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PAGE! A ' HERALD AND NEWS, KImuUi Falb, Orcgoa Wedmday. Deceraker T, MM Earth, Stars and Man (19) Charcoal and History by Don Oakley and John Lane Hoffa Makes Bid To Improve Relations With JFK THE CARBON-14 CYCLE 3 .. EGYPTIAN BCAT- 3,621 YEARS SOME CARBON-14 DATES." DEAD SEA SCROLL- I9I7YEARS CHAR COAL FROM CAVERN'S FIRE IN FRENCH CAVE 5,5b YEARS AcraTw. CPA INDIAN SANDALS SSSSvt,. PRO OREGON - 19 SEA shells: FOSSILTHERMOWETERS OF ANCIENT OCEAN'S ' TEMPERATURE WASHINGTON (UPI) - Team ster President flames R. Hoffa has made a bid to improve his rela tions with President-elect John F. Kennedy. The two have been feuding evei since the senate rackets inquiry into the Teamsters. Hnffa's conciliatory mood an- parently did not extend, however, to Kennedy's younger brother, One of the new tools being used in the search for man came out of World War II research into the atom. ' In 1946, chemist Willard F. Llbby theorized that carbon-14, a radioactive form of ordinary carbon (familiar as charcoal), is manufactured in the upper atmosphere by bombardment from cosmic rays. It mixes with the carbon dioxide breathed by plants and passes into the animals which eat them. Since carbon-14 decays at a certain rate, it should be possible to measure the amount still left in once living things and determine their age. (The process Is compli cated, but basically involves counting the ticks on a Geiger counter.) - It was first verified that carbon-14 is present ,in all living things in equal amounts all over the world. Then dead matter, whose age was known, was tested (for instance, a piece of wood from an Egyptian burial boat). The meth od was found to work with close accuracy. Archeologists at last had a calendar that could take thera back far beyond recorded history. Unfortunately, carbon-14 dating is limited to not much over 50,000 years. There is still a tremendous time gap between it and the uranium method of dating rocks. Men are constantly searching for other natural calendars to 811 that gap. Another form of measuring has been devel oped by another chemist, Nobel Prize-winner Harold C. Urey. He found that a radioactive form of oxygen oxygen-18 is absorbed into the shells of sea creatures. The rate varies with the temperature. With this method, it has been possible to measure the temperature of the ocean millions of years ago. Somewhat like the rings on a tree, the yearly growth of the fossil shells records that year's temperature for all time. Fossil seashells are brought up in the order they were laid down by means of deep-sea borings. By drilling into the sea bottom, man is learning more about the history of the world. One of the most ambitious projects is the "Mohole," the plan to drill through the earth's crust into the zone of floating rock known as the mantle. Preliminary borings may be made in 1961. One possible result may be clues to the secret of bow life began. NEXT: Spark of Life Psychologist Defends Books Called Evil By Angry Mothers SALEM (AP) - A clinical psy chologist stood in defense today of the high school reading anthology, "Adventures for Today," before a ' state Textbook Commission hearing after a battery of some 15 Tigard residents, mostly moth ers of teen-age children, attacked it as morally bad. "If you seek for evil ... you can find it," said Dr. James o. Watkins. "You can find what you look for in the world." Watkins, chief clinical psychol ogist at the Veterans Hospital in Portland and a resident of Tigard, said the real issue in this case is the right not to have book-burning censorship in the public schools. He said that once this starts, the public schools will become the battle ground of every individual who wishes to express his con victions in a matter like this. Watkins said "if we .are going to start controlling textbooks, we should start with seemingly minor points" which he said were: Abraham Lincoln in an inaugur al address said that citizens when they become weary of a govern' ment have a revolutionary right to overthrow it. He said Ben Franklin jn a writ ing advocated, that young men have love affairs with older women. He said William Shakespeare often referred to sex, prostitution and adultery. 'If ever a subversive element gets into the public schools it will be with the denial of the Bill of Rights," he said. He turned to a quote from Jus' Uce William 0. Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court in support of this and got a big iaugh from the many objectors. , "I take il some people are ac cusing Justice Douglas of com munism," Watkins said. There was a loud "Amen" from, one cor ner of the room. . The first attack on the book, after Chairman Lloyd Milhollen of the Textbook Commission open ed the hearing, came from Mrs. James Willock who said "some of the material and some of the authors" were objectionable. ' Mrs. Willock said parents and educators everywhere are con cerned over Uie problem of early dating, the hazards of going steady and what she culled Hie alarming increase of teenage pregnancies and marriages. What a shock to us to pick up their literature textbook and find they are being given a different concept through trash in the classroom," Mrs, Willock said. She said