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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1949)
n M IE f fo) Jti 51 n3 Sy's km By FRANK JENKINS U EKE It lull ttory la mull over In your mind: "A Inn of clntlt t Argonn national laboratory ol U alomit energy mmmlulon haa revealed that they CREATED OOLD OUT OK MEKCUHV two yrari ago during III courac ol "random" esperl menu Just Ilk Uiatl "THE (lory goea on with a lot of scientific Jargon. Piddlini around with Uielr com plicated modern Instruments, they discovered a "hitherto unknown and vary weak mercury Isotope." All Ihia happened In Chicago. Tlia laboratory In Chicago lacked Iht equipment In work in new Isotope . over completely, ao they sent It out ky llanlord and gaya it u worii When tha null got back to Chi- ana of tha experimenters aayt. "m. kviked It over carefully and nllnd ih.i about five pfji CENT or OUR SAMPLE HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO OOLD and tha other per cant Into other kinds ol mercury. Tha- aamnle. Uia atory goa on, waa checked by oilier chemUU to oe certain that tha yellow metal waa really gold. It wa. THE eclenlist (described at alight, para and white-hairedi related to Uie reporter! In a bored tone ol .! ut "U discovery waa In- i.riina historically and iclcnlll i,.n. hut waa no threat lo Ui nrid financial lblllty" " ih. hula of PKKHKNT coaia. ha continued, "tha aruflclal gold would coat many llmea mora Uan tha genulue article mined from the earth . . . Uier U no aallmaut ol how much an ounce ol tha mercury gold would coat because 01 me ou liculiy of totting up th necessary atomic pile and getting enough of the particular kind of mercury that the aruflclal gold can be made of." REASOURINO. Isn't lit We are patted on the head and told there la no danger of all line gold miitea being ahui down. That If we are prowling around In the mnunlaina and find lump ol yellow metal we can aUU gel all he up over It. That nobody la going to make gold in a factory out of mercury aa w mak nylon In a factory out of coal and limestone and air or rubber out ol petroleum. In a word, that gold wtll CON TINUE to be money that nauona can pay their bilU to other nation with and COULD USE. II they rhose, to back up their mountalna ot . paper monfwiih. Ihua giving peo ple nor onlidenre in iu - . a a rnst be too cur ot that. V I'll venture that the firat foot or go of nylon fiber that Du Pont got out of coal and Ilmeaton and air coat whal ol a lot mora than an equivalent footag of allk apun by a allk worm would hav coat. And I think th firat ounce of aynthrtle rubber mad out of hydro carbon molecule fantastically ex ceeded hi coal an equivalent weight ol natural rubber. But look at the darned atull now. BESIDES, making gold In factory D out of mercury would b Jut th kind of ahenannlgan that would ap peal to politician. They would aay: "Look, bud, we're th only guya In th world who know how toj make gold out ol baa metals (like mercury ! Keep ua In offlc and we'll mak gold for you by Ui long ton in ft jigger that only w know how to run, and thl gold we'll awap FOR ALL THE PRODUCTS OF ALL THE REST OF THE WORLD. "Just keep on voting for ua and YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO WORK AGAIN." - ' No politician could ever realat that temptation. Schools Get 'U.S. Indian Tuition Fund A contract between the federal government and tha Klamath coun ty achool dlatiict, giving th tchooli a 1160,000 advance on Indian tui tion, waa approved by th achool board laat night. Th money waa appropriated by congres laat August and la to b used for construction of ft gymnasi um at Chlloquin and for Improve ment on Bonanaa, Bly and Sprague River achool which are attended by Indian children. Plana for the gym, which will coat an estimated 1130,000, are now be ing drawn. The money will not com from Indian fund but will be paid by the federal government as a lump advance on tuition. Then the gov ernment will recover It money plus S per cent Interest from tui tion over SO-year period. The achool district got some MOOO last year aa Indian tuition and ex pert considerable more thl year. The contract contain ft provision whereby the district' obligation