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$3.5 Million Cathedral Rises In Coventry Within Six Years Br ROBERT MUSEL Unittd PrMi International Coventry, England (UPD From dusk to dawn on the terrible night of Nov. 14, 1940 German bomber; attacked this ancient city in one of the worst raids of World War II. At the height of the holo caust with incendiary and high explosive bombs raining Atom Now Being Used to Determine Source of Opium By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press International Washington -niPli-The atom which can destroy (or light) cities is being used to smoke out smuggled opium. ' This is not a case of using a sledgehammer to swat a . fly. The detective atom is kept under control at all times in nuclear reactors like those at the Atomic Energy commission's Oak Ridge (Tenn.) national laboratory. It can perform almost in conceivably delicate tasks. It is now assisting the Treasury department's Bureau of Nar cotics in its never-ending atruggle to stop smuggling of opium into this country. It is important to the Nar cotics bureau to know where the contraband is coming from, whether from China, Asia Minor, India, or wherev er else the opium poppies blow. . Knowing the origin helps the bureau to build road blocks against the narcotics traffic. : George Leddicotle of the Oak Ridge lab has developed a procedure, called "activa tion analysis," which is able to tell federal narcotics agents where a confiscated batch of epium came from. ' Here is the way the Atom ic Energy commission de acribes the process: "Through activation analy sis, scientists can determine the trace amounts of various minor elements found in the aamples of opium. i "By comparison of these trace amounts with samples of known origin, they can de termine from what area the opium came.' It is a fact the smugglers can't do anything about that because minute amounts of many so-called trace elements re present in the soil where opium poppies are cultivated, v These elements - scandium, i antimony, cobalt, iron, alumi num and many other metals - tip off the source of the opium. When opium is sent through I nuclear reactor, the trace elements are made slightly radioactive. "After its trip through the reactor, the sample is placed in a shielded lead container nd the rays emitted from the various radioactive atoms re measured," the AEC re ports. ; "The energy of the various rays is indicative of the ele ments in the sample. Com parison with samples of known origin then gives the location." - The atom also is doing de tective work on other fronts 6f crime. But the AEC isn't telling all it knows about these other jobs of the atomic cops. "Law enforcement offici als," it says, "are reluctant to discuss them since they don't want to reveal their methods." Wafer Deficient of Fluoride Results in Orthodontic Problems New York-ICPIt-Orthodoniic problems resulting from mis' placed, tilted and crowded teeth occur two and a half times more frequently among children drinking water defi cient in fluoride, according to a study of two New York cities reported in the Amer ican Journal of Orthodontics. The study of Newburgh and Kingston, N.Y., neighboring cities of about 30,000 popula tion each, was conducted by the New York state depart ment Of health. It showed, ac cording to the Journal, that Kingston children, aged 13 nd 14, lacking fluoridated water, had a 22.5 per cent '.rate of malocclusion. In New burgh, where f 1 u o r i d ated water was used, the rate of malocclusion wa; 9.4 per cent, "authors of the article said. The lower incidence of ' orthodontic problems is due. the article snid. to the lower rate of tooth decay and loss among children who drink fluoridated water. down, priests i..d civil de fense workers fought their way through the smoke and flame to the 14th century ca thedral of St. Michael. They found it destroyed- only the burned-out spire and a torn arch still erect. From the rubble they gath ered still-hot nails which they fashioned into a "cross of nails" and they pltnted it among the ruins as a pledge that the cathedral would rise again. Last month, the cross of nails, incorpon.ied now into an eight-foot high cross of silver, stood on the altar of the new Coventry cathedral when it was consecrated be fore Queen Elizabeth and a multitude of w q r s h i ppers from all over the world - in cluding Germany. Never in Britain has a ca thedral been built with such a sense of urgency and never in the world has one sprung into full being , with such speed. Queen Elizabeth laid the foundation stone of the $3.5 million structure only six years ago. Not that Coventry is a par ticularly religious city, al though it