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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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DECORATIONS PAY OFF-Sgt. Andrew R. AUcn. as the most
decorated soldier aboard the troop rotation ship Marine Phoenix
' from Korea, was the first to debark at Seattle. As a result, be
ran smack into the arms of actress Joau Caulfield, standing by
ioi "iat purpose.
By BENNIE TAYLOR
AP Science Reporter
PASADENA, CHlit. Half an
hour after the earthquake 111 Tibet,
Aug. " M one ol tne great'
eat ever recorded, the enrlh's stir
face In California moved slowly
north-eastward about a foot, then
back again.
A few mltmt InlAi nnrti tt
! New York City moved' similarly,
aooui iu inches encn way.
At intervals between these two
occurrences the intervening terrl'
tory moved also.
There were several of these
movements about live minutes
apart, lasting about hair an hour.
Each succeeding awing was small
er than its predecessor.
The same thing happened in oth
er great earthquakes and will con
tinue to happen whenever a major
movement occurs in the earth's
crust A long, slow terrestrial shud
der follows the earth's surface
much like a wave on the ocean,
but dlffenent from the shock waves
felt by humans. It Is mostly a
sliding, horizontal movement.
EARTH'S SKIN STRETCHES
The push-pull force of these
quakes produces strains In a con
siderable area of the earth's skin,
which is somewhat flexible. You
can illustrate it by putting a fin-
bit on your Dare arm ana push
ing or pulllne the skin. The crnt:
est skin movement is near the fin-
HST Sees Federal Farm
Costs Higher in 1953
By
WASHINGTON Wi President
Truman estimated Monday feder
al farm programs will cost seven
per cent more next year because
of a government need to encour
age greater crop and livestock out
put. His budget message to Congress
outlined expenditures of slightly
more than $1 billion for the
fiscal year beginning next July 1.
This compares with an expected
outlay of $1,400,000,000 for the cur
rent year, 1650,000.000 last year and
record of 2,800,000,000 - year
before last.
SUPPORTS
A major portion of the cost, he
said, would be in the form of price
supports, soil conservation pay
ments, and wheat export subsidies.
Because of a shortage of critical
materials, Mr. Truman recom
mended a smaller appropriation
for rural electrification. He also
forecast a reduced demand for
loans financing farm purchases.
The chief executive said the gov
ernment's price support program
- is being used to encourage farm
production by keeping support pric
es on cotton, corn, wheat, soy
beans, milk, wool and several other-
commodities at maximum lev
els of S per cent of parity.
(Parity is a standard for meas
uring farm prices, declared by law
to be equally fair in relation to
prices farmers pay for goods they
use.)
The government's farm produc
tion goal for fiscal 1953 calls for a
six per cent increase in output
over last year's record and 50 per
cent, above the 1935-39 average.
Borne of this increased production
would move into the department's
hands as a reserve for possible
luiure emergencies.
INCENTIVE
Mr. Truman said the 90 per cent
parity support level "should help
to give farmers the economic in
centive necessary to maintain high
production."
This appraisal of the current
price support level followed state
ments in the President's economic
Temp Plunges
In Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS. Alaska Ml The
temperature skidded to 60 degrees
below zero Sunday'and Fairbanks'
20.000 residents, their regular air
communication virtually cut off
by the bitter cold, shivered in a
trosty world of their own.
The cold spell, the second in ten
days, held most of the far north
in its grip. . ,
It was 78 below zero at Snag
on the Alaska-Canndian border and
many Interior Alaska points re
ported readings of 70 below or
colder.
A dense ice fog which always
forms when the mercury drops be
low minus 45. forced scheduled air-
report to Congress last week and ! lines to cancel flights to and from
his message on the State of the rairoanxs.
Stork Visits
Ship at Sea
SEATTLE Wl When the Navy
Transport Hugh J. Gaffey docked
here Saturday, a huge flag flut
tered from its side saying "IT'S
A BOY."
. The sign referred to Jeffrey Foe
gel who was born at sea last Mon
day. He is the son of Staff SgU
Clinton Foegel, of Roseburg, Ore.,
and his Japanese wife, Kumlko.
Doctors, nurses and the medical
staff delivered the baby. Carpen
ters built an Incubator which was
outfitted by electricians. -
U.S. Skiers
Finish One-Two
CHICAGO Ifl U.S. Olympic
team members, Art Devlin of Lake
Placid. N. Y., and Wilbur Rass-
mussen of Ishpeming, Mich., fin
ished 1-2 Sunday in the 46th annual
norge ski club jumping meet at
nearoy tox Kiver urove.
Devlin won with leaps of 195 and
196 feet. He was awarded 2203
points. Rassmussen compiled 216.1
ana naa jumps of 187 and 190 feet,
Union a week earlier criticizing
the present farm law.