will be cancelled II the federal govern ment stops paying tuition for Indi ana aa It would If th Klamath reservation la liquidated. The money will be paid through Klamath Agency, Can't Return US- Ships, Soviets Say WASHINGTON. Nov. 30 CAPi Kuiwla told the Unit ed State yesterday ".lie won't Im alile to return two bor rowed Ice breaker next Thursday, as promised, be cause they are "inextricably rauffht ' In an Arctic Ice park. The Soviet itld, however. a third lend-lease ice breaker will be handed over December 1 lo U. B. naval official In Yokosuka. Japan. The alale department announced tins shortly after Vladimir I. Bssv kin, counselor of the Soviet em- baasy, waa railed In lo discuss th long-deferred return of the U. B. vessels. After much prodding, the Soviets agreed laat September 37 to release Uie Ire breakers by December 1. with delivery scheduled at Bremer haven, Germany. Mystery Jus I how and where two of the shlix were caught In an ArcUc Ice floe waa not divulged. American officiate are known to be aurprlsed at the Russian atory because the Ice breakers are among the most modern afloat and were designed to plow through even the heaviest floes. They were lend- leased lo Russia In 1044 and 146 shortly after they were built. The United Stale, has flatly re futed to sell Uie (easels lo Russia presumably potential. because ot their war 2 Boys Held In Car-Swap, Cabin Thefts Two teen-age Klamath Falls boys who ar believed to have pulled an unusual car-swap at the Lombard motor company aa well as string ol burglaries at Lake o the Woods were bring returned Irom Bend to dav In police custody. Bend police Identified the youths aa Darvm Erlrki, 15. and Dwatne Daley, 1. They were picked up there last night In a atolen car and In possession of several radios re. ported ly from Lake o' th Wood noma. Price Five Cent M Page KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER M. lMt Teiepbeew gill N. 3144 li A nor it crzafcurt r-'v.' J " a ay a. S a m fop ST 1 ( LUMBER SHIPMENTS I Pi PORTLAND, Nov. 30 (in Marl time lumber shipment from Colum bia river district port In the tlrat 10 month of thl year were 130.000.000 fret greater than th 13 month total of IM, ix home at the lake war burTl jglariaed sotnaum Sunday, accord- my w m aenmeca, neaa ot in Late o' the Woods home owner associa tion. The cabin were those of Mrs. Oeorg Mrrrymsn, Fllenor Stoner. Twyla Ferguson. Dr. Oeneyleve Swedenburg of Ashland. Matt Plnnl gan and J. R. Kmpp of Central Point All the cabins are located on the south end of the east aide of the lake. The doors of floe were forced and a window of the sixth the Kmpp cabin had been kicked out Bob Porter, who haa a cabin there, first discovered tha break-lna Sunday, then went up again yester day and determined that a second visit apparently had been made by the prowlers. He waa unable to de termine what had been taken from the cabin but the boys were report ed to have only radio In their pos session at Bend. State police here received word that Bricks and Dairy had not been at school for several days and were driving around In a 1040 Dodge. They checked lth Lombard motor company and found that a sedan had been taken out of the company storage shed, run about 500 mile and replaced In the shed. That ap parently occurred over the week end, and without the motor compa ny noUclng that the car wa mlsa-Int Swap But atlll another 1040 Dodge waa missing from Uie shed and It was reported to be the one th boy were driving at Bend. Apparently they had driven one car two or three day, returned It and picked up another. They were using license plates off ft car wreck ed several months ago. At Bend Erlck and Daley told police they had taken still another automobile from Lombard', ft 1040 Plymouth three week ago. How they got Into th shed was not dis closed. Caretaker Dodged The Sunday raid on th cabin waa mad after the caretaker, Oeorg Bosley, made round in the morning and before Porter arrived In th afternoon. Juvenile Officer Howard 8trode and a state policeman were bring ing the youtha down from Bend. X V 1 bC li Jills! r" miii. IS. a. r fX&A huno hv m i c kx k air JOB I Missing Child Found Safe GREENVILLE, Calif.. Nov. 30 r A