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
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as
abc:
1 Jnst come to our office and walk in.
You are always welcome.
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'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.
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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."
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