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THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD. BROWNSVILLE SUNDAY, JAN. 16, 1949 PAGE Dangerous Hours You Can't Live In Atomic Rain Notei to the third mid final article In eeriea deal- Iflff wltk the effect of Atomic energy on human life.) BY HOWARD W. BLAKE8LEE Associated Preen Science Editor NEW YORK, Jan. IB--VB--Poison rain and dust; both are added where an atomic bomb You may live in a city, town or countryside untouched by the conclusion, fire or deadly radioactive rays in the explosion.

But If the wind is blowing in your direction, rain, dust, or both, may drive you from your home or section. This evacuation probably! sheds near the northern United States border, became radioactive. scientists are watching the thick scars to see if any of them turn into cancer. Whether that can happen, no one knows. Most of the dust and atomic smoke of the first bomb floated safely away miles in the air.

Months later some grain straw, growing in two different water- earth, or close to it, the immediate vicinity is likely to remain unin habitable for years. The New Mexico bomb exploded about 100 feet above the desert It pushed the earth down in a shallow saucer, about a quarte of a mile wide. This saucer is uninhabitable, because the earth there is radioactive. will be temporary. It may last aj few days to weeks.

valley. The valley safe from Kow long depends on methods) the explosion. of cleaning which have not been 1 But it was a rainy morning. Rain perfected. and dust fell on the backs of the cattle.

Radioactive particles seeped under the hair. Later the hair fell out. On some cattle it grew again. On others sores replaced the hair. Long thick scars formed.

Under Observation This herd, three years later, Is at Oak Ridge, under obser- Danf erotm Dust Atomic bombs do not cause rain. But where they explode in stormy weather, rain brings down the dangerous atoms, Where they explode close to earth, they suck a pillar of dutt high Into the air, Much of this dust radioactive. All thin appeared in the first bomb In Now Mexico. the radioactive shower. in the preparations WAS a herd of (some show signs of lowered resist- cattle hidden In a small ance to skin troubles.

Medical This straw was used to make packing board films. The for Eastman kodak radioactivity in the straw fogged the film. The explanation is speculative, but the evidence is good. Some of the bomb atoms had fallen to earth, probably in rain. The straw roots had picked up these atoms and for an unexplained reason had concentrated them.

No Human Harm This straw contamination was vatlon. None of: the cattle died too slight to harm humans. Film -i Is ar more 8ens jti ve 0 radioactivity than is a person. The incident raises a question $2,000 CASH IN TO GROWERS OF PRIZES NORTHERN STAR and WACONA COTTON These prixon wlil bo awarded to growers averaging the highest monetary value from 10 acres planted in Texas State Registered Northern or Wacona cotton seed. One set of awards will bo rrmrlo for irrigated land and another set for non-irrigated land.

There arc no entrance no applications to file. RULES To ho eligible for a prize you must plant Texaa State Registered Northern Htar or Wacona Cotton seed ami notify your county agont by Augiuit 1, 1049, giving your name and location of farm. Untrnntff must leave a check row in the plot until prizes have been awarded. Judges will be local County Agent, local Ginner anU a representative of Northern Star or Wacona Seed Farms. A INVENTORY REDUCTION DEGpffBBZB AT ACTUAL COST! Nationally Advert! tied Price Bale Price Our Gout 22- 1- A-4 $199.95 $112.46 C-6 $269.95 $185.40 C-10 $449.50 $284.37 Note i Model number eablc feel capacity.

You can now own Gennlne DEEPFREEZE for aa tittle down and aft.U per month, and IT PAYS FOR 1TSKLK--you save on food you buy In quantity, less often, you ahop ahead, cook and bake ahead, you hanUh the monotony of "leftovers" forever and you are prepared for the "unexpected" ftiest. Ymi are now paying for a Home Freeter without Ing many benefits. Take advantage off these reduced today I MeeU C-tO, fj $264.37 Delivered There is only one DEEPFREEZE HOME FREEZER--Sold and Serviced by: VALLEY BUICK COMPANY St. Charles at 11th Street Phone 2-8697 Crater Inspected Two months after this explosion Major General Leslie Groves led a party of 60 men into the crater They stayed three about ten mln utes, picking up souvenirs and sometimes digging with bare fin gers. None was hurt.

Even photographic film waa not fogged. 'Yet the party was informed tha uously in the crater, at that time probably would die of radioactive burns. You could remain there much longer now, for the radioactivity is on the surface only, and it is slowly dying. A layer of fresh earth over the glass surface of the about domestic plants where probably would shut of poison rains and dusts may be heavier, This question is unanswered. Ordinary cleaning methods are not safe.