missing three-year-old girl, for whom hundreds of men had sesreh r ' throughout the night, wa found today In the wild mountain country only a lew mile from her Green ville home. Sheriff Metfln H. Schooler said little Marian Lee "Bunny" Camp wa suffering al'jhtly from expos ure but was otherwise unharmed. The child wa found about ft mite from wher search party last night had trailed a child' foot prints, along with a man' to a point where an automobile apparently had turned around. Bunny 1 the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlea Camp, who moved re cently to thl Northeastern Califor nia lumber town from ft nearby Til lag. icltolais soon ) ' '- M " ." mm .-- ''O- uttrt txtsfcifdt All vanun &.r& ; nx-zmnx - in -fit tup - Ktmh. Ju.Jrfe '.szhhlzh W hoops, Russ Are Amazin' Again! LONDON, Nov. M isVAnss. tng wheat" that yields aver 130 bushel an acre haa been grown In the Soviet Union, Moscow radio :i4 today, Th broadcast, heard In Lon don, ald th winter wheat bear ing five head on each sulk waa developed at the Karaganda ag ricultural experimental center at Kazakh, near th Iranian bor der. Yields above M or 60 bushels per acre are considered phe nomlnal and the U. 8. govern ment average lor all wheat 1 n biunel per acr. Levis Fails To Hold Policy Meet Thomas Puts Self At Court's Mercy WASHINGTON. Nov. 30 fP) Ren. J. Parnell Thoma (D-NJ) today withdrew his plea of not guilty to charge of payroll padding, and threw binuelf on the mercy of the court. The M-year-oId legislator changed hi plea to one ot nolo contendere. That means he doe not contest the government' charges. Startling With thl starring development. Judge Alexander M. Holtxoff dis missed a charge against Miss Helen Campbell, former secretary to Thoma. She waa accused of eon. spiring w'.iii Thoma to defraud the government through padding of the lawmaker office pay roll. Roltzoff aald that sine Miss Campbell seemed to have acted merely a an employe of Thoma. he would dlsmua th charge against her. John R. Pi Upa trick, lawyer for Misa Campbell, had contended at the outset of the trial on Monday that every act of Miss Campbell wa under "compulsion'' from Thomas due to their employe-employer rc latlonship. . Kick-Back Fitzpa trick told th court then that It wa true that Mis Campbell had arranged for ft niece, Myra Mldkif I . and her maid. Anjett Minor, to go on Thomas' payroll. The govern ment contended that neither ever did any real work; that their salary check were deposited to Miss Campbell' account in a bank here, and that Mux . Campbell in turn transferred funds to Thomas' bank account at Allendale. If. J. Thoma' change of plea came when the government was ready to put Mia Midkiff and Mis Minor on the stand. Chungking's Fall to Reds Reported BONO KONO. Not. 30 UPv-Com-munist forces moved In on Chung king today and reliable reports from Talpen. Formosa. Oenerallsslmo Chiang Kai-shek headquarters, said Uie city fell at noon. Chiang atrived In Chengtu. new Nauonalist capital, shortly before noon. He had been leading the de tense of Chungking and trying to get Acting President LI Tsung-jen to return to China from this British colony. i . A dispatch from Chungking to a Chinese newspaper here said 30400 red troop crocsed the YangUe at 1 ft.m. Tuesday, local time, and en tered the outskirts of th third Nationalist capital brought under communist guns thl year. NEW YORK, Nov.. 80 (AP)-A new soft coal walk, out appeared certain at mid. night tonight. John L. Lewis postponed . again today meeting of his United Mine Workers policy committee until 10 a. m. tomorrow.