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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. MAY 19, 195 PAGE EIGHT Evaluation of Cloud-Seed Effort Explained By Thesis By IIKLEN PARKS FORT ROCK "Evaluation of Southern Oregon Cascades. 1952 1!I57," a paper presented by Manes Barton of Portland at last month's Western Snow Conference at Boze man, Montana, tends to substanti ate the belief that cloud-seeding in Douglas and Jackson counties has resulted in increased rainlall in northern Lake County, fiarton, with the Soil Conservation Service, is assistant snow survey supervisor for Oregon. Since 1952. California Oregon Power Company has subsidized the work of North American Weather Consultants of Goleta, California, aimed at increasing mountain snowfall and the resultant summer stream-flow for the production of hydro-electric power. The weath er modification program Is car ried on from November to March using silver iodide ground genera tors located at 11 points plus a mobile unit mounted in a pickup No Surprise In Primaries By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nearly 53 per cent of Oregon's 817.600 registered voters cast bal lots in Friday's primary election. With returns in from all but 23 of the state's 2.674 precincts, the unofficial tahulation showed a total of 429,143 votes cast for gov ernor. Republicans out-voted the Demo crats in that contest. Trends in nearly all races were established early in the counting, and there were no surprises as the final totals were posted. There were 387.453 Republicans registered and returns from 2.651 precincts showed 221.572 votes cast for the six GOP gubernator lal candidates. Secretary of State , Mark Hatfield won the nomination with more than 105,000 votes. State Treasurer Sig Unander was second with 65,000, and State Sen Warren Gill third with 40.000. The other three candidates, Albert Eichmon, George Livingston and Orval Ilasor. had a combined total 0( about 11,00(1 votes. On the Democratic side, 207,571 of the 430,000 registered Demo crats voted. Gov. Robert D. Holmes easily won the nomination with 129.000 votes to 60,000 for Low Wallace. . Wiley Smith, Mullonomnh County assessor, trailed with 19,000. Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton defeated Don Mctheny. 38.000 to 12,000, in the race for Democratic nomination from the 1st Congres sional District. On the Republican side. Rep. Walter Norblad easily heat Phil Hitchcock. 46.000 to 22,000. Republicans nominated John Johnston of Portland to oppose Democratic Rep. Edith Green in the 3rd district. Mrs. Green was unopposed. The two incumbent state Su preme Court justices, George Rossman and Gordon aloan. won virtual election by winning sizable majorities in the primary and will be unopposed in the fall. Boy Hit By Auto Has Leg Broken A 6 year - old Klamath Falls youth suffered a broken leg Sun day morning when he was struck by an automobile in a service sta tion lot just south of Klnmath Falls on U.S. Highway 97. The injured youth is Steven Collman, 4207 Bal sam Drive. Investigating state police said that young Collman and another youngster were kneeling down in the lot of Shorty's Service Station while counting somo hottles they had collected. At that point Steven got up and moved backwards directly into the path of lhe car driven by Olto Mikkelscn. 7li. of 3923 Green Springs Drive. Ho was rushed to the hospital by Peace Ambulance ' CRUSH FATAL OREGON CITY I Olto J. Pelrich of Sherwnoil futnllv. crushed under the wheels of his tractor Saturday. He had stopped the vehicle on a grade to make repairs when it rolled forward over him. Pelrich was seeding farmland four miles south of Tualatin at the time of the accident. FINGER CIT A. M. Shultz, 47, 2545 Radcliffo Avenue, hud a finger severely cut Sunday, when he caught it in a power mower. Shultz was taken by the Peace Ambulance to Klam ath Valley Hospital, where he was released alter treatment. truck. Each generator is equipped with a pulsating device to vary the quantity and size of the silver io dide nuclei. The report stated that "for four of the six seeded years, the high est per cent of normal precipita tion in the state has occurred in the Fremont-Paisley area, lending strong support to the thesis that a downwind effect exists beyond the target area. The target area comprises the west slope of the Cascades from Lake of the Woods north to the Toketee Falls project. The north Lake County area is between 40 and 60 miles beyond the target. There are four U.S. Weather Bu reau stations, ranging from Fre mont, six miles southwest of Fort Rock, to Paisley. Precipitation at The Poplars weather state in the Fort Rock Basin for the five months this past winter was 6.62 inches compared with an average of 5.07 inches prior to the cloud seeding project, according to Bud Parks, cooperative observer. Rain and snowfall during the seven years of the Copco weather proj ect, he