelstein, space nu
tritionist for the Air Force
and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration's
Project Mercury, told Science
Service.
Storage and weight, rather
than nutritional content, are
the major limiting factors in
volved In space feeding, she
said. Each pound of dry
weight placed in an earth or
bit requires ten pounds of
propellant.
An adequate supply of
ready - to - eat, pre packaged
foods could be stored without
significant weight penalty
for the several days required
for a man to get to the moon
and back. But food for a trip
to Venus or Mars, almost a
year away from the earth
would impose too great a
weight penalty, Miss Flnkel
stein said.
Not Economical
"If such packaged foods are
to go with men on a planetary
flight, the ship will have to
carry about 1,300 pounds of
food per man per year of
flight. This is not economical
with present launching re
quirements," the space food
expert said.
The weight problem is only
one of the many involved in
feeding man in space .with
which Miss Finkcl3tcin is con
cerned.
There is also the problem
of feeding a man adequately
and safely in a weightless en
vironmcnt. This requires spec
ial packaging so that food is
accessible in easy-to-eat bite
sizes to minimize the "danger"
of crumbs. In a weightless
environment, crumbs floating
inside a space helmet and per
haps blocking the air tubes
present a real danger, Miss
Flnkelstein said.
Normal Diet '
If she has her way, men In
space will receive a diet as
close to that normally enjoyed
on earth as possible.
"Men in a space environ
ment will have to endure a
wide variety of both physical
and psychological stresses. Ap
petizing, tasty food will aid
in reducing these stresses," the
Air Force nutritionist said.
For her contributions to this
vital area of space research,
Miss Finkclstcin has been se
lected as the recipient of the
McLesler Award in the field
of nutrition and dietetics by
the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United States,
now meeting here.
Motor Freight
Request Denied
Salem (UPI) A request of
McCraekcn Brothers Motor
Freight, Eugene, to reduce its
service through Crawfords-
ville and Hollcy to Sweet
Home was denied Monday by
Public Utility Commissioner
Jonel C. Hill.
The firm wanted to cut its
service from three times a
week to once a week.
Hill said the proposed one-
round trip schedule would
not constitute "reasonable
and adequate service" to the
area.
LIBRARY REOPENS
Petersburg, Va. -IUPU- The
Petersburg public library,
closed July 6 after It became
the target of Negro sit-in dem
onstrators, reopened Monday
on an integrated basis. One
Negro took out a library card.
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a dress, push a small eraser
from a lead pencil over the
end of the pin to keep it from
sticking you.
A 5
Mayan Calendar
Conversion Figured
London -(Science Service)-
A new way of converting dates
in the archaic Mayan calendar
into the familiar, modern cal
endar has been worked out by
a U.S. astronomer.
The happy coincidence of an
eclipse of the sun very close
to the date of the passage of
the planet Venus across tha
face of the sun gave Dr.
Charles H. Smiley of Brown
university, Providence, R. I.,
the conversion method. Be
cause of the coincidence he
was able to match the known
date of such a pair of celestial
events in ancient times with
the date as recorded in Mayan
records.
Dr. Smiley reported in the
British journal Nature that
the correlation rests in part on
the assumption that the gen
erally accepted Spinden cor
relation is correct within 100
years. This assumption has
been confirmed by radiocar
bon results. Dr. Smiley set the
date 477 A.D. as the beginning
of the Mayan calendar.
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Thornton Rules
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Salem- (UPD -Loggers work
ing on federal lands do not
have to have a slate permit,
Attorney General Robert Y.
Thornton said Monday.
Answering an inquiry by
Slate Forester Dwighl L.
Phlpps, Thornton said it was
not the intent of the Oregon
forest conservation act to de
termine forest practices for
federal forest lands.
Furthermore, the Oregon
legislature does not have jur
isdiction to determine forest
practices on such lands,
Thornton said.
Newhouse Probe
Set To Continue
Portland -(UPD - The special
squad Investigating the Oct.
16 shotgun shooting of Orcgo
nlan production manager Don
ald Newhouse will be contin
ued until the assailant is
apprehended.
The announcement was
made Monday by Police Chief
William J. Hilbruner. Hilbru
ncr said the Investigating
squad has checked into the
background of close to 100
persons in connection with
the shooting during the last
three weeks.
Newhouse was wounded
Oct. 16 when s shotgun was
fired through the basement
window of his home.
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