that after the ninth grader reads a Ring Lardner story of a befuddled 18-year-old girl, questions are listed for dis cussion. They are "how would you describe the writer of this diary in love with love, in love with half dozen men at once, or in love with herself? How does she deceive herself us well as her men friends?" Mrs. Willock then asked how the average teenager possibly , can evaluate and answer these ridic ulous questions," and added "why should the student even be con fronted with them?" : She said the only defense of this book is that it has a high Interest quality aimed at stimulating the reluctant reader. : . "What good can possibly be ac complished if a student eagerly reads something that breaks down his very moral fibers?" :sie asked. Mrs. Willock said that through the record of the California Slate Senate Investigating Committee on Education she found many of the authors of the book have from three to 36 activities listed against them. She did not docu ment or elaborate on the nature of these activities. Another speaker, Mrs. James Aitkcn, took the disputed stories in the book one by one and gave her objections, on behalf of those who would ask the Textbook Com mission to rescind its approval of the book. She said "I Can't Breathe," by Ring Lardner has this passage which she said encourages early marriages and divorce: "And she says she was only engaged once, well I have been engaged at least five times a year since I was 14, of course it really isn't as bad as that and I have really only been really what I call engaged six times altogether but is getting engaged my fault when they keep insisting and hammer ing at you and if you didn't sav yes they would never go home." Milhollen, who presided at the hearing, opened by saving that the anthology had been picked for the eluctant learner and said that "with some criticism I agree and with some I do not." Milhollen said an entire anthol ogy should not be condemned for a few selections. He - said some of the disputed stories also ap pear in other approved antholo gies. Milhollen said an anthology is not intended to be read from cov er to cover and the use of judg ment is needed to fit local condi tions. He said it is difficult to find a book that will not draw some objection. Firemen Called To Fashion Shop Suburban firemen were called at 8: 17 p.m. Monday to the Fash ion Villa inthe Town and Coun try Shopping Center. They said a short-circuited switchbox caused smoke that, produced a little dam age to the shop. City firemen made three runs during the past 24 hours. They were called to the M. C. Cooper residence at 1962 Melrose Street Monday afternoon. An overheated pan filled the room with smoke, firemen said. Firemen stood by while a flood ed oil stove cooled at the home of Gary Brown, 1314 Nimitz Street, at 11 p.m. Monday. And they were called at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday to the home of Paul Burnam, 1405 Worden Avenue, to put out a fire in a floor beneath a fireplace. No damage resulted in any case, firemen said. Robert, who served as general counsel to the rackets group. A Hoffa aide said Robert was unfit for attorney general, a post for which he has been mentioned in speculation. The Teamster chieftain, who opposed the Democratic nominee in the recent campaign, made his peace overture in an editorial in the December issue of the union's monthly magazine. let-live" attitude. ' Another union . official, Hoffa aide Harold Gibbons, told a news conference the Teamsters would give the President-elect "what ever support is available to us" in matters or which henneay ana the union agree. He indicated the union would back Kennedy witn: out reservation on foreign policy. Wanted Suspect Held By Police A three-year search for a man wanted in connection with a bad check charge ended over the weekend when Long Beach, Calif police picked up a man for a minor traffic violation. Deputy Sheriff Del Summers left rfor Long Beach Monday to return Ralph E. Brown to Klam ath Falls, where he will face a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. Brown's finger prints were checked with the FBI and found to match those found on had checks jn Klamath County in 1957. In the aftermath of last month's national election," he wrote, "all Americans those who voted for Kennedy and those I who did not will close ranks and work side by side for the wel fare of our country and a better world for all. In all democratic institutions there is room for healthy dissent. Yet, when the vote has been tak en, the maioritv will expressed. all members unite for the welfare of the group." ' A Teamster official said this meant that Hoffa. who was the prime target of the rackets in- nnirv ws fidnntinn a "live-and- aa- .... ... g It s time to rememuor ... Housewares FOR GIFTS! Use Your Charge Account At S JOHN H. HOUSTON EquilebU'i SIFT POLICIES SERVICE SINCE 121 SI W. V. i aew S (l . T I J I IV, FN. V -.i pkiumi M Nlbrll I if YOUR STORE I "Klamath's 721 Main Accessory And Gift Store" Phone TU 4-4561 Soldier Hurt. HONOLULU (AP)-The Army Monday identified a soldier whose legs were paralyzed when he tried to jump from a fork-lift that over turned at Schofield Barracks. 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