Any dust from cleaning may be poisonous to the cleaner. Any dangerous radioactivity can can be posted, so that people will be safe if they stay clear. Usually a few feet will be enough clearance. But these hot spots can appear anywhere. They can normal living inconvenient.

make Where a bomb explodes on the enough of the rays to make oc cupancy safe. Still Risky Yet there still would be risks from buried atoms seeping up, or growing up in grass, or coming out with the earth worms. These are 'considered by some atomic worriers as more serious than the damage done by atomic explosions There are now no answers to these fears. They can be true There undoubtedly will be means of protection. But getting away from there will be one of the best Bulletin Board Monday Boy Scout Troop No.

One meets at 7 p. m. at Trinity Lutheran Church. Hope Chapter No, 324, Order of the Eastern Star, meets at 8 p. m.

Masonic Hall, Visitors are welcome, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will meet at 8 p. m. at home of Mrs, C. Hoagland, 1220 W. Elizabeth.

Catholic War Veterans, Ernesto Perez Post, meets at 8 p. m. at Immaculate Conception Parish Knights of Columbus meet 8 p. at the council hall. at Veterans of Foreign Wars meet at 8 p.

m. at the Chamber of Commerce building. A free Spanish class for tourists and winter residents meets from 10 a. m. until noon at the Chamber of Commerce building.

Guilds of the Women's Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church of the Advent meet at 3 p. m. as follows; St, Elizabeth's with Mrs. Albert Fernandez, 353 E. Washington; St.

Ann's with Mrs. Jimmy George, Riverside Addition; St, Mary's with Mrs. M. Duffey, 28 Poinsettia. The Women's Society of Christian Service of the Pirat Methodist Church meets in tho chapel at 8:30 p.

m. A short business session will be conducted, and a devotional on stewardship will be led by Mrs. Virgil Bailey. Mrs. Eugene Hurt, chairman of literature and publications, will have charge oi! the lesson.

Directors of El Jardin Civic Club meet at 7:30 p. m. at the school. TUESDAY Dr. Bell Men's Club meets at the First Presbyterian Church at 7 p.

m. for a dinner and program Dr. Edwin P. McLean will, speak on compulsory health insurance. The Laymen's League of Cen tral Christian Church meets at 7:30 p.

m. for a covered dish sup per and program, and a farewell party for Mr, and Mrs. Oren Edrington, who will leave soon for San Antonio. The Womans Missionary Society of tho First Baptist Church meets at 2:30 at the church for Mission Study. Mrs.

Harry Roberta will teach the lesson. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks meets at 7:30 p. At the lodge hall. Lions meet at noon at Bl Jardin Hotel. Boy Scout Troop No.

230 meets at Fort Brown Building 72 at 7:30 p. Treble Clef Club meets at 3 p. m. with Mrs. J.

W. Worthington, 1351 Lakeside Drive. Officers for the new year will be elected. WEDNESDAY Trinity Lutheran Sunday School teachers meet at 7:30 m. at the church, Rio Grande Council No.

253, Royal'and Select Master Maaons will have a regular assembly meeting at the Masonic Temple at 7:30 work In the Royal and Masters degree. Visiting Masons are invited to attend. fe Self Culture Club meets at 3:30 m. at the home of Mrs. Milton West, 611 E.

Washington. A regular meeting of the Women's Council of Central Christian Church will be held, with the executive board meeting at noon, and luncheon at 1 p. followed by a missionary program. A free Spanish clans for tourists and winter residents meets from 10 a. m.

until noon at the Chamber of Commerce. St. Joseph'! Academy Boy Scout Troop No, 11 will hold its regular weekly meeting at the Academy at 7:30 p. m. Retiring as superintendent of the U.

S. Military Academy at West Point, Ma Maxwell D. Taylor, above, has been appointed chief of staff of American Military Forces in Europe. Gen. Bryant E.

Moore will takt command of West Point. A. Maresfee Re-Elected Chairman Newly elected officials of the congregation will be Installed at the morning worship service at Trinity Lutheran Church this Sunday. Prior to the rite of installation, the pastor, Rev. C.

Gaertner, will preach on the subject "Chosen of God." O. A. Manske was re-elected chairman of thq congregation at the annual January meeting: of the congregation last Wednesday Re-elected as elder for three years was O. M. Kieswetter.

D. A. Crockett was elected to serve for three years on the Board of Christian Education. O. R.

Colberg, for many years Sunday School superintendent at Trinity Lutheran Church, was re-elected to that post. Robert A. Bell was elected secretary for the coming year. Treasurer is Al Moerbe. John W.

Mozingo Sr. was re-elected financial secretary. L. C. Baxter and John A.