noted, have been steady and gentle without any violent or destructive storms. The Poplars weather station is equipped with a recording rain gauge which plots on a graph the intensity of storms as well as total amounts of precipitation. An exception was the winter of 1954-55 when the five-month pe riod that winter yielded only 2.48 inches of precipitation, less than half of average. As for increasing the snow pack at the headquarters of the Rogue and Umpqua rivers, it appears there has been only a three per cent increase of April 1 snow and water content figures for the years covered by the study. Stream flow from April to July was up four per cent from that expected had there been no cloud-seeding. During the past several years, there have been other separate attempts to disperse fog, suppress hail and increase spring precipi tation in the Rogue Valley area These activities are considered lo cally to have changed the weath er pattern in north Lake County, also, and, according to Barton, have made evaluation of the winter project more difficult. Co-author of the paper was Lylc D. Calvin of the Oregon Agricullu al Experiment Station and water forecaster and statistician. Ike's Power Bills Blasted EUGENE I.TI Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass1, a possible candidate for Democratic nomina tion as president, said here Sun day the Eisenhower administra tion power policies have checked Northwest development. Kennedy told a Jefferson-Jackson Day Democratic meeting these policies which he said had "slowed down, halted and ham strung" lhe region's power pro grams were hurting the Pacific Northwest's economic growth. Earlier at a press conference. the senator backed away from questions about his future politi cal plans other than running for the Senate again. He was to speak at the univer sity, at Salem, and at Portland before leaving for Washington. D.C., Monday night. Oregon Weather By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eastern Washington, Oregon and Idaho Temperatures averaging above normal with cooling trend at the beginning of the period but warming latter part of the week. A few showers mostly occurring before Thursday. High tempera tures generally 75-85. Minimums 42-52. . Western Washington and Oregon Some cooling through Tuesday with warming Wednesday or Thursday. Temperatures to aver age above normal through Sat urday. Scattered showers mostly occurring before Wednesday. Max imums 64-74 in Western Washing ton and "0-80 in Western Oregon except 60-6.i along the cosst. Min imums 45-55. TRASH FIRE The city fire department put out a small trash fire near the Bal siger Motor Company on Espla nade Sunday evening. There was no damage. PERFECT CHOICE TAMPA. Fla. U'Pi - Miss Mary Louise Perfect tries to live up to her name. The Florida Jaycees have named her the state's outstanding teacher of the year. RECORDS jptl T.M. . U.l FN. Of. "He's better than a diet I've had to give up sundaes in order to buy all hit records!" California Weather By UNITED PRESS San Francisco Bay Area: Fair through Tuesday except morning high fog and fog near ocean all day: high today San Francisco 62, Oakland 70, San Mateo 71, San Rafael 72, low tonight 50-55; nor mal westerly winds. Northern California Fair through Tuesday except coastal fog and a chance of a few thun' derstorms extreme northern mountains today: cooler coastal sections today: coastal winds west to northwest 10-20 m.p.h. Mt. Shasta -Siskiyou area: Fair through Tuesday except chance of a few thunderstorms today; little change in temperature. Sierra Nevada: Fair through Tuesday except local afternoon cloudiness; little change in tern neraturo. Sacramento Valley: Fair through Tuesday: little change in temperature; high both days 78- UK: low tonight 50-56; southerly winds 8-16 m.p.h. Northwestern California: Fair through Tuesday except coast al fog; chance of a few thun derstorms in northern mountains loday: cooler coastal sections high today and low tonight Ukiah 75-50; Santa Rosa 72-48, Napa 72 "iO; southerly winds 8-16 m.p.h, near coast today becoming north west 10-20 m.p.h. Umijiht and Tuesday. SAN FRANCISCO I UP) Five day weather forecast for North em California: No precipitation except occasional scattered thun derstorms extreme northern mountains; temperatures near nor mal; normal minimum-maximum Sacramento 53-80, Red Bluff 56-83, Eureka 49-58, Santa Rosa 44-74, Blue Canyon 45-63. Valley Residents See Red Fire Ball PORTLAND un - Hundreds of persons in the Willamette Valley Saturday night reported seeing a huge red ball flash across the sky. The reports came mostly from the area between Salem to Port land. Many reports said the ball had a long sparkling tail. Similar sightings were reported in parts of Calilornia. Sat oil thol'i nw! Foclory iptcial till dtmomlrating loltll Ici.ntific wilding and cutting procttm. REFRESHMENTS DOOR PRIZES ot North on Hifjhwoy 99 in Medford MAY 23, 24 2 to 9 