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Advice Given About Changing the Weather By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Prest International Washington IUP0 Man some day may find out how to make big changes in the weather. But before he attempts to do so, scientists warn, he had better: - Make certain that the changes will be beneficial. Ill-advised messing with the weather could generate ap palling disasters. - Plan nothing except by international agree ment. Any large-scale alteration of the weather patterns will affect many - perhaps all -of the world's nations. This advise was given by two U.S. authorities in a pa per prepared for a recent United Nations scientific conference in Geneva. The authors were the late Dr. Harry Wexler, director of meteorological research of the weather bureau, and Dr. .Thomas K. Sherwood of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Progress Made They said "notable prog ress" has been made in the past five years in develop ing mathematical models of large-scale atmospheric con ditions which "bear amaz ing similarities to the real atmosphere." With the use of computers It has been possible to vary County Residents Carry $8,760 Worth .Of I ia I neiirHrA As of 1962, Jackson county i residents were found to be carrying more life insurance than they ever did. According to the latest fig ures, the average amount of coverage, per local family, was $8,760. The new high is the result of a steady build-up in recent years in this form of protec tion. Such a development has been noted in the areas of the country where incomes have been on the rise. Increasing Protection Increasing their life insur ance protection is one of sev eral steps that people have been taking to add to their financial security. Another has been to put money aside into savings. The trend has been in these directions, despite the fact that most people are covered by Social Serurity, with its provisions for old-age pen sions and disability insurance. Figures on the subject are reported on a national and state basis in the current Life Insurance Fact Book. It shows the American peo ple to be insured to the tune of $685 billion, of which $5, 390,000,000 represents cover age in the state of Oregon. In terms of the average family, what does this amount to? Related to income levels throughout the state, as detail ed in the latest Sales Man agement report, it is equival ent to 18.4 months' net earn ings, after taxes, per house hold. Applying this yardstick to TinAn Mnntv whpre net in come per household averages Two Patients Are Flown to Hospitals Two patients were flown to JiosDltals for treatment oy Mm Fliffhta Inc.. Friday Lt. Col. Ellsworth, J. Winner was flown to Travis Air Force hasp. Calif., from Grants Pass where he has been a patient et Josephine General hospi tal since suffering a heart at tack 10 days ago. Finum from Lakeview to Portland for possible surgery al Providence hospital, was Mrs. Gloria Kness. Bly, who nffpred bullet wounds of the leg and shoulder in a family argument Tuesday. This brings to 1.S29 the number of patients that have been flown by the non-profit air ambulance service since it was started. Juveniles Being Held for Burglaries Two iuveniles. 12 and 13 years of age. were lodged in Jackson county Juvenile de tention home Friday night on charges of burglary. The boys, brought in by a Jackson county deputy sher iff we rhnreed with bur glarizing cabins In the Pros pect area. Several calls were received th .honff'n doDartment reporting entries of cabins in the Prospect region before the boys were brought in, the .uir. nttrv laid Saturcav. components of the mathe matical model and observe what the effect would be on atmospheric circulation. For example, the ma chines reported that a cer tain change in the pattern of solar radiation falling on the northern hemisphere would wipe out a whole family of storms covering 10 million square miles of the earth's surface. Altering the Season Feeding a hypothetical radiation change into com puters is easy. But making the same change in the real world would amount to al tering the season, and "no one has suggested practical means" of doing that, the authors said. It takes a colossal amount of energy to manufacture weather. It has been esti mated that the energy in the winds of the entire world at any one instant is equal to about seven million atomic bombs of the kind used in World War II. The energy of the winds streaming across the middle latitudes of the United States during one year is equivalent to 40 million H bombs, or to all the power America's electrical plants could turn out in 3,000 years. So man is not yet ready $481 per month, the $481 per month, the amount of life insurance owned per local family is approximately $8,760. The grand total, for the en tire community, comes to $213,836,000. Attributed to Market The sharp rise in the past year has been attributed in part, to the setback that oc curred in the stock market. Many investors, who had been building up funds there for particular purposes, such as chads college education, were made more aware of the hazards that were involved. They began putting more money into insurance and into savings accounts. Another part of the in crease, it is noted, was due to the rapid growth of group life insurance, which is usual ly Job-connected insurance. More than two out of three non-farm workers are now so- covered. You can start saving as easy as abc: 1 Jnst come to our office and walk in. You are always welcome. b, 'Open your account in the amount you wish. Well give you amount recorded. VoAdd to your account regularly. The amounts you put in or take out . . . plus earn ings on your savings . . . will be recorded in your passbook. That's how easy it is. Invaitment made by , the 10th ef the month arnt at of the first. CURRENT DIVIDEND 4 PER ANNUM iW to change his weather by brute force; his energy re sources are far too puny. Will he ever find a means of triggering vast changes with the expenditure of rel atively little energy? After all, it takes only the gentle pressure of a foot to send a 200-horsepower automo bile hurtling down a high way. It is tempting at least to search for a trigger method of dealing with the weather and with its more stupen dous manifestations, such as hurricanes. Hurricanes are "prodig ious producers of fresh wa ter," Wexler and Sherwood noted. It has been estimat ed that Hurricane Carla in 1961 caused more than 40 billion tons of rain to fall on the Mississippi valley in a single day. Supplies Fresh Water This was enough to have supplied the fresh water needs of the United States for more than two months. If hurricanes could be steer ed, and forced to dump their water into reservoirs, the nation's growing thirst could be more than satis fied. But hurricane seeding ex periments have produced no evidence that this is feasi ble. An alternative to trig gering techniques, in the at tempt to modify the weath er, might be vast engineer ing works. Many have been suggest-ed-warming the arctic with infusions of Pacific ocean water, changing the flow of the warm Gulf stream, crea tion of an immense artifi cial cloud cover with clean H-bomb explosions to pre vent loss of heat in cold re gions. Could Be Desert But scientists have repeat edly pointed out that for all anybody knows a climate change that made arctic lands green might well turn Mediterranean Europe or southern United States into a lifeless desert. Even if such grandiose engineering schemes could be carried out - they would cost many billions of dollars - "The end results," Wexler and Sherwood said, "would be unpredictable in detail at this time." They will not be predict able, the authors said, un til "major advances in the atmospheric sciences" have been made. "Progress in this field," they said, "will require a high degree of international collaboration." a passbook with this MEDFORD NO MONEY DOWN ON CREDIT AT improvement 11 jfflntf l! ED I T SE R V I C Ej " j 1 lAT"Ei! S! 1 VvV'I 0"?? ' 'rouble. Words .xperti ! orfJ! f T o'uaiamiu I 9 V f1". ''"' "'' P'n the job and estimate "tr' r,'"""" nMt Map r dNf gwt. .' . . Tfl " ' . ' ; . hmmh ( .... ,.ghpoMnk. P TMMM IWMH1 J J I piict Of paM. Article 4248-429B GUARANTEED ONE-COAT LATEX ,49 GALLON Low-sheen interior paint...odorless, dries in 30 minutes to scrub able surface. 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