Wuensche Jr. were elected to the stewardship committee. Seminars Education seminars will be held for members of the'Women's Societies of Christian Service of the McAllen district, Mrs. Charles Neidert of Brownsville, president, has announced. Mrs.

O. E. Davis of McAllen, secretary of missionary education and service, will direct studies. Mrs. Browning Smith of Harlln- en, district secretary of status of women, will speak.

"China" will be presented by Mrs. Davis, "Newness of Life" by Mrs. G. P. Roane of Harlingen, 'Program-Building Workshop" by Mrs.

Frank Hickman of Port Isabel. Seminars will meet Thursday, Jan. 19, at Valley Institute, Pharr; Jan. 21 at Alice; and Jan. 26 at Bruni.

Officers and members of ho 32 societies of the district will present. Ex-Governor Of Michigan Visits Here Ex-Governor Kim Sigler of Mich tgan aald hie state's relation with the annual summer influx of Mexican braceroB arc "very good" he cleared the Rio Grande Valley International Airport here Saturday on a good-will vacation flight through Mexico. Sigler disclaimed any official purpose for his planned two-week Mexican trip, implying that there is no need for personal contact with Mexican to keep Michigan free from the stormy about treatment of migratory Mexican farm laborers that beset most Southern states. The former Republican governoi is taking advantage of an enforced vacation to fly his private plane through much of Mexico. A victim of the Democratic avalanche of votes last November, he lost the Michigan governorship to G.

Mennen Williams by about 100,000 votea out of almost 2,000,000 cast. Alone in his Beechcraf Bonanza the 54-year-old politician plans to stop at Monterrey, Tampico, Mexico City, Merida, and Guaymas on the Sonora coast, before returning to the United States through Nogales, Arizona. Side trips to Acapulco and Guatemala City are also on Sigler'e itinerary. Church Plans Special Rites Special services are planned at Central Christian Church this Sun day. At the morning worship service, the Rev.

John G. Wallenburg, minister, will present the sermon, "On the Potter and His Vessels." The choir will Ring, under the direc tion of Emmett Sewell. Mrs. Em mett Ratts will be at the organ. At the evening service, at 7:30 p.m., the church will present for the devotional service a sound motion picture, "The Samaritan Woman," produced by the American Bible Society.

To Lead Sing tuke Palmer will lead in the singing of some old Gospel hymns. At the close of the service, a special sound motion picture on "How To Get Along With Other People" will be presented. The Church also nvites the public to see the film, 'By Jupiter," furnished through the courtesy of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and H. Baugh. Church School sessions begin at 9:45 a.m.

Christian Youth Fellowship meets at 6:30 p.m. The Laymen's League will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. to honor Mr. and Mrs. Oren E.

Edrington who will soon cave Brownsville. A Valley-wide C.Y.P. banquet will be held at the Harllngen Christian Church, Friday at 7:30 p.m. SPOT COTTON GALVESTON, Jan. 15.

JP) -Spot cotton closed steady 15 up. Good ordinary strict good ordinary 23.15; low middling 26.90; strict low middling 30.90; middling 32.40; strict middling 32.75; good middling 32.80; strict good middling 32.85; middling fair 32.85. Sales--spots none; F.O.B. 1,290. Me All en had 34 cues of polio in 1948.

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von Stttli. minister of the Unitarian Church of the Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, will use "Progress Versus Vested Interests" as his sermon subject at the morning: worship service today. Services will be conducted at El Jardin hotel and will begin at 11 a.m. The sermon will be an analysis of those forces which tafli man's thinking and direct fell de- ciaions aa a member of eociety. It la based on the Bible itory of Paul and Demetrius, Rev.

von Still! haa announced. All Brownsville ciUtena are vited to attend the cervic and the coffee which will follow. Mm. J. W.

Oole will pour. WHEN IN CORPUS I I VISIT THE SHOW ROOM FINER I Immediate Ptliytry IRRIGATION PIPE ALL SIZIS-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 INCH POWER UNITS DIESEL OR GASOLINE Oaks Irrigation Equip. Co. Benjamin Franklin wisely laid, "It hard for an empty sack to stand upright." Yes, savings give strength! Without them, we are unsure of the future. Thrift Week, commemorating the statesman's birthday, is the ideal time to put his sage words to action! Resolve to Save Regularly I The First National Bank BROWNSVILLE BtTABUSlftED 1014 Serving Two Nations Offietrat J.

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K. CLINT, Cashier CHAfl. PUCKETT, Caahier A. G. 1CA10N, AMlftaat Cashier JlfO.

ft. BILL, Cashier Member Federal Deposit.