P.M. INDUSTRIAL AIR PRODUCTS CO. I i i i i I i ... i auto rn BUY Uj And "CHECK WITH CHUCK" For LOW COST AUTO FINANCING AT The MOTOR INVESTMENT CO. Oregon College Probing Space McMINNVILLE un - The Na tional Science Foundation is spon soring 'an investigation of outer space being conducted by the Lintield Kesearch Institute. The institute, a Linfield College agency, is attempting to learn more about the ionosphere and how it sometimes absorbs and sometimes reflects radio waves, The foundation has provided the institute with a $42,000 grant to De used in the study. Most of this money will be used to build re ceiving apparatus for picking up radio signals from man-made earth satellites. Linfield is one of four tracking stations set up by the foundation. The others are at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Stanford University at Palo Alto, and at Penn State. Ronald Colman, Movie Idol, Dies In Hospital SANTA BARBARA. Calif. (UPI British-born actor Ronald Col man, 67, whose career spanned three decades of American and English stages and brought him fame as the star of some 100 mo tion pictures, died today. The suave actor succumbed at St. Francisco Hospital. He died at 5 a.m. after being taken there from his home at nearby Montecito, Santa uarhara s fash ionable suburb, Sunday night. Hospital attendants attributed death to a virus lung infection. The white-haired and handsome Colman was best known for per formances in the romantic, classic style films' but turned to television toward the end of his acting life NY Cops To Get Transistor Radios NEW YORK W-Within a month, foot patrolmen in Central Park will have pocket-size transistor radios to help in a new drive on Time. At first, receiving sets only will be issued to these officers. If ex periments prove successful, tiny radio transmitters will be provided for two-way communication. The receiver weighs only nine ounces and can be carried in a case affixed to a patrolman's belt. DETAILS! DETAILS! SAN PEDRO. Calif. (UP) A whale boat race between mem bers of the Junior Chambers of Commerce of Los Angeles. San reoro, wnmingion, ana Long Beach was cancelled Sunday. Someone forgot to order the the whale boats. - for the filmed video program. Halls of Ivy." Colman's debonair manner and the hesitating. British voice that had been imitated many times stamped him for young romantic roles until he was almost 50. But in recent years, his acting was confined to the suave middle-aged type in company with his actress wife. Benita. "The style of what 1 used to do is gone the romantic films, the classics," he told friends. "The older you get the harder you are to cast and the harder to please." Last spring he was one of the celebrities who did fast scenes in Mike Todd's "Around The World in 80 Days," but he did it only for the fun of it. "I won't do another motion pic ture role unless it adds a feather to my cap or is a lot of fun something that tickles one's fan cy," he said. His personal preference always was for light comedy and at the peak of his long career he earned an average of $150,000 a week for just eight weeks of work in one picture a year. He lived quietly on his guest ranch near Santa Barbara, about 90 miles north from Hollywood on the Pacific coastline, making cot tages available for tired film folk who wanted a rest. With his wife and daughter, Juliet Benita, 13, he moved there from Beverly Hills where he once was a neigh bor of comedian Jack Benny, who made a 10-year gag of the relationship. Coleman's motion picture achievements included such films as "Random Harvest" and "A Double Life," for which he won an academy award in 1947. Oth ers were "The Late George Ap ley." "Prisoner of Zenda," "Beau Geste." "Clive of India." "Tale of Two Cities." and the famed "Lost Horizon." The actor was born Feb. 9. 1891, in Richmond. Surrey, Eng land. His father, a silk importer, died when the son was 16 years old. and Colman quit school to become an office boy in a London steamship company at $2.50 a week. During World War 1, he was among the first English sol diers to see service in France. His first acting job was as as Indian tooting a horn. England's post-war depression sent Colman to America in 1920 with $57 in his pockets. His first leading role was opposite Lillian Gish in the film "The White Sis ter." in 1922. That was the mat ing of his picture career. 19 TV SERVICE COMPLETE All Mokei All Models Coll BARABOO'S 333 E. Main Ph. 4-461 1 Motorola Dealer OSBURN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. f. 3. I. Early Jm E.rlr Jr. Pr.prliLri Thoroughly Modem GOOD INTENTIONS MASSA, Italy (UP) Commun ist Giordano Alberti, 29, faced the wrath of the party today for heck ling an electoral rally of Com munist leader Paolo Rossi. Embarrassed Alberti explained he mistook Rossi for a Social Democratic leader with the same name. THE OLD SUNNY BROOK CO.. 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