$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.
Miss Phyllis Kirkland and
members.
Sharon Prowell demonstra
ted the correct method of
setting a table. Nancy Brown
demonstrated threading a ma
chine. Business meetings of each
club were held. Refreshment
were served.
Judy Macy,
Reporter
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