In those documents, he said a
"sliding scale" provision of the cur
rent support program was likely to
discourage farm production. He
said many farmers fear that il
they produce big crops, their prices
will drop and cause them losses.
The President's budget recom
mendations included $256,500,000
for payments to farmers who car
ry out approved soil and water
conservation practices. This is the
same amount voted for the current
year. This item faces stiff opposi
tion from some farm groups, in
cluding the American Farm Bureau
Federation, which are urging gov
ernment economy.
WHEAT
He estimated $182 million will
be required to pay wheat export
subsidies under an international
wheat agreement, or about two
million more than this year and
more than double the cost two
years ago. He acknowledged that
this program is costing more than
had been forecast at the time the
agreement was signed three years
ago.
Mr. Truman recommended $75
million be authorized for rural
telephone and electrification loans
compared with $150 million provid
ed for the current vear. He said.
however, that funds to be carried
over from the current year would
permit about as many loans as
this year.
Because of the difficulty of start
ing cold engines, drivers were keep
ing their motors running 24 hours
a day.
The hardy who ventured out
doors were bundled in fur - lined
parkas with wool mufflers tied over
their faces to keep noses and cheek
from freezing. An uncovered cheek
would freeze in as little as ten
minutes of exposure.
Deliverymen for grocery stores
were the busiest people in town.
They nad to race around their
routes, delivering two or three or
ders at a time to prevent the food
from freezing.
If they tarried with a load of
groceries, they would have apples
as hard as rocks, eggs that
smashed like glass and canned
goods that had lrozen and Duiged
the container.
Cans of beer froze in less than
45 minutes.
One dairy Installed a battery of
heaters in its delivery trucks so
milk could be delivered to custom
ers before it turned to ice cream.
ger but thert Is movement also a in the same direction with impre-. light thus traces an enormously
magnified grauli or the rock
squeezing or alrololiliiK movement.
This graph la a aeries of aliiu,
wavy lines, a representation or the
considerable distance awuy, grad'
ually decreasing.
This tremendous movement goes
on all the time to some extent
but does no harm because It Is
so bi( and so slow. Wholo build
ings, whole cities, wholo moun
tains, even whole states move
mpre or less at the same time.
A person cannot detect it because
everything around him is moving
ipfyM?MC Y
By JEAN OWENS
Pelican quintet met a surprise
upset In the Klnmalh vs. Grants
Pass basketball game ,on the
Grants Pass home court Friday
night, but they came through with
Die high score hi Saturday night's
game to redeem themselves and
their school.
Many Pel fans braved the icy
highways to see and support the
team Saturday night, although only
a few were able to attend Friday
night.
Congratulations to the Pels for
well-played but hard-Iought games.
Sunday "Youth Views the News."
at six thirty over KFJI had many
listeners in the Klamath Bnsln due
to the participation of KUHS stu
dents. It was heard over four sta
tions in Oregon and eight stations
in Washington.
ine program was tape-recorded
Friday morning at 10:20 bv sta
tion KOMO, Seattle, with Millard
Ireland as moderator and Bob
Hurd as producer.
f our students made up the panel
which discussed three subject"!:
phases of President Truman's state
of the union address to Congress,
Korean peace negotiations and the
International Boxing club. Panel
members were Trudy Bramlett,
Beverly Eells. Tom Murdock and
LeRoy Porter.
'Student co-operation in the pro
gram was especially fine." was
the comment of Millard Ireland.
All arrangements were made bv
Mr. Deller. civics teacher and ad
visor to the IRL, and the program
was sponsored oy weyernauser
Timber company.
WINNERS
NEWBERO I Lorene Christ-
ianson, Linfield College, and Tom
scneaiu, Willamette university.
won too honors in the women's
and men's divisions of the state
after dinner speaking contest at
George Fox College Friday.
The Intercollegiate Forensic
Association of Oregon sponsored
tne contest.
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Pelican service club has formed
a disciplinary committee to en
force the rules and reiulatlons of
the club.
Members of the committee are
the three officers of the club. Ad
visor Mr. Ross, ClaudiB Miller.
June Steam. Don Paugh and For
rest Rutlcdge.
ceptlble slowness.
lint there are two Instruments
now In operation here and two
more on Paloniar mountain, home
of the "Big Eye," which oan de
tect, ineasurt and record tills vast
slow motion,
HOW GADGETS WORK
lliey are called strain srlamo
graphs. Conceived and designed by
Ur. Hugh Beuloff or Ilia California
institute of Technology, they are
being duplicated In other earth-
Quake research centers.