- Lewis gave no word nutw licly about whether ar nnt he will permit a strike. In Pittsburgh, however. ' Dennis Harshall, UMW District Fire ram. sentaUve. aald "call received my office from local leaders today how definitely Uie men are plan ning to quit tonight True End A three-week true I scheduled to expire at midnight. Th union' 300-man policy committee ha beta marking time her since Monday, ready to act if Lewla gave the signal either to extend the armis tice or to allow the miner agaus. to lay down their tool In their con tract dispute with th pit owners. Lewi met with hi district presi dent this morning and then allowed ft spokesman to say that th full dress policy meeting scheduled for 1 p. m. would again b postponed. Th meeting waa put off Monday and Tuesday whll Lewi remained in Washington. Speesdaliea i j All that reporter could do wa to (peculate that the mine would be shut down tomorrow, sine th committee authorised by tha union constitution to act on such major issues would be unabl to move be fore the deadline. Whether Lewi ha sent out word by his own method through district . president could only be gueswed about. He gav no hint of what behind-the-scenes mov h wa in Torred in. Hard Ceal ' ' i But new hard coal wag talks were scheduled In th meantime. Ralph E. Taggart, chairman ef the anthradt operators wag agreement committee, announcad that h and Lewis hav agreed ta reconvene the talks here Decembr (. They last met in Philadelphia oat July!.- . ;- Probers See!. 23-Death Air Crash Cause DALLAS. Nov. 30 UP) Investiga tors studied bits of wreckage and survivors' statement today la an effort to piece together all detail of an Americas Airline plan crash in which 38 died. Eighteen other person were in jured in the pre -dawn accident yea terday. The SO-passenger plan, bound from New York to Mexico City slammed into two building and x ploded in flame on th edge af the Love field airport. . Pollution Control Fund Voted Stat WASHINOTON. NaT. 30 T) Washington and Oregon war in cluded in grants for the study .of polluUon control announced yester day by the federal (ecurity agency. A total of (782.979 was apportioned to th 45 participating itates. ' Grants to th states Included: Washington 113.473; Oregon tlUOt. Vuletide Season Begins Friday A gala parade aa you'll ever hop to see Is slated for th colorful Christmas opening Friday night, December 3, down the length ot ft brightly lighted Klamath Fall Main street. At 7 o'clock on the dot, the U tinlt mercury vapor lights will be turned on to give Santa Glaus and hi helper ft fine parade route. The parade starts Imemdlately after the official lighting of th lamp, Street will be cleared starting at 6 o'clock Friday afternoon and Elks will aid the police department In getting the Main street clear. Paper bags will be clamped on th meter and thl will be reminder enough to the publlo to clear th way for the festlv ihow. - 8nta arrival will be heralded by a huge tlare. School will participate In th pared and their floats will be deslg rated a follow: C o n g r, "Christmas Fairies"; Falrvlew, "Ice King"; Fremont, WINDOW8 All wlndowe te be Judged In the ( hrlslmaa earning contest should have card algnlfylng the window aa an entry, heada of Judgea an nounced today. Judging will be done Friday. "Night Before Christmas"; Mills, "Wuikem, Bllnkem and Nod"; Pell can, "Hansel and arete!"; Riverside, "St. Nick'; Roosevelt, "Snow White and Seven Dwarf"; Sacred Heart academy, "Yultud Bella"; Alt- i I mont Junior high. Toyland"; Shasta, "Shoemaker and th Elves"; Henley. "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cater"; Scout. Snowboy." In addition then will b choral group from Altamont Junior high, the Lady Eagle drum corps, Klam ath Union high school band. House Bi other, choir from KCH8 and Sacred Heart, Barbershop group and Camp Fire Olrls and Girl Scout. And then Santa Claua nd hi helper. Members ot 30-30 club will follow Santa In pickup nd all those watching th parad ar asked to remain on the curb. Candy will be distributed to th children and Scouts will stt. . ' Th parad trt at Salalgtr'l '. , I . . ; v . ; and winds up t th big tree on Ui courthou lawn. All thou participating In th pared ar asked to b at th fir staUon lot promptly at t:30 pjn. Friday. Man Facts Prison j In Wife's Dtath BEND. Nov. 30 (PV-Earl Haack. 36, faced a flvc-ycsr term In th a tat prison today on manslaugh ter conviction In th death of hi WU. Mr. Hsack. 34. did October t. after a head blow. Trial tMtlmony Indicated th husband had been drinking and beat hi w f In their pertinent her. H waa ntncd Monday. ,' ' Meet the People URDINID WITH THI HIRAlD AND NEWS third onmwl Christmas edition, Bill Mook starts, out on route 63 late this afternoon to leave the four-section holiday issue on your door. p. ' ;' ft