was founded in 1043 around a monastery establish ed by Earl Leofric whose wife was the famous Lady Godiva. Today it is an industrial boom town of 250,000 population with high wages, a high crime rate and fewer churchgoers than the average British city. But the cathedral is Coven try's fulfillment of a promise to itself-whether it uses it or not. And to the Church of England the cathedral repre sents its greatest challenge since the war, a chance (it says) to help a restless city find its soul. The church campaign to modernize its image in Cov entry began even before the first pink sandstone building blocks were being put into place and craftsmen here and in France were working on commissions for the building as magnificent inside as it is controversial outside. This is no Gothic master piece in the great tradition of cathedrals. Sir Basil Spence, the architect, was told to de sign something in keeping with the present and future and to preserve the spire and ruins of the old cathedral in the forecourt as a link with the past. Sir Basil thus becomes one of the few- architects to live to see his own cathedral com pleted. The last one in Britain was Sir Christopher Wren who built St. Paul's at Lon don some 250 years ago. There have been many complaints about the shape Sir Basil chose a starkly functional, almost bare exte rior which impresses mainly by its great length, over 300 feet for the nave alone. It is not even very obviously a church except for the 80-foot high bronze spire which was, fittingly perhaps for such a radical departure in cathed rals, hoisted into place by a helicopter. On each side of the nave there are five sharply angled windows giving it somewhat of an accordion effect from the outside. Sir Basil planned at first to scallop the walls but while he was in a den tist's chair, under anaesthetic for a tooth extraction, he got the idea that the angled win dows would direct the light where he wanted it at the altar. Another of his ideas for the cathedral - the intricate cup shaped design of the roof-he says was inspired by a magni fied photograph of the eye of a fly that he saw in a maga zine one day. Unembellished as the ca thedral may be from the out side, it is filled with treasures within. Hanging behind the altar is the largest tapestry ever wov en, Christ In Majesty, design ed by the distinguished artist Graham Sutherland. It is 70 feet high and 33 feet across and the light from the angled windows makes its colors -yellow, violet, grey and moss green-shimmer in beauty. The entire west wall is a clear glass window engraved with ghostly 1 grey angels. There is a stained glass south window regarded by experts as among the best produced since medieval, days. Many countries sent gifts, among them a mosaic floor made of 100,000 pieces of marble from all over Europe and bought by a Swedifh fund to which the king and queen of Swe den contributed. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sent a personal gift of $11,898 and German churches sent 16 young Ger- a staff whose average age is man volunteers to help with more than 20 years younger the work of reconstruction. than the usual cathedral staff. With the challenge of Cov- The Very Rev. Harold Wil entry in mind, Bishop Cuth- liams, 47, who will run the bert Bradsley has assembled I cathedral, describes It as "this great laboratory experiment for the Kingdom of God The cathedral will have Its own television studio and a refectory open all day to the public for meals and coffee SECTION E MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 7, 1962 PAGES 1 to 6 and in the evening as a coffee-bar for young people. Mr. Williams said he would stage serious modern plays in the cathedral and the televi sion studio would often be used for live transmissions. "Coventry badly needs a sense of community," he said. "We have got to find ways of linking up with the modern popular mind." 4-H Club News Tricky Trottart The Applegate Tricky Trot ters 4-H Horse club met at the home of Brion's and Brewster's recently. Adrienne gave a demon stration on western horseman ship. Each member practiced it, hoping to improve. Marilyn Winningham, Reporter Exptrimanttars Sawing Club Eight members of the Ex perimcntcers 4-H Sewing club met at their leader's home recently. They welcomed one new member, Barbara Lilly. Members answered roll call with the names of cotton fab ric. Shirley Isaacs and Doren Duggan gave a demonstra tion on how to make slippers. Reporter Culinary Cutias The Mothers' Tea sponsored by the Culinary Cuties and Sewing Susans 4-H club of the Applegate was attended by mothers of the members. 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