The strain seismograph is based
on the fact Unit there Is a tiny
difference In I lie amount of thla
movement between two points a
few feet apart. But it la far loo
small to be detected by any ordt
nary means.
For example a quake In Tibet
pushing its force across the Pact'
fio compresses the earth a little
while moving It slowly. The big
rock upon which California Tech's
seismologies! laboratory Is built is
shortened a few mllllontlis of an
men because of this pressure.
This compresses the foundation
of the building too. but a few mll
llontlis of an inch Is not enough to
cause damage or even draw atten
tion. Also it stretches back into
place when the wave cycle la com
pleted. One of Dr. Behloff's existing In
struments is delicate enough, how
ever, to delect this ultrasmnll
suqeczlng and stretching In a 60
foot length of the rock. Given the
amount of change he can quickly
compute the total earth surface
movement.
The instrument sits In a small
bore tunnel under the building. Its
most noticeable feature Is a steel
tube 60 feet long. One end of this
tube is set rigidly In the rock wall
that closes the next end of the
tunnel.
The east end of the tube la not
connected to anything but it holds
a gadget that converts the tiniest
motion into a feeble electric current.
Half of this gadget is on the
tube end. The other half is set
solidly In the rock that forms the
one end of the tunnel. The two
halves of the gadget are only 60
thousandths of an inch apart.
When any earth force squeezes
or stretches the rock il does not
change the length of the tube be
cause the gadget end of it is free.
Il does, however, more one half
of the gadget In relation to the
other half, and this motion sets up
the electric current..
MOVEMKNT MAGNIFIED
The current Is sufficient to move
a pinpoint searchlight beam. Thin
beam Is aimed at a revolving re
cording drum a couple of feet from
the light source. A tiny movement
of the light source makes a much
larger movement where the pin
point of light hits the drum. The
great slow motion that produced
uie
lug.
minute squeezing and atrolch-
The Instrument Is so sensitive
that it performs wildly from tho
amount of strain pill on tho foun
dation rock by a person walking
in tile building above Bccuase of
this the graphs nra scientifically
Useless whllo building la occupied.
The weight of three men stand
ing at one end of the Instrument
causes enough strain on the rook
to throw the light beam far off the
drum,
I'M. OMAR MORE TOUCHY
The Paloinar Instruments are
even more sensitive. Here is the
way Dr. Dcnloff Illustrates their
abilities:
If a giant 9000 miles tall grasped
the Atlantic const In one hand
and tho Pacific coast In the oilier
and squeezed them together until
he reduced the width of the con
tinent by one Inch, the tube of a
strain seismograph set somewhere
near Omaha would move about
five mllllontlis of an Inch and
would swing its light beam nearly
half an Inch.
These great slow motions have
wave lengths far too long lor ordi
nary earth movement detectors.
They are about 6M miles from
peak to peak In cycles of about
five minutes each, which means a
speed upwards of 120 miles a min
ute.
Earthquake waves which travel
more or less directly through the
earth liMiciid of n long Us mirfiico
n ro tho principal onon recorded on
ordinary seismographs. They are
much nhortcr limn the strain
waves. The.io direct waves have
frequencies ranging from a few
seconds up to fill neromln. Thus an
ordinary sclMnograpli Ik lis unoless
on theso lung, slow strain move
ments as a blunt wave radio re
ceiver trying tu pick up a long
wave broadcast,
GIANT CALLED KOIt
Any living thing big enough to
Icel tho long waves would need
reach of lit least 11(10 miles, llenl
oil's giant, standing Willi one foot
In Kansas City mid the other In
wmcinimii, might loel them slight
iy.
There limy he oilier waves even
longer man the. flvo-m nute ones
possibly wllh Irequcnelcs of hours
or days. They may bo writing the
pattern of growth of mountains or
even changes In wholo continents,
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Ho Inipoi'liint ii 10 these great
waves Unit !hc giivurninciil Is puk
ing a htiiiil In the research. Ifr.
Meiilnff's project In supported tiy
Ihn geophysical section of the UH.
nil' loren laboratories nt Cam
bridge, Mass.
The hew limlniinelilsnii I'liliiiiiur
Mount n In linvu lubes IfiO feel long.
They will bo unit! to pick up wave)
longer lliiin thimn recnrileil on Ihn
11(1-toot Insli iiiueuls hern, but hint
how much lunger Dr. llenlolf dors
mil know yet.
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As we ourselves are the teen
agers, perhaps the panel discus
sion tonight at 8:30 over KFLW,
"how we can better build tomor
row's citizens," should be of spe
cial Interest to all of us. Because
of the great amount of public re
sponse this is a continuation of I
lasi weeu discussion on the same
topic.
Listen in to hear the opinions
of others, then form your own.
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